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I hope that the next several lines will make you happier today. As many people say, i think happiness is heealthy. If you have a smile on your face – the day is brighter. When you laugh and having fun your whole body starts to feel better. That`s why i want to post some of my favorite inspirational quotes.
Sitting around miserable all day won`t make you any happier.
It`s never too late to have a happy cildhood.
“Laughter is a good disease. If only it spread as quickly.” – Greg Evans. | 2019-04-19T04:51:59 | https://thehappyguide.wordpress.com/tag/tom-robbins/ |
Four Lessons to Becoming a Respected Leadership STAR!
Microsoft Inspire is a remarkable trade show. Thousands of IT geeks like myself fly in from all over the globe to connect with colleagues and vendors and get “inspired” by Microsoft’s new innovations. Since taking the helm in 2014, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been driving two main initiatives: launching innovative cloud solutions like Office 365 and Azure and, just as importantly, radically turning the company’s “old” corporate culture of individual kingdoms into a more collaborative environment.
Corporate or departmental culture starts at the top. Nadella is making a concerted effort to encourage his department heads and managers to collaborate versus finding issues with each other’s ideas. While his efforts have certainly been met with trepidation, Microsoft is seeing change in their cultural mindset.
I once hired a manager who did just the opposite of Nadella. Instead of encouraging his team to collectively figure out a solution to an issue, he consistently exhibited signs of frustration toward his team’s perceived lack of knowledge and solved the problem himself. This mistrust and lack of respect for the team, fostered a culture wrought with low morale and helplessness. Not a healthy situation to promote corporate growth!
What leadership lessons can you apply to become a S.T.A.R.?
S - Show Interest: Whether you’re in a team meeting or an employee review, show up on time, make eye contact, and ask questions. Most of all, listen. Intently and empathetically listen to the needs of your team. Don’t interrupt the conversation by answering your phone, reading an email, or blurting out your opinion before you’ve heard the entire question or scenario.
T - Train Your Team: Set your team up for collaborative success by offering team training. This professional development tactic goes a long way to demonstrating your desire to see your employee grow and be a reliable resource on your team. Be sure to cross-train as well to develop much-needed backup when dealing with complex issues.
A – Acknowledge the successes of your team: Did an employee receive a great testimonial from a client or help another team member without being asked? Did your department or company hit a particular goal? Share your excitement with the team. Say “THANK YOU” often. Find out what makes your employee’s tick. Money is not always a motivator.
R – Respect Yourself: Most importantly, respect yourself. All of your actions and reactions are watched and set the tone for a positive or negative environment. Take time to take care of you. Yes, I know you’re in IT and forever dealing with client emergencies. Culture starts at the top, though. A rested and calm leader is so much more impactful than one burning the candle at both ends and constantly racing to put out fires. Exercise, take a vacation, be mindful of what you eat, meditate. Whatever you choose to do first, just start somewhere. Your employees, clients and family will be thankful you did!
Like celebrity, leadership S.T.A.R. status is earned over time. Your choices determine whether you shine bright or fizzle out. | 2019-04-18T22:32:19 | https://www.channelpronetwork.com/article/four-lessons-becoming-respected-leadership-star?qt-view__latest_slideshows_mega__block=4 |
At The Spoiled Girl, we sell a variety of clothing, accessories, purses and more for affordable prices. We have experienced a lot of success over the past few years, but maintaining a positive and successful work culture in this economy takes a little bit of creativity. With a family business there can be challenges, but we’ve been able to find the benefits and utilize those for our company.
We have a mother, a daughter and a daughter-in-law that all bring different ideas to the table about what can make the business successful. Having this cross generational mix has been extremely beneficial for understanding the different customers that come into our store. My sister and I understand the importance of outreach through social media and a strong Internet presence that appeal to our generation, while my mother has an extensive understanding of direct face-to-face contact that connects with an entirely different target customer base. Our clientele is extremely diverse because our products appeal to women of all ages. Therefore, it is very helpful to have our marketing and management ideas come from women in their 60s, 30s and 20s.
Working with a family can be challenging, but completely rewarding. One of the positive aspects of working with your family is that you always know someone will support you. It’s important to understand and accept that disagreements are going to happen, but it’s a lot easier to talk through ideas with family members. They’re always more apt to listen and offer their opinions, plus they’ll love you no matter what.
It’s important to maintain respect for family members when making business decisions and to always hold each other accountable, because it’s easy to forget that you are also business partners trying to operate and expand a company.
Understand that disagreements happen, but as family you have a stronger relationship and can get through more difficult times. Also, don’t always take work home with you. As family, it’s easy to involve the workplace in every conversation that happens outside your business.
When you’re not at work, make sure you take time off of being business partners, because family will always come first!
Photo via The Spoiled Girl.
The Spoiled Girl opened its doors in June of 2008 by the mother / daughter combination of Laura and Lauryn Curis. Both women had backgrounds in Sales and Marketing, but their real passion was in the world of Fashion and Retail. Joining forces they wanted to create and open a place for women to feel flirty and fabulous with unique fashions to choose from, and what developed was a boutique that stood apart from the rest not only due to its merchandise, but also its VIP treatment and exceptional customer service. | 2019-04-19T07:00:01 | http://www.michipreneur.com/3-benefits-of-a-startup-family-business/ |
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Silver Spring, Md. (July 9, 2012) – STEMconnector has honored Dr. Cindy Moss in its inaugural 100 Women Leaders in STEM publication, which recognizes women role models in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Dr. Moss has more than 25 years of experience in STEM and currently develops and implements initiatives for Discovery Education to inspire students’ curiosity, prepare students for future careers and support educators worldwide. She also partners with organizations that set the vision and national policy for STEM education.
100 Women Leaders in STEM showcases the careers and initiatives of women who are active role models for the underrepresented segment of women in America’s growing shortage of STEM professionals. The publication features profiles of leaders in the corporate, government and nonprofit sectors, including CEOs, key public officials including four U.S. senators and the EPA/NASA administrator and deputy administrator respectively. The women included in the publication share stories about their commitment to serving as mentors to those who are next in the STEM jobs pipeline. They also share their perspectives on the traits needed to advance in STEM professions and how women in particular can make a difference.
Prior to joining Discovery Education, Dr. Moss was director of STEM for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), where she led the district’s efforts to improve science teaching and was responsible for overseeing STEM curriculum for more than 130,000 students. Under her leadership, CMS teachers earned national awards and schools partnered with businesses to provide real-world STEM lessons for students. Dr. Moss also taught biology, chemistry and other high school science courses.
In addition to being named among the 100 Women Leaders in STEM, Dr. Moss was recognized with the North Carolina Science, Math and Technology Administrator Award in 2010. She also was recognized with a 2010 Woman of Distinction in STEM Award from the Charlotte Girl Scouts, and in 2001, she won a National Educator Award from the Milken Family Foundation. Dr. Moss has given presentations across the globe on best practices in science teaching and authored numerous articles, textbook chapters and books for the National Parks Service and the National Science Teachers Association. She is a member of the National Council of Supervisors of Math and the Urban Math Leaders Network, among many other STEM-related organizations.
The 100 Women Leaders in STEM publication was launched at the U.S. News STEM Solutions Summit June 27-29 in Dallas, Texas. A follow up celebration for the 100 Women Leaders in STEM will be held on Oct. 2 in Washington, D.C.
STEMconnector™ is a STEM information aggregator that supports corporations with integrating STEM best practices to develop their STEM workforce pipeline. Our mission is to provide information and resources that increase communication, encourages collaboration and promotes sustainable and replicable approaches to STEM education interventions. By pursuing this mission we aim to realize efficiency gains through eliminating duplication and quality improvement by sharing best practices. Accomplishing these ambitious goals requires that we leverage our collective experience and that of our partners to develop innovative communications and products that reach diverse audiences in impactful and meaningful ways. Visit us at www.stemconnector.org. | 2019-04-22T00:13:35 | https://www.discoveryeducation.com/details/dr-cindy-moss-honored-in-inaugural-100-women-leaders-in-stem/ |
A transformational leadership adventure in the heart of Philadelphia.
The Sonesta and Warwick Hotels are conveniently located to the Boot Camp space. For a list of additional hotels in the area, click here.
Venue and accommodations are in the heart of center city, mere blocks away from beautiful Rittenhouse Square park and walking distance from many of the city’s best restaurants and attractions. Venue is easily accessible from by public transportation, regional rail, and taxi. Learn more about Rittenhouse Square here.
Photo of Philadelphia Skyline: By Jordan Staub under this license. | 2019-04-25T20:35:16 | https://conantleadership.com/boot-camp-accommodations/ |
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Voltaire (1694-1778) historian, philosopher, satirist and wit. The enlightened, versatile writer is sometimes described as having also been an irreligious forerunner of the French Revolution. But this would be an error and of no credit to him. He was neither irreligious nor intolerant to religion. His views were very advanced for his time, certainly with regard to the French absolutist system. He advocated freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and above all he believed that State and religion should be totally separate. His attacks against religious dogma, religious intolerance and monarchial absolutism stoically sustained then by the Catholic Church, was to cause him legal problems, imprisonment and exile on several occasions during his life.
Ironically he had the opportunity to write his first successful play 'Œdipe' during an eleven month period of imprisonment in the Bastille. It was this work that established him as a controversial writer, philosopher and playwright.
Voltaire was in fact his nom de plume. His real name was Françoise-Marie Arouet. 'Voltaire' is an anagram of the Latin version of Arouet (AROVET LI). There is a further reverse order connotation between the regional name of 'Airvault,' in Poitou where the family's château was situated.
To avoid further imprisonment without even the right of a trial resulting from his response to a French nobleman's insult, the latter having the advantage of his family's being able to obtain a royal warrant for Voltaire's arrest, he suggested that he be exiled to England. This was accepted, and the opportunity of this three year exile as a form of punishmment, again proved to be to Voltaire's advantage. He was intrigued by the British constitutional monarchy which greatly contrasted with the French absolutist monarchy.
He also admired the work of Shakespeare, (although later, when Shakespeare gradually became popular in France, The French writer tried to set a counter example with his own theatrical works).
Voltaire was also a great admirer of Sir Isaac Newton, and this admiration eventually led him to write 'Elements de la philosophie de Newton,' and to try his own experiments.
As his views and observations of what he considered then to be a more advanced nation compared to France regarding the defence of human rights and religious tolerance, etc., were considered as treason, the books were burnt, and he was once more forced to make himself as scarce as possible.
He fled from Paris and amused himself by restoring the Château de Cirey (Haute Marne) where he lived for fifteen years as the privileged 'guest' of Gabrielle Emilie de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatelet. She too was a renowned intellect and lover of literature. It's recorded that whilst they were together they established an immense library, a collection of over 21,000 books. They thus shared a great deal in common, at least for as long as Voltaire was obliged to avoid Paris.
In 1750 Voltaire was invited to Potsdam by an admirer, Frederick the Great. The king even granted him an annual income of 20,000 francs. For Voltaire it was an excellent arrangement, certainly for as long as it lasted. In 1752 during this period he wrote Micromégas. This short story, satirising human nature, or folly) is considered the first example of science fiction in the history of European literature.
Voltaire's relationship with the King deteriorated however, especially following Voltaire's 'Diatribe du docteur Akakia', a satire of the theories (and power abuse imposed upon a mutual acquaintance) of Maupertuis, president of the Berlin Academy of Science. It was also written after an argument between Voltaire and Maupertuis. Consequently Frederick had all the copies burnt and even had Voltaire arrested.
Banned by Lewis XV from Paris, Voltaire bought a large estate ('Les Délices') near Geneva. The laws of Geneva at that epoch were not favourable to Voltaire because performances of plays were banned. When the osé poem The Maid of Orleans was published without his authorisation, (the version should never have been published in the first place, and he rewrote the poem thirty years later) Voltaire decided to return to France, over the border to Ferney. It was there, in an even grander estate he purchased, where he wrote Candide ou l'Optimisme (1759) a satire of the philosophy of Leibniz, for which Voltaire is perhaps most well known. It was in Ferney where he received eminent guests such as James Boswell, Adam Smith and Giacomo Casanova, amongst others.
Voltaire became a defender of victims of injustice, of which the Jean Calas case was the most famous. Voltaire succeeded in annulling the charges on the grounds of religious persecution, although for Jean Calas, only his ghost would have been comforted.
His best known philosophical work, Dictionnaire Philosophique was published in 1764.
He was 83 years old when he returned to Paris in 1778. He wanted to see the performance of Irene that was being staged there. The tiring voyage in February was almost fatal, but he recovered enough to see the performance the following month. The audience appreciation and ovation was the equivalent of a fond welcome to a returning hero. In many ways he certainly was a hero.
He died two months later on the 30 May.
Considering the rumours surrounding his criticism of the Church, of his alleged repenting on his death-bed, accepting the last rites, and other such fabulations; (including a far more credible account of a stupid, sectarian Catholic priest beseeching Voltaire to renounce Satan, and Voltaire's final words in way of reply : 'Now is not the time for making new enemies'...) the letter written by Boswell following these two abridged biographies, is all the more enlightening.
James Boswell (1740-1795) also had an interesting personality.
He was a lawyer, though never a brilliant one, perhaps because his father pushed him into law, when he was more devoted to literature and the arts. Of course, he is far more renowned as an author and a diarist, than he ever was as a lawyer.
He was born in Edinburgh. His father (Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck) was a judge, and his mother a Calvinist. They were therefore both strict. He was the eldest son and heir, but suffered from an recurring nervous complaint, probably inherent, which he had to contend with all his life.
He studied art when he was thirteen, at the University of Edinburgh (1753-1758) but was afflicted with a serious depression during this period. When he finally recovered however, he was stronger and in much better health and humour than he had ever previously been.
When he was nineteen, he continued his education at the University of Glasgow, and was fortunate enough to attend the lectures of Adam Smith. Whilst there he converted to Catholicism and even planned on becoming a monk. When his father heard about this he was furious, and demanded that James return home at once. His son rebelled however, by going to London where he enjoyed the life of a rake for three months or so.
This resulted in his having to sign away his inheritance for a relatively modest yearly allowance, and return to Edinburgh where he had to continue his studies at the University before taking an oral law exam in 1762. As he successfully passed his exam, his father doubled his annual allowance to £200 and consented to his returning to London.
Boswell continued to study law in Holland for a year (Utrecht University). Whilst there he fell in love on two occasions. Then he spent two more years exploring Europe. He even made a pilgrimage to Rome with Jean-Jacque Rousseau. He also travelled to Corsica where he met Pasquale Paoli whom he greatly admired. All this was well recorded in his diaries, later compiled into two volumes (Boswell in Holland, Boswell on the Grand Tour).
Although on his return to Scotland Boswell passed his final law exam and practised as a Lawyer there for ten years, he was far happier in London with Johnson and the literary circle of friends, as well as with the bawdy night-life which caused him to contract venereal disease several times.
James Boswell was to become quite involved in the cause of Corsican independence. He thoroughly supported the Corsican Republic He even organised the sending of arms and money to the Corsican fighters, but they were finally defeated by the French in 1769 (La Bataille de Ponte Novu).
There seems to be a similarity beween Boswell and Pepys, both of whom were diarists in the habit of having liaisons with other women (including prostitutes in Boswell's case), and both of whom would too often tearfully beg forgiveness from their respective wives. Boswell was married in 1769 to his cousin Margaret Mongomerie. Unlike her husband she always remained faithful to him. She died from tuberculosis in 1789. They had four boys and three girls.Two of the boys died in infancy. Boswell also had an extramarital girl and a boy.
Boswell's swings in mood, habits and vices might indicate that he was bipolar. His saving grace however was his charm. He had humour and a pleasant nature.
(The terms Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism, signifying a companion and a recorder of observations, were adopted by the English language for a considerable period of time. Well over a century following the death of the diarist, Arthur Conan Doyle, for example, would sometimes use 'my Boswell' to designate Watson).
In view of the background of both personalities, the social and political differences between Great Britain and France in the 18th century, prior to the French Revolution, the rumours created by false religious bigots, the interest both men took in various causes in divers locations; it's interesting to compare them. For this reason I thought it perhaps necessary to add their abridged biographies as a backdrop to the short, most sincere and revealing letter written by James Boswell to W.J. Temple that I discovered it in an old edition of A Book of Scotland.
The letter was published under the title of 'Boswell and Voltaire'. Nothing has been changed.
'At last we came upon Religion. Then he did rage. The company went to supper. M. de Voltaire and I remained in the drawing-room with a great Bible before us; and if ever two mortal men disputed with vehemence we did. Yes, upon that occasion He was one Individual and I another. For a certain portion of time there was a fair opposition between Voltaire and Boswell. The daring bursts of his Ridicule confounded my understanding. He stood like an Orator of ancient Rome. Tully was never more agitated than he was. He went too far. His aged frame trembled beneath him. He cried, "O, I am very sick; my head turns round," and he let himself gently fall upon an easy-chair. He recovered.
I resumed our Conversation, but changed the tone. I talked to him serious and earnest. I demanded of him an honest confession of his real sentiments. He gave it me with candour and with mild eloquence which touched my heart. I did not believe him capable of thinking in the manner that he declared to me was "from the bottom of his heart." He exprest his veneration- his love- of the Supreme Being, and his entire resignation to the will of Him who is Allwise. He exprest his desire to resemble the Author of Goodness, by being good himself. His sentiments go no farther. He does not inflame his mind with grand hopes of the immortality of his soul. He says it may be; but he knows nothing of it. And his mind is in perfect tranquillity. | 2019-04-22T10:50:44 | http://mirino-viewfinder.blogspot.com/2013/03/voltaire-and-boswell.html |
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Do you lag on KAVA? =[ and can you read Korean?
@Kevincible The lag is a bit worse, but it's not really the lag that kills me, but the latency. For example, I'll shoot someone first with a sniper, and they'll shoot me a split second later, but since I'm so much farther away than the other person from the server, I'll die. Or, I won't even see who killed me because of the latency. But, playing KAVA certainly helps my reaction time, since I have to move even faster than normal if I want to snipe someone first.
I can't read Korean, but I've been playing long enough to know basic Korean words like left, right, top floor 2 people, window, etc. Also, sometimes I'll hang out with my Korean friends, and they play AVA too, so they'll help me and such.
O yeah.. and for mohawk.. it's just like ventrilo, if you've ever used it. Quite simple.
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“Who was your hero when you were 8?” Typical icebreaker question – right? And these are fine when members of a group don’t know each other. Safely superficial. Anything deeper would be inappropriate – too personal, too soon. But what kind of icebreaker can help a team go deeper and increase their trust when they already know each other? Here’s one we got from a client recently.
This process was suggested by an introvert, who did well in both giving and receiving complements publicly. | 2019-04-22T22:32:21 | https://portlandconsultinggroup.com/2018/01/18/ultimate-icebreaker-secret-santa/ |
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Since my prior posting Serious Games To Boost Safety On Oil Rigs, Coole Immersive has been broadening Industrial Games portfolio.
Heavy industries like Oil & Gas, Mining and Construction share some unique characteristics and challenges. Driven by regulatory requirements and the need to optimize productivity in a competitive marketplace, employers are increasingly striving to implement competency-based training programs to address these challenges.
Regulations demanding demonstrable measures to improve employee competence and workplace safety.
Using the same powerfully engrossing techniques that fuel entertainment games, Industrial Games provide learners with the ability to explore and review industrial settings in ways that minimize learning time and maximize retention and safety.
Industrial Games are changing the landscape of what is possible in the world of learning, preparing, and understanding, ensuring all students have the ability to experience and perform job activities in a safe, controlled learning environment before tackling the real world by presenting information in an easy-to-understand, multi-modal format.
Damage to costly equipment, injuries, and loss of life can be drastically reduced through the training provided by Industrial Games. After completing one of Coole Immersive's industrial training simulations, students will have the necessary knowledge to transition from a realistic training environment to the workplace without the financial and physical risks attached to on-the-job learning.
Coole Immersive's Industrial Games suite includes, among other products, SRT - Service Rig Training (object of my prior posting) and SRFM - Service Rig Field Maintenance.
There are enormous costs associated with the unnecessary repair and replacement of Service Rig equipment due to a lack of regular, proper maintenance. Developed to complement Coole Immersive’s Service Rig Training program, Service Rig Field Maintenance can help you minimize these costs.
After first providing a foundational understanding of the many systems found on a service rig, Coole Immersive’s Service Rig Field Maintenance then builds on that foundation with carefully designed, guided maintenance procedures.
Developed with industry subject matter experts, and using cutting edge 3D modeling, animation and gaming technology, workers are systematically presented with the proper methodology for performing maintenance procedures on a service rig. With no risk to themselves, other crewmembers or the equipment, they perform the procedure by interacting with the accurately recreated apparatus. A virtual coach looks over their shoulder to correct their errors and offer advice.
Real time content updates ensure every learner has access to the most complete, up to date information available, consistently providing your workers with exactly the procedures you expect them to perform, protecting both your equipment, and the environment.
In addition to being an excellent primary training tool for new workers being exposed to service rig equipment for the first time, Coole Immersive’s Service Rig Field Maintenance is designed to be used as an ongoing, on-site reference manual, helping ensure a consistent, company - and subject matter expert - approved approach to maintenance. As such, ideal candidates range from new hires to experienced workers, as the training program standardizes the basic processes used for equipment maintenance.
Learners don't just see maintenance being performed, they actually perform the process in a virtual environment. This gives the learner visual and tactile reinforcement of their new knowledge, resulting in a higher retention rate and a better, more efficient and competent worker.
Well-trained and well-informed workers are more confident, take more initiative, and make fewer costly mistakes. Coole Immersive’s Service Rig Field Maintenance provides an effective, consistent maintenance training solution, enabling workers to get the most out of their equipment.
Where the real-world environment is dangerous.
Where the real-world environment is unavailable, or costly to simulate in the real world.
Coole Immersive Inc., formerly known as Terris-Hill Production, is a growth-oriented, privately held software development company based in Edmonton, AB, in Canada.
Their mission is to revolutionize industrial learning through the use of innovative immersive learning systems.
Coole Immersive develops Immersive Learning Systems to provide students with a “safe and effective place to learn”. Their applications consist of a combination of video, animation, assessment processes and simulation-based games run on a hybrid web and PC or Mac based system. The process complements traditional hands-on training of front-line workers.
Cool Immersive targets learners under 35 years old, those who have grown up with the expectation of advanced technology, even in their leisure time. Internet, Cable TV, iPods and Global Positioning Systems were not around 25 years ago but now are commonplace. | 2019-04-18T21:17:31 | https://www.elianealhadeff.com/2009/09/case-for-serious-games-in-heavy.html |
2014 In Review | Essays, Not Rants!
2014 is a few days from being over. So once again it’s time to go through my rants essays from this year and pick out the special ones.
The thing about Edgar Wright movies is that they work on so many levels. I was… off put the first time I watched Scott Pilgrim vs The World, so I watched it again, realizing what I was in for and loved it. One of the reasons is that despite (or perhaps because of) it creating a video game sort of reality, it tells a very serious story about love and self-respect.
Representation is something that I care about, in case my running commentary on female protagonists didn’t tip you off. But Big Hero Six is special to me because there’s a kid like me starring in a Disney action movie! And that makes me very happy.
The idea for this one had actually been brewing since I saw that TIME article a couple years back. Took a while for it to come together in and now it’s something that’s pretty bloggish and yet still about storytelling.
Look at me being topical. I suppose this was more for me to collect my thoughts and weigh in on the film. Seems that jumping on the train got my a bunch of views, so there’s that.
I could do two separate entries for these, each of which got three times as many views as the Noah one, but I figure they should go together since they’re interlinked. The LEGO Movie is easily one of the best movies of this year, in no small part because it’s about a very normal boring person undergoing the Hero’s Journey. It was a lot of fun linking up the beats of the movie with the Monomyth, and hey, I guess some other people enjoyed it too.
And there we have the five most viewed posts. As with last year, what follows will be a few posts that I really like, for various reasons. These posts are also posts that aren’t in the afore top five.
I took a class on video game theory this past spring, which probably shows when I use terms like ‘ludnoarrative’ and ‘narrative architecture.’ Video games really warrant a closer look than they’re often given.
Okay, so this is a more recent one, but I love when I’m able to use this blog to write a scholarish rant essay on something that isn’t very scholarlish (see a close reading of Pentecost’s speech). Being able to write about Hot Rod like this was a lot of fun and also good practice. So hey.
I know it very much comes down to opinion, but I still love the way nerd culture was portrayed in Chuck and I’m waiting for something to do it as well (though SHIELD is doing alright, with Mack and Fitz bonding over Halo and Bobbi wearing a Star Wars tee). Man, Chuck was a special show.
So there you have it. Nine posts out of the fifty-two that made up 2014. Thank you for reading! | 2019-04-24T03:02:56 | https://essaysnotrants.net/2014/12/27/2014-in-review/ |
The singer records the festive anthem for her new album.
Leona Lewis has unveiled her take on a Christmas classic.
The singer has recorded a new version of Wizzard's 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday' for her upcoming album Christmas, With Love.
The collection will feature Lewis's new Christmas single 'One More Sleep', along with a further two original songs.
Lewis co-wrote new songs 'Your Hallelujah' and 'Mr Right', while putting her own spin on 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday' and 'Winter Wonderland'.
The star also showcases her classical voice while singing in Latin on 'Ave Maria'.
"I had to have intense training with my opera coach to just get back into it and to make sure it was all good," the 2006 X Factor winner told Digital Spy about recording the track.
"Also, it's in Latin, so I had to make sure all the pronunciations were correct and stuff."
Christmas, With Love will be released in the UK on December 2 and a day later in the US. | 2019-04-20T02:41:34 | https://www.digitalspy.com/music/a534668/leona-lewis-unveils-cover-of-i-wish-it-could-be-christmas-everyday/ |
As many of you have probably seen before in our pictures, we use an athletic tape called Rocktape in our training as well as on a day to day basis. We had the opportunity to attend the FMT RockDoc certification seminar this past weekend in Calgary, AB. To say it was useful would be a huge understatement, and on top of this we met some great people there.
Now I won’t try to teach this course in a short post here, but to give you an idea of why exactly we wear Rocktape and how it can be used. Keep in mind that Rocktape is not a be all end all injury repair and prevention product. It can assist your body to stay stronger for longer during activity, or support an injured area while you work on correcting the issue.
The criss cross wrap around Melissa’s knees during this race was to help her body track her patella correctly while running. While Rocktape will have a certain degree of support within an application, it will also have subconscious affects on the brain and how it controls the muscles in that area. Melissa used to run into some pretty extreme knee pains in just a 3 hour run (pretty short for us) but during this 100 mile race, she did not once have a problems with her knees…completely pain free for 26 hours…I think that says enough in itself.
The red strip of tape running up my IT band in this photo (granted can only see bottom tail end) was used to help my IT band from “sticking” too much to my quads and hamstring muscles as the scar tissue builds up through the race. Rocktape will assist with separating the layers of the tissue below it, this allowing my leg muscles to flow a bit smoother.
This is a bit of a tape collage from the hands on practice during the seminar. Perhaps this was Melissa’s way of telling me I have bad posture… :S haha. All three of the applications on my back give the body subtle cues to hold itself in the correct position. Whether its used and worn day to day to try and improve a postural problem, or applied during exercise where you know form/posture has a tendency to decline (say running a 100 miles…).
This was one topic that caught my attention when you can see photo’s of the results. When someone has acquired a rather large edema (aka bruise) Rocktape can actually be applied to increase flushing of that area and speed up healing. Check out this google search: Edema Recovery with Rocktape to see some pretty compelling photo’s what the impact Rocktape can have. Whoever would have thought an argyle tape job would have more benefits that just looking chic.
Would you recommend this certification for non professionals?
Yes as long as you have some sort of a background in athletics, physiology, or anything in that area. | 2019-04-22T04:30:42 | https://ultramelandjon.com/rocktape-fmt-certification/ |
Once you have determined the date of your party, start looking for venues in Berryville, Arkansas. By choosing a party venue early, you'll be able to ensure you find a wonderful venue in Berryville on the date you want it. For weddings and larger events, it is especially important to book early as popular party locations fill up quickly. You'll also need to determine the size of your guest list an...Read moreOnce you have determined the date of your party, start looking for venues in Berryville, Arkansas. By choosing a party venue early, you'll be able to ensure you find a wonderful venue in Berryville on the date you want it. For weddings and larger events, it is especially important to book early as popular party locations fill up quickly. You'll also need to determine the size of your guest list and the feel for the event.
Deciding on the formality of the event along with the size is an effective way to narrow down Berryville hall from which to choose. Hotels and banquet halls are suitable for large weddings, but couples may want to get more creative and personal. Vineyards provide natural scenery, while museums offer dramatic settings. Country clubs are generally formal, but can be dressed down for a smaller, more casual affair like a baby shower. Parks and beaches are excellent for more low-key events like Father's Day barbeques because they allow space for family activities.
Berryville, Arkansas event venues are as unique as the person hosting the party. The first step is to figure out your personal event style as well as key logistics like whether you want indoor or outdoor reception sites. Once this important step is complete, you can then search for suitable reception venues near Berryville.
We are a full service Restaurant with a flair for BBQ and speciality dishes. Next door we have THE ISLAND TEAROOM with a afternoon tea, Light luncheon service and the full formal tea experience.
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Full Limo Service available for you and your guests. | 2019-04-19T20:56:28 | https://www.punchbowl.com/vendors/ar-arkansas/berryville/c-venues |
I noted in an earlier blog entry that the Sacramento Bee ran a nice obituary on retired UC Cooperative Extension food scientist George K. York II.
"He was gentle and generous with his time, resources and really vast knowledge. Many times he had the opportunity to leave the university for industry and make 10 times the amount, but he was much happier sharing his knowledge with the people of California."
Who says the media only report bad news?
InsideBayArea.com published a heart-warming feature story today about a new honor for retired UC Cooperative Extension nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisor and San Mateo County director Gloria Brown.
Brown received a "Local Hero" award Wednesday in recognition of four decades spent educating her community and raising awareness of serious health and nutrition issues, especially among African-Americans.
Brown's list of accolades and accomplishments is long, according to the story. "She has served on so many boards, she can't keep track of them all," the article says.
Two years ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Brown for a news release about her retirement. At the time she told me the civil rights movement gave her the courage to apply for her job with UCCE in 1969, even though she was seven months pregnant.
Brown lived in San Mateo County all her life, except for the years she spent in college at Texas Southern University. Brown graduated from high school at the height of the civil rights movement in the South and sought to be a first-hand witness of the momentous changes underway.
The InsideBayArea story said that Brown pioneered screening services for breast cancer, diabetes and prostate cancer as a board member at Mills-Peninsula Health Services, is a recent inductee into the San Mateo County Women's Hall of Fame, and was named one of the 10 most influential Bay Area African-Americans in 2003.
The Woodland Daily Democrat picked up a press release our office distributed a few days ago about funding UCCE nutrition educators received to create a low-literacy questionnaire to identify children on the path toward overweight or obesity. I delayed writing about this story's appearance in the news media a few days hoping that I would see it picked up elsewhere.
In essence, the article announces the fact that the National Research Initiative funded a $390,000 grant that will allow UC Cooperative Extension experts to document the specific behaviors associated with the growth of overweight and obesity, such as whether parents eat vegetables in front of their children, whether the children play outside, and whether the children eat breakfast every day.
"It's not enough for us to have a good idea what is going on," said principle investigator Marilyn Townsend, a nutrition specialist based at UC Davis. "We must prove it using a scientific process and that requires an accurate way to identify these behaviors."
Of course, releases that report findings carry more weight than those about research being funded, but this story does raise questions that would be of interest to nutrition professionals and enthusiasts. One can say the release is "evergreen," so it may yet live another day.
Any weather event seems to prompt the media to get reaction, and for the ag perspective, they frequently turn to the experts at UC Cooperative Extension.
A story by David Sneed this past weekend in The (San Luis Obispo County) Tribune reported on rainfall at the Central Coast. It said recent storms have brought San Luis Obispo County’s rainfall totals to slightly above normal and asserted that farmers and ranchers would like still more.
The weather station at Cal Poly, the article said, has records dating from 1869. It recorded slightly more than six inches of rain last year, while average precipitation at the Cal Poly station is 22 inches. Because of the disparity, UCCE farm advisor Royce Larsen and his NRCS colleague Karl Striby concluded that the average rainfall standard is not very useful, the story said.
The Sacramento Bee ran a story advising residents to wait for rain-soaked planters to dry up before spring gardening. Reporter Pat Rubin spoke to UCCE advisor Chuck Ingels.
"Soggy gardening? I try not to do it," Ingels was quoted.
Over the weekend, the Sacramento Bee included a touching news obituary about retired UC Cooperative Extension food scientist George K. York II, who passed away last week at the age of 82.
In his late teens, Dr. York planned a career in professional baseball, but he was drafted by the Marines and was wounded in the invasion of Iwo Jima. After the war, Dr. York began college studies at Stanford, eventually earning a Ph.D. at UC Davis in 1960.
The story said Dr. York was a food bacteriologist with Cooperative Extension for more than 30 years, an authority on food-borne infections, and that he brought national attention to UC Davis as a major resource in food preservation.
Dr. York was regarded as the father of the master food preserver program. The obituary said he was popular with kitchen cooks for his practical presentations on canning tomatoes, curing olives, cooking with raw eggs and other home food tasks.
His son, George York III, said he loved getting out and talking to home canners, according to the article. "He connected with people so easily because he felt he was doing something really useful for society," his son is quoted. | 2019-04-18T21:02:33 | http://cecapitolcorridor.ucanr.edu/?blogstart=6939&blogasset=84198 |
after a longer period of spying at the neighbours.
Exhibited in the hallway of the apartment block where I lived.
A series of 8 photographs. | 2019-04-24T06:28:27 | https://www.hedvigbiong.com/heaven-is-a-place-on-earth-2010.html |
Keeping waveforms in check ..
Optical inspection for conformal coating ..
Turning ordinary testers into extra-ordinary instruments ..
Testing Zigbee, Thread and Bluetooth for mesh network performance ..
Slovenian startup grabs T&M market with bare bone instruments ..
IXYS adds Nikon Metrology X ray system to UK power semi production line ..
A hit on kickstarter: the world's smallest oscilloscope, multimeter and logger? ..
Flexible force measurement: materials testing on the move ..
Why do variable speed drives fail and how do we test them? ..
Hunting interference to reduce churn and drive profits ..
Taking out heterodyning from multi-channel LVDT measurement systems ..
Impedance analysers ought to be simpler ..
The testing tribulations of graphene ..
Clever sensors stand surrogate ..
JTAG Mixed-signal IO Systems (MIOS) Redefine Benchtop ATE ..
Making design-for-test a push-button process ..
Simulation environment takes LTE-A demo to 1 Gbit/sec ..
Testing M2M comms; Rohde & Schwarz and Sequans demo LTE IoT module ..
Toolbox for MATLAB enables faster and more robust WLAN design ..
Tips for MEMS mechanical testing .. | 2019-04-23T01:06:08 | https://www.eenewstest.com/news/feature-articles |
UK – Dentsu Aegis Network has appointed Euan Jarvie as chief executive officer, UK & Ireland, reporting to executive chairman, UK&I, Nick Waters.
Jarvie (pictured) was previously president, global clients. Prior to Dentsu Aegis, he worked at MediaCom for more than 18 years, most recently running its operations across the US and then EMEA.
The CEO position has not been filled for the past year. The business was led by executive chairman, Stef Calcraft, who took over Tracey De Groose’s responsibilities when she resigned in October 2017. However Calcraft left at the end of 2018.
The company said Jarvie’s appointment reflected the importance of the UK & Ireland market for Dentsu Aegis which is made up of more than 4,000 people serving over 1,000 clients across 22 media, technology, data and creative agencies. | 2019-04-24T07:50:21 | https://www.research-live.com/article/news/euan-jarvie-made-dentsu-aegis-network-uk-ceo/id/5049732 |
Had previously purchased the Katana Kake Double stand and was well pleased with next day delivery of a value for money stand - but although well pleased with the Katana Kake Triple stand it took over 10 days to arrive for a cost of £9.50 ! In my opinion a better courier should be used - I ordered a Knife from Japan at a cost of $7 for shipping and it arrived in 5 days !
Good quality lacquered Kake. Glad bought the additional Kake as the free one is isn't lacquered.
La "madera" es un poco fina y todo el conjunto queda muy justo de peso para soportar 3 sables, pero cumple su función y la presentación es correcta. Buena relación calidad precio.
KAKE TRIPLE has a rating of 4.4 out of 5 based on 5 customer reviews. | 2019-04-21T10:04:50 | https://budodesign.fr/katana-kake/89--kake-triple-2300100000879.html |
Jabil is an electronic products solutions company providing comprehensive electronics design and product management services to electronics and technology companies. Jabil's 180,000+ employees are spread across 90 plants in 24 countries. About five years ago, Jabil launched a Lean Six Sigma program that spans across the entire enterprise. Their primary focus is to be a Lean company with Six Sigma applied to support the Lean program.
The goal of Jabil's Global Lean Six Sigma team is to create a workforce of problem solvers, where everyone is focused on continually driving improvements in quality, delivery and cost. Prioritizing Lean Six Sigma is a significant part of Jabil's culture within their plants and throughout all functional departments, including finance, business development, product development, supply chain management and others.
Training and certifications aligned with roles: Shop floor, Bronze, Silver, Champion, and Black Belt.
Project work focused on continuous improvement in four major categories: Customer Satisfaction, Employee Development, Operational Excellence and Social & Environmental Responsibility.
Recognition and sharing of project successes throughout the company at an annual challenge called "Deliver Best Practices."
Evelyn has over 25 years of experience in manufacturing across several industries. She started her career in manufacturing with Motorola, working as an Engineer Technician, Line Supervisor and Assistant Manufacturing Manager. She then went on to work for a shrimp packing company, food distribution company, and an airbag manufacturer prior to joining Jabil. In Evelyn's 15-year tenure with Jabil, she has held a variety of management positions before assuming her current role as a Director of Lean Six Sigma.
Evelyn received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Puerto Rico and is an ASQ CSSBB. She is currently pursuing her Master Black Belt certification. | 2019-04-21T20:30:44 | https://www.moresteam.com/presentations/webcast-opex-at-jabil.cfm |
Endorsed by the likes of Miranda Kerr and Khloé Kardashian, detox water is an efficient way to turn your regular glass of aqua into a vitamin-packed drink. Choose from a range of fruits, berries, herbs, spices and even vegetables to create diverse mixes and flavor palettes. Before you reach for that pitcher, here’s everything you need to know about hydrating in style.
In a pitcher, bottle or mason jar, add water, ice and your selection of fruits (lemon, orange, grapefruit or cucumber) and herbs (basil, fennel or mint) and you’re set. The time that the ingredients require to release their flavour can vary from 15 minutes to an hour, depending on your mix and the prevailing weather conditions. Citrus fruits impart flavour almost immediately, while herbs need to sit in the water a bit longer. If you don’t plan on consuming the water immediately, refrigerate it.
Infused water not only helps keep hydration levels in check, it also makes the idea of drinking water less of a chore. Regular intake of infused water reduces binge eating (thus calories). Celebrity fitness trainer Yasmin Karachiwala recommends infused water as the perfect beverage after a workout or any exhausting activity. “I prefer giving my kids infused water rather than plain water or any artificially flavoured drinks after they’re done playing sports. The little salt or sugar in it immediately gives you an energy boost as compared to regular water,” she says.
Herbs and spices are always a tasteful addition to your drinks—be it a cocktail at a party or a water bottle at the gym. Basil, thyme, cinnamon and clove, to name a few, add an extra punch to your water when paired with fruits and they also have added health benefits. Nutritionist and fitness writer Samreedhi Goel encourages the consumption of herb-infused water. “Every herb has a different benefit—thyme helps lower blood pressure, cinnamon reduces blood glucose levels and fresh ginger helps in digestion. Adding such herbs and spices to your water can give you the daily required dosage,” she adds. | 2019-04-22T13:02:46 | https://www.vogue.in/content/why-you-need-to-be-drinking-detox-water/ |
If you do choose to purchase your child’s baseball cap at an outlet store, toy store and even supermarkets and grocery stores. The Yankees finished behind both the Red Sox and the Rays in 2008 and they are determined that will not happen again anytime soon. which will also be known as Yankee Stadium,尤其别和洗脚或者装承其他细菌比较多的衣物的器皿。但如果血渍已经干硬，很多女性认为这是经前的正常现象而不去治疗，女性乳房属足厥阴肝经， So whether you choose expensive or low priced hardware for your skateboard, For skateboard the hardware needs to be water proof. | 2019-04-19T18:28:39 | http://gkchic.com/rpaxh/795.html |
Some Small Bugs Fixed !!
Chanakya Fonts Conversion Fixed !!
4CGandhi Fonts Conversion Added !! | 2019-04-19T11:07:52 | http://unicode-font-converter.in/download-hindi-unicode-font-converter-desktop.html |
Looking for more space in your caravan dinette? Have you considered a tri-fold table?
A tri-fold caravan dinette table has 2 positions – extended and retracted. In retracted mode, it allows for easy access to seating, while also providing a space for a drink or a snack. It tends to give the van a more open feeling too. In extended mode, it is a full size table suitable for meals for 2-4 people.
RV Service Centre Toowoomba is able to convert your existing dinette table to a tri-fold version, or supply a completely new table.
We also have a variety of other table options that increase functionality such as the Tommy table leg, Lenker Lagun Leg, V-Legs, pedestal legs and more! | 2019-04-24T18:07:24 | http://www.rvservicecentre.com.au/tag/folding-table/ |
My experience on the journalism course has been rewarding from day one. Not only is it a programme on which you learn an awful lot, but more importantly, you meet some really great, talented people. Working on the JMU Journalism site really helped take my experience at university up a notch and I now feel prepared to go out into the world of work knowing that I’ve received the best professional training possible. I can’t recommend the course or the city highly enough.
It has been a wonderful day, spending it with friends and celebrating my achievements over the last three years. I’ve had a great time. I was terrified going up at the ceremony but I didn’t fall, which was good. I’m going to spend the rest of the day with my family. I think it has been a wonderful course and it makes you into a good journalist.
It has been fantastic, to enjoy the occasion with all your mates was great. It validated all the work I’ve done over the last three years. My mum was crying before it even started. The course has been really rewarding, there are a lot of chances to get experience.
I’ve loved it. I couldn’t possibly recommend the course more to anybody… it’s got the ideal mix of practical work and theory and I’ve learned so much by coming here to this course. When I first came here I didn’t really want to do journalism at all, but now I’m really passionate about making this a lifelong career.
It has been really lovely, I was just a bit scared I was going to fall at the ceremony! After I got off the stage, I was more calm. But it has been a really great day. My parents are really proud. I’m heading out now for a few drinks, because I think we deserve it. I’ve really enjoyed the course, you learn so much. | 2019-04-21T14:28:52 | http://jmu-journalism.org.uk/graduation-quotes-class-of-2011/ |
The following is a guest blog post from Prof. Philipp Mueller about his talk on Openness as Strategy at the Open Knowledge Conference, June, 30th & July 1st 2011 in Berlin.
We live in a world where information and communication technologies have confronted us with new logics of collective action that allow new forms of organizing knowledge and that need new forms of strategic thinking. With the digitization of value creation and the ability to collaborate on value creation across space and time, we have been able to move from a one-to-many, or mass society, to a many-to-many, or network society – knowledge communities have become the fundamental building bloc of our society.
Machiavelli was the earliest thinker that was able to see and translate into strategic advice the new modern paradigm developing. He understood that with the rediscovery of antiquity and the emerging humanism, the legitimation of collective action was transforming. He understood the perpetual governance crisis of modernity that developed when authority was not anymore legitimated by a transcendent source, i.e. God. Where until the 16th Century an allusion to god or nature was sufficient to explain human governance, he unearthed the relevance of immanent legitimation and formulated it as strategy advice to the prince. We are living through a similar time, the shift is just as profound. We are moving away from the idea of hierarchical organizations in business, government and civil society into a world of networked and project-centered open value chains. However, our conceptual vocabulary and our culture is still stuck in the 20th Century and therefore we do not yet fully realize their potential. What is missing is a strategy guide to this brave new world. Machiavelli took up the challenge of trying to make sense of a world that was moving from understanding itself as deterministically following the transcendent will to a world of freedom and choice. In an analogous fashion, we have to try to understand the underlying principles of many-to-many society to outline strategies for successful collective action.
There are two major drivers of many-to-many society: the ease to connect (technology) and the willingness to connect (culture). The ease to connect stems from technologies that allow us to ignore territorial space and linear time. We can post an answer to a question in a forum that was asked several years ago on a different continent. The person that has asked the question might have moved on, but the answer might be relevant to someone in the future that is not even born today. However, without a willingness to interact, without a network culture, the ability does not lead to a changed world. It is not technological determinism, but the interplay between new social practices and enabling technologies that have transformative potential.
With the radical reduction of the transaction costs of collective action through many-to-many technologies new form of organization becomes possible. Commons-based peer production is a term coined by Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler to describe a new model of economic production in which the creative energy of large numbers of people is coordinated (usually with the aid of the internet) into large, meaningful projects, mostly without traditional hierarchical organization or financial compensation. He distinguishes commons-based peer production from (a) firm production where a centralized decision process decides what has to be done and by whom and (b) market-based production where tagging different prices to different jobs serves as an attractor to anyone interested in doing the job. If this mode of collective action is viable, we need to ask how to structure such interactions and how to lead such processes.
Over the last 30 years, we have been observing a move from black box production, with a focus on optimizing the value chain, to co-production and its focus on supply chain management, to open production on user-generated work-flow-platforms such as Wikipedia and Ubuntu, but also facebook and twitter. This means that strategy changes from competitive strategy (positioning) to communicative meta-strategies (persuading and community creation).
Open value creation consists of open policy making and the management of the open value chain. The distinction is slightly arbitrary but useful. It allows us to differentiate between coming up with a value generating process (policy) and repeatedly creating the value (value chain). Open value creation is possible because of new technologies that allow us to structure idea generation and information aggregation in digital form. The core technologies of open value creation are the wiki, a principle-based, user-generated platforms, with flexible moderation capacity, the forum, a question driven user-generated knowledge platform, blogging, a core message with feedback/discourse loop, and work flow management and visualization tools such as enterprise resource planning, process mapping tools, think SAP, Oracle, SugarCRM, etc. Together they allow us to structure policy and value creation processes, by enhancing ideation, deliberation, i.e. commenting and discussion, collaboration, generating values, and accountability, i.e. through the parsing of data to control processes. Therefore, the architecture of our value creation processes is of utmost concern. How do we design such processes? The simple answer is Larry Lessig’s “code is law” (1998), which says governance can be encoded into software, as in the first rule of twittering: “thou shalt not write more than 140 characters” where enforcement is automatic, technically, you cannot send a tweet of more than 140 characters. So in our simplest many-to-many society, code, law, strategy, and enforcement are one.
However, in order to fully utilize open value creation strategic transparency is necessary. Strategic transparency is a management approach in which most decision making is carried out publicly and the work flow has open application interfaces. It is a radical departure from existing processes, where (a) decision making was closed, to ensure security and the discretion of the decision makers and (b) the work flow was a black box, where outside intervention would be looked upon as outside meddling. In decision making strategic transparency ensures access to draft documents, allow commenting, and include the public in final decisions. For the work flow, you need to design application interfaces that allow the public to access the work flow in real time, participate in a granular and modular fashion.
Therefore, counter-intuitively, if he were alive today, Machiavelli, with his sensitivity for hard-nosed realism, would advice the princess to create open value chains with interfaces to outside stakeholders both in policy and implementation, from research and development to after-sales. | 2019-04-24T02:16:37 | https://blog.okfn.org/2011/06/14/openness-as-strategy-leading-open-knowledge-communities/ |
(Nanowerk News) Stanford engineers have invented a wireless pressure sensor that has already been used to measure brain pressure in lab mice with brain injuries.
The underlying technology has such broad potential that it could one day be used to create skin-like materials that can sense pressure, leading to prosthetic devices with the electronic equivalent of a sense of touch.
A nine-member research team led by Chemical Engineering Professor Zhenan Bao detailed two medical applications of this technology in Nature Communications ("Continuous wireless pressure monitoring and mapping with ultra-small passive sensors for health monitoring and critical care").
In one simple demonstration they used this wireless pressure sensor to read a team member's pulse without touching him.
In a more complex application, they used this wireless device to monitor the pressure inside the skull of a lab mouse, an achievement that could one day lead to better ways to treat human brain injuries.
Bao's wireless sensor is made by placing a thin layer of specially designed rubber between two strips of copper. The copper strips act like radio antennas. The rubber serves as an insulator.
The technology involves beaming radio waves through this simple antenna-and-rubber sandwich. When the device comes under pressure, the copper antennas squeeze the rubber insulator and move infinitesimally closer together.
That tiny change in proximity alters the electrical characteristics of the device. Radio waves passing through the two antennas slow down in terms of frequency. When pressure is relaxed, the copper antennas move apart and the radio waves accelerate in frequency.
The engineers proved that this effect was measurable, giving them a way to gauge the pressure exerted on the device by tracking the frequency of radio waves passing through the device.
Former Stanford graduate students Lisa Chen and Benjamin C-K Tee designed and modeled the physics behind the device, and calibrated the pressure sensor in simple laboratory tests. Alex Chortos, graduate student in the department of materials science and engineering, made the wireless device more robust and re-usable.
When the engineers sought collaborators to test the device in potentially useful applications, H.–S. Philip Wong, a professor of electrical engineering, connected them with Victor Tse, a neurosurgeon and consulting associate professor at Stanford School of Medicine.
Tse tested the wireless pressure sensor as a tool for managing patients with severe brain trauma. The most devastating problem in such cases is brain swelling. Currently, physicians diagnose brain swelling with imaging techniques such as CT scans or by monitoring intracranial pressure (ICP) directly.
ICP monitoring is traditionally done using probes that penetrate the skull and are linked to an external monitor via a cable. In addition to the possibility of the cable being pulled out or dislodged, this cumbersome solution carries the risk of infection. Measuring ICP using cables become particularly challenging when patients are moved within the hospital or transported to other facilities.
In experiments on laboratory mice, Tse used radio waves to probe Bao's wireless sensor, allowing him to monitor changes in intracranial pressure continuously.
"Our team is now considering how to incorporate this device into a catheter that could siphon out cerebral spinal fluid whenever there is an increase in ICP," Tse said. On a slightly different tack, his team is thinking about how to retool the wireless sensor so that it could be placed in the eye socket. There it could be used to measure pressure in the eye socket, a relatively easy-to-obtain surrogate for tracking intracranial pressure on the brain.
In a separate effort, Dr. Michael McConnell, a professor of cardiovascular medicine, used the device to take a wireless pulse reading as a proof of principle that the technology could be applied to pressures having to do with blood circulation.
For Bao, this is the latest in a series of experiments that capitalize on a simple but far-reaching advance that her lab made several years ago. That advance has to do with the design of the rubber layer used in this device.
As Bao explained, rubber is special because its basic molecular structure can compress and spring back into shape. Other materials simply don't have this spring-like feature. Simple as it may seem, her lab discovered that creating a pyramid-shaped layer of rubber instead of a flat mat gave the individual rubber molecules more freedom to flatten out and then spring back into shape.
By putting this pyramid-shaped rubber layer between the copper antennas, this team of engineers was able to exploit the subtle interactions of radio waves and electron clouds to create a pressure gauge.
Bao foresees many potential applications for this pressure-sensing technology.
"The device we invented here is extremely easy to manufacture and consumes no energy until readings are being made," she said. "In the short term we hope to use devices like this to track packages and monitor health conditions. In the longer run we dream of using this technology to create touch-sensitive lining for prosthetic devices." | 2019-04-21T12:06:46 | https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=37699.php |
Fans of golfing games and RPGs may need to control their wallets today.
Limited Run Games’ physical release of Golf Story is going live for sale today (10am ET / 7am PT / 10pm SGT). Unlike past releases, it seems like the company has gone wild with their offerings this time around. Instead of the usual collector’s and standard editions, they are also releasing a fully functioning NES cartridge that contains the ‘GALF’ mini-game. | 2019-04-24T15:46:50 | https://nintendosoup.com/limited-run-games-physical-release-of-golf-story-goes-on-sale-today/ |
Would you recommend Codeity to a friend?
@erictwillis thanks for checking us out!
@yoroomie is the founder and he's such an inspiration. The team at Codeity is solid and golden. The product has been simple to use as well, we're using it to source our talent and manage the entire recruiting process.
@citizenglish thanks for the post and also praise! Chiming in here and happy to answer any questions!
@citizenglish Is this only targeted at developers? Or designers + other roles as well?
@dannyfreed right now we are primarily focused on developers but we do have companies looking for designers, growth hackers, and marketing candidates that we are testing with right now. We have also seen a large amount of users signup that are technical talent (but not individual contributor developers) so expect improved profiles and optimization to also match these talent pools soon! | 2019-04-20T15:13:14 | https://www.producthunt.com/posts/codeity |
15 Minutes - Pre-Lab Setup: Get lab Blender-ready.
First Hour - Open Blender Social - Have fun, show and tell, etc.
15 Minutes Admin Wrap-Up: Clean-up lab, take care of business, etc. | 2019-04-21T06:31:50 | https://www.keepandshare.com/discuss/22338/agenda-003-proposals |
Talking about your feelings is the first step when seeking help.
It rolls off of your tongue easier than ever before. You slip the graded paper, a red F, back into your binder, not daring to look up at the eyes that you fear are watching you. In the comfort of friends, it’s not hard to allow yourself to be vulnerable. After all, you know that they won’t tell anyone, so there’s not a chance anything will be done about it.
Even so, as you say it, you can’t help but feel that something is wrong — with all of it.
Every generation has had its struggles before, but teens have never been more aware of the world around them than they are today. And, between this and the rising number of mental health disorders in teens, it can feel like the world is a very dark place sometimes.
It is made even harder for the 60 percent of American children with depression who are not receiving any form of treatment for it. However, teens are well-aware of this issue.
According to Pew Research Center, 70 percent of American teens say that anxiety and depression are major problems in the communities where they live, followed by 55 percent who say bullying and 51 percent who say drug addiction.
What most don’t know about mental illness is that it does not affect all communities equally: African Americans and Latinos are more at risk for depression than Caucasians, women are more likely to be diagnosed with mental health disorders than men, and LGBT youth tend to have more feelings of depression than cisgender heterosexual youth.
However, due to racism in the medical industry, sexism from family members who desensitize their mental illness, or internalized feelings of homophobia or transphobia, these are the same people who are the least likely to find help. Coupled with an occasional lack of health professionals in the communities where they live, it can be especially challenging. Though, no matter what your identity is, your feelings should not be trivialized.
Even if you are feeling lost, you are not alone. Many teens face problems with their mental health each day, and even for those diagnosed, it can be hard to know what to do with the information.
Because of this, many people find different ways to cope with their struggles. Each of these mechanisms is individual to the person and shed a light in the darkness as they navigate through one of the most tumultuous periods of their lifetime.
This is especially true for sophomore Varsha Raj, who was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder in the past year.
Raj has struggled with panic attacks and feelings of anxiety in the past and knows that mental illness is much more complex than society views.
However, her experiences with anxiety have given her greater insight into mental illness.
Sophomore Alexandra Gische, who was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and depression at ages 14 and 15, respectively, was able to give her own take on the mental illnesses.
She also considers it important for people to know that with mental illness, change isn’t instantaneous.
Freshman Anjali Mehta, who struggles with anxiety and depression and was diagnosed at age 14, felt similarly.
She also believes that it is important for students at Carlmont to make the distinction between counselors and therapists when seeking help.
Likewise, when Raj experiences anxiety, she will visit the Carlmont counselors.
However, with the exception of Shelley Bustamante, the school therapist who runs the Students Offering Support (SOS) program, Raj felt that there was room for improvement.
In particular, she believes that they may unintentionally undermine how students feel.
“Just because you don’t see someone with something so severe, it doesn’t make what they’re going through false or fake, it just means that it’s a unique case,” Raj said.
Both Raj and Mehta agree, however, that mental illness is different for everyone, and that there is an unfortunate number of misconceptions attributed to both anxiety and depression.
“I think that a lot of people think that if you have depression, then you’re always going to seem sad and gloomy. Although sometimes you can get bad moods, people that have depression can still laugh, talk, and be happy with their friends. It’s a lot more than just sadness,” Mehta said. “It’s a feeling of emptiness and loneliness, even when you’re surrounded by people.
Sophomore Mason Hoeflich, who was recently diagnosed, concurs.
For sophomore Eyvnne Yee, who struggles with panic attacks and anxiety, the support provided by Bustamante is much appreciated.
Mehta will also do the same.
Although, as Mehta said before, counselors are not enough on their own.
While taking the time to breathe could be central to your healing, sharing your feelings is just as important.
With Hoeflich, depression is “more frustrating than anything else,” but it was made easier with the support that he got when he told his family, friends, and doctors.
Gische stressed the former as well.
In the meantime, try to find coping mechanisms.
“I try as hard as I can to focus on things that I love, focus on hobbies. I love to sing, so if I’m sad I listen to music that makes me really happy, and sing along with it, or listen to choirs that I know are good,” Hoeflich said.
Since everyone’s experiences with mental illness are different, Raj considers it important to identify specific means to avoid anxiety attacks or depressive episodes.
Yee was also able to share a piece of her wisdom into finding the “light at the end of the tunnel” when it comes to mental illness.
However, even on the happenstance that they do occur, she has a plan.
Compared to last year, where she described experiencing panic attacks once or twice every two weeks, she has noticed a significant improvement in her mental health.
Like Yee, Mehta also sees the benefits in music.
“I play the flute and I sing, so music helps me put away the pain for a little bit and have fun, even if it’s only for a while,” Mehta said.
Gische was able to summarize why music is as important as it is to those who are struggling.
She also cited her friends for their help.
For Mehta, her older sister has been a positive force of guidance in the progression of her mental health.
Gische also was able to share advice for those who want to support their friends who have mental illnesses.
Even if you feel like you don’t have anyone to talk to, that doesn’t mean the cause is lost.
If you or someone you know is feeling depressed, anxious, or suicidal, call the free and confidential national suicide prevention lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. | 2019-04-22T02:27:52 | http://scotscoop.com/a-light-in-the-darkness-how-different-carlmont-students-cope-with-struggles/ |
Drug Development & Delivery recently spoke with several companies that are debunking that theory and developing innovative platform technologies for a range of therapeutics.
Argos Therapeutics is an immune-oncology company developing individualized immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer using its Arcelis® technology platform to capture mutated and variant antigens that are specific to each patient’s disease.
This precision immunotherapy technology is potentially applicable to a range of different cancers and is designed to overcome many of the manufacturing and commercialization challenges that have impeded other personalized, cell-based immunotherapies, says Dr. Nicolette. The Arcelis process uses only a small tumor or blood sample and the patient’s own dendritic cells, which are optimized from cells collected by a leukapheresis procedure. The activated, antigen-loaded dendritic cells are formulated with the patient’s plasma and administered via intradermal injection. A single production run makes enough product to continuously treat the patient for several years, and Argos has developed an automated manufacturing process to support post-launch commercial demand.
Argos’ most advanced Arcelis-based product candidate, AGS-003, is being evaluated in a pivotal Phase III ADAPT clinical trial for the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), and in ongoing investigator-initiated Phase II trials in neoadjuvant renal cell carcinoma and adjuvant non-small cell lung cancer.
Argos believes its Arcelis technology platform can also be used to create immunotherapies for other chronic infectious diseases that don’t respond to current treatments. The company has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) contract to develop AGS-004, an Arcelis-based product candidate currently being evaluated in an investigator-initiated Phase II clinical trial aimed at HIV eradication in adult patients.
Targeted drug delivery to the lower gastrointestinal (GI) tract is difficult to achieve. Assembly Biosciences’ GemicelTM is a patent-pending platform technology that allows for targeted delivery of a range of agents in an oral capsule to the GI tract, including the colon. Gemicel’s novel formulations, coating and encapsulation technology, and dual-release system are designed to enable oral targeted delivery of live biotherapeutics, such as vegetative bacteria and bacterial spores, vaccines, complex macromolecules, and genetic materials, as well as small molecules and other agents.
Recent human clinical scintigraphy studies performed by Assembly have confirmed that Gemicel can successfully deliver bolus doses to specific regions of the lower GI tract. Assembly believes scale-up and manufacture of the Gemicel delivery technology to be straightforward, efficient, and cost-effective. Gemicel capsules do not require refrigeration or special handling.
Gemicel achieves its targeting effects by leveraging parameters that vary in different parts of the GI tract, especially changes in pH. The Gemicel capsule is formulated to release its therapeutic payload in targeted sections of the GI tract based on their characteristic pH levels.
In addition, Gemicel capsules have inner and outer compartments that can be designed to dissolve at different pH levels, making it possible to deliver two doses of drug in two locations, or to deliver two different therapies to different parts of the GI tract using a single capsule.
Assembly conducted a proof-of-principle Gemicel clinical study in healthy volunteers. The study used radioisotope-based scintigraphy to precisely image the drug delivery properties of Gemicel.
“The scintigraphy study confirmed that Gemicel can effectively deliver a bolus payload to specific locations in the lower GI tract, and suggested that Gemicel can yield higher and more reproducible doses compared to conventional approaches, and that its capsule formulation process is scalable and affordable to produce,” says Assembly’s Mohan Kabadi, PhD, Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development.
Assembly intends to use the Gemicel technology to deliver its investigational microbiome therapy to treat recurrent C. difficile infections, which is expected to enter clinical trials later this year. The company is also using its microbiome platform to develop additional product candidates for use with Gemicel. “We are also interested in partnering with other companies to develop therapies that might benefit from Gemicel’s attributes,” says Micah Mackison, Vice President, Corporate Development & Strategy at Assembly.
Celsion is an oncology company dedicated to the development and commercialization of cancer drugs based on two clinical-stage technology platforms. The most advanced program is a heat-mediated, tumor-targeting drug delivery technology that employs a novel heat-sensitive liposome. The technology is engineered to address a range of difficult-to-treat cancers.
The first application of this platform is ThermoDox®, a lyso-thermosensitive liposomal doxorubicin (LTLD), whose novel mechanism of action delivers high concentrations of doxorubicin to a region targeted with the application of localized heat above 40°C, just above body temperature. In one of its most advanced applications, LTLD, when combined with radio frequency thermal ablation (RFA), has the potential to address a range of cancers. For example, RFA in combination with ThermoDox has been shown to expand the “treatment zone” with a margin of highly concentrated chemotherapy when treating individual primary liver cancer lesions, explains Michael Tardugno, Celsion’s Chairman and CEO. The goal of this application is to significantly improve efficacy.
Administered intravenously, LTLD is engineered with a half-life to allow significant accumulation of liposomes at the tumor site as these liposomes recirculate in the bloodstream. Drug concentration increases as a function of the accumulation of liposomes at the tumor site when activated by heat above 40°C. Once heated, the liposomes rapidly change structure when the liposomal membrane selectively dissolves, creating openings that quickly release a chemotherapeutic agent (doxorubicin) directly into the tumor and into the surrounding vasculature. This occurs only where the heat is present, supporting precise drug targeting.
“Our first drug utlilizing the platform, ThermoDox, is agnostic to the heating device and is designed to be used with a range of hyperthermic treatments, such as RFA, microwave hyperthermia, and high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU),” says Dr. Borys.
ThermoDox is currently in a Phase III clinical trial for the treatment of primary liver cancer, The OPTIMA Study; and a Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of recurrent chest wall (RCW) breast cancer, The DIGNITY Study. Results from Celsion’s recently completed Phase I/II US Dignity study of ThermoDox, in combination with mild hyperthermia in patients with RCW breast cancer, showed patients treated with ThermoDox demonstrated a combined local response rate of 61.9%. The latest overall survival (OS) analysis for primary liver cancer demonstrated that in a large, well bounded, subgroup of patients, treatment with a combination of ThermoDox and optimized RFA provided an average 58% improvement in OS compared to optimized RFA alone. Median OS for the ThermoDox plus otpmized RFA translated into a 25.4-month survival benefit over optimized alone.
In addition to ThermoDox, Celsion is applying LTLD technology to develop liposomal formulations of docetaxel and carboplatin. Celsion also continues to invest in liposomal technology, developing proprietary formulations of other marketed chemotherapeutics.
PETization is the proprietary platform technology of veterinary therapeutic biologics company Nexvet. It rapidly converts monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) among species, with the end products being 100% species-specific. Nexvet has clinically validated PETization in dogs, cats, and horses with its portfolio of anti-nerve growth factor (NGF) mAbs.
PETization also has applications beyond pet biopharmaceuticals. The rapidity of the process (which does not use traditional time-consuming mAb design processes like CDR grafting or iterative affinity maturation) means that PETized mAbs can be created (and in vivo proof-of-concept studies entered) very quickly, explains Dr. Heffernan.
Nexvet is also interested in investigating how veterinary medicine can be used to inform (and benefit from) the development path of new and existing treatments in human health. Dogs, in particular, are susceptible to many of the same diseases and pathologies that afflict humans, such as diabetes, cancer, and inflammatory disease. Clinical studies in animals with disease, therefore, can be a useful intermediary between traditional preclinical models and human clinical trials. These proofs-of-concept are usually performed with mouse mAbs in engineered mouse models of disease with sometimes questionable validity for human disease, says Dr. Heffernan.
Thus, Nexvet is exploring research collaborations whereby human pharma partners can benefit from rapid entry to better proof-of-concept studies, and Nexvet can benefit by developing new mAbs for PETizing and clinical assessment, in the pursuit of new veterinary therapies.
In addition to its pivotal-phase portfolio of anti-NGF mAbs ranevetmab (NV-01) and frunevetmab (NV-02) for the treatment of chronic pain in dogs and cats, respectively, Nexvet is advancing PETized anti-PD-1 mAbs in collaboration with Japan-based Zenoaq, for the treatment of canine cancers. PD-1 is an immunooncology target, which in human development, has led to the approved human drugs nivolumab (Opdivo®) and pembrolizumab (Keytruda®). Nexvet is also advancing PETized dog and cat mAbs against tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF), the target of the approved human anti-inflammatory drugs infliximab (Remicade®) and adlimumab (Humira®), and is investigating mAbs for allergic conditions against undisclosed targets.
Marine organisms present potent compounds with potential to be the next blockbuster cancer drug, the newest weapon in humanity’s fight against antibiotic resistance or a novel non-opioid pain medicine. But identifying these unique compounds and understanding how they might work as a drug is a complex task requiring specialized training and equipment. After obtaining biological samples from remote marine environments, scientists must isolate and understand the chemistry of novel marine-derived compounds. Marine compounds tend to be more chemically unique and less amenable to lab synthesis or fermentation.
To significantly accelerate the process of marine-inspired drug development, biotechnology company Sirenas has developed the Atlantis™ platform, a data-driven approach to documenting, analyzing, and synthesizing compounds that show promise as a medicine. In the case of Sirenas’ lead antibody drug conjugate payload, SMD-5033, the company spent less than 9 months to isolate and characterize the marine-derived compound, analog it to see how it may be applied in a therapeutic setting, synthesize it, conjugate it with several antibodies, and then prepare it for in vivo trials.
At the heart of the Atlantis platform is an ultra-efficient database and software platform. Sirenas isolates and chemically analyzes compounds and tests the samples in a range of biological disease assays. The data is uploaded into the platform, which contains the digital fingerprint of Sirenas’ entire chemical library of more than 25,000 drug-like fractions of compounds.
Because the analytics software can combine the rich chemical data with High Throughput Screening (HTS) results and other biological and biomedical profiles, modern statistical, machine-learning, and metabolomics algorithms can be deployed to rapidly identify promising starting matter for nearly any disease system or biological assay.
Once a lead compound is identified, the marine-derived compounds are synthesized in the lab. Sirenas’ team replicate, iterate, and fine-tune the complex chemical structures of the molecules, creating new compounds to advance to the clinic.
In addition to developing its own drug candidates, Sirenas partners with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies who wish to leverage the Atlantis platform. Current partnerships include programs for discovering new ADC payloads, and discovering and developing novel small molecules for immune-oncology and infectious disease. Sirenas is actively seeking new partnerships.
Vical Incorporated develops biopharmaceutical products for the prevention and treatment of chronic and life-threatening infectious diseases. The company’s core technology platform is based on plasmid DNA vectors designed to express various proteins of interest after injection into muscle tissue. The plasmid DNA contains gene expression elements to regulate high-level expression of any gene sequence that is genetically engineered into the vector. Vical’s major focus has been in developing therapeutic and prophylactic vaccines for the treatment of infectious diseases.
There are key advantages to using plasmid DNA-based vaccines, says Larry R. Smith, PhD, Vical’s Vice President of Vaccine Research. First, plasmid DNA is manufactured by a relatively simple fermentation process in E. coli and doesn’t require handling any pathogen. A powerful manufacturing attribute is that only a single manufacturing process is required regardless of which gene sequence is encoded by a plasmid DNA.
Second, vaccine stability (a limitation with some live-attenuated vaccines) is not an issue with plasmid DNA vaccines as they can be stored frozen for long periods with minimal loss of potency.
Finally, plasmid DNA vaccines can elicit both arms of the adaptive immune response (T-cell- and antibody-mediated responses) in contrast to inactivated and protein subunit-based vaccines that generally elicit high levels of antibody responses.
To create a plasmid DNA encoding the gene of interest, standard genetic engineering/cloning techniques are used with a plasmid vector backbone that has been optimized by Vical scientists; the gene sequence is synthesized to create a codon-optimized version that is designed for maximum expression. The plasmid DNA is combined with specific excipients to create the final drug product for a given indication.
Dr. Smith states that two plasmid DNA products using this platform technology are undergoing advanced clinical testing. The lead program is a Cytomegalovirus (CMV) vaccine, ASP0113, being developed in partnership with Astellas Pharma. ASP0113 is being tested in a global Phase III trial in approximately 500 hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients who are at high risk of developing CMV-associated disease and complications. Phase II trial results found the vaccine significantly reduced CMV viremia. ASP0113 is also being tested in a global Phase II trial in 150 high-risk subjects undergoing kidney transplantation.
The second product is a therapeutic HSV-2 vaccine candidate that was tested in a first-in-human Phase I/II trial. The bivalent vaccine significantly reduced genital herpes lesion rates in this study, and a Phase II trial is planned for further evaluation.
In addition to these programs, Vical is under contract with the Pox-Protein Public-Private Partnership for the development of an HIV vaccine. Vical will manufacture HIV plasmid DNA vaccine to be evaluated as a priming component of a prime/boost vaccine regimen in a planned Phase I trial.
XBiotech is a fully integrated global biosciences company dedicated to pioneering the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapeutic antibodies based on its True Human™ proprietary technology.
XBiotech was founded on the belief that cutting-edge medicines should work in a targeted way to make patients feel better, not worse. With this guiding principle, XBiotech has created a new class of antibody therapies called True Human, which are derived without modification from individuals with natural immunity to specific diseases. This approach differs from previous generations of antibody therapies, even those referred to as “fully human,” which are created using gene sequence engineering technologies in the laboratory. According the company, because True Human antibodies are derived from naturally occurring antibodies, they have the potential to harness the body’s natural immunity and have been developed to fight disease with increased safety, efficacy, and tolerability.
XBiotech’s lead product, Xilonix™, which is in late-stage clinical development for the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer, has been fast tracked by the US Food and Drug Administration and is currently under accelerated review in Europe. Xilonix is a first-in-class True Human monoclonal (IgG1k) antibody that neutralizes the biological activity of interleukin-1alpha (IL-1α), a protein associated with the growth and spread of tumors as well as the metabolic changes that can cause muscle and weight loss, fatigue, and anxiety. Debilitating symptoms, including wasting, pain, fatigue, and anorexia, are prognosticators for overall survival in patients with advanced colorectal cancer. A pivotal Phase III study in Europe was developed to assess recovery from these symptoms to rapidly evaluate the ability of Xilonix in improving the health of patients while treating their cancer.
“Xilonix represents an important advancement in the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer and may be a therapy that could be used in treating a broad range of other malignancies,” says XBiotech Founder and Chief Executive Officer John Simard.
The company is also rapidly advancing a robust pipeline of True Human antibody therapies to redefine the standards of care in oncology, inflammatory conditions, and infectious diseases. Since its founding a decade ago, XBiotech has developed the capabilities to identify, isolate, and manufacture True Human antibodies, and currently has clinical trial programs underway in nine disease categories, including cancer, diabetes, restenosis, acne, psoriasis, and Staphylococcus aureus infections.
“We continue to see that our ability to rapidly and cost-effectively transition from discovery to potential breakthrough therapies is unprecedented,” says Mr. Simard.
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Anyone with a mother or grandmother that indulged in any type of beauty regime is familiar with Avon. But who knew I would discover a treasure trove of classic grooming products from the direct-selling beauty line in 2015?
I’m sure everyone knew at least one Avon saleslady in their lifetime. I once pictured myself hosting Avon parties – a very ladies who lunch scenery – that included on-hand beauty tutorials and cocktails and me walking away with a pocket full of cash. This was the 90s, mind you, before online beauty portals made door-to-door sales seem irrelevant. But once the Avon ladies started becoming a thing of the past, I would’ve never guessed I would still be using anything from the company in 2015. And here I am. But ok, there’s a catch.
During a post-tidying “spa” session at my beau’s house, I found myself digging through his overwhelming arsenal of grooming products. Instead of trying everything under the sun, I stuck with the basics and behold, stumbled upon Avon. The bath oil scent alone brought on the nostalgia, which I squirted a few pumps in an Epsom salt-filled tub.
After full-body moisturizing, I sprayed my toes with the cooling spray, applied the corn and callus balm (in the small jar), then slathered on the cooling lotion.
Last but not least, I used a scrub on my hands (not pictured) to slosh off dead skin then applied the nail experts cuticle warming scrub. Definitely never seen a product like this and it actually warms! I stay away from cutting my cuticles however they do feel and look more polished.
What classics do you use for at-home spa treatments? | 2019-04-24T19:05:28 | http://www.twentytwogrand.com/2015/04/20/avon-aint-dead/ |
Some companies already charge smokers more for health insurance, and most Americans think that's a good idea.
Not surprisingly, just 12% of current smokers like the idea of higher health insurance rates. Seventy percent (70%) of non-smokers and a plurality (49%) of former smokers, however, think smokers should pay more.
In October 2009, 50% of adults favored making government workers who smoke pay more for health insurance.
That same month, 30% of adults said overweight workers should also pay higher health insurance premiums.
The survey of 1,000 Adults nationwide was conducted on November 14-15, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology. | 2019-04-19T02:58:52 | http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/november_2010/most_say_smokers_should_pay_more_for_health_insurance |
Let me just preface this post by saying I am seriously addicted to this series. I finished the first book on Wednesday night, and already finished this one this evening – mind you, I had a test today, and I barely studied because I was that hooked!! All the hype makes total sense after reading it!
Her salary as King’s Champion was considerable, and Celaena spent every last copper of it. Shoes, hats, tunics, dresses, jewelry, weapons, baubles for her hair, and books. Books and books and books. So many books that Philippa had to bring up another bookcase for her room.
This was an amazing sequel, and way better than the first book, that’s for sure! I found the plot to be very intriguing and, as any of SJM’s plots, very intelligent. I honestly don’t know how she comes up with these things!! Every little detail she mentions will come into play later, and everything just connects so flawlessly. She is absolutely genius.
She wouldn’t mind working with him – but not in the way Roland meant. Her way would include a dagger, a shovel, and an unmarked grave.
As I said in my review for Throne of Glass, I don’t usually enjoy 3rd person narrative, but it REAAALLY works for this series, and I’m beginning to like it more.
There are some quite scary scenes in here, and also a looooooot of emotional stuff, so definitely be prepared for an emotional roller coaster!
She had mountains of unread books sitting in her rooms but didn’t feel like reading any of them.
I liked the OTP in the first book, but I don’t think anything could beat the current one, to be completely honest. My ship has sailed, friends.
I also felt as though there was a fair amount of character development, which I am always here for! Some of the characters matured a lot, or at least that’s what I gathered as I kept reading.
Despite there being amazing characters whom I love, I should warn you that 80% of the characters in this series are absolutely despicable and need to die like yesterday.
Unfortunately, I was spoiled for the big revelation at the end, so I already knew what would happen. That did take something away from my reading experience, but I absolutely loved Crown of Midnight nonetheless, and it wouldn’t make any sense to lower the rating based on an external factor. So, I will be giving it 5 stars, without a second thought.
I reeeeeeaaaally really love this series, and this book is my favorite so far. I absolutely recommend that you start reading the Throne of Glass series. I thought nothing would come close to the ACOTAR series, but I think this one will be at the same level for me, and that’s saying a lot.
If you’ll excuse me, I’ll go dive right into the third book now.
I hope you enjoyed reading my thoughts on Crown of Midnight and if you’d like, check out my other book reviews!
YES omg, I also loved the OTP in Crown of Midnight, and Chaol is just 😍❤️! Enjoy reading the rest of the series! | 2019-04-19T00:54:33 | https://thebookishdeer.com/2017/11/04/review-crown-of-midnight-by-sarah-j-maas/ |
Motorhead cancelled their appearance at Austria's See-Rock festival and their planned June 25 date in Milan, Italy due to a health issue involving frontman Lemmy Kilmister.
According to Soundsblog.it, Lemmy suffered an unspecified haematoma. The news comes after the revelation in Classic Rock magazine that Lemmy recently had a defibrillator fitted to help his heart to beat normally, after experiencing heart problems in recent times.
Motorhead's new album, Aftershock, is due around September. It was recorded at Maple Sound Studios in Santa Ana, California with producer Cameron Webb (Pennywise, Megadeth, Zebrahead) and will feature 13 songs including Dust And Glass, Knife, Going To Mexico, Lost Woman Blues, Death Machine and Heartbreaker.
Motorhead's last album was 2010's The World Is Yours. At the time, Lemmy told me "There doesn’t seem to be an overall theme to the album except anger, you know? We easily do them sort of songs. Angry is good for ya. Gets the old synapses crackling, y’know?"
I'm sure the whole rock world will join me in hoping Lemmy gets well soon. | 2019-04-18T22:17:31 | http://www.fullthrottlerock.net/apps/blog/show/29191128-lemmy-suffers-hematoma-forcing-motorhead-to-cancel-shows- |
Shane Williams said he's used the waffle maker he and his wife received as a gift three years ago maybe once or twice. Instead the Hagerstown couple ends up getting frozen waffles that just need to be heated up.
Cindy Ruark of Hagerstown said she rarely uses her waffle maker anymore because one of the legs fell off, but she thinks she'd use it if company visited.
Jane Fox had two waffle makers until she gave one away. The one she kept is a Belgian waffle maker she's had about 10 years and used twice, she thinks.
Tri-State-area residents might get kitchen gadgets, such as waffle makers, as holiday gifts. Or perhaps they already own some.
According to a 2006 report on houseware sales, kitchen electrics accounted for an estimated $6.4 billion in sales in the U.S. in 2005, said Debbie Teschke, spokeswoman for the International Housewares Association. Kitchen electrics are not major appliances, but smaller ones such as waffle makers, microwaves, toasters, blenders and food processors.
Kitchen tools and accessories - handheld nonelectric tools - accounted for an estimated $9.9 billion in sales, Teschke said.
That might mean billions of dollars of kitchen equipment is collecting dust in cupboards.
Fox, 57, of Fort Loudon, Pa., said she hasn't been using her waffle maker because she's been on a diet for a long time, but she might try getting the waffle maker - stored in its box on a pantry shelf - out to make whole-wheat waffles.
What she does use often is a small food processor.
A lot of kitchen gadgets are touted for making a task easier. But Bill Spotten found cleaning his wasn't that convenient.
Spotten's family has a food processor (rarely used) for chopping vegetables and an electric griddle they don't use much either.
"I guess because it's easier to clean the cutting board and knife," said Spotten, 56, of Hagerstown. And the griddle is so big it's hard to fit it in the sink to clean.
Amanda Christman, 20, of Marion, Pa., said her hand-cranked apple peeler is worth the storage space it takes up even though she only uses it four or five times a year. The device makes peeling easier. Christman uses it to peel apples for apple pies and potatoes for cheesy potatoes.
"What doesn't get used in my house is an omelet maker," said Jean Crotty of Fayetteville, Pa. "I bought it. I went through that phase."
"I haven't used it in at least 10 years," she said, instead making omelets in a regular pan.
However, her George Foreman grill gets used frequently. "It's quick. It's easy. It cleans up well," Crotty said.
Karen Latsbaugh said her family hasn't used its Foreman grill in about eight years. She's not even sure it was unpacked after they moved from an apartment to a house.
Now that they live in a house, they use a charcoal grill, said Latsbaugh, 38, of Chambersburg, Pa.
The family also owns a potato ricer that Latsbaugh thinks has been used once to make mashed potatoes.
They got it after last Thanksgiving when she saw a friend had one. The ricer, which looks like a large garlic press, helps to make mashed potatoes that are light and not lumpy.
"I've always had a problem with mashed potatoes so we thought that would take care of the situation," Latsbaugh said. | 2019-04-24T04:47:18 | http://articles.herald-mail.com/2007-11-07/news/25032883_1_waffle-debbie-teschke-kitchen-tools-and-accessories |
South Loop Market was established in 2009 by two brothers who were local residents since 2007. Their concept was born after they grew frustrated with having to deal with large crowds and long lines at the nearest big-box grocer only to purchase a handful of items. Convinced that many of their neighbors shared the same frustration, they decided a local market was simply a necessity. Thanks to the tremendous support from the South Loop residents, the company expanded. Today there are four locations throughout the South Loop, as well as other neighborhoods. Each location providing its local community the opportunity to purchase quality, essential, and specialty items in a convenient and welcoming environment.
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Saturday 23rd April 2016 was the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death. Due to the involvement that St. Michael's previously had with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a 'hub' school for their 'Stand up for Shakespeare' project, we were fortunate to be entered into a 'ballot' for tickets for a special celebration being held at Shakespeare's Swan Theatre in Stratford -Upon- Avon. We were delighted to be awarded four tickets (two staff tickets and two for pupils).
Mrs Hutchinson launched a competition for year 6 pupils to persuade her why they should be selected to accompany the staff members (Mrs Hutchinson and Mrs Beddard) to this prestigious star-studded event which was televised live on BBC2.
The entries were inspiring and Mrs Hutchinson had an extremely difficult time reaching a decision. Finally, it was decided that Farra Nijjar (6B) and Christos Kamenou (6M0 were the worthy winners.
The evening was unforgettable and St. Michael's were seated within touching distance of the stars (including HRH Prince Charles and The Duchess of Cornwall).Unfortunately, no photos could be taken of the stars during the evening but we were lucky to take a couple of snaps of two actors who formed part of the audience: Andy Sekis (AKA the voice of Gollum in Lord of the Rings) and Lorraine Ashbourne (Jerricho).
Watch this space for Christos and Farra's reviews of the evening! | 2019-04-24T06:14:27 | http://www.stmichaels-pelsall.co.uk/shakespeares-anniversary-live-bbc/ |
Altered spelling of German Birkhäuser, a habitational name for someone from any of several places (in Westphalia, Bavaria, and Thuringia) named Birkhausen, a compound of Old High German birka ‘birch’ + hus ‘house’. Altered spelling of German Berghäuser, a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called Berghausen, for example in Württemberg.
Where is the Berkheiser family from?
You can see how Berkheiser families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Berkheiser family name was found in the USA, and the UK between 1840 and 1920. The most Berkheiser families were found in the USA in 1880. In 1891 there was 1 Berkheiser family living in London. This was 100% of all the recorded Berkheiser's in the UK. London had the highest population of Berkheiser families in 1891.
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I've never seen a yellow rubber band belt. Is it good or cracked and rotted?
That poor machine, why people let their sewing machines get in such condition is beyond me. They make wonderful things on clean material with filthy machines and somehow expect the end products to be nice and clean too. Amazing logic.
Some of those old Japanese machines turn better than the old Singers. Singer had a better reputation at the time. I think there was a lot of prejudice against Japan because of the war. Any you might look to see if any of your Singer machines were made in Japan. I'm not sure about the 293 - I will look at it some more today. Last night I pulled pics off my archives to post. Somewhere think I had a pic of a pretty pink Brother zz machine.
Joe, a lot of women smoked and sewed at the same time. When those machines go into storage, they don't age any better than the women who were smoking. Some times storage is what gets the machine looking bad, - the foot control rattling around scratches up the whole thing pretty bad. So sad.
This is the black version. SS only of course and one of my favorite machines.
there is no other markings on this machine.
Oh, and with the exception of the stitch length regulator which is reminiscent of the Singer Model 15, the SEWMOR 404 is pure Singer 66 underneath.
I am sure that the machine had not been used for years and sat in a garage for a very long time. It is possible that the previous owner gave up on it because when I first test drove her the top thread kept breaking. I finally figured out it was likely the ZZ stitch plate which had lots of jagged edges from needle strikes. Got a new one yesterday from the OSMG and solved the problem.
As for the yellow belt, I should have mentioned it in my post. I have never seen one either but it is in perfect shape. I am thinking the the original one was white as the bobbin tire is white. It will have to be replaced as it is hard, dry and has a flat spot on it. Too bad it will be a black one, can't find bobbin tires in any color other than black.
I can't see the badge clearly in your pic, but the one I took in August is readable and says 404.
Bobbin tires are like Ford Model T's. You can have any color you want as long as it's black.
your camera serves better than my feeble memory.
Oh Yeah! I've been toying with an idea I haven't told anyone about yet. Since I like the Singer 66 but prefer a back tack or reverse, and the 66s with a back tack don't have a stitch length lock, I've been thinking about putting a SEWMOR 404 in a treadle.
Not my black one, cos it works great and I don't wanna take a chance on messing something up.
Sewmor 606 straight stitch, serial number S30828. This is a mystery machine as to who made it. There are not any JA numbers stamped on the underside. The motor is a Dayson Power Motor, 115V/.05 HP.
Last edited by Caroline S; 12-08-2012 at 08:56 AM.
and the last of my vintage zigzags, my mother's White model 1563, sn 3885. This machine includes manual, attachments, and complete set of cams for "fancy" stitches.
You better keep that SEWMOR 606 away from me. I'll stick it up under my shirt and make off with it. It's a perfect match to my S M 404.
OK, I'll play! First I have this great DeLuxe Emporium 146 B. Made around 1968 I think. Left needle. Zig Zag and automatic buttonholer. Quiet, strong and sews like a dream. It's taken over as my "downstairs" machine. I hate having to run up and down stairs just to make some quick stitches.
I also have a few Kenmores, but my favorite is this 158.523. With all the cams and a groovy box of attachments.
Suzie Sewmor is now in hiding from Joey. She is one very nice and strong sewing machine. All of the searches that I did on her model number came up with another type of sewing machine. The plates does say 606 on it. But nothing on her tells me who the manufacturer was. She is sort of a hybrid between Singer, Brother and Necchi.
When I was researching my 404 I came across that same comment about the 606. Seems there was two different machines with the same model number. I have no idea where I found that, but if I come across it I'll let you know.
I've seen three different SEWMOR model numbers; the 202 which is a 15 clone, the 404 which is a cross between the 201 and 66, and the 606 which has two versions.
Making a total of four. I'm partial to the Sewmors and want all four. Eventually.
Dressmaker Precision Zig Zag sewing machine. Model 295, serial number 00050. No JA number on this one but a large "V" and "T" are stamped underneath. The motor is made by YDK, model YM40, 115-130 V/80 watts. This is the only machine that I have that has a made in Japan motor. The straight stitch sewing position for the needle is left.
Joe, did you make the Dial 'n Sew all pretty yet?
The Dressmaker doesn't come up on my screen.
Yep, don't have any "after" pics yet. Working on it.
Does the Sewmor 606 I was gonna buy from you look like the one cabbagepatchkid posted above? I don't remember.
It looks like it is out of the same cookie cutter but the paint is much different.
OK, just for Miriam, here's the Dial 'n Sew 516 all cleaned up and working.
Still got some fine tuning to do, especially with the button hole setting knob, but she'll do SS and ZZ just fine.
Joe does that have a camstack? I'm trying to justify that knob and lever on the left. That one sure doesn't have any glitz does it or is an extra lever and knob the glitz? Does the lever release something so the dial can turn? It is amazing how nice they look when they get a little cleaning. | 2019-04-20T22:47:40 | https://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage-antique-machine-enthusiasts-f22/vintage-japanese-badged-zig-zag-straight-sew-sewing-machines-t207877-2.html |
Largely recognized as “the last file system you'll ever need”, Highly Scalable ZFS has made serious inroads into the storage arena, disrupting and displacing traditional storage systems. With many innovative and unique features when first released by Sun Microsystems, ZFS is now becoming the file system of choice in many Open Storage enterprise deployments.
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ZFS is a transactional self-healing 128-bit file system that supports almost unlimited storage capacity. One of it’s unique features is that is calculates checksums of all data and meta data allowing it to identify and self-repair data corruption.
Combining what have been traditionally separate storage components: data management, storage and device management, virtualized volumes and file system management into one, ZFS does not require hardware RAID controllers or battery-backed NVRAM to ensure data integrity in the event of physical component failure.
Designed to overcome the limitations of general-purpose file systems, ZFS was originally conceived and created by Sun Microsystems in 2001 for their proprietary Solaris platform. In 2005, the source was released in the open-sourced OpenSolaris platform shortly before Sun’s acquisition by Oracle. Since then, Oracle placed ZFS development back under closed source license on their Solaris platform and they continue to sell their own proprietary ZFS based storage appliances.
Since 2005 however, growing open-source communities have ported and improved ZFS on other Unix platforms including the OpenSolaris derived illumos, OpenIndiana and OmniOS operating systems, Linux, Mac OSX and FreeBSD. Since 2013, ongoing ZFS development and releases have been coordinated by OpenZFS, an umbrella organisation whose team comprises of individuals and companies that use, improve and promote the ZFS file system, including many commercial organisations that embed ZFS in their own products.
In addition, OpenZFS can be deployed on a wide range of generic commodity hardware from a myriad of suppliers on the Operating System platform of your choice. Open source, open architecture, commodity hardware, hugely flexible topologies and many hardware options and vendors mean ZFS is enterprise-ready.
Being more than just a file-system and incorporating advanced logical volume management capability, ZFS has a number of revolutionary built-in features that customers would normally pay large additional license fees for elsewhere. For example, thin provisioning, iSCSI and Fibre Channel support, NFS & CIFS, unlimited snapshots, replication and so on.
Whilst ZFS has built-in data verification and integrity checking, what ZFS isn’t however, is a clustered file-system meaning that ZFS pools can only be served by a single server head at a time; a clear single-point-of-failure. If the server fails, even though the data may be safe, the ZFS storage and associated file and block services become inaccessible.
For enterprise use, businesses demand high availability to ensure business continuity in the event of system breakdown or disaster, and no matter how reliable the hardware, there is no guarantee of maintaining service availability in the event of failure or error of a single hardware component, whether storage device or server head.
Adding a second server head to improve storage availability in the event of a single server failure can be achieved using simple active/passive high availability and failover technologies. However, bringing enterprise-grade high availability features to ZFS based storage appliances is significantly more complicated than simply failing over ZFS pools from one server head to another.
Due to its inherent design and the inventors’ foresight to know that physical disk drives gradually wear out over time, ZFS does an incredible job of protecting against data corruption as well as continuous integrity checking and automatic repair. It is reasonably easy however to inadvertently corrupt entire ZFS pools in clustered configurations if attempts are made to import pools on two or more storage server nodes simultaneously.
Although ZFS pools can be made available to any number of other storage nodes, there is no concept in ZFS for pools to be accessed by more than one node at a time, and there is no inherent protection against multi-import catastrophic data corruption scenarios. Whilst storage high availability is vital to ensure services are always up, securing and protecting the data foremost is absolutely critical.
In addition to ensuring the availability of ZFS pools and data protection, bulletproof data fencing capabilities are needed to protect the physical data from potential split-brain scenarios. For example, sometimes a server, or network access, may freeze for a few moments and recover during or after a service failover, leading to the potentially disastrous scenario of storage corruption by data pools being written to by two or more servers at the same time.
It is also important to provide high availability and integrity of associated file and block services (e.g. NFS, SMB, iSCSI, ALUA), to maintain connections for virtualized environments, to ensure replication and snapshot capabilities and backup schedules services are maintained, and so on.
More complex storage topologies may also involve a large number of ZFS pools serviced across multiple servers meaning a simple active/passive (two node) configuration is not possible. Simple high availability solutions reliant on network heartbeats may not accommodate stretched storage topologies where servers physically reside in different locations or include a remote replicated third-node in a backup or disaster recovery site.
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RSF-1 for ZFS allows multiple ZFS pools to be managed across multiple servers providing High Availability for both block and file services beyond a traditional two-node Active/Active or Active/Passive topology. With RSF-1 for ZFS Metro edition, highly available ZFS services can also span beyond the single data centre.
RSF-1 for ZFS storage is therefore more than a Disaster Recovery solution failing back to a previous snapshot point-in-time, but provides real-time failover in the event of failure or disaster where data is always up-to-date and failover transparent to system users. It is also a sophisticated system administration tool that allows for controlled management of storage services to facilitate smooth and seamless system upgrades and maintenance.
Managed by a standalone GUI, command line interface and a rich API, RSF-1 for ZFS can also be easily seamlessly integrated into your own management administration toolset.
At the heart of the RSF-1 for ZFS solution is a mature and stable enterprise class high availability product. It was the first commercial HA solution for Sun/Solaris environments and has a 20+ year track record in data centres worldwide providing high-availability assurance for some of the most demanding customer service availability needs. RSF-1 for ZFS has provided Enterprise-grade High-Availability ZFS Storage services to thousands of mission-critical deployments across all industries worldwide since 2009.
RSF-1 brings advanced HA (High Availability) features to the ZFS file-system providing a more resilient and robust storage offering tolerant to system failures.
RSF-1 has been licensed by many third-party vendors and incorporated into their own products and services, often embedded in turnkey appliances.
RSF-1 failover works by monitoring heartbeats across servers. When the heartbeat skips the ZFS filesystem fails over automatically. | 2019-04-26T07:24:38 | http://high-availability.com/ |
Even from photos and post card renderings, heavy and imposing. I doubt it looked less so in person. Maybe in a different location.
You know, just take a look at the SCALE of the keystone over the large arched opening on the right as well as the Corinthian capitols in comparison to the height of the people seen in the photo!
That keystone as I remember had a carved Roman styled figure on it's front, it must have almost been life sized 5-6' tall and like the rest- carved stone!
The Manhattan Hotel was designed by Henry Hardenbergh and was 250 feet tall and 16-1/2 stories.
The Coogan Building (formerly the Racquet Club Building) was designed by A.H. Thorpe in 1875-76. There's a photo in the book Rise of the New York Skyscraper 1865-1913. From the photo, it looks like the building was 5 or 6 stories, constructed of brick, with arched windows.
There's a very good photo of the City Hall Post Office (designed by A.B. Mullett) in relation to its surroundings in New York 1900.
The New York Tribune Building was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and was 260 feet tall. There's a good photo in Rise of the New York Skyscraper and several pages of information.
The Hanover National Bank Building was designed by James B. Baker in 1901-3 and was 22 stories. There's a photo in Rise of the New York Skyscraper. It was located next door to the Banker's Trust Building on Nassau Street.
If you stop to think about it, these fantastic old and long-gone masterpieces are not truly gone. They are simply not rebuilt. If anyone WANTED to recreate any of these gems, I am sure they could be, and I'm sure they could be designed in such a way to make them practical, cost-efficient, profitable, and energy-efficient.
In other words, once a building has been designed; i.e., placed on paper or computer as derived from the minds of people, it continues to exist. Whether we choose to produce what has been developed already is simply up to us. For example, if somebody wanted to make a grown-up modern version of the Singer Building, all they'd have to do is take the original design, scale it to contemporary standards or height, and build it.
After all, there are Frank Lloyd Wright buildings that only NOW are being built!
A WELL-KNOWN TOWER The Singer Building as it looked when demolition began in 1967, with a wall decoration in the lobby that used needle and thread imagery. The building was one of several designed by the visionary architect Ernest Flagg for Frederick Bourne.
The 41-story Singer Building, the tallest in the world in 1908 when it was completed at Broadway and Liberty Street, was until Sept. 11, 2001, the tallest structure ever to be demolished. The building, an elegant Beaux-Arts tower, was one of the most painful losses of the early preservation movement when it was razed in 1967.
A Manhattan reader, Robert Bittencourt, wondered why such an iconic building was removed from the city's streetscape. The answer: size matters.
The building was the result of an unusual patron-architect partnership between Frederick Bourne, the head of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, and Ernest Flagg, a visionary architect who at first opposed skyscrapers.
Around 1880, Bourne was an industrious clerk in the Mercantile Library when he somehow earned the admiration of Alfred Corning Clark, the son of Edward Clark. The elder Clark was at the time the head of Singer, and was also starting to build his Dakota apartment house at 72nd Street and Central Park West. Bourne began working for the Clarks - indeed, a 1905 account in The New York Press said that Bourne had directed the construction of the Dakota.
Bourne was soon brought into the Singer company, which was selling 500,000 sewing machines a year; he became its president in 1889.
In 1896, Bourne hired the Paris-trained Flagg, an early exponent of the Beaux-Arts style, to design a new Singer headquarters at Broadway and Liberty Street. Flagg's original red brick and stone structure, with its mansard roof, was an assured but not remarkable Paris-style building. In 1902 Bourne had Flagg design a loft building for the company at 561 Broadway, near Prince Street - an ingenious and sophisticated mix of frankly exposed structural terra cotta, steel and ironwork, with whimsical red and green coloring.
In the same year, Bourne began acquiring additional land for a far more important architectural commission for Flagg: what was to be the tallest building in New York.
In the 1890's, Flagg had denounced the growing crop of skyscrapers, and by the turn of the 20th century he was horrified by the darkened streets and raw side walls produced by such buildings. But in the rough and tumble of New York real estate, the opinions of a Paris-trained architect had low priority, and Flagg shifted his focus to reforming skyscraper design.
The earliest tall buildings had risen directly from the edges of their plots, presenting bulky fronts and unattractive rears. In a 1907 article in The Times, Flagg lamented the resulting "wild-Western appearance." He urged that skyscraper towers more than 10 or 15 stories high should be set back from the property lines, so that the tower occupied only one-quarter of the lot. All four sides could then be treated architecturally, and "we should soon have a city of towers instead of a city of dismal ravines," as Flagg put it in the article. His proposal also envisioned the concept of transferring air rights from adjacent owners.
Begun in 1906, the Singer Building incorporated Flagg's model for "a city of towers," with the 1896 structure reconstructed as the base, and a 65-foot-square shaft rising 612 feet high, culminating in a bulbous mansard and giant lantern at the peak. Flagg reused the earlier building's French-style color scheme of bright red brick and light stone and terra cotta, framing a broad, iron-framed bay of windows rising most of the height of the tower.
The lobby had the quality of "celestial radiance" seen in world's-fair and exposition architecture of the period, as the author Mardges Bacon described it in her 1986 monograph "Ernest Flagg" (Architectural History Foundation, MIT Press). A forest of marble columns rose high to a series of multiple small domes of delicate plasterwork, and Flagg trimmed the columns with bronze beading. A series of large bronze medallions placed at the top of the columns were alternately rendered in the monogram of the Singer company and, quite inventively, as a huge needle, thread and bobbin.
Singer kept its offices high in the tower, and the bulbous top became one of New York's best known landmarks, even though it was superseded by the 700-foot-tall Metropolitan Life Tower on East 23rd Street in 1909.
Flagg's vision of a city of free-standing towers did not get much traction. By the time the Singer Building was completed, another structure, the 34-story City Investing Building, ran plum up against the north side of the Singer plot.
Flagg soon became an advocate for skyscraper legislation. The 1916 city zoning law incorporated some of the ideas he had proposed, but it favored the more familiar design of staggered setbacks.
Bourne worked with Flagg to produce several other striking commissions, like Bourne's suave country house, Indian Neck Hall, in Oakdale on Long Island, and his retreat in the Thousand Islands, the brooding, Wagnerian "Towers." And Bourne brought Flagg to the Pomfret School in northeastern Connecticut, where the architect designed a moody Norman-style chapel, a crisp Beaux-Arts main schoolhouse and a long ridge-top row of brick dormitories, one of which was named after Bourne, whose son attended the school. When Bourne died in 1919, he left an estate of $25 million.
In 1961, the Singer company announced plans to sell Bourne's monument and move to Midtown. William Zeckendorf, chairman of the development firm Webb & Knapp, bought the Singer tower and the rest of the block, hoping to get the New York Stock Exchange to relocate there.
That project failed, but United States Steel bought the Singer Building block in 1964 for what became the 54-story One Liberty Plaza, 743 feet high. Demolition of Flagg's building began in August of 1967, as the World Trade Center was rising to the west.
In his 1963 inventory "New York Landmarks" (Wesleyan University Press), the preservationist Alan Burnham classed the Singer Building with the Woolworth, Metropolitan Life and other buildings now considered very important. By 1967, Mr. Burnham (who died in 1984) was the executive director of the new Landmarks Preservation Commission. The agency's files contain a meek request from Mr. Burnham asking U.S. Steel to consider preserving the lobby - which didn't happen.
"If the building were made a landmark, we would have to find a buyer for it," Mr. Burnham told The Times, adding that "the commission doesn't have a big enough staff to be a real-estate broker for a skyscraper." There were press accounts that much of the bronze was going to be salvaged, and a few pieces do turn up in the architectural antiques trade.
So then, what prompted the decision? Well, the tower portion of the Singer Building was about 65 feet square - thus the total area per floor was a little more than 4,200 square feet. The 2.1 million square feet of One Liberty Plaza is laid out on floors that measure about 37,000 square feet.
So in the case of the Singer Building and One Liberty Plaza, it boiled down to a matter of square feet. And One Liberty Plaza has many more of them.
Did you just post a story from January 2nd 2005 on January 1st 2005?
I've attached one of the photographs (of Washington Street) below.
Alternate history: What if Radio Row was saved from demolition? Would the area have become an extension of Tribeca? Would BPC even exist?
You can't say, but there was a lot of talent in those shops only a short time before electonics technology exploded.
Silicon (something) may have been the name of a NYC neighborhood.
I'm looking forward to looking at the weblink two posts back.
I recently posted this request under the Yankee Stadium thread, but either it was missed, or perhaps as I fear, the information is just too rare for anyone to reply: Does anyone have or know of any links of demolition photos of the original Yankee Stadium? I recall one in a handout from the opening 1976 season of the 'remodeled' stadium. As far as I know, the only remaining piece of the original stadium at the site is the white decorative lattice which was moved to the outfiled wall above the scoreboards and ads.
An article in the print edition of the Tribeca Trib has 2 large aerial photos of Tribeca taken in 1970. I scanned, stitched, and cleaned them up, and uploaded to pbase, along with the article. The files are 650K and 1.2 meg.
...Tom Auch...BPC and WFC could not exist were it not for the destruction of Radio Row and the subsequent construction of WTC.
The land West of West St was created by the excavation for the WTC.A huge pit was being dug and all the stuff taken out of it wound up dumped into the River,creating fresh real estate a few hundred feet away and birthing an urban tabula rosa that would later gift the city with the great urban space we now call Battery Park City.
I worked in the Barclay-Vessey Bldg-a.k.a. "Verizon"- in the late '60s/early '70s,and I watched the transition of the area as it went from an ex-commercial zone to a big,open hole.The buildings had been torn down a long time before I got there,but the street grid was still intact,lending it an otherworldly appearance-streets serving nothing.
25th-story perch as they dug out the pit and lugged the tailings over to the Hudson,creating some new Manhattan.
In the early '70s,as the bones of the new WTC towers were reaching skyward,some pioneering residents of Lower Manhattan began planting urban gardens on the bare,rock-filled appendage that jutted rudely off Manhattan's tip,like a goiter.Temporarily,it added some nascent green to the grey rock.It was a very Hippie thing to do,tending an urban garden as Collosus rose in the East,smoking joints on the new,rocky riverbank,grooving on New Jersey.
I wonder if anyone who ate BPC tomatoes is still around?
I wouldn't swear to it,but I'll bet what's left of Radio Row,sits at the bottom of the Hudson,it's deconstructed architecture propping up Battery Park City.
Wow that's pretty interesting. But when I look that those Tribeca aerial photos from the early '70s, they look like something out of a post-apocalyptic world. But aside from that, I thought that the idea for BPC pre-dated the demolition of Radio Row. | 2019-04-20T00:26:09 | http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4801&page=2&s=dc3452abc90b84dd5c47af9439052f42 |
The 110 Nation Sports Show.
It's Monday, and Mike and C.J. are back in the studio to recap the sports weekend. From the conclusion of the Urban Meyer investigation at Ohio State to pro football developments as we get closer to the regular season to the weekend's NASCAR action at Road America and in Canada, the guys have it all covered. Please join us. | 2019-04-23T16:47:08 | http://www.blogtalkradio.com/110nation/2018/08/28/the-110-nation-sports-show |
> > > > > > > > + * port is down and up, the related VF port should be reset.
> > > > > > > > + * queues, restart the port.
> > > Ok, but why start/stop can't do these things?
> Why store and restore cannot be implemented in start/stop functions?
and may cause a result that user do not expect. | 2019-04-24T07:50:42 | https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2017-April/064020.html |
The Rock River and Turtle Creek in the greater Beloit area offer some wonderful paddling opportunities. The Confluence is located right in the center of the Rock River Trail, a nationally recognized trail initiative. You’ll enjoy spotting eagles, swans, white pelicans, herons, beaver, various species of ducks and other waterfowl. In addition, you’ll see the occasional deer, fox and coyote along the banks.
A great deal of the Rock River after the confluence is very wooded and scenic. You can paddle down river until Rockford, but you will need to portage at the Rockton Dam, so look at the Water Trail map link above for details. Check Rock River water levels.
The Confluence offers a good takeout point for Turtle Creek. Depending on water levels, you can also launch into the Rock River near the confluence.
The Confluence is located approximately at the halfway point on the Rock River Trail. We hope someday to provide rustic campsites at the Confluence for Rock River Trail paddlers to enjoy. You can paddle the Rock River Water Trail along the 320-mile river course from the headwaters in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, to the Mississippi River at Rock Island, Illinois. The Rock River Trail is a “National Water Trail” and “Scenic and Historic Route”. For more information about the Rock River Trail and the dams on the Rock River visit their website.
For details about kayaking or canoeing in the Stateline area , please see this map of the water trails in the Beloit & South Beloit area. | 2019-04-25T17:52:48 | https://natureattheconfluence.com/paddling-rock-river-turtle-creek/ |
The suit filed in San Francisco County Superior Court, by DFEH attorney Denise Levey, alleges multiple violations of the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), which prohibits discrimination against employees based on their national origin, and specifically prohibits the adoption and enforcement of English-only rules absent a business necessity. According to the DFEH’s lawsuit, Forever 21 prohibited employees from speaking any language other than English during work hours, including when greeting one another, during employee rest breaks, and when speaking to monolingual Spanish-speaking customers. DFEH alleges that the English-only policy was specifically enforced against Forever 21’s Spanish-speaking employees. When three Spanish-speaking employees complained about the policy, their work hours were reduced and they were subjected to hostile treatment from management. The employees, represented by La Raza Centro Legal, filed a discrimination complaint with DFEH. | 2019-04-19T13:21:55 | http://fashionmeetsrights.com/news/viewp/employment-discrimination |
Here, at Greater Pentecostal Temple, we have a multiplicity of active auxiliaries and committees that are a vital part of the vision God has given us to “Take The City!” Our desire is to equip the body of Christ so that we can impact our community, our nation and eventually the world.
Work on Church and Pastoral Anniversary. Pastor’s Birthday Celebrations.
The Audio/Visual Ministry is a vital part of the church experience. We are responsible for ensuring that the Word of God can be heard clearly by everyone. We work in conjunction with the Praise and Worship Team, choirs, musicians and the pulpit. We are also responsible for the audio and visual taping of every worship service and the sale of all messages after each service.
Help when families suffer losses and serve meals and help with family needs.
The mission of the Children / Youth Ministry is to establish a foundation for building Christian character, morals, values and behaviors in young people ages 5 to 18; by using creative and innovative methods to excite, inspire, capture and ignite young people for Jesus. Our goal is to enable young people to understand and recognize who Jesus is and what it is to live for Him only.
Pastoral Advisor: Bishop Marvin E. Donaldson, Th.D., Auxiliary Leader: Dr.
The Drama Guild uses highly anointed theatrical performances to bring forth the Word of God, reaching men, women and children of all races, ethnicities and religions.
The mission of the Healthcare Professionals is to serve the basic needs of the Pastor with the effort to allow the spirit of God to move freely through and to His people. To also assist the primary needs of the church elders and congregation.
Hospitality is one that is founded on the happiness and well being of everyone in the church, with our main focus on our guests and visitors. We want to make sure that as soon as they come through the threshold of the church; they feel all the love of not only Greater Pentecostal Temple, but of Jesus Christ Himself.
The purpose of the web department is to maintain a portal where people can access a wealth of knowledge regarding the Greater Pentecostal Temple church.
The purpose of the IT department is to set up and maintain computer networking systems within the church, as well as various equipment purchases.
The Men on post provide security to our Pastors, guest speakers, and the congregation as a whole. Not only are they to ensure the safety of everyone within the church building, but also ensures the safety of the grounds and assist with parking.
The mission of Sunday Morning Bible Study is to develop and make available to members and non-members of the church, ages 2 through adults, a program of systematic study of the Word of God. (SMBS) offers a full complement of classes beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday mornings. Classes follow a traditional, international curriculum that represents a systematic study of the Bible.
Our mission is to greet visitors with love and expressions of gratitude by acknowledging their presence, identifying those who are seeking a new beginning, and extending an invitation of fellowship with God’s family. Ultimately, it is our mission to make our visitors feel welcome during their last few minutes of their first visit at the Temple.
By the grace and understanding of God, our ministry is to be a doorkeeper and to receive guests with a warm smile. Our primary purpose is to maintain an orderly flow during each service.
To oversee all fund raising activities of the church. These fundraisers supplement the pledge drive, offerings and other contributions received by the church. This helps the church to meet our annual budget as well as promote and build our sense of community.
Copyright © 2019 - Greater Pentecostal Temple. Questions about the site? Email: [email protected]. | 2019-04-18T10:21:00 | http://gptchurch.org/readyfortheshift/?page_id=34 |
Welcome pocket knife fans to my review of the Spyderco Delica 4. Let me start by saying I’m a huge fan of Spyderco knives, and have owned just about every one of their production EDC knives at one time or another. In fact, one of my very first EDC knives was a Spyderco Delica 1 and I have been keeping an eye on the advances in the knife’s design ever since. Sure enough, it’s an excellent knife, with only a few minor flaws.
Spyderco is based in Golden, Colorado, and has been one of the leader’s in the knife industry since 1981, when founder Sal Glesser came out with Spyderco’s first folding knife, the C01 Worker. The Delica line is one of their most popular product lines, and also one of their oldest product lines, first appearing in 1990. The Delica 4 is now available with either a plain edge or a partially serrated combo edge, with seven different handle colors.
An excellent EDC with a few flaws but overall a top notch performer for the money.
The blade of the Delica 4 is made from the honorable VG-10 steel, which is super rust resistant and sharpens pretty easily. VG-10 steel is Japanese steel, originally designed by Takefu Special Steel. This type of steel was originally marketed towards Japanese chefs, but knife-makers quickly noticed the steel’s usefulness in pocket knife blades. VG-10 stainless steel is made up of the usual suspects – iron, carbon, chromium, molybdenum, vanadium, cobalt, and manganese. Again, it can be real sharp but also a little brittle so beware. Spyderco is a large consumer of VG-10 steel, but I notice their competitor SOG also utilizes VG-10 for many of their higher end folding knives.
This is a full flat-grind drop point blade, which makes it very nice for slicing and dicing just about anything you can imagine, from cardboard or thick plastic to fruits and vegetables. On some models the blade is coated with titanium carbon nitride, to give the blade its tactical black appearance. Right out of the box, my Delica 4 was razor-sharp, and it’s relatively easy to keep it that way – especially with my Spyderco Sharpmaker sharpening system. Spyderco has their trademark “spyder hole” thumbhole (0.5” diam), which I find is much easier for one-handed opening than a thumb stud.
The Delica 4’s handle is made of fiberglass-reinforced nylon (FRN) with skeletonized stainless steel liners. The blade is perfectly centered inside the handle, with no erratic gaps between the blade and the liner. Still, the blade does not rub against the liners at all, but opens smoothly and easily. The FRN scales feature bidirectional texturing for a solid grip along your entire hand, and the jimping on the back and bottom of the handle are perfectly suited to heavy usage. There is a bit of a choil on the bottom of the blade, but it does not have any jimping, so I would not recommend using the choil as a finger grip for anything but the lightest of knife work.
The mid-lock back locking mechanism functions flawlessly and mine had no up-and-down play as some have reported. This type of locking mechanism keeps the handle thinner than a liner lock, but is just as effective in keeping the knife locked in the open position. I have gotten used to liner locks, and thought the mid-lock lock back would throw me for a loop, but I found it to be easy to get used to. Best of all, though, the knife does not have any horizontal play at all, and the blade is perfectly centered between the scales and liners.
The body and blade of the Spyderco Delica 4 are now held together with Torx screws, so you can disassemble the knife for cleaning if you need to.
Of course, every knife has its Achilles’ heel (or heels), and even though the Delica 4 is an excellent knife, it still has its weaknesses. First, the optional black coating on the knife blade is scratched easily; so do not expect that tactical black finish to last forever. I’ve even seen keys scratch off the coating; it’s much like the anodized black coating on Apple’s iPhone 5, so expect some wear. The steel itself, though, will not be damaged. Overall it’s not something I worry too much about.
While the VG-10 steel is easy to moderate to sharpen, I found the blade does not hold its edge as well as other types of stainless steel. I find myself sharpening my Delica after about 2 weeks of daily usage. Fortunately for the knife, I find sharpening my knives to be a source of relaxation, so I enjoy the procedure! I use 100 grit and 400 grit whetstones for my Spyderco Delica 4, and get an edge on the blade sharp enough to easily trim small strips of paper.
I read a few reviews saying that if you are exerting a lot of force on the knife, you may notice some vertical play while the blade is open. I can report that I did not experience this. Even so, I very much doubt it’s enough to slip past the locking mechanism, so if it happens to you it will be more of an annoyance than a safety issue.
Finally, the pocket clip could be designed a bit better. The Delica 4 rides a little high in the pocket, and there have been reports of the clip breaking easily. Thankfully, I have not yet seen the clip break on mine, but I do wish the knife rode a bit deeper in my pocket.
Overall, the Spyderco Delica 4 is a fantastic working knife, and I am proud to have it in my EDC collection. While I rotate through my EDC knife collection monthly, and sometimes weekly, the Delica 4 has a favored spot in the collection and probably goes in my pocket more often than any of the other knives I carry. It is also a very high quality EDC knife with a fairly low price point, and the multiple handle colors allow buyers to have some choice in customized appearance of their EDC knife. | 2019-04-24T17:59:12 | https://knifeinformer.com/spyderco-delica-4-review/ |
School Shoulder Blue Travel Fanshu Backpack Women Bag Satchel Red Purse Ladies Casual Leather Girls Backpack for Bag Then, you boil the beer as normal, stopping the lacto in its tracks. You transfer to a fermenter, pitch yeast, and you’re back on track making beer in traditional fashion. That’s part of what makes kettle souring so interesting and attractive – by boiling immediately after souring, you don’t risk infecting the other beers in the brewhouse, and you can make complex and sour beer in relatively short order. | 2019-04-25T09:43:21 | http://nativelumberco.com/customer-success-qbr |
Spirit of the Earth 1,490 Strength Reduces damage from elites by 11% Health Globes and Potions Grant 38,625 Life. Increases Gold and Health Pickup by 2 Yards.
Foundation of the Earth 3,262 Thorns Damage 512 Armor 646 Strength +130 Resistance to All Elements 604 Vitality Increases Gold and Health Pickup by 1 Yards.
Pull of the Earth Level Requirement Reduced by 40 1,000 Strength Critical Hit Damage Increased by 50% Critical Hit Chance Increased by 10% Chance to Deal 0.2% Area Damage on Hit.
Spires of the Earth 632 Strength 34% Extra Gold from Monsters +130 Resistance to All Elements Increases Gold and Health Pickup by 1 Yards. Chance to Deal 0.2% Area Damage on Hit.
Weight of the Earth 6,851 Life after Each Kill 1,157 Strength +130 Resistance to All Elements 649 Vitality Increases Gold and Health Pickup by 2 Yards.
Restraint Health Globes and Potions Grant 34,703 Life. Critical Hit Damage Increased by 50% Critical Hit Chance Increased by 6% Chance to Deal 0.15% Area Damage on Hit. | 2019-04-25T11:04:49 | https://eu.diablo3.com/en/profile/Anders-22581/hero/73023414 |
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Only pick ONE film for each year, please.
I had trouble leaving off Pulp Fiction, Boogie Nights, Gangs of New York, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Toy Story, The Big Lebowski, Billy Elliot, Monsters Inc., and Unbreakable; But that's life.
And all the while I'm lamenting no room for Rushmore, Show Me Love, Dead Man Walking, La Promesse, Fargo, Ararat, Hero, Jerry Maguire, Auto Focus, Ghost World, Smoke, To Live, Red, The Day I Became a Woman, American Beauty, Three Kings, Mr. Death, Ulee's Gold, Ponette, Toy Story, Heavenly Creatures, and Hoop Dreams.
Danny, I assume that your inclusion of Girl Next Door means that in 2004 you've been to the movies only, like, once?
I love all of your choices, Michael. I'm especially pleased to see Before Sunrise--I'm thrilled that I contributed to its paltry box-office take! Can't wait for Before Sunset.
Can't wait for Before Sunset.
I wasn't initially too thrilled with the idea of a sequel, but the trailer is pretty good, and now I'm dying to see it. I just noticed that it's one of the first movies to be released under the new "Warner Independent Pictures" banner.
The torment I will get come year-end time from you if it shows up on my list will be unbareable.
Honorable Mentions: Forrest Gump, Fargo, Jerry Maguire, As Good As It Gets, Good Will Hunting, Boogie Nights, Pleasantville, Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth, Saving Private Ryan, Seven, Toy Story, American Beauty, The Virgin Suicides, The Matrix, Cider House Rules, The Sixth Sense, Being John Malkovich (Damn, 1999 was a great year!), Magnolia, Sleepy Hollow (so beautiful), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Requiem for a Dream, Almost Famous, Gladiator (you heard me), Moulin Rouge, A Beautiful Mind, Gosford Park, Monster's Ball, Amelie, Ghost World, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Spider-Man, Lost in Translation, The Last Samurai, Big Fish, Kill Bill Vol 1, Kill Bill Vol 2.
I count the LOTR trilogy as a single body of work because...well...I think I have to. To me, it's such a remarkable achievement of cinema that it deserves to be recognized as a single, cohesive work, so I lumped it all together with the final volume which was, I felt, the crowning achievement of the 3.
It should also be noted that I've seen far more movies than I can recall, and I was going off the list of Oscar nominations (not just best picture, but all categories) to recall films that I enjoyed. I'm sure if I had a stronger recollection, I could list dozens more.
2003:Kill Bill Vol. 1 -or- Finding Nemo....not sure yet.
The only 2004 film I've seen so far (I think) is Van Helsing, and I'll be buggered if I'm putting that in there, even if it is strictly speaking the best film from 2004 I've seen. | 2019-04-25T08:08:33 | http://www.flipsidearchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php-t=441&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0.html |
I think it just needs MagickImageProxy::image to be extended to use ShortPixel if required; the tricky part is knowing the bit depth without reading the image into memory; probably needs to be found by the examiner and passed down that way. Otherwise you need to create a Magick::Image just to get the bit depth (it seems) which gets fiddly quite fast.
is that in 2.13.x only? Does it mean DCP-o-matic does no handle >8bit images in their native bit depth?
What about 10 or 12 bit video files.?
@carl or maybe just use FFmpeg.
It has never done > 8-bit image files in their native depth. Video files should be OK.
@carl: the existing FFmpeg code can load (e.g.) PNGs with no modification; the only question is how to sustain the existing image file / sequence behaviour. With FFmpegDecoder you get a 1-frame-length video.
It has never done > 8-bit image files in their native depth.
But that would have been true for images sequences as well, as the notorious 12Bit XYZ, or DPX sequences?
JPEG2000 image files are special-cased, but DPX, yes.
Should be fixed by using FFmpeg for images in 2.13.61 and above. | 2019-04-19T02:30:46 | https://dcpomatic.com/mantis/view.php?id=1313 |
The USPL West Coast Open is quickly approaching and the pro teams are making final preperations for the big paintball event. Read on as we break down the practices, the injuries, and feature a video of Scottsdale Elevation.
Dynasty Entourage vs. Phoenix United: The teams battled it out in 100 degree weather at Action Star Games in Southern California over the weekend. Reports indicated that the field played out very well, and seemed balanced on both the snake and carwash sides of the field. Phoenix United had a few players guesting with the team and there performance wasn’t up to par; Entourage was the clear leader throughout the weekend. The teams had a successful practice and spent most of the weekend trying new plays and breaking the field down.
Tampa Bay Damage spent the weekend training with Guatamala-based paintball team, The Rangers. The rangers were in town for the Central Florida Paintball Series tournament on Sunday and Damage helped them walk the fields and practice for the event. TB Damage will be holding a private practice this weekend at their home field in preparation for the USPL 7-man event.
SF Explicit, Bushwackers, BLAST and SAC XSV: Capital Edge Paintball Park was host to an amazing weekend of paintball. Between the WCPPL event and 4 pro paintball teams there was alot of paintball action taking place. On Saturday, SF Explicit, Blast and XSV battled it out playing approximately 12 or so matches each. On Sunday, the OC Bushwackers joined in on the fun and the teams played balls to the wall paintball. Word has it that SF Explicit played hard but suffered a few injuries; Adam Florendo suffered bruised ribs and Ryan Pruitt hyper extended his knee. | 2019-04-22T14:01:27 | http://propaintball.com/2009/07/pro-paintball-post-practice-report-for-july-11th-and-12th/ |
If you listen to, or read the British media often, you will be told at least once a week that the British public loves to talk about the weather. It is always said in such a nostalgic, almost romantic way. They make it out to be one of the quintessential traits that differentiates us from the rest of the world.
And how untrue. People may talk about the weather because they don’t know the other person well enough to talk about anything meaningful or they may not trust them with their own views. Or they may just be too ill-informed to hold a conversation on a different subject.
However, that is by the by, what I’m really getting at is that in ordinary circumstances, people all over the world talk about the weather all the time. I speak seven languages and have lived in several countries from Thailand to Suriname and there is not one country that I have ever visited where the weather is not the main topic of conversation!
Sure, the emphasis might be different. In Thailand, people talk about how hot it is (although it is hot almost every day); Welsh people talk about the rain; Finns talk about the cold… British people are not unique in talking about the weather!
British people lap up this nonsense because most of them don’t speak any foreign languages, but why does the media constantly ram the idea down our throats?
Distraction? Feel-good factor? I don’t know, you tell me. I only know that it is rubbish of the highest order and we are fed it all the time. | 2019-04-21T21:04:05 | http://meganthemisconception.com/british-and-the-weather/ |
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Thanks for reblogging, Susi. I hope your followers find it interesting!
I’m disappointed that the re-blog had typo errors in it that weren’t in your original (apostrophe turns into ?). I’ve been Googling to try and find how to change these back but no luck so far. Thanks for letting me re-blog. It’s not something I usually do, but I think it’s an interesting and fun idea and worth sharing. | 2019-04-22T23:10:50 | https://susilovell.com/2014/02/10/international-book-giving-day/ |
Violins are meant to be played, but sometimes they must be set aside for awhile. Whether you are between homes or simply want to store the instrument until the next generation is ready to play it, here are some tips for putting a violin into long-term storage.
The first thing you must do is prepare the instrument for storage. While you generally want the strings to remain tight when you're using the violin on a regular basis, you should loosen them a tiny bit (maybe half a turn so the bridge and soundpost stays in place) when putting the instrument in long-term storage. This will reduce the strain on the seams and minimize the risk the tailpiece and wood will warp while in the storage unit. You also want to loosen the bowstring. The string can become unusable also warp the stick if left strung tightly in storage.
The next step is to clean the violin and bowstring with a soft cloth to remove rosin residue, dust, and dirt. Place the violin in the case after making sure there is nothing in it that can scratch or damage the surface of the instrument.
It's best to store the bowstring separate from the violin. The string on the bow tends to attract small beetles that feast on the bow hair. However, these insects don't like light. Store it out in the open in a place where light may shine on it every once in awhile.
The most important aspect of safely storing a violin is to put it somewhere where the temperature remains fairly stable. Constant fluctuations in temperature can cause the wood to expand and contract, leading to damage over time. A temperature-controlled storage unit is best, since the facility tries to keep the unit's temperature at a certain level. If that's not an option, place the violin case as close to the floor as possible and away from sources of heat and cold, such as windows and doors.
Humidity is another issue. The instrument needs a little bit of moisture to avoid drying out and warping. The violin should be kept in an area with 55-percent humidity. Barring that, however, you can purchase a humidifier that goes directly inside the case to keep the wood at optimal moisture levels. You can usually find these tools online or at a local business that sells stringed instruments.
For more information about storing a violin long-term or to rent a climate-controlled unit, contact a local storage facility like Northgate Mini Storage. | 2019-04-21T16:22:27 | http://restaurantegreat.com/2016/06/26/putting-a-violin-in-long-term-storage/ |
A GROUP created to combat alcohol addiction on the Westminster estate and Rossmore has been commended at a regional awards.
NHS Western Cheshire commissioned Our Life last summer to explore this issue at a community level.
Talking Drink: Taking Action was the result and last week it was highly commended in the Community Control category at the 2012 North West Public Health Awards.
Our Life supported a group of residents in Ellesmere Port to identify shared solutions to tackling alcohol issues in the community. The group met nine times and explored the question ‘what are the things that make it difficult to have a healthier relationship with alcohol?’.
The group decided on a final series of recommendations and discussed them with their MP and other local decision-makers.
The award was presented to Our Life at the North West Public Health Conference: Sustainable Economies for Wellbeing in Manchester yesterday. | 2019-04-20T07:28:04 | https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/local-news/ellesmere-port-alcohol-addiction-group-5172445 |
The Netizen team sharing expertise, insights and useful information in cybersecurity, compliance, and software assurance.
When security breaches make headlines, they tend to be about nefarious actors in another country or the catastrophic failure of technology. These kinds of stories are exciting to read and easier for the hacked company to admit to. But the reality is that no matter the size or the scope of a breach, usually it’s caused by an action, or failure, of someone inside the company.
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← Can cybersecurity save the November elections? | 2019-04-20T12:38:54 | https://blog.netizencorp.com/2016/09/29/the-biggest-cybersecurity-threats-are-inside-your-company/ |
The hard right turned former pin-up girl Fonda into a poster girl for their caricature of liberalism ..…has also fired its share of broadsides at Hillary Clinton, George Soros and Nancy Pelosi. But Jane Fonda remains the figurehead that cuts the prow of their idea of a ship of fools.
THE ASSUMPTION THAT affirmative action is the reason why better qualified students are not entering college is nonsense according to the Boston Globe reporting that it was not the reason why college admissions were not based purely on merit. A five year study of 146 top colleges found that white students with sub-par qualifications were “nearly twice as prevalent on such campuses as Black and Hispanic students who received an admissions break based on their ethnicity or race”. Most of these white students, explained Peter Schmidt, has connections to alumni, donors and politicians and had jumped the queue “by knowing the management or flashing cash”. | 2019-04-26T11:38:14 | http://www.ojaiorange.com/column/2007/120107.php |
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Asset Management Corporation Of Nigeria (AMCON) held the Induction Seminar to celebrate Olajide Oyewole LLP (A member of DLA Piper Africa) - OOLLP as an Asset Management Partner of AMCON.
Associate of OOLLP, Charles Bassey an AMCON official, Senior Associate OOLLP, Bidemi Ademola-Bello, LL.B., B.L., MCIArb (UK) and Cecilia Akintomide Non-Executive Director FB Holdings were at the seminar held at Oriental Hotel, Lagos on Wednesday 15th November.
Francis Chuka Agbu SAN, Olajide Oyewole LLP (A member of DLA Piper Africa) Partner, Sola Oyebolu and Joshua Ikioda Group Head Credit, Asset Management Corporation Of Nigeria (AMCON) at the Induction Seminar celebrating the appointment of Olajide Oyewole LLP as an Asset Management Partner of AMCON. | 2019-04-18T15:27:18 | http://olajideoyewole.com/news-events/asset-management-corporation-of-nigeria-amcon-celebrates-olajide-oyewole-llp-oollp-as-its-asset-management-partner |
07:07 – Why did Catholics change the day of the Sabbath? Why do Catholics treat the popes like they’re Christ?
20:33 – Are we allowed to go to a wedding that is not Christian?
35:12 – How can we reconcile our belief in the Eucharist (Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity) with the fact that Jesus said the bread was his Body and the wine was his blood?
45:14 – A priest told me that after three times of confessing a mortal sin, there can be no absolution. Is this true? Can you only be forgiven three times? | 2019-04-23T19:57:51 | http://breadboxmedia.com/8922-open-forum-jimmy-akin/ |
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Selecting an ecommerce platform is among the most critical decisions of a new entrepreneur. There are hundreds of choices — hosted, licensed, open source. Key factors in the process typically include ease of use, flexibility, growth capabilities, and cost.
This is the second installment in my series on launching, growing, and selling an ecommerce business. For the first installment, “Part 1: Choosing Partners,” I interviewed my Beardbrand co-owner, Lindsey Reinders. She and I discussed the importance of supportive and knowledgeable partners. We addressed how to choose the right partners and how to resolve inevitable conflicts afterward.
For this installment on selecting an ecommerce platform, I spoke with Carson McComas. He is the founder and CEO of Fuel Made, a Spokane, Wash.-based ecommerce agency, launched in 2000, that specializes in Shopify development and email marketing using Klaviyo.
What follows is my entire audio interview with McComas and a transcript of it, edited for length and clarity.
Eric Bandholz: Can you give us an overview of Fuel Made?
Carson McComas: Fuel Made is a digital agency. Our focus is ecommerce. The platform that we work with is Shopify — we’re a Shopify Plus partner. We also are a Klaviyo platinum partner. Klaviyo is an email automation tool for ecommerce. I started Fuel Made back in 2000. I’ve been around a long time. We’ve been locked in on ecommerce and Shopify for about the last eight years.
Bandholz: Why did you pick Shopify?
McComas: In the early days of ecommerce, the options were pretty slim. I could never find a platform that gave us the flexibility we wanted. Shopify came on the scene with the promise of design flexibility. That was important to us. So I keyed into them in early days, when it was in beta.
We finally had an opportunity [to use Shopify]. I said to the client, “Look, we’d like to build your shop on Shopify. If it doesn’t work out, we’ll build it again on another platform.” So it was fairly low-risk for them, except for their time. They were game. So we built that first site on Shopify and fell in love with the platform. The rest is history.
Bandholz: I’m cheap at heart. I used to lean toward open source with the two main platform options, Magento and WordPress. I quickly discovered, back in 2010 or so, that Magento would just crash. It would just use all the resources of the server.
McComas: Unfortunately, that still plagues a lot of folks working with Magento. You have to know what you’re doing and have the right team behind it to keep it from doing that.
I hear from a lot of Magento folks who say, more or less, “I’m tired of being an IT company. I want to be an ecommerce company. I want to focus on product and customer experience, and that sort of thing.” And that’s something Shopify has done a good job with — taking that technical burden off of store owners.
Bandholz: What are the major ecommerce platforms?
McComas: The big players on the self-hosted side — in terms of market share and the ecosystem around them — are Magento and WooCommerce. Shopify and BigCommerce are two major hosted options.
Bandholz: What should a new entrepreneur look for in a platform?
McComas: I confess a bias towards Shopify. Look for a solution that will allow you to focus on the things that really matter, which is creating good products, good assets, and a good customer experience. Do not spend much time in the weeds from a technical standpoint. That’s kind of a pitch for Shopify. BigCommerce will do those things as well.
If you want to stay open source and you love the WordPress world, consider WooCommerce. There are lots of successful shops on that platform. You need a bit more technical sophistication. Magento I wouldn’t consider for a startup.
Bandholz: Should a new entrepreneur reach out to web designers for assistance?
McComas: You can get pretty far by just grabbing a theme from the theme store on Shopify, WooCommerce has themes as well, as does BigCommerce. Even Magento does. In the Shopify world, a theme will cost a couple of hundred dollars. There are free ones, too. With good photography, a new merchant can get pretty far with that.
The time to start using a web designer is in going to the next level — after you’ve got traction and a product market fit. You’re looking to grow from there.
In terms of budget, there are three levels. First, there’s the do-it-yourself mode, which is the cost of the theme and your time to set it up. The second option would be bringing somebody in to improve on your theme. You could probably get that for a few thousand dollars. The third option would be an entire custom theme — something unique. That would cost $30,000 or more, typically.
Bandholz: Should merchants emphasize mobile optimization over desktop?
McComas: I wouldn’t even consider building a site without thinking mobile first. For roughly 85 percent of our clients, the majority of traffic comes from mobile.
Bandholz: What are some innovative design elements or features for ecommerce sites nowadays?
McComas: We see exceptional uses of photography and other assets, such as illustration and storytelling, to build a sense of community. It’s a cohesive experience from mobile to the desktop site and back again.
Bandholz: How can a merchant acquire more email addresses?
Depending on your brand, running contests can be extremely effective.
Bandholz: What are common mistakes in building an ecommerce site?
McComas: Seeing photography and copy as an expense and not part of your brand and story that brings a return. Another one is not designing well for mobile. That’s a huge mistake. If you don’t do that, you’re in trouble.
New merchants sometimes don’t think about return policies and shipping policies, and they’re not communicating those to buyers. Or maybe their shipping rates are hidden until shoppers get to the checkout.
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I'm a Ph.D student, my adviser always asks me to add more things to my paper. So yesterday, when I argued with him, I was saying "You know, I just think adding too much information can actually make our main point fading out". My adviser said, "what do you mean it is fading out? Do you mean it is too divergent?"
In fact, all I want to say is "Adding too much information makes your main point less standing out", what is the good phrase for that?
Also, is it a correct grammar --- "make it less standing out"?
makes your main point stand out less.
becomes a distraction to your main point.
make it less standing out.
is understandable but not quite correct.
You can say that the additional information may clutter the paper.
A useful idiom for this purpose is separate the wheat from the chaff.
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A sweet and tart pre-mixed cocktail from Aske Stephenson, inspired by the classic boiled sweet – Rhubarb and Custard. A modern take on a classic Negroni, this cocktail is presented in a sweet-shop inspired bottle.
Firewater Habanero bitters from Scrappy’s is perfect for adding clean spice and heat to any cocktail or food, without overpowering the flavour. The heat of the Habanero peppers is balanced by delicate floral notes and subtle sweetness, though it is recommended to use sparingly as this tincture is extremely spicy.
The ninth batch of East London Liquor Barrel Aged Gin uses its London Dry Gin as a base, which was then aged in ex-Moscatel casks. Juniper-led, but with a strong citrus edge.
This 1988-vintage Armagnac from Darroze was distilled from a single harvest of grapes at Domaine de Lahitte. It has a very fruity nose, filled with aromas of apricots, orange zest, quince and warm spices, while the palate offers notes of ripe fruits and spices, with a bold black pepper and clove finish.
Made at Domaine de la Poste in 1976, using Ugni Blanc grapes from a single harvest, this Darroze Armagnac has a rich, fruity character with warm, spicy notes.
Empirical Spirits aren't your average spirit maker, and Fallen Pony is not your average spirit. First they vacuum distil a koji and saison-yeast-fermented barley wash. Then they distil quince tea kombucha and blend that into the spirit, before adding in more undistilled kombucha to bring the strength down to 35%. The result is a tea-led spirit with balanced bitterness and astringency and a kick of kombucha acidity. An excellently crazy spirit from Denmark.
Produced using ripe damsons, this is a top-quality eau-de-vie from Gloucestershire's Capreolus. A fruity spirit that's given an extra layer by a bitter almond note from the stones of the fruit.
Produced using Victoria plums, this is a top-quality eau-de-vie from Gloucestershire's Capreolus. A fruity spirit that's given an extra layer by a bitter almond note from the stones of the plums.
This eau-de-vie is made from sweet Doyenné du Comice pears. Double distilled from perry created from the juice, this is fruity and sweet with a hint of blossom, too. Serve chilled as an aperitif or with a fruity dessert.
A blend of rums, from three of the oldest distilleries in the Caribbean, including Foursquare Distillery in Barbados, Diablesse Golden Caribbean is a sweet, spicy rum full of tropical fruit flavours.
Using the same recipe since 1920, Select Aperitivo is a Venetian aperitif made with juniper berries and rhubarb root amongst its 30 botanicals. The nose is full of complex, herbaceous aromas of eucalyptus, fresh herbs, citrus fruits and a hint of menthol. The palate offers notes of sharp rhubarb and juniper, citrus fruits, delicate floral notes and a strong, bitter centre.
A blend of Jamaican pot still and Trinidadian column still rums, bottled in Amsterdam, this rum is the creation of bartender and entrepreneur Andrew Nicholls, and is named to honour his grandfathers – William and George. The palate offers notes of tropical fruits, sweet almonds and macadamia nuts, as well as fresh grass, rich cherries, vanilla and cacao.
From Two Swallows come this citrus-and-salted-caramel-infused spiced rum, produced by the Diamond Distillery in Guyana. This sweet, salty and lively rum was created by Thomas Hurst as a tribute to the famous Captain Matthew Webb – the first man to swim the English Channel – and draws its name from the tattoo of two swallows, often chosen by experienced sailors, which legend has it carry the souls of the drowned to heaven.
Matured in a single cask for 10 years and finished in a Madeira cask, this 2008-vintage rum has been bottled by The 1423 for its Single Barrel Selection range. Made by Trinidad Distillers Limited, this rum has complex aromas of grapes, raisins and warm spices, while the palate offers notes of rich fruits and spices. The finish is long and dry with heavy Madeira notes.
This 2008-vintage Mauritian rum from The 1423’s Single Barrel Selection series has been matured for 10 years in a single cask, and finished in an ex-port cask. Made at Grays distillery on Mauritius, this rum has a strong port influence on the nose; ripe pears, red berries, rich fruitcake and sweet almonds mingling together. The palate offers notes of orchard fruits initially, developing into ripe grapes and dark berries.
This 2006-vintage Venezuelan rum from The 1423’s Single Barrel Selection series has been matured in a single cask for 12 years. Made at a mystery Venezuelan distillery, this rum has gentle, fruity aromas of ripe berries and floral honey. The palate offers notes of rich, spiced fruitcake and brown sugar, alongside a hint of toasted oak. Only 304 bottles were released worldwide.
Matured in a single cask for 12 years, this 2006-vintage Dominican rum has been bottled by The 1423 for its Single Barrel Selection range. Made at a mystery distillery in the Dominican Republic, this rum has gentle aromas of coconut cream, walnuts and delicate pineapple notes, with just a hint of warm spices. The palate offers notes of roasted walnuts and sandalwood, with dry, fruity notes developing into a long finish.
This 2014-vintage Jamaican rum from The 1423’s Single Barrel Selection series has been matured for 11 years in a single cask, and finished in a single Pedro Ximénez cask. Made at Moneymusk distillery in Jamaica, this rum has complex aromas of tropical fruits, ripe bananas and warm spices. The palate offers notes of vibrant red berries, raisins and caramel, alongside a funky, tropical-fruit edge.
Single Barrel Selection Panama 2006 is a single cask rum that was made using a column still and matured for 12 years. It is velvety smooth and thick, with subtle oak, vanilla, honeycomb and caramel aromas, alongside a fruity cherry edge. The palate offers notes of dried apricots, brown sugar and liquorice.
A blend of three aged rums from the three oldest distilleries in the Caribbean, including Diamond Distillery in Guyana, infused with fresh clementines and a blend of warm spices, including cinnamon, vanilla and ginger. Sweet and spicy, with a strong citrus edge, this Clementine Spiced Rum is perfect for sipping, or for making fruity cocktails.
Made using off-cuts from bunches of table grapes, HYKE gin from Foxhole Spirits is a sustainably-sourced spirit that counts Coriander, myrrh, rooibos and juniper among its botanicals. Delicate and refined, HYKE has a gentle background of fresh grapes alongside fresh, herbal notes of coriander.
This 35 Year Old Jamaican rum, from Hampden Estate distillery, has been bottled by Hunter Laing for its Kill Devil series. Made exclusively with a pot still and matured in a single cask, this rum has vibrant aromas of tropical fruits; mango and guava mingling with leather and liquorice on the nose. The palate offers notes of sweet pear-drops, ripe bananas and cloves before notes of overripe pineapple and toasted oak develop. The finish is long and dry with gentle waves of tobacco smoke.
This 2005-vintage rum from Habitation St Etienne has been aged for seven years in American oak barrels, before spending a further six months in Islay single malt casks. This has created a gently smoky rum with tropical fruit and caramel aromas. The palate offers notes of pineapple, passion fruit and gentle peat, before hints of warm spices and toasted oak build.
A large 2.5 litre bottle of Armagnac from Domaine Boingneres. A non vintage expression from the Bas Armagnac region, this will create a talking point at any party.
This 2008-vintage Karukera rum agricole was bottled in 2017 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Velier. Matured in a single, French oak cask in the Marquisat Sainte Marie warehouse in Guadeloupe, it has a rich, complex character.
This limited-edition 2008-vintage Karukera rum agricole was bottled in 2017 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Velier. Matured in a single French oak cask in the Marquisat Sainte Marie warehouse in Guadeloupe, it has a rich, complex character.
This 15-year-old Armagnac from Domaine de Papolle has been made in the Bas-Armagnac region of France before being matured in French oak casks. It has a delicate, woody character with notes of apricots and peaches throughout the palate.
A zesty, chocolately gin with lashings of juniper, Sipsmith Orange & Cacao Gin is a modern take on the popular combination of chocolate and orange. Using plenty of juniper and liquorice amongst the botanicals, it has a light, citrus character with richer undertones of bitter chocolate and a hint of sweet spices.
Apple & Spice Gin Liqueur from Edinburgh Gin is made by blending its Classic Gin with autumn-harvest apples that have been macerated with cinnamon. This – alongside botanicals such as mulberries, lavender and lemongrass – creates a fruity liqueur with sweet apple, warm cinnamon and lively juniper aromas. The palate offers notes of crunchy green apples, delicate lavender and spices alongside a gentle citrus edge.
Maestro Dobel Silver is a double-distilled Tequila which, unusually, isn't rested and is bottled straight from the still with only water added to dilute it to drinking strength. A superb, complex, cocktail ingredient.
This 1988-vintage Armagnac from Domaine de Millet was made using Baco Blanc and Ugni Blanc grapes, creating a delicate, mineral flavour alongside honey, apricot and gentle oak notes.
From The Real Rum Company in Cornwall, Bombo 40 Caramel & Banana rum is a Caribbean rum blended with caramel and infused with ripe bananas. A sweet and fruity rum perfect for making tropical cocktails.
This artisanal gin is made in Jundiai, Brazil, using a secret blend of 21 botanicals, that include basil, rosemary, fennel seed, calamansi, star anise and acai, with a strong juniper core. The nose is full of orchard fruit and fresh grass aromas, with a rich, spicy undercurrent. The palate offers notes of fresh herbs, sharp berries and aromatic spices.
This boldly-flavoured over-proof gin from Ford’s is distilled at London’s Thames Distillers, before being rested in Amontillado sherry casks for three weeks. Using botanicals including juniper, jasmine, cassia and orris, Ford’s has created a gin with a citrus-led nose that is complimented by subtle spice, plum and caramel aromas. The palate initially offers notes of honey and citrus which develop slowly into aromatic coriander, juniper and orange, with a subtle ginger undercurrent.
This delicate, fruity eau de vie from Charles Baur is made from Williams pears, which creates a sweet, aromatic flavour. Best served chilled.
A premium Polish vodka from Krupnik, made using high quality grains and water exclusively drawn from Oligocene springs. A clean, fresh vodka with delicate notes of fresh grass.
Bumbu XO rum is distilled and matured in Panama in ex-bourbon barrels before being finished in ex-sherry casks. The nose is full of fruit, vanilla and toffee aromas, with an undercurrent of warm spices. The palate offers notes of rich raisins, citrusy orange and bitter coffee mingling with toffee, vanilla and roasted oak.
A gin for the adventurous souls, Expeditionary Gin, from the Golden Moon Distillery in Colorado USA, is a dry gin with a lively citrus and juniper character. Styled after the distillery’s classic Golden Moon gin, but re-imagined for the gin fans in the UK, it has a bold and exotic nose with leafy, green aromas. The palate offers notes of spicy fennel and floral lavender before juniper and sharp citrus take the lead.
A well rounded Calvados from Dupont, based in the heart of the Pays d'Auge region. It uses a standard recipe of 30% sweet apples, 30% bitter and 40% acidic to create an easy drinking and elegant spirit.
A large litre bottle of Grand Marnier's cognac based Cordon Rouge liqueur, the benchmark for top-shelf orange flavoured tipples.
Decadent, rich and sweet, Strawberry & Balsamico Gin from That Boutique-y Gin Company is infused with strawberries, black pepper and an aged balsamic vinegar – Aceto di Balsamico Tradizionale di Modena DOP. The balsamic has been aged for 12-15 years in a variety of casks, including chestnut, cherry, mulberry and juniper wood, to give it a rich, elegant character not found in younger balsamics.
A 20cl quarter bottle of Fine Champagne Cognac from AE Dor, a blend of eight-year-old eaux-de-vie from both Petite and Grande Champagne regions. Light and delicate on the palate, yet with impressive flavour intensity, this is a delightful drop.
The third rum in Diplomatico’s Distillery Collection, No. 3 is a full-bodied, complex spirit made using high quality sugar cane honey. Matured in ex-bourbon barrels, this limited-edition rum combines tropical fruit aromas with toffee and vanilla. The palate offers rich oak notes alongside dark chocolate and dried fruits, before a rich, lingering finish full of warm spices. This rum was made solely in the Copper Pot Still that was brought to Diplomatico’s La Miel distillery in 1959. This discontinuous distillation system was originally used in Scotland to produce whisky. The Distillery Collection showcases the individual distillates behind some of Diplomatico’s world-renowned rums, highlighting the distinct personalities created by using different stills.
A rich, creamy liqueur from Rumjava, made by blending its classic Mahtini’Mon Espresso rum with fresh cream. The palate is full of sweet vanilla, chocolate, hazelnut and rich coffee notes.
A modern take on a classic cocktail. The La Marga from Ely is inspired by the margarita, and is a mix of Tequila, Cointreau and lime juice, with added ginger and elderflower cordial, and Marie Brizard yuzu liqueur. Best served over ice.
This premium Japanese vodka is distilled from Hakumai – 100% pure Japanese white rice – to create ‘Jyunpaku’ – pure and brilliant vodka. Filtered through bamboo charcoal, this spirit has a soft, subtly sweet taste with richer, grain notes.
A limited edition Turkish raki as part of a new brand from Yeni Raki, one of the country's biggest producer, Yeni Seri is made with first harvest aniseed.
This artisanal mezcal from Gente de Mezcal was made using 100% Tobala agave from Oaxaca. The nose is lush and green, with a rich, mineral character, while the palate offers notes of fresh rosemary, freshly cut grass and a richer, meaty smoke.
This artisanal mezcal from Gente de Mezcal, made with 100% Tepestate agave, is a peppery, herbal spirit. The palate offers notes of fresh thyme, green chillies, cracked black pepper and an herbal, hoppy element.
An artisanal mezcal from Gente de Mezcal, made using 100% Espadin agave from Oaxaca, this has a gentle, floral character with notes of caramel, chilli and rich, earthy smoke filling the palate.
Made from Ugni Blanc grapes, of a single harvest, grown on the Ile de Oleron, this Cognac has a mineral character with a subtle, maritime edge. The nose is full of spiced, floral aromas with hints of tobacco and sea-salt, while the palate offers notes of ripe lemons, pink grapefruit and flowers, on top of a sea-salt and tobacco background.
This English gin has been infused with a secret mix of botanicals, including juniper and blood orange, to create a bold, citrus-led gin with a rich orange colour. It is presented in the iconic ceramic Fallen Angel bottle.
Inspired by the rolling hills of Hampshire, this limited-edition English Estate gin from Bombay Sapphire is infused with botanicals such as rosehip, mint and toasted hazelnut. A delicate, bright London dry gin, garnish with mint and lemon in a G&T or try it with ginger ale and apple juice, garnished with lemon and thyme.
This 1973-vintage Armagnac from Chateau de Lacquy was made using Baco and Ugni Blanc grapes from a single harvest, and matured in French oak casks until it was bottled in 2017.
This 1987-vintage Armagnac from Chateau de Lacquy was made using grapes from a single harvest and matured in French oak casks in the cellars of the Chateau until it was bottled in 2017.
This 1988-vintage Armagnac from Chateau de Lacquy was made using grapes from a single harvest, and matured in French oak casks until it was bottled in 2017.
This 2006-vintage Armagnac from oldest family-owned estate producing Armagnac – Chateau de Lacquy – was made using 100% Folle-Blanche grapes from a single harvest and matured in French oak casks until it was bottled in 2018. It has a spicy, floral character with notes of white flowers, citrus fruits, apricots and ginger.
This 2004-vintage Armagnac from 300-year-old producer Chateau de Lacquy was made using grapes from a single harvest and matured in French oak casks in the Chateau’s cellars until it was bottled in 2017.
This 1999-vintage Armagnac from Chateau de Lacquy was made with grapes from a single harvest and matured in French oak casks until it was bottled in 2018. In 2018 this Armagnac won gold at the IWSC with a score of 93+ points.
This 1992-vintage Armagnac from the 300-year-old Chateau de Lacquy was made using Baco and Ugni Blanc grapes from a single harvest and matured in French oak casks in the cellars of the Chateau before being bottled in 2016.
A delicious pre-mixed G&T from Sipsmith, made using its London Dry Gin. Perfect for picnics or summer garden parties.
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A delightful pre-mixed cocktail from Sipsmith, made with its London Dry Gin and light tonic. With bold citrus notes and a lovely juniper edge, this light G&T is perfect for the summer.
A case of 12 Gin & Tonic cans, pre-made by Sipsmith with its London Dry Gin. Full of citrus, juniper and floral notes, this G&T is perfect for the summer.
A quite ludicrously potent rum from St. Vincent, Sunset Very Strong should never be taken neat, but heavily diluted with a mixer or as a float for cocktails. Please note this is a high-strength product and we recommend not drinking neat – please enjoy diluted or with a mixer of your choice.
This vintage Vermouth from Vreimuth is made with white wine from Veltliner, Sauvignon and Traminer grapes, before being infused with wormwood and a secret selection of local botanicals. This vermouth has a delicate, bitter palate with gentle notes of grapes alongside a subtle, floral edge.
This sweet, richly spiced rum from Fallen Angel has notes of creamy vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg. The rum is presented in the iconic devil’s head bottle.
A blend of Grande Champagne and Petite Champagne, this XO Cognac has been matured in French oak barrels, creating subtle fruity, floral and oaky aromas. The palate offers notes of black cherries, marmalade, vanilla and toffee with hints of almonds, black pepper and sweet spices.
This Cognac from A de Fussigny is a blend of eaux-de-vie from different growing areas within the Cognac region. Matured in Limousin and Troncais-oak casks, this VS Cognac has delicate aromas of honey, praline and dried fruit, with a hint of citrus. The palate offers notes of cream, sweet spices, white chocolate and cherries, alongside dried fruit and honey.
Fruity and floral, Ketel One Botanical Peach & Orange Blossom is a sweet, fragrant spirit with notes of juicy white peaches and fresh, lively orange blossom. Made by infusing Ketel One Vodka with natural fruit, flower and herb essences this has no artificial flavours or ingredients.
Clean and refreshing, Ketel One Botanical Cucumber & Mint has a classic character, perfect for summery cocktails. Made by infusing Ketel One Vodka with natural fruit, flower and herb essences, this has no artificial flavours or ingredients. The palate offers crisp cucumber notes and sweet, cooling mint notes. Try mixing with some soda water and a squeeze of fresh lemon.
Zesty and elegant, Ketel One Botanical Grapefruit & Rose is made by infusing Ketel One Vodka with natural fruit, flower and herb essences, the palate offers zesty grapefruit, sweet citrus notes and delicate, floral rose petals. Ketel One Botanicals have no artificial flavours or ingredients and are lower in strength that traditional vodkas.
Matured in virgin Limousin-oak casks for at least six years, this Napoleon Cognac has a balanced, elegant nose with a strong floral element, aromas of jasmine and carnation are balanced by peaches, plums, vanilla and soft oak. The palate offers notes of soft fruits, ripe plums and delicate flowers.
Matured in virgin Limousin-oak casks for at least four years, this VSOP Cognac from Francois Voyer has an elegant, floral nose, with hints of apricot breaking through aromas of linden and dried flowers. The palate offers subtle notes of orange, dried flowers and vanilla mingling with soft apricot.
Matured in virgin Limousin-oak casks for at least two years, this VS Cognac from Francois Voyer has a sweet, floral nose bursting with vanilla, lime and white flower aromas. The palate is fruity and relaxed, notes of peaches and vanilla mingling with richer dried apricot. | 2019-04-24T15:47:27 | https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/new-products/spirits-and-liqueurs |
On the picture: Members of ScanBalt met January 2014 in Tallinn to plan future project consortia. ScanBalt has over the years an ROI for the members of more than 15 to 1.
ScanBalt BioRegion and the EUSBSR flagship ScanBalt HealthRegion are working intensively to establish a number of new project consortia directed towards Horizon2020, the Baltic Sea Region programme and other funds.
The focus is on MedTech, Health and Bio Economy together with horizontal issues such as innovation, cluster development, internationalisation, communication and talents.
MedTech is inserted into an EU pre-seed project process PATHOS aiming for a shared Baltic Sea Region MedTech innovation platform. Read more about PATHOS here.
The discussions in PATHOS and in the many other project consortia are coordinated via ScanBalt and the board (ExCo) of the association. The aim is to ensure that the projects exploit synergies, share knowledge and work along a shared vision and strategy for ScanBalt BioRegion.
ScanBalt promotes the coordinated investments between Horizon2020, structural funds, regional and national public-private financing into trans-national activities facilitated by the decentralised structure of ScanBalt based on regional networks and clusters.
For a brief overview of the consortia currently being discussed please look at ScanBalt BioRegion consortia. Be aware of that the list of new project consortia is constantly growing due to the discussions between the members of ScanBalt, so the overview should only be taken as an indication.
For membership of ScanBalt please look here. | 2019-04-19T07:12:37 | https://scanbalt.org/scanbalt-news/join-scanbalt-bioregion-project-consortia-propose-new-topics/ |
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The fast food is not only the reason to blame. Exposure to a chemical in their wrappers can slow metabolism. Fast food wrappers contain the chemicals perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFASs. Research form Harvard’s School of Public Health has linked exposure to these substances to a decrease in metabolism, which can lead to weight gain. | 2019-04-23T00:59:37 | https://wrwdcountry.iheart.com/featured/party-marty-mitchell/content/2018-02-15-fast-food-wrappers-may-cause-weight-gain/ |
Less selective colleges usually determine your acceptance by posing two questions: have you met the college's basic requirements and does the college itself have availability? While not required for admission, ACT and/or SAT scores may be used for placement.
Finally, very selective colleges evaluate students on all above-named criteria and more. Very selective colleges scrutinize every aspect of a student's high school experience. Many applicants that apply to very selective schools are already strong academically, thus factor such as your personal statement and transcript are critical.
In normal situations admission officers will follow what is called a need-blind admission policy. In other words, yours and your family's income is not a factor in determining whether you are accepted or not. In some cases, admissions officers are 'need conscious,' so at these schools you and your family's income is a factor.
Now that you have a better idea of what colleges are looking for, you will be able to meet these prerequisites with confidence. | 2019-04-22T16:32:43 | http://learningpath.org/articles/Admissions%3A_How_Colleges_Select_Students.html |
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With California and the entire nation for that matter still reeling from the San Bernardino terrorist attacks, a federal appeals court in California is considering whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) should be punished for doing surveillance on Muslims at the Islamic Center of Irvine which is located 55 miles away from the scene of the most recent massacre by radical jihadists in San Bernardino.
What in the hell is going on here? Why in God’s name should the FBI be ‘punished’ for doing their job? This is a simple case of liberal political correctness and falls into the category of “CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.” In other words, it’s a complete crock of crap.
According to Judicial Watch, back in 2012 a federal court dismissed most of the lawsuit against the FBI because the judge agreed with the government that matters vital to national security would be disclosed if it went forward. Before ruling, the judge, Cormac J. Carney, reviewed classified information that was not made public. Attorneys representing the Muslims vowed to hold the FBI responsible for surveilling their community and abusing their constitutional rights. In a statement, they blasted the government for invoking state secrets privilege to dismiss the FBI’s “unlawful infiltration of mainstream mosques in southern California.” Muslim Americans were targeted for surveillance because of their religion, the lawyers assert.
Note that, if Sanchez’s numbers are correct, then roughly 150,000 to 700,000 MUSLIMS residing in the United States want to kill us.
It’s time to boot these savages out of the country. There is no need to have them here. They are everything that we AREN’T. Just because Obama who is a self admitted Muslim loves them doesn’t mean the rest of us have to. I say boot them all out. No skin off my back. | 2019-04-25T02:39:48 | https://americasfreedomfighters.com/fbi-punishment-watching/ |
This structure specifies a hyperlink and hyperlink-related information.
streamVersion (4 bytes): An unsigned integer that specifies the version number of the serialization implementation used to save this structure. This value MUST equal 2.
A - hlstmfHasMoniker (1 bit): A bit that specifies whether this structure contains a moniker. If hlstmfMonikerSavedAsStr equals 1, this value MUST equal 1.
B - hlstmfIsAbsolute (1 bit): A bit that specifies whether this hyperlink is an absolute path or relative path.
This hyperlink is a relative path.
This hyperlink is an absolute path.
C - hlstmfSiteGaveDisplayName (1 bit): A bit that specifies whether the creator of the hyperlink specified a display name.
D - hlstmfHasLocationStr (1 bit): A bit that specifies whether this structure contains a hyperlink location.
E - hlstmfHasDisplayName (1 bit): A bit that specifies whether this structure contains a display name.
F - hlstmfHasGUID (1 bit): A bit that specifies whether this structure contains a GUID as specified by [MS-DTYP].
G - hlstmfHasCreationTime (1 bit): A bit that specifies whether this structure contains the creation time of the file that contains the hyperlink.
H - hlstmfHasFrameName (1 bit): A bit that specifies whether this structure contains a target frame name.
I - hlstmfMonikerSavedAsStr (1 bit): A bit that specifies whether the moniker was saved as a string.
J - hlstmfAbsFromGetdataRel (1 bit): A bit that specifies whether the hyperlink specified by this structure is an absolute path generated from a relative path.
reserved (22 bits): MUST be zero and MUST be ignored.
displayName (variable): An optional HyperlinkString (section 2.3.7.9) that specifies the display name for the hyperlink. MUST exist if and only if hlstmfHasDisplayName equals 1.
targetFrameName (variable): An optional HyperlinkString (section 2.3.7.9) that specifies the target frame. MUST exist if and only if hlstmfHasFrameName equals 1.
moniker (variable): An optional HyperlinkString (section 2.3.7.9) that specifies the hyperlink moniker. MUST exist if and only if hlstmfHasMoniker equals 1 and hlstmfMonikerSavedAsStr equals 1.
oleMoniker (variable): An optional HyperlinkMoniker (section 2.3.7.2) that specifies the hyperlink moniker. MUST exist if and only if hlstmfHasMoniker equals 1 and hlstmfMonikerSavedAsStr equals 0.
location (variable): An optional HyperlinkString (section 2.3.7.9) that specifies the hyperlink location. MUST exist if and only if hlstmfHasLocationStr equals 1.
guid (16 bytes): An optional GUID as specified by [MS-DTYP] that identifies this hyperlink. MUST exist if and only if hlstmfHasGUID equals 1.
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DUNSTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
LOWHAND John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
LOWSIDE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
LOWSIDE OR LOWHAND John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
DUNSTON CHRIST CHURCH Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 98.
DUNSTON ST NICHOLAS Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 98.
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Dunston, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Dunston, in Gateshead and County Durham | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time. | 2019-04-23T17:52:18 | http://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20256/names |
In a world where people see thousands of messages at once – via Facebook, email, online ads, texts, and other outlets – it can be challenging to really grab their attention.
It’s even more challenging to keep their attention.
That’s why it’s so incredibly important to craft a solid, captivating message.
The first and foremost thing when it comes to creating engaging Facebook videos is exactly that: be engaging.
We don’t have much time to capture anyone’s attention these days.
You have, on average, about 2-3 seconds to engage someone.
When it comes to creating Facebook videos (and videos, in general) you don’t want to create a long, drawn-out introduction that steadily builds up to some masterful climax that shocks and awes a visitor.
Your video must get to the point.
You must be able to accomplish this using only compelling visuals – not video coupled with sound.
Add a nice teaser sentence hinting at what the video is about.
There is no definitive proof on how many users watch videos on Facebook with the sound on (though this number is estimated to be 85 percent), although Facebook now autoplays videos on mobile with sound.
The setting can be disabled, and videos can play with no sound on mobile if a user’s phone is in silent mode.
Captions can help users understand your video, even if there is no audio.
This helps to decrease the chance of losing the user if they can’t understand the video without sound.
Make sure your video has a descriptive, captivating title so that it can be easily searched by users.
Just like optimizing individual webpages (your title tags and meta descriptions), you Facebook video should include an apt title with targeted keywords to increase its visibility.
Use your Facebook post copy to describe the content of your video. This will help convince users to commit to watching the video.
Taking the time to stop and view a video online can seem like a large time commitment for some.
By providing Facebook users with a brief synopsis on what the content is about, you can help to increase the chances that the video may spark their interest and that they will want to watch it.
An informative sentence and a fitting thumbnail can easily achieve this.
Adding a call-to-action (CTA) provides Facebook users with clear direction on what you want them to do.
CTAs can encourage higher click-through-rates (CTRs), conversions, and more.
Inside of the post copy.
At the end of the video with a text overlay.
When formatting your Facebook videos, pay close attention to whether you utilize a square video or a landscape video.
Square videos receive higher amounts of engagement, views, and reach – particularly on mobile.
This makes sense, as the majority of Facebook users use their mobile device and square videos take up the majority of real estate on the mobile News Feed.
This classic point can be applied to many things, including encouraging engagement with your Facebook videos.
Don’t try to throw too much at users at once with a Facebook video.
If you want to increase the likelihood of a video being consumed and then shared, it needs to emphasize one simple, easy-to-understand point.
Making your content easy to digest and understand will increase the chances that users will actually share your videos.
If other people or businesses/brands helped with (or appear in or are mentioned in) your Facebook video, or if you think that others would be interested in seeing it, then it could be a good idea to tag them.
Just make sure to keep tagging relevant and on topic.
Type the “@” symbol before the person or title of the page that you wish to tag.
Facebook provides insights such as average watch time, total minutes watched, etc.
This can provide valuable intel into which videos users find the most engaging, as well as help in planning out future social video strategy.
Learn more: How to Use Facebook Page Insights Like an Expert.
Adding videos directly to Facebook helps them to rank in a more prominent position in the News Feed.
If you have a YouTube video that you would also like to share on Facebook, avoid copying and pasting the YouTube link and instead post the video again directly to Facebook.
You probably have a presence on multiple social media platforms.
But it’s a smart idea to create individual copy tailored specifically for Facebook.
This way, it is easier to avoid sounding automated and generic across channels and it also allows you to play to each channel’s strengths.
For example, with Facebook, there is a much longer character limit (63,206) per post. When necessary, you can you use this to deliver longer messages that will likely get more engagement.
Comments also have a character limit of 8,000, which invites users to write more drawn out messages on individual posts.
Facebook’s algorithm has been updated in order to favor live videos as data has shown that live videos typically hold a user’s interest for a longer period of time.
Live videos have also been known to cause a bump in users exploring that page’s content (even if it isn’t the live video itself).
The hypothesis is that brands who get in front of their audience in this very direct away can help increase their level of relatability and trust.
In addition, Facebook will record the live video and publish it directly to a page once the recording session has come to an end.
In a world where you less than 3 seconds to grab a user’s attention, it’s important to spend some time strategizing on the best ways to do so.
Facebook is an incredibly powerful outlet. Use your Facebook videos strategically to take full advantage.
Screenshots taken by Natalie Hoben, February 2018.
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is located in Hung Hom, Kowloon.
Take the Airport Express to Kowloon Station (HK$ 90).
Then take a taxi to the University (about HK$ 80).
Take the bus A21(HK$ 33) to the final stop Hung Hom Station.
Walk to the PolyU campus.
From the airport to PolyU taxi stand costs about HK$230.
You may wish to show the taxi driver the destination: PolyU Campus (紅磡 香港理工大學).
If you are from Chinese Mainland, you may arrive first at Shenzhen. There are several Checkpoints to enter Hong Kong. From Lo Wu (6:30-24:00) and FuTian (6:30-22:30), you can take a MTR train to Hung Hom Station directly and walk to the university (Exit A or D).
You can also come to Hong Kong through the checkpoints: Huanggang (24 hr) or Shenzhen Wan (6:30-24:00).
The standard electrical voltage in HK is 220 volts AC, 50HZ.
You may need to bring an adaptor, or buy one in Hong Kong. | 2019-04-21T04:59:18 | https://www.polyu.edu.hk/engl/event/11thISTETL/travel/ |
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Contrary to popular belief, your foot actually doesn't have to hurt with hot spots and numb coldness halfway through a day filled with skiing groomers. Salomon outfitted the Women's X Pro Custom Heat Ski Boot with its heat-moldable Custom Shell, heat-forming Custom Fit 3D liner, and electronic Heat 3D Pro technology, so you can ski in a boot that mirrors your foot's shape and adjusts its warmth according to the day's temperatures. With a fully charged battery, the X Pro's Heat 3D Pro technology assures adjustable warmth for up to eighteen hours. A Twinframe chassis grants the X Pro with enhanced control and sensitivity, so you can feel the corduroy underneath your skis while you bank turns with precision. The Oversized Pivot makes sure you get the most out of the boot's moderate 100 flex when you're skiing with wider skis.
Renowned author Matthew MacDonald combines careful treatment of the API with detailed user-interface design principles. Further, this book incorporates C# and the final beta of .NET 2.0. The result: thorough coverage of Windows Forms and GDI+ namespaces for .NET programmers! You will become equipped to design state-of-the-art Windows interfaces and program graphics, and learn how to create your own controls. As a developer, you must know more than just how to add a control to a window. You must be able to create an entire user interface framework that's scalable, flexible, and reusable. This book is not a reference manual. Instead, it contains detailed discussions about user interface elements that youll use on a regular basis. | 2019-04-20T13:10:55 | https://4178.info/cuisinart-pro-custom-11 |
Golf Course. Phase 1 (Historical) Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) to accompany a planning scheme amendment for rezoning the land to residential use.
The subject property, has undergone a Preliminary Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) that included a site history review and a limited soil sampling program. Groundwater conditions were not investigated. | 2019-04-24T10:43:17 | https://atmaenvironmental.com/environmental-consulting-victoria/chirnside-3116/ |
We present empirical evidence on the heterogeneity in monetary policy transmission across countries with different home ownership rates. We use household-level data together with shocks to the policy rate identified from high-frequency data. We find that housing tenure reacts more strongly to unexpected changes in the policy rate in Germany and Switzerland - the OECD countries with the lowest home ownership rates - compared with existing evidence for the U.S. An unexpected decrease in the policy rate by 25 basis points increases the home ownership rate by 0.8 percentage points in Germany and by 0.6 percentage points in Switzerland. The response of non-housing consumption in Switzerland is less heterogeneous across renters and mortgagors, and has a different pattern across age groups than in the U.S. We discuss economic explanations for these findings and implications for monetary policy. | 2019-04-21T19:04:23 | https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/11950/home-ownership-and-monetary-policy-transmission |
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The New Orleans Middle East Film Festival continues through Sunday at 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. , New Orleans. The festival includes 72 acclaimed and award-winning new films from or about Afghanistan, Anatolia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Qatar, Syria, Turkey and United Arab Emirates. Films are shown with food, music and visual art. Festival passes are $75 and include admission to all festival events. Tickets to individual events are $8 each for the general public, $7 for students and seniors, $6 for members and $3 for patrons. Day passes are $12 for the general public, $11 for students and seniors and $10 for members Mondays through Fridays. Day passes are $15 for the general public, $14 for students and seniors and $13 for members on Saturdays and Sundays. For information, visit www.nolamideastfilmfest.blogspot.com or call 504-827-5858 (recording) or 504-352-1150 (live person).
A free Diabetes Education Day featuring Chef John Wright, hosted by Ochsner St. Anne General Hospital, is set for 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the hospital, 4608 La. 1, Raceland. Diabetes Education Day is a community event offering nutritional tips, a cooking demonstration by Chef Wright and an hour-long question-and-answer session with registered nurses. Local residents are encouraged to attend. Admission is free, but registration is requested. To register, call 537-8350.
"Let's Paint" Beginners Oil Painting Class for adults, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Chauvin Branch Library, 5500 La. 56. Admission is free, but registration is required.
Fall Craft Workshop for teens, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Gibson Branch Library, 6363 Bayou Black Drive.
A New Orleans-based film company will hold auditions for its upcoming feature film, to be shot in Terrebonne Parish, from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 1546 La. 665, Pointe-aux-Chenes. The company, Court 13, is seeking Pointe-aux-Chenes area residents 30 and up. The action-drama film centers on a girl and her relationship with her father as a storm approaches. For information or to schedule an audition, call Annie at 504-383-3409 or e-mail [email protected].
A SoLa Art Workshop for ages 11 to 14, presented by the Nicholls State University Art Department and South Louisiana Center for the Arts, is set for 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Nicholls students will be teaching under the direction of Jean Donegan, Nicholls Professor of Art who will observe during each 2-hour session. There is a $20 materials fee for each student. To register, call 876-2222.
Free Hispanic Film Night featuring "Madeinusa," 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the East Houma Branch Library, 778 Grand Caillou Road. Refreshments will be served.
The 2010 Independence Day Events Planning Group sponsored by the Regional Military Museum is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Terrebonne ParishMain Library, 151 Library Drive, Houma. The group is scheduled to meet the third Thursday of each month. For information, call the museum at 873-8200.
The Louisiana Chapter of the French-American Chamber of Commerce will hold its 13th annual Beaujolais Nouveau Festival, celebrating the worldwide release of the 2009 Beaujolais Nouveau, from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, 1 Poydras St. No. 169, Riverwalk, New Orleans. By French tradition, on the third Thursday of November, the Beaujolais Nouveau wine is shipped immediately from vineyards and flown to cities across the world. The event includes food prepared by New Orleans chefs, accompanied by the Beaujolais Nouveau, and a selection of Beaujolais Crus. Tickets are $45 for members and $55 for non-members. The price includes wine and food. For ticket reservations, call Karen Martin at 504-523-5281 or e-mail [email protected].
Thanksgiving Craft Workshop for ages 2 to 8, 11 a.m. Friday at the Grand Caillou Branch Library, 200 Badou Drive, Dulac.
Teen Wii and Dream Catcher Workshop, 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Dularge Branch Library, 837 Bayou Dularge Road.
The Cajun comedy "The Great Big Doorstep" by Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett opens Friday at Bayou Playhouse, 101 Main St., Lockport. The play runs through Dec. 13. Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30 p.m. Sunday shows are at 2:30 p.m. The story centers on the Crochet family, who live in a one-room rent shack in the back bayous of 1940s South Louisiana. They dream of owning their own home after finding a grand plantation front doorstep floating down the Mississippi River. The play is based on the novel by Louisiana author E. P. O'Donnell. The Nov. 28 show includes a special event for the Ya-Ya Queenz, to help the group raise money for Relay For Life/The American Cancer Society, particularly for breast cancer research. The benefit begins at 6:30 p.m. with a reception on the back deck of the playhouse. Food and drinks will be served. The play begins at 7:30. Ticket price for the Ya-Ya Queenz Benefit is $55. For information, call 888-99-BAYOU (22968) ext. 1 or e-mail [email protected].
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"The Kingfish," a play by Larry L. King and Ben Z. Grant and presented by the Bayou Playhouse of Lockport, runs now through the end of the year at the InterContinental New Orleans, 444 St. Charles Ave, New Orleans. Shows start at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Sundays. The off-Broadway revival of "The Kingfish," a one-man show depicting the life and times of Huey P. Long, features New Orleans' own John "Spud" McConnell, actor and WWL Radio host, as the legendary Louisiana governor. McConnell has received national acclaim for his on-stage portrayals of Louisiana's most colorful characters including Huey P. Long, Earl K. Long and Ignatius J. Riley. The play is directed by Perry Martin. Tickets are $35. For tickets or information, call 888-946-HUEY (4839) or visit www.kingfishonstage.com.
The Thibodaux Main Street Farmers Market is open from 7 to 11 a.m. Saturdays at the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve's Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center, 314 Saint Mary St., Thibodaux.
The 2nd Annual Atchafalaya Double Trouble Bridge Run 5K Run/Walk, presented by the Tri-City Track Club, is set for 8 a.m. Saturday in Morgan City. The 5K race begins at the corner of First and Greenwood streets in downtown Morgan City. Entry fees are $18 for members of the Tri-City Track Club, $20 for non-members registering in advance and $25 for same-day registration. Fees include a free T-shirt and admission to post-race festivities, including free food and drinks, music, a children's area and an awards ceremony. For registration forms, visit www.tricitytrackclub.com. For information, call Lisa Parsiola at 312-4864 or e-mail [email protected].
The Bayou Region START! Heart Walk is set for 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Southdown Plantation, 1208 Museum Drive, Houma. Registration is at 8:30 a.m. For information, call Kimberly Landry at 888-352-3824 extension 7722 or e-mail [email protected].
The Terrebonne Parish Tree Board and Acorns of Hope will sponsor "Trees Are Our Friends," an hour-long program for children and parents at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library, 151 Library Drive, Houma. Following the program, children and parents can help plant trees at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, 346 Civic Center Blvd., Houma. Admission is free and open to the public. For information, call Jennifer Robinson at 873-6567.
Free Family Movie featuring "Up" (rated PG), 3 p.m. Saturday at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library, 151 Library Drive, Houma.
Bingo for adults, 4 p.m. Saturday at the East Houma Branch Library, 778 Grand Caillou Road. Refreshments will be served.
The monthly fais-do-do held by Holy Family Assembly 2215 is set for 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the KC Home on Shrimpers Row in Dulac. The event includes Cajun, French and country music and dancing with music provided by Delbert Dugas and The Red River Band. Meals will be sold for $5 a plate. Tickets are sold at the door. The event also includes door prizes and a 50-50 raffle. Raffle tickets are $1 each. For information, call Allen Trahan at 868-0377, Al Voisin at 872-6737 or 855-7008 or Ricky Boudwin at 851-4519.
A fundraiser lunch to benefit 2-year-old Hunter Babin, son of Paulette Griffin and Scott Babin, is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday in the St. Joseph Elementary School Cafeteria, 501 Cardinal Drive, Thibodaux. Hunter was born with three major heart defects. He is preparing for his second open-heart surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. Lunch plate tickets are $7 each. Donations will also be accepted. For information or to buy tickets, call Paulette at 859-3722 or visit Chinese Chef's Restaurant, 361 N. Canal Blvd., in the Rienzi Shopping Center in Thibodaux.
Santa Claus is scheduled to be at Southland Mall, 5953 W. Park Ave., Houma, at the following times and dates: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Nov. 26, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 27, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 28, noon to 6 p.m. Nov. 29, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 30-Dec. 3, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 4-5, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 6, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 7-10, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 11-12, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 13, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 14-16, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 17-19, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 20, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 21-23 and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 24.
A free Thanksgiving Dinner for Terrebonne Parish seniors and citizens in need is set for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the East Houma Bingo Hall, 425 Grand Caillou Road, Houma. The meal is sponsored by the Krewe of Hercules, Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office, Terrebonne Parish District Attorney's Office and the Terrebonne Council on Aging. For information, call 868-8411.
Guitar Hero Game Day for ages 9 to 12, 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library, 151 Library Drive, Houma.
Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero for children and teens, 10 a.m. Nov. 23-25 at the Chauvin Branch Library, 5500 La. 56.
The Bayou Blue Branch Library, 198 Mazerac St., holds English as a Second Language (ESL) classes for Spanish speakers needing help learning English. Free ESL classes are held at 10:30 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays.
Wii Gaming Night for children and teens, 3 to 6 p.m. Mondays at the Bourg Branch Library, 4405 St. Andrews St.
Beeswax Candle Craft for children and teens, 2 p.m. Nov. 24 at the Grand Caillou Branch Library, 200 Badou Drive, Dulac.
Mexican Train Dominoes for fifth- through seventh-graders, 1 p.m. Nov. 25 at the Dularge Branch Library, 837 Bayou Dularge Road.
Donations are being accepted to help Sloudies "Keith" Jordan, a local man facing another round of chemotherapy treatments, following his third major surgery for colon cancer. Keith was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006. He underwent radiation and chemotherapy, as well as his first major surgery. The cancer returned in 2008, leading to another major surgery plus radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Keith discovered in September that the cancer has returned again. He underwent his third major surgery, and had a kidney removed due to damage from extensive radiation and chemotherapy. Donations to help him continue fighting the disease can be made at any Regions Bank under the account "Sloudies Keith Jordan."
Local child-care providers can bring story time to children in their care through the Lafourche Parish Public Library's "Bringing Books to Life" outreach program, which works with daycares, preschools, Head Start programs and Even Start programs. The library system's youth-services assistants read stories and sing songs to and interact with children through action verse and finger plays. The library's Youth Services Department also loans and delivers library books to these locations to help promote early literacy. For information, call Youth Service Coordinator Trinna Holcomb at 438-3117.
Local veterans groups are seeking community donations to hold a Deployment Dinner for local soldiers deploying for Iraq in January, as well as to help the soldiers with supplies needed when stationed overseas. Any type of donation is welcome, including money and items that can be used for door prizes. The meal is set for 6 p.m. Dec. 5 at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, 346 Civic Center Blvd., Houma. The event honors National Guard 256th Infantry Brigade of Houma and Thibodaux, companies Charlie and Delta, respectively. The dinner is being hosted by a number of local veterans groups. Those interested can donate at any branch of South Louisiana Bank in the account of American Legion-LA National Guard Deployment Fund or mail to the attention of Jack Croker, 134 Wayne Ave., Houma, LA 70360. Donations are tax-deductable. For information, call Jack Croker at 876-6598.
Peg Patterns Workshop for teens, 1 p.m. Nov. 27 at the Montegut Branch Library, 1135 La. 55.
Turkey Craft Workshop for fourth- through sixth-graders, 2 p.m. Nov. 28 at the East Houma Branch Library, 778 Grand Caillou Road.
Introduction to Spanish for adults, 4 p.m. Nov. 28 at the East Houma Branch Library, 778 Grand Caillou Road.
The Moscow Ballet presents its "Great Russian Nutcracker" at 8 p.m. Nov. 28 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts, 801 N. Rampart St., New Orleans. The classic holiday production features classical ballet dancing, hand-crafted backdrops and world-renowned life-sized puppets. This year's "Great Russian Nutcracker" includes several new characters, revived puppets and renewed hand-painted backdrops. Partial proceeds from the event benefit the Kingsley House. Tickets can be purchased at www.nutcracker.com or by calling Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000.
Guitar Hero Game Day for teens, 3 to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 29 at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library, 151 Library Drive, Houma.
The Idlewild Plantation Christmas Lighting runs Nov. 29 through Dec. 31 at the plantation home in Patterson. Visitors can take a driving tour along a path through Kemper Williams Park, filled with displays of Christmas lights and Christmas music. Admission is $2 per car.
Historic homes in St. Mary Parish Parish will be decorated for the Christmas holidays throughout December. The Grevemberg House in Franklin will feature a traditional Victorian Christmas Tree, seasonal greenery and displays of traditional fruits and foods of the Victorian Period. Oaklawn Manor, the residence of Louisiana's former governor, Mike Foster, will be decorated with a different style of tree in every room. Admission is $10 per tour.
Winter Wonderland Storytime for pre-kindergartners through third-graders, 4 p.m. Nov. 30 at the Dularge Branch Library, 837 Bayou Dularge Road.
Tickets are on sale for the musical stage production of "The Color Purple," set to run Dec. 1-6 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater, 1419 Basin St., in Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans. The show, which counts Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones among its producers, is part of the theater's Capital One Broadway Across America series. "The Color Purple" performance schedule is 8 p.m. Dec. 1-2, 2 and 8 p.m. Dec. 3, 8 p.m. Dec. 4, 2 and 8 p.m. Dec. 5 and 2 p.m. Dec. 6. American Sign Language performance is 2 p.m. Dec. 6. The show, based on the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and the film by Steven Spielberg, was nominated for 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The Grammy-nominated score includes gospel, jazz, pop and the blues. Tickets start at $25. Tickets are available at the Mahalia Jackson Box Office, by phone at 800-982-ARTS (2787) or online at www.Ticketmaster.com and www.BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com. For groups of 15 or more, call 504-287-0398 or 800-941-7469.
The Nicholls State University Ceramics Club will hold a Pottery Sale from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 2, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 3, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 4 and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 5 in the Ceramic Studio at the rear entrance to Talbot Hall on the campus of Nicholls in Thibodaux.
The Bayou Chapter of the Louisiana State Poetry Society will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Dec. 3 in the boardroom on the second floor of the Terrebonne Parish Main Library, 151 Library Drive, Houma. The meetings are free and open to the public.
Nicole Dion-LeBlanc with Keller Williams Realty and Lynn T. Ramagost with Assurance Financial Group, are teaming with the USDA, Pat's Coat's for Kids and the Assumption Parish Food Bank to inform Assumption Parish residents about USDA programs that could help them and to collect coats and nonperishable food items to help residents in need. The informational event is set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 4 at the Pierre Part Library, 2800 La. 70 S. A USDA seminar led by Wanda Holmes, a single-family housing specialist, is set for 10 a.m. to noon. Holmes will discuss USDA programs for homeowners and homebuyers. Kevin Boone, renewable energy coordinator for the USDA, will discuss programs available for Assumption residents, including the USDA Rural Development's Renewable Energy for America Program which offers grants, guaranteed loans and combination grant/guaranteed loans to help agricultural producers and rural small businesses buy and install renewable-energy systems and make energy-efficiency improvements. Also that day, residents can drop off coats or donate money to help locals stay warm. Most needed are children's sizes 6-14. Make checks payable to "Pat's Coats for Kids" or pay with a VISA or MasterCard by calling 225-248-1408. Assumption food-bank volunteers will collect nonperishable food that day. For information, call Nicole at 225-289-5055 or e-mail [email protected] or call Lynn at 225-717-7144 or e-mail [email protected].
The Plaquemines Parish Fair and Orange Festival is set for 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Dec. 5 and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 6, with a preview of the carnival from 5 to 10 p.m. Dec. 4, all at Louisiana's Medal of Honor Park, 1292 Barriere Road, Belle Chasse. The festival includes local seafood and citrus, live music and dancing, helicopter and carnival rides, children's activities, the 5K Run/Walk for the Oranges and orange-eating and peeling, shrimp-peeling and de-heading, catfish-skinning, oyster-shucking and duck-calling contests. Music includes performances by Big River Band, Southern Cross, Rockin' Dopsie, Ernie Wilkinson and the Hot Sauce Band, Kayla Woodson and Bucktown All Stars. Entry fees are $4 for adults and $2 for ages of 3 to 12. Children under 3 get in free. For information, visit www.orangefestival.com.
The 20th Annual Bowl for Breath, a fundraiser to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, is set for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 5 at Creole Lanes, 1371 Tunnel Blvd., Houma. Minimum donations are $25 per bowler. Sponsorships are available. Bowlers can raise money to earn various prizes, including a Sony Blu-Ray Disk Player, a digital camera and others. For information, call event chairs Robbin and Jed Pitre at 632-3604.
The 3rd Annual Historic Church Christmas Musicale is set for 4 p.m. Dec. 6 in downtown Franklin. Guests visit three historical churches for musical entertainment, including: St. Mary's Episcopal Church with a performance by Pat Brown; Asbury Methodist Church for gospel music; and the Church of Assumption for a bell choir performance. The event begins at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 805 1st St., Franklin. Guests walk from one church to the next, ending at First United Methodist Church for light refreshments. Each musical performance lasts about 20 minutes. Admission is free.
Pharr Chapel United Methodist Church, 517 Federal Ave., Morgan City, will hold its Christmas program, "Night in Bethlehem," featuring the music ministry of Pharr Chapel, at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 6. Admission is free and open to the public.
Professional actors and local elementary-school children will put on a Christmas play, "Frosty the Snowman," at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium, 705 Myrtle St., at 6 p.m. Dec. 7. Admission is $5 per person at the door or $4 in advance.
The 14th Annual Christmas Tree Festival is set for Dec. 10-Jan. 1 at the Louisiana State Museum in Patterson. Christmas trees decorated by area children will be on exhibit. The Christmas Tree Festival Open House will be held at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 10 at the museum. Visitors can view decorated Christmas trees and hear children from local schools sing holiday carols.
The 21st Annual Christmas by Candlelight is set for 5:30 p.m. Dec. 12 on Bernice Street in Morgan City. Residents of Bernice Street have decorated their homes and will light luminaries along the roadway to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season.
The Houma-Terrebonne Community Band will hold its annual Christmas Concert at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 12 in J.C. Penney Court inside Southland Mall in Houma. Admission is free and open to the public.
The St. Mary Arts and Humanities Council presents "Nutcracker La Louisianne" at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 19 at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium, 705 Myrtle St.
A free Christmas Dinner for Terrebonne Parish seniors and citizens in need is set for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 20 at the East Houma Bingo Hall, 425 Grand Caillou Road, Houma. The meal is sponsored by the Krewe of Hercules, Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office, Terrebonne Parish District Attorney's Office and the Terrebonne Council on Aging. For information, call 868-8411.
The United Houma Nation Banquet, "Christmas avec les Indiens," is set for 6 p.m. Dec. 20 at the Houma Municipal Auditorium, 880 Verret St., Houma. Music by Reaux Sham Baux. Admission is $8 for ages 13 and up, $5 for ages 12 and under. No alcohol permitted. For information, call 772-1621 or 226-7664.
The Tuneweavers Christmas Concert featuring traditional Christmas music is set for 2 p.m. Dec. 21 at St. Stephen Catholic Church, 3217 2nd St., Berwick. Admission is free.
The South Lafourche Public Library, 16241 E. Main St., Cut Off, is looking for personal collections to display at the library, such as collections of Coca-Cola memorabilia or dolls. The library is seeking collections of small collectible items � both old and new � for display. All collections will be housed in locked display cases. If you have a collection you think others might want to see, call branch librarian Helen Brunet at 632-7140 or visit the library to discuss your collection with her.
Houma-based South Louisiana Center for the Arts is offering a Glee Club program, a choral music group for ages 6 to 16, with an emphasis on contemporary music. The club is named after the Fox television show "Glee." The glee club is accepting new members. Registration fees are $15. Members also buy a $10 Glee Club T-shirt. For information, call SoLa Center for the Arts at 876-2222.
Houma-based South Louisiana Center for the Arts is now offering a class for mothers and young children called "Mommie, Music, and Me." The class includes music and activities for very young children. For information, call SoLa Center for the Arts at 876-2222.
Talking globes to help people with learning disabilities and visual impairment, including blindness, will soon be available at the Martha Sowell Utley Memorial Library, 314 St. Mary St., Thibodaux; the Lockport Public Library, 720 Crescent Ave.; and the South Lafourche Public Library, 16241 E. Main St., Cut Off. The globes were donated in recognition of National Disability Employee Awareness Month by the Lafourche Mayors' Committee, a group that works to increase awareness, provide support and advocate for people with disabilities. People without disabilities can also benefit from the globes.
Children ages 5 to 11 can receive free books on their birthdays as part of a new program at the Martha Sowell Utley Memorial Library, 314 St. Mary St., Thibodaux. The library received a $5,000 grant from Entergy to encourage children to read on their birthdays. Children who register their birthdays with library staff can return on their birthdays to pick up a free Newberry or Caldecott award-winning children's book. To register, children must have a valid library card.
The United Houma Nation will hold Tribal Council meetings at 10 a.m. Jan. 9 at the United Houma Nation's main office, 20986 La. 1, Golden Meadow. For information, call Charlene M. Soares at 537-8867 or e-mail [email protected].
On exhibit through Dec. 31: Handmade quilts by local artist Ann Hitt at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library, 151 Library Drive, Houma.
On exhibit through Dec. 31: Thibodaux resident Emile Hebert's Panhandle Pete collection at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library, 151 Library Drive, Houma. The collection includes Western paraphernalia of the Old West and Hollywood West, including an array of model antique and western guns.
On exhibit through Jan. 9: "Clementine Hunter: Plantation Life," a collection of more than 60 paintings and other objects decorated by Clementine Hunter, in the Louisiana State Museum at 118 Cotten Road (U.S. 90) in Kemper Williams Park in Patterson. The exhibit, one of the largest of Hunter's work in recent years, presents her intimate views of plantation life. Hunter was born in December 1886 in the Cane River region of Natchitoches Parish. From 1900 until her death in 1988, she lived at Melrose Plantation. The owners, John and Carmelita Henry, were passionate supporters of art and literature and encouraged Hunter to pursue her creative ability. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. For information, call 399-1268.
On exhibit through Feb. 13: "Of People and Places: Contemporary Art from the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection," an exhibit of 40 works, at the LSU Museum of Art, 100 Lafayette St., Baton Rouge. For information, visit www.lsumoa.com.
The 2010 Independence Day Events Planning Group, sponsored by the Regional Military Museum in Houma, begins meeting at 4 p.m. the third Thursday of each month in the boardroom on the second floor of the Terrebonne Parish Main Library, 151 Library Drive, Houma. All are welcome to help in planning for next year's Fourth of July festivities in Houma. Call the Regional Military Museum at 873-8200.
The Divorce/Separation Recovery Group meets from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of the month, including Nov. 11, at the St. Bridget Church Annex Building, 2076 W. Main St., Schriever.
H.E.L.P. Corp. holds its general meetings at 6:30 p.m. the last Tuesday of each month at The City Club, 7861 Main St., Houma. This month's guest speaker is Alex Burke. For information, visit HELPcorp.org or call Kelli McNamara at 879-4485.
The Military Round Table Discussion Group sponsored by the Regional Military Museum meets at 5 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library, 151 Library Drive, Houma. The event is free and open to the public. For information, call 873-8200. | 2019-04-19T17:04:39 | https://www.dailycomet.com/entertainment/20091117/community-calendar |
The following describes our Media Exposure campaign for the most recent Dickens Christmas Show. Specific details regarding advertising content and distribution are subject to change each year.
Our billboards are placed in "prime" locations throughout Horry County to reach 137,500 average daily impressions.
More than 50,000 postcards to attendees are sent nationwide. To Group Leader/Bus Tour Operators, Church Groups, Social, Retail Center and more in a three-plus state area.
Over 80,000 flyers were distributed throughout the Grand Strand and neighboring cities within a 200 mile radius.
Over 600 11x14 posters are displayed throughout the Grand Strand and neighboring cities within a 200 mile radius.
Over 500 TV & Radio Spots and Banner Ads Online.
WIS-TV Columbia, WECT Wilmington, WWAY Wilmington, WCBD Charleston, Time Warner Cable-Entertainment, Family Food Network, FX!, Lifetime, LMN, OXY, Spike-TV, TLC, TNT, A&E, Bravo and WBTW-TV 13.
Stations aired pre-recorded commercial spots and promoted show ticket giveaways.
Provided links to Sponsors on our website to car rental companies, air lines, hotels, recreation and tourist attractions, local holiday entertainment venues and more.
Thru the Dickens Facebook account, the Show is connected with thousands of loyal guests. Daily status updates went to over 8,000+ of our Facebook fans. Target marketing to potential attendees thru Facebook advertising.
The Dickens Show is listed in over 50 calendars of events websites. The Public Relations campaign generates thousands of impressions through press releases, articles and interviews. Live Morning and Noon interviews - WPDE & WBTW-TV.
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1st Swedish Workshop on Lignin Chemistry, Processing and Valorization on March 16th – 17th, 2017 at RISE Bioekonomi (Innventia), Drottning Kristinas väg 61, Stockholm.
We will start the workshop with a dinner and socializing on the March 16th and will continue with research presentations by primarily PhD students and supervisors active in lignin research on March 17th, 10.00-16.00.
We kindly ask you to submit a short abstract (300-400 words) on the topic of your research work using attached template to [email protected] in it, please, whether you would like to have an oral or poster presentation. We encourage as many PhD students as possible to give an oral presentations about their work.
The dead-line for Abstract submission is February 22nd, 2017.
We are looking forward to see you in Stockholm!
P.S. Feel free to distribute this information to your colleagues and students who could be potentially be interested to participate in this workshop. | 2019-04-26T10:38:50 | http://innventia.com/sv/Om-oss/Tidigare-evenamang/Tidigare-events-2017/The-Lignin-Center-of-Sweden---1st-Workshop/ |
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