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I first came across Raphael Halin’s photographs after picking up a copy of Pecan Magazine. The images of the Paris based photographer were rich and haunting, with an emphasis on emptiness. It instantaneously sparked my curiosity and I wanted to know more about the process behind Raphael’s photographs. After reaching out, I had the opportunity to get to know him and details about his work through an interview.
Tell us a bit about your background Raphael, Where did you grow up and where do you reside now?
I grew up in the Parisian suburbs before settling in the heart of Paris.
How do you feel about Paris? Does it inform the kind of photography you do?
I feel like a bit of a stranger in this city…a spectator. The solitude that reigns, like in all big cities, obviously has an influence on my work. The city is also an accumulation of everything our society can produce.
When did you first get interested in photography?
I really started getting interested in photography after seeing Raymond Depardon’s exhibition “Errance” back in 2004. His images marked me and I felt that photography would be the best form of expression for me.
What or who inspires you on a daily basis?
The evolution of our society, our incapacity to react. Absence. And Mark Rothko. I am obsessed with his work!
Would it be fair to say that photography is a solitary activity for you?
To quote Raymond Depardon: “You must like solitude to be a photographer.”
What draws you to the spaces you photograph?
I love showing isolated places, disoriented people. The places must give way to these sorts of mises en scène.
It seems that you treat space almost as a protagonist in the images as it really dominates your photographs, can you tell me a bit about this?
I try to capture our relationship to our environment. These are places we have created and the traces we leave behind within them. We are almost unaware of our daily passings. I’m interested in exploring this relationship through my photography.
Your images evoke the feeling of a personal journey, is traveling an important element in your life?
Yes, traveling is important because it serves as a source of inspiration for my work and above all, the best way to come face to face with one self.
Through all your travels what are some of your favourite places you have visited?
Finland, the North of France, La Touraine, Montevideo…In reality, I think that every new place I visit could be part of that list because I never get tired of discovering new landscapes, new smells and new people.
Where would you like to travel in the future?
I don’t know. I need material for different projects and lately I want to get away from reality and focus my work more and more towards digital recomposition. I’ve been struggling with this idea because it’s no longer really photography but a larger field of experimentation.
What do you think of the representation of photography through social media avenues like Instagram.
It’s all in excess! Everything must be photographed and shared it seems. We are not just actors within the virtual world but are also spectators in the present “instant” of Instagram. We’ve stopped living in the moment and have become more focused on capturing… like recording a concert instead of watching it, and of course sharing it all.
Luckily for me I still don’t have an Instagram account. |
Your Cat’s Fur Color Is Linked To Its Aggressiveness
by Robin Andrews
Cats are divisive pets: the feline companions are loyal companions to some, and mischievous murderers to others. There’s evidence suggesting that cats in general see us more as a mix between landlords who let them stay in a human hotel, servants that feed them, and odd-looking kittens who can’t hunt properly. More specifically, certain cats seem more chilled out in their day-to-day lives, whereas others seem to be fairly tetchy and aggressive, and some new evidence may be able to shed some light on this. A statistical survey, published in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, has appeared to make a connection between a cat’s fur color and its inherent aggressiveness towards humans.
For the study, the team of veterinary experts from the University of California Davis collected survey answers from an online questionnaire. From 1,274 cat owners, a range of data was requested, including fur color, their opinion on their cat’s aggressiveness towards humans and other domestic cats, how they displayed any combative features when dealing with humans and cats, and how their cats behaved at the veterinary clinic. The aggressiveness was ranked on a numerical scale.
As the survey reveals, female “orange” cats (tortoiseshells, calicos, and torbies), female black-and-white cats, and female gray-and-white cats all tend to be more aggressive towards humans during everyday interactions, handling, and veterinary visits. The calmest cats were those with gray, black, white or tabby fur.
As the adage goes: correlation does not imply causation, and just because there is a correlation between fur color and aggressiveness in cats, it does not necessarily mean that innate aggressiveness causes that particular skin color to emerge, or vice versa. However, perhaps there is a link here: this could be a phenomenon known as a “spandrel.”
In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a physical feature that appears as a byproduct of the evolution of another characteristic. So it is perhaps possible that the fur color changes are a spandrel: an evolutionary byproduct, an indirect effect of any inherent genetic disposition towards being more aggressive.
The silver fox breeding experiment that took place in the Soviet Union from 1959 bred specific foxes with each other in an ultimately successful attempt to make them tamer and calmer around humans. Surprisingly, this increased tameness was accompanied by physical alterations, with their coat color, tail and ear shapes all changing to appear somewhat more appeasing to the human eye: essentially, they looked cuter. This was perhaps due to a reduction in their adrenaline production as they were artificially selected and bred to produce tamer offspring.
Spandrels are the result of an effect known as pleiotropy, and it is likely that the seemingly disparate link between fur color and aggressiveness in cats is an example of this in action, with certain colors being produced as a byproduct of their genetically-controlled innate hostile behavior. |
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Like most parents, my mom and dad always supported me in my endeavors when I was a child. As long as they were appropriate endeavors. I still recall my mother asking me why I didn’t take an interest in things like cars and sports while en route to a piano lesson. I think she was also not-so-secretly critiquing my obsessive collection of Beanie Babies. It was a phase that passed, though hundreds of beanbag animals still haunt my house, hidden away someplace. They’ll be worth money, just wait.
Be it music, school, or faithful adhesion to a plush obsession, I excelled when I put my heart into something. Though as an adult (I laughed, too), I am discovering that I am not good at everything. Suddenly, years of supportive coddling and “yes you can” praise have left poor Bryan with an ego the size of the Hindenburg, with a similar ending when failure strikes. These revelations have come recently, but all too markedly.
1. Saying no has never been a problem when it comes to a drink, chocolate, or an opportunity to advance my burgeoning stardom. Still, I am no good and absolutely incapable of saying no when I want to decline an offer. It usually goes something like this: |
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Being Julia ~ Releasing 12/17/13
“Both of you sit! Now!” I commanded as I pointed at the table.
They looked at each other and walked over to the table and sat down. I set two glasses on the table and poured the cocktail into each one. I slid a glass over to my mom, and I slid a glass over to my dad.
“But,” my dad started.
“No buts. Now drink it up.”
My parent’s looked at each other as they picked up their glasses. “Gee, I can’t imagine where she gets her attitude from,” my dad said to my mom.
She made a face at him as she held up her glass. “Cheers!”
I walked over to the coffee pot and poured three cups of coffee as I began my speech.
“We need to discuss the events of last night and how you embarrassed me. What were you thinking? Not only were you behaving like love-sick teenagers, you were drunk on top of it. Do you know how that looked in front of Jake? Do you have any idea how humiliated I was and how I had to apologize for your erratic behavior? Who’s the adult here? Because I know it’s neither one of you,” I said as I waved my finger at them. |
This was officially confirmed by publisher 2K Games back in December of 2019. It's being developed by Cloud Chamber, a newly created studio tasked to make the next entry in the BioShock series as their first project. The studio consists of some of the key creative members from previous BioShock games, including Hoagy de la Plante, Scott Sinclair, and Jonathan Pelling.
Since that announcement, things have been strangely quiet, with no news or leaks apart from some interesting job openings spotted in 2020.
But now, almost two years after the announcement, a new leak has revealed a slew of previously unknown details about the game.
BioShock 4 full name and setting leaked
According to a leaker named "Oops Leaks", the new BioShock game will be called Bioshock Isolation, and it will be set in "a new-to-franchise isolated dystopian city."
The main gimmick of this setting is that there are actually two cities with "radically different ideologies". These two cities are sharing a "flipside" border, with one being exactly atop of the other one and vice versa.
The first city has a "free and wealthy society", led by a "successful entrepreneur", while the other "flipped" city is an underground world ruled by an autocratic dictator who wages war against the progressive city, called "vertical war".
The leaker revealed that developers listed books such as The City and the City, We, and Shantaram as their inspiration for the plot and the setting, as well as the iconic Citizen Kane movie. Apparently, the leaked info comes from a pitch document from "no later than 2019" and the leaker states that things might have changed since then and some (or all) information revealed may be outdated.
Asides from the aforementioned personnel working on this project, the leaker revealed details about some other developers who have joined Cloud Chamber in the meantime.
"Concept artists, environment artists, modellers, VFX specialists and level designers who worked on Watch Dogs: Legion, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Mafia 3, and so on are involved in the creation of the game", Oops Leaks wrote.
Finally, Oops Leaks reports that BioShock 4 will be officially revealed in Q1 2022 (January - March 2022) and that the game has now migrated to Unreal Engine 5, in contrast to the initial development in UE4.
As always, take this with a huge grain of salt, as these are just rumours from an unverified source, though it should be noted that the leaked screenshots from a pitch document look rather believable, but we will have to wait for a few more months to find out if this leak was real or not.
Don't forget to check out our dedicated games section for news, guides, and more.
Featured image courtesy of 2K Games/Okami Games. |
As an event manager, it is your responsibility to make sure that the event goes smoothly. There are several things that should be done when you want to have a very successful event, it is also very good for you to keep in mind that a name badge will determine the success of an event. We have several uses of a name badge, one of them is that it plays a very big role in connecting people with one another. When you want people’s to know each other very well, it is very important for you to make sure that you create an effective name badge.
It is also very good since it is used for identification. Since the name badge can be used for identification, people will have a very easy time knowing each other at the event. The positions the people hold in the society are mostly used on the badges. When you want to create an effective name badge, there are a number of things that should he put into consideration.
Before you decide on creating a name badge, we have several things that should be put into consideration; this will be very good since it will enable you to create a very good name badge, it is therefore very good for you to know them. Before you decide on creating a name badge, it is very good for you to make sure that you know the simple steps involved when creating it. This will be a win on your side; this is because it will increase the chances of creating an effective name badge. Fast of all, the font size is one of the very many things that should be put into consideration when you want to create an … Read More |
Barn owls are a majestic icon of the British countryside they float ghost-like across fields at dusk in search of voles and rats.
When they catch these rodents they are inadvertently ingesting the powerful rat poisons that are being used on farms across the country. When owls eat their prey they are taking in toxins which can cause internal bleeding. Although not all die as a result it does affect their ability to hunt and breed. Eight out of ten barn owls have been found to have these poisons in their bloodstream.
There is a glimmer of hope for this beautiful predator; the government is reviewing how such poisons are used. Please lobby the minister responsible for the review with demands to impose stricter controls on these poisons, restricting where and how they are used and thus throw a lifeline to our owls. |
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, who will deliver the keynote speech at CES Tuesday, needs no introduction. She's taken the tech world by storm ever since she was appointed CEO of the declining company in July 2012.
We can’t seem to get enough of her: a woman in the C-suite, a new mother, former Googler and geek who wants to take Yahoo back to its roots. She’s relevant enough to have been featured in a recent issue of Vogue and is lauded as the woman who “has it all.”
We’ve heard a lot about her marriage to investor and philanthropist Zachary Bogue and the strides she’s made in corporate maternity leave policy. But what else is there to know? We've gathered seven lesser-known facts about Mayer.
Image: Peter Kramer/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images |
UA to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr.01/11/2019
To celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr., The University of Akron has scheduled a Martin Luther King Jr. Activities Fair on Monday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the Jean Hower Taber Student Union Ballroom.
This event enables the University and local community to utilize the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday as a “day on” rather than a “day off.” It also serves as an opportunity for community and University outreach. The celebration is organized by community and student organizations to appeal to audiences of all ages, and includes a variety of activities that encourage nonviolence, civic responsibility, respect for differences and the importance of education. This is an opportunity for students and the community to engage in the spirit and meaning of the holiday.
Activities will include:
- Biographic information on Martin Luther King Jr.
- Historical information on the Civil Rights Movement.
- Martin Luther King Jr. gallery and other visual displays.
- Arts and crafts.
- Information about various organizations.
Sponsored by the Office of Inclusion and Equity and hosted by the Office of Multicultural Development, the event will also include performances by selected local artists from ArtsNow and a performance by YEPAW – the Youth Excellence Performing Arts Workshop.
Parking is available at the meters outside the Student Union and in the Schrank Hall parking decks.
Please contact Aiesha Motley [email protected] or call 330-972-6769 for more information.
Media contact: Cristine Boyd, 330-972-6476 or [email protected]. |
Richmond Spa is a specialised nail and beauty salon set opposite Richmond station at The Quadrant. Professional, experienced and friendly staff listen to what your needs and help you feel relaxed and at ease while they meet them.
Established in 2012, this modern shop offers much more than fancy lighting. Nail treatments incorporate lots of choice with OPI, Essie, CND, Gelish and SNS products. Facials meanwhile make use of the Dermalogica brand and hot wax treatments feature Lycon.
Ideally situated in the heart of Richmond, Si Belle is a boutique salon offering a selection of premium services for all your beauty needs. Specialised treatments on offer range from gel manicures and pedicures to Russian volume lashes, Dermalogica facials and the semi-permanent makeup technique of microblading.
The stylish interior coupled with the calm, laid-back ambience create the perfect setting to enjoy a well-deserved pampering. Whether you're after a quick, painless wax, some luscious lash extensions or a soothing facial, the expert team here have the skill and artistry to restore you to your glowing, beautiful best.
Si Belle is located on King Street, just a short walk from Richmond underground.
KOKO Nails & Beauty is located on Richmond Road between Twickenham and Richmond is a professional boutique salon dedicated to providing you with the best services in nails and beauty.
In a tranquil, neat and bright ambience, the team of experienced nail technicians and beauticians have a combined total of 20 years experience offering a full menu of beauty treats including Shellac nails, acrylic nails, eyelash extensions, massages, and waxing services for ladies and gents.
They believe in pampering to perfection and providing friendly services to meet all your expectations. This venue is located a 10-minuted walk from Richmond and St Margaret train station, right by the River Thames.
Richmond's Kleo Beauty delivers a range of facials, laser, waxing and nail treatments all under one roof.
A tranquil and relaxing salon located just a 7-minute walk from Richmond station.
They offer men, women and children a selection of different treatments from Shellac manicures to spa pedicures and St. Tropez spray tans to laser hair removal.
They also have an extensive range of facials to suit each skin type and are complemented with renowned products from Dermalogica, CACI and Crystal Clear to ensure your skin is left feeling its very best.
The talented team have many years of experience and are happy to tailor each service to your individual needs. They pride themselves on their professionalism, hard work and dedication which is shown throughout their treatments.
For a beauty salon that does it all, book in your next appointment at Kleo's Beauty today.
Nail Garden is a nail and beauty salon located in Richmond, offering a professional hand and feet care along with waxing, massages and more treatments to ladies and men.
The salon is spacious and bright, with comfortable furnishings, a place where you can rest assured you are in good hands. All treatments are carried out making use of high-quality brands such as OPI and CND.
Glamour Nails in Richmond offers an impressive range of nail services. Classic manicures, gel pedicures, acrylic extensions and much more are all on offer here.
This local-favourite has been around for almost two decades. The team are true specialists when it comes to nails, and use the best products from brands like OPI, SNS, Gelish and Biosculpture Gel.
Take your pick of their finishes to find the style that suits you.
The salon is just a few minutes from Richmond station, with lots of us stops and paid parking nearby.
Offering a comprehensive range of manicure and pedicure treatments, Admirable Richmond Beauty is a qualified mobile beauty service that covers within a 3 miles radius from Richmond.
Original, professional and friendly, the service here is designed to surprise you every time, making you feel and look fabulous. The expert therapist is always up to date with the latest nail trends and the high-quality techniques. If you are looking for a simple manicure or a more specific foot scrub, Admirable Richmond Beauty is the right place to book.
Holimed Beauty is a beauty treatment room inside Art House Hair Studio on Kew Road, Richmond. Beauty therapist Dora provides professional and luxury beauty treatments including eyebrow and eyelash services, facials and unisex waxing for face and body.
Fully qualified and insured, Dora pays close attention to the smallest details of your service and provides a unique, high quality and luxury experience that you deserve.
Visit today and you are sure to enjoy a thorough, efficient service with long lasting results. The salon is located just a 5-minute walk from Richmond train station and bus number 65 takes you to Kew Road. |
As adult learners, we require several things that were probably missing from our school days. First off, the topic and how it’s presented need to be interesting and able to keep our attention. If it’s dull and uninteresting, we simply won’t waste our time on it.
Research over the years has shown that there are four distinct learning styles. For example, some people learn with a step-by-step, ‘how to’ approach, while others prefer to ask questions and interact with a group of people, and so on.
It’s the Experience That Counts!
Another very important aspect to learning is doing. According to Dale’s cone of experience, we only take on board 10% of information by reading, 20% by listening, 30% by seeing, and 50% by watching a demonstration. In order to truly learn and become proficient at any new skill we have to do it for ourselves and practice it.
So when choosing a garden design course you need to make sure that there will be plenty of opportunities to practice the course material for yourself.
The Online Advantages
Another aspect to consider is your time and availability to undertake any garden design course. Because of the advances in technology and media you are now able to learn garden design online from the comfort of your own home. This can be particularly advantageous if you don’t have a good college in your location or you don’t have the time or ability to attend a weekly scheduled course.
The last thing you need to consider is the type of garden design course. A lot of college courses come with a diploma so that you can set up as a professional. Needless to say, some courses are considerably better than others on the level of tuition you actually receive. It’s a good idea to look at the work that other students have produced before you pay out for professional course.
If you just want to learn garden design your own benefit so you can transform your garden, then an online course is a very good place to start. Any good course will come with a money-back guarantee so regardless of your desire to do this just for yourself or perhaps as a career change, it will give you a good idea of whether garden design is right for you or not.
Also, if the course you do online doesn’t work for you, at least you can get your money back and you won’t have wasted time enrolling in a weekly class at college, so choose what best fits you now.
If you’d like to learn more about the best available online garden design courses, please visit https://www.successfulgardendesign.com/products |
Former Mart Manager pleads guilty to half a million euro theft and fraud charges
Wednesday 14 May 2014
A former Limerick Mart Manager has pleaded guilty to 10 theft and fraud charges linked to deals worth almost half a million euro at the Golden Vale Mart in Kilmallock over five years ago.
52 year old Liam Egan from Gortboy, Kilmallock will be sentenced at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court later this year.
Live 95FM's Eric Clarke reports:
Liam Egan has pleaded guilty to stealing three cheques with a total value of €167,000, the property of Golden Vale Marts.
He also admits stealing a cheque from a named individual valued at €15,696.
Six further charges relate to Liam Egan dishonestly and by deception inducing another named party to accept cheques with a total value of more than €305,000, knowing there was insufficient funds to meet the cheques with the intention of making gain for himself or causing a loss to Golden Vale Marts.
All the offences relate to cattle deals and took place at Golden Vale Mart in Gotoon, Kilmallock between February 2008 and January 2009.
Defence Counsel Andrew Sexton told Judge Carroll Moran that Mr Egan is "making trojan efforts to repay" the money.
The matter was adjourned for sentencing on October 7th. |
How to Fix Hard Drive Errors and Slowdown
People store more information on their hard drives than ever before. It's simple,
consumers demand more space and the hard drives companies have responded by producing
massive 500 GB drives that are fast enough to spin at speeds of 10,000 RPM. However, large
high performance hard drives require more maintenance than smaller ones.
Let's take a look at how your hard drive is structured. The hard consist of a series of
circular tracks called disks. Each section of a disk is split up into pie shaped sections
called sectors. These sectors store data magnetically. You may have seen errors that
indicate errors in sector X or Y. These occur when the electrical motor sends the central
spindle to a section of the disk that cannot be read. In this case, you may be able to fix
hard drive errors to allow the section to be read. This article hopes to aid you when you
need to an easy way to fix hard drive problems.
1. Check Your Hard Drives Health
An easy way to find out how to fix hard drive failure is to run the CHKDSK, Check Disk,
utility. This is a Windows application that allows you to scan your hard drive for errors.
Often using this utility alone will allow you to fix hard drive problems and restore the
hard drive to its peak performance. This works by marking error zones and instructing your
computer to skip over or repair them.
Here is how:
1. Open the "Computer" folder.
2. Select your hard drive, right click the hard drive icon.
3. Choose "Properties".
4. Click the "Tools" tab.
5. Click the "Check Now" button.
6. For a thorough repair click "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and
attempt recovery of bad sectors"
7. If you see new dialog window, click "Schedule disk check" to start.
You should run this utility every three months in order to fix hard drive errors and avoid
slow down of your hard drive.
2. Organize Fragmented Data
The next order of business is to fix hard drive problems by organizing the data on your
hard drive. You load an mountain of data onto your hard drive every time you use Windows.
Your operating system does a good job of organizing this data. However, its not a perfect
system. As a result, the data you add often is placed in an inefficient locations on the
drive. This is known as fragmentation. So, you must take steps to defrag the data to fix
hard drive poor performance problems. If you have registry errors, you may need to clean
them to organize your hard drive efficiently. The defragment may cluster error filled
registry data with clean data in your registry which can cause hard drive sluggishness.
How to defragment:
1. Open the "Start" Menu.
2. Click on "Computer".
3. Right Click your C: drive or your hard drive image.
4. Scroll down to the "Properties" Click.
5. In the Properties Menus, Open the "Tools" menu.
6. Choose "Defragment Now".
7. In the Disk Deframenter menu. Click on "Defragment"
3. Take Out the Trash
Now that your files are in order and you have enabled your computer to fix hard drive
errors, its time to clean up your newly defragmented data. All files are stored in one or
more places on your hard drive. Old version of this data is often compressed and stashed
away. However, when your computer or registry needs a file its must locate all version of
the file. This makes the ability to fix hard drive slowness more difficult. However,
Microsoft has developed a wonderful tool that allows you to clean up unnecessary
compressed and temporary data. In turn, allowing you to clean and fix hard drive slowness
cause by inefficient data.
Here is how:
2. Choose "Programs".
3. Open "Accessories".
4. Choose "System Tools".
5. Click "Disk Cleanup".
All in all, these few steps should allow you to fix hard drive problems and speed up
the performance of Windows. When it comes to hard drive, "the bigger the better" is the
name of the game. However, "with great power comes great responsibility" can also be applied.
For more speed tips visit:
How to Speed Up My Computer?
And to solve other common PC problems visit:
Fix Computer Problems with Our Step by Step Instructions
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• Windows 7 Startup Repair Tool
• Don't Have Permission to Write to Drive
• How to Create a Vista Boot Disk
• PC Troubleshooting - Symptoms of a Bad CPU
• How to Find Windows 7 Product Key
• Video - Using the Problem Steps Recorder Tool
• Tips for Preventing Your Laptop From Overheating
• Create Recovery Discs for Windows Vista with HP Recovery Manager
• What Should be in a PC Technician?s Tool Kit? |
HBC Fest is set to open in the Haebangchon area of Seoul’s Itaewon on May 16-18, with its biggest lineup yet.
Now in its ninth year, the festival has added a number of venues in Gyeongnidan, a nearby neighborhood with an increasing number of popular bars and restaurants.
Festival organizer Lance Reegan-Diehl said that after a few bars from the area asked about joining, interest snowballed ― 12 new venues have been added to the festival in both areas, more than doubling the festival’s size.
“In most cases I had more performers than I had space for so I had to make more space this time,” said Reegan-Diehl, adding that the increase in venues also allows each to space the bands out a little more.
|The LRD Band, led by HBC Fest organizer Lance Reegan-Diehl (right), will be among the bands playing Saturday at the festival in Haebangchon, Seoul. (Lance Reegan-Diehl)|
There are no outdoor performances at HBC Fest. The festival is a collection of live shows run alongside each other inside each venue, with each location sponsoring their own stage. The venues are free to enter, but have an incentive to get involved from sales on the day and general promotion of the area.
“It ends up becoming a yearlong promotion for everybody,” said Reegan-Diehl. “Certainly there is a large crowd to make your retail sales to on the weekend, but then there’s the residual effect, which is that people who don’t know this area, they have a great time. And they keep coming back again and again.”
The area has risen in profile since the festival’s inception, with an increase in the number of visitors generally, particularly Korean visitors. Reeghan-Diehl points to the positive aspects of this, including the increased number of dining options.
But he also said it helped create a more balanced view of the area.
“In one sense, it was easy to say, ‘Oh look at those foreigners. They make this big mess in Haebangchon.’ But now there are Korean people making a big mess in Haebangchon, so personally I would hope that shifts the balance a little bit from the opinion of ‘Oh it’s just them foreigners,’ to, ‘Oh it’s a business area.’”
He said that the festival was open to all genres of live music.
“I’ve never wanted to restrict it to a certain genre,” he said. I think that’s not what the festival has ever been about.”
At the same time, he insists on live music, saying this helps maintain the identity of the festival. Previous attempts at nonmusical performance had not been that popular, he explained, and recorded music didn’t fit the format.
“You need a band or you need to play,” said Reegan-Diehl. “So we’ve sort of just stuck with the fact that everybody has got to be a live act, basically.”
“From time to time I have been approached with the DJ thing,” he said.
“Some places will DJ music after the bands are done. But that is the business owner’s business. It’s not my business. And I think there’s enough DJ parties in Korea already.”
Early versions of the festival had led to interference by police and some complaints, but Reegan-Diehl said that he had since been working with the police and local authorities to ensure the festival goes smoothly. He credited the Yongsan detachment of the police with doing a good job of assisting the festival by managing the large numbers of people there.
“The authorities don’t want anyone run over, and they don’t want fits of road rage happening either. The police officers are simply here to see that the traffic keeps flowing and that people stay out of the street,” he said.
“That’s primarily the situation that we have. We are not policed in effect where we have officers unplugging musicians anymore.”
While the festival was still going ahead, Reegan-Diehl was keen to include things in the festival to acknowledge the Sewol ferry disaster. He said that many of the venues would have posters in the windows to memorialize the victims and that they had asked bands to wear yellow ribbons, which have become a symbol of respect for the victims.
Some venues would also have donation boxes for organizations helping the victims, he said.
“Let’s show that this festival has some respect for that disaster,” he said.
For more details on the HBC May Fest visit http://www.koreamusicweek.com/.
By Paul Kerry ([email protected] |
Online Courses Optuma – Custom Programming Module
Optuma - Custom Programming Module
The Optuma Custom Programming Module gives you the power to create your own tools and indicators from scratch, using Pascal, an easy to use and understand programming language, and one of the most widely known.
The Custom Programming Module is integrated into Optuma, giving you the ability to view your work on a chart as you create your custom indicator, with the results of any modifications displayed in a single click. More Information .
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My name is Susan Saurage-Altenloh, and I’m a market research strategist who calls ‘em like she sees ‘em. Two decades spent in research on trends, perceptions and social interaction have imbued me with broad-ranging insights on what makes people, communities and the global village tick.
Factistics explores the many purported myths, assumptions and curiosities about Houston through the statistical lens of research to get to the truth about our great city. Fiction or fact? That’s what Factistics shares with you each week.
Now, about majority-minority markets…
The Houston metropolitan area has the second-highest minority population among the top ten largest markets in the U.S.
Ten percent of all U.S. counties are considered majority-minority, meaning the percentage of non-Hispanic whites is below 50 percent. An additional seven percent of the nation’s counties are at the tipping point and expected to become majority-minority soon.
Four states – California, Hawaii, New Mexico, and Texas – as well as Washington, DC, have majority-minority populations. Although Texas’ minority population is barely above half (50.2 percent), the Houston MSA has the second-highest minority population of any of the top-ten MSAs (63 percent). For comparison, New Mexico and California claim 57 percent minority populations while Hawaii is 77 percent nonwhite and Washington is composed of 70 percent non-Hispanic single-race whites.
As cited by the U.S. Census Bureau, "Five states – Maryland, Mississippi, Georgia, New York and Arizona – are next in line with minority populations of about 40 percent."
Of interest: Houston’s little cousin – Baton Rouge – with a population of 400,000, just became a majority-minority city in 2008.
About Houston: Although Houston is the fourth-largest city in the country, it is part of the sixth-largest MSA, or Metropolitan Statistical Area. Houston’s MSA is composed of ten counties and includes cities such as Baytown, Sugar Land, Galveston, Conroe, and The Woodlands. |
This is the trailer for our Salesforce DX - the Complete Guide course. Meet Anthony and Mike Wheeler and learn what's covered in this course.
After taking this course, you will be fully prepared to implementing your entire Salesforce development process in Salesforce DX. From doing actual development with Apex and Lightning Components, to migrating to package based development, to tracking your changes with source control, to streamlining your process with continuous integration/delivery, this course offers it all.
We work through creating a Developer Edition Dev Hub, installing Java and the Salesforce CLI. We also walk you through the installation process of Visual Studio Code and Plugins.
Next, we create a Salesforce DX project and then show you how to navigate VS code.
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We also share helpful SFDX commands that you'll want to know about and use often. We also share helpful VS code extensions.
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LEAF, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the protection and improvement of the urban forest, and a Toronto Master Gardeners partner, is partnering with several other organizations to host The Great Toronto Tree Hunt, a contest to find and celebrate the greatest trees in our city. This is a fun and creative way to reinforce the importance of our urban forest.
At close of nominations May 31, nearly 400 trees had been nominated. Now’s the time to vote for your favourite. Winners will be announced at a public awards ceremony on Wednesday June 24, 2015. For details, visit the LEAF blog here.
The Great Toronto Tree Hunt is sponsored by TD Friends of the Environment, Ontario Power Generation and the City of Toronto as well as LEAF. |
What do you think of Selena Gomez’s new cover of the popular 2011 hit? She performed it yesterday in Panama!
We love it when Selena Gomez covers fun songs and wish we could have been at her We Own the Night Tour in Panama Jan. 24 when she sang “Mr. Saxobeat.”
Watch this fan video of the talented 19-year-old belting out the single, which is originally by Alexandra Stan, with the audience joining her.
More Selena & Justin:
- Justin Bieber Joins Selena Gomez At Her UNICEF Concert — PICS
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When was the last time you took a full month off from something? And I don't mean a month of laying around and doing nothing.
What I mean is taking a month away from a project, hobby, or passion and seeing what happens.
If you look at the Pocket Changed archives, I haven't posted a new blog post here in a month. (The longest this site has ever gone without a new post.)
What this past month has done is help me take stock of what Pocket Changed has become over the past two years, the direction for it in the future, and to break me of any unnecessary habits (i.e. "I have to publish a blog post this week because that is one of the 10 blogging commandments!").
Breaks Don't Have to Be Lazy
Often times when you see blogs that haven't been updated for a while you assume the person just quit. They either couldn't make it through a dip or just got burned out.
This is actually the exact opposite of what has been happening on my end.
- I have put a ton of hours into the upcoming beta launch of Fizzle: Honest Video Training for Online Business Builders.
- I've been working with the first batch of students going through my new personal finance course, Make It Rain.
- I have been writing elsewhere online on topics such as why Successful Entrepreneurs Quit More Often.
So you see, just because a website or blog isn't updated for a while doesn't necessarily mean something bad.
I like to think that every time someone quits a project/blog/job/whatever, an angel gets its wings. (Err... or something like that.)
Procrastination can still be productive after all.
All that to say: maybe you should give yourself a month off from one of your life's major commitments.
You may come back to it with a completely different perspective and appreciation for it. |
Purpose. Previous studies have underlined the effects of the energy drinks containing caffeine end taurine on the cardiovascular system. The aim of this study was to determine acute changes on echocardiographic parameters assessed by conventional echo-Doppler analysis and by speckle tracking echocardiography after the consumption of an energy drink in a young healthy population. Methods. measurement of blood pressure, electrocardiographic, and echocardiographic examination were performed on 35 healthy subjects (mean age 25 ± 2 years, 16 men), at baseline and one hour after the consumption of a body surface area indexed amount of an energy drink (168 mL/m(2)) containing caffeine (0.03%) and taurine (0.4%). Results. The analysis of left ventricular function showed a significant increase of mean relative values of MAPSE (+11%; P < 0.001), global longitudinal strain (+10%, P = 0.004), and left ventricular twisting (+22%, P < 0.0001) in respect to baseline. Also, right ventricular function parameters appeared significantly increased after energy drink consumption, as TAPSE (+15%, P < 0.0001), global, and free wall right ventricular longitudinal strain (+8%, P = 0.001; +5%, P = 0.1, resp.). Conclusion. In conclusion, the consumption of the ED in our population showed a significant increase of right and left ventricular myocardial function, suggesting a possible positive inotropic effect related to the substances contained therein.
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|Titolo:||Acute effects of an energy drink on myocardial function assessed by conventional echo-Doppler analysis and by speckle tracking echocardiography on young healthy subjects|
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|Citazione:||D., M., Righini, F.M., Cameli, M., M., L., S., B., M., F., et al. (2013). Acute effects of an energy drink on myocardial function assessed by conventional echo-Doppler analysis and by speckle tracking echocardiography on young healthy subjects. JOURNAL OF AMINO ACIDS.|
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Trouble Shoot your Knitting
We have three class this month to help you become a better knitter.
Tips for New Knitter
This is not a beginning knitting class. You should already know how to knit and purl -- you may have been knitting a while or just a short bit.
We answer all of the questions you do not know to ask: What do the weights of yarn mean? What does all the stuff on a yarn label mean?How to I know which type of needle I should use? When I put my knitting down in the middle of the row, how do I know which way to knit?
We also cover how to recognize a twisted stitch, how to rip out stitches and pick them back up, and how to fix a mistake a few rows down. This is my favorite class to teach -- it is amazing how empowering it is to have a strong foundation!
Fixing Mistakes 201
After a quick review of twisted stitches and how to frog, we focus on fixing mistakes in several fabrics -- stockinette, garter, and ribbing. We do a quick look at fixing missed yarn overs. Homework is required!
Fixing Mistakes 301
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History and Philosophy of Logic 12 (2):151-166 (1991)
In formal logic there is a premium on clever paraphrase, for it subsumes troublesome inferences under a familiar theory. (A paradigm is Davidson's analysis 1967 of inferences like ?He buttered his toast with a knife; so, he buttered his toast?.) But the need for paraphrase in formal logic runs deeper than the odd recalcitrant inference, and thus, I shall argue, commits logicians to some interesting consequences. First, the thesis that arguments are valid in virtue of their form must be severely qualified (?4). And second, it is misleading to view a formal logical theory as a standard for justifying and criticizing inference (?7). The latter point depends on the nature and role of paraphrase, which permit a range of conflicting logical theories. Conflicting logical theories arise from the conflicting goals of logical theorists and the promiscuous nature of paraphrase makes reconciliation impossible
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Winter is not over yet but we are getting a few nice days in a row.
ABOVE FREEZING ! ! !
For at least a couple of days I can go outside wearing a sweater instead of a heavy winter coat although there is a lot of rain accompanying the warmer weather.
Finally, I can stop making trails in the yard for my dog,
I can see if there are any cars coming as I back out of my driveway.
For those fortunate enough not to know what a "Windrow" is . . . it's that pile of white s#!% at the end of your driveway that the snow plow guy so meticulously piles up mixed with salt and slush at 2:00 in the morning which turns into a frozen chunk of ICE Four Feet Tall and Six Feet Wide hours later when you have to leave very quickly.
This was the bottom of my driveway two weeks ago!
Sometimes it seems like the snow plow guy is watching and when he sees that you have finished shoveling the driveway and gone back inside, he comes back with another huge pile of snow and slush (I don't even know where he gets it from) and deposits it so once again you can't possibly remove a car from your driveway.
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Happy to hear you made it to Moscow safely. Looking forward to reading the blog that you met her. |
Spain beat Iran 1-0 in their first stage FIFA World Cup Group B match at the Kazan Arena in Kazan on Wednesday.
Spain forward Diego Costa scored the only goal of the match in the 54th minute. Silva made a magnificent pass to Costa inside. Costa received the ball, turned and Ramin trying to defend, rebounded the ball off Costa past Beiranvand.
It was Diego Costa’s third goal in two matches at this World Cup. Only Ronaldo has more goals at the current World Cup, with four. Costa has now scored nine goals in his last nine international starts for Spain
Even after the goal La Roja dominated possession while Iran remained dogged in defence.
Iran midfielder Saeid Ezatolahi Afagh thought he had equalized midway through the second half. However, it was later canceled out for offside, after the referee consulted the video assistant referee system, VAR.
Spain are unbeaten in their last 22 matches (W15-D7-L0), the longest active unbeaten run in international football.
Fernando Hierro’s side need to win by two goals to move ahead of Portugal in the group. The win brought Spain level on points with Portugal in Group B after Cristiano Ronaldo and his teammates defeated Morocco on the same score line. Portugal and Spain drew 3-3 in their tournament opener last week. But Iran could still go through depending on the results of the final group matches.
“We showed that we were ready to suffer and ready to compete. I felt we deserved a better result. There’s no doubt Spain play wonderful, stylish football but I thought we deserved more for the way we played. But congratulations to Fernando Hierro and Spain. We will learn a lot from this game. If you think of it like tennis, we had one match point today and we will have another against Portugal. Everything is still open. We are still alive and still dreaming.” Carlos Queiroz, Iran coach said after the match.
Morocco are bottom of the group without a point and have been knocked out of the tournament.
Spain will face Morocco, and Iran will take on Portugal in their final group games on June 25.
A total of 32 national football teams are participating in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, held in 11 cities across Russia between June 14 and July 15.
The teams were divided into eight groups, with four in each, and the top two from their relevant groups will proceed to the next round, known as the playoffs or the knockout stage, to keep vying for the much-coveted FIFA World Cup Trophy.
Russia is holding its first time ever edition of the FIFA World Cup, which kicked off in Moscow with a spectacular opening show at the Luzhniki Stadium on the night of June 14. The World Cup is being held at 12 arenas across 11 cities with the final set to be played at Luzhniki on July 15. The 11 host cities are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara. |
You’ve noticed that tripods come with two basic kinds of locks — twist locks and lever locks. They’re quite different. Which should you purchase? I’ll tell you my experiences and observations.
I generally like twist locks, or collar locks, but I feel that you have to really go out of your way to make sure that they are locked down because occasionally, if you are not careful, they can slip.
Using twist locks
A great advantage is that you can grab all the twist locks and untighten them simultaneously and deploy everything quickly. You can also, after collapsing the legs, tighten them all down in one motion as well. This is especially true of well-made tripods.
This maneuver is relatively quick. However, in practice, I believe lever locks still are faster when setting up the tripod. I’ll mention why later.
Maintenance of twist locks
If you photograph in really sandy, dirty places like I do (desert, beach), they can eventually get sand caught in there, and you have to take it apart, clean and lubricate it with marine grease. This is in practice not really a bad thing as I’ve only had to take my tripods apart once or twice in the last eight or nine years, and it’s rather simple to do.
The advantage of lever locks, or clamp locks, is that you KNOW when they are locked down. I mean, you’re 100% sure. You can visually see it. And when you are pressing the clamp down, you can feel it.
Using lever locks
With lever locks, you can accidentally pinch your finger. I’ve never had this happen with twist locks. The locks also sometimes snag on cactus and branches.
Some people say that it hurts their hands when they lock it down. Some with arthritis have mentioned that it’s too hard on their hands. I’ve never had this issue, thankfully, but I thought I might pass this along.
The people who love lever locks really love them and will avoid twist locks at all costs. I get it. There’s a simplicity in locking your legs down, knowing that they’re locked.
Maintenance of lever locks
From my limited experience with lever locks, they seem to loosen up over time. I’ve also seen more people with broken lever locks than twist locks. This is despite the fact that most of the night photographers I know use twist locks. This makes me believe that if you are going to get a tripod with a lever lock, don’t get cheap ones.
My opinion so far
In theory, I prefer lever locks.
In practice, however, lever locks catch on things either in my car, in storage, or even in the field. My twist locks don’t pull my underwear out of my backpack. They don’t snag on creosote or tree branches. They don’t hitch on to my baggy pants or shorts. I unfortunately speak from experience.
Consequently, I use twist locks.
If you are less clumsy than me or if you are not in these environments, I would give lever locks some serious consideration.
Bonus tip: My twist lock routine
While using twist locks, though, I have gotten in the habit of checking everything before trusting that my tripod is rock solid and ready to go. This is my routine:
- I twist the locks twice
- I push my tripod into the ground once or twice to make sure that it sinks down and doesn’t have any issues. Because I mostly photograph in the desert or on the coast, I was already in the habit of pushing my tripod down to create additional stability.
Because of this, I believe that using a tripod with lever locks is quicker and more convenient. It might be quicker anyway. And again, there’s that knowledge of knowing that a lever lock is, well, locked.
If you are going to use a tripod with twist locks, try this routine. It works really well for me and has become a habit. |
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As I sat on the sideline of my high-school gym in the semidarkness watching my friends dance to the heart-throbbing music of Elvis Presley, Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis, a strange feeling swept over me. I felt empty—hollow inside—and unsatisfied. It was difficult to interpret my emotions.
The weekends were the highlight of my life. Nothing was more fun than the party atmosphere of Norwich Free Academy on Friday and Saturday nights.
If you were a teenager growing up in the 1960s in my town, this was the place to be. Anybody who was anybody was there. The muscular athletes, the fun-loving party people, the intellectual eggheads, the out-of-place nerds and the hayseed farm boys were all there, living it up.
But for the first time in my life, I just did not seem to fit. I sat watching the action as couples gyrated to the beat of the latest tunes. I listened to the laughter, and it seemed phoney, makebelieve and shallow. I was present at the dance but, in a real sense, I was not present. My thoughts were far away.
Unanswered questions flooded my mind. How could I find inner peace? Where is life's true meaning? When would I find answers to life's big questions? Were there answers? If so, was it possible to discover them? I was a confused 17-year-old, desperately seeking to discover why I was here at all.
At about this time, I began raising some of these tough questions with my father: “If God is so good, why is the world so bad? How could a loving God allow so much suffering in our world? Why would God burn sinners in hell eternally? Where could I find inner peace, freedom from guilt, and a sense of life's true purpose?” I greatly respected my father. Dad was raised in the slums of New York City. He never knew his real father and left home at 17 to join the Navy.
Although he lived a rough sailor's life of drinking and partying with his buddies, he too came to the place in his life when he wanted something more.
Dad's search led him to the Bible.
There he discovered Jesus and in Jesus he found the peace his soul hungered for. Jesus provided the love my father never had as a child. In Christ, he found hope. The prophecies of the Bible pointed forward to a future securely in God's hands. Dad was anxious to share the Christ who changed his life with me, but he knew he had to be cautious or I would not listen.
In the summer of 1962, I spent June and July working in Dad's machine shop. Often we unloaded tonnes of steel from flatbed trucks together. I ran a “Brown and Sharpe” automatic screw machine that made parts for hospital beds. Each morning as Dad and I drove to work, we talked about faith. We discussed the big questions of life. We spoke about what really matters.
Dad encouraged me to begin reading the Bible, which I did. As I read God's Word, His Spirit touched my heart. One evening as I pored over the Bible, a sense of peace flooded into my mind. Kneeling, I cried out, “Lord, I'm Yours! Take my life—do whatever You want with it. It is Yours and Yours completely.” Shortly after making this commitment to God, I was impressed with the words of King Solomon, who said, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5, 6).
Something clicked in my brain.
Although I may not have answers to all life's questions, God was worthy of my trust. Each day I have a choice to make.
Will I live life independent from God seeking my own way, doing my own thing, or will I trust God? This single Bible truth transformed me: God is trustworthy. He is concerned about me. He cares. Life is not some cosmic accident. Human beings are not some genetic mistake.
When the genes and chromosomes came together to form the unique biological structure of this being, called me, God threw away the pattern. There is no one else like me in the universe.
The most profound, mind-boggling truth in the world is found in a simple Bible passage: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
None of the other great world religions have this kind of loving God.
Other religions portray an offended God, a God who must be placated by the commitment and sacrifices of His creatures. All world religions acknowledge the sin problem. Christianity's solution is unique. When God created the universe, He made it perfect. His creatures lovingly obeyed His will.
Lucifer, an angelic being of dazzling brightness who was created “the model of perfection” (Ezekiel 28:12), chose the way of disobedience rather than obedience. Strangely, pride lodged in his heart. Before all the perfect, righteous, heavenly hosts, Lucifer claimed God was unfair and unjust.
If God had annihilated Lucifer immediately, all of heaven and the entire universe would have questioned God's justice. God chose a wiser course of action. He allowed evil to fully develop so that the universe can see its awful ugliness. To take away the power of choice is to destroy the ability to love, and to destroy the ability to love is to take away life's true happiness.
God gave our first parents, Adam and Eve, the ability to daily choose to serve Him. God did not remove their choice in the perfect garden. He did not create robots. He fashioned perfect beings who would love Him based on who He is. Since “God is love” (1 John 4:8), He can never act inconsistently with His nature. The only weapon He has is love. And love brings life.
When our first parents sinned, their sins separated them from God (see Isaiah 58:2). Since “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23), they deserved to die eternally. Each of us has sinned, as well. The Bible teaches that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). But it also says, “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). The God of the universe loves us too much to let us go. When we were lost in sin, Jesus came. He lived the perfect life that we should have lived. He died the death that we should have died. Our Creator became our Redeemer. The One who made us saved us.
The cross of Christ speaks to humanity everywhere: “You are loved. Heaven will pay any price to save you.” As the truth of God's amazing love dawned on me, I realised there was nothing like it in the universe. By faith I accepted His perfect righteousness. By faith I accepted His death on the cross as my own. By faith I accepted resurrection power to change my life, and I have never been the same again.
Once I discovered His amazing grace and His life-transforming power, I was compelled to share it. “Good news” is for sharing. Grace is too good to be kept secret. When you're in love, everybody knows because it simply shows.
Jesus found me as a desperate teenager and changed my life. For the past 40 years, I've had the incredible privilege of sharing His love with millions around the world.*
Whether I'm preaching in a storefront in Tennessee to 100 people or in Papua New Guinea to 100,000, my heart overflows with how good God has been to me. His love is amazing, and I just cannot keep silent. |
Let's elect our Head of State
My dear fellow New Zealanders. As you gather with family and friends to celebrate this Christmas and all it means to you and your loved ones, I would encourage you to consider this very important question.
Do you as an independent and diverse country really need the British monarchy? One is touched when one sees the excitement in the colonies at the exciting news of the engagement of Prince William and his lovely, sensible fiancee Kate Middleton, who is such a nice young woman despite being a commoner.
But the time comes when every nation must stand strong and alone and choose, using the ballot box, its own head of state. This would show the world that New Zealand is indeed a unique and separate country.
One might say, what does it matter if the British Monarch is the Head of State. Her Majesty is but a symbol, one might suggest. But is having her Majesty, the Supreme Governor of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith, as Head of State, sending the right signal to the rest of the world? Many visitors to this country are surprised to find that New Zealand's currency still bears an image of the Queen of Great Britain. It suggests to them that New Zealand is still a colony or, even worse, a part of Australia.
While no-one disputes the exemplary way the present British monarch has conducted herself in carrying out her many duties, one must now accept the wider Windsor family is a rather different kettle of fish and more like a sad group of tawdry celebrities. If there was any mystique or grandeur attached to the monarchy before the current crop and their ill-considered spouses took the stage, it has now very much been dispelled.
One must also question what impression having a super wealthy old woman living in splendid luxury in the English countryside surrounded by dogs with legs too short for their bodies, as Head of State, is conveying to the world about how New Zealand sees itself.
It is time for New Zealand to choose its own Head of State, even if that person turns out to be dysfunctional. Every New Zealand subject, sorry citizen, should be able to aspire to the position which currently is open only to someone from the British royal family. We no longer need to fight for queen and country. Country is quite sufficient.
One must remember Christmas is a time when nations around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus. If one recalls the Bible story correctly, it was the kings and rulers who came to worship Jesus at the crib in a humble manger in Bethlehem. The message this story seeks to convey is that in the stable of life, the mighty are just like you and me, but just give better presents.
Her Majesty represents a class- ridden system which upholds the belief that some people have some sort of divine right to lord it over others. This right has usually been acquired at the point of a sword and by bestowing favours on powerful friends. That New Zealand accepts a relic of this system as its Head of State is a sad reflection on the confidence we have in our nation and in the principle of Jack is as good as his master. Gaining office on the basis of inheriting it is not something we should be encouraging in this day and age.
One hesitates to bestow more onerous duties on ordinary voters, but electing the Head of State would enhance our democracy and make the chosen person accountable to all New Zealanders.
Christmas is a time when we think about the less fortunate. If New Zealand were a republic, those dealing with disadvantage and worry could look forward to the day on which they could elect a Head of State who was familiar with their concerns.
Some might suggest a move to republicanism would endanger New Zealand's place in the Commonwealth and unnecessarily remove valuable tradition and constitutional legitimacy. Neither of these things is true. The country could remain in the Commonwealth and the Treaty of Waitangi would remain as our founding document.
This does not mean we should not reconsider our national anthem and our flag, neither of which portray New Zealand in a positive light. A move to a republic could be combined with a jolly good revamp of the flag and anthem.
In conclusion, my wife and I wish you fellow New Zealanders a safe and happy Christmas. I am confident, and one does not want to assume too much here, that you will give my thoughts on a republic your deepest consideration. |
I was super happy to get this Jungle Baby quilt finished for my friend Elizabeth, who is due to have a boy in a couple of weeks. I gave it to her this week at work and she said she loved it.
These pictures aren't great, but they were the best I could get at work.
I used this Moda Bake Shop pattern for this quilt with a few changes. The original pattern suggested cutting all the pieces from a layer cake, but I just used fabrics I already had in my stash (yay me!). Another change I made was the size of the inner square in each block. The pattern said to cut that piece 3.5 inches, but I cut mine 4 inches, which worked better for the jungle animal fabrics I decided to use. I had these fabrics for quite a while, and fussy cutting them for this quilt worked out so well! I am really happy with how this project turned out.
The quilt got nice and crinkly after I washed it -- perfect! The back is the same striped fabric I used for the binding.
In unrelated news, I am having a bad pain night. :( The pain (which tonight is like stabbing in my left heel - fun!) isn't the worst it's ever been, but it's bad enough that I have been up for like 2.5 hours and not able to fall back asleep. I've taken a couple of painkillers and some Advil and I'm still hurting. Ugh, so frustrating. I really miss the days when I could sleep easily through the night. And be awake and alert all day at work. Sigh. |
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buddhadharma| 89 |spring 2008 mahasangha news prayer festival gathered many hundreds of pilgrims and more than 5,000 monks and nuns. ■ Actor richArd gErE accepted the ninth annual Marian Ander- son Award (including an unre- stricted cash award of $100,000) at the Kimmel Center for the Per- forming Arts in Philadelphia on November 12. Gere, a native of Philadelphia, was recognized for his efforts through the Gere Foun- dation and his public charity, Healing the Divide, to support human rights, prison reform, HIV/ AIDS awareness, and Tibetan refugees. The Philadelphia Orches- tra, opera star Measha Breugger- gosman, jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis, and Philadelphia’s own Patti LaBelle performed at the eve- ning ceremony. The Marian Anderson Award celebrates the importance of the arts and those individuals who have coupled their artistic talents with a commit- ment to the betterment of society. ■ Buddhist scholar jUdith sim- mEr-BroWn, author of Dakini’s Warm Breath: The Feminine Prin- ciple in Tibetan Buddhism, will give the keynote address on “Being Female, Being Buddhist” at the third annual BUddhist WomEn’s confErEncE o n March 8, hosted by the Buddhist Council of the Midwest in Evan- ston, Illinois. Representatives from the three major Buddhist traditions will participate in a panel discussion on women’s spiri- tual life: Venerable Pannavati Bhikkhuni, co-abbot of Embrac- ing Simplicity Hermitage in North Carolina (representing the Thera- vada tradition); Venerable Chang Wu Fashi, a resident teacher at the Chan Meditation Center in New York (representing the Mahayana tradition); and Khenmo Nyima Drolma, abbess of Vajra Dakini Nunnery in Vermont (representing the Vajrayana tradition). The con- ference is also open to men. For more information, visit dharma- women.org. ■ The shAolin monAstEry, a Chan Buddhist temple in the Henan province of China, is famous for turning out martial artists like Jet Li. Now a new DVD called Shaolin Legend captures a live martial arts display by Shaolin performing monks at the Olympia Theatre in Paris. While the monastery is famous today for its martial artists, its roots are Buddhist; the monas- tery’s first abbot was Batuo, an Indian meditation master who came to China in 464 BCE to spread the Buddhist teachings. ■ In the last edition of the Maha- sangha News, we told you about a public controversy that erupted over the recent removal of reli- gious books from federal prison libraries. It now appears that prison officials have bowed to public pressure to keep books on the shelves. Katy Cole, the chap- lain and library coordinator for the liBErAtion prison proj- Ect, received confirmation in October from Sister van Baalen, the religious services director with the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), that Buddhist composer pEtEr liEBErson’s Neruda Songs won the 2008 university of Louisville’s $200,000 Grawemeyer Award for outstanding work in music composition. Neruda Songs, chosen from among 140 worldwide entries, is based on five love poems by the chilean poet Pablo neruda and was written for Lieberson’s wife, mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (above, with Lieberson), who died of cancer in 2006 at age 52. “Each song represents a different stage of love, from first passion to the end of life,” explained Mark Satterwhite, the university of Louisville music professor who directs the award program. “The piece has a beauty and surface simplicity but great emotional depth and intellectual rigor as well.” Neruda Songs is also nominated for three Grammys: classical Album, Vocal Performance, and contemporary composition. Last year Hunt Lieberson won a posthumous Grammy for singing Rilke Songs, composed by Lieberson. Shortly after his wife died, Lieberson was also diagnosed with cancer. He is currently recovering from a bone marrow transplant. programming to News Corp. sub- sidiaries, including Fox Interactive Media. 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In just over a year this 4 piece indie pop rock band SQUID THE WHALE, has taken over your headphones, cities and respect... but they're just getting started. In an industry where musicianship is all but forgotten, Squid the Whale remind you, talent matters. Their newest EP, "new war.", takes you through stories filled with honest lyrics and raw emotion. The powerful yet smooth vocals are wonderfully complimented by savvy instrumentals that stray from the expected. SQUID THE WHALE has the passion, sound and drive to inevitably break through. This is exactly what music needs. |
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Groupon has been the best rumor floating around Silicon Valley ever since Google reportedly started chasing it ... for $6 billion.
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In 2008, the Telluride Foundation met with the regional healthcare leaders to define and discuss opportunities to enhance local healthcare in San Miguel, Montrose & Ouray Counties by integrating healthcare services. Through a series of meetings, discussions and collective interests, Tri-County Health Network (TCHNetwork) was formed.
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Oils can be used for different purposes in different areas. One of the uses of oils can be in the form of fuels. Gasoline, fuel oil and diesel fuel are all products of petroleum and are used as fuels. Gasoline is lighter than fuel oil and diesel, and evaporates quickly. Diesel is a natural choice for fuel in Posen as its cost is low and it is not as volatile as gasoline. Fuel oil in Posen is used mainly as fuel for residential use. It finds its use in some industrial applications also.
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This Friday the 29th, spend the evening with us and meet Lingam James and view his Tribe of the Infinite, Minds of Tomorrow art series. This series highlights a story from piece to piece with accompanied music organized by Lingam. Warm up with some wine and coffee while experiencing the creativity. Beer Espresso will be back for this evening only. This event will be from 6pm to 9pm. |
Qatar’s Orbital Highway supercharged with Pix4Dengine
3DR is in the business of helping AEC industry customers reach their goals. The 3DR Site Scan platform uses Pix4Dengine to turn drone images into detailed maps and models and make site survey workflows more streamlined and efficient.
Responding to customer needs
Site Scan is a customer-driven product and the 3DR team frequently visits customers on-site to listen to their pain points and respond to their needs. Many customers needed denser point clouds and better orthomosaics. Another major request is to process large numbers of photos much faster. Last but not least, 3DR’s global customer base demands stable and reliable solutions they can count on day and night across the world.
“Supercharged” with Pix4Dengine
3DR implemented Pix4Dengine and got it working very quickly. Pix4Dengine API and SDK open the power of Pix4D’s processing algorithms to any business and allows customers to access most of Pix4Dmapper desktop features via a scripting code.
For example, 3DR clients use all sorts of cameras and wildly varying numbers of photos, so they need the flexibility which comes with a large selection of settings. DTM generation and point cloud classification was also a huge win for 3DR and their customers.
Last fall, 3DR launched support for ground control points and uses Pix4D to process and geo-correct with them. Another much-used feature is the automatic cropping of areas of interest for further analysis.
“For example, I find the elevation model helpful for understanding drainage and runoff areas,” said Paul Kawuma, Innovation and Infrastructure BIM Manager at Arcadis.The limits of photo processing increased from 500 to 2,500 images, which is huge for their customers. Before using Pix4D, a typical construction site with an average of 200 photos took 6-8 hours to process. After Site Scan launched Pix4D processing, the same can be processed in less than an hour: in other words, three times faster.
Customers need a reliable solution regardless of where they are in the world, 24/7. Pix4D has offices in Lausanne, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo, Berlin and Madrid. We also offer support in English, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, French, Greek, German and other languages. This global coverage ensures customers questions are addressed in a timely and responsive manner.
“After moving to Pix4D in July 2017 we were thrilled to see dramatic improvements in processing time and quality of our orthomosaics and point clouds. Pix4D’s support team was very helpful and responsive. They worked closely with us to troubleshoot and develop the product. Pix4Dengine has supercharged Site Scan.
“It saved us significant development time and enabled us to release new features and enhancements months sooner. With higher photo limits, GCP support, point cloud classification, bare-earth models and much more our customers are accomplishing days worth of work in hours.” --Jess Lam, Director of Product, 3DR
3DR’s product philosophy is to build measurable solutions from the customer’s point of view. Their customer success team was a driving force behind the choice of Pix4D, as many team members are former software and surveying engineers themselves. When customers heard their project is processed by Pix4D, many commented it means the gold standard with the highest quality outputs.
Case study: Orbital Highway in Doha by Arcadis
There’s a construction boom taking place across Qatar, and Arcadis is helping make it possible. The global engineering consultancy, which has over 27,000 employees based in 350 offices across the world, leads infrastructure development projects across Qatar, helping the country meet ambitious construction goals for the 2022 FIFA World Cup™ and for its 2030 National Vision.
Since 2017, Arcadis has had the opportunity to put drones to work on a project of a massive scale: Contract 2 of the Orbital Highway in the city of Doha, a 14-lane road with five vehicle lanes and two dedicated truck lanes going in each direction. The Orbital spans 46 kilometers in total, and has recently opened to the public, helping reduce congestion and improve travels times.
Arcadis was the lead designer of the Orbital, but their emerging drone operations presented a new business opportunity for this project. Their client, Qatari Diar Vinci Construction (QDVC, a joint venture company between Qatari Diar and Vinci Construction Grands Projets), wanted fast, accurate volumetric calculations for the earthwork spread throughout the entire roadway.
Exceptional outcomes with ground control points
With certified drone operators and a fleet of Site Scan units, Arcadis started work by setting ground control points in order to improve accuracy of their end deliverables. They flew automated nadir surveys with the drone, uploaded the photos to Site Scan Manager, then entered, tagged, and processed the ground control points on the cloud. Cloud-based GCP processing, powered by Pix4D, is far simpler and more efficient than alternative GCP workflows.
In total, the Arcadis team created 34 unique orthomosaics using Pix4Dengine processing capabilities. They then exported their drone data as LAS and TIFF files, and used them in Civil 3D for volumetric calculations.
Survey and measure earthworks 10X fasterTo perform a topographic survey of their test site with a drone, it only took the Arcadis team approximately 20 minutes in the field. Given that it would take 3-4 hours to perform a traditional survey of the same site, Arcadis proved it can cover the same area approximately 10 times faster with a drone. They were able to maintain this level of productivity throughout the entire Orbital project. By speeding up their surveying workflow, Arcadis was able to deliver their volume calculations much faster than usual, helping their client keep the Orbital Highway project on schedule.
As Liam Kirk, Business Director at Arcadis, said: “In the market we’re in, we’re realizing that drone surveys can be done 10 times faster than traditional topographic surveys. While we continue to work with licensed surveyors to collect control points and validate accuracy, the drone is a great addition to our platform.”
Improved survey and volume measurement accuracy
Not only were they able to survey faster, but Site Scan, powered by Pix4D, helped create more accurate deliverables compared to a traditional survey. As Paul said: “The drone data was more accurate than a traditional survey when it comes to working on volumes, because it catches more points. This gave us a really dense point cloud compared to the 5 meter grid (separation of points) that we usually get with a traditional survey. This made our client far more comfortable deciding to go with the drone, and ultimately it delivered the results we needed: they were able to use this detailed data to make better, more informed decisions about the project, identify issues and risks quicker, and get a better understanding of future challenges they may face on the project.”
Setting ground control points and processing them in the Site Scan cloud had a significant impact on absolute accuracy: it helped Arcadis georeference their orthomosaics and ensure they reflected reality as closely as possible, thanks to Pix4D’s best-in-class accuracy.
“When it comes to ease and efficiency, drones are taking surveying to a whole new level.” — Liam Kirk, Business Director, Arcadis
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This is not a bad thing, mind. Recessions are the corrections for previous credit excesses. An economy in recession is reloading and getting ready to reallocate its resources toward more productive uses.
But before that, the recession. In Australia’s case, the latest evidence is that the Australian economy can’t manage to generate a trade surplus. The August deficit was $815 million, seasonally adjusted, according to data released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. In the last three months alone the country has racked up an impressive $2.7 billion trade deficit.
As my colleague Greg Canavan pointed out in a note, the August figures include strong iron ore prices and volumes. He asks rhetorically, ‘When is this mining boom meant to pay off?’
My answer, non-rhetorically, is that Australia had a resources boom and all it has to show for it is this lousy trade deficit, a rising government debt, and a housing bubble. QED recession in 2014.
The iron ore price is worth a closer look. It was the backbone of the resources boom and the one thing everyone is counting on to keep on keeping on. For example, Australia should export nearly 1 billion tonnes of iron ore per year by 2018, according to the latest quarterly report from the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE).
BREE reckons exports will grow by 8% a year between now and 2018 and that, ‘The strong growth is being supported by many of the mines in the Pilbara region of Western Australia being at the lower end of the cost curve.‘
What official estimates of iron ore exports generally fail to talk about is whether Chinese steel production – the great driver of Aussie exports – is sustainable at future levels (much less at current levels). China is set to produce nearly 755 million tonnes of steel in 2013 – more than the next five countries combined.
As usual, some portion of this production is driven by top-down decisions in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to stimulate the economy so it grows at 7.5% a year like clockwork (enough to keep unemployment from becoming socially destabilising).
Too many people who analyse the Australian iron ore industry, and thus the Australian economy, take growth rates in Chinese steel production at face value.
The official forecasters at Treasury (and in the RBA and the banks) missed the end of the resources boom because of overly-optimistic forecasts of commodity price growth (and thus government taxes and resource royalties). They’re going to miss the recession of 2014 for the same reasons. They’re not looking.
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Cassata by Tarla Dalal
The word "cassata" literally means "little case" due to its brick shape. Cassata is an ice-cream, shaped like a brick, consisting of layers of ice-creams of different flavours on liqueur soaked sponge. This is the Sicilian version of the dessert. I have chosen ready-made ice-cream to make a quick ....
Grape Margarita ( Party Drinks ) by Tarla Dalal
Grape margarita, the sweet yet tart flavour of grapes is enhanced when combined with strawberries. This mocktail is so named because of the margarita glass it is served in. Traditionally, all margaritas are served with a salt rim garnish.
Apple Smoothie ( Burgers and Smoothie Recipe) by Tarla Dalal
You can never go wrong with apples! you can confidently use apples in any smoothie, especially along with any fruit-based crush readily available in the market. Since both strawberry crush and vanilla ice-cream are used, there is no need to add any extra sugar for the apple smoothie.
Cinderella ( Cooking with Kids) by Tarla Dalal
Despite the girlish name, this drink will be loved by both boys and girls as it combines tangy strawberry syrup with tangier lemon juice and a good helping of healthy and tasty fruits.
Cinderella looks good, tastes good and works good – it is sure to boost you up, even from the lowest energy lev ....
Strawberry Cocktail ( Party Drinks ) by Tarla Dalal
Strawbeery cocktail, if strawberries are in season, this drink has to be on the table! juicy fresh strawberries are combined with orange juice and garnished with a dainty strawberry fan. It is a perfect drink to serve at fine dining parties, thanks to its charming look!
glass used: rock glass
Lychee and Melon Ball Drink by Tarla Dalal
There is a lot of fun and fizz in this exciting glassful! Lychee squash, soda and strawberry syrup come together with lots of ice to give your palate a treat that combines all-time favourite flavours.
Blobs of muskmelon float in this drink, making it look and taste more attractive. Make sure the ....
Strawberry Mousse ( Mousses Recipe) by Tarla Dalal
Have you ever thought of combining crunchy red strawberries and fluffy soft paneer into an irresistible mousse? Although strawberries are seasonal, this mousse is surely worth a try when you can lay your hands on this juicy fruit. Here, the use of lemon juice is imperative as it brings out the full ....
Sgroppino by Tarla Dalal
Pronounced as gropino, with the "S" silent. This is a non-alcoholic slushy cooler, which can be spiked with any spirit of your choice if you like at step 1.
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Strawberry and Coconut Milk Smoothie by Tarla Dalal
The Strawberry and Coconut Milk Smoothie offers you something you would never have experienced before. A striking combination of tangy strawberry crush with soothing coconut milk, refreshing curds and sweet ice-cream, this smoothie is unique as it brings together three base ingredients with one frui ....
Strawberry Margarita Or How To Make Strawberry Margarita Drink Recipe by Tarla Dalal
A sweet and tangy blend of strawberries and ice served in a lemon rimmed glass, the Strawberry Margarita is the perfect drink to start a party with. However, make sure you serve it immediately because if the ice melts it will dilute the drink and mellow the flavours.
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There are few dogs more intimidating than mastiffs. And the bullmastiff, especially, possesses a self-confidence and athleticism to make anyone think twice about approaching them.
But these dogs are more than just stoic guardians. In the right home, they can be devoted and gentle family pets. Keep reading to find out if you have what it takes to turn the “gamekeeper’s night dog” into the perfect canine companion.
- General Characteristics of the Bullmastiff
- The History of the Bullmastiff
- The Temperament of the Bullmastiff
- Health Issues Common to the Bullmastiff Breed
- Do Bullmastiffs Do Well With Children and Other Pets?
- What to Consider Before Bringing Home a Bullmastiff
- 10 Fun Facts About the Bullmastiff
- Before You Go
General Characteristics of the Bullmastiff
- Other names: Gamekeeper’s Night Dog
- Height: 24 to 27 inches
- Weight: 100 to 130 pounds
- Lifespan: 7 to 9 years
- Origin: United Kingdom
- Colors: Fawn, red, brindle
- Activity level: Moderate
- Grooming needs: Minimal
- Best suited for: Experienced guard dog owners
The History of the Bullmastiff
As the name suggests, the bullmastiff owes its existence to two dog breeds: the mastiff and the bulldog.
In the United Kingdom in the 1800s, many wealthy families held large estates complete with herds of game that were hunted to feed the family and distinguished guests throughout the year. While poaching was a high crime, punishable by hanging, many of these estate keepers still experienced frequent game loss at the hands of trespassers.
Gamekeepers were often employed to protect the herds from poachers. But, even when armed with weapons and horses, this job often proved dangerous and difficult. Trespassers facing the hangman’s noose and the real possibility of starvation weren’t afraid to act violently against those that tried to stop them.
Many gamekeepers turned to the help of dogs to guard the grounds and help chase down poachers. The mastiff was a natural choice. The old English mastiff was a large, powerful dog who could easily subdue even the most violent of men. Unfortunately, they would have to catch them first, a skill that these slower, heavier dogs did not excel at.
The old English bulldog had been bred for centuries to restain bulls both for sport and on the farm. They were highly athletic, strong, and capable of running down poachers with ease. Unfortunately, they were more aggressive than desired and it was not uncommon for these dogs to maul trespassers to death before they could be identified.
The bullmastiff is no stranger to working in dense vegetation. These powerful dogs would accompany gamekeepers as they patrolled large estates looking for poachers. If one was found, they would track, chase, and pin the perpetrator to the ground until the handler arrived. “Heff Out on His Walk Today” by Dan Ciminera / CC BY-ND 2.0
In an attempt to get a highly athletic dog with the power of a mastiff but less aggression than a bulldog, gamekeepers started crossing these two breeds. After much trial and error, they eventually found that crosses resulting in 60% mastiff and 40% bulldog made for the perfect guard dog.
By 1924, the English Kennel Club recognized the bullmastiff as a purebred breed. The AKC followed shortly thereafter in 1934.
Today, these bullies are still powerful and effective guard dogs, but more often than not, their night job now involves cuddling with children or snoring at the foot of the bed.
The Temperament of the Bullmastiff
This bully is confident, stoic, and bold. They are fearless in the face of danger to themselves, their family, or their property. And loyal to those they know well.
In the home, these dogs are typically docile, preferring to lounge around or snuggle in for a good cuddle with their owner. Outside, they are observant and ever-aware. They do not accept strangers on their property without their owner’s okay first. Because of their history, they are more likely to tackle and hold a presumed trespasser than to bite or chase them.
The bullmastiff can be a loving and protective family dog, but they aren’t for everyone. Learn more about them above.
Bullmastiffs will not hesitate to spring into action if they feel anyone in their family is in danger. This is worth keeping in mind before inviting your overly rowdy friends over, especially in your dog doesn’t know them that well.
These dogs can be possessive and territorial, yet, they live to please their owner. They are easy to train assuming a strong relationship with the handler.
While their ancestors may have prowled hundreds of acres of land searching for trespassers, today’s mastiff is just as happy to guard the suburban backyard as the sprawling junkyard. They require only moderate exercise but aren’t great choices for city life, as they can get possessive of any area they frequent.
How accepting your bully will be of strangers on the street and other pets depends largely on how much socialization they receive as puppies. But even the most socialized dogs can’t overcome an innate sense to protect and a bullmastiff should never be expected to exist harmoniously in a household where strangers come and go at will.
Don’t let this cute little face fool you, this mastiff will soon be a mighty, 100+ pound powerhouse.
Health Issues Common to the Bullmastiff Breed
Bullmastiffs have many of the same health issues as other bulldog and mastiff types. They are prone to the same joint and bloat concerns as other large breeds and are especially likely to suffer from mast cell tumors and other cancers.
Here are some of the more common health concerns seen in these bullies:
- Hip dysplasia
- Elbow dysplasia
- Heart problems
- Progressive retinal atrophy
- Mast cell tumor
Like all large-boned giant breeds, bullmastiff puppies should only be fed large breed specific puppy food. These diets contain the optimal amount of calories, calcium, and phosphorus for slow, sustained growth. Feeding a general puppy food could cause the dog to grow too quickly, putting excess strain on their joints leading to dysplasia and arthritis in the adult dog.
Keeping growing puppies from overtaxing their joints through rough play and jumping is also important to maintain bone health into adulthood. Agility and other impact sports should be avoided until a bully pup is 18 months of age.
The large-boned bullmastiff has a number of health issues that can shorten their lifespan. Feeding a quality diet, keeping them a healthy weight, and working closely with your vet can help avoid some of these issues. “Dog, Bullmastiff” by Eran Finkle / CC BY 2.0
There is some growing evidence that postponing neutering in males and spaying in females can also help your pup grow up healthy and even avoid some cancers later in life. Of course, this benefit needs to be weighed against the challenges of owning an older, intact animal.
Intact dogs are more likely to develop aggression issues as they become sexually mature. They are also more likely to try and escape and wander than neutered dogs. Because bullies can breed before they are full-grown, it is important to keep your intact pup contained when outside to avoid any accidental litters.
Most important to the health of your future dog is how well you research breeders before you select one. Responsible bullmastiff breeders will screen their breeding dogs for hip, elbow, and other bone issues, cardiac defects, and thyroid conditions. They should also allow you to meet the parents. The temperament of the mother will give you a picture of the temperament the puppies may have.
If your goal is a confident guard dog that will do well with your children, you should be wary of any breeding dogs that show undue aggression.
Before you look into breeders, consider adopting a mastiff in need of a home. While you are unlikely to find a purebred puppy, there are plenty of young and adult bullies in need of a forever home. Unlike a pup, you will know the temperament of the dog you are bringing home beforehand and will even have a good idea of their overall health.
Do Bullmastiffs Do Well With Children and Other Pets?
Despite their historical use as poacher hunters, these massive dogs can make good family pets.
Like many guard breeds, the aggression these dogs possess is generally reserved for trespassers. With family, they can be tolerant, gentle, and very loving. While a dog this size should never be left unsupervised with babies and young children, they do make good playmates for older kids.
Puppies who are socialized with other dogs are more likely to enjoy playing with other dogs as adults, but they may still not enjoy living with other dogs. In the end, it will come down to the individual’s personality. “Dog Toy” by Jose Pena / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
A wellbred and well-socialized bully should not show any aggression with the family or even strangers the family has invited onto the property.
When it comes to other dogs and pets, there is less certainty to how your bully will react.
Because these dogs can be possessive and territorial, they don’t always do well in multi-dog households. This is especially true of males, though even females may not tolerate other females. Even dogs that generally do well together may get in a tussle over food or toys. And, with a dog this large, even the most casual disagreement can lead to serious issues.
But overall, how tolerant mastiffs are of other canine companions comes down to the individual dynamic.
The same can be said of bullies and other pets like cats and rodents. These are powerful dogs that still retain the same prey drive that made them good at running down poachers. This can easily translate to chasing the cat or harassing the hamster.
Early socialization can make a huge difference in how sociable these dogs are with other animals, but it still might not be enough to overcome their innate drives.
What to Consider Before Bringing Home a Bullmastiff
Think the bullmastiff is the perfect dog to keep you or your family safe? Here are a few more things to consider before committing to this breed.
The bully loves his space and getting outdoors. They are not great choices for people living in apartments or large cities. (https://pixabay.com/photos/bullmastiff-dog-grass-2062811/)
These bullies are quiet in the house, especially once they have matured, but they do require at least daily walks to get out excess energy. Many of these mastiffs have found success in the agility ring as well as in dog sports like tracking and cart pulling.
A yard is a must for these dogs. They enjoy walking the fence line and observing everything going on in the neighborhood. They are quieter than most guard dog types so they might be a better choice for busy streets or neighborhoods.
Bullmastiffs are intelligent dogs, but they can be independent. Consistency is key to getting a well-trained bully. Even though these animals are known for their ferocity when running down a trespasser, they can be very sensitive in their relationship with people they trust. Don’t assume you need to “dominate” or use a hard hand to train these dogs. They’ll respond better to consistent, high-energy training that appeals to their desire to please.
Enrolling your pup in training classes is a must to establish good manners early on as well as get them plenty of socialization. Take your puppy everywhere with you and introduce them to animals of all kinds. Try to make sure all experiences with new situations and people are positive.
Bullies have a deep instinct for guarding property and people and no special training is needed. But it is a good idea to work with your mastiff on greeting behavior, wait, and recall commands so you can remain in control when new people come to your house.
The bully has a short coat that is relatively easy to care for. Depending on the depth of their facial wrinkles, they may need a little extra attention in the form of daily wipe downs with cleanser to keep those areas clean and dry. “2010-07-15_0110” by Richard Wood / CC BY 2.0
These bullies have a short coat that does not require a lot of upkeep. Weekly brushing and the occasional bath should be plenty. Like all dogs, they need their nails trimmed frequently.
Despite their short coat, these dogs have enough weight on them to keep them comfortable in cooler weather. They do need shelter in very cold and inclement weather as well as protection from the heat.
These large breed dogs require large breed puppy food while they are growing. Once they reach adult size, they should be transitioned to a quality adult food for either all breeds or large breeds. Make sure the food has plenty of quality animal protein and fat to support a healthy coat and joints.
This is a heavy set breed that should carry a lot of muscle, but it is still important to keep your bully from gaining too much excess weight. You shouldn’t be able to see any ribs, but you should notice a slight indent behind the rib cage. Work with your vet to make sure your bully maintains optimal weight for their build.
Most purebred bullmastiffs will cost between $1,000 and $2,000. This is a fairly short-lived breed and they do age fast. Be prepared to pay for increased medical bills sooner than with a medium-sized dog. These dogs can put away a lot of food, so make sure to factor that into your yearly budget as well before deciding on this breed.
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10 Fun Facts About the Bullmastiff
Now that you know a little more about what it takes to own a bully, here are some fun facts about the breed.
- These bullies were used to guard many of the diamond mines in South African in the early 1900s.
- Bullmastiffs worked independently to track and subdue poachers and don’t always get along well with other dogs in the house.
These mastiffs only come in three colors: fawn, red, and brindle. All variations should have a black mask and no white markings except for possibly a small white spot on the chest. “My Boy Heff” by Dam Ciminera / CC BY-ND 2.0
- These mastiffs are a direct result of straight crosses between Old English Bulldogs and Old English Mastiffs.
- The Cleveland Browns NFL team uses a live bullmastiff named Swagger as one of their mascots.
- These mastiffs were bred to track and chase down intruders silently and rarely bark.
- John D. Rockefeller is said to have brought the first bullmastiffs to the US in the 1920s to guard his estate.
- These bullies are much less likely to bite than other guardians even when going after trespassers because their original purpose was to pin poachers down without mauling them.
- The bully featured in the movie “Rocky” actually belonged to Sylvester Stalone as they couldn’t afford to use a professionally trained dog for the role.
- The black mask is a required feature of the breed, but a recessive genetic trait can cause masks without pigment or to have a liver coloration.
- These dogs have been used for police and military dogs.
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