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A University study released earlier this month suggests that an anti-epilepsy drug is effective in reducing the amount of marijuana smoked by young adults, but not necessarily the frequency of smoking.
Yet some scientists doubt the validity of the results, in part because half of the study’s medicated participants dropped out before the study concluded — some due to adverse side effects from the drug.
The study, published in the journal Addiction Biology, tested the effects of topiramate on heavy cannabis users ages 15 to 24. Topiramate was administered to 40 of the study participants, who also received three 50-minute sessions of motivational enhancement therapy, in which patients learn strategies to reduce their usage. The remaining 26 participants received only the therapy over the trial’s six weeks, in addition to a placebo pill.
The researchers used self-reports and urine toxicology to measure rates of marijuana use. Participants reported the amount of marijuana used on a particular day by weighing out oregano as an estimate, according to the study.
Sixty-six individuals began the six-week trial, but only 39 finished it — 52.5 percent of the topiramate group participants and 23.1 percent of the placebo group participants dropped out of the study.
Of the 21 dropouts from the topiramate group, 67 percent cited side effects as their reason for withdrawing. A multitude of side effects were reported by participants, including neurocognitive and gastrointestinal distress.
In future research, Miranda would like to investigate who tolerates topiramate best and possibly direct the treatment toward that group, he said. “I’m not sure what our next steps will be,” he added.
Miranda is currently investigating topiramate’s possible impact on alcohol abuse. The study is expected to conclude later this year.
In her lab, Haney has studied a few drugs that could have potential as treatment for marijuana dependence, such as tetrahydrocannabinol agonists. These medications behave somewhat like THC, so they can “reduce the withdrawal and decrease the desire to use marijuana” without the same risk of abuse.
Still, the Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve any medication for treating cannabis dependence, Miranda said.
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Since my last posted so many things seemed to have happened not sure if this should be two posts. The weekend John had past his exam was also the weekend that Jo told me she would like to do something really special for the charity she chairs, as this is her last year and she is standing down in December.
My daughter Jo had decided she would like to do the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge and raise funds for her charity before she leaves, I loved the idea. Jo grew up with us taking her fell walking in the Dales, the Lake district and in Scotland so it seemed like a natural choice. What came as a wonderful surprise has been the support Jo has received from her family and friends, she will not be doing this alone as she now has a team of thirteen doing this with her and also we have ground help from a family member as she is going along as team Mother. I although can not join them, which is really hard for me, but it is my job to make sure I care for Paige while her mum achieves this goal, I am however the team co-ordinator which has kept me very busy, sorting out hotels, making sure people are keeping up to speed on their kit lists and now I am onto banners!!
Then Easter was upon us, my brother came down to do a couple of jobs on the farm and I got to spend a couple of days with him and his lovely family. Easter is not the same now because poor Paige cannot come out with us on family days out so what used to be the family Easter egg hunt still takes place but Paige comes to us and we try to make something fun happen for her, she would hate to think her sisters and brothers are missing out because of her health so that is the way it is. Jo finds it very hard as she really misses Paige been along and joining in. Jo held a mini egg hunt in Paige’s bedroom so that she still took part and she loved it. On Easter Monday we did do a family treat which did include Paige, it was a private trip to the Fire Station, Jo lives just about next door to it. A very good friend of mine is a senior officer there organised it as he knows how much the children love seeing the fire engines, it was very special, even Jo and I took part in the day which included Jo riding in an engine with the flashing lights on and the children all dressed as firemen, we all had fun during the hour we were out.
As we entered May it has been Jo and Graham’s fifth wedding anniversary, to celebrate they went to Devon for a couple of days on there own, something that does not happen very often. John and I moved into Jo’s to look after Paige, Owen, Kyle and Imy the two little ones went to Grahams parents for the weekend.
Jo and Graham got the chance to get their walking boots on and do a couple of walks and enjoyed sometime just relaxing together for Paige we had organised a hot tub hire for a few days. We knew this would give her the opportunity to have some therapy combined with fun and the others loved sharing this with her. The hot tub gave Paige fun without pain, while in the hot bubbling water she could relax, enjoy splashing her sister and brothers even float around without the pain that is normally never far away. The hot tub aids her breathing, her muscles, her bowels and her mental state, it proved to be a great success. we are now going to start a fund raising campaign to try and get her a tub of her own.
Another proud moment for us has been Kyle and his football, his team has won the league again, John got to see him been presented with his trophies for both John and Kyle it was a special moment.
Finally we have also just met our new social worker, she is a very pretty young woman and Paige really likes her so fingers crossed that works well for the future. Hope you enjoy seeing the pictures from these events and hope to be able to get back to my writing a little more now.
Have a wonderful spring bank holiday.
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Cordoba old city, world heritage site, fabulous monuments, tradition and history. Centuries unfold and merge together uniquely but if your time to visit is short what should you experience, where should you stay and what should you eat? My recent overnight stay included the best of Cordoba, I’d been before and planned well.
The Royal Palace with lovely gardens and water features, especially if you visit at night when the water features are lit with a colouful display. A day time visit is also good, climb the top tower for the city views across the River Guadalquivir, once navigable from the Atlantic Ocean in Cadiz. The gardens are charming and relaxing but what amazed me most was the Roman mosaics in the palace discovered in and moved from the Plaza Corredera.
The enormous Royal Stable next to The Alcazar, the king’s palace is not only an incredible bit of architecture but hosts a fascinating display of carriages through the ages and once or twice weekly horse shows. On this visit to Cordoba this was the highlight. An hour of horse exhibits showing the incredible mastery of both man and beast. I would have been sitting on the edge of my seat except that being on the front row the horses came within reach so I was leaning as far back as possible. Check the dates at certain times of the year there is only one show a week.
An absolute must-visit and probably the main reason you’re planning a trip to Cordoba. Try and go early in the day or at the end of the opening hours so it’s not so busy and the awesomeness and enormity really impact your experience. No amount of photos or videos prepared me, it is (especially when empty) overwhelming and was the best bit of a previous stay.
A wonderful traditional olde worlde traditional wine cellar, bar and many different roomed restaurants with top-notch service and a blend of old and new mainly Spanish but also Mediterranean dishes.
These are two of my favourite small boutique hotels in Cordoba, click to read my review of them.
Read my Cordoba, Spain Full of UNESCO Sites posts on my sister site Only Spain.
Read my 36 Hours in Granada post.
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Home > The Blog > Graphic Design > Is Having a Good Small Business Logo Important?
Have you ever thought about how you recognize a brand? You probably don’t think about the logo but rather a product or service that you’re recalling.
Your memory might not be painting an accurate picture for you, though. A logo is often the most recognizable part of a brand. It can be found in marketing materials, website, business cards, and more. There’s an immediate connection that occurs when you see a logo from a company you recognize.
It seems like people don’t think much about a logo. It’s a small and simple graphic that doesn’t seem to be that important. That’s a dangerous gut feeling, though because important things sometimes come in small packages.
Your small business logo is one of those things. A good logo can make or break your brand in customers minds. So, it’s important to take a look at what makes a good brand and put that together with your logo to see how it all relates.
There are some important traits of a good brand and they are all reflected in the logo. That’s why looking at what makes a good brand also helps clarify why a small business logo is so important.
There are two important parts of good web design that ties together your brand. One is a great logo that communicates what your business about and the other is powerful images that look amazing.
A brand should be recognizable, unique, consistent, simple, and clear. Achieving all these things isn’t easy because of course making something simpler is a lot more difficult than making it complex.
When someone encounters your brand, is it instantly recognizable as recognizable? Is it memorable?
A good brand is unique and memorable by the logo alone. Ideally, both the name and logo are recognizable because, with a unique name and recognizable logo, the benefits of brand recognition are twofold.
A good brand is instantly recognizable. A good small business logo helps make the brand recognizable.
In addition to a good brand being recognizable, it also needs to be unique. That means a generic logo that blends in or doesn’t stand out among other brands isn’t going to help you.
If someone knows you personally, a non-unique brand will work. In most cases, you can’t have a personal relationship with all customers, though. Your goal is to create the illusion of a personal relationship with your first impression. Showing your brand personality is important in how you communicate your brand.
Having a unique brand is one way to encourage a memorable relationship with customers. A unique small business logo frequently represents your brand everywhere making it vital to creating your unique brand.
Familiarity and memorability of a brand come from consistency. A brand needs to be consistent across all mediums both online and offline. Writing, font types, colors, and more need to be consistent.
What also needs to be consistent? The logo.
Trust of a brand is built off of consistency of quality and service. Connecting quality and service to something like a logo that is quickly recognizable and uniquely helps strengthen a brand.
A small business logo that is consistent across all mediums helps build a strong brand by connecting feelings and experiences with something more tangible, a logo.
Hopefully not but if it goes beyond simple, you may get that reaction. You may get a “what the heck?” or possibly worse, no reaction at all.
Or your brand could be simple but in the wrong way. It could blend in making it unrecognizable from other logos. Or, it could fail to be unique.
There’s a balance between simple, unique, and recognizable. Striking the balance between all three takes expertise and time. It takes a deep understanding of the brand and the purpose it’s trying to convey.
A brand should be so simple it doesn’t require a second thought. Simplicity doesn’t mean basic, though. Simplicity means that a person doesn’t need to think to understand what you’re about. Either the name or a logo should immediately communicate what you’re about.
It’s hard to relate to your customers if your brand and logo communicate what you like rather than what you do. Having a brand that you like is important but it should be far from the only factor in creating your brand.
A simple brand starts with a simple small business logo. A logo is at the center of defining a brand and what it’s all about. A strong logo leads to a strong brand.
A simple and clear brand are both important. As I mentioned above, a brand should make it clear immediately what it’s all about. That’s either in the name or in the visual part of a logo.
Unless you have a universally recognizable brand, what your company does needs to be understood immediately and clearly. A person should immediately know what it is you do and what you’re all about.
If someone has to think about what it is your brand is about, you’ve introduced a barrier to its memorability. A clear brand starts with a clear small business logo.
Defining your business with an awesomely clear logo will help your customers make that emotional connection with your brand. Your logo will communicate a feeling of calm and clarity with what it is your customer will experience. They’ll trust you.
Many pieces come together to create the overall brand of your small business. At the center of how you communicate your brand is your small business logo.
Without starting with a powerful logo that meets all the criteria above, you risk creating a brand that doesn’t connect with your customer. Your logo helps communicate everything your brand stands for instantly and clearly.
So, is having a good small business logo important? Absolutely.
Not taking the logo creation process seriously and properly investing in it is a sure way to have your small business also not taken seriously.
Your small business logo is at the center of defining your brand while your small business website is the center of activity for driving business to your company online.
Whether you’re building your small business right now or aiming for a rebrand soon, your small business logo should be at the center of your public brand.
Because a professional logo is so intertwined with your brand and business you’ll want to ask if a cheap logo is the way to go or not. A powerful website that converts visitors into customers takes many moving parts, a logo is one.
Singling out a logo and expecting it to stand alone outside of a business card, website, store sign, or anything else isn’t easy. The goal of a logo is to create something that can stand on its own to communicate your brand with those who see it.
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Tishman Speyer Properties and other owners of rent-regulated buildings suffered an enormous blow Thursday when the Appellate Division of New York’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled buildings receiving certain tax benefits could not deregulate apartments.
The decision is devastating because it derails the business plans of owners like Tishman Speyer, who purchased rent-regulated complexes with an eye towards deregulating units and boosting rents to market rents in order to pay off their mortgages. Tishman Speyer is already having major financial problems at Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village, the sprawling complexes which it purchased in 2006 for $5.4 billion, because it hasn’t been able to covert units fast enough. In January, Fitch Rating said the company had only six months of reserves remaining to cover the trust portion of the debt on the property.
Thursday's court decision stems from a 2007 case tenants brought against Tishman Speyer alleging that rents on their apartments had been improperly deregulated. A lower court judge had dismissed the case.
More importantly, the judges ruled that units must remain rent regulated as long as the building’s owner is receiving J-51 tax benefits. Sty Town and Peter Cooper Village are slated to receive such benefits until 2017.
In a statement, Tishman Speyer said it is convinced that the initial decision to dismiss was the correct one and that "we intend to continue to pursue all potential appeals and defenses."
“This is not just bad for Stu Town it is very bad for all New York City real estate,” said Frank Ricci, director of government affairs for the Rent Stabilization Association.
Mr. Ricci said the ruling will cause an administrative nightmare because landlords could be required to go back and regulate apartments. He noted the decision will also hurt the city’s finances because landlords’ taxes are based in part on rent rolls.
Tenant lawyers were ecstatic, however. Seth Miller said that even if the case is eventually throw out on some technical reasons, the ruling on the status of rent regulated units will hold.
Tishman Spyer can try to appeal the ruling but that won’t happen automatically because the decision was unanimous.
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Tenants at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the sprawling middle-class apartment complexes on the East Side of Manhattan, won a major victory over their landlord on Thursday when an appeals court ruled that the company had wrongfully raised rents and deregulated thousands of apartments after receiving special tax breaks.
The decision, issued by the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, could ultimately cost the landlord, Tishman Speyer Properties, $200 million if it is required to repay residents of more than 3,000 apartments for improper rent increases over the past four years, said a lawyer for the tenants.
Landlords say the decision could also affect hundreds of other apartment house owners who, like Tishman Speyer, obtained tax breaks under the city’s J-51 tax program for property renovations and then raised rents beyond certain set levels. The Appellate Division ruled that apartments must remain rent-regulated as long as the building owners enjoy J-51 tax benefits.
After watching many rent regulations wither away over the last two decades, tenant advocates were thrilled with a decision in their favor.
“It’s a good thing for the tenants and for affordable housing,” said Alvin Doyle, president of the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association.
Tishman Speyer, which bought the two complexes in late 2006 with BlackRock Realty for a record-breaking $5.4 billion, issued a statement Thursday evening saying that it would "continue to pursue all potential appeals and defenses."
The prospects are not bright. The company must ask the Appellate Division for permission to take the case to the State Court of Appeals. If not, it has few other remedies.
Tishman Speyer’s business plan for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village presumed that they could increase profits by replacing rent-stabilized residents with much-higher-paying tenants after renovating and deregulating the apartments. Under state law, an apartment can be deregulated after it becomes vacant and is renovated, or if the rent reaches $2,000 a month.
State law restricts rent increases for regulated apartments but not for deregulated ones.
Over the last year, Tishman Speyer has come under financial pressure from lenders and bondholders. There is a wide gap between the rental income at the properties and the monthly loan payments, and the company has been unable to convert apartments to market rates as quickly as it had projected.
Tenants at Stuyvesant Town filed the lawsuit in 2007, arguing that Tishman Speyer and the previous owner, Metropolitan Life, were prohibited from removing apartments from rent regulation and imposing large rent increases because the complexes had received $24.5 million in tax breaks since 1992 under the J-51 program. The state and the city had allowed landlords to deregulate more than 3,000 of the 11,200 apartments in the complexes.
A popular program with landlords, J-51 was intended to encourage owners to refurbish their properties and make capital improvements.
The Appellate Division ruling overturned a lower court decision that had favored landlords.
“It is time for the owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village to sit down with residents of the complex to resolve this dispute over rent overcharges in a fair and equitable manner,” said the Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, who had filed a brief in the case on behalf of the tenants.
But Joseph Strasburg, president of the Rent Stabilization Association, which lobbies on behalf of landlords, said the decision could have a devastating impact on many landlords in all parts of the city who had relied on the state housing agency’s interpretation of the law regarding J-51 tax breaks. Landlords may have to give back thousands of dollars in rent, which in turn, could lead to lower building values and a drop in tax revenues for the city.
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Faulting a Manhattan judge's interpretation of the rent-stabilization laws, a state appeals court has reinstated a $200 million class action brought by a group of tenants who claim the landlord of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village illegally deregulated their rent-stabilized apartments.
The suit, filed on behalf of Amy L. Roberts and other tenants, alleged the defendants, including Tishman Speyer Properties, L.P., whose general partner, PCV ST Owner L.P. bought the housing complex for approximately $5.4 billion in 2006, charged rents above the rent-stabilization levels while receiving tax breaks for improving the buildings in violation of the luxury decontrol provisions of New York rent-stabilization laws.
Reversing Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Richard B. Lowe's dismissal of the suit, the Appellate Division, First Department, unanimously held in Roberts v. Tishman Speyer Properties, L.P., 4165, that Tishman Speyer could not deregulate the units while receiving J-51 tax abatements, regardless of whether the apartments became subject to rent stabilization solely as a result of the tax breaks or for one or more reasons in addition to the landlord's participation in the J-51 program.
Justice Eugene Nardelli (See Profile) wrote for the panel.
Built in the 1940s to provide affordable housing for middle-income families, the 110-building, 11,200 unit complex spans 10 city blocks between First Avenue and Avenue C, and 14th and 23rd streets.
In January 2007, the plaintiffs sued Tishman Speyer, and PCV ST, which purchased the complex from Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Co., a codefendant in the suit and the successor by merger to defendant Metropolitan Insurance and Annuity Company.
They claimed that more than 25 percent, or approximately 3,000 units, which have been subject to the Rent Stabilization Law since 1974, have been illegally deregulated. In addition to seeking rent overcharges for four years, the tenants sought a declaration that their apartments would be subject to rent stabilization, so long as the defendants receive J-51 benefits.
Under the Rent Regulation Reform Act, units are excluded from rent regulation in certain circumstances, including when the legal regulated rent is $2,000 or more or if household income exceeds $175,000 for two years in a row. However, the decontrol exclusions do not apply to housing that became rent regulated "by virtue of receiving" tax benefits, such as abatements under the J-51 program.
Since 1992, Metropolitan Life and the successor owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village have received approximately $24.5 million in J-51 tax breaks.
On Aug. 24, 2007, Justice Lowe (See Profile) dismissed the tenants' suit (NYLJ, Aug. 24, 2007).
He relied on a 1996 letter issued by the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR), which concluded that the phrase "by virtue of" in the luxury decontrol provisions means that an owner "is precluded from seeking Luxury Decontrol of a housing accommodation receiving 'J-51' tax abatement benefits only where the receipt of such benefits is the sole reason for the accommodations being subject to rent regulation."
"Having become subject to rent stabilization in 1974 . . . 18 years before applying for J-51 tax benefits, defendants did not become subject to rent stabilization by virtue of receiving tax benefits," Justice Lowe said.
The First Department disagreed with Justice Lowe's construction of the rent-stabilization law.
The amount of deference afforded to the interpretation of a statute offered by the administrative agency charged with implementing a statute depends on the degree to which the interpretation relies on the agency's special competence or expertise, Justice Nardelli wrote.
"Since, in this matter, the interpretation of the provisions in question requires no special competence, or understanding of underlying practices on the part of the DHCR, we find unavailing defendants' reliance on the DHCR's regulations and opinion letter and conclude that the agency's construction of the statute is not entitled to deference," he wrote.
Noting that the parties agreed that "by virtue of" means "because of" or "by reason of," Justice Nardelli concluded, "it is clear to us that such phrase does not, in ordinary language mean that only a single cause or reason exists.
"Indeed, the Legislature, in numerous instances, has not hesitated to use the phrases 'only by virtue of' or 'solely by virtue of' when it intended to restrict a provision to a single cause," he wrote.
Justice Nardelli pointed out it would "invite absurd and irrational results" to limit the scope of high-rent exception - in effect, treating owners differently based on the timing of a tenant's departure.
"Since there is no basis for limiting the scope of the exemption, the motion court's insertion of the word 'solely' into the regulations implementing the statute was impermissible," he wrote.
Justices Luis A. Gonzalez (See Profile), Rolando T. Acosta (See Profile), and Leland G. DeGrasse (See Profile) joined the panel, which heard arguments on Sept. 11, 2008.
Mr. Schmidt called the ruling "an important victory" not only for "our individual clients and the thousands of other tenants" at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, but for "tenants throughout the city."
Jay B. Kasner, Scott D. Musoff and Christopher R. Gette of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Sherwin Belkin and Magda Cruz of Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman represented Tishman Speyer and PCV ST.
In a statement, Tishman said, "We remain firmly convinced that Justice Lowe's decision to dismiss was the correct one. We intend to continue to pursue all potential appeals and defenses."
Daniel J. Ansell and Steven Kirkpatrick of Greenberg Traurig represented Metropolitan Insurance and Annuity Company and Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company. Mr. Ansell did not return a call for comment.
The Community Housing Improvement Program Inc., Small Property Owners of New York Inc., Rent Stabilization Association of NYC Inc., the Legal Aid Society, and Office of the Manhattan Borough President served as amici curiae to the tenants.
In a statement, Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer wrote, "It is time for the owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village to sit down with residents of the complex to resolve this dispute over rent overcharges in a fair and equitable manner."
The landlord at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the vast apartment complexes on Manhattan’s East Side, got a reprieve Friday afternoon when the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court suspended a court decision that it had improperly charged high rents for thousands of apartments. The landlord requested the stay so that it could try to appeal the case.
The court ruled unanimously on March 5 that the landlord, Tishman Speyer Properties, had wrongfully deregulated more than 3,000 apartments and hiked rents beyond certain set levels, while receiving property tax breaks from the city.
Tishman Speyer asked the Appelate Division Thursday for permission to take the case to the Court of Appeals and for a stay. A lawyer for the tenants who filed the case said the ruling could ultimately cost Tishman Speyer $200 million if it is required to repay residents for improper charges over the past four years.
The decision could also affect landlords of as many as 80,000 apartments who, like Tishman Speyer, obtained tax breaks from the city’s J-51 tax program for property renovations, deregulated apartments and charged improper rent increases.
The Appellate Division agreed to hold off on implementing the decision until it considered whether to allow the appeal. The court put off deciding whether to allow the appeal, giving both sides until the end of the month to file papers on the matter.
In the meantime, the court said that Tishman Speyer should calculate the difference between the current rents and what it should have charged if the apartments were subject to rent regulations. Starting with rents collected in April, the court also directed Tishman Speyer to put the difference between the two numbers into an interest-bearing escrow account.
The ruling was embraced by tenant advocates who have decried the loss of housing affordable to poort and working class tenants, but shook up the real estate industry. The Rent Stabilization Association, the Community Housing Improvement Program and the Small Property Owners of New YOrk, have filed briefs in court on behalf of Tishman Speyer.
The Bloomberg administration, which had supported Tishman Speyer’s $5.4 billion purchase of the Stuyvesant Town in 2006, has decided not to take a position on the case.
The real estate industry in New York City is mobilizing with an intensity not seen in years as it faces an almost unheard-of possibility: a court order that it may have to return hundreds of millions of dollars in rent.
The state appeals court decision bars New York City landlords from deregulating apartment rents while receiving a popular tax break meant to encourage building renovations. Industry officials say the decision could affect as many as 80,000 apartments in the city, trigger widespread defaults on loans, eliminate construction jobs and reduce property tax revenues for the city.
“We all understand that this would be disastrous,” said Joseph Strasburg, president of the Rent Stabilization Association, a group representing 25,000 property owners and managers.
Tenant advocates said the real estate industry was exaggerating the impact of the decision. The problem is not the decision, but the landlords who misinterpreted state law, they said.
The Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court ruled on March 5 that the landlord for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, adjoining complexes with 11,232 apartments on the East Side of Manhattan, had improperly deregulated more than 3,000 apartments and raised rents beyond prescribed levels, while receiving special property tax breaks from the city.
A lawyer for the tenants who brought the suit estimated that the decision could cost the landlord, Tishman Speyer Properties, more than $200 million if it is forced to repay tenants for improper rent increases over the last four years.
But the consequences extend far beyond Stuyvesant Town.
The tax breaks, known as the J-51 program, have been given to thousands of landlords, large and small, for building renovations. If the ruling stands, any landlord who deregulated rents after receiving the tax exemptions might have to repay tenants for rent overcharges.
On Thursday afternoon, Tishman Speyer filed a motion asking the Appellate Division for permission to take the case to the Court of Appeals and to hold off carrying out the decision until there is a final resolution.
The court granted the stay on Friday, but put off deciding whether to allow the appeal. It also said that starting in April, Tishman Speyer must put into an interest-bearing escrow account the difference between the rent it charged for the affected apartments and the rent it would have charged if the apartments were still subject to rent regulations.
There are about a million apartments with regulated rents in New York City. Under state law, landlords can deregulate an apartment when the rent for a vacant apartment reaches $2,000 or more per month, or the rent is above $2,000 and a tenant’s household income is above $175,000 for two consecutive years. Once deregulated, the landlord can raise the rent to market rate.
But in cases where landlords make significant building renovations, they are allowed to pass along a portion of the renovation costs to the tenants’ rent. As a result, landlords can raise rents that exceed or approach the $2,000 deregulation threshold.
The Bloomberg administration, which had supported Tishman Speyer’s record-breaking $5.4 billion purchase of Stuyvesant Town in 2006, has not taken a position on the case.
The court decision has also intensified the real estate industry’s opposition to proposed legislation in Albany that would expand rent regulations and severely undercut building owners’ abilities to raise rents quickly. Tenant advocates, citing skyrocketing rents and the loss of housing for poor and working-class tenants during the real estate boom, have made a concerted effort to lobby elected officials to strengthen the regulatory system.
A package of 10 pro-tenant bills was approved by the State Assembly earlier this year and sent to the Senate, where landlords have focused their lobbying efforts. In the past, the real estate industry depended on Republican leadership in the Senate which the Democrats now control, by 32 to 30 members or a sympathetic Republican governor to block such bills.
Mr. Spinola was in Albany two weeks ago, lobbying the Senate majority leader, Malcolm A. Smith; Senator Pedro Espada Jr. of the Bronx; Senator Dean G. Skelos of Long Island, the Republican minority leader; and others. This week, members of the Community Housing Improvement Program, an association representing apartment building owners in the city, made their own lobbying trip to Albany.
Mr. Strasburg, of the stabilization association, has called for an industry summit meeting in April. His group is also appealing to building contractors and unions that it says would lose work if landlords stopped renovating their buildings because of the proposed legislation or the court decision.
“All of a sudden, people who had dropped off the face of our earth have re-emerged and seen the seriousness of this,” Mr. Strasburg said.
Tenant advocates say that hundreds of thousands of formerly rent-regulated apartments have been converted to luxury rentals over the past decade, contributing to a housing crisis in New York. Michael McKee, treasurer of the Tenants Political Action Committee, said he argued 12 years ago that the state was improperly allowing landlords of buildings receiving J-51 tax breaks to deregulate apartments and raise rents.
“The tenant movement has never been more united,” Mr. McKee said.
It was the 2006 sale of Stuyvesant Town, a traditionally working- and middle-class enclave where more than three-quarters of the apartments were rent-regulated, that galvanized tenant advocates. Tishman Speyer’s purchase was based on the idea that it could profit by removing apartments from rent stabilization after significant renovations.
But tenants facing rent increases of 20 to 30 percent filed a lawsuit in 2007 arguing that Tishman Speyer had no right to deregulate apartments in buildings that had received $24.5 million in tax breaks since 1992 under the J-51 program.
The program was designed to encourage landlords to make building improvements.
The State Supreme Court initially dismissed the case, but the Appellate Division ruled in the tenants’ favor, seriously undercutting Tishman Speyer’s ability to increase revenues from the complexes. The company was already under financial pressure from bondholders because the process of converting apartments to market rates has gone more slowly than expected.
If the court decision stands, apartments that had been improperly deregulated would again be subject to rent regulations and landlords would have to repay tenants for rent increases that exceeded annual increases set by the Rent Guidelines Board over the past four years. In some cases, the law allows tenants to seek triple damages.
Many large landlords contend they relied on the guidance of the state’s housing agency when they deregulated apartments. But the Appellate Division also relied on documents from the housing agency, as well as state law. Indeed, the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal, in a 1995 operational guideline, insisted that buildings receiving tax breaks could not be deregulated.
Last week, the Division of Housing and Community Renewal advised tenants on its Web site to file complaints against their landlords for rent overcharges if they think they were affected by the court decision.
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It seems the far-reaching impacts of last week’s tremendous Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village court ruling will wait some time to take effect.
A court on Friday gave Stuy Town landlord Tishman Speyer a stay in having to take any actions after the decision last week, waiting until the results of an appeals process are borne out. Tishman Speyer has applied to appeal to the state’s top court, the Court of Appeals. A state appellate court dealt the powerful landlord, as well as the owners of tens of thousands of other apartments citywide, a major blow that could cost them hundreds of millions -- if not billions -- of dollars, ruling that many landlords had been improperly converting rent-stabilized apartments to market-rate units.
Rather than immediately re-regulate the 4,000-plus apartments in Stuyvesant Town that have been converted to market rents since 1993, as the appellate court’s decision would require, the stay calls for Tishman to calculate how much money it would owe in back rent to market-rate tenants and put that money in an escrow account.
The attorney that brought the case against Tishman Speyer estimates the landlord could owe tenants around $200 million, a number based on incomplete data -- a very big number for a landlord whose $400 million cash reserve account for Stuy Town was rapidly depleting and predicted to run out mid-year.
For Tishman Speyer, other landlords and affected tenants, the court decision last week landed like a bombshell. Landlords who had been receiving modest tax abatements thorough a renovation incentive program, J-51, suddenly were told they were not allowed to have deregulated rent-stabilized units, a practice many had been doing for over 15 years. The state agency that oversaw rent regulation even had guidelines saying that landlords were within their rights to deregulate those apartments.
Further, tenants would be allowed to collect back rent from the landlords, as if their apartments had stayed rent stabilized, and their apartments would be re-regulated.
Now, following the unanimous decision at the appellate court, landlords and tenants are searching for direction. Already, other tenants in Stuyvesant Town have sued Tishman Speyer seeking back rent payments, a case brought by tenant lawyer Jack Lester and the Stuyvesant Town tenants association. That case calls for damages of no less than $10 million.
If landlords were suddenly liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in addition to being unable to count on a large cash flow, as the apartments would be re-regulated, many landlords would clearly come a step closer to default, particularly those who bought at the peak of the market on optimistic assumptions, as did Tishman Speyer.
The appellate court must rule on whether or not Tishman Speyer has the right to appeal to the Court of Appeals. Then, the Court of Appeals would have to decide to hear the case.
After 23 years in Stuyvesant Town, Ken Chanko and his family dreaded the idea of leaving. But with the end of rent regulation for their three-bedroom apartment looming, Mr. Chanko knew there was no way they could afford to stay.
That could change. Two weeks ago, a state court effectively barred landlords from deregulating apartments in buildings that receive certain tax breaks. Less than a week later, Mr. Chanko filed a lawsuit against his landlord, Tishman Speyer, demanding a renewal lease at a rent-stabilized rate.
For landlords, it could well become an albatross if, as expected, thousands of tenants follow Mr. Chanko's lead. Meanwhile, landlords are terrified that the ruling will not only stop deregulation, but will also force many units back into regulationa move that would require landlords to make retroactive rent refunds to thousands of tenants.
By most estimates, the ruling could cost New York landlords hundreds of millions of dollars.
The landlords' nightmare started two weeks ago, when the Appellate Division of New York's Supreme Court ruled that apartments in buildings that receive J-51 tax abatements must remain rent-regulated.
The decision stemmed from a 2007 case brought by residents of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, who alleged that Tishman Speyer and previous landlord Metropolitan Life illegally deregulated apartments and wrongfully raised rents while receiving the tax benefits awarded for building improvements. However, Tishman Speyer was following standard industry practice.
Tishman Speyer, which declined to comment, filed last week to request a stay and an appeal. The appeal may not be granted, since the court's decision was unanimous. If the decision stands, it could cost Tishman Speyer $200 million in rent refunds.
The threat comes at a time when the sprawling complex is already losing money. In 2006, Tishman Speyer paid $5.4 billion for the buildings, with an eye toward quickly deregulating rents to help pay off debt. That effort has gone far more slowly than expected, forcing the complex to burn through millions of dollars it held in cash reserves. In January, Fitch Ratings said the company had only six months of reserves remaining for a crucial portion of the debts on the property.
While Tishman Speyer may be the biggest victim of the court's decision, it's not alone. At this early stage, divining which landlords might suffer is difficult, but industry insiders note that Westbrook Partners, Parkoff Management and Laurence Gluck may feel an impact. Westbrook already lost a case in which it attempted to deregulate an apartment in a building with a J-51 tax benefit. Westbrook and Parkoff executives couldn't be reached for a response. Mr. Gluck had no comment.
About half of the city's 2 million rental apartments are regulated. Apartments can be deregulated for several reasons, but the majority leave the system when they are vacated and their rents have hit $2,000 a montha ceiling that limits the impact largely to Manhattan.
Andrew Hoffman, who owns three buildings with a total of 700 units that might be affected, says it is too soon to determine the effects of the ruling, especially since it could be overturned.
If Mr. Chanko's class-action lawsuit succeeds, tenants will have that right. Jack Lester, Mr. Chanko's lawyer, says that since the ruling, he has received about a dozen calls from tenants seeking advice.
Ironically, the potential number of renters involved and the sheer complexity of sorting out their compensation claims for back rent could ultimately work in landlords' favor.
“If it is too complicated, people won't apply,” says Michael McKee, treasurer of the Tenants Political Action Committee.
He also cites city statistics showing that rent-regulated buildings enjoy an average operating profit margin of 37%.
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Stay of court order to roll back rents leaves both sides claiming victory.
Tenants whose apartments were about to lose their rent-regulated status hope that a court order issued last week will give them a reprieve from huge rent hikes that would force them to leave their homes.
The order stems from a decision earlier this month by the Appellate Division of New York’s Supreme Court which barred apartments in buildings that receive J-51 tax abatements from being deregulated. The ruling resulted from a case brought by residents of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in 2007. They alleged that Tishman Speyer and previous landlord Metropolitan Life illegally deregulated apartments and wrongfully raised rents while receiving the tax benefits, which are awarded for making building improvements.
Tishman Speyer, which was following standard industry practice in deregulating rents, last week filed a motion to appeal the case. It also filed a stay to prevent the decision from being carried out. The court granted the stay, which means that Tishman Speyer wouldn’t have to make rent refunds, but didn’t rule on the appeal. If the ruling does stand, one lawyer estimated that Tishman Speyer would have to pay $200 million in rent refunds.
Tenant attorney Jack Lester maintains that, theoretically, the stay is good news for tenants because it implies that Tishman Speyer should be barred from deregulating apartments while the issue is being litigated, although that point wasn’t directly stated. He noted that the original case and the stay refer to market-rate tenants, not to those who are about to lose their rent regulated apartments.
Mr. Lester filed a lawsuit on behalf of two clients demanding that Tishman Speyer grant them lease renewals at rent-stabilized rates because of the initial court ruling. He is seeking class-action status for the suit.
Mr. Lester says that Tishman Speyer’s attorneys have indicated they don’t agree with his reading of the ruling but hopes they can work out an agreement. He adds that an agreement would also need approval by the state because it carries out deregulation orders.
Mr. Lester’s case is slated to be heard by the court next week. Tishman Speyer attorneys declined comment.
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Agreement involving Tishman Speyer covers higher earning renters in some buildings.
Some tenants who were about to lose their rent-regulated apartments because of their salaries have been granted a reprieve.
The agreement to suspend what are known as high-income deregulations comes in the aftermath of a decision earlier this month by the Appellate Division of New York’s Supreme Court, which ruled that apartments in buildings that receive certain tax benefits must remain rent regulated. That decision stemmed from a 2007 case brought by residents of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, who alleged that Tishman Speyer and previous landlord Metropolitan Life, illegally deregulated apartments and wrongfully raised rents while receiving J-51 tax benefits, which are awarded for building improvements. However, Tishman Speyer was following standard industry practice.
In the wake of that ruling, tenants’ lawyer Jack Lester filed a lawsuit demanding renewed leases at rent-stabilized rates for two clients whose apartments were about to lose their rent-regulated status. Mr. Lester claimed it was inappropriate to deregulate such apartments when the court ruling essentially said they should remain stabilized. However, Tishman Speyer is hoping to have the ruling overturned on appeal. The big landlord has filed a request for an appeal but the court has not decided whether to grant it.
Mr. Lester and lawyers for Tishman Speyer and the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal agreed to halt high-income deregulations while the court case continues. DHCR is in charge of deregulating apartments. Under state law, apartments can be deregulated when the monthly rent hits $2,000 a month and the tenant has earned $175,000 annually for two years.
Mr. Lester believes the agreement he reached should cover all tenants in rent stabilized buildings with J-51 tax benefits. A spokesman for DCHR didn’t have an immediate comment.
Tishman Speyer Properties purchased Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in 2006 for $5.4 billion with the intention of quickly deregulating apartments to pay off debt. However, it hasn’t been able to change the status of many of the apartments and is losing money on the massive deal.
Landlord for Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village granted right to appeal potentially costly court decision on deregulating apartments while receiving tax abatements.
Tishman Speyer Properties won a huge victory Monday when it was granted the right to appeal a decision that found it had been illegally deregulating rents at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.
Monday’s decision means Tishman Speyer will take the closely watched case to the New York State Court of Appeals with the hope of reversing a ruling that would have cost it and other landlords hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Appellate Division of New York’s Supreme Court last month ruled that Tishman Speyer, and the complexes’ former owner, Metropolitan Life, should not have been deregulating apartments while receiving J-51 tax abatements, which are given for making building improvements. That ruling would have essentially required Tishman Speyer and other landlords to re-regulate apartments and pay tenants the difference between the market rents they were paying and the regulated rates.
The Appellate Division had to agree before Tishman Speyer could appeal further because its ruling last month was unanimous.
The lower court ruling could prove to be an administrative and financial nightmare for Tishman Speyer and other landlords. Lawyers representing tenants at the two sprawling complexes on the East Side of Manhattan estimate that Tishman Speyer alone would have had to pay $200 million in rent refunds.
Tishman Speyer said in a statement it was pleased the motion to appeal was granted and that it looked forward to the Court of Appeals ruling on the issue.
The tenant’s lawyer, Alexander Schmidt, says he is “fully confident we will prevail on appeal” and hopes the Court of Appeals will hear the case as early as June.
City Councilman Dan Garodnick, who represents the district that is home to the two complexes, said in a statement he is confident that the Court of Appeals will uphold the lower court’s decision.
The landlord of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village got judicial permission on Monday to appeal a court ruling that it must repay certain tenants millions of dollars in rent overcharges at those complexes.
The issue will now go to the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals.
On March 5, the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court ruled that the landlord, Tishman Speyer Properties and BlackRock Realty, had wrongfully deregulated thousands of apartments and raised rents beyond certain set levels at the two Manhattan complexes while receiving special tax breaks from the city.
The Appellate Division notified lawyers in the case on Monday that it would allow the landlord to appeal that ruling to the Court of Appeals. The decision’s implications go far beyond the two complexes and could affect hundreds of other landlords in the city and tens of thousands of apartments.
The Appellate Division held that landlords who received the tax breaks under a program designed to encourage renovations in many buildings could not deregulate any apartments in those buildings.
Much of the real estate industry has supported claims that the decision would spur widespread defaults on loans and a drop in property tax revenues for the city.
Alexander H. Schmidt, the tenants’ lawyer, said that he was “very confident that the decision will be upheld.” The Appellate Division also granted a stay of its decision, but has required the landlord to put the difference between the rent it charged at 4,400 apartments and the rent it would have charged were the apartments still subject to regulation in an interest-bearing account.
by Seth A. Miller, Esq.
Any tenant who lived in a building that received J-51 benefits during his or her tenancy is potentially rent regulated.
To find out whether a building received or receives J-51 benefits, go to www.nyc.gov/html/dof/html/property/prop ... j_51.shtml .
Any tenant that moved into a building as a supposedly deregulated tenant might instead be rentstabilized, if either (a) the building is now getting J-51 benefits, or (b) the building used to get J-51 benefits during the tenancy of the current tenant, and the tenant did not get notice, in the first lease and in every renewal, saying that the apartment can be deregulated when the benefits expire. In addition, a stabilized tenant might be exempt from high-income deregulation if either (a) the building is now getting J-51 benefits, or (b) the building used to get J-51 benefits during the tenancy of the current tenant and the tenant did not get notice, in the first lease and in every renewal, saying that the apartment can be deregulated when the benefits expire.
Tenants who would be in these categories but who have left their supposedly deregulated apartments are affected too: if they left less than four years ago, they can sue for overcharges.
How will the rents be set?
At a minimum, the legal rent for affected tenants will be based on the rent paid four years ago, and that rent will be considered a stabilized rent, even if it is above $2,000. Tenant attorneys will be arguing that the rent should be set even lower, however, since this situation might fit within an exception to the “fouryear rule,” the rule that normally sets rents at the amount paid four years ago. The argument is that an exception should be made because the rent four years ago will in some cases clearly be the product of the illegal deregulation of the apartment. To get a rent adjustment, a tenant will have to file an overcharge complaint, bring a lawsuit, or join a lawsuit in progress.
Tenants will need to decide whether to file overcharge complaints with DHCR, or go to court. There is no substitute for speaking to a lawyer about this decision, since the costs, likely outcome, and benefits of different options are different in every case. Tenants who take no action at all risk having their rent permanently set at a higher amount than they could have gotten and never being able to recover some of their overcharges. They may also be forced to deal with the issue anyway, if the landlord ever tries to evict them as supposedly free-market tenants.
NEW YORK, Oct 23 (Reuters) - A Manhattan apartment complex cannot retroactively give up tax incentives in order to deregulate rent-stabilized units, a New York state appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The unanimous ruling by the Appellate Division, First Department, held that London Terrace Gardens, a complex that includes nearly 1,000 apartments, cannot repay the benefits it received under the city's J-51 tax incentive program.
The ruling builds upon the court's landmark 2009 judgment in Roberts v. Tishman Speyer Properties, which held that residential property owners who received J-51 benefits could not deregulate stabilized apartments.
The owner of London Terrace Gardens had argued that it would never have sought the tax incentives, which are meant to encourage apartment renovations, in 2003 if it had known that doing so would eventually prevent it from setting market rents. It offered to repay all of the benefits it had received from the city in exchange for nullifying its eligibility retroactively.
But the court ruled that the apartment complex had no available legal remedy under the law b ecause the J-51 program contains no provision for withdrawing from the program and repaying the tax breaks.
"The J-51 program is a tax benefit program -- there is no contract or agreement to rescind," wrote Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam for the five-judge panel.
The panel, which also included Justices Peter Tom, Angela Mazzarelli, Karla Moskowitz and Dianne Renwick, affirmed a decision from Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Judith Gische.
Robert Goldstein, a lawyer for the complex, said his clients had not yet decided how to proceed.
City attorney Joshua Wolf said in a statement he was pleased the court affirmed that landlords cannot simply "undo" their participation in the J-51 program as a way of avoiding rent-stabilization requirements.
The case is London Terrace Gardens v. City of New York, Appellate Division, First Department, No. 7917-7918.
For London Terrace Gardens: Robert Goldstein, Richard Goldstein, Harry Frischer and Paul Gruber of Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel.
For the city and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development: Joshua Wolf, Paul Rephen and Vincent D'Orazio of the New York City Law Department.
For the state's Division of Housing and Community Renewal: Sudarsana Srinivasan and Michael Belohlavek of the New York attorney general's office.
In Roberts v. Tishman Speyer Props.,[FN1] the Court of Appeals held in 2009 that high-rent and high-income luxury deregulation under the Rent Stabilization Law (RSL) are not available where a rent-stabilized building is receiving J-51 tax benefits. In Roberts, the dissenters in the Court of Appeals predicted that "[i]t will take years of litigation over many novel questions to deal with the fallout from today's decision."[FN2] That prediction, as this article establishes, has proven true.
In 1992, Met Life applied for and began receiving property tax benefits under New York City's J-51 tax abatement program…which provided incentives for owners to rehabilitate and improve their buildings. One of the caveats of the J-51 program was that rent deregulation of residential units and buildings receiving J-51 abatements was prohibited. Met Life, and the successor owners of the Complex, have received approximately $24.5 million in real estate tax benefits since entering the program and are scheduled to remain in the program, and to continue to receive additional tax benefits, until 2017.
Following the Appellate Division and Court of Appeals rulings in Roberts, many owners were seized with the following idea: If obtaining luxury regulation while at the same time enjoying J-51 tax benefits was seen as double dipping, then owners should refund to the city all J-51 benefits received, and forfeit all future benefits, in return for the nunc pro tunc privilege of luxury deregulation. For most owners, this was an easy trade-off: In Roberts, for instance, the $24.5 million in tax benefits the landlord purportedly received no doubt paled in comparison to the value of deregulating apartments.
The concept of giving back J-51 benefits seemingly had much to recommend it. The city would receive tens of millions of dollars in benefits already taken, and would be relieved of the obligation of honoring future benefits. Owners would have their rent rolls restored, the high tax assessments on their buildings would remain intact, and those landlords would pay high property taxes to the city without any corresponding tax benefits.
In fact, in 2010, Senator Pedro Espada introduced legislation (S. 6811) which would have allowed owners to return J-51 benefits, and to waive future benefits, in exchange for the right to utilize luxury deregulation laws. The bill provided that the returned tax benefits would be used to create a program to freeze the out-of-pocket rents paid by low-income and moderate income rent regulated tenants who paid more than one-third of their income for rent and who earned less than $45,000 per year.
The bill never became law, and owners turned to the courts for relief. However, in London Terrace Gardens v. City of New York, decided by the Appellate Division, First Department, on Oct. 23, 2012, the Appellate Division unanimously ruled that owners could not return J-51 benefits to the city.
London Terrace Gardens is a housing complex located in Chelsea, consisting of approximately 1,000 rental units. In 2003, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) granted the owner J-51 benefits in the aggregate amount of $2.2 million, to begin on July 1, 2003. The owner believed, as almost everybody believed pre-Roberts, that the RSL provisions barring luxury deregulation in buildings receiving J-51 benefits applied only to buildings that became subject to the RSL by virtue of receiving such benefits, as opposed to buildings like those at London Terrace Gardens, which were rent-stabilized long before such benefits were obtained.
The owner of London Terrace Gardens had luxury deregulated many apartments before receiving J-51 benefits in 2003, and, consistent with the Division of Housing and Community Renewal's interpretation of the RSL, continued to deregulate apartments thereafter.
After the Court of Appeals ruled in Roberts, the owner wrote to HPD seeking to withdraw from the program ab initio and offering to return the benefits it had received to date. HPD denied the owner's request, stating that "'[t]he J-51 Program has no provision for voluntary withdrawal.'"
The owner then commenced two actions. The first was an Article 78 proceeding against the city and HPD whereby the owner sought to rescind its "agreement" with the city as to J-51 benefits. The action alleged rescission, declaratory judgment, agency misconduct, and violation of due process. The second action, which added DHCR as a defendant, sought similar relief.
The owner argued, in sum, that it would not have sought or accepted J-51 benefits had it known that such actions would re-regulate formerly deregulated apartments, and prevent deregulation in the future. The various defendants moved to dismiss the complaints. Both actions were assigned to New York County Supreme Court Justice Judith Gische, who has since been named to the Appellate Division.
Supreme Court then dismissed both the Article 78 petition and the plenary action.
There is no provision in the J-51 program for unilateral withdrawal from the program or for repaying the tax benefits in exchange for rescission from the program nunc pro tunc. On the contrary, the Rules of the City of New York provide that "rent regulation [requirements] shall not be terminated by the waiver or revocation of tax benefits. London Terrace asserts that it is not seeking a waiver of previously accepted benefits but instead, a finding that the benefits are deemed void ab initio. Still, in practical effect, under the guise of rescission, London Terrace is seeking a waiver, which is not permitted under the Rules of the City of New York" (internal citations omitted, material in brackets in original).
Furthermore, even though DHCR, and perhaps also HPD, were under the same mistaken interpretation of the Rent Stabilization Law as was London Terrace prior to the Court of Appeals decision in Roberts, that interpretation is entirely unrelated to HPD's confirmation of London Terrace's eligibility for the J-51 program. As indicated in the J-51 Certificates issued by HPD, the presence of decontrolled units was relevant to HPD in determining the amount of J-51 benefits to be provided. Thus, any mistake as to the law by HPD regarding whether units could be decontrolled while receiving J-51 benefits was immaterial to HPD's decision to accept London Terrace into the J-51 program (italics in original).
The foregoing quote reveals yet another irony in the post-Roberts world for owners. Prior to Roberts, HPD would diminish the amount of J-51 benefits in proportion to the number of apartments that had been luxury deregulated; HPD did this, obviously, while under the impression that J-51 benefits and luxury deregulation could coexist. Thus, owners (like the owner of London Terrace Gardens) who obtained J-51 benefits not only inadvertently destroyed their past and future efforts to deregulate apartments, but received diminished benefits based on the existence of luxury deregulated apartments which, it turns out, were never luxury deregulated in the first place.
Absent Court of Appeals intervention, London Terrace Gardens forecloses possibility that owners can regain the benefits of luxury deregulation by refunding benefits ab initio. One suspects that owners may be similarly unsuccessful when they approach HPD for additional J-51 benefits based on the fact that HPD's proportional diminution of benefits, based on the existence of so-called luxury deregulated apartments, was, in fact, in error.
Warren A. Estis is a founding partner at Rosenberg & Estis, and Jeffrey Turkel is a partner at the firm.
1. 62 A.D.3d 71, 874 N.Y.S.2d 97 (1st Dept. 2009), aff'd 13 N.Y3d 270, 890 N.Y.S.2d 388 (2009).
2. 13 N.Y.3d at 295.
3. 62 A.D.3d at 73-74, 75.
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Social media continues to grow each year with new perks on each platform to keep it engaging and fun for all users. Instagram, one of the most popular social media platforms, has over 1 billion monthly active users, and more than 500 million of them use the platform every day. This serves as a great opportunity for mortgage professionals to reach out and engage with prospective homebuyers, ultimately creating a notable online presence for themselves.
Of course, there are different ways to reach prospects on Instagram. One of the most common ways is to have your mortgage company set up a business profile. On Instagram specifically has both business and personal profiles. Using the business profile option lets mortgage professionals run ads to help their business grow. Also, it provides analytics for the company. On the other hand, a personal profile has everything but those two benefits. When creating a business profile, it would also be a good idea to choose a recognizable and searchable username, paired with a memorable profile photo. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to include a call-to-action in the “bio” section, and include a link to either the company’s homepage, or the loan officer’s branch page. All in all, ensuring that a mortgage company is working off a business profile is critical to their success.
Sometimes, producing content that stands out can be a challenge, especially within the mortgage industry. Some ways you can create content that engages your viewers is by changing the content often. Instagram allows people/businesses to post pictures, videos, live content and stories. Don’t make all the content mortgage related. People also want to get to know their loan officers. Offering more personable posts can establish trust between the potential buyer and loan officer. For example, here at WebMax we like to share little pieces of what our daily life in the office entails. This helps in relationship building, and branding the company’s culture. By utilizing these different features you can bring a variety of content to your page.
Instagram stories allow users to post photos or videos that disappear after 24 hours, and can’t be viewed after the 24 hour period. In the mortgage industry, it might be beneficial to run an ad or graphic in a story to capture your potential home buyers attention. However, this could also be a personal aspect out of your day.
With live videos, users have the ability to live stream to followers through video. This allows engagement through real time and can be useful if a loan officer wants to connect to a potential homebuyers on a personal level. They even have the opportunity to ask any questions they may have. Afterall, purchasing a home is a big decision and its important to buy from someone you trust.
Users can post pictures and or videos to their profile as often as they would like. You can also go back and delete what you posted if need be. Posting content often helps you keep your audience engaged. A profile that is never active is dull and boring and will eventually lose interest of their audience. However, be mindful that your followers don’t see four posts in a row from you as they’re scrolling through their feed.
Overall, Instagram is a growing platform that tends to do best when focusing on a specific demographic. This applies to mortgage companies as well. Knowing your target audience is extremely important when you’re trying to grow your followers and boost your business organically. Producing content that is relevant to what your viewers want attracts more people to come across your account and possibly give your company a follow. Instagram has proved to be a leading social media platform for influential mortgage professionals, especially when following best practices.
On April 11th, Ashley Gravano, Vice President of Product Solutions at Mortgage Cadence, will be speaking on the topic of Instagram Mastering Social media in the Mortgage Business Half Day Seminar at the 36th Annual Regional Conference of the MBAs located at Harrah’s in Atlantic City, NJ.
Jacquelyn’s role as Marketing Coordinator spans a great deal of important duties as she takes part in all of WebMax’s marketing initiatives. Her role produces lead generation from various marketing and sales angles including writing opportunities and reaching out to prospects directly.
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Frazer-Nash Consultancy will be exhibiting at Australia's Land Forces 2018, taking place at Adelaide Convention Centre from 4 to 6 September.
The Frazer-Nash booth will be situated on the Defence SA stand, where members of the Frazer-Nash team will be highlighting the company's experience of providing end-to-end capability support to the Australian Department of Defence, and the Australian defence industry in the land domain.
"Land Forces 2018 offers us the opportunity to showcase our innovative thinking and expertise across land systems in the defence sector.
"Our expertise in soldier systems, vehicle systems, infrastructure, and systems architecture means that we can help our clients improve the safety, efficiency and performance of existing, and future, land capabilities.
"We also understand how defence experience and knowledge can be successfully applied to non-defence systems and hence provide a variety of work for our employees"
Find out more about Land Forces 2018 here.
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PG Enterprises specializes in heavy equipment and aggregate operations. We have road graders for road work, sickness crushers and rock processors as well as heavy truck haulers and excavating equipment. We have demolition equipment and can tear down buildings and haul off debris, stuff deliver aggregate materials for your landscaping needs.
Simply give us a call at 505.873.9593 and let us know what you need. We have additional services that may be exactly what your looking for.
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2019-04-24T02:43:59Z
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Home/ Interior/Boost the inside Designer inside you!
Boost the inside Designer inside you!
Nowadays, most people end up in danger with careers that have been not always their first choice. Searching within the high unemployment rate, who is able to blame them? Necessity frequently wins over our personal wants and needs. Take my buddy Laine. She’d always aspired to become an internal designer but she grew to become a banker after taking a management course. High tuition charges also frustrated her from if you take your next course in home design.
To make a power outlet on her behalf creative side, Laine made a decision to redecorate her room as practice on her behalf interior planning hobby. Follow this advice they shared that will help boost the inside designer inside you!
Books in home design might be pricey, if you’re able to perform without getting one, the higher. For individuals who’ve buddies who’re designers, get advice from their website and borrow their books. You may even check out try your local library or browse the book store for design ideas. Visiting furniture showrooms can present you with other great ideas about how precisely you need your living area to look like. Using this method, you’ll be able to spare more earnings in redecorating your living area.
With the amount of possible ideas, it might get pretty overwhelming when deciding what you look for for that room. That may help you trim lower this list, want to start a specific concept or theme. Do you want a distinctive one together with a canopy for that bed? Or do you want a very beautiful feel getting a palm tree design?
An uncle of mine online resources the seaside resort went crazy while using palm tree motif and practically all things that house had that design–from hands towels to pillow cases in addition to glasses and coasters. It labored virtually for him since his wife selected the decor and he or she added her elegant touches. In the problem from the room, it makes sense not to overload getting a specific design. Once you have the concept in your thoughts, things get simpler from this level on.
Redecorating your living area does not occur overnight. Furthermore, it requires money. Therefore if you’re operating with limited funds, you may want to delay that new coat of paint for that wall. Start with the easy things you can do while using least costs. Remove that which you do not require within your room. Decluttering gives you extra room to setup new furniture you are preparing to get. Should you will not want to purchase that new chair, you’ll be able to ask from buddies who’re avoiding. There’s also great bargains at rummage sales.
For every project you undertake, adding your own personal touch could be the crowning glory. Remember my buddy Laine? An passionate traveler, she has been around the world and selected up prints from virtually every place she’s to. She’d these prints presented and proudly displayed them on her behalf account walls to follow her travel exploits.
After giving her walls a completely new coat of paint, she also got new coordinating sheets and curtains. She selected curtains as opposed to blinds since she wanted an even more homey feel. She also purchased a classic-fashioned searching chest to help keep her treasures as well as the trinkets she collected on her behalf account journeys. Although the changes that Laine made made an appearance minor, it entirely transformed her room, that makes it an appropriate haven that’s meant just for her.
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2019-04-20T04:25:47Z
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http://solar-area-lighting.com/boost-the-inside-designer-inside-you.html
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Protein crystals shaped like a Christmas sugar cane.
Type II Ribosome inactivating protein crystals grown using Hampton Research Crystal Screen. Thyageshwar Chandran and the laboratory of Professor Mamannamana Vijayan, Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
A crystal of RNA binding domain of nucleocapsid protein from HC-OC43 with hexagonal pillar shape.
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School districts across the country are adopting weakened grading scales to help more underachieving students go home with a grade they don’t deserve. The 93/85/77/70 grading scale (93 is an A-, a 70 a D-) is being abandoned for a more lenient scale that gives students more room to underachieve. The lenient 90/80/70/60 scale gives students an A at a meager 90 percent average; this system also won’t fail the student until their average grades have fallen to a putrid 59 percent This curve gives more students a chance to accept insurance discounts, scholarships, and grants for their “good grades.” These weakened educational standards allow dumbed-down students to go to college so they can more easily take up careers in any field. Many of these students go on to become teachers, where they will perpetuate the weakening of educational standards and civic duty. This inevitably creates a cycle of stupidity, where dumbed-down students become teachers, to further perpetuate a cycle of stupidity and weakened standards on the next generations.
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2019-04-23T06:00:46Z
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https://newstarget.com/2018-08-08-thousands-of-elementary-school-teachers-flunk-basic-math-test-these-are-the-morons-teaching-our-children.html
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Disabled access at Thirsk is very good, with the majority of all our restaurants and bars being located on ground floor of our facilities. The guide below shows the different disabled features that are offered in each of our three enclosures.
For disabled racegoers who require assistance from a qualified carer, we operate the Free Carer’s Admission Scheme. This allows the CARER of the disabled racegoer free admission into the Racecourse.
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2019-04-21T08:09:21Z
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https://www.thirskracecourse.net/about/disabled-access
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About K-Pump and the people who brought it to you.
K-Pump, located in Oregon, U.S.A. is a family owned company started by Jim Kutella in 2004. Newly retired, an active rafter and fisherman, Jim saw a need for a better pump after years of struggling with the pumps that always seemed to be breaking. Jim set out to design a simpler, lightweight, durable and highly efficient user friendly pump.
The first pumps emerged from Jim’s basement workshop in January of 2004 and today are found in more than 40 countries and have become the “standard”. After extensive testing in the harshest conditions the K-Pump came to be. Today, all component parts are made in Oregon out of specifically formulated plastics. All K-Pumps are designed to be ergonomically efficient, comfortable with great strength and improved shock resistance.
Extensive testing by professional guides, outfitters and “I SUP” pioneers help us design what has evolved into the leading pumps on the market today.
Our business model initially was not to advertise in the typical media so that we could control our growth. We depend on the “word of mouth” to get our reputation out instead of manufactured claims of performance by an advertising column in some magazine. It’s working!! Today, we are generally discovered via “Blogs” which usually “tell it like it is”. We at K-Pump are very proud that we make the leading pump in our niche market and want to thank all of our customers for helping us get there.
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2019-04-25T17:48:32Z
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This month, about 400 students and more than 50 staff members and parents joined together for Challenge Day at Winter Park High School, Glenridge Middle School and Maitland Middle School. Challenge Day was designed to foster acceptance and appreciation of one another with the idea of sharing the concept with others. Students, staff, and parents joined together to share thoughts and to begin developing a sense of unity.
Winter Park High School’s School Advisory Council (SAC) led the efforts to bring Challenge Day to the Winter Park Consortium schools (WPC). The SACs coordination combined with the many individuals and businesses who donated funds and resources, made Challenge Day in the WPC schools a success.
The acceptance and appreciation developed during Challenge Day won’t end now that the Challenge Day is complete. The WPHS SAC has created Be the Change, with the goal of creating a lasting secondary school community and culture that values diversity, supports differences and builds positive relationships. Through Be the Change, programs will be created to give WPC secondary students tools to communicate, adapt and thrive in an ever more complicated world.
Show positive student results from programs: increased self-esteem; increased academic achievement; increased connection to and within our community; reduced discipline referrals; and quite literally, lives forever affirmatively changed and even saved.
Support these WPHS efforts in continuing to build a caring, informed, tolerant community by being part of the Change at Winter Park – Be The Change.
An in-kind or service donation can be pledged via e-mail to [email protected] or [email protected]. You will be honored as a Winter Park High School Community Partner and be invited to “Be the Change” project events for special recognition.
Stay tuned for Challenge Day and Be the Change updates!
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2019-04-23T20:08:05Z
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https://healthykidstoday.org/2017/02/20/challenge-day-winter-park-consortium-secondary-schools/
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Ollie's Room specialise in personalised decor. From personalised wooden letters, wooden words and wooden name signs to personalised canvas, personalised prints and posters, to customised cake toppers and wooden wedding words. Ollie's Room can craft whatever it is you are looking for.
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Everyone wants the best for their wee ones, so why settle for anything less than beautifully hand-crafted personalised decor items. From wooden letters and signs to wall art and cake toppers, each is made with care. Give your nursery decor that je ne sais quoi with something special from Ollie's Room.
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2019-04-22T20:20:11Z
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Varnished beech and polyamide handle.
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FIFA Secretary General, Jerome Valcke said Fifa will support CAF Member Associates through and through in a bid to grow the game of football on the African continent. Opening the three-day FIFA workshop at Sandton Convention Centre, being attended by Presidents, Secretary Generals and Technical Directors from 27 mainly English-speaking countries, the FIFA Secretary General said the world football governing body is fully behind CAF. “The Confederation of African Football is a very important member of FIFA and we will do everything to support CAF’s Associate Members. We want countries within CAF to professionalise teams, negotiate good deals and have strong grassroots development structures. That is the basis of any strong national team,” said Valcke, who added that Africa should aim to win the World Cup in the near future.
Turning to the forthcoming World Cup in Brazil, the Fifa Secretary General said it will be a massive success because Brazil is the land of football. Speaking at the same function, SAFA President, Dr Danny Jordaan said this seminar was a watershed congregation for African football. “We have just recently held a successful 2014 CHAN tournament in addition to the AFCON in 2013 and the 2010 World Cup. Now we need to take our football to the next level. This seminar seeks to find common challenges and common opportunities for African countries. If we are to take our game to the next level, we need to put emphasis on infrastructure development and commercial programmes. Football has become big business and with such structures in place, it will automatically become a professionally run business,” said the SAFA President.
“This seminar needs to underscore good corporate governance and develop coherent strategic business plans. We need to emphasise the need for good governance of the game in Africa. That is the only way we can build a new future for African football. This seminar should go a long way in creating new benchmarks for Africa,” he added. COSAFA President and CAF Vice-President, Suketu Patel said the seminar was a defining moment moment for African football. “Africa is a waking giant in every aspect. FIFA has invested half a billion in African football, whether through the Goal Project, Win with Africa or the World Cup legacy but, now Africa needs to plough back to ensure we walk the talk. Club licensing is a prerequisite if our soccer is to have credibility, accountability and transparency. The new club licensing is the bedrock of football development in every country and we need to aggressively implement this on the African continent,” said Patel.
The three-day FIFA workshop will end on Friday.
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2019-04-23T02:22:42Z
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http://thesportseagle.co.za/fifa-reiterates-support-african-football/
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If you are considering recruiting or retaining a disabled person with seemingly complex difficulties, it is important to know just how much help is available. The funded Work Choice programme, delivered in our area by Kennedy Scott, tailors individual support to enhance the potential of new employees and better the performance of those already employed.
In addition both can benefit from ongoing support in the workplace to help overcome any concerns or difficulties that may arise.
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2019-04-19T02:37:00Z
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https://skillmakers.co.uk/recruitment/alternative-staffing-options/work-choice
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The name 12 Bar Blues comes from the number of measures or bars in most blues songs – twelve. Here’s the basic 12 bar blues (Chicago blues) in the key of A.
A quick change is just that, changing chords in the 2nd measure and then back the the first chord.
Blues musicians often refer to chord changes by Roman numerals after the steps of the scale. Below are the scale steps in the key of A and the chords associated with them.
Many blues songs have just three chords, the I, IV and V chords. In the key of A, that’s A, D and E. Here’s Further On Up the Road by chord name and Roman numerals.
And the quick change in Sweet Home Chicago? It’s to the …. IV chord …. Right!
A minor 12 bar blues usually has a repeated rhythm pattern and no chord in the 12 measure.
The chord number system comes in handy on a gig. If the band leader says “take it down from the fifth”, that means start the song from V chord in the 9th measure.
And if someone points at you and holds up 4 fingers, it means play the IV chord now!
Some blues songs have a “B” part or bridge. You’ll find this one in many songs.
The ‘unexpected’ “IV” chord (instead of the I chord) creates tension and interest. Usual format – AABA.
The Blues had a baby and they called it Rock N Roll. A comparison of the two styles that may open up your ears and improve your playing.
Rock is usually uptempo – played with even eight notes.
Rock chords change on the ‘&’ of the 4th beat in the previous measure – gives rock incredible drive.
#1 Rhythm Guitar / 1 Note or 2?
Blues- the rhythm guitar usually plays two notes together.
Amazing, Amazing! Lets spice things up a bit with guitarist extraordinaire Larry Carlton, aka “Mr 335”. Larry is one of the most in demand session guitarists in the business, his tasteful lines having graced hundrends of albums, Steely Dan’s, Joni Mitchell’s, Billy Joel’s and Quincy Jones’ among them. His amazing guitar solo on Steely Dan’s “Kid Charlemagne” from their 1976 LP “Royal Scam” is voted by Billboard as the third best solo in rock! In this set of vids Larry is caught live in Paris in 2004 with his outfit of late, hard blowing Sapphire Blues Band, a combination guaranteed to tear the house down . This one’s “Sapphire Blue” a slow, blues – based number, a style that Larry Carlton excels at.
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2019-04-24T12:51:33Z
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https://jazzatelier.com/tag/blues/
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Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential.
My motto in life has always been to try and pay attention to details no matter what — those small things that make life worth living. Why?
These days, our lives have become so chaotic. We run from one place to another trying to make deadlines, to be more efficient at work, more productive in life, to make more money, more “friends”, more children…. and the result is that more and more people in the world are reporting how UNHAPPY they are with this life because the quality of the life they are leading is not good enough.
Amassing riches while losing the life’s compass is not the way to live. So next time you are running to that meeting, stop and sit down for a moment and take in the world around you. Admire its simplicity and beauty. Breathe in the energy around and be grateful that you are able to witness that very moment in time. Give passing stranger a kind smile, hold the door for someone because you noticed that they were carrying too many bags and breathe out. Our life is happening NOW. Not in 15 minutes. Not tomorrow. Now.
4 days ago by _marija.ristic_ My sister - my world ❤️ . . . .
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2019-04-24T16:43:57Z
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https://marijaristic.com/life-is-full-of-beauty/
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Visit the Bachelor Open Day on 16 February to get acquainted with our campus and learn about our bachelor programmes. At the Bachelor Open Day, prospective students and their parents/guardians can join presentations about all of our bachelor programmes. Between sessions current students, alumni and staff are here to answer any questions you may have. And you can explore our campus or get to know the city of Rotterdam during a guided tour.
Read more about the programme of the day here.
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2019-04-19T08:46:01Z
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https://rasl.nu/event/eur-and-euc-february-open-day/
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Thanks for the great guidance yesterday. It is really nice to hear our people mentioning how much they enjoyed the tour yesterday, warms my heart!
It means so much to me when Tour Operators share their guests' responses to my NYC step-on tours. We combined a NYC bus tour with a meaningful walking tour of the World Trade Center's 9/11 Memorial and the dramatic new architecture of the redevelopment where Ground Zero was.
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2019-04-24T12:40:56Z
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http://jaredthenyctourguide.com/blog/2016/11/17/another-thank-you-message-from-a-happy-tour-operator.aspx
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(CANOGA PARK, CA) -- Brooke Hunter is taking her high-energy feature dance act on the road to the Spearmint Rhino in Santa Maria this weekend.
Brooke's shows will turn up the heat in Southern California! Showtimes are 8PM, 10PM, & Midnight, on Friday and Saturday July 11th & 12th.
For more information, visit BrookeHunter.com or contact the club directly.
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2019-04-19T20:23:05Z
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Ninjas! Join me for my Twitch stream this Thursday, October 18 2018 as I play some of the newest titles! Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Black Ops 4, and more! I’ll be going live at 3pmPST/ 6pmEST for two hours! Come game with me and let’s catch up! It’s been a while! Add my gamertag on Xbox, PS4, and Steam! Im superpinkninja Let’s play!
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2019-04-24T06:50:17Z
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http://pwnedbygirls.com/alana-evans-live-stream-thursday-october-18-at-3pm-pst/
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Experience cool comfort in a vented short sleeve shirt in even the steamiest conditions! The breathable cotton/poly fabric will help keep you cool and minimize wrinkles. The mesh ventilation panel on the back has a velcro flap to allow for maxiumum airflow. Perfect for travel or training your dogs on hot summer days- our logo on the sleeve shows everyone how serious you are about what you do! Khaki. Sizes: M, L, XL, 2XL and 3XL.
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2019-04-25T12:42:12Z
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Waiting for 9.4 – Add recovery_target=’immediate’ option.
replaying any extra WAL after the backup ended.
Recovering from hot backups is relatively simple – you generally unpack tarball and start Pg in created directory.
The thing is – if you just want standalone DB, not a slave to master, when do you stop recovering? You can recover all the xlogs up to the newest ones, or you can set recovery_target_time, recovery_target_xid or recovery_target_name, and recover up to this point.
But how can you start from backup and make it so that it will recover minimum information from xlogs? Up to this point you basically had to watch over Pg logs, look for “consistent recovery state reached" message in logs, and then finish recovery.
This is generally good, but requires additional processes, and what's more – it never will allow to recover just minimal amount of WAL – as there will be always some delay between detecting “consistent recovery state reached" and finishing recovery.
Now, thats to MauMau and Heikki, we can actually configure PostgreSQL so that it will recover minimal possible amount of WAL, and become then finish recovery automatically.
And this will give you standalone, working PostgreSQL, with minimal amount of WAL applied. Cool. That will simplify setting dev copies of databases.
When you say as for now one can watch over pg logs to look for “consistent recovery state reached” and then finish recovery, I’m wondering how one could stop an ongoing recovery ? During that time the backend is refusing any pg connection.
well, in your configuration you should have specified a way to finish. Usually a trigger_file. Check documentation for your recovery tool, or recovery.conf itself.
Next Next post: Waiting for 9.4 – Add pg_stat_archiver statistics view.
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2019-04-22T11:06:49Z
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https://www.depesz.com/2014/01/27/waiting-for-9-4-add-recovery_targetimmediate-option/
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Jody Cory is in based in central Bath and has enjoyed adorning the lucky finger of many a bride or groom, mending people’s memories in the form of a much loved piece of jewellery that needed some TLC, delighting people with something unique, unusual and very special and has helped mark many special occasions in lots of people’s lives for over 30 years.
Jody Cory and her team of experienced professionals work in central Bath, just in front of the Abbey and adjacent to the famous Roman Baths and Pump Rooms. The store is home to a collection of beautiful handcrafted, unique and desirable jewellery. There are many one-off pieces that have been created with rare and precious gemstones including white and highly covetable coloured Diamonds, impressive colour changing Sapphires, stunning Alexandrites, Pearls, Opals and many other beautiful gemstones.
Jody’s shop is also home to some very special, unique mementos for your treasured memories of Bath. Come and browse our inspired selection of British jewellery, crafted by a collection of renowned local and national designers. As an established, independent designer Goldsmith and also a member of the prestigious National Association of Jewellers – when visiting the beautiful Georgian City of Bath, Jody Cory Goldsmiths is very much worth a visit.
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2019-04-19T23:18:21Z
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https://jodycory.co.uk/about-us/
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The Jews of Jesus’ day wanted an earthly Savior who could provide for them like Moses did with the manna. We’ve been circling around this central theme for several weeks now, and Jesus keeps circling back to it in his discussion about the Bread of Life. But there was a point that they just weren’t getting. There was a need that they had that they just didn’t realize. They were unholy and needed a spiritual Savior. They thought they had it all taken care of through the sacrifices at the temple, their tithes and offerings, and the way they lived their lives. With all of these actions they convinced themselves that they could remove their guilt, pay for their sins, and actually feel good about themselves. And so, they didn’t really feel they needed what Jesus was trying to give them. Sure, they had a use for him as an earthly provider, but they didn’t feel they needed much help with the spiritual side of things.
The problem was, they didn’t realize just how sinful they really were – how deep the corruption of sin really went. And at times I think we struggle with the same disconnect. Ask yourself, “How deep do my sins go? How wicked am I really?” And now consider, what kind of a Savior do I need? do I need a Savior to guide my life and help me make the right choices? Yeah. Do I need a Savior to make up for or pay for the wrong things I’ve done in life? Yes, most definitely. But it goes far deeper even than that. Far deeper. You and I are sinful to the core. The Bible says, “nothing good lives in me” (Rm 7:18), it says, “the sinful mind is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so” (Rm 8:7). In fact, the apostle Paul had to admit, “I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do – this I keep on doing” (Rm 7:19). I’m not just smudged, dirty, or in need of a little repair. No, I am sinful to the core. There’s no fixing me. I’m completely broken, defective, hopelessly lost! A creation of God that cannot praise him or give him glory is like a clock that cannot tell time, a pen that doesn’t write, or a stove that cannot heat up food. It’s completely useless. I deserve to be thrown away, destroyed, eternally condemned. And not just me, but every human being who ever lived since the time of Adam. Again, the apostle Paul cries out what also must be our confession, “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me for this body of death?” (Rm 7:24).
God could have just ended it all, you know. His perfect creation was utterly and completely ruined. He could have ended it the moment it all happened with Adam and Eve. God knew that every person after them would share the same inherent defect. In fact, he did end it during Noah’s time. God knew that if he did not drastically intervene at that point that there would be no one left on earth who awaited the Savior. In fact, the promise of the Savior, very gospel itself, would have been lost if he did not intervene at the time of Noah. God could end it each and every day for me and for you because each and every day I prove again and again that the corruption of sin is still there. Each and every day I prove to God that I deserve to be eternally condemned – handed over to the destructive fires of hell.
“The soul that sins is the one that will die” (Eze 18:20), declares the Lord. That truth stares you in the face each and every day. Consider the holiness of God without a dismissive, “Yeah, but he forgives” and you will instantly melt before the stern Word of the Lord, cowering in fearful sinfulness. But God was merciful! Not only is he infinitely more holy than we realize, but every moment he does not just end us, we instantly realize that he is also infinitely more loving than you or I could ever know. Out of love he allowed Adam and Eve to live out their days trusting in the promise that a Savior would somehow be able to fix what they destroyed. In love he preserved Noah and his family not just from the waters of the flood, but from the corruption that would have inevitably consumed his family line and the promise they clung to if left unchecked. In love he allows you and me to go on living each and every day so that you can know him, believe in him, and be covered by the perfect life of your Savior.
God was merciful to us and sent his own Son. He sent Jesus not to guide us and show us how to live a perfect life – we could never do that – but to be our perfect life. Not merely to pay the price of the wrongs we commit – though we certainly need that. But the corruption of sin is far deeper than just our thoughts, words, and actions. Jesus came to fundamentally change us. He took the place of each one of us on the scrap heap. Took into himself the sins we commit and the inherent sinfulness which corrupts us completely, and he was destroyed by God in our place. “he was pierced for [y]our transgression, he was crushed for [y]our iniquities” (Is 53:5). And this not just in some figurative or symbolic way. There is a shocking reality to sin. There is real carnal torment for sin. Hell is real. Hell is seen in the death of Jesus who gave up his flesh and blood for you. “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mt 27:46), he cried out as he became your sin, and was condemned in your place. All so that you and I can now marvel, “My God, My God, why have you not forsaken me?” “I am the living bread that came down from heaven” Jesus said. “This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world” (Jn 6:51). God has not forsaken you and me because Jesus gave up his very flesh and blood, to fix what we have broken and to preserve you for life everlasting.
Brothers and Sisters, Jesus is telling us in these verses that saving faith is so much more than just knowing about Jesus. It is so much more than just a book, or a person in distant history, or feeling spiritual. Real flesh was broken because of sin, real blood was shed for your salvation. And to get this point across to the Jews, Jesus said it in a way that would just grate on the ears of any Israelite – even many of us today. He said, “unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you” (Jn 6:53). All their lives Jews were taught to abstain from blood. They had procedures to carefully remove all blood from the food that they ate, and now Jesus is telling them to “drink my blood.” It was repulsive to them. Yet Jesus tells them, “unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you” (Jn 6:53).
I have to take a moment, however, to clear up a common misconception regarding these verses. These verses are not talking about the Lord’s Supper; and there’s several reasons why. First, here, Jesus uses different terms than he does for the Lord’s Supper. Here, Jesus talks about his “flesh” and “blood,” but for the Lord’s Supper, Jesus uses the terms “body” and “blood.” Second, it is very unlikely that Jesus would command the sacramental eating of his body and blood before he had instituted his Holy Supper. Third, nowhere does Scripture say that the sacramental eating and drinking of Jesus’ body and blood are an absolute requirement to gain life. Yet, in this section here, he makes it clear that eating and drinking in this way is required. Finally, Jesus guarantees that “whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life” (Jn 6:54). It’s the same guarantee as in other places of scripture that talk about believing in Jesus (Mk 16:16; Jn 3:16). Yet Scripture does not issue such a guarantee to everyone who partakes of his body and blood in the Lord’s Supper. In fact, a person may eat and drink the sacrament unworthily and thus drink judgment on himself (1 Cor 11:29). And so, it is a spiritual eating and drinking that Jesus is encouraging here. In fact, to emphasize his point, he uses a word for “eat” that is often used to describe animals feeding. If you have a dog, you know how voraciously they can gobble up their food the moment you put their bowl on the floor. Jesus wants us to take him in and believe his words with the same intensity as an animal enthusiastically intent upon its food.
Go to Calvary and see the gut-wrenching sacrifice for sin on the cross. God is serious about sin. Then go to the empty tomb with butterflies in your stomach! God is serious about saving you. You may see a long list of sins in front of your eyes. As you look at your past, present, and even into the future you see the sins you have committed and the sins you will likely commit again. But, according to the cross of Christ, that list of sins isn’t on you anymore. No, when God looks at you through the cross, he sees perfection. He sees you as if you have never committed a sin in your life, never given into temptation, never been corrupted by sin in the first place. And it’s true! Because that is what you are through Christ. That is what he has made you. Holy and perfect in God’s sight, beloved sons and daughters. That’s what Jesus says you are to believe because of the cross. Stand at Calvary and see your sinfulness destroyed there. Stand at the empty tomb and drink in the sight. Take it into your inmost being. As surely as Jesus rose from the dead, so too a new creation rises within you – like the radiant butterfly arises from the husk of its former self. Your sins have been destroyed. You live a new life now!
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2019-04-20T06:37:43Z
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http://tlctemple.org/sermon/my-savior-moves-me-august-19-2018
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A bone parented to another bone, can't drive the parent bendy bone values (easein, easeout...) without creating a dependency cycle (resulting in one frame lag, plus crashing Blender when many bones are setup this way). Since it is a common scenario when rigging characters, to add tweak controllers on characters, and it used to work fine in Blender 2.79, I would strongly recommend to consider it as a bug instead of a "feature". It would be a pain to rig without that working properly, and would totally break existing rigs from Blender 2.79.
The left bone is parented to the right bone. It's driving its bendy values.
Open the console, a dependency cycle is detected.
rBafa3aec45d95: Fix T59734: cyclic dependency with drivers on PoseBone.bbone_*.
Alexander Gavrilov (angavrilov) triaged this task as Confirmed, Medium priority.
Alexander Gavrilov (angavrilov) added a commit: rBafa3aec45d95: Fix T59734: cyclic dependency with drivers on PoseBone.bbone_*..
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2019-04-22T08:44:09Z
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https://developer.blender.org/T59734
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A chiasmus is a grammatical figure by which the order of words in one of two parallel clauses is inverted in the other." Chiastic’s are found in the Bible in many places. It is a demonstration of the wonderful construction of the Bible. This chiastic’s center point and therefore teaching point is “faith in Christ”.
Php 4:7 minds in Christ.
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2019-04-25T05:54:27Z
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http://www.forthefathersministry.org/chiastic-in-philippians
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2019-04-19T18:39:19Z
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March Madness 2013 – ..:: NJ Brideau ::..
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2019-04-20T11:17:45Z
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The Perspective is published three times during the academic year and is emailed to members working in the community college. We welcome unsolicited articles, letters, and story ideas. Please send letters, submissions, or other inquiries to editor, Matthew Hardy , CFT Communications Director.
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2019-04-25T20:52:31Z
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"Jones, JEEP, Buck & Blue" is an enchanting collection of four elementary (pre-teen) level readers. The title of each book reflects the name of the volume's main character.
"Jones" is introduced in the first book in the series, and remains present throughout the remaining three books. Suzanna Jones is the endearing young daughter of a U.S. Army Soldier. Since it is typical practice for military personnel to refer to others by their last name, the doting father likes to call his little girl by her last name -- "Jones". Jones is a precocious and endearing character.
Jessica Blumenthal (Blue) is Jones" best friend. Blue is also an Army "brat" which means that both girls are accustomed to being relocated quite frequently by the military. This time, Blue and Jones find themselves being transplanted from Georgia all the way out to Wyoming. The strange new environment introduces them to very new and different people -- namely Buck and JEEP.
Buck is of Arapaho Indian descent, and is very wise in the ways of his people's practices and traditions, while JEEP (which is short for James Edward Eugene Parker) is intellectually wise beyond his years.
Each character has his or her distinctive and sometimes quirky personality, and each installment has its own little mystery for the group of friends to solve.
The dialogue and content are appropriate and entertaining for pre-teen readers. The innocence of youth is a delightful reminder even for the 'older' reader. The author's analogies are clever and sometimes hysterical. For instance: at one point, Jones feels as "invisible as a flu bug on a crumpled up tissue", or as "awkward as a whale in a soup bowl."
I also admired the light in which the author painted the Soldiers and their families in these heart-warming stories. For instance, Jones' maimed father is portrayed as brave, understanding, and charming -- especially with his young, little daughter. My heart swelled with pride in that character, because I knew that the fictional Lieutenant Colonel Jones was typical of the real thing. His persona was a prized addition to the first book.
Pre-teens readers will enjoy this series of adventures. Even as an adult, I found myself trying to solve the mysteries. This reading experience brought back very pleasant memories of my "Nancy Drew" days.
It's already hard enough to be an Army brat, but when Jones' dad comes back from the war with parts missing, she has to come to terms with brand new challenges. And, to top it all off, her best friend, Blue has upsetting news about her own dad.
As the girls struggle to face life head-on, a mystery unfolds in the field. Bones. Are they baby bones? Can the girls' investigation reveal the secret? Will they have enough time to figure out the mystery before their lives are uprooted and forever changed?
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2019-04-18T23:19:23Z
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http://www.mwsadispatches.com/library/2009/the-elementary-adventures-of-jones-jeep-buck-blue-jones
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Transcriptional quiescence in primordial germ cells.
Title Transcriptional quiescence in primordial germ cells.
In most animal species, newly formed primordial germ cells (PGCs) acquire the special characteristics that distinguish them from the surrounding somatic cells. Proper fate specification of the PGCs is coupled with transcriptional quiescence, whether they are segregated by determinative or inductive mechanisms. Inappropriate differentiation of PGCs into somatic cells is thought to be prevented due to repression of RNA polymerase (Pol) II-dependent transcription. In the case of a determinative mode of PGC formation (Drosophila, Caenorhabditis elegans, etc.), there is a broad downregulation of Pol II activity. By contrast, PGCs display only gene-specific repression in organisms that rely on inductive signaling-based mechanism (e.g., mice). In addition to the global block of Pol II activity in PGCs, gene expression can be suppressed in other ways, such as chromatin remodeling and Piwi-mediated RNAi. Here, we discuss the mechanisms responsible for the transcriptionally silent state of PGCs in common experimental animals, such as Drosophila, C. elegans, Danio rerio, Xenopus, and mouse. While a PGC-specific downregulation of transcription is a common feature among these organisms, the diverse nature of underlying mechanisms suggests that this functional trait likely evolved independently on several instances. We discuss the possible biological relevance of these silencing mechanisms vis-a-vis fate determination of PGCs.
Alternate Journal Crit. Rev. Biochem. Mol. Biol.
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2019-04-20T22:57:35Z
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https://molbio.princeton.edu/publications/transcriptional-quiescence-primordial-germ-cells
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Eight structure elucidation problems based on 1H nmr, 13C nmr and infrared spectroscopic data are presented below. In each case, from the nineteen formulas shown at the bottom of the page (A through S), select that one which best fits the evidence. Enter the appropriate letter in the answer box to the right of the question. Do not enter punctuation (eg. commas or semicolons) or spaces.
1. A C9H10O compound has a strong infrared absorption at 1720 cm-1. Its 1H NMR spectrum has signals at δ 2.8 (mult., 4H), 7.3 (s, 5H) and 9.8 (t, 1H) ppm. Its 13C NMR spectrum shows seven lines at δ200, 138, 129, 128, 125, 35 and 30 ppm. Suggest a structure for this compound. 2. A C5H10O2 compound shows a strong infrared absorption at 1100 cm-1, but no absorption at 3300 to 3400 cm-1. Its 1H NMR spectrum has sharp singlet peaks at δ1.3 and 4.0ppm (intensity ratio 3:2). Its 13C NMR spectrum shows three lines at δ 98, 68 and 20 ppm. Suggest a structure for this compound.
3. A C9H10O2 compound has strong infrared absorption at 1690 and 1100 cm-1 . Its 1H NMR spectrum has sharp singlet peaks at δ 2.8 and 3.8 ppm (3H each) and two doublets at δ 6.9 and 7.8 ppm (2H each). Its 13C NMR spectrum shows seven lines Suggest a structure for this compound. 4. A C9H10O2 compound has strong infrared absorption at 1695 cm-1. The 1H NMR spectrum has five sets of lines: a triplet at δ1.3(3H), a quartet at δ>4.1(2H), a doublet at δ7.0(2H), a doublet at δ7.8(2H) and a singlet at δ9.8(1H) ppm. Suggest a structure for this compound.
5. A C4H8O3 compound has strong infrared absorption at 2500 to 3300 cm-1 and 1710 cm-1 . The 1H NMR spectrum has four signals: a doublet at δ1.2(3H), a quartet at δ4.5(1H), a singlet at δ3.6(3H) and a singlet at 12.5 ppm. The 13C NMR spectrum has four signals at δ177, 70, 54 and18 ppm. Suggest a structure for this compound. 6. A C9H9N compound shows infrared absorption at 2250 cm-1. It's 1H NMR spectrum has three signals: sharp singlets at δ 2.4 (3H), 3.8 (2H) and a broader one at 7.2 (4H) ppm. The 13C NMR spectrum has seven signals, five at fields lower than δ100 ppm and two at higher fields. Suggest a structure for this compound.
7. A C4H11N compound shows two infrared absorption bands at 3200 to 3400 cm-1 and a strong band at 2900 cm-1. It's 1H NMR spectrum shows two singlets at δ 1.0 (9H) and 1.3 (2H) ppm. The 13C NMR spectrum has two signals, both at fields higher than δ100 ppm. Suggest a structure for this compound. 8. A C5H11N compound shows infrared absorption at 3300 cm-1. It's 1H NMR spectrum has three signals: singlets at δ1.0 (6H), 1.4 (1H) and 2.7 (4H) ppm. The 13C NMR spectrum has three signals, all at fields higher than δ100 ppm. Suggest a structure for this compound.
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2019-04-20T18:56:51Z
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https://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/reusch/virttxtjml/questions/Spectroscopy/spectra11.htm
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2019-04-23T13:55:57Z
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Jack Carver thought he had found the paradise from this remote tropical island. However after a beautiful woman draws him into what becomes a life-threatening heist the restful life turn into a bloodpath.
You can make Jack Carver stronger, faster and more efficient predator by using new and improved feral abilities. The game features new weapons including Molotov coctails and poisonous darts and has several vehicles that can be taken over.
You can customize, share and play your own maps on Xbox Live. The multiplayer featuers a new "Seek and Secure" mode as well as the old favourites.
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2019-04-18T13:16:35Z
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http://www.blasteroids.com/games/details.cfm/xbox/far_cry_instincts_evolution
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Announcing the xaitment AI Partnership!
Hive Media to use xaitment’s AI game tools on its crowd-sourced zombie game to benefit Team Fox of the The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
Westlake Village, CA – December 3, 2009 – xaitment GmbH, one of the leading developers and service providers of artificial intelligence (AI) for the games and simulation industries, announced its AI game tools will be used by Hive Media, Inc. on the charity-driven, crowd-sourced game development project known as the Zombie Game Experiment. Funds generated from the experimental project will benefit Team Fox of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
Currently in the early stages of development, the Zombie Game Experiment is a charity Serious Game project that relies on a community to help design the game.
These design decisions include graphic elements, play mechanics and the story line of the game. The game is funded by charitable donations, which also help fund Team Fox of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. Everyone who donates $10.00 or more will be given free access to the final version of the game, which is currently projected to release in 2011.
The project first came to xaitment’s attention as a result of its own stated objective, which is to improve the gameplay – and ultimately the fun – of a game by keeping non-player characters (NPCs) from walking around like “brainless” zombies. After an extensive evaluation, the Hive Media team chose xaitment’s AI toolset because of its easy integration into Hive’s current pipeline, its modular approach to AI, and its easy-to-learn graphical interface. xaitment’s modular solution includes individual software tools for automating NavMesh generation, defining movement behaviors, creating finite state machines (FSMs), defining and interpreting the rules of a game world.
A partner of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, xaitment has served customers with AI and game design tools since 2004. Their mission – to create lifelike AI for games and simulations - led to the development of the xaitment AI game tools: highly customizable and highly modular development solutions that save production costs while helping development teams effectively reach their creative potential.
Hive Media is a top-quality, outsourced media development and consulting company. They are devoted to creating the most enjoyable and creative asset designs possible for a variety of clients and project types.
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2019-04-20T13:24:32Z
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https://www.seriousgamemarket.com/2009/12/xaitment-ai-supports-charity-serious.html
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Win $1,000 for your constituency by recruiting the highest number or percentage of members between now and Sept. 30, 2018. The Constituent Recruitment Competition began July 1 and focuses on the half-year dues promotion. AGD Headquarters is asking all constituencies to focus on membership recruitment by highlighting local event information and comradery.
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2019-04-26T12:23:43Z
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Pennywise is a punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California, home of the Descendents, Black Flag, and the Circle Jerks. Pennywise was named after a character in the Stephen King novel "IT". In the novel, Pennywise is an evil clown who can look into people's souls and see their worst fears. The only way to stop it is to confront that fear. They formed in 1988 and recorded "Word From The Wise". They then recorded "Pennywise", "Unknown Road", and "About Time". Then tragedy struck and bassist Jason Matthew Thirsk died of a self-inflicted gunwound. This left a hole in the band but they moved on and released "Full Circle" in 1997 which includes a live, in the studio version of "Bro Hymn", a song originally recorde on "Pennywise". Pennywise plays with meaning and a positive message. Let's hope a new album is on the way.
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2019-04-19T08:42:52Z
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http://akivag.tripod.com/pennywise.html
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Beans are an affordable, easy-to-prepare and highly nutritious food. They’re a must to keep handy in the pantry. Whip up these delicious recipes using canned or dried beans.
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2019-04-19T13:26:14Z
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https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/collections/canned-dried-beans?utm_source=recipe&utm_content=featuredmodule
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Thermal printer mechanism TP27X series is ultra compact, high speed, light weight thermal printer, printing on 2-inch wide paper (58mm). This thermal printer mechanism, with easy loading mechanism, improves paper loading and printer mechanism maintainance greatly.
1. The gear box has a rigid fixation structure, which can protect gears and guide the platen roller gear effectively when the printer is under cover; therefore, it can lengthen the life of the printer.
2. Optional two paper end sensor design, able to choose the paper sensor position, suitable for the cash register with double printers.
1. With easy loading mechanism, greatly improving paper loading and printer mechanism maintenance.
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2019-04-20T18:59:23Z
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http://www.winspu.tw/thermal-printer-mechanisms/TP27X.html
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2019-04-18T20:30:37Z
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HELLOOOOO it has been a while since I last updated this place, ok la not so long right??? Lol anyway since I am free now... I shall blog about where I went on Thursday night. I've been invited to the clarisonic workshop by stylexstyle! Many thanks to Cynthia and Sharon! It feels really great to be able to see familiar faces again!
Rach and I was the last one that came in the workshop! Just nice in time! Heh.
HAHAHAHA ok I need to be back to the topic!
It's my first time meeting Dr Gerrad Ee, he's really friendly in person and I've learnt so much throughout the workshop!
They recommended and let us try a few lancome cosmetics! Beauty talks has always got to be my favourite! Sadly, I am a big fan of Korean beauty brands! My whole make up pouch filled with all the Korean beauty brands! Sooo I am getting a little away from other cosmetics brands except the brands that are from Korea! Hurhurrrr.
And lastly... to end off with a group shot! Thank you Sharon for this picture!
It's 1:28AM.... SO BYE, TIME FOR BED.
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2019-04-21T08:40:36Z
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http://www.petiteksf.com/2015/01/clarisonicsg-workshop-x-stylexstyle.html
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The Australian Government has approved an upgrade of all ANZAC class frigates to the full anti-ship missile defence standard. Saab will work with the Defence Materiel Organisation and BAE Systems for systems integration of a further seven naval combat systems.
The Royal Australian Navy will receive the highly successful upgrade of the ANZAC class frigate comprising an enhanced 9LV combat management system, phased array radar and missile director, infrared sensors and an advanced navigation radar system.
Saab, teamed with BAE Systems and CEA Technologies, created the latest variant of the 9LV combat management system (CMS) for HMAS PERTH earlier this year. The upgrade entailed an extensively redesigned operations room to give the ship unprecedented situational awareness and weapon systems coordination. The highly modernised ship has been engaged in radar, missile and combat system trials for much of 2011 which have validated the entire combat system.
The operations room has been reorganised to enhance the capability of the ship’s command team. Newly-designed consoles come with 30 inch wide screen displays and 42 inch large screen displays show operational command information across the room. The CMS integrates the entire combat system through a dual redundant Gigabit optical fibre LAN.
Chairman of Saab Technologies Australia, Gunilla Fransson said, “The modernisation of the entire ANZAC class is testimony to the future-proof 9LV combat management system and Saab’s combat system engineering capability in Australia.
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2019-04-24T14:26:20Z
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https://saabgroup.com/media/news-press/news/2011-11/saab-to-upgrade-all-anzac-ships-combat-systems/
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As the telecommunication industry regulator, IMDA manages the numbering resources and allocation process. The Numbering Plan provides a set of rules and guidelines for the use of numbers and codes to telecommunication service operators. This helps ensure the adequacy of telecommunication numbers for use in Singapore.
For further information, please contact [email protected].
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2019-04-22T16:36:33Z
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https://www.imda.gov.sg/regulations-licensing-and-consultations/frameworks-and-policies/numbering
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A move to Fridays is rarely a good sign for a TV show, which was the case for Raising Hope last fall. So while it's certainly disappointing news that the series has been cancelled by Fox, it's not entirely surprising, all things considered. Still, we're going to miss the Chance family!
Deadline reported the news, stating that the current fourth season of Raising Hope will be its last, and the series will wrap-up with an hour-long farewell on Friday, April 4.
The premise of Greg Garcia's series centers on a twenty-something guy whose one-night-stand with a serial killer results in the birth of a daughter named Hope, whom Jimmy ends up raising. But the bigger picture is the series' emphasis on the Chances, a blue-collar family living a simple life and doing what they can to raise Hope right. In addition to Lucas Neff, who plays Jimmy, the cast includes Martha Plimpton, Garret Dillahunt, Shannon Woodward and Cloris Leachman. Of all the characters, i was always a fan of Plimpton and Dillahunt's Virginia and Burt, as their history and the evident love they have for one another often yielded some of the funniest bits on the series.
Meanwhile, we're left to wonder the fate of some of FOX's other comedies. Fox just gave early renewals to New Girl, The Following, The Mindy Project and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, but there's no word yet on the fate of Dads and Enlisted. If I had to choose between the two, I hope Enlisted makes the cut, and is preferably moved to a better timeslot, especially now that Raising Hope is going off the air, but we'll have to wait and see.
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2019-04-20T16:23:06Z
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https://www.cinemablend.com/television/Raising-Hope-Cancelled-Season-4-Its-Last-62714.html
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What is a Shower Filter?How Does a Shower Filter Work?What Are the Benefits of a Shower Filter?Shower Filter BrandsWhat is the Best Shower Filter?
When it comes to water filtration, most consumers automatically associate filters and water treatment products with drinking water. This connection is natural - the water we drink every day should be properly filtered and free of contaminants so we drink pure, refreshing water without any unwanted side effects or health problems.
But did you know your body also absorbs water while you shower? The water you bathe in affects the overall quality of your skin and hair. Your skin is the largest organ of your body, and if you shower for 10 minutes per day the potential chemicals in your shower water could irritate your skin and damage your hair.
Most homeowners aren’t aware of the dangerous chemicals present in their shower water. Quite frankly, our drinking water tends to get all of the attention! But in order to fully filter the water in your home, you should consider investing in a shower filter. A shower filter is installed right at the shower head, so the water is treated before it reaches your skin. Most shower filter systems come with their own shower head, but some systems only include the filters.
How Does a Shower Filter Work?
The first stage, indicated in the goldish hue in the diagram, Includes a patented blend of media like copper and zinc to filter chlorine and other contaminants from your shower water. Removing chlorine, as we’ll discuss below, benefits your hair and skin in numerous ways.
The second stage, illustrated in the diagram as the blackish-grey section, incorporates a special blend of steam activated carbon media. You may have heard of carbon filters in relation to drinking water filters, and in fact many brands of shower filters are solely carbon filtration systems. The carbon media in this stage is designed to filter out chloramines and synthetic chemicals as well as unpleasant odors. Your water will smell fresh and clean after passing through the carbon media. Only some brands of shower filters include carbon filtering: check specific products for more details.
The third stage, indicated in red in the diagram, consists of far-infrared emitting volcanic media that induces reduced or negative ions into the water. This results in a lower surface tension in the water allowing for better hydration. Changing the surface tension in the water also makes the water feel softer on your hair and skin, leaving you with a feeling of having just left a spa.
Like all systems, as more and more water is filtered through your shower filter it will require minimal maintenance. Some shower filters have individual cartridges that require replacing. With shower filters like the Pelican Premium Shower Filter, users replace the self-contained filter system approximately once every 9 months.
What Are the Benefits of a Shower Filter?
Shower filters reduces several contaminants, and treat the water in numerous ways.
Most homeowners invest in a shower filter because of its ability to reduce chlorine from shower water.
If you’re a swimmer or have simply gone to a water park, you’re probably familiar with the drying effect that chlorine has on your skin. Without knowing it, the vast majority of Americans expose themselves to some levels of chlorine on a daily basis, when they take a shower.
Besides irritating the skin and drying out the hair, chlorine also poses potential health risks, which have raised concern among medical professionals. Like other disinfectants, chlorine reacts with naturally-occurring materials within water to form haloacetic acids and trihalomethanes, which have been linked to liver, kidney, central nervous system problems and an increased risk of cancer. Because chlorine has a much lower boiling point than water, it can vaporize in the shower and enter a person’s lungs. This is a noteworthy problem, since this type of absorption allows the chemical to bypass the body’s filtration organs.
Chlorine is not the only chemical that shower filters effectively reduce: chloramines are filtered out as well. Chloramine is essentially a synthetic combination of chlorine and ammonia. Appropriately, chloramines give off a distinct and unpleasant odor that can greatly affect the overall smell of your shower water in large amounts.
Water that is treated with monochloramine can potentially have high concentrations of chemical byproducts. It’s better to shower in water that can not cause any long term health problems. Thankfully, the Pelican Premium Shower Filter greatly reduces the amount of chloramines in your shower water, keeping you safe and ensuring that your showers are odor-free.
As illustrated with chloramines, there are many byproducts of chlorine treatment that can prove just as (or more) dangerous than chlorine itself. THMs, or trihalomethanes, are associated with many health risks. At elevated levels they are linked to an increased risk of cancer and adverse reproductive outcomes like birth defects.
According to the Environ Health Prespect, “a study by government and academic researchers adds to previous evidence that dermal absorption and inhalation of THMs associated with everyday tap water use can result in significantly higher blood THM concentrations than simply drinking the water does.” Thus, THMs absorbed in the shower are even more dangerous than those in your tap water.
Luckily, shower filters remove many chlorine byproducts, including THMs. Choose a shower filter that protects your family from harmful byproducts.
There are many reputable brands that carry similar shower filters for your home. Considering the damaging effects that chlorine and other chemicals have on your skin and hair, it’s important to take the time to compare brands and determine which shower filter is right for you.
Luckily, you don’t need to comb through reviews and research product specifications on your own. We have compiled a quick and comprehensive comparison chart that you can view here to see how Pelican’s Premium Shower Filter measures up against shower filters from T3, Aquasana, and Culligan.
While we have full confidence that our shower filter is the best option for your long-term health, the environment, and your wallet, see how it stacks up to the competition to decide for yourself.
What is the Best Shower Filter?
Choosing the best shower filter for you and your family is a combination of research and preference. After comparing brands, it’s easy to see that the Pelican Premium Shower Filter provides the most protection, offers the best shower experience, and boasts the most modern and sleek design. However, we carry multiple styles and types of shower filters to match your specific needs.
All three of our shower filter models are available in a standard white and in an all-new chrome design to match any decor and bathroom style. The Premium Shower Filter with Head, like our other options, reduces chlorine by 96%, filter chloramines, lasts approximately 6 months (or 15,000 gallons), and incorporates relaxing aromatherapy for a true spa experience. If you’re drawn to the traditional shower head style, this model is the way to go.
Providing all of the benefits of the previous model, this variation comes with a 5-foot wand instead of the typical shower head. Deciding between a wand and a shower head is largely a choice of preference and shower type. If you choose the wand, the spray of the water goes precisely where you like it. Providing unparalleled comfort and precision, a wand also can reduce your water bill. It’s as easy to install as any other shower filter, and is just as beneficial for your health and wellbeing.
Do you already have a shower head that you’re particularly fond of? Does your shower head contain multiple spray styles and options that you would otherwise miss? You’re not required to replace your shower head when you purchase a shower filter. This model simply comes with the numerous benefits of our leading shower filter system. Connect your shower head or wand to the filter and immediately enjoy softer skin, healthier hair, and an odor-free shower.
Contact a Pelican Water professional today to discuss which shower filter is right for you.
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2019-04-25T12:26:10Z
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https://www.pelicanwater.com/education/learn-about-shower-filters/
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The KTT200 is the 2 Star Standard bat. Manufactured using 7 ply willow wood, and excellent defensive wood that absorbs the force of an oncoming ball, making hard, fast loops easier to control. It is fitted with Bronze 25A rubbers for added control and defence and has a 1.8mm sponge thickness. An all-round bat good for the improving play and developing strokes allowing you to control the ball and defend against fast returns by dispersing the speed and power from the ball.
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2019-04-21T15:26:50Z
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https://topspinracquets.co.uk/products/karakal-ktt-200
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Sleeping Beauty wallpaper. Sleeping Beauty wallpaper. HD Wallpaper and background images in the La bella addormentata club tagged: sleeping beauty aurora disney classic disney disney princess movie wallpaper.
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2019-04-25T04:01:37Z
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http://it.fanpop.com/clubs/sleeping-beauty/images/6259647/title/sleeping-beauty-wallpaper-wallpaper
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Priest, Stephen. Santa Fe Railway Diesel Locomotive Painting & Lettering Guide for Model Railroaders. Paired Rail Railroad Publications, Ltd., 2014.
To make your contribution to this DS4-4-1000 image catalog, please contact Gene Crossett, Jr.
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2019-04-26T03:46:09Z
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http://crossett.info/rosters/ATSF/ATSF_diesel_image_reference_catalog/DS4-4-1000.htm
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That Just Happened is a 4.5% ABV kettle sour ale that was brought to life through our collaboration with Greater Good Imperial Brewing Company. This cherry sour has a light body, mild sourness, and a clean finish with a hint of cherry. Perfect for any warm summer day!
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2019-04-21T04:15:35Z
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https://www.vanishedvalley.com/that-just-happened-cherry-sour
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Anthony Smith, who was wounded while serving in Iraq, will participate in the Ironman 70.3 Kansas with help from Operation Rebound.
• Established by the Challenged Athletes Foundation in 2004 to assist U.S. service members and first responders who have sustained physical injuries in the line of duty.
• Provides support in athletic events and endeavors, including triathlons, surfing, martial arts and weightlifting, among others.
• Seeks to provide a support system for injured veterans during their recovery.
• Worked with 80 athletes in 2008 and has assisted 45 so far in 2009.
The Ironman 70.3 Kansas is an event in the Ironman triathlon series. It is known as a half-Ironman because athletes will swim 1.2 miles at Clinton Lake, bike 56 miles in Douglas County, and run 13.1 miles on the course, totaling 70.3 miles. A full Ironman competition has a 2.4-mile swim, 112 miles on the bike and a 26.2-mile run.
The event is June 14.
For athletes who compete in extreme endurance events like the upcoming Ironman 70.3 Kansas, injuries are just another part of the challenge. Strained hamstrings, shin splints and sore backs are just a few of the common ailments these endurance athletes frequently encounter.
But Iraq War veteran Anthony Smith, a former high school All-America football and basketball player who will compete in the June 14 Ironman at Clinton State Park, has a more serious and lengthy injury list.
“I usually have to start from the top of my head and go down,” said Smith of the many extra challenges his body faces.
A direct hit from a rocket-propelled grenade while on duty with the National Guard in Iraq in April 2004 took part of Smith’s right arm, a kidney, some of his large intestine, a third of one of his femurs, one of his hips and some of the vision in his right eye.
Following the attack, Smith’s body was initially placed in a body bag until a nurse noticed air bubbles oozing through the blood and realized he was still alive. It took two months for Smith to wake up from the coma.
Smith is one of a few athletes from Operation Rebound, a national organization that assists wounded veterans in athletic competitions, who are coming to Lawrence to compete in the Ironman.
Operation Rebound has helped Smith with his athletic goals, but he also credits the organization with providing a spark during the tough recovery moments when he was ready to give up on sports — and even life. Following his recovery from the attack, Smith was confined to a wheelchair and his weight ballooned to more than 300 pounds.
“(I was just) sitting home retired and waiting for everything else to come to an end,” Smith said.
Nico Marcolongo, program coordinator for Operation Rebound, met Smith in 2008 during a swimming competition. The Smith he sees today is a very different person from the one he first met. Marcolongo said that when he met Smith, he was wheelchair-bound and a cigarette smoker.
“He’s been flourishing ever since. … It’s night and day,” Marcolongo said.
Smith’s fiancée, Tamiko Coleman, also has seen the dramatic transformation in a man who wasn’t supposed to be doing the things he does.
“They told him he wasn’t going to walk again,” said Coleman, adding that their two children gain inspiration from a father who spends hours every day in the gym preparing for events.
In his fifth triathlon, Smith will compete in the swimming and biking events, but will opt out of the running portion.
“I can walk pretty good and pretty fast. … I just can’t run because I don’t have a hip,” Smith said.
Not that the swimming and biking portions are an easy task, either. Due to his injuries, Smith bikes with only one leg and swims with one arm and one leg.
In addition to the contributions that training for triathlons has made to Smith’s own recovery, he said he hopes his competing will give inspiration to others.
“My purpose is to make other disabled people know that life isn’t over because you have injuries,” he said.
• Born in Columbus, Miss., and now lives in Blytheville, Ark.
• Father of four who plans to marry his fiancée, Tamiko Coleman, sometime next year.
• Began four years of active duty service in the U.S. Army in 1990, and later became the chief of police for the Joiner Police Department in Joiner, Ark.
• Transferred to the Arkansas National Guard after his time with the Army. His unit was deployed to Iraq in 2003.
• Injured by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq in April 2004, and spent 62 days in a coma.
• Completed a 600-mile bike ride from San Francisco to San Diego in 2008.
• Has participated in four previous triathlons.
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2019-04-26T15:41:56Z
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http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/may/31/group-helps-wounded-veteran-compete/
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Radial catheterization should not be considered a niche technique isolated to the arterial tree. The forearm is also the source of a rich supply of veins that can offer conduits for right heart catheterization. The first human right heart catheterizations were done through arm veins, but advances in modern technology have made this approach once again relevant for the modern catheterization laboratory, where right heart catheterization continues to be utilized concurrent to arterial catheterization in about 7% of cases. Presently, balloon-tipped right heart catheters can be obtained down to 4 Fr in size for pressure measurements and oxygen saturations, or 5 Fr if the addition of thermodilution cardiac output is needed.
Compared to learning transradial arterial techniques, the approach through the venous system to the right heart is simple. The most important step is having venous access. This access can be anywhere on the forearm, but in reality is limited by the lack of commercially available right heart catheters longer than 110 cm. Often, the antecubital region is used as the default site of venous access as this is proximal enough to reach the pulmonary wedge position regardless of patient height. While modern right heart catheters are soft and flexible in order to pass up either the lateral cephalic vein or medial basilic veins, procedures such as endomyocardial biopsies using stiffer equipment are probably best suited to pass up the straighter basilic system. In such cases, venous access should be focused on the medial/ulnar side of the arm that tends to drain up the basilic system.
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2019-04-25T12:29:16Z
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https://www.trisimpletospectacular.com/node/107
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Contemporary polemics about the autonomy and function of literature are concentrated, speaking in the broadest terms and therefore naturally oversimplifying, between two positions that differ in their definition primarily of literature’s status and role. The first of these points chiefly to the entanglement of literature in various real-life problems (of society, politics, customs, ethics, and media), which every literary work symbolically represents and depicts, exerting real influence on readers and their attitudes. The artistic values of a work are in the process often relegated to the background, subordinated to other, more important goals. The second approach, frequently modified by successive twentieth-century schools, aims on the contrary to highlight the sovereignty of the literary work as an independent and self-sufficient whole which should be read within the context of its relationships to other similar entities: conventions, literary-historical processes, inner transformations and dependencies, whose repercussions relate to changes in concrete phenomena of a literary nature. For scholars of this bent, literature is of cardinal importance, and they see no need to fill up the chasm between it and its social contexts; instead, they would showcase its separate life and sovereign independence from such things.
Rita Felski attempts to reconcile these two sides. Softening this rather categorically outlined opposition, Felski rationally proposes building bridges between reading that highlights the particularity and hermeticism of the rules of literary communication as a discrete field of art, demanding highly specialized competencies, and the pragmatic or even naïve reading that takes pleasure and various practical uses from literature. In other words, by opposing such divisions, she shows that inspiration can be drawn from the positions of both camps, without becoming too strongly attached to either of them.
Felski observes, first and foremost, that the academic criteria for evaluating literature have nothing to do with how ordinary readers engage with it. The latter are guided by emotions, are spontaneous and often uncritical toward what they read, and use literature as a supplement to their own lives, allowing themselves to be shaped by the works they read, to be seduced by the stories those works tell, experiencing sometimes acute and extreme emotions and thrills, or sometimes simply extracting knowledge from them about themselves and their lives. Literary scholars, on the contrary, attempt in the course of their professional engagements to demonstrate the separate nature of literature as verbal art, assessing with a gimlet eye the artistic values of a work, and at the same time maintaining mistrust and skepticism towards the truth of the work and toward their own findings. Felski harshly judges that irony is a disease of humanist scholars, who treat critical reading in the spirit of a hermeneutics of suspicion as a binding methodological model. In her opinion, however, the opposition of scepticism and suspicion to a simple-hearted, gullible approach to reading in no way reflects the realities of readerly experience, which abound in variety and can be much subtler than such a dichotomy would suggest. In connection with this, Felski formulates her own plan for research into actual engagement in the text, which would breathe new life into literary studies and bring a fresh breeze of spontaneity and emotion into university libraries: “perhaps the time has come to resist the automatism of our own resistance, to risk alternate forms of aesthetic engagement,” Felski writes, while also reminding readers that today’s literary studies practices are located not in the quiet of the library, but rather amid other, much more expansive and perceptually attractive media, with which literature must contend for its audience’s attention.
If literary studies is to survive the twenty-first century, it will need to reinvigorate its ambitions and its methods by forging closer links to the study of other media rather than clinging to ever more tenuous claims to exceptional status. Such collaborations will require, of course, scrupulous attention to the medium-specific features of artistic forms.
Such is Felski’s premise. What she has in mind is thus both a broadening of sensitivity to non-linguistic forms of cultural communication and an acknowledgement of the fact that theory does not always know more than the work, and that in connection with that fact it need not position itself at a higher level of consciousness than the latter, while the scholar should accept that he himself can learn something (if only something about himself, even) in the course of reading. Rita Felski thus proposes a “hybrid phenomenology,” wielding a first-person perspective in research, but focusing its work on the way phenomena emerge. By postulating a conscious anti-intellectualism, a corporealization and heightened spontaneity of reception, Felski points toward the need to restore the experiential dimension to professional reading. Practices of reading are ambiguous and not divisible into those that focus on the poetics of the work and its aesthetic values and those that constitute a form of consumption of those values. What matters in reading is rather the conveyance of complexity, opacity and problematic aspects of reading and what these produce. Conventions, methods, and repeatable procedures clash with the pleasure of reading for oneself. And that very individuality, subjectivism, and emotionalism of the work’s aesthetic perception are what Felski is calling for.
She thus points the reader toward such aesthetic categories as recognition, enchantment and shock, which she claims readers must experience prior to taking the position of a critical commentator and scholar. This new “close reading” is a kind of opposite to the close reading that promotes immanent, penetrating and analytical reading concentrated on the text and its meanings. Felski’s proposal for a description of the selected forms of engagement that the literary work elicits represents an attempt to look at it not as an autonomous object, but as a phenomenological form of existence which only comes into being in the reader’s consciousness. Hence her premise of “[d]isentangling individual strands of reader response and sticking them under the microscope one at a time for a closer look,” though it “is […] a highly artificial exercise.” For the procedure is in fact no more artificial than the traditional analysis of the poetics of a work, and has a better chance than strategies of text-centreed reception “to capture something of the grain and texture of everyday aesthetic experiences.” The belief that understanding the ways and reasons why we read can lead to a renewal in literary studies, and perhaps also to a return of experience to literary life, leads Felski to formulate a postulate of developing a peculiarly understood “microaesthetics” that would exhibit the affective and cognitive dimension of reading.
However reasonable her premise of a new kind of close contact with the work and her call for closing the divisions between exponents of diametrically opposed approaches to literature may sound, they nonetheless give rise to certain doubts. Her critique of literary studies’ consciousness and self-consciousness, which, in negating the simple pleasures of the text, debase spontaneous readings, as well as the appeal she issues for suspending ironic suspicion toward our own methodological procedures, in the final analysis seem rather unrealistic. It is hard to efface a hundred-year history of efforts by literary theory, set in motion on the basis of changes in the philosophy of consciousness and language, as if Felski’s doubts regarding the attitudes of the discipline in which she works were directed merely at a caprice of bored intellectuals. And the return to the direct reading experience that she writes about seems nothing less than utterly impossible.
If I thus invoke her proposal in the context of reflections on micropoetics, it is because there resounds within it a postulate repeated and implemented with increasing frequency in Felski’s works. I refer to the departure from stiff rules of reading in favor of individualized, microscopic reading practices, unafraid to admit the feebleness of methods of literary analysis which in the past frequently took on the shape of metanarratives that usurped, at the outset of a reading, the right to determine what literature is and what the tasks of the critical reader are. In the face of today’s whirling revolutions in the humanities and literary studies, Felski’s admission of initial helplessness and unavoidable subjectivism seems simply a much safer and more honest point of departure for reflections on literary artefacts. Such a position of openness and caution constitutes the introductory phase of every micropoetological reading.
In light of the peripeteia described above, the proposal for a revitalization of careful reading proposed by the Silesian school of literary micrology sounds intriguing. That proposal suggests yet another way out of the impasse in which contemporary literary studies, entangled in cultural, social and political contexts, find themselves. It is a way that, judging by appearances at least, leads to old and familiar paths – calling for careful and inquisitive reading, for attentiveness to the analytical detail, for listening closely to the melody of the phrase, the rhythm of the line and the resonance of alliteration, and, in the process, for the restoration of a greater focus on the sensual and corporeal dimension of reading. This is the old school of close reading, which nevertheless, placed in a new theoretical and cultural context, can lead to new discoveries and sometimes revelatory conclusions. It allows us to expose the subcutaneous (subtextual), that which has frequently been stifled in reception by the dominant discourse. These nuances, discovered in the course of a minute reading, are sometimes tropes consciously muted by the author, and occasionally are clues left on purpose, barely making themselves known, which only the most receptive reader-detective is capable of joining together in a logical network of connections and dependencies.
“What is micrology?” – Aleksander Nawarecki asks himself in the introduction to the collection, an essay entitled “Skala mikro w badaniach literackich” (The Micro Scale in Literary Studies). As the inventor of a new term for what seems to be an entirely familiar position taken toward literature, the author gives a precise indication of the problems connected with defining its properties, scope and specifics. This micrological and micropoetological hustling and bustling which Polish scholars have been declaredly engaged in for about twenty years, can most broadly be described as distinguished by intellectual passion and inquisitiveness, and at the same time conscious of its limitations and suspicious toward accepted premises for the examination of literary particles. But after all, if we overlook the contingent, historically situated term for this position, it turns out that what we are considering here is a permanent component of the philologist’s workshop, the philologist, who since antiquity, that is to say, since forever, has inclined attentively to examine every detail perceived in the text, inquiring into its values and meanings by all available means. In fact Nawarecki is perfectly well aware of that; in attempting to clarify, for skeptics, the seriousness and function of micrology, he invokes a variety of scholarly movements, indicating that the micrological approach is not reserved for certain selected ways of reading or exclusively for contemporary ones. On the contrary Micropoetics represents philology’s natural element; here we see its finesse, precision and role in revealing what escapes our attention in a casual, everyday glance, reading or understanding. This is also what makes it a phenomenon and herein lies its opportunity: micrology unites within its investigations representatives of dissimilar schools and views, as can splendidly be seen in the publications prepared so far by the Katowice team of scholars.
Thus not only does there not exist a single, coherent definition of micrology, but there is, also, inscribed in its projected treatment of the text, an inability to set clear rules, repeatable principles, or firmly fixed premises that would make possible cohesion and the maintenance of order in the conduct of its adepts with the object of study. That object itself in fact demands separate attention: does it consist of a single text? A literary genre? A sentence? A word? Or perhaps an author’s entire oeuvre? It appears to depend each time on the initial (subjective!) premises accepted by the individual scholar. Because what matters here is the comparative perspective, which exhibits differences in scale, allowing us to highlight the fundamental fact that small is small in comparison with what is large (or, also, depending on our needs: official, dominant, manifest, self-explanatory, important, inspiring). And that what hitherto was overlooked or only fleetingly shown, particularly in the panoramic perspective on the history of literature, now finds itself at the centre of scholarly interest. As we can see, the scale of micro is micro only when there exists in our consciousness a broader context for it: macroproblems, macroprocesses and macrostructures.
micrologue <gr. mikrós+lógos=small+word, study, concept, truth> 1. hum. Interpreter of small fragments, scholar of small things; 2. gr. minor speech (lógos mikrón), a term in ancient rhetoric defining accidental utterances, spoken to random listeners, members of the household, objects or oneself, compositionally and stylistically unpredictable, concerning affairs of the individual, serving to express intimate feelings and thoughts, and also constituting a form of engagement in non-systematic thought – the tradition of minor speech included the Socratic dialogue, the soliloquy, the monologue, the fragment; 3. clas. feeble, incomplete conversation (mikron logos), dialogue with a silent addressee, represented by probable utterances (see spoken monologue); 4. est. a part of the whole not assigned to a definite position and compositionally independent (see prologue, epilogue); 5. gr. phil. small truth, uncertain accuracy, formulated based on a repeatable event but which follows a different trajectory each time (see chaotics); 6. gr. individual destiny, personal fate (see logos); 7. deconstr. independent fragment of a conversation composed of many utterances (see polilogue) and conducted in conditions of unattainable understanding, disposed towards the definition of differences and characterization of their status; 8. postmoder. small narration; 9. phil. coll. everyday wisdom, growing out of domestic activities, conscious of its limitations and ignorance, finding its extension in talking, betrayed by generalization and synthesis (see “I know that I know nothing,” Bear of Little Brain, bustlement).
Although everything in this definition is true, nothing is what it seems to suggest. The phenomena referred to in it are ephemeral and fragile, eluding unambiguous definition and concretization. Hence the explications on the back cover sketch out the broad horizons of micrological reflection rather than unambiguously clarifying anything. Czapliński explains, for the purposes of his own research that the micrologues he tracks in contemporary prose are “dialogues with a silent addressee, represented by probable utterances, small narratives in search of a single destiny expressed in idiomatic language, uncertain accuracies, formulated based on a repeatable event but which follows a different trajectory each time.” That is how the uncertain object of the observation conducted by Czapliński takes shape. As far as the micrological perspective understood by him is concerned, it rather resembles the position of a mistrustful ethnologist-explorer, learning about a foreign land and encountering the incomprehensible otherness of its inhabitants, who must search for an entirely new language for his experiences, rather than a scientist confident in his methods and purpose who observes and describes an unchanging object under precisely defined laboratory conditions.
The micrologist sets forth with a sense of always insufficient competencies and the incompleteness of accumulated data, and in connection with that fact is continuously ready to undermine his own findings. And that, in my view, is probably the most important philosophical change that has surfaced in the micrological approach to the literary text. What was always a feature of the humanities as a sphere of understanding rather than of knowledge – the non-autonomy of its foundations and non-finality of its findings – now takes on the form of an equal subject of knowledge. It is through work with the text and by the text that the interpreter learns as much about the read work as about him or herself – his or her limitations, predispositons and possibilities.
At the same time, Czapliński notes that all of these styles of reading preserve the quality of being authorial, unrepeatable, single-use approaches, and what connects them is their focus of attention on details. “This may be a special virtue of micrologues, that they cannot be duplicated: unlike methods (that is, forms of macrology), they are not transferable.” Micrology is thus “reading scraps,” because in the end both parts of this definition, reading and the scrap, are not in themselves comprehensible; the scope of possible ways of encountering texts is practically inexhaustible, and the quasi-method itself appears as something eclectic, discontinuous and polymorphic. Particularly if we take into account that the interpreter is not an impartial observer, but part of the communicative relationship which he enters into and co-designs.
Micrology can easily refer as well to the situation of other, non-humanistic fields of knowledge, indicating that the “fashion for the small” is not simply a project of literary scholars, but the symptom of a broader interest in the micro scale, relating to the social and natural sciences too, such as: microeconomics, microsociology, microsurgery or microbiology. These similarities are to some extent limited to purely lexical convergence, and the analogies are essentially distant metonymies or metaphors. It should, however, be observed that in reality, both observed cultural, social and psychological processes and the influence of the development of new technologies in medicine and computer science, can be connected to the transformation in the cognitive approach to many problems. Precise or individualized microanalyses inspire more confidence than those that refer to broad perspectives of diagnosis and generalization.
Employing the method of “thick description” taken from interpretive anthropology and focusing on individual case studies, historians, maintaining a subjective perspective, have begun to describe small areas in time and space, lingering primarily over those spheres and domains of life that escaped the attention of traditional history. And thus the everyday life documented in texts, customs, the consciousness and beliefs of people, often ordinary people absent from the pages of history textbooks, have become the realm of inquiry for microhistoriographers, who are aware that the past is woven from an incalculable number of individual fates which constitute the undersoil and factual environment and also the conditions for great events and historical processes.
Historians focused on studies of small communities and particular individuals for the purpose of obtaining both maximum depth in their view of past reality and a more natural and vivid picture of it. Microhistory is thus qualitative and miniature rather than quantitative and globalizing in its intentions.
A similar approach marks literary micrology, which – first in the phase of critical deconstruction of rational bases and premises of interpretation of texts, phenomena and processes, and later in the form of innumerable other ways of conducting subjective readings, critical of their object, subtle, careful, and simultaneously subversive, represented by the styles of reading of the adherents of various schools of hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, feminist critics, gender studies and queer theory, postcolonial studies and many other approaches – revealed inside texts what hitherto seemed insufficiently important, marginal, incomprehensible, or even imperceptible.
The horizon of the problematics of the microscale also includes microphysics, usually placed at the opposite pole from the range of interests proper to the humanities. Surprisingly, however, if we carefully consider the theoretical premises and the consequences that the discoveries of this discipline have brought, it may appear that it, too, has exerted considerable, though indirect influence on the epistemological conditions that bear on the work of the contemporary micrologue, who moves in a world that is shaky, unstable and elusive. Because microphysics is the physics of atoms and elementary particles. Its progenitor was Niels Bohr, who in 1913 presented his model of the atom. The revolutionary discovery that an electron can shift in an atom from orbit to orbit, in the process emitting or absorbing a quantum of light (a photon), initiated the development of quantum mechanics. Through that new science, the world and vision of it studied and described by classical physics faded into the past. For more than ninety years, that is, since the moment of its origins, quantum mechanics, and with it the contemporary theory of science, have been developing based on the principle of uncertainty, formulated in 1926 by Bohr’s student, Werner Heisenberg. The principle relates to the properties of microparticles – endowed with a double, corpuscular-wave nature, these are the equivalents of the particles that so impress the literary-scholarly lovers of small things – and states that the more exactly we measure the speed of a particle, the less exact is our description of its position, and vice versa. There is thus no way to overcome the limit on the exactitude of measurement, which is dependent neither on the type of particle nor on the methods used to study it. The irremovable impossibility of precisely defining the actual state of the observed object meant that quantum mechanics, instead of defining a concrete result of measurement, focuses on indicating an aggregate of possible results and defining the probability of each one’s materialization. The theory of science thus describes not so much real states of the world as certain properties of what is being observed in a given situation. The principle of uncertainty has also influenced the way we imagine the macroworld. It has been revealed as a constituent feature of it and has radically changed the way we understand and explain phenomena. The area of science, previously the domain of certain and permanent laws, has been encroached upon by chance and unpredictability.
“Quantum mechanics is based to a large extent on phenomena that contradict our intuition, that defy all of our knowledge based on the world of macro” – so writes a reviewer of the book Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum. Erwin Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment with a cat closed in a hermetic box with one atom, whose disintegration would activate poisonous properties, nonetheless shows that it is difficult to define the boundary between the micro- and macroscopic worlds, in the latter of which the phenomenon of the superposition of particles (their occupation of two positions or experience of two states simultaneously) is not possible. In keeping with quantum mechanics, which states that particles have the ability to find themselves in superposition only in an environment with no observer, Schrödinger’s cat should be simultaneously alive and dead. So why is that not true? The explanations significantly exceed both the scope of the present author’s competencies and the needs of the argument being made here. Nevertheless, this contradiction between what experience and common sense tell us, on the one hand, and what we learn from the findings of physicists and micrologists, on the other, constitutes a form of powerful (because it derives from experimental sciences) justification for the contemporary status of the humanities, including literary studies. Micropoetics have a role to play, if we believe that what matters is not the scale of the object of study and the values, implied in the interest in the small, of appreciation for and distinguishing among minutiae, interpretative detail, and trivia, but rather an epistemological position that manifests self-reflection, a spirit of inquiry, discernment, suspicion and an awareness of the situationality of the scholar’s position (its contingency upon a variety of conditions) that is proper to the natural sciences.
It is worth mentioning that it was in fact knowledge of the principles of quantum mechanics that made possible the development of contemporary nuclear energy science and electronics, including the invention of electronic devices such as microprocessors, transistors, televisions, computers, lasers and the electron microscope. If we treat the classical optical microscope as a metonymy of the position of attention, it is that attention of the Cartesian-Kantian subject, who attempts to plumb and next to unify the world of the work within the boundaries of his own consciousness. At the same time, contemporary electron microscopes, which allow scientists access to microworlds, wherein they deal with the electron clusters in the void, demand a revision of our imagining of the micrological method as guarantor of cognitive precision and inquisitiveness, directing us toward probabilistic premises that contradict the Newtonian world view.
At the end of this thread in our microreflections, let us observe that contemporary literary studies, like physics, construct the object of their inquiry and everything that we can say concerning that topic relates to the imaginings we constuct based on the premises we adopted. Its body of knowledge is thus essentially a series of approximations rather than truths about the nature of the discipline’s object of study. Micropoetics, in depriving the interpreter of hope for supporting his own findings in something beyond questioning, awakens, on the one hand, a peculiar kind of fear of the loss of legitimization; on the other, however, it inspires us to continually undertake new, adventurous readings of works already well-known to us.
This particular property of micropoetological studies thus forces scholars to maintain their mistrust toward their own findings. As a perspective of seeing, it cannot perpetuate uniformity or finality in its judgments. And at the same time it treats each detail as a trace of the presence and influence of the macroworld, because what is most important is not self-contained but is entangled in a network of real connections, associations and barely felt intuitions that do not fit into systematic thought, and at the same time cannot exist without it.
In this sense micrology becomes the warden of the nature of our thought as such – crowded due to lack of coherence, depth and causality, but also underpinned by individual tendencies and the desire for systems. Is it possible not to think micrologically if we wish to track the subcutaneous rhythm of reality?
– this is the rhetorical question posed by one commentator on micrological theory.
Normative explanations of attentiveness arose directly out of the understanding that a full grasp of a self-identical reality was not possible and that human perception, conditioned by physical and psychological temporalities and processes, provided at most a provisional, shifting approximation of its objects.
The cognitive model in which the subject upholds the cohesion of his world view is neither strictly optical nor, for that matter, a faithful representation of reality. An entire tradition of philosophers who have undertaken a critique of presence – Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan – has pointed to the lack that figures in every perceptual experience and the related belief in the impossibility of unmediated immersion in any experience whatever. The world does not present itself to the looker directly, and perception is not atemporal. This pertains as much to the everyday attention we turn to things, people, and events that we (in imagistic terms) duplicate each time as it does (in a still greater degree) to cultural texts: readings, images, films, etc. The attention with which we turn toward our selected objects (or those imposed on us) lays bare precisiely this contradictory condition. When we sharpen our focus on an object of inspection, that causes the displacement of other elements of reality beyond the purview of our perception; that reality thus fades and loses meaning. This is what gives perception its twofold nature: it must always lose something to gain something else; in perceiving a detail, it loses the whole, and in gazing at the whole, it misses the details.
Referencing the etymology of the word “attention” and the implications of its relation to the word “tension” (both words also suggest, or can suggest waiting and expectation) Crary focuses on the position of the subject. As it succumbs to rapture or experiences contemplation, this subject “is both immobile and ungrounded.” A state of suspension, disturbance, or even the negation of perception thus accompanies the deepest experiences of immersion in something and absorption. For that reason, to the characteristics described by Rita Felski of readerly affective enchantment and fascination with the work, we might add that when it affects a reader in this way, it deprives him or her, at least for a time, of critical aptitude. And even though we are dealing here not with two mutually exclusive reading attitudes, but only two stages in the perception of a work, it must, perhaps, nonetheless be admitted that a micropoetics concentrated on the work and a microaesthetics interested in readerly perception of the work project two different perspectives for analysis of the communicative situation, two distinct objects of study.
It is curious that Aleksander Nawarecki points – on the horizon of micropoetological literary scholarly reflection – to the chaosmic diffusion and reproduction that are now duplicated and represented by the internet. It is thus worth considering to what extent the literary phenomena present in digital virtuality satisfy the demands of micrology, and above all – to what extent they submit to the rules of micropoetological readings. The micro scale, in which the algorithmic processes that constitute the surface layer of visibility in digital media, can in no way be brought into accord with the rules of micropoetics as a strategy of reading oriented toward profound exploration and detailed analysis. There is no connection of cause and effect or probability between the mathematical languages used for programming and the audiovisual codes that we deal with on the plane of cultural interfaces that could become the object of micrological analysis and interpretation. Literary scholars do not even possess the language to name the nature of such phenomena, and we therefore use visualizing metaphors that allow us to imagine that binary code occupies some kind of material space-time realm. Finally, reading computer science source code, despite not being impossible, can only slightly help to understand what appears at the cultural level of the digital project.
In addition, the environment of electronic media, though built from pixels, that is, micropoints, each of which is capable of being isolated and examined in an enlarged form revealing its mathematical nature, projects a kind of reception that is a negation of attention. Coming too close causes the image to become washed out and distorted. Thus, in defiance of the micrological hopes in which Nawarecki seems to find an affinity with the new medial situation, we can posit, with a high degree of probability, the thesis that there is no place in the Internet for micrologist literary scholars. Or, put differently: literary scholarship – let us repeat once again after Rita Felski – must submit to transformation and form relationships with other media, as well as examining the qualities of the artistic forms specific to each of them. Furthermore, the micropoetics of digital forms will demand from literary scholars an expansion of their competencies, to include (among others) those in the domain of knowledge of the basics of the programs used to create internet art and literary hypertexts.
Intellect, the tool of the micrologist that distances him from virtual artefacts, is unintentionally becoming, in the milieu of digital literature, an ally of the conservative project for a return to critical philosophy. At the same time, according not only to Felski’s theses but also to the findings of scholars of the affective, performative or somatic turns, understanding is not tied to reflectivity alone. If we want to understand the nature of new cultural phenomena, we must replace (or supplement) the contemplative posture with affective categories: shock, enchantment, bewilderment, fascination, disgust, repulsion. To examine our reaction as that of an active participant in communication. Because the scholar is part of the system that he (or she) attempts to characterize. He always conducts his analysis from an internal perspective and that impossibility of absolute distance inscribes in his situation the conditions for the failure of operations that seek to furnish unambiguous conclusions. To the extent that attention, as a cultural construct, still upholds the model of a coherent and logical object, ruled over by a concentated and watchful observer, then in the moment when instead of dealing with an object we deal with a dynamic event, attentiveness ceases to provide a guarantee of understanding.
This is true not only because multimedia demand divisible attention, and that naturally is tied to an increased shallowness of perception and its distraction. Above all, the very nature of internet objects rules out reflective, contemplative or hermeneutic reception, oriented toward close, intimate contact. Their dynamism, variability, fluidity and momentality mean that we either allow ourselves to be transported by impressions, immersing ourselves in what the interactive medium offers (which is far from simple – in keeping with the self-reflexive self-consciousness of the scholar described above), or we proceed in defiance of their nature: we will pause the image and subject it to a micrological frame-by-frame or screen-by-screen analysis (though doing so is technically not always possible). But then, focused on the staticized detail, we lose sight of what seems a condition of understanding cultural change: a new kind of aesthetic experience, built on instant, short-lived and ephemeral stimuli intended to act only (or primarily) upon the sensual and emotional sphere. That sphere can productively be studied by the new microaesthetics proposed by Rita Felski, demanding the borders of literary studies be opened to other media. At the same time, this method remains for the time being within the realm of plans, because the manifestations of e-literature and other multimedial reconfigurations of verbal art available at present in virtual reality, engage critical thought to an undoubtedly greater extent than they do the emotions. By forcing interactive co-participation in the creation of a disposable artefact, they place the scholar in a triple role: as creator, participant, and commentator. And that once again redefines his cognitive possibilities.
It is therefore worthwhile to keep in mind that attention adapts to new technological conditions. Each medium structures our perceptual experience. The screen is now the main tool that mediates the receiver’s encounter with external reality and texts of culture: of verbal as well as audiovisual culture. Distraction of attention is a fundamental property of the screen. If, since the time of Kant, the transcendental synthesis of the field of knowledge, which was always partial and fragmentary, has presented a problem, we now speak of the total disintegration of perception. We have bid adieu to the dream of synthesis. And precisely that anti-system, decomposed perception represents fertile ground for micropoetological scholarship in literary studies. They are, at least to a certain extent, an expression of longing for the depth, seriousness and sensibleness of the intimate realm that have been lost as a result of great historical and technological processes. At the same time, micropoetics encounters a fundamental difficulty, about which Crary has written convincingly, on the way to its object: we today are subjects incapable of the sustained concentration necessary in order to be able to consistently place the studied object in the order of attentiveness.
Disturbed perception was the distinguishing characteristic of modern subjectivity for Georges Simml, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and Theodor Adorno. These sociologists believed distraction and deconcentration to result from irreversible changes in culture. Crary, on the other hand, shows that distraction and concentration are points on a continuum, and the shift from focus to deconcentration occurs gradually and imperceptibly. If we accept, following Hannah Arendt, that a collapse of contemplation has taken place in our culture, the cultural effects of those changes in the form of the downfall of grand narratives, the loss of a holistic vision of the world and the permanent disintegration of the personality are merely consequences of great processes that have been happening for several hundred years.
In this situation, micrology is revealed to be the remedy for the changes that have come to pass in culture. Somewhat like a relic of the historical sensitivity that was bound to the philosophy of the modern, putatively integrated and autonomous subject, micrology attempts to oppose the phenomena which play a distracting role and demand from us multitasking and divisible attention rather than focusing on a single object.
This idea of bona fide, the good faith with which the analysis of a work is carried out, shared by a significant number of the authors whose works appear in the successive volumes of Mikrologia literacka, edited by Aleksander Nawarecki, nonetheless obscures what seems to be the genuine innovation and opportunity of the “post-Derridean” perspective invoked by Jędrzejko: its fragility, provisorial nature, and – above all – immanent resistance to such fundamental categories as “the language of a work and its period,” against whose usurping claims micropoetics stands in reading practice, as it stands against all kinds of generalizations, certainties and findings. Because micropoetics is, above all, a practice of reading. Let us repeat, a practice, not a theory. Micropoetics goes into textual particles, but also into the cracks between them, attempting to fathom what is unspoken and unspeakable. It is thus not exclusively an art of analysis, but rather, primarily, of interpretation.
In the extended essay “Czarna mikrologia” (Black Micrology) that opens the fourth volume from the Silesian group of scholars, like its predecessors devoted to a variety of contexts, understandings and uses of the category of smallness in literary studies, Nawarecki likewise does not focus on method but on micrological sensitivity and aesthetics. That aesthetics is, for him, a minor, minute thing, an aesthetic of the vanishing world of the melancholic, the collector of scraps and seemingly useless things, important only in the perspective of an individual, single-use existence. The micrological approach is thus represented by the man who, like Adorno in his Reflections on a Damaged Life, written from the perspective of an intellectual and a Jew who survived the Holocaust, attempts to enunciate his own Minima Moralia. It is the perspective of one whose own experiences and memory are anchored in the past and who gazes on the contemporary world as a heap of fragments and ruins, bearing witness to the impermanence of the world, the fragility and transitoriness of things. The signature of melancholy thus marks the workshop of the micrologist, because that which is small is not only fleeting but is also frequently overlooked, and only when it has been irreversibly lost becomes the object of tender adoration. Its existence is thus purely hypothetical, potential, until it is brought to the light of day by the penetrating gaze or thought of the micrologist, who nonetheless not only trusts his senses but avails himself of all available precision tools of dissection and analysis that allow him to name and authenticate whatever has hitherto been located beyond the horizon of existence and understanding.
Micrological poetics is, to some extent, a metaphysical poetics, and at the same time, a post-secular one, founded on the experience of loss, the loss of faith in the value of what cannot be directly expressed or captured in the rigor of syntax and logical argumentation. It is, to a significant measure, based on the belief that what is important is revealed in flashes, fleeting flickers, moments, endowed by the reader’s attention with their full form. Attentiveness and concentration are meant to offer resistance to perceptions that are subject to the operations of mass media technologies, which Benjamin described already in the 1930s as proceeding in a state of distraction.
In reality, the surplus of stimuli coming at us causes us to be less and less capable of perceiving; our reception of things and states is increasingly superficial, and we are increasingly desensitized to the signals that reach us. Micropoetics would therefore be a remedy to the disease of disintegrated postmodern subjectivity. A remedy applied with premeditation in defiance of what is forced on us by the contemporary online world: divisibility of attention, multitasking, speed in taking decisions and action. Micropoetics pauses time, freezing it in a careful gaze that rushes into depth. It has no thought for the contemporary aesthetics of disappearance, which in its velocity of images and things turns every detail into a distantly fading trail. It is the posture of a melancholic who looks out longingly for things to fill his lack, felt painfully amid inattentive people living in haste and shimmering images without depth.
The fancy for the micro scale reveals a desire to oppose great globalizing, generalizing and unifying processes. It contains a desire to save what is unrepeatable, what is one of a kind and one’s own, because anxiety before nothingness, anonymity, and homogeneity gnaws at the contemporary mind. We thus seek a custom-made medicine for it: in the affirmation of the detail the trifle, in the fleeting sensation of something real. Only they, unnoticed by the casual eye and sensibility, give us a sense of the exceptional.
Micropoetics as an escape into smallness, into detail should nonetheless not postulate that since the whole cannot be grasped, it is then possible to isolate at least the smallest indivisible particle which we can observe. The literary microparticle is not an elementary particle like a quantum in physics or a point in mathematics. After the critical experience of deconstruction, no empirical attempts to exhaust the richness of the literary object or the ontological nature of that object, which represents an area of free play as it is understood in Derridean terms, will allow that goal to be accomplished. The micrologist’s posture is precisely the result of the realization that we cannot possess full knowledge of the object of study, exhaustively describe it, or write out all possible versions of its interpretation.
That is why micropoetics is not an innovative method, as Ewelina Suszek suggests in her discussion of Silesian micrology, nor is it a methodological fashion. It constitutes rather a reaction to the lost dream of modern literary studies, whose symbol was the structuralist project of interpretation as a hypothesis of a hidden totality. Micropoetics is also a conscious return to sources, richer for all the experiences acquired over the centuries – to the modest artisanal tasks of the philologist, who, in the rubble of the great systems, patiently rebuilds his small, provisory workshop, providing him with a fragile sense of reliability and a makeshift professionalism.
The article attempts to place micropoetics on the map of contemporary cultural phenomena and within the context of other areas of scholarship. The author treats micropoetics as a subjective quasi-method in scholarly literary studies, oriented toward detailed, in-depth analysis. She shows the traits that connect it with traditional philological scholarship, as well as what constitutes its innovative element: an individualized reading strategy, adapted to the object of analysis, an individualized approach to the work, and the self-consciousness of the scholar-micrologist, who takes a distanced view of his own judgments and is conscious of their situational nature. The main distinguishing feature of micrology becomes, in her reading, its attentiveness, discussed here as a historically legitimate category.
This approach is represented today by, among others, Terry Eagleton, who postulates a return to the partially forgotten principles of reading literature as literature. See Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature, New Haven 2013.
R. Felski, Uses of Literature, Malden 2008.
Felski, Uses of Literature, p. 4.
Felski, Uses of Literature, pp. 21-22.
The larger framework of this project included the following publications: Miniatura i mikrologia literacka, vol. 1, ed. A. Nawarecki, Katowice 2000, Miniatura i mikrologia literacka, vol. 2, ed. A. Nawarecki, Katowice 2001, Miniatura i mikrologia literacka, vol. 3, ed. A Nawarecki, B. Mytych – Forajter, Katowice 2003, Skala mikro w badaniach literackich (The Micro Scale in Literary Scholarship), ed. A. Nawarecki, M. Bogdanowska, Katowice 2005. The following book is also written in a similar spirit: A. Nawarecki, Parafernalia (Paraphernalia), Katowice 2014.
A good example of the effectiveness of this type of study, performed independently of the Katowice theoreticians’ proposals, is Agnieszka Gajewska’s book Zagłada i gwiazdy. Przeszłość w prozie Stanisława Lema (The Holocaust and the Stars. The Past in the Prose of Stanisław Lem, Poznań 2016). This Poznań scholar, using an unusual method of microlecture, managed to write a new, in many ways revolutionary, chapter in Lem studies. A careful reading, concentrating on the analysis of literary texts and historical sources, placed within biographical and literary-historical contexts, was supported, in this case, by a sensitivity feminist in character and an acute awareness of what is not obvious and sometimes is simply passed over in silence. By using this method, Gajewska was able to investigate the presence in Lem’s prose of nearly imperceptible echoes of the trauma of the Holocaust, which in previous studies of the writer’s work were either completely omitted or trivialized.
P. Czapliński, Mikrologi ze śmiercią. Motywy tanatyczne we współczesnej literaturze polskiej (Micrologues with Death. Thanatic Motifs in Contemporary Polish Literature), Poznań 2001, back cover.
To this list, following Nawarecki, we could also add Gaston Bachelard’s concept of miniature (See The Poetics of Space, trans. Maria Jolas, New York 1964, Chapter 7; Jean-Pierre Richard’s theory of microreading (Microlectures I, Seuil, Poétique 1979, Microlectures II. Pages Paysages, Seuil, “Poétique”, 1984), Roman Jakobson’s microscopy (“Une microscopie du dernier „Spleen” dans les Fleur du mal,” in: Questions de poetique, Paris 1973.), as well as the neologisms that appear in a variety of contexts and feature the prefixes mini- or micro- in Bakhtin, Benjamin, and Foucault. I will only add that I do not address the topic of small forms in this article because I feel they constitute a separate problem and should rather be linked to the authorial philosophy (however dubious) and the lives of particular poets and writers. If we were interested in making a list of all the artists who appreciate the “whiff of detail,” the list would be very long. And perhaps it would simply have to contain the names of all verbal artists? Here we are only interested in micropoetics as a poetics of reception and a way of engaging in literary scholarly reflection.
P. Czapliński, Mikrologi, p. 10.
See E. Suszek, “Moda na małe? Innowacyjność śląskiej mikrologii literackiej” (A Fashion for the Small? The Innovative Nature of Silesian Literary Micrology), Postscriptum Polonistyczne 2016, no. 1(17), pp. 179-191.
E. Domańska, Mikrohistorie. Spotkania w międzyświatach (Microhistories. Meetings in Inbetweenworlds), expanded and updated second edition, Poznań 2005, pp. 270-271.
See Clifford Geertz, “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture,” in Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays, New York 1973, pp. 3-30.
See M. de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendall, Berkeley 1984; M. de Certeau, L. Giard, P. Mayol, The Practice of Everyday Life Volume 2: Living and Cooking, trans. Timothy J. Tomasik, Minneapolis 1998.
E. Domańska, op. cit., p. 273.
This part of my analysis is based on general knowledge (microscopic in the sense of spatial dimensions, not detail) and various works of popular science read at different times, particularly the following books: Abraham Pais’s: Niels Bohr’s Times: In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity, Oxford 1991, Richard P. Feynman’s, QED – The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Princeton 2014, and selected passages from the textbook by Richard P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Quantum mechanics. Vol. 3, Boston 1965.
R. Kosarzycki, Review: Quantum Mechanics. The Theoretical Minimum – Leonard Susskind, Art Friedeman, http://www.pulskosmosu.pl/2016/05/24/recenzja-mechanika-kwantowa-teoretyczne-minimum-leonard-susskind-art-friedeman/ [accessed: 9.02. 2016].
A. Kunce, O motylu i dyskretnym uroku mikrologii (On the Butterfly and the Discreet Charm of Micrology), in: Skala mikro w badaniach literackich, p. 39 [emphasis in original].
See A. Kunce, op. cit., p. 43.
A. Kunce, p. 45, [emphasis in original].
J. Crary, Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture, Cambridge 2001, p. 4.
See A. Nawarecki, “Mikrologia, genologia, miniatura” (Micrology, Study of Genres, Miniature), in: Miniatura i mikrologia (Miniature and Micrology), ed. A Nawareckiego, vol. 1, Katowice 2000, p. 28.
Here I omit the problem of the status of interactive hypertextual phenomena and/or multimedia digital objects due to their complexity and tenuous connection with the topic of my article. Intuition, however, tells me that micropoetics is not yet up to the task of describing the phenomena just mentioned.
More extensively on this topic, see: Crary, p. 70.
See H. Arendt, The Human Condition, Chicago 1958.
P. Jędrzejko, “Oscylacje literackie, czyli od Gadamera do mikrologicznej krytyki świadomości” (Literary Oscillations, or, From Gadamer to the Micrological Critique of Consciousness), in Mikrologia, vol. 2.
A. Nawarecki, “Czarna mikrologia” (Black Micrology), in: Skala mikro w badaniach literackich, op. cit., pp. 9-24.
T. Adorno, Minima Moralia. Reflections on a Damaged Life, trans. E. F. N. Jephcott, New York 2005.
W. Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, translator uncredited, Scottsdale 2010.
The properties of perception in the online discourse of the computer science community has been described interestingly by Karol Piekarski in his doctoral thesis. See K. Piekarski, Ekonomia percepcji. Mechanizmy selekcjonowania informacji w Internecie. This doctoral dissertation was written under the guidance of Prof. Tadeusz Miczki, Katowice 2014, http://sbc.katowice.pl/Content/126980/doktorat3505.pdf, [accessed: 12. 02. 2017]. Here of particular relevance are the chapters devoted to changes in perception and the historical contexts of the phenomenon of information overload.
I have borrowed the term “aesthetics of disappearance” from Paul Virilio (Estetique de la disparition, Paris 1980), whom in his work, repeatedly underscored the crucial importance, for progress, of speed, and its society-structuring role. Especially in relation to contemporary civilization, we can discuss the enormous acceleration that was embodied by the appearance of cinema. Cinematographic art, in Virilio’s view, constitutes the quintessence of change, because it is in that area, as Krystyna Wilkoszewska notes, that “the shift took place from the aesthetic of material transmission of things and works toward the aesthetics of disappearance, because in film technique the faster things vanish, the more present they are” (K. Wilkoszewska, “Paula Virilio filozofia prędkości i estetyka znikania” [Paul Virilio’s Philosophy of Speed and Aesthetics of Disappearance], Kultura Współczesna [Contemporary Culture] 1993, no. 1, p. 110).
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Authors: Cheung, M., Kuntz, K., Pobanz, M., Salovich, J., Wilson, B., Andrews, W., Shewchuk, L., Epperly, A., Hassler, D., Leesnitzer, M., Smith, J., Smith, G., Lansing, T., Mook, R.
Cite: Imidazo[5,1-f][1,2,4]triazin-2-amines as novel inhibitors of polo-like kinase 1.
Authors: Cheung, M., Shen, D.-K., Makino, F., Kato, T., Roehrich, D., Martinez-Argudo, I., Walker, M.L., Murillo, I., Liu, X., Pain, M., Brown, J., Frazer, G., Mantell, J., Mina, P., Todd, T., Sessions, R.B., Namba, K., Blocker, A.J.
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Authors: Li, G.Y., McCulloch, R.D., Fenton, A., Cheung, M., Meng, L., Ikura, M., Koch, C.A.
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At a recent meeting of the Early Education and Care Workforce Council, The Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) announced the recipients of the fiscal year 2019 preschool expansion grants.
Known as Commonwealth Preschool Partnership Initiative (CPPI), the program awarded funding to six communities: New Bedford, Somerville, North Adams, Springfield, Lowell, and Boston. The funds will support preschool programs from February 1 through June 30, 2019. EEC expects to renew these grants in fiscal year 2020.
Photo: Kate Samp for Strategies for Childen.
What’s the best way for states to pay for pre-K programs?
Should states use grants or tap into their K-12 funding formulas?
These are the questions posed by Aaron Loewenberg in a recent New America blog post, but the answers depend on whom you ask.
“One obvious approach is to incorporate pre-K into the existing K-12 school funding formula,” W. Steven Barnett and Richard Kasmin wrote in an article published last year in The State Education Standard, the policy journal of the National Association of State Boards of Education.
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Earlier this month at the NAEYC Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., the Presidential Seminar featured a panel discussion about advocacy with both seasoned advocates and newer advocates who are just finding their advocacy voices.
The panel was planned and moderated by Amy O’Leary, NAEYC’s president and the director of Strategies for Children’s Early Education for All campaign.
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2019-04-21T14:11:12Z
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https://eyeonearlyeducation.com/category/ma-legislature/page/2/
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Reading the above it seems to be promising a lot doesn't it?
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Ooh this looks exciting. I think we have really similar taste in foundations as I adore double Wear too so I defo want to try this. I haven't used much from Shu Uemura but their eyelash curlers are amazing and I love their cleansing oils too.
I love Shu Uemura, their products are so well made, I must try this the next time I'm passing their counter!
Yes do! Let me know what you think.
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http://www.beautyswot.com/2012/03/foundation-rave-shu-uemura-face.html
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I installed audio files as directed. On Chrome the audio plays automatically when a page is open. Not set up to do this. Have players for viewers to click on. Seems like the audio works ok on Internet Explorer. Looking for the fix. Thx.
You must delete the media player you have and add it back using this topic. Do not use the More button on the Insert menu. You will see a difference in the player displayed in the editor.
If you add the file correctly it will look like the bottom player.
I have a number of my original songs posted on my site, which is kevinmmurphy.homestead.com Lately when I go to to that page ALL of those songs start playing at once. How do I fix that?
Delete each one and add it back as described in this topic. It will replace the old media player with the new one.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled how do I add a video to my site?.
You can also use YouTube if you prefer.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled all music files on page play simultaneously.
Jay0564, remove the meida files from the page and then add them back, following the instructions at the top of this page. You should see a different looking media player on the page.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled HMTL5 Videos.
I am trying to post a video to our website and it says it can only post a HTML5. The video I have in not in that format. Is there another format that I can use and it pay automatically when someone comes to website?
The supported formats are listed at the top of the page.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Adding Media Files Error.
I have a media file on my website, when opening it state that there is an error and google should search for windows media player plugin for firefox, but I am using chrome. How can I fix this?
Browsers are dropping support for these types of media files and plug in based players. You will need to convert the media file to mp4 and delete the current one. Use the instructions at the top of this page to add the new media player that does not require a plug in.
I am trying to use the mixed content design and upload a video that I have on my computer I am trying to see how I can accomplish that as everything I try to do is asking for vimeo and youtube. Can someone direct me to the correct way to accomplish this as I do not see where I can change the video player to where I can just upload from my computer.
The instructions in this post are for a builder we used to use, but is not used for new sites. The builder you are on does not allow video uploads. You will need to go through either Vimeo or Youtube and upload your video there.
So there is no way to do it without a third party?
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2019-04-20T05:22:21Z
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https://community.homestead.com/homestead/topics/how-do-i-add-media-files-to-my-site?topic-reply-list%5Bsettings%5D%5Bpage%5D=2
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In April 2016, Andris Nelsons appeared with the Berliner Philharmoniker to conduct Bruckner’s Third Symphony. The concert opened with the Prelude to the first act and the famous Karfreitagszauber from Richard Wagner’s final music drama Parsifal. Bruckner famously admired Wagner above all others, and he ultimately dedicated his Third Symphony to his 11-year older colleague. In this introduction, the musicologist and dramaturg Susanne Stähr talks about the relationship between the two very different composers, their meeting when Bruckner wished to dedicate a work to him, and the parallels between the works of the musical dramatist and the symphonist, both of whom have gone down in history as musical innovators.
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2019-04-25T19:53:10Z
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Captain also keep in mind that this creature while undeniably dangerous, I do not believe the creature tired to hurt anyone. He should not be treated poorly. He may also have much information on this facility and the preservers. We should use this opportunity to learn as much as we can. I am glad I could help bring this situation to a happy conclusion.
Quintessence Seal of Sedna 1 post. slow month for me.
Looking at the strange alien being carefully Quintessence shakes his head. "I must say I wish I could believe you, but your story just does not make much sense. Why would the preservers put you in charge of the facility but not give you control or all the internal systems. More likely you have gained control of the facility in your limited way since they have left. I am going to give you one last chance to shut down the portal and release the people you have imprisoned before I make you shut it down. The choice is yours. With that Quintessence takes a step towards the being in the room and gets into a fighting stance.
well I actually have a decent sense motive so 1 d 20 + 8 = 25!
thats cool. just send me a message if something comes to mind.
quintessence is up for some kitten smack down.
Quintessence looks at his companions and shakes is head in resignation. I have tried to explain to my new friend here the dangers of not only Terminus energy, but also the dangers of the beings who are from the other side of the portal. I think I may not have the relevant technical knowledge to convince 'Hrnnnsgh' of the dangers inherent in having a portal open to Terminus. Hopefully one of you more technical people can convince 'Hrnnnsgh' when I have been so hopelessly useless. Though I must say throughout the whole conversation 'Hrnnnsgh' has been quite open.
Quintessence would be interested in visiting your world. I would be most interested in D myself.
I'm ready whenever the thread goes up.
Quintessence is up for anything. And welcome.
That works for the techies and the non techies allike. I like to smash things.
Well, I was hoping that there was something you could do to help me. My companions and I are here to explore this facility and learn from it. I think my friends would be very much interested in meeting you. They are much more scientifically minded then I am. I think you would find. On ersation with them very fun. I was hoping there was something you could do to bring them here to talk with you. Failing that would you let me go to them and bring them back here?
I would be up for a hero lair. I currently have no place ho hang my cape.
While not a tech based hero Quintessence was enhanced using advanced alien tech and Is also an astronomer. In addition to that he has the ability to function in space without ship and is very interested in space. I do not know if he is what your looking for specifically, but I would be interested in your team.
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2019-04-25T00:02:38Z
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Born and Raised in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Paul moved to Seattle in 1978, and has been in the Food Service industry in some form ever since. He worked in Seattle restaurants for 14 years, half as Executive Chef for the McCormick and Schmick’s group starting in 1984. He moved into sales with the Pacific Fish Company, before forming the Food Service Division at Ocean Beauty Seafood's in 1994 as sales manager, a position he held for 7 years. Paul then jumped to Interbay in 2001, and other than a 3 year leave in which he opened SPORT Restaurant and Bar as General Manager with Seattle Restaurant Icon John Howie, he has been here ever since. He lives in Burien with his wife Amber and has a Daughter Brittny, and son Mickey, both on their own now. His passion is music, and sports, mainly the NY Yankees and Giants. A lifelong memorabilia collector, he has an autograph collection that features Dr. Suess, Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Robinson, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and 7 pieces by Mickey Mantle just to name a few. When Paul dines out, it’s a baseball cut Prime Top Sirloin Steak he’s after!
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2019-04-24T04:34:29Z
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http://www.interbayfoods.com/new-page
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I managed to get just enough of the plant to take a couple of small cuttings and start the plant over again in 2015. Once again it rooted and only put out a couple of leaves and then lost one of those. I checked the roots in about a year and sure enough more sign of root rot. By then it was late in 2016, and I barely had enough plant to take a single cutting that I was sure would fail.
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2019-04-23T12:52:01Z
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http://vermonthoyas.com/2019/02/14/growing-hoya-ruthiae-part-two/
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We are pleased to announce that the Przedsiębiorstwo Specjalistyczne TEATR Marek Guminski (P.S. TEATR) company is the sole distributor of ETC products for the territory of Poland. For many years, ETC has been one of the world's leading manufacturers specializing in professional lighting equipment for theaters, concert halls, opera houses and beyond. The company's flagship products are Eos® and Cobalt® lighting control systems, Sensor® power-control systems, and the world famous Source Four® profile fixtures. And for the last several years, ETC has successfully introduced LED luminaires to the market.
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2019-04-22T16:46:26Z
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http://www.etcconnect.com/about/news/etc-announces-new-polish-distributor.aspx
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I shared this recipe a couple months ago as a guest post, but here it is again, in case you missed it!
As a busy mom, I love my slow cooker meals! This is one of my favorites because my kids eat it (yay!) and it reminds me of one of my favorite childhood meals. Beef tips are sure to please whether served over heart healthy brown rice, egg noodles, or mashed potatoes!
Splash a couple tablespoons of red wine into the hot skillet and scrape the bottom to remove any browned meat bits – add these to the crock pot.
This meal looks delicious! I love my slow cooker because it's so easy, so I look forward to trying a new recipe. Thanks for sharing!
We love beef tips and these look so delicious! I'd love for you to come share at Simple Supper Tuesday.
This looks like an amazing dinner! Thanks for linking up with What's Cookin' Wednesday!
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https://www.amyscookingadventures.com/2014/03/slow-cooker-beef-tips.html
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Before I begin let me say a big thank you all those who sent me comments, tweets or just messages of support from my last entries. You guys have been wonderful and I want you to know it means a lot to me.
I am now five weeks into my new job. It’s been a real shock to the system getting back into the routine of going to work etc. I had forgotten how “fun” the commute could be to get to work, working weekends (the curse of retail) and how much time I no longer have for anything else.
I have to say that my body is not enjoying going to work. I am still having about six hours sleep although to be honest I am not sleeping well. I just can’t sleep solid enough, I want to sleep but I just can’t. I love Faithless, humming the song while typing I can’t get any sleep… Any suggestions that don’t include me doing yoga or anything silly like that is much appreciated.
The job itself is going well. I just can’t believe the range of kitchen utensils that you can buy from our shop and that there seems to be a gadget for everything. I am getting better with my product knowledge but like most things I need to be patient. Although I have been told that I can be rather impatient at times. The team at work seem great, like most teams they need to understand where I am coming from and I the same for them.
I must say though thanks to the commute I have been able to read a lot more. I recently finished Dayton Ward’s “From History’s Shadow” which is a great book bringing in elements of quite a few Star Trek episodes and incarnations. I have started another novel by Dayton now. I am also listening to the Gatecast which is a pod all about Stargate. I love Stargate Atlantis. I must say however, apart from Trek News and Views & The Gatecast I have not listened to any other pods although I have now found one about “The Newsroom” (amazing show, you must check it out! I just can’t seem to concentrate on them. I know I had this problem a few months ago but it’s not getting better.
Speaking of podcasting I have now left Trek Mate. Bunny and I along with Laura & Sina are taking the Holodeck to a new home. We have the site under construction with some amazing people helping us along the way. We are very lucky to have all these people support us. Our new home should be ready soon and of course I will keep you posted. I am still going to appear on some episodes of Ten Forward (mainly book club related) but that’s it for Trek Mate. I do want to thank Wayne for allowing me join Trek Mate over a year ago but the time and the reasons meant it was right for me to leave.
So I am sure by the title of my posting you most probably think I have gone crazy? Well Christmas is coming and Theresa has requested that Jon and I have our Christmas lists ready by the 15th Oct. The plan is that we each write ten things down and then we pick from a two or three. Then we get what we want and its still something of a surprise. I love Christmas and watching Theresa talk about it is very contagious. The funny thing is that I am having difficulty knowing what to put on my list. I have some Star Trek stuff but to be honest not everything is about that. I want a list that best describes me? Any ideas? I won’t suggest a poll since we saw how that was fracked up! There might have to be something by Aaron Sorkin on the list, something to do with “The Bat” and without a doubt some Warehouse 13.
I am looking forward to the next couple of months. I am seeing Bunny this Friday which is always fun (hopefully for Bunny too) and then we have the Winter London Film and Comic Con in October and then in November we have Collectormainia. Should make some interesting blogs and if that fails to to please I can always talk about the various can openers my shop sells…..
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Every time I visit my daughter and grandchildren in Amarillo, Texas I am reminded of one of my not-so-finer moments in the world of wine.
A few years ago my daughter and her family moved from the cotton fields of Lubbock to the cattle ranches and feed lots of Amarillo. During my first visit I was introduced to Amarillo’s unique “pungent” bouquet when the wind blows out of the West. The first whiff and I knew I was in cattle country.
During that same visit I flew to Dallas for winery business. The colleague I was to meet had scored tickets to a wine tasting at a historical and elegant 5-star restaurant. The tasting was kept to an intimate 25 people, dress was cocktail casual and the wines had been handpicked by the head sommelier. I could hardly wait!
In tux attire, the sommelier greeted most of his guests by name. I was introduced as the owner of Olympic Cellars in Washington State. That started a bit of conversation amongst the guests who favored French wines and California Cabernets… but had heard a lot of good things about Washington wines!
Now normally, I taste and spit at these types of events. I’m a bit of a lightweight and know my limits, especially when it comes to keeping my “mouth” in check.
Aaah, but these wines were heaven in a bottle and as each wine was poured, my will power lessoned and I began to savor each velvety sip. The evening’s pièce de résistance was a famous old French Bordeaux (even I recognized the name). As this wine was poured, the atmosphere of the room changed… hushed voices that were almost reverent replaced the boisterous conversations of before.
Anticipating nirvana, I swirled the wine and gently lowered my nose to the glass. Deeply inhaling, my senses suddenly were sent careening and I spoke before my brain engaged; “This wine smells like AMARILLO”, I said none to quietly.
But the room did get quiet – real quiet – as the sommelier slowly walked to our table and stood right in front of me. “Madame, that is nose of fine old Bordeaux with just a hint of the barnyard”, he said with stern dignity, putting me in my place.
“Well frankly I think the barnyard has a little too much horse manure!” I retorted.
Whoops… I really stepped in “it” this time. Should have spit and kept my mouth shut.
But really, the wine by any other name or price tag WOULD have been poured down the drain.
But what do I know. Almost all the guests ranked the wine #1.
Well, having graduated from Texas Tech in Lubbock, I'm VERY familiar with the smell of Feed lots!! I completely understand!
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2019-04-18T17:18:16Z
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http://blog.kathycharlton.com/2008/12/my-most-embarrassing-wine-moment.html
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2019-04-26T08:38:58Z
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Dog bites are a serious matter, yet many dog bite incidents go unreported. Our Waterbury personal injury attorneys have seen numerous potential cases go unfiled, simply because people make excuses for the incident taking place. If a dog has bitten you, understand that reporting the incident is important.
Yes, this may be true. “Person Bit by Dog” is hardly a headline that will sell papers. However, this shouldn’t stop you from reporting an incident. Car accidents are also a common occurrence, but injuries sustained from a dog bite can be just as severe as an auto collision. The problem with not reporting a dog bite is that you might not be the only person to have been attacked by that dog. If no one reports dog attacks, then that dog will continue to injure others with no repercussions.
True, but by reporting the incident you would not be holding the dog liable—you would be holding the owner liable. A dog owner is responsible for monitoring their pets and taking proper precautions necessary to ensure the safety of people around them. If an owner is aware that their dog has aggressive tendencies, they must post warning signs on their property and appropriately muzzle or restrain their dog. A dog might not know better, but his or her owner should.
Sure, you may not want to report a little nip, but most dog bites that cause injury are not just a peck. A dog bite or dog attack can cause serious injury. Also, in most dog bite cases, the victim is a child. A dog bite to a small child can cause years of physical and psychological damages.
If a dog has attacked you or someone you love, do what you can and report the incident. Our Waterbury dog bite lawyers have extensive experience representing victims of dog bites and animal attacks.
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As people age, their ability to navigate and function in environments they once thrived in will diminish. That means the living environment will have to be adapted to suit their needs. This probably is happening to a loved one of yours. From residential elevator installation in Louisiana to senior-proofing medications, virtually every aspect of elderly lives has to be examined and retrofitted to meet new needs. If a loved one of yours is there or if you are preparing for them to reach that point, here are a few tips.
Access points that a healthy adult can navigate might become danger zones to the elderly. Cracked sidewalks turn into major obstacles. Steps might as well be mountains. Every access point to a home becomes a possible place to trip, slip, or fall.
To prepare for this inevitability, every access point in a home must be inspected and modified to create an easy-to-navigate pathway, or some other method of access has to be created. For example, a residential elevator lift in Louisiana used to be considered a luxury; now, under the right circumstances, it’s considered a medical necessity and, in some cases, may be covered by insurance.
Navigating a kitchen for someone who is older can be a major challenge. Everything from preparing meals to cleaning up takes on new dimensions as dexterity, hearing, and eyesight falter. One suggestion is to switch to appliances with easy-to-read electronic control panels. Another is to install a wall oven; this allows for easy access to the oven and your senior will not have to lift heavy, hot pots and pans.
As challenging as access points can be for an older person, navigating within a home can pose an equal obstacle. If your senior is struggling to navigate their home and has a recognized medical condition that hampers their ability to move, you should talk with a residential elevator company in Louisiana today. In many cases where there is an established medical need, in-home elevators will be covered by private insurance and Medicare.
It’s a fact of life that as we age, the ability to navigate what was once easy suddenly becomes much more challenging. The trick is to make homes functional, even given the physical challenges. A residential elevator installation in Louisiana is just one idea of many that can greatly aid your elderly loved one as they age.
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2019-04-24T20:22:41Z
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1970's women's shirt and top sewing pattern. No. 6140, McCall's pattern. Four different casual, summer time tops in this one vintage pattern. Spaghetti straps, no straps, puffed elbow length sleeves and sleeveless styles. Choice of front tucks or ruffled neckline. Loose fitting or wear with a belt. Sew several shirt tops with this pattern from McCall's and the 1970's!
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LÜDERITZ - Born at Ekamba village in Oshigambo in Oshikoto Region, Theopolina Anna Ndahekelekwa Mushelenga - Negumbo was raised by her paternal grandmother’s sister “kuku Nakambale” at Omundingilo village in Oshigambo. Despite her humble beginnings, she did not give up her dream to acquire a doctoral degree.
At the age of nine, Theopolina moved back to her parents’ house at Ekamba.
At the age of 46, she managed to acquire a doctorate in education.
In terms of basic education she attended Oshigambo parochial kindergarten, Oshigambo Primary, Omukwiyugwemanya Combined School and Oluno Senior Secondary School now christened Andimba Toivo ya Toivo Secondary School.
“For my tertiary education, I attended the former Ongwediva College of Education where I obtained a Basic Education Teacher Diploma (BETD) and furthered my studies via distance at the University of Namibia, where I obtained a Diploma in Education African languages [DEAL] and Management in Education and Leadership. After a long break of seven years, I furthered my studies at the University of Stellenbosch where I obtained my Honors degree in 2014, my Masters 2016 and my PhD last year. It took me two years to complete my doctorate in education curriculum studies (Social science). I am happy to mention that I published an article in the journal “Yesterday and Today “in 2017,” she said with pride.
She further stated that during her studies, she sometimes went through financial challenges since she was on unpaid leave and she was a married mother of four, but by the grace of God she managed to overcome those challenges and achieved her goal.
“My accomplishments are being given an opportunity to contribute to the education sector through teaching. I am currently teaching Social studies and Religious and moral education at Diaz Primary School in Lüderitz,” reflected the soft-spoken Dr Negumbo.
A word of inspiration from Dr Negumbo to the youth is that everything in this life is not just a given but should be earned through hard work. “Young people should learn to be themselves and have positive attitudes towards their lives. They should set goals and be determined on what they want to achieve in life. “If I have to expand on this using myself as an example. I am a happily married woman with a lot of responsibilities but I decided to leave my house and my husband behind to go further my studies. Young people should jump to the opportunities, while they do not have responsibilities. The Namibian youth should wake up and work extremely hard to build our country,” concluded Dr Negumbo.
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2019-04-21T16:06:35Z
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I’ve always loved Valentine’s Day. It started in grammar school with those colorful mass-produced cards we stuffed in the decorated class Valentine box. Later my kids gave me treasures made from construction paper and lace doilies with “I love you, Mommy” in their best writing. Today Beyond Wonderful is decked out in full pink and red splendor with lots of fabulous chocolate desserts for your Valentine’s celebration.
We’ve been busy these last few weeks perfecting recipes and photographing them for the website. My favorite photo shoot was for Baking Expert, Catherine Christensen’s Valentine’s column, Ooh la la… chocolat! Trust me, her decadent Mexican pots de crème and mousse au chocolat are close to aphrodisiacs, and will become favorites in your culinary repertoire.
Photo shoots may seem glamorous but they are hard work and often take several days to produce. I meet with our amazing food photographer, Windsor Andersen, to go over the schedule and decide what flowers, props, dishes, silverware and linens are required. Will we work in the studio or take advantage of the natural light in the garden? Once that’s determined, I start cooking, prepping food, buying flowers and gathering props.
To get in the mood, I headed to several flower shops for armloads of long-stemmed roses—both red and multi-colored bouquets—plus fragrant pink lilies and white narcissus. My favorite purchase was three bunches of the most beautiful pink tulips to herald the coming of spring.
Then it was back to the kitchen to prepare the two desserts. I piped the chocolate mousse in to an assortment of Spanish sherry wine glasses, and spooned the pots du crème into pretty bowls and festive red ramekins. All were refrigerated for the shoot.
Early the next day, Windsor arrived and started setting up. She surveyed the desserts and props and went for the chocolate mousse (her own favorite dessert). “Let’s use the red cake stand and the pink tulips. I want natural light so bundle up, we’re going to the garden.” As she worked, I piped the mousse with whipped cream and topped each with tiny red candy hearts.
In between shots I found Windsor in the kitchen eating spoonfuls of whipped cream over the sink. “Ooooo, this is so good.” So much for the tofu and bunny food she brought for lunch.
Shoots always have people circling the food table asking, “Are you done yet?” No one eats until we have our final images. When Windsor yells “done! you can eat now!” I hand out spoons and everyone grabs their pleasure and digs in. Silence for a moment, then appreciative moans and exclamations. Then, inevitably… the sound of everybody reaching for a second serving. Now that’s love.
Hungry for the weekend? So are we!
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2019-04-20T12:53:55Z
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http://beyondwonderful.com/barbaraadamsblog/2008/01/31/valentines-day-photo-shoot/
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This easy steak and peppers recipe is loaded with peppers, onion and shallots. It is a one pot meal that is absolutely perfect for weekdays or weekends.
Okay, I will admit I have a slight obsession with steak. It may run deeper than a slight obsession at this point. I just cannot help myself. Perfectly cooked steak combined with onions, shallots, and tons of peppers. Who could possibly resist? Not me.
I feel like my readers must think we live like kings and queens. We really don’t. I just tend to buy beef in bulk, then I’m suppose to freeze it and space it out so we save money. That’s the master plan. However I stink at following the master plan. I get obsessed with eating all the steak right away. So we’ll eat a bunch of steak for a few days, then we live on pasta for eons until we can afford more steak again.
I’m not saying it’s right or wrong. I have zero self-control when it comes to steak. If it’s in the house I must eat it. Honestly if I had a nickel for every time someone has woken up in the middle of the night to find me frying or grilling up a steak I’d be a rich woman. And then I could buy more steak.
This recipe is super easy to make. I’m not a patient woman. Particularly when it comes to steak. I want it quick so I can shove it in my face as fast as humanly possible. I’m like a steak ninja. If eating steak was a sport I’d win gold in the Steak Olympics. See, you aim high, people. Shoot for the steak shaped stars.
You could totally take the extra time to caramelize the onions completely if you like. I was hungry so I was content cooking them a little less for this. You can also toss in any colour of peppers, or even use some hot ones to jazz it up more. Whatever works for your taste buds.
This is something I make a lot. I’m not sure I ever make it quite the same way. It’s one of those pantry type meals, the kind where you just open all the doors in the kitchen and pull out what’s there then have at it. Those meals are always fun to make.
Feel free to add some heat to this too. Red pepper flakes would be lovely. Even some chili powder or chipotle spice. I’m a garlic lover so I’ll add fresh garlic if I have it.
You can eat this on its own just like this. Or you can use it over rice or noodles like a classic stir fry. Do what works for you. Adapting recipes to your own taste is part of the fun of cooking, get creative and put your own spin on things.
In a large skillet heat up 1 tablespoon of oil over medium heat. Toss in the onions and a dash of salt. Cook onions for about 10 minutes. Stir occasionally. You want them cooked so they are translucent but not caramelized. Transfer them to a plate. Set aside.
Now in the same skillet add another tablespoon of oil and bring to a high heat. Cook the beef for about 3 to 4 minutes, until browned perfectly. It helps to cook them in smaller batches so you don't overcrowd the pan. You'll get a better sear on them meat. Continue until all the meat is cooked, you can place them on a plate and set aside.
In the same pan add the last 1 tablespoon of oil and bring to a medium-high heat. Drop in the peppers and shallots and cook until the peppers soften up. It should take about 4 to 6 minutes.
Now toss the onions, and beef back in the pan, add the tamari sauce and cook for about 3 minutes, mixing everything thoroughly.
This can be served solo, or with rice.
Serve with a big old peppery smile!
Use a really thick Tamari sauce for this. If you can't find a thick one you'll have to make a slurry to thicken it. You can do that by combining a bit of water with the sauce and adding about 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of corn starch. Put in a jar and shake. Then pour that into the stir fry at the end of the cooking process and let it cook for a few minutes to thicken.
So today I am heading to Miami for the Blogher Food Conference. A little fun in the sun, a lot of foodie silliness and some serious learning during some great sessions. Not going to lie I’m stressed to the max to travel with my IBS. So wish me luck I make it to Miami without incident. I’m sure there will be lots of embarrassing photos to entertain you.
Check out my recipe index for more amazing recipes. You can find more dinner recipes and tons of beef recipes.
This would be a wonderful meal for John and me. Goodness on a plate.
I love love love the rustic look of this dish, Kims.
I love turning leftovers into stir-fry! And after leftover pork, leftover steak is my favorite protein. This looks wonderful — great flavors. Have fun in Miami!
I made something very similar just the other day, except the steak was grilled and I used soy sauce on the onions and peppers. Such a simple yet great meal!
I’m literally salivating now… I would necessarily call myself a steak girl but dishes like this will sure go in nicely. Plus it will make Tom happy to see more steak on the table..lol… Looks delicious!
Wish I was going to Miami with you! Have fun!!
That’s a great looking dish for dinner. I would only have to leave out the onions and garlic – they play havoc with IBS. But I don’t miss them these days and my poor old tummy is much better for it.
oooh, I feel the same way about steak, and onions aren’t far behind. This looks awesome, Kim!
Steak and peppers are sooo good together!
This looks amazing, Kim. Did I ever tell you I am in love with shallots? I made a recipe last night that used 15, yes 15, whole caramelized shallots. So good!
Squirrel has been on a major steak kick; like, eat all the steak every day of the week. I love me some moo, but mama needs a break. However, I have plenty of room for this here recipe. Squirrel is gonna love this. Pinned.
This sounds so good to me right now!! Great dish!
Love peppers and steak….now, I am hungry for dinner!
Steak is one of my faves too! I will have to try this one!
I’m not sure there’s anything I WOULDN’T do for a big ‘ol bowl full of this right now!
My husband would absolutely adore this recipe! So would I!
I couldn’t serve this. The steak looks so good it probably wouldn’t make it into the bowl!
That looks amazing! I’ll take two big bowls! I also have a weakness for steak!
It’s all good, I love steak too. Now I want steak. Thanks Kim! Those peppers look perfect too. mmmm steak….
I live in Australia and have no idea what Tamari sauce is can you help me please!?
Where do you find Tamari sauce?
I’m obsessed with steak too, I’ll happily admit it. I’ve always wanted to buy a half a cow but now I’m thinking it may be a good thing that we can’t afford it. I wouldn’t be able to space out using it either. It would be gone in a month. Your steak and peppers look fantastic.
I’m seriously drooling just looking at all these photos. I’m a huge steak fan.
well I sure wish I was enjoying this for dinner, it looks like comfort food at it’s best!
Mother of God it’s 1 am and I’m seriously contemplating thawing out some beef and downing some coffee so I can grill. You make me HUNGRY!
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2019-04-25T03:53:20Z
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https://www.cravingsofalunatic.com/steak-and-peppers/
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The moms are back, and they’re badder than ever. Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn return for a sequel to the hit comedy that sees the three under-appreciated and over-worked moms facing a whole list of challenges at Christmas. But successfully navigating the holiday period is the least of their concerns as they face-off against their own mothers, played by Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, and Susan Sarandon.
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2019-04-20T14:41:17Z
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http://www.onscreenmagazine.co.uk/articles/a-bad-moms-christmas-red-band-trailer-123/
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What are these __FILE and __LINE_NUM parameters in my dashboard.lookml?
I have a LookML dashboard, generated from a user dashboard.
I just noticed there are a bunch of strage __FILE and __LINE_NUM parameters randomly strewn through the file. The __FILE has the path of the dashboard lookml file. the __LINE_NUM is always somewhat close to the line its found on.
What are these parameters and are they supposed to be there?
Those should not be there, you can delete them and all should be well.
This is a strange one— Is it generating those consistently for you or is there any peculiarity about the process to generate the dashboard or the dashboard itself? I’d be interested to know if you have table calcs on the dashboard too.
If I remove them from the LookML, export to a user defined dashboard, then export that back to LookML, they reappear every time.
It seems all instances are inside the export of a tile based on merged explores.
Thanks for those two reports, I’ve added this context to our existing reports— The merged result breadcrumb is useful.
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2019-04-21T16:35:05Z
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https://discourse.looker.com/t/what-are-these-file-and-line-num-parameters-in-my-dashboard-lookml/11449
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frogost.pt is a website that ranks 396,231 in Alexa. frogost.pt is ranked 1,469,268 on statisy and has 265 backlinks according to Alexa. The hostname or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) frogost.pt is identical to the domain name frogost.pt. The domain is registered under the domain suffix pt and is named frogost. The frogost.pt Server is hosted by ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. and is located in United States (Oregon). frogost.pt is not listed in the dmoz open directory project.
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2019-04-21T02:39:37Z
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http://statrr.com/overview/frogost.pt
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This page displays sold house prices for Percival Close in Chester.
Percival Close in Moston, Chester consists predominantly of semi-detached houses. Properties on Percival Close typically have values around £150,000 - £250,000, but larger detached houses can command upwards of £250,000.
Map showing Percival Close in Chester.
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2019-04-21T08:14:22Z
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https://www.chester.org.uk/house-prices/Percival_Close--Moston/
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