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PANO – Senior Lieutenant General Truong Quang Khanh, Deputy Minister of National Defence, received Dutch Ambassador to Vietnam Nienke Trooster on March 5th.
At the reception, the host held that Vietnam and the Netherlands are the maritime countries, so that they should uphold and share their experience on each side's strength, including defence industry.
He hoped that the Netherlands would help Vietnam develop the shipbuilding industry and grow a qualified human resource, carry out UN peacekeeping operations, surmount the post-war unexploded ordnances, and cope with climate change.
For her part, the Dutch Ambassador believed the two countries would maintain and bring into play their traditional cooperation ties, especially the bilateral defence cooperation.
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Gregor Unplugged: The Student Became the Teacher at Summer Institute
A student stepped in as the teacher on day four of the Boettcher Teacher Residents' and Stanley Teacher Prep Interns' journey into teaching. Each day of Summer Institute, the new teachers learn from Instructors and tryout new practices. But when Gregor, a Junior from East High School led the discussion, the realities of the student experience inspired and challenged the class of Residents / Interns.
GG Johnston, Gregor's mother and PEBC board member, and who also serves as Board Secretary, introduced her son to the audience of 100 eager new teachers. As his mother, GG is Gregor's education advocate. During his preschool years, teachers told GG that her son was different from the other students. By third grade, Gregor sensed it as well. After countless tests, Gregor was designated as twice exceptional. As early as elementary school, Gregor questioned the real-life relevance of school work, challenged his teachers with tough questions and occasionally acted out. Sadly, several of his elementary and middle school teachers were not prepared for his student needs and gave up on him as a learner. Fortunately in high school, Gregor met more teachers that reached him as a student.
After an emotional – and tear-jerking introduction, GG invited the audience of new teachers to ask her son about his student experience in a segment called, "Gregor Unplugged". Over the next thirty minutes, this teenage boy answered questions with more poise, maturity, and authenticity than most twenty-five-year-old men. After every answer, three more hands shot into the air to inquire about Gregor's life. Gregor explained that he disengaged in class when it felt rigid and contrived with very little real life application. Instead, he became engaged during hands-on learning and rich classroom conversation that went deep into rabbit holes as students explored their thoughts and beliefs. Because of those conversations, he shared, "I realized that I can learn anything I want to, as long as I have the right people to talk to."
Teachers that learned about their students as individuals reached Gregor. They truly knew and respected their students and were not afraid to show their own authentic personality. For Gregor, respect for students included an explanation of the subject matter relevance. Relevant material and teachers that were real people as opposed to actors with scripts motivated Gregor. His classroom behavior often mirrored his teacher's. Simply, if Gregor felt like he and his time were respected, he would show the teacher the same respect.
Gregor is not the only one who learns differently and he knows it. He acknowledges the challenge of teaching a class of students with unique learning styles. But he quickly challenged his audience to consider the idea that, "every person that thinks outside the box is going to think differently from one another."
Gregor did not shy away from sharing his dark experiences as a learner. In middle school, Gregor was not allowed to attend a field trip for three years and it hurt. Gregor was forced to sit absently in a full math class and was not handed a single assignment. He explained how it felt as a learner to be ignored by a teacher. When he shared those experiences, the entire room immediately empathized with the hurt and isolation of a special needs student.
As students, the Boettcher Teacher Residents and Stanley Teacher Prep Interns received a gift from this young man. They will call upon his experience as they learn new techniques and concepts in their coursework. When the importance of relationship building is repeated over and over again, the new teachers will remember what is necessary to actually reach Gregor. Very soon, the residents will learn to differentiate their instruction to meet the needs of all learners. As they plan a lesson, they will consider, "how would I teach Gregor this?" Soon after that, residents will learn the strategies to teach beyond the standards and instead teach for understanding. They will learn to lead the class that Gregor enjoys, the one that allocates time for hands-on learning and rabbit-hole conversations where students articulate their thinking and understanding.
Because of their class with Gregor, this group of new teachers will be better prepared to enter their Mentor's classroom this fall.

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Was coming from Vancouver to take a friend to a Doctor appointment .She decided with the lousy weather we have been having, to postpone it. Called hotel and told them it was not a good idea to travel. Staff was very understanding. Will book with them in the future once the weather clears up.
Older property is located on a main route with easy access to local shopping and restaurants as well as a quick trip to downtown Victoria. Large room was quiet and comfortable but a little dated. Free breakfast with lots of choices was quite enjoyable except the breakfast room was very messy and could be maintained better. Pub next door could be reached from the second floor and was very handy for supper.
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The EU Blizzard Customer Support team will lose over 100 of its staff by the end of 2018, due to a cash incentive. The main EU office is located in Cork, Ireland, and it's home to a relatively large staff. However, many of their team have accepted money to leave the company, taking advantage of a voluntary program that encourages employees to resign.
This has significantly increased the workload for the remaining staff members, forcing them to pick up the slack of those who left. The incentive program has been offered to staff members at the Cork office at least five times, and many have reported that the money was, "too good to pass up," according to an anonymous source.
Customers seeking support will now likely struggle to get the help they need, due to the lack of staff, and this will likely lower the morale in the workplace. Blizzard claims that they do not encourage employees to take advantage of this program and that it is voluntary. In a statement to Eurogamer, Blizzard addressed the situation:
The employees who are choosing to leave the company later this month are taking advantage of a voluntary and longstanding program we offer in various locations around the world. This program, which has proven popular in the past, gives eligible staff the option to make the most of incentives while proactively pursuing other career opportunities. No one is required or encouraged to participate in this program, but for those who do, we work hard to make it generous.
However, a Kotaku report stated that Blizzard set this in motion in an attempt to cut costs. The company is also being pushed to release more games more regularly to stagger its monthly users. While this story is still developing, it is absolutely fascinating that over 100 staff members will be resigning from the company and leaving so much work behind. Blizzard assures the community that customer service is a priority, a priority which will be hard to manage with so few staff members.
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About a decade ago, when DARPA Program Manager Dr. Jan Vandenbrande was a technical fellow and senior manager of the Applied Math, Geometry, and Optimization group at Boeing, he visited an assembly line where he could examine two of his company's iconic aircraft – the aluminum-body 777 and the 787, half of which is made of carbon-fiber-reinforced composite.
"What was absolutely remarkable to me was that the two structures were almost identical," Vandenbrande said, noting that more than a decade passed between the 777's maiden flight in 1994 and the 787's maiden flight in 2009. "We had gone from metals to a dramatically different material, a composite, yet we had not changed how we design and built the planes. Things were still being riveted together and we still shaped the two planes pretty much the same way."
Lightweight aircraft and ship structures, high-temperature jet engines, satellite mirrors and optics, and even the ceramic body armor that has saved so many of our warfighters' lives would not exist were it not for these advances.
While Vandenbrande's comments highlight the current challenges in material science and design from the vantage point of 2018, it is easy to forget that the path to even considering load-bearing composite aircraft structures was long and arduous. It is equally easy to take for granted all of the capabilities made possible by advances in materials science over the last 50 years. Lightweight aircraft and ship structures, high-temperature jet engines, satellite mirrors and optics, and even the ceramic body armor that has saved so many of our warfighters' lives would not exist were it not for these advances. Composites, high-strength plastics, and lightweight metals have likewise revolutionized the commercial world.
More than 60 years ago, during the heart of the Cold War, such capabilities did not exist. Many in the technology community viewed materials as "the single most limiting factor on progress in military, space and nuclear system development," according to a detailed study by Richard J. Barber Associates of DARPA's early years. However, it was not until the job of overcoming those limitations was given to a fledgling agency with a charter for innovation that things really got going. And so began a nearly 60-year relationship between DARPA and the science community.
And that relationship began in a disciplinary scrum of sorts. On July 11, 1960, just a little more than two years after it was chartered, DARPA (then ARPA) announced the creation of three interdisciplinary laboratories (IDLs) at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Northwestern University. Over the next several years, the IDL roster would increase to a dozen universities and serve as a model for the establishment of materials programs all over the country. DARPA provided the IDLs with stable funding for research and equipment and a tolerance of – actually a demand for – an interdisciplinary approach to developing materials. With the formation of the IDLs, DARPA is widely recognized for its catalytic role in the creation of the field that became known as materials science and engineering. While DARPA handed the IDL program off to the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1972, which changed the program's name to the Materials Research Laboratories (MRL) program, this was only the beginning of the DARPA material science story.
The concept of IPM is to use in-situ sensors to monitor a material manufacturing process as it unfolds, and to compare what you are measuring at each step with what the process models are predicting the state of the material to be.
From the 1960s through the 1970s, DARPA led the charge of developing materials capabilities for defense, most often with significant support from the Department of Defense's service laboratories – including the Naval Research Laboratory, and what are now the Army Research Laboratory and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Among the long list of materials that were becoming available for defense systems were high-temperature, nickel-based superalloys for high-performing jet engines, ceramic tank armor to combat advances in Soviet anti-armor weapons, and large, precise, stable, low-weight and low-scatter beryllium mirrors for space and missile guidance. Also included in these materials were composites of all ilks – metal matrix, ceramic matrix, carbon-carbon, and early versions of those same polymer composites in Vandenbrande's 787.
As the services increased their role in materials development, DARPA turned to a problem that emerged as a direct result of those advancing materials capabilities. The specific properties, strengths, and weaknesses of a material are derived from both its composition and the way that composition evolves into the material's underlying microstructures during a variety of process treatments such as heating, cooling, pressing, or extruding. Processing these new, complex materials in a way that meets performance specifications at high yield with predicable properties proved to be a significant challenge.
To attack this problem, DARPA convened an extensive set of discussions and brainstorming sessions involving DARPA program managers, professionals in the manufacturing trenches, and advisers on the Defense Sciences Research Council (DSRC) to determine how to advance the field of materials processing for these emerging complex materials. The result was the Intelligent Processing of Materials (IPM) program, that in the words of Dr. Haydn Wadley, Edgar Starke Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia, "was sufficiently general that it could – and eventually was – applied to almost every materials process, yet sufficiently precise that it could reduce the variability of each of these processes."
The concept of IPM is to use in-situ sensors to monitor a material manufacturing process as it unfolds, and to compare what you are measuring at each step with what the process models are predicting the state of the material to be. If there is a variation between what is measured and what is predicted, then engineers can use the process models to determine what processing parameters they need to adjust to get the process under control. IPM was a perfect fit for DARPA, as it was enabled by a confluence of game-changing capabilities in microelectronics, computer science, and a new concept, artificial intelligence – all technologies championed by DARPA.
The vision of IPM could not have been more alluring to materials scientists, who at that time still generally relied on measurements made after the process was done to determine if a material they were trying to deliver was likely to meet specifications for a given application. "The idea was not just to measure the heating cycle, pressure course, chemical environment, and other relevant variables in a materials manufacturing process, but to also sense the attributes of the material that dictated its performance for its intended application," Wadley explained.
"[IPM] has had a transformational impact upon the processing of materials. It rapidly spread and is pervasively used everywhere materials are processed – from integrated steel mills to microelectronic foundries," he added. What's more, Wadley noted that the practice of IPM yields a "digital twin" of a manufactured material, that is, a digital record of the specific evolving environment that brought a batch of material into existence. This is just the sort of data that researchers subsequently could summon to address weaknesses in their materials models and in the expert systems and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools that the IPM adventure revealed. IPM changed how materials were made.
Even with the ascent of IPM, SFF manufacturing, and other data-reliant advances, there was so much art, artisan knowledge, and empirical trial and error in the mix that advances in materials still remained a slow-go exercise.
As IPM took hold in the materials and manufacturing communities in the 1990s, it presaged how the coming Information Age would continue to drive the evolution of how materials are invented, made, and deployed. Emblematic of this phase was the emergence of solid free form (SFF) manufacturing, now known more familiarly as 3-D printing or additive manufacturing. This opened the way to forming material structures layer-by-layer and even point-by-point straight from a digital file.
"The focus was on ceramic components, which were notoriously hard to prototype because they required expensive molds or machining, typically with diamond abrasives," explained Dr. William Coblenz, a ceramic scientist and former program manager. "Only designers who absolutely needed the properties the ceramic provided, or those with negative risk aversity, would design with ceramics." As a result, many of ceramics' fantastic properties, among them high-heat operation and toughness, were lost on designers, who were more apt to rely on materials that were easier to work with.
Even with the ascent of IPM, SFF manufacturing, and other data-reliant advances, there was so much art, artisan knowledge, and empirical trial and error in the mix that advances in materials still remained a slow-go exercise. At the same time, designers of engines, aircraft, and other systems were leveraging new computational tools to speed up their design cycle. A new engine design could take a few years, while it could take a decade or two to develop a new material to the point where engineers and designers actually would embrace it. This temporal mismatch meant that designers, unable to wait out the time it took to certify a potentially more capable new material, were constrained by the materials that were already available.
Taking on the challenge, DARPA began to look into what it would take to shorten the time for insertion of a new material into a DOD application, allowing designers to be less constrained in their selection of new materials. As with IPM, DARPA enlisted the entire materials research community, including the DSRC, and from that the Accelerated Insertion of Materials (AIM) program was born. The concept of AIM was to integrate system design into the development of a new material right from the start.
"In AIM, we turned the question around and asked: What does the designer need to know to use a new material?" said Dr. Leo Christodoulou, who was the program manager for AIM, a former director of the Agency's Defense Sciences Office, and who is now Enterprise Technology Strategy Leader at Boeing. It was an approach designed to mitigate the impasse caused by the lack of the performance data that a designer needed to greenlight the use of a material. "The aim of AIM was to reduce the time it takes to introduce a new material into service," said Christodoulou. "It was all about managing the uncertainty in the use of a new material. Nobody wanted to be the first to use a material, because something might go wrong."
This new approach called for relying more on powerful assets of data, computation, and modeling and far less on the sluggish, trial-and-error process of the past. The idea behind AIM was to make the distinction between computation and experiment go away so that computational and lab experiments become interchangeable data sources.
If materials engineers and manufacturers could master this exquisite degree of control over material structure, they could responsibly imagine such things as strong and featherweight aircraft made out of structural materials designed and grown to have massive amounts of empty interior space like the bones of birds.
Along with work at the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, the AIM program led to a sea change in materials development and ultimately to the discipline of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME). "The DARPA AIM program on the acceleration of materials technology is probably the single research program with the most impact on the field," according to Dr. Greg Olson, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University and founder of a company based on computational materials science. "I see computational materials engineering as the greatest innovation in materials since the iron swords of the Hittites," added Olson, referring to the anomalously early accomplishment of the Hittite culture to smelt iron some 3,800 years ago – while the world was still in the Bronze Age.
Follow-on work beyond the AIM program, supported by both DARPA and the Navy, helped to establish 3-D characterization and simulation techniques for materials structure. The computational and simulation tools that emerged from these efforts made for a natural fit with DARPA's championing of Solid Freeform Fabrication in the 1990s, a precursor of today's rapidly advancing infrastructure of additive manufacturing and 3-D printing. "The adaptation of the AIM acceleration approach to 3-D printing technology to rapidly qualify 3-D printing technology is a tremendous advance," Olson said, referring to the parallel need to certify the usability of 3-D parts in actual systems along with the ability to make the parts in the first place.
With the growing ability to use 3-D printing to combine form and functions in ways that had not been possible before, said Vandenbrande, "we have opened up the design space significantly." This ushers in another set of challenges, of course. 3-D printing provides the possibility of engineering the properties of each volumetric pixel, or voxel, of a part. The amount of data and computation required to do that is enormous. "What we need is a new set of maths and algorithms that can describe materials and the shapes they comprise in one kind of cohesive way," said Vandenbrande. Coming, he added, is the ability to design multiple functions – think here of aircraft skins that combine structural, sensing, cloaking, and antenna functions – in a fully integrated way.
If materials engineers and manufacturers could master this exquisite degree of control over material structure, they could responsibly imagine such things as strong and featherweight aircraft made out of structural materials designed and grown to have massive amounts of empty interior space like the bones of birds. The current DARPA Atoms to Product (A2P) program, which is all about developing means for assembling nanometer- to micron-scale components into larger human-scale systems, heads in these directions.
Which brings us full circle to Vandenbrande's observations over a decade ago – and highlights the next great challenge that DARPA is taking on. Vandenbrande refers to this as solving "the inverse problem in design." This is where the designers would first specify the performance values for a system and its parts – whether it is a missile, ground vehicle, or prosthetic limb – and hand those off to computational and modeling tools to generate multiple solutions that balance shape with the detailed material structures that could deliver the performance and functionality required by the design specifications. His current programs, Fundamental Design (FUN Design) and Transformative Design (TRADES), are developing the foundational mathematics and algorithms to initiate this vision.
Vandenbrande envisions a time when computers become a true partner in design, capable of integrating advanced and emerging material architectures, to create systems currently unimaginable today – perhaps an aircraft additively built up of ultra-light micro-structures that resemble bird bones. When there is seamless integration of materials, design, and manufacturing, Vandenbrande will know that his vision has become reality.


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The United States Supreme Court has struck down the cap placed on political donations. Today's ruling, split along ideological lines, is the next step of the abolition of financial limits placed on donors for election spending, striking down a decades-old cap on individual contributions to candidates during a two-year election cycle. Considering ruling was delivered near the beginning of campaign season, it will undoubtedly increase the already major role money plays in politics.
The 5-4 ruling was brought forth from the Supreme Court's conservative block, which was similar to the voting spread in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010). The ruling four years ago struck down limits placed on corporations and unions for spending towards political campaigns. Although the Court's decision amends campaign finance law, most importantly, it limits the way in which the government can justify laws that restrict First Amendment free speech rights regarding campaign contributions.
The final written brief emanates the majority's distrustfulness of the government's efforts to regulate political participation. Whereas the liberal minority stated that government oversight is necessary safeguard effective democracy.
Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts, explained in his brief that limits on political spending cannot pass the test of strict scrutiny regarding First Amendment cases. "There is no right more basic than the right to participate in the electing our political leaders," he stated. Justice Roberts was joined in the majority by Justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Anthony Kennedy.
Although the First Amendment protects actions that may seem repugnant to some Americans, such as flag burning and protesting at funerals, it wholeheartedly protects, notwithstanding profound transgressions, the right to political campaign speech despite popular opinion.
Oral dissents from the bench are few and far in between; however, Justice Stephen Breyer, of the minority, insisted that the deregulation of campaign spending raises the ceiling for political contributions to "the number infinity". He also explained that the decision was too narrow to see the entire picture of campaign finance law. Breyer fervently stated that the removal of the cap on political contributions has the ability to muffle the voice of the people with money.
The decision did not affect the general limits on contributions from individuals to specific candidates, currently set at $2,600 per candidate in both primary and general elections. However, the decision explains the overall limit of $48,600 every two years of donations from individuals to an aggregate of federal candidates violated the First Amendment. Furthermore, the collective limits on donations to political action committees (PACs) is still limited to $74,600.
Joined by Justices, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Breyer stated that the decision will allow, "a single individual to contribute millions of dollars to a political party or to a candidate's campaign."
The decades-long battle over campaign finance law began with the decision brought forth in Buckley v. Valeo (1976) in the wake of the Watergate affair, with Justice Warren Burger writing for the Court. While individual spending is political speech protected by the First Amendment, as the Court stated, contributions can be limited to prevent corruption. Chief Justice Roberts explained that the jurisprudence created by the Buckley ruling remains, regardless of the Supreme Court's currently ruling. Moreover, he added, "we see no need to revisit Buckley's distinction between contributions and expenditures".
Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling demolished the sense of a "leveling the playing field" on the nation's political stage. Although purveyors of campaign finance law have a vested interest of anticorruption, it was clear that it only hindered the essential rights Americans are given in the First Amendment of the Constitution. Since the 2012 presidential election had, in the aggregate, nearly two billion dollars in contributions, one can only speculate that the next election cycle could net far, far more.
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There's something about walking into a restaurant and eliciting genuine smiles and personal greetings from all of the servers and managers. In the West Village, M and I are lucky to feel that way quite often. There are many small restaurants we frequent (some as often as one a week on average) where we are warmly greeted by name and quickly seated. Our orders are remembered, our silly nuances and preferences accommodated without a questioning look or NYC eye-roll. Many people cite NYC as being an anonymous city. A city that moves too fast, leaving no time for the human experience on the whole, a city where people are busy pushing by you and don't stop to talk to you. Da Andrea is one of the handful of places in the city that really 'slows' down for us, despite the restaurants incredible popularity.
Formerly of Hudson Street, Da Andrea offers homemade pastas, delicious seafood, fantastic meats and everything else in between for absolutely incredible prices. Nothing off the regular menu is above $20 and the fish specials are the only thing which exceed that price point (usually around $23 for a tuna or other premium fish). It's a perfect place to go with a big group (the back area is usually reserved for larger parties) and also a great place to go "just the two of you". A small amount of outdoor eating allows you to enjoy West 13th's quiet pace while the windows to the restaurant also open in the warmer weather for an enjoyable breeze. I could write a post on every entrée, a love poem about my feelings for this treasure, but instead I'll make it easier for all of us….
- Prosciutto plate: freshly baked and doughy small rolls with mouth watering prosciutto. Sprinkle a little of the fresh parmesan on top, you'll thank me later.
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- Grilled calamari or grilled octopus, both are delicious, flavorful and fantastic starts to a meal here. You can't go wrong with any appetizers, but these flavors just don't fail to impress.
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- Fresh pastas, all delicious in their own right but their meat ragus/sauces are truly rich, warm, deep and boldly Italian
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- Zuppa di Pesce: this is my go to order. You'll rarely find me ordering anything else. Reminiscent of a cioppino, all of the seafood (calamari, mussels, fish, shrimp and other treasures) is cooked in a zesty and delicious tomato broth and I absolutely savor every bite. Don't forget to let the grilled breadsticks sop up the broth and enjoy them mid-way through…(Yes, I take this dish seriously….)
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- Lamb: although I am not a huge lamb person myself, having tried this I can attest to its epic size and taste. It is truly an amazing piece of meat.
Enjoy the generous portions, the great service and everything else about Da Andrea. Just don't take my table.
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The Sirens go deep in to the classic horror trope of the final girl and all new What We're Loving!
In this episode, The Sirens chop up the classic horror trope of the "final girl", looking closely at where it happens and why. This episode also features the very first special guest to the show, Cory Chandler, a horror writer and artist. As usual, we also bring you a new bundle of goodies to check out in "What We're Loving".


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A day ago, a vase of flowers
Sat right in that spot
A year ago, there were different flowers
In a different pot
Ten years ago, I'm told, that corner
Held a cozy chair
Fifty years ago, this whole house
Wasn't even there
A hundred years ago, this spot
Was farmland, all around
A thousand years ago, it was
A fruitful hunting ground
Four billion years ago, the earth
Was just a lifeless ball
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Issue 1.1 - John Hawkhead
shared jigsaw
pressing our pieces
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surface tension
you dip a toe
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1/6/2019 12:51:56 pm
Enjoyed all the pieces, and the photo is ace, and I can imagine someone for real making those marks, if not physically, at least mentally, as this world gets darker and narrower by the actions of those in power.
John Hawkhead
1/13/2019 11:28:41 am
Thanks Alan - the photo was taken up at the Westinghouse site in Chippenham a day before the building and this old steel door were demolished. I have been thinking a lot recently about the me-too movement, the influences of patriarchy and how my life has been conditioned. No major complaints on my part, but I wonder about my actions over the years and how they might have been different. More thinking for me - I think!
1/13/2019 03:32:56 pm
Ah, yes, there is ever need for all of us to look closely at ourselves year in year out, and try to maintain our humanity. It's certainly a challenge as we've witnessed in recent years.
Jan Benson
2/20/2019 02:13:28 am
Dear John,
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The Collegio Timpano was initially the residence for women students of the Scuola Normale Superiore. Now it functions as a residence for students and visitors and is divided internally into three residences: Timpano, Timpanino and Acconci. The building, located along the Arno River, on the Lungarno Pacinotti, was donated to the Scuola Normale in 1932 by the Calabrese Domenico Timpano, a colourful character who had made money by producing tonic drinks containing alcohol at his pharmaceutical company and selling them in the United States during the period of Prohibition.
This was the first building donated to the Scuola Normale, and arrived at a moment of intense renewal of the Scuola Normale. In 1932, in fact, the new Scuola Normale, reformed by Gentile, was inaugurated. The Scuola Normale under Gentile had an expanded main building, the Palazzo della Carovana, and with the annexation of the Collegio Puteano and the D. Timpano residence, the number of rooms available for students rose from fifteen to sixty one.
When the nearby bridge was bombed during the Second World War, the Timpano building was damaged; it was reconstructed in the '50s.


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Raucous, busy tap house
Beer, whiskey, Old Fashioneds, and more beer
Sausages, burgers, and golden fries
Dedicated runners with serious beer knowledge
Tell us about this place.
Even with its sprawling size and massive, oval-shaped bar, Loyal Legion is usually packed, especially on the weekends. Set in the center of the room, the bar is filled with all manner of whiskeys, and surrounded by the 100-odd taps that give the bar its name. Tufted leather furniture fills the booths, giving it whiskey-bar vibes.
Great. So who will we see here?
Loyal Legion is filled with all sorts of folk, though most of its clientele are regulars who drop in for a beer or two. It's also a popular spot for groups, including friends out for birthdays, work celebrations, or just general revelry.
Got it. What should we be drinking?
Originally, Loyal Legion was almost entirely focused on beer. Today, there's a full Old Fashioned menu with multiple combinations of spirits and bitters, plus other fun libations and a robust collection of whiskey. Still, most patrons are here for the beers: nearly 100 ales, ciders, lagers, and meads, all from Oregon. The selection is so vast, in fact, that you might be worried that the quality of the tap lines will suffer—but the bar quells those concerns with a detailed diagram, printed right on the menu, explaining how it cares for its brews.
Oh, thank goodness. So what's on the food menu? Is there anything we have to order?
Loyal Legion serves foods that best pair with beer: sausages, burgers, and fried chicken sandwiches. The kitchen is small, but the food comes out quickly. Tthe French fries, served in a conical basket on a metal stand, are amazing.
Noted. How's the service?
Loyal Legion's bartenders work hard—the oval-shaped bar is the longest in town—and spend their entire shift running back and forth along it to fill orders. They're also expected—and trained—to know each beer, plus the many whiskeys. Even still, they're immediately attentive and always seem like they're in a great mood, no matter how hectic it gets.
Great. So why would you recommend a visitor to Portland plan to check out Loyal Legion?
Visiting Loyal Legion is the fastest, most efficient way to explore the massive repertoire of beers the state has to offer. And the best way to do that is with a tasting platter, eight or so small glasses of beers, helpfully labeled on a sheet so you remember what you're drinking. It's a place to hang out with friends you haven't seen in a while, share some beers, and grab a quick dinner.
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Five reasons to get behind skateboarding at the Olympics
There's no stopping it. Olympic qualification for Tokyo 2020 in skateboarding is underway.
While we watch to find out who will make it, here are some reasons to get behind skateboarding's inclusion to the Olympic Games.
Podcast: Why Olympic skateboarding at Tokyo 2020 will be great
Podcast: Why Olympic skateboarding at Tokyo 2020 will be greatWomen's skateboarding, the ultra-competitive USA team, and core skating. There's a lot to talk about as the countdown to the Olympics is officially on for skateboarding with qualification already underway. We caught up with Dashawn Jordan and Jenn Soto to talk gender equality and equal pay in skating. Plus, will we ever see skateboarding at the Paralympics? Oscar Loreto Jr and Aaron Wheelz Fotheringham are hoping to make that dream a reality.
Women's skateboarding
"(The Olympics is) a big opportunity for skateboarding to grow," US skater Dashawn Jordan said to the Olympic Channel Podcast.
It has meant contests are now running men's and women's competitions at the same time rather than separately.
"Whether it's for men or women, we're all one at the end of the day," Jordan added.
Although, US skater Jenn Sotto believes that there's still a pay gap.
"It's definitely nowhere near (equal pay)."
"I feel like everywhere in the world beyond skateboarding – we still have got a lot of work to do."
More trips
Exploring new places is one of the joys of skateboarding.
Opportunities are now being created for some skaters to travel to contests and see parts of the world they have never visited.
Kendra Long is 13 and is already competing at a top international level.
She had never been to Europe before but then USA Skateboarding sent her an email inviting her to take part in the World Skate / SLS event in the UK.
"I was just in school. During eighth period, I was showing off going like, 'I am going to London!'"
"It was awesome."
As the calendar for Olympic qualification is built out, there could be more chances for people to travel the world to represent their nations and skate places they've never visited.
Skate parks are being built
The Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo will have two courses for both skateboarding disciplines: street and park.
The plan is for these to be permanent and available for skateboarders long after the Olympics finish.
"The guidance has been that the parks will look and feel like top international-level street and park courses that the skaters are used to," Josh Friedberg, CEO of USA Skateboarding, said.
"But I'm sure they'll be something special for the Olympics."
In London, there are plans for a new park to be built for the public.
Stuart Maclure helped save the legendary South Bank skate spot in central London.
Now, he's involved in plans to build a new spot in the London 2012 Olympic Park.
"(It's) one great positive about skating at the Olympics," Maclure said to the Olympic Channel Podcast.
"(The plan is to) use items that have been thrown away. We can re-purpose them and then use them to have skate schools and just be open to the public."
Opportunities for African skaters
The way qualification works for the Olympics means that each continent should be represented.
There will be at least one participant from Africa in each of the four skateboarding events at Tokyo 2020.
Skateboarding has huge potential for growth in the continent.
South Africa's Jean-marc Johannes has made it clear that he would like to represent his country at the Olympic Games.
"(It) would be more than a dream come true for me," Johannes said.
"It will also be a great motivation to aspiring athletes in the Cape Flats area... to chase their dreams."
It could also be the start of more African skaters finding their way into the Olympics.
Paving a potential Paralympic pathway
Skateboarding won't be at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
But that isn't stopping skaters from trying to make it happen in the future.
"I will not rest until I see adaptive skaters at the Paralympic Games," Oscar Loreto Jr said to the Olympic Channel Podcast.
"I will die happy. I have done my job."
Loreto Jr hopes that adaptive skaters will be invited to do a demo at more contests.
"Inclusion, opportunities, and exposure are the biggest needs right now (for adaptive skateboarding)," said Josh Friedberg from USA Skateboarding.
The Olympic Channel Podcast showcases the most inspirational and motivational stories around the Games every Wednesday.


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by Olu Talabi (based on RLCF Bible Study on December 9, 2015)
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?… Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. (Romans 6:3-6)
As with every command of God, including those involving an external act, obedience is what God primarily seeks after and an inward reality that draws us nearer to Him. We see these in commands involving circumcision and the offering of sacrifices. In these and others, God desired something deeper than the external acts themselves; that is, the circumcision of the heart, obedience from the heart, etc. (see: Deuteronomy 10:16, Jeremiah 4:4, Jeremiah 7:21-23, Psalm 50:8-14).
Baptism is no different. It is more than an application of water to a man. According to the words of Paul in Romans 6, it is an inward realization of the death of our old man. Our allegiance changing from a life in sin to the application of ourselves to the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. The question then remains: if our old man is crucified, why do many believers still 'struggle' and face defeat by sin in their daily experience?
The simple answer to this most pressing question is that while indeed our old man is crucified with Christ (an objective work done by our Lord as we relate to salvation through Him alone), there remains a subjective work of we putting to death the flesh which continues to war with the Spirit of the new man now dwelling in us. In other words, the flesh is not completely removed from our daily experience, yet, scriptures command that we must wrestle with, and daily put to death the flesh and its expressions in our lives. This will only be accomplished by first reckoning ourselves dead to sin (death of our old man)-Romans 6:11; putting off that old man and actively putting on the new man (Jesus Christ)- Ephesians 4:22-24; Colossians 3:9-10; Romans 13:14; and daily walking in the Spirit of Christ by whom we prevail against the flesh -Galatians 5:16.
It is quite an amazing declaration to us in Scripture that we are dead to sin and it must not have power over us (Romans 6:7 and 14); almost unbelievable, yet, very true and possible in experience to the man who simply believes God's Word rather than his feeble mind. We need look no further to the possibility of a life that is free from sin than to Jesus Christ who as a man like we are, and tempted in every way, sinned not. A man like us has prevailed over sin; we follow Him in every way into the same victory.
There is a choice we as believers must make daily. A choice either to still carry around our dead old man and yield to its instruments of the flesh, or to put off this old man and actively put on Jesus Christ every day and live by His Spirit (Romans 13:14). In Christ alone rests our victory over sin and the flesh. We will continue to be tempted while in our earthly bodies, but temptation is not sin. God allows these temptations to come our way that we, by the power of His Spirit, may prevail and grow stronger in Him (James 1:2-4; Ephesians 3:16). This, by the grace of God, must be our testimony after baptism.


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How to warm up?
A while back a guy named Ralf asked me how to warm up and cool down properly. This is one of the most important aspects of safe and injury free training, but I haven't made a lot of videos about it nor did I write an article on this subject. It's time to change that!
Why is it important?
The importance of doing a proper warm up can be found back in the fact that your muscles need to get prepared for a strenuous workout. If you immediately start to deadlift with 300 kg you'll injure yourself big time. You probably won't even be able to get the weight off the floor in the first place, but besides that your body wouldn't agree with your decision to do this without a warm up. Your muscles will damage (pulling or even tearing your muscles) and your back will give up on you. In other words, it's a stupid idea. Instead your muscles need to get warmed up, lose their stiffness and get an increased blood flow to them so they can get all the energy that is needed.
Not only that, also the psychological aspect of the warm up is essential. You prepare your mind for the upcoming challenges and you build up your confidence. If you want to do a 150 kg squat then it helps a lot if you first get down the correct form with a lighter weight. An example would be to squat with only 60 kg as a warm up, just to feel in control of the correct technique. This aspect should not be underestimated as it's crucial in proper and safe training. For athletes like football, tennis or basketball players, gymnasts of martial artists (to name a few out of many) the warm up gives you the extra edge. Not only does it prevent you from getting injured, it also allows your brain to adapt to an upcoming match or an intense training.
The opposite of a warm up is the cool down. If you stop an intense activity all of the sudden your body needs to adjust to the shock. After sprinting all out it's best to take a short break, but right after that go for a short run on a low phase to let your body slowly adapt to the non-activity again. Again there is a psychological aspect to this too. You gradually quit the sport or activity so it wouldn't be so much of a shock to your body.
How to warm up and cool down?
Warming up your body is not exactly rocket science. What you need to do is start with an activity of fairly low to moderate intensity. An example would be to go for a run at the speed of 7-8 km/hour (which is slow). The further you get into your warm up the higher your intensity should be. So basically you're building up to the intensity you're trying to achieve during the main workout. At the end of your warm up you would run at a speed of 12-14 km/hour for example. That's just an example that I could give you regarding running. There are more examples following by the way, so if you're not into running there will still be plenty of examples for you to use.
Once again, the cool down is the opposite of a warm up. That also means the intensity goes down the further you get in the cool down process. So to get back to the example of running you start with 12-14 km/hour and at the end you run for only 7-8 km/hour until you only walk. The duration of a warm up and cool down can vary, but a general rule of thumb is to warm up in about 5-10 minutes and the cool down can take 10-15 minutes or so. Obviously it really depends on your type of sport, goal and personal preference. Personally I only warm up for a maximum of 5 minutes.
Warm up for gymnasts, martial artists and dancers
The main difference between these athletes and the general athlete or fitness enthusiast is that I think flexibility training should be part of the workout. Now I will explain to you later why you should avoid static stretching as part of your warm up, but dynamic stretching is definitely an important part of your warm up. Even static stretching could be part of a warm up for gymnasts, martial artists and dancers, depending on what kind of skills they are going to perform. These athletes can start with a 5 minute general warm up like jogging or rope skipping to get the blood flowing after which they could start with a specific warm up. Doing some handstands, push ups, shadow boxing, spinning and so on can all be considered specific warm up exercises for these sports. You can incorporate dynamic stretches like leg swings, arm rotations and much more to your workout and even do some static stretching like practicing your split before going on to the real work.
Warm up for athletes (team or individual sports)
In this category you'll find many sports from swimming, to cycling, to football or tennis. All of these athletes should start with a general warm up like running for a while, swimming with low intensity or skipping rope to get your blood flowing, to warm up and increase flexibility of your muscles and to mentally prepare yourself for the upcoming activity. Flexibility training can be skipped or should be limited to dynamic stretching and then sports specific warm ups like shooting and passing a ball, cycling or practicing your service.
Warm up for fitness athletes, bodybuilders and powerlifters
The way I warm up is by doing the exercise I'm going to perform with a lighter intensity than during the actual training. So if I plan to do a 80 kg bench press I start with a set of 50 kg of 15-20 repetitions of the bench press. After a short break (1-2 minutes) I do the actual 80 kg bench press. Sometimes I see people do an entire warm up before their workout. If they have scheduled to do bench presses, squats and military presses they do all those exercises with a lighter intensity during their warm up. However, there is no point in warming up your legs if you first need to finish 4 sets of bench presses, before getting to the squat. That's why I always prepare the muscle that I am going to train, right before I'm going to train it. That means I warm up for my bench presses after which the actual bench press is performed during the main workout. After that it's time to do my warm up set of squats and then the actual squats with heavy weights, etc. You can start your warm up with some general exercises to raise your body's temperature, increase your range of motion and mentally prepare for the workout that's coming. Since I dislike to do warm ups I often skip the general warm up and get down to the specific warm up exercises immediately. The cool down can be the same as your warm up in this case, although you could also choose to do a general cooling down where you go for a jog for example.
Stretching, warm ups and cool down
A big misconception that many athletes, coaches and even PE teachers have is that you should stretch as part of your warm up. That's a big no-no! Passive stretching, where you don't move, but just hold a stretch for a while, relaxes your body, which is something you don't want while preparing for a match, fight or strenuous workout. Instead focus on general warm up exercises or do dynamic stretches where your muscles are stretched during an active motion. Leg swinging, knee lifting and the like are perfect examples to increase flexibility while actively warming up.
This only covers the basics of warm ups and cool downs. There can be found a lot of information regarding these topics. Your coach may have taught you a lot of basic warm up exercises for your sport or activity specifically. Use them to your advantage, but stick to these general guidelines I've set out for you to avoid injuries and to allow you to deliver your maximum performance.


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I'm wondering if you've noticed how often these kinds of thoughts slip through your mind?
I can't....I should....I have to.....
Me too. ;)
And in the past I viewed my negative thinking as another thing that I couldn't do "right".
The big burden I was carrying was that I had to do all things
good enough
right enough
fast enough.
In other words - just doing my best was never
So - what I've learned along the way was to use those negative thoughts as mile-markers in my journey - instead of the negative validation of the lies I'd been conditioned to believe that I truly was NOT enough and held no power over the miserable state of my existence.
Did you catch that?
Existing is different that living and I was so very tired of only existing, coping, managing....surviving.
Yes; I had survived horrible things.
But I wanted more than the constant struggle where I lived in distress, where I managed symptoms and avoided triggering events, isolated, hibernated and felt as though my life was a complete mistake...
while I searched for someone or something that would make me feel better and make it all just
go away.
One key I found in my journey was in understanding that it wasn't helpful to simply brush those thoughts to the side, dismissing them as unimportant, wrong or bad...
but to use them to guide my healing journey.
Yes. Using the negative thoughts to guide my journey.
You see - when I was dismissing my own thoughts and feelings of inadequacy I was doing the same thing as those who had TAUGHT me that I - my thoughts, my feelings, my choices - held no value and that this was justification for the way I was treated.
I had been taught to invalidate myself by those who had invalided me first.
I had learned not to see myself as the creator of my life but rather to deny everything that made me an individual...
my thoughts, feelings, opinions, likes, dislikes, choices, behaviors...
I had learned to doubt everything about me that made me....me.
The side issue is that those who taught me this also saw themselves as invalid and this is how this abuse, neglect and dysfunction is passed from generation to generation. This became grounds for more healing in regards to putting responsibility back with those who abused me while at the same time learning to have compassion for their experiences.
But I digress:)
The solution for me was to:
- Understand that these kinds of thoughts; the have to's, should's and cant's are thoughts that tell me I'm feeling powerless - not that I AM powerless
- Understand that those thoughts are my normal not because I'm defective or disordered but because it is how I was taught to view myself as worthless and helpless when my power was taken from me in the original trauma - that there is a REASON I felt powerless over my life circumstances
- Understand that I can LEARN to claim my power and change my life and circumstance and that being aware of my own thoughts, feelings and recognizing that I was powerless and am no longer powerless was the foundation of it all
How did I begin to do this?
By understanding that by continuing to dwell on and use these kinds of statements...
I have to....I should....I can't....
That I was fueling that feeling of helplessness, hopelessness and powerlessness.
And - that by learning to change the words I used to
I could...I can...I want...I won't...
I began to see that I held the power within myself
to create the change that would in the end
change my life.
From the archives:
I AM....and I am NOT Powerless
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New Show to Replace "Flights of Wonder" at Animal Kingdom in 2018
A new show featuring a cast of exotic birds, along with Russell and Dug from Disney•Pixar's "UP," is coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom in time for the park's 20th anniversary next spring. As part of this new show, Guests will enjoy seeing Senior Wilderness Explorer Russell and his furry friend, Dug, as they discover species of birds from around the world in their newest bird adventure each day at the Caravan Theater, which can be found near the Yak & Yeti restaurant in the village of Anandapur.
Get ready for new "UP" close encounters with amazing winged creatures when this all-new show opens in spring 2018! To prepare for this new show, Flights of Wonder will have its last performance on December 31.
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The best and quickest and easiest solution is probably what debiman said above. That thread you linked is like 30 yrs old or something. It had the same suggestion in it for fixing the problem. Reinstall.
Everybody wants to help, but if you run 3rd party repos, nobody will want to spend time on it. It's not supported, it's not easy to fix. Even if you get it 'stable' somehow you'll never be sure about it.
The -dmo- pkg themselves aren't the only problem. Sometimes "out-of repo" pkgs can make configuration changes that can persist and cause weird problems for years, or until you find them. You can replace the bad pkg with the debian ver, but the configuration is still there without a purge of every pkg from -dmo- repo. Even after a purge, your configuration in /home remains and that adds more potential misconfiguartion.
If you want a stable system that works, use stable. Stick with stable. When you install something from outside stable, make sure you know exactly what it does, and what files it changes when you install it. Taking notes is not a bad idea.
Relevant to the thread is why you would add this http://debian.c3sl.ufpr.br/debian-multimedia to your sources.list? Why did you do this? Who told you to do it? Why did you not understand that this a 3rd party mirror for dmo that can break your debian system?
I would like to see direct links, and names. How did that get in your sources.list?


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It's just two days away.
From Snoop dog to Weezer and Loverboy, get ready for big names at this year's SunFest. The fun starts Wednesday and runs through Sunday.
Roads are already closed in parts of downtown West Palm Beach as crews finish up constructing huge stages and vendor areas.
Not only is there going to be lots of live music but also some new additions to the arts as well. Local artists like Beju Lejobart are busy preparing for the festival.
"It is my tallest, my biggest yet," said Lejobart, pointing to his colorful and eye-catching sculptures, a character he created called "Dudali".
"I'm actually in the process of trademarking the name," said Lejobart.
Lejobart and his godson spent a few hours on Monday constructing the 18-foot tall blue and yellow sculpture in the median on Flagler Drive.
"Dudali is made of PVC pipes and it's a human character that I configure -- any way that the human body can take -- I can do with my Dudali," he said.
The sculpture set up at SunFest features two figures engaged in an intricate tango dance.
"I express myself through body language, so when you have several together, they interact. The idea is that you will want to interact with them," he said. "That's why they're really popular. Right now, there's a couple on Clematis on a bench, people take selfies with them."
The Dudali sculptures have garnered attention from around the city and even the world.
"I just got back from Finland...I did one in ice in the arctic circle," said Lejobart.
The style was done as a tribute and gift to his wife, fellow artist Sherryl Muriente.
The sculpture sits at the entrance of an all-new, revamped version of the arts area, called the Arts District.
"We turned it on it's side," said Melissa Sullivan, SunFest marketing manager. "Made it interactive with live paintings, art that our patrons can participate in creating."
After changing up the food scene last year, Sullivan said organizers decided to do the same with other aspects of the festival.
"We just saw the reception of changing something as simple as food and seeing how people received it. And we thought, what else on site should we take a look at? And art was that," she said.
Artists like Lejobart are happy that an emphasis on the arts will make a difference for local artists, especially in a venue with celebrity musicians from across the country.
"To associate those big names with local artists is huge," he said. "As an artist, you need to expose yourself as much as possible."
SunFest operates within the city limits of West Palm Beach, but is not put on by the city. Still, city leaders say they are excited to host such a large festival, one that beings in thousands of people from 45 states and 26 countries.
"We're very excited to host over 100,000 people," said Chris Roog, Economic Development director for West Palm Beach.
Roog said the city is welcoming the new and needed revenue.
"Over $15 million that the festival brings. And that equates to about $103 per person that they end up spending," said Roog. "It's good for the city, we get to see some of those dollars spent on supporting our local businesses."
Roog added that they are excited to see the growth of the bike share system and using other methods of transportation in downtown.
"There are so many different ways to get around downtown West Palm Beach other than your automobile that it can be an easy way to get around, whether that's trolley, walking or biking," he said. "Frankly, myself I skateboard down Clematis."
If you bike to SunFest, there is a bicycle valet service available that is free of charge. The bike valet service, which is run by the Downtown Development Authority, is located on North Clematis Street at Centennial Square and the fountain, near SunFest's Clematis Street gate. Click here for more details.
West Palm Beach police will be on patrol as usual this year to provide security and keep the traffic and crowds flowing smoothly through downtown. Depending on pedestrian traffic, Clematis Street at the 200 block may close at times. This Sunday, the westbound on-ramp to Okeechobee Boulevard from Australian Avenue will be closed to help ease traffic as well.
This year, SunFest is offering advanced parking a good rate of $12 per day or $48 for five days at three city government garages and lots.
"The governmental center, the judicial center and the 4th Street surface lot," Sullivan clarified. "There's certainly plenty of private parking and options as far as Uber and we have codes for that."
SunFest is also pushing its mobile app, which packed with tools like maps, schedules and promo codes for freebies.
"Your phone will remind you when your band is about to take the stage in 15 minutes," said Sullivan. "The map is really interactive in terms of where you are, to where the closest ATM or something is."
With such a large amount of people flocking to one area, cell phone signals can also get crowded. The app allows people to navigate the area with downloaded content.
"We bring in cellphone boosters and everything we can to make that user experience better working with the providers, but you still have congestion," said Sullivan. "So when you have the app on your phone, you're not going to the Internet and back. It's all on your phone, that quick."
Just search for 'SunFest Official' on your smartphone app store. It's available for both Apple and Android devices.
The family zone is also being transformed into the "Chill Zone" to serve families and people of all ages.
"A lotus lounge of hammocks in there, Jenga games, cornhole," said Sullivan. "A great place to recharge and relax."
With some rain showers scheduled in this week's forecast, please note that SunFest goes on rain or shine. If the weather forecast calls for rain, please bring rain gear and umbrellas. SunFest does not refund or exchange tickets due to inclement weather. Click here for more information.


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I like to sit out on our porch during thunderstorms when it is nice and warm outside. I watch the lightning and listen to the thunder roll. I am not wandering around in the yard during the storm, I am under a roof on a porch that is pretty big. The only time I go […]
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New Zealand observes Muslim call to prayer
One week after the abhorable and most violent of attacks done by a Christian terrorists towards Muslims at two masjids in New Zealand, the nation commemorated the mourning of the event by allowing the adhaan (Muslim call to prayer) to be heard loudly in public for the first time in the nation's history.
Guide to GE 14
Interesting guide, no less.
Something amazing is coming soon
It is simply a continuation of what I have been doing all along, but building a startup from scratch is not something you do daily. New possibilites, new excitement!


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In a small office, sat I, dead
Center in a giant power station
So much power there was that
There were no on/off switches, until
The whole plant shook… and died.
My office lights turned off…
Each and every all of them,
Ceiling and desk, floor and
Indicator… out, gone, dead.
In utter black, sat I, alone


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Things that every camper should and will learn this summer:
Sure it's all about fun and friendship, becoming independent and learning to live together, but every camper will also return home with these skills. Every Pine Forest camper will come home knowing how to:
– Do the J-stroke
– Start a campfire
– Identify the North Star
– Make a hospital corner
– Build a raft
– Say Hello in Mandarin (we have a few campers coming from China!)
– Make a s'more
– Shoot a lay-up
– Use a compass
– Swim the backstroke
– Belay a rock climber
– Throw a pot
– Tie dye a T-shirt
– Hit a backhand
– Set a table
– Field a ground ball
– Raise the Flag
– Read a trail map


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Butterick 6740; ca. 1953; Interchangeable Separates: 2 Blouses; 2 Skirts. New way with wardrobes- all occasion costumes emerging from wonderful mixmate separates. Cropped sleeved blouse with a perky bow and portrait over or tuck-in blouse team with either slim or flared two-piece skirt.
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Alex Simone was born and raised by real estate professionals in the Pikesville-Mt. Washington area, graduating from Beth Tfiloh in 2006 and the University of Maryland, College Park in 2010. In his spare time, Alex enjoys playing softball and volunteering at Moveable Feast. Alex lives in Reisterstown with his wife and multiple houseplants that are all still alive.


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Porsche 911 – 996 TUrbo
Manual 996 Turbo in Seal Grey Metallic, boasting 20 service stamps
Heated electric leather seats, sunroof, Porsche embossed headrests, tracker and immobiliser, PCM module with satnav, CD player with 6 disc changer, Milltek exhaust, short shift gear selector fitted, turbo actuators, gloss black alloys, light smoke windows to rear.
The wider stance, flared sills and eye catching air intakes all create a more menacing look to the 996 Turbo. The Seal Grey Metallic paintwork presents in excellent condition throughout and only enhances the more aggressive stance of this Turbo. There are very few blemishes to report – a testament to such careful and diligent ownership.
Throughout the car, all of the black leather is in fantastic condition, with the vulnerable seat bolsters only showing light signs of use and still feel firm and supportive. The 996 bought in a wave of new technology and the SatNav, heated seats and PCM work without fault, and all switchgear remains free from any unsightly marks and work as intended. Air conditioning has recently been re-gassed. Inside the front bonnet (with clearly visible factory laser label) is virtually as new, containing compressor, tool-roll, jack + brace, protective emergency gloves and unused space-saver wheel.
The traditional turbo alloys are finished in gloss black and present in unmarked condition, contrasting perfectly alongside the Seal Grey paintwork. Tyres are all Michelin Pilot Sports with plenty of tread. (Accurate readings taken and are available upon request)
First registered: 02/08/2000
30/06/2018 – 68,697 – Porsche Weybridge
16/06/2017 – 67,194 – Porsche Weybridge + Brake Fluid
24/02/2016 – 64,986 – Specialist
24/02/2015 – 64,195 – Specialist
25/03/2014 – 62,497 – Specialist
20/02/2013 – 60,028 – Specialist
18/02/2012 – 57,027 – Specialist
18/10/2011 – 56,560 – Specialist
19/05/2011 – 54,803 – Clutch Replaced
08/04/2011 – 54,444 – Specialist
12/08/2010 – 51,167 – Porsche
26/08/2009 – 48,155 – Porsche
09/09/2008 – 44,333 – Porsche
04/12/2007 – 40.699 – Porsche
12/12/2006 – 36,047 – Porsche
27/10/2005 – 28,829 – Porsche
02/07/2004 – 17,056 – Porsche
01/07/2003 – 10,843 – Porsche
27/07/2002 – 6334 – Porsche
29/10/2001 – 5648 – Porsche
03/07/2001 – 4998 – Porsche
Over the past three years, this pampered 996 has covered approx 4k miles, with four services, the last two by Porsche Weybridge.
Additional works to include:
Front outer radiators and condensers replaced less than 10k miles ago
New front and rear brake discs and pads
Rear brake pipes and flexi hoses
Re-furbished brake callipers
A/C Re-Gas, now very cool when required
Recent Front Turbo spoiler
This well known, and notoriously powerful 911, was sold by us to the last delighted owner, we are very happy to be marketing once again. Noticeably more responsive than the later X50 Pack or 'S'.
Highly regarded and recognised improvements, including ECU re-map, have enhanced performance to provide an extremely exciting and urgent experience, the increase in bhp (estimated, we are told, at well in excess of 500+bhp! but not confirmed) has lifted this 996 Turbo to the next level of brutality, an experience from one of Stuttgart's finest, never to be forgotten.
All owners handbooks, leather wallet and pack contents are present and complete, plus two keys with remotes.
Please contact to arrange a viewing.


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The new jumbo sized Friend clan invaded Madrid. We had some fun figuring out parking and buying the metro cars. It's amazing how much fun children derive from purchasing tickets. The more change you have to put in the machine the greater their euphoria.
We spent the afternoon walking through Rutino Park even trying out their rowboats. The boys were in charge of boat assignments: 1) Brian, Brody & Kaden 2) Elizabeth, Klaine and Scarlet 3) Kenda, Brent, Brenna & Arden.
Then it was time for Brody's favorite thing to do x2 ART MUSEUMS! And it must be the Sunday thing to do– make the museums FREE! We blasted through the Reina Sophia and the Prado.
The Reina Sophia is best known for Salvador Dali works and a HUGE Picasso called the Guernicia. The Gurnicia is Picasso's reaction to the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernicia. This is a historical event that I knew nothing about- I'm surprised that Wikipedia has not contacted me with an award for most diverse subjects searched from the most geographic locations.
The Prado museum is like the Louvre of Spain. With all our tours of Italian art we are staring to recognize artists and companion pieces. There were still new interesting pieces like The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch. Arden's comment about the painting was "I like pictures of torture to be more realistic." And she is right- Bosches painting is best described as the story of Paradise/Fall of Man/He'll if it was interpreted by Dr Seuss.
Kenda, Brenna and I toured using the Rick Steve's guide. With limited time he gets you to all the right places and gives great background on the artists, their styles and their subjects.
On our way to dinner we passed lots of almost excitement. Many people chanting words we couldn't understand with signs we couldn't read. There were plenty of police around and quite a few paddy wagons. But no fun squabbles to watch or mini riots.


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Marty Wilde's 'Born to Rock 'n' Roll' - One4Review
It's always good to see an act returning to play at a venue. And many do. Often. Marty Wilde is the latest to return to Dunfermline's Alhambra after a short gap, well 51 years ago as a rock 'n' roller barely in his twenties he played a three night season in the venue.
Wilde of today brought his 'Born to Rock 'n' Roll' tour into town backed as always by The Wild Cats and with guest appearances from Eden Kane, Jet Harris and his youngest daughter Roxy Wilde.
The 500 strong audience were probably of a similar vintage to the stars, I don't know about them being 'A Teenager in Love' perhaps a 'Septuagenarian in Love' may be more apt in most cases, but Wilde, and they had a great time from the off. He opened the gig himself giving one and all a selection of both his own material together with that of some of his contemporaries prior to introducing daughter Roxy to continue the 50's & 60's feel with her take on songs from twenty years before she was born. Like her older brother Ricky and sister Kim, Roxy has obviously inherited a large chunk of her parents singing talent, her mother was a Vernon Girl in case you were unaware and it was pleasing to see the family tradition was alive and well.
Back came Wilde with some further numbers before the next guest Eden Kane, a relative spring chicken at only 69, took over for a set including his biggest hits coupled with a selection of other songs of the time. Although I was aware of a couple of his hits, I was surprised that I knew so manyof the songs this California based performer was involved with.
After the break, the fare was similar, Marty belying his years and singing as well if not better than I remember, royally entertaining one and all, Roxy returned for a few numbers including a duet with her father, before the diminutive form of Jet Harris took to the stage armed with a guitar nearly as big as him. Harris of course was once bassist with the Shadows and of course had a number of hit singles with another former Shad Tony Meehan. Now on lead guitar Harris played a selection of numbers from his repertoire with the Shadows and his own stuff, even finding time to play a tribute to Duane Eddy also.
A few more songs then followed from Mr Wilde, including a return of Eden Kane and Roxy for a further couple of numbers, including a tribute to Elvis.
After a shade over two hours 15 Marty drew the evening to a conclusion, but of course there was an encore with all performers from an excellent evenings entertainment involved.
I knew I would probably like this show, but I have it admit it totally exceeded my expectations. Everybody involved from the excellent sound and lighting engineers to the very talented Wild Cats, from the guests to the main man exuded professionalism and I can only hope to be in as good a shape as them when I reach their age, err that's not including Roxy whose age I passed a while ago.
To see if this show is touring near you check out www.martywilde.com and for all future gigs at The Alhambra Theatre Dunfermline check out www.alhambradunfermline.com


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Govt gives Metgasco 'green light'
COAL seam gas company Metgasco says the state government has given it a "green light" to explore near Casino.
Coming just days after the people of Lismore overwhelmingly rejected the CSG industry in a referendum; the O'Farrell Government yesterday renewed 21 CSG exploration licences around the state.
The licence renewals were announced on the same day the government revealed its long awaited strategic regional land use policy, which aims to find the balance between resources, farming and environmental interests.
Metgasco chief executive Peter Henderson was yesterday celebrating the licence renewals and an official production lease approval for the Casino power station, while disappointed by the new restrictions.
He said the announcements sent a clear message that New South Wales was "open for business" but he believed the new restrictions were "unnecessarily restrictive".
Mr Henderson's remarks reflect the industry's concerns that the policy would cause project delays and costs blow-outs; while green groups and farmers hit out at the government for not doing enough to protect land and water assets.
But North Coast Minister Don Page said he expected most people would not be pleased with the policy, which he said tries to cut through the differing views, to provide what he called a balanced, "world's best policy".
Mr Page joined three North Coast National MPs, Chris Gulaptis, Geoff Provest and Thomas George, on a conference call to help sell the policy to north coast readers yesterday afternoon.
Mr Page said the policy would create 27 new measures to ensure farmland was protected and improve the balance between mining and agricultural interests.
Two chief parts of the policy were the creation of a Land and Water Commissioner to have oversight of all projects from the start of exploration, and the requirement for resource companies to prepare an agricultural impact statement for every exploration project.
While Mr Page said the commissioner would have to advise the community and government on the scientific aspects of CSG operations and how they could impact on aquifers, under the current proposal the state's Chief Scientist will not have an on-going role in such assessments.
He said crucially for the North Coast region, the Aquifer Interference Policy would ensure groundwater resources were protected.
This point, he said, was especially relevant because maps to be drawn up detailing the region's most important agricultural land - which would be provide further protections for such areas - had not been completed yet.
While some maps were already complete, the maps for both the far and mid-north coast regions were only listed in policy documents to be reviewed and updated over the next two years.
But Mr Page said the maps were likely to be drawn up quicker than the two year timeframe, with early draft maps to go out for public consultation "early next year".
As part of the 21 petroleum exploration licence (PEL) renewals signed off on Tuesday across the state, Metgasco's PEL 13 and 16 near Casino were approved.
The policy will be legislated through amendments to the State Environmental Planning Policy and changes to the water act.


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Follow-up to critical MU audit shows improvement
State Auditor Nicole Galloway today issued a follow-up report looking at what steps the University of Missouri System Administration has taken to address findings of fiscal mismanagement contained in an audit released last year. The report found improvement since the March 2017 audit criticized the UM System for hidden payments and incentives to top executives; for the management of Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin's contract, after he resigned in 2015; and for excessive vehicle allowances for system executives.
The audit recommended making changes to the incentive pay program to ensure accountability and objective measurement criteria; taking steps to ensure compensation terms for administrators are in the best interest of the UM System, the universities and taxpayers; and ensuring that vehicle allowances are more accurate.
"The audit findings last year showed a pattern of bonus pay to top staff without clear guidelines or performance metrics, as well as a highly lucrative contract for a former chancellor that contained no accountability to taxpayers," Auditor Galloway said. "Our follow-up found that the incentive payment program has been eliminated, and the highly paid position created for the former chancellor has been eliminated. I'm pleased the university system has taken these steps toward more effective fiscal management. Once again, this report shows audits get results."
The follow-up report found that no incentive pay has been issued since March 10, 2017 and the former chancellor now works as a professor at the Columbia campus, as required under the original contract.
The report also found that the university system has stopped eight of the 15 vehicle allowances noted in the 2017 audit and is phasing out four administrators' vehicle allowances as their contracts come up for renewal. Vehicle allowances will continue for five positions.
A copy of the progress report is available online here.
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Once again, this woman proves she understands her job and does it. She saves the state more than she's paid! That's a rare bird in government!
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What's more important than water to a farmer? Not much. With that in mind, the $5 million, five-year grant received by the University of Florida Water Institute to promote water security for the region's farmers and foresters should come as welcome relief.
Faculty from UF/IFAS, University of Georgia, Albany State University, and Auburn University are collaborating on an integrated project made possible by funds from USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture program.
Project investigators will conduct field experiments in Florida and Georgia to develop farming practices that reduce water use and fertilizer loss while still resulting in a profitable crop yield, according to UF Water Institute Director Wendy Graham. Building on this knowledge, a set of interactive computer models will be developed with input from farmers, foresters, springs, and river advocates, water managers, and other interested stakeholders in the region. The models will be used to predict impacts of different land-use, water use, and agricultural and forest production practices on water quantity, water quality, and the economy of North Florida and South Georgia.
"Our models will integrate stakeholders' experience and scientific data to explore economic and environmental trade-offs among alternative scenarios of climate, land use, agricultural best management practice adoption, and water policy options," Graham stated. "The goal is to help stakeholders and decision makers understand changes needed to achieve agricultural water security and environmental protection."
The project's Extension team will conduct on-farm demonstrations and develop smartphone apps to help farmers implement promising agricultural best management practices, Graham said. Training programs will be conducted with diverse stakeholders in Florida and Georgia to bring about preferred changes in production systems and incentive programs, she said.
Reprinted from http://www.growingproduce.com/vegetables/new-project-to-promote-water-security-for-florida-and-georgia-farmers/?utm_source=knowledgemarketing&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=gpweeklynews+07152017&omhide=true&eid=238904944&bid=1810458


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