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I enjoy adding comments on other blogs. If you're a blogger, you might relate.
I read dozens of blogs every day, and make it a point to visit many new ones. When inspired by content either in the post or sometimes from an earlier comment, I add my own two cents. I also enjoy visiting blogs of other people when they comment on blogs.
But I'm noticing an increasing number of bloggers who do the following:
- You require me to register as a prerequisite to leaving a comment.
- You prevent me from receiving follow-up comments by email.
- You moderate comments.
First, requisite blog registration tells me you fear authenticity. Unless if it's a group blog that has registration for a reason, I rarely commit. I can't think of a single reason why a personal blog would need registered commenters, unless you intend to send me emails.
Second, not enabling comment subscription tells me you fear sustainability. If you look below this post, there is an optional check box to receive emails of follow-up comments. Many blogs have this feature; or if not by email, at least by RSS. I realize it's YOUR blog and you can do what you want, but if you thank me in a comment or someone else asks me to clarify something and I'm not subscribed to that thread, I never see it. If I don't see it, I can't respond.
Third, comment moderation tells me you fear lack of control. Or is it a spam issue and you are trying to prevent comments that smell of solicitation, sex, and scams? If the latter, Blogger and WordPress (and presumedly other out-of-the-box blog solutions) have built-in or plugin/widget spam trappers. If the former, I must ask: Why moderate?
About 18 months after writing the above, I implemented blog comment moderation here — albeit only for the first comment someone makes. This is reflected in the comment policy, a document all bloggers ought to use and tweak for their own purposes.


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You've made it, baby! New York, New York! The city that never sleeps! Home of the hot dawg, Broadway theater, the Mets and the Stock Exchange. Where rents are as high as the skyscrapers but you can get a slice of pizza as big as your head for a buck. No matter what brings you to the city–THE City, as we residents call it–as a Salty reader you're probably going to want to run. And if you aren't a local you're bound to step out of your hotel, look at all the hustle and bustle around you and wonder where are the best places to run. How are you ever going to find them in such a fast-moving concrete jungle? It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Seems like most visitors give up on finding the best that New York City running has to offer and just run the loop around Central Park. There's nothing wrong with that, but in a city of 8 million people with 29,000 acres of parks*, a flagship running club that serves over 300,000 runners* AND the world's largest marathon* we're bound to have a little more to offer than the loop around Central Park!
Well, lucky Salty you, I couldn't be a better expert on running NYC if I were a Tammany. Read on if you want to run the Greatest City in the World like I do!
First Things First: MAP YOUR ROUTE and BRING A MAP WITH YOU.
One of the most awesome features of living in the big city is that I have an infinite number of routes to take when running. Even though I have been living and running here for years I still often use Google maps to plan out my routes, especially if I'm going somewhere new or unfamiliar to me. On Google Maps you can drag around your Point A and Point B and even drag your route to a particular street or address to increase or decrease your mileage. For any of the routes I suggest here, I highly recommend you map it first and bring a map (or smart phone) on your run to ensure you don't get lost.
If you do find yourself lost, trust your instincts and walk into a store or other establishment where you can ask a local how to get where you're going. Contrary to our reputation, most New Yorkers are more than willing to help out!
To make this long post more helpful I broke it into sections:
- Part 1 – Parks and Greenways
- Part 2 – Running Groups
- Part 3 – Local Running Stores
- Part 4 – Running New York's Bridges
Part 1. New York Running is More Than Central Park: Tracks, Parks and Greenways.
Park Drive in Central Park isn't the only fantastic loop course in The City (although I do love running it and it does provide a fine six-mile loop with quarter-miles marked and varied topography). For my money, I'd rather visit Brooklyn's Prospect Park, which is 4.7ish miles, but the hills are a little more steep and the roadway is a little less crowded. Try ending your Saturday long run with a loop of Prospect Park and finishing at the Grand Army Plaza green market. Bring some cash so you can taste some of the farmers' goodies! Take advantage of your visit to Brooklyn with one of the best African art collections in the U.S. at the Brooklyn Museum, a leisurely stroll through the cherry trees and roses in the gorgeous Brooklyn Botanic Garden or by lunching in the adjacent Prospect Heights or Park Slope neighborhoods.
Those who like running in circles probably know about the 1.58 mile cinder track around the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, but the more math-minded among us will appreciate the 1/8 mile Riverside Park Track, also cinder, accessible at 72nd street by footpath from Riverside Drive or from the West Side Highway Path. For those who want that stadium track experience, visit the East River Park Track, easily accessible from E. 6th Street by a footbridge that passes over the FDR. Both tracks can be accessed from adjacent bike/pedestrian paths that run along the Hudson and the East River respectively. If you like running along water and want to stay away from car traffic, these are great options for you.
The West Side Highway Path (its real name is the Hudson River Greenway) runs about 11 miles from Chambers St. to the George Washington Bridge (at about 180th st), and if you're looking for bonus mileage you can also continue north through Fort Tryon and Inwood Hill Parks and beyond. Check out the view of New Jersey – you'll be amazed at how pretty it looks from here! Enter the West Side Highway from nearly anywhere in Manhattan by traveling west until you hit water. Run half as far as you wish, then turn around and go back!
The East River Bikeway is an off-road path that travels from the very southern tip of Manhattan to E. 37th street, about 4.5 miles. If you're traveling north and don't mind a small detour around the UN Plaza onto 1st Avenue you can continue along the bike route until it ends in Spanish Harlem for a total of 9.5 miles. My suggestion: If you're staying in Midtown, start at the UN (1st Avenue between E. 49th and E. 37th) and travel South. The 4.5 mile route will take you to the South Street Seaport, where you can grab a beer and some food. Another option is to continue on the path, which will eventually run you through Battery Park and up to the West Side Highway path.
Trail running is possible in Manhattan, and if the 2 mile Central Park bridle path isn't enough for you, try visiting my favorite park in NYC, Inwood Hill Park. You'll be amazed how the forest draws you in and makes you forget about the other 8 million people around you. There's a great network of trails (use a map like this one, not on the official NYC parks site), some paved and some packed dirt, and if you're adventurous, it's easy to jump off the trail and start climbing boulders and exposed bedrock that put Central Park's famous rocks to shame. Bring a compass, because it's easy to get turned around in here! Better yet, join the Inwood Hill Runners on a group run!
Trail heads who aren't afraid of getting off the beaten path a bit may also want to check out Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, which has a number of wooded trails, many with rich history, and it's easily accessible by taking the 1 train to 242nd Street. My recommendation is to get in touch with The Van Cortlandt Park Track Club, which has a great Saturday morning group run at NYC's premiere cross-country course. The members all start together in VC Park, then peel off into groups that vary by pace and desired distance.
Which brings me to…
Part 2. NYC Running Clubs: Make Friends With the Locals!
If you have the time, I suggest you try meeting with one of the many running clubs in town, especially if you find yourself in the Big Apple often. Who knows – you may even make a friend for life! One of the advantages of so many people in such a small place is that there's something for everyone! We have running clubs for all kinds of people. Who do you want to run with? The LGBTQ crowd? Young hipsters? Cross-country runners? Drunks? Speedy Trackletes? Women Masters Runners? We got that.
Among all 5 boroughs we've easily got at least 25 running clubs you could visit for a run. A dozen of them are in Manhattan, and all have open runs you can join. Here is a pretty good, comprehensive list of some of the bigger teams, although it's missing one of the biggest, the North Brooklyn Runners, and the awesomest/drunkest/raciest team of all, the Hudson Dusters (you can ask me for details about that one)!
Part 3. When All Else Fails, Go Shopping: New York's Local Running Stores
New York is lucky to have a lot of options when it comes to shopping for your running stuff. In addition to the specialty stores mentioned below, we have flagship stores for top running brands like Nike, ASICS, Adidas and New Balance. If you love luxury yoga-influenced brands Lululemon and Athleta but don't have stores in your town there are several outposts for both here. Most of our running stores, including NikeTown, have group runs that leave from the store with bag storage so you don't have to worry about trucking back to your hotel to stash your stuff. Much of the group run info is online, but the best protocol is always to call the store before you show up to make sure. Here are a couple stores to check out:
- Paragon Sports – Recommended if you're looking for a running bra, inflatable travel weights or a hiking pack…or all three! A three-floor department store located just off Union Square at 17th and Broadway, Paragon is NYC's largest local sporting good store. I love going to the women's running section and staring at what may be the largest collection of running bras I've ever seen, including a huge selection from Moving Comfort. Not only do they have a great selection of running shoes and gear, they also carry every other sport item you could possibly need plus luggage and travel stuff too. To learn more about their group runs, that include long runs and speed work, check out their Running Blog or talk to someone in the shoe department.
- JackRabbit Sports – Recommended for a more local feel to your running store and for running peripherals like foam rollers, resistance bands, and gels/bars/Nuun/etc. and info on local races. Here you can find that LRS video gait analysis we all love, a modest-but-quality selection of running shoes and apparel as well as triathlon gear, including wetsuits. Their selection of Moving Comfort brand bras is a close rival to Paragon's. Free group runs are organized from most of their stores and even free yoga classes – the best way to find out more is to call the store nearest to you or to get on their email list for the latest info. If you're looking for your next amazing pair of shoes visit their flagship store on 14th Street between 5th and 6th Aves. and talk to Kay, who's so knowledgeable about shoes she could probably sell me on a pair of golf cleats for running!
- Super Runners Shop – With six locations that create a ring around Central Park (plus one in Downtown Brooklyn), Super Runners Shop seems to be everywhere you are in upper Manhattan. The stores are small but they have a solid selection of the most popular shoes and apparel and the sales staff is always really friendly and quick to help you find what you're looking for, even if they don't have it. They also have free group runs on weekends leaving from the Brooklyn (Court St. at Atlantic Ave) and the Lexington Avenue (at E. 89th St) stores.
- The Running Company isn't exactly local and has only 2 locations in New York, but I just love them. Their selection is no better than any of the stores above, but the stores feel more open, more luxurious, more… special. Maybe it's because I don't get up that way often. Their location in the Time Warner Center mall in Columbus Circle has a Yoga for Runners class at 9am on Saturdays ($10 donation suggested) and group runs in Central Park 5 days a week.
- Any number of other stores – Seriously, it seems like there are a million little shops all around the city that I pass by and wonder "huh, what's in there?" I just listed the ones I know best, but if you think there's something else I should include, let me know in the comments!
Part 4 – Get Out of Manhattan: Your Guide to Running New York's Bridges
The Brooklyn Bridge is for early morning and night running.
Everyone wants to cross it, but you want to run it and claim your slice of Grimaldi's pizza as your trophy. My word of advice? Do it at dawn before the tourists are awake and avoid getting literally stuck in the crowds. Better yet, do it at night when The City is all lit up and you can see the Freedom Tower twinkle – Brooklyn Bridge is one of the safest night runs, since there are always people out and it's flanked by NYPD precincts. And for goodness's sake, please stay out of the bike lane!
- On the other side: Take the stairs to grab an ice cream cone at Brooklyn Bridge Park and stroll along the promenade to the twinkling city skyline.
- To continue your workout: Bypass the stairs and follow the bridge to Downtown Brooklyn. A quick jaunt up Tillary St gets you to Cadman Plaza, where there's a rubber track. Hello, speed work!
The Manhattan Bridge is for breathing room.
A popular choice for commuters who want to avoid tourist crowds, the Manhattan offers a beautiful view of the Brooklyn Bridge, a bird's-eye view of laundry on the rooftops of tenement buildings in Chinatown and easy access to Brooklyn Bridge Park and even outlets you close to Grimaldi's famous pizza shop. Best of all, it's not very popular with tourists so you have lots of space, making it ideal for a tempo run. Another cool feature is watching the B, D, Q and N Subway trains roll by (be prepared, they're loud!) and waving to little kids inside them. Be sure to run on the South side of the bridge, which is for pedestrians only–the north side is for bikes and skaters.
- On the other side: See Brooklyn Bridge above.
- To continue your workout: you're just a hop-skip away from the beautiful brownstone-lined Fort Greene neighborhood, one of my favorite places to run.
The Williamsburg Bridge is for people-watching.
See 1.5 miles of the famous Williamsburg hipsters in their natural habitat. Watch them ride their fixy bikes to the Lower East Side, read their ironic graffiti under your feet, check out all their 90's clothes! What's really great about the Williamsburg Bridge is that crossing it feels really safe. You're tucked into the center of the bridge and surrounded by steel girders and beams, isolated from auto traffic. As long as you keep right and avoid the bike traffic you're as safe as can be.
- On the other side: Off the bridge jackknife to the left, then turn north on Bedford Avenue for about 10 blocks to end your run with a delicious hipster snack before hopping on the L train back to Manhattan at N. 7th St.
- To continue your workout: follow Roebling St. North to McCarren Park, where there's a popular-if-crowded running track or turn south toward Kent St., follow Kent to Flushing and circle back around to the Manhattan Bridge.
The Queensboro Bridge is for an urban experience.
The 59th Street Bridge, the Ed Koch…whatever you call it, for some reason this bridge doesn't quite get me "Feelin' Groovy." In fact it feels more intimidating than the Manhattan, even though they both have little more than a chain-link fence between you and a very long drop to the East River. What I love about it is that it's really high, so it's great for a hill workout, and I love seeing weird-but-nifty Roosevelt Island underneath me as I cross toward Long Island City, Queens. You'll wind up underneath where the LI Expressway meets the BQE, so at first it can appear like an under-the-highway industrial wasteland, but Long Island City is much more than that!
- On the other side: Modern art-lovers rejoice! MoMA's PS1 museum is just a few blocks away from the bridge. Jackknife to the left and then turn south on 21st STREET. In less than 1/2 mile you can see some of the most cutting-edge art in the world. The truly adventurous can also walk 1 block east from there to Jackson Avenue, where you can find 5 Pointz, one of the greatest legal graffiti-art spaces in the U.S., which is sadly scheduled to be torn down before September, 2013.
- To continue your workout: Follow 21st Street south toward the Pulaski Bridge, which takes you into North Brooklyn. Map a route to loop back to Manhattan over the Williamsburg Bridge for a great 10 mile run (if you're staying in Midtown East).
The George Washington Bridge is for nature lovers
Whoa, this bridge is HIGH UP. Sure, the GW takes you to New Jersey, but I highly recommend it as a fun way to get out of the hustle-and-bustle for a little while. When crossing the bridge, be careful coming around the tight corners at the towers – oncoming cyclists may have a hard time seeing you.
- On the other side:Pack a picnic in a backpack (there's also a grocery store on the Jersey side if you don't want to carry stuff). Take a right off the bridge and follow 1.5 miles of bike path around Palisades Park to the Ross Dock Picnic Area. Have lunch under the towering Palisades with one of the most beautiful views of NYC in existence.
- To continue your workout: Palisades Park has a wealth of beautiful sights to see. Follow any of its trails for a great out-and-back run from the Upper West Side!
That's it for now, folks! I bet you never thought you'd want to take a running vacation to New York City, but you might now!
Did I miss anything? Do you have a favorite NYC route to share with potential visitors? Have you ever, or would you ever run in the Big Apple?

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Which should I go with: the slightly noisy but very versatile A1/ A2 (extra $100 on A2) or the noise free Digital Rebel? Prices are close but to get the decision is dificult!
ps:I'll shoot sports, outdoor, indoor, landscapes and night..... enphasing indoors and night shots.
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The Rebel kit is nice, but you'd eventually want a nice tele lens and, probably, a better normal zoom eventually in addition to a separate flash unit, so the overall cost is much different than just comparing the two kits out of the box. If you do not think you'll eventually want to pick these up, the Minolta may be what you want for its all-inclusive setup.
Now, did you say "slightly" noisy about the A1/A2? Try very noisy at any rating above ISO 100- not what I'd call a versatile unit for indoors and/or night shots. You only start to see grain at ISO 800 with the Digital Rebel, and it aint much grain at that rating either. Neither the A1 or A2 will be as responsive for sports shots either.
If you've got the money you'll be much happier with the Digital Rebel if the bigger sized outfit doesn't bother you. The A1/A2 will be an easier camera to carry everywhere but you'll be stuck shooting at ISO 100 for clean shots with a lens that won't be fast enough for what you say you want to be able to shoot without having a powerful flash.
Kinda like comparing apples & oranges. If you want an alternative to the Digital Rebel you need to be looking at a Nikon D70. If you want to compare something to the A1/A2 you need to be looking at these other 8 megapixel digicams that will all have the same limitations, which should tell you the best choice as far as responsivness and image quality across the full range of available ISO settings. For what you say you want to shoot ISO 400 and 800 will be needed. At those settings you'll find the A1/A2 a little more than "slightly" noisy..
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The Digital Rebel is a DSLR and as such can have a very long learning curve. You're expected to perform lots of post processing. It has idiosyncracies associated to Canon SLRs and DSLRs such as E-TTL flash technology, exposure modes, and white balance (e.g., auto white balance is terrible).
So if you have experience with film based SLRs, you'll probably know what to expect. If you don't, I highly recommend researching the camera to see if it's right for you. Aside from the usual reviews, take a look at stuff posted at www.outbackphoto.comwhere they got in-depth usuage reviews as well as suggested workflows for processing images.
The other thing about DSLRs is that you must recognize you are buying a system compromised of lens, flash, camera bodies, and other expensive accessories. Lens can be expensive, but, you can typically use them with your next camera body. It also means you becomre commited to a particular brand for years to come.
Having said that, I know of one person who uses her Digital Rebel like a point in shoot; her last film camera was a Rebel 2000. She cranked up the in camera sharpening to max and tweaked saturation and other settings a bit and says she's quite pleased what comes out of the camera. She uses the "green square" mode a lot.
Also be prepared to deal with the size of the camera and associated gear. I have three bags: a smallish Tamrac 515 which holds the camera body and one lens for lightweight travel; a larger Tamrac 519 which holds the camera body with battery grip (which makes the camera over 6" tall), 2 other lens and/or flash; and a Tamrac Velocity 9 which is big enough to just about hold everything I currently own.
DSLRs have a lot to offer, but, be prepared to make a major time commitment to learn how to use them well.
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Loan moves for Arsenal youngsters Smith Rowe and John-Jules
PUBLISHED: 16:25 10 January 2020 | UPDATED: 16:25 10 January 2020
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Arsenal youngsters Emile Smith Rowe and Tyreece John-Jules have left the club on loan, joining Huddersfield Town and Lincoln City respectively for the rest of the season.
Smith Rowe has featured 12 times for the Gunners over the past two seasons, with the Hale End academy graduate scoring three goals.
The 19-year-old has made two Premier League appearances in 2019/20 and the Gunners will hope a move to Championship side Huddersfield will help his development after an injury-hit spell as German side Red Bull Leipzig last season.
Huddersfield boss Danny Cowley is aware of the midfielder's talents, saying: "We're delighted to complete the loan move to bring Emile to the club today, as it's the culmination of an ongoing process that began in early November.
"Nicky and I spent a week at Arsenal in the summer and Emile is a player that we know well.
"We've got some good relationships with the club and we're very appreciative of them loaning us one of their very best young players.
"Emile will give us the creative link that we've been missing. He can play in a range of attacking positions and he can speed up our play.
"We're really looking forward to working with him."
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Smith Rowe isn't the only player to leave on loan today, with striker Tyreece John-Jules joining League One side Lincoln City.
The 18-year-old has been clinical at youth level for Arsenal, scoring 16 goals in 30 appearances last season and netting eight this campaign.
John-Jules is yet to make his competitive first-team debut for the Gunners, but was named on the bench by Mikel Arteta for recent fixtures against Chelsea and Leeds United.
A number of clubs were chasing the loan signature of the striker, but Lincoln boss Michael Appleton was delighted to get his man and was full of praise for the striker.
"If I said a few clubs were after him, then I'd be under playing it," said Appleton.
"Again, it comes down to the trust that Arsenal have in us as a club and a group to look after him and develop him in the right way.
"Tyreece can be anything, if the loan goes well, we're all touching wood that it does, don't be surprised if you see him playing as Arsenal's number nine at some point in the future.
"That's the message we got from Arsenal when we were speaking to them, that's how important they see this loan and that's why they felt they had to get it right.
"He had to go to the right football club and we feel privileged that they've chose us as the ones to fo that.
"He's a bright kid, very humble but what he has got is he's got good pace, he can run in behind, he really wants to run, he's a fantastic finisher and he's desperate to do well after the conversations I've had with him."
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Jindal became the first Indian-American Republican governor when he won the 2007 Louisiana election with 54 percent of the votes. He was reelected in 2011 with 66 percent of votes.
Born as Piyush, meaning "ambrosia" or "nectar" in Hindi, to Indian immigrants, Jindal chose to instead call himself "Bobby" after The Brady Bunch character Bobby Brady, whom Jindal said he identified with as a child.
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As part of our ongoing efforts to attract business investment and jobs, the Stephens County Development Authority has created economic incentive programs, particularly supporting industrial development. The primary objectives of these incentives are to create new jobs paying good wages or to retain existing jobs. Federal and state incentives may also be available.
Toccoa-Stephens County Incentives Program for New and Existing Manufacturing Industries
The Asking Price for land in the Hayestone Brady Business Park is $35,000 per acre. For qualified clients (based on job and investment), however, the Stephens County Development Authority may reduce the price.
The City of Toccoa has an aggressive pricing schedule for utilities to industries. Additionally, Toccoa will consider reducing fees associated with tapping into the water system. This reduction would be negotiated between the company and representatives from the City and is based on projected usage.
The City of Toccoa has an aggressive pricing schedule for utilities to industries. Additionally, Toccoa will consider reducing fees associated with tapping into the natural gas system. This reduction would be negotiated between the company and representatives from the City and is based on projected usage.
All sites in the Hayestone Brady Business Park can be served by the collection system in place in the park.
The client will bear no upfront charges for any construction necessary for Georgia Power or Hart EMC to bring the required service to the elected site within the Hayestone Brady Business Park. Georgia Power maintains a substation within the park.
The Stephens County Development Authority is constitutionally enabled to issue both tax exempt and taxable industrial revenue bonds with lease payments suitable to any terms a client or their investment banker and the laws of Georgia will allow. These bonds are a means of conduit financing that often provide the user with lower interest rates and allows for a negotiated investment Fee/Payment in Lieu of Taxes. Bond financing may be used for project-related costs of land, facilities or machinery and equipment. The investment cap for tax-exempt industrial revenue bonds is $20 million making bond financing an attractive vehicle. SCDA retains title to the property and improvements for the life of the bond and leases the project to the user.
All ad valorem tax abatements are negotiated on an individual basis to ensure our competitiveness for a given project. Via an SCDA Industrial Revenue Bond and for certain manufacturers' capital improvements, real and personal, the city and/or county portion of the ad valorem tax may be exempted. Term is based on size of investment and number of jobs.
In the state of Georgia the sale, use, storage or consumption of energy that is necessary and integral to the manufacture of tangible personal property at a manufacturing plant in Georgia shall be exempt from all sales and use taxation except for the sales and use tax for educational purposes. This includes energy used directly or indirectly in a manufacturing facility. Stephens County and Toccoa also provide exemptions on their portion of sales and use taxation on energy used in the manufacturing process.
Stephens County provides the maximum personal property tax exemption on business inventory allowable under Georgia law, 100 percent, on three classes of eligible property: Manufacturer's raw materials and goods-in-process inventory; Manufacturer's finished goods held by the original manufacturer; and Warehouse, distribution, or manufacturing firms with finished goods destined to be shipped outside of Georgia.
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On March 23 a small but enthusiastic audience at Summerlea was treated to a truly memorable musical experience.
Elias-Axel Pettersson (piano) has become well known to Summerlea music lovers. On Sunday he returned with two colleagues to bring us the rare treat of exquisitly performed Trio music spanning the 129 years from 1795 to 1924.
Both Roland Arnassalon (violin) and Noťmie Raymond-Friset (cello) have appeared before at Summerlea (twice and once respectively) but this marked the first time the three have performed as a trio for us.
Musical biographies of the three performers
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The program opened with one of my favourite composers: Sergei Rachmaninoff. It was a treat for me to hear live a piece that I know well: Piano Trio No. 1 ("Trio ťlťgiaque") written when Rachmaninoff was only 19 years old and composed to honour his friend and mentor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Piano Trio No. 40 by Franz Joseph Hadyn follows and you can hear the second movement of this work below.
The last work of the first half of the program was "Three Nocturnes for Piano Trio" by the Swiss born American composer Earnest Bloch written in 1924. The atmospheric and evocative works had the audience entranced. Nocturnes 1 and 2 evoked calm moonlight over water whilst the third was more like a disturbing dream that wakes one with a quickening pulse.
The second half of the program was a forty minute work by Franz Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat.
Three sound files are included for your pleasure. They were chosen mainly for length and size considerations.
They are the gentle Adagio movement of the Haydn trio and the last two Bloch Nocturnes.
Piano Trio No. 40 (Andante)
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Nocturne No. 2 for Piano Trio (Andante quieto)
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It is not what causes an MG42 gunner to abandon his position in the hedgerow. It is part of difficulty of training and overcoming our natural aversion to taking human life.
It is why it is much easier for a fighter pilot to launch a missile or an Artilleryman to send out a barrage. The closer to the act, the harder it is psychologically to kill for NORMAL people. A knife represent one level above the most intimate act of bare hands. It is not the highest level of difficulty nor is it in general terms, our worst fear.
Once inside the OODA loop and startle/surprise takes over the brain becomes very simple, fight or flight. It is referred to as the lizard brain. Breaking the OODA loop is the startle reaction and what you are hoping for in your hail mary is the surprise follow on reaction represents a mistake. You can have a startle/surprise reaction that does not result in a mistake.
In the equation of an armed gunman vs unarmed victims the best thing one can do is get out of the line of fire. If escape is impossible, then all one can do is close the distance and fight for your life. There are no guarantees and no clean end of the " " to be found.
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It is, however the only thing that offers even a tiny hope of affecting your fate, if flight is impossible.
There is a response/reaction no one ever seems to talk about, mostly because "we train warriors", or "the goal is to survive". There is more than just fight or flight, there is also "submit".
Submit isn't something I advocate, but it is something I recognize a percentage of people will do. Fight or flight are not the only possibilities, submit in there, too.
There are schools of thought that teach submit, or flight, as the only "moral" options. Ever hear the phrase "die if you must, but never fight back!"?
Personally, I don't care to be one of the morally superior dead. I don't care much about being thought morally superior, but I really care about the "dead" part. So, I never went to any of those schools.
We don't want people to submit (and doing nothing but prayer is in that category, as I see it) but we should recognize that it IS one of the responses people have.
All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.
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Run, fight, submit or sacrifice your life so your fellows may live. The last is the act of a hero.
Like hero and ROTC cadet Riley C. Howell of UNCC. No honors or ceremonies will soothe the grief his parents must feel.
No amount of training can guarantee what anyone will do in a such a situation, yet it's good to remember that sometimes, for some reason, people show that caring for the strangers around overcomes impossible odds at the ultimate price.
I think we all agree that what Riley Howell did shows how deep we are in trouble when someone gets a Presidential award for a good golf game.
Although I disagree with my friends here that carry concealed, I respect their desire to protect those around them. It's the best us humans can aspire to.
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Stinkeypete you have plenty to say about how one should carry. You have made it crystal clear you don't carry. Now you tell us you disagree with those of us who do. What's up with that?
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You cannot train people to hide and shelter in place and then argue that the very same people you have trained are going to overwhelm an armed attacker by recognizing a pause related to reloading. If we, as a society, are going to use such things to our advantage we are going to have to actually familiarize ourselves, as a society, with the workings of the mechanical devise that creates such a pause.
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K Mac, show me one place I told anyone how they should carry.
I get it out in public that I open carry in the field with my .44 and it's a Ruger Single Action and NO COWBOY carries it cocked in their holster except guys named "Limpy".
I carry semi-autos without one in the pipe when walking in the woods because if I see a promising brush pile, hear squirrels chattering, or spot plinking fodder it takes all of One second to make ready.
I mentioned that I am fortunate enough to have had the means over the past 35 years to have owed a wide array of pistols from old beaters to Glock plastic and that despite years of experience I know that I am one tired, cold, hungry, wet, exhausted moment from making a mistake so I do all I can to minimize the chance.
I tell everyone there are so many aspects to our sport from historical, collecting, appreciating craftsmanship and metalwork, Cowboy Action, Skeet, Trap, Bullseye, Bench Rest, plinking, Hunting, reloading, idpa, and there are lots of ways to carry a pistol where "I can shoot a second faster, with a zombie trying to bite my right hand" simply don't apply and that everyone at competitions keeps their pistols unloaded and actions open until it's your turn to fire for safety. Safety.
I remind people that lots of us are in the sport and have no desire or preparations to shoot people and we are just as alive as you are.
I never tell anyone what is best for them. That's up to them.
Some fellas are very responsible in their concealed carry "game". They read, they think, they take classes and practical seminars. They are indeed highly trained and experienced.
Quite a few more fellas bought a gun, took a 4 hour class, shot a box of ammo and are out on the street, watching YouTube videos of guys doing 20 round mag dumps in to old rusty refrigerators and think they are some kind of superhero. That's just how it is because of the way laws are here in America. There are other countries, and other cultures we can learn from if you just wind up your thinkerbox.
I point out that arguments involving bow hunters up to their armpits in elk blood should have a big rifle handy, not bear spray or some pipsqueak Glock in a backpack and that black bear attacks and cougar attacks are less common than NDs.
I ask people to consider how much advertising plays a part in their rational decision making process.
I don't accept your argument by telling me what I said inaccurately, then telling me what
I can and can't do. Fact is, there is a problem in this country and if we don't work for sensible solutions then I feel solutions will be forced on us, sensible or not.
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All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.
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Edit: You do know that an argument ad populum is a logical fallacy and as such not at all an intellectual argument using ones "thinkerbox" right?
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There's a tendency among anti-gun groups to label themselves "sensible". It's one of the most common tactics. The point is to make themselves seem reasonable and anyone that would oppose them seem unreasonable (similar to Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice). The problem is what is sensible to one person might not be sensible to another, for instance carrying with a round chambered or not.
I have to say that for someone that touts being a gun owner for 35 years you seem to have a very skewed view of what is a rather large, and growing, segment of the gun owning population.
Know the status of your weapon
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I would call this a case of laying out a situation that creates a predetermined outcome and thrown your hands up and say, see, I told you.
When conducting ops against trained professional used to dealing with pressure, yea things are not whats now called optimal.
But then how many of those shooters is a trained professional? One I can think of (Texas)
Safety is not one layer, its multiple layers. Lower round magazine is no more than a layer.
Someone trying to change magazines in a high stress situation is also an opportunity. It may or may not work.
I'll take the shooter with fewer rounds in the gun any day of the week.
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I think you have a skewed view, too- but I respect you as a thoughtful responsible and honorable man, contributing to a discussion about high capacity magazines.
My hope is that people will consider what actions are right for them, with realistically their training and abilities, for their own unique circumstances.
Some fellas here seem awfully offended that I discuss conclusions that are different from their conclusion simply because, it seems, they want to be right without offering their thinking. People's minds might be opened to other possibilities or perhaps a newcomer might prefer a reasoned argument over "this way is always right" or "your gun is wrong, go buy a new one."
I agree with RC- if I knew I had to be in a gunfight and all I could have was a pistol, I would pick something enormous, heavy, with a huge capacity loaded and ready to fire.
The antecedent of that conditional statement is "if I knew"
If I don't know I will be in a gunfight, the original logical statement may or may not apply.
The contrapositive of my statement is "if I don't pick the most enormous thing ready to fire, then I don't know I will be in a gunfight." This is true.
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While I appreciate the compliments, you frankly don't know me enough to give me those compliments, nor I you. We're just two people discussing something online.
I don't think it's unreasonable or unexpected to go to a website where people might generally think a certain way, make some posts that are in conflict with those ideas and not (at least from my point of view) back those up particularly well and moreso make somewhat disparaging statements about those that disagree and expect to be greeted with open arms (mall commandos, thinkerbox, etc). Hardly the worst you could say or do, but not something that will endear you to most. That would be true for pro gun control websites as well. I say this as someone that tried to walk a middle ground for a long time.
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The UK economy is growing at a healthy pace despite business uncertainty caused by the forthcoming General Election on May 5, new research has revealed.
Economic growth of about 2.9 per cent is expected in the second quarter of 2005 - just short of the Treasury's three to 3.5 per cent target, according to business advisers BDO Stoy Hayward's latest Business Trends Report.
The report shows business optimism fell last month, which BDO said was partly due to the election drawing closer.
BDO partner Chris Grove said: "Despite this, the economy continues to grow at a healthy pace, with output up and inflationary pressures subsiding."


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It is well accepted that drones are going to be a big part of agriculture from here on out. There are many options on the market for farmers looking to make use of drone technology to monitor crop health. Foremost among these is Skycision, creators of a software program to allow drones to collect multispectral imagery of farm fields. I had a chance to talk with Brendan Carroll, founder of Skycision, to learn more about what exactly it is they offer, and what makes them leaders of their, ahem, field.
Tell us a little about yourself and your background. How did you get into drones?
My background was as an IT Advisory Consultant for a Big 4 Firm, Ernst & Young, where I worked over a number of large corporate accounts, and I eventually transitioned into a career working for a large Investment Bank in New York, Credit Suisse. Amidst my work in the Financial Services industry, I had gone back to school for my Masters at Carnegie Mellon, the #1 ranked Information Systems program in the country.
My degree at CMU had strong core competencies in Data Analytics, and in my final semester I took a course in Entrepreneurship for High Growth companies taught by a local VC. At the time, there was a lot of buzz in the air about the capability for Amazon to leverage drones in delivery capacity. Intrigued, I began exploring drone delivery for pharmaceutical products to rural customers that did not have access to amenities so many enjoy in the city, and quickly became completely absorbed with the potential of drones for commercial applications in the enterprise.
The idea was ahead of its time and was a logistics nightmare at that point in time. However, in the customer discovery process, many of the people we spoke with were farmers. We realized they had bigger problems that included losing crop yield to undetected threats, environmental regulations that were strictly enforced, and antiquated software systems. I knew the application for drones in rural America was not within pharmaceutical delivery, but within aerial monitoring for the agriculture industry.
The pivot commenced, the genesis of Skycision was had, and we've been working at helping our farmers ever since.
What is Skycision? How does it work?
Skycision provides a service to farmers that helps them turn any off-the-shelf DJI drone into a field scout's favorite tool in detecting areas of crop stress.
We've created a mobile flight planning application that creates flight plans for our farmers' fields. Depending on the type of sensor and altitude the drone is flying at, the camera is told when and where to take photographs by the application, so the farmer doesn't have to do any work. Those photos are uploaded to our web platform, calibrated, and stitched into one georeferenced map showing farmers a bird's eye view of their fields, as well as identifying areas of crop stress.
What problem in the drone/agriculture industry are you a solution for? What advantages do you offer compared to other competitors?
In the U.S. today, farmers average a loss of approximately 6% of their crops annually due to undetected threats such as pest, disease, molds, blight, water stress, and the list goes on. The average farming outfit will spend close to 1,000 hours / year scouting their fields, and if done by foot and truck, cover less than 5% of their total acreage. The areas where samples are generalized, are the areas most susceptible to these threats.
Skycision provides a monitoring solution that leverages aerial multispectral imagery in completely covering a farmer's field in detecting areas of early crop stress. Costs of scouting are reduced, yields are enhanced since threats can be identified and mitigated more comprehensively, and ultimately, the grower's bottom line is enhanced.
Traditionally, imagery up until recently has been captured by satellite, and in some cases, by plane. The quality of these platforms compared to a drone are highly inferior. The drone provides the quality of resolution necessary for a grower to see his crops down to the leaf level. This is used by different growers in a number of capacities from spotting irrigation leaks to enabling services like ours to provide crop counts. These vital statistics help dictate growing efficacy on a per acre basis and help to extract the total value of an imaging investment on the part of the grower.
Unfortunately for our competitors still manufacturing drones, the industry is consolidating. DJI has pretty much commoditized their platform and are offering it at such an affordable cost point that any farmer can adopt. Our integration with DJI allows us to ensure the best hardware and support to any grower on the market, as well as premium analytics capabilities with our services. Further, our radical focus on the quality of true multispectral imagery has allowed us to extract more agricultural insights from our imagery than any other company that has tried to integrate with DJI. It has put us in a position to be the most accessible and premium aerial analytics solution on the market for our growers, and we're enthused about the work we have done, and are planning to do.
What has the process of development been like for you, obstacles and successes?
At Skycision, we're radically focused on customer success. Instead of working to scale a 20/80 solution as quickly as we can, we've gone the extra mile in making sure the process is seamless for every customer we work with. Agriculture is not a one size fits all business and you really have to make sure that an aerial monitoring solution is not just a mapping solution to find product market fit with our customers.
Every major success we've had on the development side has come from an obstacle that we overcame, and there have been a number of them. One perfect example is the capability for drones to cover vineyards that are growing on steep hills. No other company doing aerial monitoring has drones that can fly some of the steep 30 degree inclines in the Napa Valley where some of the most premium wines in the world are grown.
Another area where the commercial drone industry falls short, is the calibration of their imagery. Stress detection is done by measuring the reflectance of different light spectra and their interaction with one another. Well, on a really bright day you can imagine the values of light reflectance are radically different than on a very cloudy day. On the bright day, the crops look as if they are thriving, on the cloudy day, they look as if they are all dead. This is a constant complaint from farmers about other providers, and a solution we have offered that has been strongly received.
What equipment are you using? Why did you decide to go with that option?
As mentioned earlier, we're leveraging DJI's suite of drones with an off-the-shelf 3rd party multispectral camera. We do a custom integration to ensure the sensor and the drone work with each other seamlessly to preserve the highest standards of data integrity.
What is your vision for Skycision over the next 1-2 years? How do you plan to keep reaching forward?
Skycision's highly scalable business model will enable us to continue to rapidly acquire market share while scaling at an international level. In the process, we anticipate taking on a number of strategic partnerships with key players in our core market segments.
With that said, we've been talking about drones, the problems faced by our growers, and how our solution addresses their needs, but there is an even larger macro picture.
See, as a population, we face massive issues with Climate Change and Global Food Security. 2005, 2010, 2014, 2015, and 2016 have all been the hottest year on record. Increases in heat have a direct impact on the progression of crop phenology, as well as increases in breakouts of pests and disease, meaning that crop loss has a direct correlation to Climate Change. Further, we're adding 2B people to the population by 2050 and we have to increase our food production by 70% to feed it. We either have to change the way we farm, or find a way to do it better. Skycision is inserting itself at the global stage to figure out how we can find a way to do it better, especially in economically under privileged 3rd world countries.
How do you envision your company helping to promote and develop the drone industry?
While Skycision is a major player in the drone industry, our focus is on what can be done with aerial data collected by the drone. This means our largest consideration has to be accessibility to our client base. Those politicians making the regulations on commercial drone usage have to know the stories of our growers and what they face on a seasonal basis, and how critical services like ours can be in helping them to enhance their bottom line.
Further, companies like ours have to be radical evangelists of regulations that advance commercial drone usage when they are reasonable for the industry. At the end of the day, we hope to be the voice of the 2.1M farmers that dot the US landscape when the US considers regulations for the global agriculture industry. In the future, we hope to be an influencer as later adopting countries roll out their national and local drone regulations.
Anything else you would like to add?
If anyone reading this post would like to get in touch with us for anything from adopting as a customer, brainstorming strategic partnerships, seeking job opportunities, aligning academic research, or even potential investment, please feel free to fill out the form on our website: www.skycision.com and I'll be sure to get in touch to discuss opportunities in greater depth.
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Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them, 'If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman, {3}and he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows on the trumpet and warns the people, {4}then he who hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning,
{5}and a sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head. {6}'But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman's hand.
The web transforms us as we become data and codes, uploading our very selves to a place we now call the cloud, but what is the cloud? The cloud is just a fancy name for the INTERNET, applications installed on web-servers which can be a computer in anyone's basement.This could be a powerful computer called a server located in commercial data centers.
This cloud is grounded in hardware just as your computer at your desk or in the home and runs on operating systems like windows. The web applications are installed within the OS, other software packets are added on, and domain name is employed. This is where your pictures or files or music are uploaded and made accessible to you or the world with secured accounts eg. http://www.mypictures.com. This cloud is a chaos of codes, binary, algorithms and with the right tools one can find the signal in the noise. hint! hint!
Every thing we want to see and know "THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY" lives on these devices which are compartmentalized into domains. You-tube,Twitter, Facebook, Instagram are all centralized data centers which hold all your data and personal information. This is very dangerous as we see Mark Zuckerberg has been selling user data to agencies at a rate of $2000.00 per month per every facebook account. The world of social media is somehow taking us a step away from reality and into a prison system virtually more fortified than Alcatraz!
So often I have warned the people close to me as friends family and coworkers of the dangers in posting your personal life and their children's life on face book, but as usual it was met with silent rejection. The concern for misuse of peoples data has grown increasingly large especially with the new sensation that everyone has in the homes, Alexa. That little thing you think is so cute will be the end game for many of us. To the average person they may think that Alexa the little thingy is really responding to them on a one on one basis.
Hell no! That unit is just a mic and a receiver, your voice, directives, requests and any sounds it picks up is directed via the internet to a Amazon AWS data center where Alexa resides. Your data is stored firstly and mined then sent to third party players for whatever request was made. That requested info is then packaged and sent back to Amazon Alexa database and then sent back to you the home user.
Alexa is one big database server that speaks to you on that little gadget at home, it receives every user requests, picks up every sound and conversation in the home. Alexa stores voice patterns, shopping habits, likes, dislikes everything about each individual is streamed as data packets. This voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant service Alexa, is the brain of machine learning and a storehouse for social crediting in the future.
When you buy Alexa you are actually paying a company Like Amazon to capture your own data, you are not the customer people you are the product. Beside selling your data to the highest bidder your data is being used to develop AI which will be the next phase after crypto currency gets accepted globally. Where is this all heading? You may be enlightened to know that this new revolution is a war against all of us.
The Book Of Revelation Chapter 13:17: And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, {17} so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark— the name of the beast or the number of its name.
Have you heard of social crediting lately? guess not but let me inform you of how serious this is. Let us look at the Chinese stance on social crediting which is coming to every nation very soon. China has recently banned 23 millions of its citizens from purchasing travel tickets as part of their "social credit system." Anyone accused of specific social offenses have been blocked from their right to purchase airline and train tickets.
These social credit offenses vary, and can include: not paying individual taxes; certain traffic violations or fines; spreading false information or what they call "fake news"; the use of drugs; and even minor offenses such as walking a dog unleashed. According to the National Public Credit Information Center, Chinese courts banned would-be travelers from buying flights 17.5 million times by the end of 2018.
Citizens placed on black lists for social credit offenses were prevented from buying train tickets 5.5 million times. To make matters worse, authorities in China are using technology and big data to create an Orwellian state of mass surveillance and control. But will this type of technology potentially arrive to a police state near you?!?! How about the rest of the world?!
Social media has become an electronic graffiti wall a place to post messages to provoke a reaction, its also a forum for unspeakable expressions of disrespect and hostility towards others.This is the cruel eulogy of these heartless trolls and instigators of gang fights who pump brothers and sisters to put a hit out on someone. The term is called greefing when someone dies the torment of the persons grieving is prolonged by nasty remarks of the deceased and constant taunting by trolls.
For generations we have been able to move on from bad or dumb things we have done but with social media facebook there is no social forgetting or pardon of sins past. All past sins are waiting in the crevices of your profiles, stored in the cloud to haunt you at the opportune time. That photo, that video, that gossip, that person you caused to commit suicide with your slander, it is still there ! it does not degrade.
The horror is that Facebook is designed to make social forgetting impossible and you are now owned by the public, your work place, government and this world system. It makes it harder to move on career-wise from the stupid and vulgar things you posted and tweeted in the past.
In your leisure time please research the company called Sophos, their job is to protect the worlds largest corporations against Cyber attacks. This group also has keen interest on the ills of Facebook's administration and the goons allowed to use it as a predatory playground. It is alarming the amount of warnings that are sent out to the public about your Facebook activity.
Many of you as I have shown before thinks that you are getting something free, well its not! You are paying with your data your personal information which is sold to the highest bidder. You are a commodity, a stock! Facebook was not created out of love for you the public; its a business! You actually are the product that Facebook is selling. People are way to loose about giving away personal data and this is all because of the naive and careless approach we have adopted in this system.
There is a general trend now that friends and families don't understand that your private data should remain private for a reason, and once it hits the internet you have given up that right to your privacy. You can never drag it back it is out there forever and that's it you lost it and someone is just waiting to use it against you in the future.
This happens on a daily basis computer hackers and fraudsters have a field day with your data and make money with your data while you out there sending alerts on where you are. The restaurants, the movies theaters, the hotels, love you when you have people following you. You become the marketing tool and advertisement agents for these businesses because the ones following your tweets will want to try those places also recommend others to visit also! Do you get paid for this? no only pimped.
The world today is a different place as opposed to the world many of us grew up in. We as the elders of tomorrow must not be swayed by this new generation but we are to uphold our responsibilities standards and morals. The masses of the Z-nation lids are doing things that are so inappropriate and we just accept it with the the attitude that we must change with the times. But where is wisdom? is there still wise men and women amongst us?
The day will come when we will thirst for knowledge and truth and she will not be found, because rules doesn't apply anymore. There will be confusion and conflict as we allow these young misguided youths to dictate what is right and what is wrong. The denouncing of good as evil and calling evil good is becoming the norm. We are all connected in this WWW and the things done always have its effect on another, even people we don't even know thousands of miles away or in your own city.
It is important to understand that what I do here affects you there, so why not use this stage for doing what is good, Why not according to scriptures The Book Of Job Chapter 5: {12}He frustrates the devices of the crafty,So that their hands cannot carry out their plans. {13} He catches the wise in their own craftiness,And the counsel of the cunning comes quickly upon them:
As Satan has setup the WWW for his purpose we can use it to spread truth and teach our children about our God and his promise to us as a nation. Use this stage wisely that you have the opportunity to make a difference globally with this new technology. Stop the tweeting showing everyone your whereabouts, one day you might just find your house burglarized or someone show up where you tweeted from and do harm to you. Why are you doing it on the Internet at an international level? You will be sadly surprised what you will discover about yourself.
In conclusion; examine your motives before doing things, do not ever put your personal information out there, desist from tormenting and harassing people, defrauding, trolling because you are effectively hurting yourself and others. The owners and companies running these social media platforms, note that their business model is not always in your best interest. I brought this information to you out of care and not maliciously to target anyone one individual. I am only the watchman looking over my people
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Kasabian will play an enormous headline show in Leicester next summer.
The band will only play one show in 2020, and it's set to be a huge home city date.
Booking up Leicester's Victoria Park for June 20th, it's their first outdoor UK show since headlining Isle of Wight over summer.
It's actually their first UK show since smashing Brixton Academy in 2018, and will feature Sam Fender in support.
Serge comments: "We're absolutely buzzing to be able to put on Solstice II in our home town of Leicester. Anyone who came last time would know how special it was and to get the opportunity to do it again is beyond a dream..."
Tickets go on-sale at 9am on October 25th.
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As a prelude to the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, scheduled for 10-11 February 2019 in Addis Ababa, the President of the African Development Bank had to declare: The state of the continent is good. Africa's overall economic performance continues to improve, but it remains insufficient to cope with the structural challenges»
Among the pressing challenges, Akinwumi Adesina says that the African working-age population is expected to grow from 705 million people in 2018 to almost one billion by 2030.
With the arrival of several million young people on the labor market, the pressure to provide decent jobs will intensify. With a staggering population that is accompanied by relatively dynamic but not inclusive and job-creating growth, youth unemployment is a ticking time bomb in most African countries. In recent years, for example, statistics show that of the 73 million jobs created between 2000 and 2008, only 22% were picked up by young people in Africa.
Moreover, in 2016, the unemployment rate for this segment of the population was twice that of people over 25 years of age. These figures show the extent of the phenomenon and the urgency for leaders to find mechanisms more suited to this problem. Indeed, it is important that these young people are supported and that leaders implement targeted reforms to tackle youth unemployment.
As a whole, the report of the African Development Bank looks at job creation through the analysis of the dynamism of companies on the continent. The paper also explores the economic challenges of regional integration in Africa and the policies that can bring economic prosperity to Africa. In this regard, many observers believe today that an Africa without borders is one of the prerequisites for the development of a stable continental market. On the domestic front, however, the AfDB points to the risks of greater vulnerability to indebtedness in some countries, security and migration issues, and uncertainties related to elections and political transition that could weigh on growth. . At the external level, the institution notes the uncertainties associated with escalating tensions on world trade, the normalization of interest rates in advanced economies and uncertainties over commodity prices.
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How Do I Judge Whether Hair Transplant Is Failure?
First, You must evaluate the final results of surgery 12 months later. Transplantation hair will grow at different rates and you can experience uneven hair regrowth. Most people only start experiencing hair growth of the transplanted hair between 3 - 5 months and it takes up to 1 year to mature. There are two main performance show that your surgery has failed :
1. Transplanted Grafts Not Grow 12 Months Later
New hair growth only typically starts between 3 and 5 months and will start growing as thin, fine, colorless hairs and with time will thicken, darken, and mature. Normal, 80% of the transplanted grafts should have reached styling length by 8 months. If you do not have enough transplanted grafts regrowth and unable to achieve the effect after 12 months, then you should be a failed hair transplant surgery, the causes are :
(a) The Number 1 Cause
The proper care and handling of the follicular unit grafts during surgery, either during the graft dissecting process, placement process, or holding / storing process.
(b.) The Number 2 Cause
A large number of grafts are transplanted in one session. The blood supply of the scalp can not supply many of the grafts.
(c.) If the hair grafts are damaged in any way, after they are inserted, they will not grow.
(d.) Patient physiological factors can cause poor hair regrowth including scalp problems such as an infection or scarring, etc.
Most of the problems of failure to grow is the result of diseases like diffuse Alopecia Areata. Skin biopsies might help make that diagnosis.
2. Post-surgical Existing Hair Shedding
Strictly speaking, post-surgical existing hair shedding is the side effects of hair transplant. It does not really show that surgery is a failure. But, the serious side effects will lead to end up with less original hair than before you go for the hair transplant surgery. Some surgeons say that the shedding is related to a surgical shock and the hair will grow back. The fact is that nobody knows why post-surgical shedding occur.


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Both Labour and the Greens increased their share as Hackney returned their incumbent Labour MPs – local residents have consistently supported the party since the late 1970s. The Green Party rose hugely in popularity, while UKIP made an entry into Hackney South and Shoreditch.
Diane Abbott held her seat with a 63 per cent vote share in Hackney North and Stoke Newington, a traditional Labour stronghold. The Greens gained a massive amount of traction, more than tripling their vote share from 4.6 per cent in 2010 to 14.6 per cent. The Liberal Democrats lost over 8,000 votes since the last election, plummeting from a 24 to a 5 per cent share of the vote.
In Hackney South and Shoreditch, Meg Hillier successfully defended the Labour seat with 64 per cent of the vote, a substantial majority. The Greens also made significant gains, receiving 5,519 votes – a 370 per cent increase on their 2010 result. UKIP, which did not contest the last election, made a small but increased splash with 1,818 votes this time around.
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Seaford Blatchington is one of only a handful of golf clubs across the country that can accommodate overnight guests in a Dormy House. Rye, Royal Lytham & St Annes and Royal Porthcawl are among the smattering of others.
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text: Tonight (November 2nd) is the LA Movie Premiere of the documentary "As I Am: The Life & Times of Dj AM"….a film by Kevin Kerslake, authorized by the estate of DJ AM. This is all happening at The Theatre inside the Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles. Movie screening starts at 8pm sharp, with pre-movie screening & after party music by Dj Vice, Dj Fashion, Dj Spider, & many other special surprise guest DJs. If you are a true DJ & you know of his work & influence….this is an event that you do not want to miss. Rest In Peace Dj AM. For tix and more info, go to www.acehotel.com/djam or www.djamdoc.com


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- Voluntary position, based at our office in Bloomsbury, London
- Full-time or part-time (ideally 3-5 days per week for 3-6 months)
- Suitable for: Candidates interested in management and operations related work experience
- Fluency in English is essential
The Democratic Progress Institute (DPI) is seeking to appoint a volunteer intern to join our Operations Team. The internship would ideally be full-time and last for 3 to 6 months. The role is unpaid with a small daily stipend for lunch expenses.
The operations internship will involve working closely with the Operations Support Officer on various tasks that are essential to the effective running of a small but busy NGO. Through this experience, the volunteer intern would gain valuable insights and knowledge relating to management and operations in the non-profit sector.
The operations intern's main duties will be to:
- Implement decisions taken by management related to operational systems such as IT and Communications
- Recommend and implement changes in office practice procedures or practices
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- Assist in developing and implementing in-house staff development/training
- Assist with the publication of reports
- Assist in developing and implementing tools for impact measurement of the organisation
- when required, assist programme team with small research tasks and logistics
The position requires excellent written English skills and a strong ability to carry out administrative duties. We would also value a strong eye for detail, good organisational skills and well-developed IT skills. Working well either alone or as part of a team, you will ideally have experience of – or interest in – working with a diverse range of people. It is important that the successful candidate is self-motivated and able to work successfully independently and with minimal supervision.
The suitable candidate will ideally be available full time (Monday to Friday, 9.00 to 17.00) but other arrangements can be made. Candidates will be selected on the basis of their interest, experience and suitability for the role.
The successful candidate will demonstrate a proven interest in and knowledge of DPI's areas of focus; namely conflict resolution and democratic advancement (including but not limited to the MENA region).
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Customizing Team Projects and Processes
You can customize your team project to support specific processes and practices that your team uses. Before you begin any customization activity, you should become familiar with the types of objects and methods that you can customize, and how each can be used to support your project tracking requirements.
One of the main distinctions you will want to determine is whether your customization effort should be targeted for an existing team project, or if you want it to be used for all team projects currently defined and those yet to be created. When you apply customizations to a process template, they will be available in all new team projects that are created by using the customized process template.
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Assess the scope and types of customization work that you require. Before you begin any customization activity, you should define the requirements and assess how you want to institutionalize the changes to be made.
Determining Your Process and Tracking Customization Requirements
Customize work item tracking objects to support your project tracking requirements. You can customize data fields, workflow, and work item forms that your team uses to track progress. For example, you could add two or more fields to a work item to track the type of issue found with a bug, and define pick lists for each that categorize the issue for the two levels.
All work item tracking objects are customized by modifying an XML file and importing it to the server that hosts the Team Foundation project collection.
Customizing Project Tracking Data, Forms, Workflow, and Other Objects
Define reports that support your project tracking requirements. Depending on the process template that you use to create your team project, you may have several reports already defined. You can customize these reports further or create new reports. These reports may contain new data fields that you added to work item types.
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Modify how fields map from Office Project to Team Foundation. If you use Office Project to plan and schedule your team projects, then you may want to review and modify the field mappings that are used for scheduling. If you add new data fields to a work item type, you can map the field so that it appears in your plan.
The Office Project field mapping file is an XML file that you can upload and download from the server that hosts the Team Foundation project collection.
Define dashboards that provide insight around your team's progress. Depending on the process template that you use to create your team project, you may have several dashboards already defined. You can customize these dashboards further or create new dashboards.
Customize process template components to standardize new team projects. A process template defines the types of work item objects available for tracking as well as the default rules, policies, security groups, and queries for use by team members. By customizing a process template, you increase compliance with processes across all team projects that are created with the process template. You also simplify the time to get projects up and running by defining the team queries, reports, source code control check-in notes, security groups, and more.
All process template objects and plug-ins are customized by modifying an XML file. When you create a team project, you specify the zip file that contains all the process template objects.
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Vroom Inc. (NAS:VRM) shares fell in the extended session Wednesday after the online used-car sales site's outlook missed Wall Street estimates. Vroom shares dropped 16% after hours, following a 6.6% surge in the regular session to close at $69.01. Vroom expects a loss of 42 cents to 37 cents a share on revenue of $268 million to $290 million in the third quarter, while analysts had forecast a loss of 36 cents a share on revenue of $344.6 million. The company reported a second-quarter loss of $63.2 million, or $2 a share, compared with $59.2 million, or $6.90 a share, in the year-ago period. The adjusted loss, excluding stock-based compensation and other items, was 34 cents a share. Revenue declined to $253.1 million from $260.9 million in the year-ago quarter. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had forecast a loss of 55 cents a share on revenue of $234.9 million. Shares of Vroom more than doubled on their first day of trading back in June.
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A wave of secondary trauma is barreling towards the United States and in the coming days a weeks of April and May of 2020 it will hit us fairly hard. Listen to the video to get some understanding of what secondary trauma is and generally what you can do about it to minimize its impact.
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The Usual Angst
China Syndrome
3½ stars out of 5
If Vancouver rockers China Syndrome's The Usual Angst sounds familiar, it's for good reason.
On its third album, the four-piece band, led by singer and guitarist Tim Chan, offers 11 new songs full of hooks and power-pop melodies. The group's avowed love of Scottish rockers Teenage FanClub and British new wave band XTC pops right out of the speakers, and the signature JC/DC production lays a heavy emphasis on the pulsating bass and shimmering guitar layers.
Chan's material touches upon themes like poverty (Corner of Gore and Pender) and the tiring cycle of global politics (It's Happening All Over Again).
Lighthearted touches like the horn-augmented My Pal Dan, where Chan sings the virtues of an imaginary cool friend turned celebrity, the lounge-rock of It Seemed Like A Good Idea and Vancouver ode The Happy Song recall the playfulness of Pavement.
Album closer Humble Pie pays tribute to Steve Marriott, who died in 1991.
Familiar tropes aside, The Usual Angst is an infectious batch of rock. Each song has its own identity, blending modern and retro elements, and the production makes the music feel like a breath of fresh air (take the piano-driven pop of relationship tune I'm Sorry For Everything, with its breezy vocal harmonies, as the album's best example). The Usual Angst should easily find a rightful home in your car stereo and at the local watering hole.
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