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this new exhibition deconstructs what it means to be a woman
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
A new home for our walking stick insects
Advantages of Walking Stick Pets:
• They don't smell, which means that you can keep them anywhere in the house without worrying about "stinking-up-the-place" (eg. a child's bedroom).
• They eat lettuce, which means that you don't have to grow exotic plants just to feed the insects.
• They can't "infest" your house so you don't have to worry about any "escapees".
• They teach children to care for life so they can be an ideal first pet for youngsters.
• They have a life span of about one school year, which makes them ideal for a year-long school class project.
• They have no wings so they can't fly and escape.
• They walk relatively slowly and carefully, so they dont't scurry like roaches which tend to give "insecta-phobes" the "willies".
• They can be handled easily by children without fear of being bitten or squishing them.
• They don't need daily care. They can be left for several days (up to a week) without care (they don't need a baby-sitter for a weekend trip).
• They can be used to teach children (and adults) the value of life.
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The debate about margins has come into sharper focus in recent weeks, but the industry should be wary about disrupting an underlying positive culture
Margins, margins, margins; everyone's talking about them. When a new contractor boss first settles into the hot seat, they often think they have the ultimate solution to what is the perennial industry problem of not making much money. They'll set out to choose the sectors they're working in carefully, cut their costs accordingly, do their diligence better than most and they'll talk about innovation. Innovation, by the way, is usually another way of either screwing the supply chain or cutting costs. They may even underbid for work to increase their revenue just to satisfy an expensive infrastructure and their flash new corporate offices in the city. Why would any firm do that just to make up the year's numbers? Because when it comes to contracting, revenue and size matter to clients even if being unprofitable doesn't.
So what magic margin numbers are we talking about here? The likes of ISG's Paul Cossell and Balfour Beatty's Leo Quinn have spoken in the past about an ambitious 5%. Others privately point to anything above 1% being good, with 1% being the norm. The truth is analysts do not really believe there is any science behind calculating margins – rather, it is determined by myriad complex and largely uncontrollable considerations such as the market and the economy, along with fluctuations in the cost of materials.
There's an underlying positive culture that we should be very wary of disrupting – it's what makes the vast majority of projects get there in the end with a sense of style
As we gear up for the annual contractor results season next month, you can expect to hear all of these determining factors being analysed in depth. But margins really come down to three things. First, the sectors that contractors choose to operate in and how familiar they are with them and their specialist supply chains. Second, internal considerations. Basically, how organised and innovative the contractor really is. So how it manages its costs, for example, its approach to pricing jobs as well as its own diligence processes, not to mention its understanding of and appetite for risk management. Finally, the external factors such as the wider economy and regulations, materials pricing, the capability of its supply chain and workforce and how its competitors are behaving in the market.
The debate about margins has come into sharper focus, of course, due to Carillion's collapse and the resulting parliamentary investigations. Solutions being bandied about once again are project bank accounts, retentions overhauls and legislative solutions forcing contractors to behave and transact in specific ways within set parameters. But is this really the right approach? The housing sector, for example, has high contracting margins, a very tight set of scalable construction processes and a truly innovative approach to business, driving efficiencies through off-site and modern methods of construction. And – yes – it also has a set of lucrative market conditions where demand massively outstrips supply.
For the pack, it is too easy to blame poor performance and the culture of late payments and to assume that all large-scale contractors are behaving badly
But it does all this without a stack of compliance legislation written into its contracts. What if contractors approached their selection of work just as robustly? Can you imagine a future where the days of mega contractors came to an end and we were simply left with sector specialists, experts in their chosen field, operating at scale but with processes so tight and supply chains managed so well via digital scrutiny that risk was almost eliminated? There would always be a place for a private firm such as Sir Robert McAlpine or Laing O'Rourke picking off the large one-off projects, rolling into town with their A team, guaranteeing smooth delivery to a client and a nice ride with a handshake. But for the pack, it is too easy to blame poor performance and the culture of late payments and to assume that all large-scale contractors are behaving badly.
Most contracting CEOs, such as ISG's Paul Cossell, are good people running good companies and trying to do the right thing in the right way. Sure, 5% is an aspiration. And sure it's a competitive market and tough conversations need to happen in any negotiation. But all the good that is found within the community of companies and people building amazing projects should not be lost to a lawyer's pen. Subbies will always complain about contractors and contractors will always be seen to be screwing subbies. But fundamentally there is goodwill and pride at the heart of the sector.
There are those who wish to use the Carillion debacle as a way to settle old scores and change the structure of the marketplace, bringing in big changes to procurement and payment practices. But on the whole, tough though contracting is, the bulk of the sector is making a damn good fist of it. There's an underlying positive culture that we should be very wary of disrupting – it's what makes the vast majority of projects get there in the end with a sense of style.
Before we leap into a cultural overhaul, let's just urge our large-scale contracting leaders to do their homework a little better from the outset – and lead by example.
Tom Broughton, editor-in-chief and managing director, Building


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The blockchain business today is at the pinnacle of development. This causes popularity for experts, countless and an absence of experts who could fit these opportunities. Hence, there is a genuine HR fight for the workers going on. Bosses endeavor to offer hopefuls preferable conditions over contenders do. As of late we expounded on how a business ought to effectively approach the scan for a representative for a blockchain venture. This article is about upsides and downsides of blockchain employments and how to locate another activity around there.
The most appealing thing about blockchain is that it is currently very simple for a man to enter this industry even without involvement. Everybody who is enthusiastic about this subject and is prepared to create in it.
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[private | public] dim identifier as type [ = expression]
- Private An optional keyword which ensures that a variable is only available from within the module it is declared. Variables are private by default.
- Public An optional keyword which ensures that a variable is available to other programs or modules.
- Identifier A mandatory variable name, which follows the standard identifier naming conventions
- Type A mandatory data type. Supported types include enumerated, boolean, bit, byte, sbyte, short, ushort, integer, uinteger, single, structures, string and char.
- Expression - An optional assignment expression.
A variable holds data on which a program operates. Unlike constants, variable values can change dynamically when the program is executing. A variable is like a box, which holds values. You have to tell the compiler in advance the type of variable that will fit into the box. You declare variables one at a time, like this
Dim index As Byte Dim range As Byte
As mentioned previously, the type defines what values can fit into a variable.
|Bit Size
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|0 to 255
|-128 to 127
|0 to 65535
|-32768 to 32767
|0 to 4294967295
|-2147483648 to 2147483647
|1.175494e-38 to 3.40282346e+38
|2.22507385e-308 to 1.79769313e+308
|Single character
|Multiple (up to 255) characters
It's important to note that data RAM on a PIC® microcontroller is substantially less than the code memory used to store your program. In addition, program operations on large data types (for example, unsigned integers) will generate much more underlying ASM code.
|Unlike many other BASIC compilers, Firewing does allow variables of different types to be used in the same expression. For example, an unsigned byte can be multiplied by an integer and assigned to a variable declared as floating point. However, this practice should be avoided if possible, as the code automatically generated by the compiler needs to convert one type into another in order to compute the correct result. This will result in a larger code footprint than would otherwise be generated if all of the variables used had been declared as the same type.
The types bit, byte, sbyte, short, ushort, integer, uinteger and single shown here clearly outline the numeric ranges for any variables declared using them.
Variable Initialiser
A variable initialiser has the ability to combine a variable declaration with an assignment. For example,
Dim value As Byte = 0
Is the same as
Dim value As Byte value = 0
An initialiser does not need to be a constant, it can be any legal expression. For example,
Dim myStr As String = "Hello World" ' a string Dim myVal As Byte = Len(MyStr) ' length of string
Boolean Types
The boolean data type enables you to represent something as true or false. It cannot hold a numeric value. The right hand side of an assignment expression must always evaluate to true or false, or set directly by using the compilers predefined boolean constants. For example,
Dim Ok As Boolean = True
Booleans are particularly useful when dealing with flow control statements, such as if then or iteration statements, such as while end while or do loop until. A boolean data type can significantly contribute to the readability of a program, making code sequences appear more logical and appropriate. For example, the following code shows how you could set a bit flag, if the value of index falls within 10 and 20,
Dim index As Byte = 5 Dim dataInRange As Bit If index >= 10 And index <= 20 Then dataInRange = 1 Else dataInRange = 0 End If
However, if we change the flag dataInRange to a boolean type, we could write the code like this,
Dim index As Byte = 5 Dim dataInRange As Boolean dataInRange = index >= 10 And index <= 20
In the first example, testing index using if then evaluates to true or false. In the second example, dataInRange is a boolean type, so we can dispense with the if then statement altogether and assign the result directly to dataInRange.
In addition, because dataInRange is a boolean type, we don't have to explicitly test it when encountering any conditional expressions. Remember, a boolean can only be true or false, so we simply write something like this,
If Not dataInRange Then ' output an error End If
In this example, if dataInRange is false, then the if then statement will evaluate to true (the boolean operator not inverts the false into a true) and an error is output.
String and Char Types
A string variable can be described as a collection of character elements. For example, the string "Hello" consists of 5 individual characters, followed by a null terminator. The Firewing compiler uses a null terminator (character 0) to denote the end of a string sequence. A string variable can be declared and initialized in the following way,
Dim myString As String = "Hello World" myString = "one" myString = "one two three four"
By default, a string declaration will hold 32 characters plus a null terminator. When you assign a value to the string, it will grow in size as required, if this number is exceeded. When passing a string by reference to a sub of function it is usually good practice to dimension it explicitly. This ensures the string is large enough to hold any data assigned to it, like this:
' 79 characters + null terminator... Dim myBuffer As String(80)
Remember, the compiler will only allocate 32 bytes + null terminator bytes of RAM for each string declared if (a) no value is ever assigned to it or (b) it is not explicitly dimensioned.
|It is extremely important that string variables are declared with enough character elements to support the runtime operation of your program. Failure to do so will certainly result in problems when your code is executing.
Firewing enables you to specify string sizes of up to 256 bytes, which equates to 255 individual character elements. Unlike strings, a char type can only hold one single character. A char variable can be declared and initialized in the following way,
Dim myChar As Char myChar = "A"
The compiler supports the "+" or "&" operators to concatenate (join) two strings. For example,
Dim strA As String = "Hello" Dim strB As String = "World" Dim result As String = strA & " " & strB
Will result in result being set to "Hello World". The two relational operators = (equal) and <> (not equal) are also supported for string comparisons. For example,
If strA = strB Then Console.Write("Strings are equal!") End If If strA <> strB Then Console.Write("Strings are NOT equal!") End If
You can also mix the concatenation operator with the supported relational operators, as shown in the following example,
Dim strA As String = "Hello" Dim strB As String = "World" If strA & " " & strB = "Hello World" Then Console.Write("Strings are equal!", 13, 10) End If
The compiler can also read or write to a single string element by indexing it in the following way,
Dim strResult As String = "Hello World" strResult(5) = "_"
This would result in "Hello World" being changed to "Hello_World". Note that the first character of a string variable is located at 0, the second character at 1 and so on.
|An alternative way to assign a single character to a string element or char variable is by using the CChar typecast. For example, the underscore character ("_") can be represented by the ASCII number 95 decimal. We could therefore write StrResult(5) = cchar(95). This technique is particularly useful when dealing with non printable characters, such as carriage returns and line feeds.
A useful compiler constant is nothing, which can be used to set, or tested for, a string null terminator. In the following example, the length of a string is computed and output via the microcontrollers hardware USART.
Dim str As String = "Hello World" Dim index As Byte = 0 While str(Index) <> Nothing Index = Index + 1 End While Console.Write("Length is ", CStr(Index), 13, 10)
It should be noted that the compiler constant nothing is logically equivalent to "" (an empty string).
[private | public] dim identifier(Size) as type [ = "{"value, {value} "}"]
- Private An optional keyword which ensures that an array is only available from within the module it is declared. Arrays are private by default.
- Public An optional keyword which ensures that an array is available to other programs or modules.
- Identifier A mandatory variable name, which follows the standard identifier naming conventions
- Size A mandatory size which describes the number of elements in the array. Arrays can only have a single dimension. Firewing does not currently support multi-dimensional arrays.
- Type A mandatory data type. Supported types include boolean, bit, byte, sbyte, short, ushort, integer, uinteger, single, structures, string and char.
- Value - An optional list of array values.
Arrays are collections of values, with each element being of the same type. When you have many variables in your program, it is sometimes useful to use a more manageable array, rather than keep track of them manually. You can declare arrays like this:
Dim array1(5) As Byte Dim array2(10) As Byte
|For bit or boolean arrays, accessing a single element using a variable index is very computationally expensive. For example bitArray(index) = 1. If at all possible, use a byte array instead.
You can initialize your array when declaring it. For example,
Dim myArray(5) As Byte = {1,2,3,4,5}
This will declare a byte array of 5 elements and initialize the array with the value 1..5. To access a single array element in your program, use the array name followed by round brackets around the index of element you want. For example, if you want to access the second element of myArray, then use
myArray(1) = 10
Note that the first element of an array is located at 0, the second element at 1 and so on. Because Firewing arrays begin with zero indexes, care must be taken when iterating through an array. For example,
Dim index As Byte For index = 0 To 4 myArray(index) = 200 Next
is correct, and will set all 5 array elements (0 to 4) of myArray to the value 200. A very useful compiler keyword is ubound, which will automatically insert the correct upper bound for your array when the program is compiled. The ubound keyword is particularly useful when arrays are passed to functions or procedures, allowing you to write a routine that accepts arrays with different upper bounds. Using ubound, we could rewrite the previous example like this,
Dim index As Byte For index = 0 To UBound(myArray) myArray(Index) = 200 Next
Using ubound prevents your program inadvertently indexing an array beyond its highest element, which would certainly lead to problems when you program is executing. For example,
Dim array(5) As Byte Dim index As Byte For index = 0 To 5 array(Index) = 2 Next
After compilation the variable Index would be stored in data RAM, directly after the array declaration. When index = 5, the memory location used by Index is overwritten with a 2 because we have set the incorrect upper limit in the for next loop. Instead of terminating at 5, the for next loop will never finish because the loop counter Index has been changed from 5 to a value of 2.
Alias and Modifiers
[private | public] dim alias as identifier{.modifier}
- Private An optional keyword which ensures that an alias is only available from within the module it is declared. Variables are private by default.
- Public An optional keyword which ensures that an alias is available to other programs or modules.
- Alias A mandatory alias name, which follows the standard identifier naming conventions
- Identifier A mandatory and previously declared variable name, which follows the standard identifier naming conventions
- Modifier One or more optional modifiers which can be used to access different parts of the variable identifier
Unlike a variable, an alias is declared without a type and does not allocate any data RAM. As the name suggests, it shares its data RAM with a previously declared variable. A simple alias declaration is shown below,
Dim value As Byte Dim myAlias As Value myAlias = 100
In this example, value has been declared as a byte type. myAlias has been declared as an alias to value. When 100 is assigned to myAlias, the number is stored at the RAM location reserved for value. In other words, value becomes equal to 100. Whilst a simple alias like this may be useful, substantial power and flexibility can be achieved when using an alias declaration with a modifier. For example, the program
Sub Main() Dim Led As PORTB.7 While True High(Led) DelayMS(500) Low(Led) DelayMS(500) End While End Sub
will flash an Led connected to PORTB, pin 7. A list of additional modifiers is shown here.
Some modifiers use an array notation. For example, PORTB.7 can be written as PORTB.Bits(7). The Booleans() array modifier is very useful for changing a bit field into a boolean. For example, many PIC® microcontrollers have hardware USARTs to support serial communication. You can test to see if data is available in the receive buffer by testing PIR1.5. Using the booleans modifier, we can create a more descriptive alias which has the virtue of being easy to test when using if then, while end while and do loop until statements,
Dim dataIsAvailable As U1STA.Booleans(0) ' URXDA flag If dataIsAvailable Then ' process data here... End If
Modifiers can also be used directly from within your program code. For example,
Dim value As UShort value.Byte1 = &HFF
will set the high byte of the variable value to 255 decimal. Alias and modifiers can also be used on arrays. This is particularly useful if you want to access a single element in a complex data structure. In the following example, value is aliased to the first array elements minutes field.
Structure Time Dim hours As Byte Dim minutes As Byte End Structure Dim array(10) As Time Dim value As array(0).minutes Sub Main() ' these assignments are logically identical... value = 10 array(0).minutes = 10 End Sub
Aliases and modifiers can also be used on previously declared aliases. For example,
Dim array(10) As UShort ' a word array Dim elementAlias As array(3) ' alias to element 4 Dim byteAlias As elementAlias.Byte1 ' element 4, high byte Dim bitAlias As byteAlias.7 ' element 4, high byte, bit 7
The modifiers discussed up until now have been used to access smaller parts of a larger variable. The Firewing compiler also supports modifier promotion. That is, aliasing a smaller variable to a larger whole. For example, given the declarations
Dim array(8) As Byte Dim lower As array(0).AsUInteger Dim upper As array(4).AsUInteger
we can now access the lower and upper 4 bytes of an array using single assignments, like this
Sub Main() lower = &HF0F0F0F0 upper = &HF0F0F0F0 End Sub
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Hardwood floors that are surfaced with lacquer, shellac, or varnish finishes require a separate cleaning agenda than that of polyurethane floors. Although fairly similar, shellac or lacquered hardwood needs a more detailed approach to cleaning and care. You see, these finishes are not water or moisture resistant, so hardwood floors are not protected from spills or wear and tear. It is recommended to seal lacquer or shellac-surfaced hardwood floors with a protective liquid or paste floor wax.
Continue reading to learn safe methods for cleaning shellacked, varnished, or lacquered hardwood flooring, and who to call for affordable hardwood floor installation and replacement in Indianapolis.
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There are two primary methods that are both safe and effective for cleaning lacquered or shellacked hardwood floors. Both methods use techniques that are unique to cleaning specialty flooring, so acute attention and concentration is required. Only solvent-based cleaners and polishes should be used when cleaning or treating shellacked, varnished, or lacquered wood floors. All other OTC cleaners are generally water-based and may fade, weaken, or buckle hardwood. Since solvent-based chemicals are flammable, it is important to only use them in well-ventilated spaces.
Here are two key methods to cleaning finished hardwood flooring:
Method One
➀ Gently Vacuum Hardwood Floors
➁ Apply a One-Step Floor Cleaner or Polish (Solvent-Based) to a Small Section of Floor
➂ Use a Wax Applicator Pad to Rub Product into the Wood Floor
➃ Always Rub in the Same Direction of the Natural Wood Grain
➄ Use a Clean Cloth to Wipe Away Leftover Residue
➅ Use a Microfiber Towel to Buff Floors in a Circular Motion!
➆ Buff Until Floors Shine!
Method Two (Recommended)
➀ Gently Vacuum Hardwood Floors
➁ Use a Dry Wax Applicator to Apply Liquid Floor Cleaner (Solvent-Based) to a Small Section of the Floor
➂ Apply By Rubbing in Along the Natural Direction of the Wood Grain
➃ Continue by Applying Remaining Cleaner to All Sections of the Hardwood Floor
➄ Allow the Previous Sections of Flooring to Sit and Soak in the Product
➅ Come Back to the First Section Cleaned and Wipe Away Leftover Residue
➆ Do this for All Remaining Sections in the Order they were Cleaned
➇ Buff Surface of Flooring with a Hardwood Floor Polisher
➈ Buff Away Streaks with a Microfiber Towel until the Floorboards Shine!
Hardwood floors last a very long time with good care, but at some point, they will have to be replaced. Hardwood floor replacement is a wise investment that can increase your property value and drastically enhance your interior appeal. When this time comes, be sure you choose a licensed general contractor who specializes in hardwood flooring. They will have the tools, training, and resources necessary to provide professional advice, comprehensive service, and outstanding results.


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Over the past twenty years, international student populations (and, therefore, ESL populations) have been steadily increasing. However, at many colleges, ESL services have not been increasing to accompany this rise. As an undergraduate tutor at Union College's Writing Center, I researched ESL support programs for international first-year students at a variety of colleges and universities, then applied this research by creating the curriculum and framework for a weekly workshop series catering to the academic needs of first-year international students within a small, liberal arts college. As I created the curriculum and implemented the series, I was very cognizant of the need to create a space wherein students' multiliteracy was valued, while also aiding them in learning to be successful within a wider academic framework that adheres to the concept that there is one "standard" English. This method allowed for students to, on one hand, conform to an system (albeit problematic) in order to be successful, while also giving them a space to voice their concerns and challenge the present system. Despite having previously read literature exploring the problems stemming from strict adherence to the concept of one "standard" English (and the subsequent deeming of other subsets of the English language as un-academic and irrelevant), creating and implementing this project forced me to consider these ideas as applied to reality. My research will focus on these ideas by providing audiences with an introduction to the creation of the workshop and also explore the problems with it and ways to improve it.
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The Daughter who Married her Mother.
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Many applications require flexibility in the problem complexity, target accuracy, and time and cost to solution. This is exacerbated by new physical models, model coupling, and more sophisticated analysis techniques such as optimization, data assimilation, and uncertainty quantification. Moreover, as models become increasingly relevant, their execution is subjected to more external requirements (e.g., policy, weather, manufacturing, field studies, disaster response). We need abstractions that render large regions near the {problem complexity, accuracy, time, cost}-Pareto front accessible with practical hardware resources and maintainable source code. The HPGMG benchmarking effort attempts to quantify versatility (and variability) of machines so that practitioners can make informed decisions about the suitability of a given machine for their purposes. This talk will discuss design choices and open problems for benchmarking to be representative of a broad range of applications run in diverse scientifically-relevant configurations.
Jed grew up in Alaska, earning BS degrees in Mathematics and Physics and an MS in Mathematics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, during which he was the principle author of the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM). In 2011, he completed a Dr.Sc. at ETH Zürich, where he investigated computational methods for ice sheet and glacier dynamics. He became an active PETSc developer during this time, leading to a postdoc and later Asst. Computational Mathematician appointment at Argonne National Lab. He is now Asst. Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. His work has been recognized by the 2014 SIAG/SC Junior Scientist Prize and a 2014 IEEE TCSC Young Achiever Award, and as co-recipient of the 2015 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering.
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Languages and compilers for parallel computing : 26th International Workshop, LCPC 2013, September 25--27, 2013, San Jose, CA, USA. Revised Selected Papers / [edited by] Calin Cascaval, Pablo Montesinos-Ortego.
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Marshall QB Crow voted top player of the week in high school football
The Battle Creek Enquirer put out the question:
Who was the Football Player of the Week of Week 1 of the high school season?
After nearly 20,000 votes in the Enquirer website poll, the answer is Marshall's Wyatt Crow.
Crow finished first in the poll with 7,636 votes.
Finishing second was Harper Creek's Dom Gibson with 6,511 votes.
St. Philip's Ryan Reincke was third.
Senior quarterback Wyatt Crow helped Marshall come back from 28 points down to beat Jackson 35-34 in overtime. Crow finished 14-of-26 passing for 139 yards and four touchdowns.
The winner of the Battle Creek Enquirer Football Player of the Week each week will receive a 'Player of the Week' t-shirt.
Look for our poll for the Battle Creek Enquirer Football Player of the Week every Monday online at www.battlecreekenquirer.com
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Author(s): Jaye Ford
Fiction - Crime & Thriller | Books by Newcastle and Hunter Authors
From a master of suspense and author of the bestselling Beyond Fear, Blood Secret is a teasingly crafted, nail-biting thriller that's impossible to put down. Nothing ever happens in Haven Bay, which is why Rennie Carter - a woman who has been on the run for most of her life - stayed there longer than she should. However, that illusion of security is broken one night when Max Tully, the man she loves and the reason she stayed, vanishes without trace. Rennie, though, is the only person who believes Max is in danger. The police are looking in the wrong places, and Max's friends and his business partner keep hinting at another, darker side to him. But Rennie Carter understands about double lives - after all, that's not even her real name...And she has a secret too - a big, relentless and violent one that she's terrified has found her again a and the man she loves.
Blood Secret is Jaye Ford's third novel. Her first, Beyond Fear, won Best Debut and Reader's Choice at the 2012 Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards, and her second thriller, Scared Yet?, was also published to critical acclaim. Jaye is a former news and sport journalist, with the unusual claim to fame of being the first female presenter of a live national sport show in Australia, hosting Sport Report on SBS in 1988-89. She also worked in public relations before turning to crime fiction. She lives at Lake Macquarie in the NSW Hunter Valley.


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Acapella Campanile 2 loudspeakers, Audio Note, and CAS 2018
We have a new arrival, a pair of Acapella Campanile 2 loudspeakers. We will be showing these at our local hifi show in a few weeks – CAS 2018, on July 27 – 29, in Oakland. Constantine Soo (Dagogo) and Neli will be doing a Facebook Live this Sunday at 2:00pm featuring these speakers. These are the first Campanile 2 to make it to our shores, and look and sound like small versions of the much larger Acapella 'Apollon' speakers.
The speakers look a little imposing without the speaker's grill covers on…
But with grille covers on, they fit right in with a mid-century modern Eichler living room decor. They are eminently driveable by the Audio Note UK 20 watt 300B SET Kegon amplifiers. 🙂
It has been awhile since we had this kind of 'big sound' in our main listening room. We like it.
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- 100g Margarine
- 140g Brown Sugar
- 2 Large Eggs
- 2 Large bananas, mashed (about 1 cup)
- 175 mL Fat-free rasperry yogurt
- 180g Whole wheat flower
- 100g all-purpose flour
- 50g Craisins (original)
- 50g semi-sweet mini chocolate chips
- 1 tsp baking soda
- Preheat the oven to fan 160C/ conventional 180C/gas Grease a 20 x 13cm loaf tin with non stick cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the margarine and brown sugar with an electric beater or with a fork.
- Beat in the eggs.
- Stir in the mashed bananas, chocolate chips, craisins and yogurt.
- Fold in flour and baking soda until evenly mixed.
- Spoon the mix into the greased tin and level the top
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Nicole Taylor is soaking up the summer with some more ice cream and a little bit of booze. On this week's episode of Hot Grease, Nicole invites Crista Freeman of Phin & Phebes Ice Cream into the studio to talk about her ice cream memories, growing up in Florida, and how Phin & Phebes blends their flavors. Does Crista come from an ice cream-making background? Eric Prum from Mason Shaker is back, and this time he brings along his partner, Josh Williams! Hear about Mason Shaker's newest cocktail list project! Hear how Mason Shaker has been making bar products using products like leather and canvas. Finally, the whole cast samples some of Phin & Phebes selections! Thanks to our sponsor, Whole Foods. Thanks to The California Honeydrops for today's music.
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text: The thought of doing things on our own and making "adult" decisions in scary. Laundry? Cooking? Grocery shopping? These are all things that aren't actually scary–a lot of us have done this before. This week, Harrison talks about how doing these things on his own aren't as daunting as he once thought it was.


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2017 128 min
Action, China, History, Mandarin
Gordon Chan
Keisuke Koide, Liu Junxiao, Regina Wan, Ryu Kohata, Sammo Hung, Timmy Hung, Vincent Zhao, Wang Ban, Wu Yue, Yasuaki Kurata
Hong Kong
During the 16th century, Japanese pirates proliferate along the Chinese coastline. In 1557, the pirates take over Cengang in Zhejiang. After months of futile advances, Commander Yu (Sammo …
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New Bookstore Item at the 2010 Expo!
2011 EoC Pocket Agenda
L'Arcobaleno Editore, 2010
2011 will undoubtedly be a particular year for the Eoc, as it will mark the 20th anniversary of the projects beginning. Why not highlight such a special year with an initiative to remember it...each day of the year? This is how the idea of this bilingual (Italian/English) weekly pocket agenda began, published by L'Arcobaleno Editore, an EoC business with a location a the Lionello Bonfanti business park. What better occasion to present it than the 2010 Expo?
The agenda is 10x15 in format and is enriched by quotes from Chiara Lubich, Benedetto XVI, Stefano Zamagni, Luigino Bruni, Alberto Ferrucci, Benedetto Gui, Vittorio Pelligra and Maria Gabriella Baldarelli. Each week it shares a thought linked to the world of economy and the new way of interpreting it and living it according to the EoC and the culture of giving.
Luigino Bruni writes in the editorial: "Two-thousand-eleven is the 20th birthday of the EoC, and the idea of this calendar, thought of by one of the businesses running within an EoC industrial park, is also a concrete sign to remember (to bring back to heart) the inspiring spark of a reality that today embraces the whole world...
"In these times of crisis, where people are trying to envision a market economy and an economic order that, on one hand, saves the value of freedom, competition, creativity and innovation (typical virtues of the market economy), but on the other hand would be capable of creating social ties, of not destroying the environment, of including rather than excluding, the EoC presents itself as an answer and a way to envision a meeting between these two very deep needs (economy and communion) that can no longer remain separate and parallel. Either the market economy of today will be capable of innovating and including, promoting freedom and justice, competing and cooperating, or this development model arisen during the Christian Middle Ages and from civil humanism will inexorably be destined to decline."
Gualtiero Palmieri, administrator of L'Arcobaleno Editore, together with Rina Santoli, Patrizia Piombi and Gianni Cattani, have brought this project ahead with enthusiasm an determination: "We had to hurry, from the moment that we decided to take on this challenge...but the summer, with our suppliers on vacation and slower consignment times did not stop us. We wanted the agenda to be ready for the Expo, and we made it."
What is special about this agenda, Gualtiero?
"First of all...we made it as beautiful and as functional as possible, with an elastic band to close it and preforations to mark the day. Then, the "added bonus" is given by the weekly phrases on the economy of communion and the culture of giving. Besides, the fact that it's bilingual (Italian-English) can make it interesting, even for non-Italians. A special thanks to Rosa Maria Di Mauro who put together the majority of the phrases in the agenda."


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Working with scene/section sheets in Storyist 4
liliales posted a topic in Using StoryistFirst, I see no measurable difference between them, so that's definitely a failure to understand something on my part. In the tutorial, I'm given to believe I could make some changes to these sheets by modifying or adding "fields" and saving those changes for a template. But that can be done only under Section Details. I want to use some kind of sheet set to create an outline for how I think through the chapters. Synopsis of chapter, sure, and section details, which are editable so I can use mine to note time of day as well as the other default options. But no other portion of the sheet is editable, not even to change the name. For me, Synopsis, Section Details, and Section Notes would form the basis of a perfect chapter by chapter outline. Can I create a template including only these elements? Please advise or help, thank you.
I just meant I didn't know you could go to section sheet preferences and ask it to show text or scenes or characters in the collection, instead. I guess only actual section sheets can be linked to chapter sections, though. I have read the manual, twice. And I do a lot of searches here. But I'm still trying to nail down what can and cannot be done with these things, especially now that I'm adding them in reverse. For some reason, it's taken me all this time to understand it'll still come out all right if I don't use everything with its default presentation.
I appreciate your answer, Marguerite. Since I'd never just pasted (18k words of) a story in before (had dead Mac for awhile, had to use sadder means to write, long story,) I found myself confronting it sort of in reverse. And that got me to thinking whether I've just been doing it "wrong" all this time. I mean, missing out on something crucial just because I didn't understand how it works? This is because I feel like there are probably a number of things I'm not taking full advantage of. But when I read about it all here, I tend to feel like I'm reading Aramaic. ...weak joke... I will say this; I missed Storyist so much while I couldn't use it, I bought a corkboard and colored index cards, and made offline Storyist... and now I'm adding it all into the manuscript on the computer. Perhaps the section sheets will come in handy as I reoutline the second half of the story this week, because I just now learned I can edit the sections to hold a different type of contents? And then those would be linkable to chapter sections? I'd appreciate a link to more detailed discussion of that, if there is any.
Should I continue to use Section Sheets?
liliales posted a topic in Using StoryistYou might have to be very patient with me, because for such a clever person, I am truly terrible at understanding written directions, especially with terminology. I have a shell of a story I've pasted into Storyist. And as I've been adding hashtags to create sections within the chapters, I've learned that I can use the storyboard style in a split screen to add notes to the manuscript section titles, making it an even more "advanced" outline when I switch to that view. I've also got it set to automatically add section sheets for each section and added a few "notes" to them as well, so that if I look at that in outline view, I can have a similar outline side by side with the manuscript text. If I were starting wholly from scratch, I can see doing all these section sheets first. But actually, I'm very comfortable with setting up unwritten chapters, and labeling empty sections within them (in outline or storyboard view,) to go back to and write out. Adding a few key phrases to each of those in storyboard mode so I can see a detailed manuscript outline is a logical next step, for me. In that case, are the section sheets necessary for me at all? I don't like the text view of them, with plot points, antagonists, etc., as I'd prefer to just create plot points and characters in their separate areas, and reference the chapter number or section to them there. I don't link plot points to the section sheets because I've always used them only in the other views (I adore index cards,) in which plot points are not seen. I've had this software for four years, I think, yet still wish to bend it to my simple-minded will. The point is, it is entirely possible I haven't discovered a much more compelling use for section sheets (other than the fact that it's just fun they're linked to manuscript sections) and need to be guided in that respect. Otherwise, I kind of like just outlining using two different manuscript views. I have edited to add a screenshot.


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"Too bad he changed his mind. You are sizzling, girl," Whitney says to her friend, checking out her fairy costume. "His loss, right?"
Taking a tissue from her friend, Veronica wipes her eyes and sinks back into the couch. "I gave up a killer babysitting job this weekend that would have paid $300 to go to that stupid party."
Veronica blows her nose and wads the tissue up in her hand, laughing hysterically.
"What's so damned funny?" Whitney asks.
"I'm sorry, this is a sad moment and I should be crying, but it's hard when the Queen of Darkness is playing pity-party for me. It isn't natural, you know?" She giggles and Whitney joins in, giving her a hug and pulling her dark hood up.
"You're not natural. Okay, I'm cancelling my date with Justin and hanging with you," Whitney says with an upbeat snap to her voice. "It'll be more fun anyway."
Whitney tosses her hood back, calls her date and turns back to her friend, "Let's play that game we used to play as kids. Remember 'Bloody Mary'?"
"Yeah, but I didn't like it much."
"C'mon, it'll be fun," Whitney says rushing upstairs with her friend in tow to the bathroom. She closes the door.
"Cool, you even have candles," Whitney says as she collects them from the sides of the tub and pulls a lighter out of her purse.
"Why do you have a lighter? You don't smoke, do you?" But Veronica's question meets with a let's not get into that now expression. Instead, Whitney lights the candles. Holding one in front of her, she stares transfixed into the mirror hitting the lights. Veronica's holding a candle of her own.
"Bloody Mary. Bloody Mary…," they say in unison, growing louder, thirteen times before blowing out the candles and waiting. A piercing screech echoes and a blood-curdling scream reverberates off the porcelain and glass. Veronica flips the lights on. She is alone. A shuffling downstairs demands her attention.
"Whitney?" she says, leaving the bathroom. "Whitney?" The fairy moves to the stairs with caution and sees a cloaked figure in the dim lights by the door. "Is that you?"
Without a response, she descends the stairs. As she draws near, it isn't Whitney at all, but Justin, her friend's cancelled date. "Trick or treat, bitch," he says, his voice cracking, as his hands whisk a hatchet from beneath his cape.
"No," she manages to say before the blade divides her eyes vertically in a spray of red across the wall. Her body convulses and crumples to the floor–a muddled mess of blood and mutilated brains. He shakes his head back and forth hard, confused. Prying his hatchet out of her head with a sharp jolt, he dashes out the door.
"Why didn't you look in the shower?" Whitney says, laughing as she emerges at the top of the stairs, her mangled friend lying askew at the bottom. "Bloody Mary. Oh my God!"


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Sheehan promoted to Mannington resilient, laminate vp
January 4, 2010
David Sheehan has been named Mannington Mills' vp resilient and laminate business. Sheehan has been with Mannington for six years, first as director of resilient business, and most recently as director of resilient and laminate business.
"In addition to successfully managing Mannington's vinyl business, David has been key to the success of both our Adura and laminate categories," said Ed Duncan, senior vp residential marketing. "Additionally, he has been instrumental in numerous other initiatives that have helped establish a strong platform for our future growth."
Prior to joining Mannington, Sheehan was with Pergo for seven years in roles including business development manager in Asia, marketing manager, and senior product manager.
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