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Silver Secrets
Volant Silver Secrets is the place where we explain terminology we use and give an insight into how we create our jewellery.
Silver Secrets #1 – Bail
A bail is a piece of metal that is used to hang a charm or pendant. Often we make our own bails from sterling silver but occasionally we buy them from other skilled artisans. See also Jump Ring, below.
Silver Secrets #2 – Bangle
Bangles are circular or oval in shape and the two ends of the silver used to make them are joined (unlike a cuff – see below). They are typically rigid in design and intended to be worn on the wrist. The use of bangles as jewellery originates from India, as is the word itself originated from the Indian 'Hindi Bungri'.
Silver Secrets #3 – Bracelet
Unlike a bangle, a bracelet is chain based and flexible. It may be worn around the wrist or the ankle and is generally fastened together with a clasp. Bracelets may be worn by themselves or dressed up with charms.
Silver Secrets #4 – Cleaning Cloth
A soft impregnated cloth intended for cleaning silver jewellery. A good cleaning cloth will last through several uses, especially if kept in airtight conditions. We supply a silver jewellery cleaning cloth with all orders.
Silver Secrets # 5 – Cuff
Our cuffs are designed to be wrist worn. They may be round or oval in shape and have a gap to enable them to be slid onto the wrist rather than over the hand, which means they can be chosen to give a tighter fit.
Silver Secrets #6 – Cufflink Stems
These are parts of the cufflinks which post through the holes in a shirt and hold the cufflink in place. We currently use solid stems as they are easier and quicker for you to fit on your shirt. The hinged type stems can be more difficult to use. And that's the last thing you want while rushing to get ready for work in the morning. That's a Volant silver secret!
Silver Secrets #7 – Delft Clay
This is the proper name for the 'sand' we cast our pendants in. It is very fine and a little oily to the touch. It's possible to replicate very fine detail in a good delft impression. After casting, the part of the clay touching where the silver was cast becomes burnt and we discard it.
Silver Secrets #8 – Diamond Cut Chain
This is our preferred sterling silver chain and is offered on many of our necklace products. As we make quite substantial, heavy silver pendants we had to choose a chain hat would handle them. Usually we only deviate from using this chain when the product design demands it. This chain is so beautiful you could wear it by itself and it would stand out. It reflects the light brilliantly.
Silver Secrets #9 – Hand Stamped Personalisation
We can personalise some suitable products for you with initials or messages. We do this by selecting individual steel letter or shape stamps and striking their mark with a hammer. Its harder than it sounds! Getting the right pressure from the hammer strike is critical. Too little and you don't get a good impression. Too much and you distort the reverse side of the piece. Getting correct alignment and spacing is also key.
Silver Secrets #10 – Jump Ring
Similar to a bail, but its a simple silver ring that allows a pendant to hang from a necklace or a bangle, cuff or bracelet. We solder all such rings closed so that they won't let you down.
Silver Secrets #11 – Layered
See Stacking, below
Silver Secrets #12 – Pendant
The word pendant derives from the Latin word pendere and Old French word pendr, both of which translate to "to hang down". It comes in the form of a loose-hanging piece of jewellery, generally attached by a small loop to a necklace, which may be known as a "pendant necklace". A pendant earring is an earring with a piece hanging down. In modern French, pendant is the gerund form of pendre (" to hang") and also means "during". The extent to which the design of a pendant can be incorporated into an overall necklace makes it not always accurate to treat them as separate items. In some cases, though, the separation between necklace and pendant is far clearer. (source – Wikipedia)
Silver Secrets #13 – Reverse
Where you see this word used in our product descriptions we are simply referring to the back of an item, as opposed to the front. If there are any details on the reverse of a piece we usually add an extra photo to show these. Sometimes, things don't really have a reverse, for example a pendant that can we worn either way such as our Pebble Pendant Necklace. However we have to put the hallmark somewhere, and sometimes the only option is on one side of a piece, which really then makes that the reverse as most people would wear it so that the hallmark wasn't showing
Silver Secrets #14 – Sand Casting
Our Pendants for necklaces, bracelets and cuffs are cast by us in sand. We heat the silver grain to about 1100 degrees centigrade and pour it into sand. In the sand cast is an impression of the item we are replicating. after a successful sand cast there is lots of filing, polishing and finishing to do. See also Delft Clay above.
Silver Secrets # 15 – Scallop
Referring to the shape, we would describe this as a series of raised and dipped curves in an item, usually a bangle or cuff. Our most popular scallop press is comprised of 12 scallops; the most scallops we have on a press is 24, but that is so many it will only work on very flexible silver wire.
Silver Secrets #16 – Stacking
You will often hear me coming before you see me as I love stacking and layering my jewellery so I often enter a room with the tinkle of sterling silver bangles. We have a great selection of jewellery that is perfect for stacking. They look great stacked in twos or threes. You can layer our necklaces which make a perfect adornment to any outfit day or night. We might think that stacking jewellery is quite a new thing but think of Madonna in the eighties with row upon row of black rubber arm candy and we've been stacking our rings for years. How many of us wear an engagement ring with a wedding ring and eternity band. It's a great way to wear lots of your shiny treasures all at once.
Silver Secrets #17 – Sterling Silver
Sterling silver is an alloy of silver containing 92.5% by weight of silver and 7.5% by weight of other metals, usually copper. The sterling silver standard has a minimum millesimal fineness of 925. Sterling silver alloy originated in continental Europe and was being used for commerce as early as the 12th century. There are some really crass versions of silver out there and we just do NOT use them! Our sterling silver is the real thing. We buy sterling silver grain in bulk from the UK's most reputable wholesaler. All our pieces are hallmarked as sterling silver by Sheffield Assay Office.
Silver Secrets #18 – Tactile
Of or connected with the sense of touch. From the Latin Tactilis.
Silver Secrets #19 – Tumbling
This is part of the finishing process. After a piece is just about ready, we put it in a barrel that turns round and round. Inside the barrel are lots of different sized stainless steel shapes. These give a very clean, soft, shiny finish to our sterling silver jewellery. The first tumble takes three hours. After hallmarking, we give all pieces another short tumble so that they are ready for despatch to you.
Silver Secrets #20 – Volant Life
Volant Life is where we share where we've been, what gives us inspiration, and posts about our passion for sterling silver jewellery.


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Enables rapid development of next-generation Edge AI systems and devices
Taipei, Taiwan, June 28, 2018 – VIA Technologies, Inc., today announced the release of a Linux BSP based on Yocto 2.0.3 for the VIA SOM-9X20 Module.
Key features in the BSP are the following:
- Supports UFS boot
- Supports HDMI display
- Supports AUO MIPI capacitive touch panels through USB interface
- Supports COM as debug port
- Supports two Gigabit Ethernet
- Supports Mic-in and stereo 2W speaker
- Supports built-in Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.1, and GPS
- Supports MIPI CSI camera OV13850
"The release of the Linux BSP gives our customers an additional option for the development of Edge AI systems and devices powered by the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 820E Embedded Platform," said Richard Brown, Vice-President of International Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc. "VIA also provides a full set of system hardware and software customization services that boost time to market and minimize development costs."
The VIA SOM-9X20 is a highly-integrated system-on-module powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820E embedded platform. Measuring just 8.2cm x 4.5cm, the module features 64GB eMMC Flash memory and 4GB LPDDR4 SDRAM onboard and offers rich I/O and display expansion options through its MXM 3.0 314-pin connector, including USB 3.0, USB 2.0, HDMI 2.0, SDIO, PCIe, MIPI CSI, MIPI DSI, and multi-function pins for UART, I2C, SPI, and GPIO. A choice of BSPs based on Android 8.0 or Yocto 2.0.3 is available.
For more information about the VIA SOM-9X20 please visit: www.viatech.com/en/boards/modules/som-9×20
For images related to this release, please visit: www.viagallery.com/som-9×20/
Availability and Pricing
The VIA SOM-9X20 and SOMDB2 Carrier Board are available from the VIA Embedded online store for US$569 plus shipping at: www.viaembeddedstore.com/shop/boards/edge-ai-developer-kit/
About VIA Technologies, Inc.
VIA Technologies, Inc is a global leader in the development of highly-integrated embedded platform and system solutions for AI, IoT, computer vision, autonomous vehicle, healthcare, and smart city applications. Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, VIA's global network links the high-tech centers of the US, Europe and Asia. Its customer base includes the many world's leading hi-tech, telecommunications, consumer electronics industry brand names. www.viatech.com

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Realism And Twenty-first Century Storytelling
As I mentioned last week, I've been watching the five different Star Trek shows on H&I. I hadn't remembered the storytelling in each being particularly different from one another—except for the original which felt quite artificial at times. I mean, the women wore those ridiculous miniskirts and nearly every episode had the crew shaken and falling. Not to mention that the poor red shirts were doomed to destruction and that Captain Kirk, in all likelihood, would win some female's heart before the end of each episode.
What I've found by watching the shows night after night is that the storytelling mirrors the storytelling of movies. Some of the earlier shows actually seem a little slow. There's more dialogue and not as many things blowing up, not as many people falling to phaser blasts. But in the last show, Enterprise, the storyline is less thoughtful and more violent. More action packed, too.
Storytelling has changed.
We often talk about the need for realism in fiction, particularly in Christian fiction, but when we cite the movies we love, there's little that is true to reality beyond the externals.
Of course, the externals are important. Who would want to replace the computer enhanced Aslan for an actor dressed in a lion costume? We want our Aslan to appear on the screen as real.
The desire and push for realism in our stories has given impetus to those who believe Christian fiction should include sex, profanity, and vulgarity. After all, those are real.
But where is spiritual reality?
I think there's something else not particularly real in twenty-first century stories, no matter how real the computer generated characters might appear. We could chalk this up to "that's just movies" if it weren't for the fact that screen writing is beginning to dominate the way we write novels, too.
I'll characterize this unrealistic phenomenon as too much conflict. The Lord Of The Rings illustrates the point.
Some time ago I watched the last part of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers on TV shortly after re-reading the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The main thing I noticed was conflict in the movie where none existed in the book.
For example, in Tolkien's original once Gandalf had freed Theodin, the king of Rohan, from the influence of Wormtongue, he quickly became his adviser. Théoden did what Gandalf told him to do: trusted Éomer as his new right hand, sent the women and children away to a place of protection (not Helms Deep), prepared his army to march on Isengard, sent out word to gather troops to support Gondor against Mordor. In the film version, however, Théoden fought Gandalf at every turn. He was nearly as depressed and suicidal as Denethor the Gondor steward.
There was also enhanced conflict between Arwen and her father Elrond about her staying in Middle Earth for Aragon. She finally decided to leave–an incident that did not happen in the book.
Another "it did not happen in the book" example also involved Aragon. On the way to Helms Deep (rather than to Isengard, as the book had it), the people of Rohan were attacked by Uruk-hai and Wargs. In the battle, Aragon was dragged over a cliff and fell to the river. His companions presumed him to be dead.
Then, too, Treebeard and the Ents decided they would not help in the war against Saruman. Merry and Pipin tried to talk him into it, but he refused, only promising to take them out of the forest at whatever point they wished. On the way, they came to a place where Saruman's forces had destroyed the trees, and the Ents then arose and fought. The motivation in the book is the same, but the conflict between the hobbits and the Ents never existed.
In the segments concerning Frodo, there were more of these manufactured conflicts. Frodo and Sam argued about the effect the ring had and about their disparate treatment of Gollum. Then too, Faramir insisted on taking Sam, Frodo, and Gollum to Gondor with the intent to use the ring (which they spoke of openly in front of all Faramir's men) in the battle against Mordor. When they reached Osgiliath, they were attacked by one of the Nazgul. Under the influence of its presence, Frodo acted as if he'd been possessed and nearly put on the ring. Faithful Sam tackled him to stop him and they wrestled, with Frodo pulling his sword on Sam. None of this happened in the book.
As I thought about these differences, it seems to me that the movie was faithfully following the dictates of writing instructors who tell writers to make life hard for their characters and when it's as bad as it can get, make it worse.
But is that reality?
Do friends always turn against one another? Does the hero always fall to his apparent death? Do the once mighty always succumb to discouragement and despair? Does doubt and fear always push loved ones to leave?
The answer is, no.
Tolkien got it right in his version of The Lord of the Rings—he told a realistic story. Borimir succumbed to the power of the ring, but Faramir did not. Denethor became suicidal, but Théoden did not. Gandalf fell to his apparent death, but Aragon did not.
In showing the strength of Faramir, the healing of Théoden, the prowess of Aragon, Tolkien enhanced Borimir's failure, Denethor's selfish choice, and Gandalf's sacrifice. In other words, by not taking every character to the brink before leading them back, he magnified each case in which a character was taken to the brink.
If all characters are victims of disaster, I suggest readers or viewers stop caring and start looking for the "out." Will the character die and come back? Have a narrow escape? Have a death that only looks like death? In truth, all the arguing and betrayal and refusal becomes—predictable and boring and unrealistic. Soon the characters seem more like caricatures because none acts with nobility or courage or hope. All display their flawed selves with so little inner struggle. And this, we've come to believe, is realistic.
Perhaps this twenty-first century version of realism is another way in which we are not addressing spiritual issues realistically. We are, after all, made in God's image. We have within us a moral sense of right and wrong. We also have a sin nature. In essence, we are divided at our core.
We experience the truth of Romans 7 day in and day out, doing the thing we hate and neglecting the thing we know we should do. We struggle in the inner person. But Romans 8 follows, too. We revel in the freedom from the law of sin and death, we experience God's sovereign purpose to work all things for our good, we enjoy His nothing-can-separate-us love. In short, reality is a mixed bag along the journey. It's not all bad until the miraculously impossible reversal.
In story writing, I believe in conflict, I really do, though I believe in tension more. I wonder if twenty-first century authors aren't needlessly creating artificial, big-bang conflict when inner-struggle tension, more true to life, actually would make for a better story. Tolkien's work convinces me that more external conflict isn't particularly realistic nor is it always the best.
The greater part of this post is an edited version of one that first appeared here in January 2013.
Yes! This is my biggest problem with those movies, and with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — everyone is way too emo. There's no light and joy. Everyone is dour and depressed and exhausted and burnt out.
–As I thought about these differences, it seems to me that the movie was faithfully following the dictates of writing instructors who tell writers to make life hard for their characters and when it's as bad as it can get, make it worse.
I remember being at a writer's conference and the leader of the seminar I attended pretty much saying that, taking a scenario from the book she'd read and creating ways to add difficulties to the. While I would have agreed that the scene she read was sappy and implausible–would a woman who'd just been told that the stranger who just presented herself to her was her long-lost child really buy into that and go right into the hugging and the crying?–the ideas for making things difficult didn't seem to be much better.
There can be realistic conflicts–the woman denies, even forcefully, that she'd ever had a child, for example–and those conflicts would come out of the overall story.
But I can think of one possible exception. I say possible, because I haven't watched this movie, but from what I've seen about it, "Grave of the Fireflies" is a movie about a bad situation that worsens and worsens and ends in tragedy.
Maybe the advice I heard a jazz instructor give can also be kinda-sorta applicable to writing, too, "There are no wrong notes, just wrong resolutions". Arbitrary conflicts don't work well, because they don't have good resolutions. The made-up conflicts in the LOTR movies stumble because they can't be resolved as well as the conflicts in the original stories.
What you mention is one of the main reasons I rarely watch movies any more. As my focus has become the reading and writing of redemptive fiction, I am more concerned than ever about the reality of the characters—the spiritual reality. Our relationships with the Lord are deeply personal. It should be that way with our characters also.
The results of our lives are largely unknown at the time, and fruit is our character—how much are we like Jesus. Somehow we need to be able to show the rhema of the Spirit—those words He gives us targeted at the specific problem and at the exact place where we are in our growth. That's what the Sword of the Spirit is: rhema, not Logos. It's not about quoting scripture at the top of our voices (though that does happen upon occasion). The Lord knows enough to talk with us in the vernacular. He does that to me all the time—cracks me up, He does.
What we need is spiritual realism. There's enough drama there for almost any storytelling situation.


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MG Unicorn Gundam - Marida Cruz CustomSubmitted by Falldog on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 10:52
Here's a clever and dynamic opening paragraph that gets you interested in reading what I have to say about this build instead of skipping to the photos.
Here's a clever and dynamic opening paragraph that gets you interested in reading what I have to say about this build instead of skipping to the photos.
Just as soon as I finished building my MG Banshee, things begin again. The 6th, and perhaps final, member of my MG Unicorn family has arrived - the MG Full Armor Unicorn.
It comes after my MG Delta Plus placed first in Gundam Australia Forum's Delta Group Build. A special thanks to Sonar, of Gundam Australia, and Ryan Sabourin of HLJ.
Time to
start keep building!
At last, I my Full Armor Unicorn is complete. First a few photos you may have already seen...
It's been a while since I posted any updated shots.
This is how the kit looks prior to transformation. Missing a few parts here and there. It will probably never be in this configuration again.
Might as well go all in and dazzle you with the fully exposed psycho frame...
How about an update? Plus another shot of the metallic green!
The legs are finished. A few pieces are over drying still. It's almost ready for a top coat but I'm still debating whether or not to do some decals.
But first I need to finish the leg launchers.
A while back I set into motion a rather ambitious project. A third MG Unicorn themed off of the Full Armor version.
It's not going to have all of the bells and whistles though. It'll be toned down a little bit, but should be impressive none the less. It'll also feature a four toned paint job (white, light gray, gray, dark gray) and a brilliant metalic green for the psycho frame.
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Chemonics International, an international development consulting company based in the United States, seeks experienced professionals for the USAID Procurement and Supply Management (PSM) project. PSM will serve as the primary vehicle through which USAID will procure and furnish health commodities. provide technical assistance to improve partner countries' management of the supply chain, and collaborate with key international stakeholders to support global health initiatives.
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The DMCA is a federal law in the United States. It addresses a number of different copyright issues in the online and digital world. It would be an understatement to suggest there are haters of this law on both sides of the copyright law debate. So, what makes the DMCA controversial?
Section 1201
You should also be aware that the DMCA is controversial for one of its other sections in which Congress addressed technical circumventions – Section 1201. The key language in the code reads,
"(a)(1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."
Copyright holders and courts interpret this language as meaning people cannot break the security protocols on a device to access and tweak the underlying copyrighted work. You might think such a position is fine at first glance, but we run into problems the minute we apply the rule to the real world.
Consider your car. Modern cars use software to manage a variety of functions including engine performance. What if the software develops a glitch? A technical reading of Section 1201 suggests an odd outcome. You, the owner of the car, would violate the DMCA if you attempted to fix the software. Yes, you would violate the DMCA for the heinous and nefarious act of…working on your own car.
a. Exemptions
Fortunately, the Library of Congress and Copyright Office have the authority to issue rules in which the agencies can create exemptions to Section 1201. The Office recently created an exemption for repairs to software on cars, for example. But you can anticipate where this rulemaking authority has led. Yes, proponents and opponents of Section 1201 spend all day arguing over what should and should not be exempt. Once the Copyright Office reaches a decision, the parties then go into a prolonged battle over how broad or narrow the Office should define the exemptions. Subsequent court battles are not unheard of.
Why is the DMCA controversial? For all the reasons stated herein and in the video above. Is there any momentum in the United States to modify the DMCA in a meaningful manner? Not at this time.
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CPM leader candidate politician Anirban Hazra profile biodata biography details CPM leader Anirban Hazra birthday address mobile phone contact number Anirban Hazra family father mother wife husband son daughter children names CPM party candidate Anirban Hazra education qualification Anirban Hazra works political career occupation CPM party leader Anirban Hazra personal professional educational life background Anirban Hazra latest news updates information.
Anirban Hazra, politician of CPM Party, is one of the renowned and dependable CPM leader in Sankrail area of West Bengal. Here is a short Biography of Anirban Hazra:
• Age of Anirban Hazra politician of CPM party: - 32 as on 2012.
• Education of Anirban Hazra leader of CPM party: - CPM party politician Anirban Hazra has completed B.H.M.S.
• Family of Anirban Hazra politician of CPM party: - He lives with his father, mother, two sisters and wife.
• Occupation Profession of Anirban Hazra: - Homoeopathy Doctor and Politics.
• Anirban Hazra attached to which party? CPM Party.
• Political Career of Politician Anirban Hazra: - Dr. Anirban Hazra grew in the family that support communist party and from his college life he joined Communist Party.
Anirban Hazra of CPM party is the CPM party candidate of Sankrail constituency in 2011 General Assembly Election of Bengal against Shital Sardar of TMC Party.


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Well wishes to Susan's mom
The mother of one of the Susans (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/2008/06/auspicious-week.html) with whom I work has fallen ill. Susan is taking time off to be with her.
At first glance, it would seem odd that I'd pen an entry for someone of such tangential relation, especially since I refer to her as Susan's mother, except for one thing: she follows the blog.
Susan mentioned the blog to her one day. She checked it out and decided she liked it. She's been a regular reader ever since and hopefully she will be for some time to come. Cura ut valeas.
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Jython 2.5.2 and 2.2.x
Basic Install
Jython 2.5.2 and 2.2.1 are distributed as executable jar file installers. After
`downloading <DownloadInstructions>`__ it, either double click the
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This will start the regular GUI installer on most systems, or a
console installer on headless systems. To force the installer to
work in headless mode invoke the installer as:
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The installer will then walk through a similar set of steps in
graphical or console mode: showing the license, selecting an install
directory and JVM and actually copying Jython to the filesystem.
After this completes, Jython is installed in the directory you
selected. Executing a script in the install directory, ``jython`` on Unix-like systems or ``jython.bat`` on Windows, will start up the Jython
console, which can be used to dynamically explore Jython and the Java
runtime, or to run Jython scripts.
Standalone mode
The standalone option does no caching and so avoids the startup overhead (most likely at the cost of some speed in calling Java classes, but I have not profiled it)
You can try it out by running the installer:
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Since social media has become so popular, it is no wonder why many people have been using Facebook for marketing. If this is something that you have an interest in then you need to know a few things before you get started. The tips below are a great start.
Create a Facebook ad. Normal posting only adds so much when it comes to promoting services and products. Purchase Facebook ads to expand your business. They are inexpensive and can pack quite a marketing punch.
When using Facebook to market your product or service, you have to be sure your page sticks out from other similar pages. You can accomplish this by including a lot of photos and making it very colorful. An appealing page is much more enticing than an ordinary page for Facebook users.
Think about making a group rather than a page. Launching a Facebook group could encourage your subscribers to create their own online community and interact with each other. You could even set up both a group and a page if you would like and if it makes sense for your business.
Be judicious about your updates. Updates with valuable content will prevent your subscribers from drifting away.. Give them information they want, like how-tos or humorous posts. Facebook Insights is something you can use to learn what kind of updates do the best with people so you can try to make more content like that.
Offer an easy way for your followers to sign-up for contests. You can provide incentives for people to do so, which will make communication easier going forward. Contents and giveaways are a great idea.
As you can see, promoting your products to your audience on Facebook is not that hard. Still, you have to understand that your results won't be immediate. Use these tips but remember to be patient.


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Coca-Cola's collectable bottles will support an important environmental cause this summer. The collectable glass contour bottles, which will circulate again this summer, will support the fight against marine plastic pollution and specifically the innovative "Zero Waste Beach" project.
This summer, 15% of Coca-Cola's net proceeds from the sale of its collectable bottles will go towards cleaning up ten beaches and their seabeds, thereby supporting their "Zero Waste Beach" project. By enjoying their favourite soft drinks in the collectable bottles, consumers will at the same time contribute to Coca-Cola's 'World Without Waste' vision. The collectable glass contour bottles are sold at specific HORECA points across the island and its design was inspired by the history, tradition and mythology of our country.
It should be noted that the partners of "Zero Waste Beach" project, AKTI Project and Research Centre and Coca-Cola/Lanitis Bros, were called to carry out a very difficult task last week and particularly, support the fight against marine plastic pollution. Coca-Cola and AKTI launched this year's initiatives aiming to tackle marine plastic pollution, at the Mackenzie reef in Larnaca, under the "Zero Waste Beach" project. The launch coincided with World Oceans Day, which was established in 2017 and is celebrated annually on 8 June. Specifically, there were simultaneous seabed clean-ups in 4 different locations in Cyprus. More than 40 professional divers cleaned up the natural reefs of Protaras, Larnaca, Limassol and Paphos. Apart from the Mackenzie reef in Larnaca, they also cleaned up the Moulia reef in Paphos, the Green Bay (fishing shelter) in Protaras and the Dasoudi beach in Limassol. This is the first time that deep-sea clean-ups are carried out at various locations on the island simultaneously.
A group of journalists, specialising in Environmental reporting, observed the clean-up of the Mackenzie reef in Larnaca aboard a ship. They witnessed how polluted Cypriot seas are and observed the difficult task of the divers, who managed to retrieve the litter with a great deal of perseverance and effort. The divers were able to clean up the reef, which is vital for biodiversity. In the presence of media representatives, AKTI's scientists analysed the detrimental consequences of marine plastic pollution for both marine and human life. Meanwhile, they highlighted the fact that the most efficient way to tackle the problem of marine plastic pollution is to take specific measures, in order to drastically reduce the amount of waste that ends up in the seas. This is exactly the purpose of the "Zero Waste Beach" project.
Lanitis Bros' Communications and Public Relations Manager, Kalia Patsia, said she is very proud to support the "Zero Waste Beach" project and plans to expand it nationally this year: "On the one hand, we are stepping up the efforts to raise awareness on the global issue of marine plastic pollution and, on the other hand, we are aiming to expand the Responsible Coastal Business Network and promote the adoption of responsible and sustainable practices at the local level. Coca-Cola supports the "Zero Waste Beach" project as part of the company's global vision for a " World Without Waste", underlined Mrs Patsia.
On her part, the chairwoman of the Board of AKTI Project and Research Centre, Xenia Loizidou, stressed that the waste that ends up in the seas, mainly originates from the land. She also said that it is a real threat to public health, since the microplastics enter the food chain through fish. Mrs. Loizidou also explained the importance of cleaning up the reefs: "Reefs are important marine biotopes and are key to maintaining biodiversity, and this is why they must be kept clean," she explained.
Coca-Cola's season campaign will come to an end in October with the completion of six more seabed and beach clean-ups.


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Comics Academe: How Do You Teach Comics?
- Comics, Comics Academe, Essays
- September 12, 2014
And only three answered. After Chelsea Cain was run off from Twitter by the baying of hounds affronted by a word ("feminist"), I decided to ask Cain's peers, co-workers and higher-ups a question. Joelle Jones' cover for the final issue of Mockingbird featured heroine Bobbi Morse in a t-shirt that read ASK ME ABOUT MYREAD MORE
Chelsea Cain is no newcomer to publishing — she has two series of novels under her belt, plenty of accolades, and just wrapped up a stint writing Mockingbird at Marvel. But it's that last gig that led to an acclaimed, talented and lovely writer receiving a slew of harassment on Twitter.READ MORE


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How Omega Red joined the Tourney
Arkady Rossovich was a Russian youth who was subjected to government testing during the early days of the Cold War. Soviet scientists were attempting to create a deadly supersoldier, perhaps in response to Germany's Red Skull and America's Captain America. Arkady was given super strength and stamina, and outfitted with two carbonadium coils that retracted into his arms. Unfortunately, the tests also required him to drain the life force of others to remain active.
Code named Omega Red, he was assigned to destroy Wolverine, then an American government agent, but was defeated. Having gone for too long without repowering, Omega Red fell into a coma and was believed dead. Decades later, Omega Red was revived by members of the Hand, the same ninja group that transferred Psylocke's mind to a new body. The sacrifice of their life forces sufficiently powered Omega Red, and he began a new mission to destroy Wolverine and any who would stand in his way.
In his quest to destroy Wolverine, Akatsuki Treasurer Kakuzu targeted Omega Red for his Carbonadium.
Character Select Screen Animation
When highlighted
Omega Red has his carbonadium tentacles at his feet.
After the announcer calls his name
Omega Red whips his tentacles forward as the camera zooms saying "My coils will drain your life."
Special Moves
Carbonadium Coil (Neutral)
Omega Red throws a tentacle at his opponent. Pressing B fires a tentacle straight across the screen, pressing B and tilting the thumb pad diagonally up will sling the tentacle diagonally up-towards, and straight up will send the tentacle up. If it hits, Omega Red can drain the target of health by pressing any A. If an opponent is in Hyper or Final Smash state, Omega Red can sap it with the A button. Omega Red can throw his opponent after draining them by pressing any attack button.
Omega Coil (Side)
Omega Red spins his tentacles around him.
Omega Strike (Up)
Omega Red shoots both his tentacles into the ground and kicks forward. Pressing B and Up has him go straight up. Doing the command and tilting the thumb pad diagonally has him go that direction. Doing the command and tilting the thumb pad to the side has him go in that direction.
Carbonadium Whips (Down)
Omega Red criss cross whips his carbonadium tentacles around.
Omega Destroyer (Hyper Smash)
Omega Red whips his tentacles in all directions, hitting anything too close. The damage increases the closer the opponent is when this attack is performed.
Carbonadium Smasher (Final Smash)
Omega Red air dashes forward and combos his opponent when he connects. He ends the combo by slamming his opponent into the ground behind him.
Victory Animations
- Omega Red shields his face as his tentacles spin around, then spreads his arms and says "Your energy is mine!"
- Omega Red holds his tentacles like a belt and says "You burn tonight!"
- Omega Red drains the losers life energies until he/she gives their Stamina KO cry. Then omega Red says "No one can stop my carbonadium!"
On-Screen Appearance
Omega Red smashes through an ice block and says "It's Omega time!"
- Omega Red's default rival is the Akatsuki Treasurer, Kakuzu.
- Omega Red shares his English voice actor with Slayer, El Fuerte and Sajin Komamura.
- Omega Red shares his Japanese voice actor with Shingen Takeda, Astaroth, Kiyomori Taira, Magneto, Ares, Zantetsu, Uighur, Dark Nebula, Judgement, Crocodile and Roy Hess.
- Omega Red shares his French voice actor with Necro.
- Omega Red shares his German voice actor with Tougou, Kaioh, Rei, Hades, Freeman, Happy and Mokujin.
- Omega Red shares his Arabic voice actor with Spiritomb.
- Omega Red shares his Mandarin Chinese voice actor with Greg P., Detective Chimp and Pop Wheely.


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2019 Bmw M5 Canada – Currently we are mosting likely to talk about the The sixth-generation BMW M5, made its launching late in 2015, but today, we lastly reach see the one we have actually been waiting on. Remember when BMW displayed a few of their latest designs at the end of the year. Customers who hunger for the desire vehicle, which fits for flights with standart rate certainly. BMW is an excellent Brand name, That does unknown automobile producers that are currently in the cars and truck market year-end. Automobile producers are constantly existing the sort of automobile that is extremely wind resistant and also flashy and also includes very sophisticated functions. The ease of the Toyota Thrill cars and truck is perfect for your household.
2019 Bmw M5 Canada
Then in the in 2014, Upgraded, 6th generation of BMW's muscle performance car is the fastest M auto ever. BMW has actually introduced a new car that is BMW M5. This type of Sedan vehicle with a flashy as well as elegant style and also this auto is ideal for use in different situations. Having a very stylish exterior look, obviously, the inside has a feature that is really technologically progressed to the location of this automobile that will be release. Considering that it wased initially created to date, the cars and truck has gone through a very substantial adjustment. Although 2019 Bmw M5 Canada it is circulating on the market, however its visibility has actually been verified to be present this year.
Is a sort of vehicle Sedan, Among the most popular autos on the market today. BMW M5 is in an extra comfy design for the biker and also for the dash is likewise made more modern as well as technically the most recent pinned panel. But the big information is the M5's new M xDrive all-wheel-drive system with two-wheel-drive mode. All other times, the transfer case courses all power to the back, and also the Energetic M Differential handles torque in between the rear wheels. Yet do not obtain apprehensive concerning that. They promise fantastic points. The BMW M5 has actually been around for over Three Decade, and also each generation has been dramatically boosted as compared to the last.
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Has a very long rental earnings with no major modifications since it was initially presented. In some way, BMW is very passionate about upgrading this automobile with a more contemporary type. When looking at the exterior requirements of this BMW M5, will appear a very challenging stylish aura. The M5 can even store in its memory 2 motorist profiles, consisting of choices for engine and transmission reaction, guiding effort and suspension damping. The new models has a really aerodynamic style with a fresh look and more futuristic when compared to other Sedan versions that are marketed.
All New Performance 2019 Bmw M5 Canada
When the Sedan arrives next spring, which in this sector is more concerned about the comfort aspect instead of the traveler capability element then the BMW M5 requirements likewise puts more emphasis on the convenience of the rider. The BMW arrives in spring 2018, beginning with the limited-production First Edition models.
2019 Bmw M5 Canada Models
So a little review of the 2019 Bmw M5 Canada and its specs, when seen from the rate of this car does look quite expensive when compared to the exact same kind of automobile that is a Sedan. However BMW M5 already has an uneven cars and truck. So we're not surprised if the cost is recognized a little more pricey since it is similar to the features that remain in it and it is very useful. How to end up being thinking about this BMW M5. Although it has actually been launched however the BMW has actually not released the main cost. The brand-new sixth-generation BMW M5 goes on sale next spring. Prices has not yet been revealed, The official rate will appear in some future time.


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Rape crisis center security guard turns out to be two-time convicted rapist (VIDEO)
By Jennifer Cruz
A recent attempt to purchase a handgun holster led authorities to a convicted felon in possession of a gun, but authorities got an even greater shock when they found out the felon – a convicted rapist – was working as a security guard at a Fresno rape crisis center.
Damon Rodgers, who was found with a firearm and two switchblades, served 13 years in prison for two rapes and one attempted rape in Madera County in 1997.
Sgt. Israel Reyes with the Fresno Police Department said the rape crisis center was unaware of Rodgers' criminal history and "very shocked" to learn about it. The center immediately went to the security company who hired Rodgers, Stone Protection Services, but they apparently were also unaware of Rodgers' history.
A fellow security guard, who apparently knew Rodgers' criminal history – or at least that he was a convicted felon – tipped off authorities when Rodgers wrote a Facebook post saying he was searching for a holster for a .45.
Rodgers' still holds a valid guard card from the state of California, although the paperwork has been filed to have it revoked.
Meanwhile, Rodgers remains in jail on the felony gun charge.


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ElkinFencer10 wrote:I love Danganronpa so far, but it's playing with my emotions. It's basically Trust Issues Simulator 2017; as soon as I think I can trust a character, they fuck me over, and and soon as I fall in love with a character, SHE FUCKING DIES.
Did she die? Or was she MURDERED?! Duh-duh-duh!!!!
noiseredux wrote:never have I ever played a visual novel. But I played the first two chapters of Don't Take It Personally Babe last night. I actually got a Surface Pro 3 recently, and have been looking for things to test playing on it. Visual novels seem like a good fit.
I can't say I love the game, but it's interesting. I'll probably stick it out til the end.
Play Emily is Away.


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Groupe des amis de la sécurité des journalistes - Vienne, 5 juillet 2018
The Group of Friends on Safety of Journalists within the OSCE has the pleasure to invite you to a side-event on "Killings of journalists : the tip of the iceberg" on Thursday 5 July 2018 from 13:15 to 14:45 in room 533, Hofburg
Safety of journalists is a prerequisite for freedom of the media. Without a safe environment, journalists and other media actors cannot write or report freely and independently. The OSCE participating States have acknowledged the importance of safety of journalists and committed themselves to condemn all attacks on and harassment of journalist and to endeavor to hold those directly responsible for such attacks accountable (Budapest, 1994). Despite this strong commitment and progress over the years in international standards to protect safety of journalists, the perpetrators and instigators remain unpunished in around 85-90% of cases concerning killing of journalists in the OSCE region, allowing impunity to gradually become commonplace. Impunity has far-reaching effects : not only does it create a climate of fear, but it leads to self-censorship, an inherent detriment to journalistic work and to the public's right to be informed, threatening the very foundations of democracy.
What are the consequences of impunity becoming commonplace ? How to put an end to impunity and what are the best practices in that regard ? How to step up OSCE efforts ? How does online abuse, threats and harassment, notably gender-based attacks against female journalists and other media actors, play into normalization of physical violence ? What is the respective role of governments, civil society and NGOs in combating impunity ?
Katherine Sarikakis, Professor of Media Industries, Media Organisation and Media Governance, University of Vienna
Jeremy Dear, Deputy General Secretary, International Federation of Journalists
Pavol Demeš, expert on international relations and civil society, author and photographer, Slovakia
Aidar Botagarov, Office of the OSCE Representative on freedom of the media
Moderation by Dr. Rubina Möhring, President, Reporters without borders Austria
Lunch and refreshments will be provided


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Luke 9:57-62
The Would-be Followers of Jesus
Oswald Chambers says: "Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop."
In today's gospel we have an account of three several persons that offered themselves to follow Christ and the answers that Christ gave to each of them. The first person said: "I will follow you wherever you go." Jesus cautions him not to promise himself great things in the world in following him but, on the contrary, to count upon poverty and meanness. The first demand of Jesus for him is detachment from material goods and from personal comforts. He says, "The foxes have dens, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head."
To the second man Christ first gave the call. He said to him, "Follow me." Though this man at first he hesitated, as it should seem, afterwards yielded. Christ has chosen us and not, we who chose Him. In the gospel of John Jesus says, "It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain," (15:16).
But look at the excuse he made: "Lord, let me go first and bury my father." We may see here two temptations by which we are in danger of being drawn and keep away from following Christ. These temptations are: 1) We are tempted to defer of doing our duty and to do it in some other time. 2) We are tempted to think that our duty to our families and relatives will excuse us from our duty to Christ. That we should take care of our family first and provide for our children and then lastly we will think of serving Christ which is supposed to be in the first place.
The third man said, "I will follow you Lord, but first let me say farewell to my family at home." This seemed reasonable; it was what Elisha desired when Elijah called him, "Let me kiss my father and my mother," and it was allowed him. But the ministry of the gospel is preferable and the service of it is more urgent than that of the prophets and therefore here it would not be allowed.
In other words, Jesus wants a single-minded response to His invitation to follow Him, that is, a radical discipleship, a life devoted exclusively to His mission, to live in simplicity and trust.
The big mistake that we make is when we set conditions and excuses in terms of our relationship with God. God never placed conditions when He created and loved us; even when Jesus the Son died on the cross for us. His love for us is unconditional. In following Him, there is no retreat, no surrender, no return no exchange, one priest said.
And also, Jesus tells His disciples and us that once we follow Him, there is no option of turning back. In this sense, let us make it sure to be ready to follow Him in whatever trials and difficulties we might encounter when we decide to follow Him and let our children be baptized in the Catholic Church.
Can we sacrifice any of our everyday and expendable desires for Jesus' sake?
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ERA YES! The Fight for Gender Equality in Illinois exhibit
Friday, November 22, 2019
Women's rights advocates have worked for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment since 1972 when Congress sent it to the states (Illinois ratified the ERA in April 2018). ERA Illinois was a chapter of the national organization and an umbrella association for more than 40 organizations including the AFL-CIO and the League of Women Voters. The "ERA YES!" exhibit features photographs, publicity pieces and publications related to the ratification campaign from the Library's Special Collections and University Archives.
"ERA YES! The Fight for Gender Equality in Illinois" is open to the public during regular Special Collections and University Archives hours through Dec. 20, 2019. For more information, contact (312) 996-2742.


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Gisèle Ben-Dor originally recorded this disc for Conifer, magnificently both in terms of playing and sound, so it's wonderful that Naxos has rescued these performances from oblivion. © 2015 ClassicsToday.com Read complete review
If you've never heard music by this fabulous composer from Argentina, then don't miss your chance and get this wonderful cd. He has often been considered the most important South American composer of the 20th century, very much admired by Copland, and actually sounds quite a bit like Copland.
Imagine Copland's style (big sky country, Kansas, cowboys, folk tunes, big open fields, cattle drives, etc.), but add to all that rhythms and folk melodies from Argentina and you'll get a clear picture of what his music sounds like.
The ballet Estancia in particular goes from beautiful, nocturnal, evocative melodies to frantic, driving rhythms all painting a clear picture of life on a cattle ranch in Argentina. This performance really gets inside the music here and delivers a thrilling experience. I tell you, if you don't feel like jumping up and down or dancing around your living room during the last movement of Estancia, well something's not right. Great music!
"If you have any interest in Ginastera, especially in his earlier "ethnic" period and you missed the Conifer CD, Naxos has given you a second chance. May this excellent CD stick around longer than the Conifer did!"
Apologies for giving the game away from the start, but this re-issue of a long-deleted recording of Ginastera's ballet scores, once available on Conifer Classics, is particularly welcome. Not only do we hear the complete scores, but the performances and the recording are really first-class, defying the use of superlatives.
The suites drawn from both ballets are quite well-known by now. I suspect that many music-lovers know the suites from Eugene Goossens' long-deleted recordings made for Everest, coincidentally with the London Symphony Orchestra. The complete scores, however, have long remained unheard and – for that matter – unrecorded. A complete Panambí has been recorded earlier by the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrzej Borejko (once available on Largo 5122); but the present recorded performance undoubtedly supersedes it. That said, the Polish performance usefully filled a gap in Ginastera's discography at the time it was recorded and released. As far as Estancia is concerned, this is the first recording of the complete score.
Panambí Op.1 was completed in 1937, and is thus Ginastera's first acknowledged work. In fact he later rescued some earlier works such as Impresiones de la Puna for flute and string quartet and this has been recorded on several occasions (BIS CD-175 and Dorian DOR-90202). The libretto is based on a legend of love and magic drawn from the traditions of the Guaraní Indians, a tribe from northern Argentina. As such, parallels may be drawn with some works by Latin-American composers, such as Revueltas, Chavez and Villa Lobos. The music of Panambí draws on a number of influences that may be quite easily spotted. One hears echoes from Stravinsky, Debussy and Bartók but the complete score displays the young composer's assurance in blending these influences into a highly personal whole. Moreover, there are many felicitous orchestral touches such as the beautiful writing for horns in Escena [track 5], the atmospheric introduction and the superbly evocative closing section El Amanecer ("Dawn"), as well as some brilliantly scored primitive dances. This tale of magic and mystery obviously fired the young composer's imagination, and drew some highly accomplished music from him. A quite impressive Opus 1, and a work of which any young composer could be proud.
Composed several years later, Estancia Op.8 shows how far the composer progressed over the years. The music is more personal, less indebted to, say, Copland, although some might be tempted to compare it to Rodeo. For one, the score is much more structured than Copland's colourful romp. It opens with beautiful dawn music and ends with more dawn music. In between come a series of songs and dances that provide welcome contrast. The whole is brilliantly capped by a general dance, the celebrated Malambo. The complete ballet includes parts narrated and sung by a bass-baritone, which may be a reason why the score has often been disregarded. Again, there are many fine orchestral touches throughout this relatively long work. I particularly like La Doma ("Rodeo"), the beautifully atmospheric and evocative Idilio crepuscular ("Twilight Idyll") and La Noche: Nocturno (oh, those beautiful horns again!); but there is so much more to enjoy. This is undoubtedly a major score from Ginastera's nationalistic period.
As mentioned earlier in this review, these performances are just splendid and unlikely to be surpassed. The London Symphony Orchestra play to the manner-born, and Gisèle Ben-Dor conducts vital readings of these colourful, rhythmically alert scores. At the same time she remains attentive to the more lyrical sections and she conducts these with feeling but without undue sentimentality. These scores and readings teem with life-asserting energy, but never at the expense of subtlety and refinement. This is a self-commending release restoring – hopefully for a long time – these indispensable readings of two of Ginastera's most readily attractive scores.
It was characteristically bold step by the 21-year-old Ginastera to make his Op 1 an ambitiously scored orchestral ballet rather than a modest suite or chamber piece. Of course, he had written such works - mostly withdrawn and destroyed - but the one-act choreographic legend Panambi(1935-37) was several strides forward and as impressive a compositional debut as any.
Drawn from an Amerindian tribal legend, the plot concerns the love of Guirahu for the chiefs daughter, Panambi, and the machinations of the local sorcerer, who also desires her. A battle between good and evil plays out across a single night, opening with wonderful, impressionistic moonlight and ending with a radiant hymn to the dawn. In between, the expertly scored music is largely restrained, though with some electrifying episodes along the way.
Panambi betrays Ginastera's formative influences clearly, The Rite of Spring and Ravel in particular. The vividly achieved, primitivist atmosphere (not unlike the music of Revueltas) necessary for the story is absent from his follow-up ballet, Estancia (1941). Some of the latter's music is so well known, thanks to the popular Suite, that it may surprise that this recording of the whole was a premiere. Absent, too, is the self-consciousness of Panambi as a public statement; in Estancia one can hear Ginastera relax as he whips up a greater storm.
Gisele Ben-Dor and the LSO are splendid throughout, sounding as impressive as they did to Lionel Salter eight years ago. In Panambi they are superior to the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra's premiere version for Largo (their version of the Estancia Suite was mediocre but they include the wordless choral parts in Panambi). Luis Gaeta makes a splendid soloist in Estancia. Recommended.
Concertgoers and record collectors are familiar with excerpts from these two ballets, but this recording brings us the complete scores, including the narration in Estancia. The Uruguayan-born maestra with an Israeli name is a commanding presence in these exotically-scored works from Ginastera's early period. With her Latin-American background, she has a firm grip on the idiom, and the performances and recordings are top-notch. Bravo!
Alberto Ginastera, who lived until 1983, is now recognized as one of the most important Argentine composers, along with Astor Piazzolla. Suites from his two ballets have been concert favorites for many years, but this is the world premiere recording of both of his ballets in their entirety. Some of Ginastera's works are in a more atonal style, but these two ballets abound in exotic melody often based on Argentine folk music and popular elements.
Panambi is based on a supernatural legend of the Guarani Indians of northern Argentina. It has a sorcerer, water sprites, warriors and various native festival dances. Some of Ginastera's main influences can be heard in the score: Falla, Stravinsky, Debussy and Bartok. The score intersperses exciting and dynamic dances with percussion with more reflective and impressionistic music.
Estancia deals with the spirit of the Argentine gauchos on the vast pampas. The contrast between the urban dwellers and the people of the pampas is a major element in the scenario of the ballet. It celebrates the various aspects of the activities of a ranch during a typical day. Lines from poet Martin Fierro preface some of the depictions of a gaucho's day on the pampas; these are read and sung by Luis Gaeta. The gaucho's solitude is one of the recurring themes. The final dance of the ballet is the highly repetitious and rhythmic Malambo. (Frankly, I could do without the narration - for which no translation is provided.)
I did an A/B comparison of this new release with the classic Sir Eugene Goossens and the London Symphony versions of the two suites on an Everest/Vanguard three-channel SACD. While that 1974 reissue still holds the edge in the violence quotient for the concluding Malambo, the overall fidelity of the Naxos standard CD is in some ways even superior to the SACD. It also decodes beautifully to surround via ProLogic II, and one gets the entire scores of both ballets for the first time, and at bargain cost.


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Mrs. Jennifer Whitehead
Welcome! I am excited about this new year at EVHS. I am a native of Lubbock, TX and I graduated cum laude from Lubbock Christian University in 2003 with a BSIS in Secondary Education and I worked at the same high school that I went to. When my husband was hired at Concordia University, we happily moved to Georgetown. I eventually got my Masters of Educational Administration at Concordia University, as well. Georgetown has been such a wonderful place to be that I cannot imagine a more perfect job than teaching English at East View. I look forward to our new year!
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Iran's flag carrier airline will resume flights to the Italian capital as of December 2, Masoumeh Asqarzadeh, an Iran Air official, said on Wednesday.
She that Iran Air will resume its flights to the country in response to requests by Iranians living abroad.
Therefore, Tehran-Rome-Tehran flights will be operated every Monday and Thursday, Asqarzadeh said.
Currently, Iran Air flies to the Italian city of Milan every Tuesday and Friday.
In relevant remarks last month, Italian Ambassador to Iran Giuseppe Perrone voiced his country's willingness to develop mutual cooperation with Iran in different fields, specially in economic and trade areas.
He said that the Italian private sector and companies are very interested to increase their cooperation with their Iranian counterparts.
"Iranian designers are really creative and today's ceremony is not only seeking to display works of an Italian company, but also highlight history of the two countries' exchanges in the field of designing," the Italian envoy added.
He noted that most of the Italian companies attend the Iranian exhibitions and a large number of them are working in Iran.


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2015 Honda Odyssey for sale near Waukesha, WI
2015 Honda Odyssey for sale near Waukesha, WI
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I know I said that I was signing off on the game collecting blog posts, but there is no other option I have to post this.
Yesterday I had been planning to stop by my favorite game store twice. Once to post a sign for work, and again a few hours later to do some shopping. I also wanted to pitch to them that they should pick up several copies of NES Remix for the Wii U, because they could buy them from a whole seller, increase their stock, playing the game would be free advertisement for their other merchandise, and they could hold tournaments with the NWC Remix (which given my obsession with that part of the game, I'd be sure to win) my review on this game will be soon coming. I liked to hit the store at least once a month, but because of the nature of this year (and summer specifically) I hadn't been there since June. When I stopped by yesterday for the first time, I saw… they were closed for good. Such a shame.
They had been there for almost two years, and I admire the two young men for attempting to open a store in today's world. It's not an easy thing to do, as Jimmie McMillan says "The Rent is Too Damn High!" (Granted I don't know specifically why they closed but I would imagine that the rent was part of the reason). The store catered to a niche market, and because of the internet, running a brick and mortar store for anything like this an unnecessarily difficult job. You have to pay rent (which is probably outrageously high thanks to the free market), you have to run the store, pay people to run the store (if you as the owner want any kind of time off), and also find the merchandise to sell. This last part would be easier to do for a lot of other stores, but old video games, sure they exist, but there's no whole seller to buy from, it's finding piece by piece her and there, or waiting for people to come in with trades.
Last, and in my opinion most difficult, they have to deal with customers. Sure not all customers are bad, but so many of them are. As I get older I find that people as a whole are becoming more and more intolerable, I don't know if it's because of society or just my own jaded view resulting from the personal nature of getting older, but I could barely tolerate some of the people I run into at stores like these, and that was just as a customer.
For all these reasons I am proud that they made it this far and can say with certainty that the owners will go much further in life, and I can't wait to see what they do.
I discovered the store shortly after it opened in 2014, and couldn't believe that a store catering to a hobby I was just then getting into had opened up so conveniently close to where I worked. And since then I've picked up many games, a lot (but not all) good. The store was originally called "Classic Game Junkies" borrowing the name from another established store in I believe Glen Mills. More recently they changed the name to S&S Games, taking the first letter of the two owners' last names.
The first game I got there was Prince of Persia for the Sega Geneses, one of my favorites. The last game I got, from them a few months ago was Dragon Warrior for the NES, which I havn't played much of yet, though I will, don't worry. Both times I picked up other games of course, but I'm marking those specific ones as first and last. Here's the full list of what I got from S&S Games if you're interested.
For the NES
- Baseball
- Captain Skyhawk
- Dragon Warrior
- Faxanadu
- Fester's Quest
- Golf
- Gyromite
- Hogan's Ally
- Lee Travino's Fighting Golf
- The Legend of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
- Lunar Pool
- Milon's Secret Castle
- Super Mario Bors./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Tennis
- Tetris
- Trojan
- Wizards & Warriors
For the Super Nintendo
- Championship Pool
- Denis the Menes
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday
- Road Runner's Death Valley Rally
- Tetris 2
For the Wii
- Kirby's Epic Yarn
- Link's Crossbow Training
- Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
For the Gameboy
- 4-in-1 Fun Pak
- Donkey Kong
- Madden 97
- Mickey's Dangerous Chase
- Pac-Man
- Tetris 2
- Tetris Attack
- Yoshie's Cookie
For the Sega Geneses
- Arcade Classics
- Asterix and the Great Rescue
- Barney's Hide and Seek Game
- Ceaser's Pallace
- Eternal Champions
- Jurassic Park
- The Adventures of Mighty Max
- Mortal Kombat
- Mortal Kombat II
- Prince of Persia
- Street Fighter II Special Championship Edition
- Taz in Escape from Mars
- WWF Royal Rumble
- Zoop
Other Games & Hardware
- GTA: Vice City Stories (PS2)
- Orange Zapper (NES)
- Original NES Controller
- Reproduction SNES Controller
- PS2 Controller Extension Cord
I am sad to see the store go, that goes without saying. I have fairly good notes on when I picked everything up, so perhaps, next summer I can do an S&S Games Review, i.e. a half hour on each game, and brief review for the Blog, that would take over 20 hours of playtime and maybe 10 hours of writing time. If I can do next summer what I planned to this summer (which is more or less nothing) then it shouldn't be a problem. We'll see, maybe I'll start on the project early, or maybe it will just be too sad to do.


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As a proud, lifelong Newarker, I've spent much of the past few years painting and photographing my changing city. Pictures features a selection of my work complemented by Mussorgsky's seminal composition: Pictures at an Exhibition. Five of Mussorgsky's movements out of an original fifteen are selected, each of which represents the feel of a specific Newark neighborhood. The following five locations are featured:
- THE PASSAIC RIVER – Mussorgsky's Promenade
- ESSEX COUNTY JAIL – With the Dead in the Language of Death
- MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY – Promenade
- DOWNTOWN NEWARK – Two Jews: One Rich and One Poor
- PORT NEWARK – Promenade
Growing up in Newark, I've been inspired and saddened by my inner city environment. I am inspired by Newark's hope of renewal after decades of white flight, under-investment, and urban neglect. But I am saddened by the loss of my city's historic architecture and urban fabric to the wrecking ball of ostensible progress. "Renaissance City" depicts the Newark of my childhood with garish signage and decayed structures blanketing my city's architecture in a medley of color and consumerism.


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How would you describe your personal style?
I have a classic style, but with sporty elements. Yet, I also love accessories that are currently in fashion. I'm not a person who buys everything that is fashionable but prefer to invest in what I like and what I know will fit my personal style.
Who is your ultimate style icon and why?
I think it would be Victoria Beckham. For years, she has pursued design as a profession. I feel her style is feminine, elegant and minimalist. Her collections always have a strong following in the industry and she is considered one of the best-dressed celebrities in the world!
What do you enjoy the most about being an influencer?
I think what I really appreciate is the opportunity to meet interesting people. I also get to know what influences both companies and consumers, which is reflected in their choice of brands.
What are your favorite coffee shops and restaurants in London?
I think there are a lot of great coffee shop places in London but my fave place is Grind & Co. Having started with one site in Shoreditch, it has since opened new cafes in Soho, Holborn, London Bridge, Clerkenwell and Royal Exchange. Hipster staff, great coffee and offbeat interiors make each cafe a destination in of itself. Plus in the evening they turn into amazing bars! Definitely a must visit:)
Which part of London inspired you the most?
This is a hard one. I love Notting Hill, but truthfully the most inspiring place for me is around Bank station.
How do you style jewellery in your everyday outfits?
I usually try to limit myself to the minimum. Typically it is a watch and a few delicate rings and necklace:)
What is your statement piece of jewellery?
Jewellery is for me one of the ways of expressing myself – anything that matches my personal style is instantly my style signifier:)


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The Miss Reef Calendar Shoot Shows Us Some Of The Best Bootys
MISS REEF @ 1000FPS from Chris Bryan on Vimeo.
The Miss Reef calendar girls are back again to make us jealous as they frolic in bikinis on beautiful beaches. Not bad Monday motivation.
Reef is a beachwear company based in San Diego, California known for their awesome flip flops and great beachwear. They had the brilliant idea to get some hot chicks, put them in Reef swimsuits, and take smoking hot pictures of them in exotic, beach locations all over the world.
Every year they share with us these behind the scenes videos of the gorgeous women showing off their best assets. This is also some pretty good motivation for going to the gym as well. Some serious body goals in this video!


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Intersection of Main Street and Wattaquadock Hill Road. Elapsed time between photos, approximately 107 years.
The private residence on the left in both photos is the Caleb Wheeler, Jr. house, c. 1815. Wheeler was an influential town leader of the time. He led the militia formed to escort the Marquis de Lafayette while Lafayette was in Bolton in 1824. The house is remarkably well preserved and features restored stenciling attributed to Moses Eaton, Jr. Also visible, the "Old Brick Store" a/k/a The Cracker Barrell, c. 1827. It was Bolton's largest general store (and liquor store) until the middle of the 20th century when it was converted to a real estate office and apartments. Information is from the Historical Properties Survey of the Town of Bolton, available at the library. More information is also available here.


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Looks like great weather tomorrow. FINALLY!!! We will be doing a brand new hike. It is the Hidden Pond Loop Trail in Northfield. It a 4-5 miles hike with 1 good climb. The trail head is the Brush Mt. Trail Head on Gulf Rd. in Northfield. Because it is a new hike it would be best if we all met at the Y.
Hope to see you tomorrow.
Happy Trails


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A look at what we added to the blog in 2018, the most popular podcasts of the year and the all-time favorites.
Archives for December 2018
Read through the Bible 2019
Have you decided to read through the Bible as one of your New Year's Resolutions? Here's a great selection of updated plans to help you keep that resolution.
Merry Christmas 2018
Wishing you an "exceptionally good Christmas" and the true joy of the season that only the peace of God in hearts can bring.
#TBT How to have a "Mary" Christmas
What Luke 10:38-42 teaches us about how to have a "Mary" Christmas.
10 2 Peter 2:13-16 Balaam and the false teachers
Continuing his warnings about the false teachers, Peter uses of Balaam from Numbers 22-24. Like Balaam, the false teachers are profiting from causing the people of God to stumble.
#TBT How to take the bite out of gift giving
If Christmas gift-giving feels like an annual performance review that you fail each year, consider adopting these 5 resolutions.
09 2 Peter 2:10-12 Who are the "glorious ones" and why are they reviled?
In the third major interpretative challenge of 2 Peter 2, we tackle the questions of who are the glorious ones, why would they be reviled and what does Peter want us to learn from this example?
#TBT The Meaning of Christmas (7 Messages)
There's nothing like the Christmas season to force you to face the fact that life is often neither joyful nor triumphant. It raises the question, what is the true meaning of Christmas? Listen to these MP3s to get you in the Christmas spirit.
08 2 Peter 2:5-10 The Certainty of Judgment
The coming judgment of God is not a popular topic today. We prefer to emphasize God's love instead. Yet Peter thought judgment was important enough to include in his final letter, so that would remember it long after he is gone.


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This One Pan Shrimp and Pasta in Tomato Cream Sauce is just not solely extremely easy to make, it comes together in simply 30 minutes in case your shrimp are already peeled! These shrimp, flavored with lemon zest, red pepper flakes, and recent basil get even more delicious as soon as they're wrapped with very thinly sliced prosciutto. Inexperienced apple will not be the first flavor that involves mind once you're thinking of shrimp tacos, but it provides a component of each tart and sweet that complements the dish nicely.
Dan Kluger adds crunch to this scrumptious shrimp and summer season tomato pasta with crisp lemon-chile crumbs. Eight grams of fiber, 93 milligrams of calcium, and just three grams of fat per serving make this a healthy dish. I made this tonight for dinner and my household wolfed it up. It was scrumptious!!
Raw components, resembling cucumber, carrots, lettuce, mung bean sprouts, and fresh mint leaves, make this refreshing dish best for summer season. A tangy, caper-studded couscous with butter beans and lemon juice makes a scrumptious base for rapidly sautéed spicy shrimp.
Tomatoes are filled with nutritional vitamins A, C, and K, and are, surprisingly, one of the richest sources of potassium yow will discover. The mix of flavors in this light shrimp dish, and the truth that it's fast and simple sufficient to make for a wholesome weeknight meal, must be enough to entice any seafood-lover into giving it a attempt.
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Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
The First Thing to Know
During last week's blizzard here in the Twin Cities, we got five inches of orange snow.
"White as snow," they say. Not this.
While here in the Upper Midwest we've been busy what will hopefully (in retrospect) prove to have been the last snowstorms of our winter, they've been having big storms of their own down in Texas and the Southwest: in this case, windstorms.
Those invisible gods, the winged Winds, caught up that dry red Southron soil and, moving through the upper atmosphere at speeds of more than 130 miles an hour, they bore it Northwards where, mere hours later, it fell to earth again as orange snow.
Last summer, as British Columbia burned, here in Minnesota we smelled the smoke.
Truly—truly—everything is connected.
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Our resident naturopath is an herbalist at her core when working towards healing the body at the source. Her favorite herbal manufacturer is Nature's Sunshine even though they are a multi-level. We have always sold NSP at member's prices without having our customers become members. This means less hassle and better shipping for you!
NSP recently posted a blog on the 4 top reasons to buy their herbal products along with good video. Here's a list of their reasons along with a link to take you directly to their article.
1. Raw Material Sourcing. Inspection and testing to ensure that each product contains the key essential ingredients.
2. Formulate for Efficacy. Staff scientists work relentlessly to ensure the highest purity and potency of ingredients. Some of the leading natural health practitioners have helped developed their formulas that have been around for decades.
3. In-house Manufacturing. The only way to ensure quality and testing.
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Dr. Brownstein MD is a cardiologist who understands how to use food before prescription drugs to restore and maintain long-term health...and has the scientific background to support his beliefs. In his recent blog, he recollects an email debate he recently had with another cardiologist regarding actual benefits that statin drugs provide using the current scientific evidence. It's a great read...(click here).
Health Freedom Alliance recently posted an article asking this question: Food vs. Medicine: Should Diet Changes Come Before Prescription Drugs? It was a short article but it summarized how current American lifestyle choices are creating a sick population and the expense that this inflicts on all of us. Here's some quick facts:
While I don't have all the answers, my personal experience reflects my belief that correcting nutrition and exercise habits can bring these numbers into healthy ranges. At the end of last year, I was obese, had blood pressure in the pre-hypertensive levels, and high blood sugar...as well as low energy, vision problems, and other "old age" problems. I took the bad news to heart and change to a strict Paleo diet, started exercising more, and taking a supplement regime recommended by Margaret. In 3 months, I had lost 25 pounds (back to my high school weight!), brought my resting blood sugar consistently into the 90s, and my blood pressure well into the normal range. Pretty good for a 54 year old "old guy" without the use of drugs!
The key to my success was diet. A form of Paleo worked best for me. Transitioning my body from carb satiation to fat satiation, getting a majority of my calories from fats), was key. I have worked hard at eating smaller portions and choosing healthy proteins and more veggies. And I'm not hungry!
I'm not advocating to refuse all drugs but rather I'm suggesting that we look at the personal habits we each have and make corrections there first. Maybe a better title for my post is Food Before Prescription Drugs. Of course, the big questions is why don't our doctors steer us in this direction...
Recent research positively links multivitamin intake with a younger biological age. Here's a brief excerpt from the article and link to the full article. As you may have noticed, I added (Good) in front meaning a multi of good quality from a reputable manufacturer who test their raw ingredients and products (which precludes any products from the major box stores).
"New research shows the cells of multivitamin users may have a younger biological age than cells from non-users.
Researchers led by Honglei Chen, M.D., Ph.D. from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a division of the National Institutes of Health, looked at the length of telomeres, DNA sequences at the end of chromosomes that shorten as cells replicate and age.
The ageing and lifespan of normal, healthy cells are linked to the so-called telomerase shortening mechanism, which limits cells to a fixed number of divisions."
Click here to read the full article.
I just read several articles that report that dietary cholesterol is no longer a "dangerous food"! For the past 50 years, cholesterol has been touted as a "grave health hazard". However, the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for America has removed cholesterol as a food to avoid. In fact, research has not found a correlation between high dietary cholesterol and heart disease.
Other research has shown that not only is dietary cholesterol not a cause of heart disease but essential to good health including it's role in vitamin D production.
It may turn out that the original guidelines on low (good) fat and low cholesterol intake may have been the biggest contribution our current obesity epidemic. As it turns out, trans fat and fructose (including HFCS) are the most dangerous food to a health body!
Bacon, eggs, and butter are the new health food!
"The body produces fat to protect its organs from the damaging effects of acids. A balanced pH, combined with a high-alkaline, low-carbohydrate diet and exercise may help you lose weight where other programs have failed."
This is a quote from an excellent article on the benefits of maintaining an alkaline body from our favorite herbal company, Nature's Sunshine. Click here to read more.


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By Jessica Goddard
The service industry is notorious for responding to wage hikes by raising prices. In a culture where tipping is typically percentage-based, it's time to re-examine the practice with inevitably higher check totals in mind. The idea that everyone ought to be leaving 20% at restaurants lest they be thought of as stingy or callous will need to be re-addressed with an honest conversation.
As someone who worked in restaurants for years, I have seen firsthand how tipping makes patrons uncomfortable and self-conscious, especially as tipping continues to morph into a perceived social gauge of virtue or status. This anxiety is all the more understandable in an electronically-dependent world where your server is typically required to hover over you while you type into the debit machine how much you're leaving them. Gone are the times when it was common to leave a closed billfold containing cash on the table. These days your waiter reads the tip total right in front of you as your receipt rolls out of the machine.
Often, these machines automatically direct to a tip page with three options immediately available – 15%, 18%, and 20% – suggesting that 15% is the bare minimum. (Insider note: usually this percentage is calculated including tax!)
Restaurants argue that when wages increase, they're forced to raise menu prices to accommodate the new cost of labour and supplier expenses. Higher menu prices mean – you guessed it – a higher percentage of tax and tip applied to your bill.
Unless there's an attitude adjustment to the idea that anything under 15% is a "bad tip", the ever-inflating criteria for what makes a good tipper is a disincentive for consumers trying to decide whether to go out to eat. Especially as services like Just Eat, Skip the Dishes, and UberEATS make it easy to access restaurant quality food without the awkwardness of determining how much to tip the waitress.
Which is why, back in June, lawmakers in Maine received pushback from concerned servers when they proposed increasing wages statewide.
According to a Toronto Star poll this fall, most of us would like to see tipping ended altogether in favour of servers being "paid a decent wage". It's true that servers aren't paid a decent wage – they tend to be vastly overcompensated, and would prefer to keep it that way. The reason servers choose this particular work is because they're aware of the money-making potential. Most millennials know someone (or know someone who knows someone) making $300 a night working at some trendy bar. And that's before their hourly wage.
Sanctimonious crusaders for the 20% standard assume that waiters and waitresses are currently criminally underpaid. But the discrepancy between the new $14 general minimum wage and the $12.20 server's wage is barely significant when factoring in any tip at all. To put this into perspective, if you go out to lunch for about an hour, order $50 of food, and leave your waiter a 15% tip of $7.50, your single tip alone has more than made up the disparity between his hourly wage and the wage of someone working at Starbucks. Now factor in that your waiter has three, four, five more tables in that same single hour, all tipping around the same amount, maybe more.
To be clear, serving can be gruelling, and when I was a server I was appreciative of every tip I received. And generosity, in any form, should never be discouraged. But the reality is that this industry relies on the misconception that servers, in particular, are poorly paid to sustain a model that's just not fair to consumers.
As price points rise across Ontario this year, it's time to have an unashamed and non-judgmental conversation about reining back the criteria for what qualifies as a "good" tip. If this practice is going to remain, and remain in its current percentage-based form, we'll have to get comfortable with the idea that there's nothing wrong with leaving 15%. Servers would rather you leave 15% than not come out to eat at all.
Jessica Goddard is a freelance writer.


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Alternative fuels group Quadrise International PLC (LON:QUAD) expects to confirm funding plans by the end of the month.
Several proposals have been received with discussions said to be at an advanced stage with a funding provider.
This will include an open offer said Quadrise, with the funding of a size to finance the company through to the middle of next year.
At the end of July, the company had £808,000 in cash, which will last until October.
Quadrise has developed an alternative to shipping fuel, which is among the most polluting and dirtiest types available.