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The Linguistic Landscape of Post-Apartheid South Africa Politics and Discourse Author: Liesel Hibbert
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The appointment of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa in 1994 signalled the end of apartheid and transition to a new democratic constitution. This book studies discursive trends during the first twenty years of the new democracy, outlining the highlights and challenges of transforming policy, practice and discursive formations. The book analyses a range of discourses which signal how and by what processes the linguistic landscape and identities of South Africas inhabitants have changed in this time, finding that struggles in South African politics go hand in hand with shifts in the linguistic landscape. In a country now characterised by multilingualism, heteroglossia, polyphony and translanguaging, the author debates where the discourse practices of those born post-1994 may lead.
The linguistic landscape of post-apartheid South Africa is of a bewildering complexity. Liesel Hibbert's study admirably aims to paint a picture that does justice to the different voices and viewpoints in this constellation. Her book is essential reading not only for those wishing to learn more about the sociolinguistics of contemporary South Africa, but also for readers with a more theoretical interest in linguistic pluralism in a conflict-ridden postcolonial setting.- Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
This is a welcome contribution on post-apartheid discursive practices in the media and other modalities, as well as on discourses of identity, diversity, empowerment and socio-economic transformation in the new South Africa. The book will definitely appeal to language practitioners, linguistics students and academics as well as those in the fields of literary studies, history, sociology, economics and politics.- Felix Banda, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Liesel Hibbert is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa. Her interests include discourse studies, South African writing, linguistic ethnography, political rhetoric, stylistics, the bilingual classroom and higher education pedagogy. Her previous publications include Multilingual Universities in South Africa (Multilingual Matters, 2014), which she co-edited with Christa van der Walt.


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Welcome to the second installment of Lesbian Fear Factor, a game show set in the idyllic resort town of Palm Springs, California, where contestants are subjected to harrowing challenges, such as weaving and bobbing among 15,000 lesbians who have lost their ability to reason or walk in a straight line, ingesting stupefying amounts of alcohol and possibly other mind altering substances, and running into every lady-loving-lady in their past, present and future.
In the last episode, one contestant, Romi, suffered the indignity of not being recognized as a "celesbian" at the hotel check-in line, and instead of giving the front desk her credit card like every other guest at the hotel, she bleated and whined like a constipated goat and showed up half an hour to her event. Another contestant, Lauren, melted into a pile of pink Jello in front of a gigolette whose pick up lines could have been lifted from the lyrics of rejected Savage Garden tracks. Unfortunately for the viewers, no one is eliminated for failing their challenges on Lesbian Fear Factor, so we will be stuck watching them all until the season finale.
And finally, whereas the winning contestants of the real Fear Factor receive $50,000 for their trials and tribulations, in Lesbian Fear Factor, there are no winners, and there are no prizes – only tears, sputtering livers and cold sores.
As our brave platinum-coiffed contestant Amanda accurately stated, "It's terrifying."
Is fear a factor for you? Either way, Dinah Shore weekend isn't over yet! Cocoon yourselves in Saran Wrap, and let's forge ahead!
The episode opens as Dinah virgins Cori and Kacy, emerging from their self-imposed cave, take a few tottering steps towards the mayhem at the Riviera Hotel's swimming pool and courtyard, which are now overflowing with thousands of almost naked, gyrating and jiggling frolickers. Like Brendan Fraser's character in Encino Man who had never encountered the curious civilization laid before him after he climbed out from a hole in the ground after being frozen in ice for thousands of years, at first they are frightened.
"This is insane," says Kacy. "Already in one minute, I have seen more lesbians than I have seen in my entire life."
As they approach the door separating the pristine hotel lobby from the teeming wildlife outside, Cori has second thoughts. She hesitates and tells Kacy, "I think I've changed my mind."
Kacy decides that they've come too far to turn back, and she gathers her courage and pulls Cori towards the circus.
"Oh my god," says Cori, her jaw falling dangerously close to the unsanitary concrete surrounding the pool. "This is some… lesbian shit."
Kacy takes in her surroundings and tries to make sense of it. "I think it's just like a club," says Kacy, pausing to remember the last time she went to a club and realizing it was before Encino Man became frozen in his block of ice. Then she has a sudden albeit dim recollection that clubs are generally not open at noon. "But during the day!" she adds.
"And everybody is half naked," says Cori.
As the two walk around in circles, acclimating themselves to the bizarre spectacle of panties and pasties, a fan spots them and asks to take a photo with them. Then she asks Cori how the baby is doing.
Back in Whitney, Sara and Lamanda's room, Amanda continues to follow Lauren around and harp on her new situation with Kiyomi.
"Just so you know, she has a girlfriend," says Amanda. She tells Lauren that it is obnoxious for Kiyomi to be hitting on someone when she has a girl at home.
Lauren's buzz is getting killed, so she waves her hands around, hoping the resulting air currents will blow Amanda away.
Then Whitney butts in. "Are you going to make out with [Kiyomi] today?" she asks Lauren.
Lauren says she digs Kiyomi, and Whitney agrees. "I'd hit it." Then she changes her mind and says, "No I wouldn't." And then "I support it." And then, "Not." What a mess of contradictions. Romi, is that you? Why are you wearing a Bob Marley wig?
Finally, Whitney says that since she is Lauren's friend, she will support her decision, whatever it happens to be.
"Thank you," says Lauren, applauding, and she bends down and stands inches from Amanda's face. "Hear that?" she asks a surly Amanda.


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No app is ever a good substitute for veterinary care, but your phone is a handy place to store a first aid reference. After all, if your dog is injured while the two of you are out and about, having the number for ASPCA Poison Control or instructions on performing CPR readily available can buy your pup precious time.
Information for the Pet First Aid app comes from PetCPR.com. The app mostly consists of text, laying out everything from what to include in your first aid kit to how to respond to a spinal injury. But Pet First Aid also includes pictures and videos to illustrate the concepts it describes. Pictures show how to identify oxygen deprivation from a dog's gums and where to apply pressure to slow an injured dog's bleeding. Videos demonstrate how to take your dog's pulse, how to wrap an injured paw, how to perform CPR and more. Again, it's not a substitute for learning these things from a professional, but it's useful information in an emergency.
And, when you do get your pup to the emergency vet, Pet First Aid doubles as medical records storage. You can record all of your dog's medications, vaccinations, allergies and medical conditions, as well as her veterinary contacts, right in your phone, so you and the emergency vet don't waste precious seconds gathering her medical history.
Best of all, the Pet First Aid App doesn't require an Internet connection; all of the information is stored directly on your device. So if you take your iPod Touch jogging, you'll have access to all of the first aid information, even if you can't get a wireless signal.
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So let me get this straight. Company A patents a technology. Company S uses this technology. Company A sues Company S for co-opting its patents, and the courts (so far) agree — and Company A is the bad guy?
Yes, I'm talking about what happened at IFA last week. Even though I was at IFA, I missed Samsung removing all evidence of the existence of its just-announced Galaxy Tab 7.7 after a Dusseldorf district court granted Apple's injunction like Josef Stalin removed Leon Trotsky (amongst others) from all Soviet history. I was busy touring the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, then wandering around historic Potsdam, thinking all the action at the Messe Berlin fairgrounds was kaput.
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Yet, when my compatriot Michael Trei passed along the report of Samsung's embarrassment from my fellow IFA traveler Chris Davies of SlashGear, who obviously stayed on the job over the weekend (show-off), he was flamed by many who called Apple a bully because they saw Apple's multi-touch patents akin to patenting a wave of your hand.
Sorry, Apple-haters. Not only are you objectively and demonstrably wrong, you're wrong at the top of your voice. Apple may well be a bully in a host of business dealings (and it is), but multi-touch technology — in fact, ALL simple-looking technology — is a mite more complicated than your dismissive gesture of flipping the bird at Apple.
First off, Apple isn't actually suing Samsung over just multi-touch. It's the Galaxy Tab 10.1's overall design that the German courts have found uncomfortably similar to iPad, and therefore have banned the sale of at least in Germany if not the entire EU. Problem is, I can't seem to find a copy of any of the actual complaints against Samsung that Apple has filed in Germany, Australia or, earlier this week, in Japan, which might include multi-touch gesture control.
But if Apple is suing Samsung (god, I love that alliteration) over multi-touch, it's for good reason. Developing multi-touch was a long, complicated process — although not all done by Apple.
Our story begins in the early 1980s...
More Than A Mouse
Touchscreens are not a new technology; the original patents date back to the late 1940s. The first of eight digitizer touchscreen tablet patents were granted to Robert G. Kable, chief engineer at Ohio-based Scriptel, in 1986.
Theoretically, capacitive touchscreens could register multiple touches, but no one could figure out how to make the hardware and software work. That is, until spring 1999, when University of Delaware graduate student Wayne Westerman published a doctoral dissertation entitled "Hand Tracking, Finger Identification, and Chordic Manipulation on a Multi-Touch Surface," which described for the first time practical multi-gesture touchscreen methods.
While finishing his dissertation, Westerman and his faculty advisor, John Elias, formed FingerWorks, which began to make and market multi-gesture PC control products, including several iGesture pads, in early 1994.
Critics, geeks and especially Steve Jobs loved the idea of using fingers to control computers. Consumers, not so much.
So, in early 2005, Apple quietly bought FingerWorks and hired Westerman, which is how the iPhone and then iPad got a multi-touchscreen.
Patents Not Pending
Since then, Apple and Westerman have been granted 26 multi-touch patents.
Without Westerman, Apple has filed multiple multi-touch patents, including:
- "Force Imaging Input and Device System," which describes a method of detecting how hard the touch is to add a level of user control. The harder you push, the different the action.
- "Proximity detector in handheld device," which describes a touchscreen with an integrated proximity sensor, which would enable control without an actual touch, such as waving over a device to wake it up or "...GUI controls and tools that pop up when a finger is detected..." or "...in a music application, an onscreen control box that includes menu, play/pause, seek, and the like may be presented when a user hovers their finger above the user interface..."
- And, "Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for translating displayed content," which sort of consolidates many of Apple's previous multi-touch patents into a single document.
In other words, Apple's got multi-touch multi-covered.
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I can't see Apple winning a second look-and-feel battle, although it deserves to, and deserved to in the Microsoft case. Without the initially much derided Mac or the even more derided iPad, there'd be no Windows and there'd be no Android — or, they'd have come much later and looked much different.
There sure wouldn't be a tablet PC business. Reading about how iPad was going to be Jobs' Waterloo and how "iPad" sounded like a digital sanitary napkin in the weeks leading up to iPad's 2010 introduction less than two years and 25 million iPads later is HIGH-larious and a sobering reminder about how much Google, Samsung and all the other Android tablet makers owe Apple for creating yet another product category for them to capitalize on.
As a tech historian, I've documented how hard people work for a long time and how companies invest a lot of money to invent new ways to make our technological lives easier. And history is replete with sorry souls who've had their ideas stolen, but were powerless to stop the intellectual theft. (See Farnsworth, Philo T.; Armstrong, Edwin Howard; Gray, Elisha; Tesla, Nikola.)
To wave off a technological accomplishment as sophisticated as multi-touch demonstrates an alarming ignorance of how hard it is to develop breakthrough technologies.
And anyone who is proved to have violated a patent — and that includes Apple, which is being sued by multiple entities over patent violations — even if that patent is bought, is committing a crime, and deserves any punishment meted out.
Stealing someone's idea, no matter how simple it may appear, is as much stealing as robbing a bank. And it is the thief who should be publicly shamed and held up to ridicule, not the patent holder.
About Our Columnist: Stewart Wolpin has been bloviating about consumer electronics for more than 25 years for the likes of DVICE, Tech Goes Strong, the American Heritage of Invention & Technology magazine, and elsewhere on the Web. Stewart is also an elector for the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame, and has written two books: Bums No More: The Championship Season of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, and The Rules of Neighborhood Poker According to Hoyle.


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She's back.
Much like trying to rid yourself of all of that glitter from a Ke$ha concert, YouTube experience Rebecca Black is back with a new video sweetly mocking those who doubted her.
Called "My Moment," the video is full of limousine parties, bubble blowing, dance sequences, and sauntering down red carpets. And of course, many close-ups of Black, showing off a sassy smile and a new hairdo.
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"I'm doing big things, things you've never dreamed of. I hope you're happy because I'm about to blow up," Black sings.
It's obvious that somebody pony'd up with a production budget too. Black's voice is significantly auto-tuned (and, dare we say, pleasant?).
Her previous video "Friday" went viral, bringing in around 167 million views. As of Tuesday morning, "My Moment" already has 24,000 views.
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Christian blogger LaTawnia Kintz has reviewed Times of Trial for me, and gave it four stars on Amazon. She reviewed Times of Trouble last year for me too. I could use more reviews for either novel, so if anyone is willing to review the novels, please contact me and I'll send you a Smashwords coupon to download it for free. Download the ebook directly from my website or buy the paperback/ebook from other online retailers.
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'Times of Trial can be read as a stand-alone or with Times of Trouble. Like Times of Trouble, Times of Trial is about the end-times and persecution of Christians in the United States.
The president of the United States is a hater of Christians and Jews and will stop at nothing to make sure he remains the president. He and his equally power hungry goons implement Agenda 21. (Now if you don't know anything about Agenda 21 – which is very real check it out here. There are also lots of other listings about it.)
Cliff has again written a very insightful novel involving end-time prophecy and current events. This is a very easy book to read but don't let the ease of it detract you from the reality of what could actually take place.
All right, now I have a couple of critiques… though Cliff has done better in filling in the plot with detail, his dialog is still a bit choppy and stilted. I only say this, because I know how difficult it is to write dialog. So Cliff, this is just to encourage you to write your dialog more fluidly. That is probably the only thing I can think of that may be a distraction for the reader.
I appreciate Cliff's dedication to get his work out for the public to read. Since he is a self-publisher, it can be a bit harder to get the word out. So I am more than thrilled to review for him.
Thank you Cliff for providing me with a free ebook copy for me to review."


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Cloud computing adoption is gradually picking up steam, yet legitimate concerns about security, data portability, auditing, compliance, and other issues have kept some IT departments on the sidelines. Security solution vendor StillSecure hopes to tackle some cloud security concerns with their new Cloud Network Security Appliance (NSA).
"Security in a cloud environment can be both a black box and a minefield of risk at the same time. Most people aren't prepared to cope with the kind of exposure and weaknesses that used to be hidden behind a firewall," said Carl Brooks, an infrastructure and cloud computing analyst at The 451 Group that was quoted in the StillSecure NAS launch announcement. "Fear of the unknown and having to rely on the 'just trust us' model are a bad combination. That's why security remains one of the key factors preventing cloud adoption."
The StillSecure NSA is intended to be installed as part of a public cloud infrastructure, and offers up public cloud equivalents of a web application firewall, IDPS, and firewall, but can also be upgraded to handle vulnerability scanning, log management,IDS, and also PCI compliance via StillSecure's PCI Complete service.
"One of the big concerns many IT professionals have [about the cloud] is where the security comes from," says James Brown, CTO of StillSecure. "Another concern many have is isolating their resources from other resources in a public cloud. The way we configure the [StillSecure NSA] their cloud services are completely segregated...from the standpoint of the network, we've created a private cloud solution within those public cloud resources."
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Vampires are supposed to be breathtakingly beautiful but have a look at these photos of Julia Jones and BooBoo Stewart arriving in Vancouver…
Depends on how they style them, I guess, because the Cullens and all their f-cked up wigs are nowhere near as pretty as these two and their onscreen mother.
Julia plays "Leah" and BooBoo "Seth" and they were joined also by Alex Rice who'll take on the part of "Sue Clearwater". Alex is Canadian, born in Quebec, and is "an active and proud member of the Mohawk Nation".
Also spotted at the airport coming in for work on Eclipse was Gil Birmingham. And the wolf pack was sighted on a rainy day in Vancouver too. They always look like they're modelling an ad in a magazine, non?
As for what the cast has been working on this week – first few days it was fight training, learning how to battle an army of new vampires. Then yesterday "Jacob" runs with "Bella" in his arms while he tells her why he doesn't want to be the top dog even though it's his birthright.
And now it's time for the Twi-Hard hatemail, your favourite.
No one has yet been able to match the artistic flair of The Swears by Tonya because, come on, genius like that is rare and beautiful.
But my TIFF BFF Alan W's post the other day about the Craigslist ad, obviously intended for laughs, certainly incited the crazy. Lesson learned: Twi-Hards have no sense of humour and they take everything very, very literally.
Here's Catherine from Hoboken:
You are a f-cken c-nt faced whore to say that Rob is gay! Rob would never do something so disgusting! How dare you sit in your rat c-nt little corner pointing fingers accusing people, why because you were WRONG about ROBSTEN?????????? Is that why you're such a bitter bitch? I'm warning you this is the last time I will tolerate your incinuations. You better watch your words Lainey. Watch your f-cken self.
Next we have Anna L. While Anna L may not be as ferocious as Catherine, she does seem to know "Rob" very well, and feels compelled to defend him, so much so that she had to write me twice in one day.
Her first message:
That was very low of you by putting a picture of Rob with this post. It's obvious the ad is fake, or written by some jerk bored with his own life pretending to be someone he is not. The ad was removed from the site, that says everything right there. Why did you feel the need to associate it with Rob in any way? That was NOT him who wrote that, that much is obvious. The guy has never done anything to you, why do you keep disrespecting and talking trash about him like that? Such ridiculous rumours are the last thing he needs right now and you just contributed to them. Do you enjoy spewing bullsh-t about people you don't even know? It very much looks like it, what a lowlife you are, really.
Seriously, no actual actor would post anything like this on a public site, and even mention being an actor, that's just too stupid. And I assume you know that very well. So was there really any need for that? You just proved right there how full of sh-t you are by actually posting this crap on your site. You have absolutely no credibility left.
Later on, Anna decided she wasn't done. Fuelled by her duty to protect Pattinson she once again took the time to speak on behalf of "this boy". I very much appreciate the way she describes him, because of course she knows him very well, and it was a pleasure to gain her insight on his personality, his desires, his motivations, and especially his feelings. Thank you Anna for allowing us to truly see Robert Pattinson:
I've noticed you just can't stop bashing Robert Pattinson whatever he does and keep disrespecting him. May I ask the reason behind it? Why do you hate this boy that much? He's never done anything to you, or any other person for that matter. Why so much bitterness and hatred towards him? If someone doesn't deserve such harsh treatment, it's him.
He's a good, humble person. I would understand if he was an attention-seeker, a media/manwhore, full of himself, kept getting into trouble all the time, was a junkie, a bad guy etc. But it's not the case, he's a self-deprecating, respectful and grateful normal guy who has stayed true to himself and who doesn't even think he deserves all this adoration he gets from so many people. You're picking on him for no reason and it makes you look so bad and bitter, you have no idea.
You hide behind your desk, talking sh-t about him, knowing very well he can't even defend himself. You're such a coward, honestly. I wonder if you'd had the guts to tell him all the things you've ever written about him if you talked to him face to face.
Last but not least, your post about that ad on the craiglist site was really below the belt, it was unnecessary, I hope you know slander is a crime. Insinuating such a thing about anyone on basis of some random message posted on a public board, which could have been written by basically anyone, is really low and slanderous, no matter if it was meant to be a joke or not. Jealous haters (like you) just wait for anything negative about him to rip him apart. I ask why, what has he done to any of them? He's just doing his job and living his life minding his own business, why do you and other haters have to poke nose into his?
He never asked for any of this, he was thrown into boiling water and he keeps getting burned. And all he wanted to do is act and be a part of the movie making process. No wonder he thinks the safest place in the world for him is the movie set.
Please, it would be good if you at least toned down your overblown criticism of this boy. Be more respectful and less negative, that's all I'm asking for.
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Apple is pulling back the curtain on Lion, the next incremental update to its Mac OS. It has all the "power of Mac OS X," with all the "magic of iPad." Oh brother — didn't the Ghostbuster teach us not to cross the streams long, long ago?
The Mac App Store is the big push being made by Lion, which was integrated into its predecessor, Snow Leopard, but not as thoroughly as it will be come Lion's release this summer. In fact, Lion won't be for sale on optical disc, being sold solely through the Mac App Store as a $30 download.
So, what can you expect? Up front, an experience comparable to the iPhone or iPad, from the looks of it. We're all familiar with the idea of buying software, downloading it and installing it without having to go to the store and buy a CD, but Apple wants you to do all that through the App Store.
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You'll be able to interact with your purchased apps using Launchpad, which essentially just turns your MacBook's screen into a giant iPhone, and Mission Control, which'll help you swap between your apps and other open windows, such as a word doc or a video you're playing or a Web browser.
Other than that, Apple is also touting improved gesturing controls (including multi-finger, multi-touch gestures), the ability for apps to pick up where you left off even after a restart, and Lion continually saving what you're doing — without you having to save yourself. Each time you open and close a document, Lion will save it, as well as every hour.
In short, it sounds like Lion will play well to something like a MacBook Air, where you're always starting and stopping whatever you're doing while on the go. On a desktop or a work-heavy MacBook Pro, however, we'll have to wait to see if any of these UI upgrades actually factor into the workflow.
You can read a full list of feature promised by Lion over on Apple's website.
I have to say, all that sounds handy and dandy, but nothing here had me reaching for the phone to call up everyone I know and tell them to get ready for Lion. Maybe I'm still not sold on apps on a desktop. How about you?
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Newly refurbished hotel in a great location just minutes away from J21 of M1. Relax in one of our contemporary, spacious rooms or enjoy dining in the informal Market Kitchen or drink Paddy and Scott's coffees in the spacious atrium.
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Leave the M1 at junction 21 and follow directions for Leicester. Take the slip road for A563 signposted Leicester and Space Centre. At roundabout take the first left and head east on the A563 marked Leicester. Get into right outside land and at 2nd slip road turn right, signposted Business Park. At roundabout (approx 50 yards) take the last exit and the hotel is situated a the bottom of this road.
- Children welcome
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- Licenced (table or bar)
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- Totally non-smoking
- Dogs/pets NOT accepted
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- Staff fluent in French
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- Staff fluent in Arabic
- Staff fluent in Polish
Only guide dogs accepted Children welcome from any age.
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28 February 2020
"Fabulous hotel"
Fabulous weekend away
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- Within 50 metres approx. of entrance
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- Solid ie tarmac / concrete etc
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- Public toilet
- One or more bedrooms
- Lounge
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- Lift equipped with verbal floor announcements
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- Clear surfaces such as glass doors have contrast markings
- Baby changing facilities
- Guest information available in large print (14pt and over)
- Bedroom furniture can be re-arranged if requested by guest
- Bedroom with non-allergenic bedding available
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- Entrance well lit
- Level access (no steps/thresholds) or access by ramp or lift
- Meals for guests with special dietary requirements can be provided:
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- Low potassium
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- Proprietors/staff available 24-hours
- Emergency evacuation procedures for guests with disabilities
- Staff have had disability awareness training


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Design Stefano Giovannoni, 2009
Aluminum, polyester-cotton or polymer
Made in Italy by Magis
The lithe, elegant motion of a toreador and his cape—the signature movement upon which the traditional Spanish paso doble dance is based—inspired Stefano Giovannoni's seductive Paso Doble seating family. The Milan-based designer developed the group around the concept of material suspended between rigid structures, much like the sling suspension found on the Eames Aluminum Group chairs.
Giovannoni's design employs sturdy, roll-formed aluminum rails and flexible polymer mesh to create the lightweight and stackable Paso Doble Chair, available in many beautiful materials options for the seat and backrest and several frame colors, and with or without arms. As part of the Paso Doble group, this chair joins lounge chairs, as well as an ottoman and a stool, for a comprehensive indoor-outdoor line created by a designer known for his keen eye for structure, form, simplicity, and, of course, playfulness.41" h | 29" w | 33" d | seat: 15" h


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Plane speaking
The language spoken in the cockpit is clear, concise and accurate. For amateurs, it may sound like fantastical gobbledygook, but the parlance of pilots follows a specific system – and has its very own beauty.
Sure, the poems and finely crafted stanzas of a Whitman or a Shakespeare have their own charm – for fans of great literature. But aviation fans prefer to listen to words with a glorious whiff of kerosene – the pilot poetry of couplets like this: 248° at D6.3 FFM/D3.5 FRD (MNM 800) RT intercept R140 TAU inbound RT intercept R084 TAU/R264 MTR climb to 5000.
The lyricism of aviators thrusts deep into the soul. Its stark, clipped majesty needs no flowery embellishment. Instead, this language relies on abbreviations, precision and accuracy. By the way, mysterious as they may sound, the lines above are nothing more than the command for a go-around maneuver over Frankfurt Airport, reduced to the essentials. It's a lingo every pilot needs to be fluent in; a rough translation goes something like this: "Fly straight ahead on a course of 248 degrees up to 6.3 miles' distance from FFM beacon or 3.5 miles from FRD beacon at a height of at least 800 feet. Then fly a right curve on the 140-degree radial toward the Taunus beacon. After passing the Taunus beacon, fly on the 084-degree radial toward MTR beacon or the 264-degree radial toward Metro and ascend to 5000 feet."
Spoken in the original, this is music to the ears of aviation enthusiasts. Anyone who has listened in on pilots communicating with air traffic control will have heard some of these phrases. When the pilots of a Lufthansa A380 request pushback at the gate in San Francisco, they don't say: "Hi there, tower folk! Can we please leave the gate now?" They will say: San Francisco ramp golf tower, Lufthansa 455 Super requests push from position 101. Once the huge Airbus reaches the runway, tower clearance will be given using syllables and acronyms that instantly conjure up visions of the inside of a cockpit. : Lufthansa 455 Super wind 290 degrees 13 knots RWY 28R cleared for takeoff.
To amateurs, the lingo of the sky is an incomprehensible string of sounds, the ultimate jargon. That's because pilots face a particular challenge. In aviation, perhaps more than in any other field, language has to meet three sometimes very tall -orders: It has to be economical, precise and absolutely unambiguous.
There's no time for chitchat in the cockpit; elaborate, finely turned sentences are not only pointless, they can even be dangerous in certain circumstances. A superfluous syllable or verb, or a string of letters distorted by the microphone can lead to an unnecessary or wrong maneuver. Communication in aviation depends entirely on meticulous accuracy. Fast, clear and to the point: "Reduce to the max" is the motto – express yourself as clearly, as succinctly and as precisely as possible.
Pay attention and you will soon see that this is no easy task. The most complicated tool in the cockpit is perhaps not the artificial horizon, altimeter or autopilot but "aeronese," the language used to communicate between earth and sky. It starts with the endless abbreviations – a particular characteristic of this language, and one that predominates here more than in any other area of life. In aviation, every pilot knows that ACARS refers to the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, that TCAS is a collision warning system and that PFD stands for the Primary Flight Display – the arrangement of the six most important instruments that, back in the early days of flying, were dubbed the "sixpack": altimeter, air-speed indicator, variometer, compass, artificial horizon and turn indicator.
Even common English words take on odd meanings in pilot speak. Who knew that "threshold" was the start of the landing runway? An apron isn't only something you wear in the kitchen, it's the bit of the airport where aircraft park. And just before the aircraft leaves the ground, when the pilot pulls back the sidestick, the cockpit crew will be saying "rotate," not takeoff, which is more accurate because at this point, the plane is actually rotating around its lateral axis. Takeoff occurs a few seconds later.
Fewer words, more concentration, less language, fewer errors
The alphabet also plays a key role in aeronese. In radio communications between pilots, air traffic control and ground control, everyone uses the international ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) phonetic alphabet: It begins with Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and ends with X-Ray, Yankee and Zulu. These code words are used to avoid confusion when spelling parts of a message containing letters. Of course, the phonetic alphabet was no chance development but the result of many years of fine tuning. The military used to use different versions to communicate. A and B were spelled like "Apples" and "Butter," and during World War I, English soldiers also used "Ack" and "Beer." On March 1, 1956, the ICAO put an end to the confusion and introduced a new list of code words, also called the "NATO Alphabet," which was easy to pronounce in all the world's languages and dialects. The words that stood for each letter were easy to distinguish, thus avoiding misunderstandings, even in crackly radio communications. The alphabet was developed by the Canadian linguist and phonetician Jean-Paul Vinay, and it is still used today in aviation and marine radio communications to identify positions, reporting points or identifiers.
In fact, a great deal of aeronese comes from the military, and particularly the navy. "The condensed language of commands is the only way to communicate with precision," explains Cord Becker, who for many years trained pilots for Lufthansa. The principle is simple. For instance, when retracting the landing gear after takeoff, the Pilot Flying (PF) will only give the order to "Gear up" once the Pilot Monitoring (PM) confirms with "positive climb" that the plane is ascending. The PM executes the command and replies briefly "Gear up." Nothing else is said. Only in the event of a technical malfunction will the electronic systems on board report a fault with visual and acoustic signals. "Technical surveillance systems eliminate the need for much verbal interaction," says Cord Becker, "and further reduce communication in the cockpit to what is absolutely necessary." This is all part of the perfectionist approach of aeronese: fewer words, more concentration; less language, fewer errors.
Modern aircraft, by contrast, are very communicative. A computer voice will announce "Terrain ahead" if the aircraft is approaching a dangerous obstacle in the air. It will also count down the plane's height indicated by the altimeter shortly before landing: "1000, 500, 400, 300 …" The plane also provides other alerts, for instance when the permitted sink rate is exceeded before landing. In the latest-generation aircraft, the systems will also alert the pilots when maximum reverse thrust is required after landing. In a loud and clear command spoken not with long words, but with minimalist precision, the aircraft will demand "Max reverse! Max reverse!"
Of course, aviators are capable of banter when they're not busy concentrating on work. For instance, pilots will refer to the cockpit as the "pointy end" whereas "donkey" refers to an engine. Old-fashioned cockpits full of analogue instruments are fondly referred to as a "watchmaker's shop" and the autopilot is affectionately called "George."These terms display the joy of neologism, hyperbole and gentle self-mockery, as evidenced in the following flying instructions – boiled down to the basics: "If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger, if you pull the stick back they get smaller."


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Ilana1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 132 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Weddington Way (http://www.WeddingtonWay.com)
We are two fashion veterans from New York who are now based in Silicon Valley and are passionate about revolutionizing the way brides and bridesmaids shop for bridesmaid dresses.
Weddington Way is an online boutique dedicated to making bridesmaid dress shopping fun and easy for brides and their friends. We are using e-commerce and social networking technology to enable a memorable group shopping experience for busy brides who often live in different cities than their bridesmaids.
Our brand is elegant yet warm and fun. We carry some of the hottest dress designers and are creating an aspirational/cool brand but with a focus on high touch customer service that makes us very approachable and welcoming for even the most overwhelmed bride (planning a wedding can be very intimidating). We will provide a clean user experience on our website, as many wedding sites like http://www.theknot.com are cluttered with information.
While we want our logo to stand out and have energy, we will be displaying it on our website where the product (dresses) are the number one focus...so it should be noticeable but not overwhelming or loud.
Our primary target is brides in the United States. Age range is 26-34. The brides we are targeting, work full-time and are incredibly busy. They are successful young professionals who care about their wedding being beautiful but don't have the time to spend their engagement year planning their wedding every Saturday, Sunday and free moment (they like to use their free time to hang out with friends, exercise and spend quality time with their fiances too)...their free time is precious because they are working 10-12 hours/day 5 days a week (at least). They have friends that live in many different cities and are not excited about a lot of the logistics around coordinating with their bridesmaids...they want everything around their wedding to be fun, not stressful, for everyone. They like quality and care about being fashionable but don't want their bridesmaids to spend too much money on their dresses (bridesmaids pay for the dresses even though the brides choose)
Other companies in the space that serve our target customer:
Other fashion companies that our brides love:
We have been playing around with the idea of making our logo look like a street sign (see attached).
Note: Potential for follow-on graphic design work if we love your logo!
-simple and clean but with warmth and energy (achieve this possibly through use of accent colors)
-elegant (important for earning bride's trust..they do not want to totally depart from the traditional...just the part of the old process that is difficult)
-social, fun (we are a group shopping platform)
We would like to explore the idea of including an icon in the logo, as we think that visuals are incredibly powerful, but we don't want the logo to be too complicated or childish.
-grey + silver + accent color (open to more than one accent color).
-potential accent colors: yellow (1st choice, needs to stand out but not too highlighter or too basic/primary), mint green and raspberry
-if you have a better idea for accent colors than we've presented, we're open
Logos we love (like how they use icons to integrate 2 colors):
As for file formats, we need a vector file version, a jpg and a photoshop version of the logo. We also need a Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
What to stay away from:
-No stock images or clip art
-blues and pinks...we don't want to look like other wedding sites (www.theknot.com, http://www.stylemepretty.com...)
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Choreography by: Christopher Wheeldon
Music by: Michael Nyman
Set to a supercharged, minimalist score, DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse propels 26 dancers in sleek costumes through surging, relentless movement in front of a structural metallic background.
Created in 2006 for The Royal Ballet, Christopher Wheeldon's DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse is set to Michael Nyman's score, MGV (Musique à Grande Vitesse). The score was composed to commemorate the 1993 inauguration of the north European line of the French train à grande vitesse, more commonly known as the TGV.
A tour de force for 26 dancers, with four couples at its core and featuring costumes and scenery by Jean-Marc Puissant and lighting by Jennifer Tipton, the work propels the dancers through shifting physical and emotional landscapes, paralleling Nyman's division of the score into five "regions." While a travel motif is never literal, a sensation of momentum and surging progression infuses the ballet.


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General Background. Coach Marrone was born and raised in Alexandria, VA and picked up her first basketball at five years old. In the spring, she'd play little league baseball as the Indians' second baseman and in the summer, she swam for the Dolphins. At Corpus Christi middle school, she focused more on basketball playing summer, fall and winter ball while only running track in the spring. She joined both the Vogues and Gym Rats AAU teams and traveled up and down the East coast playing in Nationals, Junior Nationals, State Games and local tournaments throughout the seasons.
Coach Marrone was the starting varsity point guard for all four years Varsity basketball for JEB Stuart High School in Falls Church. In the offseasons, she continued to play basketball for the Gym Rats AAU program, run track and played softball. Teri graduated from Stuart HS and attended George Mason University. She graduated with her BA in Communications in May 2005.
She currently plays recreational basketball for the Capital Alumni Network in the Washington DC area. Standing at a towering 5'2", she's a point guard who knows every aspect of the game. She is in her twelfth year officiating youth basketball for the Northern Virginia Catholic Youth Organization. In this league, she met the Michael and Lisa Paul family and has enjoyed watching Michael's kids grow!
Coaching Experience. This is Teri's first opportunity coaching; however, she knows that her playing, officiating and clinical experience have prepared her for all basketball situations. She is confident in her training of physical fitness and basketball that she can help the 12U Green team grow as individuals as well as a team. She's very excited to meet the players and parents and hopes that this will be a fun and educational season.
Coaching Philosophy. Teri believes in a motto she learned from Coach Finney at Marymount University- "this game starts from the ground up." She believes in each player having a strong foundation in the mental game in addition to the physical. Furthermore she wants every player to know ALL positions.
"These players are still growing, in mind and body. They might be forwards in middle school, but guards in high school. Knowing the positions on the floor is very important."
Teri wants all the players to give 110% but on top of all the hard work, it must be fun. If the players aren't having fun, then none of it is worth while. Coach Marrone believes in open dialogue and constructive feedback both ways; so some popular phrases you'll hear throughout the season are; 'next play', 'two points Coach!' and 'rebound Coach!'
Teri will be assisted, part-time, this season by Matt Crosoli.
You can contact Coach Marrone at
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One of the challenges of trying to get people to improve their statistical inferences is access to good software. After 32 years, SPSS still does not give a Cohen's d effect size when researchers perform a t-test. I'm a big fan of R nowadays, but I still remember when it I thought R looked so complex I was convinced I was not smart enough to learn how to use it. And therefore, I've always tried to make statistics accessible to a larger, non-R using audience. I know there is a need for this – my paper on effect sizes from 2013 will reach 600 citations this week, and the spreadsheet that comes with the article is a big part of its success.
So when I wrote an article about thebenefits of equivalence testing for psychologists, I also made a spreadsheet. But really, what we want is easy to use software that combines all the ways in which you can improve your inferences. And in recent years, we see some great SPSS alternatives that try to do just that, such as PSPP, JASP, and more recently, jamovi.
Jamovi is made by developers who used to work on JASP, and you'll see JASP and jamovi look and feel very similar. I'd recommend downloading and installing both these excellent free software packages. Where JASP aims to provide Bayesian statistical methods in an accessible and user-friendly way (and you can do all sorts of Bayesian analyses in JASP), the core aim of jamovi is wanting to make software that is '"community driven", where anyone can develop and publish analyses, and make them available to a wide audience'. This means that if I develop statistical analyses, such as equivalence tests, I can make these available through jamovi for anyone who wants to use these tests. I think that's really cool, and I'm super excited my equivalence testing package TOSTER is now available as a jamovi module.
You can download the latest version of jamovi here. The latest version at the time of writing is 0.7.0.2. Install, and open the software. Then, install the TOSTER module. Click the + module button:
Install the TOSTER module:
And you should see a new menu option in the task bar, called TOSTER:
To play around with some real data, let's download the data from Study 7 from Yap et al, in press, from the Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/pzqj2/. This study examines the effect of weather (good vs bad days) on mood and life satisfaction. Like any researcher who takes science seriously, Yap, Wortman, Anusic, Baker, Scherer, Donnellan, and Lucas made their data available with the publication. After downloading the data, we need to replace the missing values indicated with NA with "" in a text editor (CTRL H, find and replace), and then we can read in the data in jamovi. If you want to follow along, you can also directly download the jamovi file here.
Then, we can just click the TOSTER menu, select a TOST independent samples t-test, select 'condition' as condition, and analyze for example the 'lifeSat2' variable, or life satisfaction. Then we need to select an equivalence bound. For this DV we have data from approximately 117 people on good days, and 167 people on bad days. We need 136 participants in each condition to have 90% power to reject effects of d = 0.4 or larger, so let's select d = 0.4 as an equivalence bound. I'm not saying smaller effects are not practically relevant – they might very well be. But if the authors were interested in smaller effects, they would have collected more data. So I'm assuming here the authors thought an effect of d = 0.4 would be small enough to make them reconsider the original effect by Schwarz & Clore (1983), which was quite a bit larger with a d = 1.38.
In the screenshot above you see the analysis and the results. By default, TOSTER uses Welch's t-test, which is preferable over Student's t-test (as we explain in this recent article), but if you want to reproduce the results in the original article, you can check the 'Assume equal variances' checkbox. To conclude equivalence in a two-sided test, we need to be able to reject both equivalence bounds, and with p-values of 0.002 and < 0.001, we do. Thus, we can reject an effect larger than d = 0.4 or smaller than d = -0.4, and given these equivalence bounds, conclude the effect is too small to be considered support for the presence of an effect that is large enough, for our current purposes, to matter.
Jamovi runs on R, and it's a great way to start to explore R itself, because you can easily reproduce the analysis we just did in R. To use equivalence tests with R, we can download the original datafile (R will have no problems with NA as missing values), and read it into R. Then, in the top right corner of jamovi, click the … options window, and check the box 'syntax mode'.
You'll see the output window changing to the input and output style of R. You can simply right-click the syntax on the top, right-click, choose Syntax>Copy and then co to R, and paste the syntax in R:
Running this code gives you exactly the same results as jamovi.
I collaborated a lot with Jonathon Love on getting the TOSTER package ready for jamovi. The team is incredibly helpful, so if you have a nice statistics package that you want to make available to a huge 'not-yet-R-using' community, I would totally recommend checking out the developers hub and getting started! We are seeing all sorts of cool power-analyses Shiny apps, meta-analysis spreadsheets, and meta-science tools like p-checker that now live on websites all over the internet, but that could all find a good home in jamovi. If you already have the R code, all you need to do is make it available as a module!
If you use it, you can cite it as: Lakens, D. (in press). Equivalence tests: A practical primer for t-tests, correlations, and meta-analyses. Social Psychological and Personality Science. DOI: 10.1177/1948550617697177
If you use it, you can cite it as: Lakens, D. (in press). Equivalence tests: A practical primer for t-tests, correlations, and meta-analyses. Social Psychological and Personality Science. DOI: 10.1177/1948550617697177


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One of those chlorine haters?
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Someone just asked me if I had big plans this weekend, and I responded: "I have a swim meet tomorrow."
She responded: "Icky."
I assume she just misheard me, which makes me really curious about what she thought that I said. Otherwise, hey, I suppose some people do think pools are kind of disgusting.
As for me, I am excited about my second swim meet of the year, and I don't expect it to be "icky" at all. I swam a terrible 100 free last weekend (a terrible dive AND a bad final turn), so I'm hoping to improve on that. Then it's no more of this sprinting business for awhile as I go back to training for the 10K.


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Losing weight can be easy. I've done it hundreds of times.
Mark Twain actually said that about stopping smoking. But losing weight and stopping smoking have a big difference.
When you stop smoking, you stop. When you lose weight, you still have to eat something. This makes losing weight even harder to do than to stop smoking.
But, you might think, that to stop smoking is harder because tobacco is addicting. So you think that you aren't addicted to the food you eat?
Wheat is Addicting
If you eat wheat in any form, you probably are addicted to it. Wheat, which is almost everyone's dietary staple, contains opioids.
When I got serious about managing my weight, I didn't realize how big a role that wheat played in my diet. Because I slowly cut back on the amount of wheat I ate, my addiction to it worked against me for a long time.
Much better, I know now, would have been to cut out wheat all at once. When I stopped smoking many years ago, I went cold turkey. Of course, I was miserable, but for not as long as I was while I tapered off eating wheat.
We can go cold turkey on wheat. In fact, as Dr. William Davis writes, eliminating wheat from our diet is one of the best things we can do for our health.
We can't go cold turkey on food. But once we break our wheat addiction the cravings subside on their own. When we combine a wheat-free diet with one that in low in carbohydrates, losing weight finally gets much easier. That's because eating carbohydrates actually makes us hungry, as I wrote here in 2007 and mentioned in passing here recently.
Some people who have a lot of weight to lose will quickly lose a lot of weight on a no-wheat low-carb diet. But to ensure success most of us need to set a goal and determine how we will reward ourselves when we reach it.
Those of us who have diabetes have even better reasons to lose weight than the other two-thirds of Americans who are overweight. Being overweight makes managing our blood sugar much harder.
Until I read The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, I didn't understand how our ingrained habits work and how they made daily decision-making much easier while at the same time making change much harder.
Habits Can Change
More than anything else, understanding this new book was the key to how I changed my habits and finally succeeded in maintaining my weight goal. I set myself a specific daily goal and decided how I would reward myself when I reached it. I wrote about that here in "A New Way for People with Diabetes to Lose Weight."
Understanding the reward that our old habits give us and setting a new reward is the most important part of the habit cycle, Duhigg says in his book. When I seriously began to manage my weight seven years ago, I knew that I would have to give myself a big reward for this major effort.
Before then I couldn't do a lot of things, some because I simply weighed too much. One of these was to take a ride in a hot-air balloon, something that I had wanted to do ever since I saw several in the air above me on the summer day in 2004 when I arrived in Boulder, Colorado, where I live.
I checked it out and found that a hot-air balloon ride is expensive. But worse, they had an individual weight limit of 250 pounds. When I broke through that level, I took one of those rides, the cost be damned.
My Hot-air Balloon Ride Four Years Ago Was Memorable
Now this is your time to think how you will reward your weight loss success. The next step after setting your goal is to decide how you want to celebrate when you reach it. How are you going to reward yourself when you reach your weight goal?
This article is based on an earlier version of my article published by HealthCentral.
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STOCKTON - Nathan Deck has been observing the Thunder's progress in the playoffs, and occasionally tweeting encouragement.
STOCKTON - Nathan Deck has been observing the Thunder's progress in the playoffs, and occasionally tweeting encouragement.
As of today, the All-Star defensman physically joins the quest to win Stockton's first Kelly Cup title.
Deck was reassigned to Stockton from Oklahoma City of the American Hockey League and is scheduled to play against Idaho in Game 3 of the ECHL Western Conference finals at 7 p.m. today at Stockton Arena. The Thunder leads the series 2-0 and needs two more wins to clinch the conference crown and a spot in the finals.
To make room for Deck, rookie defenseman Landon Oslanski was released.
Deck, 23, moves from one playoff team to another. The Barons just knocked off Charlotte in a first-round series, although Deck did not play in any of the five games. He said Oklahoma City, like the Thunder an affiliate of the NHL's Edmonton Oilers, said he was going to Stockton to get in some games.
"It feels great to be back here," Deck said. "I have been following the games and listening to a couple, and I'm happy where the guys are at and they've worked really hard in games to come back and win in overtime. It was exciting to follow these guys."
In 88 games over two seasons with Stockton, Deck had 48 points and a plus-18 rating. And this year he was chosen to be an ECHL All-Star starter. He did not play in the All-Star Game because he had been promoted to Oklahoma City, and he played 33 games with the Barons.
Thunder coach Matt Thomas expects him to make a smooth transition back on to the team.
"I don't think it can disrupt chemistry when he's an elite player for you," Thomas said. "He's mobile and a threat offensively and he is strong defensively. So he really brings a good element to your blue line."
Oslanski, who played junior hockey in the Western Hockey League, joined Stockton on April 25 after veteran defenseman Ryan Constant broke his wrist in practice. Oslanski was signed under emergency conditions, which dictates a team can add someone to its playoff roster if it falls below 16 active members. Deck is the 16th player.
Oslanski played well and had the key pass to set up Andrew Clark's overtime goal in Sunday's 4-3 win.
"It's unfortunate for him because he's really done a great job and his last game was his best game," Thomas said.
The Thunder certainly is pleased to have a 2-0 lead in the series, but forward Max Boisclair said the players remember having the same advantage in the first round against Las Vegas before winning in seven games.
"I think we learned from that experience that two games doesn't mean anything," Boisclair said. "We know we haven't accomplished anything yet."
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Seaside has inspired me to try to write a basic HTML/CGI based grid style widget. In Seaside, that widget is called WATableReport which is described here and provides column sorting as is available in most decent GUI widget sets. My web-fu is a little rusty. Last time I was writing web code was back in the dark ages pre-servlets and nice session managing frameworks using pure CGI. This may well be available somewhere already but what the heck, let's get started…
First of all, we need a data-type for the table data. For now we will keep it simple and just have the column names and the data which will probably be a list of lists.
(define-struct table-data (columns data))
We will need to serialise the data so we can pass it to another page through the query string. I briefly toyed with the idea of having some custom format of lists of comma seperated values surrounded by square brackets. e.g.
[Task, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday], [Cooking, 1hr, 1hr, 2hrs], ...
The parser tools supplied with PLT Scheme would make this fairly straight-forward. Even easier is using the read and print functions so we will go with that. I also want to be able to define a whole package of data for testing purposes and escaping every quote will be a pain so let me allow single quotes too. I had a look in the Scheme Cookbook for a simple way to transform characters within a string. string-map from srfi-13 offered a possibility, but we will almost certainly want something more powerful later so we might as well start with regexes.
(require (lib "pregexp.ss")) (define (string-encode s) (pregexp-replace* "'" s "\""))
Together with a function to convert strings to scheme objects we can provide a convenience function for converting manifest strings into our data.
(define (string->object s) (read (open-input-string s))) (define (string->data s) (string->object (string-encode s))) (define *data* #f) (set! *data* (string->data "(('Task' 'Monday' 'Tuesday' 'Wednesday') ('Cooking' '1hr' '1hr' '2hrs'))"))
Next time we will look at encoding the data so we can pass it through the query string. At the moment, we will have a small problem with quotes and a few other characters…
(define (print-ln . args) (for-each print args) (newline)) (print-ln "next page") > "next page"


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I got this error while trying to install a forked package https://github.com/soundasleep/html5lib-php.
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composer.jsonis referencing the new package name and GitHub URL everywhere.
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Guillen focuses on the contributions currently being made by Juan Pierre, who was acquired in the offseason deal sending Ely to the Dodgers, or Jake Peavy, who came over from San Diego last year for a four-hurler package involving Richard. The White Sox have a good track record of giving up the right Minor League talent to make the Major League team stronger.
"Every time we make a trade, I always say, 'I could never have been a general manager because you have to take a chance on what the team wants and the team needs, and ignore feelings,'" Guillen said. "We knew John would be fine and we knew Clayton would be good, but we have a pretty good guy [in return for each trade]."
Pretty good? I'd say pretty bad. I see a 64 OPS+ and a 75 wRC+. Both numbers are smaller than 100.


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Helped my cousin to make these cards for the teachers in her school. Actually she had asked me to google for nice wordings to be pasted on the teacher's day card she intended to do. I ended up helping her do the card instead of looking for the wordings! Hahaha... It was fun making the cards for you kak... after a long time not having the chance to play around with art. And this is my signature at the back of the card, copyright controlled..... *wink*
Last Monday, I thought of updating my blog, for the teacher's day entry, soon as I've finished doing the orders that came from ANZ, but then I got a sad news from hubby's family. One of his cousin, a former teacher, passed away. Datin Hajjah Aminah Zakaria passed away at the age of 49 after bravely fighting with the final stage cancer. May her soul rest in peace. Al-Fatihah.
I am not going to write much today. My list-to-do is still very long. So I will go straight to the recipe to share. Made these brownies for Syahmi's teachers. Besides the brownies, I had packed a chocolate chip muffin as well in the box. Thank you to all the teachers who had kindly taught my son. May all of you be blessed....
Thank you to Angie from Allrecipes for the recipe. I made a few adjustments to the recipe to suit my taste.
Source : Angie from Allrecipes
(Note : Please double the recipe for tray sized 10" x 10")
Ingredients :
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
Frosting : (I didn't do this)
3 tablespoons butter, softened
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup confectioners' sugar
Directions :
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Grease and flour an 8 inch square pan.
3. In a large saucepan, melt 1/2 cup butter. Remove from heat, and stir in sugar, eggs, and 1 teaspoon vanilla.
4. Beat in 1/3 cup cocoa, 1/2 cup flour, salt, and baking powder.
5. Spread batter into prepared pan.
6. Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Do not overcook.
To Make Frosting:
Combine 3 tablespoons butter, 3 t. ablespoons cocoa, 1 tablespoon honey, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and 1 cup confectioners' sugar. Frost brownies while they are still warm.
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Cantor Renata Kruzhkova Braun was born and raised in the Ukraine and began her music studies at the age of four, ultimately receiving a B.A. in Choral Conducting from The Music College of Uman, Ukraine. While studying for her B.A., she traveled to remote areas of the Ukraine, recording Ukranian folk music into musical notation to preserve that music for future generations. While studying for her Masters Degree in Choral Conducting from Donetzk State Conservatory, Renata participated in the Conservatory Chamber Choir, performed throughout the Ukraine and Soviet Union, and trained and conducted volunteer and professional adult and children's choirs.
In 1999, six years after immigrating to the United States, Cantor Braun received a Master's Degree in Sacred Music and was invested as a Cantor from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. While studying at HUC-JIR, she trained and conducted the student's choir at Hebrew Union College and served as Cantor at Union Reform Temple of Freeport, New York. She also was selected that year as the only United States representative of synagogue music at The Annual Festival of Jewish Culture in Berlin, Germany, where she coordinated and performed a "solo" concert of Eastern European and American Cantorial music with "RIAS" Chamber Choir of Berlin.
Cantor Braun has served as Cantor at Temple Emanu- El, Livingston, New Jersey and at Temple Shalom of Newton, Massachusetts. In 2007, Cantor Braun became the Cantor at Temple Oheb Shalom, Baltimore Maryland. Cantor Braun is married to Dr. David Braun. They have two sons, Daniel and Jonathan.


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- Website spoofs 'Stop and Frisk' and McDonald's, ABC News
- Three Stop-and-Frisks = One Happy Meal, New York Magazine
- Get A McDonald's Happy Meal For Every Third Stop And Frisk! , Gothamist
- 365Black: Here's A Free Happy Meal Voucher, Good After 3 NYPD Cops Frisk And Let You Go, Business Insider
- McDonald's Denies NYPD Deal to Give Happy Meals to Stop and Frisk Victims, Color Lines
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Auto Racing Helmet - Brain Buckets - Safety
Helmet Safety Can Be Your First Line Of Defense In A Serious Accident
When F1 driver Felipe Massa got hit in the head with an errant spring from another car in August, his helmet, along with his skull, got seriously damaged. Massa was wearing a top-of-the-line carbon-fiber/composite helmet-which meant, despite almost a couple of weeks in the hospital, he survived with few after effects. The same could easily happen to one of us in the short track world.
Recently, I was at a racetrack where I saw a teen sitting behind the wheel of a Street Stock wearing a DOT BMX helmet. When I questioned the teen about his choice of head protection he thought it was no big deal since the track rules only said he had to wear "a helmet." By the letter of the rulebook he was legal, but in actuality he was taking a serious risk with his life. The Snell Foundation, the non-profit group that tests and certifies all types of helmets, has standards for every brain bucket you can think of including bike, motorcycle, and auto racing. Its tests and resulting certifications are geared to each helmet's intended use. For example, to gain certification, Snell performs a number of application-specific tests on motorsports helmets that are not performed on bike helmets. Check them out:
Chin Bar Test In this test, the helmet is affixed to a rigid base with the chin bar facing upward. An 11 pound weight is dropped through a guided fall to strike the central portion of the chin bar. Maximum downward deflection of the chin bar must not exceed a predetermined distance.
Penetration Test As the name implies, this test will determine whether or not a helmet can withstand, or at the very least protect the wearer from, the situation that Massa experienced. The helmet is affixed to a rigid base and a sharply pointed 3-kilogram (6.6-pound) striker is dropped in a guided fall onto the helmet from a prescribed height. In order for the helmet in question to pass the test, the striker must not penetrate the helmet or even achieve momentary contact with the head form.
Faceshield Penetration Test Many drivers wearing full-faced helmets also have faceshields. But did you know that the faceshield on Snell-certified helmets also has to pass a rigious test? We here at Circle Track just love the fact that this test involves a firearm (albeit an air rifle, but it's a gun nonetheless). Here's how it works. The faceshield is affixed to the helmet and shot along the center line in three separate places with an air rifle using a sharp soft lead pellet. The pellet achieves a speed of approximately 500 kph (310 mph) and must not penetrate the faceshield, nor is it allowed to leave any resulting "bump" on the inside of the shield greater than 2.5 mm. In Massa's case, the spring hit him in the left temple, such that the left-side attachment point of the faceshield was broken, but the shield itself was largely in tact.
Flame Resistance Test This is our favorite here at Circle Track and one we tested on an M2005 helmet in the Feb. '08 issue. This test is conducted using a propane flame of approximately 790 degrees centigrade. The flame is applied to the shell, trim, chin strap, and faceshield for a specified number of seconds, and any resulting fire must self extinguish within a specified time after flame removal. During the whole process the temperature of the interior lining of the helmet must not exceed 70 degrees centigrade. You can take a look at the Circle Track version of that test by turning to page 65.
Now, we didn't use a propane flame-a standard long-tube Bic-style lighter is all we had. Our goal was to show how fast a motorcycle helmet, the choice of many local racers due to cost concerns, would catch on fire. Our theory was that fire coming through the firewall in the cockpit could easily travel up the driver's body to a point where it would contact the lower or underside of the helmet. If that helmet was not rated for motorsports use, in other words, fire retardant, the driver could get burned. We thought that the helmet would burn quickly given the lack of fire retardency and the abundance of foam and fabric, we just didn't know how quickly. Boy were we shocked, when we introduced the flame into the chin strap area of the helmet, it took a mere six seconds for the cheek pads to become fully engulfed.
Now, try this little test. Get all you're gear on and strap into your car, steering wheel on, and window net up. Get a friend with a stopwatch to time you and then answer this question: Did you get out in six seconds?
Some of these tests may seem extreme but that's the whole point. Racing cars is an extreme sport, particularly in the oval track realm. Bad things can happen without warning and having the proper helmet can greatly increase your chances of surviving even a freak occurrence like Massa's. That increased chance of survival begins with having a certified helmet that is designed for the activity you're pursuing. BMX helmets, like our teenaged friends, have no place at a motorsports facility.
Fit Beyond all of the proper certifications, a helmet is only going to do the proper job if it fits correctly, is positioned on your head correctly, and is securely fastened. The first step in making sure your helmet fits is to measure your head. Use a cloth tape (or a string) and take the measurement about one inch (2.54cm) above the eyebrows in the front and at a point in the back that results in the largest possible measurement. Most safety companies offer a conversion chart for this measurement and the corresponding helmet size.
Now helmets should be worn low on the brow-just slightly above your eyebrows. When properly positioned, the helmet should fit your head snugly with firm and uniform pressure all the way around. It also must touch the top of your head.
To check the fit of your helmet, put it on and stand in front of a mirror. Gently rotate the helmet first from left to right and then from front to back. If the skin on your brow moves with the helmet as it is rotated, congratulations, you've got step one of proper fit completed. If the skin on your brow does not move, the fit is too loose.
On to step two: remembering that a good fit and a properly fastened chin strap are all that keeps the helmet on your head during an accident. Make sure the chin strap is correctly fastened and pulled snugly up against your throat each time you wear your helmet. Do not use chin cups or wear the chin strap on the point of the chin. This will increase the risk of the helmet coming off in an accident.
With the helmet properly positioned, and the chin strap fastened, try to remove the helmet from your head. Grasp it securely and make a serious effort to roll it off your head in both the forward and rearward directions.
If you can remove the helmet, or are able to roll it backward far enough to expose your forehead or forward far enough to block your vision, the helmet either fits too loosely or the straps are not properly adjusted. If you can still remove the helmet, it's too large. Do not use it. Replace the helmet with a smaller size.
If you can't remove the helmet and it doesn't roll either backward far enough to expose your forehead or forward far enough to block your vision, you have a proper fit.
Wrapping it up A properly fitting, properly rated helmet is the key to ensuring your safety when you climb behind the wheel. If your helmet isn't SA 2005-rated get rid of it and go buy a new one. Consider this, a G-Force Pro Eliminator carries this rating and costs only $279. That's money you can't afford not to spend.
And when you get your new helmet, store it in a cool dry place; the back of a locked trailer in South Florida in August is not it. Temperatures in excess of 150 degrees can cause damage to the polystyrene liner many inner shells are made out of, thereby degrading the helmet's protective capabilities. Finally, if you are involved in an accident, send your helmet back to the manufacturer for a safety check. Many provide this service free of charge. Don't forget the helmet manufacturers are often the best resource to get your questions answered.
Follow these basic principles and you can have years of enjoyment behind the wheel.
Not A Good Decision
In the course of this story, we had a number of helmet manufacturers bring up the fact that if you race cars, you should not wear a motorcycle helmet. While just about every track and sanction specify Snell-rated helmets, some don't differentiate between the Snell rating for motorsports (SA-2005) or those for motorcycles (M-2005). Consequently, at some tracks you can legally race in a cheap Snell-rated motorcycle helmet. However, that could be the worst decision of your life. Motor-cycle helmets are not made for race cars. First of all, most motor-cycle helmets are not made with fire retardant materials. They don't have to be. They are designed to absorb impacts of your head bouncing off the ground going 55 mph, not protect you from fire.
"On these things (motorcycles) you slide away from the fire, in a car, you're trapped in the fire," says AMA motorcycle racer Glen Castle.
Any helmet manufacturer worth their weight in padding will tell you the same thing. And in fact, many take steps to prevent racers from buying the wrong helmet. For example, Simpson's policy is that they won't install HANS clips on a motorcycle helmet.
HANS clip mounting aside, we decided to find out just what happens when you have a motorcycle helmet that gets near a little heat. (Our apologies to the ozone layer.)
Think about these pics next time you go helmet shopping and remember to buy the right helmet, there are plenty of SA-2005 helmets that are value priced. The moral of this exercise? Don't wear a motorcycle helmet, it can melt to your head.


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After years of claiming that straight DSSS was far better than hopping, Horizon have finally admitted that constant agility is an advantage when operating in a hostile 2.4GHz environment.
With the announcement of DSMX, Horizon has signaled that they're now able to deliver a system that (if my review of DSMJ is any indicator) really can compete head-on with the other hoppers from Futaba, JR, Airtronics, Hitec, FrSky and the rest.
This is indeed good news for DSM2 users -- I just wish that Horizon/Spektrum hadn't been hog-tied by their spin-doctors for so very long so they could have introduced this a long time ago.
Of course when I can get my hands on a system, I will test it -- but I'm expecting it to look very much like the JR DSMJ system that I reviewed (very favorably) just a couple of months ago.
Will Horizon finally start talking to RCModelReviews?
I hope so -- but only time will tell.
What do you think of this move on the part of Horizon? Does it vindicate the stance I've taken that constant agility is essential to provide a robust RF link in today's hostile 2.4GHz environment?
And... could it be that one other reason for introducing DSMX is to ankle-tap the sales of those cheap Chinese DSM2-compatible receivers?
Food for thought -- let's hear your comments...


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