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Careless journalism
[Joel] Dyer: You are an intelligible writer, and your article, "The perils of forgotten history" (Re: Buzz, Aug. 29, 2019) contained a good amount of historical information that I found interesting, but if you have time, I'd like you to read what I have to say.
First, I am writing to you to beg that you just don't write lies into the featured section of Boulder Weekly. President Trump did not call all brown migrants rapists and MS-13 gang members. You know that; writing hyperbolic slander carelessly in the first paragraph of your story ruins your credibly for the remaining sections of your article. Boulder Weekly is often in newspaper holders near bus stops in Boulder, you could have reached more people to empathize with what happened in 1974, starting out with lies is ineffective.
Secondly, I fear that your article is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now that we have an edifice dedicated to the "original stewards of the land"; are European Americans supposed to live in permanent guilt? Your article is an implicit condemnation of people who look at their arm and see white skin. That is not a solution if your goal is to not repeat the past. I read your article feeling like I was being threatened in each paragraph, it was like you were asking me to confess to a crime; which is the only way Los Seis can become relevant to the average Boulderite. The Los Seis artifact is a result of the Chicano movement clashing with U.S. government sovereignty; that was the context back then, and that context has not changed. Context matters when you think evil and good belong where you think they belong.
Remember Mr. Dyer, conservatives and the right never create or change anything, they just react to what they see and what they perceive. If someone wants racial harmony in their community, implicit demonetization of whites and writing an article commemorating a stone structure to make a horror story of the past relevant by the invocation that whites must atone again, and again, and again, is the same shaming mechanism that spurred Trump to election.
Your article is nothing but a fan to the flames. I hope you learn that there exists a thing called forgiveness and understanding through context. Explicit condemnation of American sovereignty and implicit condemnation of European Americans, with sculptures like the Los Seis de Boulder, do nothing but point fingers.
If you don't know how to help America, please don't write about her. Thank you for reading.
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Group Calls for Public Policy Changes to Combat Pediatric Obesity EpidemicTuesday, January 03, 2012
The Endocrine Society recently issued a Position Statement supporting policies that bring together doctors and other healthcare providers, family, schools and the community to combat pediatric obesity through education and encouragement of lifestyle modifications.
Although obesity rates vary among different ethnic groups, an estimated 17 percent of U.S. children aged two to 19 years are overweight or obese. Weight gain may increase the risk of developing diabetes, heart disease, stroke, liver disease and reproductive disorders.
Overweight children are more likely to be overweight or obese as adults and the associated co-morbidities are often prolonged or exacerbated in adulthood.
"To effectively combat the pediatric obesity epidemic in the United States, endocrinologists, primary care physicians, schools and parents must work together to educate and encourage lifestyle modifications," said Janet E. Hall, MD, president of The Endocrine Society. "We also urge Congress to enact legislation that increases the availability of healthy, high-fiber foods like fruits and vegetables, and fat-free and low-fat dairy products in schools and communities."
Specifically, The Endocrine Society supports the following positions:
- Increase research funding for new prevention and treatment options for childhood obesity;
- Enact legislation for better access to low-sugar, high-fiber food and drinks in schools and communities;
- Ensure proper evaluation and treatment of overweight and obese patients and provide incentives for physicians to allow for a greater role in the care of these patients;
- Offer incentives for the development of communities that provide the opportunity for adequate and safe physical activity; and
- Develop a council under the U.S. Department of Agriculture or in the Department of Health and Human Services made of physicians, nurses, registered dieticians and business leaders to monitor industrial food development, commercialization and nutrition in schools.
In 2008, The Endocrine Society published its Clinical Practice Guideline entitled, "Prevention and Treatment of Pediatric Obesity." The guideline was developed after an extensive review of the best human research studies related to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of pediatric obesity and was written to help physicians who are evaluating and treating obese children and adolescents.

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A photo circulating on the web is an example of what is good in this world — and what we need more of.
The video shows a soldier standing at attention in the pouring rain, outside his Jeep, in the middle of an intersection. The reason? A passing funeral procession.
"I was so completely touched by this today," Erin Hester explained to Love What Matters. "I always get frustrated when I see cars that don't pull to the side and stop for a procession, but this gentlemen went above and beyond. I feel pretty confident that there isn't a military rule that soldiers have to do this. This made my heart happy to see the amount of respect that this gentleman showed a family that he doesn't even know."
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In these times, it can be easy to get depressed about the state of affairs around us. But God is still on the throne, He is still moving, and respect and honor are not lost ideas.
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Murfreesboro IHOP loses $2,000 in food after prank call
MURFREESBORO — Two restaurants received phone calls warning them of a gas leak Monday afternoon, a prank call that cost one of those stores more than $2,000 in wasted food.
According to the police report, Theresa Redish, the manager at the Murfreesboro IHOP got a call around one 1 p.m. Monday by a man who identified himself as "Steven." The man told her the restaurant had a gas leak and everyone must evacuate the building. He also advised her to use the fire extinguisher and spray everything down to avoid an explosion. Redish did as she was directed, resulting the contamination of more than $2,000 in food.
The Smyrna IHOP also received the same call.
"Apparently someone called in and told them he was from the Smyrna Fire Department," said Sgt. Bobby Gibson public information officer for the Town of Smyrna Police Department. "He told them to pull the fire alarm and they did and that pretty much shut down operations for a while."
The caller is believed to be a white male in his 20s with a "country" accent. The phone number was recovered from caller ID and the incident is still under investigation.
"If a business receives an outside phone call or suspects that they might have a gas leak, the first thing they need to do is contact 9-1-1," said Tim Swann, shift commander for Murfreesboro Fire and Rescue. "Dispatch will send the correct agencies to the scene to investigate the leak and mitigate the situation. If there is a concern for the safety of employees, they may be evacuated a safe distance away from the building."
Denise Manning, public information officer for Atmos Energy, said if there really had been a gas leak, there is one good response.
"Get out immediately," she said.
Manning added that using the fire extinguisher is not something Atmos would ever recommend and would do no good.
"Never. No," she said. "That's not even in our vocabulary."
If you do suspect a gas leak, she said, take the following steps:
- Alert others and leave the area immediately.
- Leave open any doors you pass through to help ventilate the area, but don't take time to open windows.
- Do not operate any electrical switches or equipment, including telephones and flashlights.
- Call Atmos Energy at 1-866-322-8667 or 911 from a telephone outside the area. Associates are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- Remain away from the area until the gas company declares the area safe.
You can reach Mary at 615-278-51099. You can follow her on Twitter @MaryReevesDNJ.


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Every afternoon, I climbed up the castle steps and banged on the wooden door, hoping that Pierre Cardin might show me around the Marquis de Sade's dungeon, but the only answer was a dismal silence. The chatelain was still in Paris—he liked to visit only in summer, it seemed—so I tried to hang out with the rebellious villagers.
This was something of a challenge. After four days, I had become a familiar face in Lacoste, where the off-season population is only around 60 souls. Even the crustiest of the locals, les Costains, huddled outside the Café de France like illiterate goatherds, didn't shoot me quite as many scowls. And yet their world seemed remote and impenetrable. I was desperate to know what these former Communists thought of their two celebrity château owners, the Marquis de Sade and Cardin. But how would I get past their Gallic suspicion of outsiders—me, an interloper from that citadel of capitalism, Manhattan?
Then, in the Cardin-owned store, I noticed a flimsy little book on the history of Lacoste, filled with murky photographs and obscure old censuses. As I flicked through the pages, I froze in shock: There in the tax list of 1608 was my own name, Antoyne Perrottet. My family moniker had been, until now, fairly obscure, so this seemed quite a coincidence. From the Middle Ages, it turned out, a whole bunch of Perrottets were clustered together in this tiny village—about 10 extended families. Wackiest of all, in 1806, one André Perrottet was the mayor of Lacoste at the height of Napoleon's glory.
Now, I've never been one for roots tours, but the idea that my forebears made up a good percentage of the local citizenry at the time of the Marquis de Sade put a whole new spin on things. All of a sudden, the village's history was personal. I had a blood connection. Zut alors, I was a Costain myself, give or take two centuries.
Now that I had my Gallic credentials—one of the Perrottets, mon ami, used to be mayor under Napoleon!—I considered I had an instant entree to stop people in the street and ask their opinions. (Luckily, Finn Mac Eoin had already pointed out many of the more vocal anti-Cardin figures around town: "See that feller? He's an antichrist. Him? Fucking antichrist.") Suddenly, everyone was happy to talk. I ran into two weather-beaten farmers unloading firewood from a truck and quickly introduced myself. "Ugh, Cardin!" spat one, Jacques Trophemus. "He's a megalomaniac! What does he want with all these houses? One home, yes. But 26? There's more to life than money!" He said the village life was being gutted by Cardin, who offers people far above market rate for their homes. Old people can't turn down the offer. Young people can't afford to live here. "These streets used to be filled with children playing! Where are they now?" He waved a hand theatrically. "The village is dead!" True Costains, he said, were even boycotting Cardin's new boulangerie, buying their bread from faraway villages.
This was obviously a feud in deadly earnest—but I soon found that interviewing the anti-Cardin forces was not entirely unpleasant. Usually, it involved sitting on a sunny terrace and quaffing wine while railing against the modern world. When I sought out Yves Ronchí, founder of an anti-Cardin group called the Association for the Harmonious Development of Lacoste, he turned out to be a vigneron in an old farmhouse. He came up from the cellar in wet rubber boots and purple hands, as if he'd just been stomping grapes. "This country is supposed to stand for liberty, equality, fraternity," he complained. "That is why we fought the revolution! But the rich today have taken on a new sense of privilege. They ignore laws and trample our democratic rights."
Ronchí took my business card and rubbed his straggly beard. He soon dug out a topographical map from his desk. "Did you know there is a village called Perrottet near here?" Instantly, we were old friends. He took me downstairs to see his great chrome vats of the latest harvest, and I tried the fresh red—an excellent drop, I thought. "Look, I don't mind Pierre Cardin personally," Ronchí confided. "It's what he represents, the sort of society. It's all about money, empty words, appearances. He is pouring a fortune into renovating these buildings, but the result is bricolage—a rushed job, makeshift, not serious. When you look inside, there is no character. Just empty space."
I had to admire the town's stubborn resistance to change, even though some feel they've become fanatiques. It reminded me of the Groucho Marx song "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It!" Perhaps the phrase should be on Lacoste's coat of arms. Still, sometimes it did seem a little extreme. Cécile Lendfors, a 30-ish artist who grew up in the village, told me that she was just waiting for the day the couturier keels over and croaks.
"I've bought a nice bottle of champagne to open when I get the news," she declared. "Cardin's 86. He'll die before I do. I'm waiting for the day!"
When French TV journalists asked Pierre Cardin earlier in 2008 why he was buying up Lacoste, he adopted a provocative tone: "For my pleasure," he said coolly. Still, he has often seemed a little baffled by the villagers' reaction.
Things have clearly gone downhill for a feudal overlord.
Back in the 18th century, the Marquis de Sade could do no wrong in Lacoste. When he'd arrived in 1765, at the age of 23, the pink-cheeked Costain yokels danced and sang for the lovely woman on his arm: "Oh, the happy news. … Our marquis has married a young beauty. There she is! There she is!" The beauty turned out to be one of the most noted prostitutes in Paris, but the Costains took no offense. In fact, none of his regular scandals seemed to faze the villagers; it was really no less than was expected of a red-blooded French aristocrat. Sade took care to procure his victims from faraway cities, a considerate gesture to the locals. So, the villagers continued to warn him about police raids and assist his many white-knuckle escapes. On one occasion, he hid in the château roof; several times, he disappeared into the wild countryside of Provence.
Of course, the arrangement came to an end on the night of Aug. 26, 1777, when 10 policemen managed a 4 a.m. raid on the château and carried Sade away in shackles. He would never return: During the Revolution, a mob sacked the castle. It was not led by loyal Costains, of course, but radicals from the nearby town of Apt. Sade was devastated when he learned. "No more Lacoste for me!" he wrote. "What a loss! It is beyond words. … I'm in despair!" Broke, he was soon forced to sell the castle.
He was less upset at never seeing his faithful villagers again. "I've come to the conclusion that all Costains are beggars fit for the wheel," he wrote in a 1776 letter, "and one day I'll surely prove my contempt for them. … I assure you that if they were to be roasted one after another, I'd furnish the kindling without batting an eyelash." The outburst came after the father of one of his victims had burst into his château and tried to murder him by firing a pistol inches from his chest. The shot misfired, but the culprit had wandered the village for days, drunk on local wine, until the marquis had to bribe him to leave. Rather than form a lynch mob, the villagers had reacted with a Gallic shrug.
In fact, it's tempting to think that the ghost of the marquis has come back to plague the peasantry. After all, he has effectively skewed the village's fate through his notoriety alone. Without Sade, there'd be no Cardin dragging them into the modern world.
Now how would the Divine Marquis punish me, a direct descendent after all?
On my last night, I managed to get myself invited to a bacchanal in a remote farmhouse, where hundreds of Provençal hipsters converged to listen to live music around open fires, guzzle vin rouge, and gorge on fresh cheese. No hardship there. But the next morning, after only three hours' sleep, I had to drive back to Avignon. Under my windshield was an envelope: Finn Mac Eoin had left me a farewell poem.
It was called, appropriately, "Wine":
Then what of morn, should all of night be chaste?
The wine has gone and but the hourglass filled.
Sade was poised to take his revenge. I somehow managed to navigate my overpriced rental car back to a gas station and had just filled up the tank when I noticed a little sticker: "DIESEL SEULEMENT." Oh, merde, I realized. Wrong fuel. The station attendant patiently advised me that if I now tried to drive the car on regular gasoline, the engine would implode. Three excruciating hours later, my car was on a trailer, and I was sitting beside a crusty mechanic who told me all about how he was going to come to New York and run the marathon, and maybe he could visit me and even stay?
When I checked my credit card statement back home, I'd been charged an extra $400 for that little Provençal screw-up. I guess Sade got me where it really hurts.


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CrookedHook replied to famill00's topic in Fly Swaps & ContestsI need it. Just PM me if ya want. Thanks
Just a Little Something
CrookedHook replied to ThreeJsDad's topic in The Fly Tying BenchFantastic fly threes, I would like to commend you on the tail also. I usually use a large sewing needle to make bodies for spent flies. Similar to how you made it. I would like to ask if you can add a pic of the head area? I cant see the head area from this angle. Great tye!
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CrookedHook replied to bluegill576's topic in Fly Fishing Gear & TechniquesHey Blue, dont know if this is what your talking bout but give it a try. We order our inventory from them: http://www.jannsnetcraft.com/vicious-fishing-line/717200.aspx Hope this helps
Yeah, I am with utyer. Your tail just a bit to short. Try and make it about the same length from the eye to point of hooh probly give you a good length. Also, IMO if you tye the marabou on the shank as you did, you will notice a "hump" where the marabou is contacting the hook shank. Some will say it is ok, but this is for learning purposes; therefore, I would suggest taking the marabou and do a few wraps to connect it to the shank, then trim it off a few mills from the eye and wrap the entire thing down the shank. This will give the body a smooth transition and also build it up. If one tyes all the stuff all at the base, one will find that after he or she continues to do multiple wraps there will be a small hump which causes the body to look strang. So, try this and post one so we can see. Little steps/but big accomplishments!
In reference to an old post Fly Tyer Magazine
CrookedHook posted a topic in The Fly Tying BenchA while back I notice someone posted that he/she was looking for an edition of fly tyer magazine from the 90's I believe. If anyone knows who this may have been PM me. I may have what you need. sorry for posting this on this thread, but was not sure where to post it.
My first fish on a hand tied fly
CrookedHook replied to southernRoller7's topic in Fly Fishing Gear & TechniquesBravo!!! It is such a nice experience when one catches fish off the fly he/she has tyed. Did a fantastic job and as one mentione already "and the sickness begins." Cheers to ya!
Pheasant Bugger
CrookedHook replied to GrizzlyBear's topic in The Fly Tying BenchThat my friend is one buggy bugger. I like the color variations you have going on. What size hook did you use for the bugger if you don't mind? Cheers to ya!
Sounds good Paul. I hope that your product makes ya some money and/or happiness. It is a very nice clean vise and once you add all the gadgets and gizmos it will be one heck of a tool. I am an advocate for all those who make thier own stuff and are successful. This is what we need now a days is for people to step up, produce, and market his or her products. Who knows, once you get it where you want it, you may be able to have a large company invest in your vise as the newest thing on the market. It happens all the time. I would be very proud of what you have already if it were me. Good luck on your adventure. Keep us updated. Cheers to ya!
Hi Threes, A Little bit of a late post but I stumbled upon it today. I was wondering if the material you are using is similar to soapstone, but just a bit harder. I too like the organic look of the vise you have made. Now as a suggestion, if you are going to make custom made vises I would suggest adding a few things to it. They would be simple additions and would also make the product more marketable. 1. I would add a Gallows bracket for Gallows/paraloop tools. This would be a great addition INMO 2. Bobbin Holder 3. In the verticle shaft, since it is thick, I might even think about making some holes/shafts, (at an angle) up the side or back side, where one can place his/her working tools such as scissors, whip finisher, etc. in it. That way the tools are readily available. It would act as a vise and a tool holder all in one. 4. I do agree with another post about the achor screw for the jaws. I would not call it cheap, but I do think you might want to use a machined screw of some sorts. In all, I think that you have a nice product. I would be interested in purchasing one when you are finished with it. However, I may even want more additions to it. I like things to be neat and clean when tying. I would also like my vise to serve as a multifunctional too, instead of the typical vise that one has that rotates and clamps to a desk. Great job! Let us know what you have come up with and post some updates. Cheers to ya.
Kirk, Try tying the tail and only the tail and post a pic. And then we can start from there.
Kirk, I think you are trying to put to much material on the hook which crowds the gap etc. I am gonna post a pic and give you an idea of a slinder bead head (which I told you not to use) but the body tail etc will give you an idea of what I am talking about. even on this fly, many will say taill is too long and front hackle is a bit to long. Anyway this will give you an idea. Just click the pic and see.
January swap club 2012
CrookedHook replied to riffleriversteelheadslayer's topic in Fly Swaps & ContestsYeah we got some gar thats for sure. And ya know I have never though about flying for those. Bet that would be a heck of a ride. Have to be a good size rod though I imagine with some steel leader.
January swap club 2012
CrookedHook replied to riffleriversteelheadslayer's topic in Fly Swaps & ContestsHeack yeah Paul, I'm ready to see them. They all sound like great flys. I'll be sending you the Pike flys next week for Feb. First Pikes I have ever tyed. Kind of hard to find Pikes here in OK.LOL
Yeah I am with utyer. You might wanna right click your pics, select edit, then when it is opened in paint resize it a little. Crop the pic and save. Then post it. I know you are just starting out but a word of advice In my opinion is: Take A fly, just one fly pattern i.e. wooly bugger is an easy one and tye it several times. Try to "master" for the lack of better words, the specific pattern. What I have seen in the past with me is that I would tye many different patterns which have many different issues and it takes longer to understand where I go wrong. IMO a wooly bugger is simple yet, one can learn many mistakes from tying the pattern. (Steps and proceedures in tying the materials, tail lenghts, crowding of the eye, etc.) Get ya some marabou, chenelle/yarn and maybe some soft hackle and practice with those materials tying a bugger on a long shank hook. You will be surprised how many tricks you will learn on such a simple fly. Tye a dozen or so and post 1 or 2 of the best flys out of the bunch. This way you will get suggestions regarding many issues on one fly versus getting alot of suggestions towards alot of different fly patterns. Tye big hooks to get the feel of how the material acts when handling it. Work on the heads of the wooly bugger. I would not use a bead head when tying these. You will be able to learn how to make nice heads by using different approaches. A bead kind of takes the place of tyeing the head. Work on reverse wrapping of the materials etc. I think you will be able to tye much easier and understand problems when you limit the amount of different patterns and stick with one or two while learning. Once you get these, you will be on your way to more advance methods. Good luck my friend and cheers to ya!
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CrookedHook replied to breambuster's topic in Fly Swaps & ContestsYeah the last flys I sent off cost me 5.00 The postman said "here ya go, use this box it is free." I thought that was pretty good until he weighed the damn thing and with a few small flys it cost 5 bucks. I guess they gotta make money too.


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"We are kind of having a weird decade here in the U.S.," said Melissa Harris-Perry, an author and host on MSNBC, at a lecture last night on the challenges African-Americans have faced during the past decade. "And I'm using the word 'weird' quite purposefully. I know it is a vague term, but I am meaning to be vague on purpose."
The lecture was presented as a part of the New Directions in African Diaspora Studies lecture series by the African and African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS), in collaboration with the Office of Student Involvement, African Student Organization, Cape Verdean Student Association, and l'Association Haitienne.
Harris-Perry is a professor of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University, her alma mater, and an author of two books, Sister and Citizen: Shames, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America and Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, both of which were available for signing after the lecture.
She focused her lecture, "Crashing into Michael Brown," on historic events that occurred between 2004 and 2014 involving black Americans. Harris-Perry began her lecture commenting on the Academy Award-winning film, Crash.
"We must start with 2004," Harris-Perry said. "Crash is the ultimate post-racial film."
Other events and people she spoke about were Hurricane Katrina, the Jena Six, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and the election of President Barack Obama.
"I do want to remind us that American ideals are never abstract," she said. "Freedom, justice, goodness, equality, the shining city on the hill is built on the bodies of real people. There is a struggle for freedom."
As a screen behind her showed pictures of defining moments in history for black Americans, Harris-Perry commented on the struggles of freedom, as well as citizenship, integration, voting rights, inclusion, safety in public and private life, and justice. These struggles are always interconnected, she said.
After explaining charts and graphs showing the change in unemployment rates over the years, Harris-Perry then stressed the importance of education.
"I don't care what your grades are. Just finish. I don't care how many loans you have. [If] there's a 'C –,' just keep it moving, until you have a degree. 'Whooo, Imma pay back those loans later,'" she said to a laughing crowd.
Her lecture also covered the problems caused by the racial makeup of neighborhoods in the United States.
"In a tangible way, democracy starts in our neighborhoods," she said. "Our housing patterns are a white noose around a black inner city."
She concluded her lecture with a message to the audience: The struggles that black Americans face today in post-racial America will not go away if people continue to see each other as problems.
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KUILL combines electro-soul and alternative influences to create 'elusive pop'. A focus on melodic and lyrical vibes engenders a sui generis, regenerative sound.
These last 5 years offered the greatest highs any artist could hope to achieve, but it proved to be a double edged sword. Perceived success brought new challenges eventually resulting in a sort of spectated rise and fall. Then it was the beginning all over again.
Thankfully it paved the way for regeneration and the rebuilding of a self confidence required to emerge from the rabbit hole. Starting with 'I See How It Is' an alt-pop hybrid. Showcasing emotive vocals, rich textures and effortless cadence. It deals with emotional isolation whilst trying to persevere in the face of an uncaring world. 'Man on the Moon' offers the same intimate lyrics and the concept of being blindsided by awe. Believing in something seemingly impossible then having it become reality in front of your eyes. This early success has catalysed a variety of invitations to work with producers & writers in London, Sweden & Estonia.
From humble origins, at 27, long-standing songsmith KUILL begins his journey as an emerging artist after working with some of the world's most famous musicians. Subsequently performing to millions of people himself, KUILL is now ready to build a new foundation.
"There's a comfort that comes from hiding behind a mask. It allows me to share the journey I've had over the last 11 years honestly and intimately."


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The innovative metallic treatment was achieved after 3 years of laboratory testing in our factories in Italy and the result is phenomenal: a beautiful gold and silver finish with a new level of scratch, stain and water resistance. The process is eco-sustainable and like all our Carmen Sol products, we use non-toxic material in the entire manufacturing process. The result is an ultra-realistic metallic effect unlike anything you've seen before.
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HOUSTON (UPI) – Injured adult cells in the body initiate a process present during embryonic cell development to protect themselves, but this effort at self-preservation often damages organs long-term.
Researchers have found a way to reverse the embryonic cellular process called epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, or EMT, which they believe can reverse kidney disease. Fibrosis, a "runaway defense mechanism" of the body, produces scars that clog the kidney and destroy its functional tissue until it stops functioning.
"Our work shows that damaged kidney cells respond by undergoing EMT to protect themselves from further damage but in the process, develop long-term damage due to fibrosis, a form of chronic wound healing," said Dr. Raghu Kalluri, chair of the cancer biology department at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in a press release. "Each adult kidney cell behaves like an embryonic cell, losing the ability to perform important tasks that keep the organ functional."


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About Me
Dave is an author and speaker. He is a licensed minister with Ministers Network Canada and has served in a ministry capacity for more than two decades.
Dave believes every individual has a unique role in life and desires that each person would discover the potential to fulfill their function in God's plan.


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Which used Audi A3 hatchback should I buy?
Whether to choose petrol or diesel power depends largely on how high your annual mileage is and how you will be using the car. On the whole, we prefer the smoothness of the petrols, notably the 148bhp 1.4-litre TFSI if we were buying an older car, or the 1.5-litre engine if we were looking at a later one.
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Movie Quote of the Day – Raising Arizona, 1987 (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
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I have long been intrigued by people, real and fictitious, who are competent in nature, and are, sometimes, more comfortable in the company of nature than that of people.
Jeremiah Johnson, based on an actual man, is one of my favorite films. I read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Into the Wild with can't-turn-away fascination. This past summer I read both Elizabeth Gilbert's The Last American Man and Cheryl Strayed's Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.. And recently I watched the DVD North Face, based on a true pre-WWII mountain-climbing competition. While not obsessed, I'm drawn to these stories and return regularly to the genre, safely from my proverbial armchair.
It could be because fewer and fewer people learn and practice nature-friendly skills, I'm impressed by virtue of their rarity. It probably goes without saying that I lack these skills. But had I lived 100 years ago, would I think twice about somebody who could identify animal tracks or grow/raise/catch all their own food or live in the woods for weeks on end? Who could find safe water to drink or build a fire in the snow?
I think about my – most of our – dependence on others for almost every aspect of living. We lose electricity for a couple days and chaos ensues. All of my food, save a few herbs, comes from stores. If I was lost somewhere, I certainly couldn't forage the land for edibles. I'm handy with a hammer and saw, but I've never constructed any kind of shelter. I sleep poorly on the ground.
Please know I don't spend a lot of time fretting over these things and I'm not concerned enough to take wilderness courses or to stockpile goods. (My limited takeaway from what happened in New Orleans was that cash and water were the ideal supplies. And maybe a way to heat water or food.)
I don't particularly like or relate to the alarmist sensibility that is not uncommon these days. The apocalyptic and survivalist ones, with their talk of emergencies, preparedness, and disasters. That's not my reference point. I guess I more lament that learning a few basic skills about nature, about meeting your own needs, isn't part of our education, no matter where someone grows up. I think it's harder, like studying a foreign language later in life, than if it was picked up in childhood, so that a foundation is laid.
I suppose what I'm saying is I have no burning desire to learn how to skin a squirrel or run a combine (whatever that is; I think farms use them in producing crops or something). I just don't like being quite so soft.


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3 Circles is a simple way to have gospel conversations. As you examine the truths below, you'll see how God has organized the world to work, what's gone wrong, and how we can respond to Him.
God displays His eternal power and divine nature through His design of the world and everything in it.
God looked at what He had created and said it was good. He is Holy and created man in his own image for relationship with Him.
God placed men and women on the earth to rule over the creation and to cultivate it. In the beginning, Man experienced perfect peace with God, and lived in God's design.
The Bible Says
"God saw all that He had made, and it was very good." Genesis 1:31
"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky proclaims the work of His hands." Psalm 19:1
Unfortunately, Man sinned against God by disobeying Him and their relationship with God was broken resulting in death.
From birth, all people are separated from God because of Sin, and are subject to His wrath for eternity.
We selfishly insist on doing things our own way. We all sin and distort God's original design.
The Bible Says
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23
"For the wages of sin is death." Romans 6:23a
"But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear." Isaiah 59:2
Sin and death lead to a world of brokenness. We see this all around us and in our own lives as well.
Apart from God, we are left with self-centered pursuits and meaningless experiences that leave us feeling empty as we move closer to death.
Brokenness leads to a place of realizing our need for something greater that we do not possess within ourselves.
The Bible Says
"For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened." Romans 1:21
"They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator." Romans 1:25
At this point, we need a remedy – Some Good News.
Because of His love, God did not leave us in our brokenness. Jesus, God in human flesh, came to restore the life-giving relationship between God and Man by ushering in the Kingdom of God.
Jesus is the Christ, the King, God's one and only Son. He came to us and lived perfectly according to God's design. He died on the cross for our sins, was buried, and was resurrected on the third day according to the Scriptures.
God is reconciling the world to himself through Jesus. God has made a way for all mankind to be reconciled to a new life with Him for eternity.
The Bible Says
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16
"That Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures. " 1 Corinthians 15:3b-4
Repent & Believe
Simply hearing this Good News is not enough.
We must admit our sinful brokenness and stop trusting in ourselves. We don't have the power to escape this brokenness on our own. We need to be rescued…
In His great love and by His amazing grace, God our Father saves everyone who repents of their sin, believes the gospel, and follows Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Bible Says
"The time has come," he said. "The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news." Mark 1:15
"For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is God's gift – not form works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8-9
"If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9
"For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to desire and to work out His good purpose." Philippians 2:13
When God restores our relationship to Him, we begin to discover meaning and purpose in a broken world. When restored we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit that empowers us to pursue God's design and assures us of His presence in this life and for all eternity.
Even when we fall, we understand God's pathway to be restored – Repent, Believe, and Follow – this same Good News of Jesus.
When King Jesus returns on the last day, the great Day of Judgement, everyone who followed Him will enter the eternal Kingdom of God.
The Bible Says
"Come, follow me," Jesus said. "And I will send you out to fish for people." Mark 1:17
"All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation." 2 Corinthians 5:18
"For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." Colossians 1:13-14
Now that you have heard this Good News, God wants you to respond to Him.
The first step you should take in following Jesus is Baptism. Baptism is a public expression of what God is doing in you as you take a step in following Him.
Then, as a follower of Jesus, you should surround yourself with others who are following Him on mission.
You can also join us on mission by becoming a Covenant Member at Restoration Community Church.


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Man! It's hard to navigate around all the mess, so I just pee on it. I think the worst is over. Here are some photos from the night, and the morning after.
|View from my balcony
|View the other way
|Those decorations are made with sand and are called rangolis. There are also clay oil lamps that the landlady's grown-up kids lit. They set off soooo many crackers and bombs right under our living room window!
|You can see the mess it leaves. My girlfriend came by to visit.
|I like her, but it is annoying when she bites my ears. I just want to dance.
|The whole street looks like this, but the sweepers will come and clean most of it up.
|Here is another example of a rangoli. all of the homes have them somewhere.
|Hmmm. Good place to mark, but Lady won't let me because they recycle.


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The Big Picture Fest
Frankston 2019
22-24 March 2019
The Big Picture Fest
Frankston 22-24 March 2019
Frankston city centre's skyline has been transformed thanks to the inaugural Big Picture Fest in March 2018 and is returning bigger and better in 2019 between March 22-24 with an all star line, which includes four of the worlds best contemporary street artists from Germany, Italy, New Zealand and France.
Along side these artists will feature Interstate and local Frankston talent from past and present who will help bring identity to this years festival, which will be announced soon.
The three-day festival is designed to bring our creative community together and raise the awareness of this thriving city centre as the new large-scale walls are painted live around the CBD during March.
The Big Picture Fest 2019 is headlined by world-renowned street artist's Sat One ( Germany), Peeta ( Italy), Charles & Janine Williams ( New Zealand), Sam Songailo ( SA, VIC ) and Lucy Lucy ( France/VIC).
Save the dates and get your cameras ready for our 2nd street art festival featuring Friday 22nd March Street party, walking tours & Photographic tours presented by Canon and Teds Camera store Frankston.
Known for his photo realism graffiti work, Smug, or Smug One is an Australian contemporary street artist of great skill residing in Glasgow . Using nothing but spray cans, he was able to gain mastery over a difficult task of making highly technical pieces that are somehow edgy, cheeky, and incredibly playful. In order to recreate absolute realism, artists usually have a lot of time on their hands, tiny and precise brushes, and a quiet work space where no one will disturb them. Those are the three things that none of the graffiti writers have at their disposal, and yet, some of them, Smug being the perfect example, are able to create amazing large-scale wall pieces that look like they could be photographs. There is hardly a compliment of greater significance for any artist attempting to work in photo realism.
Loretta Lizzio
Melbourne based artist Loretta Lizzio channels the uninhabited wilderness in her works. Animals, from the mildest to the barbaric are the vessel Loretta uses to burrow into and reveal her own deeply layered self. Through her obsessive line work, Loretta captures a sensuous desire for freedom, adventure and love using pen, pencil and oils.
She has spent years sharpening this sensitivity with her subjects while working across publishing, photography, and advertising industries. The artworks she creates show her subjects as creatures of substance, radiating in the life that Loretta supercharges into her artworks.
Forgotten fairy tales, spectacles of cinema, fleeting glances and dog eared National Geographics are Loretta's inspiration to to make art and tell her stories.
Jimmy Dvate is a Melbourne based artist and graphic designer whose position in the street art scene is well established and can be seen on walls, canvas and in magazines both locally and internationally.
Growing up in Melbourne, a stone's throw from a railway station, he was instantly drawn to the colourful work along the suburban railway lines and in 1996 began experimenting at leaving his own mark on society.
Over the past five years Jimmy's work has been focused on his passion for local flora and fauna. It is a way for him to directly connect to the area he is painting in and highlight an aspect of the local environment that he feels is important to showcase. Where possible he will chose a plant, bird or animal that is either endangered or threatened, helping to educate and raise awareness.
Lucy Bonnin
With a particular interest in realism and surrealism, Lucy has won national and international art prizes including the Lethbridge and Clifton's Art Prizes and has been a finalist in prizes such as the the Doug Moran and Black Swan. Lucy's work is diverse, represented through painting, sculpture & installation.
Tristan Kerr
Tristan Kerr (born Melbourne, 1985) is an artist and typographer whose work reflects on cultural diversity, consumerism and advertising, and the tensions between subjects who exist within these worlds, as he combines fragments of street signage, mark making, graffiti and abstraction through his works.
Through his practice, Kerr interrogates the ever-changing face of the city and its typographic ephemera, portraying the disregarded surfaces of urban life in his paintings, sculptures and large-scale installations. His fixation with fleeting urban street views was fuelled by the several years he spent working and exhibiting in Paris—as he noticed the disregarded shopfronts with fading hand-lettered signage, the sprawling graffiti and the torn metro posters that adorn the city's walls, forming part of its cultural archive.
Kerr's works encourage people to stop, look and question their surroundings, considering other possibilities for what public space might constitute. Kerr has exhibited locally and throughout Europe.
Zedr, birth name Ryan Peik, is a Melbourne based, Adelaide born street artist. Currently residing in St Kilda, he has been painting for around twenty years.
His entry to art in general was through graffiti as a young teenager. His style is expressionism and his work is currently geared towards the juxtaposition of the organic natural and the man made technological influence we exist within.
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Seb Humphreys took on the moniker 'Order' in the year 2000, the journey of style development originated with the search of letter experimentation and the integration of subtle and complex forms tied to the name Order. As times have rolled out, the reliance on letters as a structural base has been left behind, with the forms emancipated from these confines and finding their own ends as individual marks.
"Over the last year and a half the murals I've been painting have shifted in style quite considerably, from a definite organically flowing form to now more of a geometric and organic interdependence, with almost mechanical features in some instances.
These forms now seek to tell stories or show a series of interactions and collisions utilising their inherent symbolic nature. However, the ambiguity of such arrangements request that the viewer subjectively decode the work – thus interlocking the viewers personal search for meaning with the works emphasis upon multiplying and obscuring any precise meanings."
Event Program
The Big Picture Fest 2019
When: 22 – 24 March, 2019
Cost: FREE
Where: Various locations throughout Frankston City
Save the dates and get your cameras ready.
Don't miss the walking and photographic tours presented by Canon and Teds Camera store Frankston.
The Block Party
Friday 22 March, 2019
Stiebel Place and Gallery Lane, Frankston
4.30pm – 10pm
Come along to celebrate the launch of the 2019 Festival at The Block Party!
Enjoy street art, music and food trucks nestled into a couple of laneways in the heart of Frankston City.
Entry is free, the vibe is chilled. See some International, National and Local Street Artists in action, hear some beats and enjoy some good food and local craft beer and wine.
Frankston Street Art Walking Tours in conjunction with The Big Picture Fest 2019
Explore Frankston City's street art scene by joining one of the free Street Art Walking Tours taking place twice a day from Thursday 21 March to Sunday 24 March.
During the tour you will be able to watch local, national and international artists at work who will be showcasing their diverse range of talent from the local burbs, Melbourne, New Zealand, France, Germany and Italy.
Dates: Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 March, 2019
Daily tour schedule:
Tour 1:
From 9.30 – 11am – 1.5 hour duration (Friday sold out, please see other days for availability)
Tour 2:
From 12 – 1.30pm – 1.5 hour duration
(Max 20 people per tour)
Cost: Free (bookings essential)
Where: Tours start and finish at Frankston Library Forecourt, 60 Playne Street, Frankston
What to bring: Comfortable walking shoes, dress for the weather and an umbrella in case of rain (water, tour guide and high vis vest provided)
Where to park: Frankston Arts Centre or surrounding streets, please be mindful of time restrictions and fees
Bookings and More Information:
Tours are free of cost with bookings essential, max 20 people per tour.
Call the Frankston Visitor Information Centre to book on 1300 322 842


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View Address, Phone Number, and Services for Handley High School, an Elementary School, K-12 School at Main Street, Roanoke, AL.
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Handley High School 608 West Point Street Roanoke, AL Public School
Roanoke City Schools 108 West Point Street Roanoke, AL Elementary School, Middle School
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Roanoke Head Start 620 Main Street Roanoke, AL Preschool
Randolph County School System 105 Bailey Street Wadley, AL
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Folsom Center 2250 County Road 29 Wedowee, AL Preschool
New Hope School 3500 County Road 56 Wedowee, AL
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Our Seattle Financial Hub at the Bullitt Center
We've moved to the greenest commercial building in the world.
We are proud to announce our new Seattle Financial Hub at the Bullitt Center.
It's not just sustainable—it's regenerative.
The Bullitt Center embodies our approach to rebuilding the environment and negating social injustices with our lending practices.
A Living Building
The 6-story, 50,000 sq. ft. building is the nation's first urban mid-rise commercial project to meet the rigorous goals of the Living Building Challenge, the most ambitious benchmark of sustainability in the built environment. Toxic chemicals were screened out of the materials used to build the Bullitt Center, including lead, phthalates, and hundreds of others known to harm human and environmental health. All wood used in the building is 100% Forest Stewardship Council Certified. As a mass timber structure, the Bullitt Center dramatically decrease embodied carbon found in concrete and steel structures, which is a critical component of a net zero energy building.
Innovative Green Technology
Net-zero energy use with 100% onsite renewable energy generation from solar photovoltaic (PV) technology, water needs provided by harvested rainwater, onsite waste management with a greywater filtration system, a safe, naturally day-lit and ventilated work environment for all workers, and built to last 250 years. The Bullitt Center has been net positive energy over its entire lifespan, generating more electricity than it consumes through solar, even with overcast Seattle skies.
A financial hub of the future
Our Bullitt Center hub will not just offer products to our clients, but also teach them the tools they need to reach their financial goals.
Teaching our new tech
Our Seattle hub will focus on serving our clients using new technology. We can teach you to use upcoming features like Video Banking or help you with Online and Mobile Banking. With both in-person support and a Self-Service Station, you can get the help you need to use our services without needing to come into a branch. The hub will be cashless, but you can always deposit or withdraw cash through the on-site ATM.
Financial wellness
One of our focuses has always been helping our clients achieve financial wellness. We look forward to working with clients to understand their needs and goals. We will offer personal assistance with financial planning and workshops, and will continue to offer financial wellness virtual webinars.
Spotlight on Environmental Sustainability
Banks have immense power to guide the resources we use. We are proud to provide banking services and lending to support the environment and renewable energy.


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Interested in wearing some of the art seen on this site? We are announcing that we have put a few products up for sale on cafe press (Accessible at the link below). The cafe press store went up just prior to Connecticon 2010 for those of you who have checked out our links section already. We have many other products planned so check again for more news...Read More
A friend of mine opened up a graphic design studio, DZYNR llc. Then he started hiring some other talented friends that we graduated with. They are located in Essex, CT and handle everything on print and web. The specialize in branding. Their coming soon page just launched at: DZYNR.com I'm told it has a teaser for the real site, which is coming...Read More
Glyde is like eBay meets Netflix for video games, books, movies, and music. You can buy or sell your stuff very easily. To sell a video game (for example) you type in the name, choose the right version, select the condition, and post the price. If it sells, Glyde sends you a prepaid envelope in the mail. Pop the game in and send it on it's way. After...Read More


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Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) have become mainstay terms in manufacturing, but will they become more than buzz words to the packaging and processing industries? The answer is, yes—with the right application.
Specifically, OEMs can harness IIoT-enabled technology like edge analytics—in which machine data is automatically collected and analyzed at a sensor or other connected device—to help improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), which end users are demanding. Edge analytics, which provides real-time information on machine status, could also open the door to new business models, like Machine-as-a-Service (MaaS), which can ensure customers aren't spending a dime more than what's being delivered by their capital equipment.
At first glance, the biggest benefit of edge analytics is the ability to bypass sending data to the cloud, which poses IT security risks. However, there often is a cloud component to the edge if the end user wants the OEM to manage the data. As a result, the same obstacles OEMs encounter when providing predictive maintenance, data analysis, and remote monitoring services, also plague edge analytics, as each obstacle points to one common pain point: the cloud—which the edge relies on to make the most impact.
But, it's the ability to capture and act on machine data immediately that is the true value of the edge. And there are ways that machine builders can tap into the power of edge analytics now to improve their equipment, OEE, and customer relationships. Then OEMs need to figure out how to sell the benefits of the edge and the cloud combined to their customers to unlock the opportunities for new business models and critical failure prevention.
Defining edge
As defined by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), edge computing happens when machine analytics are gathered or analyzed on the network or near the source of data, typically via an HMI or PLC connected to the equipment.
To effectively deploy edge analytics, a machine builder would need to invest in edge computing technologies such as software applications to process and display data, and cloud services like Azure, Amazon AWS, or Google Cloud to house the data—if it will be exported from the machine. An OEM will also need to either retrofit its legacy equipment or build its new equipment to include sensors, HMIs, PLCs, and other components that connect, communicate, and provide data. Machine builders can also seek out third party IoT service providers for advice and consultation on adding an edge computing feature to its equipment, as well as the automation and component suppliers they currently work with.
Once all systems are in place, components can start communicating analytics in real-time, which can either be stored on an edge device in a customer's facility or exported to the cloud for Big Data analysis or additional storage. In order to be compatible with the edge, devices need to support edge-computing capabilities, such as local computing and storage and communication, according to IIC.
When paired with the cloud, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, machine builders have the potential to virtually eliminate downtime, skyrocket OEE, and create new business models and revenue streams.
"We are talking about sub-second and milli-second latency, which is crucial if you want to make decisions while a product is on the production line," says Ramya Ravichandar, vice president of product management at FogHorn, a developer of edge intelligence software. "If a bottle manufacturer is filling bottles with soda or water, they want to make sure they have the right amount of liquid in the bottle and ensure that it's bottled well before the bottle gets onto the next stage of the process. If organizations rely on sending it back to the cloud, it may be too late to make critical production changes in real-time. By bringing processing close to the edge, you are able to make decisions about how you can change the operation on the floor."
Benefits on the edge
Whether machine builders gather edge analytics on a monthly or yearly basis, or they are able to build and deploy architectures and systems that allow them to collect insights in real-time, gathering analytics can help OEMs understand their equipment better, which helps all parties.
OEMs can take it a step further and pair the edge with machine learning algorithms, a data analysis method—which is a subset of artificial intelligence—that automates analytical model building which can teach systems to identify patterns and make decisions to improve production or address a specific business problem. These analytical models are complex and require months of data to train and re-train. This process also requires regular data feeds from operating components, as well as a public or private cloud connection at the top of the edge continuum, to compute the data, according to IIC. But machine learning models also allow machine builders to "fix" production flaws with little to no human involvement. Algorithms and production resolutions can also be quickly deployed directly at the edge to mitigate cloud latency.
A successful deployment of this process looks like plastic processing equipment builder Milacron's M-Powered IIoT suite, which includes the capability to carryout predictive maintenance using edge analytics and machine learning.
Lastly, edge analytics keeps machine data local which protects intellectual property.
There are different industries where data connectivity to external data networks, such as the cloud, are a security concern," Ravichandar says. "I argue that edge computing is actually your emerging defense for security because you isolate the data and cut out risk of malicious attacks. It is self-contained software that runs offline, yet still provides insight into your machine."
However, if a machine builder is adamant about importing critical data into the cloud to do predictive maintenance or machine learning, companies like FogHorn, Rockwell, Siemens, GE, and more have built in security features that can assist in reassuring end-users that their data is safe.
"We use private-line services for any communication over the cloud, and our structure ensures data is secure," Ravichandar says. "If builders want to publish data to Google Cloud, there is a way for us to publish that directly from the edge to the cloud through a secure site. We have a number of different end-point publication mechanisms we are able to use."
Who owns the data?
When machine data leaves an end user facility or is being monitored by an OEM, the question of "Who owns the data?" arises.
While a machine builder may have access to the data and may use past data to make decisions or improve equipment, it's safe to say that most end users are adamant about owning the data that leaves the machines.
"I think end-users are concerned about their data," FogHorn's Ravichandar says. "They want to make sure the data stays within their plant. This is one of the main drivers of edge computing, as organizations don't have to send the data back to the cloud. We are seeing that end-users are happy to explore the technology, yet would very much like to be the owner of the data."
But Rockwell's Henderson says OEMs may not necessarily want to own the data in the future, but they do want to figure out how they can achieve real time access to the data.
"I believe the industry as a whole is still on a cusp situation where we haven't yet figured out how to provide that," Henderson says. "I have seen situations where end users have multiple entities that have some kind of investment in various machines in different parts of the facility so they want to share the data across those entities. But some of the data goes into one cloud, and then another for the other entities, and they want to make sure everyone is looking at the same data at the same time, while also ensuring that OEMs have access, too. This approach helps them a lot because if the customer has a problem with this equipment, and the OEMs can identify the problems or at least have access to the data so they know the right engineer and parts to send, that can have a significant value to both parties."
What's the hang up?
While the benefits of edge analytics could change the way builders and end users operate, there are limitations and concerns that could curtail effective and thorough adoption of the technology.
As mentioned, connectivity to the cloud unlocks the full potential of edge. But winning that end user buy-in is hard. It could be easier if a machine builder can demonstrate that the benefits outweigh the risks.
"You could develop an incentivized-based program to make it worth the end user's while to share machine data in real-time with machine builders," says Noel Henderson, senior applications engineer for edge analytics at Rockwell Automation. "If the OEM can say, 'If you give us access to this data, here is what you will get in return,' and demonstrate that they can provide an outcome if they get access to the data, it will be critical."
Without the cloud, accessing edge analytics in the most secure and acceptable fashion would require a machine builder to travel to the customer's plant to pull the data from the source. This could obviously be a costly move, and would only allow the machine builder to collect months or weeks of data at once, instead of having insight into real-time data at any time. However, this collection method could still be very impactful.
But companies could also solve this by using the edge and pairing that with occasional imports to the cloud when necessary, and if permitted. Siemens is currently piloting a program called Siemens Industrial Edge through its MindSphere platform that could allow machine builders to master the balance between cloud and edge.
"We are really seeing a functional shift from the applications out of the cloud and closer to the machine," says Colm Gavin, factory automation digitalization specialist for Siemens Industry, Inc. "But how do you get your application and data onto and off of your equipment? Do you take a USB stick and go to every one? That's not very efficient. With Siemens Industrial Edge, the machine and edge devices could be running, not connected to any cloud system, and maybe it runs for a couple of weeks or months. But you may reconnect to the cloud if there is a software update for the devices or you need to gather data, and then pull the cord to the cloud connection once finished."
Should a machine builder clear the hurdles of IT security concerns associated with exporting data, and decide to monitor edge analytics, an OEM must ask: Who is going to develop, monitor, and manage this new project and process?
As mentioned above, machine learning and artificial intelligence could allow a builder to change the way their equipment is running on the fly—should there be an operational flaw in the production line. But to do this, OEMs would need to develop and deploy algorithms based on the machine data they collect that would automatically recognize pending system failures to adjust equipment. OEMs like Milacron outsourced this process to ei3, a supplier of IoT services, to help them successfully build and deploy predictive maintenance models. But if an OEM didn't want to tap the skills of a third party IoT services provider, they would have to hire talent that specializes in collecting data and developing algorithms for machines.
Embarking on an edge journey
Gathering edge analytics may not be practical for every packaging line or application, but it could stand to alleviate OEE and productivity pain points with end users.
One way machine builders can see if edge analytics could be practical for their business is to ask themselves if any of their machines or applications require, or could greatly benefit from, having immediate response horizons, or an action a machine or component needs to take once a trigger has been hit, according to Rockwell's Henderson.
"It's all about determining your response horizons," Henderson says. "If you think of a car, it has a lot of real-time answers, telling you the status of a gas gauge, oil pressures, engine temperature, and other parameters that have a long response time. If your check oil light comes on, you know you have a few days to get it changed. But the sensors used when its time to deploy the airbag don't have a long response horizon, so that is something you want handled on the edge [in order to] respond immediately. Machines using edge analytics could also have applications that require immediate changes."
While the concept of edge may seem overwhelming to some, Henderson says machine builders have been using edge for quite some time.
"I don't like to say there is nothing new under the sun, but if you look at proportional-integral-derivative controller (PID) loops and condition-based monitoring, you'll see that we are just taking what we have been doing for the past two decades and changing how we code, implement, and deploy it," Henderson says. "There is a higher level that can be done today in a controller and at the edge, which allows us to do higher level analytics for those very narrow, short times where we have response horizons in milliseconds. What used to have to be done offline, we can now do online. We don't have to wait until the outcome happens, we can do something before it happens."
Consider these factors to decide whether or not edge analytics are practical for your business:
- Determine which applications edge analytics would lend itself well to
- Find out what the PLC or HMI currently in use can or cannot do in terms of edge analytics
- Designate response horizons and parameters for equipment and components
- See if manufacturing customers would be open to providing access to edge analytics, or a connection to the cloud
- Determine which issues could be solved by harnessing edge analytics


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Draco Rosa at Berklee
Draco Rosa is a multi-Grammy-winning Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, musician, composer, record producer, and entrepreneur all at once. He kicked off his career in the '80s as member of the Latino boy band Menudo and has since become a household name for his own solo career and for his role in launching Ricky Martin's musical career by co-writing and producing many of Martin's hit singles including "María," "Livin' La Vida Loca," "La Copa de La Vida," "She Bangs," and "Shake Your Bon-Bon." After a remarkable recovery from cancer, Rosa is performing an intimate concert in support of his new album due to be released this spring.
An evening with Draco Rosa takes place Saturday, May 6, at the Berklee Performance Center, Showtime is 8 PM. Tickets are $48, $42, $37, $28.


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Intimate Exchanges: World Premiere ReviewsThis page contains a selection of reviews from the world premiere production of Alan Ayckbourn's Intimate Exchanges at the Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round, Scarborough, in 1982. All reviews are the copyright of the respective publication and / or author.
Administrator's Note: It is worth emphasising the majority of the publications which reviewed the original production of Intimate Exchanges saw no more than two variations of the play, which is often reflected in the reviews.
Another Ayckbourn, Another Hit (by Irving Wardle)
"Alan Ayckbourn is celebrating his first 25 years in Scarborough with a piece that could well keep the company busy until his next anniversary. On any single night, the audience for his production of Intimate Exchanges will see a comedy in four scenes extending over five years. They will also see a wall chart with that night's scenes lit up in red among a mass of others to be substituted on other nights.
As things stand at present, there are 30 scenes, amounting to 16 complete versions of the play which, incidentally, comprises eight characters, all played by Lavinia Bertram and Robin Herford.
As usual, the theme is marital discontent, focusing this time on the staff and officials of a village primary school. Toby, the headmaster, is a drunk; Celia, his wife, is on the point of bolting back to mother; Miles, the Chairman of the Governors, fancies Celia; and his wife Rowena, is having an affair with the PE teacher. So much for the ground-plan, as laid down in the first scene, "How It Began" which is common to all versions.
At this stage of Ayckbourn's career it is meaningless to applaud him for ingenuity. Nobody would devise these increasingly labyrinthine theatre games just for the hell of it,
How you view his comedies depends on how you apportion the relative influence of luck and character on human affairs; but if you incline to the second then a piece like Intimate Exchanges offers only an illusion of alternatives. Not for nothing does the wall-chart suggest a toy railway layout, with locos switching from track to track, seemingly independent, but all destined to wind up in a little plastic shed, with no hope of escaping from the board.
So far as the detail is concerned, the first night trip led over some well-landscaped comic territory. Popular Ayckbourn beat-spots, such as the dinner table and the sports field flashed past with plenty of background interest in the off-stage kitchen and cricket pitch, and much amazing doubling as the partners pop up not only as two married couples but also as parents, home-helps, and other members of the school staff.
My only qualm is that some of these routines derives more from inventive expertise than from the logic of character. In that sense, the piece gets off to a false start.
We see the Chairman of the Governors coming to interview the head's wife before a vital Board meeting that will decide, whether or not he will be fired. Having set up that expectation Ayckbourn sidesteps it in the next scene and the firm initial outline dissolves into the quick-sands of a half-hearted love affair.
Also, after the long build-up for Toby, as husband, drunk, teacher, and best friend it is a disappointment when he finally appears as no more than a loud-mouthed boor, responding with standardised jealousy to the discovery of a trouserless Miles in the tool-shed.
The remaining trio deserve a place in any Ayckbourn gallery. Miles begins as an image of fatuous, inhibited respectability, played by Mr Herford with flashing teeth and steel spectacles, forever lunging about with the sherry bottles. But he goes on to reveal alarming powers of sardonic wit and practised meanness; and it is he who speaks for the whole group with a line from Stendhal: "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
Miss Bertram creates two utterly distinct and believable wives in the dangerously smiling Celia, suggesting a cut-glass decanter about to explode into flying glass; and the relaxed, feline Rowena - the only character with any sense of humour or enough fortitude to settle finally for a solitary life.
That is the closest anyone comes to fulfilment in this variant of the play. Ayckbourn's chart hopefully promises A Wedding, A Christening and Return of the Prodigal among the future alternatives. They may bring the characters to a happy ending, but I doubt it."
(The Times, June 1982)
Intimate Exchanges (by Eric Shorter)
"When Alan Ayckbourn writes a play to be performed in 16 versions, the playgoer is bound to feel frustrated. Are the characters so straw-like that he can cause them to be blown in - well - 16 directions? Must we go to the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the round at Scarborough 16 times to get the hang of Intimate Exchanges?
Well, there are people who collect as many versions as they can while on holiday. Indeed, they have made this two-hander, about three couples whose various couplings or dreams of coupling create the necessary variations on the usual Ayckbourn extramarital, the most successful piece of his to have started life at Scarborough in the 12 years he has been running the theatre there.
It ran through last summer and has just been revived with the same players, Lavinia Bertram and Robin Herford, as the different types who come and go through half a dozen scenes of characteristic English suburban manners and sexual uncertainty.
Dorothy L Sayers once said that as she grew older and older and drew nearer to the tomb, she found that she cared less and less who went to bed with whom. It is Ayckbourn's far-from-frivolous ability to make us care in each version of Intimate Exchanges what happens next and to whom.
He had me worried last summer, when it opened, to know whether the diffident young chairman of a preparatory school board of governors was going to seduce the dissatisfied wife of the headmaster. This year he had me worried to know if that same chairman, showing no fancy at all for the headmaster's wife, was ever to be reconciled to his own flighty wife, having locked himself up for five sulky weeks in the garden shed.
The ending was sad, as it had been in the first version I saw; but the beginning and middle were as delightful as ever, not only because of the way this author persuades us of each change of emotional relations, but also because of the ingenuity with which he juggles the 10 characters between two players - and the unflagging ability of Miss Bertram and Mr Herford to switch from one character to the next so easily that one almost forgets there are just two actors.
Miss Bertram's witty versatility is particularly remarkable and easy. Will Intimate Exchanges ever reach London, or will it stay in Yorkshire for a third season of record breaking, comic disillusionment with wedlock? Plans are afoot for a subscription scheme to the play."
(Daily Telegraph, 22 August 1983)
Intimate Exchanges (by Robin Thornber)
"For the next three months, instead of a summer season of repertory, they are doing just one new play, with two actors, at the Stephen Joseph Theatre-in-the-Round in Scarborough. It's Alan Ayckbourn's 28th*, and it marks 25 years of his association with this company.
But there is, as you might expect from Ayckbourn, more to it than that. Intimate Exchanges opens with a woman hesitating over whether to light a cigarette. If she does, she's there to answer the doorbell. If she doesn't, she misses the caller and her whole life follows a different course of events.
Like J. B. Priestley. Ayckbourn is fascinated by chance. He collects fruit machines and relishes the infinitely random plot possibilities, the endless variety of "if onlys" in any individual's life.
We first saw this with Sisterly Feelings, where the toss of a coin and the whim of an actress determined which of four possible lines of action any one performance might follow.
With Intimate Exchanges, the number of possible variations has been extended to 16. A total of 31 scenes have to be rehearsed, from which you may see a permutation of four on any given night. So for the seaside holidaymaker, Intimate Exchanges does in fact offer a repertory of 16 different ways - all developing in different directions from that same first five seconds of hesitation.
For the company, Lavinia Bertram, Robin Herford, designer Edward Lipscomb and the technical crew, and of course Ayckbourn as writer and director, it's a massive project. There's slim artistic justification for using the same two actors to play four or more characters each, although it's technically admirable.
The play is set among the staff of a prep school, and the version we saw on the first night has the headmaster's wife having an affair with the chairman of the governors.
It leaves you with the suspicion that all the energy has gone into technical ingenuity, leaving the texture a little thin. But the temptation to come back for more, to see some of the what might have beens, is irresistible."
(The Guardian, 5 June 1982)
Intimate Exchanges (by David Jeffels)
"Brilliant performances by the two strong cast, Robin Herford and Lavinia Bertram, make Alan Ayckbourn's new play Intimate Exchanges an exciting new dimension in the work of Britain's most prolific comedy playwright.
Premiered at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre where Ayckbourn is director of productions, this new play - his 28th* - marks his 25 years with the Scarborough theatre company.
Its style follows that of his highly successful Sisterly Feelings which had three alternative themes. Intimate Exchanges has a potential 16 variations with each actor playing four parts.
The idea is clever and effective but the script in places needs tightening to hold the audience.
As usual, Ayckbourn has produced an in-depth study of relationship between couples - strained and often broken. But nevertheless, it has many very funny moments, and Robin Herford and Lavinia Bertram, well established stars at Scarborough, give their finest performances yet in some very demanding roles."
(The Stage, 17 June 1982)
Variations On A Theme (by Iain Meekley)
"The play which refreshes the parts others cannot reach - and reaches a few parts only Alan Ayckbourn would think of refreshing - Intimate Exchanges, continues on its merry ways at the Stephen Joseph Theatre.
The logic of the play's structure - plot leading to alternative sub-plot, and sub-sub-plot, as the action progresses - is by now becoming a little less foggy.
Last night was a bit of a diversion. Lavinia Bertram reached for that fateful early-morning fag - and, by that simple decision, shunted the whole play off along the second of its two main plot-lines, each of which leads to a major junction connected to a cluster of alternative scenes.
Thus, last night it was the turn of "a gardener" to call on Celia, the headmaster's angst-ridden wife, in the shape of Lionel, a broody Laurentian figure in moleskin trousers.
Dropping sexual hints as broad as his toe-caps, he begins a relentless pursuit of the frightened and fascinated Celia, whose Guardian-reading husband, Toby, has been driven to drink by the decay of Western civilisation - "... and they've started this filthy floodlit cricket", Toby purples.
The chase, ending in an appalling graveyard denouement, takes us through a succession of marvellously drawn scenes - at one point, we find husband and wife gloomily holidaying in a geriatric last resort burstingly alive with "the merry clatter of walking frames", Toby slowly dying of ennui and a cardiac condition, while Celia crams down loaves of triangular sandwiches rushed to her table teatime after teatime by the burning-eyed waiter.
It's a breathtaking acting achievement by Lavinia Bertram and Robin Herford, who, in the tortuous course of Intimate Exchanges, are each called upon to play four major roles - sometimes two at once, as voices offstage.
If Ayckbourn's "piece of theatrical lunacy" pays off, the credit will be theirs - in no small part."
(Scarborough Evening News, 22 June 1982)
Intimate Exchanges (by Desmond Pratt)
"It was in 1979 in Sisterly Feelings that Ayckbourn started the game of playing theatrical alternatives.
What the audience saw then could have been any one of four possible versions of the play, depending on the toss of a coin at the end of the first scene and the decision of one of two actresses at the end of the second. I was not happy about the play because I thought the alternatives clouded the relationships rather than revealing them, and felt that the author pupped a theatrical maverick.
I had no maverick doubts last night with Intimate Exchanges, Ayckbourn's 28th play*, written to celebrate his 25 years with the company. He examined how life is changed by the tiny decisions we make every day, which require us to make further small decisions.
It is not a single play but several mini-plays masquerading as one. The play is a series of interlinked love-stories, with a possible 16 different endings in 30 scenes, some sad, others happy. Last night we saw five of them. and during the coming run which ends on September 11, all 30 scenes will have been seen and the 16 variations (different versions upon a basic theme) staged.
Edward Lipscomb, the designer, has adorned the auditorium with grassy banks and overhanging trees, as all the scenes take place out of doors.
The six central characters, three men and three women, are all played by two actors. Lavinia Bertram and Robin Herford, both long-time members of the company.
At the heart of the farcical incidents (for this is a very funny play) we are again witnessing a study of two disintegrating marriages. Their disparity is couched in witty, satirical, but observantly cogent dialogue
The heartbreak is there again, and no more than in Miss Bertram's Celia, with despair lurking behind the laughter. One day Ayckbourn may write a second Hedda Gabler.
For both Miss Bertram, and Mr Herford, between them playing eight wildly varied roles last night, was a test of drama technique, involvement and understanding, which they passed with honours.
Do not dismiss this as a triviality of whimsy. It is Ayckbourn at his best and at his most sympathetic about the human comedy. Behind his two actors and his four scenes, he manages to conjure up quite exquisitely the extraneous and uncomprehending world outside."
(Yorkshire Post, 4 June 1982)
* Intimate Exchanges is actually now considered to be Alan Ayckbourn's 29th full-length play.
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News Release, Charles Regional Medical Center
La Plata, MD- Construction continues throughout UM Charles Regional Medical Center, where planned updates will accommodate the growing portfolio of outpatient services available in Southern Maryland.
The latest renovation will bring a highly anticipated new department, Neurology, to UM Charles Regional Medical Group. Neurology will find its home in a space next to The Bill and Julie Dotson Imaging Center at UM Charles Regional Medical Pavilion in La Plata.
The new Neurologist, Dr. Temesgen, joined UM Charles Regional Medical Group- Neurology last month. The attached photo shows Dr. Temesgen in her new space, which is currently under construction. She is currently seeing patients in the Primary Care suite until her new space is available.


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Until recently, Nicaragua golf was fairly limited in scope. Now, the increasing recognition of the country as a retirement destination is garnering the attention of golf course architects and developers. For instance, Tommy Haugen was enlisted to create the golf courses at Gran Pacifica. Today, one can enjoy golf villas resting right alongside the spectacular fairways of Nicaragua ocean-view golf courses.
In 2009, Forbes named Nicaragua as a top locale for those considering an overseas retirement. The magazine termed it "an exotic Florida on the cheap," citing a cost-of-living as much as 60 percent less than in the U.S. Gran Pacifica Beach and Golf Resort is poised to become a popular destination along Nicaragua's Pacific coast.
Golf West of the Capital
Among Nicaragua's golf courses, Gran Pacifica is distinctive in that it offers a full 27 holes of championship resort golf. The three nines are aptly named Emerald, Ruby, and Sapphire. Situated along the Pacific Ocean and yet within an hour of the capital city of Managua, Gran Pacifica Beach and Golf Resort offers the amenities that one expects in resort golf. The course offers a quality, well-stocked pro shop, locker rooms, pool, restaurant, and a pub/grill.
All three nines begin at the clubhouse. Views of the Pacific abound at Gran Pacifica. Four sets of tees accommodate golfers of virtually every skill level. Ponds, creeks, estuaries, and volcanic sand bunkers create a golf experience that is at once both scenic and challenging.
Managua Area Golf
Nejapa Golf & Country Club is an 18 hole layout near the capital. It has a storied history dating back to 1940. The original nine hole layout was relocated closer to the city in 1957, and it was expanded to 18 holes. It was closed throughout the 80s and 90s, but Nejapa then reopened in 2001. Today, it also includes a driving range and a chipping area.
Golf to the South
On the isthmus between the Pacific and Lake Nicaragua is the Gaulacito Golf Course in Rivas. Nearby Tola is home to the Hacienda Iguana Golf course. Both of these Nicaragua golf courses are south of Managua and near the border with Costa Rica.
The Gran Pacifica staff is available to offer expert insight into area real estate opportunities, including oceanfront estates and condominiums. They can acquaint visitors with the cultural opportunities in the capital city of Managua as well as the historic Spanish enclaves that dot the countryside. They can also assist those who have an interest in purchasing property in the area.