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A Podcast About Things PodTea’d 010: The Varying Levels Of Audio Quality RIP Headphone Users. Recording from a phone or tablet mic is a very bad idea, and thus my audio quality is super duper loud at times. My apologies! Anyway, we discussed things that happened. I honestly don’t remember what we talked about. Just go listen already, would you?

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Pages Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Watch fireworks reflect in LongviewLake at 99.7 The Point’s and JacksonCounty’s Christmas in the Sky event. At 6pm today, enjoy holiday stage productions. A fireworks display synchronized to your favorite holiday music begins at 7:30pm. For more info call (816) 503-4800. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RUSKIN CHOIR PERFOMS AT PLAZA LIGHTING RHS’ Advanced Choir will perform at this year’s Plaza Lighting Ceremony, Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24. Ruskin will perform at 5:20-5:45 pm, then join other choirs for two opening numbers before the actual lighting ceremony at 7pm. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - KC Mayor’s Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony On Friday, November 25, at 5:30pm, join Mayor Sly James and R&B/soul sensation Janelle Monae light the 100-foot-tall Mayor’s Christmas Tree at CrownCenter. The tree is a symbol of the Mayor’s Christmas Tree Fund, which assists the city’s less fortunate. For more info call 816-274-8444. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - GRANDVIEW MAYOR’S CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING Get into the holiday spirit with live entertainment from local elementary schools and the lighting of Grandview’s Mayor’s Christmas Tree on Thursday, December 1st from 6:45-8pm at GrandviewCity Hall. Santa will be there passing out candy canes as well! Please bring a donation to benefit the Grandview Assistance Program. For more info, call 316-4888. When local leaders cut the ribbon on the new RedBridge last Friday, they took a further step in a historic odyssey of pioneering transportation improvements that started in the early 1800s, when covered wagons first rolled through South Kansas City as part of the western expansion of the United States. The new $14 million bridge, which had some $4 million in federal funds, replaces the decades-old covered bridge on Red Bridge Road with a new, two-lane structure with sidewalks and a multi-use trail. “As I drive over this bridge in my hybrid electric car, I’m going to be marveling at all the covered wagons that came through this area,” said David Jackson, director of archives and education for the Jackson County Historical Society. Jackson recounted the history of the region, from its early days as a trading post to a key gathering spot on the Santa Fe trail. Would-be settlers on their way to New Mexico gouged deep ruts in the landscape – those swales can still be seen in MinorPark, within view of the new RedBridge. The BlueRiver was the first major obstacle on the trail, and in 1859 a 100-foot long covered bridge was built. Someone painted it red, Jackson said, and the name has survived to this day. The bridge was replaced with steel in 1914, and again in the 1930s. In the year 2000, as traffic volumes and population grew in the area, city officials began to talk seriously about replacing the Depression-era bridge, starting a plan that came to fruition on Friday. While the bridge was open for traffic on Friday, there is still more to be done – including one of the key features of the bridge: lighted monument plaques that celebrate 10 influential historical figures that pioneered settlement in the RedBridge area. Still to be installed are a series of red LED lights that will light up at night to carry on the tradition of having a “red” bridge. The old RedBridge, pictured below, will remain a part of the area’s history, Klein said, as it will be incorporated into bike and walking trails. “The old bridge will remain for pedestrian use,” Klein said. Councilman John Sharp said it was important to remember the core focus of the entire project – to improve public safety. He said the bridge saves commuters two or three minutes when trains pass – and those minutes could be vital. “Two to three minutes may not mean much if you’re just driving home from work, but if you’re the one waiting for an ambulance to get to your home, if you’re the one waiting for a fire truck to get to your home, if you’re the one waiting for a police car to get to your home, those two to three minutes could mean the difference between life or death,” Sharp said. “That’s what this project is – a public safety enhancement.” Sharp said he couldn’t wait for the lights and artwork to be installed. “I think it’s a beautiful bridge now, but it’s going to be a lot more beautiful,” he said. The bridge features several look-out points where pedestrians can stop and take in a scenic view of the [river] valley, Sharp said, and historical plaques will tell the pioneer history of the area. “It will be an educational destination,” Sharp said. “Unlike a lot of monuments, it will be one that will reflect the ethnic and gender diversity of the pioneers of this area.” Councilman Scott Taylor said the bridge was key to the future of South Kansas City, and that the associated pedestrian and bicycle paths could draw new people to the area. “This RedBridge is so important in our district that it can’t be understated,” Taylor said. “It’s not only an improvement for commuters but for joggers and bikers. As we attract new families to Kansas City, this is one of the amenities that families are looking for.” Taylor passed the microphone to his wife, former Councilwoman Cathy Jolly, who was a champion of the project during her time in office. “Cathy put her heart and soul into this bridge,” Taylor said. Jolly acknowledged that throughout the planning and design process, there were some residents who didn’t like the direction it was going. They felt it destroyed the rural character of their neighborhoods. But many others were enthusiastic about the need for a new bridge, Jolly said. “It’s fair to say this bridge was controversial,” Jolly said. Klein agreed, and spoke of numerous public meetings about the issue, some of which were occasionally contentious. “This bridge has had more public input than any bridge in the city, trust me,” Klein said. Jolly said the fact that the bridge opened, however, speaks to the forces that pull the communities of South Kansas City together. “It took a lot of commitment and a lot of compromise to get to this point,” she said. “We’re a close community and we have a lot to celebrate.” Friday, November 18, 2011 Families seeking services can do so over the phone and at other area offices Kansas City, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Social Services’ South Jackson County Child Support Enforcement Office, located at 8800 Blue Ridge, is closed temporarily due to electrical problems identified by building inspectors with the Kansas City Fire Department. “We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this temporary closure may cause our clients. Impacted staff will relocate to other areas offices to ensure that we continue to offer child support services in Jackson County without interruption,” said Seth Bundy, Missouri Department of Social Services spokesperson. “Meanwhile, we appreciate the work of the Kansas City Fire Department to ensure that our employees and the families we serve are kept safe, and that a potentially dangerous situation was avoided,” Parents who would normally access child support services at the South Jackson County Office can do so by either visiting the next-nearest office, or calling the toll-free customer service center at 1-866-313-9960. On the afternoon of Thursday, November 17, the Kansas City Fire Department determined that a water leak inside the office at 8800 Blue Ridge was causing an electrical short, which posed a risk of fire. This location will reopen after this issue has been permanently fixed, and the building is again inspected by fire department officials. Thursday, November 17, 2011 Alec Burks, Grandview High School alumnus, and National Basketball Association star for the Utah Jazz, will receive a proclamation on Tuesday, November 22, at 7:00 p.m. in the Grandview City Hall during the Board of Aldermen meeting, declaring Wednesday, November 23, as “Alec Burks Day”. The proclamation will be presented to Burks for his outstanding athletic accomplishments in basketball. Burkswas recently selected by the Utah Jazz in the first round (12th overall) of the National Basketball Association 2011 Draft, thus becoming the first Grandview High School athlete to ever play in the NBA. During his years at Grandview High School, he was named the 2009 Gatorade Player of the Year in the State of Missouri as a senior, while averaging 23.0 points, 6.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.6 steals per game. Burks scored 33 points and had 13 rebounds while leading Grandview to runner-up in the Missouri Class 5A state championships; He also named the Kansas City Star and Metro Sports Player of the Year as the top player in the Kansas City metro area; In addition, he earned First Team All-Suburban Six League honors. During his two seasons as a guard at the University of Colorado, Burks also broke numerous school records, including most points scored in a single season (779), most points scored by a sophomore (779), most points scored in a season by a guard (779), most free throws made in a season (249), most free throw attempts in a season (302) and first player with at least 500 points (779), 200 rebounds (247), 100 assists (112) in a single season. Burks earned honorable mention 2010 – 2011 All-America honors from the Associated Press. He was awarded Andy Katz National Player of the Week for the week of February 21, 2011 to February 27, 2011. He was named to the Big XII Conference First Team and to the National Invitational Tournament All-Tournament Team. He was a Top-20 list finalist for the John R. Wooden Award. He was also part of the Lute Olson All-American Team, Big 12 Basketball Championships All-Tournament Team, and was named Big XII Conference 2009 – 2010 Freshman of the Year. Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Grandview's beloved, unofficial mascot--Ebenezer the Donkey--is once again facing some challenges that his caretakers hope he can overcome with a little help from his friends. If you have missed seeing the donkey trotting around his tree-covered lot on the west side of Grandview's Main Street this summer and fall, there is a reason. "In May, Ebenezer started having issues with arthritis on the stifle joint and the howk joint," caretaker Shirley Phillips explained. To get up off the ground, the donkey had to be picked up using furniture straps over the course of several months. An injection of an amino acid has helped Ebenezer once again get up on his own. However, the donkey needs to have the shot every two weeks for the rest of his life. "We don't want to put him down because he's still really healthy besides the joints not working as well as they used to," Phillips said. Friends and fans of the donkey can help in several ways. A 2012 Ebenezer calendar is now on sale for $17 at May Milling, 606 Main Street, in downtown Grandview. The calendar features photos of the donkey showing his lively spirit, dressed in everything from his winter coat, to a variety of holiday-related hats each month. All proceeds will go toward Ebenezer's continued care. "The 12 month calendar that has been put together is by George Gross, a professional photographer that is smitten with Ebenezer just like the rest of us," explained Joe Dimino, who administers the donkey's website. "This is a must for all fans of Ebenezer." Those who wish to purchase the calendar online can do so as well. Visit www.ebenezerthedonkey.com and click on the Shutterfly link to purchase the calendar. Ebenezer's new veterinarian has also agreed to accept donations for the donkey's medical care. The Koch-Stigge Veterinary Clinic can be reached at (816) 380-1990, or by mail at 28204 Southwest Outer Road, Harrisonville, MO 64701. Friday, November 11, 2011 Hillcrest Country Club was scheduled for sale at public auction today, but a last-minute bankruptcy filing gives the owners more time to restructure, according to attorneys. Photo by Paul Thompson The Hillcrest Country Club came only a day away this week from being sold in a foreclosure auction. The auction had been scheduled for Friday, November 11 at 2 p.m., but a last minute filing on Thursday led to the auction’s cancellation. According to the group’s lawyer, Tim West of the Berkowitz Oliver law firm, Heartland Golf Development II, LLC filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday to put off the sale. “The foreclosure sale scheduled originally for tomorrow at 2:00 pm at the Jackson County Courthouse is off because the entity that owns Hillcrest, Heartland Golf Development II, LLC, filed for bankruptcy protection today,” said West in a phone message. “So that will obviously put the foreclosure sale off until they go through a restructuring process.” For further details as the story develops, please refer back to jcadvocate.com. Wednesday, November 9, 2011 New animal exhibits and additional employees are in the KC Zoo’s future. Jackson and Clay County voters on Tuesday passed an 1/8th-cent retail sales tax to help fund improvements at the Kansas City Zoo. In Jackson County, the issue was approved by 70%. The tax will mean an additional penny for every $8 in taxable purchases in both counties, and is expected to fund more than 100 new permanent jobs, in addition to construction jobs. The funds will pay for a Penguin Exhibit, Predator Canyon/Tiger Exhibit, new Kid’s Wet Play Zone, a Gorilla/Ape Exhibit, Orangutan Canopy, a Giraffe Tree Tops viewing area, a renovated sea lion cove and other projects. It will also expand the zoo’s education program, fully sponsoring science educational field trips for local schools, and creating dedicated “Zoomobiles” to bring programming to schools, libraries, community centers and other public places in each county. Jackson County residents will also receive half-price admission to the Zoo, and four free Zoo days per year. South Kansas City residents who are worried about code violations in their neighborhoods can now do something about it other than calling 3-1-1. The Volunteer Inspector Program (VIP) is a city program that empowers neighborhoods to hold accountable owners who do not keep their properties up to code. Essentially, the program trains volunteers to notice and document codes violations. “We can’t be everywhere,” said Carla Finch, of the city’s Neighborhood and Community Services department. “You pretty much know and see what’s going on in your neighborhood, so if you see violations you can let the city know.” Currently, residents can call the city’s 3-1-1 service to report codes violations such as weeds, trash, peeling paint, and similar issues. But that can take up to 90 days, Finch said. “This is much faster than going through 3-1-1,” Finch said, adding that most violations will be cleaned up in about 10 days after a citizen inspector reports them. The way the program works is that neighbors – ideally a group, such as a homes association – can call Finch at 513-9039 to set up a training session. An employee of the city’s Neighborhood and Community Services department will schedule a session and come out to train volunteer citizen inspectors. The volunteers attend a short training class, where they are informed about how to properly document codes violations. “We ask that volunteers ensure they have the correct address, date, and violations documented on a 8.5 by 11 dry erase board or notebook,” said Mike Schumacher, assistant to the director of the Neighborhood and Community Services department. “The citizen inspector photographs this document and then photographs the property.” And that’s all they’re to do, he said. “They are not to leave the sidewalk of the street, and are not authorized to walk around the subject property,” Schumacher cautioned. The citizen inspector would then submit those photos to the city, who will notify the property owner of the violation. After 10 days, the violations will be issued to a contractor for cleanup, and the city bills the property owner. The citizen inspectors need to provide their own equipment, including cameras. Orrin Ellis, of the KC Neighborhood Advisory Council, said he’s a big believer in the program. “We’re trying to get every HOA involved in this,” Ellis said. “It makes them more self-sufficient and self-reliant in taking care of their own neighborhoods.” Gary Kempf, president of the Terrace Lake Gardens Homes Association, said he hopes people in his area will want to get involved. He said people often don’t like to tattle on their neighbors, but they’re actually performing a service to the community when they do. “You’re not being a busybody when you report codes violations,” he said. “In fact you’re being a responsible citizen.” April Cushing, of the Ruskin neighborhoods, was trained in the program last year and said it’s been a big help in getting codes violations cleaned up in a more timely manner. “These violations are usually in homes that are owned by absentee landlords,” Cushing said. “They can drive down everyone else’s property values and give a neighborhood a bad feel.” Finch urged residents who are interested in setting up a training session to call her office at 513-9039 if they have more questions, or they can email her at [email protected]. Friday, November 4, 2011 A new playground at Grandview’s Meadowmere Park has been plagued with delays and will not be finished by the end of October – a deadline imposed by the Board of Aldermen after an earlier May deadline was missed by the contractor. Now city staff are consulting with legal counsel to see what can be done to get the project finished. Update:The Board of Aldermen at its Nov. 1 work session decided against terminating a contract to build the park, saying it would delay the project even further. Kirk Decker, assistant city administrator, said the contractor believes the park can be completed in mid-December, weather permitting. Cobra Contractors, of Overland Park, in Oct. 2010 was awarded an $896,000 contract for construction of the state-of-the-art playground, designed to resemble a magical forest kingdom. But bad weather slowed construction, which was supposed to be complete in May of this year. “The original completion date was May 20,” said Tony Finlay, parks director, “but the contractor lost 113 days due to weather.” That created a domino effect, Finlay said, because Cobra wasn’t ready for sub-contractors when they were scheduled, and at least one sub-contractor didn’t show up for scheduled work. “Of course we’re extremely disappointed with that,” Finlay said. This summer, the Board of Aldermen gave the contractor an extension due to weather delays, asking that the park be finished on Oct. 28. “Progress has been made since our last notice to the contractor, but it does not appear that the contractor will complete the project by Friday,” said Cory Smith, city administrator. “The city is very disappointed in the slow progress.” Smith said the city understands about weather-related construction delays, but that that recent weather has been ideal. “The weather has been great for construction over the past two months, and the city is not aware of any viable reasons for delays during that period,” Smith said. “Due to the lack of progress to date, the city cannot provide a completion date at the present time.” Alderman Jim Crain, who serves as a liaison to the Board of Parks and Recreation, echoed feelings of disappointment and said the city wants to work with the contractor so it doesn’t have to start from square one with a new contract. That could delay the project even further. At this point, he said, the city is exploring its legal options. “We’ll just have to meet with our legal counsel and see where we go from there,” Crain said. Finlay agreed. “Once we’re done reviewing our legal options we’ll have a statement,” he said. “We’re doing everything we can to get this done.” Cobra checked out with good references when the city awarded the contract. The contractor has done work for the city before on some public works projects. Smith said he is hopeful action can occur soon. “The city is committed to completing the project and providing a quality project as expeditiously and effectively as possible, given the delays and the current status,” Smith said. “We will try to get everything but landscaping done this fall, before winter, if at all possible.” Crain said it was possible city workers could complete some of the work. Smith said it is preferable to complete the project without resorting to litigation, but that option is on the table. “With the help of its attorney, the city is exploring ways to bring the project to a conclusion and reviewing the contract for legal options,” Smith said. The Board of Aldermen discussed this issue at its November 1st work session. On Tuesday, November 8th, residents of Clay and Jackson counties will decide whether to approve an 1/8th-cent retail sales tax to help fund new attractions and improvements at the Kansas City Zoo. The funds would help pay for a new Penguin Exhibit, new Predator Canyon/Tiger Exhibit, new Kid’s Wet Play Zone, a Gorilla/Ape Exhibit, Orangutan Canopy, a Giraffe Tree Tops viewing area, a renovated sea lion cove and other projects. It would also expand the zoo’s education program, fully sponsoring science educational field trips for local schools, and creating dedicated “Zoomobiles” to bring programming to schools, libraries, community centers and other public places in each county. Jackson County residents would also receive half-price admission to the Zoo, and four free Zoo days per year. If approved, the tax is expected to fund more than 100 new permanent jobs, in addition to construction jobs. The tax would mean an additional penny for every $8 in taxable purchases in Jackson County. Polls will be open from 6am to 7pm Tuesday. For more information about poll locations, Grandview residents should contact the Jackson County Election This Week's JC Advocate This web site features stories and photos from our print edition. For full coverage, subscribe to our online or print editions. Click the "subscribe" link at the top of the page for more details. Search the Advocate... 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Add a new Professor/TA ENGL234 African-American Literature and Culture An exploration of the stories black authors tell about themselves, their communities, and the nation as informed by time and place, gender, sexuality, and class. African American perspective themes such as art, childhood, sexuality, marriage, alienation and mortality, as well as representations of slavery, Reconstruction, racial violence and the Nadir, legalized racism and segregation, black patriotism and black ex-patriots, the optimism of integration, and the prospects of a post-racial America.

Online Marketing Ideas for Businesses and Private Practitioners For some reason, a lot of people have that kind of fear of dentists as demonstrated by many adults. There is that so called dental phobia that no matter what happens, these people tends to avoid dental care. Even if many people fear dentists, let’s face it – we need them, we actually need their services. And even if they are fearsome for some people, we have to carry on having a good dental hygiene. So where to find good pediatric dentist traverse city Someone your child will not start developing such fear. Search Engine like Google Many people will say that searching a good dentist starts at Google. They even use the word “Google it out”. But of course, Google is just one search engine. You can also find good dentists from other browsers such as Bing and Yahoo. So if you are the dentist, and you found out that most of people are searching the web for good dentists, you should feel terrible if your name is not even listed over the net. More and more businesses are establishing their presence online, so why don’t you. For dental practitioners, it doesn’t really matter if you have a working website where people go to. But if you are considering to have one, you should start building it from good ground work. Meaning, create a website that is search engine friendly, inject some SEO into it. Social Media like Facebook Do you have social media presence? If you do not have a Facebook page yet, then you better start one. Reach out to patients, make it your medium of communication, make it a channel for you to be noticed. After all, establishing a social presence is important in every aspect of a business. Branding Expand your own brand. There are many ways to start building your online presence. You can start by engaging more in social media, create a blog, give out tips and advice for free, and freely communicate with patients who reach out to you online.

One of the consequences of getting poisoned by a Basilisk is having to make a Valour roll of TN 14 to shake the Poison off after combat. Heart of the Wild wrote:If the roll succeeds, the poison wears off. Otherwise, the character is permanently frozen and will wither and die within a few months (Elrond Halfelven, the master of Rivendell, is said to know of an antidote). How do you guys go about the being frozen part? Would a person poisoned by a Basilisk be petrified and unable to do anything or would that person still have some control over its body? Because how do you get to Elrond when frozen and unable to move? Also, how would you make being frozen interesting for a player, especially when one is not able to do anything? The one time my players encountered a basilisk, they managed not to get frozen. I would say that if a frozen character needed to get healing from Elrond, there would be a couple of options. The rest of the company could carry him there, or he could be left in a safe place (in the care of a patron or friendly NPC) and the rest of the company could make a rushed journey to Rivendell and back. To keep things interesting for the player... Hmm, he might not be frozen all at once. I would start by increasing the TN of all physical skills. Or he could also lose skill levels while frozen. So walking might take an athletics test at TN 16 the first week, TN 18 the second week. If the player has an Athletics skill of 3, it might temporarily drop to 2 when poisoned, then to 1 as the freezing kicks in, and eventually to a 0. The cure is oddly specific. If the characters are in a Wilderland campaign and had never crossed over into Eriador, how would they know that Elrond has the cure? It could be managed, of course, but depending on how narrative arc, I might substitute Elrond with someone local, like Radagast. Even Radagast isn't that local, given that the Wyrmholt is some 250 miles from Rhosgobel (Rivendell is strictly speaking closer though this requires crossing the Misty Mountains). It does mention Elrond in Rivendell specifically, but he need not be the only one who knows a cure. When my players past through the Wyrmholt on a diplomatic mission to the northern hillmen, the fought a nest of basilisk and one of them was poisoned and failed his Valour check. He wanted the party to abandon the mission and return to Rhosgobel to have him cured, but a couple members of the Company argued (rightly, to my mind) that if there were locals in the area, they were likely to have a cure, or else they wouldn't be living near the Wyrmholt for very long... and it just so happens that Mab the Spinner lives at the edge of the Wyrmholt... Mab seemed to me to be a prime person to know the cure and well placed besides, though with more enigmatic and less altruistic motives. I had her cure the character, though that character then reneged on the payment he had promised... but that's a story for another time...

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Easy Carrot & Walnut Loaf March 29, 2017 This post may contain affiliate links. There is something super indulgent about carrot cake. I think it’s because it’s so heavy. You can feel its full of the good stuff. And, I’m not sure why, but it always seems to feel heavier after I bake it. I never quite know whether to make it as a cake or a loaf. Same recipe. Different shape. And it makes a big difference. Especially to the kids. They are way more inclined to enjoy it if its shaped like a cake. Funny little things. Oh and if you sprinkle it with icing sugar. Well, then it’s just “the best carrot cake you’ve ever made, Mom”. A couple things I would like to point out about this recipe: It doesn’t have any raisins or sultanas in it. It’s a personal taste thing. For me. They just lose their appeal when added to baked goods. I will eat them if I have to, but if I’m cooking, I don’t have to. They get all squishy, and soft … Agh. Sends shivers down my spine. So no raisins. But feel free to add 1/4 cup if you really, really want to. No Orange rind. Now if you have kids (which I’m assuming you do if you are reading this, you may notice that some of them don’t like too many lumps or irregular textures in their food. You can put this down to picky eating and try and force this issue, but I have found that they grow out of this in time. So instead of orange rind I add orange juice. This seems to do the trick nicely to keep the loaf moist and sweet. This is a seriously great versatile recipe that can be used as a cake (just bake in a round pan and top with a cream cheese icing) or as a loaf (serve in thick slices with butter) or as lunch box sized muffins (divide into 12 hole muffin tray and reduce cooking time to 12 -15 min) It freezes beautifully. And lastly, it’s so flippin’ easy. Carrot cake has a reputation of being hard work. I think it’s got something to do with the thought of grating carrots?? This takes about 30 seconds and it’s all down hill from there.

Grafana Labs Blog Covered in this article: Lucene Query Format Templated Queries Sawtooth-Like Graphs Incomplete data at the beginning and the end of a graph Sum function broken About one year after I created an issue at Grafana’s GitHub page, we finally have support for using Elasticsearch as a time series database! At that time, I was trying to lower the burden of adopting the open source Java performance monitoring tool stagemonitor which I’m the project lead of.

BookGoodies host Deborah Carney is joined by indie author PJ Sharon to discuss why she chose to publish independently and share her tips on becoming a successfully published author. Some of the resources PJ shared are below, there are many more great tips in the podcast.

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Hey folks - I tried to search the forums for help but didn't really find what I needed, so I apologize if this is a newbie duplication of an existing discussion. I have a Breville Cafe Roma machine where I have swapped out the original pressurized filter basket for a non-pressurized Krups one, and I use a Baratza Virtuoso Preciso grinder. My issue is this:Should there be grinds in the bottom of my espresso cup? I think I had some using the pressurized basket but maybe just a few fines, but this looks a bit excessive to me. There are some good-sized particles on the side of the cup and in the bottom, plus some fine dust-sized particles on the side of the cup. Shouldn't the filter basket be filtering the non-dust particles? I am still experimenting with my grinder settings, but for those familiar with this, I am adjusting the macro usually around 11-13. Mark Prince's review recommends 11 for espresso and 12 for pressurized filter espresso. I have been trying coarser as it seems like my shots are running slow (like 28-30s for 2oz) Here is a picture of the bottom of my cup after finishing my drink. Please advise - thanks in advance! Doesn't look very appealing. Did you have some leakage at the top of the PF (ie, it wasn't screwed in tight enough)? If not, the fault is probably your filter basket - take a good look at it through light - are there excessively large holes along with smaller ones? I do see minor (very minor) grounds in the bottom of many of my shots, but not this much. To many fines/grounds left in the cup. Solution...follow Mark's advise for checking the pf and basket. If you don't see anything wrong there, double check your volume and extraction times...you should be pulling a 2 oz double in 25-27 seconds. If you're good on extraction time and volume...coursen the grind and increase the dose until you have minimized the appearance of fines in the bottom of the cup. Given your equipment, you probably won't be able to completely eliminate the appearance of fines...but you should be able to minimize them. Coursening the grind and increasing the dose should balance extraction time and volume while reducing fines. Since you're working with a step grinder...coursen the grind by one step and increase the dose by 1 g...pull a shot. If that shot runs 30 sec...coursen the grind one more step, but don't change the dose...pull another shot. If the shot runs like 35 sec, you might coursen the grind by two steps and leave the dose the same. I would continue this process checking shot time, volume, and the amount of fines left in the cup until you've minimized the fines. If you get back to the 2 oz in 25-27 sec mark and you still aren't happy with the amount of fines in the cup...increase the dose by another gram and start over with your grinder adjustments. I don't know for sure...but I would guess your max dose is probably somewhere between 17-19 grams...chances are, once you get to a dose of 19 g with a 2 oz extraction in 25-27 sec...whatever is left in the cup is probably as good as you're gonna get without upgrading equipment...particularly the grinder. So to start here is what my filter basket looks like. (see first photo) When held up to the light, it looks like all the holes are the same size. I think the photo amplifies the size of the holes, but they do look bigger than those on the original (pressurized) filter basket that came with the machine. (see second photo) What do you think? Could it simply be that the Krups filter basket is letting them pass through? With regards to the possibility of leaking around the portafilter, I have it locked into the machine pretty good and there is no signs of any liquid coming around and onto the sides. It does look like the original basket has much smaller holes, which would make sense. I think you're using a pod basket. Larger holes, with the machine pressure ramped up into the 12 bar range to be pod compliant, you'll push loose grounds through. If you have access to a dremel tool, cut out the bottom layer of the original basket, leaving enough metal at the edges to support the inner layer. You'll most likely eliminate most of the grounds in the cup that way.Don't know the size of your p/f, but check into the Mr. Coffee double baskets, they're about 51 MM I think, and may fit your p/f. I guess some others have found that the holes in this basket were too big for properly finely ground coffee. I notice that Breville USA (but not Canada) lists single wall / non pressurized filters on their website so I may look into these before I look for someone to drill my current basket Well, to wrap this up, I managed to get a hold of the official Breville single wall filter baskets - got them from a local appliance shop in Chinatown for $20. The holes are definitely smaller than the Krups basket I had, and of the same size as the original Breville pressurized filters. On my first attempt with these, I note that the leaking coffee grounds problem looks to be solved - excellent. I think that these filters will provide a great benefit over even that non-pressurized Krups one... The grind setting I was using on my PReciso with the Krups basket to get a 25sec 2oz shot (with lots of leaking grinds) is a few clicks coarser than the suggested espresso setting. Keeping this setting, I just ran my first double shot with the Breville basket....and it blew through in 10 sec, hahaha. I think this is great because it must suggest that the Krups basket somehow by virtue of its tapered shape must have been providing some extra pressurizing. Now I can learn to improve my shot more without the influence of the basket adding pressure. Here are the new baskets next to the old Krups one....an identical result to chopping off the bottom of a dual-wall filter for those of us without the skill or machine access to do so. When you suggest upgrading his grinder as a posible solution, it implies that you find the Baratza Precisio to be substandard. According to all the reviews I have read, the Precisio is generally regarded as a fine espresso grinder. I'm admittedly a newbie at this, but I like my Precisio better than the Rocky and I find little or no difference between the grind of the Precisio and my MACAP M4. If you find the Precisio to be substandard what about it is it that you do not like? 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Top 15 Generous Billionaires in the World As the co-founder and ECO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is one of the youngest self-made billionaires in the world. He is the member of the Giving Pledge, promising to donate at least half of his fortune. In the fight against Ebola in 2014, Zuckerberg donated $25 million alongside his wife Priscilla. He also endowed $75 million to San Francisco General Hospital through the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. According to Wealth-X, his net worth is $ 40.7 billion, and his lifetime donations are $1.6 billion. #14 Li Ka-shing - Generosity Index: 5% Li Ka-shing is a Chinese investor and one of the richest men in Asia. He established the Li Ka-shing Foundation in 1980 to donate to culture, healthcare, education and community-related causes. The Foundation supports the establishment of the only privately funded public university in China, Shantou University. He is also a supporter of many US universities, including Stanford University, UC Berkeley and University of California. Mr. Li’s net worth is $26.6%, and his lifetime donations are $1.4 billion. #13 Michael Bloomberg - Generosity Index: 8% Michael Bloomberg is an American businessman, who is the founder and CEO of Bloomberg media company. He established Bloomberg Philanthropies in 2006, which gives support to causes like environmental preservation, healthcare and education. He further launched a program through Bloomberg Philanthropies named “What Works Cities” in 2015, which is designed to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve people’s lives. Bloomberg’s net worth is $37.7 and his lifetime donations are $3 billion. #12 Paul Allen - Generosity Index: 12% Paul Allen is an American business mogul. He’s the co-founder of Microsoft, and the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. As the current chairman of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, he supports a range of global-health causes, including Seattle BioMed, Alzheimer’s research, and Global FinPrint, which is a project working on the preservation of sharks. Paul Allen’s net worth is $17.3 billion, and his lifetime donations are $2 billion. #11 Pierre Omidyar - Generosity Index: 16% Pierre Omidyar is an Iranian-American businessman. He is the founder of eBay, serving as its Chairman since 1998. In 1998, Pierre established the Omidyar Foundation alongside his wife Pamela. The Foundation is made up of Ulupono Initiative, Hopelab, Humanity United and Omidyar Network, and it donates to various causes like human rights, entrepreneurship, games and technology, and food and energy. In 2012, Pierre Omidyar and his wife became member of the Giving Pledge, promising to endow most of their fortune. His net worth is $6.2 billion, and his lifetime donations are $1 billion. #10 Bill Gates - Generosity Index: 32% Bill Gates is best known as the the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, however, he is now focusing on charity work. He and his wife started the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which donates to worldwide programs and initiatives ranging from education, urban poverty, global health, emergency relief to agricultural development. Bill Gates’s net worth is $84.2 billion, and his lifetime donations are $27 billion. #9 George Soros - Generosity Index: 33% George Soros is a Hungarian-American investor. He establishes the Soros Fund Management. After retiring from SFM, George is now the chairman of Open Society Foundations, which donate to education, health, social services, community development and international causes. Soros also pledged an endowment of €420 million to the Central European University. His net worth is $24.4 billion and his lifetime donations are $8 billion. #8 Warren Buffett - Generosity Index: 35% Warren Buffett is an American business tycoon. As the Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett is wealthy and philanthropic. He promised to donate 85% of his fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as other charitable foundations, in 2006. And in 2009, Buffett together with Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates founded The Giving Pledge, whereby billionaires pledge to donate half of their wealth at least. His net worth is $61 billion, and his lifetime donations are $21.5 billion. #7 Eli Broad - Generosity Index: 45% Eli Broad is an American entrepreneur. He’s the founder of KB Home and SunAmerica, which are both Fortune 500 companies. Broad established The Broad Foundation, focusing on arts, science and public education. His net worth is $7.3 billion, and his lifetime donations are $3.3 billion. #6 Azim Premji - Generosity Index: 50% Azim Premji is an Indian business magnate. He’s the chairman of Wipro Limited, a consulting and IT company. He starts the Azim Premji Foundation to improve India’s school and examination systems. The foundation also works on other educational causes, including computer training and teacher training. Premji’s net worth is $15.9 billion, and his lifetime donations are $8 billion. #5 Ted Turner - Generosity Index: 57% Ted Turner is an American media mogul. He’s the founder of Cable News Network (CNN) and vice chairman of AOL Time Warner. Turner runs his philanthropy work through Turner Global Foundation and Turner Foundation, which both invest in wildlife conservation, environmental conservation and community development. He also donate to the UN Foundation, promoting its charity causes on children’s health, world peace, women and population. His net worth is $2.1 billion and his lifetime donations are $1.2 billion. #4 Gordon Moore - Generosity Index: 77% Gordon Moore is the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation. He retired from his position in 2006 and then established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation with his wife. The foundation covers a variety of fields, including environmental conservation, science, the San Francisco community and patient care. Moore’s net worth is $6.5 billion, and his lifetime donations are $5 billion. #3 Jon Huntsman Sr. - Generosity Index: 128% Jon Huntsman Sr. is an American businessman. He’s the executive chairman and founder of Huntsman Corporation, a global manufacturer of specialty chemicals. Huntsman devotes most of his charitable donations to cancer-research centres and colleges, because he himself has reportedly survived mouth cancer. He and his wife are also members of Giving Pledge, intending to give away 50% of their fortune. Huntsman’s lifetime donations are $1.2 billion and his net worth is $940 million. #2 Sulaiman bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi - Generosity Index: 966% Sulaiman bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi is the co-founder of Al Rajhi Bank, which is now one of the largest Islamic banks around the world. Sulaiman has devoted into charity work since 2013, supporting health, religious, educational and other social causes. The net worth of Sulaiman is $590 million, and his lifetime donations are $5.7 billion. #1 Charles Francis Chuck Feeney - Generosity Index: 420,000% Chuck Feeney is an Irish-American retail tycoon, who started a business pioneering the industry of duty-free shopping. It seems that Feeney’s life mission is to share his wealth. Frugality is the keyword of his life: living in a rented apartment, flying economy-class, not owning any real estate. Feeney’s net worth is $1.5 million while his lifetime donations are $6.3 billion.

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For The Love Of The Chew This is the year of the ‘Chew’, so it seems. Montrose is one of the most sought after destinations when it comes to seeking a location for the Houston food junkie, and businessman Irwin Palchick, along with business partner David Truong wants to expand the options in the upscale neighborhood. Jimmy Chew Asian Kitchen is the brainchild of Palchick, and creative branding designer Aike Jamal, of the award-winning F Bar Nightclub in Montrose, with best friend Lucie Pognonec. Lead design team is design firm gindesignsgroup and owner, Gin Braverman, has recently brought to life projects like ‘Raven Tower’ and ‘White Oak Music Hall.’ “Jimmy Chew is a fun, funky new fast-casual concept,” Gin Braverman explained. “Bright colors, bold murals and fun textures collide to bring a dynamic and energetic atmosphere.” The afternoon thru very-late-night crowd will appreciate the variety of cuisines that are reflected in the interior design, like ‘Chew Here’ and ‘Chew Go.’ As Montrose bleeds artsy and diversity, Jimmy Chew’ will enlighten the eclectic side of it’s patrons; ‘promoting great service, and fantastic food.’ The menu will reflect options ranging from Asian fusion, Vietnamese, Chinese, American bites and Thai-anything goes in this crazy, poppin’ place! Chew’ has made sure to add beer, wine, and great desserts to the menu. Another notable mention for Chew’ is the offering of Bill’s World Famous Lemonade. The street-food style popular in Europe, Asia & Australia but like something Houston has yet to experience until now. Chew’cited! The front ‘vendera’ style porch will offer outdoor dining that will have a capacity of 22 for the dinners that would rather enjoy the Houston scenery that magically graces the Westheimer sidewalks after sundown. Jimmy Chew Asian Kitchen will be located near the intersection of Westheimer Rd and Mandell St across from Buffalo Exchange and Guyz N Style at 1609 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX 77006. Current plans are to have the eatery open as soon as permitting is approved. Hours of operations indicating they will open daily at 5pm, and will be open weekdays till 3am, and 4am on weekends. An added bonus will be the delivery service that will be open daily till 2am and will include beer and wine.

New Delhi, Nov 18: The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea claiming that a key witness in the sensational Kathua gang rape-and-murder case was allegedly tortured in custody by the Jammu and Kashmir Police in connection with a separate rape case. A bench comprising justices A M Khanwilkar and Deepak Gupta rejected the petition filed by a close relative of Talib Hussain, a key witness in the Kathua case, on the ground that the petitioner failed to appear before it despite the court’s order. In January, an eight-year-old girl from a minority nomadic community was allegedly abducted and gang raped in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district. Petitioner M A Khan had approached the top court alleging that his relative Hussain was tortured in custody by the state police after being arrested in connection with a separate rape case. Advocate Shoeb Alam, representing the Jammu and Kashmir Police, had last month denied in the top court the allegations levelled in the petition and had said since Hussain has been granted bail, the plea has become infructuous. On October 22, the court had asked Khan to appear before it on November 13 to respond to the application filed by his advocate seeking his discharge from the case. “Despite our order dated October 22, the writ petitioner (Khan) has chosen not to appear before this court to respond to the application for discharge filed by Sunil Fernandes, advocate on record for the petitioner. “In the circumstances, the writ petition is dismissed for non-prosecution,” the bench said in its November 13 order. In his plea, Khan had alleged that Hussain was kept in illegal detention by police and was subjected to custodial torture. (Agencies)

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USA Dot Com is a blog covering politics and government from a conservative Christian perspective. Verne Strickland is a 50-year veteran of investigative journalism. This blog offers a take-no-prisoners style with a modicum of biting satire. Verne and his wife of 55 years, Durrene, live in Wilmington, NC. Sunday, October 9, 2011 Pantano hosts friends and supporters at Riverfest event on banks of the Cape Fear PANTANO FAITHFUL CHEER ON THEIR FAVORITE IN NC/7 CONGRESSIONAL RACE Conservative GOP congressional candidate Ilario Pantano with guests By Verne Strickland / October 9, 2012 The invitation read: Come out to Mike McCarley's beautiful riverside garden in Historic Downtown Wilmington to view the Invasion of the Pirates Flotilla and Fireworks on the Saturday night of Riverfest and get 'fired' up for Pantano for Congress. The event lived up to its billing -- and then some. An estimated 125 guests turned up to cheer on their hero and favorite in what is certain to be a long and arduous struggle for the Seventh District seat in Congress -- a contest that won't be settled until November 2012. Pantano led the group in prayer, then launched into a patriotic stump speech that pounced on liberal Democrats far and wide, promising that GOP stalwarts in North Carolina would be in the front ranks to rout them from their cushy incumbent lethargy. A pulse-quickening display of fireworks flared brilliant against the night sky. The "Pirate Flotilla" arrived to the thunder of booming cannon. When the echoes faded, one person onshore --doubtless a Republican -- was heard to inquire: "Is Obama the captain of this boat? He's a pirate isn't he?" Then it was down to business. I interviewed candidate Ilario Pantano about his campaign and the Riverfest GOP spin-off: VS: It's a beautiful night, and your supporters are obviously fired up. What is this event all about? It’s a celebration, and our chance to thank our growing ranks of supporters for all their hard work at the grassroots level. As I said, we’ve been building for seven months, and we have seven months to go. The heavy lifting starts now, and I say it matters. It matters more than ever. And I have a sense they all agree. VS: Where are you now in your campaign? We’re actually at the halfway point in this drive for a primary victory. We started this campaign back in February, and we’ve been running hard for seven months. We now have seven months to go before the primary, and we’re focused on that primary. VS: You've always depended on strength and energy at the grassroots and precinct level. How is this ramping up? What I will tell you is the support and the excitement in every county in this district is huge. And you know we have twelve counties in the Seventh now, and some of them are new. Even in these new counties, new friends are joining our cause, and are excited about what we represent. Because we are not the establishment, we’re not business as usual. We are just somebody who loves their country, and have sacrificed for it time and time again, who understand how the economy works and how to create jobs. That combination is pretty important right now. VS: Many in the political game just talk the talk. But you claim to walk the walk. What does that mean actually? A lot of people can quote the policy all day long, but when you look to their life experience and understand their true motivations, and understand that their heart isn’t a service heart, and what sacrifice really means, you have to wonder – do they know John 15:13? Do they really know? I am insistent on living out my faith, and this keeps me in a positive state of mind. I am really bullish on this country. What I see happening with this Occupy Wall Street movement is they want to replicate this right now. And this very desperate president wants to foment unrest throughout the country to shore up his chances in 2012. His game plan is a strategy of destruction. It is not in the best interest of the country. It’s not good for my children or yours. I going to fight it and fight it hard. Joe Agovino of Southport, long-time GOP leader in Brunswick County, was on hand at the GOP Riverfest celebration. He said conservative candidate Pantano has learned much from his experience in the political arena since his challenge to incumbent Mike McIntyre in the last congressional election. VS: So you feel he has only gained strength and wisdom from being in the political arena? That's right. I think Ilario has grown a great deal in the last year and a half. He’s even more committed to serving his country. He has also learned a great deal about internal politics. I’ve been close to Ilario through the last campaign, and now this one. His commitment is genuine, and his loyalty is to his country, which he has served unselfishly.. In so doing, he has faced daunting challenges, but he has risen above all this, and has distinguished himself in many ways. So, today, I think he stands a better chance to win this primary because his supporters and the general public are comfortable with him and are really behind him. VS: Ilario will face off in the GOP primary against State Senator David Rouzer of Johnston County. What do you expect from him as a candidate? This race is a struggle between the old guard of the Republican Party and the newer members who are committed Constitutionalists and want to take our country back to work for the general well-being of the people. Mr. Rouzer is a bright young man, but is basically a Washington insider, and also a product of the system for a number of years. My personal opinion is that David Rouzer getting into this race will be good for Ilario, because of the stark contrast between the politician, David Rouzer, and the patriot, Ilario Pantano. VS: You hang your hat in Brunswick County. How do you size up the conservative Republican base there? In our county -- Brunswick -- we’re seeing growth and strength at the precinct levels. That will be vital as Obama’s paid volunteers flood into North Carolina with their liberal agenda. We intend to be ready. What I’m seeing is more cohesiveness in the organization, and more motivation. I’ve been involved in politics for many years, and this is the earliest I’ve seen our Republican Party become involved in statewide or presidential elections in an off-election year. That’s a tremendous plus. Our leadership is proactive and aggressive.We're putting the lessons we've learned to work for us on the road to 2012.

James Gurney This daily weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers. You'll find practical studio tips, insights into the making of the Dinotopia books, and first-hand reports from art schools and museums. CG Art Contact or by email:gurneyjourney (at) gmail.comSorry, I can't give personal art advice or portfolio reviews. If you can, it's best to ask art questions in the blog comments. Permissions All images and text are copyright 2015 James Gurney and/or their respective owners. Dinotopia is a registered trademark of James Gurney. For use of text or images in traditional print media or for any commercial licensing rights, please email me for permission. However, you can quote images or text without asking permission on your educational or non-commercial blog, website, or Facebook page as long as you give me credit and provide a link back. Students and teachers can also quote images or text for their non-commercial school activity. It's also OK to do an artistic copy of my paintings as a study exercise without asking permission. Monday, June 1, 2009 The Düsseldorf School of painting had a big influence on 19th century landscape painting from the 1830s through the 1860s. The school was notable for its dramatically lit historical subjects, often featuring scenes like shipwrecks, noble peasants, or epic mountainscapes. The artists associated with the school include Wilhelm von Schadow, Karl Friedrich Lessing, the brothers Andreas and Oswald Achenbach, and Hans Fredrik Gude. Johann Wilhelm Schirmer is shown above. Some of them had experience painting theatrical backdrops, and they took some of those sensibilities into their easel paintings. Some of those pictorial features include:Realistic and detailed treatment of form.Strongest accents and focal point in middle ground.Dark framing masses at the sides of the compositions.Stormy skies and dramatic lighting.Road or trail leading into the picture.Filmy or atmospheric distances.Literary references in genre scenes. Americans who studied there included George Caleb Bingham, Eastman Johnson, Worthington Whittredge, William Stanley Haseltine, James McDougal Hart, and William Morris Hunt, and Emanuel Leutze, who painted "Washington Crossing the Delaware" in Germany using American Dusseldorf students as models. Although he wasn’t formally enrolled at the academy, Albert Bierstadt worked and studied among the community of artists, and became probably the best exponent of the style. The Russian painter Ivan Shishkin also spent time there soaking up the landscape vocabulary. Above: Oswald Achenbach, "The Bay of Naples." The goal of the Dusseldorf artists was to infuse the landscape with “stimmung” (mood). Their romantic sensibilities were tied to “Volkskarakter” or national character. According to Henk Van Os, “The idea is that the soul of a people is expressed through its countryside, its landscape; painters make this soul visible. This was to become the cornerstone of realistic landscape in the second half of the nineteenth century.” Amazing that he created such an iconographic image without, presumably, having been there. (washing delware) how did he get GW's likeness? He didn't pose all the students at once... so how did get the light right (i am not asking for answers, its more to say, it just amazes me.) I am realist painter who wants to do historical subjects - and it can intimidating and also, there is this idea now that you need to be real... if for example you were painting the saraha, if you don't practically put the sand in your paint its not 'authentic'. I do believe it helps, immensely to experience the thing...but sometimes we do that we sacrofice our imagination I, me: Leutze was an artist who was born in Germany, grew up in USA, and returned to live and work in Germany. When he painted WCD, he insisted on using Americans as models. Worthington Whittredge's memoir describes how he posed for Washington in an accurate costume, and also how Bierstadt arrived as a very unpromising hopeful, and then how he did miraculous stuff by just working his tail off outdoors. Beautiful paintings, especially the first one. I love dynamic rocky forms like that, but I find them very difficult to paint, so seeing one so well executed is especially inspiring for me. On an entirely unrelated note, James, I saw your cover painting for "Citizen Phaid" in a sci-fi art book the other day, and I was blown away. With all your dinosaurs and baby birds and horses and whatnot, it's easy for me to forget how adept you are at painting futuristic, high-tech subjects. Thanks, Moai, that's really nice of you. The art director, Gene Mydlowski, deserves a lot of credit on that cover for letting me do a long horizontal composition, very atypical for covers in those days. I saw the painting 'Cornel Rhos - Spring' by William Morris Hunt in the Pre-Raphaelites exhibition in Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. Many times. It was one of my absolute favourites in that show. Unfortunately I can't find a picture of it online.. Not that it's relevant, but "Washington Crossing" brings back memories of my visit to the Met and to a previous carrier where I visited J&J in Titusville NJ, at walking distance of the actual crossing location along the Delaware.But as I said, not really relevant. I recall Frank Frazetta remarking in an interview that he wasn't very influenced by N.C. Wyeth, with whom he's sometimes compared, but rather by old German painters. He didn't identify the German painters, but looking at these works and the qualities James mentions (their strongest accents and focal point in middle ground, dark framing masses at the sides of the compositions, stormy skies and dramatic lighting, filmy or atmospheric distances), I wonder whether this was the group he meant. I'm always kind of happy, whenn I read about german artists here at Your blog. Thank's for that! :-) The "Düsseldorfer Malerschule" for me (as a student at the "Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie") was and is a great inspiration, allthough ther weren't really outstanding painters. Only well informed people know the names of Andreas and Oswald Achenbach, for example. On the one side, their compositions were really impressive and their knowledge of how to make pictures look "erhaben" (means: impressive in an grand with a sense of awe) was astonishing. But they weren't great painters, if one looks at their "brush-work". No "peinture", if You know, what I mean.And they got with the "Münchener Malerschule" big competitors in the second half of the 19th century. Like Leibl or Böcklin, for example. Nevertheless it's really worth the time to look at and examine the landscapes of the "Düsseldorfer Malerschule" protagonists. For example the two Achenwald brothers. The "nordic" Andreas Achenbach painted many norwayen landscapes with impressive clouds, storms, the expressive mountains and fjords ob the scandinavien countrys. His "southern" brother painted large italian landscapes, very warm, with red glowing imprimiturs. I prefer the nordish Achenbach, but that's just a matter of taste... Perhaps You could write something about the "Münchner Malerschule" in the future? Some american "impressionists" like T.C. Steele, William Forsyth or Ottis Adams studied in Munich (together with famous german Painters like Lovis Corinth) and it's interesting to see, how their training/education in Germany influenced their work, when they returned to the USA.

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Document Scanning:This new module will give you the ability to scan and save documents directly into work orders. You will be able to scan as many documents as needed. Each will be converted and appended to a PDF file. When you select to view your scanned documents, CDA will launch Acrobat Reader and display all documents as thumbnails. You can also scan original parts invoices and attach them to the Vendor's Invoice record. You also have the ability to simply attach any other type of file to a work order including photos, word or excel documents, graphics, text files, etc. All can be opened with a simple click of the mouse. Parts Tracking:This is a very detailed and comprehensive system that will provide bar code labels to track every part. Parts are linked directly to vendor invoices for exact pricing and status information. One quick scan will tell you everything you need to know about any part. View a history of every time a part is scanned. 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You are automatically notified of pending messages each time you login to CDA. User Profiles control the level of access for each user. Real-Time Scheduling:Our CDA Scheduler now provides a direct link into ServicePower, ServiceBench, and NSA to receive on-line dispatches directly from Manufacturers, Dealers and Customers. The system will automatically create the work orders, schedule the call in the calendar, and send you an email notification whenever new calls arrive. All sub-status updates and availability is maintained in real-time. The system will automatically update your data files and provide reports to keep on top of their progress. Responses are received via fax or email for all transmissions. In addition, a real-time internet connection allows you to quickly search and compare parts directly from the inventory database of major parts distributors. The results from all vendors are displayed in a browse window giving you information on availability, price (including core prices), available replacement or substitute parts and ETA. You can then order the parts with a click of the mouse. CDA will create the P.O. and send it to the selected vendor. The system then tracks the order until it is received. Advanced Scheduling and Dispatching:Independently control booking for up to four different types of service groups such as Electronics, Appliances, Satellite Installations, Big Screens, etc. You define the groups and create custom routes for all of your zip codes. Set up the number of slots available for each route and the system will control the rest. User profiles will determine the level of access and ability to re-schedule, over-book, etc. You can simply enter a zip code and the system will display all of the available routes for the next two weeks. Now, through direct internet interfaces with ServiceBench, NSA, Service Power, and LG, the CDA Service Manager system is able to automatically receive, process, and update dispatches placed directly by manufacturers, 3rd party dealers or customers. Your available zip codes and time slots are automatically updated. Email and Text Notifications:Easily send email's to customers, manufacturers, dealers, and vendors. CDA will automatically format and send various notification letters, notices, and even custom emails with the click of the mouse. Records are date stamped and commented with information regarding your email. Invoices are converted to a PDF format and automatically attached to a customers email. 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Custom Search Engine A Custom Search window will allow you to create your own data search criteria that will provide results in a standard browse window. You will then have options to print the data list, display and edit work orders, print or email work orders as well as add or delete work orders. In additions, you can export the results to a CSV (Excel) file. This will give you the ability to open the data in an Excel spreadsheet. Serial Number Check: Upon entering a serial number on the Work Order input screen, the system will immediately check the database for previous repairs and inform you of the last date that unit was serviced. You also have the option to display a history of each time the serial number was service. Built-In National Zip Code Database: When entering a zip code, the system will automatically retrieve the City, State, and County from a National Zip Code database. You can set up a sales tax rate to be used for each zip code. Therefore, if you service zip codes that use different sales tax rates, the system will automatically calculate the correct sales tax. Parts Cross Reference: The CDA Service Manager system has a unique way of cross-referencing parts. When you add parts into the Inventory database, you can assign a generic number to each part number. When you request a cross-reference lookup, the system will display every part in your inventory that uses the same generic number. You can see at a glance each replacement part along with it's cost and retail amounts. This method allows you to use your entire inventory as replacement parts for other part numbers searched. You can also assign an unlimited number of replacement part numbers that can be used for a selected stock number. This procedure will give you the ability to assign a manufacturer's part number to an invoice and update the inventory with the actual stock number used. Models Database: A separate database file will track model numbers and allow you to assign C.O.D., Warranty and 3rd Party labor rates for each. The system will automatically retrieve the correct rate upon request. This file will also track the length of warranty for each model and alert the user the warranty status of each repair. You can also scan or attach pictures or other file types to each model record. These attachments are easily available for viewing, printing, or emailing from within the work order window. Service Literature Database: This file will allow you to track your service literature and cross reference manual numbers with SAM'S and Microfiche. The Work Order entry screen provides instant look-ups. Service literature information is printed on the work orders to assist the technicians. This file will also provide a method of assigning the literature to technicians. Batch Billing and Payments: All Warranty and 3rd Party Claims can be billed and printed as a batch. The system will automatically select all work orders that are ready for billing for any giving period of time. There is also a feature to print a report on all UN-BILLED claims. This is a full proof way to be certain all claims are being billed on time and none are missed. When it comes time to apply payments, CDA makes the process simple and quick. Display all claims for all open accounts in a browse window and simply mark which ones you want to pay. The system will automatically update all associated files with a touch of a key. Technician Commissions: CDA also has the ability of assigning commissions for an unlimited number of technicians to each work order. Commissions can be applied automatically by creating a profile for each employee or can be applied manually to each work order. A Technician's Commission report is also available to display the commissions assigned to each tech for any period of time. 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Fully Integrated Inventory and Purchase Order Control: When entering parts on the work order input screen, CDA will link directly into the Inventory and Purchase Order files for automatic updating and validations. If a part entered is not in inventory or the quantity entered is larger than the quantity available, you are alerted and given the opportunity to assign the part to a purchase order. The system will automatically use an open P.O. for the vendor selected, or will create a new one. Purchase orders can be closed and batch printed at any time. The Purchase order menu will allow for full control and tracking of open P.O.'s including browse screens. When parts are received, the system automatically updates all related files. A full-featured menu will provide reports and information to completely control your inventory. CDA can also track parts and purchase orders for a Master Inventory and up to 10 additional remote inventory locations. This is ideal if you have multiple locations for which you access parts from or even truck stock. Reports: CDA provides a complete array of reports to cover every aspect of your business. Custom export routines are also available allowing you to export data into various formats making it very easy to move data between applications. User Profiles: The CDA Service Manager system has a unique security access system built-in. You will be able to set-up user profiles for each user and assign separate user names and passwords. Each profile can be customized allowing you to grant or deny access for over 145 areas of the program. User files are hidden and encrypted for security.

From the Best and Brightest Files: Another Alleged 'Canadian', Another Bonafide Jihadi Shirdon, who was enrolled in the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology until at least 2012, appears in an ISIS video released two months ago. Before burning his Canadian passport, Shirdon, in full view of the camera lens, issues a threat to Canada, the U.S. and "all oppressors." "We are coming and we will destroy you by the will of God," Shirdon says on the video. He comes from a prominent and well-educated Somali family. His father’s brother, Abdi Farah Shirdon, was a former prime minister of Somalia who has survived numerous attempts on his life by al-Shabab militants fighting for an Islamic state in Somalia under the banner of al-Qaeda. Shirdon’s mother and sister live in Calgary and are deeply involved in the religious life of their community. CBC News reached out to them repeatedly, but they would only say they are "confused and pained by Farah’s choice," before asking for privacy. Though it’s unclear how real his threats are, Shirdon is the latest young man from Calgary to be identified by CBC News as a Canadian fighting overseas. Hey, the guy's Somali so cut him a break. You weren't expecting much from him anyway were you? He's from a people who couldn't be bothered to learn and remember their alleged ancient script so had to adopt the English Latin alphabet in the 1970s just to catch up with the rest of the world. How about that? Somalia didn't have a functioning alphabet until the late 20th century yet our immigration department thinks that somehow importing thousands of Somalis will enrich the country and give Canada a competitive edge on the world stage. 7 comments: Cassandra said... this is not left vs right, Tories vs Liberals, Socialism vs liberty. This is war against White people. Why do hostile elite defend Israel as a Jewish ethnostate with Jewish only immigration, but ravage White majority Europe/North America into a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Gulag with non-White colonization? The world is 93% non-White, only 7% White. But 3rd world colonizers, Muslims, Punjabis, Chinese, are aggressively advancing their agenda to annihilate gullible Whites, just as China annihilates Tibet. Pax, they don't even bother selecting the immigrants any more. They must have stopped selecting them in the late 1980's. Every time I visit Toronto and environs, I see tonnes of morbidly obese blacks from the Caribbean, elderly Hindus and Sikhs from India, Somali Muslims and other vile, diseased trash from the third world. It's like they're scooping them up and dumping them here, as if Canada were some kind of dumping ground for the third world. And these people are supposed to take over Canada in the next 2 or 3 decades. It's embarrassing! Looks like a third world Canada is in the works. Either we stop all third world immigration NOW or we're all immigrating to some place in eastern Europe in the next 10 or 20 years. Heaven help us all! We don't attract the best and brightest. This should be obvious to anyone who lives in a major Canadian city. When the Philippines tops the list of source countries it's clear you don't seem to give a shit anymore. All that matters now is that they vote for you political party and can carry a mortgage. can you delete my comments and the reply threads ,from this post and the previous post. Fine. But you're going to have to tell me which anon is you. If you're the anon trying to excuse non-Europeans of the crime of native land theft then I can understand why because deep down you have no argument. If Europeans are imperialist land thieves then so are non-Europeans right down to their modern day Canadian born descendants.

Dutch politician honored at funeral; party apparently gathering AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Tens of thousands of mourners threw flowers, wept and chanted the name of Pim Fortuyn on Friday as the body of the slain politician was driven in a hearse to his funeral. The peal of church bells in Rotterdam was drowned out as crowds roared when Fortuyn's remains were carried out of the 16th-century Laurentius and Elisabeth Cathedral after a Roman Catholic Mass broadcast on television. The atmosphere of the procession was at times more like a sporting event or a mass protest than a solemn funeral cortege, with thousands of people raising their hands in the air, chanting "Pim Fortuyn, Pim Fortuyn," and singing "You'll Never Walk Alone," a support song for the Rotterdam soccer team. The outpouring of public sentiment could effect voters next week in elections for a new government. Before his death, Fortuyn's populist, anti-immigration party ranked among the top three parties, and seemed to have gathered strength since his assassination on Monday. Meanwhile in Amsterdam, prosecutors indicated Fortuyn's suspected killer may have been plotting against three other members of his anti-immigration party. The names of the party members and maps of their neighborhoods were found in the suspect's car, said a spokeswoman for the pubic prosecutor. The identities of the targeted members were not released. Though the suspect's name has not been officially released, he has been identified by former colleagues as Volkert van der Graaf, an environmental and animal rights activist.

Constitution of 1838 In December 1838, delegates convened at St. Joseph to form Florida’s first state constitution. The convention completed its work in January 1839, although Florida was not officially admitted to the Union as a state until March 3, 1845. Transcript Section 13. That no person shall, for the same offense, be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb. Section 14. That private property shall not be taken or applied to public use, unless just compensation be made therefor. Section 15. That in all prosecutions and indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence; and if it shall appear to the jury that the libel is true, and published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the truth shall be a justification; and the jury shall be the judges of the law and facts. Section 16. That no person shall be put to answer any criminal charge, but by presentment, indictment or impeachment. Section 17. That no conviction shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture of estate. Section 18. That retrospective laws, punishing acts committed before the existence of such laws, and by them only declared penal, or criminal, are oppressive, unjust, and incompatible with liberty; wherefore, no ex post facto law shall ever be made. Section 19. That no law impairing the obligation of contracts shall ever be passed. Section 20. That the people have a right, in a peaceable manner, to assemble together to consult for the common good; and to apply to those invested with the powers of government, for redress of grievances, or other proper purposes, by petition, address, or remonstrance. Section 21. That the free white men of this State shall have the right to keep and to bear arms, for their common defense. Section 22. That no soldier in time of peace, shall be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war but in a manner prescribed by law. Section 23. That no standing army shall be kept up without the consent of the Legislature: and the military shall in all cases and at all times, be in strict subordination to the civil power. Section 24. That perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free State, and ought not to be allowed. Section 25. That no hereditary emoluments, privileges, or honors, shall ever be granted or conferred in this State. Section 26. That frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty. Section 27. That to guard against transgressions upon the rights of the people, we declare that every thing in this article is excepted out of the general powers of government, and shall forever remain inviolate; and that all laws contrary thereto, or to the following provisions, shall be void. _______________ ARTICLE II. Distribution of the Powers of Government. Section 1. The powers of the Government of the State of Florida, shall be divided into three distinct departments, and each of them confided to a separate body of Magistracy, to wit: Those which are Legislative to one; those which are Executive to another; and those which are Judicial to another. Section 2. No person, or collection of persons, being one of those departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except in the instances expressly provided in this Constitution. ____________ ARTICLE III. Executive Department. Section 1. The Supreme Executive Power shall be vested in a Chief Magistrate, who shall be styled the Governor of the State of Florida. Section 2. The Governor shall be elected for four years, by the qualified electors, at the time and place where they shall vote for Representatives, and shall remain in office until a successor be chosen and qualified, and shall not be eligible to re-election until the expiration of four years thereafter. Section 3. No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor unless he shall have attained the age of thirty years, shall have been a citizen of the United States ten years, or an inhabitant of Florida at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, (being a citizen of the United States,) and shall have been a resident of Florida at least five years next preceding the day of election. Section 4. The returns of every election for Governor shall be sealed up and transmitted to the seat of Government, directed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall, during the first week of the session, open and publish them in the presence of both Houses of the General Assembly, and the person having the highest number of votes, shall be Governor; but if two or more shall be equal and highest in votes, one of them shall be chosen Governor by the joint vote of the two Houses; and contested elections for Governor shall be determined by both Houses of the General Assembly, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. Section 5. He shall, at stated times, receive a compensation for his services, which shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he shall have been elected. 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Governor David A. Paterson’s Recovery Stimulus Cabinet is conducting Information Sessions across the State regarding the provisions of the Recovery Bill. An Information Session on the Broadband Provisions of the Recovery Bills will be jointly hosted by NYS Chief Information Officer and New York State Office for Technology (CIO/OFT) and the NYS Public Service Commission (PSC). Come hear about the Broadband Initiatives funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) (“Stimulus”) of 2009. Learn how these provisions align with Governor David A. Paterson’s Universal Broadband Strategy for New Yorkers. This meeting is intended for members in the broadband service provider community, digital literacy training community in the public and private sectors, local/county/state entities, not-for-profit organizations, foundations, schools, community technology centers, libraries and other organizations who provide either Internet services or digital literacy and consumer education programs. Hear about the two main broadband programs: Broadband Technology Opportunities Program and the Rural Utilities Services Broadband provisions of the Stimulus Bill. Included in the session will be a question and answer segment. Please email your questions no later than 48 hours before the session begins to [email protected] to enable a productive session. Invited Parties Include:· State and local officials and agencies interested in extending Broadband access to their unserved and underserved urban and rural communities;· Not-for-profit organizations interested in deploying Broadband access to the populations they serve;· Libraries, educational and research institutions, foundations or digital literacy education programs interested in building out broadband infrastructure or providing digital literacy training programs to increase broadband demand and adoption; and· Broadband service providers interested in partnering with other public and private organizations and companies to accelerate the build out of broadband infrastructures and training programs which will create jobs. To Make A Reservation: Please make your reservation to attend by sending an email to: [email protected] . With limited space, the state is asking each organization to limit the number of attendees to no more than four, as a courtesy, to allow more organizations to participate in the first of a series of information sessions. No comments: Pages Thank you for supporting the library budget The Friends of the Albany Public Library thank you for voting YES on the library budget in 2016. Welcome The Friends of the Albany Public Library have meetings several times a year, to which the public is always invited. 5 :00 to 6:00 pm Place: Community Room 1 on the second floor of the Main Branch, APL. Book reviews and other events every Tuesday at noon in the Main Branch. Quote "I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on,I go to the library and read a book." Consider a Gift to the Annual Appeal The Albany Public Library changes lives, answering life's most complex questions and serving as the public's destination for social, intellectual and cultural discourse. As our world changes, Albany's libraries face new challenges with increased demand for more books, materials, and programs housed in aging and outdated facilities.That's why your annual contribution is so important. Your gifts to the library though The Albany Public Library Foundation means the difference between adequate libraries and great libraries. With private support, we can expand our collections and services to include more of what customers want in materials, technology, and programs. So, look for the Annual Appeal information in the mail.We thank you. Donations can be sent to Albany Public Library Foundation, 161, Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12210.Credit Card contributions can be processed by calling 518-427-4346.

Mutt fucke himself 1 year ago today. thanks mutt, I would have never found SFSN without your help & never found this place. I want to thank "bethsucks" for SFSN & Dawg, Monk, Elias & Spazz; for what we have today. you fuckers rock our world. I'd pay big money to see one interviewer ask Howard some embarassing questions like that. Things like "What exactly IS that thing on your head?" or "Do you ever feel guilty about getting rich off your fans and then pissing on them?".

SJP and MB: Lights, Camera, Relationship 7/31/2008 1:05 PM PDT SJP and MB: Lights, Camera, Relationship What infidelity rumors?Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick had dinner in NYC last night despite rampant Internet rumors about Matthew cheating. If they go out in public together, they must be happy! Looks like neither has broken things off yet, via Post-it or otherwise.

Libellés Thursday, November 25, 2010 An inviting grave Call me weird, but sometimes, when I want to take a little break from the rush, I take a walk in one of the many cemeteries that we have inside Paris. And for the first time in my life I visited the one of Montmartre, right at the bottom of the "Butte", near the Place de Clichy. A very interesting one, with many famous people. I took a few photos while I was walking without knowing exactly whose grave I was taking. It's only when I came back home that I discovered that I had taken the tomb of a famous French actor who died recently: Jean-Claude Brialy. The Paris cemeteries amaze me. Ours do not intrigue so because they are not dominated by above-ground crypts. (New Orleans is an exception, but they are dangerous due to violent criminals robbing people.) Your cemeteries are historical and artistic journeys. I recommend buying a guide to find the famous people. I've not walked the Montmartre one, but I would like to. By the way, I love the photo of the Opera yesterday. It reminds me of escorting a certain English/Brazilian person back to her safe house after our PDP dinner. We emerged from the Metro and bang! there was Opera Garnier at night. Always stunning at night, no matter what colors. beautiful grave, if appropriate to say. I liked J-C Brialy, saw many old films (black and white) with him. You are not weird Eric, I know many people who like to walk or just sit on cemetaries just because they are so quiet and peaceful. I love the almost closed eyes. Modest and soft tone. Walking in cemetaries surely helps to think about the very quintessence of life! Sometimes we just feel like it has to be thought a little about! I do not think you are weird nor even that your title is. An inviting grave to keep in mind all our remembers and to feel the way ahead. The way to meet new people, to simply look peacefully at our environment, animals, trees, dead leaves, snow, and then the yellow, the blue, the red, etc... The way to forget all and any disagreable parts. The way between those who sound really happy and those who sound less. And the truth behind that...Flore You're not weird. Sometimes I go to cemetaries to get away and to think. For me, It's an escape to another time and place. I read the dates of birth and death, the names of the dead and try to imagine what their lives were like. For some people, it's the only remaining trace of their existence and I like to think that for the few minutes that I spend at their grave wondering about them, I'm somehow keeping their story alive. That's WEIRD!!! Beautiful shot. If wandering in cemeteries is weird, I'm a weirdo too. Happy Thanksgiving to all the PDPers who are celebrating today. I will be giving thanks for the talent and dedication of Mr. Eric Tenin, who makes every day of the year special for me with his wonderful photos. Hi,keep visiting this blog often, but commenting for the first time. I dont find it wierd if you go to a cemetery to take mind off things, where else will you go? the metro:PIs this the same cenetery in Montmarte that is seen in 'Paris J'et aime'? I have never been to Paris, but Montmarte is one location i keep a keen eye on thanks to the French comedy - Amelie:) take careciao

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We all know that RiRi and Breezy had one of the most colorful history among celebrity couples. The pair had a roller coaster romance and have broken up and rekindled their relationship a couple of times before permanently calling it quits in 2014. Now some fans are panicking that Rihanna maybe missing her ex-boyfriend and could rekindle their old flame. The Bajan pop beauty posted a pic of herself a few weeks back and captioned it, “When you hang up on em, then call right back. #firstofallimcrazy #secondofalliwasntdone.” Chris Brown has a song on his new album Heartbreak On a Full Moon titled “Other Ni**as” where he sing some similar lines. “Oh girl, why you gotta be like that? (Girl, like that) / Why gotta hang up on me then you call right back? (Back) / How you compare me to them ni**as that you gave your heart to? (Heart to),” Chris Brown sings. Rihanna made her Instagram post a few days before Brown drop the album and some fans are now saying that he might have given her a copy of the project before it was released, which means that they are secretly communicating with each other. On the other hand, it could be just share coincidence that RiRi made a quote identical to Breezy’s lyrics just a few days before he drop an album, just how likely is that. Listen to the full song “Other Ni**as” below.

Home/Uncategorised/Need to sell your home fast? Hire a professional interior designer Apr24 Need to sell your home fast? Hire a professional interior designer 24th April 2018 0 Comment(s) Whether you’ve just bought a new property, or are planning on selling, designing and decorating a whole home can be a mammoth task. Where do you start? What colours should you go for? And what fabrics will look fantastic? Most of all, how much will it all cost? Hiring an interior designer can give you the talent, experience and perspective you need to help save you time, effort and money. From a resale point of view, homes that have had the touch of a talented professional are generally more attractive and easier to sell. Brands spend thousands of pounds trying to get the right look and feel for their products. Whole teams are dedicated to this process, from the product development and packaging design right through to the marketing. When your home is likely to be one of your biggest investments, it makes sense that your approach should be the same. At Mood Interiors, we believe that hiring a professional interior designer can help sell your home for a higher price and more quickly. Here’s why: Boost your home’s appeal In America, many home sellers realise the value of investing in interior design before they put their house up for sale. However, in the UK, this isn’t necessarily the case. It only takes a quick glance at the online property portals to see lots of dreary houses for sale. Many of them are poorly decorated, unstyled and photographed in a bad light. An interior designer can make your home stand out from the crowd and cause people to stand up and take notice when they spot it for sale. What’s more, when they come to view, they won’t be disappointed. Accentuate the benefits Interior designers can work the space available to the best of its ability and are likely to spot plus points you might not have noticed. This will allow you to accentuate every benefit your property offers and potentially ask a higher price. Create a coherent home A house that is a mishmash of styles, furniture and colours can be jarring on the eye and turn buyers off. That’s why before putting it on the market, it’s important to ensure that everything in your home flows together seamlessly. An interior designer can help you use styles, colours and patterns to help achieve this. Fetch a higher price It might sound odd, but the phrase ‘spend money to make money’ rings true when it comes to employing an interior designer to help sell your home. Not only will they be able to frame your home in the best light possible, they’re likely to increase its perceived value. Overall, you’re likely to see a real return on investment that pays the interior designer fee many times over. Create a more universal look As a home owner, it’s easy to get caught up in the interiors that you love and suit your personality. But naturally, not all people will feel the same about your baroque wallpaper or family photo wall. Good interior designers aren’t just skilled in creating interiors that suit your personality, they also have a knack for styling homes in a universally appealing way. Because you never know what people will like or dislike, this ability to create a show home vibe can be highly valuable and significantly broaden your pool of potential purchasers. At Mood Interiors, we help people like you frame your home in the best light possible – whether you’re selling or staying put. If you’re looking to add that special something to your property, why not contact us?

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My View: Funding for the future Created on Friday, 16 January 2015 00:00 | Written by Joe Robertson | For decades, medical research — and the cures and treatments it has discovered — have meant hope for millions of American living with disease and disability. But in recent years, those hopes have been clouded as Congress continues to significantly underfund the National Institutes of Health. The funding agreement for the 2015 fiscal year that Congress approved recently does little to improve the situation. The agreement appropriately includes a boost in funding for Ebola research, but it provides only a small increase in funding for the rest of the NIH’s budget — which was cut by a disabling $1.7 billion two years ago and has been largely flat over the past 10 years. The small increase for 2015 — about one-half of 1 percent — won’t allow NIH funding to even keep pace with inflation. All of us associated with Oregon Health & Science University — health care providers, scientists and patients — are relieved that Congress at least avoided a government shutdown in approving the agreement. But we are disappointed that the spending bill fails to adequately fund the lifesaving research the NIH supports. And we will continue to call on Congress to fund the NIH appropriately, and give U.S. medical researchers the support they need to lead the world. For nearly 70 years, the nation’s research investment through the NIH has improved our understanding of the causes of disease, increased life expectancy, and enhanced the health and well-being of Americans everywhere. Every day, health care professionals and scientists throughout the nation, including at OHSU, see the hope that medical research brings. NIH-funded research has led to a decline of more than 60 percent in deaths from heart disease and stroke. NIH-supported advances also have led to a test to predict breast cancer recurrence, the discovery of genetic markers for complex illnesses, improved asthma treatments, and the near-elimination of HIV transmission between mother and child. At OHSU, NIH funding has allowed us to make medical and scientific breakthroughs in cancer, stem cell research and infectious diseases, among many other areas. With funding from the NIH, Brian Druker, director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, helped develop Gleevec, a breakthrough drug for chronic myeloid leukemia that also served as proof that targeted cancer treatment could work. Patients who once were expected to live three to five years now have a normal life expectancy because of the drug. In recent years, other OHSU scientists have used NIH funding to make significant advances in the quest to employ stem cells to cure disease, in uncovering the epigenetic basis for chronic diseases, and in developing a vaccine that may someday wipe out HIV infection from the body. Rebuilding the NIH budget also would be good for our country’s fiscal health. The research funded by NIH that mostly occurs at our nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals creates skilled jobs, new products, and improved technologies. In 2012, NIH-funded research supported more than 400,000 jobs across the country. Last year, the federal government provided OHSU scientists with $272 million in support for medical research, including $232 million from the NIH. That money not only helps our scientists continually make advances in treating and curing disease, it also provides a significant economic impact for the state of Oregon — an economic impact that was measured at more than $600 million for the 2009 fiscal year. The economic impact is undoubtedly larger today. But this issue is about much more than economic impact, of course. This issue is about treating disease, curing disease — and providing hope. Americans want cures, not cuts. OHSU and the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals urge Congress to restore the NIH budget and reaffirm medical research as a national priority.

Mover How Can You Avoid Being Scammed by a Mover? How do you pick the right mover, especially when the industry is known for discreditable companies looking to scam their next customer? Avoid being the next victim of a disreputable mover by learning the tricks of these fraudulent companies and educating yourself on the smart way to choose a reputable mover in your area. The Today Show recently featured a segment on "How to Avoid Being Scammed by movers." In order to avoid these scams, it's critical that you know how to spot them. Get to know the top scams that can be attempted by a mover as identified by The Today Show: The Hostage Bait and Switch Trumped Up Delivery Charges Late (or Never) Delivery Reckless Abandonment Now that you are familiar with the nicknames of common moving scams, let's go into detail about what each of these terms mean. The Today Show segment explained the way a disreputable mover gets away with these popular scams as follows: The Hostage: A mover provides you with an estimate, only to add extras on once they have your belongings in their possession. Basically, their estimate is not valid, and they can tack on as many additional costs as they'd like - doubling or tripling the cost of your move. If you want your furniture back, you have to conceded and pay the additional cost. Bait and Switch: A mover will provide you with an estimate for the cost of your move, and then switch this arranged deal at the last minute. They sell you on a low price, but in the end, the cost of your move ends up being nothing close to what you agreed to. Trumped Up Delivery Charges: A mover will tack on additional charges based on unfounded reasons. Say the mover gave you an estimate based on weight. After your valuables are on their truck, they then charge you extra claiming the cubic feet have exceeded the weight estimate of your goods. Since this is impossible to calculate, you're stuck paying the fees or forsaking your goods. Other common trumped up charges include saying packing was not included in your estimate, charging more because your goods weren't totally packed and ready for the move and so on. Late (or Never) Delivery: This scam may be the worst of the bunch. A mover will come and pack, load and promise to deliver your belongings "on-time." Then, they call saying your goods are in the back of a truck behind two other peoples' belongings, so you can't receive your furniture until theirs is delivered first. Or, if the mover has a licensing violation and their truck is impounded in transit by the Department of Transportation, all your valuables are stuck on board until the truck is released. Either of these situations result in your goods being delivered weeks late...or not at all. Reckless Abandonment: This happens often with a rogue mover. A fly by the night mover will take your money, load your belongings, then close up shop and flee, abandoning your shipment either on the truck or in a private storage facility. This scam allows the mover to take off with your money and your belongings. If you are lucky enough to find where your belongings ended up, expect to pay exorbitant amounts of money to retrieve them from the storage locale. Don't Fall Into the Traps Set by a Disreputable Mover! So, now that you know the common rip-offs and scams executed by a shady mover, how can you avoid these common pitfalls many individuals and families fall into when moving? Do not despair; not all movers are despicable. Having a successful, affordable relocation performed by a professional mover does not have to be a pipe dream. Below are some tips for choosing a mover for a happy, successful relocation: Check the Company's Address: A REAL mover will have a REAL address. Once you get the address, make sure you Google it or drive to the location to verify its legitimacy. Ask for Recommendations from Friends, Family and Neighbors: One of the best ways to find a great mover? Word of mouth from people they have moved before. Ask your Real Estate Agent: Real estate agents help people move all the time. They are a great source for a reputable mover. Get Three Competitive In-Home Estimates: Get three estimates from three different moving companies. If there is a significant disparity, this will help you to easily identify a fraud. Choose a mover who Bases Price off Weight, Not Cubic Feet: This will help guarantee and lock in the estimate they provide you initially. Check the mover's Complaint History: If a mover has more than eight complaints on a given complaint website (Better Business Bureau, etc.), then you might want to rethink electing them as your mover. How to Protect Yourself from a Mover's Scams There are some simple steps you can take to prevent falling into scams with a mover, and certain things you should never do when moving. Heed this advice, and benefit from a happier (and cheaper) move: Don't Fall for a Front Company: Double check that the mover has a real address, and is not just some rogue mover representing its website as an actual business. Do Not Give a Deposit: A mover that demands a deposit upfront likely has an agenda other than securely moving your belongings - like taking your money and running. If a mover demands a deposit, move on to a different company. Do NOT Pay Cash: Paying cash is asking for trouble. When you pay cash, there is no evidence of a transaction. Therefore, if your things aren't moved, or even worse, you don't get them back, you have no evidence of ever having paid for service. Make Sure the Truck is Branded: Real moving companies have real moving trucks, complete with branding and logos. To make sure crooks do not drive off with your valuables, check the truck for a company logo. Do Not Sign a Partial Contract: You would never sign a loan agreement, pre-nup or binding contract of other sorts with blanks; the same rule applies for moving contracts. Make sure the contract is complete and all filled in before signing anything. Do Not Agree to a Skinny Contract: Make sure you sign a complete moving contract, or one that is more than two pages. All of your goods should be listed on the contract. Buy Extra Insurance: A reputable mover will offer additional types of moving insurance to ensure you can have the highest protection should something happen to your valuables during the move. Allied Van Lines offers Full Valuation Coverage that totally protects your shipment should damage or loss occur. Ask About the Mover's Claims Policy: Find out more about how the company processes claims in the event you should need to file one. Should you file a claim, you want to make sure it is handled quickly and properly. You Deserve a Great Relocation Experience with a Professional Mover Everyone should be entitled to a secure, sound relocation at a fair price. By knowing the common scams carried out by a mover, using the tips to selecting a reputable mover and avoiding the things NOT to do during your move, you too, can enjoy a hassle-free, economic move experience. Use these three checklists and the valuable information provided by contributors on The Today Show to avoid common moving scams, saving you money and headaches. Allied Van Lines - Your Choice for a Reputable, Professional Mover Allied wants you to know that moving does not have to be overwhelming. Now, more than ever, we believe people should be able to have a professional mover handle their relocation while still receiving a fair price. Begin by allowing yourself plenty of time to move, and Allied can help you get organized regarding the rest. Choosing a Reputable Mover: How To Today's economic climate is anything but certain. Foreclosures are upwards of 30%, and people are being smarter, and more conscious, about where their money is going. People who are not relishing in this economic downturn are the most likely to become victims of moving scams. They search for the mover with the best price, not knowing that these "too good to be true" movers often are. With more than 85 years of experience in the moving business, Allied Van Lines knows the ins and outs of the industry. And, since we are a reputable moving company, we can tell you exactly how to choose a professional mover. We know you want a great move at a fair price. Here are some tips on how to choose a mover who can provide you with just that: Begin the search for the perfect mover 8 weeks prior to your move. If you aren't lucky enough to have that much time, start as soon as possible. Ask for references. Check with others around you who have recently moved for their recommendations on a great mover. Make a list of the services you need. Be sure to consider everything, from temporary storage to shipping your car to ensure you get the most accurate price, and more importantly, choose a mover who can accommodate your needs. Research companies thoroughly. Look for companies in your area that can provide the specific services you need. Eliminate those companies that do not meet your requirements. Get multiple in-home estimates. Make sure the estimate is done at your home, and have multiple companies perform them to compare costs. Use these helpful tips to help find the best mover. Just Remember: Cheapest is not always best. What may seem like a great deal upfront can actually end up costing you MUCH more in the end. Now that you know how to start the search for a superior mover, here are some tips on what to look for in a reputable mover: The mover's credentials: Make sure the mover is licensed, insured and bonded; registered with the Department of Transportation; check its standing with the Better Business Bureau; check to make sure its address is legitimate. A physical address: Visit the company's location or double-check that their address is valid on the internet. Branded trucks and uniformed men: If a plain, rental looking truck shows up at your door, be wary. Clean complaint history: Asking for a spotless complaint history may be excessive, but make sure there is not too much negative press about the company. Bill of Lading and Rights and Responsibilities: A reputable mover will give you a Bill of Lading and your Rights and Responsibilities. You are entitled to these documents and a copy of your contract during your move. If your mover is professional, you will receive copies of these documents. Finding a Mover is Easy When You Know What to Look For... and What to Avoid Now, you're educated about moving scams thanks to The Today Show's segment "How to Avoid Being Scammed by movers," and you have nearly fail-proof tips to choosing the right mover and being protected during the move. Arm yourself with these tips to avoid being scammed by a mover! Don't make a relocation nightmare become your reality by unknowingly choosing a rogue or disreputable mover. Now, more than ever, watching where every penny goes is of the utmost importance. Help protect your bank account - and your personal belongings - by working with a professional mover whose first priority is your successful relocation. Allied Van Lines - Your Mover of Choice At Allied Van Lines, we are committed to providing stress-free relocations at fair prices. We realize how you need a secure move, but you also need an affordable price. Contact us today to arrange your FREE IN-HOME MOVING ESTIMATE, and get your move started off on the right foot. We look forward to handling all your moving needs as your mover of choice. Submit request for a FREE moving quote Uncheck this box if you do not agree to our privacy policy or be contacted at a number you provided (including by automated dialing.) By submitting my information, I agree to the Term of Use and Privacy Policy. By submitting my information, I consent to being contacted by Allied Van Lines regarding moving opportunities at the phone number I provided, including mobile number, using an automated telephone dialing system. X What our customers say Allied Van Lines Everything went perfectly. The driver did not load. The driver was not available to load so the local agent's crew did the loading. The driver picked up everything from the warehouse. Allied Van Lines The delay in the delivery of my goods, from the big spread that was given originally. I performed the majority but the agent's crew packed the fragile. I was told the driver making the delivery was going to be loading, but an intermediate group did that. Allied Van Lines Allied Van Lines All segments of the move were made extremely easy by personnel. My contact with the company was excellent. She was on top of everything and kept in perfect communication with me. They were efficient and they were as good as they could be. The driver was excellent and he was also very efficient to where I wanted special care taken. Allied Van Lines Allied Van Lines The conduct and professionalism of all of the crew. The local agent's crew was great. They even unpacked some things for me. They were very helpful . He fixed a crack in the track for the drawer & put it back together. They were very flexible. Allied Van Lines We moved from a different state. The movers themselves, how accommodating they were, we've never done a big move, movers were terrific, long day for them who said do you want us to stay, nice people. The driver was the only one at both locations. We had to change up the time, that backed things up a bit, instead of meeting at 8 we met at noon. They were flexible in accommodating. Exchanged #'s.

Measuring the ratio of someone's waist to their height is a better way of predicting their life expectancy than body mass index (BMI), the method widely used by doctors when judging overall health and risk of disease, researchers said. BMI is calculated as a person's weight in kilograms divided by the square of their height in metres, but a study found that the simpler measurement of waistline against height produced a more accurate prediction of lifespan. People with the highest waist-to-height ratio, whose waistlines measured 80 per cent of their height, lived 17 years fewer than average. Keeping your waist circumference to less than half of your height can help prevent the onset of conditions like stroke, heart disease and diabetes and add years to life, researchers said. For a 6ft man, this would mean having a waistline smaller than 36in, while a 5ft 4in woman should have a waist size no larger than 32in.

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To What Have I Been Up? I should blog more. I know. It’s good for business. What have I not been blogging? I’m distracted by work. What work? Improving the Rapid Software Testing methodology and training. I am going through an interesting transformation with it. I feel like I am nearing the top of a mountain, and soon I will be able to see down the other side. Not yet, though. Not quite yet. The grand book, to which my career has been building, will have to wait, as will the big blog posts. The most up-to-date material and ideas I put into my classes and talks. I try it out on students who come to me over Skype. I explore better ways of testing. But the real focus of my work– my passion– is to clearly understand and precisely explain the processes of deep testing as I and the best testers I know already do it. That knowledge is largely tacit, but we find ways to illuminate it and methods to help people grow it. To some degree I can make it explicit, and the parts I can’t make explicit I can still make relatable. For what it’s worth, here are some of the things I’ve been working on: Exploratory processes are not merely a form of search, they nearly always processes of personal transformation. The Bootstrap Approach: Begin in confusion; end in precision. The mentalities of a tester are much more important than the techniques of testing. The Test Management Lens: a heuristic for getting clear on the status of testing. Integrated view of regression testing that wraps up all the common ideas about it.

Understanding Physically Based Rendering in Arnold Designing materials based on physical laws can tremendously simplify shading and lighting, even when we do not necessarily strive for realism or physical accuracy. By understanding and applying a few principles, we can make images that are more believable, and create materials that behave more predictably in different lighting setups. In modern renderers, physically based rendering refers to concepts like energy conservation, physically plausible scattering and layering in materials and linear color spaces. Arnold is a physically based renderer, but it also lets you break the rules and create materials and lights that do not obey the laws of physics if you wish. In this document, we'll explain the underlying theory and how to set up your shaders to follow these principles. In rendering we simulate photons emitted from lights, traveling through the air and bouncing off surfaces and through volumes, eventually ending up on a camera sensor. The combination of millions of photons on the camera sensor then forms the rendered image. This means that from a physics point of view, surface shaders describe how the surface interacts with photons. Photons hitting an object can be absorbed, reflect off the surface, refract through the surface, or scatter around inside the object. The combination of these components results in a wide variety of materials. Energy Conservation Unless an object is a light source that emits photons, it can't return more energy than is being contributed by the incoming light. For a material to be energy conserving the number of photons leaving the surface should be smaller or equal to the number of incoming photons. If a material is not energy conserving, materials will appear overly bright and render with increased noise, especially when using global illumination. To keep materials energy conserving, the weight and color of material components should never exceed 1. Further, we must be careful to ensure that the combination of all components is energy conserving, which we'll explain in detail later. Materials At the microscopic level, object surfaces are intricately detailed. For rendering, we do not use geometry to represent all of this detail, but rather use statistical models than having easy to understand parameters. Arnold's StandardSurface shadermodel objects with one or two specular layers, and a diffuse or transparent interior. This model can represent a wide variety of materials. Let's look at the individual components. Diffuse and Subsurface Scattering First, consider the diffuse interior. Incoming photons will enter the object, scatter around inside and either get absorbed or leave the object at another location. If photons scatter many times, we get a diffuse appearance, due to photons leaving the surface in many different locations and directions. For materials like skin, photons can scatter relatively far under the surface giving a very soft appearance, which we render with subsurface scattering. For materials like unfinished wood, photons do not scatter very far which gives a harder appearance, and we render these as diffuse. For thin objects like leaves, the photons can scatter all the way to the other side of the object, which we render as diffuse SSS with thin_wall enabled. Note that fundamentally all of these types of materials have the same underlying physical mechanism, even though we provide separate controls for them in the shader. The diffuse interior also typically has the biggest influence on the overall color of the material. Each photon has an associated wavelength, and depending on the properties of the material some photons with some wavelengths are more likely to be absorbed than others. This, in turn, means that photons with some wavelengths are more likely to leave the surface, which will give it a colored appearance. The skin of a red apple mostly reflects red light. Only the red wavelengths are scattered back outside the apple skin, and the others are absorbed by it. Energy Conservation A single photon can only participate in one of the diffuse, subsurface scattering and backlighting components, for physical correctness we do not want more photons leaving the surface than entering. For Standard Surface, it is automatically ensured that the sum of these components is not higher than 1. Specular Scattering Specular Roughness 0 to 1 Roughness The specular layer is modeled using a microfacet distribution. We assume that the surface consists of microscopic faces oriented in random directions. A surface with low roughness such as a mirror will have little variation between the faces, resulting in sharp reflections. With high roughness there will be a lot of variation resulting in softer, glossy reflections. A strong Specular highlight is visible on the apple. Note the table's specular reflection which is broad and dull (high Specular Roughness value). To get variation in the highlights of the surface, a map should be connected to the Specular Roughness. This will influence not only the brightness of the highlight but also it's size and the sharpness of the environmental reflection. Low Specular Roughness High Specular Roughness 'Scratches' texture connected to Specular Roughness Transmission Photons can not only be reflected off the surface, but can refract through it as well. Photons will pass through the specular layer, typically changing direction when exiting on the other side of the layer, controlled by the index of refraction (IOR). If the interior of the surface is transparent, such as for clear glass, then photons can pass through the object and exit on the other side. If there is a diffuse interior, the photon can scatter inside the object and get absorbed or exit the object again. The more refractive the specular layer, the more the underlying diffuse interior will be visible. For materials like metals, photons refracting through the specular are often immediately absorbed, and so the diffuse interior is not visible. Fresnel The percentage of photons reflected or refracted by the specular layer is view dependent. When looking at surfaces head on, most light is refracted, while at grazing angles most light is reflected. This is called the Fresnel effect. The index of refraction controls exactly how this effect varies with the viewing angle. Variation of a Specular BRDF with respect to the view direction Opacity and Transmission Opacity is best understood as a way to model surface geometry using textures. It does not affect how photons interact with the surface, but rather indicates where the surface's geometry is absent and the photons can pass straight through. Ramp texture connected to the opacity A typical use for opacity would be a sprite type of effect, such as cutting out the shape of a leaf from a polygon card or making the tips of hair strands transparent. Be warned however that scenes containing many opacity sprites (for example tree leaves) can slow down rendering considerably. Leaf Opacity: Enabled Leaf Opacity: Disabled Alpha map connected to Opacity Transmission depth is similar, but rather than the surface it controls the density of the object interior. Denser volumes will absorb more photons as they pass through the interior, making the object darker where it is thicker.

O'Brien made these claims in the TranceFormation of America (1995) and Access Denied: For Reasons of National Security (2004) which she co-authored with Mark Phillips.[6] O'Brien is one of many people publicly claiming to have survived government-sponsored mind control programs. O'Brien claims to have been abused since she was a toddler. Forced to partake in satanic sadomasochistic child pornography movies produced for Gerald Ford, she was eventually sold to the CIA, which was looking for traumatized children for their mind-control program ... U.S. Presidents Ford, [and many other world leaders] all sexually brutalized her. She recounts in graphic detail how the elder George Bush raped her thirteen year old daughter and how she was forced to have oral sex with Illuminati witch Hillary Clinton ... While being sodomized, whipped, bound and raped, O'Brien overheard the globalist elite planning a military coup in the United States and conspiring to usher in the satanic New World Order. (Gardell, 97-98) On websites, O'Brien claims she was rescued in 1988, which suggests that her daughter Kelly was no more than eight years old when last abused. Phillips stated in a Granada Forum lecture in 1996 that Kelly was in fact institutionalized when she was eight and has been raised in a mental institution. Although he has since distanced himself from studies in mind control, licensed psychologist Corydon Hammond seems to confirm as credible accounts similar to O'Brien's in a speech he delivered on June 25, 1992 at at the Fourth Annual Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality entitled "Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse" [7]. His critics now refer to it as "The Greenbaum Speech." Hammond states: I've treated and been involved with cases who are part of this original mind-control project as well as having their programming on military reservations in many cases. We find a lot of connections with the CIA. My best guess is that the purpose of it is that they want an army of Manchurian Candidates, tens of thousands of mental robots who will do prostitution, do child pornography, smuggle drugs, engage in international arms smuggling, do snuff films, all sorts of very lucrative things and do their bidding and eventually the megalomaniacs at the top believe they'll create a Satanic Order that will rule the world."[8] These and other assertions and observations made in the speech show that Corydon Hammond agrees with O'Brien's contention that governmental mind control programs continue to function. Critics of recovered memories such as the False Memory Syndrome Foundation are quick to add that recovered memories are not accepted without question by mental health professionals. O'Brien has stated that her knowledge of her purported abuse was gained at least partially through accessing recovered memories.[6] Within the subculture of conspiracy believers, O'Brien has her critics. Writing in his book, Cyberculture Counterconspiracy: A Steamshovel Web Reader, author Kenn Thomas states that conspiracy author Martin Cannon considers both O'Brien and Phillips to be "frauds" who are using real details of Project Monarch to "embellish a dog and pony show", presumably for financial gain.[1]Mattias Gardell notes that O'Brien's claims are almost entirely unsupported by any evidence outside her testimony or the similarly unverified testimony of others.[9]

Almost all the Linux hosting providers provide cpanel as a control panel for managing websites. Backup is important for protecting your website data from unintentional loss. Sometimes a Full backup is also required at times you plan to migrate your website to another host. Lets learn how to create a complete backup of your site using the cpanel. The complete backup will include - Home Directory MySQL Databases Email forwarders configuration Email filters configuration All your data will be backed up on a single zip files, which you may download upon the completion of the backup. Lets Proceed with the cPanel Backup Procedure - Login to your website’s cpanel Look for ‘Backup Wizard‘ icon under the ‘Files‘ Group. Open ‘Backup Wizard‘ You’ll get two options ‘Backup‘ and ‘Restore‘ Click on ‘Backup‘ Now you’ll get option for ‘Full Backup‘ or ‘Partial Backup‘ your website data Select ‘Full Backup‘ Now select a Backup Destination You can select ‘Home Directory’, which will store the completed backup in your hosting home directory itself. which you can then download it to your home computer. You can select the ‘Remote FTP Server’ or FTP (Passive Mode Transfer) to directly store your completed backup to a remote server. You can also opt for Email alert on Backup Completion, tick the round check-box and enter you email id. Or otherwise tick the second box. Finally click on ‘Generate Backup‘ cPanel will now begin the backup process to generate a full backup of your data. You can then download the completed backup on your computer or the cpanel will automatically perform the action as you selected in Backup Destination option.

Since I am such a rational person that loves automating stuff, I will give you the top reasons why I have stopped following you on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin or any other social media I am active. You keep repeating yourself. If you keep re-tweeting your own blog posts to get as much traffic as possible to it, I will March 27, 2013 Copyright All written material of this site is my personal property, so I reserve the right to the material. Please send me a mail and ask nicely if you want to use any of it in your publication.

Inter-Korea Joint Korean Taekwondo Performance Held at Seoul City Hall Write 2018-02-12 18:50:28, Update 2018-02-12 18:54:30 Taekwondo athletes from South and North Korea have put on a joint performance in Seoul. The hour-long taekwondo demonstration, including a ten-minute joint session, was held at Seoul City Hall on Monday afternoon in front of an audience of around 250 people, including Choue Chung-won, head of the Seoul-based World Taekwondo, and Ri Yong-son, head of the Pyongyang-based International Taekwondo Federation. It marked the third show of its kind since the North Korean team arrived in the South to celebrate the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The two previous ones were held during the opening ceremony of Winter Games last Friday and in Sokcho, Gangwon Province on Saturday. The North Koreans will return to the North after a fourth joint performance to be held at MBC in Sangam-dong in western Seoul on Wednesday.

Find a school online in 3 easy steps 2 Music Schools in Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn, New York Music Schools in Brooklyn, New York Site Evaluation There are 2 music schools in Brooklyn, New York. The largest music school in Brooklyn, by student population, is CUNY Brooklyn College, which has 17,094 students. The school's website has a Google Page Rank of 7. The school appears to maintain its site on a regular basis, as is indicated by the fact that there are not many broken links just one click away from the homepage. Visual Preferences Color The colors used on websites for the only music schools in Brooklyn are as follows: CUNY Brooklyn College: white 60% and purple 3.6% Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus: grey 22% Font The fonts used on websites for the only music schools in Brooklyn are as follows: CUNY Brooklyn College: Sans serif Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus: Arial Social Presence Both music schools in Brooklyn have Facebook pages. Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus's page has 6,276 "likes". CUNY Brooklyn College's page has 5,638 "likes". The only music school in Brooklyn with a YouTube channel is CUNY Brooklyn College. Its YouTube channel has 66 subscribers. Both music schools in Brooklyn have been bookmarked on Delicious. CUNY Brooklyn College has been bookmarked 17 times. Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus has been bookmarked 15 times. Web Metrics The Brooklyn music school website that receives the greatest number of unique visitors belongs to Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus. This is indicated by the fact that Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus's site has a Compete Rank of 22,892, the highest Compete Rank of music school websites in Brooklyn. And the Brooklyn music school website that is considered the most authoritative by SEOMoz belongs to Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus. It has a SEOMoz Page Authority rank of 70.8.

NRCC’s Independent Expenditure Is Armed With Shields As a self-described “political nerd,” Shields considers Margaret Thatcher and President Ronald Reagan to be his surrogate political parents. In school while his classmates were protesting NATO’s nuclear missiles based in the U.K., Shields wore a “Peace Through Strength” button on his uniform. Shields returned to the U.S. for college and was scheduled to graduate in 1992, but little by little his part-time political work became full time, and he still hasn’t finished his degree at GMU. George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove has a similar line on his résumé. In July 1996, Shields moved to Georgia to become communications director for Friends of Newt Gingrich, the then-Speaker’s campaign operation. Six months later, Shields returned to D.C. to become his national political spokesman and ended up working with Gingrich for five years. After a very brief foray in the federal work force following the election of Bush, Shields returned to elections work. (“I figured out I’m a campaign person, a political person,” Shields said.) He moved to Alabama and managed the gubernatorial campaign for Tim James, son of the former governor. James was thumped by Rep. Bob Riley in the June 2002 primary, finishing third with 9 percent. Then Shields moved north to Pennsylvania to handle press for Rep. George Gekas (R), who was locked in a battle with Democratic Rep. Tim Holden after redistricting threw the two incumbents into the same newly drawn district. Gekas lost by 2 points but recently called Shields “the best-versed operative that I had run into, that was D.C.-based.” Eight years later, Holden is on the extended list of GOP targets that Shields might choose to invest in this fall. Shields spent two years at the NRCC as research director before applying to be chief of staff for Reichert. “We had all the same values: wanting to serve the country and having the heart of a servant,” Reichert said. “I offered him the job right there.” Just three months into Reichert’s first term, GOP leadership in the House moved to intervene in the Terri Schiavo right-to-die controversy. “It was one of [my] first and most important decisions,” Reichert said. According to the Congressman, Shields fostered a healthy debate among the staff and, ultimately, Reichert voted against intervening, putting him at odds with the majority of his party members, who sought to prevent removal of Schiavo’s feeding tube. In early 2009, Shields was hired again by the NRCC to be director of special projects. At the time, Democrats were riding high and it looked like Republicans might be headed for a third straight difficult election cycle. Shields’ résumé made him an excellent candidate for the NRCC. Now, the environment has shifted but the Republicans’ confidence in Shields remains strong. “He’s a House Republican guy. This is what he knows and this is what he’s done,” said NRCC Deputy Executive Director Johnny DeStefano, who is also political director for House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio). “Mike has seen the operation on all sides. He has a good cross-section of experience to come back and lead this thing,” said Carl Forti, the former NRCC veteran who led the committee’s IE effort in 2006. “He knows the product is only as good as your research.”

A couple of years ago, a mechanical engineer met with Narendra Modi, who would later become India's Prime Minister. The engineer proposed a bold and radical idea that he said would completely change the Indian economy. The idea is called demonetization, and it happened six months ago. The government suddenly declared most of the paper money in circulation worthless. Citizens had a short time to turn in their stashes of cash for new bills. It was an effort to flush out corruption, get people to join the banking system and in the process, help the poor of India. In part one of this two-part series, we met the man behind demonetization, the engineer, Anil Bokil. Now in part two, we ask, did demonetization work? Modi had three problems he wanted to solve if the country relied less on cash: Corruption. Without cash, it's harder to hide money from the taxman. It's also harder to ask for a bribe or run a black market business. Businesses could be more competitive and grow faster by using banks and electronic payments. More people would have to use banks, and not keep all their life savings in a drawer. This would keep their money safer. But, suddenly removing most of the cash in an economy, is very messy. It hurt. Demonetization has affected different people in a variety of a ways. We talked with farmers who don't trust credit cards, small shop owners who had to find new ways to sell their goods, and high tech companies trying to cash in. Today on the show, we evaluate Modi's demonetization plan ... report card style. How did this shock to a cash-dependent economy play out for a country of a billion people? This is the second part in our series on India's cash experiment. Last time, we told you the story of the mysterious man who came up with the idea of reducing India's dependence on cash. Today, we talk about how that idea played out in real life. STACEY VANEK SMITH, BYLINE: India is so addicted to cash that regular people keep piles of it in their houses under the sink, in drawers. SMITH: Most people don't use banks. They don't have credit cards. Cash is how people save money, little stacks of paper. VANEK SMITH: So imagine the chaos when India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, got on TV one night and said pretty much all the cash you have is worthless. It was called demonetization. SMITH: Modi said he was doing this to fight corruption, known around there as black money. Black Money is money that's outside the tax system. VANEK SMITH: Modi said you have eight weeks to round up all of your old cash and trade it in at the bank for these new bills we've just minted. SMITH: As you can imagine, in the weeks afterwards, there were giant lines at the banks, panic. But even six months later, people were discovering old money in the bookshelf or something and freaking out. VANEK SMITH: When I visited New Delhi, you could see people lined up in front of the central bank. The deadline to change old money had passed months ago, and each person there had a story about why they had missed the deadline, like Gurdeep Sagoo. Gurdeep came here today on behalf of his mother. She was sick during the money chaos, and he had this official-looking paper from the doctor. And so what is it? What does the paper say? GURDEEP SAGOO: Paper said that she was in a coma. VANEK SMITH: She was in a coma, so she could not change her money. SAGOO: Yeah. SMITH: Fourteen thousand rupees, about $210, his mother's life savings. She had hidden it in her house, but she didn't tell anyone because she was in a coma. VANEK SMITH: Gurdeep took the day off of work and came to the bank to plead his mother's case, but bank officials said no dice, it's too late. The money is worthless. How does it feel to look at that money now? SAGOO: Well, it's blank paper. It's my hard money from my mother. VANEK SMITH: I mean, how do you feel about all this? SAGOO: Upset. VANEK SMITH: Upset. Demonetization caused all kinds of chaos in India. Businesses went bankrupt because nobody had cash to buy anything. People died of heart attacks in the long lines. Some people committed suicide when they realized that they didn't have enough time to change out all their money. About half the country doesn't even use bank accounts. SMITH: And the government had not prepared for this. They didn't make enough new cash, so parts of India were without money for weeks. And the new cash they printed didn't fit into the old ATMs. As public policy goes, this was a disaster. VANEK SMITH: And I expected Gurdeep to be really angry at the government for taking away his mother's life savings and for all the trouble this caused but he wasn't. SAGOO: On the whole, it was a good way. VANEK SMITH: Really? SAGOO: Yeah. VANEK SMITH: Why? OK, why? You have to explain this to me because it doesn't make any sense to me. SAGOO: Well, black money and other monies that has to be replaced but with the condition that it should not affect the common people. VANEK SMITH: But it did. SAGOO: Yeah. It's still affecting. VANEK SMITH: But you still like it. SAGOO: Even then. Even then. VANEK SMITH: Gurdeep was not an exception. Almost everyone I talked to in India told me the same thing. Yes, it's been hard for me. Yes, a lot of people were harmed, but the government did the right thing. SMITH: Which is striking. I mean, six months ago, the prime minister of India basically dropped a bomb on the economy. Now polls show he's never been more popular. Somehow, this whole thing, it was a hit. VANEK SMITH: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this economic shock therapy was necessary. It was the only way to solve the country's corruption problem and pull India's economy into the 21st century. SMITH: Today on the show, six months later, we will give demonetization a report card. Did it work? (SOUNDBITE OF FLAVIO LEMELLE'S "CHEEKY TONGUES") SMITH: When Prime Minister Modi decided to take away his country's cash, he said this will make India better. And he gave three main reasons for that. VANEK SMITH: The first reason was corruption because without cash, it is harder to hide money from the tax man. It is also harder to pay a bribe or run a black market. Criminals love cash, so take the cash away, it makes their lives harder. SMITH: The second reason was the modernization of the Indian economy. Businesses, he said, could be more competitive, could grow faster if they used banks and electronic payments instead of paper. VANEK SMITH: The third reason was that Modi said regular people would be safer and better off if they were not keeping their life savings in a drawer, if they had access to modern financial help. SMITH: So that's why Modi made cash scarce in India - eliminated the large bills, put limits on new bills and basically let everyone figure out how to deal with this new cashless society. VANEK SMITH: So I went to India six months after demonetization had happened to check in on these three goals, to see how India was coming along and see how demonetization was working. My first stop I went to talk to some farmers. Most of the population of India farms these little, tiny plots of land. Oh, there's a tractor that just pulled out in front of us. I drove out to Ghaziabad. It's a rural area outside of New Delhi. And here farmers work little half-acre plots all right next to each other. They grow tomatoes and celery and sugarcane. I found about a dozen farmers all standing together under a giant fig tree in the middle of all the fields. ASSAR PREMI: My name is Assar Premi. My age is 93. VANEK SMITH: Ninety-three. Assar says he and his friends meet here every morning and every evening. PREMI: They're my friends. Sit here, discuss everything here. VANEK SMITH: Really? Do you sit here many evenings? PREMI: Yes. VANEK SMITH: What do you talk about? PREMI: About our relationship, sometimes politics also. VANEK SMITH: (Laughter). Relationships and politics. Things are hard here. The farmers don't have much land. The crops they raise barely cover their expenses. And everything, all of the business here, it's all done in cash. SMITH: After Prime Minister Modi said a lot of that cash would be worthless in those first few weeks, farmers had a tough decision to make. I mean, obviously they had to work. They had to tend to their fields. But they also had to do something about their life savings in cash that was about to be rendered worthless. VANEK SMITH: Garunder Shodi, one of the farmers here under the fig tree, said he and all the farmers he knew had to leave the fields and go get in line at the bank. GARUNDER SHODI: There were some people who suffered a lot. There were queues since morning 6 o'clock, 5 o'clock, till night, 10 o'clock. There are people, hand-to-mouth people - there are so many poor people. SMITH: And these are people who could not afford to miss a day's wages standing in line totally panicked. And nobody had money to buy anything. Farmers couldn't sell their crops. SHODI: The small farmers also suffered. Seventy trucks of tomatoes were thrown on the road by farmers. Because of dismonetization (ph), there was no buyer. VANEK SMITH: No buyers for the tomatoes. And it's not like farmers can just be patient and wait it out. They have to harvest the food when it's ready. And when there were no buyers they just had to destroy their crops. During this time, farmers saw sales of produce drop in half. SMITH: I almost feel like the government wanted to punish people for using cash. It was such a pain for everyone in those first few weeks that it almost seems like they were trying to send a message, that hey, look, like, you would be way better off if you just used bank accounts, if you just had a credit card. VANEK SMITH: But after the lines at the banks got shorter, all the farmers I talked to just went back to using cash, like Harinder Singh, who grows greens and onions and these things. HARINDER SINGH: (Foreign language spoken). VANEK SMITH: Oh, eggplants. SINGH: (Foreign language spoken). VANEK SMITH: Yes, it's a little guy. And through a translator, Harinder told me that he is just too old to start trying to pay for things in a new way. SINGH: (Through interpreter) Cash is something I understand, so I would rather deal with cash. I don't understand these other things, so I'm happy with cash. VANEK SMITH: Harinder said to him, credit cards seemed dangerous, like someone could steal the number and use it. He wasn't exactly sure how they worked and it kind of freaked him out. He wants to stick with cash. SMITH: So we're going to try and grade how Modi's done on his objectives. And so one of the reasons for demonetization was to improve the lot of regular people in India, to improve the lot of farmers. I'm going to call this grade an incomplete because it seems like things were very bad and then went back to normal, mostly. People are still using cash. VANEK SMITH: Right. Nothing really changed, although the government has claimed that millions of people opened bank accounts in rural areas. From everything that I've seen and read, incomplete sounds about right. SMITH: OK, next up? VANEK SMITH: The suburbs of New Delhi, which were actually not too far from the fields. You could actually see a lot of the high-rises from the eggplant patch. And when you drive through them, it's really striking because it's all these, like, nice kind of high-rise buildings and they're all vacant. Empty building. Empty building. I wanted to see these buildings because they have become, like, a symbol of corruption in India. One of the main reasons Modi gave for demonetization was to fight corruption, black money. And Modi and his advisers felt like corruption was siphoning off the economic success of his country. Now, there are a lot of ways to hide cash in India, but these apartment buildings, this is where most of the black money in India was stored. AKHILESH TILOTIA: But real estate, of course, is the big gorilla. VANEK SMITH: Akhilesh Tilotia is the author of "The Making Of India." He says in fact, high rises like these are where most of the black money in India is stored, something like 25 percent of the country's GDP. SMITH: So here's how it works. Say you want to buy an apartment and the price is $125,000. Well, officially, you only pay $100,000. The extra $25,000 you slip to the owner in cash. Nobody talks about it. It doesn't get taxed. VANEK SMITH: So as the owner, you get $25,000 in untaxed money under the table, which is great. And as the buyer, you count on being able to do that same thing when you sell your apartment someday. But when Modi rolled out his demonetization plan that whole system just kind of shut down. TILOTIA: I am stuck. If you were sitting with an inventory of cash that becomes exposed, and suddenly that black money has disappeared because now you can't transact that house at a higher amount. You will find that builders are willing to offer anywhere between 10 to 30, 40 percent discounts. VANEK SMITH: That's a lot. That's a lot. TILOTIA: Yes. And so that has had a rather terrible shock for people who were hiding or putting away their black money in some of these places. SMITH: I mean, it is bad for the economy. Although from the government's point of view I can see how they might consider this a success, you know, thwarting this big pool of black money. And eventually prices will adjust and things will return back to normal but without the whole kickback part. VANEK SMITH: That is true. But it is still hard to know whether the actual goal of getting rid of corruption in India has been successful. I mean, the government was hoping that tax evaders and criminals would be stuck with these huge stacks of cash that they wouldn't have time to turn in, or when they turned them in the bank would suddenly see that they had all this cash that they hadn't been taxed on. SMITH: In other words, they would learn that crime does not pay. VANEK SMITH: They would learn that crime does not pay. But Bhaskar Chakravorti, an economist at Tufts University, says even after all that drama almost all of the cash in circulation in India still made its way back into the banking system. BHASKAR CHAKRAVORTI: Not all of that was legal cash. It just happened to be the case that India has - is extremely innovative in getting it on constraints. SMITH: Innovative. VANEK SMITH: Innovative. For instance, I talked to one banker who told me that he'd seen a bunch of his colleagues at the bank taking huge amounts of cash from rich clients and just changing it into new bills for a little fee. There were also stories of rich families asking their maids and drivers and cooks to stand in line for them and change out their cash. VANEK SMITH: Yeah. That feels right. And that's not terrible for six months later. SMITH: Not bad. Yeah, it is a long-term problem. Our next and final stop is a market in the city of New Delhi, where we will meet people who actually are making the best of a cashless economy after this. (SOUNDBITE OF HARLIN JAMES AND PAUL LEWIS' "YADA YADA") VANEK SMITH: For my final stop, I wanted to see how things had changed for the urban middle class in India. Remember, Modi believed that getting rid of large amounts of cash would help India move into the 21st century. Businesses, he said, could be more competitive and grow faster using banks and electronic payments. So I went right into the heart of New Delhi to this market to see what people there would tell me. Rawinda Bhardwaj is 66 and he owns a pharmacy stall in the market. RAWINDA BHARDWAJ: I'm running my pharmacy shop here since the last 35 years. VANEK SMITH: Yeah, you have a lot of prescriptions, I'm seeing, all the way up to the ceiling. This market was in a very middle-class neighborhood. It was a nice market. But even still, almost all of the businesses had only taken cash, including Rawinda. He was a cash man. He didn't like credit cards, didn't really understand how they worked. Mobile payments were totally out of the question for him. SMITH: But then demonetization happened. And in the weeks afterwards, you know, Rawinda's customers still needed their prescriptions, their medicine, and cash was no longer an option for him. VANEK SMITH: So Rawinda made himself figure it out. He started taking credit cards, and he even signed up for this mobile payment service called Paytm where people could pay for their prescriptions on their mobile phones. Has it been good for business to take the cards? BHARDWAJ: It's very good for business. VANEK SMITH: Now, six months later, about half of Rawinda's customers pay with Paytm or credit card. And he says they even buy a little bit more than they used do. Oh, these are your receipts. BHARDWAJ: Yes, receipts. This is all by credit card, by Paytm, by debit card, by check. VANEK SMITH: Rawinda now checks his deposits on his phone. He no longer has to walk to the bank with cash deposit every day. And he loves this. He's become such a convert that, in fact, he has stopped using cash himself. BHARDWAJ: My personal, all credit card. VANEK SMITH: Oh, you don't use cash anymore? BHARDWAJ: No, no, no, no need of cash - credit card. VANEK SMITH: Most of the stores in the market now take credit cards, and all the stores in the market take mobile payments from this company called Paytm. In fact, everywhere I went in India everybody was talking about Paytm and how big they'd gotten since demonetization. So I thought I would go check out the company. Oh, Paytm. Here we are. For Paytm, demonetization was like the greatest gift ever because when the government got rid of most of the cash in the country, it didn't really offer an alternative. Madhur Deora is the CFO of Paytm. And he said when Modi made his announcement, the company knew this was their moment. MADHUR DEORA: Then we sort of jumped into action. So we had front-page ads in the next day's newspapers. VANEK SMITH: Paytm wasn't exactly a household name, and so a lot of the ads were just like, hey, we are here. You can pay for stuff with us. Other ads were these kind of DIY instructions to businesses and employers, basically, explaining as simply and clearly as possible how to use the Paytm phone app, even how mobile payments worked. DEORA: One of the ads that we did we feel quite proud off. A quarter of that page was a cut out. So merchants could literally cut a quarter of that ad and just put that up and just fill in their name and their mobile number that they could put on the wall. VANEK SMITH: Once their name and their mobile number was on the wall, customers could use that information to pay them through the Paytm app. It was very simple. And businesses were desperate to do this. They were all signing up - little roadside vegetable stands, hardware stores, taxis - even temples started letting people leave offerings with Paytm. SMITH: Now, I know India is a big country, but the growth rates that Paytm was seeing was pretty amazing. Half a million people were signing up every day. A hundred and twenty million Indians now use Paytm. VANEK SMITH: And for the government, this is also good news because, unlike cash, Paytm transactions are trackable. They are taxable. Between the credit cards and the mobile apps, it was like this whole unseen part of the economy was suddenly out in the light. SMITH: So if you look specifically at the part of the Indian economy that was sort of on the verge of moving away from cash, anyway - if you look at them - the people we're talking about here - I mean, I'd give the grade satisfactory. VANEK SMITH: Yeah, satisfactory, for sure. SMITH: And as we talked about at the beginning, Modi does deserve some extra credit because, I've got to say, I've never seen a political official who changed an economy overnight, and people still approved of him. People still forgave him for what he did. VANEK SMITH: And it wasn't just a question of forgiveness. This move actually made Modi more popular. His approval ratings are now at 69 percent, which is incredible for a politician. And almost everyone I talked to in India supported Modi's demonetization plan, even people who'd really suffered because of it - actually, especially people who'd really suffered because of it. And when I asked them why, a lot of them told me that they stand in long lines all the time and deal with frustrating bureaucracy all the time. But all of a sudden, they're standing in line for a reason - to thwart corruption, to punish tax evaders. All of a sudden, standing in line and going through all this bureaucracy had a patriotic purpose. SMITH: You know, this explains a lot. When I was listening to the last episode, which was about Anil Bokil - he's the architect of this whole plan - he had this strange moment with you when he was talking about demonetization in an almost religious way. SMITH: And now I kind of understand it. Enlightenment means finding sort of a greater meaning and purpose in even the difficult things in life, and that's essentially what India is doing right now. VANEK SMITH: Yes. And I heard this from a lot of people, including Gurdeep Sagoo, the man whose mother lost her life savings because she went into a coma at the wrong moment. He was standing there with his mother's worthless cash in his hand, and he said he was just so fed up and so frustrated with all the corruption in his country. And it finally felt like things were changing, like Modi was fixing it. I asked him what he was going to do with all the old bills that had belonged to his mom. SAGOO: Maybe I'll put a frame. This was 1,000 rupees. No, these are 500 rupees. VANEK SMITH: You'll frame it? SAGOO: Maybe for my next generation. VANEK SMITH: Oh, so that your family can see what the old... SAGOO: Yeah, for family, just for the sake of showing of the people. VANEK SMITH: Just for the sake of showing the people. Like, here it is. Here is a token of the sacrifice we all made for the country - that we all made to make a stronger India. VANEK SMITH: We love to hear what you think of the show. You can email us [email protected] or find us on Facebook or Twitter. SMITH: Also, this week marks 30 years since Terry Gross started the NPR program Fresh Air. We're celebrating by sharing our favorite interviews and moments using the hashtag #freshair30. You can find the Fresh Air archive and new episodes on NPR One or wherever you get your podcast. Those of us who ask questions for a living are still in awe of Terry Gross. VANEK SMITH: Today's episode was produced by Elizabeth Kulas. PLANET MONEY is edited by Bryant Urstadt and produced by Alex Goldmark.

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Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Well I kinda feel that the last logo (the patch) should be the main one. That's all well and good, but there are only so many things you can do with a lightning bolt. Honestly, I love their secondary logo- the state of Florida with the bolt. If anything, you can argue they should make that their primary logo. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites This would be fine as a prototype... but it just doesn't look like it's ready to be rolled out yet. Would it have really ruined their scheme to rely on a bit of silver to distinguish it from the Leafs' uni? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites @BCdevil: Yeah but before there was the "Tampa Bay" above it and and the circle to distinguish it from the Gatorade bolt. Without those, the comparisons are easier to make. That's a fair point, prodigy. Never thought of it that way. I would counter by saying that for most, but not all, of its history, the Gatorade bolt has been accompanied by either the word "Gatorade" in the middle or in front of the "G" that they use now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Another new uniform and another thread that is chock full of complaints. I really have no idea what kind of jersey would satisfy you guys. Its fine. They're the Lightning, their logo is a fvcking lightning bolt. What do ya want lol? I like 'em. Definitely. I think these jerseys are great. I think the simple design of the jersey looks nice and the logo is awesome, especially because it's a symbol and not a cartoonish drawing, not another team name in a circle, not a big letter, and doesn't have the name or location of the name spelled out in it...it's just a nice clean symbol.

Antes de James Brown entrar no palco, seu mestre de cerimônias pessoal lhe dava uma elaborada introdução, citando as alcunhas de Brown e suas principais canções. A introdução de Fats Gonder, captada no álbum de 1963 Live at the Apollo, é um exemplo representativo: So now ladies and gentlemen it is star time, are you ready for star time? Thank you and thank you very kindly. It is indeed a great pleasure to present to you at this particular time, national and international [ly] known as the hardest working man in show business, the man that sings "I'll Go Crazy" … "Try Me" … "You've Got the Power" … "Think" … "If You Want Me" … "I Don't Mind" … "Bewildered" …the million dollar seller, "Lost Someone" … the very latest release, "Night Train" … let's everybody "Shout and Shimmy" … Mr. Dynamite, the amazing Mr. Please Please himself, the star of the show, James Brown and The Famous Flames!! 01. Please, Please, Please 02. Chonnie-On-Chon 03. Hold My Baby's Hand 04. I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On 05. Just Won't Do Right 06. Baby Cries Over The Ocean 07. I Don't Know 08. Tell Me What I Did Wrong 09. Try Me 10. That Dood It 11. Begging, Begging 12. I Walked Alone 13. No, No, No, No 14. That's When I Lost My Heart 15. Let's Make It 16. Love Or A Game 01. There Must Be a Reason 02. I Want You So Bad 03. Why Do You Do Me 04. Got to Cry 05. Strange Things Happen 06. Fine Old Foxy Self 07. Messing With the Blues 08. Try Me 09. It Was You 10. I've Got to Change 11. Can't Be the Same 12. It Hurts to Tell You 13. I Won't Plead No More 14. You're Mine, You're Mine 15. Gonna Try 16. Don't Let It Happen to Me 01. Think 02. Good Good Lovin' 03. Wonder When You're Coming Home 04. I'll Go Crazy 05. This Old Heart 06. I Know It's True 07. Bewildered 08. I'll Never Never Let You Go 09. You've Got The Power 10. If You Want Me 11. Baby You're Right 12. So Long 01. Just You And Me Darling 02. I Love You, Yes I Do 03. I Don't Mind 04. Come Over Here 05. The Bells 06. Love Don't Love Nobody 07. Dancin' Little Thing 08. Lost Someone 09. And I Do Just What I Want 10. So Long 11. You Don't Have To Go 12. Tell Me What You're Gonna Do 01. Out Of Sight 02. Come Rain Or Come Shine 03. Good Rockin' Tonight 04. Till Then Listen 05. Nature Boy Listen 06. I Wanna Be Around 07. I Got You 08. Maybe The Last Time 09. Mona Lisa 10. I Love You Porgy 11. Only You 12. Somethin' Else 01. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Part 1) 02. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Part 2) 03. Mashed Potatoes U.S.A. 04. Cross Firing 05. Love Don't Love Nobody 06. Just Won't Do Right (I Stay In The Chapel Every Night) 07. And I Do Just What I Want 08. This Old Heart 09. Baby, You're Right 10. Have Mercy Baby 11. You Don't Have To Go 12. Doin' The Limbo 01. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Part 1) 02. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Part 2) 03. Oh Baby Don't You Weep 04. Try Me 05. Sidewinder 06. Out Of Sight 07. Maybe The Last Time 08. Every Beat Of My Heart 09. Hold It 10. A Song For My Father (Part 1) 11. A Song For My Father (Part 2) 01. Scratch 02. It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World 03. Bewildered 04. Is It Yes Or Is It No? 05. Aun't That A (Part 1) 06. Bells 07. Ain't That A Groove (Part 2) 08. Come Over Here 09. In The Wee Wee Hours (Of The Night) 10. I Didn't Mind 11. Just You Me, Darling 12. I Love You, Yes I Do 01. Sunny 02. That's Life 03. Strangers In The Night 04. Willow Weep For Me 05. Cold Sweat 06. There Was A Time 07. Chicago 08. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons 09. Time After Time 10. All The Way 11. It Had To Be You 12. Uncle 01. That's My Desire02. Your Cheatin' Heart03. What Kind of Fool Am I04. It's A Man's Man's Man's World05. The Man In The Glass06. It's Magic07. September Song08. For Once In My Life09. Every Day I Have The Blues10. I Need Your Key (To Turn Me On)11. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag12. There Was A Time 01. It's A New Day 02. Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn (Parts 1 & 2) 03. World (Parts 1 & 2) 04. Georgia On My Mind 05. It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World 06. Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (Part 1) 07. If I Ruled The World 08. Man In The Glass (Part 1) 09. I'm Not Demanding (Part 1) 01. Intro - It's A New Day, So Let A Man Come In02. Bewildered03. (Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine04. Escape-Ism05. Make It Funky06. Try Me!07. Fast Medley08. Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose09. Super Bad10. Get Up, Get Into11. Soul Power12. Hot Pants 01. Get On The Good Foot (Parts 1 & 2) 02. The Whole World Needs Liberation 03. Your Love Was Good To Me 04. Cold Sweat 05. Recitation By Hank Ballard 06. I Got A Bag Of My Own 07. Nothing Beats A Try But A Fail 08. Lost Someone 09. Funky Side Of Town 10. Please, Please, Please 11. Ain't That A Groove 12. My Part - Make It Funky (Parts 3 & 4)13. Dirty Harri 14. I Know It's True 01. Down And Out In New York City 02. Blind Man Can See It 03. Sportin' Life 04. Dirty Harri 05. The Boss 06. Make It Good To Yourself 07. Mama Feelgood (Lyn Collins) 08. Mama's Dead 09. White Lightning (I Mean Moonshine)10. Chase 11. Like It Is, Like It Was 01. Coldblooded 02. Hell 03. My Thang 04. Sayin' It And Doin' It 05. Please, Please, Please 06. When The Saints Go Marchin' In 07. These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You 08. Stormy Monday 09. A Man Has To Go Back To The Cross Road Before He Finds Himself 10. Sometime 11. I Cant Stand It '76 12. Lost Someone (Remake) 13. Dont Tell A Lie About Me And I Wont Tell The Truth On You 14. Papa Dont Take No Mess 01. Introduction02. It's Too Funky In Here03. Gonna Have A Funky Good Time04. Get Up Offa That Thing05. Body Heat06. I Got The Feelin'07. Try Me!08. (Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine09. It's A Man's Man's Man's World10. Get On The Good Foot11. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag12. Please Please Please13. Jam 01. Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose02. It's Too Funky In Here03. Gonna Have A Funky Good Time04. Try Me!05. Get On The Good Foot06. Prisoner Of Love07. Get Up Offa That Thing08. Georgia On My Mind09. I Got The Feelin'10. It's A Man's Man's Man's World11. Super Bad12. Disco Rap13. Cold Sweat14. I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)15. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag16. I Got You (I Feel Good)17. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine18. Hot Pants19. Please Please Please20. Jam 01. (So Tired of Standing Still We Got To) Move On 02. Show Me 03. Dance, Dance, Dance To The Funk 04. Teardrops On Your Letter 05. Standing On Higher Ground 06. Later For Dancing 07. You Are My Everything 08. It's Time To Love (Put A Little Love In Your Heart) 01. Intro02. Cold Sweat (Part 1)03. Gonna Have A Funky Good Time04. It's A Man's Man's Man's World05. Get Up Offa That Thing06. Try Me07. The Payback!08. Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got, To Get What She Wants)09. Prisoner Of Love10. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag11. Living In America12. Make It Funky13. Get On The Good Foot14. Georgia On Mind15. Georgia-Lina16. I Got You (I Feel Good)17. Please Please Please18. (Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine19. Respect Me 01. Sleigh Ride02. Clean For Christmas03. Spread Love04. Not Just Another Holiday05. Mom And Dad06. Christmas Is For Everyone07. God Gave Me This08. A Gift09. Reindeer On The Rooftop10. Funky Christmas11. Dont Forget The Poor At Christmas 01. Automatic (Remix) 02. Send Her Back To Me (Remix)03. Motivation 04. Sunshine 05. Nothing But A Jam 06. Baby, You Got What It Takes 07. It's Time 08. Why Did This Happen To Me (Remix) 09. Good And Natural (Remix) 10. Killing Is Out School Is In (Remix) 01. Introduction To The J.B.'s02. Doing It To Death (Pts1&2)03. You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks And I'll Be Straight (Pt1)04. More Peas05. La Di Da La Di Day06. You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks And I'll Be Straight (Pt2)07. Sucker08. You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks And I'll Be Straight (Pt3) 01. Damn Right I Am Somebody02. Blow Your Head03. I'm Payin' Taxes, What Am I Buyin'04. Same Beat (Part 1)05. If You Don't Get It The First Time, Back Up And Try It Again, Party06. Make Me What You Want Me To Be07. Going To Get A Thrill08. You Sure Love To Ball 01. Gimme Some More (Live)02. Same Beat (Parts 1-3)03. If You Don't Get It The First Time, Back Up And Try It Again, Party04. Damn Right I Am Somebody05. I'm Payin' Taxes, What Am I Buyin'06. Soul Power '7407. Keep On Bumpin' Before You Give Out Of Gas08. Breakin' Bread09. Rockin' Funky Watergate10. Control (People Go Where We Send You) (Part 1)11. Cross The Track (We Better Go Back)12. All Aboard The Soul Funky Train13. (It's Not The Express) It's The J.B.'s Monaurail14. Future Shock (Dance Your Pants Off)15. Everybody Wanna Get Funky One More Time (Part 1) 01. Do The Do02. On The Spot03. Up On 45 (Part 1)04. Carry On05. Bring The Funk On Down06. Dynaflo07. Why Did You Have To Go08. What About The Music09. There's A Price To Pay To Live In Paradise10. Tag Alone11. Born To Groove12. Who Do You Think You're Fooling13. Soul Men14. Mistakes And All 01. Doing It To Death (Parts 1 & 2)02. Hot Pants Road03. Pass The Peas04. Gimme Some More05. Blow Your Head06. The Grunt (Part 1)07. Givin' Up Food For Funk (Part 1)08. Same Beat (Part 1)09. Damn Right I Am Somebody (Part 1)10. Breakin' Bread11. (It's Not The Express) It's The J.B.'s Monaurail (Parts 1 & 2)12. If You Don't Get It The First Time, Back Up And Try It Again, Party 01. I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On02. No No No No03. I Hold My Baby's Hand04. Chonnie-On-Chon05. Just Won't Do Right06. Let's Make It07. Fine Old Foxy Self08. Why Does Everything Happen To Me09. Begging, Begging10. That Dood It11. There Must Be A Reason12. I Want You So Bad13. Don't Let It Happen To Me14. Bewildered15. Doodle Bee16. This Old Heart17. Studio Dialog18. I'll Never, Never Let You Go19. Studio Dialog20. You've Got The Power21. Baby, You're Right22. I Don't Mind CD 2. 01. Come Over Here02. And I Do Just What I Want03. Just You And Me Darling04. So Long05. Tell Me What You're Gonna Do06. Hold It07. Dancin' Little Thing08. You Don't Have To Go09. Lost Someone (Single Version)10. Shout And Shimmy11. I Found You12. I Don't Care13. I've Got Money (Single Version)14. Mashed Potatoes, U.S.A.15. Signed, Sealed And Delivered16. Studio Dialogue17. Prisoner Of Love18. I Cried19. Oh Baby Don't You Weep20. (Do The) Mashed Potatoes21. Maybe The Last Time (Single Version) 01. It's A New Day02. Funky Drummer03. Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (Remix)04. I Got To Move05. Funky Drummer (Bonus Beat Reperise)06. Talkin' Loud & Sayin' Nothing (Remix)07. Get Up, Get Into It And Get Involved08. Soul Power (Re-Edit)09. Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)10. Blind Man Can See It (Extended Version) 01. There It Is (Live)02. She's The One03. Since You Been Gone04. Untitled Instrumental05. Say It Loud (Live)06. Can I Get Some Help07. You Got To Have A Mother For Me08. Funk Bomb09. Baby, Here I Come10. People Get Up And Drive Your Funky Soul11. I Got Ants In My Pants (And I Want To Dance) 01. Like It Is, Like It Was (The Blues)02. Don't Cry Baby03. Caldonia04. Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door05. Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens06. Good Rockin Tonight07. I Love You Yes I Do08. Messing With The Blues09. Waiting In Vain10. For You My Love11. Blues For My Baby12. Everyday I Have The Blues13. Love Don't Love Nobody14. Love Don't Love Nobody15. Goin Home16. Have Mercy Baby17. Kansas City18. The Bells CD 2. 01. Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)02. The Things That I Used To Do03. Need Your Love So Bad04. Like A Baby05. Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2)06. Suffering With The Blues07. Further On Up The Road08. Radio Spot For Thinking About Little Willie John LP09. Talk To Me, Talk To Me10. Kansas City11. Wonder When You're Coming Home12. Like It Is, Like It Was (The Blues, Continued...) 01. Night Train02. Shout And Shimmy (Live)03. Like A Baby04. I've Got Money05. Prisoner Of Love06. These Foolish Things (Live)07. (Can You) Feel It (Part 1)08. Lost Someone09. Signed, Sealed, And Delivered10. Waiting In Vain11. In The Wee Wee Hours (Of The Nite)12. Oh Baby Don't You Weep (Live)13. Again14. How Long Darling15. So Long16. The Things That I Used To Do17. Out Of Sight18. Maybe The Last Time19. Have Mercy Baby20. I Got You (I Feel Good)21. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Part 1)22. Ain't That A Groove (Part 1)23. It's A Man's Man's Man's World24. Money Won't Change You 01. Living In America02. Can't Get Any Harder03. Just Do It04. Show Me05. How Do You Stop06. I'm Real07. Gravity08. Move On (So Tired Of Standing Still We Got To)09. Georgia - Lina10. Cold Sweat (Feat. Wilson Pickett) 01. (Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine02. Super Bad03. Since You Been Gone04. Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose05. There Was A Time (I Got Move)06. Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing07. Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved08. Soul Power09. (Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine10. Fight Against Drug Abuse 01. Escape-Ism02. Hot Pants (Parts 1 & 2)03. I'm A Greedy Man04. Make It Funky (Parts 1-4)05. King Heroin06. I Got Ants In My Pants (And I Want To Dance)07. There It Is08. Get On The Good Foot09. Don't Tell It (Complete Version)10. I Got A Bag Of My Own11. Down And Out In New York City (Version With Spoken Intro)12. Think!13. Make It Good To Yourself 01. (Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine02. Super Bad03. Soul Power04. Hot Pants05. Make It Funky06. Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Nothin'07. King Heroin08. Get On The Good Foot09. The Boss10. Doing It To Death11. The Payback12. Papa Don't Take No Mess13. My Thang14. Funky President (People It's Bad)15. Get Up Offa That Thing16. Body Heat17. It's Too Funky In Here18. Livin' In America 01. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine (Parts 1 & 2)02. Hustle!!! (Dead On It)03. Your Love04. Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved)05. Woman06. Get Up Offa That Thing (Release The Pressure)07. I Refuse To Lose08. Body Heat09. Kiss In '77 (Live)10. Give Me Some Skin11. Bessie12. If You Don't Give A Doggone About It 01. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag02. I Got You (I Feel Good)03. It's A Man's Man's Man's World04. Please Please Please05. Think!06. Night Train07. Cold Sweat08. Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose09. Funky Drummer (Parts 1 & 2)10. (Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine11. Soul Power12. Get On The Good Foot13. Doing It To Death14. Get Up Offa That Thing15. I'm Real16. It's Too Funky In Here17. Living In America18. Super Bad19. The Boss20. The Payback Mix 01. It's A New Day, So Let A Man Come In (Part 1)02. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine (Part 1)03. Super Bad (Part 1)04. Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Part 1)05. Soul Power (Part 1)06. Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants) (Part 1)07. Make It Funky (Part 1)08. I'm A Greedy Man (Part 1)09. Talkin' Loud And Saying Nothin' (Part 1)10. There It Is (Part 1)11. Get On The Good Foot (Part 1)12. I Got Ants In My Pants (Part 1)13. Down And Out In New York City14. Sexy, Sexy, Sexy15. Doing It To Death (Short Version)16. The Payback (Part 1)17. My Thang18. Papa Don't Take No Mess (Part 1)19. Funky President (People It's Bad)20. Get Up Offa That Thing (Part 1)21. Bodyheat (Part 1)22. It's Too Funky In Here (Part 1)23. Static 01. Please, Please, Please 02. Why Do You Do Me 03. I Don't Know 04. I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On 05. No, No, No. No 06. Hold My Baby's Hand 07. I Won't Plead No More 08. Chonnie-On-Chon 09. Just Won't Do Right 10. Let's Make It 11. Gonna Try 12. Can't Be The Same 13. Messing With The Blues 14. Love Or A Game 15. You're Mine, You're Mine 16. I Walked Alone 17. That Dood It 18. Baby Cries Over The Ocean 19. Begging, Begging 20. That's When I Lost My Heart 21. Try Me (Demo Version) CD 2. 01. Try Me 02. Tell Me What I Did Wrong 03. I Want You So Bad 04. There Must Be A Reason 05. I've Got To Change 06. It Hurts To Tell You 07. I've Got To Change (Stereo Version) 08. It Hurts To Tell You (Stereo Version) 09. Doodle Bee 10. Bucket Head 11. It Was You 12. Got To Cry 13. Good Good Lovin' 14. Don't Let It Happen To Me 15. I'll Go Crazy 16. I Know It's True 17. Think 18. You've Got The Power (With Bea Ford) 19. This Old Heart 20. Wonder When You're Coming Home 01. Please Please Please (Re-Issue With Audience Overdub) 02. In The Wee Wee Hours (Of The Nite) 03. Again 04. How Long Darling 05. Caldonia 06. Evil 07. The Things That I Used To Do 08. Out Of The Blue 09. So Long 10. Dancin Little Thing 11. Soul Food (Part. 1) 12. Soul Food (Part. 2) 13. Out Of Sight 14. Maybe The Last Time 15. Tell Me What You're Gonna Do 16. I Don't Care 17. Think 18. Try Me (Re-Issue With Strings Overdub) CD 2. 01. Have Mercy Baby 02. Just Won't Do Right (I Stay In The Chapel Every Night) 03. Fine Old Foxy Self 04. Medley: I Found Someone Why Do You Do Me Like You Do I Want You So Bad 05. This Old Heart 06. It Was You 07. Devil's Hideaway 08. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? 09. I Got You (Original) 10. Only You 11. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Part 1) 12. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Part 2) 13. Try Me (Single Version) 14. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag 15. I Got You (I Feel Good) 16. I Can't Help It (I Just Do-Do-Do) 17. Lost Someone 18. I'll Go Crazy 01. You Got To Have A Mother For Me (Part 1) 02. The Little Groove Maker Me 03. You Got To Have A Mother For Me (Long Version) 04. I Don't Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Myself) (Part 1) 05. I Don't Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Myself) (Part 2) 06. I Love You 07. Maybe I'll Understand 08. Any Day Now 09. I'm Shook 10. The Popcorn 11. The Chicken 12. Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me) (Part 1) 13. Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me) (Part 2) 14. Lowdown Popcorn 15. Top Of The Stack 16. World (Part 1) 17. World (Part 2) 18. Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn Part One 19. Sometime 20. I'm Not Demanding (Part 1) 01. What My Baby Needs Now Is A Little More Lovin' 02. This Guy - This Girl's In Love With You 03. Watermelon Man 04. Down And Out In New York City 05. Mama's Dead 06. Sportin' Life 07. Dirty Harri 08. The Boss 09. Like It Is, Like It Was 10. Doing It To Death 11. Everybody Got Soul 12. Think (Version 1) 13. Something 14. Think (Version 2) 15. Woman (Part 1)16. Woman (Part 2) 17. If You Don't Get It The First Time (Back Up And Try It Again) 18. You Can Have Watergate, Just Gimme Some Bucks And I'll Be Straight 19. Sexy Sexy Sexy 20. Slaughter Theme 01. Control (People Go Where We Send You Part 1) (The First Family) 02. Control (People Go Where We Send You Part 2) (The First Family) 03. Papa Don’t Take No Mess (Part 1) 04. Papa Don’t Take No Mess (Part 2) 05. Funky President (People It’s Bad) 06. Coldblooded 07. Reality 08. I Need Your Love So Bad 09. Sex Machine (Part 1) 10. Sex Machine (Part 2) 11. Thank You For Lettin’ Me Be Myself, And You Be Yours (Part I) (The J.B.’s)12. Thank You For Lettin’ Me Be Myself, And You Be Yours (Part II) (The J.B.’s)13. Dead On It (Part 1) 14. Dead On It (Part 2) 15. Hustle!!! (Dead On It) 15. Hustle!!! (Dead) 01. Intro 02. The Payback 03. Soul Power 04. The Boss 05. Make It Easy 06. Doin' It To Death 07. Bewildered 08. Sex Machine 09. Interlude 10. The James Brown Theme (Part 1) 11. The James Brown Theme (Part 2) 12. Caught With A Bag / Gimme Some More 13. Get On The Good Foot (Part 1) 14. Get On The Good Foot (Part 2) 15. It's a Man's World Jam (Part 1) 16. It's a Man's World Jam (Part 2) 17. Money 18. Finale 01. Gonna Have A Funky Good Time (Doing It To Death)02. Get Up Offa That Thing03. Body Heat04. (Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine05. Try Me!06. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag07. Get On The Good Foot08. It's A Man's Man's Man's WorldLost SomewhereIt's A Man's Man's Man's World09. I Got The Feeling10. Cold Sweat11. Please Please Please12. Jam13. The PaybackIt's Too Funky In Here 01. Payback02. It's Too Funky In Here03. Doing It To Death04. Try Me!05. Get On The Good Foot06. It's A Man's Man's Man's World07. Prisoner Of Love08. I Got The Feelin'09. Hustle (Dead On It)10. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag11. I Got You (I Feel Good)12. Please Please Please13. Jam14. (Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine 01. Sex Machine 02. Give It Up, Or Turn It A Loose 03. It's A Man's World 04. I Got The Feeling 05. Try Me 06. I Feel Good 07. Get Up Off That Thing 08. Please, Please, Please 09. Jam 10. Cold Sweat 11. Georgia (On My Mind) 12. It's Too Funky In Here 13. Gonna Have A Funky Good Time 14. Get On The Good Foot 01. Superbad, Superslick02. I Refuse To Lose03. Eyesight04. Papa Don't Take No Mess (Part 1)05. The Spank06. If You Don't Give A Doggone About It07. For Goodness Sakes, Look At Those Cakes08. Get Up Offa That Thing09. I Got The Feelin'10. My Thang11. I'm A Greedy Man12. Funky President (People It's Bad) 01. Intro/Mother Popcorn (Part 1) 02. Living In America 03. Get Up Offa That Thing 04. Doing It To Death 05. Heavy Juice/Band Introduction 06. It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World 07. Get On The Good Foot 08. Prisoner Of Love 09. Georgia On My Mind 10. Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants) 11. Cold Sweat 12. I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) 13. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag 14. I Got You (I Feel Good) 15. Please, Please, Please 16. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine 01. Get Up Offa That Thing02. Hey Amerca03. Stormy Monday04. Body Heat (Part 1)05. For Once In My Life06. What The World Needs Now Is Love07. Back Stabbin'08. Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants) (Part 1)09. Stagger Lee10. Need Your Love So Bad11. Woman12. Never Can Say Goodbye13. Time After Time14. Georgia On My Mind 01 Mother Popcorn (Part 1)02 Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose (Part 1)03 I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door I'll Get It Myself Live)04 Brother Rapp (Parts 1 & 2)05 Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine (Parts 1 & 2)06 Escape-Ism (Part 1)07 Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants) (Part 1)08 Super Bad (Live)09 Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Live)10 Soul Power (Part 1)11 Make It Funky (Part 1)12 There It Is (Parts 1 & 2)13 I'm A Greedy Man (Parts 1 & 2)14 Talkin' Loud And Saying Nothin' (Part 1)15 King Heroin16 Get On The Good Foot (Part 1)17 People Get Up And Drive Your Funky Soul18 I Got Ants In My Pants (Part 1) 01. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine (Single Version)02. Super Bad (Single Version)03. Talkin Loud And Saying Nothing (Parts 1 & 2)04. Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose (Live)05. Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants) (Part 1)06. Make It Funky (Part 1)07. Down And Out In New York City08. The Payback09. Papa Don't Take No Mess (Part 1)10. Get Up Offa That Thing (Ali Dee Remix)11. There It Is (Parts 1 & 2)12. Get On The Good Foot (Part 1)13. The Boss14. My Thang (Single Version) 01. I Got Ants In My Pants02. It's A Man's Man's Man's World03. Stoned To The Bone04. It's A New Day05. Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)06. There It Is07. Make It Funky08. Get Up Offa That Thing - Release The Pressure09. My Thang10. Papa Don't Take No Mess11. Cold Sweat12. Blind Man Can See It13. (Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine CD 2. 01. Blues & Pants02. Soul Power03. Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud04. Mind Power05. Get On The Good Foot06. Escape-Ism07. Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose08. Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved09. The Payback10. Funky President (People It's Bad)11. Funky Drummer 01. Please Please Please02. Good Good Lovin'03. Shout And Shimmy04. I Don't Mind05. Just You And Me Darling06. Think!07. Night Train08. Out Of Sight09. Why Did You Take Your Love Away From Me10. Stone Fox11. I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) (Part 1)12. There Was A Time13. I Got The Feelin'14. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Part 1)15. Cold Sweat (Part 1)16. Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (Part 1)17. Make It Funky (Part 1)18. Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Nothing (Part 1)19. Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved20. The Payback 01. Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose02. Get On The Good Foot03. Super Bad04. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine05. Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)06. Body Heat07. Doing It To Death08. Jam09. It's Too Funky In Here10. Get Up Offa That Thang 01. That's My Desire02. After You're Through (Extended Version)03. Tengo Tango04. Home At Last05. All About My Girl06. There07. All The Way08. Why (Am I Treated So Bad)09. What Do You Like (Stereo Single Edit)10. Cottage For Sale11. Go On Now12. For Once In My Life 01. Gonna Have A Funky Good Time (Doing It To Death)02. Get Up Offa That Thing03. Body Heat04. (Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine05. Try Me06. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag07. Get On The Good Foot08. Medley: It's A Man's Man's Man's WorldLost SomeoneIt's A Man's Man's Man's World (Reprise)09. I Got The Feelin'10. Cold Sweat11. Please Please Please12. Jam13. Medley: The PaybackIt's To Funky In Here14. Prisoner Of Love15. I Got You (I Feel Good)16. Georgia On My Mind 01. There Was A Time02. I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)03. I Got The Feelin'04. Licking Stick - Licking Stick (Parts 1 & 2)05. Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud06. Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose07. I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door I'll Get it Myself)08. Mother Popcorn (Parts 1 & 2)09. Ain't It Funky Now10. It's A New Day, So Let A Man Come In11. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine12. Super Bad (Parts 1 & 2) CD 3. 01. Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved02. Soul Power03. Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants) (Part 1)04. Make It Funky (Part 1)05. I'm A Greedy Man (Parts 1 & 2)06. Talking Loud And Saying Nothing (Parts 1 & 2)07. There It Is08. Get On The Good Foot09. I Got Ants In My Pants (Part 1)10. The Payback (Parts 1 & 2)11. My Thang12. Papa Don't Take No Mess (Part 1)

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If you've come from our parental review of this film and wish to return to it, simply click on your browser's BACK button. Otherwise, use the following link to read our complete Parental Review of this film. QUICK TAKE: Action/Thriller: A Cold War Soviet missile submarine captain is sent on a sudden, classified mission where he must contend with rogue KGB agents who may be intent on starting WWIII. PLOT: It's 1968 and Demi (ED HARRIS) is a Soviet missile submarine captain who's forever operated in the shadow of his legendary Naval father and never lived up to the accompanying expectations. Having just returned from a mission, he isn't pleased to learn that he's immediately being sent out again. To make matters worse, he's being given command of an old, diesel-powered sub with which he has an uncomfortable past. Nevertheless, and being one who follows orders, he sets sail with his crew that includes Alex (WILLIAM FICHTNER), his executive officer who's in line to replace his mentor; Pavlov (JOHNATHON SCHAECH), the ship's political officer; and two new members. They're Bruni (DAVID DUCHOVNY) and Garin (DEREK MAGYAR), two KBG agents who come onboard to conduct secret equipment testing on a classified mission. Demi isn't comfortable with that or the way in which Bruni orders him and his crew around. His sense of following protocol along with a medical condition stemming from his past on the sub, however, means he begrudgingly accepts Bruni's commands. But when it appears there's more to the KBG agents' testing, Demi and his followers must do what they can to keep the rest of the Soviet fleet from attacking them while also preventing Bruni from starting WWIII. OUR TAKE: 5 out of 10 I've long been fascinated by people who can do perfect vocal impressions of others. While I can hear celebrities' voices in my head, I can guarantee there's zero probability I can audibly replicate them. I'm marginally better at doing a handful of foreign accents while still speaking English, although I doubt I sound authentic to those who hail from such places. That said (pun fully intended), I did manage -- for a few days until I tired of the ruse -- to fool a number of American classmates at the beginning of my freshman year in college that I was from the town of Richmond in England rather than the city in Virginia. I'm sure it never rose above the status of caricature, something that often bedevils American actors when they try to play other nationalities (unlike many Brits, Aussies and others who convincingly manage to sound American). All of which brings us around to the military period thriller, "Phantom." Based on a true story I'd never previously known about, it's the fictionalized account of Soviet submarine K-129 that sank on March 8, 1968 after apparently nearly starting WWIII (a text quote at the beginning states the event was even more dangerous than the Cuban Missile Crisis years earlier). Various theories abound as to what happened to the sub, but Kenneth Sewell (in his book "Red Star Rogue-The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.") proposed that an unauthorized launch was intended to mimic an attack by a Chinese sub, thus resulting in a war between them and the U.S. It's fascinating stuff and clearly could make a terrific movie. Alas, those pesky Russian accents -- or, more accurately, the lack thereof -- near immediately put this flick into a dive from which it constantly battles to make it back to the surface and thus soar to great heights. And then there's the fact that many other (and often far better) submarine movies have sailed the cinematic seas, including but not limited to "Gray Lady Down," "Das Boot," "U-571," "K-19: The Widowmaker" and "The Hunt for Red October." It's that latter filmed adaptation of Tom Clancy's thriller that will draw most comparisons to this film. After all, there's a device on both Soviet subs that scrambles their sonar profile to throw off the enemy, the fact that those who control the subs are either trying to defect or start WWIII, and thus both the U.S. and Soviet forces separately want to put an end to that. There's even the Russian accent issue, although "Red October" deftly and convincingly handled that with a cool, in-scene dialogue transition. No such attempt is made here, with writer/director Todd Robinson simply staying the course and hoping audiences don't mind. I'd also say notice, but that's impossible, especially when the very American (and American sounding) David Duchovny boards the sub as a KGB agent carrying out secretive plans. That doesn't sit well with the captain (Ed Harris) or his second-in-command (William Fichtner) and thus begins the tale of Soviet character who never feel that Russian. To be fair, and despite the lack of novelty in terms of how such submarine films often play out, the filmmaker does manage to raise tension and suspense to decent levels at times during the film's nearly 100 minute runtime. But he's also thrown in a back-story regarding the captain's past experience with the sub (and his resultant issues) that feels shoehorned into the story, along with a twist at the end that's supposed to be poignant but isn't handled properly to make it work or pay off as intended. In addition, and for better or worse, nearly all of the undersea action takes place inside the old, diesel-powered sub, with only a few underwater shots of other submarines and the torpedoes they fire at the old clunker. That may have been done in hopes of ratcheting up the claustrophobic suspense in our one setting or it could have been a way of keeping production costs down (by avoiding the need to build the interior of another sub) as this film was made outside of the big budget Hollywood system. Whatever the case, it results in our protagonist-antagonist battle taking place inside the small sub. That tactic works for a bit, but contains its own limitations that ultimately rob the film of some of its potential. After all, imagine if "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (arguably the best "submarine in space" movie ever made) took place only inside the U.S.S. Enterprise and didn't involve the Reliant at all. It simply wouldn't have been the same movie. As it stands, "Phantom" (so named for the new cloaking type device on the sub that strangely isn't utilized later in the film) is an okay military thriller. But considering the real-life story behind the tale, it could and should have been so much more. Especially if the Russian accents had been nailed. It rates as a 5 out of 10. Reviewed February 25, 2013 / Posted March 1, 2013 If You're Ready to Find Out Exactly What's in the Movies Your Kids are Watching, Click the Add to Cart button below and join the Screen It family for just $7.95/month or $47/year

Circuitousover on the Dustloop Forums has done something incredible. He's managed to rip all of the sprites for every single character in Persona 4 Arena. These are probably the most awesome sprites to ever grace a fighting game.

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From the hundreds of pieces of feedback we have received, 8 core areas of interest have arisen: 1. Games Development 2. Club Inclusion and Community 3. Facilities 4. Club Structures & Reporting 5. Communications & Marketing 6. Finances & Funding 7. Commercial 8. Health & Wellbeing There is already great work been completed in these areas, we are looking to build on this work, add in new exciting initiatives and pull it all together into one cohesive plan for the club. We are holding an update meeting on the 3rd of March @8pm where we will go into more details on the process so far and the formation and remit of each working group. We want people to come along on the night, hear about the amazing research results we have and if you are interested, to get involved with one of these key working groups that will drive the future development of our club. Looking forward to seeing you on the night, make sure to bring a few people along with you, no GAA background needed to become involved Background info on the Black + Amber plan There are many positive challenges and some exciting opportunities facing Naomh Mearnog GAA in the years ahead. As a club we need to plan for these challenges and opportunities. The Black & Amber Plan, is a club wide collaborative initiative for every club member will have multiple opportunities to “Have Your Say!!!” on how as a club we should face the future together. The overriding purpose of the plan is to set out a vision where we want to be as a Club in 5 years’ time and outline the necessary steps how we get there. Contact us You can email us your feedback at [email protected] We are holding an update meeting on the 3rd of March @8pm, please come along to find out what has been going on and the next steps in the process.

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Apparently unsatisfied with his historic propaganda services for Castro’s Stalinist regime, ABC’s Jim Davila reported for duty again this week. Davila’s interview with 21 year old Elian Gonzalez is making major media waves. The “interview,” by the way, was conducted from Cuba after Avila was (gleefully) granted a journalist visa by the Stalinist authorities—not that this could possibly influence the nature of Avila’s questions. And certainly not that most viewers of the alphabet media would notice anyway. "I am his (Fidel Castro’s) friend but above all I consider him (Fidel Castro) my father, my grandfather. Fidel, he is an incredible person! I came to know Fidel. I began to see his kindness!” These were among the eye-opening scoops the hard-hitting Jim Avila was able to coax from Elian Gonzalez. Forget the crumbling buildings and trashy streets of Havana nowadays, amigos. All those who’ve experienced it know that the true horror of Communism is -- not what it does to a nation's infrastructure--but what it does to the mind, soul and spirit of its subjects. "To the American people, first I say thank you for the love they give me. I want the time to give my love to American people," continued the 21 year-old Elian. That love, by the way, was displayed when (then) Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder concocted the “legal” cover for heavily-armed Federal troopers to mace, kick and gun-butt their way into Lazaro Gonzalez’ Miami home on the morning of April 22, 1980, wrench a bawling 6 year old Elian from his family at machine-gun point, and bundle him off to a Stalinist nation. The Federal troopers left 102 people injured some seriously. Many of the injured were ladies who had brandished dangerous weapons. Worse, they had displayed these weapons openly, threateningly. These weapons were rosaries. I wrote “Davila’s propaganda services for Castro to date” because back in April 2000 Avila (from Havana) was busily earning his Cuba visa: "Why did Elian’s mother leave Cuba?” the furrow-browed Avila asked the (then) NBC cameras. “What was she escaping? By all accounts this young woman was living the good life.” Would it occur to a presumably educated reporter to ask why someone tried sneaking over or under the Berlin Wall? Of course not. They’d be laughed off the screen. But as usual, the same thundering imbecility goes unnoticed with regards to escaping a Soviet-Bloc prison-nation in the Caribbean. Some perspective on that “good life:” Between two and three hundred people (out of an average population over the decades of 18 million) died trying to breach the Berlin Wall or otherwise escape East Germany. Between sixty-five and eighty thousand people (out of an average population of 8 million over the decades) have died trying to escape Castro’s Cuba. What makes these stats more horrific still is that prior to Castroism very few Cubans left Cuba. Indeed, prior to Castroism Cuba was swamped with more immigrants per-capita than the U.S., mostly from Europe. People from nearby Haiti jumped on rafts desperate to enter Cuba, which enjoyed a higher standard of living than much of Europe. Also, during the 1950’s when all Cubans were perfectly free to emigrate with all family, property, etc., and U.S. visas were issued to them for the asking, about the same number of Americans lived in Cuba as Cubans in the U.S. In 1953 more Cubans vacationed (then voluntarily went home) from the U.S. than Americans vacationed in Cuba. Alas none of this features in The Godfather II. So it’s mostly unknown. There was nothing crude or sloppy about Elian’s kidnapping by Bill Clinton’s agents. Like most major Castro-KGB propaganda operations—from Castro and Che Guevara’s (bogus) guerrilla war against Batista’s army, to Castro’s (bogus) fealty to the principles of Thomas Jefferson, to the( bogus) five gazillion assassination attempts against Castro by the CIA, to Cuba’s free and fabulous (and bogus) health-care to the (bogus) embargo that “cruelly starves the Cuban people. ..blah…blah”–as in all these immensely successful hoaxes, for the Elian-kidnapping Castro again enlisted the U.S. media as his ever-faithful propaganda arm. And again most Americans swallowed it. For the Elian swindle Dan Rather and CBS (again) volunteered their invaluable services. Thanks to this ritual media-Democratic-Castroite collusion, most Americans missed the crucial legal and ethical details of the Elian Gonzalez circus/tragedy — which were mostly established during the first week after Elian’s rescue at sea, after his heroic mother’s drowning. The “son-belongs-with-his-father” crowd, for instance, “missed” that Elian’s father was initially delighted that his motherless son was in the U.S. and in the loving arms of his uncles and cousins. The evidence — frantically buried by the media-Democratic-Castroite complex — was overwhelming. Mauricio Vicent, a reporter for Madrid newspaper El Pais, wrote that during that first week he’d visited Elian’s hometown of Cardenas and talked with Elian’s father, Juan Miguel, along with other family members and friends. All confirmed that Juan Miguel had always longed for his son Elian to flee to the United State. Shortly after Elian’s rescue, his father had even applied for a U.S. visa! “Juan Miguel Gonzalez was surrounded by Castro security agents the entire time he was in the studio with Rather.” This is an eye-witness account from Pedro Porro, who served as Dan Rather’s translator during the famous 60 Minutes interview. Dan Rather would ask the question in English into Porro’s earpiece whereupon Porro would translate it into Spanish for Elian’s heavily-guarded father. “Juan Miguel was never completely alone,” says Porro. “He never smiled. His eyes kept shifting back and forth. It was obvious to me that he was under heavy coercion. I probably should have walked out. But I’d been hired by CBS in good faith and I didn’t know exactly how the interview would be edited – how it would come across on the screen. “The questions Dan Rather was asking Elian’s father during that 60 Minutes interview were being handed to him by attorney ( and Clinton friend) Gregory Craig,” continues Pedro Porro. “It was obvious that Craig and Rather where on very friendly terms. They were joshing and bantering back and forth, as Juan Miguel sat there petrified. Craig was stage managing the whole thing – almost like a movie director.” Remember Godfather II? Remember the Senate hearings where Frankie Pentangeli, under FBI protection, was prepared to testify against Michael Corleone? The stage was set. Looked like a done-deal for the Feds. Then Frankie looks up and sees his bewildered brother Vincenzo from Sicily, sitting next to Mikey. Whoops! Frankie sure changed his tune, didn’t he? Think of Elian’s father Juan Miguel Gonzalez as Frankie Pentangeli at the time. The gun Fidel Castro held to Juan Miguel’s head was as invisible (to those without experience with Communism) as the one Mikey held to Pentangeli’s head was to most spectators at those hearings.

NH Blog NH Learning Solutions Blog The virtual desktops feature in Windows 10 is called “Task View” and is located on the Taskbar. Soon you will see how using virtual desktops is a fantastic way of organizing your work into separate manageable areas, each specific to the task at hand. Here's how to utilize this feature.

You are in: News Standards of Service for Victims and Witnesses published Published 30 April 2019 On Tuesday 30th April 2019 the Standards of Service for Victims and Witnesses 2019-2020 was published along with the Standards of Service for Victims and Witnesses Annual Report 2018-2019 both of which can be can be viewed on our Standards of Service for Victims and Witnesses page. The Standards of Service provides a structure for the Scottish criminal justice partners to embed and reinforce standards to improve the experience of victims and witnesses in the criminal justice system in line with the principles of the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014. This is the fourth year in which Police Scotland has worked in close partnership with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, the Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service, the Scottish Prison Service and the Parole Board for Scotland to outline how we are performing against the standards and makes clear what victims and witnesses should expect from the Scottish criminal justice system over the coming year. The development and publication of the Standards of Service is based on informed feedback and makes clear our achievements and challenges. “The level of service we provide to victims and witnesses from first point of contact through to resolution is important to us all and is paramount to our service delivery. It is crucial we get it right from the beginning. Victims and witnesses should feel confident to come forward and report crimes and be clear on what to expect from Police Scotland when they do so. We recognise victims and witnesses are individuals who must be treated as such. Their needs, expectations and overall experience of the criminal justice system can be influenced, positively or negatively, by their initial contact with the police. Our officers and staff, with support from their line management, continue to work hard to ensure we meet the commitments within the standards of service and we aim to consistently deliver a high level of service to victims and witnesses of crime. We will focus on staff behaviour, attitudes and leadership to improve our performance where required as highlighted in this year’s Annual Report.” Cabinet Secretary for Justice Humza Yousaf said in support of this publication: “We recognise that having to engage with the criminal justice system can be a challenging and traumatic experience for victims and witnesses. We want to ensure that a victim-centred approach, developed and backed by partners, can improve the way we communicate, support and treat victims throughout their contact with the system. To this end, last year we launched the Victims Taskforce, bringing together senior decision-makers from justice agencies and the voluntary sector, including those who directly represent victims. The Taskforce is working to make sure the voices of victims are heard, and that their experiences with the justice system improve. I welcome today’s Service Standards Report which is a reflection of the commitment across justice agencies to ensuring the way victims and witnesses are treated is at the core of our approach, and the Scottish Government will continue to work closely with the sector to deliver progress.” The publication of these shared documents demonstrates our collective commitment to work together for victims and witnesses. Contact Details Call 101 for non-emergencies and general enquiries, in an emergency call 999. If you have information about a crime you can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

XXXTentacion was worrying about helping others in the last minutes of his life, and unfortunately will never get to complete the work he was so passionate about. Sources close to the situation tell us the “Moonlight” rapper was quietly planning several charity events and trying to line them up for the immediate future. Specifically, he was aiming at raising awareness regarding suicide prevention and delivering the message to his young fans. Suicide prevention was something extremely important to XXX, who once publicly revealed he lost a female friend after she took her life during a visit to the rapper. That girl was named Jocelyn Flores, and XXX named a song in her memory.

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A virtuoso prodigy of smooth and sophisticated classical guitar, Armik discovered the flamenco music of Spain while a student abroad and never let it go. Guitarista is a fine example of his craft; you can tell by the splashy red cover that it’s going to be an unabashedly romantic set of nuevo flamenco, a hybrid genre of flamenco guitar crossbred with Latin and Caribbean influences. His brooding countenance in the painted center portrait bespeaks his approach: The old-fashioned romantic smolder runs large upon his instrument of choice. Musically, this is playful, intricate, and lulling—the ideal choice for a hot afternoon as it slowly melts into evening. And no doubt about it, the man can play. Tracks alternate freely between frenetic gypsy-style dances and slow burners. There’s a salsa crunch to “Fire Within,” which finds Armik’s dazzling fingers emitting speed-of-light arpeggios over a light drum outline with dashes of horn flavor. After a few bars, he delves headlong into some jaw-dropping pyrotechnics, making this a standout track. Celebration is the mood for “Road to Hana,” with Armik’s guitar alternately riding and floating over a clip-clop percussive caravan. Throughout the album, judiciously employed piano chords and mariachi trumpets keep Armik’s dazzling virtuosity within a song’s structured context. For the kind of seduction strategy employed by the greatest of lovers, try the final track, “Noche de Guitarra.” Here Armik uses his precision mastery to elaborate the potential of the acoustic classical guitar as an instrument of angels in devil’s clothing; even the staunchest puritan resistance is bound to melt under its slow heat. A steady rhythm guitar keeps a quietly chugging tempo going in the background while Armik steps to the spotlight to show your ears how fluid craftsmanship can equal inspired, romantic poetry. What at first listen may sound like mere flamenco-patterned aural wallpaper becomes an exotic inward spiral of complex dynamics and melodic counterpoints as one closes one’s eyes and submits to the caresses of a lover or to the moon beaming in from the window over closed eyelids. Armik knows exactly what he’s doing every microsecond, and there’s no need to second-guess. In the same way that you find all of your resistance melting under the assured hands of a qualified and skilled masseur, you will trust Armik and his classical guitar to carry you aloft into hot, wild Spanish winds.

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Aztecs' Lindley looking to impress NFL San Diego State quarterback Ryan Lindley (17) passing Monday afternoon during the Senior Bowl South squad practice at W.C. Majors Field in Fairhope, Ala. Press-Register/John David Mercer — Press-Register/John David Mercer San Diego State quarterback Ryan Lindley (17) passing Monday afternoon during the Senior Bowl South squad practice at W.C. Majors Field in Fairhope, Ala. Press-Register/John David Mercer / Press-Register/John David Mercer MOBILE, Ala. — You won’t find Andrew Luck or Robert Griffin III at the Senior Bowl. Over the past seven years, only one Senior Bowl quarterback (Jake Locker) has been drafted in the top 10 and just six Senior Bowl quarterbacks have gone in the first round. Almost the only thing that can happen to a player projected to go high in the first round is for his stock to go down after a week of practicing in front of virtually every NFL personnel man and coach. The draft process, after all, is mostly about tearing apart every player’s game. So it behooves Luck and Griffin to preserve the mystery as long as possible. Conversely, it serves the purpose of Ryan Lindley to be seen early and often. “It’s almost a second chance; it’s another bowl game and playing with some of the best guys in the country it’s a great opportunity to show your stuff against good competition,” said Lindley, who is one of three quarterbacks on the South roster here and the first San Diego State quarterback to be invited to the Senior Bowl since Dan McGwire in 1991. “… On the West Coast we get isolated in San Diego. It’s definitely a good chance to come out here and get it going.” Every player, and quarterback perhaps particularly, that comes here does so looking to raise his stock as much as possible by showing how hard he works in practice, how quickly he picks up on pro schemes, the mechanical changes he’s made since college and that he can fare well against other top players. In the three days that matter most – before most NFL types left town en masse on Wednesday afternoon – Lindley has evidently shown he belongs. One personnel man assessed the other two quarterbacks on the South roster, Oklahoma State’s Brandon Weeden and Arizona’s Nick Foles, might be first-round talents, even though they will not be first-round picks. Lindley entered this week projected as a third-round pick. “This is a good comparison for him,” said one scout who before this week had seen Lindley just once on TV. “He’s stacking up well.” Lindley started Monday’s practice slowly but finished well, and he was particularly sharp Tuesday throwing while moving outside the pocket and on short and intermediate routes – something Lindley has been working on with former NFL and SDSU coach Ted Tollner the past month. “I really like him,” one AFC scout said after Tuesday’s practice. “He’s got a quick release, and he’s really accurate.” That will be music to the ears of Lindley’s camp, as he is coming off a season in which he completed just 52.5 percent of his passes, a factoid certain to be brought up again and again between now and the end of April. NFL coaches who were asked about Lindley before this week’s first practice were familiar only with his name. Three coaches said they had heard he struggled in 2011. It will be on Lindley to answer questions – literally and on the field – about why his numbers were down and what he’s done to take his game to the next level. To his credit, Lindley did not mention the Aztecs' young receiving corps when asked repeatedly about his low completion percentage. He instead talked about what he can do better. “I’m just trying to show some consistency I can put the ball where it needs to be and I can do it every play,” said Lindley, who left SDSU as the school’s all-time leader in passing yards (12,690), touchdown passes (90), completions (961) and starts by a quarterback (49). “The biggest thing is my feet, and that’s going to set up the accuracy … I wasn’t consistent. I didn’t do a good job of that. It something I can work on.” Lindley has been working up to three times a week with Tollner, who retired last year after almost 30 years as a college head coach and NFL offensive coordinator and assistant. “He can make all the throws,” said Tollner, who is also the father of Lindley’s agent, Bruce Tollner. “He’s not limited by his skills. He just needs reps and work, and he wants to do it.” One day this month, Bruce Tollner arranged for an NFL secondary coach to speak to his defensive backs who are potential draftees. Tollner told Lindley he could go home and get some lunch while the coach talked nuances of playing defensive back in the NFL. Lindley stayed and listened for two hours. “I’m impressed with the fact he likes to work,” Ted Tollner said. “… Once the draft is over and he gets to some team’s camp, I think it will be nothing but upside.

Hunters of the Golden Age The period 30,000 to 20,000 BP can be aptly called the `Golden Age' of hunter gatherers for a variety of reasons, spelled out in great detail by the 37 contributors to this impressive volume. In this period we find the first unambiguous burials after the Middle Palaeolithic, the earliest bona fide habitation structures and an unprecedented sophistication in raw material requirements which involved provisioning strategies over hundreds of kilometres. The volume deals at great length with many facets of the complex record of the period, with contributions on ecology, dating and the physical anthropology of the Mid Upper Palaeolithic population preceding a large number of papers dealing with archaeological issues, organized in a topical and a regional presentation. The book is the third and final volume in a series initiated by the European Science Foundation Network on the Palaeolithic Occupation of Europe.

Proclaim 18, NRB’s 75th annual convention, is coming very soon to Nashville, and anyone interested in communicating freely online should be sure to attend the Public Policy Session on Thursday, March 1. Scattered throughout the four days of Convention are affiliate events hosted and organized by various organizations. While some are by invitation only, others are ticketed events, and some are open to the public. For the 26th year in a row, Movieguide: The Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment concluded in its Annual Report to the Entertainment Industry that moviegoers “clearly” prefer relatively clean, heroic, family-friendly movies with Christian, biblical, redemptive, conservative, and patriotic faith and values. National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) is a unique gathering of people, united by purpose and message: to proclaim the Good News of eternal life through Jesus Christ; to transform culture through the application of sound biblical teaching; and to advance biblical truth, to promote media excellence, and to defend free speech.

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Homebuyers undeterred by changes in mortgage landscape Homebuyers undeterred by changes in mortgage landscape Nov. 19, 2018 Though 2018 was not the best year for the mortgage landscape, Canadians remain hopeful about buying a home. A new survey from mortgage rate comparison site Ratehub.ca survey found that, despite recent regulatory changes and interest rate hikes,71 per cent of current non-owners plan to buy a home in the future. And 59 per cent of prospective first-time homebuyers plan to purchase a home within the next two years. This year saw a number of changes that affected the costs of ownership. In January, the mortgage stress test came into effect, which lowered affordability for Canadians with conventional mortgages by around 20 per cent, Ratehub.ca says. In addition, through 2018, the Bank of Canada announced three 25-basis-point interest rate hikes. (These increases are almost always immediately followed by mortgage rate hikes at Canada’s major banks.) Meanwhile, home prices in large cities continued to edge upwards. Young Canadians most optimistic Ratehub.ca, however, says younger Canadians remain the most optimistic about the prospect of homeownership, with Millennial and Generation Z Canadians leading the charge in homebuying intent. According to the survey, homeownership is a goal for: 87 per cent of Generation Zers 81 per cent of Millennials 64 per cent of Generation Xers 54 per cent of Baby Boomers Canadians’ high intent to purchase is tempered by several possible homeownership hurdles. When first-time buyers were asked about their primary barrier to entering the housing market: 44 per cent cited insufficient down payment funds 17 per cent cited housing market uncertainty 12 per cent said their household income was too low to enter the housing market 9 per cent preferred to maintain housing flexibility 6 per cent said their credit score was too low to qualify for a mortgage Many Canadians also expect home prices and mortgage rates to continue their upward trend in 2019. Among Canadians who plan on entering the housing market in 2019, 68 per cent believe mortgage rates will increase next year, while 58 per cent believe home prices will rise. Better understanding needed An eagerness to enter the housing market, however, hasn’t resulted in a better understanding of mortgage regulations amongst first-time homebuyers, Ratehub.ca says. 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β Execution model An execution model specifies how work takes place. Every programming language has an execution model, which is specified as part of the language specification, and is implemented as part of the language implementation. The details in the specification of an execution model cover things such as what is an indivisible unit of work, and what are the constraints on the order in which those units of work take place. For example, the addition operation is an indivisible unit of work in many languages, and in sequential languages such units of work are constrained to take place one after the other. In particular, the C programming language, has a concept called a statement. The spec says that a statement is a chunk of syntax that is terminated by a ";". The language spec then says that execution of the program proceeds statement by statement, which tells us something about the execution model of the language. It tells us that statements are indivisible units of work and that they proceed in the same order as their syntactic appearance in the code (except when a control statement such as IF or WHILE modifies the order). By stating the order in which statements are executed, the language spec has stated constraints on the order of performing units of work. The C language actually has an additional level to its execution model, which is the order of precedence. It states the rules for the order of operations within a single statement. The order of precedence can be viewed as stating the constraints on performing the units of work that are within a single statement. So, ";" and "IF" and "WHILE" cover constraints on the order of statements, while order of precedence covers constraints on work within a statement. Hence, these parts of the C language specification are stating the execution model of the C language. An implementation of an execution model controls the order in which work takes place during execution. This order may be chosen ahead of time, in some situations, or it can be dynamically determined as the execution proceeds. Most execution models allow varying degrees of both. For example, the C language fixes the order of work within a statement and it fixes the order of all statements, except ones that involve an IF statement or a form of loop statement. Hence, most of the order of execution may be chosen statically, before execution begins, but a small portion must be chosen dynamically, as execution proceeds. The static choices are most often implemented inside a compiler, in which case the order of work is represented by the order in which instructions are placed into the executable binary. The dynamic choices would then be implemented inside the language's runtime system. The runtime system may be a library, which is called by instructions inserted by the compiler, or the runtime system may be embedded into the executable directly, such as by inserting branch instructions, which make dynamic choices about which work to perform next. However, an interpreter may also be constructed for any language, in which case all decisions on order of execution are dynamic. An interpreter can be viewed as being part translator, and part execution model implementation. Each and every programming language has an execution model, which determines the manner in which the units of work (that are indicated by program syntax) are scheduled for execution. Detailed examples of the specification of execution models of a few popular languages include those of Python,[1] the execution model of the Unified Parallel C (UPC) programming language, [2] a discussion of various classes of execution model such as for imperative versus functional languages,[3] and an article discussing execution models for real-time embedded languages.[4] As a simple example of a basic execution model, that of the C language is described in the book by Kernighan and Richie.[5] The book describes that work takes places in units called statements, which are syntactically indicated by a terminating ";". It specifies that statements are completed serially (one at a time) and sequentially (a previous statement completes before the next statement begins). Details such as this are part of the execution model. In the modern age, parallel programming is an increasingly important topic. Parallel execution models (several at a time) are much more complex. For example, the C++11 standard includes sizeable wording that deals with the parallel execution model of the language.

All-terrain vehicle enthusiasts are pushing to get more access to local roads, including roads in unincorporated Spokane County. But Spokane County commissioners last week said they are initially reluctant to open county roads to ATVs, despite a new state law allowing it. Lawmakers last spring approved ATVs on roads with speed limits of 35 mph or lower but gave control over the decision to local governments. Rep. Matt Shea, R-Spokane Valley, was the prime sponsor of the bill. The problem has been Washington’s “overly restrictive laws concerning the use of off-road vehicles and all-terrain vehicles,” Shea said in a news release when the bill passed in June. The law was described as a compromise among ATV enthusiasts, conservationists and government. The law sets up a licensing system for ATVs, intended to control illegal off-road use of the vehicles and prevent ATV thefts. Licensed ATVs would need safety and other equipment, such as spark arrestors, to be allowed on regular roads. Shea and ATV users said opening local roads to the vehicles would create tourist opportunities in rural areas where economies have been depressed over the years. It would also create new, legal riding opportunities closer to home, said Bob Cahill, president of the Eastern Washington ATV Association. “I think there are lots of roads that could be opened to ATVs in this county,” he said. Cahill said he travels to other states to ride and has discovered the draw of ATVs provides economic stimulus in small communities outside of Washington. Conservationists and landowners have been concerned over the years that some ATV riders tear up property and damage wetlands. Opening roads to legal riding also opens up opportunities to go off-road, conservationists said. Mitch Friedman, executive director of Conservation Northwest, said the licensing requirements will create greater accountability for riders because violators can be identified through license numbers displayed on ATVs. “It shouldn’t be everywhere,” he said of allowing ATVs on public roads, “but it should be in some places.” Spokane County Engineer Bob Brueggeman told county commissioners last week he is opposed to opening Spokane County roads to ATVs because of damage riders might cause and because of increased maintenance that might be needed. He said riders might go up and down ditches and embankments, causing erosion and other problems. Commissioner Todd Mielke said the state gave itself an exemption from liability under the law but did not extend that exemption to local governments. Cahill said he believes the concerns are overstated. ATV owners carry insurance to cover their liability, he said. “Most people who are out there riding are very respectable people,” he said. “We are kind of self-policing.” As an option, Cahill said, ATV enthusiasts would like to have routes designated for ATV use. The law provides that option, particularly on roads that connect ATV parks with small towns. Riding ATVs is common in rural areas, Commissioner Shelly O’Quinn said. “There are areas around Spokane County that would benefit from this,” she said. Auditor Vicky Dalton said ATV owners are calling her licensing department to find out when they can get their new plates. She said they will become available in March. The map includes the Centennial Trail, a Cheney loop, Little Spokane River and Painted Rocks, Manito Park and Cannon Hill, a Medical Lake loop, a Riverfront Park to Gonzaga University loop and Riverside State Park. Bridge work, more • State highway officials said Trent Avenue will be reduced to a single lane westbound today through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the vicinity of the Sullivan Road overpass for bridge repair work. • A great pumpkin race for Meals on Wheels will be Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Closures and traffic restrictions will be in place on Madison Street from 17th to 18th avenues and on 18th from Monroe to Jefferson streets. • The Muscular Dystrophy Association’s “fill the boot” fundraiser will be Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Firefighters and volunteers will be using the roadway at Alberta Street and Wellesley Avenue, so drivers should use caution. • The Centennial Trail along the Spokane Convention Center is currently closed for installation of a new sewer line. The north bank of the Spokane River offers an alternate route. • Rehabilitation of Rockwood Boulevard should be completed within the next two weeks, city officials said. • In Spokane Valley, Eighth Avenue just east of Wilbur Court will be closed from 7 a.m. Tuesday through Oct. 29 for utility work. • Dishman-Mica Road just south of Appleway Boulevard will have its northbound curb lane closed today from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. for maintenance work.

Harwa – Chief Steward of Gods Wife Amenardis I – XXV Dynasty of Ancient EgyptHarwa, “Grand Steward of the Divine Votaress”, High Priest and “Doorkeeper in the Temple of Amun” Harwa: “Great of the Greats”. Born in to a family of Theban Priests, Harwa held high office in Thebes (modern-day Luxor) with great responsibility to Amun and God’s Wife of Amun, the Divine Votaress, Amenirdis I. He was son of the “Lady of the House”, Nestaureret (or Estaweret), and of a Priest attached to the temple of Amun in Karnak, Padimut (or Pedemut) son of Ankhefenamon. His tomb is located in el-Assasif, part of the Theban Necropolis, near to Deir el-Bahri and is known as TT37 (Theban Tomb 37) which has been under archaeological examination for some years and currently not accessible to the public. http://amunirdis.blogspot.com/2009/02/harwa-chief-steward-of-gods-wife.html———————————http://pavementsofsilver.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/the-tomb-of-harwa/“On Friday I attended an EES lecture by Dr Francesco Tiradritti of the Italian Archaeological Mission to the Theban Tombs, held at the The Society of Antiquaries of London. It was a fascinating lecture, and I must admit that up until then I had known very little about the Late Period tombs in this area, so the talk was a true eye opener for me. The renaissance, or Archaic Revival, of the Late Period has long held a fascination for me, and it’s normally something I think of as having been “kicked off” – as it were – by the Pharaohs of the 26th Dynasty. But these classical Saite signatures, such as the passion for (exquisitely executed!) scenes in the Old Kingdom traditions, and even the inclusion of parts of the Pyramid Texts, can be seen in Harwa’s tomb (TT37, El Assasif) at the height of the 25th Dynasty. Harwa was the Great Steward of the Adoratrice of Amun, during the reign of Taharqa, and possibly acted as a vassal ruler of the south under him, since the Pharaohs of the 25th Dynasty remained in Nubia and only held power through the Priesthood of Amun, hence Harwa’s great importance. The scale of his tomb would indeed suggest this, for although it’s layout is entirely different, in it’s ambitious design, and in the quality of carving, it is certainly the equal of some royal tombs. Sadly, time has been unkind to Harwa’s eternal home. Only fragments of the decoration survive, having been re-used for subsequent burials during the Late period, and functioning as a chapel to Osiris in Ptolemaic times. Dr Tiradritti also presented some of the tombs later history that had been unearthed during excavations, including an earlier Italian visit to the tomb by soldiers during the Second World War, leaving behind part of a biscuit packet for future generations. Thankfully, the team have been able to take advantage of changes in technology over the long course of their work so far (excavation began in 1995, and there is still much work to be done) and this has allowed maps, images and also a complete catalogue of decorative fragments found to be made available on an online database. This has also allowed for digital reconstructions of numerous wall scenes to be made, allowing a much better understanding of the tombs original design. A multi-lingual web portal has now been online for ten years, and is available at http://www.Harwa.it/ ”http://pavementsofsilver.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/the-tomb-of-harwa/trackback/ “An end and a beginning On March 23, 2007 the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art opens at the Brooklyn Museum. To celebrate the opening and the accompanying exhibition, “Pharaohs, Queens and Goddesses”, we decided to devote the last posting of the 2007 season at the Mut Precinct to some of the female figures, mortal and divine, associated with the site. Hatshepsut being crowned by Amun-Re and granted life and dominion by the goddess “Great in Magic”, from the reconstructed Red Chapel in the Karnak Open Air Museum. An early 18th Dynasty temple at Mut dates to the reign of this woman who ruled as king. “God’s Wife of Amun” was an important female priestly title in Thebes. In the 1st millennium BC it was usually held by a sister or daughter of the reigning king, each God’s Wife adopting her successor. They became so powerful that they were able to have themselves represented in roles normally played by the king. In scenes of goddesses suckling humans, the human is normally the king, with the scene representing the transfer of life and power. Yet in this scene in the Chapel of Osiris-Ruler-of-Eternity at Karnak, not only is the God’s Wife of Amun, Shepenwepet I, being suckled, she is also wearing 2 Double Crowns, something shown nowhere else in any period. In her funerary chapel at the temple of Medinet Habu, Amunirdis makes offerings to Amun and Hathor. The presence of funerary chapels to mortals within the sacred grounds of a temple is rare until the Third Intermediate Period, a time when God’s Wives of Amun flourished. Intangible concepts could also be represented as goddesses. In a scene commemorating an important military campaign by Sheshonq I of Dynasty 22, the goddess “Victorious Thebes”, carrying a mace, an axe and a bow, drags conquered cities (shown as bound prisoners with the city names enclosed in cartouches representing fortified walls) to be slaughtered. Upper and Lower Egypt were represented as the goddesses Nekhbet (right) and Wadjet. Scenes of the king flanked by these protective deities are common in all periods of Egyptian history. This one comes from the Mut Precinct’s Ptolemaic Chapel D. Keeping Mut and Sakhmet happy was a main function of the Mut priesthood. In this scene from the Mut Precinct’s main entrance the king (holding Hathor-headed sistra) and two priestesses play music to Mut and Sakhmet to amuse them and keep them contented. Two busts of Sakhmet in the Mut Precinct. Sakhmet angered could release disease and disaster on Egypt. Contented she could control these forces, which is why she is a goddess of health and healing as well as of death and destruction. These 3 reliefs of Mut span a period of several hundred years. On the left is a relief from Amunirdis’s funerary chapel at Medinet Habu; in the center a relief from the chapel of Osiris-Ruler-of-Eternity at Karnak; and on the right a relief in Chapel D at the Mut Precinct. In all three scenes Mut appears in her usual guise of a human wearing the Double Crown. And finally, a stela of a king offering to Mut that we uncovered in 2006. While the stela is uninscribed, it is entirely possible that it dates to the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius, showing that Mut continued as an important goddess even after Egypt’s conquest by Rome. Harwa was an important man in ancient Egypt. He was an important figure in the life of Amenirdis I of ancient Egypt’s XXV Dynasty. He acted as the ‘Chief Steward’, or ‘Grand Steward’ for Amenirdis I, as God’s Wife of Amun and also whilst Queen Amenirdis served as Divine Adoratrice. Additionally, he held the title (as High Priest) of “Doorkeeper in the Temple of Amun”. Born in to a family of Theban Priests, Harwa held high office in Thebes (modern-day Luxor) with great responsibility to Amun and God’s Wife of Amun, the Divine Votaress, Amenirdis I. He was son of the “Lady of the House”, Nestaureret, and of a Priest attached to the temple of Amun in Karnak, Padimut son of Ankhefenamon. His tomb is located in el-Assasif, part of the Theban Necropolis, near to Deir el-Bahri and is known as TT37 (Theban Tomb 37) which has been under archaeological examination for some years and currently not accessible to the public. The tomb of Harwa (TT37) displays important features of a man holding such religious, spiritual and political power. Scenes and texts – at least those engraved in the principal axis of the monument – can be read as part of a description of the Egyptian man’s journey from his daily life to the Netherworld, passing through the ultimate experience of death and beyond. Each part of the monument concurs to document a different step of the path leading to eternal life. The tomb (TT37) is large and in the “Osiris Hall” there is a wall relief describing the moment of the death where Harwa is shown ‘between worlds’, and separated from his physical body, with Anubis holding one hand. Harwa then exists in two dimensions – in the Land of Osiris and still in the land of the living, just. Harwa’s tomb shows the moment of death in its supreme glory and Harwa continues to be shown ‘in the middle’, almost in a freeze-frame relief with both his Ka and brain conscious. This is highly unusual in ancient Egyptian scenes. A text well-engraved on the southern wall of the passage leading to the First Pillared Hall enumerates his good deeds having recourse to the most typical phraseology of the Egyptian “ideal biography”. It is Harwa himself who is speaking. He tells the visitor to the tomb: “I gave bread to the hungry man, clothes to the naked man”. This phrase is pivotal in the connection between Harwa and Queen Amenirdis I as, on the reverse (and base) of the famous alabaster statue of Amenirdis I, there is a well-carved series of hieroglyphs which say: “I gave food to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, clothes to the naked man.” The full translation can be found here: I have not seen a connection made anywhere regarding these two series of hieroglyphs – online or offline. I believe that this connection hasn’t yet been made by the scholars but the importance of the similar phrases is amazing to me. Harwa held the position of “Grand Steward” for about forty years from the time of Piankhy, serving under Nubian pharaohs Shabaqo or Shabaka (713-698 BCE) and Shebitqo (698-690 BCE), until the reign of Taharqo or Taharqa (690 – 664 BCE). ‘Coincidentally’, Amenirdis I is said to have served as God’s Wife of Amun, Divine Adoratrice (or Divine Votaress) and “God’s Hand” for approximately forty years. [Taharqo (or Taharqa) was the uncle of Amunirdis.] It is my personal belief that Amenirdis I and Harwa had a close relationship and ruled ‘together’ (under various roles) from ancient Thebes at approximately the same times in ancient Egypt. During the 1997 archaeological campaign in Harwa’s tomb (TT37), a limestone ushabty (or shabti) was unearthed showing features which shed new light on some aspects of the role played by Harwa inside the Theban administration. It is a typically mummiform funerary statuette of the XXV Dynasty but it holds in his hands the crook and the flail, that is to say, the regalia, the characteristic emblems of the pharaonic royalty. As far as it is known, it is the only example of non-royal ushabty displaying such a characteristic. Furthermore, in the Chapter VI of the Book of the Dead engraved on the body, Harwa is mentioned as “Great of the Greats”. These evidences should point out that Harwa had more power than the one deriving from his role and that he can be considered as the co-governor of the Theban region on the behalf of the Nubian King alongside the Divine Adoratrice, Amunirdis I. Also the vastness of his tomb and the high number of his statues can support the hypothesis that Harwa was the most politically influential person of the State; stretching to the First Cataract (a graffito signed by him has been found at Nag’esh Sheikh, near Aswan). If this assumption is confirmed by further excavations, then the positions of Montuemhat and Petamenophis will have to be reconsidered. They chose in fact to place their tombs east and west of the tomb of Harwa as if they attributed a high reverence to him and considered him a sort of ancestor. In this frame one has to ask: is it possible to speak of a “dynasty” of functionaries governing the Theban region with the consent of the Nubian kings? If this proves to be true, then, as they did not belong to the one family nor did they share the same titles and position, what was the mechanism of succession of these functionaries? No-one yet knows the answer to that question or the countless others raised by the life, works and tomb of Harwa, Grand Steward in the Precinct of Amun. Many questions are raised merely because of the surviving evidence belonging to Amenirdis I and Harwa but there are some issues which are quite clear: Upper Egypt was ruled well under the governance of these two mighty figures (and others) and for forty years, approximately, Upper Egypt was relatively peaceful (as opposed to the XXIII to XXIV Dynasties political and religious unrest and turmoil) whilst Pharaoh Shabaka (Amunirdis I’s brother) ruled from Memphis. Even after the death of her brother, Amunirdis I remained in control and acted, along with others, as the First Prophet of Amun, answering the State’s needs on many levels. Order was temporarily restored and both Amunirdis I and Harwa played a major role in ancient Egypt at that time. If you would like to read more about Harwa, please see these web sites:

New gecko species identified in West African rain forests June 1, 2010 The West African forest gecko, Hemidactylus fasciatus, is secretive but common in the tropical rain forest patches stretching nearly 3,000 miles from the coast of Sierra Leone to the Congo. Two post-docs -- former UC Berkeley students -- have now determined that the gecko is at least four distinct species scattered through isolated patches of forest across West Africa. Credit: Charles Linkem The West African forest gecko, a secretive but widely distributed species in forest patches from Ghana to Congo, is actually four distinct species that appear to have evolved over the past 100,000 years due to the fragmentation of a belt of tropical rain forest , according to a report in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The discovery by former University of California, Berkeley, students Adam D. Leaché and Matthew K. Fujita demonstrates the wealth of biodiversity still surviving in the islands of tropical rain forest in West Africa, and the ability of new DNA analysis techniques to distinguish different species, even when they look alike. "We tended to find this gecko, Hemidactylus fasciatus, throughout our travels in West Africa," said Leaché, a herpetologist with UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. "Despite the fact that it is recognized as one species, using new methods we have established a high probability that it is composed of at least four species." Though the forest fragmentation is part of a long-term drying trend in West Africa, the loss of forest and the resultant impact on the gecko is increasing as a result of human activity, he noted. "These rain forests are classified as one of the biodiversity hotspots on the planet, yet they are one of the most endangered areas on the earth," Leaché said. "Human deforestation is accentuating the process of habitat destruction." Leaché, currently a post-doctoral fellow at UC Davis but soon to become an assistant professor of biology at the University of Washington, has mounted five expeditions since 2003 to the tropical rain forests of West Africa to survey reptile and amphibian populations. All of the forest patches are isolated, some requiring hours of hiking to reach, and many are protected in national parks. Access was often difficult because he had to hire porters to carry liquid nitrogen with which to preserve tissue specimens of rare species, plus pickling containers in which to bring home more common animals, including the forest gecko. "Out intent was to go to remote sites where people haven't done much exploration to try to document biodiversity in Africa," he said. Having collected numerous specimens of the six-inch gecko, he and Fujita, who accompanied Leaché on several of the expeditions, decided to see whether genetic diversity among the geckos could tell them something about the history of the rain forest belt. That belt stretches nearly 3,000 miles from the coast of Sierra Leone through the Guinean rain forest in Ghana, through Nigeria and Cameroon, to the Congolian rain forest. Over millions of years, the forest has expanded and shrunk with climate change, and an aridification trend over the past several hundred thousand years has caused the forest to contract to mountainous areas, Leaché said. Leaché and Fujita found sufficient genetic differences among the 50 geckos collected from 10 different forest patches to identify four distinct species. The different species were found in different forest patches, suggesting that the species divergence was driven by the isolation of gecko populations from one another after gaps developed in the rain forest. Not all of the species were separated by forest gaps, however. The wide Sanaga River in Cameroon is the dividing line between two species, which the researchers named Hemidactylus coalescens and Hemidactylus eniangii, the latter in honor of Nigerian conservation biologist and herpetologist Dr. Edem A. Eniang. They retained the name Hemidactylus fasciatus for the westernmost species, which ranges from Sierra Leone to the wide Dahomey Gap, but identified an isolated species, Hemidactylus kyaboboensis, in the Togo Hills, which they named after Kyabobo National Park in the Volta Region of Ghana. A key component of their research was testing a different statistical method, called Bayesian species delimitation, that provides odds that researchers are correct when naming a new species. "This method gives you a probability associated with the number of species identified, something we haven't been able to do in speciation research until now," Leaché said. "Before, it was more of a qualitative assessment. Here, we get a quantitative assessment, which is reassuring." As a result, the researchers were able to state with high probability - essentially 100 percent that the specimens break down into four species. Fujita, formerly of UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and now a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, took tissue samples from the specimens and conducted the Bayesian analysis. The analysis involved five genes from the cell nucleus and one gene from the mitochondria. Leaché plans to continue his biodiversity survey of West Africa, but also to look more closely at the forest gecko to see what observable differences - size, shape or scale arrangement, for example - can be used to confirm and identify the four species. 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Fellowship is so much more than events. I sometimes describe biblical fellowship as “a common lifestyle shared by people with common values, making similar sacrifices, and experiencing common communal experiences.” People who live a life of biblical fellowship are authentic and vulnerable with one another, meet one another’s needs, and do life together — truly. Bible study groups who enjoy biblical fellowship can honestly say that they have shared laughter and tears. This kind of fellowship seldom happens if the only time a group gets together is for group meetings. Gatherings away from the group time are essential if the group is going to experience transformational fellowship. Following are a list of options that may be helpful to you and your group as you brainstorm ideas of things you can do together this winter. Gather around a bonfire snacks and conversation. Go on a snow skiing adventure. Host a game night to unleash everyone’s competitive side. Have a viewing party for the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four. Enlist group members to open their homes for a progressive dinner. Go sledding in a local park. Attend a concert together. Venture out for a night of karaoke. (This may not be for all groups.) Enjoy a movie night at someone’s home or go to the theater together. Get together to watch an awards shows on television. We would love to hear your and experiences. What are some things your group has done that aren’t listed? We’ve all been there. Sitting in a living room, having just finished a Bible study, your small group now turns to a time of prayer by soliciting requests. Sally shares about her cat Freckles. Freckles is old and has a bad hip—so she asks for healing for Freckles. You can’t quite imagine the apostle Paul praying for his sick cat, but you don’t want to be a jerk so you join the others by bowing your head and praying for Freckles. Something doesn’t seem quite right, but you’re not sure why. This repeats itself throughout the meeting and from week to week. A single man shares about being really busy at work and requests prayer for energy. A couple shares about their upcoming trip to Colorado and asks for traveling mercies. Someone else shares about his second cousin just diagnosed with breast cancer. Your group dutifully bows their heads in earnest prayer. A newly married couple in the group shares a praise: marriage has been better than they could have ever imagined. Smiles and prayers of thanksgiving go up to God. You wonder, Is this what small group prayer is all about? The prayer requests are near and dear to each person who shares, yet they seem to lack depth. They’re not shallow, but they’re also not substantive and seem to miss the bigness of God. They hover on the surface when your group is longing to go deeper with one another and with God. What should you do? Navigating the Tension There is a tension in prayer. We don’t want to be cynical, hard-hearted, nit-picking prayer police who point out the shallowness of other peoples’ requests. And we know that God desires for his people to pray with freedom to ask God for anything. Jesus doesn’t just throw out things like “ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you” (John 15:7) without really meaning it. If Jesus meant you can only pray for the really important or spiritual stuff he would have said so. Yet Jesus makes answers to prayer conditioned on faith (Matt. 21:22), asking in Jesus’s name (John 14:14; 16:24), abiding in Christ (John 15:7), persistence (Luke 18:1-8), having right motives (Jas. 4:3) and asking according to his will (1 John 5:14). And then we get verses that tell us just to ask (Matt. 7:7-11), to pray without ceasing (1 Th. 5:17) and to bring all of our anxieties and concerns to God in prayer (Phil. 4:6). So what should we do if our small group prayer times seem unusually skewed towards asking for stuff (petition), interspersed with some prayers of thanksgiving? What do we do if many of the things we pray for skim along the surface without ever getting deeper? Praying is a learned skill that takes time, discipline, and work. Corporate prayer is shallow because private prayer is infrequent. Recognize that we all have room to grow in learning to pray to God together. Be gracious with one another. Yet learn to guide a small group’s prayer time. Here are a few suggestions. 1. Remind the group what they’re doing. Asking, “We have about 15 minutes left, anybody have a prayer request?” will inevitably solicit shallow and circumstantial requests of the “daily bread” variety. The way you’ve framed the time has devalued its very significance. Take the opportunity to remind the group what prayer is. Instead of saying, “Any prayer requests?” ask, “Now as we move from studying God’s Word to praising him through prayer, what are some things God’s Word has revealed to us?” Remind the group that prayer is communicating with the God of the universe through the access purchased for us by the costly sacrifice of the Son and enabled by the indwelling Holy Spirit. We can reflect back to God praise, adoration, thanksgiving, confession, and petition in light of his revelation. We are approaching a holy God through the mediation of his beloved Son, in whom we have union and fellowship. Help the group be awed by what they will embark upon so that the oft-neglected aspects of small group prayer—praise, adoration, confession, and thanksgiving—will become natural responses to what God has revealed. 2. Let Scripture guide your prayers. If your group has just concluded a spirited study of a passage of Philippians (or whatever book you’re studying), keep your Bibles open and let Scripture guide your time of prayer. God’s revealed Word provides the content and trajectory for our prayers. Pray the commands from the passage you just studied, asking God to help you obey. Praise God for truths revealed in the passage, thanking him for who he is and how his power, wisdom, and majesty are revealed. Let the Scriptures guide how you pray. If you group has discerned the “big idea” from the passage, pray for those revealed truths to transform you, your small group, church, community, and world. If you’ve glimpsed an aspect of God’s character, thank God for revealing it to you and praise him for his unchanging character. Ask for God’s name to be hallowed in your life, in your community, and among the foreign peoples where your church missionaries are ministering. Tim Keller, in his book Prayer: Experiencing Intimacy and Awe with God, describes Martin Luther’s method of meditating upon a passage by discerning the instruction of the text (what does the text demand of me?) and then turning it into thanksgiving (how does this truth lead me to praise or thank God?), confession (how does this truth lead me to confess and repent?) and petition (how does this truth prompt me to appeal to God?). Providing your group a simple grid to move from the study of God’s Word to praying God’s Word will broaden the content of your prayers. 3. Get to the heart of the issue. Many of us do not naturally discern what we really need. But Scripture opens our eyes to see our true needs in light of God’s holiness, power, grace, and love. Perhaps someone shares a prayer request about being busy at work. This requires more information to know how to pray. To pray for more hours in a day or for this person to magically become more efficient is not likely to happen. Ask a few questions to better discern how to pray for this person. Is he busy because of a demanding and overbearing boss? If so, how can he live out his role as a God-honoring employee and make wise decisions on talking with his boss or prioritizing his workload? Is his busyness merely a symptom of an unhealthy desire to succeed, please others, or make the most money possible? Does he idolize his own success and the admiration he receives from others? Does he need to grow in contentment, gratefulness, and joy? God cares about our “daily bread” requests, but he’s also interested in exerting his kingdom and will in our hearts and minds. God is conforming us to his image from the inside out. So for Sally’s cat Freckles, you can pray not merely for the health of the cat, but more importantly, for Sally’s fear, anxiety, and loneliness that are being revealed. 4. Let Scripture evaluate your prayers. Scripture is the best judge of our prayers. Do we generally communicate with God in various types of prayer (adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication) or do we typically just list off our requests? Do we begin by praising God for his character and asking for his name to be hallowed as the Lord’s Prayer instructs? Furthermore, Scripture helps us discern why some of our prayers are actually unbiblical. Praying for a new Lexus to show up on your doorstep probably doesn’t pass muster for being “daily bread.” Keller writes, “One way petitionary prayer can actually do us harm is if we see it as a means to say to God, ‘My will be done.’ We are prone to indulge our appetites, telling God in no uncertain terms how he should run the universe. Such prayer neither pleases God nor helps us grow in grace.” Does your small group just repeat and rephrase the request—“I pray for healing for Nancy’s cancer”—or do you apply the gospel of Christ to the situation? Pray for healing from cancer, but also pray for joy and trust in Christ, confidence in her eternal destiny, patience with nurses and doctors, opportunity to encourage and witness to others, and ultimately that God would be glorified through this trial. More could certainly be said about cultivating a safe space for confession during a small group prayer time, following up prayer requests with questions of how things have gone, or praying for each other throughout the week. Yet the reality that we can approach a holy and awesome God together should awaken in us delight, joy, and praise that is reflected back to God in our prayers. Our ability to have access to God, corporately and individually, is blood-bought by the Savior. We pray to know and love God—not merely to list our requests. We pray to declare, again and again, that God is God and we are not, and to be amazed, humbled, and grateful for the blood of Jesus that makes it possible for us to approach the throne of grace. Asking great questions is as much an art as it is a skill. But developing that question-asking muscle is essential for great leadership. Asking great questions is the most effective thing a leader can do to create conversational environments where people can experience healthy relationships and spiritual growth. Jesus did this better than anyone in history. In the Gospels, he’s asked a ton of questions — everything from “Are you the Son of God?” to “Which is the greatest commandment in the law?” He rarely responds with an answer. Instead, he tends to ask questions that lead people to consider the truth, think about their own experiences, and reflect. Jesus understood that asking great questions helps people to process what they’re thinking and feeling and to really own the answers they discover. Providing quick, simple answers doesn’t usually do that. When it comes to asking great questions, Jesus sets the bar high. You probably won’t be as quick or insightful as he was (I’m not, that’s for sure). But it’s still a great idea to work on your question-asking skills, and to look to Christ for inspiration. You won’t change overnight, but in time you’ll find that your ability to ask better questions will create a better environment for your group members to grow. Here are five simple, self-explanatory tips for asking great questions in group: Ask open-ended questions, not those that can be answered with a yes or no. Ask questions that evoke feelings, make people think, and lead to insights. Ask questions that have more than one right answer. Ask questions that encourage group members to share personal examples. Ask questions that stimulate group members to apply what they’re learning. Responding to questions by asking good follow-up questions engages everyone in the group. As you guide the conversation, make sure responses connect your questions to the topic you’re discussing, pave the way for you and your group members to talk about your personal struggles, and encourage self-discovery by allowing people to arrive at their own conclusions with the help of the group discussion.

Wandsworth Every household in Wandsworth is within 1km of a recycling bank site. At most of these sites you can recycle paper, card, glass and cans. At some larger sites you can also recycle clothes, shoes, printer cartridges and books with funds raised going to a variety of charities.

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Fueling the Future with 21st Century Coal For 16 years Thabo Molubi’s productive day finished when the sun set. Without access to electricity, this South African furniture maker carved out a meager living with his hands. Then, an electrical line reached his village in the veld—and everything changed. He installed lights, power saws, and drills. He quadrupled productivity, improved product quality, and was able to hire local workers to sell his furniture far beyond his village. Thabo Molubi joined the tens of millions of people who, every year, are leaving grinding poverty behind and entering the global middle class. When I came across Molubi’s story in a piece by the American author Paul Driessen,1 I was reminded of a conversation at the World Energy Congress. I had just concluded a speech calling on world leaders to prioritize an end to energy poverty. This is an environmental and energy crisis few acknowledge—yet it is far more immediate than the remote targets and timelines that consume the current conversation. After my remarks, a delegate from an African development bank approached. He noted that I was the first speaker to address an issue that was so central to his work. “Why,” he asked, “do so many well-meaning officials claim to champion the developing world while denying access to the low-cost energy that could meaningfully improve the standard of living of impoverished people?” The picture exemplifies how Peabody Energy advances sustainable mining practices to restore coal-mined lands to prime and productive farmland here in central Indiana, as well as across the United States and Australia. Why indeed? An answer can be found in the widening fault line between the energy approaches of the developed and developing worlds. The world’s rising economies recognize that energy is a human right and a growing need. Studies show that each tenfold increase in electricity is linked to a 10-year increase in life, and the United NationsA has linked life expectancy, educational attainment, and income with per capita energy use.2 In fact, access to affordable energy is instrumental to the achievement of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, which range from halving extreme poverty rates to achieving universal primary education by 2015. The Challenge Defined Energy is as essential to our quality of life as food or water, and yet more than half the world’s population, 3.6 billion people, lack proper energy access and 1.3 billion people have no electricity access at all.3,4 These men, women, and children finish their days early due to a lack of light. No refrigeration is available to keep food and medicines fresh. Doctors and nurses serve an estimated one billion patients in the dark. And approximately half of all primary school students in the developing world must study by candlelight.B It is flatly unacceptable that, in the 21st century, hundreds of millions of people still rely on traditional biomass for cooking and heat. In some nations, stoves burning wood, agricultural residues, and other wastes account for more than 90% of household energy consumption. Often women and children spend hours gathering these fuels—an activity that deforests landscapes, damages ecosystems, and wastes enormous human potential. The World Health Organization estimates that each year 1.3 million4 people die as the result of fumes from these indoor stoves.5 Without action, this gap can only grow. By mid-century, the global population is expected to reach nine billion people6; five out of every 10 could lack adequate access to energy based on predicted population growth. And while projected energy needs are staggering in the developing world, energy disparities are expanding even in the most developed nations. The International Energy Agency (IEA) called on nations to invest US$41 billion annually or risk failure in the global effort to eradicate energy poverty.7 This is a human tragedy, and an environmental crisis, that is entirely preventable. A Solution Delivered As overwhelming demand looms, developing nations have embraced what, to some, is an unlikely solution: 21st Century Coal. The term “21st Century Coal” was introduced by the governments of China and the U.S. in 2009, in the context of an international partnership to advance the development of clean energy solutions from coal. It more broadly symbolizes the essential role of coal in achieving the world’s shared energy, economic, and environmental objectives. It also describes state-of-the-art advances across the industry in areas of safety, productivity, sustainability, and near-zero emissions technology in recent decades. Few fully recognize the stark differences between negative stereotypes about coal mining and use and current reality. New technologies and coal mining techniques have made economic and environmental goals compatible and achievable. Consider the experience of the U.S., where technical investment transformed coal use into a great environmental success story. Tens of billions of dollars have been invested by U.S. utilities in clean coal technologies to reduce emissions over the past several decades. Since 1970, key emissions from coal-fueled generation have been reduced by 87% per megawatt hour8 during a time when coal electricity increased 115% and real U.S. gross domestic product more than tripled. “Smokestacks” for coal plants have now become steam stacks, and a study in the NewEnglandJournalofMedicine9revealed that air quality in major American cities is better than at any time in the last two decades, contributing to measurable improvements in life expectancy—even as coal continues to provide more than 40% of U.S. power. 21st Century Coal on the Prairie 21st Century Coal plants represent another leap forward, including one project not far from the headquarters of my company, Peabody Energy, in the U.S. Midwest. Equipped with $1 billion in environmental controls, the Prairie State Energy Campus in southern Illinois is one of the cleanest coal-fueled power plants ever built and the largest to come on line in the U.S. in more than three decades. Prairie State, which was developed by Peabody, has achieved one-fifth the key emissions of conventional coal generating units while creating thousands of jobs. Upgrading the world’s coal fleet with technologies like Prairie State would deliver a 90% improvement in sulfur dioxide, 93% less nitrogen oxide, and virtually zero particulates, while dramatically reducing the burning of fuel wood and waste that causes enormous indoor air pollution in developing nations. Today’s efficient plants also achieve a carbon dioxide emissions rate that is as much as 40% less than older plants being replaced (see Figure 1 for a comparison of CO2 emissions versus net power plant efficiency). Replacing the world’s older coal plants with advanced generation would be the carbon emissions equivalent of removing the entire U.S. passenger car fleet from the roads. Doing so also would drive $4.3 trillion in economic gains and 21 million new construction jobs, according to a study by Management Information Services.10 The fact that this can be accomplished today with commercial technologies is not lost on the leaders of the world’s best economies. Nations such as China face what is often called a “prosperity paradox.” In a single generation, China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty—an accomplishment unparalleled in human history. Chinese use of low-cost coal has powered this prosperity, with coal use increasing 260% since 1990 as China’s Gross Domestic Product rose 20-fold in nominal terms. The correlation prompted the IEA to call China a “coal-fueled economic miracle.”11 And yet, China also faces intense pressures due to the pace of its urbanization and industrialization that threaten to undermine its achievement. Some 200 million Chinese moved to megacities in the past decade in the largest human migration ever recorded, and the China Institute for Reform and Development estimates that this number could double by 2020. Within the next 10 years, more people could urbanize in China than live in the entire U.S. This prosperity paradox is echoed in developing nations around the world. Every day, more than 367,000 people are born.12 Hundreds of millions more Thabo Molubis will soon be looking for a better life through modern power, and energy use is expected to intensify as a direct result. Many are asking how we can meet such enormous need without straining scant resources and degrading environmental quality. Once again, China is leading the way to the answer. This Asian nation recognizes that advancing energy access through greater use of coal need not come at the expense of environmental progress. Economic strength has been linked with clean air and water in much of the world. Evidence and common sense tell us that more prosperous nations can afford greater environmental protections and more advanced technologies. This is why China is prioritizing economic and technological development as the most effective path to cleaner air. Chinese leaders are building more supercritical and ultra-supercritical coal plants than any other nation in the world. This one nation represents a remarkable 55% of the global advanced coal- fueled generation that is expected to come online by 2017 (see Figure 2 for the projected coal demand growth through 2035).13 As part of the country’s 12th five-year plan—its national blueprint for economic and social development—China has committed to decommissioning the nation’s oldest plants and deploying modern emissions control technologies in the existing fleet. These advances cannot arrive soon enough. China’s per capita electricity use today is equal to the U.S. in 1955; India’s per capita electricity use is equal to the U.S. in 1920. We are just at the beginning of this story. We also are just beginning to realize the potential of the next phase of 21st Century Coal technologies involving carbon dioxide capture, use, and storage (CCUS). While many proposed climate change policies continue to divide the global public, the science behind coal with carbon management is solid and widely understood. Studies indicate coal with CCUS is cost competitive with nuclear and natural gas with CCUS. These “green coal” technologies achieve near- zero greenhouse gas emissions by capturing and injecting carbon dioxide into aging oil fields to recover stranded oil or sending it deep into saline aquifers or other geological formations for safe storage. Perhaps the best example of green coal is a plant just outside Tianjin, China. GreenGen is a major coal gasification plant that will ultimately reuse carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery. It is one of the world’s largest near-zero emissions projects, it began generating commercial power in 2012, and Peabody is the only non-Chinese partner in the project. The Modern Coal Mine A visit to Prairie State or GreenGen dispels many myths about coal-fueled electricity generation today. Similarly, I find that visitors to Peabody’s mining operations from outside the industry are amazed by the scale and sophistication of modern coal mining. Contrary to popular belief, most mining occurs above ground; 60% of global coal production, 67% of U.S. output, and 80% of Australian coal comes from surface operations. The best operations are characterized by large size, world-class safety and health management systems, highly skilled workforces, and state-of-the-art machinery. 21st Century Coal mining operations demand an intense focus on the fundamentals of operational excellence. Everything matters—from environmental standards to workforce training. But no issue is of greater importance than safety. For example, Peabody recently delivered the safest year in company history in 2012 by making safety a way of life, a method of working and living. Our focus on delivering zero incidents of any kind is relentless and resulted in a global incidence rate of 1.82 last year, a 9% improvement from 2011 and the fifth consecutive year of record safety performance. Peabody is not alone: In the U.S., working at a mine is safer than working in a shopping mall, in construction, or many other fields according to incidence rate data from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration. Having made a career in mining, I have a deep respect for those who choose this industry as a career, and I also recognize the scope of our collective responsibility to ensure that effective health and safety standards are in place and followed. For this reason, during my Chairmanship of the Peabody Energy’s Coppabella Mine in Australia Serves Export Markets in Asia and Produces Low-Volatile Pulverized Coal Injection Coal to Make Steel National Mining Association (NMA), we established a CEO Safety Task Force which set an industry goal of eliminating fatalities and reducing reportable injuries by 50% within five years. To accomplish this objective, representatives of NMA member companies collaborated on development of a model safety and health management system called CORESafety, which is based on the best practices of other industries. The CORESafety system is designed to be adaptable to all mining companies, is complementary to existing safety and health initiatives, and is currently being implemented across the U.S. mining industry. Peabody has sought to share best practices and forge global partnerships that can result in improved safety performance, resource recovery rates, land restoration, water resource management, and environmental monitoring. When mining is complete, lands are returned to a condition that is the same, and often far better, than before mining occurred. For example, in 2012 Peabody Energy alone restored more than 4000 acres of wetlands, prime farmland, forests, and prairie across two continents and recycled more than 18,000 tons of materials. China is making significant progress in this area, as well, and has responded to recent safety and environmental challenges by shuttering small, less-regulated mines and emphasizing win-win international partnerships that promise to introduce advanced, large-scale surface mining techniques in its far western regions. 21st Century Coal mining also features machines of significant size and complexity, including haul trucks capable of carrying more than 400 tons, massive shovels and draglines, and underground longwall mining systems with more parts than an average supercomputer. Peabody commissioned a haul truck capable of holding 447 tons, enough to qualify for the GuinnessBookofWorldRecords, and we developed a conveyor and blending system at our North Antelope Rochelle Mine (NARM) in Wyoming that enables this single operation to transport and blend coal over great distances with precision. The pace of innovation is intense, but the potential for improving lives and livelihoods is immense. The world has nearly a trillion tons of proven coal, which makes up 60% of global energy resources. Coal is widely dispersed and broadly available, Peabody Energy Operators Monitor Real-Time Computerized Dispatching Technologies that Monitor Productivity and Improve Operating Efficiencies with coal mines in 70 nations (the top 10 coal producers are listed in Table 1). Coal also is easily transported, reliable, and affordable.12 It remains the leading baseload fuel to replace declining nuclear generation and maintains a distinct cost advantage over liquefied natural gas globally. Table 1. List of top 10 global coal producing countries Fueling the Future Looking ahead, it is time to find some common ground on coal. For too long, energy policies in many nations have defaulted into predictable positions: business against activists, coal versus gas versus renewables, nation versus nation. The world often seems entrenched in a debate based on fixed opinions and fuzzy data. It is time to recognize the realities of 21st Century Coal mining and use. It is also time to empower people like Thabo Molubi to achieve better health and wealth through the greater use of affordable energy, which largely comes from coal. Common sense tells us that the world cannot regulate, tax, or conserve its way out of our current global economic stagnation. The solution is a balanced policy framework that encourages and rewards greater use of coal in a low-carbon way. 21st Century Coal can combat energy poverty and fuel an industrial rebirth. We believe it will take five steps, what we call the Peabody Plan: First: We must work to eliminate energy poverty by ensuring that at least half of new generation is fueled by coal; It is time to finally approach energy issues pragmatically—and recognize that the answers are right under our feet. It is time to act on available technology solutions. It is time to rebuild our nuclear power infrastructure, explore for natural gas and oil, and develop more cost-efficient renewables. Most of all, it is time to drive an energy technology renaissance with 21st Century Coal. NOTES A. Analysis by Dr. Frank Clemente, Pennsylvania State University, based on International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook, 2012, and The World Bank World Development Indicators, 2012.

Title Author Abstract The objective of this experiment was to determine the possible relationship between a sow’s ease of breeding on the first service and the farrowing rate and total born. This study was conducted in a commercial farrowing unit in the Southern United States utilizing pen gestation with stock of 6,000 head. Five hundred ninety-seven sows were bred between the months of April and May 2017 were selected for this study. All animals were inseminated using a post-cervical artificial insemination catheter unless insertion of the inner catheter was impossible. The semen dose fell within the following parameters: concentration of 1.5 x 109 sperm/40 ml, motility of ≥ 80%, abnormalities in morphology were ≤ 10% for distal and ≤ 10 % for proximal and a total of ≤ 20% total morphological abnormalities. Paper records were cross-referenced with electronic records to ensure accuracy of BQS, breeding technician, total born, and parity status of each animal. Interactions with BQS and farrowing rate were not detected (p > .05), and interactions with BQS and total born were also not detected (p > .05). Interactions with parity and BQS were detected (p < .05) with older animals (P5, P7, and P8) having higher BQS’s than younger animals (P0 and P1). The results of this study did not support the hypothesis that a sow’s BQS was related to farrowing rate or total born. Year manuscript completed Year degree awarded Author's Keywords Thesis Advisor Alyx Shultz Committee Member Brian Parr Committee Member Laura Hoffman Document Type Thesis Recommended Citation Prus, Kathryn R., "BREED QUALITY SCORES FOR POST-CERVICAL ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION AND THE EFFECTS ON FARROWING RATE AND TOTAL BORN AT A COMMERCIAL SWINE FACILITY IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES" (2017). Murray State Theses and Dissertations. 72. https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/etd/72

A distant cousin to the true dragons, the wyvern is a huge flying lizard with a poisonous stinger in its tail. A wyvern’s body is 15 feet long, and dark brown to gray; half that length is tail. Its wingspan is about 20 feet. A wyvern weighs about one ton. Wyverns speak Draconic, but usually don’t bother with anything more elaborate than a loud hiss or a deep-throated growl much like that of a bull alligator. COMBAT Wyverns are rather stupid but always aggressive: They attack nearly anything that isn’t obviously more powerful than themselves. A wyvern dives from the air, snatching the opponent with its talons and stinging it to death. A wyvern can slash with its talons only when making a flyby attack.

Environmentalism Not About the Earth But About Control, Part 1 For decades, American motorists have been subjected to propaganda insisting that they either need to drive less or give up safe, comfortable automobiles in favor of what amount to motorized coffins in order to preserve natural resources and environmental quality. Now that this policy goal is pretty much on the road to being implemented, the elites running our lives are not content to sit back in the glow of their accomplishment but are rather laying the groundwork for the next phase in their grand dream of limiting the free movement of the American people. One would think the increasing popularity of electric and hybrid automobiles would please transportation planners and social engineers. However, as most realize somewhere along life’s journey, getting what you want is not always what you expected. For while hybrid cars might cut back on emissions and fuel consumption, they also take a bite out of gas tax revenues. But instead of tightening their belts and learning to make due with less as they counsel you when you complain about rising fuel costs, government planners are now conniving to pass the hardship on to you by altering the way transportation taxes are assessed. Currently, such taxes are gathered in about the fairest way possible (a concept seldom associated with taxes) by collecting it in an innocuously private manner from those cautious enough to pay in cash at the bump based upon how many gallons acquired. However, from a plan being considered in Oregon, motorized Americans will have to contend with another governmental intrusion into their lives of Orwellian proportions. Instead of collecting taxes on each gallon purchased, revenuers plan to install censors at gas stations capable of reading the global positioning systems to be installed in nearly all vehicles and, from that, tabulating how far a vehicle has been driven or into what zones they have motored. Proponents of the program claim citizens have nothing to fear from Big Brother since the system would only tabulate mileage rather than specific itinerary. However, one does not have to be a Ray Bradbury to realize what a dystopian road this is headed down. For even if the sensors do not log precise destination, they are still capable of relaying to authorities — even if they are “just” tax authorities, who can actually make your life more miserable than actual police as these activist accountants assume greater control over areas of your life once considered beyond the purview of just and legitimate government such as religious doctrines and where you have been. Even more disturbing, these tracking devices are being designed to catalogue at what time of day you drive. That way the state will be able to charge you an additional fee for daring to drive at the times of day our government slavemasters would prefer we stay off the road. While they are at it, why don’t they go ahead and add similar devices to our toilets as well to punish those that have more bowel movements than our betters in government think we ought since such functions contribute disproportionately to greenhouse gases and are often a sign that the chronically flatulent might be eating too high up the food chain. Those embracing their place as good little minions of the New World Order will probably respond, “But this discouragement of motorized travel is legitimate since one is using roads provided by the COMMUNITY and by definition the COMMUNITY determines what it considers the terms of use”. Those thinking that they will be left alone if they use public transportation and sit quietly in their homes are in for a rude awakening that will probably arrive when they are dragged kicking and screaming to the relocation camp in part for the sake of the environment. For the totalist state is not content simply to tell you how to live once you step out into the broader COMMUNITY. It also wants to tell you in what kind of structure in which you may live out the existence its institutions have been beneficent enough to grant you as well as in many instances what manner of things you may do once you close the door. Across the pond in Merry Ole England, according to a CNSNEWS.com story titled “UK May Tax Environmentally Unfriendly Houses”, beatnik rabble in the Green Party there have been at the forefront of efforts to introduce taxes on what their ilk have labeled “environmentally damaging behavior”. However, such penalties are for more than spitting on the sidewalk or tossing litter from the car window. Foremost among these fees include increased property taxes levied against homes not deemed green enough as well as on automobiles and on those daring to travel by air. It must be remembered that the power to tax is the power to destroy. One member of the Conservative Party observed such taxes would disproportionately impact the poor and the elderly since these demographics are more likely to reside in domiciles not meeting energy efficiency expectations. What better way to seize the property of the population’s undesirables (namely members of the lower middle class) than to tax them out of their homes and to herd them into governmentally approved relocation compounds such as those into which Hurricane Katrina victims were shunted. Here, these people were deprived of their constitutional rights to such an extent that they were forbidden from speaking with reporters. One gets around the raw nerve of eminent domain altogether if taxes are raised so high that residents are either forced to sell to developers or have their property seized by default. Speaking from Tokyo as the elites will continue their lives of global travel while the common person will be corralled and branded like cattle going to slaughter, one British legislator (quite a ways from his homeland I might point out to the geographically illiterate) said, “Sometimes the changes will be painful. But leadership means facing the great challenges, even if the decisions are difficult.” Shame the Eurocrats can’t display the same degree of courage to stand against the tide of radical Islam sweeping across what was the cradle of Western Civilization. I guess they have no qualms about turning Granny out into the streets since she isn’t likely to strap on a carbomb. Don’t be fooled. Those such as the politician above making these kinds of statements won’t make a single personal change. Do you honestly believe the likes of Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth over there and the Bushes, Gores, and Kennedys over here are going to give up their multi-mansion estates to live in some I-Pod shipping-container sized apartment the rest of us will be expected to live in with a stupid grin slapped across our faces for the sake of the revolution? Not only do the elites plan to snatch your homes from you in the name of conservation, they also want to regulate within your own living space — or rather the one they plan to assign to you once they have succeeded in placing title to all property in the hands of the state or whatever institutional arrangement through which they plan to administer relinquished holdings. Speaking before worshipful UN functionaries, Al Gore (whose ballooning waistline and burgeoning facial jowls indict him for consuming a greater percentage of the earth’s resources then what he would permit the working slob) claimed according to a 9/6/06 Drudge Report that “cigarettes are a significant contributor to global warming.” The same could be said about the former Vice President’s ever-fattening lip. Drudge ends this dispatch by noting that Gore closed his homily harping on his political future and by hawking a book he had written (no doubt printed on paper that could have contributed more to the cause of Mother Earth if it had remained a tree). Interestingly, Al Gore is not the only eco-pimp using the environment to turn a trick or two. One would think the purpose of an environmental festival would be to discuss the environment. However from the program (printed on the remains of a slaughtered tree) for Green Festival 06 in Washington DC, it seems that the natural world was pretty much tagged on as an afterthought as the focus seemed to be radical politics with ageing hippies continuing to spread their filth and debauchery. For example, from the schedule of speakers, one wouldn’t be surprised to see Karl Marx to show up on the dais. Former Mr. Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden (who’s nearly as old as Marx), was scheduled to speak on the topic of “Alternatives To War & Empire”. Activist Medea Benjamin was docketed for the oration titled “We Have The Power To Stop The War In Iraq”. Another scheduled homily was titled “The Power Of Storytelling: Changing The World”. What in the name of Sheol does any of this have to do with enjoying nature or marveling at furry woodland creatures? Nothing whatsoever, ladies and gentleman. Before all is said and done, those that address such covens will no doubt make those in attendance feel guilty for simply being alive (especially if you happen to be White) and for enjoying the blessings that come from living in the greatest country on earth. And if it wasn’t, why are all these immigrants self loathing liberals want to grant unrestricted access to our bounty keep trying to break in, and perhaps even more importantly, end up forcing you to partake in their life of squalor. Foremost on the agenda was the confiscation of your own individual domicile and privacy. One seminar was titled “Community Without Walls”. But as one wise soul observed (it might have been Chesterton), don’t take down a fence unless you know why it had been put up. Walls and fences, contrary to leftist opinion, are very positive things as they confirm identity as an individual by demarcating what is mine and what is not mine (namely yours). It is the purpose of such a lecture to erode the concept of individuality and private property by manipulating those in attendance to be an “active participant in one’s neighborhood.” That may sound all warm and fuzzy, but in a “community without walls” where those living have forgotten legitimate boundaries and limitations, it usually ends up being invoked as an excuse to get involved in the business of others that is no one else’s concern and as an excuse to bring sanctions occasionally bordering on the violent against those not opening every detail of their lives to the scrutinizing oversight of the COMMUNITY. Some might conclude that, even if these plans were true, they are so far down the road that we will not have to worry about it during our lifetimes. And even though I cannot give an exact date as to when these communalistic horrors will transpire when what you slave away for will no longer be yours to enjoy as you wish, but as sure as I draw breath and write this, I can assure you the plans are being set into motion to revolutionize the American way of life. In the future, it won’t be enough to let these flakes cordon themselves off in their own compounds where whacky ideas, loose morals, masculine women, and effeminate men will be the order of the day. As I’ve said before, it is their intention to drag the rest of us down into Third World squalor. One of the exhibitors at the Green Festival was the Federation of Egalitarian Communities. The description for this organization reads as follows in the 2006 promotional brochure: “The Federation of Egalitarian Communities is a network of communal groups spread across North America, from small agricultural homesteads to village-like communities to urban group homes.” It has been a few years since the 1960’s, so perhaps a few readers (a significant percentage of whom like myself didn’t even trod the earth at that time) need to be reminded what exactly a commune is. A commune is a living arrangement where the residents do not own their respective domiciles outright but rather in common with the group (or rather those designated as the representatives of the group) making decisions on behalf of the members. While it may sound all warm and fuzzy, seldom do such living arrangements end happily. At best, most participants part ways with hurt feelings and at worst they often end in bloodshed as typified by the Jonestown and Heavensgate tragedies or when the principles are applied society-wide as was the case in the Soviet Union and Red China.

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Primo annuncio sulla Parata di Roma del Primo dell’Anno 2019 The countdown to the Rome New Year Parade 2019 is well underway and the parade team are finalising the last few participants. We are delighted to announce that Roman reenactment group, Associazioni Riunite di Rievocazione Storica Romana are the first of many wonderful performance groups set to appear at the Rome Parade on January 1st. Associazioni Riunite di Rievocazione Storica Romana is a collection of the following organisations taking part in Rome Parade 2019: Other news Lincoln Youth Symphony set for Rome Performance 23rd Febbraio 2019 The Lincoln Youth Symphony are set to perform in the Eternal city next month. The group from Lincoln, Nebraska will be arriving in Rome on Friday 8th March and are set to tour iconic locations and perform at venues around the city.

Useful Russian phrases or English Phrase Here we give the common Russian phrases that will help you in communicating more effectively with the locals. Russian phrases English Phrase Privet Hello Da Yes Kakoi horoshiy restoran est’ ryadom What is a good restaurant nearby Skolko How much Dorogo This is too much Ne dorogo This is not expensive Ya vas luybluy I love you ochen’ priyatno poznakomitsya It’s a pleasure to meet you ochen’ vkusno This meal is delicious Spacibo Thank you Kakoi u vas email What is your email address Vot moi email This is my email Beru za polovinu I will pay you half Nyet No Obojayu eto I love this! Ya vernus’ (shutka) I will be back (just kidding) Ya zakazal nomer I have a hotel reservation here Ya ishu moego voditelya I am looking for my driver Kak mne mojno pozvonit’ Where can I make a phone call Naberite etot nomer Can you please call this number for me These Russian phrases will help to communicate more effectively with the locals. You will find help right away if you are stuck in a situation, as you are able to communicate at a more personal level with people around you.

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A Tale of Two Responses To hear conservatives tell it, the White House's handling of the failed Christmas terrorist plot has been inadequate. President Obama, the Right has argued, waited too long to speak publicly about the incident, and hasn't taken the matter seriously enough. Of course, the obvious response is probably the most effective one: Obama commented on the Abdulmutallab plot a lot faster than Bush responded to an identical attempted attack eight years ago. But that doesn't fully capture the important and illustrative differences between the two responses. Now let's compare the previous administration's response to a nearly identical terrorist plot -- Richard Reid's failed shoe-bomb attack (the same chemical, the same target, the same intended consequence, in same month of the year, with the same twisted ideology). Consider these two weeks, from eight years ago: Dec. 22: Reid's attempt fails. Dec. 28: Bush hosts a press conference from his Texas ranch. In his opening statement, the president makes no reference to the terrorist attempt. Reporters ask Bush 15 questions, zero about the Reid incident. The president references the failed attack anyway, saying a total of 89 words on the subject. Dec. 29: The president reads his weekly radio address. He makes no reference to the attempted terrorism. Jan. 4: Karen Hughes hosts a briefing for reporters. There were no questions about the Reid incident, and the subject wasn't addressed. Jan. 5: The president reads another weekly radio address, and makes no reference to the attempted terrorism. Later that day, Bush appears at two public events, one in California, the other in Oregon. The shoe-bombing incident doesn't come up at all at either event. Do you notice a difference between the two weeks after the Abdulmutallab plot and the two weeks after the Reid plot? Tell me -- which of these two presidents seemed to respond to the attempted attacks more forcefully, more seriously, and with more depth? Which of the two seems more engaged when it comes to counter-terrorism? Keep in mind, Bush faced literally no criticism for hardly responding at all to an attempt to blow up an airplane over the United States. There was no media pushback, no complaints from Congress, nothing. And this was just four months after 9/11, when presumably the terrorist threat was foremost on the nation's mind. Rudy Giuliani said on CNN this week, "I think [Obama] has to make a major correction in the way he is dealing with terrorism because I think he has mishandled the situation. First of all, it was 10 days too late. This is something you react to immediately, not 10 days later after your vacation. The president of the United States, when there is a potential massive attack on this country, which is what this guy was going to do, should have been on top of this immediately, not 10 days later, 11 days later, 12 days later." Bush pretty much ignored, at least publicly, the nearly identical "potential massive attack on this country," and no one seemed to care. If I didn't know better, I might think there was a double-standard here, and a "controversy" has been manufactured by petty partisans hoping to undermine the Obama White House without cause.

Gordon Brown has accused one of the world's most influential golf clubs, the Royal and Ancient in St Andrews, of perpetuating discrimination by refusing to admit women as members. The former prime minister said it was indefensible that the club, which until 2004 set the rules of the game worldwide, was still men-only after Augusta National, the most powerful club in the US, abandoned its ban on female members this week. "If the golf club in Augusta can admit women, then shouldn't St Andrews? If they can do it in South Carolina, can we not do it in Scotland?" Brown asked. He made the comments at the Scottish parliament festival of politics in Edinburgh, where he spoke about the key role played by Scottish political and trades union leaders in championing social justice across the UK. "I think we have to think hard and long about issues of discrimination in our own country," he said. In 2009 the R&A was criticised by Alex Salmond, the first minister, after it ignored its tradition of inviting the principals of St Andrew's University to become members when Louise Richardson took up the post. Soon after Augusta's decision, the Scottish sports minister, Shona Robison, urged the R&A and Muirfield, another all-male club, which is hosting the Open next year, to follow their lead. "The first minister is on record in saying that all clubs should be open to women members, but there is nothing we can do to force them. However, the direction of travel now is clearly to admit both men and women members and hopefully we will see an end to not allowing women to become members," she said. The R&A would not comment directly on Brown's comments. It said in a statement: "The rules of the Royal and Ancient golf club at St Andrews specify a male membership and this policy remains a matter for our members determine." In his speech to the Scottish parliament, Brown also urged Scottish voters to reject independence and stay within the UK to protect common standards on social justice, welfare rights and the minimum wage. He said many Scots had played a significant role in creating the British welfare system and the labour movement. The National Union of Mineworkers was partly founded by a Scot, Alexander Macdonald; Keir Hardie helped found the British Labour party; and Tom Johnston, Scottish secretary in the UK cabinet during the second world war, laid down the foundations for the NHS. Taking inspiration from Scottish ideas, they had pressed for shared UK-wide standards on factory safety, minimum wages, national insurance and free healthcare because they believed in equal rights and equal standards of social justice across all parts of the UK, Brown said. "Were they wrong? Were they betraying Scottish values and traditions or were they not realising Scottish values and traditions? They did it because they believed that the principles of social justice apply to everyone, they did it because they believed it was right to pool and share resources, and they did it because they didn't want to see conditions in Scotland undermined because there was a race to the bottom because different parts of the UK were offering different standards and conditions." Sign up for the Guardian Today Our editors' picks for the day's top news and commentary delivered to your inbox each morning.

Australia's most innovative beats and hip hop label Menu Account Store Surrender To VictoryThe Tongue $15.00 In stock Release Date: 29 Mar 2013 SKU: ACE084 OUT OF THE DARKNESS COMES THE LIGHT, AS THE TONGUE DELIVERS HIS MOST ACCOMPLISHED ALBUM TO DATE: SURRENDER TO VICTORY The 15-track album sees The Tongue coming into his own as artist and collaborator, articulating a positive vision beyond the confines of modern Australian hip hop. From the opening track the listener can hear this development, as the gorgeous soulful vocal of Ngaiire illuminates the song ‘Bittersweet’. From there we traverse introspection to self-assuredness, religion to love, and the allure of clear perspective over confusion. The guests on the record indicate the standing enjoyed by The Tongue, with luminaries like Suffa from Hilltop Hoods on the song ‘Champion Sound’; in-demand youngsters such as Illy and Tom Scott (Homebrews,NZ); and contemporaries Jimmy Nice (Spit Syndicate) and Thundamentals joining an impressive tracklist. The Tongue holds court though, weaving in and out like a true master of ceremonies, dictating proceedings with clever wordplay and flow. This is not to underplay the incredible production brought to this album by Cam Bluff. Moving between the contemporary sound of local hip hop to the ever-changing sounds coming out of the USA, Cam Bluff has created a fresh sound that feels like 2013 without imitating whatever is presently buzzing through the hype machine. This is the album to stop procrastinating and embrace The Tongue. A clear talent driven by a great imagination; he has defied the heavy testosterone of the MC battles where he began and subsequently outgrew; he has held a capacity audience at The Sydney Opera House in the palm of his hand as he recited Dr Seuss; he has toured nationally on many occasions to sellout crowds. This is his crowning achievement. About Us Elefant Traks is one of Australia's leading hip hop and beats labels. Since 1998, we have released over 50 albums, organised countless tours and cultivated some of the most accomplished artists in the country. Email List Sign up for our mailing list below! We only send a couple of newsletters a month and there are always giveaways on offer.

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Casa dei Bersaglieri, Milan Casa dei Bersaglieri is located in Milan. With our international travel planner, Milan attractions like Casa dei Bersaglieri can be center stage of your vacation plans, and you can find out about other attractions like it, unlike it, near it, and miles away. Casa Bettoni, better known as Casa dei Bersaglieri, is a refined palace that dates back to 1865, that is, just four years after the Unit of Italy. After all, the Risorgimento refers not only to the two targets on the sides of the portal, but all the scenes carved in the beautiful bas-reliefs above the bifurcaeans of the main floor. Notable in the hallway the fine stucco decorations and the beaten irons of the gate and streetlights. I pass a lot of times in front of this patriotic building and I still like it. The official name would be Casa Bettoni, but it has always been known as house of targets for the two statues that flank the entrance. It began shortly after Lombardy's liberation from Austrian rule and its transition to the Savoy kingdom, which was completed in 1866. The other resurgence images (Garibaldi, Victor Emmanuel II,...) on the facade are beautiful.

Prosciutto, Mozzarella and Basil Roll This should just be called the “you won’t be able to stop at one no matter how much you try roll”. I tried and failed miserably. I’m going to be walking a lot this week because of it, but I’m okay with that. Really. And because I love to share in my misery, I want you to make it too and to eat as much as I did. It’s only fair ; ) Do yourself a favor and pick up a loaf of ciabatta bread to go with. You’ll have leftover prosciutto and it just begs to be placed onto a freshly baked ciabatta with a basil leaf and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Trust me. Once I tell you how easy this little appetizer is you’ll be making it all the time. Sometimes I just pretend I’m having company over so I can make these rolls because well that’s how I roll. It has three of my favorite ingredients: prosciutto, mozzarella and basil. How can that be bad. And to make things even easier, you can now find pre-made mozzarella rolls in the refrigerated section of most markets. Once you have that all you do is layer, roll and slice. Of course if you’re slicing with that sexy Santoku pictured above it’s all the nicer. You’ve heard me rave about these knives BEFORE. With good reason, they’re not only gorgeous (the craftsmanship is seriously stunning) the blades cut through everything like it was buttah! I have abandoned all of my other knives and I only use New West Knifeworks. Period. Here’s what New West Knifeworks says about their Santoku… “The Santoku Chef Knife uses a traditional Japanese knife shape that has become the hottest thing in kitchen cutlery. The Santoku chef knife is a do it all kitchen knife for both the home and professional kitchen. The dimple grinds on the Santoku chef knife help slice meats and vegetables paper thin (without) tearing them. They also help keep food fom sticking to the side of the blade. Add a touch of beauty to the kitchen with the kitchen knives Fine Cooking Magazine described as ‘Knife Art.’ The Fusionwood Santoku was featured in In Style Magazine and Saveur’s 2011 edition of The Saveur 100.” My husband was addicted to mozzarella/prosciutto rolls from our grocery store and we almost always had them in the fridge. I had no idea you can get the sheets of mozzarella! And now I can make his favorite appetizer in no time! Tante grazie, mia amica!

Citing frequent lockdown violations in certain states, the Home Ministry had on Sunday said teams would be sent to the Opposition-ruled states of West Bengal, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, besides Madhya Pradesh. In a late-night update, the ICMR said a total of 3,02,956 samples have been tested so far. Frosty ties between the Centre and West Bengal were on full display on Tuesday as the two Inter-Ministerial Central Teams that landed in the state to assesses its handling of the COVID-19 situation alleged non-cooperation by the state government, following which Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla shot off a letter to the Chief Secretary, asking him to comply with the Union Home Ministry’s order. Citing frequent lockdown violations in certain states, the Home Ministry had on Sunday said teams would be sent to the Opposition-ruled states of West Bengal, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, besides Madhya Pradesh. In Maharashtra, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray reiterated his demand for special trains to take migrant workers back to their home states, seeking revised guidelines to that effect before the end of April. “…the workers still want to go to their homes and they have taken an aggressive stand on some occasions. If the Union government feels that the number of COVID-19 cases may go up between April 30 and May 15, then the Centre should consider whether we can utilise the time we have on our hands to make arrangements for special trains to transporting the migrant workers to their native places. And the guidelines should be issued before end of April in this regard,” Thackeray said during an interaction through video conference with the Central team. The state government also withdrew the relaxed lockdown norms for Mumbai and Pune that came into effect on April 20 as the Central team raised objections to some of these, including beginning construction work on existing projects. In Rajasthan, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot told The Indian Express that he would consider the visit of the Central team a “success if they solved the problem faced by states”, adding that he reminded the teams that the state had “demanded a moratorium on payment of states’ dues to financial institutions under the RBI and other Central agencies”. But it was in Bengal that the two Central teams, that arrived in the state on Monday, got off to a rocky start. While the north Bengal team could not move out the entire day on Tuesday, the team in Kolkata stepped out in the morning only to be told by police to make a U-turn. Sources said the team was scheduled to hold a meeting with Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha at 11 am, which was cancelled. Finally, it was only around 4.30 pm, after Sinha held a 30-minute meeting with the Central team at the BSF guesthouse at Gurusaday Road, where they have been put up, that the team members were able to visit parts of the city, including Jadavpur and part of EM Bypass, with police and BSF escorting them. On Monday, the day the team landed, the members had visited the office of the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases in the city and held a meeting with the Chief Secretary at Nabanna, the state secretariat. Apurva Chandra, Additional Secretary, Department of Defence and leader of the five-member team in Kolkata, told ANI on Tuesday, “We met the Chief Secretary last evening at around 6 pm in Nabanna. We were assured that we will again have a meeting today and we will be taken around. But today we were informed that there are some issues and we will not be going out.” Mamata Banerjee had earlier written to PM Modi, saying the choice of districts for inspection and the Centre’s observations about them are “nothing but a figment of imagination and unfortunate”. (Express photo) “The order of deployment says the state government shall provide logistic support to us. I have been in touch with the chief secretary since yesterday seeking support from the state government to visit areas. In fact, we made it very clear that we will go around only with state government liaison officers. We would like to add that teams have gone to other places like Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan and they are getting full support from the state governments and all the teams are working. They have also been given the same notice as the state government of West Bengal. But they are active and have not faced problems,” Chandra said. The team was later provided a liaison officer by the state, following which it visited 5-6 areas in Kolkata. The team, however, did not step out from the car for a physical inspection. “This was just a visual tour of how well the lockdown is being implemented in the city,” said a team member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Asked about the team’s first impression of the lockdown implementation, the member said, “It seemed 90% effective.” The team did not give any feedback to the state government after the visual tour. According to sources, the team has specifically requested the Chief Secretary to arrange for a visit to COVID hospitals, quarantine centres and containment zones. “No assurances have been made on that request,” the member said. In Siliguri, the five-member Central team led by Vineet Joshi, Additional Secretary, HRD Ministry, remained stationed at the guesthouse of the Shashastra Sena Bal. Till reports last came in, they were unable to move out. During his evening press briefing, Chief Secretary Sinha said the administration was “cooperating” with the teams, but also reminded that the Central teams should have informed the state of their arrival in a “proper manner”. A child undergoes rapid testing for coronavirus at Belgachia, one of the red zones in Kolkata, on Monday. (Express Photo by Partha Paul) “…our stand is that the Centre should have contacted us first and then sent the teams. They wanted to go around Kolkata. One officer from Kolkata Police also accompanied them. We have asked them to take all precautions while visiting areas. We advised them to stay in the car and if they wanted to move about on foot, they must alert the police first. We provided them with all the information. We believe in cooperaton between the Central and state government. However, it is not wise to blame only the state. Both sides should show discipline,” said Sinha. On the team at North Bengal, Sinha said, “I spoke with the team a number of times. .there is a protocol. If a Central team comes, they will have to meet the Chief Secretary. We hoped they would first meet us and then move to North Bengal. The protocol has been breached. However, we have provided all information they sought.” When asked about Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla’s letter, asking him to comply with the MHA order, Sinha said, “Everyone is busy now. We are co-operating. But we cannot leave everything and move around with the Central teams.” Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hit the streets of Kolkata Tuesday afternoon, speaking into a loudspeaker and asking people not to venture out of their homes. In Indore, Madhya Pradesh, the central team told the local administration to increase the number of beds in hospitals for COVID 19 patients, should the need arise. With 915 cases and 52 deaths from COVID-19, Indore is one of the worst affected cities in the country.

This introductory course of the Leadership Academy will provide an opportunity for the students to develop both intrapersonal and interpersonal speaking, listening and writing skills necessary to develop a solid leadership foundation.Students will engage in experimental learning exercises such as small group projects as well as a more traditional strand through written reflections and audio-visual presentations.Active school involvement and service learning hours are required.

Free Printable Educational Diagrams Menu Throat Anatomy Diagrams Help yourself to learn the anatomy of the throat using these free and printable anatomy diagrams! These printable diagrams are designed to guide you in studying the structure and anatomy of throat. The throat is what we use to swallow and gulp anything placed inside the mouth. Throat begins at the back of our mouth and ends in the upper part of the stomach. There are three parts of our throat: the upper part, the middle part and the lower part called as nasopharynx, oropharynx and laryngopharynx respectively. To see the illustration of those parts, take a look at the following throat diagram. Sponsored links image via www.anatomylibrary.us In the throat diagram above, there are many organs inside our throat. Each organ located in the three parts of the throat. The pharynx is the upper part of the airway and begins at the back of the nasal passages and proceeds to the top of the oesophagus. It is generally considered to be part of both the respiratory tract and the digestive tract. It is the visible part seen when you open the mouth. Meanwhile, the larynx is a tube made of muscles and cartilages and carrying air from the nose and throat toward the trachea. Larynx is also known as voice box without which you cannot speak or sing. Larynx is located about 5 inches below the pharynx of the throat. For more understanding, look at the following printable diagrams. image via www.imgarcade.com image via www.readtiger.com image via www.fineartamerica.com Trachea is commonly called as windpipe and it transports air from the larynx till the bronchioles of the lungs. You can also see the esophagus which has the main function to empty the food particles received from the pharynx into the stomach. In the following images, we also have the blank version of the diagram that you can use as a quiz sheet. image via www.hisherscomm.com image via www.akitarecuepftulsa.com image via www.studyblue.com All these pictures are printable and you just need to click on the image to enlarge and save it. Learn more about the other human body structure and anatomy diagrams by browsing through our latest posts or looking it up on the search column! Throat Anatomy Diagrams is published on 2017-08-04T08:50:49+07:00 and last modified: 2017-08-04T08:50:50+07:00 by Cassidy Smith Sponsored links Sponsored links Throat Anatomy Diagrams on Diagram Site. This diagram pictures uploaded by Cassidy Smith on 04 August 2017 at 8:50 am. If you feel this image of Throat Anatomy Diagrams is useful for you, feel free to share this nice Anatomy to your social media account.