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FAIR ORGANIZERS, NASA DISCUSS EXHIBIT By PETER DUJARDIN Daily Press HAMPTON — NASA is preparing to become a major exhibitor at the Aviation World's Fair 2003. NASA and Kallman Worldwide, the New Jersey company running the fair, have drawn up an agreement for NASA to build a 5,000 square foot exhibit at the fair, said Mike Finneran, a spokesman at NASA Langley Research Center. "There's an agreement in front of both parties," Finneran said. The agreement is awaiting signatures from both sides. Under the planned agreement, NASA plans to spend $500,000 to build the exhibit, which would highlight the agency's role in the history and development of aviation and space flight, Finneran said. The NASA exhibit would be used at several celebrations around the country in 2003 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of powered flight. The NASA Langley Research Center plans to complement the exhibit with its own artifacts and displays. NASA Langley will also provide a still undetermined number of people to staff the exhibit, Finneran said. Kallman Worldwide said it was excited by the prospect of having NASA on board with the fair. "NASA's been critical in the first 100 years of aviation and space flight," said Mike Hatfield, a spokesman for Kallman Worldwide. "When kids and their parents come to the fair, they'll be able to see the full range of things that have made the first 100 years of flight so important." The Aviation World's Fair 2003 is to be held at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport for three weeks in April 2003. It's expected to include air shows, stationary planes on the ground, historical exhibits and national and corporate displays. Fair organizers said recently that they had so far lined up 76 of the 1,600 exhibit spaces that are planned for the fair. The list of 76 exhibitors includes private companies -- such as fighter jet maker Lockheed Martin and Flight International, the Newport News- based company that does training for the military. It also includes trade groups -- such as the Air Line Pilots Association and the International Business Aviation Council. And it includes public entities -- such as the Federal Aviation Administration, the military and, now, NASA. AVIATION WORLD'S FAIR 2003 The Aviation World's Fair 2003, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of powered flight, is a one time event to be held at the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport for three weeks in April 2003. It is set to include three weeks of air shows, historical exhibits and national pavilions and is expected to attract tens of thousands of visitors daily. Peter Dujardin can be reached at 247-4749 or by e-mail at [email protected] Colonial Williamsburg partnership explores historical context of tiny homes ASHTON MEREDITH FELTS, 73, OF SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY

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Fi Asia-China to Welcome the Global Food Industry to Shanghai this Month UBM Live UBM Live Logo (PRNewsFoto/) AMSTERDAM, June 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- - China's most important gathering of food and beverage industry professionals China's leading nutritional ingredients event, Food ingredients (Fi) Asia China, Health ingredients (Hi) and Natural ingredients (Ni), will take place this month, June 26-28 2014 in Shanghai, China. This is the premier event in China offering food & beverage manufacturers and producers the opportunity to find new suppliers and source health and natural ingredients. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130723/629764-a ) China is set to become the largest market for food and beverage ingredients in 2014, overtaking the US. The market will consume 87 million tonnes of food and beverage ingredients over the next 5 years, with 75% expected to come from commodity ingredients. Value added ingredients such as flavours and artificial sweeteners are also projected to perform well in China, especially health focused ingredients. With rising health awareness, China's health food and nutritional supplement market value is estimated at over RMB 600 billion, expected to grow. In its 12th '5-Year Development Plan for the Food Industry', it is projected that by 2015 the output value of China's health food industry will reach RMB 1 trillion, with an average annual growth of 20%. To capture these market trends, Fi Asia-China will return to Shanghai with 6 co-located shows, enlarged to 17 halls of the SNIEC (Shanghai New International Expo Center). With over 3,000 exhibitors across the show, this is the highest quality exhibition in China focusing on the food & beverage ingredients, nutraceuticals and pharmaceutical industries. The show has serviced the Chinese market for 15 years and will continue to create a global meeting place for food professionals to source the ingredients they need, learn about the latest innovations and challenges faced by the industry and develop their business network. The 2013 edition was attended 41,727 visitors, 36% more than the previous year, with international visitors from 66 various countries. Fi Asia-China is co-located with CPhI China, the world's largest ingredient tradeshow for the pharmaceutical industry, and visitors have free access to this exhibition along with 5 other co-located shows. The Starch Exhibition has been newly introduced for 2014, and will be the only international expo for starch in China. The food ingredients section has been enlarged to 2 halls with Health ingredients (Hi) and Natural ingredients (Ni) pavilions, returning with Healthplex & Nutraceutical China (HNC), providing direct access to the industry's most innovative finished products. Expo FoodTec will showcase food machinery, packaging, and technology innovations in the food and beverage industry. Visitors to the event will have the opportunity to take a free, guided Nutrimarketing Innovation Tour on key topics, or a self-guided Leatherhead Discovery Tour using a guided trail around the show floor. The new Buyer's Programme feature will also allow visitors to submit their product requests to the organisers who will aim to make a match with an exhibitor onsite. The global buyers meeting (face-to-face match making) at Fi Asia-China provided by 21Food will help international buyers build up business relationships with Chinese suppliers. The 2014 Ringier Technology Innovation Awards will honour companies for their contributions to energy conservation and environment protection, with winners presented on 27 June and their products displayed in the nearby New Product Zone throughout the show. Visitors to the show can download the official Fi Asia-China mobile app for free, to help plan meetings, post to the news feed and find all the show information. We at UBM Live expect the 2014 edition to be the best to date, with 17 halls and 6 co-lcoated events occupied at SNIEC. Leading companies such as Kraft Foods, Nestle, PepsiCo, SUNTORY, Coca Cola and Lotte have representatives attending, and over 51,000 professional visitors are expected to attend, representing a worldwide audience from over 100 countries. Registration for the event is still open but is closing on June 17th at http://www.fi-asia-china.com. Potential visitors who miss this deadline can still attend the event and register for free onsite. Fi Asia-China is presented by the organisers of key events, Food ingredients (Fi) Asia and Food ingredients (Fi) Europe, part of the Fi Global portfolio. About Food ingredients Global - the trusted route to market since 1986 Food ingredients was launched in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in 1986. Its portfolio of live events, publications, extensive data, digital solutions and high-level conferences, are now established throughout the world and provide regional and global platforms for all stakeholders, in the food ingredients industry. Over 500,000 people have attended our shows over the years with billions of Euros worth of business created, as a result. With over 25 years of excellence, our events, digital solutions and supporting products, deliver a proven route to market, with a truly global audience. For more information about the Food ingredients Portfolio please visit: http://www.foodingredientsglobal.com/europe UBM Live connects people, and creates opportunities for companies across five continents to develop new business, meet customers, launch new products, promote their brands and expand their markets. Through premiere brands such as Fi, NuW, MD&M, CPhI, IFSEC, TFM&A, Cruise Shipping Miami, the Concrete Show and many others, UBM Live exhibitions, conferences, awards programs, publications, websites, training and certification programs are an integral part of the marketing plans of companies across more than 20 industry sectors. UBM Live is a division of United Business Media (LSE: UBM.L, http://www.ubm.com), a leading global B2B media provider with 6,500 staff in 40 countries. Incorporated in 1918 as United Newspapers Limited, we live by the motto: "We explore, we exceed, you excel." For more information about UBM Live, please visit: http://www.ubm.com. SOURCE UBM Live

#NFU18 - Welsh agriculture - Embracing Change for Success 'While representing a significant challenge, Brexit presents an opportunity to shape the direction of the industry to benefit future farming generations in Wales.' That was the message from NFU Cymru President John Davies, who addressed industry stakeholders and fellow members during an NFU Cymru session with Welsh Government at the annual NFU Conference at the ICC in Birmingham today (Tuesday 20th February). As part of his address in one of his first major engagements as NFU Cymru President, John Davies used the Welsh Agriculture: Embracing Change for Success session to emphasise the importance of the UK Government securing a deal with the EU27 that enabled farming in Wales to prosper. "The £7bn Welsh food and farming industry is heavily reliant on free and frictionless trade with our nearest neighbour and this must remain following our departure from the EU in March 2019," he said. "In terms of securing a bright future for this industry we need a future policy for Wales that supports our primary role as food producers whilst also caring for and enhancing our environment and landscapes. We are asking for an integrated strategy that acknowledges food production and the full range of ecosystem and landscape services provided by the Welsh farming industry. To make this achievable we will need a transition period that is well managed and pilots new initiatives that are developed in full partnership with farmers. Get all the news from #NFU18 here "As President of NFU Cymru I want Welsh farmers to be in a position where they are supported and equipped to face the challenge and take advantage of the opportunities that lie ahead. This is a vibrant, dynamic industry and I want to make sure it continues to progress; I want to ensure that future generations of Welsh farmers are able to prosper from the way we handle the challenge that Brexit presents." The NFU Cymru session also provided a platform for key figures from Welsh Government, including the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths AM, to outline their thoughts on how they can work collaboratively with the Union to achieve the Union's vision of a productive, profitable and progressive agricultural industry delivering jobs, growth and investment for Wales. The Cabinet Secretary outlined her vision for land management in Wales post-Brexit and kick-started the conversation with industry as to how this can be delivered. John Davies said: "I welcome the five core principles set out by the Cabinet Secretary in today's session as I feel they align with our views in terms of policies to keep farmers on the land, supporting farmers for the full range of public goods and services they provide and, crucially, ensuring that future policy has food production at its core. "She also stressed that there is a need for a well-planned transition period taking place over a number of years in order to take us from the current EU CAP arrangements to a new Welsh land management policy. This transition period is of the upmost importance, both for farmers and the rural economy that relies heavily on the Welsh agricultural industry for so much of its income." Mr Davies concluded: "We face a period of unprecedented change, but never has the opportunity been greater for us all to work in collaboration to secure a positive future for Welsh agriculture, and indeed, Wales as a whole." Watch the video of the session here Last edited: 16:45 on February 20, 2018

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Watch Dogs Season Pass Details Revealed Published by GameFront.com 6 years ago , last updated 1 year ago Posted on April 29, 2014, Ron Whitaker Watch Dogs Season Pass Details Revealed Ubisoft has announced Watch Dog's $20 Season Pass, and detailed its contents. In a post on the Ubiblog, the publisher revealed the contents of the Watch Dogs Season Pass, including the long-rumored extra single-player content. Here's the list of what your $19.99 will get you: New single-player campaign – Puts you in the role of T-Bone, eccentric hacker and ally to Aiden Pearce Conspiracy! – a new Digital Trip which sets you on the hunt for cyborgs The Untouchables Pack – Go oldschool with some classic Chicago mobster film gear including a 1920s mobster outfit and a M1 SMG (in North America, the Untouchables Pack will only be available with the Season Pass) Additional single-player missions, outfits and weapons One week early access to all Watch Dogs DLC What do think? Is it worth 20 bucks to get your hands on all the content and get it a week early? I have to admit I like the idea of more single-player DLC instead of a bunch of multiplayer maps or cosmetics. Watch Dogs is set to release on May 27 for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

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Samsung Announces Exynos 1080 - 5nm Premium-Range SoC with A78 Cores by Andrei Frumusanu on November 12, 2020 10:00 AM EST Today Samsung LSI announced the new Exynos 1080 SoC, a successor to last year's Exynos 980. This year's 1080 is seemingly positioned a little above the 980 in terms of performance as we're seeing some quite notable gains in features compared to the 980. It's to be remembered that this is a "premium" SoC, meaning it's not a flagship SoC, but it's also not quite a mid-range SoC, fitting itself in-between those two categories, a niche which has become quite popular over the last 1-2 years. The new SoC is defined by having a new 1+3+4 CPU configuration, as reasonably large GPU, and full 5G connectivity integrated, and is the first publicly announced SoC to be manufactured on Samsung's new 5LPE process node. Samsung Exynos SoCs Specifications SoC Exynos 980 Exynos 1080 CPU 2x Cortex-A77 @ 2.2GHz + 6x Cortex-A55 @ 1.8GHz 1x Cortex-A78 @ 2.8GHz + 3x Cortex-A78 @ 2.6GHz GPU Mali G76MP5 Mali G78MP10 NPU Integrated NPU + DSP 5.7TOPS Controller LPDDR4X LPDDR4X / LPDDR5 Media 10bit 4K120 encode & decode H.265/HEVC, H.264, VP9 10bit 4K60 encode & decode H.265/HEVC, H.264, VP9 Modem Shannon Integrated (LTE Category 16/18) DL = 1000 Mbps 5x20MHz CA, 256-QAM UL = 200 Mbps (5G NR Sub-6) UL = 1280 Mbps Shannon Integrated UL = 1280 Mbps (5G NR mmWave) WiFi Integrated 802.11ax (WiFi 6) Integrated 802.11ax (WiFi 6) ISP Main: 108MP Dual: 20MP+20MP Main: 200MP Dual: 32MP+32MP Mfc. Process Samsung 8nm LPP Samsung 5nm LPE On the CPU side of things, this is the first time we've seen Samsung adopt a 1+3+4 CPU configuration, now adopting the Cortex-A78 architecture on the part of the performance cores. One core is clocked at 2.8GHz while the three others are running at 2.6GHz. Qualcomm had first introduced such a setup and it seems it's become quite popular as it gives the benefit of both performance and power efficiency. The four big cores are accompanied by four Cortex-A55 cores at 2.0GHz. On the GPU side of things, we're seeing a quite large jump compared to the Exynos 980 as Samsung is now not only moving onto the new Mali-G78 microarchitecture, but is deploying double the number of cores. It's possible that previous performance of these "premium" tier SoCs wasn't as well received as there was a large gap in performance compared to their flagship SoC counterparts, so Samsung employing a much larger GPU here is quite welcome, and still leaves room for a much larger configuration for their flagship SoC, which has yet to be announced. Samsung now also includes a new generation NPU and DSP in the design, and quoted machine-learning inference power of 5.7TOPs which is again quite a sweet-spot for such an SoC. The new modem now is capable of both 5G NR Sub-6 frequencies as well mmWave, something which was lacking in the Exynos 980. Samsung's decision to deploy mmWave here is interesting given that outside of the US there's very little deployment in terms of network coverage as sub-6GHz is being prioritised. Samsung adding this in in what's supposed to be a more cost-effective SoC means that they're actually expecting it to be used, which is going to be very interesting. Multi-media wise, the specifications listed for the SoC show that it actually cut down on the MFC (Multi-Function Codec) decoder and encoder capabilities as it's now only capable of 4K60 instead of 4K120 in the last generation – maybe a further cost optimisation. The camera ISP capabilities have been improved, supporting now single camera sensors up to 200MP, and dual-sensor operation up to 32+32MP. The most exciting thing about the SoC is its transition from an 8LPP DUV process to the new 5LPE EUV process. This is Samsung LSI's and Samsung Foundry's first announced 5nm chip which is going to garner a lot of attention when it comes to comparisons made against competitor SoCs on TSMC's 5nm node. I do expect the Samsung process to be less dense, but we'll have to wait out and see the actual performance and power differences between the two nodes. Last year I had noted that the Exynos 980 looked like an extremely well balanced SoC and we did see it employed by third-party vendors such as VIVO, as well as more Samsung Mobile devices. The new Exynos 1080 look to be even stronger and solid in terms reaching a balance between performance and features and still trying to optimise things for cost. Samsung Announces Exynos 980 - Mid-Range With Integrated 5G Modem Samsung Announces Exynos 990: 7nm EUV, M5, G77, LPDDR5 Flagship SoC alongside Exynos 5123 5G Modem Samsung Announces the Exynos 9825 SoC: First 7nm EUV Silicon Chip ISCA 2020: Evolution of the Samsung Exynos CPU Microarchitecture The Samsung Galaxy S20+, S20 Ultra Exynos & Snapdragon Review: Megalomania Devices Santoval - Saturday, November 14, 2020 - link Even 5, 10 or 40 years from now the heat management issue of 3D stacked chips will remain. Lakefield barely managed to work without active cooling between the dies despite having a mere 7W of TDP. As AnandTech's review showed its "big" Sunny Cove core is only used in short bursts for "quick responsiveness", not for sustained single threaded code execution. Why? Because with passive cooling its thermal load cannot be handled. 3D chips, particularly with TDPs above 5W require active cooling with something like microfluidics between the dies to function properly, but this type of cooling has never made it out of labs and beyond the R&D stage (probably due to the high cost and high complexity of implementation). Below 5W 3D chips can probably work with good passive cooling solutions though. Tams80 - Friday, November 13, 2020 - link There's no reason to doubt that AMD can produce something good. After all Qualcomm's Adreno graphics was created by ATI who were bought by AMD, who then sold off their mobile graphics. Adreno is an anagram of Radeon. So the design chops and pedigree are there at AMD. Ej24 - Friday, November 13, 2020 - link Wow. Adreno. Radeon. Never noticed. Is this genuinely on purpose or just a happy coincidence? Spunjji - Monday, November 16, 2020 - link 100% on purpose. thomasg - Saturday, November 14, 2020 - link The most exciting part about RDNA in mobile SoCs would be, that there are great open source drivers, which could be adapted to mobile (and very likely could be used by default), which would greatly enhance community efforts, such as LineageOS. "Do you think it will beat established mobile vendors in efficiency" Possibly, yes. ARM's GPU efficiency has always been sub-par; the only real innovators have been Qualcomm (evolved from old ATi tech) and Imagination (via Apple). RDNA 2 looks pretty fierce on the power efficiency front even compared with Nvidia, and AMD have learned a lot about designing for low-power low-bandwidth SOCs recently; the biggest questions are about area efficiency and how low they can scale the design. SydneyBlue120d - Thursday, November 12, 2020 - link Can we dream of no hi-end Exynos this year? Only Snapdragon 875 worldwide? ToTTenTranz - Thursday, November 12, 2020 - link 2021 might be seeing Samsung's first SoC with a RDNA GPU. I wouldn't claim clear victory to Qualcomm just yet. It will be Radeon vs. Adreno. eastcoast_pete - Thursday, November 12, 2020 - link Four Big A78 cores sound pretty "grown up" to me; should be a substantial increase over the 2+6 BigLittle 980 with only 2 big cores, plus some generational uplift. This "premium mid-range" SoC might well reach SD865 performance levels, maybe not so on the graphics side, but still competitive - not bad at all. I look forward to your review of a phone with that SoC inside. Wilco1 - Thursday, November 12, 2020 - link It should be similar to SD865+ CPU performance since 2.8GHz Cortex-A78 is about the same as 3.0GHz Cortex-A77.

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Breakwater Portfolio Company yurbuds® Is Acquired by Harman International Industries The US market leader in sports headphones is acquired by global infotainment and audio group Harman International Industries. LOS ANGELES, June 2014 – St-Louis-based yurbuds®, a portfolio company of Breakwater Management, LP ("Breakwater"), has been acquired by Harman International Industries(NYSE:HAR), a leading global infotainment and audio group. Based in Los Angeles, Breakwater is a private investment firm that specializes in direct investments in leading lower middle market businesses that demonstrate attractive opportunities for growth. Founded in 2008, yurbuds is the #1 selling sport earphone company in the United States. The firm develops in-the-ear and behind-the-ear headphones that are ergonomically and functionally designed specifically for athletes. yurbuds headphones are available in 19,000 points of sale, including big box general merchandise retailers, sporting goods retailers, and more than 750 active lifestyle specialty retailers. "When it comes to providing a premium audio experience, there's no better name in the industry than Harman, and we are incredibly excited to join forces to enhance the yurbuds product line, expand our scale, and grow the brand around the world," said Seth Burgett, CEO and President at yurbuds. "This is a very exciting juncture for this globally recognized premium brand within the sport tech market," said Saif Mansour, Founding Partner at Breakwater. "The acquisition of the business by Harman now promises to accelerate the growth of the yurbuds brand further, with new opportunities to leverage technologies and distribution systems to drive global business expansion." Following the acquisition, Burgett and the yurbuds team will join the Harman Lifestyle Division. Harman International Industries reported 2013 revenue of $4.3 billion. In May, the company acquired AMX, a visual equipment maker from Texas, for $365 million. Breakwater Management is a private investment firm that specializes in direct investments in leading lower middle market growth companies, especially businesses with expanding global operations. The firm aligns itself with committed management teams, owners, and sponsors to help propel lower middle market businesses into their growth curve. Breakwater has an established, world-class alternative asset management platform, with multiple partnerships and investment vehicles that service the lower middle market's myriad capital needs. « Breakwater Provides Capital Support for Alpha Media's Acquisition of Main Line Broadcasting Saif Mansour Selected as a Semifinalist in EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2014 Awards Program »

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Exmouth Journal > News > Education Pupils team up for town art Sean Keywood Published: 10:00 AM July 24, 2011 Updated: 9:32 AM November 7, 2020 Students from Exmouth Community College have teamed up with primary school pupils to bring new artwork to the town. Year 13 students Amber Poutter, Ellis Jeptha and Fran Evans invited pupils from Brixington School to come up with designs for artwork representing Exmouth's past, present and future. They then invited the creators of their favourite designs to recreate them on a large board, which will now be scanned on to acrylic and displayed in the town. The students set up the scheme after winning the inaugural Garth Gibson Memorial Award, a prize in memory of Exmouth's former town crier. This will provide �500 annually for a group of Exmouth Community College students to carry out a community project. The award has been set up by the Magnolia Incentive and the Garth Gibson Memorial Fund.

It can be done because "there are embedded Web servers that come in hardware devices," says Michael Sutton, vice president of security research at Zscaler Labs, who will present his research at next week's Black Hat Conference. The embedded Web servers in "photocopiers, printers and scanners are there for the purpose of ease of administration," but the functionality is not hardened, the devices are available directly through the Internet, and often they aren't password-protected, he says. In his research, Sutton says he discovered he can easily find these printers, scanners and photocopiers, including those made by HP, Ricoh and Sharp, out on the Internet, and simply use the available features "to remotely retrieve anything recently photocopied, such as download a PDF copy of it." He said he's able to find this equipment with its embedded Web servers through scripts he wrote to scan huge blocks of IP addresses to recognize certain tell-tale Web header fingerprints. "There's no breaking-in required," Sutton adds. He says the reason he's highlighting the risks is because "I want enterprises and consumers to recognize that an embedded Web server is a Web server and you've got to shut off some features," adding, "it's like a public Web server." Features should not be enabled by default, nor used without password protection. But he notes many people probably are unaware these embedded Web servers are even there in these printers, photocopiers and scanners.

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We had been to Cakeboy Donuts, at Plant 4 Bowden, well over a year ago, before they had really taken off on social media. I'd heard about them from a friend of a friend – one of those friends who seem to know about the latest craze or phase before anyone else. She had told us that this little donut shop sold vegan donuts, an idea which seemed unique, so heading along one night we got some of Cakeboy's to try. The donuts looked great, the team seemed lovely and enthusiastic, but unfortunately, the donuts were a real disappointment. My husband and I put it down to us not being used to such exclusive, vegan donuts. And thinking that it would be unfair to rate them beside non-vegan donuts, I decided not to review them for the blog. However, I then started talking to some other bakeries. Turns out a lot of bakeries have vegan donuts – Bakery on O'Connell for one, and there are many more. This got me thinking; what in a donut would make it un-vegan? Perhaps it's the use of eggs, but not all donut recipes call for eggs. Or perhaps it's the use of dairy in the icing, but most icings seem to be just icing sugar and flavouring. So actually, a vegan donut isn't the most difficult thing to come across. Knowing this, the playing field had been levelled. We went a couple times to Plant 4 Bowden, to try out the donuts again, but every time they were sold out. Their Instagram-able nature, combined with the vegan factor, seemed to have elevated this little bakery into the realms of popularity. Eventually one Friday evening, I managed to find them with full shelves of donuts, having beat the dinner and dessert time rush. With a plethora of donuts to choose from I chose the most appealing and interesting one: the rose and pistachio flavoured donut. One thing I have to credit to Cakeboy's is their unique, delicious sounding and looking choices. However, as with the previous donut from there, it was a disappointment – and an expensive one at that. It should be noted that the picture above was taken after a car journey in a warm car, so the icing had melted everywhere! I've reviewed it pre-melting when it was much more aesthetically pleasing – and it was a great looking donut. I loved the pink and green contrast. The donut was of average size, with equal diameters. The only real downside was the unequal distribution of icing and that the dough was very dark, as if overdone. The light pink icing had a nice hint of rose flavour – not overpowering and delicious. The icing was very thin, more like a thick glaze, and was falling off the donut in a crumbly fashion. Unfortunately, the pistachios weren't the crunchiest or the most flavoursome. The dough was not at all salty. It really needed a bit of salt for balance to bring out any sweetness that was there, which it was also lacking in. The dough was really just a bit of yeasty blandness. It tasted "healthy" – impressive considering a donut is sugar topped, fried dough. The end taste on the palate was of cinnamon, and I couldn't tell if it was from the dough or if it was transported next to a cinnamon sugar donut. The icing was too thin and crumbly. The dough was very dense but had a slightly crunchy shell. The dough also had an odd chewy texture, like a moist sponge. Not the good, cake-type sponge, but rather a yellow, slightly damp, kitchen sponge. The idea of a vegan donut is not unique but discoverable in many bakeries across Adelaide. For sure the donut was aesthetically pleasing and suitable for Instagram, but I personally probably would prefer to spend my calories and money elsewhere.

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The Devastation of Iraq's Past Hugh Eakin Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past an exhibition at the Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago, April 10-December 31, 2008. Catalog of the exhibition edited by Geoff Emberling and Katharyn Hanson. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 87 pp., $29.95 (paper) The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq edited by Peter G. Stone and Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly Boydell, 319 pp., $95.00 Antiquities Under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection After the Iraq War edited by Lawrence Rothfield AltaMira, 322 pp., $80.00;$29.95 (paper) Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq by Patrick Cockburn Scribner, 226 pp., $24.00 Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nation Building in Modern Iraq by Magnus T. Bernhardsson University of Texas Press, 327 pp., $45.00 The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch Henry Holt, 315 pp., $26.00 American Hostage by Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton Simon and Schuster, 288 pp., $15.95 (paper) In May 2003—some eight weeks after the American invasion had begun— Abdul-Amir Hamdani, the archaeology inspector of Dhi Qar province in southern Iraq, traveled to Najaf to call on the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. He had an urgent request. "We needed his help to stop the pillage," Hamdani recalled. The province, which is midway between Baghdad and Basra, covers much of what was once the land of Sumer. In the third millennium BC, it was a fertile plain densely populated by such cities as Ur, Lagash, Girsu, Larsa, and Umma; today, the shifting course of the Euphrates and Saddam Hussein's brutal campaign to drain the marshes, to the southeast, have left it in large part an impoverished wasteland. With the fall of the Baathist regime, hundreds of poor farmers and villagers—often backed by armed militias—were turning to archaeological plunder; in some Dhi Qar towns, such as al-Fajr, the black market trade in antiquities was accounting for upward of 80 percent of the local economy. Al-Sistani was sufficiently moved by Hamdani's plea to pronounce a fatwa. He proclaimed that digging for antiquities is illegal; that both Islamic and pre-Islamic artifacts are part of Iraqi heritage; and that people who have antiquities in their possession should return them to the museum in Baghdad or in Nasiriya, the capital of Dhi Qar province. Copies of the fatwa were distributed widely in the south, and published in the Iraqi press. "At this point some of the looters stopped their work, because when Ayatollah al-Sistani says something, they listen," Hamdani said. The fatwa was a small victory in what has been, for Hamdani, a largely intractable struggle to save one of the deep sources of human culture. Settling in the southern part of what the Greeks later called Mesopotamia some six thousand years before the birth of Christ, the Sumerians developed year-round cultivation, built the earliest city-states, and devised a complex system of writing. Over time, the area came under the sway of the Akkadians, the Babylonians, and the Assyrians; later, it fell under Persian and Hellenistic influence before the Islamic conquest in the seventh century. Left behind were the rich remains of history and literature, often in the form of baked mud-brick tablets covered with wedge-shaped script called cuneiform; and small engraved seals—cylinder-shaped objects made of imported hematite, lapis lazuli, and other semiprecious stones that, when rolled onto wet clay or other soft material, produce intricate and often stunningly beautiful impressions of ancient life and ritual. Remote and mostly lacking in monumental architecture above ground, the buried cities in which this material was preserved withstood centuries of violence, from the arrival of Cyrus the Great in the sixth century BC to the Mongol invasion in 1258. An absence of much subsequent urban development also meant that the archaeological record was unusually clear. Yet since 2003, several important sites have been destroyed beyond recognition; perhaps tens of thousands of cylinder seals and cuneiform tablets have been removed and channeled into the underground art market. "What is currently taking place in southern Iraq," Gil Stein, the director of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, writes in the catalog to "Catastrophe!," the institute's disturbing new exhibition on the subject, "is nothing less than the eradication of the material record of the world's first urban, literate civilization." All the more remarkable, at a time of growing international concern for the devastating effects of archaeological plunder, the destruction of Sumer following the 2003 invasion was largely unchallenged by American and British forces. How did this happen? Since the looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad in April 2003, the international press has accorded considerable space to the country's imperiled ancient heritage. Much of this coverage, however, has been devoted to the museum, the impressive campaign to recover its stolen works, and the continued struggle to reopen its galleries. (They remain closed.) Only occasional, anecdotal reports—mostly from the first year of the conflict—have borne witness to large-scale plunder of archaeological sites, to which the damage is irreversible. In large part, the problem for journalists is the number of sites—there are over a thousand, many of them remote, in Dhi Qar province alone—and the danger posed by any attempt to investigate them. Micah Garen, a freelance filmmaker and photographer who, along with his partner Marie-Hélène Carleton, is perhaps the only Western journalist to have reported extensively on the looting in the south, was kidnapped by a gang with links to the Mahdi Army while visiting a black market in Nasiriya in 2004. He was held hostage for nine days, an ordeal recounted in Garen and Carleton's recent memoir, American Hostage. The looters also have powerful connections that can intimidate their enemies: in early 2006, Hamdani was thrown into jail for three months on trumped-up charges after attempting to rein in the activities of a developer with close ties to the antiquities trade. The dearth of firsthand accounts, in turn, has led to much confusion about the extent of the looting, its chronology, and its underlying causes. The destruction of sites, for example, has been blamed on everything from the Sunni insurgency and al-Qaeda in Iraq (also known as al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia) to treasure-hunting soldiers. The mystery has been heightened by the sense, among many in the art world, that remarkably little Iraqi material has been surfacing on the art market. Theories about the whereabouts of plundered objects have varied from storerooms in Damascus and Dubai to living rooms in the US and Japan. This June, for the first time since 2003, a small group of archaeologists, led by John Curtis, curator of the Middle East collections at the British Museum, were able to visit eight major sites in southern Iraq in a helicopter provided by the British forces stationed in Basra. Their mission was limited—the eight sites were south of the region where looting has reportedly been heaviest. But at the sites they visited, they found that the digging was far from uniform. Uruk, Eridu, and Lagash suffered little or no looting; while Larsa and other sites had been extensively looted. "One shouldn't underestimate the role that local people can play in this," Curtis told me after the trip. "No doubt that at Lagash, they were actively preventing looting. At other places, they might have been actively engaged in it."1 These new insights have been strengthened by an analysis of satellite images by Elizabeth Stone, an archaeologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook who accompanied Curtis on the June survey. In the months preceding the 2003 invasion, DigitalGlobe Corporation, a Colorado company, began taking satellite photographs of southern Iraq for the Pentagon. Stone realized that these high-resolution images were particularly suited to documenting the mounds, or tells, of buried Mesopotamian cities, including any fresh digging and trenches. With support from the National Geographic Society, the National Endowment for Humanities, the State Department, and several other institutions, she began buying up the images, and by the time she published her findings earlier this year, she had data on nearly two thousand archaeological sites.2 As sheer documentation of knowledge destroyed, the pictures are chilling. Some of the most revealing discoveries about Mesopotamia—from the royal tombs at Ur to the literary texts of Nippur—have come from excavations in southern Iraq. And yet, Stone estimates that the total extent of the recent looting is many times greater than all archaeological investigations ever conducted in southern Iraq—and must have yielded tablets, coins, cylinder seals, statues, terracottas, bronzes and other objects in the hundreds of thousands.3 And since these objects have been ripped from their archaeological settings, which in many cases have been destroyed, much of the potential information contained in them—even if they do resurface—has been obliterated.4 Still more striking, however, is what the satellite pictures tell us about the looters. First, despite the existence of important Mesopotamian sites throughout the country, intense, organized looting has occurred only in certain areas. Others who reported on the issue immediately following the invasion concluded that sites in the north had not been much targeted. But Stone is also able to show that some areas of southern Iraq, including Central Babylonia, to the south of Baghdad, and the Eridu Basin south of Nasiriya have remained largely intact; the heavy looting has been mostly confined to a sizable, but well defined, swath of territory around northwest Dhi Qar and the borderlands of its neighboring provinces—precisely the area where Hamdani has observed a booming antiquities trade. Second, the images make clear that the first big wave of looting actually occurred before the arrival of Coalition forces. By the end of 2002, state authorities had largely abandoned the region of Sumer, along with other parts of the south, and photographs from early 2003 show evidence of rampant fresh digging at numerous small and medium-sized sites, many of them unstudied by archaeologists. Stone suggests that the timing of these initial excavations coincided with "the threat of hostilities—and presumably the mistaken expectation of increased security [by the US invaders] thereafter." Digging at some larger sites also began around this time, but seems to have accelerated greatly—and in more organized fashion—after the looting of Baghdad, in April and May 2003, when several of the most important known sites, including Isin and Umma, were largely destroyed. (At Isin the holes appear much blacker in the satellite images than at other sites, indicating deep trenches that reach down to the earliest stratum of human history there.5 ) Finally, Stone is able to show with some precision that the hard-core looting, where it has occurred, has been selective. Prehistoric and early Bronze Age sites down to the time of Uruk—the first great city-state, where, in the early third millennium BC, the legendary Gilgamesh was king—were not much disturbed. Nor were the many sites in the region from the Neo-Babylonian period (630–539 BC) or from the Islamic era. In contrast, digging amounting to ransacking is evident at some sites dating from the Akkadian period (2335–2100 BC), when cylinder seals developed into an elaborate art form; there was also heavy looting at sites from the Old Babylonian era (2000–1600 BC), particularly known for its cuneiform tablets; and at sites from the centuries when the region was under Persian and Hellenistic influence (538 BC–637 AD), when works of glass and coins were in wide circulation. What are we to make of these findings? For one thing, they bear out the observations of Iraqi archaeologists—and of the recent expedition led by John Curtis—that the people who have been involved at ground level belong to certain of the tribes native to Dhi Qar and neighboring provinces. Though underreported in the Western press, a system of tribes or khams has provided the backbone of rural Iraqi society for centuries. Until the first Gulf War, tribal hierarchies in the south were suppressed by the state, but they were increasingly reconstituted during the UN embargo of the 1990s, and tribal leaders have become a central source of authority in the vacuum of power since 2003. The area where heavy looting has occurred, for example, is largely under the control of a few tribes. According to several archaeologists I spoke to, the support of their sheiks has been crucial to turning the plunder of artifacts from a criminal activity into what tribesmen now view as a legitimate form of income. A dealer in one of the market towns might pay five or ten dollars for small inscribed objects and fragments; a cylinder seal of particular beauty, or an intact cuneiform tablet, might get as much as fifty dollars—about half the monthly salary of an Iraqi civil servant. The dealers would in turn sell the objects to smugglers for many times their original value; by the time they reach the international art market, such objects could be worth four, five, or even six figures. Stone sculptures, which are relatively rare, might be worth far more.6 Tribes in the south often regard the ancient sites as part of their own land, and for some of them, these prices have made the harvesting of objects—from soil that is otherwise no longer arable —seemingly irresistible. "Most of the tribes approve of the looting," Donny George, the former director of the State Board of Antiquities, told me. (He was forced to leave Iraq in 2006 and is now a visiting professor at Stony Brook.) "And they control the towns where the antiquities trade is run." That al-Sistani has been moved to intervene, moreover, suggests that some of those involved have attempted to use religious authority to give legitimacy to their digging. Behind the tribal activity in northwest Dhi Qar, then, is also a larger story about the fate of the Shiites—and the ancient land they inhabit—in the final years of Saddam's Iraq.7 In a 1979 speech, Saddam Hussein declared that "antiquities are the most precious relics the Iraqis possess, showing the world that our country…is the legitimate offspring of previous civilizations which offered a great contribution to humanity." Saddam's heavy-handed efforts to turn Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar into forebears for Baathist expansionism are well known. (A better model might have been the Assyrian tyrant Assurnasirpal II, whose reign of terror in the ninth century BC included mass incinerations of the civilian populations he conquered.) Still, the Iraqi dictatorship maintained one of the more successful archaeology administrations in the Middle East. The State Board of Antiquities was well funded; several generations of Iraqi archaeologists worked closely with their Western counterparts at sites across Iraq; a large and flourishing museum establishment was developed; and site looting was virtually nonexistent. (Saddam would later decree that looting was punishable by death.) In his informative recent book, Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nation Building in Modern Iraq, Magnus T. Bernhardsson, a historian at Williams College, suggests that this privileging of Mesopotamian history was owed in part to the controversial legacy of the British Mandate in the 1920s. An important aim of British power in the region, he observes, was securing unfettered access to ancient sites, although Gertrude Bell's farsighted policy of dividing the spoils with the Iraqi state made possible a remarkable era of archaeological discovery. It also helped bring the Mesopotamian heritage to the forefront of Iraqi politics, to the point that, by the 1970s, the Baathist regime could view the pre-Islamic past as a way to construct an Arab nationalist ideology that transcended sectarian differences that the regime violently suppressed. Amply funded by the oil boom, Sumerian and Babylonian sites in the south were for the most part carefully maintained, and, according to several archaeologists I spoke to who worked in Iraq at the time, were often a source of local pride. All of this changed, however, with Saddam Hussein's brutal crackdown on Shiites after the first Gulf War. During the 1991 uprisings that were encouraged by the US, Shiites (along with their Kurdish counterparts in the north) attacked and looted a number of regional state museums, which were associated with the regime. While archaeological sites were not immediately targeted in this way, Saddam's ensuing punishment of the south—which destroyed the region's fragile agricultural economy—had devastating effects. "Saddam was telling the people of southern Iraq, 'it's not your civilization,'" Hamdani recalled. "And if it's not your civilization, why protect it?" Neglected sites in areas populated by impoverished farmers provided an opportunity for the international antiquities market. Together with small sculptures and Mesopotamian jewelry, cuneiform tablets or fragments containing mathematical or literary texts were attaining prices in the tens of thousands of dollars. Of even greater interest were cylinder seals, which had been actively pursued since the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when J.P. Morgan had been a major buyer; in the 1990s, there were several international collectors acquiring them in large quantities. An auction of Near Eastern cylinder seals at Christie's in 2001 netted close to $1.5 million, with top lots—such as a green serpentine seal, from the late third millennium, containing a remarkable depiction of bejeweled Akkadian deities; or an obsidian seal, from the thirteenth century BC, showing a Kassite aristocrat leading two restive horses—selling for well over $100,000. By the mid-1990s, archaeologists were frequently identifying Iraqi material in auction catalogs and private galleries in London and New York, including clay tablets that, they said, clearly came from recent excavations at sites in Dhi Qar, such as Umma.8 "It will forever be considered a marvel," the archaeologist John Russell writes in the catalog to "Catastrophe!," "that at the same time the United States was enforcing against Iraq the most rigorous sanctions regime in history…tens of thousands of previously undocumented Iraqi antiquities were sold openly on the US market." The UN sanctions regime also made it possible for looters and smugglers to operate with impunity. "The no fly zone in the south of Iraq was essential to the trade," the archaeologist McGuire Gibson writes in The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq, a new volume of essays by different authors who have followed the crisis. "Without [Iraqi] helicopter surveillance, it was very difficult for the Iraqi authorities to control the countryside." Objects were leaving the country through Jordan, Syria, and Kurdistan, as well as the Gulf; most of the material was headed for the West. In fact, this activity had begun to be brought under control in the years preceding the Iraq war. In 1999, with new funds from the UN Oil-for-Food Program, Iraq's State Board of Antiquities began hiring local people to do year-round excavations at Umma and several other of the most vulnerable sites. The idea was that those formerly involved in looting could be trained to work as archaeologists—and given an alternative source of income. Donny George, who directed several of these excavations, told me that the looting did stop, and important recovery work was done. But as the Iraqi regime began to prepare for invasion in late 2002, the rescue excavations were shut down. Worse, there were now well-trained teams of local diggers who knew what to look for and where. In the weeks following the US-led invasion and the sacking of the Iraq Museum in April 2003, the international press began to report large-scale looting at several archaeological sites in southern Iraq. In late May, a front-page story in The New York Times described how the remains of the Sumerian city of Isin, northwest of Nasiriya, were being destroyed by "mobs of treasure hunters." The plunder was attributed to the general "anarchy and lawlessness" that followed the collapse of the Saddam Hussein regime —a further instance of the looting that had occurred in Baghdad a few weeks earlier. In fact, what appears to have been taking place at Isin was less anarchic rampage than an organized enterprise involving entire tribes and their communities. In another essay in The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq, Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly, a Lebanese journalist and archaeologist, describes her visit to a number of sites in the south in May 2003. "Dhi Qar," she writes, was under the total control of the looters and antiquities dealers. Heavily armed, they controlled the main roads leading to the biggest archaeological sites thereby providing security for their "employees." These were hundreds of farmers who had left behind their families to actually live on the sites and search for antiquities…. Their days started before sunrise for a few hours, and then the heat would force them to stop until late afternoon when a second shift would begin, continuing until late into the night. They were well equipped: they carried shovels and hammers, and they had made their own lamps run off car batteries. Largely ignored by Coalition troops stationed in the south, this mass mobilization had created a new looting economy controlled by the tribal hierarchies and the dealers they worked with. Archaeologists who witnessed the looting in 2003 and 2004 have pointed out that they had to have the authorization of the local sheik even to gain access to a site. But there also was another important source of legitimacy for this former capital offense: the religious and sectarian parties the invasion had brought into power. As was the case in the 1991 uprising, the looting of Baghdad in April 2003 was partly motivated by animosity toward the Saddam regime. Targets included ministries, office buildings, the houses of Baathist leaders, and official cars, as well as institutions like the Iraq Museum and, tragically, the National Library, which was looted and burned; and many of those involved were angry young Shiites from Sadr City. In his informative new account of the Sadrist movement, Patrick Cockburn, a veteran Iraq correspondent, describes Muqtada al-Sadr's startling response to the mass looting of state property: The looters became universally known in Iraq as al-Hawasim, meaning "the finalists." The term was a derisive reference to Saddam Hussein's claim that an American invasion of Iraq would provoke "a final battle." In May, Muqtada issued what became known as the al-Hawasim fatwa, saying that looters could hold on to what they had expropriated so long as they made a donation (khums) of one-fifth of its value to their local Sadrist office. It remains unclear whether there were explicit edicts along these lines in reference to archaeological sites. But Iraqi officials I spoke to say that local religious leaders affiliated with the Sadrist movement have condoned the antiquities trade insofar as it produces funds and does not—in theory—involve Islamic material. "Some of the followers of Sadr were writing on banners at some of the archaeological sites that [Muqtada] does not stop anyone from looting if they would sell [the looted objects] to get weapons or build a mosque," Donny George told me. For Hamdani, it became clear that to change the local plunder economy, he would need the tribal and religious authorities on his side. He cultivated ties to the sheiks; he began visiting mosques in the principal black market towns, to try to get the message out in Friday sermons; and then he decided to call on the Ayatollah al-Sistani himself. Since many poor Shiites in the south are not followers of al-Sistani, his fatwa against looting did not solve the problem. But it did result in a remarkable breakthrough: a looter who had been moved by al-Sistani's order contacted the museum in Nasiriya, where Hamdani was stationed. "He told me he had a lot of information about the smugglers and the black market," Hamdani said. Hamdani gave him a digital camera and a Global Positioning System device that looked like a cell phone and sent him back to work. He became a key informant for the State Board of Antiquities, providing photographs and locations about diggers and the people who hired them. With the help of Italian forces then stationed in the south, dozens of arrests were made, and hundreds of antiquities were recovered. But the Italians left in 2006, leaving unanswered a more perplexing question: Where was all the looted material going? In late January, I was taken to a large warehouse in East Amman, the working-class part of the Jordanian capital that has absorbed tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees since the war began. The warehouse was owned by the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, and it was full of Iraqi materials: Aramaic incantation bowls, Akkadian seals, Old Babylonian agricultural records, stone sculptures, Sassanian glass, Parthian jewelry, Roman and Islamic coins, and other antiquities— some of them marked with labels from the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.9 Along with other neighboring states, Jordan is frequently mentioned as one of the principal gateways for illicit archaeological material from Iraq, and these objects, confiscated by Jordanian officials in only a handful of seizures, give some idea of the extent of the cross-border trade in looted cultural property. (Saad Eskander, the director of the Iraq National Library and Archive, who has spent the last five years rebuilding this institution in war-torn Baghdad, told me that he had been contacted by a person in Amman who claimed to have some important documents stolen from its holdings. He wanted to sell them back to the library for $50,000.) Yet perhaps most interesting about the artifacts in the warehouse was their variable quality. Among some important pieces, there was a lot of junk, and the Jordanian archaeologist who accompanied me suggested that a number of the artifacts were modern fakes. Most had been confiscated in the months immediately following the invasion, and some of them appear to have been in possession of everyday refugees who had little sense of their value. Fawwaz al-Khraysheh, the director of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, told me that no major seizures of looted artifacts have occurred since 2004. Several people who are familiar with the antiquities market in the region suggest that larger smugglers are not working through Jordan, which is relatively far from the principal area of looting and which, together with Syria, has cooperated with Iraq on policing antiquities theft. (In late April, Syria returned to Iraq some seven hundred antiquities confiscated since 2003; in June, Jordan returned more than two thousand objects, including those I had seen in Amman.) Rather, the principal smuggling routes appear to be across the Iranian and other southern borders, to the Persian Gulf, where the material might be "warehoused" for a number of years, or privately sold with few questions asked. As the Persian Gulf states, funded by the oil boom, have become Middle East trade hubs, they have also quickly developed into centers of art and antiquities collecting. According to a cuneiform scholar I spoke to with extensive contacts in the Middle East, a prominent Kuwaiti sheik has amassed a large collection of Mesopotamian artifacts, including much recently looted material from Iraq. Another destination may be Israel. The country is known for its liberal approach to the antiquities trade; one American curator told me it is possible to buy "virtually anything" in Jerusalem's old markets. In September 2005, Israeli officials seized a container full of looted Iraqi artifacts at the airport in Tel Aviv. The Israeli press reported that it had passed through Dubai and London, and was the largest such seizure in Israeli history. Iraqis themselves suggest that the most plausible smuggling routes have been through Iran and Kurdistan. Donny George observes that the governments of Iran and Turkey have until now demonstrated little interest in policing their borders for antiquities smugglers, and Kurdish and Iranian dealers are believed to be involved in the trade. Since the 2003 invasion, moreover, large numbers of Iranians have been making pilgrimages to Najaf, Karbala, and other Shiite holy sites, creating cross-border traffic that facilitates smuggling. Some of this material has already reached Western shores. Since 2003, Britain and the United States have had bans in force against trading in recently surfaced Iraqi antiquities, and unlike during the 1990s there have not been large auctions featuring cuneiform tablets and other Mesopotamian material. Even eBay has taken measures to prevent trading in looted artifacts.10 Yet newly surfaced Iraqi material—in particular objects of lower and middle value—has been traded on the Internet, through smaller on-line auction and gallery sites. In recent Google searches, I found several Web sites that sell foundation cones—small cone-shaped objects covered with dedicatory inscriptions that were embedded in the walls of important buildings in the third and early second millennia—and other cuneiform artifacts for prices ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Some are identified as coming from particular sites in "Southern Mesopotamia." For several years now, archaeologists and cultural property specialists, as well as nongovernment groups such as UNESCO and the World Monuments Fund (which in 2006 took the unprecedented step of putting Iraq as an entire country on its list of most endangered sites), have been voicing alarm about the rapid destruction of Iraq's ancient past. These efforts, many of which are documented in a new collection of policy-minded essays, Antiquities Under Siege, have done much to keep this neglected aspect of the Iraq crisis in view. They have also underlined the failures of US and British forces to plan for—and, after the invasion, to provide—even basic protection of archaeological sites. Yet in reading these essays, one often senses a detachment from the reality of what has been happening in Iraq. Since the bombing of the Samarra mosque in early 2006—itself a terrifying indication of the degree to which cultural monuments have become part of the war—foreign cultural officials have largely avoided travel outside of the main cities and military bases. UNESCO's Iraq office, for example, has for some time occupied a temporary facility in Amman; when I visited officials there early this year, I was told that travel to Iraq had been strictly limited for security reasons. In Baghdad, meanwhile, the cultural administration has suffered from larger power struggles within the Iraqi government. In 2006, the State Board of Antiquities was subsumed into a new Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, which has been controlled by the Sadrist bloc in parliament. The ministry has shown little interest in providing resources for site protection, and "tourism" appears to refer mainly to pilgrimages to Islamic shrines. By late 2007, there was very little fuel available to gas up the trucks that had been supplied by a private American foundation and by UNESCO for Iraqi patrols of archaeological sites. Today, there are signs that the worst looting may be over. To the extent that the excavations have produced the quantity of material estimated by Elizabeth Stone, the underground market has surely been saturated by now, bringing down prices. Stone and John Curtis also found that none of the eight sites they visited with British forces in June had been looted since the immediate aftermath of the invasion. Indeed, some of the damage discovered by the British expedition was a result not of looting, but of defensive positions that appear to have been dug by the Iraqi army shortly before the US-led invasion. In the case of Ur, the site has been protected from looting by an adjacent military air base, but has suffered degradation from the thousands of Coalition troops who until recently had open access to it. (A more shocking case of site damage by Coalition forces occurred in 2004 at Babylon, as documented by Zainab Bahrani, a scholar of Near Eastern art and archaeology at Columbia University.11 ) Of course, these findings provide scant consolation for what appears to have been one of the most concentrated and devastating episodes of archaeological destruction in modern history. In The Buried Book, his recent account of the rediscovery of The Epic of Gilgamesh, David Damrosch observes that the poem portrays Gilgamesh as one of the great kings of Sumer by emphasizing his accomplishments as "custodian of ancient cities and monuments that have to be maintained and repaired." Indeed, in the prologue of the epic, the poet describes the story he is about to tell as an artifact of the past, to be discovered—as in fact it was by archaeologists in the nineteenth century—and carefully preserved: [See] the tablet-box of cedar [release] its clasp of bronze. [Lift] the lid of its secret [pick] up the tablet of lapis lazuli and read out the travails of Gilgamesh, all that he went through… The example of Gilgamesh was forgotten in 2003, and we may never know how many other such "secrets" have been lost as a result. Janet Malcolm E.M. Forster, Middle Manager More by Hugh Eakin A Nation in Search of Justice Pandemic Journal, April 6–12 Khashoggi & America's Part in a Saudi Horror Charles Ellwood Jones 'The Devastation of Iraq' Hugh Eakin is the Gilder Lehrman Fellow in American History at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. (November 2017) Citing the June survey, recent reports in The Art Newspaper and The Wall Street Journal have somewhat breathlessly suggested that little or no looting in southern Iraq actually occurred. To the contrary, the findings provide further evidence that organized plunder was both extensive and selective, bearing out earlier indications that some large sites were not affected. For a formal report on the eight sites inspected in the survey, see www.britishmuseum.org/iraq. ↩ Elizabeth C. Stone, "Patterns of Looting in Southern Iraq," Antiquity, Vol. 82 (Spring 2008), pp. 125–138. A less technical account of her findings is contained in her essay in the catalog to "Catastrophe!" ↩ It should be stressed that until further information comes to light, any attempt to quantify the number of objects removed is by nature conjectural. The number of cuneiform texts that have surfaced in the West remains small, although anecdotal evidence indicates that far larger quantities may be in the Middle East or elsewhere. Thousands of cylinder seals remain at large from the Iraq Museum alone, and the extent of the looting holes and the number of sites involved give some weight to a number well into the tens of thousands, if not higher. ↩ It has been observed that archaeological "context" may matter less for inscribed objects, whose own texts contain important historical information and often identify where they are from. Mesopotamian texts have frequently been found together, however, in buried libraries or collections of tablets, the existence of which has made it possible to use texts to draw broad conclusions about politics, culture, and daily life. Once texts from such a group are dispersed it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to reconstruct that group and its significance. I am grateful to Piotr Michalowski for this point. ↩ For a study of the damage at Isin and its surrounding area using similar techniques as Professor Stone's, see Carrie Hritz, "Remote Sensing of Cultural Heritage in Iraq: A Case Study of Isin," in TAARII Newsletter, The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq, Spring 2008, available at www.taarii.org/newsletters/. ↩ In December 2007 a three-and-a-half- inch limestone Standing Lioness Demon, dating from the beginning of the third millennium and said to be found near Baghdad in the early twentieth century, sold at Sotheby's for $57 million, an auction record for an antiquity or piece of sculpture. ↩ Notwithstanding claims made in the press, a direct connection between the plunder and Sunni insurgent groups appears unlikely, according to Iraqi officials I spoke to and to archaeologists who have studied the satellite evidence. ↩ The attraction of Umma, a city of great importance in the late third millennium, can be attributed to environmental factors as well. Covered by dunes for many decades, it had been inaccessible to archaeologists; but the shifting sands exposed it again by the 1990s, and it quickly became known among looters, as it had been early in the twentieth century, for its cuneiform tablets from the Ur III period. Around 20,000 tablets have been published from the site. I am grateful to Robert K. Englund for this point. ↩ Many of these works were helpfully catalogued by a research team from the Center for Archaeological Research and Excavations in Turin. See An Endangered Cultural Heritage: Iraqi Antiquities Recovered in Jordan, edited by Roberta Menegazzi (Florence: Le Lettere, 2005). ↩ In August 1990, following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the UN mandated general sanctions on goods from Iraq. It was not until the second Iraq War, however, that legislation specific to Iraqi cultural property was enacted in the United States. In May 2003 the UN Security Council passed a resolution calling for the return of cultural goods to Iraq and the prohibition of trade in such items. In 2004, the US Congress passed the Emergency Protection for Iraqi Cultural Antiquities Act, which allows the president to impose restrictions on the import of any artifacts illegally removed from Iraq after August 1990. ↩ Professor Bahrani, at the time an adviser to the Iraq Ministry of Culture stationed at Babylon, published her findings in "Days of Plunder," The Guardian, August 31, 2004. See also the British Museum report on Babylon by John Curtis, who concludes that the site suffered "substantial damage" as a result of its occupation by Coalition forces, www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/news_and_press_releases/statements/iraq_war/summary_of_activity_2003-4.aspx. ↩ Andrej Smrekar and Stane Bernik The Endangered Monuments of Croatia 'The Fighting City' Giovanni Agnelli Foundation The Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize Christa Wolf, translated by Henning Gutmann A Speech in East Berlin From a New Year's Day Speech Amnesty International on Argentina Martin Garbus New Mag in Moscow On the Bombing of Aleppo The world is witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe of historic proportions.

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Caressa Rogers Photography: A Tiramisu to Remember! My love for Tiramisu began over two years ago in Rosario, Argentina. My best friend, Alli Gerard and I had taken a weekend trip to Rosario during our semester studying in Argentina. We had been site seeing all day and were famished. After an amazing meal of Pumpkin Ravioli we decided to treat ourselves to Tiramisu. It was my first taste of Tiramisu and I shall forever remember it! It had an incredible amount of the luscious cream filling and just enough of the lady fingers. The above picture is after we had taken our first bite. Since then whenever Alli and I are together and Tiramisu is an option on the menu there is no question we will finish our meal with it. Unfortunately, we have not yet met a Tiramisu that has beat that first experience in Argentina. Do you have a favorite food that is forever etched in your memory? I'd love to hear about it!

I have written in previous blogs about my personal problems with Spring, and so here I am, in London (the UK one), facing, yet again, the horrors of a daylight which, like a fractious toddler, will be less and less inclined to sleep, plus the weather which can, as the mood takes it, veer from idyllic sunshine and pretty blossoms to icy wetness, and indeed, as has been recently forecast, even snow. I would choose, instead, to live in a perpetual Autumn - days full of dazzling colours followed by the quiet and introverted comfort blanket of early evening. I'm still, reluctantly, impressed, though, by all those amazing things coming out of the ground in my garden, and love the sleepy bumble bees - so strokeable (if you dare) but I welcome not the return of the house flies. I spent a profitable hour late this afternoon in conversation with author (and friend) Rosalie Warren, who also regularly blogs here. Ros is the author of a futuristic novel: LENA'S NEST, with its hypnotic cover image. She's also published two Young Adult novels: CHARITY'S CHILD and COPING WITH CHLOE. ALEXA'S SONG, another of her adult novels, I absolutely loved, and will re-read some time soon. I mentioned Vikram Seth's THE GOLDEN GATE, of which she'd never heard. It is one of the most joyful novels I've ever read, and one which Ros might choose to read when she flies to Canada in a few weeks to stay with her daughter. What impressed me most about it was the fact that it's written in verse - so challenging, and yet it reads so smoothly and beautifully. Verse and song precede prose, of course, and Homer must have been first heard in this way, but a contemporary novel set in San Francisco would be a challenge for any writer. If you don't know it, seek it out. Today I was sent three artist's roughs for the cover of DOUBLE DRAGONS, my new children's book, and was asked for my order of preference which happily coincided with my editor's. This is a story which was first published in an anthology quite a few years ago, with the rights reverting to the contributors. We did send it out again from time to time, but nobody picked it up until this year, when the story re-surfaces as part of the Reading schemes Franklin Watts at Hachette specialises in, and which are such fun to do. It's a story featuring a very feisty princess who defies all the princess rules (the theme of the original anthology was one of feisty princesses and rather useless princes). My princess tames a fire-breathing, knight-gobbling dragon (there's nothing quite as tasty as barbequed knight) into setting up a local airline called DRAGON AIR - much better than Ryanair, and also free, but a trifle slower and warmer. He'd be perfect for either London or New York in the winter. It's going to be interesting to see how two very different illustrators deal with the story - I'll keep you posted. Another of my back burner stories which has had a strange publishing history is MORE, which at one point was adopted for a starter animation company based in the States, no advance involved, and the company folded, but such a fascinating project, with sound (rain and goat bells) and movement. It will now be coming out, again with Hachette, but as a book. There's a moral in this somewhere, which is always to keep that back burner work on the simmer, because you never know who might one day fall in love with it. Well I'm flying by Dragon Air, if it ever takes off. As long as no pesky St Georges get the wrong idea and challenge the plane to mortal combat, just as we're coming in to land. Congratulations on your new children's book, it sounds delightful (and the title, Double Dragons, has a wonderful ring).

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Most recently, Colin was the first director of marketing at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, where he helped establish the school's reputation as a world-class business education provider. Prior to that, he started his career as an economist for several Brussels-based lobbies to the European Commission, and later worked in global marketing in the consumer goods sector for Scottish & Newcastle PLC. He has two young daughters and like them is an avid reader of books (now there's a surprise!). Colin has a degree in economics from the University of Manchester and an MBA from ESADE Business School. He has previously acted as an invited member of the Global Agenda Council on Africa of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and in 2016 Colin was recognized as one of the Social Entrepreneurs of the Year by the Schwab Foundation of the WEF. His take on reading: "The images created by the written word make an indelible mark on the mind." What got him reading: Rumplestilskin Twitter: @ColinMcElwee Shannon Atkinson - Chief Financial Officer Prior to joining Worldreader, Shannon was CFO at Raising A Reader, a national US program for young readers and their families. Before that she spent 17 years as CFO at SETI Institute, a non-profit scientific organization studying all aspects of life in the universe. In both of these roles Shannon, with the help of stellar teammates, lead all business aspects of the organizations such as strategy, finance, grant administration, HR, Board relations, and compliance. Shannon believes that administration and business services are the behind-the-scenes "heart" of any organization and that one of the main goals of these functions is to improve effectiveness and efficiency of our daily work. Her professional mission statement is to provide impeccable administrative support and valuable strategic insight to guarantee the success of the organization and the cause it is dedicated to serve. "Masterminds and Wingman" by Rosalind Wiseman, which is one woman's take on the social structure among boys. Rebecca Chandler Leege - Chief Impact Officer With over 20 years of leadership experience, Rebecca recently led World Vision's engagement in "All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development," a global initiative of USAID, World Vision, and the Australian Government, that seeks, tests and disseminates innovative education technology solutions to address child illiteracy. Previously at World Vision, she was Director for Child Development/Protection. Rebecca also worked with World Relief, initially in Rwanda as their Director of Programs before relocating to their headquarters in the United States as Director of Global Program Operations. She has lived and worked throughout Africa and Asia for over 15 years. Chandler Leege also spent six years in the private sector in international human resources consulting with Fortune 500 companies. Rebecca holds a Master of Science in Multinational Commerce from Boston University. Favorite book: West with the Night by Beryl Markham Favorite quote: Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope." – Kofi Annan Bhanu Potta - Executive Product Leader and Regional Leader APAC Bhanu is passionate about building and growing purposeful products, businesses, and organizations which enhance human potential. At Worldreader, Bhanu provides strategic direction & leadership for the global portfolio of digital reading products and leads the buildup of Worldreader's mission in India and APAC region. Before Worldreader, in a corporate product leadership career spanning 23 years, Bhanu set up and grew multi-million-dollar social investments & education, wellbeing and livelihoods product programs for Microsoft, Nokia, Perot Systems, Informatics Group and NIIT. As the senior advisor for social investments to Worldwide Education Group at Microsoft and as the global product leader for mobile learning services at Nokia, Bhanu led some of the world's largest mobile-based learning services which collectively reached over 250 million beneficiaries in global south markets. As the founding partner at Zinger Labs (a boutique advisory firm), Bhanu also advises boards, CXO teams, investors & startup founders on building successful product businesses and impact-focused organizations. Bhanu is a certified board director and sits on various boards and investment committees. He is a sought after counsel, mentor & professor of practice on product leadership & strategy, ICT for development, and social investments. Twitter: @bhanupotta Deborah Backus - Senior Director, Global Impact Deborah supports the execution of our global impact strategy with a focus on building Worldreader's digital services and global collaborations and partnerships that enhance our reach. Her nearly 20-year career has focused on facilitating organizational adaptability; to overcome challenges, address complex societal problems, and increase organizational capacity for creating impact. She recently supported special projects, in the context of COVID and a global volunteer evacuation, for the US Peace Corps. Prior to that, she spent five years with the ed-tech innovation fund, the All Children Reading Grand Challenge. She has spent a number of years leading policy and government reform initiatives in the Middle East and has worked with refugee communities in Thailand, Cambodia, and the US for both the United Nations and NGOs. Deborah holds a Master of Social Work focused on social-economic development and management from Washington University in St. Louis. Currently reading: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Mark Frantz - International Director of Development Mark brings over ten years of experience in development, fundraising and partnerships for varied non-profit organizations in fields that range from community services to global development and higher education. Mark holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Barcelona and has several postgraduate studies in non-profit and strategic partnerships management, marketing and social finance. Authors that have profoundly shaped Mark are: Susan George, Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano and Naomi Klein. Veronica Gutierrez - Director, Global Human Resources Veronica brings over 15 years of HR experience to the company including building culture, working with the team strategically and implementing the HR infrastructure for several start-up companies. She has been a vital part in successfully growing small companies to mid-size. Her passion and expertise to enhance the employee experience is her first priority and believes HR is the pulse of an organization. Veronica holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Business with a concentration in Human Resources Management from University of Phoenix. She is also certified as a Professional Human Resources (PHR). Veronica is also an active member of the organization of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Her current read: The Great Alone, by Kristin Hannah. Flavia Moroso - Director, Technology Flavia and her team develop and manage the software and technology we need to process, maintain, and analyze the books that make up Worldreader's collection. She is an avid reader and software developed and has worked on several projects during her professional life: from gov web applications and big real-estate tailored products to small start-ups. Flavia holds a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from the UNCPA (Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina). She also holds a post-graduate degree in Agile Methodologies for Software Development at La Salle University (Barcelona). "When I read Lobsang Rampa's "The third eye", it made me realize that books can make you travel, and live and have amazing experiences without leaving your room. Knowing that is gold when you are a little girl who has to ask permission to do almost everything. Reading is freedom!" Joan Mwachi-Amolo - Regional Director, East Africa Joan Mwachi-Amolo manages the Worldreader portfolio in Kenya and greater East Africa. She is responsible for the strategic objectives and policies in the country office. Joan is an experienced educator, having started her career in the classroom setting and progressing on to designing and implementing training programs and capacity-building initiatives around non-formal school systems in impoverished communities. She has expertise in designing programs and tools for start-up organizations. Prior to joining Worldreader, Joan was the Regional Support Manager, Operations, at Bridge International Academies, a Nairobi-based organization that builds a network of ultra-low-cost private primary schools. Joan received a Bachelor of Education degree and a Master in Education Administration degree, both from Kenyatta University. She is inspired by the book "An Enemy Called Average" by John L Mason, which motivates her to do more than average in every aspect of her life. Ethel Sakitey - Regional Director, West Africa Ethel oversees the Worldreader portfolio of programs in Ghana and West Africa. She leads strategic planning, program expansion, and facilitates business development and partnerships within the region. Ethel has over fourteen years of program management experience within the development, public health, and education sectors. She was previously a Country Director and a Program Officer for Right to Play's West and Francophone Africa (WAFA) Regional Office in Ghana. Ethel holds a Master of Philosophy Degree in Public Health from the University of Ghana, Legon and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Social Work and Sociology from the same University. Her favorite book is "Attitude is Everything" by Keith Harrell. Sara Sinaiko - Director, Major Gifts Sara brings to Worldreader extensive philanthropic and financial experience in the non-profit, corporate, and international sectors. Most recently, Sara led the development efforts for the Fair Food Program, a social justice organization that organized to create the "gold standard" for the Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) model of corporate social responsibility (CSR). In previous roles, Sara served as CEO of Gilda's Club Madison Wisconsin and executive director of the Pierce Family Foundation, both start-up nonprofits. In addition, during her time at the University of Wisconsin Foundation, she cultivated and managed a portfolio of legacy/planned gifts on a national level. Prior to these philanthropic leadership positions, Sara worked in investment banking at a major-bracket Wall Street firm. Her passion for social good began early in her career, as Sara specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of children with learning disabilities as a registered occupational therapist (OTR) at Children's Hospital in San Diego, California. Sara holds a BS and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and an Advanced Diploma in Marketing from the Institut Supérieur de Marketing du Luxe, Paris, France. A book that Sara recommends is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Wendy Smith - Director, Education Wendy comes with over 15 years of experience working on education and child protection programs in development and conflict and affected countries. Wendy has worked for many international organizations (CARE, SCF, NRC, IRC, World Vision) strengthening early childhood and basic education programming. Wendy currently sits on the INEE Steering Committee and hopes to help us support pre and life-long reading in both low-resource and fragile contexts. She holds dual French/American nationality and attended Colombia University Teachers' College for her graduate studies. As a mother of three, her favorite books are children's books! "It is the only thing I have time to read anymore. My favorite children's author at present is Kate DiCamillo. Anything she writes is gobbled up by me and my kids." Kristen Walter - Director, U.S. Programs Kristen has more than twenty years of educational experience and was most recently the Director of Education and Partnerships for Reading In Motion and before that the Teaching and Learning Manager for Crayola Education. She also worked for over 15 years as a certified art and music instructor in North Carolina. Kristen helped her school become a national Title I school, P21 Exemplar School, a finalist award in the Intel Schools of Distinction Math and Science Award and win the National School Change Award. She has been recognized as a Yale Distinguished Music Educator and both Kristen and her fifth-grade students were invited by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities to showcase an economics and game design project at the first annual White House Arts Integration Fair. Kristen lives outside of Chicago with her husband and two sons. Her favorite magical story to read (and re-read), especially on family car trips, is The Underneath by Kathi Appelt. Mike Wilson - Director, Product Mike is responsible for developing and continuously improving Worldreader's suite of mobile applications designed to drive literacy and education outcomes among pre-readers and lifelong readers. His previous work experience includes leading the development of Kinect Sports Rivals for Xbox at Microsoft and most recently leading the development of Despicable Me: Minion Rush. Mike is a Business Studies graduate from the Nottingham Business School. In his own words: "Books have always captured my imagination and given me the knowledge, desire, and courage to meet any challenge head-on. I look forward to bringing these same experiences to people all over the world." Heidi Williams - Director, Accounting and Administration Working within the Finance Team, Heidi oversees US accounting and audit and global cash management. She also has responsibility for global administration, working behind the scenes to ensure that we're efficient and effective and implementing processes that govern our general business operations. Having also served as our first Director of Finance and Human Resources, Heidi has been involved with the development of all aspects of our infrastructure from the earliest stages. Prior to joining Worldreader as one of our very first volunteers, she worked in financial services and business management but attributes her keen organizational skill to the time she spent away from the workforce raising, and reading to, her two children. Heidi holds a BA in English Language and Composition from the University of Utah. Books she has enjoyed re-reading with her teenagers: Fahrenheit 451, The Great Gatsby, The Life of Pi. Melanie Wise - Senior Director, Global Marketing and Communications Based in San Francisco, Melanie oversees global marketing and communications. She brings a passion for education and 20 years of social sector experience to the role. Previous roles include serving as the strategic communications director for the East Africa Preterm Birth Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and chief communications officer for Breakthrough Collaborative. For more than a decade, Melanie ran her own communications consulting firm, WiseExposition, where she worked with clients across sectors including nonprofit, government, and tech. As a veteran educator and senior lecturer emerita at San Francisco State University (SFSU), Melanie has developed and taught a variety of communications courses to college students and professionals both at SFSU and UC Berkeley Extension. Melanie holds an MA in English literature with a certificate in teaching writing from San Francisco State University and a BFA in visual arts from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCUarts). Elizabeth Wood - Senior Director, Digital Publishing and Innovation Elizabeth leads the global content team to develop and grow strategic partnerships with publishers. Her efforts ensure that the Worldreader library is full of high-quality, locally relevant, and engaging content for our readers. She connects with our local and international publishers in order to enhance our contribution to the local publishing ecosystem and increase our overall impact. Between 2017 and 2019 Elizabeth was a Senior Business Development Manager for Amazon's books department in London while serving as a Trustee on Worldreader's UK board. Prior to that, Elizabeth worked for Worldreader during our very early days, laying down the groundwork for some of our biggest accomplishments over the years: she drove our initial work with publishers, acquired our first pieces of content, built the publishing team from scratch and was the brains behind creating Worldreader for mobile phones. Elizabeth received her MBA from INSEAD and resides in London with her family.

Since graduating as a Registered Massage Therapist in 2002 from Kine – Concepts Institute, Melanie has worked in various clinical settings; acquiring experience and knowledge in the assessment and treatment of the physical body and its dysfunctions. Her therapeutic beliefs are that all aspects of the body are interconnected and in order to obtain optimal health it must be treated as a whole. Melanie has worked with clients of all ages from young infants to geriatric clients and believes that everyone, young and old can benefit from Massage Therapy. Melanie focuses her treatments on discovering and treating the root of the dysfunction as opposed to simply covering the symptoms. This assists her clients in achieving a healthy body and mind. After relocating to downtown Toronto in 2010, from the east coast, she has settled comfortably in the Annex area of Toronto. Deciding this was a great area to live and work, she opened MyoCare RMT, so she can provide Massage Therapy in the Annex; the neighborhood she now calls home. After 5 years running MyoCare, she then teamed up with a local Naturopathic Doctor to form a comprehensive health clinic, called Complete Care Natural Health Clinic. Her massage therapy treatments are very focused, and specific to the clients area of concern. She then expands her area of focus to determine what caused the issue initially. Combined with take home exercises, her treatments not only relieve symptoms, but help prevent them from returning. If you have any questions about Melanie's treatments, and how they can help you, do not hesitate to contact us.

Cops: Lady Who Overdosed Drove to CVS for Meds — (Middletown Patch) Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 The Middletown Patch Middletown Police say a 34-year-old city woman crashed into a parked car. A Middletown woman is facing a DUI charge after police say she drove her car to CVS after taking a higher-than-normal dose of antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications. On Oct. 18 at 8:SSRI Editor0 p.m., police were called to a motor vehicle accident at CVS Pharmacy on Main Street Extension with one person possibly intoxicated or under the influence of drugs, the report says. A Volkswagen Jetta, driven by Wesla D. Lee, 34, of Long Hill Road, had hit a parked Nissan Altima. A witness saw the crash and noted Lee was slurring her speech and could not stand well. The Altima owner confirmed that, police say. Lee said she was picking up her prescription at CVS but couldn't remember what it was for. She told police, who noted her pupils were dilated, she had taken her antidepressants but thought she was fine to drive. She said her cell phone was ringing and it was her psychiatrist, the report says. The doctor confirmed she met with Lee at 6 p.m. and she had taken Ativan and Paxil. She was told by the doctor not to drive because she took more than the prescribed amount. The report says she was sent to Middlesex Hospital to have her blood drawn. She was charged with driving while intoxicated and failure to renew her drivers license.

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TOP DEGREES ONLINE 25 Great Scholarships for Information Technology Computer savvy students can cash in on scholarships for information technology to make affording their bachelor's or master's degree easier. IT programs build valuable skills for high-tech jobs focused on the storage, retrieval, transmission, and security of cyber data. Information technology graduates enter a favorable job market to construct IT networks, operating systems, software, applications, and more. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that our digital world will generate around 488,500 new IT jobs by 2024. This 12 percent job growth is much faster than the average for all professions. Studying information technology can unlock titles like IT systems analyst, database administrator, software developer, IT security specialist, and even Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Finance your dream computing career by applying for these 25 great information technology scholarships. 1. Alice L. Haltom Educational Scholarship Deadline: May 1st Annually, the Alice L. Haltom Educational Scholarship will gift $1,000 for associate's and $2,000 for bachelor's programs in information technology or closely related majors. Only citizens of the United States, Canada, or Mexico may apply. Eligible candidates must also enroll full-time at an accredited college, have academic merit, submit two letters of recommendation, have unmet need, and be actively pursuing a career in the information and records management field. Alice L. Haltom Educational Scholarship [email protected] 2. ALICOM Technical Student Scholarships Deadline: June 1st Valued at $1,000 each, the ALICOM Technical Student Scholarships are awarded to U.S. citizens who are attending public or private universities full-time to earn undergraduate or graduate degrees in information technology and related technological fields. Eligibility criteria requires holding a minimum 3.0 GPA, having completed at least one college semester, and taking 12 semester hours per term. Applicants must write a 1,000-word essay discussing IT applications for cyber security or cyber warfare. ALICOM Technical Student Scholarships [email protected] 3. Apple HBCU Scholars Program Scholarship Deadline: September 18th Through the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Apple HBCU Scholars Program Scholarship is presented yearly for $25,000 to rising senior undergraduates who are enrolled full-time at four-year historically black colleges. Majoring in computer science, information technology, computer engineering, communications, or business with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.3 is required. Recipients are also given a summer internship with Apple in Cupertino, California, an Apple employee mentorship, and HBCU Immersion experience. Apple HBCU Scholars Program Scholarship 901 F Street NW Suite 300 [email protected] 4. Betsy Y. Justus NCTA Founders Scholarship Deadline: May 31st Created by the North Carolina Technology Association in 2011, the Betsy Y. Justus NCTA Founders Scholarship is available for $4,000 for female freshmen, re-entry, and transfer students who are declaring an information technology or engineering major. Eligible applicants must qualify for in-state tuition, attend an accredited North Carolina college full-time, maintain a grade point average over 3.0, exhibit clear potential for tech leadership, and attach at least one letter of recommendation. Betsy Y. Justus NCTA Founders Scholarship 4020 Westchase Blvd. Suite 350 [email protected] 5. Betty Stevens-Frecknall Scholarship Named for the former Mid-Atlantic region's president, the Betty Stevens-Frecknall Scholarship is awarded by the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) for $2,000 each year. For consideration, students must be active AITP members, have a declared major in computer science or information technology, have completed at least one semester, carry a minimum GPA of 3.0, and attend an accredited U.S. institution full-time. Preference is given to women looking to excel in the male-dominated technology field. Betty Stevens-Frecknall Scholarship [email protected] 6. Blacks at Microsoft Scholarship Deadline: March 1st Offering $5,000 over four years for $20,000 total, the Blacks at Microsoft (BAM) Scholarship program is hosted annually to support African American high school seniors who plan to attend a four-year university this fall to study information technology, computer information systems, computer science, or engineering. Qualified recipients must showcase a passion for technology, require financial assistance, achieve a minimum high school GPA of 3.3, and be leaders in school or community service activities. Blacks at Microsoft Scholarship 1200 5th Avenue Suite 1300 [email protected] 7. Charlie Corr Memorial Scholarship Deadline: May 2nd Administered by the Electronic Document Scholarship Foundation (EDSF), the Charlie Corr Memorial Scholarship is bestowed for $2,000 annually upon full-time students worldwide who are majoring in computer science, information technology, web design, software development, and related fields. Applicants must maintain a minimum 3.0 GPA, engage in volunteer service, have financial need, and be dedicated to careers in the graphic communication industry. Other information technology scholarships include the Don F. Lowe and Joel Cartun Scholarships. Charlie Corr Memorial Scholarship 1845 Precinct Line Road Suite 212 [email protected] 8. Dave Sanders Columbine IT Scholarship Deadline: April 1st In memorial of the computer lab instructor killed in the 1999 Columbine shootings, the Dave Sanders Columbine IT Scholarship is awarded by the AITP's Mile High Chapter for $1,000 every year. To qualify, candidates must be graduating from Columbine High School, be accepted at any accredited U.S. university, declare a major in information technology or related tech fields, and have good academic standing. The online application must include a one-page reference letter highlighting applicants' IT potential. Dave Sanders Columbine IT Scholarship 6201 South Pierce Street [email protected] 9. Delphix Technology Scholarship for Women Deadline: November 15th As a California-based software solutions provider, Delphix has created the Technology Scholarship for Women to award $5,000 to outstanding female students who are enrolling full-time at an accredited college to study information technology, computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical field. To enter the contest, ladies must code original, practical software that runs on a laptop, desktop, or mobile device in any language and provide a demo. Delphix Technology Scholarship for Women 343 Sansome Street Suite 900 [email protected] 10. Deprey-Skyline Information Technology Scholarship Deadline: April 7th The Scholarships, Inc. NEW Scholars Program offers the Deprey-Skyline Information Technology Scholarship for at least $1,000 to graduating high school seniors pursuing a four-year IT bachelor's program at an accredited U.S. institution. Successful applicants must live in Wisconsin's North Region, including Winnebago, Marquette, Menominee, Sheboygan, Calumet, Fond du Lac, and Manitowoc counties. The application process includes submitting an official transcript, FAFSA form, resume, reference letter, and two creative essays. Deprey-Skyline Information Technology Scholarship [email protected] 11. Edison International STEM College Scholarships Deadline: January 19th Since 2006, the Edison International STEM College Scholarships have awarded $40,000 for four years to minority, low-income, and underrepresented high school seniors from Southern California who need financial assistance for college. Interested Californians must be accepted at accredited U.S. colleges to major in engineering, computer science, information technology, information science, or environmental science. Edison also requires first-time freshmen to hold a minimum 3.0 GPA and superior participation in high school STEM courses. Edison International STEM College Scholarships Rosemead, CA 91770 [email protected] 12. ESA Foundation Scholarship Program Undergraduate information technology scholarships for $3,000 apiece are available through the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) Foundation Scholarship Program. Eligible women and minority applicants must be U.S. citizens, be accepted at accredited four-year colleges, possess a minimum GPA of 2.75, maintain full-time coursework, and display the tech skills for careers in computer or video game design. The ESA gifts 30 scholarships annually: 15 for high school seniors and 15 for college undergraduates. ESA Foundation Scholarship Program 575 7th Street NW Suite 300 [email protected] 13. General Mills Technology Scholars Award Deadline: April 30th The United College Negro Fund (UNCF) administers the General Mills Technology Scholars Award to distribute $5,000 yearly to African American sophomores or juniors who have declared a major in computer engineering, information technology, computer science, management information systems, or a related field. At minimum, applicants must hold a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 at accredited four-year U.S. institutions. Selection is based upon academic merit, IT career aspirations, and demonstrated leadership but not financial need. General Mills Technology Scholars Award 1805 7th Street NW [email protected] 14. Generation Google Scholarship Deadline: March 3rd In the amount of $10,000, the Generation Google Scholarship is granted to aspiring tech professionals who are pursuing degrees in IT-related fields full-time at accredited U.S. and Canadian colleges. Both undergraduate and graduate information technology scholarships are available for minority students who exemplify academic achievement, leadership, computing skills, and a passion for technology. Along with funding, recipients will attend Google's Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI) and the Google Scholars' Retreat in Mountain View. Generation Google Scholarship [email protected] 15. Harold F. Tipton Memorial Scholarship Fund Deadline: May 3rd The Harold F. Tipton Memorial Scholarship Fund provides the ISC2 Foundation's most coveted information technology scholarships for $5,000 to support the nation's next generation of IT security specialists. Qualified recipients must be pursuing an accredited bachelor's degree, have U.S. citizenship or legal residency, achieve a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5, and show passion for promoting cyber safety. Students are considered by invitation only after earning the Women's, Raytheon, or Undergraduate scholarships. Harold F. Tipton Memorial Scholarship Fund 311 Park Place Blvd. Suite 611 [email protected] 16. Hartford Technology Rental Scholarship Deadline: December 16th or May 17th For over 25 years, Hartford Technology Rental has rented short-term tech solutions and decided to give back by awarding two $1,000 scholarships annually. Eligible candidates must be currently enrolled undergraduates studying information technology or related fields at accredited U.S. institutions with good academic standing. The easy online application involves 13 quick questions and writing a 1,000-word essay where students convey their career aspirations in the technology industry. Hartford Technology Rental Scholarship 105 Prairie Lake Road Unit D [email protected] 17. Judith A. Sanders Memorial Scholarship For $1,000, the Rural Technology Fund (RTF) bestows the Judith A. Sanders Memorial Scholarship each year to graduating high school seniors from Graves County, Kentucky, who will be pursuing undergraduate degrees in information technology, computer science, or related majors. Successful applicants will be U.S. citizens, have resided in Western Kentucky for at least 12 months, show passion for computer technology, and exhibit pride in one's rural community. There's also the $500 Judy Shankle Memorial Scholarship. Judith A. Sanders Memorial Scholarship 1133 State Route 1241 Mayfield, KY 42066 [email protected] 18. NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Collegiate Award Deadline: Varies Funded by Hewlett Packard, the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Aspirations in Computing Collegiate Award is awarded for $10,000 to female undergraduates or graduates pursuing an accredited U.S. degree program related to IT. To become eligible, women must be NCWIT members, enroll in an NCWIT Academic Alliance college in the U.S. or Puerto Rico, and submit outstanding technical projects. Each year, 12 honorable mentions will also be award $2,500 scholarships. NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Collegiate Award Campus Box 322 [email protected] 19. Oracle Scholarship for STEM Excellence Deadline: March 31st Through the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the Oracle Scholarship for STEM Excellence is awarded for $3,000 yearly to legally blind students who are enrolled full-time at accredited U.S. institutions with majors in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or related fields. Interested applicants must reside in the U.S. or Puerto Rico, have academic achievement, be active in community service, have visual acuity of 20/200 or less, and participate in the NFB national convention. Oracle Scholarship for STEM Excellence 200 East Wells Street [email protected] 20. Robert V. McKenna Scholarship Program Deadline: March 18th Technology First established the Robert V. McKenna Scholarship to provide $1,000 to two or more deserving college students who are pursuing IT careers with majors in computer science, information technology, management information systems, or computer engineering. Students must be legal residents of Southwest Ohio, such as Hamilton, Miami, Warren, Shelby, and Adams counties. Eligibility criteria requires being at least sophomores, attending HLC-NCA accredited universities, and carrying a minimum major GPA of 3.25. Robert V. McKenna Scholarship Program 714 East Monument Avenue Suite 106 [email protected] 21. SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund Ranging from $2,000 to $5,000, the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Memorial Scholarship Fund distributes multiple awards yearly to worthy college students pursuing majors in advertising, engineering, information technology, manufacturing, sales, or transportation. To qualify, students must be U.S. citizens, enroll full-time in accredited post-secondary schools, have completed at least 50 credits, maintain a minimum 2.5 GPA, provide one recommendation letter, and have genuine career interests in the automotive industry. SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund 1575 South Valley Visa Drive [email protected] 22. Vanguard Women in Information Technology Scholarship Administered by Scholarship America, the Vanguard Women in Information Technology (WIT) Scholarship is presented yearly for $10,000 to female college students beginning their junior or senior year of a bachelor's program for computer science, engineering, web design, information technology, or related fields. Eligible U.S. citizens or nationals must enroll full-time at participating four-year colleges, achieve a minimum 3.0 GPA, have IT experience, and exhibit clear aspirations in the technical fields. Vanguard Women in Information Technology Scholarship One Scholarship Way Saint Peter, MN 56082 [email protected] 23. Wanda Everett BDPA Scholarship Created by Daugherty Business Solutions, the Wanda Everett BDPA Scholarship is granted by the Black Data Processing Associates for $2,500 to female college students pursuing bachelor's degrees related to information technology. Women must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, live in the St. Louis Metro, have BDPA membership, carry a minimum 3.0 GPA, have at least one year of undergraduate study remaining, and write a 500-word essay titled "The Greatest Technology Impact of 2016." Wanda Everett BDPA Scholarship Three CityPlace Drive Suite 400 [email protected] 24. William J. English Memorial Scholarship Deadline: February 15th The Florida Association of Educational Data Systems (FAEDS) offers the William J. English Memorial Scholarship for $3,000 annually to one or more high school seniors who are planning to major in information technology, computer science, or related high-tech fields. Candidates must be U.S. citizens, have resided in Florida for 12 months, be accepted at an accredited in-state college, and demonstrate financial need. For graduate information technology scholarships, consider applying to the FAEDS Teacher Scholarship. William J. English Memorial Scholarship [email protected] 25. William R. Reaugh Scholarship Another of the funding programs operated by the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) is the William R. Reaugh Scholarship, which bestows up to $2,500 each year. Eligible recipients must be active AITP student members, have declared a major in computer science or information technology, have completed at least 12 college credits, attend an accredited four-year higher learning institution full-time, be pursuing a bachelor's, and have a grade point average above 3.0. William R. Reaugh Scholarship Although it's possible to assume certain entry-level jobs like IT technician and web developer without a degree, investing in college education offers better opportunity. Most employers require a four-year bachelor's for IT systems analysis positions. Master's programs in information technology can facilitate promotion to administrative and managerial titles. Earning a Ph.D. may even be necessary for aspiring computer and information research scientists. But IT education pays off with a median annual salary of $81,430. Maximize your degree's return on investment by checking out these generous scholarships for information technology. 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Where are all these photogenic dead trees that can be safely leaned against? Whenever I find myself lying against one, whether it be dead or alive, I end up with more bugs in my hair than a wild chimpanzee. I do not even have half the amount of hair as Kimberly Garner, so there must be some secret I do not know about because there is no way she would be risking the well being of her hair for just a couple of photos. Actually, I take that back. From what I have seen nobodies risk for the sake of an instagram pic I do not think there is anything that is held sacred anymore. And all I was talking about before was the bugs that inhabit those things, I did not even touch on the paraphernalia that seems to infest the ground around them. Why are there so many needles and used rubbers at public beaches? I have so many questions. Do they have no more suitable place to be doing that? When do they find the opportunity? I cannot get the chance to buy rubbers without running into the local priest at checkout, I cannot imagine performing the act in public.

Registration for the WINGS summer program will be May 1-10 at each school site. Transportation and meals will be provided daily. Registration packets are available at each school. Forms can also be filled out at each site during after-school hours from 3:00-5:30 p.m. Construction is progressing steadily on the new Bonifay K-8 School. Click here for recent photos. There will be no school on Friday, April 14. Classes will resume on Monday, April 17. Please be advised that we have decided to keep students at our schools. Due to the uncertainty and the movement of the weather front we cannot ensure that students will be delivered home prior to its arrival in our area. The latest information from the National Weather Service and the local emergency management operations center indicates that the weather should be out of our area by afternoon loading times of buses, which is what originally precipitated the decision for early release. If parents wish to pick their children up from school today this will not be an issue. All afterschool activities are still canceled. UPDATE: The early dismissal time has been changed to 11:00 a.m. due to updated weather forecasts. Holmes District Schools will dismiss at 12 noon on Monday, April 3 due to the threat of severe weather entering our area on Monday afternoon. Kindergarten open enrollment for the 2017--2018 school year in Homes County will be held at Bethlehem High School, Bonifay Elementary School, Ponce de Leon Elementary School and Poplar Springs High School during the week of April 24—28, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. each day. School of choice is dependent upon enrollment capacity. Please check with your school of choice for details. Florida law states that any child that is five years of age on or before September 1, 2017 is eligible to register for kindergarten. These must be completed on Florida forms by a physician or a Florida county health department. Proof of physical examination must be within the last year. If documentation cannot be provided, a physical examination must be obtained within 30 days. The Holmes District School Board will have a public auction on Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 10:30 a.m. to sell surplus property. Some of the items to be sold are: 1998 Ford Taurus, 1990 Ford Ranger, Chevy 1 ton service body, stoves, Powermatic drill press, Sears metal band saw, Delta table saw, 2 stainless upright coolers, stainless food serving bar, flat screen monitors, computer and printer assortment, lap top computers, VCR's, televisions, kitchen cabinet assortment, file cabinets, table and chair assortment, copy machine, and many other miscellaneous items. Sale will be held at Bonifay Middle School agricultural department located at 401 McLaughlin Ave., and will begin promptly at 10:30 a.m.

Mud therapy is one of the ancient therapies and it can be pretty effective in detoxifying the body. Its basic benefits include body relaxation, improving blood circulation and reducing stress. Indulge in a soothing session of mud therapy in Delhi and Gurgaon and activate your senses. What Makes Mud A Better Option? Mud is a very important element of nature and this therapy is used by the Ayurvedic physicians for its cooling properties and also because of mud's dark color which helps it in absorbing all the other colors. Mud has the capability to remain moisturized for a long time due to which it provides cooling effect to body for long. For the same reason, it is the most suited for applying on the surface of the skin if a person is experiencing inflammation. What makes mud a better option than other materials is the fact that it is easily available and not very costly as well. Its shape and consistency can also be changed as per the requirement by adding more water or more mud in the solution. You can visit us at the naturopathies in Delhi and those in Gurgaon to avail the best mud therapy. It should be remembered that mud should be clean and should have been taken from at least 3-4 feet of depth. Moreover, there should be no stones, pebbles or chemical fertilizers mixed with it. A mud pack can be applied on various parts of body as there are different benefits of applying it on different parts. If it is applied on face, it should be left for 30 minutes. This will not only clear pimples but also help in improving the complexion of skin and getting rid of dark circles. It should be noted that the face should be washed using cold water and not hot. Sit back and relax while you engage in a rejuvenating mud therapy in Gurgaon and Delhi. It is also very helpful in case of headache and migraine as it helps in reducing pain to a great level and if the mud pack is applied to the abdomen, it will help in getting rid of the indigestion. Its application on eyes is pretty useful in case of conjunctivitis, itching, any type of allergy, problems related to long sightedness and short sightedness and glaucoma where it reduces the eyeball tension. So what are you waiting for? Book an appointment with the best naturopathies in Gurgaon and Delhi and have an exhilarating experience.

Cymdeithas Cynnal a Cefnogi Main MenuAbout Projects Rooms Fundraising News Contact Us 4CG (or to use it's full name: "Cymdeithas Cynnal a Cefnogi Cefn Gwlad" or the "Society to Sustain and Support the Rural Countryside") is a co-operative organisation set up to "advance community development through the regeneration of Cardigan and the surrounding area". It was set up by a small group of locals that strongly felt there were many opportunities within Cardigan to increase community cohesion, enhance our surroundings and to take small steps to help improve the local economy – and that a determined and focussed organisation could make a difference. Find out about the projects 4CG is currently involved with Enhancing the community 4CG's focus on developing the local community and economy stems from understanding the benefits that local trade brings. Large corporations siphon money out of the local economy, providing little in return. Whilst chains and large supermarkets provide convenience and the promise of jobs – the reality is that they displace local businesses and their profits - rather than being reinvested back into the local economy – go to distant shareholders. When you shop locally, the profits are reinvested time and time again. Each £ spent, is then spent again by the owner and employees of the shop - meaning that one hundred pounds spent in a local store contributes, on average, £600 to the local economy. Research has shown the same amount in large supermarket contributes just 25p. Our video tells you a little about why we can together to start 4CG - take a look. The 4CG team Shan Williams Born and bred in Cardigan, Shan is a farmer's daughter. She opened her own hairdressing business when she was 21; and converted her first property into a shop and 4 flats when she was 23. Founding member of Cardigan Ladies Hockey and chairperson of 4CG, Shan is passionate about local heritage and culture, local economic stability and security, renewable energy and the true history of religion. Clive Davies With a strong background in IT and communications, managing and developing new projects for Telemat IT Support and Antur Teifi, Clive's expertise has helped the development of projects such as Teifi Basket and RhwydTeifi. Within the context of his home town of Cardigan, he's played an active role in the community as Chair of Ferwig Community Centre "Hen Ysgol y Ferwig". He's also the past treasurer and current Secretary of West Wales Credit Union , Cardigan Town Councillor and Mayor in 2016-17, Cardigan Secondary School Governor and a Trustee of Cardigan Castle. Cris Tomos As well as a board member of 4CG, Cris is the chair of Welsh social enterprise Cymdeithas Cwm Arian Association, which raised thousands of pounds to buy co-operatively the old village school in Hermon and turn it into an eco-venue centre, offering community space, conference rooms and a pre-nursery group. "It's about safeguarding buildings to be maintained for community use. The driver for me is to ensure that local people can own local assets and develop services that are important to a community" A local farmer, Richard is also a Cardigan town Councillor An active member of the local amateur dramatic society, he is the creator of the local annual music festival Crugmawr. Richard's also a keen traditional oarsman, winning the Thames Celtic longboat section in 2000 and 2006. Richard is a highly skilled and experience software engineer with 22 years experience - currently working for the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. He was brought up on the family sheep and poultry farm and, now living in Cardigan, has a keen interest in local community affairs, running several local clubs and associations over the years. 4CG Pwllhai Email: [email protected] Web Design by curious

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History Proves Mega-Death And Horrific Suffering Are America's Future Under 'Socialism' If A Democrat Wins In 2020 - Famine, Starvation & Forced Obedience To Tyrannical Government Await Us By William B. Stoecker - All News Pipeline History has shown us that the most free and yet stable form of government is a 'Republic', a government of laws based on a written constitution, which is designed so that it cannot be changed hastily or carelessly. The government must be made accountable to the people, so a representative or democratic republic (but still a republic, not a pure democracy) works best. And history has shown that the economic system that produces the greatest prosperity overall, and provides the best opportunities to individuals and even results in less income inequality is competitive, free market capitalism. And the free republic and the free market perfectly complement one another; the free republic, with laws and contracts fairly and evenly enforced, allows the free market to function, and the prosperity and opportunity afforded by the free market help to preserve the republic. As our Founding Fathers pointed out, a Republic can only survive if the citizens are moral people, well-informed, and vigilant. And honest businessmen are the backbone of a free market economy. Yet tens of millions of Americans clamor for socialism, a system that produced mega-death and horrific suffering in the twentieth century, and, in places like Venezuela, still does. Partly this is due to greed and the politics of envy; lazy or incompetent people are easily led to believe that the competent and hard-working citizens who have been financially successful owe them the fruits of their labor. Increasingly, many governments exist to take by force from the workers to buy the votes of the parasite class. And younger people are ignorant of what socialism has really done, and have not a clue that our own government is supposed to be a republic; they imagine it to be a democracy. They have been deliberately dumbed down, indoctrinated, and morally degraded by the indoc centers once known as schools and universities. They know no history and civics….nor, for that matter, language, math, or science. But there is another problem…they have never enjoyed the fruits of living in a free market economy, for we haven't had one since 1913, arguably not since before our last Civil War. We have monopolistic crony capitalism, financed by fiat money conjured out of thin air by central banks in partnership with government. Rank and file leftists, while railing against Wall street and the wealthy, seem oblivious to the fact that most Demoncrap politicians, like most of their Republican counterparts, are millionaires supported by leftist billionaires. (ANP EMERGENCY FUNDRAISER! Following Susan Duclos' recent heart attacks and hospitalization, All News Pipeline will need some financial help in the days and weeks ahead. So if you like stories like this, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this 'Info-war' for America at a time of systematic censorship and widespread corruption.) During the Middle Ages goldsmiths and money lenders began issuing certificates of deposit to customers whose physical gold they were keeping safe for them; people soon realized that these certificates could be used just like real money (the physical gold); they became Europe's first paper money. Some of the more unscrupulous goldsmiths began issuing certificates with a face value far in excess of the value of their holdings in real gold and loaning these out at interest. The Templar cult soon took control of this scam and helped to found the modern banking system, which is largely based on fraud, on legalized counterfeiting made possible by an unholy marriage of the banksters and governments. The US resisted repeated attempts by the banksters to create such a central bank in the US, but already the European banking interests like the Rothschild banks and the Bank of England were very influential here. So, in 1913, Woody Wilson, the "progressive" who dragged us into WWI and helped to create the League of Nations, signed the Federal Reserve Act, and we are still saddled with this monstrosity, this consortium of private banks acting in partnership with the government. This ultimately led also to the end of our Republic…we have truly lost it and will have to fight (literally) to regain it…or, more likely, establish several constitutional republics where the USA used to be. Woody also gave us the IRS, partly to bring even more money to the government, partly as an instrument to terrorize, spy on, and control us, and partly to disguise the fact that the continual inflation caused by fiat money acts as a hidden tax on all of us. Clearly, if central banks are allowed to create counterfeit money a very few people will become fabulously wealthy and powerful. By making loans and grants to favored individuals, they can create powerful corporations; it is no coincidence that almost all our billionaires support the leftist agenda. And the central banks, including the Federal Reserve, have been given the power to control interest rates and the money supply. Let's not be so naïve as to imagine that they do not leak information to relatives and cronies outside the system. With this information, playing the stock market becomes relatively safe, and currency speculation (this is how George Sauron became wealthy) is safe and effortless, and requires little financial acumen. The playing field most certainly is not level. The exact mechanism by which the Fed creates fiat money (and loans it to our government at interest) has deliberately been made as complex and confusing as possible to hide the truth. Leftist propagandists say that we owe the US national debt "to ourselves," implying that millions of down home mom and pop investors own all the government bonds. In reality the debt is owned by a few large banks, some of them foreign banks, who make an enormous profit with little risk (so far), and that profit is paid by us taxpayers. In fact, much of what our government does enriches the few at the expense of us serfs. We send foreign aid to innumerable countries most Americans have never heard of, and this is usually given on the condition that these countries use much of the money to purchase the products (typically weapons) made by huge American companies, the same companies who are given lucrative government contracts here at home. And some of the aid consists of loans made by huge banks and guaranteed by the US government (meaning us taxpayers). Heads they win, tails we lose. It has been said that foreign aid consists of the working class in rich countries giving money to the wealthy elites in poor countries…and this is an understatement. In theory Wall Street financiers help the economy by allocating capital so corporations can invest in expansion and new technology and benefit the consumers and the workers. In practice, much Wall Street activity helps no one save the financiers themselves, and consists of incredibly complex financial instruments and outright scams. Tucker Carlson on Fox informed us of the evils of "vulture capitalism," whereby venture capitalists buy up less profitable companies, make them profitable by ruthlessly laying off workers, and then sell them at a profit. His prime example was Paul Singer, who created the Elliott Associates hedge fund and bought 11% of the stock of the Cabela sporting-goods company and then pressured them into merging with Bass Pro Shops, resulting in the layoff of many workers and the shutting down of Cabela's facility in Sidney, Nebraska. Of course, Singer then sold his shares at a profit. And this is also a good example of the increasingly monopolistic nature of our current system, with a shrinking number of large companies controlling much of the economy. And the array of financial instruments and outright scams used by the financial "industry" is incredibly complex and confusing, perhaps made so deliberately. In addition to hedge funds, the financiers use futures contracts, derivatives, arbitrage, securities, private equity funds, and stock options. While there is nothing inherently wrong with people wanting to make profitable yet relatively safe investments, this system makes it easier for unscrupulous sociopaths to enrich themselves while doing widespread economic harm to everyone else. The financial class tends to support open borders and heavy immigration, providing themselves with low wage employees while destroying the jobs of American workers and lowering wages overall. This includes the use of special visas like the H1B visas, allowing American companies to hire techies from places like India and pay them very low salaries. Often they fire long term American employees and replace them with these immigrants, even forcing the American worker to train his replacement. And our companies also offshore our jobs, closing plants here and laying off thousands of workers and then opening factories in poor countries, using what amounts to slave labor, and selling their products here. Fortunately Trump is making some moves to counter this practice, but he and the other Republicans are all in favor of continuing the special visas, and Trump has actually called for more legal immigration. And let us not forget the huge bailouts the government made a few years ago to companies "too big to fail," or the farm subsidies, a program begun by FDR to pay farmers not to grow and sell their crops and livestock. During the Depression this led to higher food prices and actual food shortages at the worst possible time. Farm subsidies are now up to $16 billion a year, most of it going to huge corporate farms. Anti-trust laws are enforced selectively and often seem designed to favor existing companies and hurt startups. Companies own other companies, which own still others; again, this complexity serves to hide unethical or even illegal practices and also hides the degree to which more and more of the economy is controlled by fewer and fewer people. Consider the mass media. A relatively small number of major newspapers, news magazines, and newspaper chains control much of the print media, along with a handful of major book publishers. As for the electronic media, it is often said that, for the most part, radio and television news is controlled by about six companies. Usually the most powerful companies are listed as AT&T, National Amusement, Disney, COMCAST, Newscorp, and Sony. For example, AT&T owns Time Warner, which owns HBO, CNN, and Time magazine. Newscorp owns MSNBC, Bravo, and CNBC, and some publishing companies. If six or seven companies control much of the electronic media and they and a handful of others control much of the print media, it is obvious that sixty or seventy very wealthy and powerful people run the show. Yet the very same leftists who rail against the wealthy believe without question everything these outlets tell them to believe. To the shock and consternation of the elites, the internet became an alternative to their controlled news outlets, and patriots like Joseph Farah (WND), Steve Quayle, Mike Adams, Alex Jones, Susan Duclos, and Stefan Stanford took full advantage of this new medium. So now a handful of leftist billionaires control Google, Facebook, Twitter, and You Tube, and, slowly and insidiously, are beginning to effectively censor any sites who dare to speak truth to power. Trump and the Republicans are doing nothing to prevent this, and, of course, the Demoncraps are all in favor of it. Greatly reducing the size and spending of government would do much to end crony capitalism, and ending the practice of fiat money would also be helpful, but the monopolies already created need to be broken up by some form of anti-trust legislation. We need a complete moratorium on all immigration and a virtual shutdown of our southern border, and an end to the H1B visas. Trump's policies on overseas US companies need to be continued and perhaps expanded. And if we were a moral society, large corporations might be less likely to be controlled by sociopaths. Even if we reform the system, the price of maintaining a free economy and a free Republic will be constant vigilance. And I'm afraid that no real reform will be possible unless and until we win the coming civil war. ANP EMERGENCY FUNDRAISER: With non-stop censorship and 'big tech' attacks upon independent media, donations from readers are absolutely critical in keeping All News Pipeline online. So if you like stories like this, please consider donating to ANP. All donations are greatly appreciated and will absolutely be used to keep us in this fight for the future of America. Thank you and God Bless. Susan and Stefan. PLEASE HELP KEEP ANP ALIVE BY DONATING USING ONE OF THE FOLLOWING METHODS. One time donations or monthly, via Paypal or Credit Card: Or https://www.paypal.me/AllNewsPipeLine Donate monthly from $1 up by becoming an ANP Patron. Donate Via Snail Mail Checks or money orders made payable to Stefan Stanford or Susan Duclos can be sent to: P.O. Box 575McHenry, MD. 21541

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> <title>AccelStepper: AccelStepper library for Arduino</title> <link href="doxygen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <link href="tabs.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head><body> <!-- Generated by Doxygen 1.5.6 --> <div class="navigation" id="top"> <div class="tabs"> <ul> <li class="current"><a href="index.html"><span>Main&nbsp;Page</span></a></li> <li><a href="annotated.html"><span>Classes</span></a></li> <li><a href="files.html"><span>Files</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="contents"> <h1>AccelStepper library for Arduino</h1> <p> This is the Arduino <a class="el" href="classAccelStepper.html" title="Support for stepper motors with acceleration etc.">AccelStepper</a> 1.2 library. It provides an object-oriented interface for 2 or 4 pin stepper motors.<p> The standard Arduino IDE includes the Stepper library (<a href="http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Stepper">http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Stepper</a>) for stepper motors. It is perfectly adequate for simple, single motor applications.<p> <a class="el" href="classAccelStepper.html" title="Support for stepper motors with acceleration etc.">AccelStepper</a> significantly improves on the standard Arduino Stepper library in several ways: <ul> <li>Supports acceleration and deceleration </li> <li>Supports multiple simultaneous steppers, with independent concurrent stepping on each stepper </li> <li>API functions never delay() or block </li> <li>Supports 2 and 4 wire steppers </li> <li>Supports stepper drivers such as the Sparkfun EasyDriver (based on 3967 driver chip) </li> <li>Very slow speeds are supported </li> <li>Extensive API </li> <li>Subclass support</li> </ul> The latest version of this documentation can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.open.com.au/mikem/arduino/AccelStepper">http://www.open.com.au/mikem/arduino/AccelStepper</a><p> Example Arduino programs are included to show the main modes of use.<p> The version of the package that this documentation refers to can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.open.com.au/mikem/arduino/AccelStepper/AccelStepper-1.3.zip">http://www.open.com.au/mikem/arduino/AccelStepper/AccelStepper-1.3.zip</a> You can find the latest version at <a href="http://www.open.com.au/mikem/arduino/AccelStepper">http://www.open.com.au/mikem/arduino/AccelStepper</a><p> Tested on Arduino Diecimila and Mega with arduino-0018 on OpenSuSE 11.1 and avr-libc-1.6.1-1.15, cross-avr-binutils-2.19-9.1, cross-avr-gcc-4.1.3_20080612-26.5.<p> <dl class="user" compact><dt><b>Installation</b></dt><dd>Install in the usual way: unzip the distribution zip file to the libraries sub-folder of your sketchbook.</dd></dl> This software is Copyright (C) 2010 Mike McCauley. Use is subject to license conditions. The main licensing options available are GPL V2 or Commercial:<p> <dl class="user" compact><dt><b>Open Source Licensing GPL V2</b></dt><dd>This is the appropriate option if you want to share the source code of your application with everyone you distribute it to, and you also want to give them the right to share who uses it. If you wish to use this software under Open Source Licensing, you must contribute all your source code to the open source community in accordance with the GPL Version 2 when your application is distributed. See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html</a></dd></dl> <dl class="user" compact><dt><b>Commercial Licensing</b></dt><dd>This is the appropriate option if you are creating proprietary applications and you are not prepared to distribute and share the source code of your application. Contact <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> for details.</dd></dl> <dl class="user" compact><dt><b>Revision History</b></dt><dd></dd></dl> <dl class="version" compact><dt><b>Version:</b></dt><dd>1.0 Initial release<p> 1.1 Added speed() function to get the current speed. <p> 1.2 Added runSpeedToPosition() submitted by Gunnar Arndt. <p> 1.3 Added support for stepper drivers (ie with Step and Direction inputs) with _pins == 1</dd></dl> <dl class="author" compact><dt><b>Author:</b></dt><dd>Mike McCauley (<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>) </dd></dl> </div> <hr size="1"><address style="text-align: right;"><small>Generated on Sun Oct 24 18:22:50 2010 for AccelStepper by&nbsp; <a href="http://www.doxygen.org/index.html"> <img src="doxygen.png" alt="doxygen" align="middle" border="0"></a> 1.5.6 </small></address> </body> </html>

Categories: Kurungs & Kebayas, Marjita Kurung, New Arrivals, Women. We managed to give this kurung a modern twist and a little bit of that elegant class look that made this kurung a well designed piece. Marjita means elegant in Hindi. Don Marjita and you will be one of the queens of the day.

Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin Black Monkeys Brazil Monkeys Monkeys Starting with G New-World Monkeys Omnivorous Monkeys Orange Monkeys Small Monkeys Tamarin Monkeys Animalia Primates Callitrichidae Leontopithecus Leontopithecus chrysomelas Common Name: Golden-headed Lion Tamarin Monkey Size: 23.63 cm to 25 cm (9.30 to 9.84 in) Skin Color(s): Black Habitat: Forest Diet: Omnivorous Native Countries: Brazil https://www.bioexplorer.net/file/Golden-headed-Lion-Tamarin.mp3 Golden-headed Lion Tamarin Distribution Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin Characteristics The golden-headed lion tamarin[1] (Leontopithecus chrysomelas), also known as the golden-headed tamarin, is a lion tamarin native to Brazil. The appearance of golden-headed lion tamarin is similar to other tamarin species. This Brazilian primate has relatively large canines with a small body and head. It's mostly black with a long thick golden mane. This species has very little sexual dimorphism; females and males are quite similar in appearance. Also, it has golden fur on the part of its tail, hands, forearms, and feet. Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin Facts It is only found in fragments of lowland and premontane forests in the state of Bahia and is therefore considered an endangered species. Golden-headed lion tamarins are diurnal, spending most of their time in Tropical Rainforests at elevations of 3 to 10 meters. They live in family groups of 2-8 individuals with an average size of 3-4 individuals but can form transient groups of 15-16. Adults of the same sex are quite aggressive towards each other for reasons of territorial defense. Golden-headed tamarin calls are based on behavior and activity. Trills are used during solitary activity. Clucks can be heard when an individual is searching for food. Long calls indicate a state of alert. Suggested Reading: World of Monkeys BioExplorer.net. (2023, February 08). Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin. Bio Explorer. https://www.bioexplorer.net/animals/mammals/monkeys/golden-headed-lion-tamarin/. BioExplorer.net. "Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin" Bio Explorer, 08 February 2023, https://www.bioexplorer.net/animals/mammals/monkeys/golden-headed-lion-tamarin/. BioExplorer.net. "Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin" Bio Explorer, February 08 2023. https://www.bioexplorer.net/animals/mammals/monkeys/golden-headed-lion-tamarin/. [1] – "Golden-headed lion tamarin – Wisconsin National Primate Research Center – UW-Madison". Accessed September 14, 2022. Link.

Q: Fastest way to count zero bytes on a partition My root and home partitions are LUKS-encrypted. I wish to have discard/TRIM enabled on them (I'm aware of security implications). If my understanding is correct, this should result in discarded areas being zeros on a raw disk device and gibberish on cryptsetup-mapped device. I've made some configuration changes, ran fstrim and now I want to verify if discard is working. To do that, I want to count how many bytes on my partition are zeros. On a trimmed disk I'd expect that: count of 0 bytes ÷ total partition size ≈ percentage of free space On a non-trimmed, encrypted partition: (assuming all bytes were written at least once) count of 0 bytes ≈ total partition size ÷ 256 Inspired by How to gather byte occurrence statistics in binary file?, I've tried this approach: sudo pv /dev/disk/by-label/ESP | od -vtu1 -An -w1 | grep -Fx ' 0' | wc -l but results were disappointing: processing a 500 MB partition took almost 3 minutes. That's 3 MB/s, while my SSD can reach sequential reads of 360 MB/s. I've also noticed that one of my CPU cores was running at 100%, while others were idle, so I guess this could benefit from parallelization. (Impact of pv is negligible, almost no difference compared to cat) What's the fastest way to count 0 bytes on a partition? A: If you are able to access the raw disk (without encryption) you could do: dd if=/dev/sda bs=1M count=100 2>/dev/null | tr -d '\0' | wc -c That will read 100Mega byte from the disk, remove all the zeros and count the number of bytes remaining. I do not know if that is the fastest method but it should be quite fast assuming that there are more zeros than data. The command above will read 100 times 1Mega byte or 100*2^20 (104857600) bytes (if they are available). Try with a small number (10 or 100) to test speed and how well the command works. To read the whole disk just remove the count option, let the side of the disk limit the command. Extracting the two values that matter (full disk byte count and number of non-zero bytes) the command become more complex: $ time { { { sudo dd if=/dev/sdX bs=100M 2> >(grep -oP '[0-9]+(?=\s*bytes)' 1>&2 ) | tr -d '\0' | wc -c; } 2>&1; } | { read -d '' a b; echo "$b/$a"; }; } Which will print the two values as: non-zero/disk, like: 766568020/999292928 calculate 1-766568020/999292928 to find the percentage of zero bytes: $ bc <<<'(1-766568020/999292928)*100' 23.28895776994831289400

Q: how to display ckeditor data in html in angular6 I want to display data from database (using PHPMYADMIN). The data which I want to display stored using ng2-ckeditor (Angular 6). So when it gives result it also shows the html tags, which I don't want. How do I get my result without displaying HTML tags? This is for displaying in html page (and newsArray is type Object) which is displaying data but with html tags <div *ngFor="let item of newsArray"> <div class="panel-body"> {{item.details}} </div> </div> result given by this is: <p>hello</p> but expected result: hello A: you can use [innerHtml] property on the div <div *ngFor="let item of newsArray"> <div class="panel-body" [innerHtml]='item.details'> </div> </div> A: You can replace your result like this: getText() { return this.data.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, ''); } This will replace all your html tags and keep only the blank text. See my stackblitz demo

How do you rate Bangladesh's pace bowling unit as far as the upcoming tour of New Zealand is concerned? Very exciting, it's the first time Bangladesh is going to play a three-match Test series. And I think Bangladesh got the pace attack to certainly enjoy it there. I know Fizz (Mustafizur Rahman) intends to play only white-ball cricket. It was Rubel (Hossain), two years ago there was a question mark - when Bangladesh were there (in New Zealand) in 2017. But I think he is still good enough. Exciting pace bowlers you have got, Taskin Ahmed, Rubel. I see some outside chance. Well, Taskin is quick enough. Rubel is definitely quick enough. They have different heights. Couple of left-arm pacers. They are quite exciting. They got the ball to swing. There is some talent with Khaled Ahmed. Same thing, he is tall. He hits the pitch hard. I like what I have seen with the pacers from Bangladesh here in BPL 6. Who's ruled out, is it Taskin? It's hard when you try to develop young guys to come through. It's a shame about Taskin. He would have been a real go-to guy. I think there is Khaled Ahmed, I liked him as well. It's going to be tougher, they haven't won a Test match there. And Hamilton, could swing around a bit. It's going to be interesting to see what's the weather like. If it's hot warm and humid, Wellington could be quite flat. You guys got nearly 600 but still lost. Good pitch there. And then you got Christchurch, now that could be challenging if it's cold. But that's quite flat there as well. It will be an interesting dynamic who is fit enough for playing in the XI. Swing is king, you got to be able to swing the ball, and you know (Trent) Boult, (Tim) Southee. (Neil) Wagner does a different job. So different style of bowlers, the Bangladeshis. So certainly line and length, we talk about as a commentator, chapter one verse one, the key - line and length, consistency is got to be key and staying fit is going to be the big issue. Obviously you are saying Taskin Ahmed is not fit. So real shame because he was good to go as a strike weapon. Do you feel patience will play a big part? Patience is the key word for the bowlers and even the batsman. Particularly the bowlers. Lot to expect from the right-arm Rubel Hossain. He has been there in the past, so he knows what to expect. But patience is a good word. Look, New Zealand is very different conditions. Even good sides struggle there. But I think if you bowl a great length...the difficulties in the modern game is that the bowlers tend to get impatient, like batsman, because of the white-ball game. In Test match cricket, it actually goes for five days. You don't have to finish it in three or four days. That's what happens, the game is fast now. More shots are played. So guys get out being frustrated after they got a good start. I just think for Bangladesh or any Asian side, patience will be important. And that's where New Zealand are good. They are patient. They pick guys like (Colin) de Grandhomme, you got Southee, and you got Boult, Wagner, all different styles. Wagner bounces people out, that's his strength. They have got a lot of base covered. Again it comes back to the conditions. If it's particularly cold, that would be challenging for any side from the sub-continent. ODIs are in February, Test matches in March, and you don't know what you can get in March. It can be really lovely but as I said, New Zealand is very changeable climate as you know. So it will be tough with the breeze. Wellington is going to be very tough, because it's going to be howling down the pitch. Some one has got to bowl into the wind, tough job. Not easy. Fitness will play a major role? Very physical... who can stay fit? Because that's the another challenge that Bangladesh face. Three Test matches (and for the) first time ever. So try to stay fit and survive the series. Well that's why you take more pacers. You going to lean towards your quick bowlers. They scored nearly 600 and still lost the game. Again that mentality of longer format of the game which goes for five days. That was frustrating. They have the batting, it's about their bowling and taking 20 wickets. Staying in the game. So that will be the challenge, no doubt about it. And also New Zealand is like England. Good late summer, what are the weather gods doing, are they batting with cloudy and dark (conditions around), Bangladesh will be happy if it's nice and flat. It makes a difference.

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Between them, over a period of sixteen years, they have managed to put eleven Wimbledon trophies on the mantelpiece next to the other kaggelkakkies (which turns out to be more trophies from other grand slams). They probably have enough trophies to melt down and turn into a statue bigger than the one of oom Nelson Mandela in Sandton Square. These two sisters played formidable tennis over the years, had the most imposing serves and changed women's tennis forever… This past Monday, women's tennis was probably changed again. It might be a little bit early to wildly speculate, but I reckon we're dealing with a definite tipping point. Cori Gauff, also known as Coco Gauff, who is ranked 313th in the world, beat Venus Williams in her first round match with straight sets of 6–4, 6–4. The big significance here is that Coco is only 15 years old! Here is her brief CV: In 2017, aged 13, she became the youngest ever finalist in the girls' singles event at the US Open. She won the Junior French Open in 2018 – the second-youngest to do so. She is also the youngest female to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament main draw and the youngest player overall to qualify for the main draw at Wimbledon in which she totally fucking kicked ass! Of her victory she said: "I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her – I told her she was so inspiring, and I've always wanted to tell her that but I've never had the guts to before." Guts, hey? So she chose a different route to approach her: She kicked Venus' ass first and then told her "you rock!". Then Gauff sat in her chair and had a little cry into her towel – a reminder that, for all the maturity and skill she had displayed on the court, she is still just a child. Her maturity extends to off-court as well, especially to social media. She doesn't brag about any of her achievements on Instagram like you would expect. Instead, her bio is #prayforsudan with a link to a Unicef press release, detailing children killed, injured, detained and abused amid escalating violence and unrest in Sudan. Her social pages has in the past also carried references to Pride-related issues and crises around the world. This kid's head is screwed on the right way. I can't for the life of me think that I would have displayed maturity close to any of these levels at the age of fifteen. I mean, coincidentally at the age of fifteen, I was in fact the number one player in the school's first tennis team and the matrics hated the fact that that a standard seven latie fucked them up on the tennis court. With my inflated of levels of confidence and Cori Gauff's surname, I would have probably printed myself a t-shirt that read "Gauffuck Yourself" like the one I designed below. Now I actually want one of these shirts… Hopefully you watch round 3 of Wimbledon this weekend! For the rest, Let our Plumlist top 10 help you along: # 10 Sing together, live together Local film Asinamali, which translates as "we have no money", proves just how powerful music and dance can be as story-telling tools. On Showmax #9 What's new on DStv Now in July 2019 Here's everything to look forward to on DStv Now in the month of July. In this list, we have only included titles that will be available to DStv Premium subscribers using the DStv Now app or website. On DStv Now #8 Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don't Know Me Teddy Pendergrass was the first African-American artist to record five consecutive platinum albums. In his heyday, he produced hits still well-loved today, including "Don't Leave Me This Way" and, of course, "If You Don't Know Me By Now". 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On Amazon Prime #4 Triple Teen Choice 2019 nominee Good Trouble now streaming In Good Trouble, now streaming on Showmax, Maia Mitchell and Cierra Ramirez play foster sisters Callie and Mariana Adams Foster, who have just moved to Los Angeles to begin their careers. On Showmax #3 What's new on Showmax in July? Showmax has a bumper crop of exclusives this month, with hit series like HBO's Euphoria, the latest season of Younger, the second instalment of Marvel's Cloak & Dagger, the Fosters spin-off Good Trouble and Season 2 of Die Byl coming only to Showmax. On Showmax #2 Ray Donovan and the genre of the likeable baddie Ray Donovan is the new Tony Soprano. A more respectable gangster, but still a gangster. He wears his crisp white shirts and immaculate suits with the style that befits his Hollywood fixer character. On Showmax #1 Active Measures This 2018 documentary explores allegations of collusion between the campaign of US President Donald Trump and Russian agents. Russian security services use the term "active measures" for political warfare that aims to influence world events. The film suggests that Russian president Vladimir Putin is behind a 30-year campaign of political warfare, culminating in the interference in the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the US. On Showmax Our randomized trailer pick of the week Each week we take a number from 1 to 10 from our list of suggestions and put it through a randomizer to choose a trailer to show you. This week it landed on our number 1 spot, Acrive Measures. As summarized above, it chronicles the most successful espionage operation in Russian history, the American presidential election of 2016. Filmmaker Jack Bryan exposes a 30-year history of covert political warfare devised by Vladmir Putin to disrupt, and ultimately control world events. In the process, the filmmakers follow a trail of money, real estate, mob connections, and on the record confessions to expose an insidious plot that leads directly back to The White House. With democracy hanging in the balance, ACTIVE MEASURES is essential viewing. Unraveling the true depth and scope of "the Russia story" as we have come to know it, this film a jarring reminder that some conspiracies hide in plain sight. : griffinTennis has a new hero after Monday's Wimbledon – Cori Gauff 07.05.2019

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Name: Media Release: Sugar Production upto 31st October, 2016 Crushing operations for the current 2016-17 SS have been started, about 15 in the first fortnight of October and another 13 in the second fortnight of October, 2016. In all, 28 mills have started crushing as on 31st October, 2016, as against 65 in 2015-16 SS same time. Till 31st October 2016, sugar mills have produced 1.04 lac tons of sugar, as against 1.87 lac tons produced last year upto the corresponding period. In Karnataka, 19 sugar mills have started their crushing operations in October'16 as against 12 operated last year on the corresponding date. As on 31st October, 2016, sugar production in the State was 69,000 tons, which is 12,000 tons lower than the sugar produced during the same period last season. In case of Tamil Nadu, 4 sugar mills were in operation as on 31st October, 2016 and sugar production was 20,000 tons, as compared to 31,000 tons produced by 8 mills in 2015-16 SS upto 31st October, 2015. Three mills in Uttar Pradesh have also started crushing from second fortnight of October'16 and these mills estimated to have produced 12,000 tons upto 31st October, 2016. During 2015-16 SS, only one mill in U.P. was in operation in October'15 and its production was negligible. Apart from the above, one sugar mill each in Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh have started their operations and these two mills' estimated sugar production are at 3,000 tons. During 2015-16 SS, 14 sugar mills in Gujarat and 30 mills in Maharashtra operated in the month of October, 2015. However, during 2016-17 SS, Maharashtra mills delayed their starting so as to get the cane matured further to get better sugar recovery from standing cane. These mills are now expected to start crushing from 5th November, 2016. Similarly, Gujarat mills are expected to start this week. With the carry over stock of 77 lac tons as on 1st October 2016 and estimated sugar production of 234 lac tons, total sugar available in the country during 2016-17 SS would be around 311 lac tons, against the estimated consumption of 255 lac tons. Thus, closing stock at the end of the season is expected at 56 lac tons, which would be sufficient to meet 2 ½ months consumption in the initial period of 2017-18 SS.

Citation: McCarthy, T., Dramusic, V., Carter, R., Costales, A., Ratnam, S.S. (1995). Randomized cross-over study of a 21-day versus a 28-day hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Maturitas 22 (1) : 13-23. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. Abstract: Objectives: To compare the occurrence of climacteric symptoms at two points in the cycle, identified as minE (phase of minimum estrogen effect) and MaxP (phase of maximum progesterone effect). Methods: Prospective randomized cross-over study in postmenopausal women currently on HRT comparing two opposed, sequential formulations: a regimen of 21 tablets containing estradiol valerate (EV) opposed with cyproterone acetate (CPA) in the last 10 tablets, versus a regimen of 28 tablets of conjugated equine estrogens (GEE), the last 12 tablets of which were taken together with norgestrel (NG). Outcome measures: Incidence of 24 climacteric complaints assessed at the specified days of the cycle corresponding to mine (day 6 or 7) and MaxP (day 27 or 28) Results: Contrary to the hypothesis that estrogen- dependent symptoms will recur at mine of the 21-day regimen, no significant differences were noted with the regimen containing 28 days of CEE, which served as the control. There were more complaints with the CEE + NG formulation at both mine and MaxP. Of the 38 patients, 63% preferred the EV + CPA regimen, 18.4% the CEE + NG regimen and 18.4% rated both preparations as equal. Conclusions: The 7-day pause in the 21-day formulation containing EV + CPA did not affect efficacy; it was as effective in relieving climacteric symptoms as the regimen containing 28 days of estrogen. Based on the frequency of complaints both at mine and MaxP, the EV + CPA formulation induced a more acceptable symptom and mood profile.

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From Unkle Wiki Revision as of 07:40, 19 January 2023 by Titwsl (talk | contribs) 19/1 - R​ō​nin (The Reflex Revisions) have been released. Listen here on Bandcamp. The cover art is an homage to the 1979 compilation Super Disco Brake's Volume One. 31/12 - The latest episode James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones aired last week and is now available to listen back to here on Mixcloud. 31/12 - The latest Original Headz newsletter came out yesterday. Inside, James Lavelle writes about the highs and lows of 2022, the upcoming That's How It Is show on 10 April at Printworks London, and the remixes by The Reflex which will finally come out Jan 18 2023. Read the full newsletter here. 29/12 - Ian Astbury has teased a "War Stories Part II" release from UNKLE. During a recent interview he said "There might be another UNKLE record, War Stories Part II...but you didn't hear it from me." He last appeared on The Road Part II in 2019. Watch the interview here. 20/12 - UNKLE's FINAL DROP 2022 is now on their store. It includes tshirts, hoodie, a tea towel, mug, and slipmat. 20/12 - UNKLE's final single from Ronin II is Instability. It includes two tracks: Ronin Edit and Ronin Original. Find it on your streaming service here. 3/12 - On Thursday Dec 1, James Lavelle DJed at Spiritland: Royal Festival Hall, to celebrate the life and legacy of Dom Phillips. All proceeds raised will go towards completing Dom's book How To Save The Amazon. Also appearing were Darren Emerson, Lottie, Dave Seaman, Jon Carter, Bill Brewster, Chad Jackson and DJ Gruff. James's set was at 11pm. Details on Instagram. 3/12 - That's How It Is is back next year during Easter Bank Holiday Monday at Printworks London. Presale opened 30th November 11am and tickets are now on sale as of 1st December 11am. Full lineup is TBC but James Lavelle is a given. Tickets available here. 3/12 - Episode 116 of Electronically Yours with Martyn Ware features James Lavelle. Listen here. 3/12 - A live video has been added to the recent Roland article. See it here. 3/12 - James Lavelle will DJ at Ramsgate Music Hall Saturday 15 April 2023. 3/12 - The latest Original Headz newsletter came out last week. Inside, James Lavelle writes about working on some new club mixes with Miink, he appears in the book The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting, edited by Craig Oldham, new merch is coming, and shares some photos from the 1995 LA Unkle sessions. Read the full newsletter here. 3/12 - The latest episode James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones aired last week and is now available to listen back to here on Mixcloud. 1/11 - Roland interviewed James Lavelle and Alex James of PLEASURES about their recent collaboration and the Mo' Wax legacy. Read that here. 1/11 - The latest Original Headz newsletter came out last week. Inside, James Lavelle writes about Ronin II merch, the recent PLEASURES collaboration, and the first Mo' Wax release by Repercussions. Read the full newsletter here. 21/10 - The UNKLE + Mo'Wax + PLEASURES + Roland Lifestyle collaboration is out now. Read about the release on HYPEBEAST, and buy them now from the Pleaseures store. 21/10 - A free launch event for the Pleasures merch featuring James Lavelle and Charlie Dark was held last week. James Lavelle posted a photo on his Instagram. 30/9 - The latest episode James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones aired yesterday and is now available to listen back to here on Mixcloud. 30/9 - James Lavelle was guest on Charlie Dark's Worldwide FM program. Details here for 'PEACE, POSITIVITY AND BLESSINGS: CHARLIE DARK WITH JAMES LAVELLE'. 28/9 - James Lavelle and Miink are interviewed in issue 6 of DEK. Details here. 28/9 - A new collaboration billed as UNKLE + Mo'Wax + PLEASURES + Roland Lifestyle has been announced as coming next month. The first image has been teased on Roland Lifestyle's Instagram here, and some more photos here. 1/9 - Yesterday Rōnin II was released digitally. It is available on streaming services or to purchase from your preferred service. Links here. Note: These are available mixed and unmixed like Rōnin I. Read the newsletter announcement here. 1/9 - The latest episode James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones aired yesterday and is now available to listen back to here on Mixcloud. 1/9 - The latest Original Headz newsletter came out on August 26. Inside, James Lavelle writes that two Reflex remixes have been played in clubs but are still to be released, he explains the delays for vinyl, and finally he shares some sketches by British street/graffiti artist Mode 2. Read the full newsletter here. 15/8 - B+ is presenting a show in England called Music of the Unseen. It features the music of David Axelrod and Charles Stepney. B+ photographed DJ Shadow for several Mo' Wax releases, and David Axelrod also released his final album on the label. More detail on Music of the Unseen here. 15/8 - Ronin (The Reflex Remixes) has also been teased for release in the summer, featuring remixes by The Reflex. See discussion on U77 here. 10/8 - The Rōnin II presale has started, with some items already selling out. The album will be released on vinyl (including a Deluxe Ltd Edition, Standard Edition, Ultra-Limited Test Pressing, and Ultra-Limited Artists' Edition) as well as Deluxe CD, Cassette, and digitally. See the store for details, and read the announcement newsletter here. 10/8 - Two new songs are available to stream and buy now. The Way Back Home (Rōnin / Original) and The Way Back Home (Rōnin Edit) are out now. 10/8 - Rōnin II Merchandise is also available now. Including t-shirts, bags, slipmats, heavyweight foiled prints, mug and giftbox sets, sticker packs and postcard packs. See the store for details. 9/8 - UNKLE have announced Rōnin II presale will start this Wednesday (10th), but with major delays expected for physical media. They wrote, "Please note that due to production delays, music formats are expected to ship October 2023. Merchandise items are expected to ship much sooner in October 2022. Orders combining music and merchandise will ship once everything is ready, so if you prefer to receive your merchandise sooner, please make separate orders." Read the email here. 5/8 - The latest episode James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones aired earlier this month and is now available to listen back to here on Mixcloud. 5/8 - James Lavelle will be in discussion with artist Nathan Coley for When Words Become Art on 14 October 2022. Details here. 30/7 - The latest Original Headz newsletter came out yesterday. Inside, James Lavelle says he's sorted his record collection and found some UNKLE and Mo' Wax records to sell in the future, he met DJ Shadow on his latest tour, and that a new UNKLE single will be out in August to promote Rōnin II. Newsletter subscribers can get 20% off at the UNKLE store. Finally, James recalls making UNKLE's remix of United Future Organization with Tim Goldsworthy and Brendan Lynch. Read the full newsletter here. 3/7 - The latest Original Headz newsletter came out this week. Inside, James Lavelle talks about attending the recent Meltdown, creating a mix for Apple, and says we'll hear more about Ronin II soon. He also shares images from 3D's book Fitting In. Read the full newsletter here. 3/7 - James Lavelle created a mix for Apple Music. The mix contains a new remix Farewell (Rōnin / Revisited) which will also appear on Ronin II. Listen here. 3/7 - James Lavelle hosted a Meltdown special on Soho Radio last month. Listen here. 21/6 - The latest episode James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones aired earlier this month and is now available to listen back to here on Mixcloud. 21/6 - DJ Shadow has released a new t-shirt raising money for young people with cancer. Details here. 21/6 - James Lavelle has written about the passing of journalist Dom Phillips. Read on Facebook here. 21/6 - UNKLE have announced they have joined the rosters of LittleBig (Worldwide excluding Americas) and outer/most (Americas). Read the news on Facebook here. 31/6 - Rich File has released the first mix in a series which will include his work for Mo' Wax and UNKLE. The "Good Vibrations Thru My Bedroom Walls 1975-present" Chapter 1 - C90 Bedroom Version' is an autobiography through music. Listen on Rich's Mixcloud here. 31/5 - UNKLE's latest merch drop Studio:Rework will be available for pre-order to newsletter subscribers today (5pm BST). It will be limited to 50 items per design/variation. 31/5 - UNKLE and Studio:Ar.Mour have collaborated with Be@rbrick on three new figures in 100%, 400%, and 1000%. The BE@RBRICK UNKLE x Studio Ar.Mour are available for pre-order from various toy stores online. The item should be available November 2022. 31/5 - The latest Original Headz newsletter came out last week. Inside, James Lavelle says he has helped soundtrack a new film called AD22 to be shown at Sotheby's on Tuesday 28 June, there's new Studio:Ar.Mour projects in the works, another merch drop is coming this week, and he reveals an early Major Force x Mo' Wax collaboration. Read the full newsletter here. 31/5 - Following the news that composer Vangelis had died, BBC spoke to James Lavelle. Watch the interview here. 31/5 - UNKLE have contributed to the new compilation The Birdsong Project, Vol. 1. Their song One for Sorrow can be streamed everywhere. Here's the YouTube link. 13/5 - The latest episode James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones aired this week and is now available to listen back to here on Mixcloud. 6/5 - Acid Jazz Records have digitally reissued the UNKLE remix of Marden Hill's Come On. Previously only available on this Japanese compilation, the remix is now on all streaming services. Here's the YouTube link. 5/5 - The latest Original Headz newsletter came out last week. Inside, James Lavelle shares an update on the next UNKLE recordings (Rōnin II to be announced soon), Living In My Headphones will return on 11 May, and there's a new merch drop featuring the StudioUNKLE! Punk Script logo. Finally James is looking to collect photos of UNKLE related tattoos from fans. Read the full newsletter here. 2/4 - The latest Original Headz newsletter came out yesterday. Inside, James Lavelle shares photos from a recent studio session, and announces he is part of a new book, THE SHINING: A Visual and Cultural Haunting out from Rough Trade Books. He also shares memories and a video from a show on 10 Sep 2001 featuring Futura and Nigo. Read the full newsletter here. 30/3 - UNKLE are releasing an instrumental version of Rōnin I. It is a digital release and is available on Bandcamp. 25/3 - Hiroshi Fujiwara and Kan Takagi are releasing a book about their TINY PUNX / Last Orgy collaborations. These included Nigo and led to Major Force, and later work with James Lavelle. Read an interview with Hiroshi here (in Japanese) and find out more about the book here (in Japanese). 20/3 - New UNKLE t-shirts will be available Monday 21st with all profits going to the Disasters Emergency Committee's humanitarian appeal, supporting those affected by the war in Ukraine. An email was sent out to newsletter subscribers on 18 March London time. 9/3 - James Lavelle released a statement regarding the war in Ukraine. Read here. 9/3 - James Lavelle thanked those who have sent messages of support regarding the recent death of his brother Henry Lavelle. Read on Facebook here. 28/2 - James Lavelle has posted a statement following the death of his brother Henry Lavelle. Read on Facebook here. 28/2 - UNKLE released new merch featuring the Mo' Wax logo: Mo' Wax Merch Drop 2022:001. It is the first of several expected this year to celebrate Mo' Wax's 30th anniversary. See the merch on the UNKLE store here. 25/2 - James Lavelle recently posted a statement following the death of Mark Lanegan. Read on Facebook here. 25/2 - The latest Original Headz newsletter should be released today with new merch featuring the Mo' Wax logo, according to teasing on the UNKLE Instagram account. 25/2 - UNKLE recently uploaded the following mix to Mixcloud, James Lavelle presents Ghost London Mix (2002)". Listen here. 5/2 - UNKLE's Original Headz newsletter for Jan was sent out last week. It includes a 20% code for the UNKLE store, and a special video and recording from Mo Wax Night Japan September 1998. Read it all here. 5/2 - UNKLE have uploaded the following mix to Mixcloud, "James Lavelle presents iD Mix (1995)". Listen here. 5/2 - UNKLE have uploaded the following mix to Mixcloud, "James Lavelle and MC Takagi Kan at Club Yellow, Tokyo (1998)". Listen here. This is the previously mentioned show from Mo Wax Night Japan September 1998. 22/1 - UNKLE have uploaded the following mix to Mixcloud, "James Lavelle presents World DJ Day at Fabric (2002)". Listen here. 15/1 - UNKLE have uploaded the following mix to Mixcloud, "James Lavelle presents UNKLE - McQ Spring / Summer 2010 Def Mix (2010)". Listen here. 14/1 - UNKLE have released a new remix, Catch Me When I Fall (Steven Weston Remix). It's available as an instrumental too. Listen to both tracks on Bandcamp now. 14/1 - Announcing the remix, UNKLE wrote on Bandcamp, "UNKLE collaborator Steven Weston revisits Catch Me When I Fall, the final single from last year's Rōnin I mixtape, re-working the track in his signature melodic techno sound. It follows on from a busy year for Steven, with releases on both Blank Dust as well as Hooj Tunes (with a remix of Cafe Del Mar) and a forthcoming track on Sasha's Last Night On Earth label. Having garnered early support from John Digweed last year, the remix is released on streaming and download platforms today." 1/1 - UNKLE have uploaded another old mix to Mixcloud. Titled 'James Lavelle presents a Guest Mix for James Hyman's The Rinse - XFM (2004)' you can hear it here. 1/1 - UNKLE's US ARKHIVE sale is on now. It features CDs, vinyl, and merch from the War Stories era. Take a look at the store here. 31/12 - UNKLE's Original Headz newsletter for December has been sent out. James Lavelle reflects on 2021, and announced a new ARKHIVE sale will be coming soon featuring stock found in a US warehouse. He also released a video from Mo' Wax Japan. Read it all here. 31/12 - UNKLE have uploaded a recording from their 1999 NME National Tour featuring James Lavelle and The Scratch Perverts. Listen on Mixcloud. 26/12 - UNKLE have posted a Christmas gif featuring the UNKLE Angel. See it on Twitter and Facebook. 26/12 - James Lavelle has created a mix for Good Hood's Good Vibes series. Listen on Mixcloud here, or find the link on Goog Hood's website here. 23/12 - This weeks episode of James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones was cancelled due to James being ill. According to UNKLE's Instagram story. 18/12 - James Lavelle is taking part in Style in Revolt, an exhibition in China celebrating street culture. Lavelle is acting as Curatorial Consultant and Musical Director. Read Lavelle's statement here, and check the exhibitions Instagram for more details. It runs until March 2022. 18/12 - James Lavelle's FabricLive. 01 mix is now streaming on Apple Music. It was originally released in 2001. 18/12 - The UNKLE Mixcloud has uploaded James Lavelle's mix from Mary Anne Hobbs which aired back in March this year. Listen here. 18/12 - UNKLE's set from 22 Jun 2019 has also been uploaded to Mixcloud here. 9/12 - UNKLE have released If We Don't Make It (Prequel Remix). Listen on Bandcamp. 9/12 - James Lavelle uploaded a new mix to the UNKLE Mixcloud. Titled 'James Lavelle presents UNKLE Soundsystem - UNKLE Sounds / FabricLife Edit (2003) James Lavelle presents UNKLE Soundsystem - UNKLE Sounds / FabricLife Edit (2003)' you can listen here. 9/12 - UNKLE's most recent merch drop, FINAL 2021 MERCH DROP still has some stock available from last week. Check it out here. 30/11 - UNKLE's Original Headz newsletter for November has been sent out. James Lavelle has announced an art show in Beijing, the Ronin vinyl pressings are shipping, and a final merch drop is due later today on Tuesday 30 November. Read it here. 30/11 - UNKLE have uploaded the 2004 mix 'James Lavelle presents UNKLE Sounds - Where The Wild Things Are'. Listen on Mixcloud. 30/11 - James Lavelle has released comment on the recent death of Virgil Abloh. Read it here on Instagram. 30/11 - Lavelle has also shared a photo from his recent return to DJing at Spiritland. See it here on Instagram. 19/11 - UNKLE released 'If We Don't Make It (DJ Nature Remix)' today. It's on Bandcamp now. 7/11 - The latest episode James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones aired this week and is now available to listen back to here on Mixcloud. 4/11 - James Lavelle will be DJing at Spiritland with DJ Food on 26 Nov. Details here. 30/10 - UNKLE's Original Headz newsletter for October has been sent out. You can read it here. James Lavelle says his perforated ear drums have healed and he will be back in the studio soon. Ronin II will be mastered soon. New remixes of If We Don't Make It are coming soon. The Halloween Merch is out now, and finally, James Lavelle has found a video promoting the Urban Archeology - exhibition exhibition from 1997, you can watch it here. 29/10 - UNKLE are having a Halloween merch sale at 5pm this Friday (London Time). The sale will be open to newsletter subscribers first, and you can subscribe to their newsletter here. 29/10 - The next episode of James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones is scheduled to air next Thursday November 4 on Soho Radio. 9/10 - UNKLE's Akrhive Sale 3 launched to newsletter subscribers at 5pm Friday (London time). Most have sold out by now, but you can see the list here. It includes the Kickstarter t-shirt, 7", and cassette, Billion Years T-shirts, Pointman prints, UNKLE Digi Camo Series, UNKLE Summer Series, 2020's War Stories Merchandise, 2019's UNKLE Hand Screenprinted T-shirts, Fabric AI T-shirts, and A.FOUR LABS X UNKLE. 7/10 - DJ Shadow is having his annual record sale in LA on October 23 and 24. Details here. 25/9 - UNKLE's Original Headz newsletter for September has been sent out. You can read it here. James Lavelle is working on an audio version of the Beyond The Road exhibition, another Arkhive Sale is coming next week, a Beyond The Road giveaway is coming to Instagram, UNKLE have uploaded their Off White mix to Soundclound, James Lavelle also revealed a previously unseen That's How It Is promo video. Read the newsletter for more details. 25/9 - Jim Robertson is releasing a project collecting photos from when James Lavelle released UNKLE's The Road Part 1 album. Some details here. 19/9 - UNKLE have announced a forthcoming NFT collaboration with W&N Studio and the Evening Standard Magazine for London Fashion Week. See the announcement on these Instagram posts: 1, 2, 3. 19/9 - On the 14th, UNKLE released a Psyence Fiction sweatshirt and hoodie which are available from their store now. You can read the announcement email here. 19/9 - UNKLE's reconstruction of Future Utopia's Nature or Nurture? / Am I Built Like This? is out now. Find your streaming service here. The remix EP features two versions of the UNKLE Reconstruction and the original. 3/9 - UNKLE's new Psyence Fiction t-shirts is available from their store now. 3/4 sold out almost immediately. 3/9 - The latest episode James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones aired last week and is now available to Listen back to it here on Mixcloud. 28/8 - UNKLE's Original Headz newsletter for August has been sent out. You can read it here. To celebrate the 23rd anniversary of the release of Psyence Fiction, UNKLE announced a Psyence Fiction merch drop is coming on Tuesday. James Lavelle also revealed a previously unseen UNKLE Pointman visual. Read the newsletter for more details. 28/8 - UNKLE have released another collection of remixes. Sick Lullaby (Polymod Remix) is available now as a vocal and instrumental on Bandcamp, or your favourite digital service. 21/8 - Two new Studio:AR.Mour X UNKLE t-shirts are now available in Japan. They can be purchased from their store. The t-shirts are ¥8,800(Tax Included). 18/8 - UNKLE have released an EP of new remixes, Catch Me When I Fall (Abel Ray Remixes). It's available on Bandcamp now. 18/8 - Last week UNKLE also released Catch Me When I Fall (Rōnin Edit) and Catch Me When I Fall (Rōnin Vocal Mix). The two new mixes are both available on streaming services. 15/8 - Two new t-shirts have been released on the UNKLE store for the UNKLE X NANA collaboration with South Korean graffiti artist NANA. These were released to celebrate Beyond The Road art show in South Korea. See James Lavelle's statement here. 11/8 - James Lavelle is interviewed on episode 13 of the For Your Ears Only podcast where he discusses how he almost scored the latest James Bond film, and picks some of his favourite music. Listen on Spotify now. 11/8 - UNKLE have remixed a song from The Future Utopia's latest album. A new album of remixes titled 12 Questions After Dark will be released September 10. 10/8 - The latest episode James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones aired last week and is now available to Listen back to it here on Mixcloud. 6/8 - The Studio:AR.Mour t-shirts are now available in Japan. The new clothing label from James Lavelle and Kuzuki Kuraishi has launched a website, and Instagram, and people overseas can make a purchase from their store. The t-shirts are ¥6,600(Tax Included). 1/8 - James Lavelle will DJ at the Laces Out 2021 after party on Saturday 7th August. He will also be in conversation as previously announced here. The afterparty details were announced on Twitter today. 30/7 - UNKLE's Original Headz newsletter for July has been sent out. You can read it here. Announced are 'Catch Me When I Fall (Rōnin Vocal mix)' coming August 6th, and then on 18th August three remixes of 'Catch Me' by producer Abel Ray. Also announced is AR.Mour, a new "multidisciplinary lifestyle brand for creative outsiders", from James Lavelle and Kuzuki Kuraishi. Their first release is coming to Japan this weekend. Finally, James Lavelle talks about Massive Attack's Blue Lines album. 30/7 - Giant Step have shared a live set by James Lavelle from 1993. Listen here on Mixcloud and read more about the event on our page: 23 Jul 1993. 29/7 - Diplo has remixed UNKLE's Do Yourself Some Good. Listen here or directly from UNKLE's Bandcamp. 25/7 - James Lavelle and Gilles Peterson will be DJing a special That's How It Is set on August 19 for We Out Here festival. James made the announcement via UNKLE's Twitter. Further details to be announced on the festivals website. 23/7 - James Lavelle will be in conversation as part of Laces Out 2021 on Saturday 7th August. Check the announcement here. More details are apparently to come. 23/7 - James Lavelle has included an artwork in the One Of A Kind fundraising auction. It's on now. See his artwork 'Pure Ecstasy' here. 14/7 - James Lavelle has curated a Spotify playlist for OPENERS Radio. Listen here. 14/7 - James Lavelle has also created a mix or The Crosstown Mix Show. Listen on Soundcloud, Mixcloud or Apple Podcasts. 6/7 - UNKLE have made "a special Rōnin Off-White turntablist mix" for Virgil Abloh's Off-White show. Read more about the show on Vogue, and watch the show and hear the mix on YouTube. James Lavelle's Beyond The Road exhibition is touring Korea. Details at the official Instagram. 3/7 - UNKLE have remixed Krust's Hegel Dialect and it is available on streaming now. Listen on YouTube here. The remix will also feature on a vinyl EP available July 23. Details for the EP are here. 26/6 - UNKLE's Original Headz newsletter for June has been sent out. You can read it here. New t-shirts have been released featuring the Mo' Wax logo, and James discussed hearing the first DJ Shadow songs for Mo' Wax, among a few other tidbits. 25/6 - On Instagram, UNKLE have announced a new Mo' Wax t-shirt will be released soon. Mailing list subscribers will be first to know. 24/6 - As part of Terry Hall presents Home Sessions UNKLE will perform. James Lavelle wrote on Instagram, "Myself and Steven Weston will be performing a brand new Rōnin AV show, with the amazing backdrop of Coventry Cathedral at midnight on the evening of Friday 30th July. General bookings open 10am on Friday 25 June." More information is available here. 10/6 - The latest episode James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones was on last night. Listen back to it here on Mixcloud. 7/6 - James Lavelle has posted on UNKLE's Instagram that he is recording in Tuscany. See the post here. 30/5 - The fifth Original Headz newsletter was sent out yesterday announcing James Lavelle is in Italy working on a soundtrack with Planet Funk. Stock of the Redux reissue is also shipping out now after some delay. Rōnin 2 is now mixed and further remixes are being commissioned, similar to the recently released Lost Souls remixes. Finally, the newsletter lists the three Record Store Day releases UNKLE is featured on, the UNKLE Reconstruction of Texas and Wu Tang Clan's 'HI', the UNKLE Reconstruction of 'Falling Spikes' on Japanese Television's 3 (Remixed), and Still Life's remix of UNKLE's Heaven on Stella Polaris Music. See the Record Store Day website for details on each release. 27/5 - Lost Souls of Saturn have remixed UNKLE's Do Yourself Some Good. There are two remixes which are available on the UNKLE Bandcamp page. 12/5 - James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones is back tonight on Soho Radio. Listen here at 6pm. 8/5 - Yesterday UNKLE released the Do Yourself Some Good (Demi Riquísimo Remix). Listen on Bandcamp. 8/5 - UNKLE also announced on Facebook more Rōnin Merchandise, now featuring new t-shirts, hoodies, tote bags, and drink bottles. But them here. 8/5 - Regarding the previous drop of Rōnin Merchandise, UNKLE sent an email with the following update: "Meanwhile the team has been busy sourcing the plain shirts for merch drop 1 and they are just about to start printing, so if you ordered from that drop, you can expect your orders to ship in the next few weeks." 4/5 - DJ Shadow discusses working on UNKLE's Rabbit In Your Headlights in todays The New Cue, a newsletter started by some ex-Q Magazine staff. Read it here. 1/5 - The fourth Original Headz newsletter was sent out yesterday announcing new merch coming soon, James Lavelle is in the studio working on new music, UNKLE have a newly designed website, and two new remixes of Do Yourself Some Good are coming soon, with the first by Demi Requismo arriving on May 7th. 25/4 - All of the Rōnin Merchandise is now sold out. No shipping date was listed for the t-shirt pre-orders, but the Rōnin store does note that all vinyl will be shipped in August due to delays at the pressing plants. 22/4 - UNKLE have announced on their Instagram story that new merch will be dropping at 5PM Friday and fans should sign up to the UNKLE mailing list to be first to find out. 13/4 - An interview from 2014 with James Lavelle has recently been uploaded by Byronesque. Take a look here as he recalls seeing Soul II Soul and the early sound system days. There's also two video directed by Justin Westover featuring music from Never Never Land. The videos were first uploaded to Vimeo 7 years ago. 10/4 - UNKLE have sent out an email announcing everyone who orders a copy of Rōnin I from the UNKLE official store before 30 April 2021 will be entered into a draw to win test pressings and merchandise. Winners will be notified one week after the closing date, and customers who previously made orders have been automatically entered into the draw. Read the email here. 8/4 - James Lavelle has scored the soundtrack to a short film titled AD2021 for furniture designers Clarke and Reilly. Watch the film and read more details on Another Mag. 8/4 - A remix of an UNKLE song appears on a new compilation by Stella Polaris Music. The compilation will be released for Record Store Day. Details here. 8/4 - Also from Record Store Day, UNKLE have remixed Texas featuring Wu Tang Clan. Details here. 2/4 - More information has been shared about the Kickstarter rewards: They are all pre-psyence fiction album demos, done after James came back from LA, when he was working with Tim Goldsworthy. The vinyl came from a DAT marked 'UNKLE 1 Rough Mix', the cassette is a facsimile of the session DAT from Milo studios. Lonely Soul also came out of that session at Milo, as Josh was there working on that. So the titles are literally just what they were recorded as on those DATs - Vinyl: UNKLE 1 Rough Mix - Cassette: 'Untitled One' and 'Untitled Two' 2/4 - The Ronin listening party on Twitter from earlier this week can be relived here. 29/3 - James Lavelle has been interviewed by Clash Magazine. He talks about this years Rōnin mixtapes, The Road Part 3, the That's How It Is mixes he did in 2020, and sorting through the UNKLE archives. Read the whole thing here. 29/3 - James Lavelle spoke to NME about the new UNKLE mixtape, part 2, and a potential UNKLE Greatest Hits album. Read it here. 29/3 - Listen back to James Lavelle on Mary Anne Hobbs' show on BBC Radio. 29/3 - South have posted a short documentary on the recording of their album From Here On In which was produced with James Lavelle and released on Mo' Wax. Watch it on YouTube. 27/3 - Fans have begun receiving the Kickstarter rewards. They are a 7" record and cassette tape featuring demos from 1996, and a t-shirt. No track listing was given for the cassette or record. 27/3 - The third Original Headz newsletter was sent out yesterday. 27/3 - Rōnin I is availble on Bandcamp in as a mixed and non-mixed edition. 26/3 - Rōnin I is out now. 26/3 - James Lavelle will be the guest on Mary Anne Hobbs show at 12PM London Time today on BBC 6. 18/3 - UNKLE's 'If We Don't Make It' is available to stream now. 18/3 - There will be a listening party for the new Ronin mixtape on March 30. Details on Twitter. 18/3 - Yesterday's Living In My Headphones is now on Mixcloud. 17/3 - UNKLE's Facebook page has announced they are hand stamping the Kickstarter 7" vinyl now. 17/3 - James Lavelle's Living In My Headphones will return on March 17th to Soho Radio. Listen here. The UNKLE instagram story has promised "new material" will be played. 17/3 - South have posted Polaroids from the recording of their debut album on Mo' Wax. The photos feature James Lavelle and Rich File along with the rest of the band. A short documentary is also promised to be coming soon. Take a look at the post here. 16/3 - Bape have announced a new collaboration with UNKLE featuring shoes, jackets, hoodies, and t-shirts. See the announcement on the Bape Japan Instagram page here and our page dedicated to BAPE VS UNKLE/MO WAX - Original Headz. Everything will be available from March 20th. 16/3 - UNKLE have sent out a new email announcing the new Ronin I mixtape will go on sale first to subscribers of the email newsletter, with the store opening Tuesday 16th March at 5pm GMT. The release will feature a new single 'If We Don't Make It', and will be available as Test Pressing - £65, Double Clear Vinyl - £29.99, Double Orange Vinyl - £29.99, White and Orange splatter Double Vinyl - £35.99, Single CD - £11.99, Limited Edition Double CD (second CD is unmixed) - £16.99, Cassette White - £9.99, Cassette Orange - £9.99. Copies are limited, with the test pressing limited to 20 copies, other vinyl limited to 1000, CDs limited to 2000, and cassettes limited to 150 copies each. Some editions come with booklets, info sheets, and stickers. 6/3 - Liela Moss has released a video titled ZoomAge Daydream with James Lavelle. They discuss the lockdown and remixing among other things. You can watch the video on YouTube now. 27/2 - Part two of the Arkhive Sale is on now with more t-shirts and prints from UNKLE's archive made available. See the collection here. 27/2 - A second Original Headz newsletter was sent out announcing James Lavelle is currently finishing part two of the Rōnin mixtape, and that Living In My Headphones will return on March 17th to Soho Radio. The Soho Radio website previously listed the show appearing on February 17, but it appears this was in error. 23/2 - Japanese Television's FALLING SPIKES (UNKLE RECONSTRUCTION) is out now. The UNKLE remix is from Japanese Television's new EP III (Remixed) which will be released 19th March 2021. 15/2 - UNKLE's remix of Leila Moss' Atoms At Me will be out on February 17th. 15/2 - James Lavelle discussed the new UNKLE song on Shaun Keaveny's show on BBC last week. Listen back here. James starts around 1 hour and 48 minutes in. 13/2 - South's debut album From Here On In, and the b-side album From Here On Out, are being re-released on vinyl, limited to 500 pressings. James Lavelle and Rich File contributed to the album which was originally released in 2001. Due for release on March 26th, you can preorder them now via Club AC30: From Here On In, From Here On Out. 12/2 - UNKLE's new single Do Yourself Some Good has been written about by Clash, NME, and other publications. The articles all use the same press release as their source quoting James Lavelle who says the new Rōnin mixtape was originally began life as preparation for a live show, but covid meant that it has been reimagined as a mixtape. 'Rōnin I' which will be released on March 26th. 11/2 - UNKLE have released Do Yourself Some Good (Ronin Throwdown). The new song was premiered on BBC 6 where James Lavelle gave a short introduction. The song will appear on the mixtape 'Rōnin I' which will be released on March 26th by Studio:UNKLE. Alongside the Ronin Throwdown there is also a shorter Ronin Edit. Both songs are available on all streaming services and can be purchased from Bandcamp. 11/2 - James Lavelle will return to Soho Radio with his show Living In My Headphones next week, Wednesday 17th. 9/2 - UNKLE are teasing something as arriving on Wednesday, Feb 10. 30/1 - UNKLE have started the sale on their website, with many items selling out quickly. The sale includes vinyl and clothing such as Ar.Mour Hoodies, The Road t-shirts, The Fourness t-shirts, a Mo' Wax logo glitter print, Daydreaming brochure and tote bag, and the Contents Under Pressure booklet. Take a look on the UNKLE store. 30/1 - UNKLE released the first volume of their newsletter, Original Headz Vol 1, Issue 1, where James Lavelle has promised "the next 12 months looks to be a productive year." Two remixes (Leila Moss' Atoms At Me and Japanese Television's Falling Spikes) and a new UNKLE single are releasing soon, with more content arriving across the year including "new remixes from The Road, and a series of new UNKLE records, starting with two Ronin mixtapes." A new website is coming soon while new merch is also promised. You can read a copy and pasted version on our Original Headz page. 25/1 - UNKLE have announced an "UNKLE ARKHIVE SALE". Fans who sign up to their newsletter / mailing list will get a first look. Sign up here. 22/1 - UNKLE have a new website and are inviting fans to sign up to their newsletter to get the latest UNKLE news. Sign up here. They also announced their new logo is by Gio Estevez, who previously designed the Nike X Mo' Wax Build and Destroy Collection. The logo itself was created in 1994 and features on an untitled painting. James Lavelle previously described Gio Estevez as a "long time friend and artist Gio Estevez, one of the original members of the Supreme skate team... I met Gio when I was 22, after seeing his paintings in Supreme and we instantly became best mates. At Mo'Wax he created the text for the UNKLE "Berry Meditation" single, a couple of Christmas cards, and a toy that never came out. His writing style is amazing and brings that illustrative angle. There's a history there and yet he's also a contemporary of mine now.". 21/1 - James Lavelle has been interviewed for "Not In Paris 2", a series by HIGHSNOBIETY. Read it here, and see some of the accompanying photos and video on the UNKLE Instagram. 15/1 - UNKLE have remixed Japanes Television from the EP III. Falling Spikes - UNKLE Reconstruction is part of EP III Remixed, available to pre-order now and will be released March 18, 2021. 8/1 - Exodus Revisited is out now streaming digitally. There are three versions, Extended, Edited, and Alternative. 4/1 - UNKLE have posted on Instagram that they are back in the studio and that the Ronin mix teased last year is coming soon. 4/1 - UNKLE also posted a list rounding up what they did in 2020. See that here. Click here for archived news from August 2018 - December 2020 Retrieved from "http://www.unklewiki.com/index.php?title=News&oldid=8371"

The next sub-menu pages contain embedded Vimeo 'Documentaries' of field work, IR libraries and audition audio playback and various other facets of this research. Part of the field recording practice involves documenting the site and field recording method on video or photography. Not working with a video director or cameraman makes the process of field recording tricky. The videos presented here are not of the highest production value and have been described by colleagues in sound design as "charming"! (Dr. Martin Parker, Head of Sound Design University of Edinburgh, ECA). A documentary adds a visual context to the field recording sites, the reverberations when heard in isolation can be abstract, film and photography adds a visual reference point to the field recording. The video links presented here represent a research practice sustained over several years since 2014. Earlier IR field recording practices were only captured photographically and began 7 years ago by recording balloon pops in a 15th century Scottish baronial castle, Bamff House, North East Perthshire.

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Q: php how to view class variable in script? the class, which is content.php class content { private $vars = array(); public function set($var, $var_value) { $this->vars[$var] = $var_value; } index.php file using the content class include 'content.php'; $instance = new content(); $instance->set(image_dir, '/images/'); include 'display.php'; display.php <?php echo '<img src={image_dir}/graphic.gif width=556 height=49></td>"'; How do I use the content->var variable in the display.php? which is the best way? A: You should use a getter. class content { private $vars = array(); public function set($var, $var_value) { $this->vars[$var] = $value; } public function getImageDir() { return $this->vars['image_dir']; } } And then: include 'content.php'; $instance = new content(); $instance->set(image_dir, '/images/'); $image_dir = $instance->getImageDir(); include 'display.php'; A: Add a getter to your class: class content { private $vars = array(); public function set($var, $var_value) { $this->vars[$var] = $var_value; } public function get($var) { return $this->vars[$var]; } } Then you can use it like: $instance->get(image_dir); Note that if image_dir is not a constant IE. define('image_dir', '../images/blah'); then it should be in quotes. A: What about using a get() method in your class? public function get($var) { return $this->vars[$var]; } Maybe you can have a look to the magic method __call() too A: just do in content class: public function getVar(){ return $this->vars; } and in index.php echo '<img src='.$content->getVar()['image_dir'].'/graphic.gif width=556 height=49></td>"';

Ext.ux.Portal = Ext.extend(Ext.Panel, { layout : 'column', autoScroll : true, cls : 'x-portal', defaultType : 'portalcolumn', initComponent : function(){ Ext.ux.Portal.superclass.initComponent.call(this); this.addEvents({ validatedrop:true, beforedragover:true, dragover:true, beforedrop:true, drop:true }); }, initEvents : function(){ Ext.ux.Portal.superclass.initEvents.call(this); this.dd = new Ext.ux.Portal.DropZone(this, this.dropConfig); }, beforeDestroy : function() { if(this.dd){ this.dd.unreg(); } Ext.ux.Portal.superclass.beforeDestroy.call(this); } }); Ext.reg('portal', Ext.ux.Portal); Ext.ux.Portal.DropZone = function(portal, cfg){ this.portal = portal; Ext.dd.ScrollManager.register(portal.body); Ext.ux.Portal.DropZone.superclass.constructor.call(this, portal.bwrap.dom, cfg); portal.body.ddScrollConfig = this.ddScrollConfig; }; Ext.extend(Ext.ux.Portal.DropZone, Ext.dd.DropTarget, { ddScrollConfig : { vthresh: 50, hthresh: -1, animate: true, increment: 200 }, createEvent : function(dd, e, data, col, c, pos){ return { portal: this.portal, panel: data.panel, columnIndex: col, column: c, position: pos, data: data, source: dd, rawEvent: e, status: this.dropAllowed }; }, notifyOver : function(dd, e, data){ var xy = e.getXY(), portal = this.portal, px = dd.proxy; // case column widths if(!this.grid){ this.grid = this.getGrid(); } // handle case scroll where scrollbars appear during drag var cw = portal.body.dom.clientWidth; if(!this.lastCW){ this.lastCW = cw; }else if(this.lastCW != cw){ this.lastCW = cw; portal.doLayout(); this.grid = this.getGrid(); } // determine column var col = 0, xs = this.grid.columnX, cmatch = false; for(var len = xs.length; col < len; col++){ if(xy[0] < (xs[col].x + xs[col].w)){ cmatch = true; break; } } // no match, fix last index if(!cmatch){ col--; } // find insert position var p, match = false, pos = 0, c = portal.items.itemAt(col), items = c.items.items, overSelf = false; for(var len = items.length; pos < len; pos++){ p = items[pos]; var h = p.el.getHeight(); if(h === 0){ overSelf = true; } else if((p.el.getY()+(h/2)) > xy[1]){ match = true; break; } } pos = (match && p ? pos : c.items.getCount()) + (overSelf ? -1 : 0); var overEvent = this.createEvent(dd, e, data, col, c, pos); if(portal.fireEvent('validatedrop', overEvent) !== false && portal.fireEvent('beforedragover', overEvent) !== false){ // make sure proxy width is fluid px.getProxy().setWidth('auto'); if(p){ px.moveProxy(p.el.dom.parentNode, match ? p.el.dom : null); }else{ px.moveProxy(c.el.dom, null); } this.lastPos = {c: c, col: col, p: overSelf || (match && p) ? pos : false}; this.scrollPos = portal.body.getScroll(); portal.fireEvent('dragover', overEvent); return overEvent.status; }else{ return overEvent.status; } }, notifyOut : function(){ delete this.grid; }, notifyDrop : function(dd, e, data){ delete this.grid; if(!this.lastPos){ return; } var c = this.lastPos.c, col = this.lastPos.col, pos = this.lastPos.p; var dropEvent = this.createEvent(dd, e, data, col, c, pos !== false ? pos : c.items.getCount()); if(this.portal.fireEvent('validatedrop', dropEvent) !== false && this.portal.fireEvent('beforedrop', dropEvent) !== false){ dd.proxy.getProxy().remove(); dd.panel.el.dom.parentNode.removeChild(dd.panel.el.dom); if(pos !== false){ if(c == dd.panel.ownerCt && (c.items.items.indexOf(dd.panel) <= pos)){ pos++; } c.insert(pos, dd.panel); }else{ c.add(dd.panel); } c.doLayout(); this.portal.fireEvent('drop', dropEvent); // scroll position is lost on drop, fix it var st = this.scrollPos.top; if(st){ var d = this.portal.body.dom; setTimeout(function(){ d.scrollTop = st; }, 10); } } delete this.lastPos; }, // internal cache of body and column coords getGrid : function(){ var box = this.portal.bwrap.getBox(); box.columnX = []; this.portal.items.each(function(c){ box.columnX.push({x: c.el.getX(), w: c.el.getWidth()}); }); return box; }, // unregister the dropzone from ScrollManager unreg: function() { //Ext.dd.ScrollManager.unregister(this.portal.body); Ext.ux.Portal.DropZone.superclass.unreg.call(this); } });

Schuman Challenge The Schuman Challenge is an annual debating contest hosted by the European Union Delegation to the USA in Washington D.C. The event is named after the statesman and founding father of the European Union, Robert Schuman. During this three-day competition, teams of three to four undergraduate students represent universities from around the nation to debate transatlantic policy in front of an audience of foreign affairs experts, including DC policymakers and European Union delegates This is an accordion element with a series of buttons that open and close related content panels. Took Kit For Competition Participants and Associated Schools Schuman Challenge Toolkit for Participant Schools 2022 Delegation of the European Union to the United States- Schuman Challenge Website Testimonials from Schuman Challenge Alumni "Although COVID presented unforeseeable challenges to the whole process, it was a blast. The Schuman Challenge was a unique opportunity to get some valuable first-hand experience in policy-making that one would not otherwise get in a course. The possible reward of presenting policy to ambassadors and heads of prominent think tanks raised the stakes, but in a way that made the process engaging and fun." -UW-Madison debater Aleksander Cwalina (2020 Schuman Challenge) "The Schuman Challenge was an excellent opportunity for me to get a taste of working in the foreign policy world by collaborating on a team to devise solutions to a relevant global issue and then receiving feedback on my ideas from real foreign policy experts in Washington, D.C." -West Virginia University debater Karen Laska (2019 Schuman Challenge) UW-Madison Students Compete in The Schuman Challenge 2020 In 2020, Aleksander Cwalina, a junior majoring in Political Science and Journalism; Anitha Quintin, a senior majoring in Political Science, International Studies, and Mathematics; Michael Sauer, a senior majoring in Political Science and Economics; and Zach Dyar, a freshman majoring in Economics represented UW-Madison in the Schuman Challenge on October 28 through October 30. Click here to access the recap of the 2020 Schuman Challenge. Pranav Krishnan is a freshman majoring in Economics and Political Science. He is participating in the Schuman Challenge to further his learning about American and European foreign policy and the predicament in Afghanistan. And hopes to utilize his experience in pursuit of a career in international relations. Ali Beneker is a freshman at UW-Madison studying Economics and Journalism and is thrilled to be on the Schuman Challenge team this year. A regular debater in Wisconsin Speech and Debate and a writer for an online publication, Ali is excited to bring writing, editing, and persuasive skills to the team. Participating in the Schuman Challenge is helping her reach her goals of a future career in political communication! Aleksander Cwalina is a senior studying journalism and political science, with minors in European studies and German. As a multilingual immigrant to the United States, he feels deeply connected to Europe both through his personal life and through his studies. He has previously competed in the the Schuman Challenge, saying, "The Schuman Challenge plays a key role in (deepening his connection to Europe) by providing me and other students interested in European affairs the opportunity to gain invaluable experience in researching, creating, and defending policy pertinent to current events." Danielle Lennon is majoring in History and Psychology with a certificate in Southeast Asian Studies. She plans on graduating in 2023 and chose to compete in the Schuman Challenge due to her historical knowledge in US Foreign Policy during the Cold War and the parallels that can be seen in governmental choices that occurred in Saigon in comparison to Kabul. Because she plans on going to graduate school to study law, and its relation to immigration. She says, "the Schuman Challenge is a great opportunity for me to gain a better understanding in the mechanisms of foreign policy and diplomacy and the questions that arise in time sensitive decisions by governmental agencies."

Forget the red. Let's have more of this please. Isn't the colour blocked hair amazing? I've sworn off hair dye for at least a month, but am sorely tempted to try this out in blue. Posted by la femme at 11:22 a.m. i agree this is all so stunning! this almost is up there with the turban. but it's such a commitment and wonder if you get the part wrong? so nice to see you back on here. Thank you, ue. I agree re: the part. It's a risk.

Pretty city pictures and outfits!! Oh you've got me so excited now, i'm going to Camden for the first time on the 17th next month, i literally can't wait! Anywhere i should head for? Looking gorgeous, good buy on that hat!

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Rua Island (Illa da Rua) is a Galician island located almost in the center of the Ria de Arousa, 4 km southeast of the port of Riveira. It is one of the most isolated islands of the ría of Arousa, and one of the most prominent despite its limited 4 hectares. It is entirely rock, formed by large stones of granite and it is difficult to approach. It has an important lighthouse which is similar to the one in the island of Ons, built by the same architect (Rafael de la Cerda) in 1864. The Island was inhabited by lighthouse keepers until the automation of the lighthouse.

If you would like to receive all the functionalities of our websites, you can accept these cookies by clicking through to further content on our webpages. If you want to know about the details of these cookies, or wish to change your cookie settings, please go to our Cookie Policy. Telecloud/Iaas Global Datacenter UiPath with KDDI Factory IoT + AI Analysis KDDI IoT Cloud Standard SORACOM with KDDI Network Management Service KDDI Global IP-VPN KDDI Global IP-VPN Economy International Private Leased Circuit (IPLC) KDDI Internet Gateway KDDI Global Router Package IT Complete Solutions KDDI Global Supply Program KDDI Cloud Inventory Zscaler with KDDI FireEye with KDDI Cloud/SaaS KDDI Vist@Finder KDDI Cloud Platform Service Telehouse Cloud Services KDDI File Storage KDDI Chatwork(Business chat) KDDI TeleOffice (Video Conference System) Products & Services Top Search by Needs Office Expansion / Relocation Smooth Global Communication Build a Global Network Build a cloud system Business Solutions Top Resource Center Top Telehouse Europe a winner in the Data Centre Solution Awards KDDI CORPORATION June 13, 2017 ―Recognition of the top-level energy efficiency of Telehouse London Docklands North Two― KDDI is pleased to announce that its European subsidiary Telehouse Europe (Managing Director: Ken Sakai) has been named a winner in the 2017 Data Centre Solution Awards (hereafter DCS Awards), which recognizes the innovative achievements of business enterprises in data-center related technology and services. The DCS Awards features 25 categories, and Telehouse London was a winner in the Data Centre Energy Efficiency Project of the Year category, which evaluates energy efficiency in data centers. Telehouse London Docklands North Two (hereafter North Two) is the first multi-floor urban data center to feature an indirect adiabatic cooling system, and the award is in recognition of its achievement of top-level energy efficiency, with a PUE [2] of 1.16 (design value). The indirect adiabatic cooling system is a system that cools by means of heat exchange between the warm air in the server room and the external air, and is generally used in the suburban, low-rise type of data center. The use of external air provides a high cooling capacity with low power consumption, and contributes to a reduction of the amount of energy used by the data center. <Virtual Tour of Telehouse London Docklands North Two> The KDDI Group operates data centers under the Telehouse brand in 48 locations in 24 cities in 13 countries and regions around the world. With roughly 30 years of experience in the field, we provide our customers with services that make the most of the knowhow we have gained over that time. As operators of premium data centers making optimum use of cutting-edge technologies and connectivity, we will continue to support the development of our customers' global business. [1] Second and third from the left: Allen Clarke, Associate Director of Telehouse Europe and Andy Dewing, Technical Director [2] PUE is an acronym for Power Usage Effectiveness, and is an indicator of how efficiently IT-related facilities such as data centers use energy. It is calculated using the total facility power consumption and the IT equipment power consumption; the closer the PUE is to 1.0, the more efficient the power usage. (Reference) About Telehouse London Docklands North Two Situated in a prime location some 10km from Central London, North Two was opened in November 2016, the fourth data center (following on from the existing North, East and West) within the Telehouse London Docklands campus, the largest data center in the UK with a total floor space of some 73,000m2. Telehouse London Docklands is one of the world's largest data centers, bringing direct connectivity to a total of over 530 telecommunications carriers, ISPs, and ASPs, and is the hub that supports the concept of Telehouse Interconnect, which enables connections to Telehouse's roughly 3,000 connectivity partners (carriers, mobile operators, ISPs, content providers and enterprises, etc.) (※)Related press release: (May 24, 2017) Telehouse London Wins DCS Data Centre Energy Efficiency Project of the Year Award *The information contained in the news releases is current at the time of publication. Products, service fees,service content and specifications, contact information, and other details are subject to change without notice. Office hours : Weekday in France 9:00 - 12:00, 13:00 - 17:00 Language : English, French, Japanese

Political Status|Negotiations / Statements Israeli FM Peres' Speech Upon Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize (1994) Shimon Peres, Israel: Speaker A speech given by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres in Oslo, Norway, on 10 December 1994, upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize along with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. Speaking of his personal history and of Israel's wars, Peres described the modern world as one where national distinctions are diminishing in importance, and where progress depends on universal cooperation and a belief in common values. He then presented his vision for the Middle east as an abode of freedom and creativity. Israeli FM Peres' Speech Upon Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize - English (1994) Israeli PM Rabin's Speech Upon Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize (1994) , PLO Chairman Arafat's Speech Upon Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize (1994) Rabin, Yitzhak (1922-1995) | Arafat, Yasser (1929-2004) | Peres, Shimon (1923-2016) | Nobel Peace Prize

Q: ef core 2 apply HasQueryFilter for all entity Is there any way to apply "HasQueryFilter" globaly to all my entity ? I don't want to add in modelbuilder one by one ? modelBuilder.Entity<Manufacturer>().HasQueryFilter(p => p.IsActive); A: For those looking to implement Ivan's answer in EF Core 3.0, note the necessary change in the last line: foreach (var entityType in modelBuilder.Model.GetEntityTypes()) { var isActiveProperty = entityType.FindProperty("IsActive"); if (isActiveProperty != null && isActiveProperty.ClrType == typeof(bool)) { var parameter = Expression.Parameter(entityType.ClrType, "p"); var filter = Expression.Lambda(Expression.Property(parameter, isActiveProperty.PropertyInfo), parameter); MutableEntityTypeExtensions.SetQueryFilter(entityType, filter); } } A: In case you have base class or interface defining the IsActive property, you could use the approach from Filter all queries (trying to achieve soft delete). Otherwise you could iterate entity types, and for each type having bool IsActive property build dynamically filter expression using Expression class methods: foreach (var entityType in modelBuilder.Model.GetEntityTypes()) { var isActiveProperty = entityType.FindProperty("IsActive"); if (isActiveProperty != null && isActiveProperty.ClrType == typeof(bool)) { var parameter = Expression.Parameter(entityType.ClrType, "p"); var filter = Expression.Lambda(Expression.Property(parameter, isActiveProperty.PropertyInfo), parameter); entityType.QueryFilter = filter; } } Update (EF Core 3.0): Due to public metadata API breaking change (replacing many properties with Get / Set extension methods), the last line becomes entityType.SetQueryFilter(filter); A: Here is extention method for EF Core version 6 public static void ApplySoftDeleteQueryFilter(this ModelBuilder modelBuilder) { var entityTypes = modelBuilder.Model .GetEntityTypes(); foreach (var entityType in entityTypes) { var isActiveProperty = entityType.FindProperty("IsActive"); if (isActiveProperty != null && isActiveProperty.ClrType == typeof(bool)) { var entityBuilder = modelBuilder.Entity(entityType.ClrType); var parameter = Expression.Parameter(entityType.ClrType, "e"); var methodInfo = typeof(EF).GetMethod(nameof(EF.Property))!.MakeGenericMethod(typeof(bool))!; var efPropertyCall = Expression.Call(null, methodInfo, parameter, Expression.Constant("IsActive")); var body = Expression.MakeBinary(ExpressionType.Equal, efPropertyCall, Expression.Constant(true)); var expression = Expression.Lambda(body, parameter); entityBuilder.HasQueryFilter(expression); } } }

Chinese Qigong can be generally categorized into External Elixir (Wai Dan) and Internal Elixir (Nei Dan) Qigong. The first step of practicing Internal Elixir Qigong has been known as Small Cyclic Heaven (Small Circulation or Microcosmic Meditation). After completing Small Cyclic Heaven, a practitioner will learn Grand Cyclic Heaven (Grand Circulation or Macrocosmic Meditation). The purpose of Grand Cyclic Heaven is to re-open the Heaven Eye (Third Eye) to unite the natural spirit and human spirit. This is the ultimate goal of spiritual enlightenment in both Daoism (Taoism) and Buddhism. Although these kinds of meditations are popular, very few scientific books or documents are available to the public. In order to reach the goal of longevity and spiritual enlightenment, the Qigong practitioner must learn Internal Elixir Qigong. The first step to learning is to understand the theory and the method of Embryonic Breathing. Practicing this breathing technique will help you to establish your central energy system, conserve your energy, and store this energy to abundant levels. Once you have established this foundation, you will be able to practice Small Cyclic Heaven (Small Circulation or Microcosmic Orbit) and Grand Cyclic Heaven (Grand Circulation of Macrocosmic Orbit) effectively. It is understood that without this foundation, the root of spiritual enlightenment will not be established and the study and the practice of spiritual enlightenment, through meditation, will be in vain.

Q: RxJava thread-safety Is this code thread-safe? Observable<String> observable = ... // some observable that calls // onNext from a background thread observable .scan(new ArrayList<String>(), (List<String> acc, String next) -> { acc.add(next); return acc; }) .subscribe( list -> { // do somethind with sequence of lists ... }); I'm curious because ArrayList is not a thread-safe data structure. A: As a quick answer, in .NET (the original Rx implementation) all values from an observable sequence can be assumed to be sequential. This does not preclude it to be multi-threaded. However if you are producing values in a multi-threaded manner, then you may want enforce the sequential nature by looking for the equivalent function to the .NET Synchronize() Rx operator. Another option is to check the implementation of Scan in the RxJava source code, to validate that it does enforce the sequential nature you would want/expect to provide you safety in your accumulator function. A: If this code isn't thread-safe, then either RxJava is broken or your Observable source is broken - operators being non-reentrant is part of the Rx contract.

This statistic shows the number of newly registered trucks in Finland in 2018, by brand. The brand with most registrations was Volvo (986 trucks), followed by Scania (926 trucks). In the same year, the number of newly registered Mercedes Benz trucks amounted to 871. A truck or lorry in this statistic refers to a vehicle manufactured for the transport of goods, with a gross weight greater than 3.5 tonnes.

A Short Analysis of Philip Larkin's 'This Be The Verse' Dr Oliver Tearle's summary of a classic Larkin poem Readers not fond of swearing in poetry are advised to look away now, for Philip Larkin's opening lines can get pretty sweary. 'They f*ck you up, your mum and dad': a memorable opening line for one of Philip Larkin's best-known poems, 'This Be The Verse', not exactly a laudatory paean to parenthood. But what is Larkin's poem actually saying, and why did he feel the need to write it? The following analysis attempts some answers to these questions. You can read 'This Be the Verse' here. A summary of what Larkin's poem actually says is pretty straightforward. Our parents 'f*ck us up' (more on that colourful choice of phrase in a moment), perhaps unintentionally, because they pass on their own failings to us (since we inherit their genes) and, through the way they raise us, they inspire more failings within us. Larkin then says, in defence of parents everywhere, that this wasn't their fault: they, too, were damaged by their upbringing by their parents, who spent their lives being either emotionally buttoned-up or, when they did show any emotion, arguing and creating a fraught home life for their children. Larkin concludes by saying that this is the way of humankind: we pass on our own miseries to our children, and they pass on theirs to their children's children, and so on. Like a coastal shelf where deposits of sand and rock are laid down gradually over centuries, this misery 'deepens' over generations. Larkin's advice is to leave home (and possibly even life itself?) as soon as you can – and don't, of course, have children of your own. It's fitting that Larkin may well have written 'This Be The Verse' while he was staying with his mother at her home in Loughborough, where she lived from the early 1950s until 1972. Anthony Thwaite tentatively dates the poem to April 1971, which means that Larkin was possibly in Loughborough with his mother for the Easter holidays. (He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull, but during the university holidays would usually go and stay with his mother in Loughborough. She lived on her own, following the death of Larkin's father in 1948.) Like other poems which Larkin wrote about his mother, such as 'Love Songs in Age' (completed on New Year's Day 1957) and 'Reference Back' (written during the summer holidays 1955), the inspiration for 'This Be The Verse' may have come from Larkin being in the company of his mother for several weeks (with all the annoyances and petty irritations that tend to erupt anew when we go home and spend time with our parents). Larkin was, by all accounts, a devoted son, who regularly went to visit his mother, who was prone to bouts of depression. Yet Larkin the poet could not shy away from examining and analysing the role that our parents play in shaping our own attitudes, behaviour, and prejudices. Larkin's father was an admirer of Germany and Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts; following Larkin's death in 1985, and the publication of Philip Larkin: Selected Letters and Andrew Motion's Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life , Larkin himself has been accused of right-wing sympathies and even of racism. Does the apple fall far from the tree? This is something else that 'This Be The Verse' seems to ask. What does the poem's title mean? It's a direct borrowing from a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson called 'Requiem': Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me die. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. Stevenson's poem is about death and remembrance: a 'requiem' is a song sung for the dead. Stevenson asks that his loved ones remember him after he dies. Larkin, by comparison, presents a somewhat different view of his loved ones: rather than honouring one's parents, and respecting and remembering them when they die, he focuses on a different aspect of the parent-child relationship: resentment. 'This be the verse you grave for me', Stevenson's poem proclaims, suggesting the following lines be read as epitaph, literally set in stone (with a faint play on the double meaning of the word 'grave' too). This be another sort of verse about loved ones, Larkin's title seems to say, not as commemorative maybe (or at least not in the usual sense) but just as authoritative and enduring. (Larkin's poems often touch upon the idea of things enduring forever: see the ending to 'An Arundel Tomb', for instance.) The famous opening line of the poem seems straightforward enough, though we might analyse (over-analyse?) that four-lettered expletive and detect a faint pun: our parents literally 'f*ck' us 'up', they conjure us up if you will, in the sense that it is only because his parents had sex with each other that Larkin was born at all. The rest of the trouble followed from that. Not a particularly cheery take on human existence, perhaps, but delivered with the usual Larkinesque wit. This be the real verse, no? 'This Be the Verse' is available in Philip Larkin: Collected Poems . We thoroughly recommending getting hold of this volume, as a way of discovering more of Larkin's marvellous work. Continue to explore Larkin's later poetry with our analysis of his fine lyric 'The Trees', or our summary of his 'Going, Going'; alternatively, discover the work of a fellow Hull poet with our discussion of Stevie Smith's 'Not Waving But Drowning'. The author of this article, Dr Oliver Tearle, is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University. He is the author of, among others, The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers' Journey Through Curiosities of History and The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem. Image: Larkin with Gin & Tonic, 1961; photographer unknown. First published in Selected Letters, edited by Anthony Thwaite. Via Simon K on Flickr (share-alike licence). Tags: Analysis, Books, Classics, English Literature, Philip Larkin, Poetry, Summary, This Be The Verse Pingback: The Best Philip Larkin Poems Everyone Should Read | Interesting Literature barryknister Correction: that's 'as early as you can,' not 'as quickly as you can.' Given the source for Larkin's title, and the subject matter of Stevenson's poem, 'get out as quickly as you can' would seem to refer to death: get out of this life as quickly as you can, without reproducing. beeblu Thanks for the insight and an enjoyable read. drewdog2060drewdog2060 Reblogged this on newauthoronline. Bobby Fairfield Reblogged this on Recommended book and blog news, poetry and tarot inspiration and commented: Clever interpretation childrenofarthur Interesting post on a favorite poem. Although, I always read the line "get out as early as you can" not to mean to move out of your parents' house but to end your life as soon as you can because life itself is so miserable. I guess it could go either way since Larkin doesn't say what we are to get out of. I like how you interpret "fuck" not just in terms of messing up someone but that it is how one is conceived by one's parents. Keep up the great posts. Tyler Tichelaar Heartafire I enjoyed your account of this poem, I think the poetry is fabulous.

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Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol (ou Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol) () (1781-1851) est un enseignant du bouddhisme tibétain. Il était reconnu pour ses dons d'écriture et de poésie. Le dalaï-lama a écrit de lui : Il est considéré comme le plus grand yogi tibétain après Milarepa à avoir atteint l'Éveil en l'espace d'une vie. Résumé de sa vie Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol naquit parmi les yogis Nyingmapa de la région de Rekong située dans l'Amdo, lointaine province du nord-est du Tibet. La maîtrise des pratiques secrètes du Mantrayana avait établi la réputation de ces ascètes qui se réunissaient par milliers pour méditer ensemble. Les pouvoirs magiques qu'on leur attribuait suscitaient une grande admiration mais aussi une certaine crainte parmi les populations locales. Ces yogis étaient également célèbres pour leurs longs cheveux qui mesuraient parfois un mètre et demi de longueur et qu'ils nouaient en un chignon au sommet de leur tête. Dès sa plus tendre enfance, Shabkar manifesta une profonde inclination pour la vie contemplative. Ses jeux d'enfant avaient toujours un rapport avec les enseignements du Bouddha. Dès l'âge de six-sept ans, il développa un grand désir de mettre en pratique les enseignements. Il eut très tôt des visions identiques à celles dont on fait l'expérience lors des pratiques avancées du Dzogchèn ou Grande Perfection. Âgé de quinze ans, Shabkar récita le mantra de Gourou Padmasambhava plus d'un million de fois et fit des rêves de bon augure tels que voler dans le ciel, voir la lune et le soleil se lever simultanément, découvrir des trésors de joyaux, etc. "Dès lors," écrivit-il, "j'éprouvais une inébranlable dévotion envers mon maître, une grande affection pour mes compagnons spirituels ainsi qu'une profonde compassion pour tous les êtres ; je percevais également les différents enseignements comme parfaitement purs. J'eus la chance de pouvoir accomplir sans obstacle toutes les pratiques spirituelles que j'entreprenais". A l'âge de seize ans, Shabkar effectua une retraite d'une année au cours de laquelle il récita le mantra du Bouddha de la connaissance, Manjushri, dix millions de fois. "Les bénédictions de cette pratique me permirent d'entrevoir la profondeur et l'étendue des enseignements," dit-il. Puis, Shabkar rencontra Jamyang Guiatso, un maître pour lequel il éprouva une grande vénération. Malgré la profonde affection qu'il vouait à sa mère et le respect qu'il portait à sa famille, Shabkar résista aux pressions de ses proches qui voulaient le marier. Il quitta finalement la maison familiale afin de se consacrer entièrement à la vie spirituelle. Déterminé à renoncer à tout but mondain, Shabkar reçut les pleins vœux monastiques à vingt ans. Puis il quitta sa terre natale et se rendit au sud du Rekong pour rencontrer son maître principal, le Roi du Dharma Ngakyi Wangpo. Ce maître, à la fois grand érudit et détenteur d'une profonde réalisation spirituelle, était un roi mongol révéré comme la réincarnation de Marpa le Traducteur. Il avait renoncé à ce qui subsistait du vaste royaume de Gushri Khan et était devenu un grand maître Nyingmapa. Après avoir reçu toutes les instructions spirituelles du Roi du Dharma, Shabkar partit les mettre en pratique pendant cinq ans dans l'ermitage solitaire de Tséshoung où il approfondit ses expériences méditatives et sa réalisation. Ensuite, il s'en alla méditer pendant trois autres années sur l'île de Tsonying, le "Cœur du Lac", située au centre du lac Kokonor, le lac bleu de l'Amdo. En ce lieu, il eut de multiples visions de ses maîtres et de différentes divinités. Durant ces retraites, Shabkar laissa à nouveau ses longs cheveux pousser, ainsi que la coutume l'exige pour les ermites qui ne gaspillent pas un seul instant à des activités superflues. Plutôt que le traditionnel châle monastique rouge, il portait un châle blanc, signe qu'il avait maîtrisé les profondes pratiques yogiques. Il continua toutefois à porter la robe monastique, faite de pièces de tissu cousues ensemble. Cette tenue peu commune lui attira parfois les commentaires sarcastiques d'étrangers auxquels Shabkar répondait par des chants pleins d'humour. Sa quête des hauts lieux le mena ensuite dans de nombreuses retraites solitaires telles que les glaciers de Matchèn et les grottes sacrées de la Citadelle du Singe du Rocher blanc ; il fit également les éprouvants pèlerinages des Ravins de Tsari, du Mont Kaïlash et de la Chaîne Enneigée de Lapchi. En ces lieux, il passa plusieurs années dans les grottes mêmes où Milarépa et d'autres saints avaient vécu et médité. Il mena la vie d'un yogi errant, dispensant ses enseignements à tous, des bandits jusqu'aux animaux sauvages. Les pèlerinages qu'il entreprit le menèrent jusqu'à la lointaine vallée de Kathmandou au Népal où il fit redorer la spire du stûpa de Bodnath avec l'or que lui avaient offert ses fidèles. En 1828, âgé de quarante-sept ans, Shabkar revint dans l'Amdo où il passa les vingt dernières années de sa vie à enseigner, à rétablir la paix dans cette région et à méditer dans des lieux solitaires, plus particulièrement dans son ermitage de Tashikhyil. La tradition orale concernant la vie de Shabkar est elle aussi riche en anecdotes. On dit ainsi que le grand yogi demandait aux mendiants de l'aider à rassembler des pierres pour construire des stūpas, 6 tâches qu'il rétribuait en leur distribuant de la nourriture. Lorsqu'il était invité à donner un enseignement, Shabkar acceptait à condition que les bienfaiteurs nourrissent tous les indigents qui l'accompagnaient. Les nécessiteux arrivaient en tête, suivis de Shabkar qui marchait en s'appuyant sur sa célèbre canne qu'il appelait son "cheval" et qui devint le thème de certains de ses chants. A l'image d'autres grands maîtres spirituels tibétains qui firent souvent office de médiateurs, Shabkar joua un rôle important de pacificateur. Ainsi, dans la province de l'Amdo qui avait connu des siècles de conflits entre les éléments disparates de la population tibétaine que sont les nomades mongols et les envahisseurs chinois, il mit un terme à de sanglantes querelles et rétablit la paix. Grâce à son intervention, nombre de bandits cessèrent de perpétrer leurs raids et leurs crimes ; il parvint même à convaincre les musulmans chinois de reconstruire les temples bouddhiques qu'ils avaient brûlés. Shabkar mourut en 1851. Son histoire parfois émeut jusqu'aux larmes, parfois fait fuser le rire, mais par-dessus tout et ainsi que le disait Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoché : "En lisant le récit de sa vie, notre esprit est immanquablement porté vers le Dharma." Ses noms divers Shabkar reçut plusieurs noms tels que Jampa Chödar qui signifie : "Bienveillant Propagateur du Dharma", et Tsogdruk Rangdrol : "Libération Spontanée des Six Sens." Mais il devint célèbre sous le nom de Shabkar Lama, c'est-à-dire "Lama de l'Empreinte Blanche". Ce nom lui fut donné à l'issue d'une méditation de plusieurs années qu'il effectua sur les contreforts du Mont Kaïlash, dans une grotte située au-dessous de la Grotte des Miracles de Milarépa. Cette grotte est à proximité de la célèbre "Empreinte Blanche" qui serait l'une des quatre traces de pas laissées par le Bouddha Shakyamouni lors de son voyage miraculeux jusqu'à cette montagne. On dit également que Shabkar fut appelé "Pied Blanc" car partout où il passait on disait que le sol blanchissait sous ses pas, métaphore qui signifie que ses enseignements incitaient tous ceux qu'il rencontrait à pratiquer le Dharma. Shabkar et Patrul Rinpoché La réputation de Shabkar, l'ermite parfait, se répandit dans tout le Tibet à tel point que le grand renonçant Patrul Rimpoché entreprit le long voyage du Kham en Amdo pour le rencontrer. Malheureusement, à peine avait-il parcouru la moitié du trajet qu'il apprit que Shabkar venait de s'éteindre. Il fit aussitôt cent prosternations en direction de l'Amdo et récita une supplique pour que le grand saint se réincarne sans tarder. Patrul Rimpoché conclut ainsi : "La compassion et l'amour sont les racines du Dharma. Je crois que nul en ce monde n'égalait la compassion de Shabkar. Je n'avais rien de particulier à lui demander, aucun enseignement à recevoir ni à lui conférer ; je voulais simplement acquérir quelques mérites en contemplant son visage." Pratiques spirituelles et approche non-sectaire La Grande Perfection, encore appelée Dzogchèn ou Atiyoga - trésor incomparable de la tradition nyingmapa et point culminant des neuf véhicules - fut la pratique essentielle de Shabkar, toute sa vie durant. Toutefois, chez Shabkar, la réalisation de la Grande Perfection allait de pair avec l'observance des préceptes des maîtres Kadampas qui incitent le disciple à se contenter de peu et à s'affranchir des passions. Les Kadampas insistent en effet sur l'importance d'un profond sentiment de lassitude à l'égard du monde, sur l'humilité et le calme intérieur, la bonté, la compassion et surtout l'esprit d'Éveil, la précieuse bodhicitta, qui consiste à vouloir amener tous les êtres vers la libération et l'état de Bouddha. Shabkar vécut à un moment de l'histoire tibétaine où de nombreuses lignées spirituelles étaient sur le point de s'éteindre. Un âpre sectarisme religieux et des rivalités tribales divisaient les monastères et la population. Transcendant ces différences, incarna la tolérance religieuse, l'altruisme et la "pure perception" (dag snang) la plus éminente qualité d'un authentique bouddhiste. Shabkar ne reçut pas seulement les enseignements de toutes les écoles du bouddhisme tibétain, mais mit continuellement l'accent sur la "pure perception" et l'ouverture d'esprit. Il montra que les enseignements du Dharma appartenant aux différents véhicules (yana) forment un ensemble homogène et non contradictoire. Il contribua activement au mouvement dit "non-sectaire" (ris med) qui se développa au XIXe siècle et connût son apogée avec des maîtres tels que Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo, Jamgön Kongtrul, Patrul Rinpoché et Lama Mipham. Ces maîtres qui furent tous eux-mêmes de grands érudits, des poètes, des commentateurs et des yogis accomplis sauvèrent le bouddhisme tibétain du déclin et lui restituèrent sa vigueur première ; héritage dont nous bénéficions aujourd'hui. Ces enseignements fondamentaux furent répartis en recueils majeurs tels que les "Cinq grands trésors" de Jamgön Kongtrul afin d'être transmis et mis en pratique par les générations futures. À la fin de sa vie, Shabkar eut une vision qui reflète parfaitement l'équanimité de son approche non-sectaire à l'égard des quatre principales écoles du bouddhisme tibétain. Lors de cette vision, Shabkar dit à Gourou Padmasambhava : "Je vous ai invoqué toute ma vie. De nombreuses divinités et maîtres spirituels me sont apparus, mais c'est seulement maintenant que vous vous manifestez à moi." Padmasambhava lui répondit : "Lorsque tu étais sur l'île du Cœur du Lac, te souviens-tu de cette vision de Tsongkhapa qui te donnait les enseignements de la "Voie Graduelle" ? C'était moi." Shabkar relate cette vision dans un ouvrage intitulé les "Écrits émanés d'Orgyen" ( o rgyan sprul pa'i glegs bam) ; il y exprime sa conviction en l'unité fondamentale entre Gourou Padmasambhava, Atisha et Tsongkhapa, les trois grands maîtres spirituels qui ont dominé la vie, la pratique et la teneur des enseignements de Shabkar. Enseignements et héritage Les chants édifiants de Shabkar nous révèlent la valeur et le sens de la vie humaine, la signification de la mort et de l'impermanence, la loi du karma et les souffrances inhérentes au samsara. Il exalte les vertus du renoncement, la nécessité de suivre un maître qualifié et de développer une fervente dévotion à son égard. Il insiste également sur la compréhension de la vacuité intimement liée à une compassion infinie et enfin sur la réalisation de la Grande Perfection : la nature de bouddhéité innée en chaque être, la pureté primordiale et immuable de tous les phénomènes. Outre sa biographie, Shabkar a laissé de nombreux enseignements qui sont autant de sources d'inspiration, tel que le célèbre "Vol du Garouda". L'étendue des connaissances de Shabkar, sa réalisation intérieure, son exceptionnelle mémoire et son don d'improvisation, qualités auxquelles s'ajoute son respect à l'égard des différentes traditions spirituelles, mais surtout, son profond amour des êtres et son infinie compassion ont été à l'origine des multiples écrits qu'il nous a légués. Ces textes ont été, pour la plupart, réimprimés en Inde et au Tibet. Les caractéristiques de l'œuvre de Shabkar sont la simplicité, la profondeur et le pouvoir d'inciter le lecteur à l'engagement spirituel. Il n'a jamais écrit afin de faire étalage de ses connaissances ou pour devenir un philosophe renommé, mais dans l'unique dessein d'orienter l'esprit des êtres vers le Dharma, de soutenir leur enthousiasme, d'empêcher toute déviation ou embûche sur le chemin de la libération. Les sources d'inspiration de Shabkar sont aussi nombreuses que variées, reflet de l'étendue de sa formation spirituelle et de son exceptionnelle ouverture d'esprit à toutes les traditions philosophiques. Certains hymnes développent des thèmes et des vers qui s'inspirent des écrits de Longchén Rabjam et d'autres sages de la tradition nyingmapa tel que Karma Lingpa (né en 1326). Les chants de Jétsun Milarépa, ceux du grand fondateur Atisha et ses héritiers spirituels, les maîtres de la tradition Kadam, ont également été une veine constante pour le yogi de l'Amdo. Les caractéristiques de l'œuvre de Shabkar sont la simplicité, la profondeur et le pouvoir d'inciter le lecteur à l'engagement spirituel. Il n'a jamais écrit afin de faire étalage de ses connaissances ou pour devenir un philosophe renommé, mais dans l'unique dessein d'orienter l'esprit des êtres vers le Dharma, de soutenir leur enthousiasme, d'empêcher toute déviation ou embûche sur le chemin de la libération. Notes et références Liens externes Écrivain tibétain Poète tibétain Personnalité tibétaine du XVIIIe siècle Personnalité tibétaine du XIXe siècle Yogi du bouddhisme tibétain Naissance en 1781 Naissance en Amdo Décès en 1851 Relations entre le Népal et le Tibet

August 2, 2014 2 Comments I'm reading Eric Schlosser's fascinating book Command and Control, on the history of the US nuclear arsenal. It's actually kind of amazing we haven't had an actual accidental nuclear explosion. We've come so damn close far too many times. I first found out about the book when Schlosser was on Dianne Rehm. So many interesting tidbits and anecdotes. So far, though, I've been most taken by the idea that the US deployed a 50 lb short-range nuclear weapon to be used in a ground war in Europe. It was dubbed the Davy Crockett. And here's a video of it's testing: From In Focus photos of the week. You know I'm a sucker for photos like this: Jorge, an immigrant from Mexico, dressed as the Sesame Street character Elmo, rests in Times Square, New York, on July 29, 2014. Elmo and Cookie Monster have long delighted young viewers on TV's "Sesame Street," but recent antics of New York street performers dressed as the beloved characters have drawn the ire of city officials and now the show's producers. Sesame Workshop, which owns the rights to Big Bird, Ernie and the assorted puppet monsters on the 45-year-old program, said on July 29, 2014 it was drafting plans to stop unauthorized performers who dress up as the characters from appearing in Times Square, where they pose for photos with tourists and then demand tips. (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz) How money polarizes politics in chart form August 2, 2014 1 Comment Hey, that's me! Via TPM: 1) Fist bumps and high fives spread way less germs than a handshake. Will we all be fist-bumping each other some day? 2) The present and future of marriage in America. 3) Gender differences in cognition: Though everyone saw improvements over time, the women did so more dramatically. The gains in smarts coincided with better living conditions, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), fertility rate, health indicators such as mortality rate, and educational opportunities, the researchers found. Because women's better performance coincided with higher levels of societal development across different regions and cohorts, the results suggest that improved living conditions have benefited women more than men. But the scientists aren't sure whether that trend will continue into the future, as women simply may be "catching up" after starting from further behind, Herlitz said. 4) Were dinosaurs wiped out by bad luck? Love this bit: I asked Dr Brusatte: "Could dinosaur you and dinosaur me be having this conversation, instead?" … "As far as dinosaurs becoming intelligent is concerned the experiment has been done and we call them crows," he told BBC News. 5) So do not like tattoos. But I found this video that explains how their permancence to be a function of a complicated interplay with the human immune system to be quite fascinating. 6) Olberman on the NFL, gender, and Ray Rice. Good stuff. 7) Talk about reverse causality… in many African villages people are thinking that doctors are bringing the Ebola virus with them ans spreading it rather than responding to outbreaks. Not good. Also not good– the fact that so many doctors and nurses seem to be getting sick this go round. Presumably, we are dealing with a newer, more virulent strain of Ebola, but I haven't read anything good on that yet. 8) Five sort of myths about the gender pay gap. 9) Yet more evidence on the amazing benefits of even a small amount of high-intensity exercise. You know what also has a great benefit? Moderate-intensity running for even a few minutes a day. This part is something: Remarkably, these benefits were about the same no matter how much or little people ran. Those who hit the paths for 150 minutes or more a week, or who were particularly speedy, clipping off six-minute miles or better, lived longer than those who didn't run. But they didn't live significantly longer those who ran the least, including people running as little as five or 10 minutes a day at a leisurely pace of 10 minutes a mile or slower. Wow! I run somewhere between 9-10 minute miles (doesn't feel "leisurely" to me). Sometimes I feel guilty about not pushing myself harder, but no more! 10) Seth Masket on why political science is science: Political science is a science. Political scientists come in a variety of flavors, but basically we're in the business of proposing theories about the way the political world works, testing those theories with some kind of data, subjecting our findings to a peer-review process, and hopefully publishing those findings so that others can confirm or refute what we've done. And our understanding of the political world has improved substantially over the past century using this approach. (See Hans Noel's article for some great examples, and see Julia Azari on Twitter for some more schooling.) That is science. 11) The human evolutionary biology of being politically conservative. 12) Apparently, at Fort Bragg they show way too much deference to officers in matters of safety. Interesting story of how this led to a Colonel plummeting to his death in a failed parachute jump. 13) I love stuff like this– the ages at which hockey players at different positions have their best performance (interestingly, age seems to make the least difference for goalies). Filed under Gender, Health/Medicine, Politics, Science, Sports

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Electrical stimulation can support stroke recovery Strokes are one of the leading causes of disability among adults, and elderly people who experience them often need the support of a comprehensive care home team. However, new research could help people who are struggling to regain full movement of their body after such a trauma. A team at the University of Oxford looked at 24 volunteers who had experienced a stroke at least six months ago and were all still struggling with arm or hand movements. Published in the Journal of Science Translational Medicine, the study saw all of the participants get nine sessions of intensive rehabilitation. Some 11 of these were given transcranial direct current stimulation for the first 20 minutes of each session, while the others were given a placebo procedure. The electrical therapy saw the 11 patients have electrodes placed on their scalp while a low current was delivered. For those undergoing the placebo treatment, the electricity was turned off after a couple of seconds. Researchers found that those who received the electrical stimulation improved, compared to those who had just had the traditional rehab treatment. The biggest improvements were seen in those patients who had received stimulation for the longest times and these advances were still seen even after their rehabilitation sessions had finished. "This study is an important step toward larger trials to test the effectiveness of non-invasive, electrical brain stimulation to improve the motor recovery of stroke survivors and support their rehabilitation after stroke," said Dr Shamim Quadir of the Stroke Association. Participants also had their brains scanned as part of the study and the team found that those who were given electrical therapy showed increased levels of activity in regions of the brain related to movement. Although how well a participant fared was connected to the severity of the stroke, the researchers found that many people who had received the electrical treatment found it easier to move their arms and complete everyday tasks. Find the nearest Barchester nursing home.

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Efficient resource management for end-to-end QoS guarantees in DiffServ networks Spiridon Bakiras, Victor O.K. Li The Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture has been proposed as a scalable solution for delivering end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees over the Internet. While the scalability of the data plane emerges from the definition of only a small number of different service classes, the issue of a scalable control plane is still an open research problem. The initial proposal was to use a centralized agent, called Bandwidth Broker (BB), to manage the resources within each DiffServ domain and make local admission control decisions. In this paper, we propose an alternative distributed approach, where the local admission decisions are made independently at the edge routers of each domain. We will show, through simulation results, that this distributed approach can manage the network resources very efficiently, leading to lower bandwidth blocking rates when compared to traditional shortest path admission control. Moreover, its simplicity and distributed implementation make it a very scalable solution for resource management in DiffServ networks. IEEE International Conference on Communications Bakiras, S., & Li, V. O. K. (2002). Efficient resource management for end-to-end QoS guarantees in DiffServ networks. IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2, 1220-1224. Efficient resource management for end-to-end QoS guarantees in DiffServ networks. / Bakiras, Spiridon; Li, Victor O.K. In: IEEE International Conference on Communications, Vol. 2, 2002, p. 1220-1224. Bakiras, S & Li, VOK 2002, 'Efficient resource management for end-to-end QoS guarantees in DiffServ networks', IEEE International Conference on Communications, vol. 2, pp. 1220-1224. Bakiras S, Li VOK. Efficient resource management for end-to-end QoS guarantees in DiffServ networks. IEEE International Conference on Communications. 2002;2:1220-1224. Bakiras, Spiridon ; Li, Victor O.K. / Efficient resource management for end-to-end QoS guarantees in DiffServ networks. In: IEEE International Conference on Communications. 2002 ; Vol. 2. pp. 1220-1224. @article{26d8b76633be46e584db04b6849719f8, title = "Efficient resource management for end-to-end QoS guarantees in DiffServ networks", abstract = "The Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture has been proposed as a scalable solution for delivering end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees over the Internet. While the scalability of the data plane emerges from the definition of only a small number of different service classes, the issue of a scalable control plane is still an open research problem. 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Director, Active Materials and Dynamic Systems Lab. - 2018 KAIST Academic Award (KAIST), 2018.02.12. - 2014 Innovation Award in Energy Technology (에너지기술혁신대상, KETEP), 28 August 2014. - Selected as 2014' TOP 15 Fusion Technology (KIST Convergence Research Policy Center). - Best Paper Award, Study on Water Floatable Artificial Muscles with Hydrophobic and Liquid-impermeable Garphene Paper Electrodes, BAMN2013 The 7th World Congress on Biomimetics, Artifical Muscles and Nano-Bio, Jeju Island, Korea, 2013.08.26-30. - Best Paper Award, Bio-inspired Three Dimensional Carbon Nanostructures for High Performance Lithium Ion Battery, BAMN2013 The 7th World Congress on Biomimetics, Artifical Muscles and Nano-Bio, Jeju Island, Korea, 2013.08.26-30. Rassoul Tabassian, Jung-Hwan Oh, Sooyeun Kim, Donggyu Kim, Seunghwa Ryu, Seung-Min Cho, Nikhil Koratkar, and Il-Kwon Oh*, "Graphene-coated meshes for electroactive flow control devices utilizing two antagonistic functions of repellency and permeability", Nature Communications (IF=11.329), Vol. 7, Oct. 31,2016, pp.13345. Hyun-Jun Kim, Jae-Hwan Kim, Ki-Woo Jun, Jong-Hun Kim, Wan-Chul Seung, Oh Hyeong Kwon, Jeong-Young Park, Sang-Woo Kim and Il-Kwon Oh*,"Silk Nanofiber-Networked Bio-Triboelectric Generator: Silk Bio-TEG", Advanced Energy Materials, 18 JAN 2016, DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201502329. J.H. Jeon, R. Kumar, C.D. Kee* and I.K. Oh*, "Dry-type Artificial Muscles Based on Pendent Sulfonated Chitosan and Functionalized Graphene Oxide for Greatly Enhanced Ionic Interactions and Mechanical Stiffness", Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 23, 2013, pp. 6007-6018. [Plenary Lecture] I.K. Oh, "Recent Progress on Ionic Soft Actuators and Their Future Applications" BAMN2019, (Maine, USA), International Congress on Biomimetics, Artificial Muscles and Nano-Bio, September 8-11, 2019. [Invited Talk], J. Oh, J.S. Kim, I.K.Oh, "Graphene Oxide-based Sound Absorber" 2019 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE, (Denver, USA), 2019, March 6. [Keynote Lecture] I.K. Oh, "Ionic Soft Actuators Based on Nano-Carbons" ISFSE2018 (HUST, China), The 4th International Symposium of Flexible and Stretchable Electronics 2018, June 28. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Morphological Control of Touch Surfaces Based on Soft Elastomer Actuators" IMID2018 (BEXCO, Korea), The 18th International Meeting on Information Display, 2018, August 29. [Keynote Lecture] I.K. Oh, "Graphene-based Soft Actuators and Devices", International Seminar for Special Doctoral Program "Green Energy Conversion Science and Technology", August 31~September 2, 2016. Yatsugatake, Yamanashi, Japan. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Graphene-based 3D Carbon Nanostructures for Electro-Active Polymers" 2014 International Union of Materials Research Societies-The IUMRS International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA 2014), August 24-30, 2014. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "2D Graphene and BN Quantum Dots" The 7th World Congress on Particle Technology (WCPT7 2014), May 19-22, 2014. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Three-Dimensional Carbon Nanostructures for Energy Storage Systems" 2013 International Conference on Small Science, Dec. 15-18, 2013, Las Vegas, USA. [Keynote Lecture] I.K. Oh, "Graphene-based Nano-materials and Their Applications to Artificial Muscles", APCOM&ISCM 2013, 5th Asia Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics & 4th International Symposium on Computational Mechanics, 2013.12.11-14, Singapore. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, D. Lee, B. J. Kwon, C. Jo and K.C. Park , "Tunable bandgap in active acoustic metamaterials controlled with electric shunt circuits", ASEM13, Jeju Island, 2013.09.08-11, Korea. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Graphene-based Bio-Electronic Soft Actuators" Soft Sensors and Actuators, 추계고분자학회(PSK), 대구, 2015.10.08. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Fundamentals of Graphene Nanomaterials and Their Applications: Composite Structures, Energy Storage, Surfaces and Actuators" Agency for Defense Development(국방과학연구소, 대전), 2015.10.30. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Graphene-based Programmable Materials and Actuators" 융합재료과학분과 연세대학교, 서울, 2015.11.19. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "그래핀 기반 나노구조체 합성 및 이의 공학적 응용" 인하대학교 기계공학과, 인천, 2015.11.23. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Bio-Inspired Graphene Composites for Energy Storage, Surfaces and Actuators" 한국화학연구원, 대전, 2015.09.15. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh "Bio-Inspired Graphene Composites (Energy, Hydrophobicity, Actuator)" 창원대학교, 창원, 2015.04.10. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Bio-Inspired Graphene Composites & Applications" 전북대학교, 전주, 2015.4.8. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Bio-Inspired Graphene Composites" 대우조선해양, 서울, 2015.1.30. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Graphene-Based Soft Actuators: Artificial Muscles" Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, 2014.09.23. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Grpahene Hybrid Materials for Energy Storage and Actuator Devices" 한국원자력연구원, 대전, 2014.08.14. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "3차원 카본 나노 소재의 합성 및 응용" 서울대학교, 기계항공공학부, 2014.03.21. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Application of Transfer Path Analysis for Source Identification and Vibration Estimation" LG Electronics, Changwon, Korea, 2013.05.03. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Introduction to SDSS Laboratory and Recent Progress on Graphene and EAPs" HYUNDAI Heavy Industry Research Center (현대중공업 중앙연구소), 2013.04.18. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "2D Acoustic Cloak and Active Wave Control Structure Based on Acoustic Metamaterials" Underwater Stealth Workshop, organized by Agency for Defense Development (ADD, 국방과학연구소), Jinhae, Korea, 2013.05.30. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Graphene-Based 3D Carbon Nanostructures and Their Applications" 2013 Korean Society for Composite Materials (KSCM), Spring Meeting, Seoul National University, Korea, 2013.05.23. [Keynote Lecture] I.K. Oh, "Graphene-Based Nano-Composite Actuators" 2013 The Polymer Society of Korea (PSK, 한국고분자학회), Annual Spring Conference, 2013.04.11~12. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Graphene-Based Hybrid Nanostructures and Their Applications" Hanyang University Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul, Korea, 2012.10.10. [Invited Talk] I.K. Oh, "Introduction to Novel Electro-Active Polymer Actuators" 2008 The Polymer Society of Korea (PSK, 한국고분자학회), Annual Autumn Conference, 2008.10.09~10. Congress Chair, AMSM2019 The 4th International Workshop on Active Materials and Soft Mechatronics, Incheon, South Korea, 2019. Oct. 16-19. Symposium Co-Chair, SPIE 2019 Smart Structures/NDE, Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems, Denver USA, March 3-7, 2019. Congress Co-Chair, The 10th World Congress on Biomimetics, Artificial Muscles and Nano-Bio, Maine, USA, 2019, Sept. 8-11. Congress Chair, AMSM2018 The 3rd International Workshop on Active Materials and Soft Mechatronics, KAIST, South Korea, 2018. Oct. 23-26. Congress Chair, BAMN2013 The 7th World Congress on Biomimetics, Artifical Muscles and Nano-Bio, Jeju Island, Korea, 2013.08.26-30. - "2010 미래혁신 선도교육 & 혁신 CEO," 스포츠 조선, 29/1/2010. - "2009년 한국을 이끄는 혁신리더," 뉴스메이커, 1/10/2009. - "세계적인 연구기관으로 도약할 수 있는 기반 조성"시사매거진, 9/9/2009.

General Prohibition No. 3: Foreign-Produced Direct Product Rule § 736.2(b)(3) of the EAR (A) Foreign-produced direct products of U.S.-origin non-"600 series" and non-9x515 "technology" or "software," OR produced by a foreign manufacturing plant or major-component of a plant (made from U.S.-origin non-"600 series" and non-9x515 "technology" or "software") are subject to the EAR and may require a license or license exception for export from abroad if all of the following apply: (1) 1) The U.S.-origin "technology" or "software" requires a written assurance as a supporting document for a license as defined in paragraph (o)(3)(i) of Supplement No. 2 to part 748, or as a precondition for use of License Exception TSR in § 740.6 or the EAR (Generally, this means the US technology/software is controlled for NS reasons); (2) 2) The foreign-produced direct product is subject to national security (NS) controls as designated in the ECCN on the CCL (Supp. No. 1 to part 774 of the EAR), i.e., NS is listed in the reason for control paragraph of the ECCN; and (3) 3) The foreign-produced direct product is destined to a destination listed in Country Group D:1, E:1 or E:2 (Supp. No. 1 to part 740 of the EAR). (B) Foreign-produced direct product is produced from U.S. "600 series" or 9x515 "technology" or "software," OR produced by a foreign-produced manufacturing plant or major component of a plant (made from U.S.-origin "600 series" or 9x515 "technology" or "software") are subject to the EAR and may require a license or license exception to export from abroad if all of the following apply: (1) 1) The foreign-produced direct product of "600 series" or 9x515 U.S.-origin "technology" or "software;" (2) 2) The foreign-produced direct product is specified in a "600 series" or 9x515 ECCN of the CCL (Supp. No. 1 to part 774 of the EAR); and (3) 3) Either or both of the following are true: (a) a) For "600 series" foreign-produced direct products, the destination is listed in Country Group D:1, D:3, D:4, D:5, E:1 or E:2 (Supp. No. 1 to part 740 of the EAR); or (b) b) For 9x515 foreign-produced direct products, the destination is listed in Country Group D:5, E:1 or E:2 (Supp. No. 1 to part 740 of the EAR). NOTE 1: "600 series" or 9x515 foreign-produced direct products of U.S.-origin "technology" or "software" subject to GP3 do not require a license for export from abroad to the new destination unless the new destination would have been prohibited or made subject to a license requirement or prohibition by part 742, 744, 746, or 764 of the EAR. NOTE 2: This guidance does not address items classified as ECCN 0A919. Please see that ECCN entry in the Commerce Control List for guidance. NOTE 3: As specified in Note to paragraph (a)(1) and (a)(2) of License Exception ENC in § 740.17, all items produced or developed with items exported, reexported, or transferred (in-country) under paragraphs (a)(1) or (a)(2) of § 740.17 are subject to the EAR. These items may require the submission of a classification request before sale, reexport or transfer to non‑"U.S. subsidiaries," unless otherwise authorized by license or license exception. (C) Entity List Foreign-Produced Direct Product Rule of August 17, 2020 (see footnote 1 to Supp. No. 4 to part 744 and § 736.2(b)(3)(vi) of the EAR) Foreign-produced items are subject to the EAR if either of the follow applies: (a) When it is a direct product of "technology" or "software" that is: Subject to the EAR; and Specified in Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) 3D001, 3D991, 3E001, 3E002, 3E003, 3E991, 4D001, 4D993, 4D994, 4E001, 4E992, 4E993, 5D001, 5D991, 5E001, or 5E991 of the Commerce Control List (CCL) in supplement no. 1 to part 774 of the EAR. (b) When it is produced by any plant or major component of a plant that is: Located outside the United States; Made in either the U.S. or a foreign country; and Is a direct product of U.S.-origin "technology" or "software" subject to the EAR that is specified in ECCN 3D001, 3D991, 3E001, 3E002, 3E003, 3E991, 4D001, 4D993, 4D994, 4E001, 4E992, 4E993, 5D001, 5D991, 5E001, or 5E991 of the CCL. Clarifying Notes. A major component of a plant located outside the United States means equipment that is essential to the "production" of an item, including testing equipment. A foreign-produced item includes any foreign-produced wafer whether finished or unfinished. License Requirement. Foreign-produced direct products that are subject to the EAR based on the criteria in (C) above, require a license or license exception when you have "knowledge" that: The foreign-produced item will be incorporated into, or will be used in the "production" or "development" of any "part," "component," or "equipment" produced, purchased, or ordered by any entity with a footnote 1 designation in the license requirement column of the Entity List (Supplement No. 4 to part 744 of the EAR); or Any entity with a footnote 1 designation in the license requirement column of the Entity List is a party to any transaction involving the foreign-produced item, e.g., as a "purchaser," "intermediate consignee," "ultimate consignee," or "end user." License Review Policy. Note to introductory paragraph of footnote 1 to sup. no. 4 to part 744: Sophistication and capabilities of technology in items is a factor in license application review; license applications for foreign-produced items controlled by this footnote that are capable of supporting the "development" or "production" of telecom systems, equipment and devices at only below the 5G level (e.g., 4G, 3G, etc.) will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. All other license applications will be reviewed using the license review policy in the license requirement column of the Entity List for each footnote 1 designated entity, which is presumption of denial.

If you really want a slice of raw goodness, Michael Kelly has just the recipe, but he is warming up this autumn to the comfort of hot dishes. Poll: Are you ready to embrace the cold weather? It's not like you have a choice. The Ireland head coach is heading home to New Zealand for a few weeks of rest. But (once the fog clears) we'll have some very nice weather indeed at the weekend. Ireland, are you well? 'Cause you're looking well. Nothing better than a nature walk. There are no pictures of scary spiders in this article, we promise. Fear the deniers no more! Will we turn on the heat? The much hyped-drink is now on sale in Irish stores – we tried it out. There's a distinct chill in the air. So, we're gaining an hour? Right? Guys? Right? Get out there and jump in some leaves. So far this year, 18 people have been poisoned. It's happening, but it's normal. We're WELL into autumn now. Joe Schmidt's side will face South Africa and Georgia before finishing against Australia. They say it's the "railway's least favourite season". The images you sent in were so good that we decided to show some more. The council said that while "we can't change the position of the sun", there are steps you can take to prepare yourself for driving against the autumn glare. In Pictures: Are you enjoying the change of season? The summer is over and the autumn is here. Don't be too glum. As the country experiences a change from the unseasonably warm conditions of the last week, Met Éireann says that an 'Indian Summer' is not something they can measure. Come on. Let's face this together.

Haunted Houses in Tallahassee, Florida Lynn Klein, Leaf Group Updated March 15, 2018 Haunted Houses in Tallahassee, Florida (Photo: ) Haunted Attractions in Upstate New York Haunted Houses Near Baltimore, Maryland Halloween Activities and Haunted Houses in Colonial Williamsburg, VA Haunted Houses Near Lawrenceville, Georgia Whether it's Halloween time or just a regular evening that begs for some frightening fun, Tallahassee can provide a good scare through a variety of adult and family-friendly activities. From Northern Florida's largest seasonal haunted house filled with gruesome characters to lighthearted ghost tours offered year-round in Tallahassee and historic neighboring town Monticello, there are many opportunities to have a spirited adventure in Florida's capital. Terror of Tallahassee Brave visitors to the Terror of Tallahassee (terroroftallahassee.com) haunted house are ushered through a 20,000-square-foot building on a tour that lasts 30 to 40 minutes. Along the way, thrill-seekers are confronted by butchers, clowns, executioners, mad professors and many more monsters. At the time of publication, this is Northern Florida's largest haunted house. It has been open around Halloween in a variety of Tallahassee locations since 1999. Ghost Walking Tours Ghost walking tours are held on multiple dates leading up to Halloween, and animated guides in ghoulish costumes lead guests through the old neighborhoods of downtown Tallahassee (toursintallahassee.com). The tour, which lasts 45 minutes, stops at legendary haunted houses in the area, where actors portray ghosts from the past and tell their versions of sordid history. The tour often is funny and is family friendly. Haunted Sights Tallahassee has a number of allegedly haunted houses and sights that can be visited independently. This includes the Old City Cemetery on North Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, which contains many 19th century graves, including the resting place of an alleged witch named Elizabeth Budd Graham, according to HauntedFlorida.com. Downtown Tallahassee's Lively Building is another spooky locale that used to be home to a rough, late 19th century watering hole called The Leon Bar. Rumor holds that former cowboy customers still haunt the building, located at the corner of Monroe Street and College Avenue. Historic Monticello Ghost Tours Paranormal enthusiasts from Big Bend Ghost Trackers estimate that one out of every three homes and businesses in Monticello, Florida, has been or is currently haunted by spirits like abandoned brides and eccentric doctors. Guides tell the tales of these spirits on Historic Monticello Ghost Tours, located about 25 miles east of Tennessee. In addition to the 90-minute tour that stops at numerous haunted houses, the tour company offers a 75-minute ghost hunt and cemetery tour in Monticello. Haunted Florida: Real Florida Haunts Big Bend Ghost Trackers: Historic Monticello Ghost Tours Visit Tallahassee Based in Budapest, Lynn Klein began writing professionally in 2007. Her first job was as a business and culture reporter at a midsized daily newspaper in Colorado and her freelance articles have appeared in "The Marquee," "American Cowboy" and "Denver Life." She holds a Bachelor of Science in journalism from the University of Colorado. Attribution: Urbantallahassee; License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license Attribution: SeminoleNation; License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license Attribution: Urbantallahassee; License: GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 Attribution: Tim Ross; License: public domain Klein, Lynn. "Haunted Houses in Tallahassee, Florida." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/haunted-houses-tallahassee-florida-59565.html. 15 March 2018. Klein, Lynn. (2018, March 15). Haunted Houses in Tallahassee, Florida. Travel Tips - USA Today. Retrieved from https://traveltips.usatoday.com/haunted-houses-tallahassee-florida-59565.html Klein, Lynn. 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Q: ngModel does not work on modal page in Ionic 6 I am developing an Ionic/Angular app and wanted to use ngModel as alwayls. I am opening a modal from a modal and then want to use it like: <ion-list> <ion-item> <ion-label position="stacked">Name des Rezepts</ion-label> <ion-input [(ngModel)]="model" ></ion-input> </ion-item> </ion-list> <ion-button (click)="save()">Save</ion-button> i declared the variable in typescript like: public model=""; But when i click save, my output IS ALWAYS the empty string?! I imported ReactiveFormsModule in my app.module.ts and on normal pages it works, but in modals it seems like that it does not work?! Do you guys have any ideas? Thank you! A: You take a look at this example ( same as yours ) https://stackblitz.com/edit/ionic-angular-v5-mqyzyh?file=src%2Fapp%2Fapp.component.html it works as expected. So check your imports in your module ( but without modules you'll get an error anyway ). Out of topic, you don't need 2 way binding. You're updating the value from the input ( at least in this example ).

Thomas Chippendale and Ornament – Tom Cookson Design for an architect's table (previously attributed to Thomas Chippendale), c. 1720 – 1780. Pen and ink on laid paper, 184 × 197 mm. DMC 3200. '[Ornament] omitted at pleasure,' wrote Thomas Chippendale in a guide to his revolutionary The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director, the first furniture pattern book of its kind. Although initially considered an advertising tool, it quickly became an invaluable manual for craftsmen, with its clear dimensions and rigorously proportioned pieces open to adjustment and interpretation. The first three editions of the Director in 1754, 55, and 62 revels in Rococo exuberance, beginning with the reign of Louis XIV and shifting whimsically between French, Gothic and Chinese inflections. The ornament typical during this time: gilding, scroll and shell work, often served to camouflage the furniture within a similarly fanciful interior. Both object and interior were adorned in a fiercely ornate layer, like a petrified coastline after a shipwreck. The 1770s saw this ebullient asymmetry subside, with shallower relief and simpler forms characterising Chippendale's neoclassical collaborations with Robert Adam. And yet it is Chippendale's beginnings that resonate most directly with his invocation to omit ornament. His father, a joiner in Yorkshire, most likely made simple, sturdy pieces, and taught his son the essentials of his trade. As the tides of fashion washed over the fundamental forms and eventually slipped away, the essence of these objects was preserved beneath. It is this enduring quality which the Architect's Table holds, clever in a quiet way, instrument-like, inviting a variety of occupations. The ornament in this desk lies in the slender line defining the split in the front two legs, the careful arrangement of framed compartments, and the crisp timber border giving way to forgiving green cloth. The drawing itself is also richly ornamented in its gentle shadows and exuberant notations. Ultimately Chippendale's comment speaks to a question that resonates down the ages: if ornament can be omitted at pleasure, then wherein lies its value? Tom is an Associate in Hall McKnight's London office and a Unit Leader at the Welsh School of Architecture. This text was entered into the 2020 Drawing Matter Writing Prize. Click here to read the winning texts and more writing that was particularly enjoyed by the prize judges. Related reading... Surface-oriented – Rosa Nussbaum Six Architects on their Dream Desks – Roz Barr, Biba Dow, Elizabeth Hatz, Emma Letizia Jones, Stephanie Macdonald and Helen Thomas project & building histories furniture & object design drawing matter writing prize 2020

As you are aware, the Plan provides the NHS with an additional £20.5 billion by 2023/24. This is the largest, longest funding settlement in the history of the NHS, helping to secure its long term future. I warmly welcome it and hope you agree that it demonstrates the Government's commitment to properly funding our NHS and public services. The Government asked the NHS to draw up the Plan, focusing on cutting waste and ensuring every penny is well spent. At its heart is the notion that prevention is better than cure, marking a clear shift towards our health service promoting good health not just curing illness, while helping to place it on a sustainable footing for the long term. That's why the biggest uplift in spending will be an extra £4.5 billion for primary medical and community health services. On top of this, the Long Term Plan commits to improving detection, with more targeted screening and Rapid Access Diagnostic Centres, so that in 10 years' time these measures will help achieve 55,000 more people surviving cancer each year, and 100,000 heart attacks, strokes and dementia cases being prevented. Not only is the Government increasing NHS investment by over £20 billion in real terms over the coming five years, it is making progress on reforms which will reduce waiting times and alleviate pressures on the NHS. Through the Long Term Plan, the local NHS is being given enough money to grow the amount of planned surgery year-on-year, to cut long waits, and reduce the waiting list. The ability of patients to choose where they have their treatment remains a powerful tool for delivering improved waiting times and patient experiences of care. The NHS will continue to provide patients with a wide choice of options for quick elective care, including making use of available Independent Sector capacity. These steps come alongside measures to offer patients the choice of quick telephone or online consultations, saving time waiting and travelling. In addition, the Government's investment of £3.6 billion in the Better Care Fund, the NHS's continuing implementation of its own plan for the future (the Five Year Forward View), and the proper integration of health and social care over the next three years will be of huge benefit to the NHS and patients alike. Excellent progress is being made - compared to five years ago, nearly half a million more people are treated within 18 weeks of referral. I am proud of the Government's recent record on the NHS - despite difficult financial circumstances, NHS investment has increased every year since 2010 and I believe this new investment will help to secure the NHS for the future. The NHS is never far away from news headlines or politics, and the topic is emotive, and the fear of change is high. Any criticism of the NHS is deemed an 'attack', and people often feel forced to choose either to defend it as a matter of principle, or be labelled a political opponent.

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Home » Campus News » Why I attempted to commit suicide: Student leader speaks from hospital Why I attempted to commit suicide: Student leader speaks from hospital Last updated on: March 30, 2020 by Elvis Nyakangi Leave a Comment Edgar Agonya (Photo/file) A day after he attempted to commit suicide, Edgar Agonya the chair of University of Edoret student organization has spoken to Kenyayote and revealed about the life challenges that drove him to take such action. After being elected as the student organization chair, Edgar took on the road to fight injustice in the institution. He stood up to defend student's right which put him in a collision with the management. He was later suspended from the University for no Clear Reasons. He therefore resorted to find a way to be allowed to continue with his studies. He visited The Human Rights Commission, County Education ministry and The Office of the Ombudsman for help which did not bear any fruits. All avenues of seeking justice were exhausted. He therefore resorted to commit suicide. And before attempting to commit suicide he drafted a suicide note that has been circulating on social media which reflects what he was going through (read it here). Edgar Agonya was however rescued and taken to hospital. He will be discharged tomorrow (October 6th 2016). University of Eldoret has in several occasions been accused of suspending student leaders who attempt to criticize the management against student injustice. Leaders, who a good number are former student leaders strongly condemned the University's administration who almost costed a life of young and upcoming leader. "I clearly understand what The Chairman may have gone through to lead him to that path. The pressure that comes with fighting for justice as a student leader is immense and can lead to adverse decisions. I however wish Edgar quick recovery and strength through this tough moment. The University should allow him resume his studies with an immediate effect" Said Kipsaro Boit who is also a former Chairman of MOI University Students Organisation Category: Campus News

The National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA) National Finals Week coincides with the National Music Week celebrations on the last week of November. To be held on November 21-26, 2017, the Cultural Center of the Philippines shall welcome young artists, musicians, trainors, and teachers who have reached the finals level in a nationwide competition that started early this year. Six ensembles presenting their region's local traditions will also be presented in the Traditional Music Concert.

Non-smoking apartment (about 90 m²) on the ground floor of a brick house with wild wine with room for 4 people and a toddler up to 3 years (cot and high chair included) a 1000 m² plot in the immediate vicinity of the Müritz (300 m). In the bedroom one has a double bed and a wardrobe and a reading group with two chairs and a small table, on request, in addition a cot (up to 15 kg). The second bedroom has two single beds and a wardrobe. The bathroom has a shower and toilet. The kitchen is fully equipped with utensils for 6 persons, induction cooker 4x, oven, refrigerator, microwave, coffee maker, kettle, toaster, radio, bread slicer, mixer ... .In the living room with dining area is a large dining table for six people. In the living area with a romantic fireplace is a cozy sofa corner to Klönen and relax, but also to watch news with the large flat-screen TV. Other: Wi-Fi (inclusive), various board games and books, brochures for the environment, lockable shelter for bicycles, a wagon, washing machine (coin operated 2 € / wash) in separate arbor, parking. When booking a towel package this includes: 1 bath towel, 2 normal towels, 1 small towel. Tea towel and shower mat are included. Welcome to your holiday home in Rechlin Nord, quiet area between Müritz (300 m) and Claassee (300 m). The family-friendly Non smoking apartments are located in a separate building - here you can make undisturbed holiday. In the large garden children can romp carefree while you enjoy life in their own seating area with grill. To the sandy beach at the Müritz is only 300 m - for the picnic transport to the beach is a cart ready. The unique Müritz National Park is ideal for cycling, hiking and unforgettable experience of nature. Die Ferienwohnung entsprach genau der Beschreibung und ist toll ausgestattet. Schöne und komfortable Ferienwohnung, alles da, was zu einem erholsamen Urlaub beiträgt. Sehr schöne und geräumige Ferienwohnung, ruhig gelegen! Sehr schöne und geräumige Ferienwohnung, ruhig gelegen! Man wird nicht gestört und stört auch selbst niemanden - perfekt mit kleinen Kindern! Die Wohnung ist schön eingerichtet und funktional ausgestattet. Zu einer Wasserstelle an der Müritz geht man nur zwei Mal um die Ecke. Zudem war noch eine Badestelle ausgeschildert, an der wir allerdings nicht waren - der Weg war etwas weiter. Die Vermieter sind sehr nett, allerdings habe ich leider die E-Mail im Vorfeld nicht erhalten, in der der Kontakt stand, um die Anreise und Schlüsselübergabe abzustimmen. Diese ist weder im Posteingang noch in den Junk Mails aufgetaucht. Ein Anruf unter der angegebenen Nummer hat das Problem aber schnell gelöst und wir kamen innerhalb von 10 Minuten in die Wohnung. Insgesamt sehr schön und zu empfehlen! Your vacation home is situated in Rechlin-Nord, a place with a quiet, rural character with no through traffic. To the sandy beach at the Müritz it from the apartment Zilpzalp of 300 meters. The unique Müritz National Park is ideal for cycling, hiking and unforgettable experience of nature. Paddlers can only 300 meters Portage of Property to the launching is directly of the Müritz on the Bolter lock in the incredibly varied and motorboat-free in much of paddle area of ​​the Mecklenburg small lakes, the "Land of 1000 Lakes" plunge while sailing and motor boat captains of Marina can take from the trip to the Müritz and Mecklenburg Great lakes in Claassee. And for the technophiles nature lovers: Rechlin-Nord has a checkered history - marked by aeronautics and impressively documented in the aeronautical Museum.Über the well-built cycle paths and footpaths can be reached in about 3 km Rechlin center where all the shops for daily consumption are like supermarkets, bakers, hobby market, pharmacy, doctor, bank and others. There are also another marina with boat rentals, rowing and paddle boat rentals, bike rentals, restaurants, fishing permits issue and the river port. And with the steamer - or sporty bike or easily accessible by car - one occurs, for example to Röbel with the Müritz Therme or goods with the exciting and informative Müritzeum after Mirow Castle Island, or, or, or ... .. Fancy a walk on the Baltic Sea beach or a stroll across the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin? No problem, of Rechlin Nord, a day trip!

Q: How to fetch Github workflows yaml files using Github Actions API I am following this documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/actions#list-repository-workflows /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/workflows My sample output looks like this: { "total_count": 1, "workflows": [ { "id": 161335, "node_id": "MDg6V29ya2Zsb3cxNjEzMzU=", "name": "CI", "path": ".github/workflows/blank.yaml", "state": "active", "created_at": "2020-01-08T23:48:37.000-08:00", "updated_at": "2020-01-08T23:50:21.000-08:00", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/octo-repo/actions/workflows/161335", "html_url": "https://github.com/octo-org/octo-repo/blob/master/.github/workflows/161335", "badge_url": "https://github.com/octo-org/octo-repo/workflows/CI/badge.svg" } ] } How do I fetch the workflow yaml file from this output A: Given the filename, use the Get repository content API to fetch the file. For your file, that'd be: curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \ https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/octo-repo/contents/.github/workflows/blank.yaml The response JSON will contain a field content, which contains the encoded contents of that workflow. A: Workflow yaml file in plain text: curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/octo-org/octo-repo/master/.github/workflows/blank.yaml

Gazpacho is a flavorful, chilled soup made primarily from ripe tomatoes that is perfect to enjoy on warm summer days. Though the recipe is simple, creating really good gazpacho requires getting a few details right. First, perfectly ripe, in-season tomatoes are a must. Then, take care to not add too much garlic, as it will easily overwhelm the flavors of the finished gazpacho. Good sherry vinegar is also important, which is added to balance the acidity. Finally, a great gazpacho contains a lot more olive oil than most people outside of Spain are used to. Once you've got the other ingredients blended, you're going to add enough olive oil to increase the total volume of the soup by ¼ or more. Many items are traditionally used to garnish gazpacho, including but not limited to: chopped tomato, cucumber and pepper; toasted croutons; fresh herbs; chopped hard cooked egg; anchovy, ham or tuna. Add all ingredients except the olive oil to a blender and puree until smooth. Add enough olive oil to increase the total volume of the soup by about 1/4, and blend. Taste and season with salt and Sherry vinegar until the flavor is bright, rich, and balanced. Strain trough a fine mesh strainer. Refrigerate for one or two hours. If you make gazpacho ahead of time and keep it in the refrigerator, it will separate. Just shake it up before serving.

The makers of the Bringrr claim that it will work with any Bluetooth-enabled phone, and any vehicle with an outlet. No additional software on your phone, or anything else, is required. However it won't work with a phone that doesn't allow dual pairing, if a hands-free device is already being used with that phone. An upcoming firmware upgrade should address that limitation. If you're already using your vehicle's outlet to charge your phone, you can also buy a Bringrr Charge, that combines a Bringrr with a cell phone charger. There are already products called phone leashes, which are Bluetooth key fobs that pair with your phone, and let you know when the two are separated. The Bringrr folks point out that unlike their product, phone leashes need to be recharged, and require you to always keep your phone with your keys. Of course, it could also be pointed out that a Bringrr will only keep you from driving away without your phone - if you walk, bike or take the bus, it's not going to do you much good. The Bringrr will be available via the company website as of mid-July for US$34.99. The Bringrr Charge will go for $44.99.

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Aurora 10-year-old takes her own life after suspected bullying incident caught on camera 11/30/2017 7:16 am PST KDVR Ashawnty Davis By Ashley Michels, KDVR AURORA, Colo. -- (KDVR) -- An Aurora couple are dealing with an unimaginable loss as they prepare to lay their 10-year-old daughter to rest. "She was just a child of joy and she brought joy to everyone," her father Anthony Davis said. Ashawnty Davis was a fifth-grader at Sunrise Elementary School in Aurora. She had a passion for basketball and wanted to grow up to be a WNBA star. But her parents say something changed in the happy little girl at the end of October when she was involved in a fight after school on Sunrise Elementary property. "She got into her first ever fight. It was recorded by a student and sent to an app called Musical.ly," Davis said. In the video, Ashawnty and another girl are seen fighting, while a group of kids watched. According to Ashawnty's mother, her daughter confronted the girl, who she claims had been bullying her. "I saw my daughter was scared," said Latoshia Harris, Ashawnty's mother. While the video is difficult to watch, her parents believe it's important to see. "She was devastated when she found out that it had made it to Musical.ly," Davis said. The parents say the bullying she endured after the video surfaced was too much for the 10-year-old to handle. "My daughter came home two weeks later and hanged herself in the closet," Harris said. Ashawnty spent nearly two weeks at Children's Hospital Colorado on life support before dying Wednesday morning. "It's just devastating," her father said. FULL STORY: Aurora 10-year-old takes her own life after suspected bullying incident caught on camera - KDVR #Colorado #KDVR

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Tag Archives: London Steampunk Series Dukes Are Forever (London Steampunk: Blue Bloood Conspiracy #5) by Bec McMaster ≈ Comments Off on Dukes Are Forever (London Steampunk: Blue Bloood Conspiracy #5) by Bec McMaster Bec McMaster, London Steampunk Series Dukes Are Forever (London Steampunk: The Blue Blood Conspiracy #5) by Bec McMaster Synopsis: A compromising situation forced him into marriage. But has his wife been working for the enemy all along? In a steam-fuelled world where vampires once ruled the aristocracy, the Duke of Malloryn knows his nemesis, Lord Balfour, has finally returned to enact his plans of revenge. Malloryn can trust no one, and when incriminating photographs surface—of an enemy agent stealing a kiss from his wife—he is forced to question just why his wife, Adele, trapped him into marriage. Is she an innocent pawn caught up in a madman's games, or is she a double agent working against him? The only way to discover the truth is to seduce her himself… Adele Hamilton may have agreed to a loveless marriage in order to protect herself, but that doesn't stop her heart from yearning for more. Her husband promised her a cold marriage bed. He swore he'd never touch her. But suddenly he's engaged in a campaign of seduction—and the only way to keep her wits about her is to fight fire with fire. The ruthless beauty has locked her heart away, but can she deny the passion that flares between them? And when the truth emerges, will she be the only thing that can save Malloryn's life? Or the weapon his enemy will wield against him? Review: OMG!! Such an awesome conclusion to an awesome series. It was perfect. It was priceless. It was romantic and passionate. It was full of action and suspense, and the whole crew played a role in the finale. Loved. Every. Second. I almost don't want to write a review because I don't want to ruin anything; if you have been following along in the London Steampunk world. If you haven't, where have you been and you need to go and read Kiss of Steel. The series is definitely in my top 5 all time favorite series. Malloryn and Adele are great and the way everything comes together was just plain perfect. I highly recommend the series if you like strong characters, interesting and complex plots and setting, passionate love stories, and Steampunk. (And if you don't like Steampunk or never heard of it, then start with this series… it is where I was introduced to the genre and it is just awesome). Ok, I'm done, not going to say anything about the plot and conflict and the build up of the relationship because I want to leave it for you all to discover and fall in love with. Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes and Nobles | Pinterest To Catch A Rogue (London Steampunk: The Blue Blood Conspiracy #4) by Bec McMaster Posted by BookAddict in Historical Romance, Paranormal Romance ≈ Comments Off on To Catch A Rogue (London Steampunk: The Blue Blood Conspiracy #4) by Bec McMaster Synopsis: An impossible heist. A thief and a rogue. But will she steal his heart, instead? The Company of Rogues finally knows the identity of the mastermind behind a plot against the queen—but their enemy is still one step ahead of them. When he kidnaps one of theirs, the Rogues plan a daring rescue mission that will lead them into the heart of the bloodthirsty Crimson Court. It's a job for a master thief, and there's nothing Charlie Todd likes more than a challenge. To pull off the impossible, Charlie needs a crew, including the only thief who's ever been able to outfox him. He broke her heart. But now she must risk it all to save his life… Lark's spent years trying to forget her past, but the one thing she can't ignore is the way a single smile from Charlie still sets her heart on fire. When he proposes they work together again, it feels just like old times, but she has one rule: this is strictly business. It's Charlie's last chance to prove he can be trusted with her heart. But Lark's keeping a deadly secret. And as passions are stirred and the stakes mount, it might be the kind of secret that could destroy them all… Ocean's 11 meets Dracula, in this sexy paranormal heist by USA Today Bestselling Author, Bec McMaster. If you like sexy paranormal romances, steampunk shenanigans, and plenty of action-adventure (vampires, dirigible flights, and steamy rooftop chases), then dive into this thrilling heist with Charlie and Lark. Review: Oh, so good. Man, Russia was intense and Lark's back story was so well developed. So much drama. So much depth. So much action. Loved. Every. Second. Of. It. Lark and Charlie have been around since book one in the original London Steampunk series. Charlie is Honoria's brother who Blade helps deal with the craving virus. Lark showed up with Tin Man very early on and Charlie and Lark have been inseparable ever since. They grew up together and when Tim Man is killed Charlie leaves Lark behind and she hasn't forgiven him in the years since the revolution. But they are brought back together finally because Charlie is part of the Company of Rogues and he needs Lark's expertise to rescue Malloryn from the enemy's hands. What he doesn't understand is that by asking her to go to Russia literally puts her life in danger and brings to light all of the secrets she has been hiding her whole life. I loved their story. I loved Lark's background story and how it connects to Obsidian. So good. I want her brother Nicholi to have his own story and I am SO ready for Malloryn's story too. I read the teaser at the end of this story and his story is next. YAY. So good. So intense. So awesome. You Only Love Twice (London Steampunk: The Blue Blood Conspiracy #3) by Bec McMaster ≈ Comments Off on You Only Love Twice (London Steampunk: The Blue Blood Conspiracy #3) by Bec McMaster Synopsis: With the clock ticking down, the Company of Rogues must find a deadly killer and stop them from assassinating the Queen… before London burns. First rule of espionage: don't ever fall in love with your target. Five years ago, Gemma Townsend learned the hard way what happens when you break this rule. She lost everything. Her mentor's trust. The man she loved. And almost her life. Love is a weakness she can never afford again. When offered a chance at redemption, the seductive spy is determined to complete her assigned task: to track down a dangerous assassin known as the Chameleon, a mysterious killer sent after the queen, whose identity seems to constantly change. But as her investigation leads Gemma into a trap, she's rescued by a shadowy figure she thought was dead—the double agent who once stole her heart. A man with few memories, all Obsidian knows is Gemma betrayed him, and he wants revenge. But one kiss ignites the unextinguished passion between them, and he can't bring himself to kill her. Can Obsidian ever trust her again? Or is history doomed to repeat itself? Because it soon becomes clear the Chameleon might be closer than either of them realized… and this time Gemma is in the line of fire. Review: I so love the steampunk world Bec McMaster has woven together. From the beginning her style or story telling and character development has been vibrant and captivating. I love all of the characters we meet in her London Steampunk universe and Gemma and Obsidian are no exception. They met and fell in love years ago, but they have always been on opposite sides of the war. For years she has thought him dead after trying to kill her. He has hated her and believed she tried to burn him alive, but the moment he sees her in London, all of his recessed memories start to bleed through and he is thrown into a world whether brothers betrayed brothers, the woman he loved and thought he hated lost just as much as he did and both of their worlds have tried to keep them apart. But when his brothers set out to kill her, he can't help but watch her back, all in the name that when she dies, it will be by his hand but once she is in his clutches she forces the memories to come flooding back and they end up having to fight to stay alive, trust in each other though they are enemies, and when push comes to shove he has to decide what side is he really on. I loved every second. The cover for this one is just as vibrant as the story and the characters. It was great. There are not enough adjectives to describe how much I love this series and this latest installment. I want more!!! Lusting for Covers (80) Bec McMaster, London Steampunk Series, Lusting for Covers Lusting for Covers is a meme found on TBQ so come and join in on this fun meme!!! 1- Take the graphic (left) to use on your post. Remember to give credit to the original host (on your post. Remember to give credit to the original host (TBQ). 2- Choose your own book cover that you've fallen in "lust" with in the past week. It can be new, old, a reprint, or even a book that is not yet out– it's all up to you! If you find a cover that catches your eye, then showcase it on your blog, and let others see the pretty covers out there.with in the past week. It can be new, old, a reprint, or even a book that is not yet out– it's all up to you! If you find a cover that catches your eye, then showcase it on your blog, and let others see the pretty covers out there. 3- Copy the direct link to your own L4C post into the comment section on my post (when in doubt, use this link and then scroll down to find the post), and allow others to come and see what you picked! (OPTIONAL): 4- Besides posting the picture of the book cover you chose, it's nice to provide the book summary, title, author, or a website link for the book. It's not required, but it can help you readers' to add more books to their own list! A brief "Why I choose this cover" is also appreciated, but not required. My post for this fun meme is: The Mech Who Loved Me (London Steampunk: The Blue Blood Conspiracy #2) by Bec McMaster Synopsis: Ava McLaren is tired of being both a virgin, and a mere laboratory assistant for the Company of Rogues. When a baffling mystery rears its head, it presents her with the opportunity to work a real case… and perhaps get a taste of the passion that eludes her. Blue bloods are dying from a mysterious disease, which should be impossible. Ava suspects there's more to the case than meets the eye and wants a chance to prove herself. There's just one catch—she's ordered to partner with the sexy mech, Kincaid, who's a constant thorn in her side. Kincaid thinks the only good blue blood is a dead one. He's also the very last man she would ever give her heart to… which makes him the perfect candidate for an affair. The only rule? It ends when the case does. But when an attempt on her life proves that Ava might be onto something, the only one who can protect her is Kincaid. Suddenly the greatest risk is not to their hearts, but whether they can survive a diabolical plot that threatens to destroy every blue blood in London—including Ava. ≈ Comments Off on The Mech Who Loved Me (London Steampunk: The Blue Blood Conspiracy #2) by Bec McMaster Bec McMaster, London Steampunk Series, Steampunk Review: The next installment of Bec McMaster's London Steampunk series brings together a Mech who hates Blue Bloods and a Blue Blood who doesn't like drinking blood and is the most innocent and sweet woman Kincaid has ever met. I loved their chemistry and their adventure as they seek out the Sons of Gilead and a mysterious poison that can kill Blue Bloods. Along the way, Kincaid comes to re-evaluate his beliefs and Ava learns to trust a man that in a lot of ways is her complete opposite. Their passion, their love affair, their adventure, and the road they take in getting to know and love each other was both sweet and enticing. He brings out the naughty side of the virgin Ava and she brings out the softer and more compassionate side in Kincaid. Perfect match. The culmination at the end with the conflicts and plot were great; it kept you turning the page to see if they were going to survive to love another day or walk away from each other at the end of the case. The story was great. I love it. ≈ Comments Off on Lusting for Covers (33) 1- Take the graphic (left) to use on your post. Remember to give credit to the original host (TBQ). 2- Choose your own book cover that you've fallen in "lust" with in the past week. It can be new, old, a reprint, or even a book that is not yet out– it's all up to you! If you find a cover that catches your eye, then showcase it on your blog, and let others see the pretty covers out there. (OPTIONAL): 4- Besides posting the picture of the book cover you chose, it's nice to provide the book summary, title, author, or a website link for the book. It's not required, but it can help you readers' to add more books to their own list! A brief "Why I choose this cover" is also appreciated, but not required My thirty-third for this fun meme is: Kiss of Steel (London Steampunk #1) by Bec McMaster Synopsis: When Nowhere Is Safe Most people avoid the dreaded Whitechapel district. For Honoria Todd, it's the last safe haven. But at what price? Blade is known as the master of the rookeries—no one dares cross him. It's been said he faced down the Echelon's army single-handedly, that ever since being infected by the blood-craving he's been quicker, stronger, and almost immortal. When Honoria shows up at his door, his tenuous control comes close to snapping. She's so…innocent. He doesn't see her backbone of steel—or that she could be the very salvation he's been seeking. Usually for the LoC entries I have chosen books that have not yet been published, but I have run out of those upcoming releases at present, so I decided to go into my Goodreads Read List and find one of my favorites. This book I actually bought solely because the cover grabbed my attention. I got the paperback and when I walked past it on the self I kept coming back to it. The red is vibrant and the composition was very pleasing to my eye. I had never read Steampunk before and it did take me several months to actually pick up and read it, but once I did, I couldn't put it or the series down! I loved the book and became a Steampunk fan (so much so that I dressed up as a steam punk Victorian woman for Halloween this year). This author only has this series out so far, but she paints a story and a setting beautifully. Her characters (especially the male lead in the first one-Blade, is deliciously entertaining with his cockney accent. Loved it! If you are interested in branching off into something different or you already enjoy Steampunk, this series is an absolute must!! Quote-Tastic (11) Bec McMaster, London Steampunk Series, Quote-Tastic J oin us every Monday and share a favorite quote that's grabbed you for one reason or another. Everyone's welcome to join in – authors, bloggers, readers. The more the merrier! Just grab the button and put up your post 🙂 Don't have a blog? No worries, just leave your favorites in the comment section. Quote-tastic is hosted by Herding Cats & Burning Soup My candidate for this week and for my elenenth post comes from Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster from her London Steampunk series. "Easy, luv. Don't stir the devil, or you'll 'ave to pay the consequences." "I'm not sure I have any coin on me," she said leaning closer and kissing the stubbled roughness of his jaw. "Do you think he would accept my favors instead?" A sultry whisper in his ear. Blade groaned, "Bloody 'ell, Honor. Don't tease a man so." "But it's so very exciting." Looking up, he met her startled gaze. "Let down your guard, Honor. Let me in. Let me love you." He kissed her lips, tasted the sweetness of her breath. "Trust me. I won't ever 'urt you." "Aye, then.Come and dance with the Ech'lon. You can be me bloody retinue. King o' Fools and 'is merry band o' jesters. If they don't laugh us out o' the tower, it'll be a bleedin' miracle." ≈ Comments Off on Top Ten Tuesday (5) Bec McMaster, Dark Hunter, Dark Sword, Donna Grant, Fever Series, Highland Guard, Jane Austen, Jeaniene Frost, Karen Marie Moning, Larrisa Ione, London Steampunk Series, Lords of Deliverance, Lynn Kurland, Monica McCarty, Night Huntress World, Pride and Prejudice, Sabrina Jeffries, Sherrilyn Kenyon, The Hellions of Halestead Hall, Top Ten Tuesday Today's Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by the Broke and the Bookish, is the Top Ten Characters You'd Like To Check In With (meaning, the book or series is over and you so just wish you could peek in on the "life" you imagine they are leading years down the line after the story ends). Here are my Top Ten for this week: 1. Elizabeth and Darcy Synopsis: When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life. *FREE on Amazon! 2. Styxx and Bethany Styxx (Dark Hunter, Book 12) by Sherrilyn Kenyon Synopsis: Just when you thought doomsday was over… Centuries ago Acheron saved the human race by imprisoning an ancient evil bent on absolute destruction. Now that evil has been unleashed and it is out for revenge. As the twin to Acheron, Styxx hasn't always been on his brother's side. They've spent more centuries going at each other's throats than protecting their backs. Now Styxx has a chance to prove his loyalty to his brother, but only if he's willing to trade his life and future for Acheron's. The Atlantean goddess of Wrath and Misery, Bethany was born to right wrongs. But it was never a task she relished. Until now. She owes Acheron a debt that she vows to repay, no matter what it takes. He will join their fellow gods in hell and nothing is going to stop her. But things are never what they seem, and Acheron is no longer the last of his line. Styxx and Acheron must put aside their past and learn to trust each other or more will suffer. Yet it's hard to risk your own life for someone who once tried to take yours, even when it's your own twin, and when loyalties are skewed and no one can be trusted, not even yourself, how do you find a way back from the darkness that wants to consume the entire world? One that wants to start by devouring your very soul? 3. Fallon and Larena MacCleod Forbidden Highlander (Dark Sword, Book 2) by Donna Grant A DANGEROUS SECRET… Fallon MacLeod has gifts any warrior would covet – fierce strength, unmatched skill, even immortality. But those gifts come at a price that puts everyone he loves at risk. Only when his brother, Quinn, is taken captive does Fallon leave the seclusion of his Highland home to seek the king's aid. And though every women at court would gladly be his for the asking, one alone causes desire to roar to life within him: beautiful, mysterious Larena Monroe. A WILD DESIRE… Rumors swirl around the castle about "The McLeod" but Larena knows the truth. Like Fallon, Larena is searching for a way to vanquish the evil Druid who wants to wreak havoc on earth. Drawn to Fallon in spite of her fear, she surrenders to a passion that shocks them both with its raw intensity. But Larena dares not hope for more – not when she holds a secret that could turn her fiery Highland love against her forever… 4. Tor MacLeod and Christina Fraser The Chief (Highland Guard, Book 1) by Monica McCarty Synopsis: Scouring the darkest corners of the Highlands and Western Isles, Robert the Bruce handpicks ten warriors to help him in his quest to free Scotland from English rule. They are the best of the best, chosen for their superior skills in each discipline of warfare. And to lead his secret Highland Guard, Bruce chooses the greatest warrior of all. The ultimate Highland warlord and a swordsman without equal, Tor MacLeod has no intention of being drawn into Scotland's war against the English. Dedicated to his clan, the fiercely independent chief answers to no one—especially not to his alluring new bride, bartered to him in a bid to secure his command of the deadliest fighting force the world has ever seen. The treacherous chit who made her way to Tor's bed may have won his hand, but she will never claim his heart. Although her husband's reputation is as fierce as his manner, Christina Fraser believes that something softer hides beneath his brutal shell. But the only warmth she feels is in their bed, in glorious moments of white-hot desire that disappear with the dawn. When Christina's reckless bid to win her husband's love goes awry and thrusts them into danger on the eve of war, Tor will face his ultimate battle: to save his wife and to open his heart—before it's too late. 5. Oliver Sharpe and Marie Butterfield The Truth About Lord Stoneville (Hellions of Halestead Hall, Book 1) by Sabrina Jeffries Synopsis: They're the scandalous Sharpes, five hell-raising siblings tainted by a shocking family legacy. Now each faces a daunting ultimatum: marry by year's end—or kiss their inheritance good-bye. In the two decades since a tragic "accident" took the lives of his parents, Oliver Sharpe, the Marquess of Stoneville, has survived the scandal surrounding that fateful night by living as an unrepentant rakehell. And with his grandmother vowing to disinherit him if he doesn't settle down and wed, he plans to fulfill the bargain in true Sharpe style—by bringing home a fake fiancée from a brothel! But his scheme is derailed when he rescues an American beauty in a dire predicament instead. Maria Butterfield came to London to track down her groom-to-be, who's gone missing, but her engagement won't stop Oliver from getting what he wants: her, in his bed. His rebellious masquerade may call his grandmother's bluff, but it's soon made all too real—by a love that tempts him to be a hellion no more. 6. Reseph and Jillian Cardiff Rogue Rider (Lords of Deliverance, Book 4) by Larissa Ione They're here. They ride. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Born of a match between good and evil, four siblings stand between hell's minions and everything they want to destroy. They are the Lords of Deliverance, and they have the power to ward off Doomsday . . . or let it ride . . . ROGUE RIDER Jillian Cardiff came to this remote mountain town to forget the demon attack that almost killed her. Instead, she rescues-and falls for-a gorgeous stranger who has no memory of anything other than his name. Handsome, charming, and protective, Reseph seems like the kind of man whom Jillian can trust. But with hints of a troubling history of his own, he's also the kind of man who can be very dangerous . . . Reseph may not know why he mysteriously appeared in Jillian's life, but he knows he wants to stay. Yet when Jillian's neighbors are killed, and demon hunters arrive on the scene, Reseph fears that he's putting Jillian in danger. And once it's revealed that Reseph is also Pestilence, the Horseman responsible for ravaging the world, he and Jillian must face the greatest challenge of all: Can they forget the horrors of a chilling past to save the future they both desire? 7. Kendrick de Piaget and Genevieve Buchanan Stardust of Yesterday (De Piaget, Book 11) by Lynn Kurland Synopsis: Inheriting a castle–and a ghost to go with it–Genevieve Buchanan finds herself falling in love with the spectre of Kendrick de Piaget, an arrogant thirteenth-century knight. 8. Mencheres and Kira Graceling Eternal Kiss of Darkness (Night Huntress World, Book 2) by Jeaniene Frost An immortal war has been brewing in the darkness . . . And now one woman has stumbled into the shadows. Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept on walking. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn. Suddenly she finds herself in a world she's only imagined in her worst nightmares. At the center is Mencheres, a breathtaking Master vampire who thought he'd seen it all. Then Kira appears, this fearless, beautiful . . . human who braved death to rescue him. Though he burns for her, keeping Kira in his world means risking her life. Yet sending her away is unthinkable. But with danger closing in, Mencheres must choose either the woman he craves, or embracing the darkest magic to defeat an enemy bent on his eternal destruction. 9. Jericho Barrons and Mac Shadowfever (Fever, Book 5) by Karen Marie Moning Synopsis: "Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good." — MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. — Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister's murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years. What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh — a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds. In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves. Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card? From the luxury of the Lord Master's penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac's journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it. 10. Leo Barrons and Lady Aramina Of Silk and Steam (London Steampunk, Book 5) by Bec McMaster Enemies. Allies. Lovers. When her beloved father was assassinated, Lady Aramina swore revenge. The man responsible is well beyond her grasp, but his dangerously seductive heir, Leo Barrons, is fair game. When Mina obtains evidence proving that Leo is illegitimate, she has the means to destroy both the killer and his son, a man who troubles her heart and tempts her body. A woman of mystery, Mina's long driven Leo crazy with glimpses of a fiery passion that lurks beneath her icy veneer. He knows she's hiding something, and he's determined to unravel her layer by silken layer. He just doesn't expect the beautiful liar to be the key to overthrowing the corrupt prince consort… or to saving his own carefully walled-off heart. 5 Paranormal Romances Perfect for Television — The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog ≈ Comments Off on 5 Paranormal Romances Perfect for Television — The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog Bec McMaster, Black Dagger Brotherhood, Christine Feehan, Dark Hunter, Dark Warriors, Donna Grant, Drake Sisters, Fever Series, Ghost Walkers, J.R. Ward, Jennifer Ashley, Karen Marie Moning, London Steampunk Series, Nalini Singh, Psy-Changling, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Shifter Bound 5 Paranormal Romances Perfect for Television Posted by Ceridwen Christensen × April 3, 2015 at 10:30 am I would so be into these TV shows! Check out the article. What series isn't mentioned here that you would love to see turned into a TV show? I would love to see Donna Grant's Dark Warriors series, Sherriyln Kenyon's Dark Hunter series (I know one is in the works, but I think it is geared more towards the Chronicals of Nick), Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters or Ghost Walker series, and Jennifer Ashley's Shifter Bound series. 5 Paranormal Romances Perfect for Television — The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog. Of Silk and Steam ≈ Comments Off on Of Silk and Steam ~ 6 for it being beyond wonderful (rarely given rating) Review: I just have to say before I start, OMG! I loved this book. I have loved the London Steampunk series from the very first chapter in Kiss of Steel, and this conclusion of the series did not disappoint. Aramina Duvall (Duchess of Casavian) and Leo Barrons (Duke of Caine's "son") are from rival families. Leo has been pursuing Mina for the past 6 or so years and she has not been pleased with his attentions, believing him out to get something from her or hurt her. She wants vengeance against his father because she believes he had something to do with her father's death so she is quite adverse to trusting Leo's motives. The story begins with a flashback to the time when Leo first meets Mina and is attracted to her and fascinated with her. It then jumps to the present (Steampunk-Victorian England, 1880). The story is broken down into three parts: The Chase, The Betrayal, and The Tower. There are forces at work to remove the Prince Consort from the thrown and both Mina and Leo are part of those forces, though they both do not realize it, and they are working with two different groups, but with the same outcome desired. The chemistry between the two of them are wonderful. I loved watching the scenes where he flirted with her and she tried to resist his appeal. When they finally come together it is explosive. Part 2 The Betrayal is intense; Leo believes she has betrayed him and he loses everything (or thinks he has). The Prince Consort is slowly trying to eliminate those counselors that vote against him, and Leo is on that list. The Prince Consort uses information about Leo's birth and the fact that he isn't actually the Duke of Caines' biological son to remove him. He wants him executed for treason and the abused queen (who actually has all of the power, but has been beaten down throughout the years and is controlled by the Prince Consort) says to execute him. The information the Prince Consort uses Leo knows that Mina possessed. He believes she gave that information to the Prince Consort. Their interactions after this scene are emotional, but it also forces them together and it gives Mina a chance to see that maybe she does have an ally in her plans to kill the Prince Consort in Leo. When her secret humanist leadership role comes out it is totally awesome. I loved reading that scene and Leo's reaction to the fact that they are fighting the same war. Part 3 The Tower is a wonderful conclusion to the series. LOL, I think I have used too many "wonderful", "loved", and "awesome" words 😛 I just love this series and this last book doesn't do anything that disappoints. The passionate scenes between Leo and Mina are perfect. The Prince Consort is a villain that I looked forward to seeing die and the person who makes the first fatal blow is poetic justice. When Mina confesses that she and the queen have been the ones working to eliminate him for years and that the queen is the leader of the Humanist party, the look on the Prince Consort's face is perfect. The battle scenes are well written and the conclusion of the coupe is exactly what I wanted to happen. When Leo and Mina find each other after everything they embrace each other and have a passionate reunion and she confesses her love for him, taking the final step to being together permanently. Favorite Quotes 1: This scene shows the cat and mouse game Leo is playing with Mina, but in this scene, Mina switches the role, or thinks she does. I call it "Prey" Barrons didn't bother to look at her, but she knew he was aware of her arrival. How could he not be? Tension vibrated in the air between them, an electric glide across her skin. "You have a certain look in your eye tonight, Mina," he murmured, his eyes half-shuttered as he surveyed the ballroom. "I feel like prey." He didn't look it. Tall, hard, and lean, with his rapier sheathed at his side, he looked like the king of his own jungle. Slowly his head turned, those dark eyes locking on her. Some trick of light gave hint to the striations of his irises-not black, not truly. Hints of warmth gleamed there, the color molten chocolate. She was left at once overwhelmed and somewhat uncertain. Mina fought to regain her sense of equilibrium. She needed a damned victory tonight. Anything to take her mind off the queen's absence. "A ridiculous assumption." Mina circled behind him. Barrons's head turned, tracking her movements as she trailed her filigreed claws over the back of his coat. "How could I ever harm you?" "You seem to be lumping me with the rest of those addlepated fools who think you're a pretty little symbol." Turning, he caught her wrist, slowly lifting her clawed fingers to his lips. He never took his eyes off her as he pressed a kiss to the inside of her wrist, just over her pulse. The gentlest of touches, a ghostly caress. For a debutante, this would be considered a sign that he intended to pursue her for a thrall contract. "I know just how dangerous you can be, and just how clever your little ruse in the Council chambers is." Shock froze her. "Ruse?" "You vote like a pendulum, swinging one way and then the other, placating the prince consort just enough to appease him on items that matter little to you. But when it comes to something that appeals to your heart- or whatever game you're running- you don't back down. No one else has quite figured it out yet. They all think you're some puppet, dancing to his tune." He'd guessed half of it. It was extraordinary- and proved just how closely he'd been watching her. Dangerous. If anyone realized the game she and the queen were playing, they'd both be destroyed. Favorite Quotes 2: This scene is an intense scene after he believes she betrayed him and his world fell apart and he is now a wanted man for "treason". He has her tied to a chair and at his mercy (who wouldn't want that!), so I call this scene "The Chair" "…Do you want to know the damnable truth, Duches? No matter how much I want to walk away, to let you leave, I can't do it." His hand caught her throat, tilting her head and pining her there, balanced on the edge of the precipice. Black eyes blazed in the center of her vision. "You enthrall me. I feel my heart beating and it's all you, you, you." You. Mina's eyes shot wide as his face lowered. That dangerous mouth closed over hers again, tongue thrusting past her lips and teeth, forcing the kiss upon her. The thin veneer of civility washed away, drowning her in a man that was more primal than rational. This…this was what the craving meant, what lust meant. This was the choice he'd offered, one that she hadn't anticipated. And one that undid her. Yes. She made that choice again, with her whole body screaming the word. Past time for games, for fear. Tiptoeing around each other for years, because maybe a part of her had always known it would be like this. Consumed. Stripped bare. All that she was, offered up to him on a platter. Then he was coming up for air, breathing hard. "I hate the hold you have on me." Favorite Quotes 3: This scene is a poignant one between Leo and Mina where Mina is trying to open up to him. I call it "Mina". "I like it when you call me 'Mina'," she admitted. "It drove me insane at first that would dare, but…I miss it. You're the only one who does, did you know that? The only one with the courage to do so. You always push me. Always. And sometimes I'm not ready to be pushed. Sometimes it scares me that you get under my skin the way you do." She took a shaky breath, hands curling in his shirt. "You frighten me, but I'm trying…I'm trying to stop pushing you away. It's not easy for me." With her hair tumbled down around her shoulders and her hands clinging to his shirt, she looked far younger than she ever had. He'd never, ever expected her to yield. But she had. And that was all he'd been asking for, really, for her to meet him halfway. Halfway to…whatever the hell this was. Check out my Pinterest Board for this series: