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wordpress | Our trip to Epps Sporting Goods would affect my life even today. Dad took me to buy my first tennis racket. I was about twelve years old and I had decided to learn to play tennis because my older brother played tennis and I wanted to be like him.
Dad checked out the cheap tennis rackets and found one that would fit into his budget. He didn’t want to buy an expensive racket because he didn’t know if my desire to play tennis was just a passing fancy. When we arrived home, Dad gave me my first and only tennis lesson. He took me out in the backyard. Then, he handed me a tennis ball and told me to keep hitting the tennis ball up in the air. This would get me use to hitting the ball as well as keeping my eye on the ball. I continued to do this every day. I began to imagine myself becoming the next Rod Laver.
By the time, I was in eighth grade, I would take my tennis racket to Ford Park and hit the tennis ball off the tennis court wall. The problem was that I would often hit the ball over the wall, which meant I spent more time retrieving my ball than hitting it. Eventually, I could hit the ball with some regularity. Now I was ready to hit with anybody who was willing to hit with a young person who had a great desire to play tennis, but not much ability.
One man, who took a special interest in me was Ed. He was a man in his late fifties or early sixties. I was always excited to see his large white Chrysler park in the alley behind the tennis courts. Ed patiently would hit with me, which soon gave me some confidence in playing tennis. There were others who hit with me because I was never shy to ask anybody who didn’t have a tennis partner to hit with me.
Getting ready to go play tennis at Ford in 1969. Notice the Highland Park Recreation Baseball T-shirt. I played in Class F for the Royals.
U of D High School tennis team. I definitely was the low man on the totem pole, but going to the practices and hitting with others helped my game. My coach once encouraged me by saying the my serve was so slow that he could catch it with his bare hand. However, I wasn’t going to quit. I was determined to succeed in tennis.
In tenth grade, I was back at Highland Park High School, and I joined the tennis team. Tennis was not an important sport at the school; so I became the number one singles player in my junior and senior year. This may sound impressive, but when we played schools like Grosse Pointe South, it meant that if I won a game or two, I was doing well.
There were perks to playing on the tennis team. At the beginning of the season, we received three or four pair of tennis socks, four cans of tennis balls and the best of all, a brand new pair of Jack Purcells tennis shoes. These shoes were the top of the line. By this time also, I had graduated to a Jack Kramer Autograph racket. This was the top of line in rackets.
A Jack Kramer Autograph Tennis Racket with a bracket to keep the racket from warping.
Another perk was that I received physical education credit for playing tennis. This was a big perk because it meant I didn’t have to take swimming class or gym class during my time at Highland Park High School.
Practicing at the Ford Park tennis courts.
One problem about being on the tennis team was that our coach never played tennis. We never did any drills. We never received any instructions on how to serve. He basically would go with us to matches and tell us to try harder. When we played schools like Ecorse, River Rouge or Ferndale, our lack of ability didn’t show; however when we played Grosse Pointe South, Monroe or Dondero, it was embarrassing.
Speaking of Monroe, this was our favorite place to play. After getting beaten by Monroe, the coach would take us all to a restaurant and we could eat all the chicken we desired. It definitely made the thrashing that we had received go down better.
In my senior year, Highland Park was no longer in the Border Cites League. This meant that our competition was more on our level. We actually won a few matches during the season. At the end of the year, the Detroit News selected me to be on the All-Detroit tennis team. My photo was in the Detroit News with the other players who had been named for this honor. Before I could get too proud, somebody in the school told me that the Detroit News writer who selected the All-Detroit team was a graduate of Highland Park High School. This took the wind out of my sails.
After I graduated from Highland Park, I would continue to play tennis. I played on the Olivet College team as a freshman; however, I soon played less and less tennis. It has only been in recent years that I have taken up tennis again. Playing tennis again brings back memories of those great days of playing tennis at Ford Park in the early Seventies.
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itai itai itai no wa naze?
a dream.. a dream.. a dream.. so why does it hurt?
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wordpress | In his next letter written three days after the surrender of Fort Macon, Oliver Case gives an account of his view of the culminating action during the siege of the Confederate fort at the tip of the Bogue Banks. Brigadier General John G. Parke, the brigade commander placed in command of the siege efforts by General Burnside, had assembled his guns for the attack including three artillery batteries of eleven total guns, both mortars and 30-pound rifled guns. The soldiers of the 8th CVI had labored for weeks preparing the artillery and infantry positions to lay siege to the fort.
The regiment has been hard at work ever since we arrived here, throwing up entrenchments to protect the artillery and infantry.
On the 24th of April, with the preparations for a bombardment completed, General Parke called for the Confederate garrison of Fort Macon to surrender. General Burnside had arrived the previous day and met under a flag of truce with the commander of the fort to no avail.
The surrender of the fort was now demanded, and met a defiant refusal.
Burnside gave the order to commence with the siege and Parke responded to the defiant Rebels by turning up the pressure.
Our riflemen pushed up so close as to pick off the rebel gunners.
The bombardment of Fort Macon began at 5:00 am on the morning of April 25th with Parke’s eleven guns from Bogue Banks and some assistance from batteries afloat.
On the morning of the 25th, fire was opened on the fort from the shore batteries and the three steamers moving in a circle. The latter drew off after an hour’s fighting; and the siege batteries increased in energy, shaking the sandy beach, and knocking gun after gun from the fort’s parapet.
The work was completed Thursday night and the bombardment commenced early the next morning and continued without intermission until four in the P.M., our regiment meanwhile lying behind the breastworks while a perfect rain of shot and shell came upon all sides of them, many times caving the banks upon them so it was necessary to dig one another out with shovels. Several of our men were hit by balls rolling into the trench upon them, but none were wounded. The artillery lost one killed and two wounded.
The Eighth was alone in the rifle-pits, between the thundering cannon, shooting the rebel gunners and infantry whenever a head was visible.
The fort was commanded on this day by 27-year old Confederate Colonel Moses J. White. White, a native of Mississippi, held an impressive record at the U.S. Military Academy in the Class of 1858 graduating second. Originally assigned to the western theater at the beginning of the war, he was given command of Fort Macon on October 5, 1861. During the siege, White was struggling with health problems that had first appeared during his time at West Point. However, he continued to encourage his officers and soldiers during the bombardment until he was completely exhausted.
By the afternoon of the 25th, it was evident that the fort and its garrison could not withstand much more of the devastating fire from the Union guns. After meeting with his commanders, White ordered the flag of surrender to be raised.
The Union forces entered the fort and raised the national colors igniting a controversy between two of the regiments.
…early the next day the “Stars and Stripes” were run up by the 4th R.I. Regiment. The 8th Conn. were not very well suited to do all the work and have the 4th R.I. hoist their flag, but that is all right; it is “Uncle Sam”, anyhow.
Croffut and Morris identify the Rhode Island regiment as the 5th and give additional details on the honor bestowed on them in lieu of the 8th.
…the 5th Rhode-Island; and to this fragment of a regiment the rebel flag was given as a trophy next morning, when the formal surrender was made, and the regiment took possession of the fort. The Eighth considered itself again defrauded of its just rights; and the Tribune’s narrative said, “But for the accident that the 5th Rhode-Island had relieved the Eighth Connecticut the previous evening, the captured flag would have gone to grace the legislative halls at Hartford.” Gen. Parke justifies giving the preference to the Rhode-Island regiment by the fact that the Eighth Connecticut Volunteers had no field-officer present to receive the surrender.
In a happier ending to the story for the Confederate officers and soldiers of Fort Macon, Oliver relates that many of them, after their parole, were reunited with their family members.
The prisoners were discharged on parole, much to their gratification and some of our boy’s displeasure. Sightseers say that they had a great time over in Beaufort Saturday when the garrison was set free. Children looking for their parents, wives for their husbands, fathers for their children and when they were recognized in the crowd such a hugging and kissing as was not often seen was carried on.
What a great day at Antietam! Congrats to the NPS and the folks from Connecticut who put so much work into making Connecticut Day at Antietam 2012 an outstanding event. It provided a wonderful opportunity to meet some interesting folks who love talking about the CW and Antietam. A special hap tip to John Banks for his time and gracious introductions to many of the folks. I hope we now have some new friends here at Oliver Cromwell Case.
On a recent trip to the Rohrbach Bridge (Burnside) area of the Antietam Battlefield, I couldn’t help but think of the sacrifice (albeit needless) of the men of the 11th Connecticut. In particular, I recalled the pronounced valor of Captain John D. Griswold who led a group of the Connecticut soldiers as skirmishers only to be mortally wounded as he crossed the creek. John Banks has an excellent, detailed account of his heroism.
The men of the 8th Connecticut had been the first of Harland’s Brigade to experience loss as just after sunrise as the Confederates sent “a solid 12-pound ball…diagonally through the Eighth, killing three men, and frightfully wounding four…” Now their sister unit, the 11th CVI, was devastated in the failed attempt to secure a crossing at the bridge.
In late March 1862, the commanding officer of the 8th CVI, Colonel Edward Harland, was sick and bed-ridden with typhoid fever as his regiment was divided into three parts. Two companies were sent to occupy Beaufort and a few of the other companies were sent to secure Morehead City. The remaining companies including Company A crossed over from Carolina City to the Bogue Banks to begin movement toward Fort Macon located on the tip of the banks. Oliver Case had been on picket duty seven miles away from camp near Carolina City when his company departed. As Private Case caught up to his fellow soldiers over on the Bogue Banks, there was much work to be done in preparation to lay siege to Fort Macon and its Confederate garrison.
On April 12th, the 8th CVI being commanded by Major Hiram Appelman in the absence of Colonel Harland began their push toward the fort.
The Military and Civil History of Connecticut: The War of 1861-1865, 1868 by W.A. Croffut and John M. Morris, 1868.
The irony of those words coming from Oliver Case exactly five months before he would lose his life on the fields outside Sharpsburg. Commenting again to his sister Abbie, Oliver expresses the surprise he felt before marching into his first combat experience at New Bern, N.C.
I felt very different upon the battle than I expected. There is not the dread of death that one naturally expects.
What did he expect? Fear? Cowardly? Anger?
In presentments of death I have no confidence. While I have seen men go into battle predicting truthfully their own death, yet I believe it is the belief of nine out of ten who go into battle that this is their last. I have never gone into battle that I did not expect to be killed. I have seen those who had no thought of death coming to them killed outright. Thus Corporal George Horton, wounded at South Mountain, wrapped his handkerchief around his wounded arm and carried the colors of our regiment to Antietam. Being asked why he did not make the best of it and go to the hospital, that he was liable to be killed, he answered, “The bullet has not been moulded to kill me.” Alas! he was killed the next day.
This line of discussion by Oliver began as a result of a rumor sent back home by his “friend” Philo Matson who we first met in the letter of 16 March 1862.
I do not see what object P.A. Matson can have in representing me sick and “will probably never be able to see Conn. again.” He knows that since I left Annapolis, with the bare exception of a short time upon the “Chasseur”, I have been perfectly healthy. I do not think that there is one in the company but what has had sick spells caused by exposure. I may not live to get home, but I think I stand as good a chance as anyone in the company, P.A. Matson to the contrary notwithstanding.
On the 20th of March 1862, the two regiments plus the 5th Rhode Island continued their march toward Morehead and Beaufort while two companies of soldiers were left behind to guard the captured Confederate barracks. According to Oliver’s letter of 6 April, the group reached Carolina City on the 22nd and received a temporary respite from marching as they went into camp operations.
…we arrived at Carolina City where we have remained in some shanties of boards which we have picked from some old dilapidated dwelling. The sesech burnt the principal buildings before they left. There has been a splendid vessel burnt near the fort since we have been here to prevent its falling into our hands.
Once again, Oliver found himself on picket duty stationed about seven miles from the main camp but enjoying the duty “very much.” Food was readily available to the soldiers who made good use of their issued food and “traded off our hardtack and salt horse for sweet potatoes and hoecake and had a fine mess of greens.” Obviously, relations with the local populace were good enough to facilitate this barter system although the Carolina City residents may have received the worst of the deal. “Salt horse” was a demeaning nickname used by soldiers for the salted meat provided by contractors in large barrels to Army units. The meat was often spoiled as alluded to in one of Oliver’s earlier letters.
When Oliver returned from his remote picket duty, he found that his company was gone and the rest of the regiment had been moved to multiple locations in anticipation of future operations.
When I got back, Co. A was on the other side of the sound, except a few sick ones who were left behind, and as our tents had come to pitch and floor them and get into camp once more. We expect the Co. back today but they may not be in, in several days. Our regiment is pretty well split up; two companies at Morehead, one at Beaufort, and ours over on the Island.
The force consisted of the Eighth Connecticut and the 4th and 5th Rhode-Island. The trains were much delayed : there was little food, and no tents or cooking utensils. The weather became stormy, and the men dug holes in the ground, and sheltered them with boards; and here for a dreary week they lived, catching a few fish and oysters when they could. Here Col. Harland was prostrated with typhoid-fever. Two companies of the Eighth were sent over to occupy Beaufort, and others to Morehead City. Opposite was Fort Macon, on the extreme upper point of Bogue Banks, a low, sandy island, or spit, half a mile wide, stretching twenty miles south-west along the coast. Inside this island was Bogue Sound, three miles wide, with shallow water, only three or four feet deep.
Fort Macon is situated upon the extreme west of the island and completely hemmed in by our forces, both by land and by water. Our gunboats will make an attack soon, assisted by the artillery, if they do not surrender. It seems a pity that they should attempt to hold it when they themselves know they cannot and it will probably cost them a great many lives. The garrison consists of 300 men which cannot hold it a great while against our mortars.
Oliver closed his letter of 6 April in his normal manner asking about the news from home including the news of the burning of his Uncle J.A. Tuller’s house and the deaths of both William Mather and his wife. He is also very happy to have recently received a letter from his father. | 2019-04-26T12:06:42Z | https://olivercromwellcase.wordpress.com/2012/04/ | Porn | Society | 0.171948 |
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wordpress | To coin a cricketing term, or not. Either way.
An article by top theatre reviewer Mark Shenton in The Stage newspaper of 6th July 2017 debates the wide gulf in professional reviewers’ responses to “Bat Out of Hell” at the London Coliseum and “The Wind in the Willows” at the London Palladium. Opening a week or so apart, in two of the largest (both Matcham designed) theatres originally build for “variety and popular entertainment,” one gained pretty much universal 4 star reviews, the other struggled to reach 3 in many cases.
For Mr Shenton, who incidentally reviewed exactly the opposite way around, the conclusion was that original British shows are given a harder time than imported or derived “jukebox” shows, and this “double standard” directly affected the reviews. Well argued and considered, a good article, but having seen both, I beg to differ.
To be clear, I too was invited to both shows, so didn’t pay for a ticket but was expected to submit written reports read by the production as well as both Theatremonkey.com fans. To also be clear, I genuinely don’t care who has created any production that I see (though I will spend my own cash to see work by people that I particularly admire).
I also loved British shows like “Stephen Ward,” “The Girls” and “Made In Dagenham” when others failed to do so. For this blog article, I will also note that I knew only 1 song well – and just about had heard of 2 more – before seeing “Bat Out Of Hell,” and I wasn’t all that keen to see the show as I don’t particularly like either “jukebox” or over-loud theatre. I was, though, itching to see “The Wind In The Willows” thanks to happy memories of the National Theatre version, and good word from the out-of-town original run of this production. In fact, I even re-arranged my own diary so as not to miss the date I was offered to see it.
Thus, I was as surprised as anyone to be sitting in “The Wind In The Willows” wishing I was back at “Bat Out Of Hell” – or, frankly anywhere else at all. I follow the very strict rule (as laid down by the late Barry Norman) that I must stay to the end, as often all that has gone before will make sense and create a wonderful surprise. On occasion, though, I wish I had taken the lead of most of the rest of my row, and many around me. Simply, I was bored. B.O.R.E.D. The single biggest and always fatal sin in theatre. To have characters and a production that fail to engage the audience so that the are willing to follow a tale (or, tail, in the Willows, I guess) for up to 3 hours.
To break it down, as I saw it.
Bat: Paper-thin but relatable characters – rough boy, posh pretty girl, evil father, split-loyalties mother, gang of friends. Unoriginal, but colourful both visually and in personality, reflecting youthful energy and society that we can recognise today.
Willows: Much-loved characters from childhood. The character traits, though, are all familiar on a daily basis only to someone living in the countryside without the internet, probably; and those happily brought up on similar tales.
Bat: Massive set that fills the sides of the stage and leaves space for dancing and impressive – often amusing – special effects at the top of theatrical ability. Costumes and lighting add to the mood. We know we are in dystopia, and it’s pretty raunchy at times, but always something going to happen.
Willows: Large set, some beautiful details – the animal burrows in particular, which are rather lost beyond 10 rows. Also some stonking short-cuts like the reduction of a mansion to a table, and a train out-of-scale with everything else. One horrible and over-used cliché special effect at the end. Costumes refuse to be anthromorphic. Toad has green hair, but that’s about it. The actors don’t even move in “animal” ways a la “Cats.” So how do we really know what they are?
Bat: A plot that could be written on a postage stamp, with enough space left over for Amazon’s entire book catalogue, probably twice. Yet it was done with conviction and humour, with enough peril to keep us interested. A small number of characters to track, but plenty of events to draw us into their world right from the start. Sure, the action took a dive for a bit in the second half, but the songs covered it up.
Willows: A familiar tale, oddly stripped of continuity. Endless exposition before the action got going. Characters were introduced then abandoned, the leading toad didn’t even show up until half way through the first half, and was so obnoxious even the kids didn’t care what happened to him – which was lucky as there were several other plots put centre-stage to follow, none of which were really relevant and diverted attention from the main thrust of the story, such as it was.
Bat: Whole Jukebox full of songs familiar to those who know the original album. For the terminally uncool like myself, totally and utterly fresh, in the main. And yet, every one sounded like it could have been written for the show, for the stage, and filled the auditorium – not just because of the amplification either.
Willows: All fresh to me, the edge being that I knew the original story. Sadly, many of the songs seemed to echo on the stage before becoming wisps as they crossed the orchestra pit. A couple of nice tunes – really, really nice tunes – but one heck of a lot of surplus ones, too, none of which did anything to cover the slowdown of the plot.
Willows: Mostly bored looking couples, plus a few children with parents or grandparents. Nobody could be bothered to move, some in fact left at the interval. No happy buzz of excited chat either. More questioning if it would end soon.
There’s no doubting the creative teams and casts worked equally hard, but theatre is unpredictable and the results, for me at least, were very different. Going by Theatremonkey and also theatreboard readers, the 4 to 1 in favour of Bat, and 4 to 1 against Willows in feedback seems to be shared – mirroring professional review ratios.
Even if, as theatreboard contributor Baemax says, Bat, “Gets a pass for sheer audacity,” it’s enough. Theatre is about getting a reaction, and if one show can when another can’t, that’s the extra distinction between success and failure.
Put another way, I sat in similarly priced seats for both, and “Bat” would have left me satisfied for £65. “Willows,” truthfully, not. Paying “premium” prices, I would still rate the “Bat” worth it, if it comes down to it. “It is the ticket price” as a friend of mine is inclined to say; you are getting a unique experience that simply isn’t available anywhere else.
Honestly, I conclude that for the professional reviewers, there was no malice or holding to standards involved.
It’s a complicated brew that has no formula, but I do doubt it is nationality that has much to do with it. Sometimes, it just doesn’t work – audiences don’t “feel” what the creators want us to. But when it does, oh, what a feeling indeed. Like sinners at the gates of heaven, audiences come crawling on back to the box office for sure… professional reviews or not.
I thoroughly enjoyed your piece comparing ‘Bat Out of Hell’ and ‘The Wind in the Willows’. Of course that’s the magic of theatre in that not only do critics respond differently to the same show but so do audiences. After all those five-star reviews I was expecting to have a wonderful time at ‘An American in Paris’ but I was seriously disappointed by the dull book and a wrong-headed abstract ballet as its climax. So what are we theatre-goers to do? If the critics are divided or they all rubbish it then we take pot luck if we go to see the show to make our own judgement, but if they are all ecstatic with praise and we hate it then we are doubly disappointed and think twice about spending the time and money to go to see the next show! No, I haven’t yet booked for the revival of ‘The Woman in White’, one of the worst musicals I have ever seen – but no wonderful surprise was forthcoming at the end of that one, just a lot of long faces on the audience as they filed mournfully out of the theatre!
Only saw this just now. I guess it is true that we take our chances, whatever we do, LOL. | 2019-04-21T09:02:10Z | https://theatremonkeybook.wordpress.com/2017/07/19/bats-against-willows/ | Porn | Reference | 0.384393 |
wordpress | Presentations are brief discussions of a focused topic delivered to a group of listeners in order to impart knowledge or to stimulate discussion. They are similar to short papers with an introduction, main body and conclusion. The ability to give brief presentations is a learned skill and one that is called on frequently in the workplace.
Preparation is the key to giving an effective presentation and to controlling your nervousness. Know your topic well. You will be the expert on the topic in the classroom. Good preparation and the realization that you are the expert will boost your self-confidence. After your research, you will find that you know much more about your topic than you will have time to present. That is a good thing. It will allow you to compose a good introduction, to distill out the main, most important points that need to be made, and to finish with a strong conclusion.
Prepare an outline of topic. This outline should be developed from your project proposal outline. Highlight the main sections of your work. Include subsections for each. Include notes that remind you of what to cover in each section and subsection. This outline can be used to guide your talk, and you may display it (with relevant illustrations) as a Powerpoint or Google Slides (or whatever presentation software you want) document while you talk.
An 8-minute talk is roughly equivalent to 4 double spaced pages in 12-pt. font and 1 inch margins however, never read a presentation. Write out your presentation if you need to organize your thoughts, but then outline this text for the actual presentation.
Optional handouts provide structure. They can provide supplemental material, references, a glossary of terms, and serve as a record of the presentation. The handout should be attractively laid out and inviting to read. Leave enough white space on the handout for the listener to take notes.
Practice giving your presentation to yourself. Speak out loud and time yourself. Practice using your visual aids. It is absolutely important that you adhere to your time limit. Your professor knows that you know more about your topic than you will have time to share. Your goal is to inform, not overwhelm. In this case, less can be more.
To deliver your presentation you will have to overcome your nervousness and deal with room conditions. Good preparation should allay most of your nervousness; realizing that everyone feels nervous before a presentation should also help. Your presentation will never go exactly as you think it will fortunately, they usually go better than you expect. However, if you are using any kind of technology (overhead projector or PowerPoint) be prepared for something to go wrong and have a backup plan (such as a handout with the presentation outline!).
If you are using PowerPoint or Google Slides, have a backup copy on a disk: A PDF copy of the presentation slides is the least likely to cause problems.
Begin your presentation by telling your audience what your topic is and what you will be covering. Audiences like to have guideposts.
Dress neatly and appropriately. The rule of thumb is to dress one level nicer than the audience will be dressed.
Dont rock back and forth on your heels, don’t tap a pencil or play with pencil or pointer dont do things that will distract from your content.
Never apologize to your audience for the state of your knowledge or your degree of preparation. The audience wants to have confidence in you are the authority, do nothing to undermine your authority.
Make frequent eye contact with the audience. Really look at the audience as you talk to them. Engaging them directly with your eyes transfers a bit of your energy to them and keeps them focused on your content. Making eye contact says that you are in charge of the room and for a presentation that’s what you want.
If you use PowerPoint or Google Slides avoid the tendency to speak to the screen instead of to the audience. Be so familiar with your visual aids that the only reason you look at them is to point something out.
Never turn your back on the audience and try to avoid walking in front of the projector.
Adhere strictly to your time limit. Organize your main points and rate of speech so that you speak for your eight minutes. You will be surprised how quickly the time goes.
Accept nervousness for what it is part of the preparation for speaking and it is a good thing. It heightens your senses and gets your blood pumping. You will think clearly and move faster. Everyone will feel nervous. A good preparation will increase your self-confidence. Once you get going, your good preparation will kick in and before you know it, your presentation will be over.
Make occasional eye contact with speaker.
Take notes or jot down interesting facts.
Do not put your head down on the desk or tilt your head back to sleep.
Control the impulse to constantly check watch.
Expect a Question & Answer period to be part of the presentation.
Participate in Question & Answer period either by listening or by posing a question.
Prepare to remain attentive throughout the Q&A speakers will dismiss their audience.
Remain seated until the speaker is finished.
Presentations always undergo some type of evaluation. You may receive a grade, you may make the sale, or your performance may be reviewed by your colleagues. The following is a set of evaluation criteria (D’Arcy, 1998) that are commonly used. Keeping a possible evaluation in mind is a good way to prepare for your presentation. Your goal is to be effective and evaluation criteria can give you a roadmap for measuring your effectiveness.
Opening statement gained immediate attention?
Purpose of presentation made clear?
Main ideas stated clearly and logically?
Organizational pattern easy to follow?
Main points explained or proved by supporting points?
Conclusion adequately summed up main points, purpose?
Presenter owned the space and was in control?
Held rapport with audience throughout speech?
Eye contact to everyone in audience?
Strong posture and meaningful gestures?
Visuals clear and visible to entire audience?
Creative and emphasized main points?
Presenter handled unobtrusively and focused on audience?
Energetic and included everyone in dialogue?
Evaluation criteria from: D’Arcy, Jan. 1998. Technically Speaking: A Guide for Communicating Complex Information. Columbus: Battelle Press, p. 160. | 2019-04-19T01:16:59Z | https://environmentalgeography.wordpress.com/on-presentations/ | Porn | Computers | 0.310446 |
wordpress | Happy Monday! I will pray that you feel better.
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wordpress | You Don’t Need a Miracle, All you Need is a MEMORY!
You Don’t Need a Miracle, All you Need is a MEMORY!.
“Therefore strengthen your tired hands and weakened knees…..
In this bible text, the younger son made decisions that led him to a place of brokenness, suffering and devastation. Likewise, he had to be the one to make the decision to be healed and returned to a place of wholeness. At his lowest state of existence, he REMEMBERED home. He REMEMBERED a place where he was loved unconditionally. He REMEMBERED a place where he was safe, warm and had plenty to eat. He REMEMBERED the love and caring of a father who, even when he knew the son was making a bad choice, provided his with what he had requested.
In this Season of your life, you may feel as if you too are at your lowest. You may feel abandoned and neglected. As you look around you, you may not see your needs being met. You may feel forgotten.
I submit to you today, that the answer to your situation is in your MEMORY. There is nothing happening to you today that the Father is not aware of. There is no pain that He does not know about.
In addition, just as He has in the past, He is simply waiting on you to come to Him. He is waiting on you to REMEMBER who, what and whose you are. Remember the last time you were penniless and He sent someone to meet that need. Remember the last time you were depressed and He lifted your spirit. REMEMBER!
As long as you have a MEMORY, you can always get back to HOME. Back to the Father. You may have walked away from home in stages, but TODAY I admonish you to RUN BACK HOME! Each step of your return, remember all that awaits you. Remember that the Father is actually looking for you. He WANT YOU to come back to Him. Whatever condition you are in, allow your MEMORIES of being in His presence to guide you back to where you belong.
You must decide to refuse to die where you are. You must remember that strength that lies within you. You must remember that you have specific purpose and you a part of a Divine plan.
So I encourage you to stop sitting around waiting on a MIRACLE and allow your MEMORIES to guide you forward.
MY JOURNEY – February 2013.
THE JOURNEY – January 2013.
The purest freedom an individual can experience comes when you are released from the opinions and control of others. When you KNOW what the Father has predestined for YOU, you do not have to walk out the steps of someone else. Together we will share the importance of knowing and hearing His voice so that we may live the “Triumphant” lives that He desires for us.
We gave and we received much last year. We achieved and accomplished much. We have set ourselves in position to experience our NEXT and we are going forward TRIUMPHANTLY! We have been healed and delivered in many areas and the obstacles we have seen before, we will never see again. NOW it is time for our SEASON OF RELEASE. We have puts things in order and connected to things and people that are a part of our Purpose. Now it’s time go GO! Release what has been placed in you and watch the world change!
We made it! We have entered a new year and new moment in time a new phase of our Journey. The obstacles of last year have been overcome and we have arrived at this new place, TRIUMPHANT! Last year proved to be extremely difficult for many of us. We encountered trials that we never dreamed of. However, the glorious part about that is that we pushed through and remained focused on our Purpose.
As we stand on new ground, entering new territory we must stand firm on our Faith. Yes this is ground that we have never cover. This is territory we have never seen before. But it is imperative that we remember that our God already knows what is ahead of us and He called it “Good.” He has designed individual plans for us that will keep us empowered, enlightened and uplifted. He has already set in place the divine connections that we need and He has already worked it out.
It is our responsibility now to just follow His leading with a spirit of obedience. We must be totally committed to knowing that He is in control. Each of our Journey’s are uniquely ours, yet they carry one corporately designed fact, they already existed before we were even born. From the beginning of time, the Creator mapped our the uniqueness of our Journey. He is the one constant from your beginning to your end.
There is nothing that will occur on your Journey that He doesn’t already know about. In this phase, you are becoming and manifesting what He already said that you are. What is within you by divine order, is now being revealed. You are becoming (to yourself and others) what you ALREADY were in God’s eyes. Now, it’s time for the REAL you to show up! | 2019-04-20T02:23:21Z | https://jamigreeneministries.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/ | Porn | Home | 0.120737 |
wikipedia | "KHN" redirects here. For the news service, see Kaiser Family Foundation.
Nanchang Changbei International Airport (IATA: KHN, ICAO: ZSCN) is an airport serving Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province, China. It is located 28 kilometres (17 mi) north of Nanchang. Construction began in October 1996 and the airport went into operation on 10 September 1999, replacing Nanchang Xiangtang Airport. It was upgraded to an international airport and was greatly expanded in 2008–2011.
Nanchang Xiangtang Airport, a dual-use civil and military airport, served as Nanchang's main airport from 1957 to 1999. From 102 passengers in 1957, by 1996 Xiangtang served more than 800,000 passengers annually and could no longer accommodate more traffic. In 1996, construction began for Changbei Airport, originally designed to handle 2 million passengers annually. On 10 September 1999, Changbei Airport was opened and all commercial flights were transferred from Xiangtang, which reverted to sole military use.
In 2003, Capital Airport Holding took over the operation of Changbei Airport from the Jiangxi Provincial Government. In the same year, it handled more than 1 million annual passengers for the first time. In 2004, Changbei was upgraded to an international airport. Passenger volume grew exponentially in the 2000s, and the airport underwent major expansion in 2008. At its completion in 2011, Changbei Airport became a Class 4E international airport, capable of handling 12 million passengers per year.
However, the rapid expansion of China's high-speed railway network diverted much of the airport's passenger volume, and passenger growth at Changbei slowed to 6.3%, 3.4%, and 5% in 2014, 2015, and 2016, respectively. The governments of Nanchang city and Jiangxi province began subsidizing new flights in 2017 and passenger volume grew by 39% in that year and exceeded 10 million for the first time. By 2018, the airport hosts 46 airlines, which operate 127 routes connecting Nanchang with 68 cities. The third phase of expansion, which will connect the airport to Nanchang Metro and the high-speed railway network, is under construction.
Part of the airport exterior roof collapsed during strong winds on 4 March 2018.
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^ "Hong Kong Airlines Adds Nanchang Service from late-April 2015". Airlineroute.net. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^ "'นกแอร์' ใช้ 'สนามบินอู่ตะเภา' เป็นฐานการบินเช่าเหมาลำ (Nok Air will operate 4 direct charter flights a week from UTP to KHN)" (in Thai). Voice TV. 2 October 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
^ Shenzhen Airlines adds Nanchang – Macau service from April 2019 Routesonline. 18 March 2019.
^ "Video: Part of roof collapses at China's Nanchang airport amid strong winds | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. 2018-03-05. Retrieved 2018-03-09. | 2019-04-23T16:28:42Z | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanchang_Changbei_International_Airport | Porn | News | 0.757933 |
google | To apply to be a consultant for the upcoming 2016-2017 academic year, submit this filled out application by April 28th at midnight. Check out 180dc.org for more information about the largest student-led consultancy in the world.
Carefully read the background on the position and do not hesitate to contact us at 180dc@middlebury.edu with any inquiries in the meantime.
180 Degrees Consulting has 74 branches in 31 countries and prides itself in offering uniquely affordable high quality consulting services to socially conscious organization all over the world. Please visit our website for further information (http://180dc.org/branch/middlebury/). The Middlebury branch was launched in 2015 and has served 3 clients thus far.
Consultants will work collaboratively on one of three teams, each of which will be paired with selected non-profits and socially conscious organizations in the Vermont area. Each team will consist of about 5-6 consultants one of whom will serve as the Case Team Leader. Teams will work together to provide free consulting services to their first client from September 2016 to the middle of J-Term, and then with a second client from J-Term until May. Throughout the duration of the project the consulting team will allocate tasks among themselves appropriately depending on the course action required to tackle the case. The Case Team Leader will check in with the executive board and our faculty advisor on a frequent basis to provide an update on the progress of her/his team’s project. The team and Case Team Leader will have full ownership of their project and personally oversee all client relations, including the final face-to-face presentation that all teams will have put together by the end of JTerm.
Consultants rely on a myriad of skills to succeed – as for example interpersonal/team work skills, critical thinking and analytical abilities. We’re excited to hear about any of your past experiences that were meaningful to you, the general skills that they have helped you build, and how you hope to apply those at 180DC to help you, your team, and your client succeed.
To qualify for the position previous consulting or business experience is not required – in fact, you should view this as an opportunity to be thrown in in the deep end and gain hands-on consulting experience to find out whether you find the process of thinking about the solutions to business problems one you enjoy and find rewarding.
However, this can only be as rewarding, meaningful, and impactful of an experience as you and your team make it through the time, effort and commitment you collectively invest. We thus do require that all applicants are seriously invested and are also aware of the fact the position will be a substantial time commitment.
NOTE: All exec board/ team leader positions will meet once weekly for 1 hour to discuss the overall progress of all of the consulting projects and help with general branch management. Total time commitment for exec board/ team leader positions (5-6 hours per week). Executive team members will NOT be staffed on a specific consulting project but are in charge of overseeing all projects and maintaining client relationships, recruitment efforts, and deliverable completion.
Vice President(s) - works with the president to guide other officers and directors, establishes connections with other 180 Degrees chapters in the international organization network, coordinates tentative semester schedules for consulting projects and executive activities, oversee project management of other executives and student consultants, communicate project management information to other executives at meetings.
Secretary - Responsible for making appointments on-campus, establish and communicate meeting agendas, record minutes from the meetings, update executives on tasks completed and future work, communicate progress updates to other executives and directors, organize space reservations for meetings.
Treasurer/Finance Director - serve as the dedicated 180 Degrees Consulting liaison between the Middlebury College chapter and the SGA finance committee, develop the budget and manage the associated account, execute all financial decisions of the branch, plan cost structure for 180 Degrees Consulting events.
Team Leader - Manage team of 5 consultants and ensure that all project deadlines are met in a timely fashion. Organize, schedule and lead weekly team meetings (these happen once a week for approx. 45 mins- 1 hour). | 2019-04-26T12:21:04Z | https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfT65WN6unh52Z9EqIgPnHKbt6ESoaxEqf2kMyQCBGmENVduA/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=send_form | Porn | Business | 0.955464 |
wordpress | I still have a blog! Just more photos this time though.
The Creationists, my friend Kevin Pope on bass here.
The Young, reminding me of Urge Overkill for some reason.
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wordpress | These past couple of days have been difficult. It feels like I’ve been drifting aimlessly in this dark and empty void. And instead of trying to find a way out, I find myself being more and more okay with getting stuck here.
Then I listen to this song, and it lights up my weary soul for a second. But it’s a second that keeps me going. I can’t tell you how much life this song gives me. I just hope that, if you find yourself in the same place I’m currently in, you’ll find some comfort in this song as well. | 2019-04-23T14:50:52Z | https://sunnysideupwithbacon.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/12893/ | Porn | Arts | 0.18049 |
yahoo | MORRIS PLAINS, N.J., March 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Immunomedics, Inc., (IMMU) (“Immunomedics” or the “Company”), a leading biopharmaceutical company in the area of antibody-drug conjugates (ADC), today announced the appointment of Barbara G. Duncan to the Company’s Board of Directors and as the Chairperson of the Audit Committee. Ms. Duncan has over 30 years of financial leadership experience, of which 17 are in the life sciences industry.
“We are honored to have Barbara join our Board. Barbara is an experienced Board director and a seasoned biotech executive with deep experience in corporate and financial strategy, and financial operations. Barbara will bring an extraordinary perspective to the Audit Committee, while overseeing financial discipline and enterprise risk management,” said Behzad Aghazadeh, Executive Chairman of Immunomedics.
Ms. Duncan previously served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Prior to her leadership role with Intercept, Ms. Duncan was Chief Financial Officer and then Chief Executive Officer at DOV Pharmaceutical Inc., which was sold to Euthymics Bioscience, Inc. in 2010.
Ms. Duncan currently serves on the Board of Directors of Aevi Genomic Medicine, Inc., Adaptimmune Therapeutics, plc, Jounce Therapeutics, Inc., ObsEva SA, and OVID Therapeutics Inc. She received a M.B.A. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Louisiana State University. | 2019-04-19T13:50:20Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/immunomedics-appoints-barbara-g-duncan-210100355.html?.tsrc=rss | Porn | Business | 0.673051 |
google | A computer program embodied in a computer readable medium in a mobile station MS includes instructions to display a first identifier, such as a song title, associated with a first media (music or video) file and a second identifier identified with a second media file. The first identifier indicates that the first media file is stored in the MS and the second identifier indicates that the file is not stored within the MS. Five such identifiers are disclosed, with functionality to up/download the media files one or more at a time from a PC or a networked server. Playlists and albums may be similarly indicated in their identifiers. The user is enabled to create and edit playlists on the MS without regard to what media files are stored on the MS. The MS may store file identifiers for the database maintained on the PC, a large-scale database maintained at a media service server, or a portion thereof. A mobile station is also described.
The present invention relates to synchronizing and managing files that are stored in one or both of a memory-limited device such as a mobile station and a larger-memory device such as a personal computer. It is specifically directed toward software to manage music files between a portable and a non-portable device.
The owners of popular music have only recently embraced downloading digital copies of their copyrighted works over electronic networks such as the internet. One popular website for doing so is http://www.apple.com/itunes/, wherein users visit the website of a music service via a personal computer (PC) or the like, manually select a song title, and download a digital version of the selected song to the PC they used to visit the website. The user then plays the songs on the PC or transfers or uploads them to a portable device such as a Rio®, iPod® or other such dedicated portable digital music player.
Dedicated portable digital music players now have the capacity to store ten thousand or more digital song files and indexing information about those songs. While users can carry essentially their entire digital song collection with them and create and edit playlists on the go, the resulting playlists are limited to only those songs stored on the dedicated portable device; such dedicated devices do not have the capability to download songs directly from the music service. That function remains with the PC or similar device having a network connection. A portable device having such a network download capability, such as a mobile stations MS having an internet browsing capability, cannot currently dedicate enough of its limited memory only to storing and indexing many thousands of songs (though technological advances may soon overcome that limitation).
Furthermore, synchronization software for at least some popular dedicated portable music devices (such as iPod® and Nomad®) delete song files from one device (e.g., the dedicated portable device) upon being synchronized with a companion device (e.g., the Mac PC) from which the song file was deleted. In other words, deleting a song file from either device leads to deleting all remaining copies of the song on either device during the next synchronization, despite the fact that the user already purchased the song. In that instance, the PC cannot serve as a viable library from which to re-upload songs to the portable device. To the inventors' knowledge, the synchronization software does not prompt a user that the only remaining copy of a particular song file is about to be deleted, and therefore constricts the user's library of song files insidiously. Each of these aspects further drives the user to maintain his/her entire library of digital music files on a portable device; the PC being used only to download songs and possibly to create and edit playlists, but not as a music file repository.
Where a mobile station is used to store and play music, the user gains the advantage of downloading new songs on the go, but loses the advantage of having his/her entire music collection with him/her. In that instance, the user must dedicate more effort to managing the songs uploaded to and stored on the MS. Specifically, the user must select the music he intends to hear over the MS, create and/or edit playlists, delete unwanted songs from the MS, and upload from the PC to the MS any songs within the new playlists (and the new playlists themselves) that are not already stored in the MS. Generally, when a user wishes to upload songs to a MS, he/she creates new playlists or selects new songs on the PC, and all songs on the MS are automatically deleted and the newly selected songs and playlists are uploaded when initiated by the user. This is so that the songs most recently selected by the user (at the PC) may be stored on the memory within the MS that remains available for music files. Synchronization software as described above would require a use to maintain a song on a playlist continuously once it was uploaded to the MS, else lose all copies of that song.
One alternative is for a user to carry two disparate devices: a MS for mobile telephony and downloading songs on the go from a music service; and a dedicated portable music player for storing and playing a larger variety of songs than would be available on the MS alone. This appears the dominant preference of consumers given the current state of available hardware and software.
The inventors surmise that neither of the above options are optimal for users who desire both personalized music and mobile telephony capability while on the go. The present invention is therefore directed at streamlining a user's ability to manage the songs and playlists stored on and played by a MS, while still retaining the advantages a MS offers in downloading new songs directly from a networked music service.
This invention is in one embodiment a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium within a host device, preferably a mobile station MS. The computer program includes a first set of computer instructions to display a plurality of identifiers, each associated with a digital media file. The identifiers may be a song title, artist or the like. A first identifier indicates that a first media file associated with that first identifier is stored within the host device. A second identifier indicates that a second media file associated with that second identifier is not stored within the host device. Preferably, there are five identifiers: one indicates the media file is stored in the host device; one indicates the media file is stored in a separate device that is occasionally coupled to then host device via a local link; one indicates the media file is marked for deletion in that separate device; one indicates the media file is stored in both the host device and the separate device; one indicates the media file is stored in neither the host or separate device but has been previously purchased by the user; and the last one indicates the media file has not been purchased by the user but is available over a broader, non-localized network. Preferably, the host device is a MS and the separate device is a PC.
In another embodiment, the invention is a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium within a host device, such as a MS or a PC. The computer program includes a first set of computer instructions to store, within the host device, a first media file and a first identifier associated with that first media file. It also includes a second set of computer instructions to store, within the host device, a second identifier associated with a second media file that is not stored within the host device. Further, it includes a third set of computer instructions to display both the first and the second identifiers regardless of whether the host device is coupled to a network. In this manner, the computer program is enabled to display a media file title or other identifier whether or not the host device has stored within it the media file associated with each displayed identifier.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention is a mobile station that has an internal storage media, a processor, and a display interface. The internal storage media stores a first plurality of media files and a second plurality of file names. All media files of a certain audio/visual type that are stored within the mobile station are within the first plurality; for instance, all music files, all still-image files, all video files. A media file is a digital file from which a humanly perceptible audio and/or video signal may be reconstructed. The processor maps each of the first plurality of media files to a file name of the second plurality. For each file name of the second plurality that is displayed (and any of them may be, separately or in combination), those mapped to a media file are displayed with a first characteristic, and those mapped to a media file are displayed with something other than the first characteristic. Preferably, some of the media files displayed with other than the first characteristic are mapped to a separate storage location apart from the mobile station, and those are displayed with a second characteristic that may differ from the first in font, color, shading or background, or an icon displayed adjacent to the file name.
The mobile station may further include means to link to the separate storage location over one of a wireless telephony link, a cable link, a wireless piconet link, and a wireless optical link. These means are known in the art. In this instance, the processor sends a request for an additional media file that is not within the first plurality. This additional media file corresponds to a file name displayed with the second characteristic and is selected by a user. The file name selected by the user may be stored in the internal storage media, and the processor sends the request for the additional media file upon a user command input that occurs at a later time, such as only upon a user command input or automatically upon the next establishment of a link (as above) between the mobile station and the separate storage location. The separate storage location may be a PC or a server on the internet or other network. Some file names may be mapped to the PC, and others mapped to the server. In that case, file names mapped to one of the server or PC are displayed with the second characteristic, and those mapped to the other of the PC or server are displayed with the third characteristic. When the mobile station receives a new file name, such as via an email, or a new media file, such as by synchronizing with a PC or downloading a new media file from a server, the processor updates the mapping and the display interface reflects the update.
Similar to file names, the internal storage media may store a third plurality of file names associated with a playlist name, and the display interface displays the playlist name according to the processor's mapping. The third plurality of file names may or may not have file names in common with the second plurality of file names. Where each file name of the playlist corresponds to a media file stored in the internal memory media, the playlist name is displayed with a third characteristic, which may or may not be the same as the first characteristic used in displaying file names. Where some but not all so correspond, the playlist name is displayed with a fourth characteristic; and where none so correspond, the playlist name is displayed with a fifth characteristic. Either the fourth or fifth characteristic used for the playlist name, preferably the fourth, may be the same as the second characteristic used for the file name. A user can select the playlist name, and receive from the separate storage location (which may be a PC or server) each media file for which the processor mapped to the separate storage location the file names associated with the playlist. Preferably, this is done in response to a command input that, as above, may be separated in time from the user selecting the playlist name.
These and other features, aspects, and advantages of embodiments of the present invention will become apparent with reference to the following description in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. It is to be understood, however, that the drawings are designed solely for the purposes of illustration and not as a definition of the limits of the invention.
FIG. 1 is communication system in which the present invention is most advantageously operated.
FIG. 2 is a mobile station in which the computer program of the present invention is stored.
FIG. 3 is an exemplary display at the MS of a playlist of music file titles that identify where the underlying music file is stored.
FIG. 4 is an exemplary display at the MS of a list of playlists wherein each playlist identifies where the music files underlying the titles within that playlist are stored.
FIG. 5 is an exemplary display at the MS of a listing of CDs by one band, each CD identified by where the music files within that CD are stored.
FIG. 6 is an exemplary display at the MS of a listing of one CD and its tracks, each track identified by where the underlying file is stored.
The following terms are used in describing the invention and its embodiments. A mobile station MS is a handheld portable device that is capable of wirelessly accessing a non-localized network such as the internet via a mobile telephony network of base stations that are coupled to a publicly switched telephone network. A cellular phone, a PCS phone, and a personal digital assistant (PDA) with internet capability are examples of a MS. A personal computer PC is a computing device, larger than handheld size, which is capable of accessing the network. This access may be via a hardwire connection or a wireless local area network WLAN. Though in some instances a PC may have wireless mobile telephony capability via a WLAN and a web-phone using voice-over internet protocol, the PC is distinguished over a MS by its size and by its non-use of base stations to access the broader network, as base stations are traditionally understood in the context of mobile telephony. A desktop PC, a laptop or palmtop PC, or a web-TV are examples of a PC. In nearly all instances, a PC is distinguished by a QWERTY keyboard that is not present in the MS. A digital music file is an audio work reduced to digital form, such as a popular music song on a CD or downloaded from a network. An identifier associated with a digital media file is any means by which the file may be indexed and categorized, such as song title, artist, album/CD, genre, and the like. An embedded ISRC (International Standard Recording Code), UPC (universal product code) or EAN (European Product Number) may also be used to uniquely identify a specific recording or digital music or media file. A media file is a digital file from which a humanly perceptible audio and/or video signal may be reconstructed. A digital version of a popular music song (such as may be played on an iPod® or Rio® device) or music video are examples of media files.
FIG. 1 depicts a communication system 20 in which the present invention exhibits its greatest versatility. A MS 22 defines a user interface display 24 and a series of buttons 26 or other input means by which a user may make inputs to the MS. User inputs described herein as entered via buttons or the like may also be entered via voice commands where the MS 22 is so enabled. The MS 22 has mobile telephony capability through which it may place or receive wireless telephone calls through a base station 28 via a wireless telephony link 30. The base station 30 is coupled to a non-localized network 32 through preferably a hardwired connection (as shown) to a communication server 34 as is known in the art, through which the MS 22 may access a commercial provider of digital music files such as a server of a music service 36. Where the network 32 is the internet and the MS includes a compatible browser program, the MS 22 may download digital music files directly from the music service 36 via the mobile link 30.
Within the system is also advantageously a personal computer PC 38 having an input keyboard 40 such as a QWERTY type keyboard, and a display screen 42. The MS 22 and the PC 38 are in occasional communication via a local link 44, which may be a wireless Bluetooth® link, a hardwired cable connection that may couple to the MS 22 via a male/female plug arrangement or through a cradle, or the like. The local link 44 is short distance, generally limited to about fifty feet. The mobile telephony link 30 is viable over a much longer distance and differs from the local link 44 in both type and range. The PC 38 is in contact with the non-local network 32 via an internet service provider server 46 such as via a hardwire connection (as shown), or a WLAN connection where the WLAN includes an access point to the network 32.
As an overview, the present invention enables a user to manage identifiers for digital music files on the MS without regard to whether the associated music file underlying the identifier is stored on the MS 22. The underlying file may be stored on the PC 38 or only on the music service server 36. In this manner, the user may dynamically manage his/her library of music files on the go with the MS 22 by readily seeing on the display 24 of the MS 22 which music files are stored on the MS 22, which are stored on the PC 38, and which are stored only on the music service server 38. The user can create and edit playlists of song titles (or other identifiers) at the MS 22, and upload from the PC 38 via the local link 44 any or all music files listed on that new playlist that are not yet stored on the MS 22. Where the MS 22 stores lists of digital music titles stored in the music service server 36, the user may download from the music server 36 over the mobile telephony link 30 any or all music files listed on that new playlist that are not yet stored on the MS 22 or the PC 38. In this manner, the display 24 of the MS 22 enables the PC 38 to act as one database of digital music files already purchased by the user, and the music server 36 to act as another database of music files not yet purchased by the user. The titles or other identifiers of the underlying music files are displayed differently on the display 24 of the MS 22 based on the location of the underlying music file, such as by color coding the displayed title or displaying a particular icon adjacent to the title. Names of playlists (e.g., playlist 1; playlist 2; female vocalists; ski music) may also be differently displayed to indicate whether all underlying music files are within the MS 22, some within the PC 38, some within the music server 36, or none within the MS 22. Whereas the following detailed description refers to the display 24 on the MS 22, the invention applies equally to the display screen 42 of the PC 38.
FIG. 2 illustrates in block diagram form the MS 22 of FIG. 1. These blocks are functional and the functions described below may or may not be performed by a single physical entity as depicted in FIG. 2. The display 24 and user input means 26 are as previously described. The MS further includes a power source 48 such as a self-contained battery that provides electrical power to a processor 50 that controls functions within the MS 22. Voice inputs are received at a microphone 52 that may be coupled to the processor 50 through a buffer memory 54. Computer programs such as a display driver, modulating algorithms, encoding and decoding algorithms, and the like are stored in a memory storage media 56 which may be an electronic, optical, or magnetic memory storage media as is known in the art for storing computer readable instructions and programs. The MS 22 communicates over the mobile telephony link 30 via a first antenna 58 that is selectively coupled via a first T/R switch 60 to a primary transmitter 62 and a primary receiver 64. The MS 22 communicates over the local link 44 via a second antenna 66 that is selectively coupled via a second T/R switch to a Bluetooth® transmitter 70 and a Bluetooth® receiver 72. The primary antenna 58 may be more than one for multi-channel communications, and may also serve as the functions for the second antenna 66. The Bluetooth® transmitter 70 and receiver 72 are preferably but need not be separate from the primary transmitter 62 and receiver 64. Audible output from the MS 22 is transduced at a speaker 74.
Embodied on the computer readable storage media 56 is a computer program according to the present invention that carries one or more sets of computer instructions. A first set of computer instructions display a plurality of digital music file identifiers, each associated with an underlying digital music file. FIG. 3 depicts a display 324 of the MS 22 as may be directed by this first set of computer instructions: a playlist name 310 and a series of music file identifiers 311 through 315, each listing a song title and a song artist along a common horizontal line. The identifier(s) for the file “SONG ABC” is/are displayed so as to indicate that the music file associated with that identifier is stored in within the MS 22. The identifier(s) for the file “SONG DEF” is/are displayed so as to indicate that the music file associated with that identifier is stored in within the PC 38.
Preferably, the computer instructions provide five different indicators to show which of five categories each file identifier falls within. The indicators may be different colors for identifier text, different font for the text, icons adjacent to the text file identifiers, different backgrounds, and the like. A first category or indicator indicates that the underlying music file is stored within the MS 22, and is represented by lines 311 and 315 of FIG. 3. A second category or indicator indicates that the underlying music file is stored within the PC 38 but not within the MS 22, and is represented by line 314 of FIG. 3. A button 326A, preferably flagged by a soft function identifier 316, enables the user to upload a selected song of the second category, or all displayed songs of the second category, to the MS 22 from the PC 38. Depressing the button 326A causes the MS 22 to initiate a local connection 44 with the PC 38 and automatically upload the underlying music file associated with the category 2 identifier(s). Where an immediate local connection 44 cannot be established (e.g., out of range), the associated music file will be uploaded upon the next synchronization or connection with the PC 38. A third category or indicator indicates that the underlying music file is stored in both the MS 22 and PC 38. In this category, the music file may be deleted at the MS 22, in which case its identifier at the MS 22 shows that the music file at the PC 38 is marked for deletion, either on an immediately established link 44 or upon the next synchronization as with the category two identifiers and files. A fourth category or indicator indicates that the underlying music file has previously been purchased by the user but is no longer stored within either the PC 38 or the MS 22 (e.g., deletion, data loss, corrupted file), and may be re-downloaded from the music service server 36 where it is stored. A fifth category or indicator indicates that the underlying music file is stored within the music service server 36 but had not yet been purchased by the user. Depressing another button 326C flagged by a soft function indicator 317 initiates a wireless telephony link 30 to access the music service server 36 to download the music file associated with either the selected category four or five identifier, or to download multiple music files underlying multiple selected identifiers.
Indicators for any of these five categories may be displayed regardless of the presence of a link 30, 44 to other components, because the music file identifiers are stored within the MS 22. The user can see at a glance which music files are resident on the MS 22, which are resident on the PC 38, and which he/she has previously purchased and may yet download another copy within that original license. A file identifier may automatically transition from category four to category five upon expiration of a license upon which a copy of a music file is purchased, which, when present, are generally limited in time or number of downloads when present. Where lines 311 and 315 of FIG. 3 represent category one identifiers, only those music files will be played when the user selects “PLAYLIST 1” to play on the MS 22.
The MS 22 is enabled to display file identifiers for music files that are not stored within the MS 22 by storing identifiers separate from the music files with which they are associated. For example, upon synchronizing with the PC 38, all identifiers for the database of music files within the PC 38 are uploaded to the MS 22. A simple comparison between that uploaded identifier database and the database of music files within the MS 22 resolves category 1 and category 2 files. Category three files are self explanatory; the user may mark for deletion a music file associated with an identifier at the MS 22, whether or not the user ever had a copy of that same music file stored on the MS 22. Category four files have been previously deleted so that no associated music file exists on the MS 22 or the PC 38, but the deletion need not eliminate the associated identifier, leaving category four files. Category five files are stored on the music service server 36. Similar to uploading from the PC 38 the identifiers for music files stored there, the MS 22 may download from the music service server 36 a database of music file identifiers for which the server 36 stores an associated music file. This database downloaded from the server 36 may include all music files stored on the server 36, it may be tailored to the user's preferences either explicitly when the user explicitly selects a particular subset of music files for which he/she desires identifiers, the server 36 may deduce a user preference based on music files downloaded by that user, or the identifiers may be only those from the same artist or album/CD for which the user has browsed or downloaded already. Even a file carrying identifiers for about 500,000 music files will occupy about the same amount of storage media 56 as only several music files themselves, so this option is viable for currently available MSs 22. Regardless, the identifier database as well as the database of underlying music files is updated each time the MS 22 and PC synchronize, and each time the MS 22 and the server 36 communicate. As noted above, the same display and categories may be displayed on the display screen 42 of the PC 38 where the computer program described above is resident on the PC 38, with obvious modifications to the above description.
The concept described above is extended in the present invention to playlists themselves as illustrated in FIG. 4, a display 424 of an MS 22 showing a list of playlists. Five playlist names are shown: “Playlist 1” at line 411; “Drive Music” at line 412; “Ski Music” at line 413; “Romantic” at line 414; and “Playlist 2” at line 415. “Playlist 1” includes, for example, music file identifiers for both category one and category two as shown in FIG. 3. Such a playlist name may be indicated by an orange color, for example. The particular shade of orange may further indicate the amount of underlying files on the MS 22 versus the PC 38 and/or server 36. “Drive Music” and “Romantic” may instead include only music identifiers for which the underlying music files are resident on the MS 22, so those playlist names may be indicated in green. “Ski Music” may for example include only identifiers whose underlying music files are resident only on the PC 38, so it may be indicated in yellow. “Playlist 2” may include only file identifiers whose underlying music files are stored only on the server 36 and not on the PC 38 or MS 22, and might be indicated by a red color. Where more playlists exist than can be simultaneously shown on the display 424, a scroll bar 418 may be added as known in the art.
Assume that “Playlist 1” includes some file identifiers for which the associated music file is resident on the MS 22, some file identifiers for which the associated music file is resident on the PC 38 but not the MS 22, and some file identifiers for which the associated music file is resident on the server 36 but not on the PC 38 or the MS 22. A user may select that playlist name, as indicated in FIG. 4 by a shaded background behind the playlist name. Depressing a single button 426A, as identified by a soft function indicator 416, will cause the MS 22 to initiate a local connection 44 to the PC 38 and upload all music files associated with the identifiers on that playlist from the PC 38, save those already stored in the MS 22 (alternatively, it may upload all such files, overwriting those already stored on the MS 22). Where no connection 44 is immediately available, the music files will be marked for upload on the next synchronization. Depressing another single button 426C, as identified by another soft function indicator 417, will cause the MS 22 to initiate a mobile telephony connection 30 to the music service server 36 and download all music files associated with the identifiers on that playlist from the server 36 that are marked as not stored in the PC 38 or MS 22. User billing data may be stored at the server 36 from a previous transaction to enable fewer keystrokes from the user to effect the transaction.
Similar functionality may be used for a specific artist, as shown in FIG. 5. The artists name is displayed atop the display 524, along with a listing of album/CD names or other identifiers. These identifiers may be stored on the MS 22 as described above, even if no music file from that album/CD is stored on the MS 22. The album/CD name is displayed similar to the playlist names of FIG. 4: a red color indicates all music files or tracks from that album/CD is available on the server 36 but not stored on the MS 22 or PC 38; shades of orange indicate varying percentages of music files for that album/CD are stored on any mixture of the MS 22, PC 38 and server 36; yellow indicates that all music files for that album/CD are stored on the PC 38 but not the MS 22; and green indicates that all music files for that album/CD are stored on the MS 22. A user may highlight a particular album/CD as shown in line 513 for the album/CD identifier “Live in Oulu”. Depressing a single button 526A, as identified by a soft function indicator 516, will cause the MS 22 to initiate a local connection 44 to the PC 38 and upload all music files associated with the selected album/CD name from the PC 38, save those already stored in the MS 22 (alternatively, it may upload all such files, overwriting those already stored on the MS 22). Where no connection 44 is immediately available, the music files will be marked for upload on the next synchronization. Depressing another single button 526C, as identified by another soft function indicator 517, will cause the MS 22 to initiate a mobile telephony connection 30 to the music service server 36 and download all music files associated with the selected album/CD identifier from the server 36 that are marked as not stored in the PC 38 or MS 22.
However, a user may not wish to always upload or download all remaining tracks of an album/CD as described in FIG. 5. In accordance with FIG. 6, a display 624 may yet list the music files associated with only one particular album/CD. Continuing with the “Live in Oulu” album/CD identifier of “The Girl Band” of FIG. 5, FIG. 6 lists all music files 611-615 from that album/CD (with scroll bar 618 where necessary). These music identifiers carry an indication of the category in which the underlying music file falls, as described with reference to the music files of the playlist in FIG. 3. Selecting only one of the file identifiers followed by a user input via a button 616, 617 then effects upload via a local link 44, or download via a wireless telephony link 30, as the case may be, of the associated music file.
The sets of computer instructions described above may be resident on the MS 22 as particularly described, or on the PC 38 with minor obvious modifications. Where a local link 44 cannot be established when first attempted, the computer program preferably marks the file identifier to perform the intended act (e.g., upload, delete) upon the next synchronization with the other device (PC 38 or MS 22). Where a mobile telephony link 30 cannot be established when first attempted, the computer program preferably marks the file identifier to perform the intended act (e.g., download) upon the next time the user accesses the server 36 via either the current device 22, 38, or the other device 38, 22 after synchronization with the current device but before the next accessing of the server 36.
In addition to enabling a user to better assess the state of his music library on both the MS 22 and the PC 38 with only a few glances at either display 24, 42, the present invention enables a user to create, edit, and delete playlists from his/her MS 22 so that playlists are dynamically updated over link 30, 44 based on changes entered while the user is on the go. For example, a friend may email or SMS the title of a new song that the friend recommends. The user can paste the emailed song title to a playlist and immediately see if he/she owns a copy of the music file for that song on either the MS 22 or PC 38.
Similar functionality may be achieved where the friend emails an entire playlist. Each title within the playlist is mapped to the underlying music file stored in the MS 22 and/or the PC 38, as appropriate. However, in the instance where there is no data connection between the MS 22 and the PC 38, certain titles in the playlist may not accurately indicate that an underlying corresponding file is stored in the other device (e.g., the PC 38 when the playlist is emailed to the MS 22). That inaccuracy would be corrected upon the next synchronization of the MS 22 and PC 38. In general, the enhanced user environment of the present invention allows users to dispense with carrying a dedicated portable music player and a MS, in favor of a MS using the programs of the present invention.
The foregoing description has provided by way of exemplary and non-limiting examples a full and informative description of the best method and apparatus presently contemplated by the inventors for carrying out the invention. However, various modifications and adaptations may become apparent to those skilled in the relevant arts in view of the foregoing description, when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and the appended claims. For example, the MS may request a download from a network based server via the PC when the MS and the PC have an active link between them, such as a Bluetooth or a cable link. Where the MS may have options for two different links to the database, a selected song may be downloaded via the best available link (such as the one exhibiting the capacity for higher data transfer rate) so that a broadband cable to a PC links to the MS would be selected to download the media file over a mobile telephony link. Additionally, the MS may not establish a link for purposes of downloading a song whose title the user selected until and unless a certain prescribed data transfer rate is measured, so that the user request is not automatically complied with when only poor or low-throughput links are available. All such and similar modifications of the teachings of this invention will still fall within the scope of this invention. Furthermore, some of the features of the present invention could be used to advantage without the corresponding use of other features. As such, the foregoing description should be considered as merely illustrative of the principles of the present invention, and not in limitation thereof.
a second identifier indicates that a second media file associated with the second identifier is stored at a location other than within the MS.
2. The computer program of claim 1 wherein the identifier comprises a media file title and the first and second identifier are distinguished by at least one of: a different font of said title, a different color of said title, a different shade of said title, and a different icon displayed adjacent to the title.
a second set of computer instructions to establish a connection to a database and copy the second media file to the MS in response to a user input.
4. The computer program of claim 3 wherein the database comprises a server on a network, and the connection from the mobile station to the server is via a personal computer to which the mobile station is electronically coupled.
the first set of computer instructions further display a third identifier that indicates that a third media file associated with the third identifier is not stored within the MS or the PC.
the second set of computer instructions initiates a local connection to the PC to upload the second media file when the corresponding user input selects the second identifier, and initiates a mobile telephony connection to a media service server to download the third media file over a data communications network when user input selects the third identifier.
the playlist name is displayed in a third manner when no digital media files associated with the digital media identifiers associated with the first playlist name are stored within the MS.
8. The computer program of claim 7 wherein the third set of computer instructions simultaneously displays at least two playlist names, each in one of the first, second, and third manner, and does not simultaneously display a digital media identifier associated with either of the at least two playlists.
a fourth set of computer instructions responsive to a user both selecting a playlist that is displayed in the second or third manner, and requesting a new file be stored in the MS, to initiate a connection to a database and copy music files from that database that are associated with the digital media identifiers of the user selected playlist and not stored on the MS.
the database is stored within a PC and the connection comprises a local connection to the PC.
the database is stored within a media service server and the connection comprises a mobile telephony connection via the internet.
the second identifier indicates that the second media file associated with the second identifier is stored within a PC that has previously been synchronized to the MS.
a third identifier that indicates that a third media file associated with a third identifier is stored in both the MS and within a PC that has been coupled to the MS via a local link.
a fourth identifier that indicates that a fourth media file associated with a fourth identifier is not stored in the MS or in a device separate from the MS and linked thereto via a local link, and is stored in a server linked to the MS via a mobile telephony link.
a third set of computer instructions to display both the first and second identifier regardless of whether the host device is coupled to a network.
a fourth set of computer instructions to enable a user to create and edit a playlist of media identifiers stored within the host device without regard to whether a media file associated with a particular music identifier is stored within the host device.
17. The computer program of claim 16 further comprising a fifth set of computer instructions to synchronize music files and playlists between the host device and a personal computer, wherein a media file deleted from the host device is not automatically deleted from a separate device selectively coupled to the host device via a local link.
18. The computer program of claim 15 wherein the second set of computer instructions is to upload, over a local connection from a separate device, and store a database of identifiers each associated with a media file that is stored in the separate device.
19. The computer program of claim 18 wherein the separate device is a PC.
20. The computer program of claim 15 wherein the second set of computer instructions is to download, over a mobile telephony connection and the internet from a media service server, and store a database of identifiers each associated with a media file that is stored at the server.
21. The computer program of claim 20 wherein the database of identifiers is a subset of all identifiers stored at said server, said subset defined by at least one user preference.
22. The computer program of claim 15 wherein the host device is a mobile station.
a display interface coupled to the processor to display a series of file names, such that each file name that is mapped to a media file of the first plurality is displayed with a first characteristic and each file name that is not mapped to a media file of the first plurality is displayed with other than the first characteristic.
said display interface is further to display each file name that is mapped to the separate storage location with a second characteristic.
means to link to the separate storage location over one of a wireless telephony link, a cable link, a wireless piconet link, a wireless LAN, and a wireless optical link, wherein said processor sends a request for an additional media file that is not within the first plurality, wherein the additional media file corresponds to a file name displayed with the second characteristic and is selected by a user.
26. The mobile station of claim 25 wherein said file name selected by a user is stored in the internal storage media, and the processor sends the request for the additional media file upon a user command input.
27. The mobile station of claim 25 wherein, in response to a user command input, the processor sends the request upon a next subsequent establishment of a communication link when a communication link is not established upon the user command input.
28. The mobile station of claim 27 wherein the next subsequent establishment of the link is established automatically when the mobile station determines a prospective link meets a minimum data exchange rate.
29. The mobile station of claim 25 wherein the mobile station further comprises means to link over at least two of said links, and the processor selects one of said links to establish based on a comparison of data throughput over the links.
30. The mobile station of claim 24 wherein said display interface is further to display, for each file name that is not mapped to either of the internal storage media or the separate storage location, with a third characteristic.
31. The mobile station of claim 24 wherein the first and second characteristics differ in at least one of font, color, shade, background, and icon displayed adjacent to the file name.
32. The mobile station of claim 23 further comprising a receiver to receive one of an additional file name over a wireless link, said processor further to update said mapping to reflect the additional file name and said display interface to display said additional file name with one of the first characteristic and the other than the first characteristic, consistent with the processor mapping.
33. The mobile station of claim 32 wherein said additional file name is within a playlist of additional file names received over the wireless link, said processor to update for each file name within the playlist and said display interface to display each file name within the playlist with one of the first characteristic and the other than the first characteristic, consistent with the processor mapping.
wherein the first and third characteristics may be identical, and one of the fourth and fifth characteristic may be identical to the second characteristic.
35. The mobile station of claim 34 wherein said display interface displays said playlist name with the fourth characteristic when some but not all of the file names of the third plurality are mapped by the processor to a media file of the first plurality and some but not all of the file names of the third plurality are mapped by the processor to a storage location separate from the mobile station.
wherein said processor sends, in response to a command input and a user selection of the playlist name, a request for each media file for which the processor mapped the file name of the third plurality to the separate storage location. | 2019-04-26T16:51:18Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US20050216855A1/en | Porn | Computers | 0.274411 |
wordpress | Gaon must really be in love with 2NE1. They put six songs of 2NE1 in their September monthly chart. Hmmm… I wonder who will win next month. No group actually dominate this month.
Another 2NE1 win. I’m not really that surprised since September was really their month.
Another 2NE1 victory as determined by Soribada. | 2019-04-21T13:17:25Z | https://shockedfan.wordpress.com/tag/miss/ | Porn | News | 0.208918 |
wordpress | Purchased at: Goodwill (Mountain View, CA – $9)Laura and I happened to be checking out a new sandwich place when we drove past this Goodwill. I have mentioned before stopping in here and commenting on how big it was, even noticing they had some old N64 and Game Boy Advance games for sale (though I didn’t pick any up). This time though they had a shipment of brand new (!) games from K-Mart. Among them was Brain Age: Concentration Training here. Granted not a wonderful price, it was at least still sealed, which is better for that price. And it’ll likely stay sealed.
Purchased at: Goodwill (Mountain View, CA – $5)Woohoo! Best find of the day! Spirit Camera was one of the earlier 3DS games I’ve been searching for, and I am finally able to call it my own. And, just like Brain Age, it’s still sealed! This one might be opened tough, as I really want to play it, and the resale value of the game now isn’t astronomical. As a spinoff of the Fatal Frame series, I can also claim this one to be the final game I needed to complete the American-released series!
I actually forgot to include this one on last week’s Roundup, so here it is! When Nintendo announced Captain Toad back at E3, I was already on board. Like many other Wii U players, I thought the Captain Toad segments of Super Mario 3D World were fun diversions that were a welcome and challenging change of pace. Now the little guy’s in his own entire game! Having played just an hour of so of the game I can’t speak wholly on it just yet, but so far the game is equal parts challenging and adorable!
You can read my full review of the first episode of Tales From the Borderlands over at Machinima’s Wingman site.
I’m a bit late posting this week’s roundup, but here it is! As for a Black Friday weekend Roundup, this wasn’t too great. But still, a trio of excellent games nonetheless!
Again, another price I couldn’t pass up. This one was the only worthwhile game in the “All Games in this Bin 50% Off” section. I was hoping they’d be foolish enough to throw in a really great game (I still don’t have New Super Mario Bros. on the DS) for this deal, but I only came out with this one. Strangely, this game is the start of another Mega Man series. At this point, I’ve no idea how any of these games connect, if they do at all.
Man, up until a week or two ago I forget I even ordered this game, let alone it was coming out this week! Way back in the summer (or was it even earlier?) when this game was announced I put down my preorder. It’s essentially a crossover between the cast of Persona 3 and Persona 4 in an Etrian Odyssey style dungeon crawler. And this version comes with a whole bunch of spiffy stuff, not the least of which being those sweet tarot cards. Or should I say half of the tarot cards: included here are only half of the full set used in the actual Persona games. The get the other half you have to buy a special version of Persona 4: Arena Ultimax on the consoles. Shame on you, Atlus, for getting greedy and making me buy all your games! | 2019-04-22T05:59:28Z | https://jsicktheslick.wordpress.com/2014/12/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.874552 |
typepad | We did a bit of card making on our snow day(#7.) I have a small collection of Valentine's stickers and foam shapes that I've picked up from the $1 bins at Target over the past two years. They also had small packs of plain red cards for a buck. With a few heart doilies, too, we decorated them to make our own Valentines!
My very crafty friend Hillary of My Scraps gave me this great idea: Valentine heart messages on my son's bedroom door. I used a cookie cutter to trace and cut out 14 red hearts out of construction paper and I wrote a different message to my son about what we love about him. Starting on February first, I taped one heart onto his bedroom door at night (or when I remembered!) for him to see the next day. He liked the idea so much that he asked if he could do the same thing for us! I helped him make some hearts and he scraweled some love messages onto his hearts and has been busy taping them to our bedroom and office doors. It is such a sweet idea! Thanks Hillary!
Valentine's Day has become a completely differnt holiday now that I have a child. I think it is actually more fun! I love how decorating for the month changes our home from Christmas and snowmen to warm hearts and hugs. These paper heart messages might become a new tradition for February for me. I think as my son grows older it will be a good way to comunicate happy feelings to him and show him how much we love him, in this non-verbal way.
This work by http://knittingzeal.typepad.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. | 2019-04-20T13:25:38Z | https://knittingzeal.typepad.com/knitting_zeal/2014/02/valentines-crafting-on-a-snow-day.html | Porn | Arts | 0.516481 |
wordpress | I’m really getting a bit scared by this whole business thing.
I mean, I’ll admit it, I’ve blown tax refunds in much less productive ways even if this falls flat on its face in a disaster that loses everything put into it… and it’s not like I’ve quit my job to go chase after a business dream, so there really isn’t too much to fear on that front.
And again, worst case scenario, at least it will have given me something to do and keep my busy for a bit as far as efforts if it fails.
I’m ok with having a future memory of "remember that summer you tried to sell wind toys at the craft fair?" as a silly thing I’ve tried if that’s what it ends up being. I’ve tried my hand at much worse jobs… and even successful business people frequently have a few flops under their belt.
And I’m about the worst critic of my painting skills, so I’m not going to be too horribly offended that nobody likes my stuff if it gets rejected.
So… what am I so scared of?
I think when it comes down to it, I’m scared of feeling like my hopes have been let down again.
There is this feeling… "flow" if you will… that comes sometimes when the path is right.
And it’s here for this.
And pieces just sort of fall into place.
Maybe the best way to explain it is that I’m sitting in the chair waiting for church to start, dreaming of a strategy for simplifying wood spiral production if/when I get my paws on a table saw… and over the course of about 2 seconds my thoughts go "6 ft board, cut in half would give me a 3 foot more manageable chunk to work with… and I could split that into 4 which would make it 9 inch width minus the amount the cut eats up, just a bit longer than the pvc version…"
So, that would seem like all signs point towards go, right?
And it does… sort of. I know they do.
The last time I can say that about in a major way.. was the decision to go back to school.
Which of course ended up being a giant waste of time and effort and money.
Maybe most importantly, the wasted hope.
And lets not even get into the whole ginormous K mess.
I don’t mind the effort, even if it fails.
I don’t mind the hard work, even if it fails.
I don’t mind risking looking a bit like a flaky artist if it fails… lets face it, I’m opening a business selling spinning birds, flaky artist may well fit even if it doesn’t fail.
But I’m scared of letting my hopes get up on something again… and let my heart get into it… and having the bottom fall out again.
I can handle the effects of a worst case scenario flop… but I’m not entirely sure that I can really handle it emotionally if I let myself chase the dream and the vision turns out to be another mirage.
Even then.. it’s not like I haven’t survived it before. It’s not like I couldn’t make it again if forced to… but it’s just the pain of walking that road again that has me shaking. I’m still honestly not really recovered from either of the last rounds.
But, I know that’s not the way it would work. If that happens, it would be because I’m giving up and backing away.
I know that this is the time. I don’t doubt that.
I’m just having a rough time bracing myself.
What is something really worth?
This is sort of a hard question for me right now on a practical level with the business… but of course that triggers metaphorical connections.
How much is a windchime or a whirligig worth?
I know for each one roughly how much I paid for the material that is used in it.
But just setting the value as a formula based on that (for example, the cost of parts times 3 that seems to be a common one tossed out for craft fairs)… completely fails to take into account that windchimes are actually pretty cheap, but right now the hardest thing for me to actually make on effort.
But, using either of those also totally takes out the factor of the purchaser.
Looking online, several of the websites that sell birds fairly similar to my whilibirds (but on a stake rather than hanging), sell them for $35-$45 bucks.
But, there’s a huge part of me that goes "there is no way in heck I would pay $45 for a painted wood bird with spinners for wings!"
But, then, I’m not to person buying their birds. The person buying their birds is someone who wants a whirligig so much that they are willing to go online and hunt one down and have it shipped to them.
But, really, I’m not the person buying my birds either.
I’m expecting the primary location for sales to be the local farm and art market that is held in the trendy part of town… a bit more of an affluent crowd who are paying extra for local fresh foods… and expecting them to pretty much just be an impulse purchase.
"Oh cool, a windchime in my team’s colors…" "My grandma used to have a whirligig like that…" "I bet my mom would like a windspinner for her patio for mothers day.."
There’s also another farmers market in town, partially sponsored by the county.. that tends to draw more of the smaller places and more of the average consumer.
If I decide to set up out there some weeks.. the price that they are likely to pay is probably a bit less than they would pay at the more serious market (the main market is so serious about things being locally sourced and hand made that they actually do inspections and its in the rules that you will allow them to check out your workshop or farm to verify that the products really are being made by you).
The idea has even been floated around a bit to try and market a bit towards the outdoor wedding crowd as well for outdoor decorations that could be custom made to match wedding colors. The wedding stuff at the bridal shows is astronomically priced!
On the opposite end… even though the local flea market is huge, and I could get a lot of exposure there… generally the crowd is people who are hunting for things cheap and looking for the deal more than they are concerned with the fact that its made by hand locally or has artistic value. So prices would pretty much have to be super low to sell well, and might not really even be worth the effort.
So.. do I flex prices?
If you buy a chime in the artsy area of town, is it worth more than the same chime on the west side just because of the surroundings?
How in the heck do you even figure how to weigh cost vs effort vs customer price expectations?
It’s hard for me to value the worth of something I’ve made. I’m too critical. But, I also know that as someone who tends more towards practical purchases, I’m probably also a lot more of a cheap shopper than my customers.
But it sort of feels like what something is worth is a concept that is all over the charts!
Looking on etsy and such just makes matters worse. There are wood wind spinners that I see on there, and know that unless they have a much cheaper source of materials than I do, they are likely only making about 5 bucks for several hours of work.
But on the other hand, I see people with chimes on there that are going for about 4 times what I would have thought they were worth looking at materials and likely amount of work.
But.. if I do decide to expand that direction, does that change everything? If I’m selling something for x dollars at the craft fairs, is it going to make a stir if I price it lower online to compete with other crafters from far away places?
The more and more I get into trying to figure out fair and reasonable yet profitable prices, the more and more I feel like my head just sort of enters this foggy area of wondering what worth really means on anything.
Obviously, in business its a very critical concept. It’s a huge part of staying afloat to get it nailed down.
But man… it gets murky so fast.
Right now, I’m dreaming of a table saw.
Actually, I’m not so much dreaming as planning and checking craigslist multiple times a day.
For the wood spinners, to do it right, you need to rip the wood into long strips and then cut those into shorter lengths.
It looks like it would be easier to just chop across the wood… and it wood, I mean, would…. but going across the grain doesn’t work well.
In my arsenal, I have a circular saw, a jigsaw, and a hole saw attachment for my drill.
I can use the circular saw… but it is seriously time consuming and much more difficult.
So for just a few spinners, it’s reasonable.
But when you are trying to do something in an sort of a scale, it’s just really not the right tool for the job. It will work, but it’s just way more work than is needed.
For another example, cutting the metal rod that runs down the center of the spiral spinners.
I have a pair of bolt cutters with handles about 8 inches long. I have a pair of metal snips. Either one is capable of cutting thin rods.
But… the effort required… is substantial. Multiple attempts, multiple angles, some wiggling, and sore hands.
I surrendered, and bought a good pair of bolt cutters with 24" handles.
It cuts through the same rod like a pair of scissors would. Snip and done.
I could have rented them for half the price, but it’s not like they wouldn’t be needed again later for many more rods.
And if it comes down to it, I can actually rent the table saw too for an afternoon and just attack all of the wood all at once… but again, I’d prefer to track down a decent used one to have on hand rather than have to rent repeatedly every time I needed more wood chopped.
The effort difference between the right tool… and a tool that may still work but isn’t meant for the job… is huge.
But, again with the analogies.. I kind of feel like I’m attacking a big stack of wood with a tiny saw in life.
It seems like there’s so much that could or should be so much easier… but somehow in my life, it just isn’t.
Maybe I just don’t have the skills, or the resources, or the personality, or even the right goal… or whatever it is that I don’t have.
It just sort of feels like there has to be an easier path somewhere.
But I feel like asking for it… pleading for it honestly…or even to know what it is to try and hunt it down myself… just doesn’t get any sort of an answer.
Is life really supposed to be this weary and disappointing?
I know… it could be worse. It has been worse. It’s not like I’m trying to attack the wood pile with a butterknife or something..
Right now, I’ve been mostly making parts.
With trying to work on production of many items vs just a single craft project, it’s easiest to approach it this way.
I’ve thought about getting a bunch of ziplock bags and basically making wind spinner kits, as that’s sort of the effect.
But as far as spiral spinners… only 4 of them have actually been made so far.
But, there’s still only 4 of them.
But… I have lots and lots of parts.
Ready to be assembled… but, no real reason to focus on doing so just yet. I have the paint ready, but it’s a lot easier to set up and paint a bunch of them in one day than to set up painting each one at a different time.
So they are ready and waiting in the wings as parts… just waiting for their time to be ready to go.
It’s also a lot easier to store parts than it is to store assembled and painted wind spinners.
There will be a day soon that I will need to focus on getting them all assembled and painted, but that’s not just yet.
So right now, parts they are.
As I focus on adding more parts to my piles for other items.
If you just look at numbers, it would look like I’m not getting far.
But, actually, I’m at a place that if you wanted a "naked" unpainted pvc spiral spinner, I could hand you an assembled one in less than 15 minutes.
It’s there… just not yet there.
Parts production feels like what life is.
But I guess I wonder if there is ever a point when I get to see life’s spinner get assembled.
But are they ever going to give me a product for the work?
I really don’t think so right now with their of those examples.
But I sort of feel like repetitively making parts that will never be a whole is sort of the direction of life in general.
I don’t mind the work in parts.
But sometimes the end product being in sight is needed to produce the motivation when it just looks like a big pile of pvc chunks in your lap.
It’s kind of been hinted at a bit in some of the older posts… but I guess it’s getting to be time to announce my big secret.
I have decided, as a "side hustle" as you will, to attempt a creative venture.
In an attempt to develop more into the creative realm and reduce the frustration both financially and with the place my life is at career-wise.
To be specific… I’ve decided to use my tax return for this year to start a business creating non-fabric wind decorations and selling them locally.
Right now, it’s looking like the main products at opening are going to be whirligig style birds with spinning wings, spiral style wind spinners made of pvc and/or wood, rotating pvc shapes in star and diamond varieties, and wind chimes if I get get the hole saw to actually cooperate with me.
Lots of other possibilities loom on the horizon, but I’m trying to keep it reasonable for a start.
Where in the world did this come from???
It actually came out of some random craft project that I was playing around with.
I decided to make one for my mom’s porch as well.
Decision was made to give it a whirl (yes, pun intended) on a pipe dream (yes, still intended), and to see what happens.
And suddenly I find myself sitting here as an official sole proprietor of a legally registered business… complete with a name, contracts, banking accounts and a point of sale and accounting system, a registered website, social media accounts, the whole 9 yards..
And a May 7th launch date.
Yes. I am certifiably crazy.
It was the weekend before christmas.
I had a total of 3 days off between Thanksgiving day and Christmas day this year.
And I forgot about trash day.
Ok, whatever… they would get it the next week.
Now, I know it’s been ranted about here multiple times that this neighbor is a jerk. He’s the one who called the cops for a noise complaint when I was trying to wrestle a kid throwing a fit into the house at 10:30 at night. The one who kills off about a foot of my yard every year so that my type of grass doesn’t spread into his. He’s the type of guy that when a kid asks him if she can get her ball that landed in his backyard and he obviously heard her, he turns around and walks into the house and completely ignores her…. and when her grandparents give her permission to go in the fence and get it, then puts locks and big no trespassing signs on the gates the next day.
So… my best response to the yelling was to ignore it.
I get yelled at again… and I continue into the house… and in a seriously annoyed response, flipped them off over my shoulder as I left.
And so… apparently having nothing better to do… the neighbor called the local tv station’s “on your side” news team to complain about me.
You would think there are a lot bigger news stories to be covering, but apparently not on the weekend before christmas.
Yes, they actually came out on a saturday (which I had to work)… and they showed on the news that I had 8 bags of trash along the fence waiting for the trash man.
Yes, they counted them… 8 white kitchen sized bags of trash made it on the news… even when a good number of them were only half full (cat litter is heavy, etc).
Now, not a single bag was torn or open… the video showed that… so its not like its just my word against his that there are no raccoons and possums etc around here, and the last time I saw a mouse, has been over 5 years ago.
And yes, my grass ran a bit tall this year.. amazing how that happens when you have knee surgery in may and dont have high enough income to hire out lawn services at $160 a month or more (yes, I’d looked…. what happened to all of the teen boys who used to mow lawns for cheap just for summer spending money?).
But of course that knee surgery or anything else never came up… I’m just lazy.
But… as he said…. there has never been anything that in his many complaints has been cause for them to fine me.
He point blank said that he calls on my every two weeks… and that a lot of times when he calls later they don’t even have a complaint on file…. and the city offices confirmed for the report that they’ve had complaints and that not once has there actually been a reason to fine me about anything that he has called about.
It’s sort of odd after all of these years of telling people my neighbor is a jerk to me…. to now actually have real recorded proof of him bragging about being a jerk to me.
And, overall, most of the tv station’s website comments were in my favor… even when the next day, they made it their “question of the day” on if people should be fined for having three complaints regardless of outcome of them.
A few people made comments about any trash at all outside being nasty… so I guess they keep their weekly trash in their houses all week and prefer to have nastiness inside?
But most said that they saw nothing wrong with the house in the story…. or told stories about houses in their neighborhoods who had actual real problems… or said that if their neighbor had trash for more than a week they would have just put the bags with their own on trash day.
I have to admit, I spent the better part of my one day off the next day curled in a ball, going back and forth between crying and wishing for revenge.
I know that I do my best.
Yeah, sometimes things like forgetting the stupid trash day is that morning happen….
But I do the best that I can under my life.
But, even so… having someone launching a campaign that you are such a horrible neighbor that you should be fined even when you haven’t been found to be in violation of any rules… it takes a beating on you.
Now that it’s spring, I’ve been outside a lot more working on some big projects that are in the works that I need to do outside.
And it honestly bothers me some.
I wish it didn’t… but it does… even when I’m just sitting on my own porch working on sanding or painting.
It’s my yard. My domain. I have a right to be there, and to use it.
But it sort of feels like even being in sight opens me up to attack. | 2019-04-24T12:36:24Z | https://blueraindrop.wordpress.com/2016/03/ | Porn | Business | 0.627096 |
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wordpress | Wipe Out is an instrumental song written by Bob Berryhill, Pat Connolly, Jim Fuller and Ron Wilson. The song propelled the Surfaris to international stardom.
This “afterthought” track went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (#10 on the R&B chart), #5 in the UK and Canada and #46 in Germany. Wipe Out has been featured in more than 20 films and TV series since 1964.
George Bailey (James Stewart) has given up his dreams in order to be a help to others. Deciding on suicide on Christmas Eve, his guardian angel (Henry Travers) intervenes.
Yo! Bum Rush the Show was the debut album of American hip hop pioneers Public Enemy. A critical success, the album peaked at #125 on Billboard’s Top LPs chart (#28 on their Top Black Albums chart).
The singles off the album were Public Enemy No. 1 and You’re Gonna Get Yours.
The group consists of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, DJ Lord, The SIW group, music director Khari Wynn and Professor Griff. Public Enemy formed in 1982 and are known for politically charged lyrics, who actively criticize the American media and routinely express the frustrations and concerns of the African American community. It was their politically charged and socially conscious brand of hip hop along with their label mates the Beastie Boys that put the genre of hip hop on the map and paved the way for a generation of artists, and not just hip hop artists either. In December 2012, it was announced that Public Enemy would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
Created by William Schaper in 1948, Cootie is a children’s game for 2 to 4 players. The object is to be the first to build a three-dimensional cootie bug from a variety of plastic pieces. The acquisition of body parts is determined by the roll of a die. The first part you must acquire is the body, then the head. After that, you can acquire the remaining pieces in any order.
First off, regular Coke contains a small amount of vanilla. Technically, Vanilla Coke has been around since the 40s. Upon request, soda fountain workers (or soda jerks) would add a shot of vanilla syrup to 12 to 16 oz. of fountain Coke soda. This remained a common practice at ice cream shops until early 2002 when Coke decided to do that themselves and mass produce cans of Vanilla Coke in an effort to compete with Pepsi Vanilla. Diet Vanilla Coke and Vanilla Coke Zero were additionally added.
After great sales initially, they slowly began to taper off. By the end of 2005, Vanilla Coke and its cohorts disappeared from shelves in the U.S. and the UK. In February 2007, Vanilla Coke was re-introduced in New Zealand and in May 2007 back in the U.S. Also in 2007, it was introduced in China and other European countries — but not the UK. Finally, for fans in the UK, it was re-introduced in the UK in early 2013. The re-introduction of Vanilla Coke into all the markets only included Vanilla Coke and Vanilla Coke Zero. At this time, Coke has no plans to ever re-introduce Diet Vanilla Coke.
We, here, at Walk Memory Lane wish you and your family a very merry holiday season and a very happy new year!
Christmas movies are not for pessimists. They’re all so touchy-feely and leave you with a bad case of the warm fuzzies. In the real world, for some, the holidays are actually a dark, lonely, depressing time. Let’s present five beloved (over-played?) Christmas movies with alternate endings for the pessimists of the world.
PLOT: Seven years after the death of business partner Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas! The story begins on Christmas Eve and Scrooge is visited by Marley’s ghost who advises Scrooge to change his ways and avoid suffering the same fate as Marley in death. Asleep that night, Scrooge is visited by an additional three ghosts. The first ghostly visitor is the Ghost of the Christmas Past who takes Scrooge back to scenes from his childhood with his sister Fanny, his first boss and his fiancée Belle. The second ghost, The Ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge to the scene of nephew Fred’s Christmas party and to his employee Bob Cratchit’s family dinner with son Tiny Tim, whom Scrooge is informed will die if things don’t change. The final ghost, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come takes Scrooge to next year’s Christmas. Tiny Tim had died and the visit ends at a neglected grave that ends up belonging to Scrooge himself. Crying, he vows to change. He awakens on Christmas Day and is, indeed, a changed man. Scrooge spends the day with Fred, gives Cratchit a raise and sends the family a magnificent turkey for dinner.
ALTERNATE ENDING: (This movie was going so well until Scrooge decided to change.) After being awake all night flying around with those ghosts and having to endure the trauma and shock of being visited by four ghosts in one evening, Scrooge is exhausted after the last ghostly visit and doesn’t awaken until New Year’s Day. Scrooge decides to make changing a resolution instead. As resolutions tend not to stick, Scrooge falls back into his familiar patterns and resolves to try the resolution next year where hopefully he’ll have better success…..
PLOT: On Christmas Eve, George Bailey contemplates suicide. Prayers for him reach Heaven where Clarence Odbody, a 2nd Class angel is assigned to save him. If Clarence is successful, he will get his wings. Clarence’s reviews George’s life to this point, which includes George having saved and sacrificed himself numerous times for the betterment of others. Back in the current time, a drunk George crashes into a tree and he staggers to a bridge where he intends to kill himself. Clarence jumps into the water first, pretending to drown, which prompts George to save him. Clarence reveals to George that he is his guardian angel, but George doesn’t believe him and wishes he had never existed. Clarence grants his wish and shows George the lives of his loved ones in which they are all miserable. George begs to live again and all ends well.
ALTERNATE ENDING: George jumps into the water to save Clarence, completely forgetting that he doesn’t know how to swim. (Why do you think George tried to drown himself?) George and Clarence both die and Christmas is ruined.
PLOT: Ralph “Ralphie” Parker is desperate for a Red Ryder BB Gun, which three people (his mom, his teacher and Santa himself) tell him no way because he’d shoot his eye out with. A bad grade on a composition about wanting the gun as a Christmas gift prompts a fight with a local bully. Meanwhile, on Christmas morning, Ralphie ends up getting the gun. He goes outside to play with it and the ricochet from the bullet causes a blow to his cheek and knocks his glasses off. While searching for them, he steps on them and they break. Their Christmas dinner ends up ruined as their neighbor’s dogs eat it, so the Parkers end up eating dinner at a Chinese restaurant.
ALTERNATE ENDING: The restaurant ends up being a Chinese/Italian mix of cuisine. The Parkers decide to order chicken tetrazzini all around. Unfortunately, the chicken isn’t cooked and they all end up with food poisoning.
PLOT: The night before their Christmas holiday to Paris, the extended McCallister clan torment 8-year-old Kevin. After a fight with brother Buzz, Kevin is sent to the third floor. A power outage occurs overnight that causes the family to over sleep. When they awaken, in the confusion and bustle to get to the airport they don’t realize that they have forgotten Kevin until they’re airborne. Once they land in Paris, mom Kate tried to get back to Kevin. Meanwhile, Kevin awakens and initially is elated to find himself alone. He then learns a pair of burglars are targeting the empty houses in his neighborhood. On Christmas Eve, Kevin sets up numerous booby traps around his house to thwart the bandits, which he successfully does and the pair is arrested. The next morning, Kevin wishes that his family will appear. He races downstairs and is disappointed. Soon after, Kate has finally managed to get home. Shortly after their reunion, the rest of the family return.
ALTERNATE ENDING: The McCallisters become so enamored with Paris, they move permanently without returning to Kevin. But don’t worry about him, Kevin becomes a rousing success in the home security business. Who needs a family anyway?
PLOT: Clark Griswold attempts to have the perfect Christmas for his family. Things go completely awry – Christmas dinner ends up a disaster, their tree goes up in flames, Clark’s Christmas bonus doesn’t come through and the SWAT team shows up. In typical Christmas movie fashion, everything works out in the end and everyone is happy.
ALTERNATE ENDING: This movie is a pessimist’s dream until every mishap ends up working out in the end. The only fitting ending for this movie is to have Christmas go perfectly from the beginning and having the family realize that perfection is overrated and that they should have just went to Wally World instead.
I Touch Myself was the lead single off the Austalian band the Divinyls’ fourth album, which was self-titled. A staple on the Australian music charts since their 1983 debut album Desperate. It was due to this single that they achieved world-wide fame.
Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly (the songwriting team behind I’ll Stand By You, Like a Virgin, Eternal Flame, True Colors and So Emotional had the single’s first verse and chorus lyrics. They met up with Divinyls singer Christina Amphlett who took an immediate liking to it. The next day, Steinberg, Kelly, Amphlett and Divinyls bandmate Mark McEntee all got together and wrote the rest of the song.
In Australia, the single hit number one. In the U.S., it hit #4. In Ireland – #8; the UK – #10; Canada – #13 and #17 in New Zealand and still ranks as their best selling single.
I Touch Myself was featured in the 1992 film Prelude to a Kiss and 1997’s Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. In Chile, you can find the song featured on the soundtrack to their soap opera Graduados. The Divinyls recorded one more album before breaking up in 1996.
Amphlett died in April 2013 after a three year battle with breast cancer. Her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 2007 prevented her from receiving any radiation or chemotherapy for her cancer. Amphlett was only 55 years old and was survived by her husband.
Soraya Jimenez (one of a pair of twin sisters) was a Mexican gold medal winning Olympic weightlifter. Always very athletic, as a child she played basketball, badminton and swimming. Jimenez began weightlifting before her teenage years. Her first major podium finish came at the 1994 NORCECA Cup in Colorado Springs. After achieving her first major win at the Simon Bolivar International in Venezuela, her first appearance at the World Championships came in 1996. In 1998, she won in her weight class at the Guatemala Cup and the Central American and Caribbean Games. In 1999 she won the Thessaloniki Cup, the Winnipeg Invitational, the Simon Bolivar International, the Mexican Olympic Festival and won a silver medal at the Pan American Games and placed eighth at the World Championships. Jimenez participated for Mexico in the 2000 Sydney Olympics where she won a gold medal. She was the first Mexican female athlete to ever win an Olympic medal. After the win, Jimenez retired from competition. In March 2013, she suffered a fatal heart attack at her home in Mexico City and died at only age 35.
In the May 24, 1954 edition of Life magazine, John Hersey wrote an article entitled “Why Do Students Bog Down on First R? A Local Committee Sheds Light on a National Problem: Reading.” Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) wrote The Cat in the Hat as a response. The story is 1629 words in length and uses a vocabulary of only 236 words.
The story introduced the tall, mischievous cat that wears a tall red-and-white striped hat and red bowtie. The Cat in the Hat went on to appear in five more Dr. Seuss books.
The book has been adapted into 2 musical TV specials, a Russian adaptation special and currently airs as a PBS Kids animated TV series voiced by Martin Short. A feature film starring Mike Myers (see below) was released in 2003. Two stage adaptations have been made. In 1999, a ride at Universal Studios took guests on a journey through the Cat’s world. An educational CD game and a digital book app are also out there featuring the Cat. | 2019-04-18T12:43:01Z | https://walkmemorylane.wordpress.com/2013/12/ | Porn | Business | 0.208624 |
wordpress | My challenge to myself is to read (or re-read) classics that I currently own. For this personal challenge I am including books that are at least as old as I am. 😉 I’m giving myself 3-1/2 years, ending 12/31/17. I will update this list as I go.
I read or re-read ALL of Poirot between May, 2013 and October, 2016.
Welcome to the Cruisin’ Thru the Cozies challenge! Have fun!
Last year my challenge was to read 52 books, which I have already passed. I like your choices. One of my goals this year is to read what I already have, but I like the idea of concentrating on cozy mysteries. Thanks for sharing! | 2019-04-19T18:47:54Z | https://abibliophilesstyle.wordpress.com/classics-challenge/ | Porn | Arts | 0.265756 |
wordpress | The Tablet List and Details HTML screen template is part of a collection of advanced screen templates for Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client and Cloud Business Apps (see below).
The Xpert360Lightning,WebExtensions extension is bundled with AIDE 2013 for Visual Studio for now and is not available separately though this may change (see below for more information).
The purpose of this template is to provide a means of generating a List and Details screen for larger form factor devices such as tablets or desktops. The generated screens are similar to those created using the Rich-Client List and Details template (Silverlight client).
You can create screens like this manually starting with the simple default Browse Data template however this new template will save you a considerable amount of time and provide consistent results.
The default screen name is ‘ListDetails’ and the primary collection name is prepended. You select screen data as usual in the main dialog including the primary collection and optionally the primary entity-type details and related child collections.
This screen style is useful for generating a list of master records and displaying them side-by-side with the selected master detail record and a collection of related child data.
The screen is generated with one tab. If you choose more than one child collection then you may wish to customize the screen and move some collections to additional screen tabs especially if they contain lots of data.
The child collections are generated as grid views but as with all LightSwitch screens you are free to customize it once generated. The master details are displayed in two columns to make better use of space.
If any details data contains many properties you will notice that a manageable subset of is added to the screen contents. This will save time when dealing with entity-types with many tens or even hundreds of properties. Trying to display too many properties often makes little sense, is not a good user experience and slows down the LightSwitch screen designer.
We find this really helpful when connecting to data such as that in Dynamics CRM where tables are wide and complex. You will need to customize the subset of properties displayed but the overall experience is preferable to that provided by the standard templates.
If you choose a parameter-driven custom query then the list will be a simple filterable collection. With appropriately designed custom queries this makes for easy generation of a searchable list view as your screen starting point.
The template will automatically configure item-tap navigation if you have pre-selected any default screens for a child entity-types. The drill-through navigation to details screens is wired-up and displays modal-dialogs or launches the SPA detail screens.
The template looks after the screen content metadata to configure scrolling regions. So when you scroll through the master data list the selected details stay in view.
There you have it, a ubiquitous List and Details HTML screen template that gives you a better starting point. A nice productivity boost that we like lots!
There are plans to improve this template. We explored the idea of using a template wizard as in an advanced configuration mode to choose the view types (list, tile, table) and placement (main tab, child tab, pop-up dialog). We have experimented with generating more code to display child collection record counts.
We will take into consideration all feedback along with these ideas.
We are open to the idea of providing advanced screen templates for all existing and future LightSwitch client types though the initial focus is on the Mobile-Web client. We are currently working on new screen templates to expand this collection.
The screen generated from this template dynamically discovers all screens and creates a navigable menu. Functionality indicated by color-coding and icons. Ideal time-saver when used as your start screen during development or prototyping.
Similar to the in-built simple browse screen template but generating tabs based on multiple independent collections. Supports parameter-based queries to generate search pages. Choice of default collection views from tile view, list view and grid view. Implements tap-through navigation to entity type default screens or discovered view or maintenance screens.
An essential list-based master and details screen template. A cross between the in-built simple browse screen template and the Rich-Client based List and Details screen template. Generates an independently scrolling list view side-by-side with selected dual-column entity details data. Extended keyboard support. Generates child collections in detail grids. Implements tap-through navigation to entity type default screens. Limits the number of master details and child details properties displayed for easier customization.
Useful list-based master and details screen template. A cross between the in-built simple browse screen template and the Rich-Client based List and Details screen template. Generates an independently scrolling list view side-by-side with selected single-column entity details data. Extended touch and keyboard support. Generates child collections in tabs. Implements tap-through navigation to entity type default screens. Limits the number of master details and child details properties displayed for easier customization.
Visual Studio 2013 introduces a new application type called a Cloud Business App. This brings together LightSwitch RAD platform and Office 365.
The Cloud Business App template adds SharePoint and Office 365 into the mix. The ease of use is improving as better integration arrives as other components such as the Windows Azure SDK catch up.
Will 2014 be a big year for Cloud Business Apps? Building LOB applications on Microsoft’s platform is in some respects harder and more complex today than it was a decade ago, and looking ahead, Office 365 and Azure are a strategic platform for Microsoft. Simplifying LOB app development and deployment to support diverse devices is surely a winner.
AIDE 2013 is the market leading set of productivity power tools for Cloud Business and LightSwitch applications. The only supported way to clone, import/export, local backup/restore screens and code. Visualize hard-to-access metadata to complement working with the standard LightSwitch designers.
Failed upgrades, unloadable projects, old extensions, AIDE for LightSwitch will be there to help you through! Xpert360 consultants have real-world experience of reconstruction and resurrection of corrupt projects. Contact us if your need help troubleshooting your LightSwitch projects.
Company information: Xpert360 Ltd, founded in 2009, based upon three decades of IT experience, is an Independent Software Vendor and Custom Solution Provider based in the United Kingdom.
“Xpert360 Lightning“, “AIDE for LightSwitch“, “AIDE 2013 for Visual Studio” are trademarks of Xpert360 Ltd, copyright 2012 – 2014.
The HTML Browse Tabs screen template is part of a collection of advanced screen templates for Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client and Cloud Business Apps (see below).
The purpose of this template is to provide a means of generating a browse screen showing multiple collections of data in separate tabs. This style of screen is useful as a hub screen for navigation. During development, especially when prototyping, this screen allows you to build hubs with automatically configured tap-through navigation links. Whether used in prototyping or the final app using screens generated from this template will save you substantial time over using the standard templates.
The template is accessible from the ‘Add New Screen’ dialog.
The default screen name is ‘BrowseDataTabs’. There is no need to select screen data in the main dialog as the template has its own template wizard dialog to choose data collections and configure the screen options.
Generate screens as navigation hubs with automatically configured item-tap handlers to default screens or auto-discovered view or maintenance screens.
The screen is generated with one tab for each selected entity-set collection. If you choose a parameter-driven custom query then the tab will be a simple filterable collection. With appropriately designed custom queries this makes for easy generation of searchable list, tile and grid views that are working straight after generation. Screens generated using the standard Browse Data template require manual customization before working.
If you choose any option for item-tap navigation then the navigation through to other screens will be pre-configured for you. This works best if the ‘View’ and ‘AddAndEdit’ style screens are created beforehand. You can pre-select a default screen for any entity-type to pre-determine the navigation links when there is more than one possible screen to display an entity-type.
Your choice of collection views is generated so if you prefer to generally use a tile-view or grid-view then choose that. The standard template is only a list-view. As with all LightSwitch screens you are free to customize it once generated.
The drill-through navigation to details screens is automatically wired-up and works be they modal-dialogs or SPA window-based screens.
The collection views can be easily adjusted to list, tile or grid after the screen is generated.
Any tabs for filterable custom queries will be generated with enterable filter parameters to start you off with a simple working search/filterable collection.
There you have it, a Browse Data Tabs screen template that generates useful hub-style navigation screens, saving you oodles of time.
There are plans to improve this template. We explored the idea of using an advanced configuration mode to choose the view type per data tab/collection. We are considering introducing more views to the existing three.
We will review this template taking into account any feedback.
We are open to the idea of providing advanced screen templates for all LightSwitch client types though the initial focus is on the MobileWeb client. We are currently working on new screen templates to expand this collection.
An essential a list-based master and details screen template to boost productivity. A cross between the in-built simple browse screen template and the Rich-Client based List and Details screen template. Generates an independently scrolling list view side-by-side with selected dual-column entity details data. Extended touch and keyboard support. Child collections in detail grids. Automatic tap-through navigation to entity type default screens. Limits the number of master details and child details properties displayed for easier customization.
Useful list-based master and details screen template for mobile devices. A cross between the in-built simple browse screen template and the Rich-Client based List and Details screen template. Generates an independently scrolling list view side-by-side with selected single-column entity details data. Extended touch and keyboard support. Generates child collections in tabs. Automatically configures tap-through navigation to entity type default screens. Limits the number of master details and child details properties displayed for easier customization.
The Auto-Tile Menu screen template is part of a collection of advanced screen templates for Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client and Cloud Business Apps (see below).
The purpose of this template is to provide a dynamic start menu for project development time. During development, especially when prototyping, this screen allows you to navigate to all screens in the app without continually having to manually configure navigation for browse-type screens. It may surprise you how much time you can save using this temporary starting page.
The default screen name is ‘AutoTileMenu’. There is no need to select screen data as this screen is generic. Add one instance per HTML client project and set your new menu screen as the start-up screen whenever you need it.
The tiles are color-coded, have different icons and display the screen display name and the name of the first entity screen property.
Each tile has one of three icons allocated to it based upon whether the primary screen property is an entity-set, entity-type or no/scalar property.
The above example highlights all the screens whose primary screen property is a collection (entity-set). These screens typically can be launched and function well without any parameters (but not always).
The tiles have a click event handler for tap-to-navigate and navigate to the appropriate screen.
There are no imminent plans to improve this template. We explored the idea of using more of the screen metadata and local storage to add more features. We looked at supporting screen parameters too but opted to keep the screen simpler for now. We will review this template later based on any feedback.
An essentially list-based master and details screen template. A cross between the in-built simple browse screen template and the Rich-Client based List and Details screen template. Generates an independently scrolling list view side-by-side with selected dual-column entity details data. Extended keyboard support. Generates child collections in detail grids. Implements tap-through navigation to entity type default screens. Limits the number of master details and child details properties displayed for easier customization.
Must have list-based master and details screen template for mobile devices. A cross between the in-built simple browse screen template and the Rich-Client based List and Details screen template. Generates an independently scrolling list view side-by-side with selected single-column entity details data. Extended touch and keyboard support. Generates child collections in tabs. Implements tap-through navigation to entity type default screens. Limits the number of master details and child details properties displayed for easier customization.
To celebrate the re-release of the Xpert360 theme packs with VS2013 support, Xpert360 have released this free theme based around Halloween with spooky shades of pumpkin with witchy greens and blacks. This theme can be downloaded from here.
The theme targets the LightSwitch Silverlight Client v2+ that comes with Visual Studio 2012 and 2013. It has been tested against the LightSwitch Cosmopolitan Shell and the LightSwitch Standard Shell.
We have an internal application to import, edit and generate LightSwitch themes to make the work a lot easier and faster. The Cosmopolitan theme contains references to more than 500 colors! The Theme Generator application is itself written in LightSwitch. The theme is free and can be obtained from the Visual Studio Extensions gallery. This is the gallery posting – Xpert360Lightning -Pumpkin Theme We hope you like it!
“Xpert360 Lightning” and “AIDE for LightSwitch” are trademarks of Xpert360 Ltd, copyright 2012 – 2013.
Visual Studio 2013 was published on Friday 18th October 2013. This blog post is the anchor to a series of articles covering the A-Z of themes that we are editing and evolving over time.
This article is part of a series of posts from Xpert360 Development Team to address real world scenarios and problems faced when designing, creating and implementing Visual Studio LightSwitch applications. Brought to you by the original and genuine Power Tools for Visual Studio LightSwitch!
The LightSwitch HTML Client in VS2013 targets the jQuery Mobile framework and the themes are implemented as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
The HTML SELECT element is not easy to style and control through just CSS markup. For full control it is usual to use a custom control that mimics the SELECT element by using DIV’s and SPAN’s.
The SELECT element popup is implemented outside of the browser. The blue selection rectangle is not controllable in CSS and by default your themes will always be black, white and blue. We will extend the theme mark-up to do better styling in LightSwitch as in the above screen shot.
The use of rounded corners in themes can be aesthetically pleasing. The LightSwitch themes need extending to properly support them.
The screen shots above show the adjusted rounded corner support.
We have an easy implementation of theme swapping and view port selection for different form factors.
What are they and how can they be used in LightSwitch HTML applications.
Creating dynamic themes and features to integrate with SharePoint and site chrome.
It would not be complete without a theme starter pack. The preview containing 19 themes was released soon after the VS2013 in December 2013 and is currently available in a bumper bundle offer of AIDE 2013 for Visual Studio which also include a preview of 4 new Advanced Screen Templates.
The Visual Studio 2013 RTM was released in late 2013 and Xpert360 joined the party upgrading samples, themes, extensions and tools to support VS2013. We will take you through all the shortcuts and tweaks to give style to your LightSwitch HTML applications and Cloud Business Apps!
When Visual Studio 2013 RTW is published (scheduled for Friday 18th October 2013), it will trigger a round of regression testing and final adjustments for third-party Visual Studio tool vendors.
Somasegar’s blog article announcing Visual Studio 2013 RC contains a good overview of key features if you are playing catch-up. At the end he mentions the official VS2013 Launch Party is scheduled for Wednesday 13th November 2013. You can see the countdown to launch ticking down there.
Our product team is making steady progress towards releasing all our LightSwitch tools and extensions in the same timeframe as VS2013.
We needed to try some new VS2013 features and work through implementing some new features in AIDE for LightSwitch and the Xpert360 Lightning Dynamics CRM and Salesforce data adapters. We also needed to upgrade samples, themes and other extensions.
Working with multiple versions of Visual Studio side-by-side has gotten a lot easier over the years. We have machines with VS2012, VS2012 and VS2013 RC.
In this instance we needed to debug VS2012 VSIX extensions in the VS2013 RC experimental instance while testing LightSwitch VS2013 applications. Fortunately this works after a few adjustments to debug and VSIX settings.
VS2012 VS2013 LightSwitch family photo!
So here we have AIDE for LightSwitch running in debug in VS2012 Update 3 launching the VS2013 RC experimental instance then running a LightSwitch desktop application. We thought it was quite cool anyway.
Our LightSwitch Silverlight themes worked nicely with VS2013 Preview but not so with VS2013 RC. Our HTML CSS themes needed some work as the leap from VS2012 to VS2013 RC involved big changes in the LightSwitch HTML Client.
We can see that not surprising some of the styling changed but here is a VS22013 RC LightSwitch HTML Client application deployed in Office 365 SharePoint on-line. The JQuery Mobile CSS theme was inspired by VS2012 IDE and sports rounded corners (no big deal really). The other interesting item here is the preview version of the soon to be released LightSwitch salesforce data adapter running in the Cloud.
Here is another HTML client application with a theme called ‘Orchard’. Notice the correct rendering of the header after adjusting msls-light-2.0.0.css and msls-2.0.0.js for swatch support.
We are adding final touches to the first release of AIDE for LightSwitch for VS2013.
The LightSwitch Screen Workbench and Entity Workbench windows are complete too.
Xpert360 are providing a free upgrade to the new version of AIDE for LightSwitch for all existing customers.
The facility to exchange screens between LightSwitch projects (V1, V2, V3 and V4 projects with a few restrictions) is predicted to be a great help for those users upgrading LightSwitch 2010 and LightSwitch 2012 projects to VS2013.
When upgrades fail, projects become unloadable, extensions are outdated, AIDE for LightSwitch will be there to help you through! Our consultants and support staff have real-world experience of tricky LightSwitch project upgrades, including reconstruction and resurrection of corrupt projects. Contact us if your need help troubleshooting.
The next Vs2013 update on the blog will be for the VS2013 RTW release next week. We will have final news of all the upgrades and confirmation of release dates shortly afterwards.
The Visual Studio 2013 RTW date and official virtual launch day are fast approaching. Xpert360 have been busy upgrading samples, themes, extensions and tools ready for VS2013. It is going really well and we eagerly await the launch!
Specify Ports after Upgrading LightSwitch Clients to VS2013!
I planned to upgrade a LightSwitch HTML client application from VS2012 to VS2013 RC. After the upgrade I would be running the two versions of the project side by side to test and compare.
I also wanted to try some new VS2013 features and work through implementing some “Drag and Drop with LightSwitch HTML Client” as described by Rohit Agrawal on the Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog. Go read the post if you have not yet done so.
So here I create a standard View Details Screen for the Locations entity. I wired-up some views of the Tables entity and added the drag and drop code. Some more work to do, but as this is VS2012 and the new ‘.refresh‘ method is in VS2013 I upgraded a copy of the project.
The upgrade process took a minute and the project rebuild worked. The application runs fine, still a bit of work to do.
We can see that not surprising some of the styling changed and some customizations need attention. Now the Refresh button on the command bar works.
I resolved the conflict by changing the Development Server Port and the port for the Web site in IIS Express. Then I continued testing side by side with no problems.
All is well here in IIS Express with the two projects running and being concurrently debugged.
This particular feature affects the Rich Client Silverlight clients and the HTML Mobile Client varieties. As we are often copying projects and switching between versions of Visual Studio this is the next step after upgrading and rebuilding a project.
Company information: Xpert360 Ltd, founded in 2009, is an Independent Software Vendor and Custom Solution Provider based in the United Kingdom.
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wikipedia | Wando County (Wando-gun) is a county in South Jeolla Province, South Korea. It takes its name from the island of Wando, which is the largest island within the county and serves as the county seat. Wando island is perhaps most famous for Cheonghaejin, the former headquarters of Jang Bogo, a 9th-century Korean historical figure whose private fleet and army dominated the sea routes in the Yellow Sea. Wando's most famous native in modern times is champion golfer K.J. Choi.
The best Gim is produced in the Wando area. Laver farming goes back 200 years, and with 22%, Wando is the biggest production area. In 2006, Wando exported about 2.3 million tons of green laver to the United States, Japan, and Taiwan.
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^ "기후자료 극값(최대값) 전체년도 일최저기온 (℃) 최고순위, 완도(170)" (in Korean). Korea Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
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wired | Samsung's Galaxy Note Edge handset is coming to the United States, one month after launching in Japan and Korea. It's standout feature is a beautiful 5.6-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED screen that bends along the right edge of the handset to make room for an additional panel of touch-sensitive glass. On this thin strip, you can display widgets that give quick access to apps, services, settings, and tools.
The phone ships with some "edge panels" pre-installed, and you can customize what you see on your home screen. There's a shortcut to device settings, and different tools like a timer, a flashlight, a voice recorder, and even a ruler. And given that so many people are obsessed with how far they walk each day, there's a widget for displaying your daily step count. For internet services, you can choose from weather, tweets from selected Twitter accounts, and updates from Yahoo's news, sports, and financial feeds. There's even a game called Memory Match. Every one of those panels acts like a separate app, so it continues running while you're using the main screen for whatever other apps you want.
Some of the Note Edge's native applications also use the panel on the edge of the screen. For example, when the phone is just sitting there locked and asleep, the clock is displayed on the edge. When you're using the camera, the edge shows camera options, an HDR toggle, shortcuts to scenes and filters, and the shutter button. With all of these touch-screen options out of the way, they don't cover the main picture frame, making it easier to compose a shot.
I initially previewed the device at IFA Berlin, and got the chance to play with it again just last week. I love how easy it is to flick a thumb over the edge to scroll through the panel options. It's snappy and easy to navigate. Samsung says there eventually will be third-party panels to download, and I'm eager to see what developers will come up with. This could possibly even be an occasion to improve Samsung's TouchWiz, one of the most widespread Android customized UIs, and yet certainly not the most loved.
A nice touch: Samsung sells a flip wallet accessory that leaves the secondary panel exposed so you can interact with the widgets while the wallet's lid is shut.
Other than the cool curved edge to the screen, the Note Edge is similar to the Galaxy Note 4 that arrived in September. It packs the same quad-core 2.7 GHz Snapdragon 805 processor, 3GB of RAM, and a smaller yet massive 3000 mAh battery capable of rapid charging. Cameras also are the same: The main one is a 16-megapixel shooter with optical image stabilization, and the front one has a 3.7-megapixel sensor. Even the case is the same size, measuring 8.3 millimeters thick, and buttressed by an aluminum frame. Of course, Samsung's Note Edge comes with the company's "S-pen" stylus. It's neatly hidden in the lower right side of the phone, and it brings all the same features we've seen on the Note 4.
Availability is scheduled for Friday, but some carriers are taking pre-orders. The unique design and the largeness of the hardware make the Note Edge a premium device, so you'll pay accordingly. It will cost $400 on AT&T with a two-year contract, or $946 off-contract. Sprint customers can get for $840 on-contract, payable as $35 monthly payments for 24 months and no upfront cost. T-Mobile will reportedly price it at $870, or $36.25 per month on a 2-year contract with no upfront fee. Verizon and U.S. Cellular have not yet announced pricing.
If you buy the Edge, you get Samsung's "Galaxy Gifts" package, which is also the same as what you get when you but a Note 4. It includes 50GB in free Dropbox storage for two years, a year's subscription to Bloomberg Businessweek Plus, one free ebook every month on Kindle for Samsung, a free six-month subscription to Pocket Premium, and thanks to a partnership with PayPal, special deals on selected online stores. | 2019-04-19T22:52:24Z | https://www.wired.com/2014/11/galaxy-note-edge-first-look/ | Porn | Sports | 0.543653 |
newgrounds | Based on a DDR song - I made it ages ago also. Marked my jump into synth sound quality :D.
This is great! Short and to the point, doesn't waste any time. I get a mental picture of that hairdryer thing from the Subspace Emmisary skipping around and whistling to this song... lol. | 2019-04-22T16:52:54Z | https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/21904 | Porn | Reference | 0.622901 |
wordpress | I know, I know – you probably thought all mushroom soups were vegan or at least vegetarian, but actually that is not always the case. Plus a lot of mushroom soups available in cans have all kinds of weird and not necessarily healthy ingredients.
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wordpress | A very good friend of mine, Patrick, showed me, on purpose, Prince Ea’s viral video. He knows only too well what annoys me, and certainly hoped I’d write something about it! Once again his plans worked!
Prince Ea’s text is in blue, my comments in black. Please forgive any solecism, or worse, that I have made here, as I am not really fluent in English, or even in Globish!
Okay, let’s start with a metaphorical authority argument! Who am I indeed to say Einstein had sometimes stupid thoughts? Then, let’s flatter the audience, using antique rhetorical tricks in a way to appear as a friendly guy! Nobody in the room will deny that he is smart, somehow. I could not help pointing out these two classical tropes: in a funny way, Prince Ea is a reactionary, being a perfect follower of Quintilen’s! Why always use the same tropes that guys in toga theorized twenty centuries ago? Be smart! Be creative! Innovate!
Yet, I appreciated the historical reference, since rhetoric science was born in Attic courts.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, today on trial we have modern day schooling. Glad you could come. Not only does he make fish climb trees, but also makes them climb down, and do a 10 mile run. Tell me school, are you proud of the things you’ve done? Turning millions of people into robots, do you find that fun? Do you realize how many kids relate to that fish, swimming upstream in class, never finding their gifts, thinking they are stupid, believing they are useless?Well, the time has come, no more excuses, I call school to the stand and accuse them of killing creativity, individuality, and being intellectually abusive. It’s an ancient institution that has outlived its usage. So, your honour, this concludes my opening statement, and if I may present the evidence of my case, I will prove it.
Let’s now try to be clear: what are we talking about, when we compare pupils to climbing fish? I suppose every school in the world has as its first goal to teach youngsters their mother tongue, right? You could obviously denounce this purpose as a criminal standardization of children’s minds, and some people have. But, if you can reasonably say that there are different ways of learning and several teaching methods, you have to concede that no one sensible would accept a school where nobody learns how to speak or how to read.
We can consider the issue under every possible light, but there will always be a time when every kid has to follow the same path. In short, fish, crows and cats do have to perform the same task, if only for a time. Cats will be better at climbing, so what? They will later be poor swimmers!
One child will learn how to read very easily. Another one will struggle for poor results, even with different teaching methods. Nobody says you have to teach every kid how to read the same way. But you do have to teach, for a while, the same thing to all of them! So what? Would you like us not to teach children how to write in order not to be intellectually abusive?
Exhibit A. Here’s a modern day phone, recognize it? Here’s a phone from 150 years ago. Big difference, right? Stay with me. Here’s a car from today. And here’s a car from 150 years ago. Big difference, right? Well, get this. Here’s a classroom of today. And here’s a class we used 150 years ago [gasps from the audience]. Now, ain’t that a shame. In literally more than a century, nothing has changed.
Yes! And neither have flowers, the sky, Pythagoras’ theorem or human condition! You see, there is no logical link between the premises of your argument and its conclusion. Would we inevitably have to change water’s molecular structure because we produce better cars today? Change the way we love because of smartphones?
Technological advances are fabulous, don’t misunderstand me, but they do not challenge everything.
Yet, you claim to prepare students for the future ? But whatever if it’s like that I must ask: do you prepare students for the future or the past ?
Here! Here is the core disagreement between us! You cannot ignore (and you’re going to prove it two lines down) that mankind builds its future on its past. There are no such things as uprooted civilizations: the past is a precious legacy just as much as it is a beacon enlightening our judgments. Furthermore, I will add that, volens nolens, all of us are trapped in the bias of our own times, which is the true captivity of the mind, the real chains that obstruct our creativity and our genius. For several millennia, the only way we found to free young minds was precisely to take them out of their own time! As we could not travel in the future, we chose our past.
I did a background check on you, and let the records show that you were made to train people to work in factories, which explains why you put students in straight rows, nice and neat, let them raise your hand if you want to speak, give them a short break to eat and for eight hours a day tell them what to think. Oh, and make them compete to get an A, a letter which determines product quality. It’s grade A of meat.
You see? The past is useful to think properly! I could say here that the schools of Ancient Rome, which were reserved to a small patrician elite, already had the same organization, even for small girls and boys. I hope you will not argue that it was to prepare Scipio or Pompeus Magnus for repetitive factory work!
Oh, talking about grade A meat, what about the European notation that provides a grade out of twenty? Is it also used for cows?
I get it, back then times were different. We all have a past. I myself am no Gandhi. But today, we don’t need to make robot zombies. The world has progressed, and now we need people who think creatively, innovatively, critically, independently, with the ability to connect.
Somehow, you do not seem to realize that you are promoting modern capitalist interests and ideas that you have denounced before! “And now we need people who think creatively, innovatively, critically, independently, with the ability to connect”: the OECD and the economic oligarchy as a whole would warmly applaud your speech! Think! Am I defending people when my views meet the desires of big companies? Look, they no longer need blue collar qualities nor engineering or technical knowledge, since they now rule over deindustrialized countries. They will no longer offer steady jobs, as they once existed. For most of us, there will only be unstable and underpaid jobs in the service industry where only adaptability, independence and basic social skills are needed.
Nowadays, classicist values and classical models are the only real unconventional and radical battles.
See, every scientist will tell you that no two brains are the same.
Yes, yes! And they will also tell you that they are very similar, and that they have a lot more in common than they have differences!
And every parent with two or more children will confirm that claim. So, please explain why you treat students like cookie cutter frames, or snap back hats, giving them this ‘one size fits all’ crap [‘watch your language’, ‘sorry your honour’]. But if a doctor proscribed the exact same medicine to all of his patients, the results would be tragic, so many people would get sick, yet, when it comes to school this is exactly what happens. This educational malpractice, where one teacher stands in front of 20 kids, each one having different strengths, different needs, different gifts, different dreams, and you teach the same thing the same way? That’s horrific. Ladies and gentlemen, the defendant should not be acquitted, this may be one of the most criminal offences ever to be comitted.
Maybe, you speak here on the basis of differentiated instruction, cognitive emotional pedagogy, etc. As far as I know, there is nothing unusual here: this is, in the whole Western world, the main official recommendation. Nonetheless, I could advise that you take a look at the «follow through» project’s conclusions, but that’s not my point here.
Are you really telling us that we should give up on a ten-year-old pupil who doesn’t know how to read or write properly, how to use the four mathematical operations or in which continent or country he lives, on account of his having other dreams?
I often hear this about teenagers: you do not want to study English literature? No problem! You’re not stupid! Do what you want! You do not want to learn chemistry? Fine! Feel free to move on! Nobody judges a man for not liking chemistry! You’ll be a great farmer, a great craftsman, a great singer, or whatever you want to be! And most of all, let’s hope you’ll be a great man!
You are not smart because you earned a PhD and you are not stupid because you failed in middle school!
The only question worth asking is: could we agree on a set of academic skills that all kids have to learn? And then agree on how to best teach them?
Also, stop pretending that teachers are monsters because they try to teach literacy to a six-year-old. As if they were torturing him with Fermat’s theorem or Byzantine History! This kid will be free to become whoever he wants later! From my point of view, the more you know, the best you have it, but we don’t need to agree on this.
Lastly, nobody wants to harm children, and every teacher, I hope, wants the best for them!
And let’s mention the way you treat your employees. [‘objection’, ‘overruled, I want to hear this!’] It’s a shame, I mean teachers have the most important job on the planet, yet they are underpaid. No wonder so many students are short changed. Let’s be honest: teachers should earn just as much as doctors, because a doctor can do heart surgery and save the life of a kid, but a great teacher can reach the heart of that kid and allow him to truly live. So teachers are heroes that often get blamed, but they are not the problem. They work in a system without many options or rights.
Teachers are underpaid, for sure. It also means that teaching no longer attracts the best qualified and best educated people. It seriously jeopardizes our future.
Yes, American standardized tests are inoperative, especially for the poorest.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, if we continue down this road, the results will be lethal. I don’t have much faith in school, but I do have faith in people, and if we can customize healthcare, cars and Facebook pages, then it is our duty to do the same for education, to upgrade and change and do away with school spirit because that is useless, unless we are working to bring the spirit out of each and every student: that should be our task. No more common core. Instead, let’s reach the core of every heart in every class. Sure, math is important, but no more than art or dance. Let’s give every gift an equal chance.
So, a teacher would have to master dance, music, math, English, Spanish, history, mechanics, animal husbandry, biology and painting? Nonsense… unless you advocate that pupils attend different classes as soon as they express the wish to do so. Once again, I ask: what do you do with a young person who does not know how to read?
Beyond the fact that all international rankings are sorely questionable, particularly PISA ranking, they do not reward the kind of schools you like. According to the last ranking (2016), countries that use the most conventional way of teaching get the best results.
There is no single solution, but let’s get moving, because while students are 20% of our population, they are 100% of our future. So let’s attend to their dreams, and there’s no telling what we can achieve. This is a world in which I believe, a world where fish are no longer forced to climb trees. I rest my case.
We all do wish them to reach their dreams. They are indeed our future and this is precisely why we have to be responsible. The more educated they are in academic skills, the better our future. Rules do not kill creativity. On the contrary, they enhance it and allow it. All Fine Arts and Literature prove this.
Childhood is a time of life that particularly hates being forced to do anything. Nobody likes it, by the way. However, human condition has to fight against nature’s duress. No one can escape it for very long. Learning to deal with the requirements and constraints of life is sometimes akin to a fish trying to climb a tree.
D’après E. D. Hirsch Jr, ils peuvent très bien être efficaces à condition de ne pas les travailler de façon formelle en classe, mais de travailler la culture générale progressivement année après année.
Je t’avouerai que je ne les ai pas lus, mais je pense que ça correspond à ce qu’il y a dans ses bouquins. | 2019-04-21T19:09:21Z | https://orbisterraeconcordia.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/you-just-suit-the-school-system/ | Porn | Kids | 0.401986 |
wordpress | Here’s the Manifold Pressure / Fuel Flow Gauge for the Centurion T210. It is the sixth gauge I’ve created for the T210 and it’s probably the last one specific for the aircraft.
Actually it’s been done quite awhile ago. But I’ve been looking for solutions to make the fuelflow gauge to rotate in a nonlinear (nonproportional) anitclockwise manner possible on the FIP as shown in the aircraft.
Unfortunately, after numerous attempts and helps from friends on the FSDeveloper forum, it seems that Saitek’s FIP doesn’t support nonlinear anticlockwise rotation.
Anyway, this one is fully functional. Any subscriber of this blog who is interested to get a copy of it could send me a request via the COMMENTS section below for the download link.
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wordpress | Trees are great for a relax in the shade, or a climb on an adventurous day. And they’re simply a beautiful addition to your garden. But trees are also great for … privacy. That’s right, the most attractive of all barriers, privacy trees can help make your home and garden a private oasis. | 2019-04-19T16:39:28Z | https://thesearchfrog.wordpress.com/2019/02/21/jc-tree-services-pty-ltd-5/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.989457 |
wordpress | I recently learnt on Twitter (from @Melissa_Benn as it happens) that there is a film due to be released in the UK later this month about the philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt.
Regardless, any excuse is worth it to draw people’s attention to Arendt’s wonderful essay “The Crisis in Education”, a copy of which can be found here. Although written over 50 years ago about American education, it applies perfectly to contemporary education debate and in particular its analysis of the ideology of progressive education has never been beaten.
This is something I think of whenever I hear yet another elaborate justification based on technology, social theories or neuroscience for the same practices that have already done decades of harm. If you haven’t already read it, please find the time. | 2019-04-25T14:16:41Z | https://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/hannah-arendt/ | Porn | Reference | 0.713241 |
wordpress | In late September of 2014, Anne Valente released her first full short story collection, By Light We Knew Our Names (Dzanc Books), after winning a host of awards for her fiction, including Copper Nickel’s 2012 Fiction Prize and Dzanc Books’ 2011 Short Story Collection Competition. Prior to the anthology’s release, Valente had already established herself as a rising voice in the genre, known for such works as her story chapbook, An Elegy for Mathematics (Origami Zoo Press), and for popular stories like “A Very Compassionate Baby,” which was listed as a ‘Notable Story’ in the 2011 edition of The Best American Non-Required Reading.
By Light We Knew Our Names is built on a series of stealthy and beautifully curated pieces of magical realism, bildungsromans, and research-focused set pieces for Valente’s characters, and Memorious was lucky to feature her story, “Mollusk, Membrane, Human Heart” as part of Issue 18. Valente was kind enough to talk with us about her stories, her processes, and what comes next.
Reading through the collection, I was taken by how precise and uniquely human the psychology is among your characters. What do you think connects your characters together psychologically?
Thank you! I’m glad they feel true to human experience. Writing a character is for me an act of empathy. I don’t want to write characters in my own image, who make the same choices I might make. In fiction, I strive to put myself in their position to better know how they would or wouldn’t act and react. Empathy sounds like such a clichéd term for this, so what I mean is not only empathy—understanding their emotions, motivations, worldviews—but also quite literally putting myself in the world of the story and its scenes. If I were Sasha at a birthday party with my package unopened while my friends have pocket librarians and fishbowl bellies, how would I react? If an eerie sound pervaded my street and broke through the windows of my house, what would I do? What would all of these characters do, with their specific sets of conditions and personalities and backgrounds? In this sense, character psychology is far more intuitive for me than planned or outlined.
What are the obsessions you work through in your stories? Why is fiction a good spot for these obsessions?
My guess is that most writers have their obsessions; mine seem to appear again and again. I’ve been thinking about repetition a lot lately, both in language and in structure and form, and I think repetition speaks to obsession and urgency, of trying to write the same thing over and over again without really getting at saying it. This so often applies to things that are unsayable or beyond language, which is why I think obsessions lend themselves to fiction and to attempting to write through something over and over. One of those things for me is loss and mortality. It’s unthinkable—and inscrutable—to me that we are here and then we aren’t. I feel like I’m writing the impossibility of this again and again, especially since there are really no words for it; writing is the best attempt at getting at understanding it, even if I never quite get there. Beyond theme, I’m also pretty obsessed with science, nature, and biology. I could spend weeks with an astronomer or park ranger or ornithologist and never get bored. I bet there is never a dull moment in their lives!
Each of your stories has such a strong research component to them. Can you talk about the research you did for one of the stories in By Light We Knew Our Names? How did it lead you toward or inform the story’s overall design?
Research is paramount to my writing process. I research less to stake claim on a particular facet of knowledge and more to discover something new, to imagine possibilities, and to be amazed, always. The research is obvious in some of these stories—octopus biology in “Mollusk, Membrane, Human Heart,” the life of Amelia Earhart in “Dear Amelia,” the specifics of the 1964 World’s Fair in “Everything That Was Ours”—and less obvious in others, such as in “Until Our Shadows Claim Us.” This story begins with the Challenger explosion and moves through several other major events that a group of children believe they’ve caused: the Chernobyl disaster, a carbon dioxide explosion in Cameroon, the hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73. The story never explicitly states the year, but all of these events happened in 1986. Research was required of each of these world events and their timeline in relation to one another, as well as details of setting and environment that would have been true to 1986.
For the story you published with us, “Mollusk, Membrane, Human Heart,” where did the concept come from? Can you walk us through its development?
Out of every story I’ve ever written, this is the only one that first required a physical drawing on my part in order to visualize the story and how it would end. I usually don’t begin with endings, but I had this image in my mind of this broken man sitting beside a pond of ink-darkened water where dead frogs were floating everywhere. I’m not sure where this image came from, but the story was a process of writing my way toward it after drawing it out. I knew an octopus was the cause of the ink in the water, so I spent a lot of time first researching octopus biology and anatomy. Then I began writing Walter in his laboratory, beneath the stranglehold of Dr. Carver and his ill-fated, illegal experiments. From there the story flowed, as did Roseline and the particulars of her marriage with Walter, but the story began from an image of dead frogs and octopuses in a pond and a man destroyed by the sight of them.
Who are some of your most influential short story authors? What collections have you read recently?
My most influential short story writers of all time are Lorrie Moore, Aimee Bender, and Raymond Carver. I read their stories closely when I was first beginning to write, and each of them taught me something important about my own craft: language in Moore, magic in Bender, the power of understatement in Carver, among so many other things. I’ve loved many recent collections as well, each of which continues to teach me how to put together a story and a great collection. I adored Megan Mayhew Bergman’s Birds of a Lesser Paradise and Laura Van Den Berg’s Isle of Youth (as well as her first collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us). I’m also reading Diane Cook’s Man V. Nature right now, which is phenomenal, and I have Micah Dean Hicks’s Electricity and Other Dreams up next on my nightstand.
We understand you’re working on a collection of stories centered around St. Louis. What are some works of literature that have been influential to you that have focused particularly on setting and place?
Setting and place have grown increasingly important to me as I work on this collection. I’m trying to figure out across each story what it means to write the landscape of St. Louis and the Midwest in general: whether the land is located in the thunderstorms and the tornados and the cicadas and the river bending around the city, or if it’s something less tangible. Much like obsessions, I’m writing my way toward it and around it over and over again. Some recent works that have offered me insight into how writers address a specific landscape are Benjamin Percy’s Refresh, Refresh, which sets itself in the landscape of central Oregon where the terrain becomes intertwined with the character trauma; W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, which is a fiction/memoir hybrid that contemplates time and memory as the narrator walks around the East Anglian countryside; and David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous, which is non-fiction but takes up the relationship between writing and landscape and how writers can “write themselves back into the land.” These texts have been especially helpful to me in thinking broadly about landscape and fiction, and about what it means to write from a particular place.
I still haven’t forgotten “Mollusk, Membrane, Human Heart”–what a wonderfully written story. | 2019-04-20T08:27:12Z | https://memoriousmag.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/fiction-spotlight-anne-valente/ | Porn | Home | 0.080507 |
sfgate | Nearly 4,800 subprime loans made to Bay Area borrowers in 2006 are likely to fall into foreclosure in the next couple of years, costing homeowners, cities and lenders as much as $1.5 billion, according to an advocacy group for lower-income families.
Such scary statistics are prompting more cities to call upon lenders to modify problem loans and curtail what are termed predatory practices.
At the same news conference where local officials with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) released its foreclosure study Tuesday, San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano introduced a nonbinding resolution urging the country's 25 largest subprime lenders and loan servicers to agree to a three-month suspension on foreclosures of owner-occupied homes in San Francisco.
The resolution also asks federal regulators to eliminate prepayment penalties on subprime mortgages and to prohibit lenders from making mortgages that become unaffordable after interest rate resets. Subprime loans are typically made to those with damaged credit and usually carry higher interest rates and other fees.
The resolution is expected to go before the Board of Supervisors within a few weeks.
"Education is not enough - we need to do something about the practices as well," said San Francisco Assessor Phil Ting, whose office has seen a threefold rise in foreclosure sales since last year.
ACORN's study captures only a slice of the foreclosures on the horizon, because it covers only those subprime loans made last year.
San Francisco's foreclosure rate remains well below those of other areas such as eastern Contra Costa County and parts of Oakland. But Liz Wolff, ACORN research director, pointed out that the interest rates on many subprime loans taken out in 2005 and 2006 will not reset until next year or 2009 - and almost certainly soar higher.
"We're just at the beginning of this mess," Wolff said.
Using lender and federal home loan data and nonprofit research on foreclosures, Wolff found 617 homes in San Francisco and San Mateo counties with high-cost loans made in 2006 that are in danger of repossession, amounting to $210 million in costs to the homeowners, lenders and investors and local government and in lower home values for neighbors.
In Santa Clara County, the group said 1,124 high-cost loans are likely to go into foreclosure, amounting to $370 million; and in Alameda and Contra Counties, 3,021 loans are at risk, amounting to about $875 million.
The figures rely in part on the assumption that foreclosed properties will remain empty, fall into disrepair and attract crime - depressing property tax revenues and requiring additional police.
Giselle Quezada, 54, hopes her home in San Francisco's Ocean View neighborhood doesn't become one of those.
She recently refinanced the home she has owned for 28 years in order to pay down debt and help her son and daughter buy a home together. Although the loan was sold to her as fixed, Quezada said it quickly became an adjustable rate, forcing her payments from $600 a month to $1,900 a month. Now, the telephone technician lives check to check.
Pointing to a map of ACORN's research showing the hardest hit areas in San Francisco - Ocean View, Bayview, Visitacion Valley, Excelsior - Quezada said she believed lenders and mortgage brokers targeted the area's most vulnerable borrowers.
"Something needs to be done," she said. "These are the people of the working class who want the chance, the opportunity... for the American dream." | 2019-04-20T20:11:39Z | https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/4-800-subprime-Bay-Area-loans-at-risk-of-3236230.php | Porn | Business | 0.119399 |
wikipedia | William F. Albright and C.S. Mann. "Matthew." The Anchor Bible Series. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1971. | 2019-04-19T15:26:19Z | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A9%AC%E5%A4%AA%E7%A6%8F%E9%9F%B3%E7%AC%AC4%E7%AB%A0 | Porn | Reference | 0.66989 |
wordpress | So, that computer I was looking at that was $1120 Newegg (and JR.com, incidentally) is $979 at Best Buy. That’s the Sony VAIO CW27FX. There is also a CW26FX, which is exactly the same machine, except without Blu-ray – it’s just a DVD burner combo drive instead. Since I don’t expect to use Blu-ray for at least, say, five years, I figure the savings would be worth it. That one is $1049 at Newegg and JR.
It’s $899 at Best Buy. It goes in and out of stock frequently, or so it seems. I’m very, very tempted. Never thought I would be happy to pay almost $1000 for a computer (my first personal desktop, built by me, was about $750; my Dell laptop, $600 used preloaded with software which was worth more by itself than that price tag) … but apparently I care more about having the best computer I can get for a pretty reasonable price. Z Series is out of the question on account of it costs $1800 – 2400 and the GPU is a downgrade from the one on this CW. Sure, it’s a 13.3″ feather, but that’s way less important.
That is, would I get a much better computer for the same price if I just wait a year? (After all, I only got my Sammy NC10 a little over a year ago; it’s still pretty new.) Here’s my estimate of the things that will change over the next year in the Sony 14″ / $1000 laptop.
The CW26FX is 2.4GHz dual-core cpu, 4GB DDR3 1066 ram, 500GB hdd, 512MB vram, DVD burner, 5.3lbs, and “up to” 4-hour battery life (more like 3, it sounds like). These improvements would lead to, call it a CX series: 2.7GHz dual-core (or 1.8GHz quad-core) cpu, 4GB DDR3 1066 ram, 640GB SATA hdd (or 128GB SSD), 1GB vram, Blu-ray, 4.9-5.1lbs, 4-5 hour battery life.
I suspect I’ve been rather optimistic about the CPU and battery life, and I wouldn’t be too surprised if they don’t upgrade the GPU – non-gaming laptops don’t get that much attention to quality video, and their flagship ultraportable with switchable graphics cards and a $2000 price tag only sports a dedicated 256MB vram. But there you have it – my predictions for next year’s thousand-dollar VAIO – and I’m curious to see what it will really look like.
And while these kinds of upgrades would be fantastic, I don’t see waiting a whole year for them – I’d just ask myself the same question then, and with multi-core processors leaking more into the mainstream, the differences in two years may be more pronounced than in one, especially for my would-be pet projects in Apophysis and Terragen (image rendering, one of the tasks where the advantages of multi-core cpus will be most pronounced).
Will I just hurry up and buy this thing? I still can’t decide if it’s affordable for me, at the moment.
Hi Guys, sorry if this is the wrong section 🙂 I am in the UK and I am looking to buy a new laptop I don’t need to do much, just surfing he web and checking emails etc. Any ideas about what spec I need and how much would be a realistic price?
So … first off, I don’t think I believe that this was a genuine comment – it contained two links to some website page for an ASUS AC adapter, which matched the domain of the email. The comment says nothing about any adapters, let alone a specific one. I’ve stripped the links and let the comment through, though, since the comment itself is a question I’ve seen when looking around for a computer myself.
Basically, any computer on the market today can handle “just surfing the web and checking emails.” If you’re really only using a laptop for basic surfing (like reading the news – reading, mind you, not watching) and checking your emails (which consist mostly of text with some static images), then you don’t need much power at all. Any laptop on the market five years ago can do those things, no sweat.
The trick is, there can be a lot packed into the innocent-sounding phrase “just surfing the web” — I, for example, use the web as a primary source of television and radio. Streaming media takes a lot more than loading a page of text on screen. My netbook struggled with Hulu videos, even though I used the small video size embedded in the browser window; my new Sony CW breezes through full-screen shows without so much as a hiccup.
And there can also be a lot packed into “etc.” Does that mean an offline game of solitaire or editing a few dozen images in Adobe Photoshop? The requirements are at opposite ends of the spectrum.
If it’s really just a glorified, easier to read (and type on) Blackberry, then I’d say try to strike a balance between size/weight and price – don’t go below 768 pixels tall for your resolution (e.g. pick something with 1024×768 or 1366×768 resolution), don’t go above 5.5lbs, and don’t go above $700. (Sorry, I’m not sure of the GBP equivalent. Also, in US pricing, $700 is a high cap – you could get something for $500-600 for sure.) There’s no reason to buy a high-end machine for low-end tasks. I’d still go with a system that has a dual-core processor, just because that’s the standard now, but I wouldn’t worry about specs otherwise. Just make sure it has LAN (that’s an ethernet port – for plugged-in internet) and WLAN (for wifi), and ask yourself whether you will ever want to have a cd or dvd drive in the machine (if so, do not get a netbook – they never have cd/dvd drives). | 2019-04-20T20:27:10Z | https://arestelle.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/window-shopping-and-next-years-1000-laptop/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.861368 |
wordpress | The global list, which includes 10 other Indian companies, has been topped by Japanese auto maker Toyota. The Japanese giant is also the world’s largest car manufacturer.
Google is an American Internet company and worldwide search giant, and is the world’s second most reputable company.
IKEA is a global home products retailer. It is the world’s third most reputable firm. Earlier this year, the Swedish major trashed the Indian retail growth story saying that the country was not even ‘an emerging market’ ready for big retailers with players making more mistakes than success.
Ferrero is an Italian confectioner. It is the world’s fourth most reputable business entity.
Johnson & Johnson is a global pharmaceutical major. The American major is the world’s fifth most reputable firm.
Kraft Foods Inc of the US is world’s third largest food and beverage company. It is also the seventh most reputable firm on earth.
Novo Nordisk is a Denmark’s largest and one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of pharmaceutical products. It is the world’s eighth most reputable firm.
Grupo Bimbo is a giant Mexican food corporation. It might not be too well known in India, but is considered the world’s ninth most reputable firm.
Migros is one of Switzerland’s largest supermarket chains. The Federation of Migros Cooperatives, which owns Migros chain of superstores, ranks number 10 in the world in terms of reputation.
The overall rankings are based on the companies’ performance on seven dimensions — workplace, citizenship, governance, products/services, innovation, leadership and performance.
This entry was posted on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 at 4:34 am and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | 2019-04-21T04:06:54Z | https://nvkumar.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/the-worlds-most-reputable-companies/ | Porn | Home | 0.504379 |
livejournal | As I wrote yesterday, I seem to have lost my 2010-11 Day-Timer refill set. This afternoon, I got a call from Jo Hamoui of Day-Timers, who had seen my grump, looked up my customer record, and offered to replace my set at a discount and waive the shipping charges. I was gobsmacked. "That's great!" I said, accepting the offer gratefully. The new set should be here next week sometime, so I should have it when I get back from Westercon, missing only a few days of July from my records. I can improvise with some blank sheets inserted into June if necessary.
It's easy to complain about poor customer service. I wasn't actually unhappy with Day-Timers in the first place — losing the refill set was my own silly fault — but this was fantastic proactive responsiveness on DT's part. I think it's important to praise good customer service as well, and this was something that I'll not soon forget. | 2019-04-22T11:03:57Z | https://kevin-standlee.livejournal.com/875466.html | Porn | Business | 0.404923 |
wordpress | It’s Saturday morning as I write this piece, but the sentiment remains the same. My apologies for the late post, but let’s get on with Finally Friday…..
Today, I share with you a picture from my backyard oasis. Every spring, we head over to the nursery and pick flowers for our yard and each year, we choose a color and theme. This year, I was drawn to the rich and deep purples. Regal, strong and crisp, they were so hard to resist.
Ironically this color has taken over my life and in the weeks to come, I will share how. For now, this Finally Friday – Several Hours Late is all about these blooming petunias.
Now it’s your turn. Share a photo with a thought either on this platform or on my Facebook page. Together we can say Finally Friday! | 2019-04-25T12:34:00Z | https://centraljerseyworkingmoms.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/finally-friday-several-hours-late/ | Porn | Home | 0.906009 |
wordpress | It’s easy for her to rush forward. To try and solve it all before it happens. She thinks she’s doing herself a favor, but she’s not.
She needs to take a step back.
Watch the ripples of water fall down the facet or see as the rays of sun rise from the earth. Take in the little pausing moments of the days. Notice how his smile twitches or how she says thank you. Hold the little baby close and feel the beating heart of another soul.
Or even, stop and listen to her own breathing. Feel the soft tempo of her being – set aside her thoughts that are too deep, full of worry beyond her strength.
Emerge life into her unyielding mind. Remind it how when she was little she could sit for hours and talk to her imaginary friends: Sally, Missy and Lilly. It was fun then to just play. Sit on her bottom and drink fake tea or wear her mommy’s clothing and shoes.
She didn’t perform then, not for anyone expect herself and it was fun.
She laughed at her own jokes even if they weren’t funny.
She didn’t think about tomorrow and perhaps, that’s when the rush began. When tomorrow popped in and said hello to Sally.
Then without asking her, Sally began to believe tomorrow and tell her to think about it.
Did she know where she was going and what she was doing and what she would be wearing??
Slowly, Sally, Missy and Lilly no longer asked her anymore questions because tomorrow took them away. They where enslaved by their curiosity of what could come later. What if they could do something to make tomorrow better? Today, was not enough and so, tomorrow needed to be perfect.
Tomorrow is now her king and I just pray — YES, I pray, she remembers the little quiet things.
If she does, the rushing will stop.
She will come back. She will find her rest and sit down and play. She will no longer play with Sally, Missy and Lilly because she has grown up.
But also, she will have found herself again. | 2019-04-19T20:42:50Z | https://christilong.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/tomorrow-said-hello-to-sally/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.88243 |
wordpress | I hate saying this but I have grown very accustomed to living in the on-line world. Along with a little over 5700 other people in Clarksville we lost our Internet service for about 18 hours this weekend and I was not very happy about it. What’s more – our ISP also handles our land-line telephone service; had we not also had cell-phones we would have been totally cut off. We have no cable TV and never got around to getting a HDTV adapter so if this outage would have been part of some attack we would have been totally dependent on what we could glean from the local radio stations which was more than enough to drive this former battalion S2 nuts. I was ready to send my grandson out on a recon to make sure the perimeter was tight.
Yep, being in the dark like that can make you a little crazy.
We’re making some changes and providing for some sort of back-up if this were to happen again, but I am still uneasy about the fact that the loss of connectivity bothered us as much as it did.
I thought about you guys when I heard that had happened. It’s amazing how reliant we all are on constant connectivity. Glad you’re back online!
I try to go undigital every weekend, and I do okay about it. You feel so nervous at first, but then it is wonderfully freeing. | 2019-04-18T17:22:23Z | https://davidr3deitrick.wordpress.com/2014/03/23/undigtital-weekend/ | Porn | Computers | 0.976551 |
wordpress | QT – Lazy to name it!
Finally, after so many days I am building something. It is a Sudoku Solver. We are team of two, Nancy and me.
So far, we have successfully executed the C++ code, now the task is to make a GUI of the solver. After taking some suggestion from around, umm.. one person, we are working on Qt for the GUI.
We both have downloaded qtcreator on our favorite OS Ubuntu with the command: sudo apt-get intsall qtcreator.
It is working fine with a good speed. Now , we are learning some basics of Qt from this youtube channel(The new boston), then we would be developing the main application.
The code would always be available here. | 2019-04-24T14:22:18Z | https://rneha725.wordpress.com/tag/qt/ | Porn | Computers | 0.95362 |
storiesonline | I asked Richard Shagrin about this in another forum but I'll double my chances of getting an answer by asking here, too. Woman divorces husband then turns daughter against him. At the daughter's wedding, the family patriarch and the wife's sister try to set thing right between their daughter and her father by revealing the mother's duplicity. The family patriarch has the habit of ending conversations by saying "Capital, capital!"
"C'est La Vie" is it. Thanks. It's a really good read for anyone who's interested. | 2019-04-22T20:35:42Z | https://storiesonline.net/d/s4/t4544/i-blame-old-age | Porn | Reference | 0.82413 |
wordpress | The third consecutive month of contraction hints at more than exogenous causes for Germany’s manufacturing.
At its crux, German policy and social preferences led the Member-State’s policy makers and firms to ignore the repeated urge for more investment, not least by the European Commission.
Feldstein and Horioka, who uncovered the correlation between savings and investment levels, reinterpreted their findings to describe how capital markets fail to effectively channel savings to where it is most profitable. According to a new paper by Horioka and Ford, as good and financial markets net bilaterally capital is reallocated only if countries exchange and consume goods.
Horioka’s theory is not observable in the German economy. At its core, the theory describes how lower real interest rates lead to currency depreciation – the correlation between both in the German economy is negative, though, implying the exchange rate strengthened when the real interest rate was in a downward trend.
It may be that Germany’s role at the center of an incomplete Capital Markets Union has skewed risks to the upside and reinforced the role of the Teutonic economy as safe haven. The Union must thus – as is – work towards a more coherent reallocation of investment within the Union, including excess capital within the EU.
Accordingly, a strengthening exchange rate has done little to counteract current account surpluses (correlation .77), perhaps because Germany has until recently reaped unexpectedly high returns to capital (see ahead).
High returns to capital and persistent capital inflows produce the puzzle that Feldstein and Horioka observed in 1980 – savings that correlate positively (.94) with investment rates.
Persistent capital inflows are likely responsible for the positive correlation between current account and productive capital through to 2016 (between .38 and .67 with a peak of .81, before lowering to -.18).
Crucially, decades of persistent capital accumulation have turned the correlation between capital accumulation and capital returns from positive (as high as .26 between 2008 and 2010) to negative (-.47 between 2016 and 2018), complacent with the long term decline of the real interest rate.
Reforms in Germany should focus on both ensuring an adequately depreciating exchange rate (somehow vindicating the claim that the Euro is too strong for Germany) that could depend on risk reduction across the Capital Markets Union and specifically to German investors; and capital replacement through accelerated amortization as announced by Minister Altmaier in January 2019 and suggested on this blog last year.
In order to discourage both ageing, unproductive capital and nominal exchange rate appreciation, Germany could also increase its capital gains tax (that currently stands at 0% except on speculative investment) or its corporate income tax.
The latter, now at 30% average, is becoming increasingly less competitive compared with other jurisdictions – and it may actually help Germany. | 2019-04-21T12:22:54Z | https://eunomicsblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/germany/ | Porn | Business | 0.557718 |
google | 【発明の詳細な説明】 〔産業上の利用分野〕 本発明は、熱硬化性樹脂を小滴として噴出する複数のインクジェットヘッドと、当該インクジェットヘッドから噴出されたそれぞれの熱硬化性樹脂が積層するステージと、積層した熱硬化性樹脂に熱を与えてその熱硬化性樹脂を硬化する熱源と、熱硬化性樹脂の噴出途中にこの熱硬化性樹脂の噴出位置や方向を相対的に変化させる制御手段とを備えている、成形品を成形するための三次元成形装置に関する。 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention [relates] includes a plurality of inkjet heads for ejecting a thermosetting resin as droplets, each of the thermosetting resin which is ejected from the inkjet head to laminate stage and a heat source for curing the thermosetting resin by applying heat to the laminated thermosetting resin, in the middle ejection of the thermosetting resin control for relatively changing the ejection position and direction of the thermosetting resin and means, relates to a three-dimensional molding apparatus for molding a molded article.
従来、樹脂を用いて成形を行う装置には、射出成形器や切削機がある。 Conventionally, the apparatus for performing molding using a resin, it is injection-molded unit or cutting machine.
また第６図に示されるような、三次元成形を行う装置が存する。 Further, as shown in FIG. 6, performs device resides a three-dimensional molding. CADで作られた三次元モデルが幾層もの薄い断面体にスライスされ、このデータに従って制御コンピュータ61により、XY方向移動制御装置62とＺ方向移動装置63とが作動して、同時にレーザー光源64よりレーザー光線が照射されて、樹脂タンク65内の光硬化性樹脂66の液体表面67を走査して、制御コンピュータ61の情報に基づく断面形状が描かれる。 Three-dimensional model made of CAD is sliced into thin cross-section of even several layers, the controlling computer 61 in accordance with this data, operating the XY direction movement control device 62 and the Z-direction moving device 63, from the laser light source 64 at the same time laser beam is irradiated, by scanning the liquid surface 67 of the photocurable resin 66 in the resin tank 65, the cross-sectional shape based on the information of the control computer 61 is depicted. タンク65内のテーブル68上で、レーザー光線が当たった光硬化性樹脂66は、液体から固体に変化して硬化する。 On the table 68 in the tank 65, the photocurable resin 66 which laser beam hits is cured changed from a liquid to a solid. これによって一層分の断面体が作り出される。 Thus one layer of the cross member is produced. 制御コンピュータ61によってテーブル68は一層分の厚さに相当する距離だけ降下し、次に形成された一層目に続いて上記と同様の操作によって新たな層が作り出される。 Table 68 by the control computer 61 is lowered by a distance corresponding to more minute thickness, a new layer is created by the same procedure as described above following the first layer formed next. このように連続的に作り出された幾層もの薄い断面体が積層されて硬化物69が成形される。 Thus continuously produced the several layers is also of thin cross-section body cured product is laminated 69 is molded.
しかしながら、従来の装置である射出成形機は、樹脂モールド用の金型を先に作成しなければならず、時間と費用とが余分にかかり、且つ多品種少量生産には、多くの金型を必要とするため適さない。 However, the injection molding machine is a conventional device, it is necessary to create a mold for resin molding earlier time consuming expensive and are extra, and the production of diversified products, many of the mold not suitable because it requires. またランナー部分など不要となる材料も多く、中空物体の成形にも多くの制約がある。 Also many materials becomes unnecessary, such as the runner part, there are many constraints on forming of the hollow object. 更には、材料の変更にも時間がかかる。 Furthermore, take the time to change the material.
また切削機は切り屑を大量に出す。 The cutting machine put out a large amount of chips. したがって、不要となる材料が多くなり、且つ成形品が切り屑により汚れ、精度が悪くなる可能性も高い。 Therefore, the number of unnecessary material, and the molded article is cut dirty by dust, possibility of precision deteriorates high. また射出成形機等に比べ、成形に時間がかかり、大量生産には向かない。 Also compared to an injection molding machine or the like, it takes a long time to molding, is not suitable for mass production.
第６図に示した装置は、光硬化性樹脂が液状でタンクに入っていて、これにレーザー光線を照射して硬化させるといった構造を採っているため、単一材料でしか成形することができなかった。 Device shown in FIG. 6 is a photocurable resin is not contained in the tank in a liquid form, which because it adopts a structure such cured by irradiating a laser beam to, could not be molded only a single material It was. 仮に成形途中で、材料を変更しようとすれば、タンク内の光硬化性樹脂をすべて入れ換える必要がある。 If the way the molding, if trying to change the material, it is necessary to replace all of the photocurable resin in the tank. したがって、洗浄等の操作を施さなければならないため、時間と費用が必要以上にかかった。 Accordingly, since it is necessary subjected to operations such as washing, it took more than necessary time and money. また、樹脂の重合の制御をすることも非常に困難であった。 It was also very difficult to control the polymerization of the resin.
本発明の課題は、成型品の成形途中で樹脂材料を変えても成形を続行可能である三次元成形装置を提供することにある。 An object of the present invention, changing the resin material in the middle of molded products is to provide a three-dimensional molding apparatus which can continue the molding.
成形品のその他の一部若しくはその成形品の残りの全部は、他の１つの熱硬化性樹脂がインクジェットヘッドから噴出されることによって、上記成形品の一部に積層して成形されることによって解決される。 Other part of the molded article or the rest of all of the molded article, by the other one of the thermosetting resin is ejected from the ink jet head, by being molded by laminating a portion of the molded article It is solved.
他のインクジェットヘッドから他の熱硬化性樹脂を噴出させて成形する。 It is ejected and another from the ink jet head of another thermosetting resin is molded. このため、成型時の材料の切り換えを早く行うことができる。 For this reason, it is possible to perform fast switching of the molding at the time of the material. これにより、途中から変更した樹脂材料が前の異なる樹脂材料と混合することがない。 Thus, there is no possibility to be mixed with pre different resin material resin material was changed from the middle.
また、噴出と熱硬化を繰り返すためたれ等が生じないので、成形精度がよい。 Also, since no such leaning to repeat the ejection and thermosetting, good molding accuracy. また、樹脂が小滴状で噴射されるので、樹脂の重合の制御も容易である。 Further, since the resin is injected in droplet form, the control of polymerization of the resin is easy.
以下に、本発明を図面に基づいて詳細に説明する。 The following describes in detail the present invention based on the drawings.
インクジェットヘッド14〜19、樹脂用タンク20,21,ポンプ22〜27、成形ステージ28及び樹脂硬化用熱源29から構成されている。 Inkjet heads 14-19, the resin tank 20, 21, pumps 22-27, and a molding stand 28 and resin curing heat source 29.
次に本装置の動作を図示の実施例に基づき、説明する。 The operation of the device based on the illustrated embodiment now will be described.
が作動し、インクジェットヘッド14〜19と、これより上側に位置した成形ステージ28が所定の位置へ移動する。 There operated, the inkjet head 14 to 19, than this molding stage 28 located on the upper side is moved to a predetermined position.
移動後、制御コンピュータ11からポンプ24へ指令が出され、インクジェットヘッド16からタンク21に入っている熱硬化性樹脂ＡがＸ方向乃至Ｙ方向に移動しながら噴出されて、成形ステージ28上に「コ」の字状に積層する。 After the movement, the control computer 11 commands to the pump 24 is issued, the thermosetting resin A that contains the ink jet head 16 in the tank 21 is ejected while moving in the X direction or Y direction, onto the molding stage 28 " It is laminated to the shape of U ".
29の照射によって、当該樹脂が硬化され、成形が終了する（第５図）。 29 by irradiation of the resin is cured, molded ends (Figure 5).
本実施例に用いられる熱硬化性樹脂Ａ及びＢには、加熱により、（１）酸化重合して硬化する樹脂、（２）縮重合して硬化する樹脂、（３）付加反応して硬化する樹脂などが用いられる。 Thermosetting resins A and B used in the present embodiment, by heating, (1) a resin which is cured oxidative polymerization to a resin that is cured by polycondensation (2), is cured by (3) the addition reaction such as resin is used. （１）の例としては、乾性油、半乾性油、エポキシエステル等が挙げられる。 Examples of (1), drying oil, semi-drying oil, epoxy esters, and the like. （２）の例としては、メラミン樹脂や尿素樹脂等のアミノ樹脂が挙げられる。 Examples of (2), and amino resins such as melamine resins or urea resins. （３）の例としては、ビスフェノールＡ型エポキシ樹脂等のエポキシ樹脂等が挙げられる。 (3) Examples of the epoxy resin such as bisphenol A type epoxy resins. これらの樹脂には、粘度、反応速度、反応効率などを考慮に入れる必要があり、増感剤や安定剤、反応性希釈剤などが適当な比率で混合されていることはいうまでもない。 These resins, viscosity, reaction rate, it is necessary to put such a consideration reaction efficiency, it is needless to say that sensitizers and stabilizers, and reactive diluents have been mixed at an appropriate ratio.
にCAD/CAM/CAEのシステムを導入すれば更に「成形のスピードアップ化」と「デザインの質的向上」をおしすすめることも可能である。 It is also possible to push further be introduced into the CAD / CAM / CAE system as "speed-up of the molding" and "qualitative improvement of the design" to.
本発明は、複数の異なる熱硬化性樹脂の各々に対してそれぞれに１つのインクジェットヘッドを備えているので成型品の成形途中で樹脂材料を変更しても成形を続行できる。 The present invention can continue the molding Changing the resin material in the middle of molded products is provided with the single inkjet head each for each of a plurality of different thermosetting resin. このため従来に比較して短時間できわめて容易に複数種類の熱硬化性樹脂から構成された三次元成形品を高精度に成形できる。 Thus it can be formed a three-dimensional molded product that is configured with high precision from the very easily plurality of types of the thermosetting resin in a short time as compared with the prior art.
と、熱硬化性樹脂の噴出途中にこの熱硬化性樹脂の噴出位置や方向を相対的に変化させる制御手段（11）とを備えている、成形品を成形するための三次元成形装置であって、 複数の異なる熱硬化性樹脂（A;B）の各々から上記成形品を成形するため、異なる上記熱硬化性樹脂（A;B）の各々に対してそれぞれに１つのインクジェットヘッド（15,16,19;14,17,18）を備えていること、 成形品の一部は、複数のうちのいずれか１つの熱硬化性樹脂（Ａ）がインクジェットヘッド（15,16,19）から噴出されることによって、ステージ（28）上に成形されること、 成形品のその他の一部若しくはその成形品の残りの全部は、他の１つの熱硬化性樹脂（Ｂ）がインクジェットヘッド（14,17,18）から噴出されることによって、上記成形品の一部に積層して成形されるこ When the middle ejection of thermosetting resin and a control means for relatively changing the ejection position and the direction of the thermosetting resin (11), a three-dimensional molding apparatus for molding a molded article Te, a plurality of different thermosetting resin; for molding the molded article from each of (a B), different the thermosetting resin (a; B) 1 single inkjet head (15 each for each, 16, 19; 14,17,18) that comprises a part of the molded article, the ejection of any one of thermosetting resins of a plurality (a) is from the inkjet head (15,16,19) by being, be molded onto the stage (28), the other part of the molded article or all of the remainder of the molded article, one other thermosetting resin (B) is an ink jet head (14, by ejected from 17, 18), this being formed by laminating a part of the molded article と、 を特徴とする三次元成形装置。 When a three-dimensional molding apparatus according to claim. | 2019-04-20T07:01:34Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/JP2738017B2/en | Porn | Business | 0.540662 |
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wordpress | Today is Monday. The investigation was ordered Thursday afternoon.
The RCMP continue to investigate Hyde’s death.
Of course, the question of why someone suffering from Paranoid Schizophrenia was in jail and not in a mental health facility, I suppose, is silly.
In this case, I am willing to concede that the Taser might not have been the exact cause of death. I doubt it helped, though.
It seems that many of the Tasered people have had mental health issues. Police claim that they are “trained” to deal with people with mental health issues. However, given the number of people exhibiting signs of being in the midst of a psychiatric crisis who have been taken down by either a Taser or violent force (or both), it seems that their methods need reviewing.
It’s easy to pass the buck on this and blame the person who is, because of a mental health issue, becomes violent for their own misfortune, Many of these events could have been prevented with better crisis intervention for people with mental health problems, better monitoring, better management of Canada’s mental health system.
… and by extension, when the system fails, a better ability to recognise and respond appropriately to people in the middle of a crisis without it ending up with them ending up battered…. or dead.
We have SWAT teams in most cities, as well as hostage negotiators, and other specialty branches within most police forces. Surely to God, taking the extra two minutes to evaluate a situation and call in people trained properly to deal with the mentally ill would not be too much of a stretch, either in personal or in finances. Considering the cost of inquiring into every handling of a serious injury or death to someone who was clearly in crisis it seems to me a small price to pay to prevent rather than pick up the pieces afterwards.
Considering the fact that most of the recent deaths have involved people who were in crisis with either a long-standing mental health issue or some sort of mental health crisis, brought on by other circumstances, I think it is high time that consideration should be given to better train police and to reassess the mental health system.
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This does not surprise me….
“Ontario’s top cop yesterday blasted critics who rush to judgment after police used Tasers in the death of a man at a Vancouver airport but remain mute when police officers are killed.
“I’m really concerned about the rhetoric swirling around out there that’s devoid of knowing all the facts,” OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino, a former London police chief, said in London.
Gee, Could we possibly be screaming about things like this?
The Government of British Columbia has appointed an independent commission of inquiry to examine the circumstances surrounding the death of Frank Joseph Paul. Mr. Paul, a Mi’kmaq from New Brunswick, was removed from the Vancouver Police Department lockup at about 8:30 p.m. on December 5, 1998, and was left in a nearby alley by a police officer. His body was found in the alley early the next morning. An autopsy concluded he had died from hypothermia due to exposure/alcohol intoxication.
The sole Commissioner, appointed under the Public Inquiry Act, is former B.C. Supreme Court Justice William H. Davies, Q.C.
At 8:18 p.m. on December 5, 1998 Frank Joseph Paul, a 47-year-old New Brunswick Mi’Kmaq First Nations man living in Vancouver, was arrested in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver by two Vancouver police officers for being intoxicated in a public place. He was transported to the Vancouver Police Department’s jail facility at 312 Main Street. Several minutes later he was removed from the lockup, placed into a police van, and left in an alleyway in East Vancouver. Mr. Paul’s body was found at the same location at 2:41 a.m. the following morning.
According to the autopsy report, death was attributed to hypothermia due to acute alcohol intoxication. The coroner decided against calling a Coroner’s Inquest, choosing instead to conduct an Inquiry without a jury under s. 20 of the Coroners Act, and issued a Judgment of Inquiry.
In 2000 the Vancouver Police Department concluded disciplinary proceedings against two officers. One officer was suspended for two days for discreditable conduct, and the other officer was suspended for one day for neglect of duty.
In January 2002 the Police Complaints Commissioner advised the Chief of the Vancouver Police Department that, in his view, a Public Hearing under the Police Act would not be the appropriate vehicle to address the issues arising from the death of Mr. Paul, and that he would be taking no further action. He subsequently wrote to the provincial Solicitor General, recommending an inquest and suggesting a province-wide review of police response to circumstances where they detain or release people who are unable to care for themselves.
In June 2003 the new Police Complaints Commissioner released to counsel acting for Mr. Paul’s family portions of the police jail surveillance video depicting Mr. Paul’s arrival and departure at the Vancouver Police jail on December 5, 1998. Based on new information concerning the circumstances of Mr. Paul’s removal from the jail hours before his death, the Police Complaints Commissioner re-opened the Frank Paul file. In January 2004 he published Reasons for Decision in which he recommended a full public inquiry.
On several occasions the Criminal Justice Branch of the Ministry of Attorney General examined the circumstances surrounding Mr. Paul’s death. In each review, the Branch decided not to proceed with criminal charges against any of the police officers involved.
On February 22, 2007 the Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General announced a public inquiry into the Frank Paul case. On March 9, 2007 he announced that William H. Davies, Q.C. would act as commissioner, and that the inquiry would be conducted under the proposed new Public Inquiry Act.
On August 10, 2007 the Attorney General published the public inquiry’s purpose and terms of reference. The Commission is to submit a final report to the Attorney General on or before May 31, 2008.
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wordpress | « Take advantage of the increased intensity of Love enveloping you all today.
Life is a divine gift that is never rescinded.
Good morning dear Saul. Thanks for your last message. If you wish to commune, I am here intending to be ready to receive, although feeling tired – and who isn’t?
Good morning dear John. Thank you for calling, your tiredness is not just lack of sleep last night, but is also a result of the enormous change in energies that are raining down on Earth to renew your bodies in preparation for the rapidly approaching moment of ascension. No, you are not making this up, I am passing it to you so that you can make allowances for your tiredness instead of judging yourself. This is a time of intense activity as the last remaining aspects of humanity’s ascension/awakening process are completed so that your ascension can move forwards rapidly and smoothly and bring you all the benefits that have been promised for so long.
Well, that’s what we are all hoping for so let’s make it happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are making it happen, so do not let tiredness, perhaps even exhaustion weaken your resolve to bring it to fruition. You have the strength, the power, and the divine support to achieve your aims. Remake that intent frequently and maintain it because that is why you incarnated. Before you arrived on Earth as humans this time around you knew what was involved and you also knew that you would succeed, that failure was not an option, that it was in fact utterly impossible, and deep within yourselves you know this.
When doubts, depression, or anxiety arise ask us for help! We are here to support you in every moment, your requests to us, your prayers, and your complaints are all heard and acknowledged. If you did not know that the divine plan would be achieved you would have long ago given up the work of bringing it into being. Being human you experience up and down moods because they are part of the illusory state of separation that you are experiencing, and one of the reasons you are experiencing those ups and downs is so that you can empathize with those you are on Earth to help awaken.
Nothing has been left to chance because this is a divine plan that is being brought perfectly to its timely conclusion, and chance is not part of the plan. All is perfectly on schedule, as it always has been, it is just that in the illusion that sense of certainty, that inner knowing is hard for you to access in every moment. Remind yourselves frequently that the divine Will is always perfectly achieved, as it must be because there are no other options, and relax into that inner knowing as Love fills every space within you from which you have removed thoughts and intentions that are not in perfect harmony with It.
God’s infinite and intense Love for you is completely beyond your human understanding, just accept that and continue to hold your Light on high, where It is needed, because that truly is your will, which is always aligned with God’s.
Every single person on Earth at this moment is engaged in humanity’s spiritual evolution and chose to take part in the awakening as it happens. But vast numbers have indeed forgotten their purpose, and often wonder if there is even any true purpose to human life apart from the ego-driven intent: “to be number one, better than anyone else;” and if that is not possible, because they see themselves as “not as good as, or not good enough,” then their intent can change and become an intent to drag others down to their own perceived level of misery and inadequacy.
The illusion has been in operation for many eons, swinging between periods when the welfare of all was a priority and periods when one powerful ego attempted to enslave all others to his will. As a result many have karmic residues that they need to detach from to make room in their hearts for Love. All have suffered over the eons because the illusion is a place that focuses on separation, abandonment, and the constant struggle to survive. Every human has experienced that, and large numbers are still undergoing that experience.
It is becoming apparent to the majority that conflict and rule by authoritarian means is inhuman and insane. Many, especially the younger ones among you, are refusing to support the old ways because they see very clearly the damage that those ways have caused and are continuing to cause as large international corporations still remain largely free to despoil the planet in the interests of profit. But as you well know, there is no profit to be had in despoiling the planet which supports you because doing that dangerously undermines her ability to do so. Consequently, all across the planet, people are uniting to change the rules that have allowed these selfish and self-destructive activities. And the rules are changing.
Life is a divine gift that is never rescinded, it pervades the whole visible universe and far, far beyond. There is only life – Love. All that exists has been created in Love, and all form has life, there are no exceptions. You see life as movement, but your senses, as humans, have only a very limited ability to perceive other forms of life, and so in your state of limited consciousness, the state you experience while immersed in the illusion, you choose to believe that inorganic material is lifeless, dead.
Over the last few hundred years as your science has developed it has discovered that many of its assumptions and “proven facts” are incorrect. Scientifically established “facts” are constantly being found to be only partially true, or even quite wrong. This is frequently blamed on the incompetence of previous generations while also admitting that of course they did not have the benefit of modern technology to assist them in their quest for knowledge. However, many seem to forget that those previous generations had what was at the time “cutting edge” technology available to them. It is just that the field of knowledge keeps expanding and demanding new ways of looking at things, and even new technology rapidly becomes outdated.
Large numbers in each new generation seem to make the mistake of thinking they now know far better than those who went before them, and cannot conceive that they too are very likely to be proved in error from time to time. Thus they engage in activities without allowing for the possibility that enormous damage will ensue if they are wrong. And of course the evidence of that arrogance can be seen all across the world as the continuous thoughtless “harvesting” of the earth’s resources frequently causes new and severe damage, damage that the “experts” first said could not happen, and then said could be contained.
However, that incredible arrogance is now being challenged. All over the world people are standing up and being counted. They are making it abundantly clear to those who wish to maintain the status quo that this will no longer be tolerated. Although many laws have been quietly introduced to protect large industrial conglomerates from being called to account for any damage they have caused by their operations, and to prevent their having to answer any claims against them for restitution or recompense, these utterly irresponsible laws are in truth unenforceable and will be rescinded.
Great and urgently needed changes to the manner in which you live on Earth are coming into effect which will ensure that damage already done is repaired, and that ongoing damaging industrial activities will be rapidly terminated. Much that is happening to alter your relationship with the planet, for the benefit of all humanity and for the planet herself, is not being reported by the mainstream media. Consequently many of you have very little idea of the fantastic progress that is actually being made in cleaning up your industrial activities. The tide has turned, the balance has shifted, and the New Age is coming vibrantly to Life all over the world.
This is a time for optimistic enthusiasm, let go of your doubts and anxieties and remind yourselves very frequently that you do know that your awakening is imminent. When you go to your quiet inner space each day to spend essential time in prayer, contemplation, meditation, or just relaxation, open your hearts to receive the abundance of Love that is being offered to you in every moment, and ask for help to feel It, to sense It, and to know that It supports you in every moment. We are with you constantly, but when you focus on your doubts and worries your ability to feel our loving presence is severely compromised. Trust that we are with you, effectively holding your hands, and embrace the spontaneous sense of well-being that ensues.
Thank you John and Saul. I am trying to stay optimistic. As a dowser, I read the energy of everything. The energy reading for Earth has really gone up since the end of March.
Thank you, John, that even in your tiredness you remain faithful to your role as a listener and sharer of all you hear. The effects of your faithfulness extend far beyond ripple-effects. You are helping to swing wide our hearts and minds to receive the tsunami of love that we all need to lift us back onto shore after having been swept adrift by fear’s rising, hope-eroding tides. All peace, gratitude and love be unto you, our faithful brother and servant.
This is the 1st day that I have felt so good for so long , I forgot what it felt like, energetic, awake, and then to read your wonderful message to all of us. WOW!
So good to be reminded that all is planned and cannot fail. I remember that now from a “Back Stage” experience I had. We knew it would be very hard en even painful to descend into this world, taking on the human experience, and greatly respected and loved each other and ourselves for still going ahead with it anyway. In full cooperation and oneness with God, our Source Self. | 2019-04-21T06:59:38Z | https://johnsmallman.wordpress.com/2015/04/19/life-is-a-divine-gift-that-is-never-rescinded/ | Porn | Reference | 0.269754 |
wz | There is a lot of established research about the positive influences from drama, theatre and the performing arts, especially on young people. The benefits are physical, emotional, social, and they help to develop a healthy appreciation of culture and the arts.
Understanding characters, roles and the subtext of plays and musicals allows students to relate better to different situations, backgrounds, and cultures. It encourages them to show compassion and tolerance for others.
Theatre is a collaboration of different players and in many cases the quality of any performance reliance on an ensemble performance. Combining the creative ideas and the abilities of all participants is required for the best outcomes. This requires all those taking part to engage in discussions, feedback, rehearsing, and the performance.
Playing, practicing, and performing will develop the ability and skills to be able to focus the mind, the body, and the voice.
It seems obvious to say that drama, theatre and the performing arts improves verbal and nonverbal communication, but it is worth stating that this benefits young people through their life. It improves vocal projection, articulation, tone of speech and expression. Importantly is also develops listening and observation skills.
Drama brings elements of play, humour, and laughter to those taking part – improves motivation and reduces stress.
Acting and drama games allow students to express a range of emotions and encourage them to understand and deal with similar feelings they may be experiencing. Aggression and tension are released in a safe, controlled environment – often allowing for a period of reflection afterwards.
Performing, even the most passive performances, requires intensive movement over a prolonged period. Many performing arts exercises improve flexibility, coordination, balance, and control.
Rehearsing and performing lines and movements will improve memory. Your memory requires exercise, just like a muscle.
Appreciation for Arts and Culture!
…because it will bring joy into your life.
What? I didn’t even know that Drama had essays!
HSC Drama is regarded as being a ‘B-Grade’ subject. Most people who consider themselves to be winners or successes of the ‘HSC Game’ will tell you not to do Drama because it scales ‘badly’.
I would, firstly, like to debunk this fallacy. If you get a medium-high Band 6 in Drama, it would be more beneficial to your ATAR than a medium-low Band 5 result in Physics (for e.g.) – a seemingly ‘better’ subject.
Basically, if you are getting high marks in Drama, and love the subject, you should definitely do it! As a bonus, you’ll enjoy the assessment tasks and classwork. The HSC doesn’t have to be a long slog! Pick subjects that you love, and you will succeed.
Drama essays are often overlooked because most kids take Drama to do the practical/acting components. In reality, the theory tasks are the most influential on your final mark. The theory exam is worth 40% of your external mark! Honing your Drama Essay writing skills will take you straight to the top, believe me! Most Drama students forget to study for the written exam until it’s too late. Getting this skill under your belt early will put you well ahead the rest of the pack.
This article is here to help you with any trouble you’ve had with Drama Essays in the past, in 5 simple steps! Let’s Go!
Bands are the system BOSTES uses to grade each of your exams in the HSC. Your results will be placed in a certain Band based on your percentage results. There are six bands, band 6 being the highest and most difficult band to achieve.
It is easy to think of the Bands with reference to their percentages.
The only way you can understand a rubric is if you translate into language that you understand. As an example, I have taken the Australian Drama and Theatre Rubric (the HSC Drama Core Study) and broken it down into simple terms.
This topic explores, theoretically and experientially, the traditional and contemporary practices of Australian drama and theatre and the various ways in which artistic, cultural, social, political and personal issues and concerns are reflected in different contexts. Students investigate how different Australian practitioners use dramatic forms, performance styles, techniques and conventions to convey ideas and influence the ways in which audiences understand and respond to ideas and images presented in the theatre.
You may know them at TEE Tables from previous English essays you have written. However, Drama essays are slightly different. You will be using a TETE table instead for Drama to break down your paragraph into a set of columns to build up an in-depth collection of evidentiary support for your essays.
You will be using a table much like this one. I have filled it out using an example from David Williamson’s The Removalists to show you how it works.
The audience empathises with Fiona, concerned for her safety. The audience builds dislike for Kenny and starts to pontificate about what they are doing to make women feel lesser in their lives. This assimilates with the tenets of Boal’s political theatre.
You should have one of these in every paragraph, giving you 4 for a Drama Extended Response. I know this can be tedious, and no one ever said that writing an essay was a hobby, but if you work hard now, you will reap the rewards later.
Compare how the plays that you have studied use the development of tension to take their audience on a particular journey.
First, we should ask ourselves three mini questions, within the question, to really understand what BOSTES wants us to answer.
What tensions are in the two plays I have studied?
How do the playwrights develop these tensions – What dramatic techniques/elements do they use?
How are these two things different in the two plays?
It is important that you answer these questions in the introduction of your essay, as it will show the marker that you have understood and addressed the question. Be sure to link back to these questions throughout the essay to reinforce your response. The next step is to write paragraphs which more specifically address the question.
In each paragraph, you should follow this structure: SCEEL!
Statement – A topic sentence which refers to the question, the set text and a theme in the text.
Context – A sentence about the context of the play, which is relevant to the themes you will be discussing in the paragraph.
Example – Experiential learning. Include an example from the text which supports your argument.
Explain- Explain the elements of drama included in the example and how they highlight the presence of the theme. Then, discuss the effect on the audience.
Link – Make a statement which links to the next paragraph, as it will be a comparison/contrast paragraph.
[S] David Williamson’s The Removalists makes an overt diatribe of blatant Australian sexism through manipulation of Kenny and Fiona’s relationship to represent a ubiquitous Australian union between men and women. [C] The attempts of the third wave of feminism to make leaps and bounds in Australia during the 1960’s and 70’s in Australia, to little avail, prompted Williamson’s creation of the Kenny-Fiona relationship dynamic in The Removalists. [E] In a class exercise, we directed a section of dialogue between Kenny and Fiona in their home, where Kenny sits comfortable in a reclining chair, whilst Fiona tends to the family laundry. Kenny spoke in a deep, harsh voice, whilst Fiona contrastingly adopted mousey mannerisms and spoke just above a whisper, in terror. We manipulated the dramatic elements of level and sound to portray this inherent Australian tension. [E] The audience consequently was made aware of the power dynamic in the relationship, whereby Kenny was in obvious control, and Fiona was his submissive. [L] Williamson’s criticism of Australian sexism is apparent to the audience and provokes consideration of how they are treating, or supporting the women surrounding them.
As you can see, it is very different to an English paragraph. You do not need to use fancy or superlative language. Just be sure to write clear sentences that do not cloud your thesis.
The key to a good first draft is by reading over the question, breaking it down, and creating a dot-point plan of what you’d like to say in your response. You should mention themes, the experiential learning you’re planning on using and so on. The essay doesn’t need to be perfect just yet. Just have a crack at writing!
Turn your first draft into full and proper sentences. Be sure to pay attention to spelling, grammar, and sentence structure! If you pay attention to these things in practice essays, you will be ready to go for the real thing. Turn your scaffolded paragraphs into 250-300 word paragraphs, and make sure that the experiential learning reads clearly, as you are often portraying a scene with movement and visuals.
This is the time to pick up on things that you feel need improvement. You want to aim to increase the flow of the essay. Put your laptop into ‘review’ mode so that you can track any changes you make.
That’s the most boring part of the course covered and done with a Band 6. Now you can get back to the good stuff… acting!
This is a full-on guide to smashing the Drama Essays, so thank you for sticking with me – you will be better off for it! With these techniques and steps, you have the ingredients to make a wonderful extended response. These tips have been used, approved and endorsed by Band 6 and 99+ATAR Drama students. Get writing!
Lucinda Smith-Stevens graduated from Pymble Ladies’ College in 2016. She is an intern at Art of Smart. She hopes to study a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney in 2017, focusing on Media and Communications subjects. Lucy loves drama and public speaking, having completed a CVCA diploma in Speech and Drama. Lucy is also passionate about helping other students through the HSC in humanities subjects, General Mathematics 2 and essay writing skills.
I have bolded the important terms. Every exam question that you will get, or practice, will be derived from this rubric. It is paramount that you understand this.
In essence, BOSTES is saying that in this unit, you will research and act out your set texts to get a rich and deep understanding of how the playwrights explore contextual Australian issues. These may surface in the form of a reflection, diatribe, subtle comment, or ramification of the artistic, cultural, personal and social imperatives of Australia in the plays’ contexts. Your job, as the student, is to analyse how the playwrights wrote their plays, and what techniques they used (appropriate to the styles of Australian Theatre) and what they wanted the audience to feel/think after watching their play!
1. Read your texts! Know them back to front!
For an example, we will use The Removalists by David Williamson (1971). This play is about two police officers, one a senior officer and the other is the new cop on the block, who helps a young woman and her sister, who is being abused by her husband, to move out of the house and return her to safety.
In The Removalists an example of a core theme of the play is sexism. This apparent sexism is a reflection of the blatant sexism in Australia in the 1970s. | 2019-04-18T23:06:49Z | http://pgqfs.wz.cz/433-drama-development-essay.php | Porn | Arts | 0.824959 |
wordpress | The tale is set in 1930’s Europe, and shows us the lives, loves, fear, passions, and prejudices that effected and informed the lives of peoples who were impacted so greatly by Nazi Germany. Jew and Catholic alike, even Lutheran, no one was immune to the social implications of policies gaining traction at that time.
The themes the author chose to addressed, from classism and anti-Semitism to religious bias, mental illness, and sexual orientation, were all well presented in plot, and nothing felt forced or even slightly out of place. I was, and still am amazed at the quality of craftsmanship shown in the storytelling.
I expected a work of fiction. This was a work of art. This was not reading a book. This was experiencing literature… It makes excellent and proper use of language… sit back and let the story educate and enlighten your mind as well as entertain…as it were a classic work, only discovered and released in the modern age.
…Ethnic disrespect, hate, and violence have gone on for centuries in central and eastern Europe. Until reading this book, though, I did not understand how finely differentiated these forces were. Indirectly, the book also helped me to better understand how the dark side of nationality has wiped out countless human beings during various periods ….
The author depicts how nearly impossible it is for the characters of this saga to avoid the propaganda machines around them, the pressures to conform, often in a chameleon fashion due to sudden changes in governance, and most unfortunately, the programming in ethnic bias from the time they were children.
Despite the serious subjects, there is much warmth in this story. Some of the characters do find ways to stay true to the best in their natures or even redeem themselves, just as real individuals did then, and have always done on the plains of human existence.
… well drawn characters … diversity of personalities and the theme of journeys. From ethnic origin to talents and occupations, physical descriptions to sexual preferences, and economic status to political leanings, we see a cross section of humanity…we can appreciate the full range of real outcomes and experiences, happy to sad or shocking, that occurred to real individuals during this era. By the way, the title of the book was an outstanding choice.
… Christoph Fischer deftly weaves his tapestry of history and fiction, with a grace … For me, the author’s choice of narrative style brought economy to the complex story being told, as well as a kind of mesmerizing rhythm.
This is a story where the reader gets to know the characters and walk with them through the horrors of WWII. … balanced in showing that everyone suffered in a war, that in some cases it brought out the best and the worst in humanity. So it does not limit the story to The Holocaust, but rather brilliantly paints a picture of many aspects and in particular Czechoslovakia.
With brilliant stolen moments of joy and human kindness, agonizing moments of human suffering and enough survivors to insure that the tale felt very plausible and believable.
Mr. Fischer entertains and informs in a manner that makes the past painful and easy to remember. I recommend this as a historically accurate, emotionally poignant a moving MOST worthwhile read.
Christoph Fischer is already blossoming into a great writer in this stunning novel about the Holocaust. Complex, multi-layered and painstakingly researched, The Luck of the Weissensteiners promises to be a trilogy on a grand scale. And this is no ordinary Holocaust tragedy: it is a much more subtle and far-ranging canvas than that. For Fischer is not dealing with the obvious victims of those troubled times, rather with families and individuals who were more on the periphery and therefore affected in unforeseeable ways. He makes the characters and the frightening and bewildering situations they face come vividly alive. You will find it hard to put down as you follow your favourite characters through one testing situation after another. I thoroughly recommend you read it.
Prepare yourself to embark on a journey filled with love, hope, hate, betrayal, intolerance, survival and abuse. Raw reality, an inside of how life was in WW2.
Like it always is in real life there is death, sorrow and loss so keep your tissues close. This is a true work of art, and I cannot congratulate Mr. Fischer more on creating this amazing work. Really looking forward on reading the rest of the series.
Wow, this book comes with serious credentials. It’s just shrieking out to be bought and read and it’s a privilege to feature it as a Gust Blog on our pages.
That’s a great write-up on your own book, Christoph–highly deserved, especially since you do so much to encourage and feature other authors.
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wordpress | A Train Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France. By Caroline Moorehead. HarperPerennial, 374 pp., $15.99, paperback.
In 1943, a train arrived at Auschwitz bearing 230 French women who had resisted the Nazi occupation of their country. Most were not Jews, and because of it, the members of the group fared better than other female prisoners. They were not executed on arrival and could eventually write to their families and receive packages.
Caroline Moorehead, an English journalist, tells the stories of Vaillant-Couturier and other passengers on the train known as Convoy No. 31000 in a popular history that begins with their Resistance work and follows them through the liberation of France. She aims in part to show how the women’s friendships helped them endure Auschwitz and, later, Ravensbrück and Mauthausen. Some of the women clearly did benefit from reciprocal support, but fewer than 50 of 230 survived the camps, showing that female bonds — however strong — were not enough for most.
With its large cast, A Train in Winter has a splintered focus that makes it at times hard to follow. But its deglamorized portrayal of Resistance work is a fine antidote to Hollywood stereotypes of that movement. This book will enlighten anyone who believes that resisters consisted mainly of handsome young men listening to encoded wireless broadcasts in cozy farmhouses in the French countryside.
Best line: The commandant of Auschwitz lamented in his memoirs that people couldn’t understand that he “had a heart and was not evil,” Moorehead reports.
Worst line: Natasha Lehrer noted in a review in the TLS that the name of the anthropologist Germaine Tillion is “unfortunately misspelled throughout, including in the index, where a cursory glance might suggest that she was related to the politician and resistant Charles Tillon,” who also appears in A Train in Winter.
Published: November 2011 (HarperCollins hardcover), October 2012 (HarperPerennial paperback).
One-Minute Book Reviews publishes reviews of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Janice Harayda, an award-winning journalist and former book editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland. Please follow Jan on Twitter @janiceharayda for her tweets on books.
From One-Hundred Great French Books: From the Middle Ages to the Present (BlueBridge, 2010), by Lance Donaldson-Evans, professor of romance languages at the University of Pennsylvania.
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. By Antony Beevor. Penguin, 608 pp., $18, paperback.
D-Day has inspired the literary equivalent of an amphibious assault landing. Cornelius Ryan set the tone with The Longest Day, a modern classic of narrative nonfiction that has helped to shape how generations of Americans have seen the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Stephen Ambrose, Max Hastings and others later wrote widely praised books about the campaign that led to the liberation of France from Nazi occupation.
But before the publication of D-Day, no major book about the battle for Normandy had appeared in more than twenty years. In that time, many participants in the invasion, code-named Operation Overlord, had died and left diaries and letters that found their way to historical archives. Antony Beevor makes superb use of newly available primary sources in an international bestseller that gets its first American paperback edition this month.
D-Day is nearly twice as long and much more scholarly than The Longest Day, and it makes heavier use of military terminology decoded in an up-front glossary. It also takes a harsher view of some of the participants in the invasion, especially Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the British officer who commanded the ground troops.
For all this, the Normandy campaign inspired epic heroism on and off the battlefield, and D-Day includes accounts of exceptional stoicism or selflessness. A staff member at one field hospital expressed amazement at how uncomplaining the wounded were: “It’s such a paradox, this war, which produces the worst in man, and also raises him to the summits of self-sacrifice, self-denial and altruism.” That contradiction may be as old as war itself, but Beevor shows how – for both sides – it showed itself in unique and important ways amid apple orchards and cornfields scattered with poppies.
Worst line: “In their Normandy battles, the Poles had lost 135 officers and 2,192 men.” It may be military jargon, but the implication that officers aren’t men sounds odd.
Published: 2009 (Viking hardcover), Sept. 28, 2010 (Penguin paperback).
About the author: Beevor won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the leading international prize for nonfiction, for his Stalingrad. In an interview posted on YouTube, he talks about topics that include how he used historical sources for D-Day.
Furthermore: D-Day shows the contributions of nations often slighted in accounts of the Normandy campaign, especially Canada. Beevor writes of the pilots for Allied air attacks in the Mortain sector in France: “It was almost an aerial foreign legion, with British pilots, Belgians, French, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Norwegians, Poles, an Argentinian and even a German Jew called Klaus Hugo Adam (later the film-maker, Sir Ken Adam).” A Washington Post review by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Yardley, posted in full on Amazon, tells more about the book.
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The Dud Avocado. By Elaine Dundy. Introduction by Terry Teachout. New York Review Books Classics, 260 pp., $14.95, paperback.
In 1958 Elaine Dundy won rapturous praise for The Dud Avocado, a sparkling novel about the cultural and romantic adventures of a young American in France. More than a half century later, her book has become a modern classic, driven by the unique voice of an endearingly impulsive heroine.
Sally Jay Gorce has traveled to Paris search of gaiety, laughter and “shoes in the air” – apparently, something not unlike a Fred Astaire movie. Bankrolled by an allowance from a rich uncle, she finds all of those as she takes small acting roles and moves from cafés and nightclubs in Montparnasse to a villa near Biarritz. She also has a moral awakening that occurs not when she loses her virginity to an Italian diplomat – which is part of her backstory — but when she discovers that Old World glamour can mask social ruthlessness.
Like its heroine, The Dud Avocado has small flaws: a loosely stitched plot, an ending that isn’t fully earned. These detract little from a book that invests Paris in 1950s with the allure others have given to the Paris in the 1920s. No matter how many scrapes Sally gets into, you never doubt her intelligence or enthusiasm for life. She writes of friends: “A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.” The same applies many recent books: they’re “so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.” The allure of The Dud Avocado – like that of its heroine – is that it is interchangeable with nothing.
Worst line: “I saw us for what we really were: beggars and toadies and false pretenders.” Pretenders are always false.
Reading group guide: Posted on the publisher’s site.
Published: 1958 (first edition). June 2007 (NYRB reissue). In addition to The Dud Avocado, Dundy wrote the novels The Old Man and Me and The Injured Party and a memoir.
Furthermore: More about Dundy appears in her New York Times obituary. The Dud Avocado has an excellent introduction by Terry Teachout, the author and drama critic for the Wall Street Journal.
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A specialist in Tibetan herbal medicine wanted to taste T.R. Reid's urine.
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care. By T. R. Reid. Penguin, 277 pp., $25.95.
This elegant polemic argues that the American health-care crisis is, above all, a moral one: Alone among well-off democracies, the U.S. has never made a moral choice to guarantee health care for all. Americans have decided that everybody has the right to an education and a legal defense, regardless of the cost or difficulty of providing these, T.R. Reid reminds us. But we’ve never decided that everybody has the right to health care. Because we haven’t, the U.S. is the only country in which medical bills can bankrupt people. It’s the only one in which patients who have paid their health insurance premiums for years can — and do — have their policies canceled while they’re fighting for life from a hospital bed.
T.R. Reid offers a powerful rebuttal to that idea with fascinating and well-written portraits of the health-care systems in five countries that have universal coverage: France, Germany, Japan, the U.K. and Canada. Japan, for example, hardly has “socialized medicine.” Its widely admired approach to health care uses private doctors and hospitals and nonprofit insurers. The system involves no gatekeepers, no rationing, and no waiting lists. It offers high-quality care and ample choice for patients. People split the cost of insurance with their employers or if they are unemployed, with their local government. And the Japanese lead the world in life expectancy (85.5 years for women, 78.7 for men).
Reid also evaluates the health care systems in India, Taiwan, Switzerland and other countries. And he found an ingenious way to dramatize some of their differences after an American orthopedist suggested that he have surgery on an injured shoulder. As he traveled around the world, Reid asked foreign doctors how they would treat the problem. In Nepal, he met a specialist in Tibetan herbal medicine who wanted to taste his urine before making a diagnosis. At an Ayurvedic hospital known as “the Mayo Clinic of traditional Indian medicine,” he submitted three times a day to massages of “warm sesame oil laced with forty-six herbs and medications.” These encounters add color and suspense to The Health of America without taking its focus off the moral imperatives of health care reform.
Reid doesn’t urge Americans to adopt any country’s model or a “public option” of care paid for by the government (although he notes that we have a public option in Medicare, a system that its beneficiaries generally like). But he appears to believe we can’t reform the system if we continue to allow insurers to make a profit on basic health care, something no other first-world country permits: The solution lies in a nonprofit model, whether run by the government or a nonprofit group. Reid has suggested in interviews that if Congress can’t enact the needed changes, Americans may have to reform the system on a state-by-state basis, though he damns the Massachusetts approach with faint praise.
– Reid has an exceptional ability to keep his eye on the ball. He deals forthrightly with the economic and other realities that health care reform would involve, such as controlling costs and creating an effective delivery system. But Reid never allows such issues to transcend the moral dimension of allowing tens of thousands of people each year to die and countless others to suffer needlessly. His powerful indictment shows why health care reform is ultimately not about politics or economics: It is about fairness, justice, and doing what is right for all Americans.
Worst line: “British women tend to have their babies at home; Japanese women, in contrast, almost always give birth in the hospital – and mother and child remain there an average of ten days after delivery.” The National Childbirth Trust says that in the U.K., 2.7 percent of women give birth at home.
About the author: Reid is a former foreign correspondent for the Washington Post.
Listen to a podcast of T.R. Reid talking about The Healing of America.
No, you’re not the only one who hasn’t heard of him. After the Swedish Academy announced that the French novelist Jean-Marie Le Clézio had won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature, Lev Grossman wrote in Time: “The sound of America’s literary journalists searching Wikipedia en masse is deafening” www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1848582,00.html.
Le Clézio’s selection may be the biggest surprise since the Italian playwright Dario Fo won in 1997. Not long after Fo won, the book editor of a major newspaper asked a group of us who were attending a National Book Critics Circle meeting, “Had you heard of him?” No hands went up. If you had asked me two days ago to name a French longshot for the Nobel, I would have said unhesitatingly, “Annie Ernaux,” whose work I reviewed on Feb. 20 www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/. | 2019-04-19T06:55:41Z | https://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/france/ | Porn | Arts | 0.40387 |
wordpress | Environmental campaigners Greenpeace today closed down a number of petrol stations in Edinburgh.
This footage from The Greenpeace website shows the moment they first targeted two Shell petrol stations in Edinburgh in a protest against the company’s plans to drill in the Arctic region. The Save the Arctic banners are all over the site. Activists use the emergency shut-off switch, which stops petrol going to the pumps, to close the station. Protesters could be seen on the roof of the Shell station in Dalry Road early on Monday morning, and a man in a polar bear outfit chained himself to a pump before being cut free and led away by police.
A similar direct action protest is being carried out in London, where Greenpeace activists said they were aiming to shut about 100 Shell stations. A Greenpeace spokeswoman said: “The oil giant Shell is preparing, for the first time, to unleash a drilling fleet of huge vessels upon the fragile and beautiful Arctic, home of the polar bears.
In a carefully worded statement a spokesman for Shell replied with: “Shell recognizes that certain organizations are opposed to our exploration program offshore Alaska, and we respect the right of individuals and organizations to engage in a free and frank exchange of views about our operations.
It is believed the protesters planned to spend the rest of the day touring the city using a combination of low-emission cars, bikes and public transport while shutting off the petrol supply to other Shell pumps.
This entry was posted on July 19, 2012 by fjwhite in climate change, creative protest, demonstration counterpower, economic counterpower, environmental activism, moral & ethical counterpower, NGO counterpower and tagged Arctic oil drilling, direct action, Greenpeace, Shell Oil. | 2019-04-24T08:44:19Z | https://citizenactionmonitor.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/whats-a-bear-doing-on-the-shell-station-roof-with-pizzazz-greenpeace-shuts-down-shell-service-stations-in-uk/ | Porn | News | 0.557584 |
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typepad | It has been a while since I have last posted and that is because of my focus on writing for The Project Manager's Guide to Emotional Intelligence. Just so you don't think I have given up on the blog, here are my thoughts on Managing Conflict using Emotional Intelligence. Let me know what you think.
Most project managers would agree that conflict on projects is inevitable. Projects are built on a foundation of the conflicting constraints of time, cost, and scope. Projects are often created to satisfy the needs of one set of stakeholders which may conflict with needs of other stakeholders. During the execution of projects, conflict frequently surfaces over contention for resources, rewards and recognition, roles and responsibilities, team member diversity, technical decisions, reporting structures, and even individual personalities.
Lack of emotional intelligence in project team members and stakeholders can also cause conflict. Team members and stakeholders who experience emotional breakdowns or lack emotional self-control are like ticking time bombs. When they detonate, they will frequently take healthy members of the team with them which could include you as the project manager. Even team members and stakeholders with high emotional intelligence may create conflict with others when they are under stress and pressure.
Most project management experts agree that project conflict can be healthy. Properly channeled, conflict can galvanize teams, spark creativity, and cause healthy competition. Conflict also provides the opportunity for the project manager to show leadership with emotional intelligence competencies such as empathy, self-control, and relationship management.
If not properly channeled, conflict can stifle communication, kill creativity, and squash productivity. Un-managed conflict will create unnecessary distractions and may encourage otherwise good team members to leave. Teams that are not able to manage conflict may fail to reach their objectives.
Conflict management is an essential part of the project manager’s job. The project manager is the one who will make the difference between properly leveraging conflict or having conflict wreak havoc on the team. Successfully recognizing and addressing conflict is part of the PM’s role.
The first step in the process is to recognize that we have conflict. In many cases, it won’t be difficult to see conflict. Consider the case where I had a team member come to me and tell me “I won’t work for him anymore”, referring to a team lead who reported to me. This team member then proceeded to tell me about all the shortcomings of this team leader, how hurt she felt, and that she didn’t want to report to him anymore.
In another example, there were two sub teams involved in a decision over two possible technical directions. One team lead was calmly describing the two approaches and the merits and shortcomings of each. The other team lead simply said, “any idiot can see that this is the only valid approach”.
In each of these examples, it is not hard to see the conflict. It would not be hard if we saw or heard two individuals arguing or even bickering with each other. However, the signals may not always be this clear. We need to be attuned to our environment to pick up on subtle signs that something is wrong. Subtle signs include lack of communications, missed deadlines, poor quality deliverables, or deliverables behind schedule. Team members may also use sarcasm or silence with each other.
Let’s look at each of these classic modes of conflict resolution from an emotionally intelligent perspective.
We use withdrawal when we retreat or withdraw from an actual or potential disagreement. In relation to the other approaches, withdrawal is low in terms of emotional intelligence. In fact, withdrawal was one of the emotional breakdowns described in Chapter Four. When we use withdrawal to deal with a conflict, we are disengaging from the relationship. We don’t tell the truth about our feelings or our wants and needs.
Unfortunately, withdrawal does not solve anything. In fact, with withdrawal we don’t even acknowledge that there is a conflict. When we use withdrawal, we aren’t really interested in solving the problem. We don’t provide the other party the opportunity to work with us to resolve the conflict.
Withdrawal can be successful as a short term strategy. By separating parties in a dispute we allow the air to clear and cooler heads to prevail. Withdrawal would be very appropriate in situations where you believe that there is a risk of physical danger to anyone. Withdrawal could also be useful in situations where there is no long term relationship. If you experience conflict in the last few weeks of a project, you may decide it is not worth working to resolve that particular issue. Otherwise, withdrawal should be used sparingly.
Smoothing is when we minimize or avoid areas of difference and instead emphasize areas of agreement. As a technique for resolving project conflict, smoothing is also relatively low in terms of emotional intelligence. Like withdrawal, when we use smoothing we are not dealing with the underlying issue that is causing the conflict. Instead, we are avoiding the issue.
The key difference between smoothing and avoidance is that with smoothing we try to emphasize the areas of agreements between the parties. This is a form of focusing on the positive.
We can use smoothing when the stakes are not very high or when we want to maintain good working relationships.
Compromising is when we bargain and search for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction in a dispute. Compromising is characterized by give and take from each of the affected parties. Each party to the conflict must be willing to give up something to get what they want. This is best used when the stakes are not very high and when both parties want to maintain the relationship.
Compromising takes more emotional intelligence than withdrawing or smoothing because the issue is brought out into the open and discussed. However, compromising requires each of the parties in the conflict to give up something.
Forcing is when one party forces their will or viewpoint on the other party. It is often characterized by a competitiveness between two parties and a win/lose solution.
As you might imagine, forcing takes very little emotional intelligence. The parties involved may see a particular conflict as one in a series of conflicts. Each may feel that if they lose this one conflict, they can even things up later. After a conflict is resolve, the two parties may simply be regrouping and preparing for the next battle. Forcing is a shortsighted approach to conflict resolution.
Forcing should be used only when time is limited, when the long term relationship is not important, or when no other solution will resolve the situation.
Confrontation is facing the conflict directly and using problem-solving to work through the disagreement. When we use confrontation, we bring the conflict out into the open so that we can deal with it. Confrontation is what Stephen Covey described as seeking a win-win solution . As you might guess, confrontation is the highest in emotional intelligence of all the conflict resolution approaches.
I learned about using confrontation to resolve conflict in an embarrassing way. A number of years ago I was hired as a test manager for a large systems integration project. I was actually a co-test manager; I was to partner with another manager to complete the testing. I found working with the co-test manager difficult to say the least. I was organized and had experience with test planning and execution. My fellow test manager was experienced with the technology we were using but lacked the skills to organize and execute the testing. I became frustrated. After some half-hearted attempts to talk to my co-test manager, I went to the project director. I told him that I had an issue with my co-test manager. His response was to meet him for lunch at a specific restaurant that day.
When I arrived for lunch, I was surprised to see the project director sitting in a cozy round booth with my co-test manager. I sat down with the two of them and immediately the project director asked me what it was about my co-test manager that I needed to discuss with him. I was embarrassed to say the least.
The confrontation with the project director taught me a few things. First, I learned that I should have spent more time trying to work through the issue with my co-test manager before bringing it to the project director. Second, I learned that the reason the project director paired us up was exactly the issue I wanted to complain about – we had different strengths and skills sets. Third, I learned that the most direct way to resolve an issue was to directly confront it.
I try to remember these lessons when individuals come to me with issues or conflicts on a project. I try to tell them that the shortest distance between two people is a straight line and that is the most direct way to resolve a conflict.
Beyond looking at the levels of emotional intelligence in each of the conflict resolution approaches, we can use what we know to better manage conflicts. As you might guess by now, it starts with a focus on what each party is feeling.
Conflicts involve both facts and feelings. It is usually easy to get the facts. That is the “he said-she said” part of the transaction. The facts are helpful as a starting point but they are only part of the story. We need to get beyond the facts to understand WHY those facts matter so much to the parties involved. That requires an understanding of the underlying feelings as well as the unstated wants and needs of each of the parties.
It is important to probe to find out what the parties in a conflict are feeling. We need to listen emphatically and pay attention to feeling words and body language. We may even need to ask. I recall a situation where I had a team member who sat with his arms crossed, fiercely insisting “I am not angry”. People in conflict will usually feeling scared, angry, or sad or some combination of all of these things. They may be angry about critical remarks from a co-worker. At the same time, they may be sad because their feelings are hurt and they want to be friends with the co-worker who made the remarks. Finally, they may be scared of a confrontation or scared that they need to leave the project because of that person.
It would be unlikely that a team member involved in a conflict would be so forthright about their feelings. More often, individuals will not be aware of the various mix of feelings they are experiencing. This is an area where the project manager can lead or coax them to appreciate the different feelings they are experiencing.
When we understand the underlying wants and needs of the affected parties, we understand their motivation. Then we can work together to address the issue or conflict that is caused by the underlying want and need. We can help each party to the conflict understand the wants and needs of the other party and to achieve their own wants and needs.
Our approach may vary a little if we are a part of the conflict or the cause of the conflict. If we are part of the conflict, we need to first orient to ourselves. The questions that we need to ask remain the same. We need to understand what it is that we are feeling. We will typically be sad, angry or scared. We go further by asking what it is that we are sad, angry or scared about. What is our underlying want or need in this situation? How does this conflict move us closer or farther from our wants and needs?
Once we understand where we are coming from, then we can evaluate the other person. We start by trying to understand what they are feeling. Then we explore what they want and need in this situation. Then we explore ways to work with them through the conflict. We may want to think it through on our own and then discuss it with the other party. If it is tense or uncomfortable with just the two of you, ask for a peer manager or disinterested 3rd party to join the discussion.
Bottom Line: Project conflicts are inevitable; you should expect them and be prepared. The way you manage conflict will define you as a project leader. If you choose to calmly lead others through the conflict by exploring the emotions involved, you will strengthen your relationships and build the team. | 2019-04-23T02:58:18Z | https://eq4pm.typepad.com/eq4pm/2006/05/applied_eq_50_m.html | Porn | Reference | 0.259886 |
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Up out of the mist a large black bird flies over me. It is so rare to see dark birds here; most of the birds are sleek grey or perfect camouflage brown. This is not shiny black like a raven, it is more of a matt dark grey. I notice the long point in the middle of it’s splayed tail and excitedly identify it as an Arctic skua. | 2019-04-22T12:58:13Z | https://susanhughesartist.wordpress.com/2018/06/10/skua-kjoi/ | Porn | Health | 0.981505 |
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This is instead of making posts to the community itself, and while are re-tagging is still in the process! And for those curious, this is a fresh new post for all requests and all comments should go here, but for those curious you can still browse through the previous (now locked) request post here!
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I'm looking for a Kyuhyun&Hankyung fic I've read awhile ago.
And I think they try doing it on the washing machine or something, but then they break it and Leeteuk gets mad at them.
And I think they try in the pantry as well, I'm not sure ^^"
I was wondering if anyone could recommend a fantastic yewook chaptered fanfiction. The rating doesnt matter or the genre.
I'm Looking for a Sichul/Hanchul fic.
That's all I can remember, sorry for the bad summery.
I feel stupid for having to do this but... So, I need help in looking for a fic. It was a multichaptered and the pairings were Eunhae, Kangteuk, Kyumin, Sichul(??) (maybe some other also....) Eeteuk, Eunhyuk, Sungmin and Siwon (and maybe some one else, I can just remember these persons -.-) were members in a popular group in Korea. Kangin, Donghae, Kyuhyun and Heechul were like anti-fans and they did something to them and got caught and then they had to spend one/two months with them in their apartment.
But that's all I remember and I can't find it anymore because I forgot what itw as called and so on. Please help me.
i'm looking for two fics, both of which are kihae.
the first one is a fic where donghae is "imaginary" and he's kibum's best friend, then kibum stops believing in him and donghae disappears until kibum goes back to his hometown and finds donghae again. then donghae disappears again. it's sort of vague, i know, i'm sorry.
the second one is where there's a game that's sort of virtual reality, and kibum plays it all the time and he meets a guy named donghae, who doesn't have any stats. but kibum starts to like him, and it turns out donghae is a "flagrant" something, which means he's not a real person, just someone invented but acts like a person. they're also illegal, so the mods want to get rid of donghae. it's also a dbsk/suju crossover.
mods, if this is against the rules, sorry :-/ remove the post if it is.
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wordpress | am bad web person. no new entries in a week. i do however have gmail now, does that make up for it? i cant really get my head around gmail at the moment though. especially all this grouping of emails nonsense.
my weekend was beautiful, despite feelings of shame still hanging around from abandoning my mother. sunday was spent watching 3 christmas films, eating very fatty yet strangely satisfying fried chicken delivery gubbins, and trying not to get lost in wimbledon common in the dark whilst feeling very sick from said fried chicken.
the week was spoilt a little by having to work. xmas in record shops is not fun. i’m not allowed to listen to girls aloud anymore, ive been banned from ever putting it on. and to add insult to injury people keep comig up to me with silly little printed off lists of the cds theyre after. its amazing how people can just walk past 1000000s of copies of robbie williams and then still ask you if we have it in stock. its not destroying my xmas cheer however, am still feeling decidely festive.
last night i drank too much wine and ate too much curry with my sisters friends and then drank too much wine and danced around to bloc party too much with my friends. my mum has declared today an alcohol free day until 6pm tonight. i love my mum.
i’m going to go and decorate a christmas tree now. will take photos of it and get mr swish to put them on here.
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wordpress | Every ministry needs intellectual capital to thrive. By intellectual capital, I mean the know-how, innovation, brains, talent, and imagination required to find and solve problems. The leaders I admire have an ability to design the workplace in a manner that liberates intellectual capital.
When designing, here are some things to avoid.
Policies serve people, not the other way around. The value of a policy is that it prevents the need to make the same decision over and over again. However, over time — especially with the on-boarding of new employees — it’s easy to forget the context of the creation of the policy and begin to apply the policy to situations it was never intended to address. This is why an annual review of policies is important.
This seems so self-evident to me I hardly know how to address it. There’s simply no way your people are going to feel the space for creativity and effective problem solving if all they’re worried about is doing exactly what the boss wants.
Every time a person’s role changes, even slightly, there’s a learning curve that delays production. That’s not to say shifts in job descriptions are bad, it’s simply to say that loss of productivity has to be accounted for as the person adjusts to the new or modified role. The danger for me is that I enjoy constantly tweaking the environment. If I’m not careful to pace changes I run the risk of frustrating the people I work with. | 2019-04-20T22:42:24Z | https://ericincontext.wordpress.com/2017/05/11/proven-ways-to-kill-creativity/ | Porn | Business | 0.380183 |
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wordpress | Dietitian Susie Burrell recently released a book ‘Losing the last 5kg‘ which I purchased considering that is exactly (well close to since I want to lose 6) what I have been trying to do for the last 5 months or so. I am only a 1/3 of the way through the book and I already have picked up so many great tips (so much so that I am going to have to read it again and highlight some parts so I can keep coming back to them).
I will complete a review of the book and trial some of the recipes in it once I have finished reading it, however when I went to decide what to have for lunch yesterday I immediately consulted the book.
While I really like the sound of the recipe for the Brown Rice Salad (on page 75 for those who have or do buy the book) I knew this wasn’t possible to buy from the food court so I consulted the section in the book ‘Learn to love salads’. As a coeliac I have definitely learnt to love salads as often they are the only gluten free items on the menu and salads can actually be really tasty (a note for all those that tell me ‘you don’t make friends with salad’). However as Susie says ‘a plain salad enjoyed at lunch without any bread, crackers or other form of carbohydrate may appear to be the most healthy, calorie-controlled option but remember that not eating adequate carbs throughout the day can leave you feeling unsatisfied and more likely to bringe later in the afternoon’.
Knowing that you can make your own salad at Sumo Salad and that they label their gluten free options I went onto the website to find out what options were available. That is when I discovered a great tool whereby you can create your own salad and then save and print off the list of ingredients to take into the store. It gets better in the fact that all ingredients are labeled as to whether they are gluten free, nut free and/or vegetarian, it gives you the final price and tells you the nutritional content of your salad.
I therefore followed Susie’s 5 steps to make the perfect salad meal to create my salad on Sumo Salad’s website. Firstly I chose the mixed lettuce over the cos lettuce as the darker the leaves the better they are for you. Secondly, Susie says that the more brightly coloured vegetables you include the better the salad will be for you. Based on her suggestions I chose carrot, cucumber, tomatoes, beetroot, pumpkin and capsicum (the only thing I didn’t include that she suggested was celery as Sumo Salad don’t have it). Her third step goes back to the carbs idea I mentioned above and I chose to include corn in my salad for the carbs (she also suggests sweet potato or beans or having a slice of wholegrain bread or crackers on the side). Step four involves adding lean protein of which I chose chicken. Finally she notes that salad dressings, nuts and cheese may all be tasty additions but they are high-fat choices. She suggests aiming for just one of these additions remembering that olive oil and walnuts are the two best high-fat additions. I decided to add walnuts and balsamic dressing (however writing this post now I have realised that I probably should have left out the walnuts and just had balsamic dressing or olive oil).
Once I had constructed my salad I printed it off and went off to Sumo Salad.
The person who served me still had to enter the ingredients into the system (it would be great if the website linked up to the store system so you could just give your name or a code but maybe that’s wishful thinking!) however having it written down discouraged me from adding any naughty items like feta to my salad once I got there. It rung up at 50 cents more expensive than the online system had calculated however they didn’t charge me the extra 50 cents when I mentioned this which was nice!
The salad was very tasty and kept me satisfied until my 3pm snack.
Have you made friends with salad?
I really like a couple of their salads – the chicken low gi and the lentil tabouli. yums! | 2019-04-24T22:51:32Z | https://adventuresofasydneycoeliac.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/sumo-salad/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.841181 |
wordpress | It only takes a few minutes to create a universe and everything in it.
I mean, I can’t do it, but if anyone can do it, and it is a pretty impressive thing to do, the amount of time should not be a serious issue. People that can create universes should be able to do them pretty quick if they want to.
If anything, He seems to have taken an unusually long amount of time.
We might even think, what was taking so long? What was He doing the rest of the day?
Even today, there isn’t a person on earth that can prove that the universe didn’t begin 5 minutes ago. It just can’t be done. Do you think because you remember 6 minutes ago that is final and conclusive proof that there was a 6 minutes ago? Like you are the way we measure these things, right?
But, what if there were no God? What if nobody ever intended, created or helped the universe to come into existence. Well then maybe Billions of years (because maybe if we just leave things alone for Billions or Trillions of years universes just happen on their own) is the cause. They just cause themselves. From nothing. For no reason. Universes just happen sometimes. There’s no explaining it.
Now really, there does seem to be a universe and we do seem to exist. Even if we don’t really exist that we perceive our non-existence seems a powerful intuition that we do. I would consider it a very complicated mystery; something to think about.
But more, whatever does exist would seem to be in need of more than a just because kind of explanation. I get up this morning and go out to get a cup of coffee and, lo and behold, no coffee. So I sit, and I wait, and I wait, and still no coffee. This is a strange turn of events and I wish I could have waited a few Billion years to see if the coffee would just make itself, but I’ve got to be to church in a little while, and really, they can’t start without me.
So eventually I make the coffee. I might or might not believe in the universe but I desperately believe in coffee.
And that’s the thing about coffee, or… you know… universes; they don’t seem to be the kind of a thing that would just happen unless something or someone wanted them too. There seems to be the demand for a cause behind the cause. The difference between the universe simply sitting there uncaused and non-existing, and it being caused and existing, seems to be, not an infinite series of finite causes, none of which explain the whole series of causes, but the one thing that we know of that can cause something to happen which will not just happen on its own.
Followed by an action as an expression of such a decision.
That would seem to be the only rational explanation for universes just happening. As they seem to do. At least once.
So I made the coffee.
While having my coffee, I discovered this post. Or did I? Thanks for provoking my thoughts. | 2019-04-22T22:01:49Z | https://christiantheology.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/on-the-creation-of-the-universe-and-the-inevitable-making-of-coffee/ | Porn | News | 0.132736 |
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yahoo | Aunt Flow — a gender-neutral, buy-one give-one period company run by 20-year-old female entrepreneur Claire Coder — is not your average menstrual product business.
First of all, the company allows users to subscribe to monthly tampon boxes filled with tampons and pads of their own choosing. Then, when a box is purchased, another is donated to a non-profit. By the end of October, Aunt Flow will have donated over 60,000 menstrual products to organizations across the U.S.
Their latest initiative involves selling their menstrual products to businesses, which can then offer them for free to employees and customers. Coder said they’re working with companies ranging from Stanford University to local coffee shops.
We caught up with Coder to hear about Aunt Flow’s latest initiatives.
Claire Coder (CC): Toilet paper is offered for free, why aren’t tampons? I started Aunt Flow as a result of an unexpected period. We have all been there — I was at an event, got my period, and there were no tampons in the bathrooms. I was surrounded by men, and I felt uncomfortable asking the few women if they had any “supplies.” I ended up leaving that event early thinking “WOW. I just missed out on huge opportunities, simply because of a natural bodily function.” I was frustrated that an anatomical male has everything he needs in the bathroom for natural bodily functions, but a menstruator does not. I was frustrated that no-one talks about menstruation. I set out on a mission to change the conversation and to ensure everyone has access to menstrual products.
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wikipedia | The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is an American twin-ingine, straicht-wing jet aircraft developed bi Fairchild-Republic in the early 1970s.
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wikipedia | The Pine Barrens tree frog (Hyla andersonii) is a species of New World tree frog. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.
Hyla andersonii, only about 1–3 inches (25–76 mm) long, is one of the smaller species of tree frogs. Members of the species are predominantly green, with wide, dark stripes. They often have spotted, orange-gold markings on the hidden surfaces of their legs and tend to have large toe pads.
The key to distinguishing the Pine Barrens tree frog from the similar-appearing American green tree frog (H. cinerea) is the white-bordered lavender stripe on each side of the body in the Pine Barrens tree frog. H. cinerea has only a white stripe in this location.
H. andersonii is most commonly found in brushy areas, often near peat bogs or shallow ponds. They usually inhabit areas carpeted with thick moss. Adults are terrestrial, but tend to reside near water sources. Unlike most frogs, they are tolerant of low pH levels, and often lay eggs in shallow, acidic ponds. The ideal pH level for H. andersonii eggs is between 3.8 and 5.9.
Due to the limited extent of suitable habitats, Hyla andersonii is currently distributed in three disjunct areas in the southeastern United States: the New Jersey Pine Barrens; the Sandhills of North and South Carolina; and the Florida panhandle and southern Alabama. Although one specimen of H. andersonii is known from Georgia, a population is not known to currently exist there.
Hyla andersonii is the state frog of North Carolina.
Hyla andersonii was listed as endangered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service between 1977 and 1983, when additional populations were found in Florida. The IUCN has classified it as Near Threatened as of 1996.
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^ "Pine Barrens treefrog (Hyla andersonii)". Environmental Conservation Online System. US Fish and Wildlife Service. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
^ Hammerson, Geoffrey. "Hyla Andersonii". IUCN Redlist. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
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wordpress | La Cueva de Diablo (The Cave of the Devil) is a site in Mazatlan near the performing cliff divers that attracts tourists. Locals claim it was a place that was used to store fish brought in by boats and that the smell from the site gave it the name. It has long been out of use for this purpose, but gates with the nickname have been constructed to attract more tourists and to deter people from going inside. I went there recently to take pics and took one through the gate just to have a record of what was inside. After I got home, it became clear that there was something in the photograph that I couldn’t explain. My shadow is in the front of the picture, but there are terrifying shadowy figures in the back of the cave. | 2019-04-19T15:10:29Z | https://nightroamers.wordpress.com/2016/02/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.847341 |
wordpress | RAWHIDE is a brand new project, merging the worlds of art, conflict transformation and healing to reconnect individuals who have experienced interpersonal conflict – or systematic conflict by way of the Criminal Justice, Mental Health and Homelessness systems – back to community. These experiences disproportionately effect Black people, people of colour, Indigenous communities and differently-abled individuals and as such, RAWHIDE is committed to creating safer space for these individuals to participate. To learn more read About the Project.
Currently RAWHIDE is looking for interested members to build the Core Team, as well as members in community to develop working Anti-Oppressive and Accessibility Policies. We are also looking for core participation from Indigenous communities of Turtle Island. If you are interested in learning more or getting involved contact: info@rawhideproject.com or call Melisse at 647-472-7022. | 2019-04-19T14:49:26Z | https://rawhideproject.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Arts | 0.900463 |
wordpress | ← Historical Romance Novel Enemy of the King for the 4th of July!
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Lacy is absolutely adorable! She’s precious, and you can tell she’s not one wee bit spoilt, either 🙂 Thank you for sharing her with us, and I also enjoyed your excerpt of your new book. Best wishes on your new release, I’ll make sure I check this one out.
What an adorable little dog is Lacy. Congratulations on your success. The excerpt is intriguing.
Lacy looks like a precious dog and perfect companion for a writer. Your book cover is gorgeous, Michelle.
Beth, thanks for introducing me to another nice writer.
Lacy is precious! Thanks so much for sharing, Michelle.
Michelle, I enjoyed reading about Lacy and how you received her as a gift from Mark and how quickly she became a part of the family – loved by each of you. I’m sure that she feels YOUR love in return….so precious.
That books looks really good!
Lacy is adorable. What a joy to have a dog like her in your family. | 2019-04-23T20:45:12Z | https://bethtrissel.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/furbaby-friday-with-michelle-kidd/ | Porn | News | 0.117819 |
wordpress | There are a lot of reasons why winter in New York is the worst. The first reason is that you’re always walking and it’s always freezing. The 48th is that there’s a Rockefeller Christmas tree outside your office and a light show at Saks so you can’t even make it to the subway because of all the camera-clicking tourists (or is that just me?). The 735th is that you can’t even take your puppy on a long and joyous walk because he might get salt in his paws and you might get frostbite.
But now it’s 75 degrees and the ice cream trucks are out and so are the sandals! So I snuck out of work early to enjoy some time in the park with Leonard.
We met some other dogs, some babies, and saw a celebratory spring sunset. Winter, you can feel free to stay gone! | 2019-04-26T05:43:40Z | https://mazeltev.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/a-walk-in-the-park/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.867729 |
livejournal | My tweets - Holiday Greetings from Rumple Puss!
Here's hoping more of my "tip" went toward cat necessities than dope! lol.
Fri, 00:10: It's funny how 1 sentence can ruin an otherwise poignant sentiment.
Fri, 00:13: That person who adds and removes with nary a "hello" or "goodbye"; what exactly was the point?
Fri, 00:24: HAPPY BLACK FRIDAY!
Fri, 04:58: Ain't it depressing how fast one can spend money?
Ooh one of those "grumpy" faced cats! Does your city have a token system for panhandlers? I wish mine did.
Nope, in fact that's my first time hearing about it.
How/where did you come across a "token system" in your travels?
Re: Nope, in fact that's my first time hearing about it.
I had heard some cities have them, where you can buy tokens for homeless. The tokens can only be spent on actual food , not cigs or booze. I haven't figured out which cities if any have them at this point. | 2019-04-25T00:37:13Z | https://theidolhands.livejournal.com/530934.html | Porn | Shopping | 0.633148 |
wikipedia | Zardab (Zərdab) is a raion in Azerbaijan. It is in central Azerbaijan. The capital is Zardab.
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yahoo | 0%67°59°Night - Partly cloudy. Winds variable at 12 to 16 mph (19.3 to 25.7 kph). The overnight low will be 58 °F (14.4 °C).Mostly sunny with a high of 72 °F (22.2 °C). Winds variable at 11 to 15 mph (17.7 to 24.1 kph).
Tonight - Partly cloudy. Winds variable at 12 to 16 mph (19.3 to 25.7 kph). The overnight low will be 58 °F (14.4 °C).
Today - Mostly sunny with a high of 72 °F (22.2 °C). Winds variable at 11 to 15 mph (17.7 to 24.1 kph). | 2019-04-23T20:51:26Z | https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/italy/puglia/rutigliano-722155 | Porn | Reference | 0.2173 |
livejournal | and these are his cds. i haven't gotten to the radio show ones yet. i can't wait to listen to the Hiro and Naru PoT CD. *snickers* Now I have to get the Hiro and Kohei CD. *sighs* hee.
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wordpress | Now I was never that great at Mathematics in school, or Art for that matter. But in later years I came to be quite proficient in Mathematics at least. I see my photography today as Art. Photographing the rugged landscapes in the Snowdonia National Park and our North Wales coast is my way of expressing myself.
This tree on the edge of Llyn y Dywarchen has always intrigued me. How did it end up there? Maybe it was planted for a reason but look at the surrounding landscape. But I think I know why it’s there. As you follow the wall towards the tree there are the remains of an abandoned stone house. Perhaps the owner of the house planted it? Interestingly enough, if you walk further around the lake you will find another abandoned house. It’s got a tree also, well a couple to be precise.
A week or so ago I was on the coast waiting for the sun to set. But I’d got the tide times wrong. The tide was on the way in and I knew I was never going to see that setting sun. At least not from the spot I was currently standing on. Time to move before I get my feet wet…and it’s not the first time that’s happened. I broke the golden rule. Forgot to look behind me. Last summer I was so busy concentrating on getting the sunset I didn’t spot the tide creeping in behind my back. Fortunately I spotted it in time and had to paddle through a small puddle to a drier part of the beach. has that ever happened to you? Frightening at first. My first thought was had the stretch of water turned the sand into quicksand, I must admit I was glad to be carrying my tripod that day.
Here in North Wales I think as photographers we are extremely lucky. The National Park is easily accessible, as is our coastline. We get some amazing sunsets throughout the year, even in wintertime. What more could we ask for?
I think you can see from this series of photographs that I enjoy getting out, photographing our wonderful landscapes. Am I expressing myself? I hope you think I am…. | 2019-04-25T02:05:16Z | https://northwalesphoto.wordpress.com/tag/sand/ | Porn | Arts | 0.922157 |
wordpress | There are two kitchen helps I find so very useful during the Daniel Fast.
Rice Cooker – mine is small and makes a maximum of 6 cups of cooked rice, but that’s an okay amount for what I need to prepare. For every cup of dry rice, I add 2 cups of water. Toss in some sea salt, pop on the lid, and flip the switch. It turns off automatically when the rice is cooked and it takes about 40 minutes. It’s so easy!
Salad Spinner – okay, here is my true confession: I hate making salads. I know I am not supposed to confess negative things over me (maybe I will try and declare that I love making salads during the fast 🙂 ) but for some reasons, making salads is not a thrilling experience for me. That’s why I like using the salad spinner. Easy to just wash, tear, spin and the lettuce is ready.
Just another word on salad making strategies. When I return home from grocery shopping, I cut up all the fresh ingredients for salads and store them in air-tight containers in the fridge. Then when it’s time to make a salad, I just add the amount of each ingredient I want to the bowl and it takes about 3 minutes to put together the medley. The good news is that for someone who has an aversion to making salads, this almost makes it a non-issue! Pray for me!
Yes, coconut milk is fine if the ingredients comply with the Daniel Fast Guidelines (available at http://www.Daniel-Fast.com).
I too like to add dates or raisins to hot cereal – and then I use unsweetened soy milk.
My fast is going well now that I’m working on week 2. I found that dates make a wonderful sweetener for whole grain cereal in the morning, also wondered if coconut milk would be ok to use in this fast?
Yes! The new book has all the recipes you will need for a successful Daniel Fast. Go to http://www.Daniel-Fast.com/store.html and click on Barnes & Noble. They still have copies.
HI susan….I have my mother and father who are doing the daniel fast and we are a family of four with many things to do at night…is there any recipies that are quick and easy…?????
Yes, matzo is okay on the Daniel Fast. However, I suggest you get the whole wheat variety.
The Lord’s Supper always takes precedence over fasting. It serves as the body and blood of Christ.
Thanks for the questions and God bless you on your fast.
Also, what are your thoughts about taking communion of yeast bread and grape juice?
One dressing I especially enjoy is grapefruit and olive oil. I just take 3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil and 1/4 cup fresh grapefruit juice and whisk them together with sea salt and freshly ground pepper. I love this dressing served over a salad of Bibb lettuce, grapefruit sections and red bell peppers.
Blessings to you on your fast!
I thought I read a coment a few days ago where you described making a salad dressing using grapefruit juice. Would you please repeat it again?
Thank you for all this wonderful information and work you have done.
I have just recently learned about the Daniel Fast and am thinking of starting it the first of March. My husband and I are taking a class in another community so must eat out on those nights – what do you eat when you go to a restaurant?
I am not familiar with that specific product, but if it is sugar-free and chemical-free it should be fine. I eat applesauce on the fast and I especially like it with wholegrain cereal as a way to add a little sweetness.
Yes, all healty oils are acceptable on the Daniel Fast.
Actually, it’s not about “natural” but rather that honey is a sweetener. So that would make it not acceptable, just like agave nectar, maple syrup, raw sugar and cane juice are not allowed.
and has no preservatives, is it allowed.
Lemons, along with all fruits, are allowed on the Daniel Fast whether fresh, frozen, dried, juiced or frozen.
I was wondering, I thought that we weren’t allowed to have oils? But, I purchased the cookbook, it looks WONDERFUL, but has lots of times using oils? Also, it used tomato soup, dijon mustard (wouldn’t these items have preservatives in them). Just curious. This is my second year fasting with Free Chapel in GA, and I didn’t know about any of these things being available?
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google | We spent a week in North Wales at a cottage called Ty-coch. Ian and Cloughie led us on some amazing walks. I did my knee in on the first afternoon and so had to do some easier walks on my own but this gave me a chance to explore some mines and take photos of streams. | 2019-04-24T07:55:34Z | https://sites.google.com/site/momodem1/wales2009 | Porn | Recreation | 0.986633 |
wordpress | I ♥ Paul Newman and to see him with Julie Andrews has to be an intriguing pairing. I confess I haven’t seen it. Thanks for reminding me to rent it soon. I’ll be on the look out for those brilliant moments.
Its quite a pity that Hitchcock lost out on the Universal film venture. I found your Bernard Hermann quote of condescension toward Hitchcock interesting though. What do you think were Hitchcock’s thoughts on selling out to Hollywood? I’m curious since I’m wondering if he was able to work with Hermann ever again.
One can only speculate as to what Hitchcock’s thoughts might have been, but I do not think he saw it as “selling out.” I think that he believed that he could and would maintain creative control, and didn’t realize that his own deteriorating confidence (and sense of fiscal responsibility) would keep him from insisting upon it. It had never been an issue before, but he was aging and times were changing. His own pride kept him from working with Bernard Herrmann again. This might have gone both ways. | 2019-04-25T06:27:23Z | https://hitchcockmaster.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/blu-ray-review-torn-curtain/ | Porn | Arts | 0.400191 |
blogs | In my previous post, I highlighted some ABF research that was on display at LSA. I’m sure I missed several other ABF-related panels at the conference. Even so, the LSA panels reflect only part of the ABF’s broader research portfolio. Let me mention some other projects. At its core, the ABF is an empirical and interdisciplinary research institute, and thus most of our research goes beyond purely doctrinal or theoretical questions to analyze “law in action,” as the legal realists put it. In this and the next set of posts, I’ll describe a few clusters of our research that reflect this focus on how law operates in society and on the ground.
Since its founding in the 1950s, the ABF has had a strong research focus on criminal justice. One of the ABF’s first projects, funded in large part by the Ford Foundation, explored the processing of offenders from arrest to prison. Led by Frank J. Remington, this study culminated in a scholarly edited volume (Discretion in Criminal Justice), as well as a larger publication (A Plane for a Survey) that highlighted the many areas of discretionary decision-making in the criminal justice system (thanks to former ABF doctoral fellow Meredith Roundtree for pointing me to this storied history).
More recently, ABF scholars have been continuing the tradition of analyzing criminal justice issues. Several are conducting research on the social and political implications of mass incarceration. ABF Research Professor and Northwestern Sociologist John Hagan and his co-author Holly Foster (Texas A&M) have been documenting how parental incarceration of non-violent offenders has had tremendous deleterious effects on children. With support from the National Science Foundation, the ABF held a White House Conference on this important topic. Similarly, Traci Burch (ABF/Northwestern Political Science) in her recent award-winning book (Trading Democracy for Justice) has shown the pervasive political and social consequences of mass incarceration, and how the criminal justice system has helped reproduce massive inequality.
Another area of ABF research related to criminal justice is Jim Heckman’s work on early childhood interventions. Jim, who is a U. of Chicago Nobel laureate economist and an ABF Research Professor, has been investigating how investments in early education and healthcare for disadvantaged children from birth to age 5 can have significant long-term effects on boosting graduation rates, improving health outcomes, and reducing violent crime. In a sense, Jim is studying ways to break down the school-to-prison pipeline that has been preoccupying many criminologists and lawmakers.
In a previous post, I mentioned the ABF’s signature “After the JD” project, which continues the Foundation’s hallmark work on the legal profession. Directly connected to this line of research is more recent work on legal education. Beth Mertz (ABF/Wisconsin Law) has long been studying the relationship between language and the law. In recent years, she has been examining how law schools operate as a site for the training of lawyers in the language of law. Her award-winning book, The Language of Law Schools, draws on deep ethnographies to explain the important role of language in the socialization of law students. Beth is following up that earlier project with new research on the post-tenure experience of U.S. law professors.
In a similar vein, ABF Research Professor Steve Daniels has been conducting research on many aspects of the legal profession and legal education. Following up on his recent book (co-authored with Joanne Martin) about the Texas plaintiff’s bar, Steve is currently working on changing patterns within legal education. With support from the Access Group, Steve will be building on his experience as a consultant for the ABA’s Task Force on the Financing of Legal Education to explore how law schools have been responding to the current challenges facing legal education.
Criminal Justice and Legal Education & the Profession are just two historically prominent areas of ABF research. In my next post, I’ll describe other more recent areas of research. | 2019-04-23T12:15:58Z | https://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2016/06/overview-of-abf-research-part-i-criminal-justice-legal-education-the-profession.html | Porn | Health | 0.623773 |
wordpress | June | 2010 | It's a kids ministry Revolution baby!
I’ve got the privilege of tagging along with ACTS National Leadership Team as they travel around NZ to catch up with leaders from the churches. This is the third year I’ve come along, and this year I get to go to the Auckland and Rotorua days for the first time.
I’m really looking forward to it, I just LOVE connecting with people who do kids ministry and other church leaders. We live in exciting times and God is doing some great things around New Zealand. Especially looking forward to hanging out with Zoey, kids pastor at Park City in New Plymouth for the weekend… hope Kiwi Kidmin will get some blog posts out of her soon!
then finally back home on Wednesday 16th to Dunedin!
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sfgate | If you use the services, you are responsible for paying the bill.
1 What Happens If You Abandon a House Before Foreclosure?
2 What Happens if There Is Another Lien on a Foreclosure Property?
4 What Utilities Do You Pay for in a House?
You use several utility services during the course of your home ownership. Water, gas and electricity are all basic but essential services hooked up to your residence for your use. During foreclosure, your ownership comes into question and you may wonder whether you are responsible for paying these bills each month. A good rule of thumb is if you are using the services, you owe the bill. If you are not using these services, shut them off to avoid additional bills.
According to the California Courts website, foreclosure takes several months from start to finish -- approximately four months from the Notice of Default to the auction. Prior to the auction, you are the owner of the home and are responsible for the utilities. If you are still residing in the house, you definitely want to continue paying the bills to keep these services intact. Homeowners who cannot afford to pay the utilities can take advantage of the different options available to help struggling homeowners pay bills. If you abandon the property, you might want to shut the utilities off to save the monthly bills.
After the home sells at auction and you have vacated the property, the bank or new owners are responsible for the utilities on the property. You no longer have any financial interest or rights to the property. Typically, the new owner turns on the utilities in his name. If no other parties bid on the house, the property now belongs to the bank. The listing agent for the property turns on the utilities to show the property to potential homeowners.
As long as you remain in the property using services, you are responsible for the bill. After the auction, you become a tenant on the property. According to California Civil Codes 1161 through 1179, the new owners must legally evict you from the property. You are responsible for paying the bill for any utilities you use while facing eviction. Failure to pay the bills could result in a lawsuit by the new owners for municipal services such as water and trash. Private business such as electric or gas companies often pursue collection efforts, sometimes employing third-party collection agencies, and collection accounts hurt your credit.
Shutting of the utilities saves you a monthly bill if you are no longer residing in the property. Before shutting off the utilities such as power and water, be aware of the risks. When you shut off the water, water can become trapped in the pipes. When winter comes, there is a risk the pipes will freeze in an unheated house and will burst. While winter weather is often mild in California, freezing is still a possibility throughout the winter. You could face an additional bill to fix the problem.
Realtor.com: Does Buyer or Seller Pay to Keep Utilities On?
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wordpress | hi hi hi! what a THRILLING Thursday it has been indeed. Why you ask? Well I think I’ve said this plenty times in the past but my life is SPONTANEOUS beyond belief. Things do not go to plan and I take that as a way of running to the next adventure, why cry over spilled milk, when you can go find an oreo milkshake, duh! LOL ANYWAY, optimism is key, so let’s dive a little deeper into today’s thankful, thrilling, Thursday!
1. Amaaaayzin Co-Workers aka Friends! I think I dislike referring to the friends that I make at work as co-workers, because work is basically an excuse to make new friends. Co-workers make it seem like we are forced to hang out with each other – which we definitely are, lol, but we choose to chill outside of work, and in my book you have definitely made it on the friend list. Anyway, I am thankful we got to bake chocolate chip cookies – FROM SCRATCH – today. It was the first time I had ever done so, and let’s just say it will not be the last. They were heavenly! I wish I could share some with you all through the screen!
2. Meghzy Poo So remember how I mentioned things do not go to plan and how my NYC trip was slowly dwindling down? Yeah..so unfortunately all my friends could not go to NY anymore. Leaving me with an air bnb for at least 4, and just me hopping on a bus into the city that never sleeps – alone. That would not be ideal. Thankfully, one of my really good friends who I recently reacquainted with #blessed totally allowed me to crash her MLK weekend in…..Philadelphia! Thank you so much Meghu! With that said, I booked a bus ticket to PA less than 12 hours before I board. Seriously, I was not kidding about the spontaneity!!! I am so excited and really looking forward to just hanging out and chillin’ out majorly. Thankful for great friends.
3. FACETIME SESH WITH FAM So, so, SO thankful to virtually hang out with my sister, mom and brother. (Missed my Dad T_T). My sister is such a sweetheart, she’s putting together a care package and I am so thankful for just the thought. It makes me so happy!!! I miss them all so much and I hadn’t had the chance to catchup with them since I came back. My mother is such a blessing, it was so fun updating her and then she got all proud of me toward the end. And obviously Dave made me glow because he reads these posts every night before going to bed, my sister catches up with them but Dave is dedicated. Thank you all so much. I love you all to the moon and back and then to the stars and all over. Thank you all for the unconditional love and support and seriously I am doing all this for you all.
Okay, enough mushy/gushiness obviously feeling some type of way. Anyway, my post tomorrow will be from Pennsylvania – HOW EXCITING!!!!!! | 2019-04-18T19:12:41Z | https://yeskriticallyacclaimd.wordpress.com/2018/01/12/day-11/ | Porn | Society | 0.445501 |
google | Methods and apparatus for Internet-scale routing using small-scale border routers and IP tunneling are described. Each border router is directly connected to a transit provider. Routing protocol peerings may be passed via the border routers through tunnels to a routing service; the routing service and the transit provider router(s) appear to be directly adjacent routing peers. The routing service receives routing data from the transit provider(s), maintains the routing data in a routing table, and processes the routing data in the routing table to select best paths. A mapping service may be informed, by the routing service, of a best exit point (or points) for each Internet prefix of each packet to be routed on the Internet. Outbound packets from devices on the network to the Internet, and inbound packets from the Internet to the network devices, may be encapsulated and passed through tunnels as directed by the mapping service.
This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 12/825,212, filed Jun. 28, 2010, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The Internet, sometimes called simply “the Net,” is a worldwide system of computer networks in which any one computer on a network may, with proper permission, obtain information from, or send information to, any other computer on any other network on the Internet. Routing may be defined as the process of selecting paths, or routes, on a network along which to send network traffic. In computer networks, including the Internet, routing technologies direct the transit of data from a source to a destination through various intermediate devices (which may be collectively referred to as routers). A key routing technology for the Internet is the routing protocol. Currently, the routing protocol used on the Internet is Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), defined originally in Network Working Group Request for Comments (RFC) 1771 and updated in RFC 4271. RFC 4271 defines BGP as an inter-Autonomous System (AS) routing protocol. BGP-enabled systems or devices on a network exchange network reachability (routing) information with other BGP systems or devices on the network. When a BGP-enabled system establishes a BGP connection to another system on a network, the systems interchange BGP messages to update Internet routing information on the systems. The collection of routing information on a BGP system is generally referred to as a routing table. BGP may be used for routing data internally on networks and for routing data external to networks (e.g., from one network to another on the global Internet). BGP used internally on networks may be referred to as internal BGP (iBGP); external (Internet) BGP may be referred to as eBGP.
On the global Internet, connectivity between networks may be provided by transit providers. (However, networks may also establish peer connections). Transit providers may be defined as generally large networks expressly for the purpose of providing connectivity for the Internet. A transit provider network is sometimes referred to as a “backbone.” Transit providers may be, but are not necessarily, commercial enterprises that charge for routing packets via their network infrastructure. Transit providers may provide local, regional, or international/global routing on the Internet. Examples of transit providers include, but are not limited to, Verizon® and Level 3® Communications.
Generally, to use a transit provider, a network must have at least one physical connection, e.g. a fiber optic or cable connection, to at least one transit provider edge or border router, via which routing protocol information, and data packets, may be exchanged. While a network may connect to a single transit provider to establish a presence on the Internet via the transit provider, many networks, especially larger networks (e.g., carriers, content delivery networks (CDNs), and large enterprises), may establish and maintain such connections to multiple transit providers. FIG. 1A illustrates several networks 120A through 120F each physically connected to two transit providers 110A and 110B. The device(s) on a network 120 that are physically connected to transit provider border routers may generally be referred to as border routers. Networks 120 may include a range of networks from small networks, such as local networks for small businesses, schools, government entities, or other relatively small public or private enterprises, to large networks, such as networks for large businesses, schools, government entities, or other relatively large public or private enterprises. Networks 120 may also include local or regional Internet Service Providers (ISP) that provides Internet connectivity to residential customers, small entities, etc. Networks 120 may also include the networks of commercial Web enterprises or e-businesses that, for example, provide electronic retail sales or web services to customers via the Internet. A network 120 may include two or more subnetworks, data centers, smaller local networks, or other network components that are interconnected to form a larger network 120.
FIG. 1B illustrates example routes between two networks provided by two transit providers. Border routers of networks 120A and 120B are physically connected to border routers of transit providers 110A and 110B. Each transit provider 110 may provide one or more paths or routes between networks 120A and 120B via which packets may be sent. Each route passes through one or more nodes of the respective transit provider 110. A node may be a switch, router, computer system, or any other networking component. A path may pass through one or more external nodes as shown on route 110A1. An external node may, for example, be a border router of another network. Each route may include one or more “hops,” the connection between two nodes via which packets are exchanged. As shown in FIG. 1B, some routes may have fewer hops than other routes. For example, route 110A3 includes two hops (ignoring the physical connections between the border routers), while route 110B2 includes four hops. Each transit provider 110 provides routing information to each connected network 120 via routing protocol (e.g., BGP) sessions established between the border routers. This routing information includes descriptions of the routes provided by the respective transit provider 110 between the networks 120A and 120B, as well as the descriptions of routes to other networks 120.
Conventionally, the border router and transit provider router establish a routing protocol (e.g., BGP) connection over the physical connection, and the transit provider router provides the border router with routing information available through the transit provider. The border router collects and stores this routing information (and routing information from other transit providers, if any, that the border router is connected to) as a routing table. The routing table for the global Internet may be referred to as the global Internet routing table. The network border router may perform other functions on the routing information, for example assuring that there are no “loop” routes in the routing table by excluding routes that include the network's border router.
The global Internet routing table is large, currently including over 300,000 routes, and is growing steadily. Many networks, for example carriers, content delivery networks (CDNs), and large enterprise networks, may need to route their external traffic based on the entire Internet routing table. Larger networks are generally connected to two or more transit providers and peers, and must choose appropriate routes to different parts of the Internet. Most other types of routing (enterprise and much of what happens internally within data centers or networks) may require much smaller routing tables (1000s of routes); Internet-bound traffic is handed off to transit providers for routing. Generally, high speed routing (10 gb and up) is hardware accelerated: custom ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) perform the bulk of the work, with traditional CPUs (Central Processing Units) performing control-plane functions. A key feature of these ASICs is the size of the forwarding table or Forwarding Information Base (FIB) that they support. Larger FIBs substantially increase the cost and complexity of the ASICs.
A result of the above is that the route table capacity of networking devices has become bi-modal in distribution between Internet-scale routers and commodity routers. Internet-scale routers (referred to herein as large-scale routers) may support one million or more routes. These large-scale routers are manufactured by a relatively small number of companies (e.g., Cisco® Systems, Inc. and Juniper® Networks, Inc.), tend to be expensive (e.g., $300,000-$1,000,000), and sell in relatively small volumes. In addition, these systems are generally proprietary systems that typically do not support customization or user extension. Commodity routers (referred to herein as small-scale routers) support a much smaller number of routes (e.g., 16K-32K routes), and high market volume tends to keep prices relatively low (e.g., $15,000 and under). Most networks use these small-scale routers for internal network routing (e.g., using Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)), although some very large networks may use large-scale routers for at least some internal networking.
FIG. 1C illustrates a network connected to the Internet via physical connections between transit providers and large-scale border router(s), according to the prior art. Network 120A may include multiple computing and peripheral devices 150 such as servers, workstations, printers, storage systems, etc., which may be referred to as endpoint devices, as well as multiple internal networking devices 140 such as internal (generally small-scale) routers, switches, bridges, etc. Network 120A may need to route inbound and outbound external traffic to other networks or devices on the Internet based on the entire Internet routing table 132. Conventionally, because of the large number of routes in the global Internet routing table (300,000+), network 120 will include one or more large-scale border routers 130 that are each physically connected to one or more transit provider 110 border routers, that each establish BGP sessions with connected transit providers 110, and that are each configured to store the full Internet routing table 132.
FIG. 1A illustrates an example of networks each connected to two transit providers.
FIG. 1B illustrates an example of routes between two networks provided by two transit providers.
FIG. 1C illustrates an example network connected to the Internet via physical connections between transit providers and large-scale border router(s).
FIG. 2 illustrates an example network with full Internet access using small-scale, commodity routers, according to at least some embodiments.
FIG. 3 illustrates establishing a routing protocol peering between a transit provider and a routing service, according to at least some embodiments.
FIG. 4 illustrates a method for routing a packet from a network device onto the Internet, according to some embodiments.
FIG. 5 illustrates a method for routing a packet received from the Internet to a target device on a network, according to some embodiments.
FIG. 6 illustrates an example network that implements hardware virtualization technology and that provides full Internet access using small-scale, commodity routers, according to at least some embodiments.
FIG. 7 illustrates a method for routing a packet from a virtual machine (VM) on a network implementing hardware virtualization technology onto the Internet, according to some embodiments.
FIG. 8 illustrates a method for routing a packet received from the Internet to a target VM on a network implementing hardware virtualization technology, according to some embodiments.
FIG. 9 illustrates establishing a routing protocol peering between a transit provider and a routing service using a TCP proxy, according to at least some embodiments.
FIG. 10 is a block diagram illustrating an example computer system that may be used in some embodiments.
Various embodiments of methods and apparatus for achieving Internet-scale routing using small route table commodity devices (i.e., small-scale routers) and Internet Protocol (IP) tunneling are described. Conventionally, because of the large number of routes in the global Internet routing table, a network wishing to perform Internet-scale routing would include one or more large-scale border routers each physically connected to one or more transit providers and each capable of storing the entire global Internet routing table. Embodiments may provide a combined hardware and software solution that enables the configuration of very high capacity networks with full Internet access using small-scale, commodity routers that are not capable of storing the entire Internet routing table as border routers, rather than large-scale routers as is conventionally required to support full Internet access using the entire Internet routing table. In addition to the small-scale routers used as border routers, at least some embodiments may employ an Internet Protocol (IP) tunneling technology to provide the overlay network, a routing service technology, and a mapping service technology. Each of these technologies is further described below in reference to FIG. 2.
Using these technologies and small-scale routers as border routers, embodiments enable the routing of traffic to and from the Internet without a large-scale router in the traffic path that is capable of holding the entire Internet routing table. This allows a network to be configured to support Internet-scale routing at less cost than conventional systems employing large-scale routers as border routers. The use of small-scale routers as border routers may also add flexibility to routing, as a network employing small-scale border routers, routing service technology, and mapping service technology may be more easily configurable to support the application of other parameters, such as business logic and network weather parameters, in routing decisions than are conventional networks employing large-scale routers as border routers.
FIG. 2 illustrates an example network with full Internet access using small-scale commodity routers, according to at least some embodiments. Internet transit providers 210 use a routing protocol (e.g., the external Border Gateway Protocol (eBGP)) to communicate with customers (e.g., network 220) and pass routing information to and fro. Conventionally, eBGP requires that an eBGP peering is established with an adjacent and directly connected peer, e.g. a directly connected border router such as large-scale border router 130 of FIG. 1C. The routing protocol session, once established (e.g., an eBGP session) then communicates routing information directly between the transit provider router and the directly connected border router (e.g., large-scale border router 130 of FIG. 1C). Referring again to FIG. 2, instead of using large-scale border routers, one or more small-scale border routers 230 may be directly connected to the transit provider 210 router(s). The small-scale border routers 230 may be commodity routers that support a smaller number of routes (e.g., 16K-32K routes) than do large-scale routers; market volume tends to keep prices of these small-scale routers relatively low (e.g., $15,000 and under) when compared to large-scale routers. In addition, small-scale routers are generally more flexible than large-scale routers, and are generally easier to program and configure for custom applications and custom routing preferences and parameters. Network devices that may be used in the small-scale border router space to implement the small-scale border routers may include, but are not limited to, general purpose servers, for example running Linux technology.
In some embodiments, each small-scale border router 230 is directly connected (e.g., via a fiber optic or cable connection) to one and only one transit provider 210. In some embodiments, the routing protocol peerings (e.g., eBGP peerings) are passed via the small-scale border routers 230 through transparent tunnels (provided via an overlay network, implemented according to an IP tunneling technology, on network 220) to a routing service 260 so that the routing service 260 and the transit provider 210 router(s) appear to be directly adjacent at Layer 2 of the network. In other embodiments, other methods may be used to establish the routing protocol peerings between the transit provider 210 router(s) and the routing service 260. For example, in some embodiments, a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) pass-through proxy may be implemented on each border router 230. The TCP proxies passes through the routing protocol peerings via connections to the routing service 260 at the application layer of the network. Using these methods to establish routing protocol peerings between transit provider 210 router(s) and routing service 260, to routing protocol (e.g., eBGP) sessions on transit provider(s) 210, it appears as if the routing service 260 is an adjacent peer and a border router; the transit provider(s) 210 may not even be aware that the routing protocol peerings have been “tunneled” or passed through to the routing service 260.
Note that, in some embodiments, a border router 230 may be connected to more than one transit provider router or to more than one transit provider 210, with appropriate logic on the border router 230 to support decision making for the multiple exit paths to the Internet. Also, in some embodiments, more than one border router 230 may be connected to a given transit provider 210.
In at least some embodiments, the routing service 260 may be a software control system that may be implemented, for example, on one or more server systems, which may be standard commodity servers. However, in some embodiments, for example for smaller deployments, the routing service 260 may be implemented and executed in part or in full on other devices on the network than on dedicated server systems. For example, as well as serving as border routers, typical network devices that may be used in the small-scale border router space may also be general purpose servers, for example running Linux technology, on which other processes may be implemented. Thus, in some embodiments, the routing service 260 may be implemented at least in part on the border router(s) 230. In at least some embodiments, only routing information flows through the routing service 260 server(s); actual data traffic (data packets being sent from endpoint devices 250 to Internet destinations and data packets being received by endpoint devices 250 from Internet sources) does not traverse the routing service 260 server(s). Routing service 260 receives all upstream routing data from the Internet transit provider(s) 210, maintains the routing data in an Internet routing table 262, processes the routing data in routing table 262 to select best paths for each Internet prefix, and distributes the processed routing data to a mapping service 270.
In at least some embodiments, routing service 260 serves as the authoritative router for the network 220. As the authoritative router for the network, routing service 260 directs the routing of outgoing packets from endpoint devices 250 on the network 220 onto the Internet via the one or more network border routers 230 according to the routing information in the Internet routing table 262, and directs the routing of incoming packets from the Internet to endpoint devices 250 on the network 220. The network border routers 230 do not store the full Internet routing table, and do not direct the routing of packets to and from the Internet. Instead, to route packets, the network border routers 230 query the routing service 260 for routing information.
However, in some embodiments, the network border routers 230 may maintain a local cache of some routing information (but not the entire Internet routing table), for example routing information for high traffic routes and/or important routes such as a default route for outbound traffic. In these embodiments, when a network border router 230 receives a packet to be routed, the network border router 230 may first check the local cache to see if there is cached routing information for the packet. If there is cached routing information for the packet in the local cache, the network border router 230 may route the packet according to the cached routing information. If there is no cached routing information for the packet in the local cache, the network border router may query routing service 260 (or query mapping service 270, which obtains routing information from routing service 260) to obtain routing information for the packet, and route the packet according to the obtained routing information. The network border router 230 may, but does not necessarily, cache the obtained routing information in the local cache.
FIG. 3 illustrates establishing a routing protocol peering between a transit provider and a routing service, according to at least some embodiments. As indicated at 300, a routing protocol (e.g., BGP) session is established between a small-scale border router 230 and a transit provider 210 router. BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is implemented on top of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol); to establish a BGP session, a TCP connection is first established between the border router 230 and the transit provider 210 router. As indicated at 302, routing messages are sent from the transit provider 210 to the border router 230 via the routing protocol session. As indicated at 304, the border router encapsulates the routing messages and sends the encapsulated messages to the routing service 260 via a tunnel on an overlay network implemented according to an IP tunneling technology. As indicated at 306, the routing service 260 strips the encapsulation from the routing messages and processes the routing information in the routing messages. At least some of the routing information is stored to Internet routing table 262.
The mapping service 270 may be informed, by the routing service 260, of a best exit point (or points) for each Internet prefix of each packet to be routed on the Internet. In addition, the mapping service 270 may be configured to perform some functionality of the IP tunneling technology as described herein. Mapping service 270 may be aware of all network 220 IP prefixes and the IP addresses of routers or other devices serving IP addresses. Thus, various entities on the network 220 may query the mapping service 270 to obtain internal network 220 address information and/or Internet routing exit points. The mapping service 270 may be centralized, for example on a server system, or alternatively may be distributed on two or more server systems or other devices. For example, in some embodiments, the mapping service 270 may be implemented at least in part on the border router(s) 230. In at least some embodiments, actual data traffic does not traverse the mapping service 270 server(s).
The routing service 260 and the mapping service 270 may be implemented on separate devices or systems, or alternatively may both be implemented on the same device(s) or system(s). Furthermore, while FIG. 2 shows the routing service 260 and the mapping service 270 as separate elements, in some embodiments these two services may be merged into one service.
FIG. 4 illustrates a method for routing a packet from a network device onto the Internet, according to some embodiments. In at least some embodiments, when a device 250 has a packet to send to an IP address, the device 250 queries the mapping service 270 to determine where to forward the packet, as indicated at 400. If this packet is destined for the Internet, the mapping service 270 obtains a best exit point for the Internet prefix indicated by the packet from the routing service 260, as indicated at 402. The mapping service 270 returns the IP address of the relevant border router 230 serving the best exit point to the device 250, as indicated at 404. The device 250 encapsulates the original packet in an IP tunneling encapsulation format and forwards the encapsulated packet across the network to the correct exit point (the relevant border router 230) via a tunnel 282, as indicated at 406. The border router 230 serving the exit point strips off the IP tunneling encapsulation to reveal the original packet and forwards the packet to the appropriate transit provider 210, as indicated at 408. The transit provider 210 routes the packet as normal to the indicated Internet IP address.
While the above describes the device 250 as querying the mapping service 270 to determine where to forward a packet when the device 250 has a packet to send to an IP address, it is not generally feasible to query the mapping service for every packet or even every flow. Thus, in at least some embodiments, devices such as device 250 may maintain a local cache of routing information. In some embodiments, the local cache may be pre-populated for some routes, for example for high traffic routes and/or important routes. The device 250 may first check the local cache to determine if there is cached routing information for the IP address. If the routing information is not in the local cache, then the device 250 may query the mapping service.
In some embodiments, instead of the device 250 querying the mapping service and encapsulating the packet, a router or other device 240 may receive the packet from device 250 and similarly query the mapping service, perform the encapsulation, and forward the packet to the relevant border router 230.
FIG. 5 illustrates a method for routing a packet, received from the Internet, to a target device on a network, according to some embodiments. As indicated at 500, a small-scale border router 230 receives a packet from a transit provider 210. As indicated at 502, the border router 230 queries the mapping service 270 with a destination IP address on the network. Mapping service 270 is aware of all network 220 IP prefixes and the IP addresses of the router or other device serving the destination IP address. As indicated at 504, the mapping service 270 returns the IP address of the router or other device serving the destination IP address to the border router 230. As indicated at 506, the border router 230 encapsulates the original packet in an IP tunneling encapsulation format and forwards the encapsulated packet across the network via a tunnel 282 to the router or other device serving the destination IP address. As indicated at 508, the router or other device serving the IP address strips off the IP tunneling encapsulation and forwards the original packet to the destination IP address.
While the above describes the border router 230 as querying the mapping service 270 to determine where to forward a packet when the border router 230 has a packet to send to a destination IP address on the network, it is not generally feasible to query the mapping service for every packet or even every flow. Thus, in at least some embodiments, border router 230 may maintain a local cache of routing information. In some embodiments, the local cache on a border router 230 may be pre-populated for some routes, for example for high traffic routes and/or important routes. The border router 230 may first check the local cache to determine if there is cached routing information for an IP address. If the routing information is not in the local cache, then the border router 230 may query the mapping service.
As mentioned above, at least some embodiments may employ an Internet Protocol (IP) tunneling technology to provide an overlay network via which routing protocol peerings between the transit providers 210 and the routing service 260 are established, and via which encapsulated packets may be passed through an IP tunneling substrate 280 using tunnels 282. The IP tunneling technology may provide a mapping and encapsulating system for creating an overlay network on a network (e.g., network 220 of FIG. 2) and may provide a separate namespace for the overlay layer and the substrate 280 layer. Packets in the overlay layer may be checked against a mapping directory (e.g., provided by mapping service 270) to determine what their tunnel substrate target should be. The IP tunneling technology provides a virtual network topology; the interfaces that are presented to “customers” are attached to the overlay network so that when a customer provides an IP address that they want to send packets to, the IP address is run in virtual space by communicating with a mapping service (e.g., mapping service 270) that knows where the IP overlay addresses are.
In at least some embodiments, the IP tunneling technology may map IP overlay addresses to substrate IP addresses, encapsulate the packets in a tunnel between the two namespaces, and deliver the packet to the correct endpoint via the tunnel, where the encapsulation is stripped from the packet. In some embodiments, the packet may be encapsulated in an IP tunneling packet format before sending, and the IP tunneling packet may be stripped after receiving. In other embodiments, instead of encapsulating packets in IP tunneling packets, an IP tunneling address may be embedded in a substrate address of a packet before sending, and stripped from the packet address upon receiving. As an example, the overlay network may be implemented using 32-bit IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses, and the IPv4 addresses may be embedded as part of 128-bit IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) addresses used on the substrate network.
Example embodiments of an IP tunneling technology that may be used in at least some embodiments are described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/060,074, titled “CONFIGURING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN COMPUTING NODES,” filed Mar. 31, 2008, whose inventor is Daniel T. Cohn, and which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
Some networks in which embodiments may be implemented may include hardware virtualization technology that enables multiple operating systems to run concurrently on a host computer, i.e. as virtual machines (VMs) on the host. The VMs may, for example, be rented or leased to customers of the network provider. A hypervisor, or virtual machine monitor (VMM), on a host presents the VMs on the host with a virtual platform and monitors the execution of the VMs. Each VM may be provided with one or more IP addresses; the VMM on a host may be aware of the IP addresses of the VMs on the host. As previously mentioned, mapping service 270 may be aware of all network 220 IP prefixes and the IP addresses of routers or other devices serving IP addresses. This includes the IP addresses of the VMMs serving multiple VMs. A network may be configured to use the mapping service technology and IP tunneling technology described herein to, for example, route data packets between VMs on different hosts within the network. In addition, a network may be configured to use the mapping service technology, IP tunneling technology, and routing service technology described herein to route packets from the VMs to Internet destinations, and from Internet sources to the VMs.
FIG. 6 illustrates an example network that implements hardware virtualization technology and that provides full Internet access using small-scale, commodity routers, according to at least some embodiments. The network 620 may implement IP tunneling technology, mapping service technology, and routing service technology as described herein to route packets from the VMs 694 on hosts 690 to Internet destinations, and from Internet sources to the VMs 694.
In at least some embodiments, when a VM 694 sends a packet on the network 620, the VMM 692 on the host 690 intercepts the packet. The VMM 692 queries the mapping service 670 to determine where to forward the packet. If the packet is destined for the Internet, the mapping service 670 returns the IP address of the relevant border router 630 serving the best exit point. The VMM 692 encapsulates the original packet in the IP tunneling encapsulation format and forwards the packet across the network 620 to the correct exit point. The border router 630 serving the exit point strips off the IP tunneling encapsulation to reveal the original packet, and forwards the packet to the transit provider 610, which routes it as normal to the Internet IP address.
FIG. 7 illustrates a method for routing a packet from a VM on a network implementing hardware virtualization technology onto the Internet, according to some embodiments. Each VM 694 may have a public internet IP address. It is to be noted that there may be some VMs that do not have public IP addresses. Additionally, there may be other classes of devices that have public IP addresses, such as virtual firewalls and load balancers. As indicated at 700, a VM 694 on a host 690 sends a packet to a public destination internet IP address. As indicated at 702, the packet is intercepted by the VMM 692 on the host 690. As indicated at 704, the VMM 692 queries the mapping service 670 with the IP address of the destination. As indicated at 706, the mapping service 670 is informed of all internet prefixes and the IP address(es) of the best exit point(s) for the packet by the routing service 660. As indicated at 708, the mapping service 670 returns the IP address of the best exit point(s) to the VMM 692. As indicated at 710, the VMM 692 encapsulates the original packet in an IP tunneling encapsulation format and forwards the encapsulated packet across the network 620 to the correct exit point via a tunnel 682. For example, the VMM 692 may forward the packet to the next-hop router. The next-hop router sees the packet as having the source address of the VMM 692 and a destination address of the border router 630 serving the selected exit point. The network 620 transports the packet to the border router 630 serving the selected exit point via the tunnel 682. As indicated at 712, the border router 630 serving the selected exit point strips off the outer IP tunneling encapsulation and reveals the original packet with the public source and destination IP addresses, and forwards the packet to the transit provider 610. The transit provider 610 sees an ordinary internet IP packet and forwards the packet accordingly.
In some embodiments, instead of the VMM 692 querying the mapping service and encapsulating the packet, a router or other device 640 may receive the packet from VMM 692 and similarly query the mapping service, perform the encapsulation, and forward the packet to the relevant border router 630.
While the above describes the VMM 692 as querying the mapping service 670 to determine where to forward a packet when the VMM 692 intercepts a packet to send to an IP address, it is not generally feasible to query the mapping service for every packet or even every flow. Thus, in at least some embodiments, a VMM 692 may maintain a local cache of routing information. In some embodiments, the local cache may be pre-populated for some routes, for example for high traffic routes and/or important routes. The VMM 692 may first check the local cache to determine if there is cached routing information for the IP address. If the routing information is not in the local cache, then the VMM 692 may query the mapping service.
FIG. 8 illustrates a method for routing a packet received from the Internet to a target VM on a network implementing hardware virtualization technology, according to some embodiments. As indicated at 800, a small-scale border router 630 receives a packet from a transit provider 610. As indicated at 802, the border router 630 queries the mapping service 670 with a destination IP address on the network. Mapping service 670 is aware of all network 620 IP prefixes and the IP addresses of the router or other device serving the destination IP address. As indicated at 804, the mapping service 670 returns the IP address of the VMM 692 serving the destination IP address to the border router 630. As indicated at 806, the border router 630 (or, in some embodiments, some other device, such as a top-of-rack router) encapsulates the original packet in an IP tunneling encapsulation format and forwards the encapsulated packet across the network via a tunnel 682 to the VMM 692 serving the destination IP address. As indicated at 808, the VMM 692 serving the IP address (or, alternatively, a router serving the VM 694) strips off the IP tunneling encapsulation and forwards the original packet to the VM 694 with the destination IP address.
While the above describes the border router 630 as querying the mapping service 670 to determine where to forward a packet when the border router 630 has a packet to send to a destination IP address on the network, it is not generally feasible to query the mapping service for every packet or even every flow. Thus, in at least some embodiments, border router 630 may maintain a local cache of routing information. In some embodiments, the local cache on a border router 630 may be pre-populated for some routes, for example for high traffic routes and/or important routes. The border router 630 may first check the local cache to determine if there is cached routing information for an IP address. If the routing information is not in the local cache, then the border router 630 may query the mapping service.
Some embodiments of a routing service and/or mapping service as described herein may use various business and/or technical data sources and policies in making routing decisions to bias traffic distribution beyond what is normally possible in conventional systems using standard routing protocol (e.g., BGP) attributes and routing policies. For example, one or more of usage data for individual IP address prefixes, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) data from individual links in the network, Internet “weather” metrics, carrier preferences, and cost optimization metrics may be used in various embodiments, along with appropriate policies, to make routing decisions.
For example, conventional routers are not aware of business logic. In some embodiments, when evaluating routes in the Internet routing table, the routing service may consider business logic in the decision-making process. As an example, transit providers are generally commercial enterprises that charge fees for routing packets. The routing service may thus consider cost when selecting a route; a longer route via first transit provider may be selected over a shorter route via a second transit provider if the cost of the route via the first provider is less.
As another example, some embodiments may monitor how much traffic is coming from and/or going to particular destinations on the network. For example, a network that provides VMs to customers via hardware virtualization technology may monitor traffic to and from individual VMs. Routing decisions for the VMs may be biased by the routing service based on volume. Another example use case directed to business logic is to manage total traffic to transit providers. This traffic may be across multiple links in multiple locations. Transit billing arrangements may include minimum commitments that are to be met and that may be measured monthly or annually, and traffic may need to be rebalanced to meet these business goals.
As yet another example, some embodiments may monitor Internet “weather” metrics to determine performance of various routes. If a route (or routes) with poor performance is detected, the routing service may direct traffic onto different routes. Some embodiments may send test packets on various routes, or use some other type of active probing, to measure latency or other metrics on various routes, and use the statistics resulting from this testing to influence routing decisions.
In some embodiments, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) data from the network, or some other network protocol, may be used to query devices in the internal network to monitor, for example, network congestion in portions of the internal network (e.g., in various data centers of the network). If a data center is detected that is having problems, e.g. traffic congestion, the routing service and mapping service may route some network traffic to a different data center on the network before the packets are sent to the Internet.
The above describes a method for using IP tunneling technology to establish an eBGP peer session between a transit provider and the routing service. Embodiments do not change the standard Internet routing protocol (e.g., BGP). Normal BGP sessions with transit providers are established; however, in embodiments, the sessions terminate at the routing service rather than directly on the border router(s). BGP supports a standard option for eBGP multi-hop links. Some transit providers may support this option. Thus, in some embodiments, the border router(s) may be configured to implement this multi-hop option to carry the eBGP session through to the routing service. For connections to transit services that do not support this option, an IP tunneling technique as described herein may be used to carry the eBGP session to the routing service.
In some embodiments, for at least some border routers, a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) pass-through proxy may be configured on the border router to carry the eBGP session to the routing service, rather than using the eBGP multi-hop option or an IP tunneling technique. The TCP proxy on a network border router establishes a connection to the routing service, and forwards routing protocol (e.g., BGP) messages received from a respective transit provider network to the routing service via the connection. The TCP proxy is effectively a small daemon running on the network border router. The daemon listens on the TCP port(s) that belong to the routing protocol (e.g., BGP). The daemon establishes another connection to the routing service. This connection acts as a pass-through tunnel to the routing service for the routing protocol messages received from the respective transit provider network. The daemon encapsulates the packets at the application layer of the network rather than at the network layer as is done in the IP tunneling technique. A TCP pass through proxy may allow, for example, the replication of the routing service to provide redundancy. The routing daemon can open two (or more) backend connection to two (or more) instances of the routing service and duplicate the routing protocol messages to the two (or more) instances.
FIG. 9 illustrates establishing a routing protocol peering between a transit provider and a routing service using a TCP proxy, according to at least some embodiments. As indicated at 900, a routing protocol (e.g., BGP) session is established between a small-scale border router on the network and a transit provider router. BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is implemented on top of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol); to establish a BGP session, a TCP connection is first established between the network border router and the transit provider router. As indicated at 902, routing messages are sent from the transit provider to the network border router via the routing protocol session. As indicated at 904, a TCP proxy on the border router forwards the routing messages to the routing service via a connection to the routing service at the application layer of the network. As indicated at 906, the routing service processes the routing information in the routing messages. At least some of the routing information is stored to an Internet routing table maintained by the routing service.
In some embodiments, redundancy may be provided for some components of a network as illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 6. For the routing service, a number of active/passive and active/active backup mechanisms are possible to provide redundancy. In some embodiments, upstream updates may be replicated. In some embodiments, downstream sessions may be multiple if necessary or desired. In some embodiments, the routing service itself may be replicated to provide redundancy. In these embodiments, for example, a TCP proxy may be implemented on each network border router that establishes pass-through connections from a respective network service provider to each instance of the routing service.
In at least some embodiments, the mapping service may be implemented as a distributed cache of mappings. If the central mapping service fails, the cache persists and traffic continues to flow, although updates cease.
Some embodiments may utilize a multi-path or Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) strategy to establish more than one best path or route to a destination address in parallel, thus providing route redundancy. ECMP is a routing strategy where packet forwarding to a destination may be performed over multiple best paths. For example, in some embodiments, the mapping service and routing service may provide routing information indicating multiple best paths to a destination address, and the network may route the packet(s) to the destination over at least two of the indicated paths.
In at least some embodiments, a server that implements a portion or all of one or more of the technologies, including but not limited to the routing service technology, the mapping service technology, and the small-scale border router technology as described herein may include a general-purpose computer system that includes or is configured to access one or more computer-accessible media, such as computer system 1000 illustrated in FIG. 10. In the illustrated embodiment, computer system 1000 includes one or more processors 1010 coupled to a system memory 1020 via an input/output (I/O) interface 1030. Computer system 1000 further includes a network interface 1040 coupled to I/O interface 1030.
In various embodiments, computer system 1000 may be a uniprocessor system including one processor 1010, or a multiprocessor system including several processors 1010 (e.g., two, four, eight, or another suitable number). Processors 1010 may be any suitable processors capable of executing instructions. For example, in various embodiments, processors 1010 may be general-purpose or embedded processors implementing any of a variety of instruction set architectures (ISAs), such as the x86, PowerPC, SPARC, or MIPS ISAs, or any other suitable ISA. In multiprocessor systems, each of processors 1010 may commonly, but not necessarily, implement the same ISA.
System memory 1020 may be configured to store instructions and data accessible by processor(s) 1010. In various embodiments, system memory 1020 may be implemented using any suitable memory technology, such as static random access memory (SRAM), synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM), nonvolatile/Flash-type memory, or any other type of memory. In the illustrated embodiment, program instructions and data implementing one or more desired functions, such as those methods and techniques described above for a mapping service, a routing service, small-scale border routers, IP tunneling, and/or a VMM hosting multiple VMs on a host machine, are shown stored within system memory 1020 as code 1025.
In one embodiment, I/O interface 1030 may be configured to coordinate I/O traffic between processor 1010, system memory 1020, and any peripheral devices in the device, including network interface 1040 or other peripheral interfaces. In some embodiments, I/O interface 1030 may perform any necessary protocol, timing or other data transformations to convert data signals from one component (e.g., system memory 1020) into a format suitable for use by another component (e.g., processor 1010). In some embodiments, I/O interface 1030 may include support for devices attached through various types of peripheral buses, such as a variant of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus standard or the Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard, for example. In some embodiments, the function of I/O interface 1030 may be split into two or more separate components, such as a north bridge and a south bridge, for example. Also, in some embodiments some or all of the functionality of I/O interface 1030, such as an interface to system memory 1020, may be incorporated directly into processor 1010.
Network interface 1040 may be configured to allow data to be exchanged between computer system 1000 and other devices 1060 attached to a network or networks 1050, such as other computer systems or devices as illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 6, for example. In various embodiments, network interface 1040 may support communication via any suitable wired or wireless general data networks, such as types of Ethernet network, for example. Additionally, network interface 1040 may support communication via telecommunications/telephony networks such as analog voice networks or digital fiber communications networks, via storage area networks such as Fibre Channel SANs, or via any other suitable type of network and/or protocol.
In some embodiments, system memory 1020 may be one embodiment of a computer-accessible medium configured to store program instructions and data as described above for FIGS. 3 through 9 for implementing embodiments of methods and apparatus for achieving Internet-scale routing using small-scale routers and an overlay network. However, in other embodiments, program instructions and/or data may be received, sent or stored upon different types of computer-accessible media. Generally speaking, a computer-accessible medium may include storage media or memory media such as magnetic or optical media, e.g., disk or DVD/CD coupled to computer system 1000 via I/O interface 1030. A computer-accessible medium may also include any volatile or non-volatile media such as RAM (e.g. SDRAM, DDR SDRAM, RDRAM, SRAM, etc.), ROM, etc, that may be included in some embodiments of computer system 1000 as system memory 1020 or another type of memory. Further, a computer-accessible medium may include transmission media or signals such as electrical, electromagnetic, or digital signals, conveyed via a communication medium such as a network and/or a wireless link, such as may be implemented via network interface 1040.
Various embodiments may further include receiving, sending or storing instructions and/or data implemented in accordance with the foregoing description upon a computer-accessible medium. Generally speaking, a computer-accessible medium may include storage media or memory media such as magnetic or optical media, e.g., disk or DVD/CD-ROM, volatile or non-volatile media such as RAM (e.g. SDRAM, DDR, RDRAM, SRAM, etc.), ROM, etc, as well as transmission media or signals such as electrical, electromagnetic, or digital signals, conveyed via a communication medium such as network and/or a wireless link.
execute program instructions causing the at least one computing device implementing the routing service to direct routing of outgoing packets originating from within the network to the external network via the one or more network border routers according to the routing information in the routing table maintained by the routing service.
2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein each of the one or more network border routers are small-scale routers each configured with a capacity to locally store only a portion of the Internet routing table.
3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the routing protocol is Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein to establish a routing protocol session with one of the one or more external network border routers, the program instructions further cause the at least one computing device implementing the routing service is configured to establish a tunnel over the network between the routing service and the respective network border router according to an Internet Protocol (IP) tunneling technology, wherein the respective network border router is configured to encapsulate routing protocol messages received from the external network border router according to an IP tunneling encapsulation format and forward the encapsulated routing protocol messages to the routing service via the tunnel.
5. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein to establish a routing protocol session with one of the one or more external network border routers, a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) proxy is implemented on the respective network border router, wherein the TCP proxy establishes a connection to the routing service, and wherein the TCP proxy is configured to forward routing protocol messages, received from the external network border router, to the routing service via the connection.
wherein the routing service implemented on the one or more computing devices is configured to direct outgoing packets originating from a virtual machine of the one or more virtual machines implemented on the host device.
send an indication of the network border router that serves the indicated route to the endpoint device; wherein the endpoint device is configured to send the packet to the indicated network border router via the network; and wherein the network border router is configured to send the packet to the respective border router of the external network.
for each received incoming packet: check the local cache of cached routing information to determine if there is cached routing information for a destination address on the network indicated by the packet; if there is cached routing information for the destination address in the local cache, route the packet to the destination address on the network according to the cached routing information for the destination address; and if there is no cached routing information for the destination address in the local cache, query the mapping service with the destination address on the network indicated by the packet to obtain routing information for the destination address.
routing, by the border router, the particular outgoing packet to the external network according to the obtained routing information.
10. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the border router for the network is a small-scale router configured with a capacity to locally store only a portion of the routing table.
11. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the routing protocol is Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
sending, by the network border router, the packet to a respective external network border router that corresponds with the selected route.
removing, by the endpoint device, the encapsulation from the packet and forwarding the packet to the destination IP address.
direct routing of outgoing packets via the one or more border routers according to the routing information in the routing table maintained by the routing service.
15. The non-transitory computer accessible storage medium as recited in claim 14, wherein the one or more border routers are small-scale routers each configured with a capacity to locally store only a portion of the Internet routing table.
16. The non-transitory computer accessible storage medium as recited in claim 14, wherein the routing protocol is Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
wherein the routing service is configured to receive encapsulated routing protocol messages from the one or more external network border routers via the tunnels, wherein the routing protocol messages are encapsulated according to an IP tunneling encapsulation format and forwarded to the routing service via the tunnels at the network border routers.
send an indication of a border router that serves a selected route for the packet to the endpoint device; wherein the indication is determined according to the query and the routing information in the routing table, wherein the endpoint device is configured to send the packet to the indicated border router via the network, and wherein the network border router is configured to send the packet to a respective external network border router for the corresponding route.
19. The non-transitory computer accessible storage medium as recited in claim 14, wherein the routing service is further configured to direct routing of incoming packets from the one or more border routers to destination IP addresses on the network according to the routing information in the routing table maintained by at least one computing device implementing the routing service.
20. The non-transitory computer accessible storage medium as recited in claim 14, wherein the outgoing packets originate from a virtual machine, wherein the virtual machine is implemented on a host device that implements a virtual machine monitor (VMM) and one or more virtual machines (VMs).
C. Perkins, "IP Encapsulation within IP", RFC 2003, Network Working Group, Oct. 1996, pp. 1-10.
TechRepublic: A ZDNet Tech Community (web page) PathControl improves Internet routing and VPN performance by Ray Geroski, Sep. 12, 2002, pp. 1-4.
U.S. Appl. No. 12/825,212, filed Jun. 28, 2010, Alan M. Judge. | 2019-04-19T05:52:01Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US9497115B1/en | Porn | Computers | 0.178857 |
wordpress | The Congressional Baby Caucus celebrated its 5th birthday with a briefing on veterans and families. The briefing was a follow up to the Caucus’s initial briefing five years ago which also focused on military families with young children. The briefing included a panel of three that included one program expert and two veterans to reflect on the current challenges of military families, especially those transitioning out of the military. Panelists included Katherine Rosenblum, Ph.D., Director, STRoNG Military Families Program, Melissa Hudson,, Veteran Parent, Brian Pate, Lieutenant Colonel USMCR.
The gathering also heard remarks from caucus co-chairs Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA). DeLauro highlighted a number of statistics in her remarks including, 42% of children of Active-Duty members are under the age of five, Active-Duty, Guard and Reserve families together have approximately 363,000 children under the age of three. She also outlined the general concerns that deployment itself created certain stress within the population and how that may be compounded if a veteran comes back with injuries and other challenges such as PTSD. She hopes to focus Congress’s attention on ways to look at policy in a way that might benefit these families and singled out potential changes to the child tax credit as a possible target for improvements.
Dr. Rosenberg talked about some projects through the University of Michigan that are targeted to service members, and veterans. In the coming years an average of 250,000 Active-Duty members will be transitioning out of service. She provided data from the state of Illinois that showed that this population of veteran families had an unemployment rate of around 13%, 7% were living below the poverty rate, and they tended to have younger children.
Brian Pate discussed his personal experience during deployment and highlighted four areas that need addressing: family-readiness when a member is ready to deploy, communication while on assignment in an effort to help keep families connected while away, post-deployment services that prepare the returning soldier with the family—particularly programs that prepare you for reunification with infants and toddlers, and understanding how past service continues to have an impact.
He also highlighted a need that is often overlooked, that services are lost to the family once a soldier transfers from active duty to veteran status. The veteran may have some limited services including health care but his or her family may lose many critical services including access to health care. | 2019-04-18T10:22:47Z | https://childrensmonitor.wordpress.com/category/infants-and-toddlers/page/2/ | Porn | Health | 0.754777 |
wordpress | I bet you were thinking, if anyone still has leftovers from Christmas, they are slightly Nutty. We are not talking though about food here today.
Clear Cocktail Glasses up-cycled to a sparkling snow look with a spot of red paint and Rustic Jute Twine. Add little pretties in the bowl.
Wooden block Candle Holder and I did make the candle myself.
Tags or Ornaments. Can be used either way.
Popsicle Stick Frosty. After I had it out for awhile, I thought he had no scarf. The tutorial did not have it and I only realized it would be better with one until later.
Card Idea where I made them out of piles of envelopes I have more of than cards. I just wanted them for using as decorations.
Up-cycle dead light bulb with paint and Glitter. Add bow, vintage key and jute twine again.
Great ideas…all of them. I especially like the snowman and I think I must try the Christmas trees next year. A little late, but Happy 2018.
Yes, I ran out of time. Hopefully next year, but Pinterest gives you so many ideas.
I know…it’s a blessing and a curse at the same time. I need a gift certificate for more time!!!
Where can we get one? Sounds good.
I’m still eating leftover Halloween candy. Fortunately, I always buy chocolate candies so I don’t mind eating them.
Any way you take it it is fine.
Cute crafts! I work with disabled adults that love to don crafts!
Well. I am so blue after I made time to post today;It is so hard to work it in most of the time. Guess what: WordPress is in the rebel mood and photos cannot be edited and added. So I will come back to the draft I saved which would only let me do text as soon as possible. Bummer.
I thought it was just me. I have had trouble with many of my post lately in editing and uploads as well. Best of luck to you .
I am glad I am not alone and it is not on my side.
Thank you. At least WP does not have glitches as often as they did when I started. | 2019-04-20T22:59:57Z | https://blueribbonfair.wordpress.com/2018/01/ | Porn | Arts | 0.451937 |
wordpress | This is Liverpool: Oh help us!
A show based in Liverpool like the other reality shows such as Made in Chelsea and The Only Way Is Essex. So although these programs are hardly enlightening, most (I said most) characters are painted in a reasonable light. So why, when they release a reality show based in the North of England do they have to pick the roughest people who seem unable to string a sentence together without the use of multiple swear words, and more noticeably are unable to communicate with each other without being aggressive. I live in the North of England next to another large city. We are extremely friendly, individual in style (not carbon copy barbie dolls), and although some of us may swear it definitely is not the whole of the population (or who the producers portray the population as).
Sorry Liverpool but I do not see how this will do you any favours…..unless of course you are all like the show portrays you (though I highly doubt it). If I was a Liverpudlian I would be feeling rather embarrassed as to how the show is painting you.
As you may or may not know, I love to write about things I like, including clothes and accessories. My chosen items this time around are from a designer called Annie Haak http://www.anniehaakdesigns.co.uk/ Her website states that she gets much of the inspiration for her designs from the magical island of Bali where she is based for most of the year. Her influences are gathered from many aspects of Bali life from the local flora and fauna, the magical people and the colours and patterns found in the local markets and villages. Perhaps this is why some of the pieces really do appear rather magical!!!
Many of the designs carry a special meaning by way of mantras or symbols that represent luck, love, protection strength and well-being. It is core to Annie’s design ethos that all her designs should carry a message of either love or support.
I first came across this designer a couple of years ago when I was reading a spiritual magazine, some of her bracelets incorporating guardian angels were featured in the magazine. As a total ‘angel believer’ I immediately fell in love with them. So much so in fact that I cut out her Sama My Guardian Angel design and added it to my collage art work which hangs in my bedroom.
Additionally, I am naturally attracted to silver jewelry. It appears to suit my skin tone much better than gold. However, there is now a few gold and rose gold options, which are equally as beautiful, I guess it just depends upon your personal preference.
Unfortunately to date, I have not managed to get my hands on the bracelet stack I so desperately would like (see featured image), due to lack of funds, but should I ever start to get paid for my writing, then I will ensure my first pay check pays for one! I have however, treated myself to a lovely pair of earrings. Which I have had now for over a year. They are simple but lovely, a star with a single diamond in the middle. They still look like new and we were worth the pounds I spent investing in them. In addition, they came in a beautiful lined velvet bag and box which I now use to store some of my favourite crystals. This is a range which when you receive the item, everything about it screams ‘quality’. I was not disappointed and look forward to when I am able to add to my collection.
There are also lots of other reviews from happy customers on the website. If you like the style of this jewelry have a read, you will see there is nothing but positive comments about the quality and style of the jewelry. I am sure you too will love this range. I know Danni Minogue and Ferne Cotton are big fans too!
I really thought I had seen everything, that was until the other day as I was driving down a main road in the town where I live in the North of England a lady was walking a chicken down the road. Yes you heard that right……walking a chicken!!!
It turns out though that this is not such a strange thing. I decided to have a look into this and what I found out was fascinating. Zhu Fushun, born in 1979 from China runs a chicken farm. He feeds the chicken on herbs instead of grain and takes them for walks (hence why he was nicknamed ‘chicken walker’). The chicken are reared in the open wild rather than enclosed chicken farms. Zhu is now very successful and has featured in many Entrepreneur magazines. A billionaire also offered him more money to grow his business. Zhu declined his offer, advising what he needed was more sales channels, and these appear to be opening up to him.
Just shows, when you have a vision and you know what you want to do, how and when, stick to your guns!
Who’s move is it first?
Technically who should ask who out? Is it the man or the woman? I was always under the impression it did not matter and being a confident girl I quite often the one to broach the subject. However, as I have grown older, I realise it is actually a mans place to do so. Unfortunately this tradition appears to have gone out of the window a long time ago.
You ve got to take a chance, ask her out. I think from my past experience if you have to ask the guy out it technically does not seem to go anywhere because the relationship (if it progresses to that) has gotten off on the wrong foot, so to speak. The man needs to take charge of the situation, assert his confidence (and charm) and woo that lady! Note to ladies: the only men worth having, will only stick around if you make them ‘work’ for you. Hand yourself on a plate, roll over like a cat having its belly tickled, offer no challenge and this ‘potential’ relationship is going nowhere.
There are of course things you can do to nudge the guy along gently into asking you out. But if you really like this fella then do yourself a favour and sit patiently and wait (whilst giving out all the correct signals of course!) Yes I know, easier said than done. All you need is a bit of flirting, eye contact, interest in him and his life, act confident, laugh and make him laugh etc, etc. Hope you got all this ;).
I am a great believer in that if it is meant to happen then it will. Do not waste your energy or time considering who should ask who. Relationships are not supposed to be difficult or strained. If it is right then it will flow and when something flows, it can only ever go in the right direction!
I remember this guy from back in the 90’s in ‘My So-called life’ and that is when my love affair with this guy began. Since then as well as more acting is also in a band ’30 seconds to Mars’.
Now I know this one may be a little young, at just 20 years old, but there is no denying how beautiful this boy is….in at number 8 it’s a 1D boy….
Getting near to the top, are you still on your seats????
Number four is a new entry as I only came across him recently in Breaking Bad…..where has this man been all my life??? (no its not the dad of Malcom in the Middle) its….
This guy is like a fine wine, he just gets better with age…. Enjoy!
Hope you enjoyed my number 10….feel free to let me know who I may have missed!
I thought they needed my strength, but realized when I got there and broke down before his family, that it was I who needed theirs. | 2019-04-24T08:54:26Z | https://blogizing.wordpress.com/category/famous-people/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.865499 |
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I lament the days of bookshops too though as I was reading this, I started to wonder whether blogging might also be contributing the decline of bookshops. I spend a fair bit of time browsing through blogs looking at pictures and reading what people have to share – I’d guess I’m perhaps reading fewer books to compensate.
what a shame that such a big shop should go in just over ten years – I’m of the generation that only knew books – real ones – and there really is a difference between touching and seeing and browsing among real physical paper and ink, and just searching on the screen.
Yes I agree. When I find a real old fashioned book shop I find I can browse for hours. I am just back from Australia and was in a small town called Castlemaine which had the most beautiful book shop. It felt so old fashioned. It was peaceful and calm. Loved it! | 2019-04-20T16:54:26Z | https://itchyquill.wordpress.com/2015/07/17/the-death-of-a-bookshop/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.986 |
wordpress | With the Memorial Day weekend starting the “official” start of the summer season, the barbecues are now out of storage, the pools and mountain trails, and ocean waves are filled with happy vacationers, and that “easy summer living” is in the air.
The “what if’s” that fiction is often built around haunt biographers who must stick to facts. Carl Rollyson discloses alluring meetings that did take place between several of his subjects but which, to date, have never surfaced in any archived material left behind by those subjects. No letters, no diaries, not even mentions to friends. So what happened? In Only Connect, he can only speculate.
“I like to look at any two versions of the same text, side by side, and see how they differed and how that difference reflect technological history and cultural history and perceptions of how that particular tale should look,” says Gillian Polack as she explores her love of manuscripts, old books, and modern books in The Personality of Books.
When life becomes overwhelming our bodies and minds show it. Lauren Roberts found a solution for her own anxiety recently on her bookshelves where a book that had sat neglected for years suddenly found itself a source of healing: Learning to Live Again.
Laugh at a crazy book. Learn about the sensitivity and trauma of translation. What could make corn taste a bit better than a short history of it? Learn a bit more about life through novels. We have it all, and more this week.
What’s it like to find yourself confronted by your own words translated into another language? Are they yours, and if not, can you claim them? Indefatigable book tourer Lev Raphael describes what happened to his memoir when it became a German book in “Found in Translation?”.
When an indefatigable collector of books finds a book she just has to have—manikin?—she, well, gets it. Elizabeth Creith begins with a word then moves into more than she could have possibly bargained for in The Hermaphroditic Horse.
Nicki Leone’s bedtime stories are probably not the bedtime stories of many. But perhaps they should be. An author who writes some of the finest stories that may be unusual but are also splendid as she shares in Bedtime Stories: The Little Books of César Aira.
With the Memorial Day weekend and holiday barbecues less than two weeks away, Lauren Roberts decided to re-visit a cornfield—not for fresh corn but for a story about corn in the form of a bookmark that essentially created the ears we eat today in A Hybrid Saga.
Katherine Hauswirth, in Creating Family, talks about two books that, at least initially, seemed to have little in common except for the pregnant women they featured. Yet as she read through them she came to realize that they shared much more—overlapping lives, unexpected discoveries, ashes rising, home rediscovered.
Lauren Roberts hopes that all of BiblioBuffet’s readers have a wonderful week of books ahead in Best Wishes.
In this week’s issue, we have some fabulous reading for you. Whatever your choices in reading matter, we hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day, and we wish you the best for the new week.
Poet Amy Lowell finds new life with a complex new biography that “restores the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s most important poets.” Carl Rollyson explores her life and work through the author’s eyes including the poem that not only celebrates one of her great subjects but also claims rights as one of the great poems in the English language in Amy Lowell: Diva Poet.
Oscar Wilde. Just reading the name conjures up a vast array of images: plays, a book, essays, witticisms, homosexuality, jail, disgrace, and much more. When Gillian Polack was recently asked to write an introduction she decided that an preliminary trip through many of his works was in order—and that’s just what she gives us in Introducing Mr Wilde.
Mom and books have both played a large role in Lauren Roberts’ life, and she takes a brief stroll down memory lane, in Mom’s Love of Books and Me, to visit new feelings arising from those old memories that loom rather large during these times when she and her parents have reversed caregiving roles.
Thanks so much for providing a comprehensive list of literary festivals around the US and around the world. I would like to place a link to your lists on the Wisconsin Book Festival website but I noticed when I was setting up the international link that you have your International Festivals divided by alphabet into Africa-England, France-Wales. The problem is that Africa is not a country, like England, France, or Wales, and you don’t list any of the other continents that way (Asia, for example, doesn’t get its own listing). Thanks for hearing me out and thanks again for creating such a great resource.
I do know the difference between a continent and a country, but in setting up BiblioBuffet I made a few decisions that go against . . . would I call it common sense or accuracy? A bit of both, I guess. I made the decision to use this particular continent rather than the country because there were so few festivals. (I also made the decision to use “A” in “A Reading Life” (Nicki Leone’s column title) ahead of “BibliOpinions”—a technically incorrect editorial decision because I did not want a guest column to come ahead of a regular one on the home page—and I can live with it. It is not an error, but a deliberate choice that puts my reason for its choice ahead of Strunk & White’s. In this case.
So it also was with the decision to use “Africa.” However, Megan’s comments made me re-think that, and I decided she was right. Other countries had only one festival so why shouldn’t African countries get the same consideration? Well, now they have. Our International Book Festivals pages are divided into Australia-England and France-Zimbabwe.
I agree with Megan “that Africa and the countries in Africa are misrepresented and lumped together so often, I think it’s important to be careful about it.” And I hereby apologize to South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe. They now have their own listings.
In addition, I have updated most of the festival dates (a few even went back to 2009) to reflect the newest information. It took hours yesterday, and I am still not finished. I need to finish the dates, remove defunct festivals, add new ones, and then check every link to be sure it is still live. I hope to finish this afternoon.
If any of you know of a festival I am missing, please let me know. I would like this resource to be useful. And to that end I will be updating as I go. It’s tough because it takes a lot of time—but it’s worth it to know that it can be a reliable source of information for all book lovers. Thanks to Megan for caring. And I promise there will be no September 32 ever again. I still blush at the thought I never caught that.
May flowers have arrived, at least in most places, and the days are warmer, perfect for outdoor reading (among other activities). Who doesn’t enjoy barbecues, swimming, biking or hiking, and lounging? The latter is particularly enjoyable when accompanied by a book, and this week we have some great suggestions for you.
Some of the best life lessons come from cats and books. But put the two together and there may not always been happiness. Lauren Roberts shares three lessons recently re-learned about the mix and also a new cookbook that will put spice into your meals in Notes to Self.
Laine Farley found an incongruous bookmark that was not so much interesting for itself, though it had oddly interesting elements, but for its publisher, a manufacturer of political and advertising buttons, lapel studs, and novelty items in the late 1800s, and especially for one of the founders in Now, Good Digestion Wait on Appetite, And Health on Both.
The definition and roots of success and failure are not always what they may seem. In her most recent readings, Katherine Hauswirth explored in depth the story behind one of the most popular songs and singers in twentieth-century America as well as the often unrecognized factors that are involved in both in The Makings of Success.
Growing up wanting to learn about everything and learning that there is a publisher who seems to publish just that was the beginning of Nicki Leone’s journey into the world of Penguin and a book that she terms a “general history in the grand scale model” in When I Wanted to Know Everything in the World.
Elizabeth Creith shares, in Who’s Sleeping Under Your Bed?, how delighted (and relieved) she was to realize the bogeyman wasn’t real—and didn’t, thankfully, have a place to hide either in her closet or under the bed, the former because she doesn’t have any, the latter because she has filled the latter space with boxes of books. | 2019-04-24T16:25:26Z | https://laurensb.wordpress.com/2012/05/ | Porn | Arts | 0.328181 |
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wordpress | The first pictures in the Bauhausbuch #12 are taken from an airplane. An unusual viewpoint for a photo of a building, sure enough. The subject of these photos was the Bauhaus, just finished. An abstract composition of planes, rotated at a 45 degree angle, turns out, at closer scrutiny, to be a white building sitting on the dark earth, a field without any precise definition but for two faint lines that could be roads.
The book “gropius bauhaus bauten dessau” was designed by Moholy-Nagy. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy was an artist who, after WW I, had contacts with people like Kurt Schwitters and Hannah Höch, and who started working with the precepts of Constructivism and the Suprematism of Maliewitch. In 1923 Walter Gropius appointed him, at 28 years old, as a professor at the Bauhaus and he became the director of the influential preliminary course. His art from that time shows the floating planes and colors of constructivism.
“We renounce volume as pictoral and plastic form of space.
He also became a prolific photographer who transferred the new found constructivist sensibility to the photo paper.
These new viewpoints are celebrated in the pictures in the Bauhausbuch. The Bauhaus appears as a gleaming white object. Building parts like balconies and windowframes are not just functional elements but show up as abstract forms. The photo gives a new justification to a shape by the way it is balanced on the picture plane. The people in a photo of the facade of the living quarters show a death defying attitude towards gravity, perched on the balcony railings and the roof edge. Everything wants to be weightless.
This stresses the character of the building as a non-hierarchical composition. A composition of weightless volumes in which top or bottom, up or down, are no longer relevant; only the balance of shape and color is. This building has no front or back. In fact, it is hard to find the entrance. Then there appears to be two of them, one on each side of the road that bisects the building. “Clearly defined division of the separate parts of the organism” it says in the caption under a drawing of the plan, but it is more complicated than that. To define these these parts Gropius uses various formal ruses. For instance, the “clearly defined part” of the administration department is structurally part of the construction of the two buildings that it connects. But a false raised roof edge defines it as a separate abstract bar that penetrates the volumes of these buildings. Also, this seemingly weightless bar has to be supported by a concrete beam and posts that are downplayed by their dark grey color – clearly an unavoidable necessitiy dictated by gravity that can’t take part in the play of white shapes. Similary, the volumes sit on a grey base, a humble facade of the servant space (it isn’t shown in the plans in the book) in the basement.
These humble parts get their moment in the book, though. There are many photos that show the building as a construction, a proud display of concrete slabs, columns, cantilevers and fill in brickwork. Further along in the book there are pictures of the mechanism used to open the steel windows, a device to share a telephone between two offices, the light fixtures.
These photos exemplify the aspirations to a disinterested functionalism – “a functional form is a good form”. This was the decade in which the word “beautiful” was exchanged for the word “good”. There are some charming stills from a movie, made at the same time, properly presented with their guiding holes, that show how Gropius’s wife or a servant girl use various cleverly designed items: a built-in coat rack, a well-organised wardrobe, a set of drawers in the working desk. The sequence of movie images stresses the connection between the use and the form of the design.
And yes, a typewriter is indispensable.
Gropius published the book in 1930. By then it was two years since he had left the Bauhaus and the villa that came with it. The photos still show the optimism that carried the Bauhaus. The text stresses the rational choices that underpin the design, but the photos aspire to something more than “good” design: a beautiful and, actually, happy future. Unfortunately, buildings never learned how to fly.
This entry was posted in architecture, Uncategorized and tagged architecture, photography on May 11, 2014 by Reine. | 2019-04-20T12:22:07Z | https://reinenust.wordpress.com/2014/05/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.109166 |
wired | Sure, we’re a little biased around here. But when storms bear down on this country’s coasts—scary ones, like Hurricane Florence (since downgraded to a tropical storm), threatening floods and high winds—our minds zero in on the transportation aspects. Some people need to leave their homes, but how? Some need to get to shelters, but when, and how quickly? And then, after the storm is over, someone needs to get in and assess it all. And then the residents need to come back. This week, WIRED Transpo spent some time thinking about these thorny questions, from the perspective of residents, government emergency planners, logistics-obsessed officials, even drone pilots.
Elsewhere in transportation world, we talked to people who had solved other intimidating issues: How to stop someone hacking your Tesla, how to get around flying cars’ battery problems, and how to help someone ride a bike at 168 mph. It’s been a week—let’s get you caught up.
Tesla owners, remember to turn on your dashboard display PIN. WIRED security writer Andy Greenberg tells the tale of KU Leuven researchers who discovered that anyone with a bit of savvy and $600 in radio and computing equipment should be able to wirelessly read and decrypt Tesla key fobs, allowing them to swipe cars without a trace. Tesla rolled out its new antitheft PIN feature two weeks ago, and says no Model S units sold after June are vulnerable to the hack.
Don’t call it a concept car. Mercedes-Benz’s Vision Urbanetic is a “mobility concept,” a body-swappable hybrid that can haul people or packages, depending on its fancy. The concept is an excuse for the Germans to start thinking (and messaging) about new forms of moving stuff—without adding to cities’ already oppressive traffic issues.
Another pack of Germans, another mobility concept. Transportation editor Alex Davies meets BMW’s Vision iNEXT, an electric, autonomous, baby SUV that BMW hopes points to the future of driving. Or not driving, as it were.
Led by Los Angeles, 30 cities teamed up this week to create an online portal for collectively bargaining with electric car, street sweeper, garbage truck and bus manufacturers over the price of their products. Together, these cities will need to replace 115,000 vehicles valuing about $10 billion, senior writer Jack Stewart reports. And going electric is a lot easier when you can get a good deal.
As Hurricane Florence continues to batter the East Coast, it’s important to remember: When governors and mayors declare mandatory evacuations, they’re the products of years of planning and thought.
But some have more planning and thought than others. A disaster and urban planning expert tells me that some places just don’t have the resources for robust hurricane plans—and that the vulnerable, and especially those without cars, suffer for it.
As the rains continue to fall, Jack Stewart catches up with the professional drone pilots prepping to help out in the recovery effort—beef jerky, pretzels, and all.
Waze and tech company SpotHero install specialized beacons in Chicago’s labyrinthine tunnels, where no functioning GPS dare go. Just one problem: Locals love their shortcut tunnel secrets.
Lyft adds public transit data to its app in Santa Monica—meaning Californians might open it every time they travel, no matter the mode.
What’s better than a flying car? A flying car with all of its complex electric battery issues solved, because it’s in fact tethered to a power line for much of every trip. Eric Adams speaks to the (quixotic?) inventors behind the Karman Electric concept.
Meet Denise Mueller-Korenek, a bicyclist who hopes to beat the world motor-paced bicycle land speed record—a mere 167 mph—this weekend at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats. “Accelerating past the takeoff speed of a Boeing 757 on a bike seems impossible,” writes contributor Joe Lindsey, but when you’ve got a drag racer blocking the wind for you, it just might be possible.
It’s been 11 days since Tesla CEO Elon Musk sat down for a 2.5-hour, wide-ranging interview with comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan. And it’s been about eight days, if the internet is to be believed, since someone in Melbourne, Australia, immortalized the interview with a mural of the [CEO himself taking a quick hit of a blunt.
The Boring Company gets permission to build a garage connecting to its test tunnel at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
VW will kill the Beetle after this model year, hopefully for enough time to let the nostalgia build again. So it can come back in a decade or so, naturally.
Toyota might build a lightweight Supra—and it might be street legal.
Plus, the Japanese carmaker will allow emissions-sensitive Chinese officials to examine in depth the technology behind the Prius. That might set a very uncomfortable precedent for other carmakers hoping to make inroads in China.
Self-driving startup Nuro—you know, the people behind that toaster-looking delivery robot—have released a detailed safety assessment letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The NHTSA would like everyone testing automated vehicle technology to hand over one of these.
A look back at 2016 finds the top reason startups fail: Running a hardware business is super hard. | 2019-04-21T02:57:17Z | https://www.wired.com/story/week-future-cars-coming-storm/ | Porn | Business | 0.416372 |
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wordpress | It’s a nice day, don’t ruin it….
“Say, Pooh, why aren’t you busy?” I said.
“Because it’s a nice day,” said Pooh.
“Why ruin it?” he said.
“But you could be doing something Important,” I said.
“What are they saying?” I asked.
“That it’s a nice day,” said Pooh.
“But you know that already,” I said.
I hope that you’re all having a really ‘nice’ Pooh kind of Monday.
Adorable post, love it, Sylvia!
Glad I made you smile, Adrian. 🙂 Happy weekend. | 2019-04-23T16:21:47Z | https://anotherday2paradise.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/its-a-nice-day-dont-ruin-it/ | Porn | Business | 0.140502 |
livejournal | SFContario, Toronto new fan-run SF literary con, was on the weekend, and overall it went very well.
The focus of the con was the written word, and it really shone in that. The panels I attended were not only on interesting topics, but they were also all well-staffed with people who knew what they were talking about. There were only two panel tracks, but it was rare when there wasn't something I couldn't sit down and listen to going on. The Dealer's Room was small, but had books and other decent stuff. The hotel layout was a bit tight, as it's two buildings connected by a bridge (with a few unfortunately steps) but worked pretty well once you got the room locations down. The koffeeklatches were interesting, if lacking in actual coffee (down the hall in the con suite).
Anime North did a suite all day Saturday, with tea-tastings during the day (which had a steady traffic in and out) and videos at night, but we couldn't really compete in the evening once parties with booze started.
The guests were author Michael Swanwick, and editors Teresa and Patrick Nelson-Hayden, who were always worth listening to at all their events I went to.
Total attendance was just over 300, which is pretty darned good for a first time con with no media tie-in. They've already announced same dates and location for next year, and it's good to have another fan-run event in the fall again.
And when I left on the Friday night (late), there was this well-dressed woman hanging around outside. And when I left (later) on Saturday night, she was there again, and wanted to know if I wanted some company. Well, it was on the outskirts of that part of town. But SF fans have no money after buying books.
However, there was a troubling event that no one had gotten a good answer to yet. A certain well-known member of the Toronto SF community (and friend of mind for years) showed up on the Friday, and was denied entrance to the con, to my consternation and that of a lot of other people. The reason for this is still forthcoming from the convention. This matter was bought up at the wrap-up meeting and AGM, and we were told that the board would not be taking this issue up now and would be issuing a statement later. I'm not using names here because I'm not sure how public the person in question wants this to be made, but my benefit of the doubt is 100% on his side, not the convention's, especially as they were not ready to explain it in a forum where they had to know it would come up. I will be waiting for an official statement from them on this matter.
Glad to hear SFContario went well from your perspective. I read another report from someone who thought it was boring, but I don't know what they went in expecting. Just goes to show not everything is everyone's cup of tea, and the more variety we have in cons, the better!
I'm sorry to hear about the problem with your friend. My only concern would be that given that this is a first year con, there shouldn't be anyone with a history that should result in denial of entry. Sounds unfortunately, like a personal issue... considering it is hard to see how it is a convention one. You can't cause problems at a con that has never happened before!
I had a great time there and I'm going to write up my notes from the panel discussions and post them all. The first part of the report is here.
I think a 12-year-old lawsuit, especially when they've been at cons together since--is a pretty thin reason to say someone should be turned away. | 2019-04-24T16:57:56Z | https://theengineer.livejournal.com/263058.html | Porn | News | 0.35048 |
wordpress | Songs mark a period of your life in a way nothing else can . More than the songs themselves it is the memories that we hold on to . Just close your eyes and listen, and you will be there . Back in time . Like in some strange time machine .
Isn’t it for the same reason that we all love songs so passionately ?
This is one such song . It reminds me of our college trip to Kodai . The time of life when every thing was beautiful , sweet and merry . The time when the biggest problem was choosing the next day’s salwar and finding a plausible excuse for being late .
‘Don’t walk away if you intend to stay ‘ . This is roughly one of the updates I recently saw on FB updates . Whoever posted it , can claim it 😀 It is a really nice one !
Anyway this is exactly my case with this blogspace . One day I stepped aside and now I can only wonder what I have been posting for two years . I just can’t find any thread for a post and I just can’t find any words .
Today morning I have been reading some of the blogs ( A habit I had shaken off with great effort in the past month ) and I realised I don’t want to leave this cute little space of mine .
So , here comes the ‘Thursday Challenge ” for the week.
Without knowing what this week’s challenge is I had clicked a single snap . The only one that came thru my cam in the last month . It was clicked after the initial torrents though .
I was waiting for Pearl to come and was immensely enjoying the rain . The swishing wind which reminded me of that nostalgic sound inside a sea shell , swaying banyan trees , dark clouds , heavy down pour and not a single soul around . A rare chance to come by . | 2019-04-24T07:57:52Z | https://krishnnaleela.wordpress.com/2011/06/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.474378 |
wordpress | The first International Bible Contest for Adults in thirty-two years took place at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on December 12, 2012. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Gideon Saar opened the event by lighting Hanukkah candles. Twenty-seven experts on the Hebrew Bible from around the world gathered in Jerusalem for the week of Hanukkah to participate in the contest. A written test two days earlier selected sixteen of them to appear in the televised event on December 12.
Refael Meyuchas of Israel—a computer programmer for the IDF—won first place with a perfect score. Second place was won by Rabbi Ezra Frazer, who coordinates the US Bible Contest (Chidon) for Jewish Youth on behalf of the Jewish Agency.
The National Finals for the US Chidon will take place on Sunday, May 5th at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights, NY.
You are currently browsing the US Chidon Ha-Tanach blog archives for December, 2012. | 2019-04-23T06:28:45Z | https://chidonusa.wordpress.com/2012/12/ | Porn | News | 0.808776 |
wordpress | Mark Loves Hunting – In my blog you will find some amazing posts about types of guns, holsters and some tips and tricks related to the same. So, keep on reading! Also you can visit my website for more info.
This shoulder holster review will take a look at what a shoulder holster is and why people use shoulder holsters. We will also take a look at some of the best should holsters available and where you can get them. Read our should holster review to learn more about shoulder holsters and what to look for in your search for the best gun holster for your weapon and circumstance.
A shoulder holster is a type of concealed weapon holster. Shoulder holsters are designed so that the weapon is protected from view by the arm that covers it. Shoulder holsters don’t require the user to be wearing a belt and are generally more comfortable than a hip holster for someone that will be sitting a lot while carrying the weapon. Many uniformed police officers that work at a desk will carry their weapon in a shoulder holster for this reason.
Anyone that wants to carry a concealed weapon on them without having to wear a belt may want to use a shoulder holster. To use a shoulder holster for concealed carry you will have to wear an overcoat that will cover the shoulder holster. This seems to be one of the biggest considerations when choosing to use a shoulder holster. When the weather is cool enough to wear a coat over the shoulder holster it can be a very good choice. When it is hot and you want to wear nothing but a t-shirt a shoulder holster is not very practical.
Who makes the best shoulder holsters?
There are many companies that make should holsters. In this shoulder holster review we will take a look at the shoulder holsters made by Galco, Uncle Mike’s, and Safariland. First, we will take a look at the Miami Classic shoulder holster by Galco. This is the original shoulder holster made in 1969 and is the one worn by Don Johnson in Miami Vice. This holster has four individual pivot points and a swivel back plate. Make for the best fit for lasting comfort for anyone. This shoulder holster is made of saddle leather and includes the holster, harness and ammo carrier as well as many additional accessories that can be purchased separately. The Galco Jackass Rig System is similar to the Miami Classic but features a more diagonal carry position and adds a set of system screws to the other features of the Miami Classic. The Jackass Rig System is made for semiautomatic pistols and is available for right hand draw.
Next, we will look at Uncle Mike’s shoulder holster products. The Sidekick Vertical Shoulder Holster at Uncle Mike’s provides the best weight distribution along with “ultra-snug” firearm retention. This shoulder holster will provide the user with the most freedom of movement while the adjustable buckle and snap retention strap keep the firearm securely in place. Scoped holsters and left-handed shoulder holsters are available. Two other shoulder holsters are available from Uncle Mike’s, the Sidekick Vertical Shoulder Holster, and the Pro-Pak Horizontal or Pro-Pak Vertical Shoulder Holster. Both Pro-Pak Holsters are designed to accommodate your carry and drawing style for fast draw and lightweight comfort.
Last, we will take a look at the two Safariland should holster systems, the ALS Shoulder Holster System and the Gun Quick gun Holster. The ALS shoulder Holster System automatically “locks” your weapon into place when you holster your weapon. Simply release the thumb break and then you have a straight draw of your weapon. This shoulder holster is made to be worn in a horizontal or vertical position. The Safariland “Gun Quick” Shoulder Holster is made for medium to large pistols and will fit more than 90 pistol designs. The ambidextrous should holster design allows you to wear the holster right or left handed. This shoulder holster easily adjusts to accommodate different barrel length and widths.
Nowadays, holsters can be found in a very wide range of materials. Nylon and plastic models are amongst some of the most common, and the cheapest. However, choosing the right material for you is almost as important as picking the right holster to begin with. There are drawbacks and benefits to each type of material in terms of durability and wear, cost and comfort. Examining holster reviews can help to choose a specific product, but selecting the right material is often the first matter of business.
Leather holsters are considered premium options, and this is furthered by those that are made with top grain leather, which comes from a specific part of the animal hide. These types of holsters are almost always at the top end of the cost spectrum, but do have some benefits. Holsters made from top grain leather can and often do last an entire lifetime and they’re incredibly durable. They also can be repaired in the unlikely event that they do need some attention. In terms of flexibility and comfort, many users find them to be the absolute best because they mold nicely and shape to the body well. Be warned, however, some holsters are advertised as leather but are not top grain, they are actually split grain. This is a much poorer quality leather that will often lead to durability issues quickly.
Kydex holsters are those that are made from a tough plastic material. Holsters made from Kydex are quite durable and reasonably priced because the cost of their manufacture is so low. These key elements make them a popular choice because they can last a long time and are very tough. However unlike top grain leather, they offer nothing in terms of flexibility and don’t mold to the body. Hence, some users find them impractical for all day wear especially if a lot of movement is expected. They’re known for a secure hold and solid retention but definitely not comfortable and long term wear. But, given their often substantially lower price point, they remain a very popular choice.
It’s important before choosing a holster material to decide what is most important to you. If comfortable and long term wear is valuable, then top grain leather might be the way to go. If value and security are your top priorities, the space age plastic known as Kydex might fit the bill. Regardless, a holster should considered as important of a purchase as the firearm inside to ensure safe and reliable usage everyday if needed. | 2019-04-19T16:21:23Z | https://bestholsterreviews.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Reference | 0.231053 |
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