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The Green Bay Packers set the tone early in a 20-12 victory over the Oakland Raiders on Thursday night.
Playing without starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers for the second-straight game, the Pack leaned on the running attack during their opening drive and Eddie Lacy responded.
Lacy, often criticized for weight issues last season, carried 9 times for 45 yards and capped the drive with a 1-yard touchdown to give Green Bay a 7-0 lead.
Then the Packers (2-0) defense took over, holding the Raiders offense to just 187 total yards and 7 first downs. Quarterback Derek Carr completed 9 of 13 passes but for only 38 yards. He also threw an interception.
Green Bay ran for 145 yards overall, while keeping the Raiders under 50. The Packers also dominated the time of possession, holding the ball for over 35 minutes.
Oakland (1-1) got a late touchdown when Brynden Trawick blocked a Tim Masthay punt and Nate Allen recovered it in the end zone for the score.
Defensively for the Raiders, Khalil Mack picked up where he left off last season, recording a sack and a hit on Brett Hundley which knocked the Packers quarterback out of the game. Shilique Calhoun and Neiron Ball also had sacks for Oakland.
The Raiders committed 10 penalties for 96 yards compared to 3 for 38 for Mike McCarthy’s squad.
The Packers travel to San Francisco next Friday, August 26, to meet the 49ers in Week 3 of the preseason. Kickoff is scheduled for 10 p.m. Eastern. The Raiders host the Tennessee Titans the following evening at 8 p.m. ET.
Eddie Lacy ran with authority on the Packers’ opening drive, totaling 45 yards on 9 carries. On his 9th carry he plunged into the end zone from 1-yard out to give Green Bay a 7-0 lead in a drive that took over half the first quarter. The Packers started Brett Hundley at quarterback and he completed 3 of 5 passes for 29 yards.
John Crockett ran in a touchdown from 10 yards out to give the Packers a 14-3 lead with 8:22 left in the third quarter. Crockett rushed 4 times for 23 yards and caught a 12-yard pass on the 10-play, 80-yard drive. Quarterback Joe Callahan threw for 38 yards and added 14 more on the ground.
Starting quarterback Hundley left the game in the second quarter after suffering a setback on his injured ankle. He missed Week 1 with the injury and his status for Week 3 is unknown.
The Raiders cut the lead to 17-6 in the fourth quarter when Giorgio Tavecchio connected on a 28-yard field goal with 11:21 left to play.
The Raiders special teams showed up late in the game. Down 20-6 after, the teams traded field goals, the Raiders’ Brynden Trawick blocked a Tim Masthay punt and Nate Allen recovered in the end zone for a touchdown. The extra point attempt failed, but Oakland cut the Packers lead to 20-12 with about 3 minutes left in the game.
The Packers were then able to run out the clock and get the victory.
It’s Game Day at Lambeau Field.
The Green Bay Packers host the Oakland Raiders on Thursday night in the second preseason game for both teams.
The Packers, coming off a 17-11 victory over the Cleveland Browns, are expected to let backup quarterback Brett Hundley finally get on the field after being held out with an ankle injury.
Green Bay also got some good news on Wednesday when Jordy Nelson passed his physical and came off the physically unable to perform list.
Nelson missed nearly all of 2015 after tearing the ACL in his right knee. He won’t play tonight.
Also not playing is starting QB Aaron Rodgers, who also sat out in Week 1. Click here to see the list of inactives for both teams.
The Raiders beat the Cardinals 31-10 in their preseason opener behind 97 rushing yards and two touchdowns by George Atkinson III, a first-year player ouf of Notre Dame.
This post will be updated throughout the game with the live score, stats and video highlights, so keep checking back.
How has @Connor_Cook03 looked for the @Raiders so far?
The Raiders visit the Packers on Thursday night in NFL preseason Week 2 action. Keep up with the live game highlights and stats here.

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Regenerate is a community development organisation building capacity within communities across Portadown and surrounding areas. We put the people of our community at the forefront.
Our aim is to empower people and communities to build a better and safer future, by promoting community development,; encouraging active citizenship; improving social cohesion; and creating a collective voice in order to deliver positive benefits. Working with partner voluntary and statutory agencies, we aim to develop a comprehensive, strategic based approach, putting people from the community at the heart of decision making, to produce a sustainable and positive future.

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Source: Kabuki Plays on Stage Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905, vol. 4, ed. James Brandon and Samuel Leiter, University of Hawai'i Press, 2003, p. 18.
"The term 'cropped-hair play' came into use to identify plays about contemporary life because, in 1871, a government regulation had advised citizens to cut their hair short in the Western manner, wear uniforms or informal clothing, and abandon wearing swords. The Meiji emperor cut off his topknot in 1873, thereby setting a seal of approval on the new hairstyle."
2 National Diet Library website article "Theatrical Performances and Theaters in the Meiji Period (1): Shintomiza - Morita Kanya's Western Influence"
3 "Customs of the Meiji Period and Kabuki's War Dramas" by Akira Kamiyama as translated by Joseph Ryan, appearing in Comparative Theatre Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (English Issue), March 2012, p. 11.
4 A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance, Samuel L. Leiter, ed., M.E. Sharpe, 2002, p. 149.
A Strange Tale of Castaways: A Western Kabuki (Hyōryō Kidan Seiyō Kabuki 漂流奇談西洋劇) note: sometimes translated as The Wanderer’s Strange Story: A Western Kabuki; the National Diet Library titles the play Genpei Nunobiki no Taki Hyoryu Kidan Seiyo Geki.

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text: This space, named 'Casa na Rua de Sao Mamede ao Caldas,' is situated between Lisbon's medieval castle and romanesque cathedral. The space itself captures an era in the costal city's history, however over time its character had been eclipsed by years of neglect. Tasked with modernizing S. MAMEDE, Mateus's priority was to preserve the spaces historic character by keeping the interiors as minimal as possible and repurposing/resurrecting original features such as stone floors, pilasters and arched openings. Staying true to his minimalistic approach no corridors were added, leaving all living spaces to wind in and out of each other as well as extend outside. He also plastered and painted all interior walls white, which lends itself to allowing light to filter in and travel triumphantly throughout the space. The outcome?! The beautiful bridging of the gap between modernisation and preservation.

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text: The Hilldale Christian Child Care Center is having a Parents Night Out on Friday, February 15 from 6-9 PM. The cost is $10 per child and dinner will be provided for your child. Please sign up at the child care center before Thursday, February 14. Your child does not have to be enrolled at the child care center to participate.

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text: Lady Duffers collected donations for the Crush Cancer Program at Coronado Golf Course. From left, Kay Dunn donating items and getting her paperwork from Carol Beaudoin. The Lady Duffers thank everyone who brought donations.


text: REPTILIAN Illuminati Queen MADONNA Morphing Neck Flesh Bones. WAKE UP HUMANS !!! REPTILIANS control the MONEY and the MEDIA !!!


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text: Come see this charming, 2 story townhome in the Shadow Creek neighborhood. This home is a 2B/1.5B with laundry room, a private patio w/ storage area, private balcony off Master. Master bedroom has vaulted ceilings and walk-in closet. This home also has a community pool included with rental. Close to everything the Citrus Heights area has to offer; parks, shopping, restaurants, schools, public transit. Located near I-80 between Madison and Greenback just off Auburn Blvd. Bring your idea book for your ideal home.


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Triangle Square occupies a prime site for urban infill, located at the confluence of three of Austin’s ‘Smart Growth Corridors’, two miles (3 km) from the University of Texas campus and downtown Austin. For years the site was underutilized due to the difficulty developers and community residents were facing in achieving a mutually acceptable plan. Through extensive citizen participation and careful planning, the Triangle Square Neighborhood Plan was created that develops the site to its full potential, with a mix of residential and neighborhood retail.
Organized around a traditional 'main street' with two anchor stores, al fresco dining and entertainment options, the plan features a wide range of housing options including ‘flex-space’ units to provide for a variety of incomes and household types. The 'main street' is the civic focal point not only for residents of Triangle Square but also for surrounding neighborhoods.
The development of Triangle Square has helped knit together the surrounding city fabric. To further enhance connectivity and access, the arterial streets enveloping the site are to be redesigned as pedestrian-friendly boulevards and a light rail line has been proposed adjacent to the site.


text: This Heavy Duty Hoe/Rake Combo has a 5.5″ wide head and is a smaller and lighter version of the 70HR. It is an excellent tool for moving dirt for trail building or other purposes. It is available with a 48″ or 54″ ash handle.


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Stephanie Ferreira, Program Assessment Specialist, has worked in the Early Care and Education field for more than 15 years. Stephanie was most recently a BrightStars consultant before assuming her current position with RIAEYC. Stephanie is reliable on the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale (ECERS).
Stephanie holds a bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Rhode Island and currently holds a Y-Verified RI Teaching Certificate in Early Childhood Education, Grades PK-2. In addition, Stephanie has completed level 2 RIELDS and is a trainer for RIAEYC’s Professional Development Modules.


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1) Will I have to pay any fees by requesting a tutor?
No, this service is free for parents and students.
2) What if I wish to have the tutor changed?
Any time you feel if the home tutor is not teaching satisfactorily, we provide a switch of tutor at no additional cost. However, you need to pay the tuition fees for all conducted tuition sessions.
3) How long do I need to wait before I can be assigned a home tutor?
Our tuition consultants will expedite your request to assign a tutor within 1 business day.
4) How do I verify the tutor's qualifications?
We would screen & interview the tutors and ensure that they have all the necessary qualifications and credentials. You can also interview the tutor on the phone or meet tutor in person first before hiring and ask the tutor to bring the relevant qualification certificates for you at the first lesson.
5) How many students will there be in a class?
It can be one-to-one home tuition or small group tuition.


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Every German alive today knows the entire skit "Dinner for One" -- shown every New Year's Eve -- by heart. They are shocked to learn that the rest of the world is ignorant of this pearl of British humor.
James and Miss Sophie in the cult New Year's classic "Dinner for One." Big in Germany, unknown in most of the rest of the world.
Most Germans love meeting people from other countries -- and, as a foreigner in Germany, the first few moments of a friendly encounter can feel less like a conversation and more like an interrogation. Once your hometown, average annual precipitation in said city, age and occupation are established in rapid-fire succession, though, it's time for the second tier of questions.
For English speaking visitors, the quiz goes as follows: Why are you Americans always shooting each other? How come so many people like Bush? Why do you English love the Queen so much? Can you explain Northern Ireland in 10 sentences or less?
Only after you've proven your reliability on the political front will Germans try to establish some common ground. And they're likely to start with what they view as an easy one: What do you think of "Dinner for One?"
You know -- dinner for one; James; Miss Sophie; same procedure as every year?" And then they break into an uncontrolled fit of the hysterical giggles.
The native English speaker is at this stage completely flummoxed -- what on earth is this crazy kraut going on about? Then between snickers and guffaws, your otherwise quite sober and serious new friend will start to explain the phenomenon. Every New Years Eve everybody -- yes really EVERYBODY -- in Germany watches a black and white short film, in English, about an aristocratic lady and her butler. And they are astonished that you have never heard of it. Given its astounding popularity in Germany, they assume that it must be a huge hit elsewhere in the world -- and they feel flattered to have been lucky enough to get in on the big British joke.
It's a terrible blow to the average German's weltanschauung when they find out that most Americans, Brits, Irishmen, Scots, South Africans, Canadians and New Zealanders haven't a clue what "Dinner for One" is all about. Only the Australians, it seems, have been introduced to the pleasures of this particular bit of black-and-white television buffoonery.
So what exactly is Dinner for One and why does it have such a hold on the German imagination? The story is pretty basic. Miss Sophie is a dotty old lady celebrating her 90th birthday in what she likes to imagine is the presence of her old pals. The dinner guests, though, are all long dead so her obliging butler James fills in for each of them. Not only does he mimic their voices, but he also drinks each of their toasts in turn, getting steadily more smashed as the evening -- condensed to a little more than 10 minutes in the skit -- proceeds.
James, played by Freddie Frinton, is hardly the stiff-upper-lipped butler one might expect. Rather, he's a bit of an old codger and cavorts across the screen in convincing slapstick manner, increasingly slurring his words and fighting with a tendency to trip over a tiger skin rug. As each course -- and round of drinks -- commences, the butler queries: The same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie? To which the rejoinder is (as night follows day): The same procedure as EVERY year James."
Indeed, the punch line of the whole skit -- and delicate readers may want to stop here -- is that when the old dear heads off to bed, the manservant pops the same question. And is met with the same -- this time, of course, quite saucy -- reply. And the German viewers erupt into convulsions of laughter even though they've seen it a million times before. The sketch, of course, improves from repeated viewing, not unlike the "Rocky Horror Picture Show." And on New Years Eve, of course, everyone is already a bit pickled making it easy for the millions of German viewers to recite the lines right along with the characters, giggling all the while.
What many people in Germany dont realize is that the film has never -- not once -- been shown in either the UK or the US, though it has had a few showings on Australian cable TV. Yet it is a huge hit, if not a national treasure, in Germany, and has also tickled the fancies of Austrians, Scandinavians and Estonians. The attraction? Perhaps the skit simply fits into a kind of prejudice about the English upper class as being daft, drunk and debauched. Or maybe it allows those with only rudimentary English skills to join in the fun of that famous British humor.
The two "stars" of the film, Freddie Frinton and May Warden, were British entertainers who had been performing this sketch at seaside resorts for years. It was written in the 1920s and Frinton bought the rights in the 1950s. During one performance in Brighton in 1963, the German TV presenter Peter Frankenfeld happened to be in the audience. He liked it so much he invited them to perform on his show. It was such a roaring success that the sketch was then performed in front of a live audience in Hamburg and recorded by the local station NDR -- and it is this version that is shown on German screens to this day.
The tradition of showing the skit on New Years Eve took off in 1972 and it is shown repeatedly across most of the channels available making it virtually impossible to avoid. In fact the show has the Guinness Record for the most aired TV program in history. The Dinner for One mania know no bounds: There are drinking games involving the various tipples imbibed; some fans even go so far as to cook the meal that Miss Sophie is served; there are trivia books dedicated to the theme; and even TV quizzes.
So next time you are chatting with a German friend and they ask you about Dinner for One, you can assure them you know all about it. Why not then turn the tables and ask them all about that great Austrian classic that has proved such a hit in the English-speaking world: "The Sound of Music?" It will then be your turn. "What? You haven't heard of it? Based on the true story of the Von Trapp family singers, singing nuns, Nazi postmen, dresses made out of curtains. Surely you know the baroness, Maria, and the captain ...? You can even launch into your favorite version of "Edelweiss." Take it from us, your new German friends will be absolutely horrified!


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Fort Lauderdale Criminal Defense - Kenneth Padowitz, P.A.
In the field of criminal law, there are a variety of circumstances that have the potential to negate certain elements of a crime. These mitigating circumstances may not necessarily excuse or justify a criminal act, but often times influence the prosecutor in the making of their decision as to the degree of offense that an individual should be charged with. These mitigating circumstances may also influence any reduction in penalties given.
In most jurisdictions, the entire burden to prove a crime has been committed is on the government. The government is held at a higher standard than the defense when trying their case; they must prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt.
For a person to be convicted of a crime, the prosecuting office must prove actus reus, meaning that the person committed the criminal act. Another requirement is the proof of mens rea, or guilty intent.
As police continue their increased aggressive efforts in reducing crime, you and your family’s rights may come under attack. At the Fort Lauderdale criminal defense law firm of Kenneth Padowitz, P.A., we believe a decrease in crime should not be at the expense of justice.
When faced with a criminal charge, whether it is a state charge or a federal offense, an experienced criminal attorney is a must-have. What you need is a strategic criminal defense designed personally for you and your situation. With our exclusive focus on one area of the law, criminal defense, we will give you give you exactly that, the aggressive representation you deserve.
Kenneth Padowitz, P.A., a South Florida criminal defense law firm, aggressively handles cases throughout the United States in the all areas of State and Federal criminal defense including the following practice areas: Felonies, Misdemeanors, Juvenile Law, Post Conviction, State Drug Charges, Federal Drug Charges, White Collar Crimes, Domestic Violence, Violation of Probation, Theft, Assault and Battery, Murder, Appellate Practice, and all DUI charges, including Under 21 DUI, Felony DUI, Commercial DUI, DUI with injury, DUI manslaughter, and BUI. Contact our law firm to speak with our criminal attorney. We handle cases throughout Broward and South Florida, including: Fort Lauderdale, Davie, Hollywood, Miami, Palm Beach, Pembroke Pines, Coral Springs, Plantation, Cooper City, Weston, Hallandale Beach, Boca Raton, and Parkland. Give our office a call, and ask for Kenneth Padowitz for a free consultation at 954-761-3888, or contact our law firm online.

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Note- The group I explore with have a strict policy of leaving everything as it was, not vandalizing or stealing, and not exploring or violating any residential properties, nor do we force entry, merely utilize existing openings. Any entry on the blog that does detail a means of access does so under the assumption that the means of access can no longer be reached. Never would we reveal an existing opening over the internet, for fear of negative consequences against the property or person entering.
Remember the means in which we exited the abandoned gym? It involved opening a door at street level and stepping out, and hoping that a member of public didn't see us doing something illegal and reporting it. Nerves were understandably high for amateur explorers, but we got away with it, learning that simply looking like one knows what he is doing, and walking confidently, is an excellent disguise. It was this attitude and the ability to hide in plain sight that got us onto the rooftop maze, so named because it covered a nice square area of Shrewsbury town center, with views to four streets, accessible via a small maze of ladders and stairways hidden from the public. It was odd to learn that this little network of opportunity existed right in the middle of town. Better still, while ladders and stairways gave us so much, there was opportunity for more depending on confidence, skill and imagination. What began as a really pedestrian view could be expanded if one was willing to push themselves a little bit further. It made for an excellent practice rooftop.
To get to the rooftop maze, we had to rely on a doorway next to Halifax. While the building looks symmetrical, one door actually led to an alleyway, and a staircase. Getting to it was so absurdly easy that the rooftop soon became widely known about, and things got vandalized by idiot teenagers. From now on the doorway is locked, and the maze can no longer be accessed. It did reward us with some good views in its time though.
View of the flag tower.And beyond that, the Market Tower and St Chads.
Not a great view but one can just about see McDonalds. Incidentally this is the easiest part to get to, so it was really worth learning more skills to progress around.
Only accessible via night time due to Rococo cafe.
Arguably the trickiest part to get to.
So that's the rooftop maze, covering a wide portion of Shrewsbury, as anyone who knows the town will verify. For rooftopping it remained a great spot for ages, for practice or just chilling out. We do, on occasion stop by the alleyway door but it is always locked, and remains one of the strongest examples of why we don't reveal the means of access to places that are accessible, because when things like this get found out about, word spreads and idiots hear about it, and vandalism of these places always results in them being cut off from the people who truly appreciate their value and the people who use these areas for legitimate reasons.
I've really been enjoying your UrbEx discoveries, and thanks for sharing them with the world. Your narratives are really great too!
I'm originally from Shropshire (from a village near Acton Burnell), and I loved your set on Pitchford Hall, too. When I was a fearless teenager, around where I lived were quite a lot of abandoned cottages and houses, but sadly few them remain now. I also remember exploring Cound Hall, which was a fantastic place, but I think it has now been converted into high-end apartments.
Around the woods and villages where I grew up were an awful of lot of atmospheric places - from Church Preeen to Cressage, Berrington to Condover. It was lovely to see some familiar Shropshire places again, it made me realise how beautiful the countryside and architecture is there. I really liked this series of pics, and being able to see Shrewsbury from a pigeon's-eye point of view.

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Trevor Fishlock adventured around the world as a foreign correspondent. He reported Wales for The Times in the 1960s-70s. As a foreign correspondent for The Times he lived in India and America. He became the Moscow bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph. He also wrote from Africa, the Arctic, Australia, South America and more than seventy countries.
He won the David Holden Award for foreign reporting and the prize for International Reporter of the Year in the British Press Awards.
He has published books on Wales, India, Russia and America, and tells the story of the art collection of the Davies sisters of Llandinam.
He has written and presented more than 150 television programmes on the history and landscape of Wales, and won a BAFTA for his Wild Tracks series.
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Trevor Fishlock adventured around the world as a foreign correspondent. He reported Wales for The Times in the 1960s-70s. He has written and presented more than 150 television programmes on the history and landscape of Wales, and won a BAFTA for his Wild Tracks series.

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Select Subtle Color. Instead of choosing bold primary colors, select soothing color shades and a restful palate of homochromatic tones. Remember color schemes such as the soft hues of green, blue or lavender are thought serene. Jewel -toned rich shades plays an essential role in setting your mode and providing you comfort and coziness.These often include topaz, toasty browns shades etc. Try employing a much toned down shade of your chosen color. This implies use pumpkin as opposed to tangerine. Whether accompanied by a partner or not, we must look into our bedroom the main one area where we are obliged to please nobody but ourselves (the words indulgence and pampering spring to mind). It therefore makes good sense for the’best’bedroom space and use of dressing and bathroom facilities to be reserved with this purpose.
Maintain an easy bedroom. No real matter what design of decoration you choose, your bedroom must look sophisticated, elegant, cozy and simple.Leave at least a difference of three feet between the medial side walls or big furniture and the bed, thereby ensuring easy movement.Apart out of this leave at the least two feet gap between the low level furniture’s e.g. tables and the bed. Try furnishing your bedroom only with what you require. Anything additional tends to offer a poor look. However you can place items of artwork like candles, family photos etc.
Select the correct size furniture. Another important room ideas for decorating includes selecting the best size of furniture. When you’re prepared to look for bedroom furniture, consider the floor plan and the measurement of the bedroom space. Furniture picked up should fit in the bedroom. Avoid selecting heavy and large dressers and beds for a small bedroom. On the other accessories which are very small tend to get lost in a sizable bedroom. Gone were those days when people lived in houses with only white painted walls, regular bulbs, and marriage and family photos in standardized photo frames. The trend today is to own’live walls’that can talk for themselves. Every one having its own identity and narrating its story! Folks like to decorate their bedroom walls with theme styling that totally blends using their personality, lifestyle and fits the bill too!
Create an exclusive nook. Here’s certainly one of my personal favorite bedroom decorating tips I love to fairly share, and that’s to make a quite area for yourself in your bedroom where you could sit and read quietly. Make an exclusive reading or lounging space by using comfortable chairs and foot stool and placing them at the end of the bed. Each anyone to its own, like they say! Today the market is flooded with ideas to decorate your bedroom walls. Even if you are bad at interiors, the net can be your absolute best pal to accomplish mix and match and you can add your touch of creativity and personalize the sack walls.
Buy luxurious linens. As interior decorating rule states, the use of beautiful fabrics can help outfit your bedroom. Linens tend to add comfort to the bedroom. Purchase sheets that are made out of 100% cotton with a thread count of around 350 or even more. Always send costly linens to the dry cleaner. They give services like professional washing and pressing at a reasonable rate. Thus the linen becomes crisp and smooth again. Bedroom Interior Design Ideas. If you enjoy the sensation of being cocooned, bed drapes are for you. Whether emanating from a corona, half-tester or full tester, they provide an incredibly secure, enclosed feeling and look extremely attractive into the bargain. Always devote careful considered to the liner of such bed treatment as that is what will be usually seen by the person lying in bed. An inferior repeat of the face fabric pattern can create a very pleasing result, as can the usage of ticking fabric in a coordinating color.
Introduce various lighting option. It’s recommended to layer your lighting in your bedroom. Ambient lighting have a tendency to light the entire room. Small lamps to target light for different activities like reading etc. Accent light supports washing the four walls in under soft illumination. Place the reading light at the bedside; within reach these lights must have adjustable dimmer. All you should have is a wide knowledge of colors and image of how your bedroom would look like. Dark colored walls will make the space look smaller and light colors would add more space to your room.


text: Domanico Rebeca is REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON in the county of WESTCHESTER, licensed by Division of Licensing, New York State Department of State. The license number is 10401232746. The business name is BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESERVICES RIVER TOWNS REAL ESTATE. The address is 983 Main St, Peekskill, NY 10566.


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Viacom International Media Networks has expanded its relationship with content provider and television network Solar Entertainment Corporation, to debut MTV Classic in the Philippines.
Available for the first time in the country, the retro music channel launches on May 2 via DTH provider Agilasat. The launch of MTV Classic follows the initial collaboration between VIMN and Solar to launch MTVph in the Philippines last year.
Jointly owned by Solar and ABS, Agilasat is a free-to-view TV service that delivers sports, news, lifestyle, kid movies, general entertainment, and local programming to homes across the Philippines. Distribution of AGILASAT is through a built-in package with partner pay-TV providers (DTO). It will host a bouquet of up to 50 high-quality local and international channels.
The announcement was made on the eve of the APOS conference in Indonesia, which kicks off fully on Wednesday. VIMN also used the APOS platform to announce plans to launch fully-authenticated versions of app Nick Jr. Play with Foxtel and Fetch in Australia in 2018.


text: Our round Stella Sunburst Mirror is something of a work of art. The weathered grey starburst frame adds an arty industrialist feel while the curves of the round looking glass keep the finish soft. Whether it’s taking up residence in a chic city pad or a cosy country cottage, this mirror will turn heads.

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It is fun reading books before they are published. I get a privileged feeling just holding a review copy, which may be a bit silly, seeing that the publishers gave many of them away at the Public Library Association Conference in Minneapolis. Still, I was really pleased when Uma from our library offered to let me read an advanced reader's edition of Laughing Without an Accent by Firoozeh Dumas, the author of Funny in Farsi. The book is due out at the end of April 2008.
In her new volume, Dumas continues to tell amusing stories about her life as an Iranian who moved to the United States as a child before the revolution of 1979. In some ways, she grew up very American, watching television, eating fast food, and going away to college. Still, because of her early years in Iran, her perspectives remain atypical. She is a sort of inside outsider, a perfect person to notice the odd aspects of American life that natives tend to take for granted.
Many of her stories are about adjusting or not adjusting to a new culture. She features her own experiences, as well as those of her parents and her husband, who is French. Each story is well-crafted and compelling, and she makes readers feel as though they too are immigrants trying to sort out what to do in unfamiliar situations. I think my favorite story may have been her telling of her uncle's funeral at which the family traded the usual Iranian mourning customs for eulogies remembering the uncle's humorous traits; Dumas could hardly believe the family would accept this break with tradition but they did. She makes a point about how America has changed her family. She also tells how Iranians and other immigrants have changed America.
Most public libraries are going to want Dumas's new book. It should be very popular with memoir readers. It should also be popular with librarians, whom she compliments several times.
Dumas, Firoozeh. Laughing Without an Accent. Villard, 2008. ISBN 9780345499561.

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The late 1970s were an intensely prolific prolific period for Sonya Rapoport, one in which she absorbed new ideas and experimented with new ways of making artwork.
In 1976 she began her Anasazi Series of drawings in pencil on computer printout paper. This work evolved out of her earlier Yarn Drawing series, in which she treated found printouts as aesthetic objects, creating compositions with her NuShu language of feminist stencils. The Anasazi Series represents an important step in Rapoport’s engagement with computers – she began to learn more about how this technology worked, which would soon lead to her reinvention as a digital artist.
Sonya Rapoport, “Anasazi Series, Panel 1-A”, Page 1 of 12, 1977. Prismacolor and pencil on found pre-printed perforated continuous feed computer printout paper.
Working with Anthropologist Dorothy Washburn, the first of many collaborators, Rapoport’s Anasazi Series is rendered on printouts of data from a mathematical analysis of the symmetry patterns in Anasazi pottery. Using stencils of Anasazi motifs and mathematical symbols from Washburn’s book A Symmetry Analysis of Upper Gila Area Ceramic Design (Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Vol 68, 1977, drawings by Sarah Whitney Powell), Rapoport created colorful compositions that reflect and expand the data depicted in Washburn’s gridlike charts. These process pieces are both direct, formulaic translations of the data into visual form, and “an aesthetic response to the data,” as Rapoport stated in a statement for an exhibition at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University in 1978.
Rapoport would go on to expand the Anasazi Series into research-based, conceptual works that made use of the computer to represent data, including Bonito Rapoport Shoes (1978). In this work, Rapoport catalogued her own shoe collection, used a computer to analyse the data, and printed the results in graphs and charts. She then drew into the resulting printouts with colored pencil, image transfer, and colored typewriter, presenting an in-depth history and feminist critique of women’s footwear, and using motifs from the Anasazi Series.
Bonito Rapoport Shoes, 1978, pencil, colored pencil, colored type, computer print and solvent transfer on continuous-feed computer print, 37 pages in 4 folios, 11 x 14.875” each.

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When I meet her on an early fall day outside of a Tribeca cafe favored by young parents and off-duty celebrities, Mera McGrew, the clean-scrubbed 30-year-old founder of Soapply (pronounced “Soap-ply, like supply but with soap”), explains that she came about her fixation on hygiene honestly. “What you need to know,” she says, “is that soap saves lives.” McGrew, a Manitou Springs, Colorado, native, had been spending her mid-20s working for one of the largest tourism operators across Africa, helping to build out what she calls its “positive impact approach” or how the company formally gave back to the countries and communities in which they operated. It was while on the ground in East Africa, working with various conservation and social projects and initiatives, that she had the opportunity to really comes to grips with what she will tell you at great length is one of the most overlooked and pivotally important issues facing the world today: handwashing.
“I know we don’t think about soap and water as being some kind of luxury,” McGrew told me, but every year, roughly 1.4 million children under the age of 5 die from diarrheal diseases and pneumonia that largely could have been prevented by washing their hands with soap. At many of the places where she was working in East Africa, McGrew said, she noticed that even on the rare occasion that there were functioning handwashing stations present, there was never any soap, or there wasn’t any real education going on about when, where, and how to wash, or why it mattered. “I had the opportunity to see firsthand the impact that water, sanitation, and hygiene could have at the individual, community, and regional level,” McGrew said. “More specifically, I saw the critical and cost-effective role that handwashing with soap played when it came to the health of students, and school attendance rates, especially for girls reaching the age of menstruation,” who without adequate sanitary products or the ability to wash at school, will not show up for sometimes a week every month, “and more broadly, the development and equality of a community.” (McGrew later shares research with me that shows that washing with soap could reduce the likelihood of diarrheal diseases by about 50 percent and respiratory infections by an estimated 16 percent; the Global Handwashing Partnership, which works to save children’s lives and improve health by promoting washing with soap, founded a global advocacy day in 2008 that's celebrated annually on October 15.) “Basically,” she tells me in Tribeca, “when students can wash their hands, they stay healthy. When kids stay healthy, they stay in school. And when they stay in school, it means greater opportunities later on.” McGrew came home and decided to launch her own endeavor: a safe, natural, non-toxic, and very gentle hand soap that would not hurt the environment or your hands and would also benefit the health of people all across the world.
Soapply’s soap is made in Middlebury, Vermont, by soap makers who have been in the business for more than 20 years (“we call them our ‘suds masters,’” McGrew says), poured into recycled glass bottles from Austin, Texas, silk-screened to read “this is more than soap” in Newark, New Jersey, and packaged in boxes printed in New York and San Francisco. (McGrew is visibly pained when I ask about the product-dispensing pumps on Soapply bottles, which are plastic. There were many attempts to find an eco-friendlier option, she says, but “there is no good alternative” that would be cost-effective for the consumer, “so I’m using the best non-toxic plastic I can find and hoping that someone out there will see it and invent the solution.”) A single bottle of Soapply sells for $25, a pre-paid quarterly subscription (four bottles) is $95.
About $1 from every 8-ounce bottle purchased is directly donated to help fund water, sanitation, and hygiene (with a particular focus on handwashing) initiatives around the world; current efforts are focused in the Tigray region of Ethiopia and implemented on the ground there by the Relief Society of Tigray (REST). “We recognize that each area has unique stakeholders, needs, and opportunities,” McGrew told me, “we work in one area at a time, one school at a time.” Teqa Primary School and its nearly 400 students are the latest to receive support.
In a time in which every choice we make—from what we watch to what we consume and where—seems like a political act of messaging about who we are and what we care about, McGrew attests that even something as basic as handwashing can become a radical act. “Soapply is more than soap,” McGrew wrote me later in an email. “More than anything, Soapply is a community. A community of people who care. About their health. About the environment. About people around the world.” And people want in: Soapply launched online in April 2016; at the end of the very first day, it had orders coming in from Colorado, California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Texas, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. The New York Times wrote about it. Chefs and restauranteurs, McGrew found, loved it for its gentleness and lack of scent, which wouldn’t interfere with the food they served. Celebrities proudly Instagrammed Soapply bottles in their bathrooms. Retail outlets came calling. The company has never spent a single dollar on paid advertising or hired a PR firm. (I first saw it in Laughing Man in Tribeca.) “It’s honestly our amazing community that is responsible for getting us to where we are,” McGrew tells me, “they made the choice to purchase Soapply; they made the choice to share Soapply; they have insisted that Soapply be sink-side where they work; and they have come to us to propose partnerships. Individual responses and our growing community let me know we’re on to something big.” And with a (very) clean conscience to boot.
Soapply subscriptions are available at Soapplybox.com.


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CeBIT is a leading international trade fair dedicated to technology, software and digital services as well as to the world of telecommunications.
It offers a comprehensive overview of the applications and services already on the market, but also on the news and trends in the ITC industry for the near future.
CeBIT Pro – to promote innovative solutions suitable for decision makers from both the world of manufacturing and commerce, as well as self-employed.
CeBIT Gov - with solutions and digital services to streamline EU administrative processes at all levels, but also for national and local government, up to healthcare.
CeBIT Lab - a laboratory where ideas are transformed into prototypes with the help of members of institutions as well as a large number highly qualified operators.
CeBIT Life – a lab for the analysis of the impact and changes that innovations and ITC technologies bring in private and working lives.


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When using our online store, we obtain certain information from you. That may be personal data. We only keep and use the personal data provided by you directly, within the framework of the service you request, or of which it is clear that they are provided to us to process.
At certain parts of our online store you must first register. After registration, we save the user name you have chosen and the personal data you have provided. We keep this information so that you do not have to enter it every time.
We will not pass on the data linked to your user name to third parties, unless this is necessary in the context of the implementation of the agreement that you conclude with us or if this is legally required. In case of suspicion of fraud or abuse of our online store, we can hand over personal data to the competent authorities.
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GDPR: MATCH- OR DEAL BREAKER FOR SECURITY AND PRIVACY?
10 Jun GDPR: MATCH- OR DEAL BREAKER FOR SECURITY AND PRIVACY?
Unless you have not checked your inbox for the past two weeks, you probably have heard of the EU’s new regulation on data privacy which came into force on the 28th of May. The General Data Protection Regulation is a directly enforceable  piece of EU legislation, which hands the control of personal data back to individuals. Throughout seven years of its development, the policy has received both, high acclaims  and alarming dissents . This year is a peak of the debate and many questions are left unanswered. One of them is the GDPR’s impact on cybersecurity – how will the legislation affect cybercrime prospects?
When it comes to cybersecurity, the balance sheet of GDPR’s pros and cons is somewhat even. On one hand, some sources talk about opportunities that new framework can bring  . On the other hand, there are voices of concern, suggesting that GDPR will virtually become a “gift”  to cybercriminals. This article is a quest for the middle ground.
One of the highlighted benefits of the policy, is the improvement of data protection systems done by companies storing and/or processing personal data. That is because GDPR makes it significantly more expensive  for a business to hide its security breach and deal with data leak internally (as practiced in the past for reputational reasons), than to dedicate some extra resources for upgrading its digital defence systems. Surprisingly, before May 28th many companies had been neglecting their data security systems by relying on the fact that cyberattacks are so advanced, that it would be too costly to prevent all of them from happening. That is why, last year alone, large companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo or Uber have revealed that they suffered from multiple breaches for several years. Although, with high fines for non-compliance, GDPR is more of a stick than a carrot, the policy can indeed have a positive impact on innovation in the data security field, making life of cybercriminals somewhat more difficult. In addition, some argue that GDPR is value in itself because it portrays data privacy as a ‘human right in this digital age’ . In practice, this is embodied in ‘privacy by design’ approach, which views personal data protection as a core fundament to all (new) technological and digital undertakings.
While GDPR certainly stimulates protection of sensitive data to an unprecedented scale, there are voices concerned with its usefulness in areas of detecting and prosecuting cybercrime. For instance, the Wall Street Journal argues that the policy will actually make it simpler for cybercriminals to get away with their actions, at the same time making it more difficult for the law enforcement to identify them . This is where another actor comes in play, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and its search system WHOIS. The latter holds public information about domains from all over Internet, which has been serving law enforcement to quickly access data of cybercriminals during investigations into online gambling, piracy or phishing. The main concern, is that, WHOIS blocking the information from public access under GDPR will make the investigations in cybercrime a longer and more bureaucratic process. It means that law enforcement or security researchers will not be able to swiftly scan large bulk of domains’ information in order to, for instance, spot fake or malicious domains. For the loudest critics, this is a one-way road to escalation of cybercrime .
So where is the middle ground? Are we lost again in the everlasting battle between privacy and security? Did cybercriminals have a party on May 28th, while companies and law enforcement wept? Not necessarily. In his viral Ted Talk, James Veitch righteously said that: “The internet gave us access to everything. But also, it gave everything access to us”  Those should be the leading words of GDPR campaign. The new policy’s purpose is not hindering digital investigations, but rather (re)introducing privacy as a ‘value’ instead of a ‘commodity’. While compliance is costly for businesses and obtaining subpoenas to access online data for (cyber)crime investigations is time-consuming, privacy should not be used as a sacrifice. On the contrary, data privacy’s goal is to make individual data providers feel safe from unauthorized use and access. Taken in perspective, if WHOIS provides information for everyone to see, then not only law enforcement, but also scammers or hackers can effortlessly benefit from it.
To conclude, the problem of cybercrime seems not to lie in strengthened privacy protection, but rather in the legal system, which continuously falls behind technology. Perhaps, a hidden opportunity of GDPR could be assembling policymakers, law enforcement practitioners and web developers into a joint group to seek a privacy-friendly and secure Internet – without sacrificing one for the other.
 As in opposition to a ‘directive’, which is legislation that each Member State can implement in a manner tailored to their own domestic rules.
 Albrecht, J. ‘How the GDPR Will Change the World’ in: European Data Protection Law Review, Volume 2, Issue 3 (2016) pp. 287 – 289.
 “The GDPR is serving as a starting point for international [legal] standards and a trustworthy digital market.” Albrecht, J. ‘How the GDPR Will Change the World’ in: European Data Protection Law Review, Volume 2, Issue 3 (2016) pp. 287 – 289.
 Under art. 83 of GDPR, failure to notify supervisory authority and users affected by the breach can result in, either up to 20 000 000 EUR or up to 4% of the total worldwide annual turnover – which is a lot.

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Kate is a Veterinary Nurse who gained her qualification whilst working in a large mixed practice in her hometown of Mackay. She has worked with dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, horses, cattle, sheep, goats and even pigs!
Kate decided to make the move down to Brisbane and AES because she wanted to continue to learn and challenge herself within this amazing industry. She intends to further her studies and complete her diploma of Emergency and Critical Care next year.

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Our cucumber vines are bearing many fruit. So many that, despite eating the cucumbers in salads every day, we still have a lot. It must be pickle time!
Wash and scrub the cucumbers to get the dirt and spines off.
Using a mandolin (because who’s got time to do this with a knife?) slice the cucumbers.
Combine the brine ingredients in a large pot and bring them to a boil. While waiting for water to boil, wash the jars and pack them with cucumber slices.
Fill the jars with brine, leaving the standard 1 inch of head space. Water process them for 10 minutes. Our canner can hold 7 quarts at once, so I opted to do this in two batches. There was some brine left over, so I canned it in another jar to save for the next batch of pickles.
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The Blue Matic is the intermediate model of the Blue cycletrainers. Its maximum resistance is 700 Watt. The Blue Matic has a magnetic brake with permanent-magnets. You set the resistance selecting one of the ten different positions via the handlebar resistance lever. During your training session the resistance increases as you cycle faster or switch to a heavier setting. The robust frame stands firmly on the ground and it is very user friendly because the trainer can be assembled in no time at all.
Product as described, fast setup, I do not disturb the noise at all, have anyway music running, price performance super ... what brought man more.
Produkt wie beschrieben, schneller Aufbau, mich stören die Geräusche überhaupt nicht, habe eh Musik laufen, Preis Leistung super... was bracht Mann mehr.
Great product. Very easy to assanbly. Fits 26 ", 27.5" and 29 "very well.
Great product. Very easy to assanbly. Fits 26", 27.5" and 29" very well.


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Thank you for taking the time to learn about DeltaFlex and requesting a quote for our Holder | LORD Heavy-Duty Plateform Mount.
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Thank you for taking the time to learn about DeltaFlex and our Holder | LORD Heavy-Duty Plateform Mount. Our applications engineer will help find the right solution for your application.
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Osmoregulation in animals requires the functioning of transport epithelia which can move ions by active transport against concentration and electrical gradients. Active transport requires the expenditure of energy to transport the molecule from one side of the membrane to the other, but active transport is the only type of transport that can actually take molecules up their concentration gradient as well as down. In amphibians, skin is a major osmoregulatory organ. It has to transport Na and Cl from fresh water where their concentrations are about 0.1 mM into the ECF of the frog where concentrations are about 110 mM. The purpose of this lab was to use an Ussing chamber to clamp frog skin between two solutions.
Clamp your frog skin into the chamber and fill both sides with frog ECF (Ringer's) - 5 ml/side.
Place the voltage sensing electrodes (pH reference electrodes) across the skin, and the current electrodes (skinny little silver wires) across the skin. With the current generator off, you measure the voltage which develops across the skin.
You then read the number of microamps of current required to do this (from the multimeter). It turns out that 1 microamp of current = 63 * 10 -11 moles of Na transported/min. This lets you get a firm count on just how much Na the skin can pick up for the frog from fresh water in a minute. All you have to know is the area of the skin clamped in your chamber and the total skin area of the frog.
After doing this for identical solutions of the two sides of the skin, you repeat the measurement for the cases when the dilutions of frog saline are placed outside the skin. Michaelis/Menten kinetics are at work here, the idea is that the rate of Na pumping has to do with the density of Na pumps in the skin. If there is an excess of Na outside the skin, the pumps will be saturated and pumping will be at a maximum.

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It’s Halloween! Have a fun and safe Halloween, everyone.
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Mix the first four ingredients above into a marinade, and marinate the chicken breasts overnight in your refrigerator.
Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 40 minutes, or until the chicken is lightly browned.
I love citrus chicken! This is a great variation to another one of Robin’s creations.

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I'm pleased (no, really, actually pleased, which is not an easy feeling to elicit from a jaded equipment reviewer) to report that the HP B9180 is on the way—I just received confirmation this morning.
I'll be writing a two-part review of the $699 pigment-ink printer for the English Black & White Photography magazine. The first part will cover the development and features of the printer, a general user report, and color printmaking; the second article will focus exclusively on the unit's black-and-white printing capabilities.
The B9180 has the potential to be a minor milestone in photography. One of the new generation of wide-gamut pigment-ink printers, it's the so-called "wide-format" or "wide-carriage" prosumer version of HP's new Z-Series (say it the European way, "zed series") professional printers, which are the culmination of an historically huge R&D investment. According to Henry Wilhelm of Wilhelm Imaging Research, the leading independent laboratory for color print permanence, it provides print permanence as good as, or better than, any other print medium in the history of color photography. And it's an accessibly-priced product, shrewdly judged to fit into an optimal slot in the market. Just based on the specs, it's going to be suitable for anybody from well-heeled casual photo-buffs all the way up to semi-pros and serious artists and even the odd pro or three. Clearly, HP intends it to be better than any cheaper printer and cheaper than any better printer. To me it just seems to have promise as a serious printmaker's tool. On both counts, we'll see.
Having high expectations is, of course, a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it's true, I'm predisposed to like it; on the other hand, I'm far more susceptible to being disappointed than if I were to come to it with no particular hopes in mind. I think I have the experience as a reviewer to balance my appraisal anyway. As ever, my strategy is just to be honest with you, so you can see for yourself where I'm coming from and adjust your judgment accordingly.
Although I won't be posting the complete reviews here, I'll post a series of informal updates as I go along, to keep you apprised of my investigations. This is gonna be fun.
I hear media plays a huge role in output from this printer. My problem is that my local CompUSA stocks the printer, but not the HP branded Hahnemuhle papers that work best with it.
Mike, this is one piece of equipment to get excited about. I've had mine for six weeks and am impressed everytime a B/W print shoots out the front. It's not without it's glitches but once you get to know it you'll be happy. The hardest part is sorting the many paper/profile combinations you'll suddenly be faced with!
I'm REALLY curious to how this printer will perform for B&W printing, especially on lustre or gloss papers AND it's ability to do both neutral B&W and subtle sepia and/or warming effects, all without metamerism or bronzing. I'm fairly happy with my Epson 2200 but really only for matte papers and sure would like to see deeper blacks than I get now. I'm highly considering the new Epson 3800 but would love to be talked out of that particularly based on the price difference.
Will you share some of your review here Mike or will we have to wait for the B&W Photography article?
I'm quite sure you'll love it. I currently have neither the space nor the budget for a new printer, but the test prints I got out of this baby are fantastic.
Also, I always thought that Wilhelm's ratings were a bunch of bovine excrement, but after having a long talk with him, I realised he's an honest guy with a sound testing methodology.
Mike, your reviews are always enlightening. I look forward to it.
As a side note anyone wanting better B&W prints from their Epson (mine's a 2200)without using 3rd party black inks would do well to purchase Quad Tone RIP software. I couldn't get a neutral B&W print from mine no matter how I profiled until upon suggestion I downloaded a version. I'm quite pleased with the results I get now.
So, given print publication lead times, should we expect to see this in print sometime late winter, early spring?
Just a reply to MJFerron who seemed to be addressing my post: When I'm not doing BO printing (which I really like on matte) I use QTR with my 2200 when I want some warmth, and have for a while. Very nice results and I love it. Does nothing though for my desire of deeper blacks and lack of bronzing on lustre/gloss papers.
I've looked at 3 different Borders for the November issue of B&W Mag & I can't find it. I was able to get the October one. Any suggestions?
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Capitol is a small venue in the city; beside concerts there are also plays, comedy and musicals on stage.
This blog post is going to be a bit different compared to my normal concert reviews. I simply cannot review this concert objectively, because in some small way, I was involved in it. However, the experience gives me the opportunity to give you an idea what goes on behind the scenes of a concert. Yes, it may vary depending on size, artist and personal preferences, but the basic concept remains the same.
If you go and see a concert, you’ll usually buy the ticket some time in advance, calculate the travel time, think about what you might wear and when to get to the location depending on where you want to stand or if you have reserved seats. You get in, wait for about thirty minutes to an hour until the support act starts and then you are entertained for the rest of the night.
For anyone involved in planning the whole thing, it’s a bit of a different story.
It starts with two questions “why you want do the concert” and “what your concept is”. If it’s a release party or a tour following a new album, it’ll be pretty straight forward. The advertisement for the album is most likely already out, so you follow the same concept and plan the show.
While as part of the audience you think about your own outfit and that’s it, it’s a bit different for the people involved in the production. Clothes are the least of your problem, you need a stage design. Depending on the stage design and your songs, you need lights. When referring to lights it doesn’t mean “on and off”, it means a different setting for each and every song. You might need videos as well; they need to be designed in advance. Props for the stage that comply with the fire safety regulations is also something that needs to be considered.
Depending on those factors you need the actual lights, spots and video projectors. All that means that the technicians and the creative department need to work together right from the get go, especially if you do it all on your own, without a huge company behind you, which organises everything.
When you have the concept and the lights figured out, you need the sound technicians and their ideas. These days nearly everyone plays with in-ear headphones, which means that the singers and musicians have customised earbuds; these not only block all noises from the crowd and the stage, but also allow each and every one of them to have their own mix. Usually they hear their own voice/instrument pretty loudly and the rest is mixed according to their own preferences. Some might not need the horn section, others want the bass very loud and so on. The more people on stage, the more complicated it might get.
If you watch an artist on stage tapping his ear, it’ll usually mean there is something wrong with his monitoring sound, meaning it could be too loud, too quiet, wrong mix, whatever. The person responsible for the monitoring sound is the person you will not see, if you are in the audience, because their place is right beside the stage. Eye contact between this technician and the artists can be crucial.
The person mixing the sound you hear (front of house) at the concert is the one sitting smack in the middle of the room, together with the video and light technicians.
These (at least 3) technicians are the first people at the venue together with their help and the company who delivers in the speakers and lights or sets up the stage.
For this concert they started at nine in the morning to set up the sound, the lights, the video cameras and the decorations. Countless meters of cable and wires were being laid, tons of equipment hung up, wireless connections installed, light bulbs exchanged and the lines checked once they are done.
Once the technicians are done, the musicians (or their help) can set up the instruments. If you play the horn there is not much to do, but it’s a different story for the guitarist, the piano player or the drummer. The drummer is usually the poor guy who needs the most time, because he not only needs to set up his drum set, but he might also have a rug that goes underneath, maybe a wall that needs to be set up in front of him and then the whole set needs to be tuned. Yes, you can tune a drum set.
While others work, block the stage with their equipment or trouble shoot, you wait. And wait.
Meanwhile the organiser of the evening (usually the tour manager – if there is one) takes care of questions at the venue. Is anything else needed? Is the catering ok? What about the guest list? What about the press, security and so on. Water is missing. Where are the towels for later? And then, again, you wait.
Soundcheck took a looooong time for several reasons; with a band as large as Zio and Royal Collective there’s just always something not working or someone off stage who should be on stage.
After the soundcheck there was dinner. Catering for all involved before the band left- well, most of them, while the rest of the team stayed, changed, did last minute changes and set up the last details for the get in.
Before the band could leave we had to be sure that they could get back in and get backstage, which means they need special passes or bracelets.
Depending on how many different groups of people you have, you hand out different passes/tickets. AA(A) are the all access passes – meaning you can go anywhere. The real AA passes only get handed out to the band and the team, no matter what they advertise. Real backstage passes are not sold to fans.
Little bit of advice: Even if you have the AA pass: Please stay out of the artists room/area, if you are not 100% needed there. It’s a matter of respect. Some of them have their own rituals, others need to concentrate. If you just waltz in there or bother them with stuff and chatter that can wait will distract them… Imagine a situation when you were very nervous, like and exam or your driving test, and then imagine people babbling away, interrupting you, while you are trying to concentrate or focus. Not really nice, right?
Beside the AA passes, there might be passes for the press, VIP with catering, meet and greet… the list is endless and depends on how creative you get. Sometimes they include different entrance and entrance times. Other times they might just be to access different parts of the venue.
We basically had three: AA for the band and team/crew. Those for the people with seats on the gallery and the normal tickets. It was a small concert so no need for too much fuss.
We managed to open seven on the dot, which had been questionable when the soundcheck took forever. Thanks to the thorough prep of everyone, opening went without a hitch and when the support band Cris Cosmo went on stage, everything was ready. He played for forty minutes. Then came the twenty-minute change over.
What does that mean? It basically means that the support act has to get their stuff off stage and everything needs to get ready for the main artists. At some concerts you can see some technicians walking on the stage (most likely you can only see their flashlights) while they plug in cables and get everything ready. That is also the reason why there is always a small break between the support act and the main act. If the break is too long (longer than 20-30 mins), most likely there’ll be something wrong. Either the band isn’t ready or something isn’t working on stage. Don’t whistle, don’t scream, it won’t change a thing; they are all doing their best.
While the audience can’t see the sound technician who does the monitoring sound, they can see the FoH technician, the video and light guys, photographers. Personally, if I am at a concert as a guest, I Iike standing close to the FoH, because the sound there is usually really good and you can’t get squished from more than one side. Also, you can tell what is going on on-stage by the reactions of the technicians. If they start getting frantic and pressing button after button you know something is wrong, even if you can’t see or hear it (yet). Sometimes you can see the setlist on their screens. You might even see, if they have Co2 shooters prepared or if some kind of confetti explosion will rain down on you. Also, if you want to know if there is time left for you to get a drink before the show starts; watch the FoH. As long as the techs are playing with their cellphones and don’t have their in-ear system in: Get your drink, it’s still gonna take a minute.
Just, promise me, do not do that one thing: do not offer them advice. What might be too beat heavy for you, might be what the artist wants. What you think is too little piano in the mix might have a technical reason. You wouldn’t want someone to tell you how to do your job, when they have no idea what they are talking about. Your opinion is your opinion and that is fine, but in this case: keep it to yourself, because if you asked all the people at the venue for their opinions of the sound, you would get as many opinions as people. And while you might have worked as a DJ in your free time, keep in mind that those are professionals who are hired for a reason. Be respectful. And let them concentrate.
The show was over shortly before eleven and while the audience likes to stay inside the venue and chat, in this case as in many others, it wasn’t possible.
The second the last song of the night is over and the band goes off stage, the work still continues. You might have heard of parties and rock’n’roll and sometimes that is possible, but it would be way later. Directly after the show everything that was set up, needs to be taken down and packed up; stage, decorations, mixers, cameras, speakers, lights… all comes down the second the audience leaves. The artists might chat, get something to eat again or simply pack up their stuff. They might hop onto the tour bus to leave or grab a ride to the airport. Meanwhile the trucks and transporters that take away the equipment come in.
I left at 1.30 am, once most of the smaller stuff was taken down and I couldn’t help anymore. Technicians and some members of the band stayed longer. There you have it, your 14-hour work day. And we didn’t have to hop on a tour bus or catch a plane.
We had fun though and I am glad for the experience. It was a nice change from my usual work routine and I am looking forward to doing it again. I am not one for the limelight, but I love to work in the background. I love it when a plan works, I love live music, and I love concerts.
Absolutely. The band members are just really nice and easy to work with. I had a great time. Thanks to everyone involved!


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I founded Colin’s Classic Automobiles to offer the quality of collector cars and service that I found to be sorely lacking in this world of fly-by-night operators and self-proclaimed “experts.” While first and foremost I am a car collector, I also sell a very small number of the best, premium quality cars to discerning buyers- most coming from my personal collection when I run out of room or decide to change up the roster a bit.
Since I am literally immersed in the collector car market on a daily basis, let me share some thoughts with collector car shopping: Chances are, because of the small number of cars I sell, you won’t end up buying a car from me. So my advice is to be diligent. Educate yourself on the particular make and model you seek. Attend any number of the excellent collector car seminars that are held at most major auction events. Do your research. Investigate. Align yourself with a trusted expert. This isn’t pocket change, a good car represents a major investment so find the best and buy it. As time goes on you’ll be happy you did. Having a car you truly enjoy owning is money well spent, and the market has proven time and time again that the best cars are always in demand should you ever decide to sell.
Browse my current listings on my inventory page. As mentioned, I could be the lowest volume collector car dealer on the planet, so it won’t take long to see what I have up for grabs- if anything. If you don’t see what you want listed please email me. Some cars just don’t make it to the website before being sold.

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text: Overlooking #3 green & #4 tee box of the Moss Creek South Course, this classic Moss Creek Home with pool/spa and golf views has been completely transformed. This beautiful home has hardwood flooring, gourmet kitchen, open floor plan, office, Dining Room, Living Room, Carolina Rook, 1st floor Master Suite, 2 fireplaces and 2 guest bedrooms share a bath. Everything is NEW and being sold furnished. A great value where you can enjoy 2 golf courses, 7 tennis courts, wet and dry boat storage, two nature preserves, a beautiful Clubhouse, the Bostwick Point Complex, a dog park, a Fitness & Pool Complex, and miles of leisure trails.


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The Colleen and Erin Marlatt Scholarship Fund hosts two annual fundraisers and we invite you to join us!
These events are fun-filled occasions for family, friends, and new acquaintances to spend time together and celebrate the lives of Colleen and Erin, while raising funds for the scholarship in their memory.
Proceeds from the Marlatt Scholarship Fund events go directly to supporting the mission of our foundation: recognizing the significant contributions of teachers and administrators in Catholic Schools by supporting the education of their dependent children.
Please consider being with us as a golfer or support the effort by participating as a sponsor. If you are unable to be with us, please know that you will be missed and we ask that you consider a prayer for the success of the event and for that of our scholars.
The Colleen and Erin Marlatt Scholarship Fund, Inc.
Howard County Biketoberfest Cross is held on the grounds of the Howard County Living Farm Heritage Museum, this is an active farm as well as museum. The course runs over tar and chip road, grass sections, skirts planted fields and flows through the woods. Most of the course is contained within a unique natural bowl-shaped amphitheater which provides a unprecedented spectator experience.
Your fans can watch the action from the Oktberfest Biergarten or any of the elevated vantage points, ringing the cowbell with one hand and toasting a beer with the other. Regardless of weather, the course is challenging. This is no “grass crit,” but instead a homage to rural roots of cyclocross with lots of vertical change over technical terrain.
For more race information and questions, please email: marlattmp@gmail.com.
Visit the HoCo Biketoberfest website.
The race begins at Centennial Lake and includes a 0.62mi swim, 16mi bike, 3.4mi run. Over 2,000 women compete. For more information on the 2018 race check out the Iron Girl website.


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First he killed his friends!
Producing bootleg alcohol that killed 16 people, Hikmet B. told in his statement that he had Vasıf Kayman, Suat Kırla and Gürcan Özcan tested bootleg alcohol.
Kayman and Kırla died, Özcan is in intensive care unit. Hikmet B. said the did not taste it because he was ill. B. said, “When I called Gürcan, his wife answered. She said, ‘Gürcan is in intensive care unit because of you, damn you!’”.


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Gurunam Singh LIVE on Tour! Don't miss your chance to book Gurunam as he travels world-wide on tour for the release of his new CD! Email Vyda at Vyda@independentyogi.com for more information.
When Gurunam Singh graduated high school he was given a guitar and began composing simple songs. At 22 he found Yogi Bhajan and Sikh Dharma. He sang and played along with others and over time began leading chants in the early morning hours, before the rising of the sun. He spent lots of time in the solitude of his own home, and in the Sikh temple late at night, chanting to God and writing devotional songs. Gurunam's influences range from gospel, folk and country to classical Indian raag and traditional Sikh hymns to many of the current artists who sing devotional Hindu chants. He occasionally studied with some great ragi's such as Bhai Avtar Singh, from India, and Dya Singh from Australia. But his music is very simple. Anyone can chant along.
I have downloaded many of his songs/mantras. So much talent and connection.
Gurunam's divine voice connects listeners to Infinity!
I am so appreciative of your music and I thank you for the beautiful energy that stays with me and fills my soul... I read recently on our last Sadhana 40 days of gratitude that someone said "Ang Sang Wahe Guru" has become the fabric of her life, because we were chanting it with Mereba Ceiba... and I loved that and Snatam Kaur's version on Ramdesh's Meditation Cd...but the song that lives and breathes in me day and night is Silent Moonlight Meditation...I have become completely "in ecstasy" with the divine through chanting this song with you... now I have several of my friends being introduced to kundalini yoga mantra meditation and this is the song that everyone wants to sing with me! Thank you! More voices are so beautiful... Thank you also for the free download of Union... so pure and vulnerable and honest and human... I love it!
I especially loved Union! His voice and words pierce deep in my heart. I thank God for your gift that you share.
Gurunam has a powerful deliberate voice that penetrates the soul and makes me wonder, what IS infinity?
Gurunam's powerful voice makes me feel the power within me too.
amazing penetrating voice and so calming.
love his voice! and music the beat and the rhythm is just right!
I love the song, "Unto Thee"
I too love all Gurunam Singh's CD's. Perfect grounded voice for Kundalini classes!
Gurunam Singh voz ao coração sempre comigo mais de um ano que o conheço.Grata com sua sensibilidade.
Beautiful!! Such a peaceful, clear, distinct voice...heavenly sound. Thank you for the 2 minutes of free listening and for sending me to God with your sounds.
Beautiful voice makes one want to stay in the spiritual space his voice creates.
Gurunam Singh is my absolute favorite artist. His voice and music touch me like no other artist.
I am new to Gurnam Singh, but everything I have heard is incredible! His voice is powerful. The music is contemporary and the mantras are incredible.
Really enjoying "Change." Just downloaded it this past week and have been listening to it whenever I can. Its wonderful. Thanks! Sat Nam.
Soulful to the Galactic Center and Beyond! Thank you dearly for your contribution Gurunam Singh!!
Full of wisdom, Love and listening to him is healing for my whole being!
Beautiful voice and calming music!
What a rich, lovely, deep, beautiful male voice Gurunam has been gifted with. Great new album...so love the Change song...brilliant lyrics!!
Amazing! I took my twelve year old daughter to the Kirtan in Southfield, Michigan. What an amazing experience. When we left my daughter look at me and said, "Mom, I feel so much lighter, like, I was able to let go." How cool is that... truly a blessing... Much graditude to you all of you. Your cd's will definitely be played in my home.
Just came back from a Kirtan in Madison, WI. He was amazing. The venue was small, the setting was intimate and the chanting was powerful. Much gratitude. Sat Nam.
E' il mio preferito! La sua voce è 'semplicemente' divina!
Wonderful enchanting and calming voice! Thank-you!
Totally awesome! Love all he does. Am grateful to have met him and spent some time with him.
Gurunam is an amazing kundalini mantra singer, his vibration is so subtle that he has really touched my heart since I started practicing and meditating with his music.. thank you for sharing such beautiful dharma with us Gurunam.
Outstanding performance at Sat Nam Fest in September 2011. All 400 of us were up and dancing. Thank you for the wonderful music and your incredible energy.
I´m going to be Bhakta!.. Thanks Yogui bhajan and Amrit Ananda Singh.
I have enjoyed this most every morning for the last 77 days since I first purchased it. Wonderful soul, excellent work on his other CD's as well. Yoga class was inspired by Kirtan chanting to Aad Guray. Can't wait for a recording of the morning prayer.
??? ? ??? ? ??????? ??? ??? ????? ? sabad guroo parkaasi-o har rasan basaa-ya-o. The Word of the Guru's Shabad has been revealed, and the Lord dwells on His tongue. ??? ???? ???? ??? ???? ??? ?? ? ???? ? gur naanak angad amar laag utam pad paa-ya-o. Attached to Guru Nanak, Guru Angad and Guru Amar Daas, He attained the supreme status. ??? ? ?????? ??? ??? ?????? ??? ???? ??? ??? gur arjun ghar gur raamdaas bhagat utar aa-ya-o. ||1|| In the House of Guru Raam Daas, the devotee of the Lord, Guru Arjun was born. ||1|| ?????? ???????? ???? ??? ? ????? ? badbhaagee unmaani-a-o rid sabad basaa-ya-o. By great good fortune, the mind is uplifted and exalted, and the Word of the Shabad dwells in the heart. ??? ????? ???????? ???? ???? ?????????? ? man maanak santhokhi-a-o gur naam darirhaaH-ya-o. The jewel of the mind is contented; the Guru has implanted the Naam, the Name of the Lord, within. ???? ????? ? ????????? ??????? ?????? ? agam agochar paarbarahm satgur darsaa-ya-o. The Inaccessible and Unfathomable, Supreme Lord God is revealed through the True Guru.
There are some guitar licks on Gobinday Mukunday that remind me of the Grateful Dead's song The Wheel. One interpretation of the meaning of the original poem sounds very much like the meaning that I get out of The Wheel.
First male singer I really like in this tradition. Thank you!
I am in love with his ‘Silent Moonlight Meditation’ album.
His voice and his love reches my heart.
A great version in honor of Guru Ram Das! We are celebrating his birthday tomorrow! Very soothing version.
He personafies the sound of spirituality - I adore him!
Is there any chance of a live CD by Gurunam?? That really would be something.
I really enjoy Gurunam Singh's chants and music and would like to experience his depth in person at Spirit Fest.
I just love The Journey !!!
I've been waiting for the second CD impatiently. From the samples here on the website I can see it will be one of my favorites!
I was real impressed with the Journey Home. I have a number of Yoga mixes I practise to and I've added Gurunam's songs to the 'inspirational' part of these. Also was equally impressed with the overall production. Spirit Vovage, your musical skills are tops!
Gurunam is on his way back from India to record his next album. Keep an eye out for it June 2010. We just bought a recorder for him to record sounds of Punjab that will be interspersed through the album. Album will be produced by Hans Christian.


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If you had a record reflect/represent a chapter in your life (past, present, future) what would it look like? What would it sound like?
Music is a powerful medium – a living and breathing art form that accompanies us throughout our lives. In this playful workshop, participants will first create a collage representing a chapter in their life “album” – and from these covers we’ll randomly select and write songs inspired by the stories that emerge. Simple, complex, metaphorical, literal, whimsical, comical – the unique group of participants will shape the content and flow.
Please note, no musical experience or equipment is necessary, only a desire to participate and enjoy exploring these mediums.
Krista Muir is a composer, performer, producer and multi-disciplinary artist whose music has taken her around the world.


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Your overall digital marketing spend is cut short of its worth due to Ad fraud. Many advertisers are still unaware how big the problem is and they wrongly think that their business won’t get affected by Ad fraud. Whether you are advertising on Google or Facebook, you are definitely prone to losing money from Ad fraud if you fail to take proper steps.
The fight against ad fraud is growing day by day. As per an estimate provided by Juniper Research, advertisers are set to lose around $51 million per day on ad fraud in 2018, totalling a whopping $13.6 billion over the year. Let’s understand what is Ad fraud and how to keep safe from it.
Ad fraud is a scam through which advertisers lose a huge sum of their money to fake clicks, fake traffic and fake leads.
Impression Fraud – It is a type of scam where ad impressions are counted without the ad being actually seen by real people.
Click Fraud – In this scam, bots or humans repeatedly click on ads without no intention to purchase. Click fraud is done to generate revenue for the host website.
Pixel Stuffing – This type of ad fraud happens when an ad is stuffed in a single pixel meaning they remain hidden from the eyes of the people. It is a type of impression fraud.
Ad Stacking – In this practice, lots of ads are stacked within a limited ad placement. It is a type of impression fraud.
Ad Injection – This type of ad fraud happens when fraudsters inject ads into a website without their permission.
Domain Spoofing – In this scam, low profile websites are being represented as premium ones leading to loss of advertiser’s money.
Whenever you run ad campaigns, your ads (both text and display) are featured on the search engines and other websites. The list of search engines and websites are endless depending on your targeted niche. You need to be extremely careful regarding where your ad gets displayed because a majority of websites on the web are useless with no human traffic and they might quickly take up all of your ad spend in minutes.
A better solution is to create IP blacklist of websites where you do not want your ad to show up and an IP whitelist of websites where you want your ad to show up. This will ensure that your ad gets displayed on the right properties on the web thereby giving you the highest chances of generating quality leads from your campaigns.
Sign in to your Adwords account and click on the Settings tab under Campaign.
Click the Campaign for which you would like to exclude the IP addresses.
Move to the advanced settings and click on the IP exclusions link.
Click Edit next to IP Exclusions.
Enter the list of IP addresses you want to exclude and click Save. Remember, you can exclude upto 500 IP addresses per campaign.
Moreover, you can take the help of your hosting provider to create a list of trusted IP addresses or IP ranges from which your users can access your domains. This will make sure your domain is not accessed by bots thereby saving you from Ad fraud.
It keeps a track of every click on your ad campaigns and provides a score to every click based on dozens of parameters that helps to filter invalid clicks.
Based on the click score data, fraudulent IPs are automatically excluded from your Adwords campaign.
It helps to quarantine most of the fraudulent and dangerous IPs. There is no upper limit.
It detects competitors clicks, bot clicks, click farms, accidental clicks and brand haters. Hence it helps to keep your campaigns totally safe from any fraudulent activities.
You can set custom rules to block IPs tailored to your business.
Move to the “Advanced settings” section and click on Ad delivery: Ad rotation, frequency capping.
Click on “Frequency Capping” and enter the number of impressions you wish to run for your ad.
Take the help of your demand side platform to fetch pre-bid contextual data segments that automatically avoids the Ad fraud altogether. Some demand side platforms like ComScore and Ad Science offers pre-bid segments with specific levels of invalid traffic. Based on the available tiers you can select your own inventory ensuring that your campaigns gets seen by humans instead of bots.
Digital advertising can be a big success only if you take proper steps to eliminate Ad fraud from your campaigns. It is necessary to keep a track of your digital advertising spend especially on video campaigns. Following the above steps will definitely help you to get rid of fraudulent activities and make sure that your campaigns deliver the highest ROI.