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For a short time this summer, Florida State was the rumored target of a Southeastern Conference raid on the Atlantic Coast Conference, in the protracted and sometimes absurd realignment that still is reshaping college football's landscape. Ben Haumiller, a proud Seminole alumnus, knew that change was unlikely in the real world. Florida State burned a bridge when it chose the ACC over the SEC in 1992. But on his Xbox 360, FSU was already lacing up in the nation's premier league.
"I'm not gonna lie, when people were whispering that Florida State was going to the SEC, you're damn right I started an NCAA 12 dynasty with Florida State in the SEC," said Haumiller, taking advantage of a conference realignment feature incorporated in this year's game. "And oh God, here I am at Alabama, and Georgia, and at Neyland Stadium hearing 'Rocky Top.' I had a blast doing that."
When he goes into work, however, the variables and fantasy scenarios are not all fun and games. Haumiller, the producer of EA Sports' NCAA Football series, is also riding the crest of a wave of change, along with athletics directors, television executives and, yes, fans, coaches and players.
Whether a conference swells to 22 or even 14, as the SEC will next year, the uncertainty in eight major conference memberships has Haumiller's development team building several contingency plans, and facing a nightmare scenario in which the game released in July 2012 doesn't reflect the reality coming in August.
"We're going to go as late as we can possibly go to be correct," Haumiller said, acknowledging that uncertainties in the departures of Pitt, Syracuse, and West Virginia from the Big East could be resolved after the game enters its alpha state around April or May. So could the desperate, circle-the-wagons alliance of a proposed Mountain West-Conference USA merger, creating a 22-team megaleague to protect the midweek broadcast viability of college football's have-nots.
Anyone who has ever built a custom schedule in NCAA Football, especially with an independent team, knows why Haumiller is so concerned. The game's scheduling into future simulated seasons requires a deeply complicated logic, much more than simply following the currently announced schedule of a professional league and its predictable rotation of interdivisional matchups. This schedule touches multiple modes of the game also, from the standard Dynasty, to the Online Dynasty, to its Road to Glory singleplayer.
There are 120 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision ("major" college football) this year, and another three come aboard next year. Creating a realistic national schedule that doesn't send Florida Atlantic to Wyoming for no good reason is tough enough. In divining how 12 and 14-team superconferences, which can't play a full round robin among all their league's members, will protect certain annual rivalries and plot future matchups, a Ouija board is as accurate as any current information.
"A 22-team conference is something we've never had to deal with before," said Haumiller. "It would break our code," as currently written, he said.
The current version of NCAA Football, allows users to manipulate the memberships of all existing conferences, expanding or reducing them to 16 or 6 members, if they wish. Automatic major bowl bids and other scheduling parameters also are incorporated. It was a direct response to last year's conference realignment upheaval, which saw two Big 12 teams defect, nearly unraveling the entire league (which remains in a precarious position today).
Haumiller and company had been planning for everything from unbalanced SEC divisions of eight and six teams, to Auburn shifting to the SEC East.
Yet even that farsighted development isn't enough to get NCAA Football 13 ahead of the news. EA Sports Tiburon still has to be ready to respond at a moment's notice to the latest oddball rumor of a school switching leagues. The SEC just announced that Missouri will be placed in its Eastern division (despite being one of four teams west of the Mississippi). Haumiller and company had been planning for everything from unbalanced divisions of eight and six teams, to Auburn shifting to the SEC East, and trying to predict what that would mean for the Tigers' schedule with rivals Alabama and LSU, and then Georgia as an every-year divisional foe affecting other games.
Haumiller said his team is building code for NCAA 13 that tries to accommodate scheduling in a 22-team, user-created league—even one jampacked full of traditional rivals like Alabama, Tennessee, Ohio State, Michigan, Cal and Stanford, who stage their matchups on specific dates in the season. But this logic may not make it into the final game. They'll work as long and as far as they can until either real-world events sort themselves out, or the NCAA Football developers have to make a choice between keeping that code and maybe implementing another feature.
Haumiller said he would prefer for a 22-team scheduling engine to remain in the game, because one of the game's greatest strengths is how users can rearrange conferences between seasons. In essence, if EA Sports gets to a point where it's stamping discs with conference memberships still unresolved, ideally it could still put out a game where users can correct that themselves after spending five minutes in a menu.
"If it takes a little amount of work, and removing it would not leave much room for a new feature," it'll probably stay, Haumiller said. "But if it would be a large task to implement, and there's no certainty it will happen (in real life), I could see us making a decision to say, no, this other thing is what we want to get into the game. Do I want to get that in there? Yes. But the reality is we only have a limited amount of time and space."
One thing the NCAA Football team will not do is implement conference changes in future years, within the game's Dynasty mode. For example, Syracuse and Pitt are technically bound by a 27-month notice that would keep them in the Big East until 2014. Few expect that to hold up; either the universities will buy or sue their way out of the requirement or the Big East will waive it. West Virginia's departure for the Big 12 is similarly clouded.
The game won't assume future moves in its Dynasty mode. TCU quit the Big East before playing a down in it.
Haumiller said conference makeups in the game's Dynasty mode simply can't incorporate conference membership makeups other than those in the current year of release. Had its Dynasty tried to implement changes planned for the future seasons, then in the second year of your NCAA 12 dynasty TCU would have switched to the Big East, as was planned at the time of the game's release. Yet a month ago, the Horned Frogs suddenly announced they were joining the Big 12, before playing a single down in their new conference.
NCAA Football 12's deep realignment capabilities, introduced this year, are remarkable in what they allow a gamer to do to a licensing body that's usually conservative and keenly observant of traditions. The user could create a college football landscape that straight-up parodies the cynical cash-grab going on. You can reconfigure the widely despised BCS automatic berth structure and rename the divisions of existing 12-team leagues, which would seem to be a swipe at the roundly jeered "Leaders" and "Legends" divisional names of the Big Ten.
Haumiller didn't know if a Big Ten representative was in the room when EA Sports presented its game, with the divisional renaming feature, to its licensing partners this year. But the project team has earned the trust of the NCAA, the conferences, and the Collegiate Licensing Company by being responsive to its requests in the past. Divisional renaming was pitched, and approved, as a means of giving users control over modifying conferences and not being stuck with generic "Division A and B" naming.
If a user creates a conference with Oregon and Texas as members, NCAA Football must still preserve those teams' rivalry games on the schedule. Building that code takes a ton of work.
But even with some leagues' existences in doubt—the Big East, notably, and whatever becomes of the Mountain West and Conference USA—Haumiller can't foresee ever giving users the ability to rename, delete, or change the symbology of existing conferences. Such a feature could diminish or insult a critical licensing partner. Nor would EA Sports Tiburon write code that allows the game to remake its conference alignment by itself between seasons. Allowing users to modify reality is within bounds, Haumiller said, because it's a user imposing his own personal statement upon a product he purchased. AI-driven realignments aren't going to happen, because then it appears to be EA Sports speaking for the NCAA.
Major sports video games have had to react, quickly, to real-world developments all year long. A lockout in the NFL, though it ended before the season began, greatly influenced Madden NFL 12's choice of features and emphasis this year. The ongoing lockout in the NBA has pinched NBA 2K12's "NBA Today" feature and required 2K Sports to develop contingency plans to reintroduce it, as well as rookies who couldn't be used in the game because of the work stoppage.
Yet even in light of the drastic consequences of a total work stoppage, it's hard to consider a development team facing more last-minute uncertainty than NCAA Football's, and its product ships in nine months.
"Every time Joe Schad at ESPN reports this team is moving to this conference, this really means we've got more work to do," Haumiller said. "It's not just the part of your brain that goes, as a college football fan, hey, that's interesting. You're also thinking, alright, gotta write that down and get started on it as soon as possible."
A self-proclaimed traditionalist, and a bowl-system defender, Haumiller seems to enjoy the challenge of assuring that dozens of rivalries, and their carved-in-stone meeting dates, remain intact through the millions of simulated seasons his game serves up each year. It's also a chest-puffing point of pride he and his colleagues can lord over their Madden counterparts, who work in the same office.
"Yeah, I don't want to hear anybody from that side of the building bitching about their schedule changes," Haumiller laughed. "They've got 32 teams and set conferences. Get outta here. That's nothin'."


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Columbia University’s Journalism Review blog spews invective without addressing the substance of Dinesh D’Sousa’s cover article in Forbes Magazine. The Columbia staff writer assumes, it appears, that anyone questioning Obama’s political mindset is ipso facto a racist or an idiot whose views can be dismissed out of hand.
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan in her August 27, 2010, column (We Just Don’t Understand: Americans look at the president and see a stranger) expressed the growing puzzlement of a majority of voters about the wide gulf between the expectations evoked during the 2008 presidential campaign and the policies and actions of President Obama in office.
Continued decline of the president’s voter approval ratings in all opinion polls can’t be refuted simply by imputing racism or ignorance to his critics. Mr. Obama in office is not the man liberal-progressives or independents thought him to be.
To account for the perceptual gulf, Dinesh D’Sousa’s cover article for Forbes Magazine makes a detailed case that President Obama’s deepest political convictions arise, not from the traditional ethos described as the American dream, but from the African-socialist anti-colonialism espoused by the president’s father.
Durrie Monsma alerted me to a critique of Mr. D’Sousa’s article that appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, written by Ryan Chittum, deputy editor of the Review’s business section. See this and this.

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: : I am currently in the process of getting addresses for the reunion to be held in 2005. I will be sending out a mailer, but plan on Sat. July 2nd @ Kingman Country Club. If anyone has any info on the following classmates, please send it my way: Julie Fisher Kruegar, John Salisbury, Richard Self, Brian Stucky, Carla Unruh, Greg VanMeter, Vicki Witt Elliott, Rich Adams. Thanks!!!!!A planning meeting will be at my house, 505 West E Ave., Kingman, on Fri. Aug 13th, at 7:00 p.m.
: : : I am currently in the process of getting addresses for the reunion to be held in 2005. I will be sending out a mailer, but plan on Sat. July 2nd @ Kingman Country Club. If anyone has any info on the following classmates, please send it my way: Julie Fisher Kruegar, John Salisbury, Richard Self, Brian Stucky, Carla Unruh, Greg VanMeter, Vicki Witt Elliott, Rich Adams. Thanks!!!!!A planning meeting will be at my house, 505 West E Ave., Kingman, on Fri. Aug 13th, at 7:00 p.m.

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text: New Zealanders do things that create ripple effects. New Zealand Legends are a broad group of 100+ innovators who have shown grit, guts and genius to achieve their goals and create their visions. The context of this selection was a request to define New Zealand “design” in a creative way. This is an electric, cheer-inspiring grouping. The selection is oriented towards “world-changing”, however there are several examples of “home-changing” that are equally inflective. Everyone here has an aesthetic and spirit that helps define New Zealand exceptionalism. Note: several links are to nzedge.com-commissioned biographies published 2000-2013; others link to the person’s website, Wikipedia or a top-ranking Google page. The selection of New Zealand Legends can be added to, please send us your nominations for review.


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Driving distance between Calais, VT and Hoschton, GA is 1,140.29 miles (or 1,835.12 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.
Leaving from Calais, VT you would reach Hoschton, GA in about 18 hours 28 mins if you keep an average speed of miles per hour, assuming you don’t make any breaks or get stuck in traffic.
This is a map overview of the best driving route from Calais, VT to Hoschton, GA in which you can see the origin and destination points marked with A (Calais) and B (Hoschton) respectively as well as blue line along the road route you can take. You can zoom in to see more details, including road numbers and even street names both in Calais, VT and Hoschton, GA as well as every other town you may pass by on your way.
To cover the 1,140.29 mi that separate Hoschton from Calais you are going to need between of fuel, considering you drive an average car (30 mpg) and , if you drive an SUV or a heavy car (20 mpg). If you drive a fuel efficient car (45 mpg), your consumption will only be .
Depending on the fuel efficiency level of your car, driving from Calais to Hoschton will cost you between and . An average car would make the trip for . We calculate the route cost using real time average gas prices for the US and other costs such as tolls are not included in this calculation.
To help you plan your trip from Calais to Hoschton, we offer a detailed map together with full, turn by turn, driving directions from Calais, VT to Hoschton, GA.
The flying distance represent the straight distance from Calais to Hoschton, the length of an hypothetical flight trip between the geographic center of Calais, VT and the geographic center of Hoschton, GA. We also offer nearby airports to both Calais to Hoschton and a flight ticket price comparison form, in case you want to make that hypothetical flight real :).


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Revd. Canon Leonard Doolan, Senior Chaplain, Greece.
The three readings set for our liturgy today have a common theme, namely the abundance of God. God is the great and generous provider, offering to humanity more than we could ever ask or deserve.
A hymn so wonderfully says, Finest bread I will provide, till their hearts are satisfied.
God is indeed a God of bounty and of endless generosity.
What of our dear friend Sue who has been in hospital since losing her home, her car, and her dear dog. Some will want to ask, where is the God of bounty and endless generosity? So many deaths, so much destruction and grief during the early days of this last week.
Sometimes I sit and pray, sometimes I just sit.
The reading from Ephesians speaks of the riches of God’s glory. St. Paul presents us with a wonderful vision of the abundant accomplishment that God can do in and through us, as we seek to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge. To God indeed be the glory.
However, what of Mr. Japatia, lying in Evangelismos hospital, with every generation of his family from grand-child through to mother-in –law, affected by flame and smoke. The eldest member of the family may not survive her injuries. Some people may well ask where is the God of bounty and endless generosity after the devastation of this week?
Sometimes I sit and pray. Sometimes I just sit.
St. John’s gospel – a classic miracle illustrating through the feeding of thousands of people that God in Christ is able to sustain and nourish humanity without number. All can be fed in Christ. There is more than enough Christ for all of us and more. This is a Christ who not only feeds and satisfies us, even the wind and the rain, the storm and the tempest are at his command. Some will be saying to themselves, if he can command the storm to cease, where was he is Eastern Attica?
What of the mother of the Irish citizen, Brian, married only one week and on his honeymoon. His new wife is still lying in a hospital here in Athens. His mother came into this church to pray. Her first son died 22 years ago in a motorbike accident, her second son died in a fire in a beautiful part of Greece where he was to have perhaps one of the most wonderful weeks of his life. She has buried 2 husbands and now two sons.
The three wonderful and dramatic readings represent to us what God is like, who God is, what God does for us. But they sit in stark contrast to what the reality has been for so many families in Greece and beyond during this fateful week. Our hearts go out to all.
The challenge that we are faced with is how we balance out the God we really want to know about, and deep down really want to believe in, and our sheer exasperation in trying to figure out where this last week, and for that matter, any tragedy, leaves our vision of a God of glory, of awe, of love. In our attempts to do so, many find the dilemma too challenging, and for perfectly understandable reasons feel they have to part company with God, because they are left feeling that God has parted company with us.
Some will look to priests and pastors to try and explain the conundrum. So I will do so to the best of my ability. (Pause) Sometimes I sit and pray. Sometimes I just sit.
However, before I leave it there, so unsatisfactorily answered, there are just a few things I would wish to draw out. When I visited Sue in hospital someone said, in naturally normal language, that Sue had been very lucky. I had seen Sue earlier in the week in Evangelismos hospital, so I could safely say in reply that I did not think it was luck. Sue says that she knew she was not trying to survive alone and unaided.
Mr. Japatia, a brave man who ran along the corridors of the hotel waking everyone up and urging them to make a run for it before the flames engulfed the hotel, and who has paid the price of his bravery with badly burned legs, was immediate in saying that he had found this extra energy by the power of God and that it was in God that he found his survival. We acknowledged that he from an Asian faith, and me as a Christian, there is only one God.
So in this very baffling week, I would want to urge everyone not to be too hard on themselves by trying to make sense of everything. You can sit and pray if you wish, but you can just sit. When we do this we might find that God has not gone, but like Sue, Mr. Japatia, Mrs. O’Callaghan-Westropp, we might just faintly hear those words of Jesus in the midst of the storm. ‘It is I. Do not be afraid.’ (John 6, 20).


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Teachers can move students between two of their classes from the Manage Classes > Manage Students page. Click Edit for the student and change their class in the drop-down menu for their class. Then click Save.
Note: Assignments will not move with students between classes, even if the same assignment exists in the new class.
If a student who was imported with Clever switches classes, you can wait for CommonLit to automatically sync the Clever section within 48 hours.
If a student who was imported with Google Classroom switches classes, you can press the green refresh icon for his new GC class on the Manage Classes page to add him to the new class and connect him with Clever. You will need to manually delete him from his old class's Manage Students page.
My students have an account already from last year with their school email. How do I get them to sign up for my class this year?
I want to reuse my classes and assignments from last year. Can I delete my old students and add new ones to the class?

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It’s a hot, sticky day and you emerge at home from your nicely air-conditioned car. The A/C at home has been on low efficiency – or turned off entirely – while you were at work. It will take a while to move the temperature down to a tolerable level, so in the meantime, you seek out the coolest room in your home. Wouldn’t this be good time for Ata Group (Ata Electric) ceiling fan?
Ceiling fans not only provide that delightful breeze – drying your skin and cooling it at the same time – but they can also save you money. By keeping air circulating around your home, you move the cold air around and the air movement actually helps human bodies stay cooler. In winter, this effect is called the “wind chill,” and the same theory is at work during the summer – but it’s a lot more pleasant. Because of wind chill, homeowners can lower their energy costs by setting a higher A/C temperature – without loss of comfort.
Today’s ceiling fans are more efficient than ever, and come in nearly unlimited choices of finish, width, blade count and light. Traditionalists can choose from hundreds of styles in Panama-style fans or cottage-inspired wooden finishes.
But most ceiling fan manufacturers now offer a stunning selection of contemporary styles – ranging from nearly unrecognizable-as-fans designs to broadly sweeping designs with anywhere from one to eight blades. Contemporary finishes are often metals: brushed nickel, stainless steel, silver and even matte black. Check out the Fans featuring a sculptural 3-blade design with integrated LED light. Or fan with a contemporary design that moves air down at an angle, rather than straight down.
There are huggers for lower-ceiling rooms or finished basements and oversized fans (60″, 70″ or even 84″) for high foyers and maximum air circulation.
Keep your porch, patio or deck cool this summer with a wet- or damp-rated outdoor fan – also available in a broad selection of metal, resin or acrylic blades to stand up to wilting humidity.
Before deciding on a fan, be sure to talk to one of our ceiling fan experts. We can help you choose the right fan for indoors or out and help you sort through the often-confusing number of options including blade pitch, size, downrod length, light kit and speed.


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Meadhall and grill.. that is amazing. You'd have to charge a fortune, though.
Or own several hundred (thousand?) beehives.
If I had any on year round it would probably be the Best Bitter.
Yeah, especially when you're looking at 5 different yeast strains. For example, I have never had a good (or even decent) saison from an American brewery that doesn't make (essentially) nothing but saison. I can count with two fingers the number of good Bavarian-style weissbiers I have had brewed in America. And I only know of one brewery who consistently uses three or more different yeast strains and isn't garbage (and that's Sierra Nevada - who is too big to really compare to).
Honestly, I don't know what percentage of American-made Belgian ales actually taste good, but I reckon it's around 2-3%. And they usually are particularly crappy on tap. I would respect a brewery that made really good lagers, but typically a lager specialist is also brewing 5 terrible beers called some kind of "IPA." Most small breweries that put out lagers aren't putting out good lagers, though. I don't know if any professional brewery on earth makes great lagers, Belgian ales, and hoppy American ales, but the yeast management would be a big hassle for a smallish brewery to manage. I would probably stick to one house yeast with 1-2 batches brewed out of another yeast strain per year. That way the in-house yeast propagation would be just one strain. I'll bet a single pitch of a different strain could be had from another brewery for free or for trade.
Dry yeast is cheap, effective, never goes bad, consistent, and is pretty dang high quality these days (at least most of 'em). Anyway, the OP said money was no object. With money, you could manage all the yeast in the world.
Before I write a list I'm going to self-limit myself to one establishment, with two bars, each bar having 5 taps.
What.....I can't hear for the noise in this place! Back to our normal programming....Kolsch 021.
What would I have in my imaginary bar? Is there any other option? 12 Taps of Bud Light!
maybe this is for the unpopular opinions thread, but an ice cold pabst blue ribbon on a 95 degree day at the ball park is damn good and refreshing.
Ok... Yeah... I've already imagined this... Mader's Burgers and Beers will feature a variety of house brewed beers and huge variety of gourmet, hand-patted burgers.
I'll probably have 8 handles. 6 of them will be staples, while the other two will rotate.
7. This tap will be a rotating IPA tap. There are way too many hops out there to settle on one IPA. So, this tap will be more of an experimental tap.
8. This tap will rotate monthly with specialty beers.
well as coincidence would have it, I'm designing my new home bar, so this is something I've been thinking a lot about in recent days/weeks.
Still debating about 5 or 6 taps, but I brew 10 gal batches, and although I have friends stopping by often and taking home growlers, I do like to turnover beer often enough to keep everything fresh. I currently have three plus a high gravity on a picnic tap in the brewery, and turnover just right. Thinking 5 might be the best way to go.
"Its not a lie, if you believe it."

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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Love sausage rolls? Making your own takes just minutes to do. With just two ingredients you can bake a batch any time making them perfect for lunch boxes, snacks or picnics.
Makes approximately 2 dozen buffet sized sausage rolls.
Preheat oven to 180ºC/350ºF/Gas Mark 4.
On a floured work surface, thinly roll out the pastry to a thickness of approximately 1cm.
Starting at about two inches in alongside one edge form one long continuous length of sausage meat running from the top to the bottom.
Fold over the edge over the top and overlapping along the opposite side. Run a knife along the length next to where the two layers of pastry meet.
Brush the bottom layer of pastry with water and use the end of a wooden spoon to press down the top layer onto it. You should now have one very long sausage roll.
Use a sharp knife to cut into smaller sausage rolls.
Place on a greased baking tray and score three times across the top of each sausage roll.
Bake for 15-25 minutes depending on size until golden brown.

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text: Multi Family 2-4 This is a great investment property! Interior of each of these properties is pristine! Water heaters are new, New linoleum in the 1st side entry, kitchen, newly painted walls and trim. New carpet in the living room. These apartments are very spacious! The 2nd side apartments have new carpeting, all fresh paint. New shingles on the back porch. Beautiful wood flooring on second apartment side. Washer and dryer hookups in basement. Exterior front porch has been newly painted, as well as the lattice. Must come and see for yourself! Refuse tax $312/year. Zoned R-2 VERY EASY TO SHOW!


text: Hello! Please know the clinic is closed while I hold space for Dad who is in hospice. Feel free to leave me a message if you need a referral to another massage therapist, or if you wish to offer any guidance during this change in operations. I’m taking things one day at a time and will let my patients know when I am able to focus on their needs again. Bless your hearts and take care of yourselves!

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The garage is a great space to use in ways it was never intended. Whether you've got one car in a two car garage or happen to live in one of those rust-free Southwestern climates where parking outside is always an option, consider finding a new use for your garage.
Cars take up a lot of room, so if you've managed to move those out of your garage - or perhaps just one out of a two car garage - consider taking that space and converting it into something brand new, like an art or music studio.
We all have hobbies, but rarely do we have a particular space to devote to them. Perhaps you're a burgeoning novelist in search of a writing space, somewhere to put your bookshelves and piles of inspiration. Perhaps you're a ceramist with a throwing wheel but nowhere to keep it. Have you always wanted to put a band together with a few of your guy pals or girl friends? From the retiree to the new homeowner, everyone needs a room of one's own to pursue that special drive.
If you're going to turn your garage into a brand new creative outlet, consider some of this design and decor advice along the way.
1. Keep it bright. This is a must for any visual artist, but even for the poet who works best by candlelight, have the option to flush your space with sun during daytime hours. Windows bring in natural light, which is great for the brain and general creativity. And don't forget that garage door if you're looking for a little fresh air as well.
2. Have a variety of seating. Hard bottom wood chairs to keep you attentive, stools to force you to balance, armchairs for reading and a comfortable long couch for day dreams and naps. All of these are essential for creative energy.
3. Soundproof. If you're a musician, you won't mind your neighbors knowing, just make sure they don't find out by intruding on their own quiet pursuits with the blast of speakers and bass.
4. Keep it welcoming and clean. Sure, it may be your space, but staying organized is good for art. So is creating a comfortable environment. Consider installing radiant floor heating for fall and winter, especially if your garage isn't attached to your home's central heating system.


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Dr. Mani Shekhar Singh - Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Recht als Kultur"
Mani Shekhar Singh studied Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, obtaining his doctorate degree with a thesis entitled "Folk Art, Identity and Performance: A Sociological Study of Maithil Painting". Next to teaching obligations at the University of Delhi, he taught, inter alia, at the New School for Social Research in New York. He has received numerous scholarships and awards for his work in the field of visual culture. In 2010, he was Directeur d'Etudes Associé at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (MSH) in Paris. Furthermore, Mani Shekhar Sing is recpient of, inter alia, the New India Foundation stipend, the Rockefeller stipend at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, the India Foundation for the Arts stipend, as well as stipends from the Volkswagen Foundation and the University of Heidelberg.
Mani Shekhar Singh's research interests include visual anthropology, religious iconography and sociology of aesthetic practice. He is currently working on a book entitled: "Folk Art Enters the World: Maithil Paintings from Village to Nation and Beyond", as well as on the project: "Picturing Law, Violence and Justice in Maithil Art in Times of Globalization".
Dr. Mani Shekhar Singh was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” from November 2012 until July 2013. During his fellowship, he was appointed Associate Professor and Executive Director at the Centre for Law and Humanities at the Jindal Global Law School (O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat, India) and will assume the position from August 2013.
My research on Maithil painting—traditionally a ritual wall and floor art performed during life-stage or samskara rites (such as the wedding ceremony) and other seasonal festivals by women from the Indian state of Bihar—indicates that there exists a distinct visuality of law and justice, which warrants urgent attention. I aim to examine this hitherto neglected aspect of Maithil art (and more generally folk and vernacular pictorial traditions in South Asia), especially the ways in which the women artists from different socio-economic backgrounds evoke images of justice in their artworks as they engage with processes of social change associated with commodification and globalization. The visual language deployed by Maithil artists to depict law, violence and justice is not simply about the local visual culture of justice. Nor is it about mirroring court proceedings or about transcribing written law on an artistic register. Rather their artworks are also about interrogating the received knowledge about dharma and nayaya by creatively improvising and innovating visual meanings of moral order and justice. Even when such innovative picturisation of justice do tangentially allude to or “quote” what some have called “law’s art”, these creative ways of evoking justice inhabit legally plural worlds, sometimes implying a renunciation of state law.
I aim to work on a series of contemporary paintings (in particular the artworks of the younger generation of Maithil artists), which interrogates our received idea of violence and justice. Painting on a wide array of themes related to dowry deaths (and more generally violence against women), the war on terror, communal violence, murder, corruption, and so on, these artists’ sustained engagement with issues of law, violence and justice in their artworks is illustrated. Women artists bring to their artwork elements of their biography to provide a powerful visualization of justice and its potent meanings in contexts of immense social suffering. Although very often the paintings derive their subject matter from the “global flows” of images, films, televisual serials, and magazine reportage, they are seldom based on the “eye-witness principle”, so essential to the workings the “mediascape” or valued in the making of history painting. Rather the artists, I would like to illustrate, narrate their painterly tales of violence and justice by temporalizing the different sections of the picture surface in what are sometimes extremely complex and sophisticated techniques. Even when the “micro-themes” in these paintings have their basis in real life stories and events, they are often placed within a mixture of other time frames. In the process constructing a sort of montage that has the potentiality of generating a semantic charge, which neither section of the image-field taken in isolation possesses. Such visualizations allow us to interrogate the literature which derives its analysis solely from the domain of modernist ‘high’ art. It is my hope that through a close reading of Maithil art I will be able to underscore the place of folk or vernacular art traditions in picturing justice rather than adopt the dismissive gesture of thinking of the figure of justice mainly through the prism of high art or classical iconographic traditions.
"Making Claims to Tradition: Poetics and Politics in the Works of Young Maithil Painters", in: Roma Chatterji (Ed.): Wording the World: Veena Das and her Interlocutors, Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press (forthcoming).
Religious Iconography, Pictorial Convention, and Personal Trait: Composing Paintings in Mithila, in: Alexander Henn, Klaus-Peter Koepping (Eds.): Ritual in an Unstable World: Contingency, Hybridity, Embodiment, Frankfurt: Peter Lang 2007.
Religious Iconography, Violence, and Making of a Series, in: Domains 3, 2007, 41-68.
Folk Art, Identity and Performance: A Sociological Study of Maithil Painting. Diss., Delhi 1999.


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They work with the judicial system, courts, parish halls, victims of crime, and the community to help reduce criminal activity in Jersey.
It's role includes assessing, monitoring and working with offenders to reduce re-offending when the judicial process is concluded, through programmes and community service, offering support and information to victims of crime and researching and producing reports to assist the Courts and States of Jersey with policy formation.
The Probation Service prepares between 500 and 600 reports for Jersey Courts each year.
It also supervises about 200 Probation Orders, 200 Community Service Orders and 150 people in prison each year.

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Wharf Local at Tathra is beautifully situated over the water. Photos: Somersault Media.
The beautiful tourist drive from Tathra to Bermagui, winding through the Mimosa Rocks National Park, is worth it for the scenery and secret swimming spots alone, but you can also please your palate with a stop at one of the outstanding cafés along the way.
If your idea of a morning coffee is quiet contemplation staring over the sea and listening to water moving under the boards at your feet, then you must visit the Wharf at Tathra. The coffee here is excellent – strong and full-flavoured, loads of caramel and chocolate. A long cabinet is laden with the most beautiful cakes, tarts, pastries, sandwiches, and salads like sweet sesame broccoli & edamame salad with quinoa, or roast eggplant with sofrito, chickpeas, almonds and rocket. The cafe is also a stockist for the amazing Honorbread Sourdough from Bermagui. Magazines, flowers, local crafts and art, ancient doors, piles of croissants – every corner of The Wharf looks like a photo shoot for a food magazine – these people have style. This is a place you can linger watching the fishermen and seabirds, mingle with the locals and of course even see whales breaching in the season as they broach the Tathra headland. Park at the top of the hill near the Tathra pub to take in the full vista walking down towards the emerald waters.
Blend Cafe at Tathra has a French accent.
Blend is set back off the road opposite the beach at Tathra, and they do a few things well here. The coffee is great, and there is a choice of blend, so spend some time discussing this with the helpful staff. I chose the award-winning Black Cyclist bean on my visit and wasn’t disappointed. Of course, then you have to choose between house-made pastries, still-warm sourdough, tarts, a sensational Croque Monsieur filled with double-smoked ham and house-made bechamel, seasonal salads, or some take-home decadence from the cheese cabinet. You may be served in French if you’re cheeky. Owner Bronnie knows her cheese so get her to show you around Blend’s well-stocked cabinet, plus all kinds of kitchen and coffee making paraphernalia. Want more? Blend is baking sourdough every day except Thursday. Recommended: The Almond Croissant.
Wild Orchid cafe is a sunny newcomer to Tathra.
Somehow this café feels like an extension of the beach – it’s all sunlight and air. Opened earlier in 2018, the space has huge windows, polished concrete and sand-coloured fittings, brown paper and healthy, rustic food. Staff are extremely friendly and the place bustles with happy locals. We order a stronger coffee here as we’ve learned to do with the Wild Rye’s Seasonal Blend, and it’s well-made and delivered promptly. We sit looking out over the front lawn area, scattered with bean bags and many happy locals and dogs. Enjoy Wheatley Lane organic sourdough, dukkah-crusted free-range eggs, lamb kofta with quinoa tabouli, house-made goat cheese tarts – yes, that kind of simple. There’s very good energy here.
Watch the surfers at Tathra Beach from The Gap Espresso.
Reopening after a brief closure and serving from the convenient time of 6:30 am, The Gap Espresso is a lofty, light and gorgeous space for an early morning coffee. Wild Rye’s crunchy croissants filled with ham and cheese, muffins, raw goodies, vegan and vegetarian bowls and salads grace the very small menu. Coffee is well made, and sitting in the sun streaming in through the huge front windows watching swimmers and surfers back from the beach is the essence of Tathra.
Organic produce is a focus for Gulaga Organic at Bermagui.
If you like your coffee to be ethical and sustainably grown, this is the cup for you. Our single shot latte was full of flavour and was a decent colour and strength. This is the third great coffee to be had in Bermagui, the others being from Mr Hope and Beardhawk. You can poke around in the organic produce while you’re here, maybe pick up a bag of the sensational raspberry liquorice (you’re welcome), some raw chocolate or house-made treats. Or if you’ve done your dash with the ‘espresso bar’ for your day, dive into a plant-based cacao, berry or green smoothie or a cold-pressed juice from the ‘goodness bar’. The verandah is wide and beautiful, wrapped around this lovely old corner building, and the view is over the bay to Our Lady Gulaga, so sit and spend some time soaking up the breeze.
Eastwood’s at Bermagui has links to River Cottage.
A combined café, deli and cooking school in beautiful Bermagui? That’s right. Saturdays devoted to the worship of brioche donuts? Yes indeed. Contemporary fit out and gourmet product? Right again. Eastwood’s is the newish enterprise from Kelly Eastwood, who appeared on ‘River Cottage Australia’ and here she replicates the TV cooking classes she ran in Tilba during her time with that show. Menu includes sandwiches from the deli, loads of fresh, crunchy salads, and you can even find a Vietnamese Banh Mi, or Korean-style schnitzel. Dark Horse blend from Five Senses is served in the café, an extra shot was needed in our case so check with the barista that you’re getting a good hit.
The owners of Mr Hope at Bermagui are planning to add a gin bar to their cafe.
Mr Hope reminds us of cafés frequented in the back streets of St Kilda during the 80s. A bit retro but classy, eclectic and serving quality product from a small selection. We loved the 70s-coloured latte glass, and the coffee is good. There is an element of trust required and expected here – you sort your own change and patiently wait. Our coffee came quickly and was delicious. Many locals stopped to say hello, and to hug the barista who told us about their special offerings like Café Bonbon – which is coffee over condensed milk – their cold-brew, and Affogato. Having recently changed hands, plans are afoot for a couple of food offerings over summer, longer trading hours and a future gin bar. Now, do we have your attention? That’s right, a gin bar. For now, you can munch on a couple of the more famous offerings from Mr Hope’s neighbours – award-winning Honorbread, like the Salted Rye Biscuits and the sensational Kardamumbulla with your excellent coffee. Basically, if you want to feel like a cool person – go here. Note: cash only.
The Beardhawk van at Bermagui is a stripped back venue for excellent coffee.
Another great coffee in Bermagui. This striking caboose is parked in the courtyard of the Frame & Brush art shop and stopping for coffee at Beardhawk is a quirky experience. But if your attitude is more “quality coffee over designer furniture” then you’ll be OK here, as the coffee is delicious. A single shot of medium to dark goodness tipped us into the buzz realm. Served in a 1970s whisky glass with no annoying accoutrements like saucers or spoons, we sat under the sky, listening to the local cognoscenti, and learning a few things. There are a few raw, healthy, snacky things we didn’t take much notice of, because again, the thing here is the coffee (and maybe the talk). Only open in the mornings, but if you can handle coffee like this after midday then you’re of stronger stuffs than us! Note: cash only.
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My high school French teacher, Madame Duval, inspired me to be a teacher. She encouraged us to be creative. For our summative assignment in twelfth grade, I did an interpretive dance to Celine Dion. No regrets!
2. Where are you from and where did you go to grade school and university?
I’m from the city of Blue Jays, Raptors, and Maple Leafs (not Leaves). University of Toronto.
3. How did you find out about SAS?
I connected with SAS while at an international job fair in London, England.
4. What do you do at SAS?
Part superhero and part pre-kindergarten teacher at SAS.
5. Why did you ultimately decide that you wanted to work in the early learning center?
The awesome part about working in a Reggio-inspired classroom is that a large part of our professional development comes from the children themselves. We learn about the children, and alongside the children. Each year is different because each year the children are different.
6. If your students forget everything you taught them except for one idea or sentence, what would you like that idea to be?
Children in the early learning center have an insatiable curiosity, an unwavering dedication to justice, and a humbling appreciation for the wonders around them. I'd like them to keep all of that magic.
7. What would you like your students to remember five years from now?
We do a lot of singing and dancing in our class. I have this fantasy that one day I'll run into my students when they're all grown up and we'll see each other from across the room, and immediately break out into the "Chicken Dance".
8. What have your students been learning?
Our class has been investigating nature. Shikhar, Hub 3, predicted, "Nature is life." We investigated what this means, and challenged our assumptions through nature walks, caring for plants and insects, and a field trip to Bollywood Veggies.
9. What's your favorite thing about working with early learning center students?
When you're a teacher inthe early learning center, you're a rockstar. But instead of handing out autographs, you hand out high-fives.
10. What would a perfect day for you be like?
The perfect day would start with breakfast in Wakanda. Followed by lunch in Asgard. Then dinner on Starlord's spaceship, Milano.
11. Who are the teachers who inspired you when you were a student?
It's really a tie between two of the greatest teachers that ever lived: Master Jedi Yoda and Miyagi from The Karate Kid.
12. To you, what is teaching?
13. If you were to give your students one important advice, what would it be?
I really think Dori said it best, "Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming."
14. What are some of the most memorable places you've traveled to or lived in and why?
I've been fortunate enough to travel to the greatest place on earth—Hobbiton in New Zealand.
15. Favorite part or thing to do in Singapore?
My favorite part of Singapore is the MRT.
16. What's your favorite memory at SAS so far?
One day during recess, a girl in my class was roaring like a dinosaur. A boy from another class stopped her and said, "You're a girl. You CAN'T speak dinosaur." She stopped roaring, turned to him and said, "I AM a girl. And I CAN speak dinosaur." And this was pretty much the best day of my life. To all the people out there with daughters—never let anyone tell them they CAN'T speak dinosaur!


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…this was followed by two organs for John Turner Hopwood, the later of the two being built for the music room in his new country house, Bracewell Hall near Barnoldswick.
Although Hopwood was a partner in the music publishing house of Hopwood Crew of London, the family wealth came originally from cotton manufacturing in Blackburn, where the family owned the Nova Scotia Mills, a large textile manufacturing complex. The precise origins of Hopwood's interest in the French organ, and the Cavail1e-Coll organ in particular, are rather obscure and there are no known archival sources. One can be reasonably certain that Hopwood visited the Exhibition and heard the Ducroquet organ, and this may have been the origin of his interest. It. is certain that Hopwood knew Henry Smart and could have been influenced by him. At the time when Smart was organist at St. Mary's, the Hopwood family was prominent in Blackburn, and it is known that he remained on intimate terms with the Coddington family, who were related by marriage. Hopwood was later involved in the attempt in 1879 to secure a Civil List pension for Smart, who was then terminally ill. However, it seems that the decisive influence was Cavaille-Coll himself. In 1866 Hopwood was introduced to Cavaille-Coll by the French-Spanish singer Don Manuel Garcia, who was then teaching in London. Garcia was the brother of Pauline Viardot, the famous singer, musician and composer, whose salons were a major feature of the Parisian musical scene in the years before and after the political upheavals of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune. It is clear that Hopwood rapidly became a close friend and advocate of Cavaille-Coll - to the extent that he attempted, through his connections with the Prince of Wales, to obtain for him the contract for the organ in the new Royal Albert Hall.
It is tempting to speculate that Hopwood, through his contact with Garcia, not only came to know Cavaille-Coll but also met Pauline Viardot and attended her salons. In 1851 Cavaill6Coll had built a small two-manual organ for her music room in Paris. In 1864, to escape the increasing political uncertainties in Paris, Pauline Viardot moved with her musically talented family to Baden-Baden, where the salon organ was re-installed by Cavaille-Coll. It is possible that the Viardot salon encouraged Hopwood to install a similar luxury at Bracewell. Whatever the precise circumstances, it appears that Hopwood quickly made up his mind and ordered from Cavaille-Coll a small two-manual organ of sixteen stops which, according to Huybens, was delivered in June 1867.
Virtually nothing is known of this organ and, assuming that it was actually built and installed, perhaps at his London house, its ultimate fate remains a mystery. It is possible that this organ was such a success that it stimulated Hopwood to enhance Bracewell Hall with a music room and organ on a truly grand scale. The smaller instrument may subsequently have been incorporated in the much larger three-manual organ of forty-four stops which Hopwood ordered from Cavaille-Coll, probably in 1869[No it wasn’t and the date was 1868] In April 1870, this organ, with a French Gothic case designed by the architect Simil, was delivered to Bracewell, where it was erected and tonally finished by Felix Reinberg, one of Cavaille-Coll's most trusted artists.
The Bracewell organ was inaugurated on 7 November 1870, the great occasion being described by Hopwood in a letter to Cavaille-Coll dated 10 February 1871. The organ was played by William Spark, who is said to have given a whole series of subsequent recitals, and his close association with Hopwood was probably the result of his long-standing friendship with Henry Smart. In 1874 Hopwood commissioned Cavaille-Coll to move the organ to his new residence , Ketton Hall, Rutland, and three more stops were added to the pedal. In 1926 the organ was dismantled and rebuilt in the Parr Hall, Warrington, where it remains, the only major example of the builder's work in recognisable condition, but unfortunately with the electro-pneumatic action that replaced the original pneumatic lever actions in 1972. It is interesting that, during recent work on the organ, it was discovered that at least one stop (the Positif Dulciana), which must have been a later substitution, was made by Lewis, possibly evidence for the rather obscure link between that firm and Cavaille-Coll which later resulted in Lewis becoming regarded as the leading expert on the Cavaille-Coll organ.


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industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Crown Plana Major chandelier by Markus Jehs and Jurgen Laub for Nemo Lighting.
The Crown Plana Major pendant chandelier has a modular structure that holds a total of 12 glass diffusers.
The structure of the Crown Plana Major chandelier is made from die-cast aluminium, available in a range of finishes - painted matt white, matt black or gold; polished aluminium; or glossy gold plated. 12 diffusers in sandblasted glass.

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My guess is that this will do absolutely nothing.
I went to the graduation of a family friend recently, which was fairly boring. What was more interesting, however, is the hotel we stayed in. There were a few odd things about it, which I will now list for no reason whatsoever.
1: It smelled very strange. The hallways smelled like chlorine, and the bathroom smelled like tacos. As far as the latter goes, I can only presume that someone snuck into the bathroom to eat a taco smuggled illegally across the Canadian border. I feel this is an excellent and sound theory.
2: One of their stairwells had two exits signs, one on the ceiling, and one on the floor. I presume that was for the benefit of very stupid people.
3: They had free muffins. Now, I don't think I've ever publicly expressed my love for muffins before, so I will now. I love muffins. Any shape, any flavour, as long as they're tasty and are full of empty calories. But there is such a thing as a bad muffin, and the ones being given out at that hotel definitely count. They were made of what I can only assume was packing foam, and tasted like air freshener liquid. I believe that the hotel staff were attempting to poison the stay-ees at their hotel, so that they could keep the corpses in their rooms and charge them for staying overtime.
I have been informed that free muffins in a hotel is not an unusual phenomenon.
This song is from the soon-to-be-released called...something. I'm debating between "Tasty Fuzzy Carpet Time", or "My Other Car Is A Rainbow".

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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Once again I used supplies I had at home, so it didn't cost me anything to make it.
I started by making a drop cloth envelope pillow cover for a 12x16 pillow form I already had.
of one of my fall bins, :) and hot glue.
I attached the twine from side to side and made little loops with it to hold the leaves.
and I didn't want to run to the store just for that.
I added to each one of the leaves a small piece of burlap and vinyl letters to spell Fall.
And that is it! Very simple.
I am using this pillow as part of the Fall decor on the front porch, which I will be sharing soon.
I wish you all have a super great weekend.
I LOVE, it and it's so easy to make! I also like your idea of using little clothes pins, but it looks great without them. So pretty! Thanks for the tutorial, and have a great weekend.
This is a darling pillow. So creative! Happy Anniversary!!
I LOVE that gorgeous pillow!
Happy Anniversary to you and the hubs!! LOVE that pillow Maria Elena!
The pillow is the perfect fall accent! Happy Anniversary to you and your husband! Enjoy the week-end!
Very cute and what a great look! Happy 33rd Wedding Anniversary! We've been married 36 so you're not too far behind us!
Your pillow colors are so beautiful!! Happy Anniversary!
Such a pretty pillow! Happy anniversary to you too!! Enjoy your weekend!
Very cute, Maria Elena! I love that you used some loose leaves you found in your bins. I find several every year and can never figure out where they have come off of. This is a good way to use them.
Happy Anniversary, Maria Elena! All the very best!
Your fall accent pillow is very pretty and perfect for this season of cozy cocooning!
Adorably cute and simple...just what I like.
Another adorable yet simple idea. Looks great.
What a cute idea. You could keep the drop cloth background and just keep changing out the design hanging on the front. Thanks for sharing your fall decorating tips on Merry Monday.
You are the Queen of pillow making Maria Elena! This one is darling!! Thanks for sharing with SYC.


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The civic government has been dominated by the centre-right Non-Partisan Association (NPA) since the Second World War, albeit with some significant centre-left interludes until 2008. The NPA fractured over the issue of drug policy in 2002, facilitating a landslide victory for the Coalition of Progressive Electors on a harm reduction platform. Subsequently, North America's first safe injection site was opened for the significant number of intravenous heroin users in the city.
Vancouver is governed by the ten-member Vancouver City Council, a nine-member School Board, and a seven-member Park Board, all elected for three-year terms through an at-large system. Historically, in all levels of government, the more affluent west side of Vancouver has voted along conservative or liberal lines while the eastern side of the city has voted along left-wing lines. This was reaffirmed with the results of the 2005 provincial election and the 2006 federal election.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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I'm a healer who works with shamanic techniques in the UK to heal and help the community. I also run plant medicine retreats in Portugal with Ayahuasca and Huachuma.
My name is Neil Kirwan born in 1982 with a knowing of the other worlds, from infancy showing the tribal signs of the shaman, misunderstood in a modern world. Aged 30 I finally began to answer my calling, working with the plants of the world including Ayahuasca and Huachuma, along with various tools and techniques as old as mankind.
The healing role of the shaman within a community has always kept the tribe healthy and strong in mind, body and spirit. In the modern era as we continue to lose our way and sanity, the practices of tribal shamanism and the spirits are reviving themselves to help bring balance back to the planet.
Anthropologists say that shamanism is the oldest profession in the world. It is not a religion, it is a method, practiced with reverence, humility and gratitude. Concerned largely with the unseen forces that influence us the environment in which we dwell.
I am fully dedicated to my craft and hold no other profession alongside it. Through my training, with the assistance of plant dietas and the drum, my journey has brought me to a place where I now wish to serve others in need of a helping hand. My works aims to assist those in need of healing and anyone experiencing troubled times. I have also assisted many with their own spiritual journeys and exploration, acting as a guide and mentor.
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The agreements are permanent, self-enforcing and certifiable. They require only that the parties agree upon a third-party — called an “oracle” — who collects external variable data. Once this oracle verifies information and confirms that the terms have been met, the contract executes automatically.
Though the idea of smart contracts was first proposed by computer scientist Nick Szabo almost 25 years ago, only recently has true potential of the format begun to be realized.
The most common current use for this legal tool is the related to the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies. However, its potential uses in other areas of legal practice is vast. Anything from supply chain agreements to crop insurance could use smart contracts, attorneys say.
To understand the possibilities of smart contracts, it helps to have a grasp of the underlying mechanics.
Blockchains are open, distributed ledgers in which transactions between parties can be easily verified. These records are permanent because each block contains a remnant of information, called a “hash,” of the one before it. Perhaps the most widely known blockchain is bitcoin.
“Bitcoin was developed as more of a cryptocurrency and payment system, so its use is much more limited,” said Overmyer.
Ethereum is the most popular blockchain for smart contracts because of its ability to be used as a virtual computer. Computer coding language is stored on the Ethereum blockchain, and the smart contracts work like a computer application within it.
“In short, it’s just a layer on top of the blockchain (used) to execute things automatically,” said Nick Merker, a partner at Ice Miller, where he is the co-chair of the firm’s data security and privacy practice.
But smart contracts come with both new opportunities and potential risks.
As with any mathematical equation, the accuracy of smart contracts depends on using correct information. This is where problems could conceivably arise.
“If someone were able to control both the application and the oracle, then the system would have little to no integrity,” said Overmyer.
Although the blockchain itself may be relatively safe from tampering, that doesn’t mean weaknesses do not exist.
Jeff Gorham is a senior associate at Frost Brown Todd, where he is a member of the blockchain and digital currency team. Gorham said, ideally, the oracle chosen for a smart contract would use multiple data points so that any obviously deceitful outliers could be routinely ignored.
“(Oracles) all have to be based on readily available and verifiable data,” he said.
While smart contracts may be the labor-saving legal device of the future, the idea may leave attorneys rightfully wondering where they fit into this new landscape.
Merker said he compared the situation to 10 years ago when firms were still conducting document reviews in massive warehouses with paper documents. Likewise, he said that even though some classes of legal services would be consumed by this technology, new amenities would arise.
“I see it as an opportunity, but I’m sure not every attorney does,” he said.
Frost Brown Todd attorney Matt Schantz works primarily with intellectual property matters, including patent and trademark applications and technology licenses. He said he foresees a new, but equally important, role for the know-how a lawyer can provide — even with a smart contract.
“It might not be as dramatic, but when horses on the roads gave way to cars, there were fewer jobs in the buggy whip industry, and more jobs in the tire and car assembly and engineering industry,” he said.
Gorham said he compares the coming change to the introduction of services such as LegalZoom. He said while self-serve clients can now quickly and cheaply set up LLCs with such programs, attorneys still have a place — even if they aren’t billing by the hour for the same services they used to.
Overmyer said he has heard similar fears of redundancy expressed regarding the use of artificial intelligence in the law. He said certain elements that rely on experience, humanity and critical thinking — such as indemnification, knowledge qualifiers and conflict resolution — would always be in demand.


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Tony Gillespie, Ali Binskin and Kelly O’Brien on the viewing deck above just some of the stalls within the squash courts.
IMUGI Taekwondo put a call out to the community to see if anyone would be willing to assist them in fundraising to get all fourteen of their members to Nationals.
The response was overwhelming for this much-loved Medowie business.
In particular, a mother of two of the ‘Star Imugi’s’, Ali Binskin, sprung to action and began planning a Christmas Shopping NIght.
Medowie Sports Centre donated the use of their facilities to aid the communities efforts to help these young people attend their Nationals tournament, and Sportz Cafe within the centre agreed to stay open on the night, and donate generous proceedings from a delicious spit roast.
“In all we raised $1660 for the families, which has put a huge dent in their money required,” she said.
News Of The Area will follow the progress of these fourteen students as they participate in their National tournament.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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I got this error when trying to build a Vapor project.
I recently experienced a lot of error with getting Vapor 3.0 to run during the beta and Swift 4.1. I assumed the error had to do with that. Had I read closer I might have figured it out. I was not in the build directory. Duh! After changing to the build directory everything worked fine.
If you end up on this page, make sure you are in the build directory when trying to build a Vapor project.


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I have been reading the personal accounts from parents with regard to being separated from their children at the border of the United States. The stories break my heart.
I am a therapeutic counselor and have worked with numerous adults who struggle in their adult lives with attachment disorders related to the early separation of parent to child, especially of mother to child.
The anxiety caused by parent-child separation, especially at certain ages, is far-reaching and can lead to anxiety disorder, addiction and depression that follows the child throughout his or her life.
I know that the current president is trying to correct the decision that has led to this inhumane policy. I also know that within politics it’s very difficult to unring the bell.
To some extent the damage has already been done to so many children and I am ashamed that more thought was not given to the situation by supposedly very intelligent adults that represent the United States.
If we could all stop for one moment and reflect on possible reasons why parents would flee their country and their home to seek asylum elsewhere, perhaps then we could understand that there must have been desperation at the core of the decision.
If we as a people lose our humanity, then what difference does it make how successful we are with regard to progress and to maintaining what is called the American way of life?
If we lose our humanity, our compassion, we chip away at our very souls.


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We begin with the 7 Questions by Nana corner. All Nana fans are quite used to this by now, but Megumi reacts to this.
She is envious of how Nana’s name can be linked to numbers and be used in many different ways. Lol.
She even said that she can’t create t-shirts because her name can’t be shortened like Nana’s. Hahahaha.
Anyway, onto the 7 questions Nana prepared for Megumi.
1. What was your first impression of Mizuki?
2. What was the toughest job you had to take on?
3. Under what type of situation/environment are you in when you have to write lyrics?
4. Was there anything different before and after you gave birth to a child?
5. What’s the scariest thing in this world?
6. Please say something to those aiming to become seiyuu.
7. If you were to be reborn, would you want to become Hayashibara Megumi again?
Right after the questions and answer corner ended, this is what Nana had to say.
Nana: The image of Hayashibara Megumi-san I’ve always had was that everything was “work, work, work.” But as we talked, I realized that there was a discrepancy.
Megumi: I’m simply someone who experienced a period of time where work buried me.
Nana: I don’t think that was all there was to it.
Megumi: No, that was all.
Nana: You actually want time off and you spend your private time wisely. You’re not all about work after all.
Megumi: I love breaks/vacation time. In order to gain that, I’m willing to lie.
Nana: *laughs* That won’t do. And while you were still single, did you go on sudden trips?
Megumi: I did. Such as suddenly going to Hokkaido when I realized the next few days were free of work.
Megumi: And staying at a hotel that has a bar/pub.
Nana: That’s the essence of an adult woman.
Anyway, going back to 7 Questions, here are a bit more details.
Megumi: Rather than “none,” it’s more of I don’t remember.
Megumi: I’m sure there were tough jobs. Or maybe all my jobs were tough. Every one of them. But then, in the end, it’s because of those tough jobs that allowed me to do things I couldn’t do. If I ran away from the jobs I didn’t want to take, then my path would not have continued. So treating those jobs as part of my masochism, I keep seeing new worlds. At the end of it all, everything was fine.
Megumi: That’s because Nana you’re…how should I put this… a lucid hard worker.
Megumi: Being a hard worker is a good thing. But it’s not worth it if that hard working attitude ends up tiring out yourself.
After this part, it’s song time. This time it’s Nana’s request of a song from Hayashibara Megumi’s Best Album – Vintage White. It’s also the opening song for a series they were both part of. Why yes, the first opening for Shaman King — OVER SOUL.
Megumi: It’s been 10 years.
Nana: *pause* Waah~ So much time has passed. That was fast. A lot of memories were awakened from listening to this song.
Megumi: Yes~ That quivery Nana is now all grown up! Mommy is very happy!
Nana: Kaa-san~! I’m all grown up.
Megumi: Yes you are. Though the small parts remain small.
Next we head into the Friendship Talk Corner. It’s supposedly random talk that turned half-serious and meaningful near the end.
Apparently back in school, Megumi was thought to be very mature. Although whenever she talks about this part of her past, the staff members at King Records were all “There’s no way that could be true.” But when the staff saw her friends who went to help out at an event she was a part of, they went back to her and said “You were right.” She has friends who kept going through marriage, divorce, marriage, divorce… And what does that friend say? “It’s horrible! Having to deal with name changes on the passport!” And there’s another friend who’s very smart and works at an I.T. company. She puts on sun screen on her face and the front areas, but leaves her back (I’m assuming she’s talking about times at the beach). And lack of sun screen on the back resulted in a very bad burn. “But the sun comes from the front!” What is the meaning behind those words? Neither Nana nor Megumi caught the logic (because there was none). XDD Anyway, so Megumi was surrounded by such people and she’s more or less the “stopper” in those situations. And that’s why she doesn’t get surprised by people. Lol.
There was obviously an editing cut that took place at this point and resumed with an awkward start where Megumi continues to talk about those friends. When she’s tired, whenever her friends were about to do something, she would just yell “Stop!” immediately (without actually listening to what they had to say or do). And when she was in her 20s and was insanely busy with work, there were people who comforted her and cheered her on, but on the other hand, she had friends who just said “Quit! Quit!” She never thought that the option existed until her friends said that to her, but of course, she didn’t consider it. Rather, she took it as “I’m here because I didn’t quit on my way. The option is there but I never took it — and I’m me because of that.” So to Megumi, the word “Stop” or “Quit” or “Give up” may seem very irresponsible, but they’re treasured words of hers.
Nana sums up Megumi’s experience as one of those moments where you seem to “wake up” at those words.
Megumi then adds that her friends who told her to quit probably weren’t thinking as “I’m Megu’s friend so I must say this.” In other words, her friends were firing off the word in a very irresponsible way but that’s exactly what she needed. It wasn’t comfort she needed, but unfiltered thoughts the other party was thinking.
After the sharing of such interesting and insightful experience, it’s time for another song. This time it is Amazing Grace by Hayashibara Megumi and Honda Minako. This is more of a recording collaboration as it used Honda Minako’s recording of Amazing Grace.
Following Amazing Grace is some brief promotion on Nana’s part, then leading to the famous “Bring out your voice and read the following in Japanese” corner.
Megumi’s voice acting cracked me up. Way to treat someone with a fever. Hahahaha.
Uwah, fever, get well soon potato-san!
I hope Sandy didn’t affect you too badly?
I have plans for it, but as nothing goes as planned for me, I’d rather not put it into words to worsen things. Haha.


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Human road safety signs for parking parents.
A campaign to stop parents parking in front of schools creating lethal 'blind spots' for other drivers has been stepped up. The practice by school run parents dropping off or collecting their children has been recognised as a potential killer for years. In the past, hefty fines, extra traffic wardens and even the use of 'name and shame' snapshots have been used to deter persistent offenders. Now a new tactic is being employed in Swansea.
Schools are erecting giant banners outside their gates depicting children lying down on yellow zig zag road markings.
Outcry over speed camera 'roulette'.


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The question before the Supreme Court in this case was simple: did the Federal Circuit err when it decided that shipment outside the United States of one component of a multicomponent invention could violate 35 U.S.C. §271(f)(1)?
The Supreme Court held on Feb. 22, 2017, that, yes, the Federal Circuit decision was wrong.
Promega Corp. licensed the Tautz patent (U.S. Reissue No. 37984), which claims a toolkit for genetic testing, to Life Technologies Corp. for the manufacture and sale of the kits in limited licensed law enforcement fields worldwide.
When Life Technologies began selling the kits outside of its licensed fields of use, Promega sued, claiming that under 35 U.S.C. §271(f)(1), such activity was U.S. patent infringement, since Section 271(f)(1) prohibits the supply from the United States of “all or a substantial portion of the components of a patented invention” for combination abroad.
In the district court case, the jury returned an infringement verdict ($52 million) in favor of Promega, but the court granted Life Technologies’ motion for judgment as a matter of law, holding that §271(f)(1)’s phrase “all or a substantial portion” did not encompass the supply of a single component of a multicomponent invention.
On appeal, the Federal Circuit reversed. In a 2-1 decision, the court held that a single important component could constitute a “substantial portion” of the components of an invention under §271(f)(1) and found the Taq polymerase to be such a component. The Federal Circuit concluded that one dictionary definition of “substantial” is “important” or “essential,” which it read to suggest that a single important component can be a “‘substantial portion of the components’” of a patented invention.
In its 7-0 decision (with Chief Justice Roberts not participating), the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Federal Circuit, holding that the supply of a single component of a multi-component invention for manufacture abroad does not give rise to §271(f)(1) liability. Quantity trumps quality.
Because only a single component of the patented invention at issue here was supplied from the United States, the case was reversed and remanded to the Federal Circuit.
(a) the phrase “substantial portion” refers to a quantitative measurement.
(c) The legislative history of §271(f) further bolsters this conclusion.
Looking at the dictionary definition of the word “substantial,” as it is commonly understood, the Supreme Court found little help, as the word may refer either to qualitative importance or to quantitatively large size. See, e.g., Webster’s Third New International Dictionary 2280 (defs. 1c, 2c) (1981) (Webster’s Third) (“important, essential,” or “considerable in amount, value, or worth”); 17 Oxford English Dictionary 67 (defs. 5a, 9) (2d ed. 1989) (OED) (“That is, constitutes, or involves an essential part, point, or feature; essential, material,” or “of ample or considerable amount, quantity, or dimensions”).
The Court then looked at the statute and noted that the context in which “substantial” appears in the statute points to a quantitative meaning. It is the supply of all or a substantial portion “of the components” of a patented invention that triggers liability for infringement.
If “substantial” has a qualitative meaning, the Court said, then the more natural way to write the opening clause of the provision would be to not reference “the components” at all. A qualitative reading would render the phrase “of the components” unnecessary the first time it is used in §271(f)(1).
The Court, having determined that the term “substantial portion” refers to a quantitative measurement, next had to decide whether, as a matter of law, a single component can ever constitute a “substantial portion” so as to trigger liability under §271(f )(1).
Finally, the decision by the Supreme Court does not define how close to “all” of the components “a substantial portion” must be. The Court only held that “one component” does not constitute “all or a substantial portion” of a multicomponent invention under §271(f)(1).
More litigation on this issue can be expected.
Click here to download the decision in Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp.