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At 22 I taught conversational English in a South Korean public school.
50 kids to a classroom. No computers. Coal heaters with metal venting distributed heat during the winter.
Everything else about the school resembled a typical U.S. classroom, which hasn't changed much in 100 years.
Yes computers are ubiquitous. Yes there are tools for differentiating instruction and personalizing learning, but those tools and methods currently serve the same narrative that has dominated schooling since its inception.
You go to school to memorize the information from the guardians of the information who went to school to memorize how to take the information and place it into heads. We know you have memorized the information when we scan the sheets that measure your ability to recall the information. Then you get a good job.
It was the narrative 25 years ago when I was in high school, the narrative 15 years ago when I taught high school, and the narrative at the university where I earned tenure before leaving to try something different. If you are a parent, it is the narrative in your child's classroom today.
I want to change narratives.
I want to change the narrative that adults have all of the important facts figured out, have mapped the "terrain of facts," and that the job of the teacher is to steer students through that terrain.
I want to change the narrative that technology has ushered in an age where all children can be efficiently guided through the terrain.
There are countless apps and software platforms offering THE SOLUTION to classrooms full of diverse children.
The child consumes the facts, perhaps through a video if an algorithm has "determined" that is the best way the child memorizes. Or maybe the app presents the child with digital tricks for memorizing bits of information.
There's nothing to celebrate about using technology to take a room full of diverse children and clone them at different speeds.
Full confession: I love technology, and I believe technology used correctly can change narratives beginning with the narrative of "educated."
Past and current narrative: Able to memorize and recall information deemed important.
Better narrative: Able to identify, access, and utilize information from various knowledge systems in order to create change.
Life is a series of challenges. It is not a mapped, orderly sequence of facts. If it were, it wouldn't be fun.
Technology in the classroom used to reinforce a dated narrative isn't anything to get excited about, quite the opposite actually. As my own kindergartener maneuvers his way through public school, and the teacher apologizes for how often they have to test (32 days), I worry about technology teaching kids to hate learning.
Using technology in the classroom to help children create value in the world, technology that helps them tell their stories using information and ideas they engage with as they mature, is a different narrative altogether. It is one where diverse children are treated as unique beings evolving into engaged community members.
That story is being told in a few classrooms where teachers have empowered their students to get online and to find interesting problems that require the use of science, technology, math, history, engineering, compassion, resilience, perspicacity and meta-cognition to solve.
It's important to note here that a Scantron cannot evaluate the higher order thinking skills needed to cure Cancer or save the bees.
But a teacher empowered to use technology to help children become inquisitive problem solvers can determine how children are progressing without the dated technologies of textbooks or standardized tests.
The curated-web is the curriculum, and digital portfolios, both for teachers and students, are the tools for understanding how children are making sense of the worlds they are going to have to fix.
This change is taking place despite the moneyed interests behind the old system. There's no need to buy a chemistry book. It's online. And because we can evaluate a student's growth without having to stop and take a test, which a digital portfolio allows us to do, there's no need to pay a company for its dated technology.
The pressing issue now is who will win the battle of the narrative, those clinging to the past, who view children as passive vessels waiting to be filled with better content, or those of us who believe powerful teachers can be trusted to help children evolve into inquisitive world changers.
Tradition, unfortunately, is tough opposition.


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I really like Vallum Killometer. . A 1 RotV build is a challenge to make interesting when going with the symmetrical route, it pushes for asymmetry. And I think asymmetrical maps are too scarce around heroscapers; they pretty much always are more of a feat to make balanced/competitive than perfect or almost perfect-symmetry, and for that, I think a lot of people are afraid to try to make them. They also seem to require more time in making, with them you can't just spit out a map and dub it "competitive" just because each side is the same in symmetry. It's always a treat to see them for me, I find them much more interesting most of the time.
I also like that there's a random treasure glyph to the left, they're sometimes forgotten about.
It reminds me of a mixture between GameBear's Common Ground and your Dry Season, both great 1 RotV maps. Again, cool map.
When I finally get around to starting a map thread (right now my problem is I have a mac and am at college, I know there's a way to get windows on a mac but I'm not that great with computers and haven't tried getting it yet, I think I'm just going to wait and use my grandma's PC whenever I go home, then upload them from there), one of the first maps I'll post (I have 3 or 4 maps so far) is a 1 RotV map, can't wait to share it.
I've spent a bunch of time crunching what people like and don't like about @GameBear 's single Rise map Common Ground and my single Rise map Dry Season, and this is what I've come up with.
I really like Vallum...It reminds me of a mixture between GameBear's Common Ground and your Dry Season, both great 1 RotV maps. Again, cool map.
Thanks, I'm glad you like it. And I'm glad to see you made the connection before you saw my intention. I must have succeeded at least a little bit.
one of the first maps I'll post (I have 3 or 4 maps so far) is a 1 RotV map, can't wait to share it.
Looking forward to seeing them, especially the single Rise.
I've made some updates to Vallum.
I shrunk the platforms on levels 4 and 3 around each ruin to make the real estate there more valuable, and expanded level 2 to provide more room to maneuver around them. I added a narrow bridge between the two hill to improve movement between them, but kept it small to keep the two hills tactically separated. I added a subhill to each side of the lower hill, to add a strong stance there to keep that part of the map attractive in the shadow of the taller hill. Finally I added some water to the edge of the map to push action in towards the hills.
I've spent a bunch of time crunching what people like and don't like about @GameBear 's single Rise map Common Ground and my single Rise map Dry Season, and this is what I've come up with. To spice it up I've kept it superficially asymetric, but both sides have equal access to everything and play evenly. It has quite a bit of property on the highest level, but with the ruins cutting it in half it doesn't just become a plateau of slaughter. The power glyph is far enough afield to draw attention away from the tall hill (I liked it best with strong glyphs like Astrid, Gerda or Valda, but not enough to make it a fixed glyph), and the treasure glyph is easy enough to get to without decommitting from the high side that it tempts heroes (and I made the trap very low impact to avoid disincentivizing it, unlike some of my previous traps). The routes past the ruins are open enough that a single squad of Rats can't tie the whole thing up, and I've also accounted for hiding Rae-rae (Rise version can't cover the glyph from behind the ruin), and Zelrig and other ranged double basers can get to the top on OM1, but require a second OM to threaten the opposing SZ. I know there's more that I can't think of right now, but I'll fill it in as I remember.
Looks very schmexy Killo. I particularly like the "mini-hills". I'll make sure to give it a whirl.
Except now I have to rebuild it.
I particularly like the "mini-hills".
It took a long time for me to settle on where to put them. I kept trying to work them in nearer the tall hill, until I realized they'd go a great distance towards solving the problem you mentioned of the lower hill lacking draw. Now they're a good (but not great) Raelin/dragon/whoever perch over there: the gigh ground and glyph is too far for Raelin I to cover, and if you park a dragon or something similar there they cover a relatively limited chunk of map, thanks to its proximity to the SZ, ruins, and the edge of the map.
And, as always, I'd love to hear how the updates play.
Cool. I'll have to see if I can get a chance to build it. Thanks for keeping at these RoTV maps, Killo!
If it sees some action and is well enough received mebbe I'll add it to your "must play" list.
And just in case I forgot, belated thanks for your BoV-eye input on Dry Season; I considered it a lot when working on Vallum.
Hey Killometer, how does Perilous Paradise play competitively (particularly for Heat of Battle)?
"elvenwizard9." Now that's a username I've not heard in a long time.
Sorry so slow to respond, elvenwizard. I've actually never played it as a HoB map, but I've played it a lot as just straight 1-on-1 kill 'em all, everything from 200 to 1000 points, and I'd be perfectly happy lining up on either side in a competitive format.
Though as I consider it, in a HoB format its standard start zones might be dead zones-it's really designed as a clash-in-the-middle map, with a lot of interesting terrain and options there, with relatively plain SZ regions to allow rapid deployment. Possibly removing or adjusting the ruins and/or moving the glyphs out to there would help mitigate that. I'll dwell on it and let you know if I come up with any improvements for that format.
Dunno. Requires more thought than I'm up for at 1 in the morning.
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I'll see how it plays - looking forward to getting it built this week!

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If you’re looking for ways to make math fun, here are some free math game cards just in time for Valentine’s Day!
And the best part? They can be used for preschool through upper elementary! There are lots of games to play and different skills to work on.
These cards from Preschool Powol Packets are great for Valentine’s Day, but they can also be used any other time of the year!
There are so many things you can do with these cards.
For preschool, kids can learn number sense through fun “battle” or “war” card games. They can also have fun matching by color or number!
Third and fourth grade kids can go a little deeper to master their multiplication and division skills! You could also use the cards to introduce concepts like fractions.
To get your free set of math game cards, just go to Preschool Powol Packets. You’ll also find instructions for a variety of games.
While you’re there, be sure to take some time to look around! There are some great resources and articles to read.
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Microsoft Windows 8 Appfest, held at Karnataka Trade Promotion Organization (KTPO) in the outskirts of Bengaluru, set a new Guinness world record as 2567 app developers coded for 18 hours straight. However, Microsoft had expected at least 3500 developers to last through the attempt.
The event of this scale was supported by two Gigabits of bandwidth coming into the venue and six power generating stations ensured that power failure was not a problem.
Surprised developers present at the venue cheered as Steven Sinofsky, President of Windows and Windows Live at Microsoft wished the developers luck via a video message.
Pramanik also confirmed that Windows 8 will release on October 26. However, he consciously avoided any questions surrounding the release dates for the hardware including Microsoft’s very own tablet – Surface.
Yay, it’s a Guinness World Record for Windows AppFest! i was part of it !!!! Amazing experience…loved it !

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Current Sarcoma News Feed - is an RSS news feed, bringing you the latest related research and news articles involving sarcoma.
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Two Dutch traffic cameras burn, one in Australia rammed and several in Washington are decorated.
Patriotic residents of Lakewood, Washington decorated a number of red light cameras near Steilacoom Boulevard on July 4. Red, white and blue bunting obscured the camera lens, preventing the automated ticketing machine owned and operated by Redflex Traffic Systems of Australia from functioning.
A pair of speed cameras in The Netherlands, burst into flames at around 1:30am on Wednesday. Vigilantes first used gasoline to set fire to the automated ticketing machine at Gravenweg in Eygelshoven. They later used the same technique to take out a camera at Heerenweg in Heerlenm, Blik op Nieuws reported. Police have no suspects.
A Ford Focus hatchback rammed a speed camera in Northern Territory, Australia on July 5 at around 4:15am. The camera had been issuing tickets on the Stuart Highway at Woolner in Darwin. Police only have a vague description of the suspect, the Australian Broadcasting Company reported.

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Great to take a walk. I like going in the morning, not many people are out. I would definitely recommend going.
Beautiful Aventura city! Very pleasant walking place. Enjoy the always beautiful garden. Plus once you exercise or walk around the Anentura circle you see ducks and squirrels. Very nice place.
Nice to take a sroll,walk or run. Cl;ose to Aventura Mall,CVS, and many other stops. A dog walklers destination.
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How far is Aventura Circle and Don Stoffer excercise trail from Sunny Isles - address in 19000s Collins- is there a bus that runs to the Aventura Mall? Thank you.
If your in the 19000's likely just a mile or two. You can Google map the actual distance. There are normal transit buses and I believe there may be a special sunny isles trolley bus that specifically takes you to the mall. Check out the Aventura mall website for transportation options or to find a number to call.

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Velvetiine Gift Hampers will set the happy mood for RAKSHA BANDHAN.
Who does not like hampers ? Probably you will come across everyone liking or loving hampers in the most sane and insane state.Yes hampers always build up an excitement whether you receive it or just get to see someone receiving it (Too bad),be it whatever the situation it creates a joy surely among all. And when festivals come knocking and you are constantly reminded by those Tv ads of chocolates and jewels that feature anything just to deliver a strong message, it is then that you start wanting to show the affection for your dear ones and forget them almost for the rest of the year (lol).
Well jokes apart,we live in a country with almost every fortnight we witness a celebration in a full swing as a common thing ,and to be very honest every festival has its charm and grandeur,that is what i love about undoubtedly.The festival which is on Monday 7th AUGUST 2017 is RAKSHA BANDHAN and it is a very important one for a Brother and Sister relationship.It’s not that your brother or sister will love you less if you don’t get them anything but it is a thing which makes one another happy and i am sure everyone would want to see a smile glow.
So talking so about gifting i have come across a not so very old idea but still works on point which is Hampers filled with chocolates,special cookies and brownies that is specially packed to set the mood of the festival. As said Raksha Bandhan is the reason for the season for this starting month of August and everyone would be anxious to get loads of things for their brothers and sisters so why not add these hampers from Velvetiine to make them feel special. Not a bad idea after all as handmade chocolates are always a hit in gifting choices and brownies and cookies may be considered a new entry in this type of a moment but it will definitely strike good.
The Hampers have interestingly selected ones however you can call and custum it as per your need.
1) 1st Floor, Infinity Benchmark, Opposite RDB Cinemas, Sector 5, Salt Lake.
2) 23/4A, Rye Street, Elgin Road, Elgin, Kolkata.
3) 58/1A, Tollygunge Road, Tollygunge, Kolkata.
You can call ,order online or pick up your hampers which will be available for a few days now during this Raksha Bandhan festival time. So hurry up and get prepared for RAKSHA BANDHAN .
Thanks ! Oendrila of Just-Od-things for keeping me in mind for this hamper tasting.
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Here at Drive-Alive we have tried to keep you up to date with the developing situation regarding surface transport to the UK during the shutdown of European airspace.
Of course we have concentrated on ferries, as they are our area of special expertise. It seems that all services are now running as normal and that queues have shrunk to a more or less acceptable level.
If you are still trying to get back then you can find information about the different routes, ports and ferry companies on our ferry pages.
We hope we have been able to be of some help on this blog and on our twitter pages. Once things are back to normal we'll let you have our thoughts on the longer term effects on people's perception of different ways to travel.


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This property is a must inspect, new near renovations and modern inclusions.
-2x generously sized bedrooms, with built in robes.
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662 Kingston Road, Loganlea QLD 4131 was last sold in 2016 and 2 other 2 bedroom house in Loganlea have recently been sold.
In this street, the most recent rental of another house with 2 beds, 1 bath, 1 parking space was at number 662, which leased for $340 9 months ago.

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This forum was created so people with similar interests can chat and help each other out with problems growing Salvia Divinorum or other Known Entheogens.
Trading – I was thinking about making a trading section for people wanting to trade cuttings such as Salvia Divinorum, Ayahuasca, Kratom, and any other plants that have similar quality’s. You could also trade seeds if you wanted to.
In the future we are concidering to have Free Salvia Divinorum Cutting give aways and contests.
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People looking to become a Operator would either need to be a personal friend or contribute in some way to the site, wether that be by Posting Original Content or helping with something to do with the forum.
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Why do I hear a stuttered dial tone on my phone when I pick it up to make a call?
Every time I pick up my phone the dial tone sounds like a stutter for a few seconds then returns to normal. Why does it do that?
Re: Why do I hear a stuttered dial tone on my phone when I pick it up to make a call?
I finally got rid of my dial tone issue also after 2 months of beep, beep, beep , and finally a dial tone.
Thanks for the info. I thought I had a line problem.
I have made three phone calls and spent more than one hour on the phone with AT&T Tech Support to try to get rid of stutter dial tones on my two AT&T U-verse VOIP landlines, but it continues today. The stutter dial tone appeared by itself several weeks ago. I do not use, and have never used, AT&T U-verse voicemail. This is a minor annoyance, but it's getting pretty irritating. I'm now writing an Email message to AT&T (if I can find an address to which to send it) describing the situation and requesting that it be fixed.
@JHJHJH - The stutter dial tone indicates a Voice mail, including a welcome message for VM. Dial *98 & listen to the messages. If you do not want to use VM after that ask for it to be turned off.
After having spent more than two hours on the phone with AT&T Customer Service trying to get rid of the stutter dial tone (which signals a message waiting on AT&T's voicemail service, which I do not use), they finally gave up and sent a tech out my house to "check my phone installation." He fixed the problem in 30 seconds by dialing something on the phone.
I have the same stutter dial tone when I pick up my phone. I have NO voicemails (i have deleted all of them) and I have no missed calls (i removed them as well) - but this ridiculous stutter (it does it like 10 times) will not go away.
Again, I have NO voicemail messages at all - but it still does it.
If you're using U-verse go into your phone portal and see what it says. Sometimes it takes a bit for the notification to go away.
I am not using U-verse.
I have cox cable and the phone is connected to the cox cable phone box.
Than you have to call your phone provider, it's not coming from the phone it's coming from the provider.
Got it - thanks and have a great day.


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Tarleton Students: submit your work today for Expo 2018 at 500X Gallery! Don’t miss out on this great opportunity!
500X Gallery, Texas’ oldest, artist–run, cooperative galleries, hosts one of North Texas’ most anticipated annual student juried competitions. College Expo 2018 is open to all artists over the age of 18 living in Texas. All visual media are eligible, including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and video (artist must supply all required electronic equipment). All work must be ready to hang. Artwork will need to be dropped off, not shipped. Cost of entry is $30 for 5 pieces.
Juror is Katherine Brodbeck, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art..


text: Who has not dreamed of wobbling undersea like a siren? When somebody mentions this mythological being we picture a girl with flaming red hair swimming next to Flounder, her yellow and friendly fish. However, the original fairy tale was not created by Walt Disney, but by Hans Christian Andersen in 1873, with a rather less happy ending.


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Ecological Agriculture is a farming process with regard land ecosystems where farmers can manage their ecosystem, and can reduce production costs by using their own seeds, use of fertilizers and pesticides, plant-based self-made environmentally friendly. Thus, more independent farmers in cultivation. Self-reliance is what will strengthen the existence of farmers’ social, economic, and cultural.
Agriculture is a subsistence sector, which for the moment agriculture is less attracted attention for the occupied, because the results obtained are relatively small, so many was left by the society, especially the younger generation. This is clearly a threat to food security, because food is a basic need for human beings to live. One of the causes of the declining interest in becoming farmers is the imbalance between production costs and the income derived from the farm to meet their needs. Higher production costs, while the results are no longer satisfactory. The high cost of production does not just happen, because it has been more than 30 years, farmers’ dependence on external inputs such as chemical fertilizers, seeds, pesticides and other inputs. The use of these inputs was also contributes significant land damage. Doses used tends to increase, while the yield obtained is often decreased. So that input costs are increasingly high.
Ecological agriculture developed to give new hope to farmers and answer the problems that exist, such as high input costs, the loss of local resources, deteriorating soil quality and ecosystem balance, and the low income of farmers.
In addition to produce a healthy Agricultural product, ecological agricultural products are also better appreciated by the market. With such an opportunity for farmers to be self-sufficient farming business and livelihood will be better.


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The .NET framework has shipped with the System.Diagnostics namespace since version 1.0. My efforts to build a method context information gathering framework on the services of System.Diagnostics has brought me a deeper understanding of its classes and configuration settings. I will talk about my method context information gathering framework in a later post, but first I thought I would get us all on the same page on System.Diagnostics.
System.Diagnostics implements several classes that play a key role in outputting trace text from your application. Better understanding these classes will bring you insights in to how to extend the existing diagnostic framework in .NET or how to set up the configuration file to make full use of the out-of-the-box functionality.
The TraceListener class receives trace texts from the application and outputs it to a specific channel it was written for. There is a DefaultTraceListener class that outputs its text to the Win32 API OutputDebugString. But there is also an EventLogTraceListener that outputs its text to the windows event log. There is even an XmlWriterTraceListener that will output Xml to a stream. There are more listeners you can choose from and you can even write your own. Just derive your listener class from the abstract TraceListener base class and implement the abstract methods.
A TraceListener also maintains an optional Filter. This allows you to fine tune the type of information that a TraceListener actually outputs. For instance, you could put an EventTypeFilter on the EventLogTraceListener to only output Error-type traces to the windows event log.
TraceListener instances are held in a collection that all receive the same trace text to output. This means that the same trace text can be output on different channels (each channel is represented by a TraceListener) at the same time. This collection can live at the global/static Trace or Debug classes or at a TraceSource.
A TraceSource represents a configurable trace object that maintains its own set of TraceListeners. An associated TraceSwitch (discussed next) controls the trace level for this ‘scope’. Typically a TraceSource is configured in the .config. When the code instantiates a TraceSource with the same name it reads its settings from the .config file. This way you can control what portions of your application code will output trace text.
A TraceSwitch maintains a TraceLevel property that controls the importance of the trace texts passed to the TraceListeners. The usual Error, Warning, Info and Verbose are supported. Typical use is to configure the TraceSwitch in the .config file and when the code instantiates an instance using the same name it reads its settings from the .config file. Although you can use TraceSwitches standalone they are usually associated with a TraceSource (in config). It is also possible to write your own TraceSwitch.
The configuration settings live inside the <system.diagnostics> element. Then we see a <sharedListeners> section. Although it is possible to configure all TraceListener settings separately for each TraceSource, I prefer to maintain a global list of (configured) TraceListeners and refer to them from the TraceSource configuration. <sharedListeners> is that global place. Notice that the EventLogTraceListener has a <filter> defined that only allows Error-type traces to pass to the event log.
The <sources> section allows you to list the configuration settings for all the TraceSources your application uses. If the configuration for an instantiated TraceSource is not found in the .config file, it is shut off by default. So if you expect to see trace output from a specific TraceSource but there isn’t any, 9 out of 10 times you did not configure it right (check the spelling).
Each <source> declares its own collection of TraceListeners, in this case referring to one declared in <sharedListeners>. As a convention I’ve used the full class names as TraceSource names and TraceSwitch names. But you can also choose a courser granularity, say at component level or at sub-system level.
You can associate a TraceSwitch with a TraceSource by using the switchName and switchType attributes on the <source> element. I’ve not done so in my example and that means that you have to instantiate the TraceSwitches manually in code (with the correct name). You can associate a TraceSwitch with a TraceSource by either using the switchName and switchType attributes on the <source> element -or- by just declaring a switch (<switches><add>) with the same name as the TraceSource.
This quick tour around System.Diagnostics discussed the main classes that enable you to build pretty powerful tracing support into your application. With this information you could already instantiate a TraceSource for each class and configure a matching TraceSwitch. Code inside the class would simply call the TraceSource and it would work. You could configure it to allow specific (type of) information to come through while the rest is blocked, for instance. And although I would encourage anybody to at least take some time to fiddle with a simple console test application to try out these features, it is my experience that you’ll want more in a real application. That is why I build my method context information gathering framework. Although this framework does not add much to the tracing capabilities of System.Diagnostics, it does add a lot to the quality of information that is in the trace texts.
I plan to write about my framework in a future post.
For more information on System.Diagnostics go to MSDN.


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Blake Friedmann is delighted to announce that new client Paul Usher will act as the UK representative and producer for Berlin based film finance and production company Instinctive Film. Paul was previously an agent for five years with CMM, and now works as a scriptwriter and producer.
Instinctive, who executive produced last year’s hit indie thriller RETREAT staring Cillian Murphy, Jamie Bell and Thandie Newton, are now looking to solidify their international presence with expansion into both the UK and US markets.
Paul will be responsible for developing co-production deals for Instinctive in the UK, as well as assembling a development slate.
In addition to his work as a producer, Paul also has two scripts under option with Instinctive – a high concept thriller called THE HOLD and an action adventure entitled SMOKING HOT.

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In this article, we will show you, How to write a C Program to Remove First Occurrence of a Character in a String with example.
This program allows the user to enter a string (or character array), and a character value. Next, it will search and remove the first occurrence of a character inside a string.
This program is same as above. Here, we just replaced the While Loop with For Loop. I suggest you to refer For Loop to understand the Loop iterations.

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I wrote about this subject more than a year ago and many people still read it every day. A recent comment has caused me to ponder this problem again. It hits home because I’ve been there.
The first one really hurts because it slams you in the gut when you’re not looking. Let’s say you’re used to getting along with people, they like you. You’re at a new job or someone new shows up where you work. Out of the blue you’re faced with snide remarks behind your back or worse … where you can hear them.
What’s hard to understand is that you haven’t said or done anything to deserve this.
Let’s make it more personal. You go out of your way time and again to help someone you’re close to. Yet every time you help you get burned. Why?
Because the one you help is angry that they can’t help themselves. They want to be able to do what they’re asking you to do, are frustrated because they can’t. It doesn’t matter why, whether it’s their fault or not. They resent you for being able to do what they can’t. That resentment can turn to ingratitude, even hate. This can become a vicious circle.
There are other reasons someone wants to be you – they hate themselves. You’re easygoing, they are uptight. You are confident, they are unsure of themselves. You’re tall and handsome, they’re short and average. And so on.
Some people are obsessed with comparison or feeling that everyone else has it better. It doesn’t take a degree to realize this can cause self-hatred.
The third one: someone sees you as a threat. To me this can be dangerous. It can tear people apart, ruin lives.
Suppose someone in the family spreads a lie about you. It catches you off guard because things have been good lately. You can tell the family it isn’t true, ask them not to judge you on past problems.
How about work? You think everything is fine until the boss calls you into the office one day. There have been complaint calls lately from customers. You know it’s a co-worker who is making the calls but can’t prove it. If you try to explain you may come off as catty and spiteful.
What can you do? In a word, nothing. People will think what they want no matter what you say.
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GDP (Current Prices, National Currency) SBD 2.721 Billion.
GDP Per Capita (Constant Prices, National Currency) SBD 5,942.64 .
GDP Per Capita (Current Prices, National Currency) SBD 5,942.64 .
General government revenue (National Currency) SBD 0.943 Billions.
General government total expenditure (National Currency) SBD 0.797 Billions.
Total Government Net Lending/ Borrowing (National Currency) SBD 0.146 Billions.
Fiscal Year Gross Domestic Product, Current Prices SBD 2.721 Billions.
GDP (Constant Prices, National Currency) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is SBD 2.721 Billion.
GDP Growth (Constant Prices, National Currency) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 8.089 %.
GDP (Current Prices, National Currency) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is SBD 2.721 Billion.
GDP (Current Prices, US Dollars) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is US$ 0.363 Billion.
GDP Deflator for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 100 (Index, Base Year as per country's accounts = 100).
GDP Per Capita (Constant Prices, National Currency) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is SBD 5,942.64 .
GDP Per Capita (Current Prices, National Currency) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is SBD 5,942.64 .
GDP Per Capita (Current Prices, US Dollars) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is US$ 793.967 .
GDP (PPP), US Dollars for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is US$ 0.533 Billion.
GDP Per Capita (PPP), US Dollars for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is US$ 1,163.83 .
GDP Share of World Total (PPP) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 0.001 %.
Implied PPP Conversion Rate for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 5.106 .
Investment (% of GDP) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 8.933 %.
Gross National Savings (% of GDP) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 25.736 %.
Inflation, Average Consumer Prices (Indexed to Year 2000) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 90.527 (Index, Base Year 2000 = 100).
Inflation (Average Consumer Price Change %) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 6.916 %.
Inflation, End of Year (Indexed to Year 2000) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 92.061 (Index, Base Year 2000 = 100).
Inflation (End of Year Change %) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 7.501 %.
Import Volume of All Items Including Goods and Services (Percent Change) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 17.637 %.
Import Volumes of Goods Only (Percent Change) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 13.863 %.
Export Volume of All Items Including Goods and Services (Percent Change) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 23.654 %.
Export Volumes of Goods Only (Percent Change) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 21.025 %.
Population for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 0.458 Million .
General government revenue (National Currency) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is SBD 0.943 Billions.
General government revenue (% of GDP) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 34.66 %.
General government total expenditure (National Currency) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is SBD 0.797 Billions.
General government total expenditure (% of GDP) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 29.308 %.
Total Government Net Lending/ Borrowing (National Currency) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is SBD 0.146 Billions.
Total Government Net Lending/ Borrowing (% of GDP) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 5.352 %.
Fiscal Year Gross Domestic Product, Current Prices for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is SBD 2.721 Billions.
Current Account Balance (US Dollars) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is US$ 0.061 Billion.
Current Account Balance (% GDP) for Solomon Islands in year 2004 is 16.803 %.

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“Don Weller: Another Cowboy” opens June 17th, an homage to the American Cowboy.


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Acne is a common skin condition that mostly affects teenagers, but also adults are prone to it. Due to the changing lifestyle, unhealthy food habits and pollution the prevalence of acne in young adults has increased.
Acne face is no less than a nightmare. The unsightly breakouts on the face, back, chest and arms cause pain, and if left untreated leaves scars. Acne hampers your beauty and self-confidence.
If you visit a dermatologist, you will be prescribed ointments and drugs. However, there are many reasons to avoid conventional treatment such as sensitive skin, personal choice, allergy but the topmost is that chemical treatments or prescription drugs for acne do not address the cause and so the effect is temporary. Also, harsh chemicals may exaggerate your problem and irritate your skin.
Essential oils are natures gift to treat most of the skin issues and are safe alternative to chemical loaded and harsh conventional acne treatment.
The primary cause of pimples and acne are bacteria on the skin, excess oil, clogged pores and accumulation of dead skin cells. Other factors include poor diet, stress, hormonal imbalance and certain medications such as birth control pills, androgens, lithium and corticosteroids. Essential oils are antibacterial, antiseptic and anti-inflammatory. They heal the skin, unclogs the blocked pores and exfoliates the dead skin cells. Being anti-inflammatory, they relieve pain and redness. The best part is that essential oils are gentle over the skin and tackles the root cause. The benefits of essential oils for skin goes beyond fighting acne and promotes skin health by providing essential nutrients to the skin. Also, they alleviate stress, balances the level of hormones and fights insomnia.
Tea Tree Oil- Tea tree oil is potent anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory and antiseptic. It kills the acne-causing bacteria, exfoliates dead skin cells, removes impurities and unclogs the pores. Application of 5% Tea tree oil is as effective as 5% benzoyl peroxide. It may work slowly, but in comparison to benzoyl peroxide, it is less irritating. Also, research proves that tea tree oil is more effective than placebo in minimizing the acne severity and number of acne lesions.
Application of tea tree oil two times a day for 45 days alleviate acne symptoms and acne severity.
Mix 15 drops of tea tree essential oil to 50 ml witch hazel oil. Apply the solution to the affected area with the help of a cotton ball two times a day. Leave it overnight and in the morning wash your face.
You may also add a few drops of tea tree essential oil to your regular face wash and use it.
*Do not apply tea tree essential oil on your skin for more than two times a day. Overuse will make your skin dry and trigger oil production.
Frankincense Essential Oil For Acne- The astringent property of frankincense essential oil makes it an effective acne treatment. It dries out the acne, tightens the skin, promotes wound healing and reduces scars and dark spots. Also, frankincense essential oil helps the collagen production and growth of new cells. It keeps skin firm and elastic.
Mix 4 drops of frankincense essential oil with four drops of tea tree oil and 15 ml rosehip oil. Store it in a dark glass bottle. With the help of cotton apply this oily mixture to the affected area two time a day.
Bergamot Essential Oil- It is a citrus based oil that has antibacterial property and is also known to reduce stress. It is a wonderful ingredient to fight acne, reduce blemishes, promote healing, minimize scars and promote the growth of new cells.
Mix 5 drops of bergamot essential oil with four tablespoons of aloe vera gel and two drops of lavender oil. Clean your face and apply the oily serum to your face as a moisturizer. Repeat this two times in a day.
If stress is the trigger behind skin breakouts, pour a few drops of bergamot oil on your handkerchief and inhale it to lower the level of stress and anxiety.
*Bergamot oil is phototoxic. Avoid stepping out in the sun after applying it or use sunscreen to protect your skin.
Clary Sage Oil- Linalyl acetate present in clary sage oil reduces inflammation and soothes skin irritation. It regulates the production of sebum. Also, clary sage oil balances hormone and controls the growth and spread of the bacteria that causes skin infections. Research shows that this oil can reduce the level of cortisol and thus it improves mood.
Dilute 1-3 drops of clary sage essential oil with a tablespoon of coconut oil or jojoba oil and apply to the affected area two time in a day.
To combat stress, anxiety and insomnia diffuse five drops of clary sage oil.
You can also add 1-2 drops of the oil to your face mask or face cream and use it.
*Never use more than 1-2% of this oil on your skin and that too in diluted form.
Lavender Essential Oil For Acne– Lavender oil is antimicrobial and antioxidant. It is known to nourish and soothe the skin. It heals dry skin, reduces blemishes or dark spots and nourishes the skin. It has mild astringent property and clears the clogged pores. Lavender essential oil is a circulatory stimulant. It enhances the blood flow to the skin. Increased blood flow means an increased supply of nutrients and oxygen. Your skin becomes healthy and glows. Also, lavender oil has relaxing effects.
To 15 ml rosehip oil adds ten drops of lavender essential oil. Store the mixture in a dark coloured bottle. Clean your face and apply the oily serum to your face. Repeat this two times in a day.
Alternatively, to a bowl of steaming water add ten drops of lavender essential oil. Place your face over the bowl and cover your head with a towel for 5-10 minutes. Let the steam cover your face. Do not wipe your face and let your face dry naturally. This is followed by massaging your face with ice cubes wrapped in a clean cloth for a minute or two. Do this every day for the best results.
Juniper Berry Essential Oil For Acne- Not only juniper essential oil has antibacterial property but also has detoxifying properties. This magic oil eliminate the toxins and bacteria from our body rendering a clear skin.
Add 2-3 drops of juniper essential oil to aloe vera gel. Apply to your face and leave it overnight. In the morning wash your face.
Lemon Grass Essential Oil- The presence of citric acid in lemongrass essential oil makes it a natural exfoliant that eliminates dead skin cells and excess oil. Its natural healing property fades out the scars. Also, it reduces sun damage and dark spots. Being antibacterial it fights acne-causing bacteria. The astringent property of the oil unclogs the pores.
To 15ml calendula oil add eight drops of lemongrass essential oil. Apply it to clean skin two times a day.
Pure essential oil may irritate the skin so always use them in dilution.
Do a patch test before using them.
Pregnant women, nursing moms and for kids, please consult your doctor before using essential oils.
Essential oils are the best treatment for acne prone skin. However, the results may vary according to the skin type. The outcome also depends on the severity of skin breakout. For apparent results have patience and be consistent with the treatment.


text: Hungarian painter, photographer, and Bauhaus educator László Moholy-Nagy believed back in the early 19oo's that art and technology should go hand in hand. Seventy years after his death, the Guggenheim will open a retrospective of his constructivist work on Friday, and appropriately invited a group of Instagram influencers to preview the show this morning. Francesca Lavazza, a member of the museum's board, was also present. "I am excited by the opportunity that social media and Instgramers present to modern day art," she said of the idea of 'Insta meets' such as this one. "It’s great to collaborate with people who are passionate about art, who can share, promote and encourage a wider audience to appreciate it." The question remains, however: would Bauhaus approve of art selfies?


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Not to be confused with Maria Theresa of Savoy.
Maria Teresa was born in Palazzo Colonna in Rome, the daughter of King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia and of his wife, Archduchess Maria Teresa of Austria-Este. She had a twin sister Maria Anna. The two princesses were baptised by Pope Pius VII. Their godparents were their maternal grandparents, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este and his wife Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este. In the Museo di Roma can be seen a painting of the baptism.
Maria Teresa spent the majority of her childhood in Cagliari on the island of Sardinia, where her family had taken refuge from the armies of Napoleon I of France. In 1814 her father was restored to rule in Piedmont and the family returned to Turin. She had hoped to marry her cousin Charles Albert of Savoy who in 1817 married Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, a daughter of the Duke of Tuscany.
On 5 September 1820, in Lucca, Maria Teresa married Charles Louis, Prince of Lucca.
Luisa Francesca di Paola Teresa Maria Anna Clothilde Beatrice (29 October 1821 – 8 September 1823).
Carlo Giuseppe Maria Vittorio Baldasarre, Duke of Parma (14 January 1823 – 27 March 1854).
Maria Teresa was beautiful, tall, regal with a noble and melancholic expression. Charles Louis, Prince of Lucca was handsome and they were said to be the best looking royal couple of their time. However they were mismatched. She was a deeply religious woman committed to her Catholic faith. Charles Louis lived largely for his own pleasure often ignoring his governmental responsibilities. They lived most of their married life apart from each other. "Even if there was no love", Charles Louis later commented, "there was respect".
On 13 March 1824, Charles Louis' mother died, and he succeeded her as Duke Charles I of Lucca; Maria Teresa became Duchess of Lucca. Neglected by her husband who had numerous affairs, she turned increasingly towards religion and grew disdainful of court life and entertainments, to which her husband was attached. He sometimes dragged her in his travels and in 1829 she accompanied him visiting the court of Saxony. Their relationship, cold from the beginning, deteriorated quickly with time.
Eventually she retired completely from the court of Lucca, settling permanently first in Villa di Marilia and later to her villa at Pianore, where surrounded by priest and nuns, she dedicated her life to religion. After 1840 she lived in complete religious seclusion in Pianore. She was very attached to her own Sardinian family and lived a life dedicated to religion. She surrounded herself by her confessor and her homeopathic doctors. Her husband visited her but he commented that her weak intellect and lack of sensitivity "would enable her to live a century ". She had little influence over their son who, in 1845, married princess Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois, a daughter of the Duke of Berry and the only sister of the French legitimate pretender the Count of Chambord.
On 17 December 1847, the Empress Marie Louise died, and, in accordance with the Congress of Vienna, Charles exchanged the duchy of Lucca for that of Parma, becoming Duke Charles II of Parma; Maria Teresa became Duchess of Parma but only for few months. The revolution broke out in March 1848. In March 1849 Charles abdicated as duke of Parma and was succeeded by their son, Charles III.
Maria Teresa lived mostly at her villa at Viareggio, particularly after the assassination of her son in 1854. There she built a chapel as a memorial for her son. Later she lived in a villa in San Martino in Vignale on the hills just north of Lucca served only by her confessor and the administrator of the property. The villa is still called "Tenuta Maria Teresa" in her honor. There she died in 1879 as a result of cerebral arteriosclerosis. She was buried in the Verano cemetery in Rome, dressed in the habit of the Third Order of St. Dominic.
Mateos Sainz de Medrano. Ricardo. Changing Thrones: Duke Carlo II of Parma. Published in Royalty History Digest, Vol 3, N 1. July 1993.
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Already noted the presence of summer around here and Google, trying to somehow refresh all their enthusiastic, announced yesterday that, finally, releasing the code of Android 2.2 Froyo publicly. This morning, that news is you added the start of the distribution of the final version of For all its Nexus One Froyo via OTA.
We have also heard of the real Motorola plans to update your Motorola Droid and your new Motorola Droid X to Froyo, and the tone of the news is the same as we have had so far, i.e., follow waiting a little more.
Motorola Droid X users will receive Android 2.2 Froyo at the end of August.
Motorola Droid users (we suppose that also the Motorola Milestone) will receive Android 2.2 Froyo at the end of July.
This data is a considerable delay According to the expectations of many users who planned to have it even simultaneously to the Nexus One. Anyway just a month, it is not so much. We hope that European users of the Motorola Milestone Don’t assume it greater delay, since in principle, and as said the general director of Motorola Spain in an interview to Engadget, there should not be any difference between the two models.
Recall that a month ago we mentioned between cheers, hugs and tears of pure emotion that Google had begun to launch Android 2.2 Froyo among its clients of Nexus One in the USA just 2 days after its official announcement at Google I/O. Nothing was so.
That news was real and certain, but what had occurred was the distribution of a update of testing froyo between several Nexus One handed over to developers and press, not all terminals, as we all thought. Even so the update took well little to be found in the Google servers in a file in .zip format. We were many who lament, the fastest download it and apply thanks to a simple and legal process combinations of buttons and menus in our terminals.
It was the Froyo version with FRF50 build number. At first glance it looks like the final version, runs really smooth and incorporates all the features promised in Google, but in fact also includes troubleshooting and bugs, where is the absence of part of the applications of the Market perhaps the most striking of all. In Google was admitted then that were still missing weeks so the official version, launched a previous version that was.
A week ago jumped to the network a new version, which had as FRF72 build number. The update was extremely small size and only added less than the aforementioned FRF50 corrections. Therefore It was more a patch as an update in itself. On Google returned to make after that it was not the “final”release of Froyo, and which would not launch it until it does not reach the parameters and criteria of quality they consider appropriate.
And at this point, and as announced at the beginning of this article, seems to be that the day of the release of Android 2.2 code has also been chosen to begin launch date the final update via OTA: is the updated with number of compilation FRF83. Of course, also the typical .zip file has been leaked from Google servers for install it manually, for users who already have FRF50, for those who have FRF72.
Clarify that the OTA will arrive for all Nexus One regardless of the version of Froyo FRF or system Eclair with. We assume that it will gradually appear in all terminals (a mi me has not yet come).
What will happen when you receive the update via OTA?
This section is aimed at all users of Android in general. To many of you, especially to those who have just arrived, the issue of the update via OTA os causes multitude of doubts about applications and previous configurations of its terminals, We are going to resolve them.
So what we must do is ensure that we have the Wi-Fi enabled to download or a good 3G data rate (the update is usually 40 Mb approximately). So give install later and make sure your type connection. You can then return to find the notice of discharge without problems from the menus Settings > about phone > system updates to begin the installation.
Comment that the upgrade to Android 2.2 Froyo your applications and settings (except in isolated cases) remain unchanged, the only thing that is updated is the system itself, so you will not lose anything.
In my particular case, I decided to do a “Wipe” or “Factory data reset” a few hours (manually) install the Froyo FRF50 version, because I noticed that the system was not working as it should. Maybe that was a particular problem from my Nexus One, but I recommend that you do the same if you have the opportunity (before saving all of your data), since this system is slightly more “clean” that is when full of Apps and custom configurations. To have access to Settings > privacy > factory data reset.
Good advantage to all Nexus One users. We your comments.


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TA Mixtape / Summer Lovin’ : How Does Your Garden Grow?
If the fact that my last mixtape included tracks from both Journey AND The Backstreet Boys didn’t reveal me to be a huge nerd, then I’m about to blow my cover now: this past April I actually left my apartment in Silverlake – Los Angeles hipster music mecca – and moved completely across town into a house a mile away from the beach. AND I LOVE IT. Yeah, it’s much farther to get to most shows, and a much more painful drive home when I head east on weeknights, but I moved to be closer to my job in Santa Monica and in that regard it’s a total win.
I also love living in a house. Four bedrooms, three bathrooms, two floors. I love my huge living room and kitchen. I love having a front yard. I love my tiny room, which is almost completely become my own personal magical music happy land. Currently though, I’m especially loving my back patio. I want to paint the walls. I want to buy cute vintage patio furniture. And I want to garden.
If you’re an LA denizen and you haven’t heard of Mystery Claws, you will soon. Comprised of rockers Julia Bembenek and Matt Kivel (Princeton) and featuring drummer Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint), the band’s first single, “Flashlights” premiered on Stereogum late April and now their debut album Hydaspia (on Easter Everywhere Records) is on the market.
Most of my favorite summers were spent away as summer camp. Singing dorky camp songs. Canoeing. Capture the flag. That one summer where I spent four weeks doing manual labor and it was called a “learning experience.” The best times were always had in the evenings. It was great to be able to see the stars and there’s something incredibly bonding about being in the middle of the woods at night. Campfires happened at night. Ghost stories. Fireflies. Bonding chats. Listening to your cabin-mates’ hilarious sleep talking.


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Ridgway, G.R.; Henley, S.M.D.; Rohrer, J.D.; Scahill, R.I.; Warren, J.D.; Fox, N.C.; (2008) Ten simple rules for reporting voxel-based morphometry studies. NeuroImage , 40 (4) pp. 1429-1435. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.01.003.
Voxel-based morphometry [Ashburner, J. and Friston, K.J., 2000. Voxel-based morphometry—the methods. NeuroImage 11(6 Pt 1), 805–821] is a commonly used tool for studying patterns of brain change in development or disease and neuroanatomical correlates of subject characteristics. In performing a VBM study, many methodological options are available; if the study is to be easily interpretable and repeatable, the processing steps and decisions must be clearly described. Similarly, unusual methods and parameter choices should be justified in order to aid readers in judging the importance of such options or in comparing the work with other studies. This editorial suggests core principles that should be followed and information that should be included when reporting a VBM study in order to make it transparent, replicable and useful.


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Last snow day of Spring 2018?
Volunteer Day at Stover, Sunday 25th March, 10am – 4pm. Why not join our growing army of Conservation Volunteers? Tasks are varied and all tools are provided. No special skills are needed – just bring along lunch and old clothes. There is a car parking charge of £1.50 for 2 hours and £3.00 for all day. Charges apply from dusk till dawn. For more information call 01626 835 236 or email stover@devon.gov.uk.
Easter orienteering challenge at Dawlish Countryside Park Sunday 1 April, 1pm to 3.30pm.
Navigate around Dawlish in search of eggstraordinary clues. £1 per person and no need to book. Start point near noticeboard beyond car park.
Spring Adventure Day at the Grand Western Canal, Wednesday 4th April, 2-4pm.
Hop along to the country park and discover what creatures live in and around the canal.
Meet at the Rangers Office, Canal Hill, Tiverton. Booking essential, £5 per child.
Coastal Creatures Rockpool Scavenger Hunt, Thursday 5th April 2pm-4pm. Join the rangers and Cat Oliver from the North Devon Coast AONB for this rockpool ramble with a difference!
Meet at Westward Ho! Slipway.


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China warned the United States on Thursday that everyone would be harmed if President Donald Trump launches a trade war, as official figures showed the Asian power maintained a robust trade surplus with the U.S.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi issued the stern message as the Trump administration geared up to formally introduce steel and aluminum tariffs as early as Thursday despite global concerns. “Choosing a trade war is surely the wrong prescription, in the end you will only hurt others and yourself,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said. “China will certainly make an appropriate and necessary response,” Wang said at a press conference on the sidelines of the Communist Party’s annual parliamentary session.
On Wednesday, at the World Trade Organization, China led a group of 18 members urging Trump to scrap the planned tariffs, with its representative saying the levies would pose a systemic threat to the rules-based global trading system.
U.S. imports from China of steel and aluminum make up a small proportion of its total imports from the world’s second largest economy. But the tariffs may be the first foray in the brewing American trade war with Beijing.
In coming weeks, the Trump administration plans to issue a report on China’s intellectual property practices expected to hammer China and possibly bring about further tariffs on a wider range of Chinese imports. “The U.S. is acting swiftly on Intellectual Property theft. We cannot allow this to happen as it has for many years!” Trump tweeted hours before Wang took the stage in Beijing.
“We look forward to seeing what ideas they come back with. We must act soon!” Trump said.
The amount is a drop in the bucket when compared with the record $375.2 billion trade deficit the U.S. racked up with China last year.
Trump’s tweets follow China’s moves to resolve the simmering trade tensions.
While Beijing has launched warning shots—like trade investigations into U.S. goods such as sorghum, and hinted it could even take on soybeans, its largest U.S. import—officials have worked to find a peaceful resolution.
President Xi Jinping sent his top economic aide, Liu He, to Washington to discuss trade issues last week on the heels of a similar visit by state councilor Yang Jiechi last month. But Washington has shown little interest in negotiating, with Liu’s visit resulting in few major breakthroughs beyond a commitment to further talks on trade issues.
Tuesday’s resignation of Trump’s top economic adviser Gary Cohn—who had held talks with Liu during his visit—also throws cold water on the negotiations. His departure leaves “nationalist” advisers like arch China skeptic Peter Navarro, author of Death by China, and Commerce boss Wilbur Ross with the president’s ear.
Last week, Trump said “trade wars are good, and easy to win” when the U.S. is losing billions on trade. In Beijing, officials continue to search for a way out.
“The lessons of history show engaging in a trade war is never the right way to resolve problems,” said foreign minister Wang.
Trade data released by China’s customs administration on Thursday shows its massive trade surplus with the U.S.—the root of Trump’s ire—is far from finding a more even level. The surplus with the U.S. stood at $21 billion in February, China’s official data showed, more than double the $10.4 billion surplus registered in February of last year.
“The bigger picture is that while China’s trade surplus with most of the world has declined during the past year…its surplus with the U.S. has continued to expand,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard, China Economist at Capital Economics in a note.
February’s surplus did edge downwards from the $21.9 billion recorded in January and $25.6 billion from December.
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What explains the rise of virtual, ideological terrorist networks in the West?
By Linda Schlegel. Linda is currently pursuing an MA in Terrorism, Security, and Society at King’s College London.
With the rise of the so-called Islamic State new questions for terrorism research emerged. Especially the social media use of the organization has both fascinated and worried practitioners and academics alike. One of the most worrying features of the new, virtual display of Salafi-jihadist ideology is the increasing number of people from all over the world, who seek to join this movement. We as societies need to ask ourselves what may drive young people towards this type of ideology. One of the possible underlying mechanisms for increased online radicalization from a sociological point of view is explored in the following by showing that today’s youth may be easier influenced in an online setting than older generations were.
Pierre Bourdieu showed that humans are socialized in a certain milieu defined by our standing in society and thereby develop a shared set of behaviours with those socialized in similar circumstances. This shared set of practices of social interaction is called habitus. Those sharing a habitus understand each other more intuitively due to their similarities in social dispositions, while those socialized in very different circumstances, who therefore developed a different habitus, do not. For Bourdieu, the habitus is based on class, but globalization eroded traditional social milieus. Modern communication technology (MCT) is available to a majority living in the West crumbling traditional limits of access due to class. It can be argued that almost equal access to the MCTs in the West resulted in a similitude of habitus by those, who grew up using them. Social media makes socialization processes similar in one specific aspect, the online realm, creating shared dispositions and therefore the ability to intuitively interact in the virtual world. Following Prensky, individuals socialized using MCT are called ‘digital natives’.
What does this mean for the rise of virtual, ideological networks in the West? A habitus creates a shared basis for interaction and similar behaviour. This, in turn, leads to more trust in those, who display similar social dispositions and therefore makes it easier to construct one’s identity on the basis of a group sharing the same habitus. The same is true for the online realm, which partially explains the rise of terrorist networks as digital natives are likely to consume and perceive online propaganda differently, display more trust towards it and more easily commit to an ideology they are exposed to online. Terrorists networks expanded in the West partially, because digital natives are more likely to be able to form emotional bonds online and construct their identity accordingly.
There are three interrelated factors that contribute to a bottom-up rise of extremist networks in the case of digital natives: Familiarity, trust and cognitive belonging.
Firstly, digital natives find, access and navigate online environments more easily than older generations. The digital world constitutes a familiar environment for potential recruits and they navigate it intuitively. Importantly, they also find familiarity in the interactions with other digital natives, who share their habitus, and are therefore likely to communicate in a similar manner; something that develops naturally from a shared habitus and cannot be learned.
Secondly, while mature users tend to be cautious and aware of virtual dangers, younger generations associate online interaction with positive feelings and display a lot of trust in their virtual peers. This combination of trust and positive feelings associated with online contact constitutes a ‘cognitive opening’ for digital natives, making them more susceptible to ideas propagated by their peers. This condition is exacerbated by the tendency of online communities to create ‘echo chambers’: Once within an extreme environment, counter-messages are unlikely to reach the potential recruit. Similar to Facebook, which shows its users only what they ‘liked’, jihadi echo chambers display only messages in alignment with their ideology. Trust in the messenger, a fellow digital native, leads to more trust in the message, which is also increased by the virtual ‘echo chamber’.
Trust is a necessary pre-condition for the third factor: cognitive belonging. Digital natives display intuitive knowledge of online interactions due to their partially similar socialization; their habitus. Some potential recruits become involved in terrorist movements, because they seek a feeling of belonging or identity, which is easier constructed in a group containing individuals similar to oneself. Despite its global reach, the shared habitus enables identity construction rested on a perception of a virtual ‘imagined community’ of similarly socialized individuals. This identity construction is achieved both through passive and active engagement with the ideology. On the one hand, when ideology is conveyed in familiar terms, it is easier to relate to. This is achieved, for instance, by utilizing Western foreign fighters to share their stories. This familiarity in messaging, only possible through similar socialization, is a tremendous advantage for recruitment. Messaging matters not only in terms of content, but also in terms of delivery. On the other hand, digital natives are used to highly interactive environments. If a group provides this room for expression, it creates an environment of constant negotiation and re-negotiation of ideology and identity. Today’s radical online communities are not only passive receivers of propaganda, they are active negotiators of the ideology.
Not every digital native is more susceptible to radical ideologies. In an online setting, however, they are more likely to perceive an online community as important and real, and, if the community is radical, are more likely to adhere to radical ideas through online interaction. One possible implication of this is that the constructors and conveyors of counter-narratives should be digital natives as well. An excellent counter-narrative will not lead to desired results if it is not received by the intended audiences in alignment with their expectations on online interaction. It is likely that the same messages have very different results depending on which generation verbalizes them. An educational effort by digital natives for their peers with content constructed by them is likely to increase the legitimacy of the counter-message due to increased trust and familiarity. It could therefore facilitate the effectiveness of counter-radicalization. Social media changes our lives and it changes the faces and mechanisms of terrorism. We need to be aware of these developments in order to counter them directly and effectively.

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The Nigerian Army has strengthened its reward mechanisms as part of strategies to motivate troops especially those engaged in the ongoing war against Boko Haram.
This was disclosed by the Director of Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Sani Usman, in response to enquiries fon Friday.
He explained that the Army, under the leadership of Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai, had been doing a lot to motivate troops to undertake their constitutional responsibility of securing the nation against internal and external threats.
Usman said, “A lot is being done by the Nigerian Army to motivate the troops wherever they might be deployed. The first is training. We ensure that troops are well trained and continuously trained.
“Secondly, all entitlements are being paid as and when due. The third is the issue of adequate kitting, logistics support and sound administration.
He added that the army equally supported operatives in insurance and education.
Usman stated, “There are statutory payments such as burial expenses, Nigerian Army Welfare Insurance Scheme, payment of death benefits and Group Life Assurance.
The Nigerian Army’s spokesman further said the army had, over the years, taken into account the importance of special recognition for its officers and soldiers who displayed acts of gallantry especially on the battle field.
He said such troops were given special promotions and commendation as well as allowances.
He, however, dismissed speculations that the army was involved in investigating claims that some politicians were importing arms and ammunition ahead of the general elections.
According to him, the army was not involved because it is not its responsibility to do so.
The army also appealed to Nigerians to continue to support its efforts to secure the nation.

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Are Crab Apples Good for a Puppy?
Crab apples can be given to puppies but require caution.
Crab apples are a tart apple variety with a 2-inch diameter or smaller. Like larger apples, they can provide a healthy treat for dogs. Still, just as with regular apples, this treat comes with some drawbacks to consider. Not all parts of an apple are good for your puppy.
Apple flesh provides a crunchy and sweet treat for your puppy. It contains vitamins A and C, calcium and phosphorus, as well as dietary fiber, which can be beneficial for constipated puppies. Apples also help to remove food residue on the teeth and keep breath smelling fresh. Given the crab apple’s smaller size, it makes a perfect puppy-sized treat.
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Apples are not the only fruit with cyanide in the seeds and leaves. Apricots, peaches, plums, nectarines, pears and cherries also contain cyanogenic glycosides in their pits, seeds, leaves and stems. While the fruit is fine for your puppy to eat, avoid these parts of the fruit. If you have these trees in your yard and they are tempting your puppy, monitor him around the fallen fruits and place a fence around them if necessary.
Before adding a new food to your puppy’s diet, talk with a veterinarian or canine nutritionist. While crab apples can be beneficial as a treat, only give them in moderation. Too much can cause digestive upset and diarrhea.
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This is a time when Rest, or Sabbath Rest, needs to be emphasized. It is a time for Rest. It is a time for cessation of motion and action, and a time for peace and quiet.
Rest is a demand being placed on us to return us to a real and intimate experience with Jesus. Since it is increasingly more difficult to find a community where one can always experience the Lord together, it will be imperative that we become quiet and peaceful as a matter of personal responsibility.
This will be a time of seeking some kind of beauty to put back into our daily lives and schedules. The principles of Sabbath (rest and re-create) are very important to a society that is less and less organized, or aware, of such principles. We need to rest in Jesus.
We need permission to take ‘days off’ in our rest, both weekly and yearly. We even need the practice of ‘Sabbath Hour’ during our day’s activities for maintaining peace. The idea of Rest can be anytime, any hour, any day that we find rest and peace. We need vacation days…meaning days for pleasure, rest, quiet, meditation and prayer away from the normal routine. We are not a people that generally seeks rest, but we must become such people.

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Keim and Allied Families by DeB. Randolph Keim, 1890 | Jacob Keim, a Chester County native and Atlantic City hotelier, helped gather public support for Alexander Boardman's concept of a boardwalk.
When it comes to the so-called Lizzie Lincoln House, the truth might just be stranger than the fiction.
“I call it the Boardman House,” said Charles J. Adams III of Exeter Township, a retired radio personality and author of several books on ghost stories.
Adams wrote about the once-grand house on Lincoln Road in Exeter and wants to set the record straight. There never was a Lizzie Lincoln, he said. That story was invented in the 1980s by promoters of a former Halloween attraction at the site.
For more than a hundred years, the federal-style house built between 1825 and 1850 for Isaac and Mary (Myerly) Huyett was owned by three generations of the Seitzinger-Boardman family, including the wife and son of Alexander Boardman, inventor of Atlantic City’s boardwalk.
The story of Boardman and his boardwalk has been told many times in various publications over the years, Hoffman said.
Boardman came up with the idea of using a boardwalk to help keep sand out of the railroad cars and hotels and pitched it to his friend, hotelier Jacob Keim, said local historian Sharon Merolli, formerly of Exeter Township and now of Upper Providence, Montgomery County. The two men initiated a petition prompting the installation in 1870 of an eight-foot-wide temporary wooden walkway at a cost of $5,000, half of Atlantic City’s tax revenue for that year, according to worldhistoryproject.org.
Boardman and Keim had local connections, Merolli said.
Keim, the owner of Chester County House, a popular Atlantic City guest house and one of the first to stay open year-round, was a Chester County native and descendant of the Oley Valley pioneer Jacob Keim.
Merolli said Alexander Boardman’s wife, Mary Agnes, nee Souder, inherited the house now known as the Lizzie Lincoln House in 1864 from her uncle, Franklin Seitzinger. At that time, she was married to Alexander Newbold.
Hoffman, 90, said he was acquainted with later generations of the Boardman family, who spent the colder months at the Exeter farmhouse. He remembers Alexander and Mary Agnes’ son, Horace Boardman, a New Jersey and California attorney who kept the property in the family until his death in 1972, and Hoffman attended school a few grades behind Horace’s son Hector.


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For a small to moderate-sized software acquisition, the customer has typically selected the software required and a term sheet/vendor quote has been proposed. The job of the Contracting Officer (KO) is to try to ensure that the deal’s terms represent Best Value to the Government and execute that acquisition. Typically, time, funding, and resources are constrained and the vendor’s quote and the contractual terms and conditions require quick turn-around time.
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industry_corpus2: Petrochemicals


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“For sheer loveliness of timbre, affecting sensitivity, elegance of line and utter ease in florid passagework, de los Angeles was hard to top. By the 1950s she was a mainstay of opera houses around the world and widely admired for her portrayals of leading lyric soprano roles, including Puccini's Mimi and Madama Butterfly, Verdi's Violetta, Massenet's Manon, Bizet's Carmen and Debussy's Mélisande. Though her sound was not enormous, she knew how to project her voice so that it carried effortlessly in the opera house. She even sang lighter Wagner roles with effectiveness and allure, including Elisabeth in TANNHÄUSER, the role of her 1961 Bayreuth Festival debut in Germany, and Eva in DIE MEISTERSINGER.
‘We are a people that sings naturally’, she said in a 1980 interview, adding, ‘When we have a sorrow, it is a wonderful sorrow; when we have a happiness, it is a wonderful happiness, it is a big happiness’."
"Born Victória Gómez Cima into a humble Catalan family in Barcelona, she studied at the Barcelona Conservatory, graduating in just three years in 1941 at age 18. That year, she made her operatic debut as Mimì at the Liceu, but then resumed her musical studies. In 1945, she returned to the Liceu to make her professional debut as the Countess in NOZZE DI FIGARO. After winning first prize in the Geneva International Competition in 1947, she sang Salud in Falla's LA VIDA BREVE with the BBC in London in 1948. In 1949 she made her first appearance in the Paris Opéra as Marguerite. The following year, she debuted in Salzburg and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Mimi, and the United States with a recital at Carnegie Hall. In March, 1951, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in New York as Marguerite, singing with the company for ten years. She made noted recordings of LA VIDA BREVE, LA BOHEME, PAGLIACCI, and MADAMA BUTTERFLY. The last three paired her with renowned tenor Jussi Björling. She also sang at La Scala in Milan from 1950 to 1956. In 1957 she sang at the Vienna State Opera. After making her debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Elisabeth in 1961, she devoted herself principally to a concert career. However, for the next twenty years, she continued to make occasional appearances in one of her favourite operatic roles, Carmen. She was among the first Spanish-born operatic singers to record the complete opera in 1958, a recording conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham using the recitatives added by Ernest Guiraud after Bizet's death. Though Carmen lay comfortably in her range, she nevertheless sang major soprano roles, best known of which were Donna Anna, Manon, Nedda, Desdemona, Cio-Cio-San, Mimi, Violetta and Mélisande. Like Montserrat Caballé, she was a true exponent of bel canto singing. De los Ángeles performed regularly in song recitals with pianists Gerald Moore and Geoffrey Parsons, occasionally appearing with other eminent singers, such as Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. On January 15 2005, Victoria de los Ángeles died of heart failure in Barcelona at age 81."


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