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And so, today we offer a bit of beauty and wisdom from the Little Flower.
He whose Heart ever watches, taught me that while for a soul whose faith equals but a tiny grain of mustard seed, He works miracles, in order that this faith which is so weak may be fortified; yet for His intimate friends, for His Mother, He did not work miracles until He had put their faith to the test.
The only thing not subject to be envied is the lowest place. It is therefore this lowest place alone which is without vanity and affliction of spirit. Still, the way of a man is not always in his power and sometimes we are surprised by a desire for that which glitters. Then, let us take our place humbly amongst the imperfect, deeming ourselves little souls whom the good God must sustain at each moment.
Life is passing, eternity draws nigh; soon shall we live the very life of God. After having drunk deep at the fount of bitterness, our thirst will be quenched at the very source of all sweetness.
The most eloquent discourses would be incapable of inspiring one act of love without the grace that moves the heart.
See a beautiful, rose-tinted peach, of so sweet a savour that no craft of confectioner could produce nectar like it. Is it for the peach itself that God has created this lovely colour and delicate velvety surface? Is it for the sake of the peach that He has given it so delicious a flavour? No, it is for us; what alone belongs to it and forms the essence of its existence is its stone. It possesses nothing more.
A novice confided to her that she made no progress and felt quite discouraged.
“Till the age of fourteen,” said Thérèse, “I practised virtue without feeling its sweetness. I wished for suffering but had no thought of finding my joy therein; that is a grace which has been granted me later. My soul was like a beautiful tree whose blossoms no sooner opened than they fell.
“Offer to the good God the sacrifice of never gathering the fruits of your labours. If He so will that during your whole life you feel a repugnance to suffer and to be humiliated, if He permit that all the flowers of your desires and of your good-will fall to earth without fruit, be not troubled. At the moment of your death. He will know well how to bring to perfection, in the twinkling of an eye, beautiful fruits on the tree of your soul.
“Oh when I think of all I have to acquire!” exclaimed a novice.
“Say, rather, ‘to lose’. Jesus it is who charges Himself with the care of filling your soul according as you free it from its imperfections. I plainly see that you are taking the wrong road; you will never arrive at the end of your journey.
You wish to scale a mountain and the good God wants to make you descend: He is waiting for you down in the fertile valley of humility.” (Counsels and Reminiscences).
In a moment of temptation and combat a novice received this note(from St. Thérèse : “The just man shall correct me in mercy and reprove me; but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head.” I cannot be corrected or tried except by the just, inasmuch as all my Sisters are pleasing to God. It is less bitter to be reproved by a sinner than by the just; but through compassion for sinners, to obtain their conversion, I pray Thee, O my God, that I may be bruised by the just souls who are roundabout me.
Again, I beg that the oil of praise, so sweet to nature, anoint not my head, that is to say, enervate not my mind, by making me believe that I possess virtues which I have only with difficulty practised several times.
We hope to have more writings from St. John of the Cross, and from St. Francis de Sales and others this Lent. Let us resolve not to waste a moment of this precious time given to us to prepare our souls for our destiny and to draw graces for our brothers and sisters in the faith, especially for our priests who today are suffering so greatly. Satan wars against them most intensely, but we have the assurance that our Immaculate Mother will refuse us nothing that we implore with her Rosary and so we pray for them with joyful confidence!


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"Differences in β-strand Populations of Monomeric Aβ40 and Aβ42" by K. Aurelia Ball, Aaron H. Phillips et al.
Using homonuclear 1H NOESY spectra, with chemical shifts, 3JHNHα scalar couplings, residual dipolar couplings, and 1H-15N NOEs, we have optimized and validated the conformational ensembles of the amyloid-β 1–40 (Aβ40) and amyloid-β 1–42 (Aβ42) peptides generated by molecular dynamics simulations. We find that both peptides have a diverse set of secondary structure elements including turns, helices, and antiparallel and parallel β-strands. The most significant difference in the structural ensembles of the two peptides is the type of β-hairpins and β-strands they populate. We find that Aβ42 forms a major antiparallel β-hairpin involving the central hydrophobic cluster residues (16–21) with residues 29–36, compatible with known amyloid fibril forming regions, whereas Aβ40 forms an alternative but less populated antiparallel β-hairpin between the central hydrophobic cluster and residues 9–13, that sometimes forms a β-sheet by association with residues 35–37. Furthermore, we show that the two additional C-terminal residues of Aβ42, in particular Ile-41, directly control the differences in the β-strand content found between the Aβ40 and Aβ42 structural ensembles. Integrating the experimental and theoretical evidence accumulated over the last decade, it is now possible to present monomeric structural ensembles of Aβ40 and Aβ42 consistent with available information that produce a plausible molecular basis for why Aβ42 exhibits greater fibrillization rates than Aβ40.
K. Aurelia Ball, Aaron H. Phillips, David E. Wemmer, Teresa Head-Gordon. Differences in β-strand Populations of Monomeric Aβ40 and Aβ42. Biophysical Journal, 2013; 104:2714-2724. Featured on issue cover.

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The city of Sandy Springs will start accepting applications on June 1 for its fiscal year 2017 nonprofit grant funds.
The city offers grants from a pool of $50,000 for projects completed between July 1 of this year and June 30, 2017.
To be eligible, organizations must be registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits that are “in good standing” and are located in the city or “substantially serving” Sandy Springs residents, according to the city. The funded programs must support one of the City Council’s policy priorities, which include: public safety, transportation, “recreation and cultural enhancement,” natural resource protection, community appearance, downtown development, sustainable growth and economic development.
The funds cannot be used for operational, administrative or fundraising functions.
Applications must be submitted online by 5 p.m. on Fri., July 1, via sandyspringsga.org/business/doing-business-with-the-city/non-profit-funding.
The city will offer a voluntary training session on how to apply on Tues., June 14, 1 p.m. in the City Hall Training Room, 7840 Roswell Road, Building 500. For more information, contact Raquel Gonzalez in the City Manager’s Office at rgonzalez@sandyspringsga.gov.

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Going home can be challenging in many circumstances, but returning home to capture a nearby community in turmoil can add a whole new layer of complexity. Rita Baghdadi and Jeremiah Hammerling, directors of ITVS Open Call funded My Country No More, described those challenges and share some insight into capturing the rural community of Trenton, North Carolina.
ITVS: How did you discover the story and the community?
Jeremiah: I was born in western North Dakota just a few miles from where My Country No More takes place. Having moved out of the area at a fairly young age, I had always wanted to return to make a film about my hometown. In 2010 we got a call from Kalie Rider, a Trenton local and family friend who was worried about how rapidly the oil boom was industrializing the land in their small farming town. One of Kalie’s main concerns was a proposal to build a diesel refinery on top of their community church. With this image in mind, we were on a plane to North Dakota the next week to start filming.
What was the process for gaining access to and the trust of those within the community?
Jeremiah: My father was Pastor of the church in Trenton during the farm crisis and previous oil boom of the early 1980s, so my family had been deeply involved in the community during a turbulent time. When we returned at the height of the recent oil boom, there was already an intimate sense of trust that existed between the generations of our families. And because of the lack of housing in the area, we were invited to stay in the homes of several of the families in our film. Their hospitality is really what made the film possible.
Why do you think it’s important that this story is told on public media?
Rita and Jeremiah: ...Because it offers a window into a part of America that is often overlooked. One way to foster meaningful dialogue about difficult issues is by having access to stories that both reflect our experiences and introduce us to the experience of others. With growing rifts in both the physical and ideological landscape of our country right now, public media offers a bridge between viewers and their neighbors.
What were some of the challenges of shooting in a rural community?
Wide open space is part of what makes the Great Plains so beautiful, you can see for miles in every direction. Capturing this sense of space on camera, however, was a real challenge. For instance, neighbors who live “next door” to one another might be separated by a mile or more, so trying to convey proximity in such a vast sprawling landscape was a bit of a paradox. One way we solved this was with aerial cinematography. Another challenge was dealing with the weather. In the winter the temperatures can drop to -65o with the wind chill, and we had to drive from Fargo to Williston and back each time which is about a 7-hour drive. We definitely had some near-misses on icy roads. The first winter I remember when we filmed Ruben in the WalMart parking lot we only lasted about 45 minutes until our hands got so numb we had to go inside and warm up. Meanwhile, Ruben was living in his car!
What have you been able to accomplish with ITVS as a funder and a partner?
After spending 6 years making My Country No More, financing production ourselves and each stage of the edit through small grants, to have ITVS come on board was truly the boost that got us across the finish line. With ITVS as a funder and a partner, we were able to finish the film the way we wanted to, and ultimately secure our broadcast through Independent Lens which was a huge honor.
The feedback filmmakers receive from ITVS can play a pivotal role in the storytelling process. Tell us about some of the feedback you have received from ITVS and your supervising producer.
The feedback we received through ITVS and our supervising producer Shana Swanson was incredibly helpful. After spending so much time alone in the field and editing, it was revitalizing to hear affirmations about the things that were working and receive constructive criticism about the things that could use more clarification. ITVS’s feedback encouraged us to ask important questions about our choices as filmmakers and ultimately helped us make a better film. ITVS staff and the community of other ITVS supported filmmakers who became our friends after going through open call orientation continue to be an invaluable network of support as we release this film, and go on to make new films.
If you gave filmmakers one piece of advice based on your experiences producing My Country No More, what would it be?
Our advice to other filmmakers is to know the story you are trying to tell as best you can before you begin production. The more you understand about your story and your characters in development the more you will save yourself time and money in production and post. On the other hand, don’t be afraid to embrace the happy accidents. Someone once told us: “If you end up with the same film you set out to make, you weren’t listening.” Listen to your instinct.
My Country No More premiered on Independent Lens on Monday, January 7, 2019. It was funded by ITVS Open Call production funding.

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Third-party Siebel support provider Rimini Street adds some big-name customers to its fold with its acquisition of Sidney Blue.
Rimini Street Inc., the company that started as a third-party support provider for Siebel Systems Inc. after Oracle Corp. announced its plans to acquire Siebel, made its own acquisition this week.
The company announced Wednesday that it has acquired Sidney Blue LLC, an ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRM (customer relationship management) consultancy.
A four-year-old company based in San Francisco, Sidney Blue focuses on Siebel system implementations, upgrades and services. It also brings to the table some big-name customers spread across vertical markets: Toyota Financial Services, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Peregrine Systems Inc. and Restoration Hardware Inc., among others.
Rimini Street also announced that it will retain Sidney Blues president and CEO, Dan Slarve, as its new vice president of IT. Slarve will oversee the architecture and operation of Rimini Streets technology, along with its integration to Sidney Blues technology.
Despite officially launching as a business only last week, Rimini Street has made a name for itself and remains a company to watch.
Its founder, Seth Ravin, started a company called TomorrowNow Inc. to provide third-party support for PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards implementations, prior to those companies being acquired by Oracle in January 2005.
The PeopleSoft buy—and by default J.D. Edwards, since PeopleSoft merged with that company in 2004—came off only after an 18-month acrimonious takeover battle that put Oracle as the worlds second largest business applications software developer, trailing behind SAP AG. The deal also put a lot of PeopleSoft and JDE users on the fence, debating whether they wanted to become Oracle customers or look to another ERP provider.
SAP, acutely aware of the trend, bought TomorrowNow in January 2005.
Oracle is expected to close on its Siebel acquisition by the end of this month.

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Agreements governing U.S. dollar swap arrangements with the Bank of Canada, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank were announced on May 9, 2010. Extensions of the agreements were announced December 21, 2010. Further extensions were announced on June 29, 2011, November 30, 2011, and January 31, 2013. The only information that has been redacted from these agreements is individual contact and personal information and signatures.
On November 30, 2011, these central banks also agreed to establish temporary bilateral swap arrangements so that liquidity can be provided in each jurisdiction in any of their currencies. These swap lines are authorized through February 1, 2014. The only information that has been redacted from these agreements is individual contact and personal information and signatures.

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I had a question, I couldn't find on the net about about recording/panning.
I am using PT LE. If I hard panned 2 mono tracks before I recorded gtr( with 2 sm57's on two different speakers) would it affect the recording at all or only the playback?
In otherwords, are all recordings defaulted to the ctr position regardless of the panning setting during the recorded take in PT?
Thanks! Hopefully someone can clear this up for me.
Why would that matter? If you can pan it after you record it, why would it matter if it was panned while it was recorded?
Well that is my question.... if panning affects the recording process at all or only playback in protools.
only if you record onto a stereo track with a stereo input do you preserve any kind of panning.
May I suggest reading a book or two about the recording process.......and after that ........rtfm.
Pete is right if you are recording mono tracks panning has no affect on the track, in that you can pan it anywhere anytime. If you are recording stereo tracks than yes panning is printed with the audio.
Ok, I was guessing panning wouldn't be printed. I did search for it in the PT ref manual, to verify, but I couldn't find anything. THanks! Dumbass question I know, just one of those things I wanted to be sure of.
Interesting to know about stereo tracks though. So two mono mics, recorded onto a stereo track will print any panning positions onto the stereo track. Is that correct?
Also, I a, pretty sure any RTAS plugins used while tracking are printed.
Your plugs will not be printed on the track you record onto.
If you wish to print plugs while recording, record through an aux track that is bussed to an audio track. You will have to compensate for latency.
I need real help ASAP!
Can i please get some help with this question asap please?


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I suppose I still wonder why me? I was a happy, confident, enthusiastic 16 year old sitting her GCSEs. I didn’t feel stressed, under pressure, worried. I had worked consistently, revised and expected to do well. 14 exams down and 2 to go and the end was in sight.
I came home from my first of two history exams and lay on the sofa unwell. I had a dull pain on the right side of my stomach. My Dad gave me Rennie (still a joke to this day!) but as soon as my mum came home from work she knew the pain resembled appendicitis. Trip to the doctor confirmed this and I was in the hospital that evening, unable to finish my exams and celebrate the end of all the hard work with my friends. I spent hours in A&E in agony without pain medication, taken to an adult ward, surrounded by people who were very poorly while I waited and waited for an operation. An operation that was delayed twice and by the time I was operated on, my appendix was 20 minutes away from bursting!
Recovery was fine physically but mentally I had changed. I returned to sixth form having achieved all the A*s and As with ‘exciting’ times ahead. The problem was I had felt as though I had seen life through a different lense. I was no longer invincible, I felt vulnerable in the big world., as though it has dawned on me that life was not full of happy ever after. I can remember so clearly sitting in the sixth form common room with everyone laughing and chatting – but I felt ‘not present’. As if I was watching everything happen in an out of body experience. Sure, I was able to act the part and be totally ‘normal’ around everyone, but inside I felt that my light had been dimmed.
The darkness had entered my thoughts and no matter how hard I fought, there was no way of getting rid of it. At 16, I had no idea what depression was. In fact, I battled with depression for three full years before finally plucking up the courage to see the doctor. I became controlling, controlling towards myself, I would control my time and write lists for EVERYTHING. Looking back I did this to try and feel and be the person I was before my appendicitis, when I was revising, getting things done and feeling on top of everything.
The lists I wrote were, by my own admission, ridiculous and unachievable. My mum used to find them everywhere, some ticked and crossed off (both ticked and crossed off for added satisfaction) but nothing ever completed. I compartmentalised my entire life and tried to micromanage it in one hour blocks from 6am – 11pm. I would get so angry if my mum would ask me to pop out for lunch with her, my response, ‘yes fine but I have to be back by…because I need to do this by then’. Nobody can live like this, not all the time! I would constantly try and draw a line under ‘it’ (depression). Try again and start fresh the next day…every day! I would go to war with what was in my head EVERY SINGLE DAY. There was no break from it, no rest, no time to gather my thoughts. I was being attacked by my thoughts and I felt exhausted all day every day. Not the type of tired where you need a nap and then you’re rested. There was no feeling better, no feeling fighting fit, no moving passed it, jumping over it, going around it or through it.
I told myself constantly that there was no way I could have depression. I told myself all the time that a doctor would laugh at me. What did I have to be depressed about? Nobody had died. I hadn’t been abused or bullied mercilessly. In fact, I had the best upbringing anyone could ask for, I was achieving, had great friends, I was going to uni and HAD MY WHOLE LIFE AHEAD OF ME!
Uni wasn’t ‘a fresh start’, depression had followed me, there was no escaping the inside of my head. I so desperately wanted to be in a pitch black tiny room with no windows or doors. I wanted rest, I wanted to escape my own mind. I used to imagine I was in a long sports hall with two chairs at opposite ends of the room. I wanted to get up from one chair, walk to the other, detach my head from my body and place it on the chair. I would then walk back to the first chair (without my head) and sit to have a rest from my mind!
The final straw came when I went to Camp America for the summer, yet another fresh start! I thought this was the change I needed, the chance to change things up and break free from ‘it’. Despite my best efforts (again), it followed me to America and it followed me home again. My relationship with my mother was fraught (anyone who knows me will know just how close we are!). She was watching me make poor life decisions and fighting me every step of the way. The problem was, I was too busy fighting the battle in my head. She knew, she could see it but I suppose I needed to know it.
The following day my Dad took me to the doctor. I cried in the waiting area convinced he would laugh at me and throw me out of the surgery for being ‘a silly little girl who had no business being depressed’. Of course I was wrong, I was struck by the fact that I wasn’t asked to ‘explain myself’. I was listened to and within a matter of minutes the doctor was explaining it was a chemical imbalance in my brain. It wasn’t my fault. It was that simple.
I wish I could say it got better immediately but I would be lying. For me at least, it got worse. Suddenly I had gone from fighting it (I was an expert at coping after three years) to accepting it. There was no reason to ‘fight’, it had been diagnosed, this is what I had. I would panic when I woke up because there was no strict list to adhere to, I didn’t know what ‘the right thing to do’ was. I remember thinking ‘should I have breakfast first or have a shower or clean my teeth?’ I didn’t know the answer!! I was suddenly empty, vacant, lost. There was no fight keeping me busy. I was in a deep hole and just sitting there. Until, I made a decision (the antidepressants had kicked in), it was time to start trying!
I took things hour by hour initially, slowly and steadily, then day by day, until I was just living again without the ‘analysing my thoughts and feelings’ bit! I didn’t stay on antidepressants, for me personally, they gave me the push to start trying but I quickly made a decision that I wanted to try and do it without them. I am, however, in no doubt that without them, I wouldn’t have been able to make that start.
I was 20 when I started feeling better and I went from strength to strength. I felt proud I had ‘conquered’ it and told myself that if I ever felt as if I was fighting through the day, every day, then I would ‘nip it in the bud’ and go straight to the doctor. 7 years of mental wellbeing. I kept a close eye on everything when I had my son, aged 26, I was overwhelmed by the love I had for him and had no signs of postnatal depression. I had my first daughter 22 months later (the exact same rush of love) but I can now say with hindsight, having them both close together put a strain on my mental health. I do not believe I had postnatal depression but I was beginning, very slowly, very quietly, to feel overwhelmed, not ‘on top of things’. As my daughter turned into a toddler, I would struggle with her crying. The crying would push me to the point where I would do ANYTHING to make it stop! She wasn’t a miserable baby/child by any means, but nonetheless it just felt like too much to cope with. I would question my decision to stay at home and would grapple daily with whether I should be moving forward with my career and was I just opting out being at home. There was no feeling of peace. I couldn’t bear to leave them but I would question whether I was making the right decisions and worried I would ‘suffer the consequences’ if I made the wrong decision. I stayed home (while working from home in the evenings) and then I went back to work. A couple of days turned into full-time (I must learn to say NO) and all of a sudden I was juggling two children and two jobs…oh and an inspection was looming.
In March 2014, my second bout of depression really kicked in. I felt as though I had lost my mind. Symptoms were like reading a text book for depression. Hypersomnia, irritable, unable to concentrate, fatigued, sluggish, drained, forgetful, agitated, restless etc I was struggling big time! I knew ‘it’ had returned with a vengeance. I had let my guard down, didn’t keep an eye on it, I had pushed myself too hard. I know my boundaries, my limits. I know I need to look after myself mentally. I can become ill and slowly I had been getting worse but I had been ignoring it. Bad move!! My husband knew, he was coping with the fall out and dealing with my irritabilities on a daily basis – never once complaining. I could see me slipping further into ‘it’ and despite feelings of self-doubt and worrying once again that the doctor would think I was being ‘silly’ – I took myself to the surgery and explained the situation.
It took me three months to dig myself out of the hole. I was mentally and physically exhausted. I slept ALL THE TIME, night time and naps during the day in my conservatory with the sun shining through. I needed rest and time for my thoughts to settle. I understood I had pushed too far. I hadn’t looked after myself and I took my mental health for granted.
Two years on and I have been well since (and baby three has arrived!). I don’t feel I live with depression, it is not in my life all the time but depression is a possibility all the time. The house plays a huge part in my mental health, to this day I will say ‘I can’t cope with the mess!’. There needs to be a level of tidy (I do have three children so it will never be spotless!) for me to feel organised. My mental health is a huge factor on decisions I make in my life.

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I signed up with Pixels of Ink. Every day (dismayingly) there is quite a list of free or cheap books available at Amazon. I download only the ones I think there is at least a 50-50 chance I'll get to.
Unfortunately most are disappointing and wind up DNF (Did Not Finish). Many of them lack a center. They lack a central conflict. As I'm reading I can't answer the question "What does this character want?" We are we left with the sense that nothing is happening because without conflict, nothing is happening.
It's not enough that your main character discovers they are a fey child or have a super power. Saving the world is great, thanks for your efforts on my behalf!, but you need someone trying to prevent the saving of the world. There must be an adversary.
Someone famous in the romance writing world gave a seminar and said "If your main character is an arsonist, the love interest has to be the fire investigator."
You need to personalize the struggle, the conflict. Then you need to dramatize this conflict. You must show incidents with rising intensity of the conflict playing out.
Again I will tell you go read a book on screenwriting. Nothing will give you a clearer description of the three-act dramatic structure than that.
You're not writing a script? You're not writing a drama? Yeah, you are.
Readers don't care, all they want is a good story? That's how you create a good story.
Not when you're a stranger--I could find that song, it's by The Doors, right?--people can appear to be fine and then they surprise you by coming off the rails.
I had someone stalk me once. Luckily not in a threatening way but it made me understand how easy it was for this person to lose their handle on clear thinking. In the throes of this behavior, it makes sense. All it requires is to step off the path and then everything else can be viewed through another prism.
No, this rumination is not apropos of nothing but that's the end of the rumination.
The D600 is an extraordinary camera. From a technical standpoint, I'm not smart enough to know how the D4 is appreciably better for 4 X the price. As I understand it, it's a more substantial body that can take being in the field better.
Yes I did drop my F once and that pretty much would have meant sending it into Nikon Repair but it was stolen a couple hours later so I never got the chance to know if it could have survived it. I'm not on a safari or climbing Mt. McKinley. I think my equipment is pretty safe.
From a personal standpoint, I took this photo, cropped it and uploaded it. Even as wonderful as I thought the D7k was, I always threw some sharpening on it. I would bump clarity, contrast and blacks. (There's my secret revealed.) What's here is an unprocessed image. I'm not interested in trying to improve it. I think this is good and leave it alone.
Maybe not every shot can be left so alone but it shouldn't be my responsibility to do what the camera's supposed to do.
This camera has an affinity for light.
I sent this to a friend and she said "It looks almost 3D"
Followers of this blog, know I've been talking about a stripped down Nikon that would deliver the finest possible images for the lowest possible price. This is that camera. Nikon got it right.
You may not like the placement of the buttons, but at least, at the very least, discuss the quality of the images it produces.
If you can't take a remarkable photo with this camera, it's not the camera.
I actually don't know when it was formally released today or on the 11th but at any rate, today is the day I pre-ordered it from Amazon. Why Amazon and not BH Photo? Because I've returned stuff to Amazon before and it's really easy. They're supposed to start shipping on the 18th but who knows how many people are ahead of me in the queue.
As with any Nikon all lenses will fit although older lenses will not be metered or have auto focus. After I've said that I can tell you I have a Nikon lens that absolutely does not work on my D7k. So YMMV.
My 40mm DX will work and my 85 FX 1.8 definitely will work so I got the body only. It was still much more than the $1500 bandied about earlier in the year.
I'll take a bunch of test shots and if I don't fall in love, back it goes.
While I was in California and I was in television, I never did a movie. That's not to say I didn't try.
What does this have to do with digital books? Just about everything as far as I can tell. The same techniques apply to both businesses.
Let's assume you are not writing great literature. You're writing commercial fiction.
I had someone say they wanted to have their book discovered by Hollywood and turned into a movie.
That's a good goal. I don't think it's very easy when Hollywood is constricting and making increasingly uninteresting sh*t for the masses. Don't blame me, check the box office stats on it.
But okay you want someone in Hollywood to find your book and maybe make it a cable movie. Or a webmovie.
Whatever level you get to, you'll be happy, right?
Write a book that sounds like a movie.
Then pitch it like a movie.
Blurb it like a movie.
You want to write an ebook that will get noticed? Do all of the above.
With one proviso--don't write off-genre like I do.
Am I right? Almost impossible to read. If they used a bold type font in white, it would be better but they never think of that. Sometimes they even use yellow. I've seen blue. I never bother to struggle I just leave.
Is there a hidden meaning in the choice of a black background?
Someone more knowledgeable about digital book sales than I assured me Christmas themed works sell well.
Great! I need something that will sell! Does it have to be a romance???? Yes. Okay. Thinking cap on. Okay. I'll cobble together a couple ideas that weren't happening and use them in concert and have a Christmas tale to tell.
I finished Bittersweet 1 and instead of jumping right into something with "meaning", I decided to do Christmas. Oh yeah, I am so there. And before 1000 words were written, I had the whole thing turned on its head. But I like it so I'll have to finish it. It'll be a novella so it won't be that time consuming. Part of the time consuming is I'm making the mistake of attempting to illustrate it to some degree. If only I could draw! I do have pine cones left over from last year so I could take photos but I don't think that will work.
So if you were wondering what I was doing and why I didn't show up here for a week, I was writing and designing and having other things happening that were very distracting.
August was a much better month for Kobo sales. They still have a way to go on their basics like navigation.
I like how BN does it. It tells you what sold that day.
Unfortunate there's no running total. We need the both. What just sold TODAY and what is the MONTH total.
Has no one mentioned this to them?
I'm doing all the clean up work on Mounted. No idea what I'll do next. Eenie-meenie-mynie-mo would be as good as making a decision.
Isn't traditional publishing ridiculous? Well ridiculous until they offer me a 6 figure deal, which they won't so I can very easily say they've become something bizarre and anachronistic.
The new Nikon D600 will likely be announced at some big shindig called Photokina on Sept 13. The waiting list will stretch into next year.

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Malcolm Firkser of Sunnybrook Home Hardware.
It has been 30 years since Malcolm Firkser and his father took over Sunnybrook Home Hardware, but he still hears tales about Mr. Scott and Gibby – two of the previous owners.
When Sunnybrook Plaza was developed as the first strip mall in Canada, one of the tenants was a hardware store. That will no longer be the case after Malcolm and his business leave, probably around the end of the year. The signs in the window say the business is closing. A letter by the cash offers details – Malcolm is not retiring, since he has three other Home Hardware locations in the east end of the city, and HomePro Pest Control servicing mostly apartment buildings, but he will no longer be at Sunnybrook. The business losses at this location during these last few years made the decision to leave a practical one, if not a particularly easy one.
Originally from South Africa, the whole Firkser family came to Canada to start a new life after Malcolm had completed his compulsory military service in the air force. He took two and a half years of a three-year small business course at Seneca College, then decided the time had come to run a small business. His father ran hardware stores in South Africa, so continuing with one in Canada seemed a good idea. It was strange, though, that just down Bayview, also in Leaside, was another Home Hardware store, also owned by a South African, Raymond Gork. The two businesses always acted in a friendly, not competitive manner towards each other. At one time, various BBQs would come with different coloured lids – and Malcolm and Raymond would swap lids as needed to keep their customers happy.
The one treat Malcolm intends to give himself when he leaves Sunnybrook is to take Saturdays off. He figures he has only missed working a handful of Saturdays over the years, except when he was on vacation or for a religious holiday. He and his wife intend to pursue more weekend road trips, as long as they can bring their English bulldog with them.
Malcolm’s three children all grew up working in the store, but have since moved on. Both sons are in B.C. and his daughter is in Israel.
As a further example of that loyalty, Malcolm’s longtime employees, Heather, Ruthann and Andrew, have all been offered jobs at Malcolm’s other stores.
While Malcolm expected to feel sad about the closing, what has surprised him has been the sadness of his customers who have become friends, who now wonder “what am I going to do?” without their familiar store and staff.


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From 2013 to 2017, UW Medicine cardiac surgeons transplanted an average of 48 patients a year.
UW Medicine’s heart-transplant team this month began giving all of its patients access to suitable donor hearts from decedents who tested positive for the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Previously, these organs were available only to patients who already had the virus.
“The risk of death on the wait list is real, so we think patients will appreciate the option to access HCV-positive hearts,” said cardiothoracic surgeon Jason Smith.
“Based on direct-acting antivirals that appear to eliminate HCV from patients’ systems, and on favorable results from other centers, we’re confident that we can safely transplant these patients and then clear them of any transmitted virus before it creates health problems,” said Dr. Jason Smith, the cardiothoracic surgeon at UW Medical Center who is directing the protocol.
As of June 4, 4,017 U.S. patients awaited heart transplants, including 101 in Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Hawaii, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing.
“The risk of death on the wait list is real, so we think patients will appreciate the option to access HCV-positive hearts to improve their chances of being transplanted,” Smith said.
If transplant centers nationally were to adopt this openness to HCV-positive organs as standard care, donor organ availability and usability would improve.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 3.5 million Americans have chronic hepatitis C, which is spread via contaminated blood. In about 15 percent of cases, people’s immune systems can defeat a newly transmitted virus, but most cases become chronic. In the past, when treatments were less effective and poorly tolerated, HCV could damage the liver to the point that cirrhosis or cancer developed.
In the past decade, the U.S. incidence of new HCV infections has risen, particularly among people under age 39. The CDC attributes this largely to the opioid epidemic, in which drug users share needles and injection equipment. This development and the aging of the baby boomer population, who represent most U.S. cases of HCV, have contributed to a recent increase in deaths among people with the disease.
Historically, organs from HCV-infected donors have not been considered for transplant. Infrequently, cardiac surgeons have transplanted infected-donor hearts into patients who either had HCV already or were virus free but gravely ill. These patients typically ran into long-term complications stemming from the virus.
In 2014, drugs became available that eradicate the virus in more than 95 percent of HCV-viremic patients. This development has led a small group of U.S. hospitals, so far, to develop protocols to accept organs from HCV-positive donors and offer them to HCV-negative recipients.
In April, doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee published results of their initial efforts with a protocol: Between September 2016 and March 2017, they transplanted 12 unexposed patients and one previously treated for HCV with hearts from donors who had tested positive for HCV. All eight patients who developed HCV infection and who completed a 12-week course of direct-action antivirals experienced a “sustained virologic response” – that is, a cure.
UW Medicine joins a small group of U.S. hospitals that accept hearts from HCV-positive donors and offer them to HCV-negative recipients.
UW Medicine performs the most heart transplants of any center in the Pacific Northwest, averaging 48 per year from 2013 to 2017.
Prospective candidates for HCV-infected donor hearts must sign two consent forms (links 1, 2) indicating they have been apprised and understand the risk of disease transmission. If they go on to receive such an at-risk heart, they must take daily oral medication for eight to12 weeks after hospital discharge and then undergo blood draws to confirm their viral response.
UW Medicine is in the process of adapting this HCV protocol with liver transplants, said Dr. Renuka Bhattacharya, medical director of that program, and may consider it for kidney and lung patients at a future time.
Initial results from early-adopter centers indicate that the medical therapy poses no risk to patients’ immune systems, which are weaker because patients also must take medications to limit their bodies’ innate response to reject donor organs. However, because these cases are still low in number, there is insufficient evidence to say with certainty that no such risk exists.
One potential barrier to these protocols is the cost of direct-action antivirals that are so highly effective against hepatitis C. Pharmaceutical companies have reduced costs significantly in the past year, but the regimens still can run into the tens of thousands of dollars, and may lead an insurer to deny coverage.


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TIG-160DC is a rectifier adopting the most advanced inverter technology. Welding power source can offer stronger, more concentrated and more stable arc. When stick and work piece get short, its response will be quicker. It means that it is easier to design into welding machine with different dynamic characteristics, and it even can be adjusted for specialty to make arc softer or harder. The machine can be for multi-use, and can weld stainless steel, carbon steel, copper and other color metal, and also can use for traditional electric welding. Specification • Processes: TIG (GTAW), STICK, ARC, MMA • Input Power: 110/230V/1phase/60Hz • Output Range: DC 20-160 Amps • Input Current: 37A(110V) & 25.8A(230V) • Rated Output: 25.2V & 26.4V • Duty Cycle: AC 230V/160A@60% & AC 110V/130A@60% • Dimensions: 16.6 x 7.5 x 11.8 inch • Product Weight: 14.5 Pounds What’s Included • TIG-160DC TIG/Stick/ARC Machine • Professional TIG Torch Gun and Assembly 13 feet • Electrode Holder and cable10 feet • Work Clamp and cable10 feet • 110V and 230V Transfer Plug • 2 pieces of Electrode 1/8 in. • 2 pieces of Electrode 3/32 in. • 2 pieces of Tungsten 1/16 in. • Instruction Manual.
Ac Dc Tig 140 Amp Welder.
TIG-205 can weld Steel, Stainless steel, Alloy steel, Mild steel, Nickel alloys, Copper, Brass, Bronze, Cast Iron and Chrome etc. TIG-205 is a rectifier adopting the most advanced inverter technology. welding power source can offer stronger, more concentrated and more stable arc. when stick and work piece get short, its response will be quicker. it means that it is easier to design into welding machine with different dynamic characteristics, and it even can be adjusted for specialty to make arc softer or harder. Processes is TIG (GTAW), Stick, Arc, Input Power is 115/230V/1phase/50-60Hz, Rated Input Power is AC 230V/7.5KVA/33Amps and AC 115V/4.6KVA/40A, TIG Current Range is AC 230V/DC 18.0V/15-200A and AC 115V/DC 15.8V/15-145A, Stick Current Range is AC 230V/DC 18.0V/15-180A and AC 115V/DC 15.8V/15-130A, 60% Duty Cycle at 200A, Forced Air Fan Cooling, HF& High Voltage Start, Usable Electrode: Ф1/16″-3/16″, 93% Power Factor, Size: 16×6.5×12 in. Weight: 16 Lbs. Packaging Size: 19×10.2×13.6 in. Packaging Weight: 27 Lbs.Included:TIG-205 TIG & Stick Welding Machine, 13 Feet Professional TIG Torch Gun, 10 Feet Electrode Holder and Cable, 10 Feet Work Clamp and Cable, 8 Feet Argon Gas Hose, 115V & 230V Power Cord Adapter.
As the latest addition to the analog line of inverter TIG welders from Everlast, the PowerTIG 200DV features all of the same dynamic performance of the PowerTIG 200DX, but expands its versatility by adding dual voltage and a digitally controlled IGBT inverter. Able to operate on 120V or 240V single phase 50/60Hz, the unit offers maximum go anywhere performance. The unit is definitely portable, and can be used with any generator that is rated for a sustained 3500 watts (120V) and is certified by the manufacturer as “clean power”. If you need a reliable, TIG welder that you can carry with you and make quality welds day-in and day-out, the PowerTIG 200DV is definitely one to consider. Includes: 12 ft. Everlast 26 Series TIG torch with 35 series DINSE stle connectors and torch switch for 2T/4T operation Stick electrode holder with 10 ft. cable and 35 series DINSE style connectors Work clamp with 10 ft. cable and DINSE style connectors Foot pedal Everlast regulator made from billet brass 240/120V Pigtail Adapter 6 ft. Power input cable Consumable Starter Kit (Tungsten not included) Minimum/Maximum: TIG: Weld steel to a maximum of 5/16″ single pass (240V) Weld steel to a maximum of 3/16″ single pass (120V) Weld steel to a maximum of 1/2″ multi-pass(240V) Weld steel to a maximum of 3/8″ multi-pass (120V) Weld aluminum to a maximum of 1/4″ single pass (240V) Weld aluminum to a maximum of 1/8″ single pass (120V) Weld aluminum to a maximum of 3/8″ multi-pass (240V) Weld aluminum to a maximum of 1/4″ multi-pass (120V) Weld to a minimum of .007″ Steel Weld to a minimum of .020″ Aluminum Stick: Weld with a minimum of 1/16″ diameter electrode Weld with a maximum of 1/8″ diameter electrode (240V) Weld with maximum of 3/32″-1/8″ diameter electrode (120V) TIG limits are recommended based off of practical limits and industry recommended standards for single and multi-pass welds.


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text: The pink standard of Roses, Domaine Ott is a visually striking with a very pale salmon/orange color and the voluptuous Provence Rose bottle. Its fragrance is at the same time vegetal, fruity and spicy with notes of apricot, grapefruit rind and broom. Crisp and refreshing with flavors of blueberry and strawberry, it finishes dry and long.

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It’s getting to be that time of year where the travel bugs bites and causes the urge for some well-earned vacationing. If you are planning a nice getaway to Puerto Rico, there are some important things to know before you go. Especially if it is your first trip to the Island of Enchantment. Don’t get caught off-guard in paradise. Here are 7 things to know before you go: tips for vacationing in Puerto Rico.
Since Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States, it’s not much different than traveling from one state to the next within the country. People living in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens. which means a passport is not required for Americans traveling from the mainland to the island and vice versa. This is especially good news if you don’t already have a valid passport since it saves you time, hassle and money.
Also another great thing about traveling from the mainland is that there is no need to exchange your money when you arrive. Puerto Rico uses the U.S. dollar for currency. That also means you can easily use your credit and debit cards and ATMs are easy to locate on the island. One less thing to worry about when vacationing in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is a wonderful place to experience culture. Our island is rich in culture from a vibrant mixture of music and dance, delicious flavors of the island to beautiful Spanish-inspired architecture and cobblestone streets. You may even run into a fiesta while visiting. Puerto Rico is a place of celebration. There is much to experience in this proud culture.
If you can speak Spanish, then great! But do not fret if not. While Spanish is the dominant language in Puerto Rico, the island has two official languages. Both Spanish and English. This means that if English is your only language, or your Spanish-speaking skills aren’t up to par, you won’t have any issues communicating while here on the island. Most people who live on the island can speak both Spanish and English, making Puerto Rico once again a great place for Americans to visit.
Hitting the beach or spending the day exploring the island can be wonderful – until you end up with a sizzling sunburn. Something as small as too much sun can really put a damper on your trip. Take a few precautions and pack appropriately to make sure that doesn’t happen to you. Apply sunscreen early and often. Don’t think that you can sneak a few hours of sunscreen-free adventures in the sun. You can become pretty burned before you even realize it. Take a hat and sunglasses with you and drink plenty of water to stay hydrated.
Yes of course, at some point lounging while on vacation is a must. Puerto Rico is an excellent place for slowing down and relaxing. However, Puerto Rico is also a place made for adventure. Take some time to explore the island. Visit the rainforest, take some hikes and book some tours. Adventures by land and by sea await!
Ah…finally the beach. Of course you need to have some beach time while vacationing in Puerto Rico! And the beaches here are magnificent. The perfect place to listen to the sound of the swirling sea and relax on the warm sand.

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Japan has since ancient times had a custom called omiai (loosely translated as “matchmaking” when searching for a marriage partner). The examples of the matching of large firms and start-ups at the Innovation Leaders Summit in Japan discussed in this paper can truly be called “omiai.” Unlike Western-style matching, in this summit, participating firms and managers alike have little experience with alliances, and matchmakers have no strong commitment, as noted by Holzmann, Sailer, and Katzy (2014). Instead, just as with omiai, matchmakers exchange profiles of large firms and start-ups new to alliances and simply create a place for them to meet and make matches.
© 2019 Koji Nakano and Toru Ohara. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Drawing on a previous era of drinks cabinets and inspired the clean lines of traditional Japanese joinery, the ‘Just Twigged’ Cabinet offers a minimalist aesthetic. Clean, uninterrupted timber-grain surfaces with the subtle inclusion of solid brass hardware allow the design to operate as a fully functioning drinks cabinet.
The interior of the cabinet comes with a mirrored backing and automatic internal lighting system to create an inviting atmosphere when in open use. Both the upper drop-down hatch and lower doors are operated with magnetic push mechanisms allowing for a clean timber façade. The ‘Just Twigged’ Cabinet is handcrafted from solid hardwood and high-grade book-matched veneer plywood.


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Small space living: Living in small dwellings is a big favourite among book publishers these days. Here are some of the many titles available on the compact life.
Living in small dwellings is a big favourite among book publishers these days. Here are some of the many titles available on the compact life.
The expanded, 10th-anniversary issue of Susanka’s classic guide to living smaller without sacrificing comfort or style.
A leader in the Small House Movement, Shafer details his own life in houses under 100 square feet and why tiny, mobile houses make sense. Tumbleweed hosts a workshop on building and living in small spaces May 31 to June 1 in Toronto (tumbleweedhouses.com).
Floor plans, section drawings and more for 75 small homes.
A practical guide to de-cluttering, organizing, even entertaining in small spaces.
A hefty 800 pages of ideas on fixing storage, light and other common small-area problems.


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This article presents a successful story of JCSAT-14, which was launched by SpaceX's Falcon 9 in May 6, 2016 from CCAFS, Floria and placed into a geostationary orbit in May 16.
The JCSAT-14 satellite was launched in May 6 2016 by a SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The launch campaign continued for two months. This article presents the latter half of the launch campaign after the middle of April.
Scott Patterson:"Dark Pools: The Rise of A.I. Trading Machines and the Looming Threat to Wall Street", Random House Business Books, 2013.
"The book of the ultra-fast trading of stock was introduced in this previous column that it is the most distant presence in satellite communications. After that, there is a book review that stock trading has a greater impact than the high-speed communication lines due to activity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in this field. Although I would like to treat the book, I am interested in the problem of AI itself and took out and introduced the most appropriate book. Now, it is the time to introduce this book that treats the stock trading using AI."
"See through the evil that was hidden in the back of a dream"
"Development of On-board Communication Equipment for Overseas Communication Satellites"
"Towards the future when Japan's space industry leads the world"

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"Aww, it's just like being at school again. The weather changed while we were inside, and it changed again before we left."
Yes, I have just broken my own "It's not tomorrow until I go to bed, or the sun comes up." axiom. Sue me. I worked 15 hrs. today.
I was going to ask something along the lines of 'where the hell have you been and why don't you update your journal more often?' but that seems to have been already answered.
Sorry you are working so much.

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Find your happy place with Peace, the app described as a surreal exploration through sounds such as rain, a log fire, ocean waves, babbling brooks, wind, thunder, animals, bells, and more. Whether you need sounds for reading, sleeping, or a bonfire, Peace has you covered.
Create music with Loopy HD simply by layering looped recordings. Whether it’s singing, beatboxing, or playing an instrument, you’ll be reinventing the formula for compositions.
These energetic and common core-compliant math challenges were designed by teachers to motivate and build confidence in kids learning math. Keep their minds sharp with this handy app.
It’ll be hard not to tumble from the skies in this game. Described as both fun and frustrating, this simple-to-learn, hard-to-master app will keep you entertained for hours.
Get useful tips for everyday life from Lifehacks. The app promises to bring you thousands of useful life-hacking tips that are aimed directly at improving your productivity and bringing calm to your life.
RecipeReadr claims to be able to completely change the way you cook by letting your phone read the next step in your favorite recipe to you. Take your recipes with you wherever you go, as they are securely stored in the cloud and are accessible on any iOS device.


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Whether it's capturing a moment through his DSLR or a quick snapshot on his iPhone, Raymond has an unprecedented eye for creating visual content. From the first shot to the end of the production process, an image is truly worth a thousand words. If you can imagine it, you can create it. View some of Raymond's featured work here.
We live in a visual age where photos speak louder then words. As a connected generation who views content at a glance, photography has become a new media that we have accepted over reading simple sentences. Every photograph taken today is a form of visual text and creators like myself get new ideas with every shot they take. It becomes more then a just hobby...it becomes a passion.
Whether a photo is used to share with friends or with the world on social media, every shot tells a story that is interpreted differently. That is why we visually craft and translate our message into each and every photograph we take. From Facebook to Twitter to Instagram and beyond, there is sure to be an intense conversation that was started only by a simple images.
Explore more photography on my personal Instagram page @RayStrazdas and on my new gaming photography page @NintendoVibes! Follow along and be apart of the adventure.


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The Haute Couture presentations for Spring/Summer 2013 came to a close in Paris recently, as 33 design houses continued the tradition of lavish and exclusive showings of unthinkably expensive garments. Strictly regulated by the Parisian Chamber of Commerce, the title of Haute Couture is awarded only to designers who show collections of more than 35 garments, produced in Parisian ateliers, twice yearly. Each garment is made exclusively for an individual costumer, with each finely wrought detail perfected by hand: a process that can often take upwards of 300 hours. Because of such extravagance, the relevance of Haute Couture in today’s world has recently been called into question, yet it seems there is still an enduring market for ultra-luxury.
Atelier Versace presented the inaugural show, offering a mix of geometric suiting dappled with 24-carat gold, futuristic evening wear and a remarkable mink coat that took over 500 hours to construct. Donatella Versace herself spoke of her surprise at the health of today’s market for Couture (Versace re-launched its public Couture shows just over a year ago) yet insisted her focus is not directed at profit but rather at keeping the handcraft of Couture alive.
In the following days Couture luminaries Armani Privé, Chanel, and Christian Dior presented. Art deco motifs, sculptural suiting and fabulous retro prints stood out in the Armani Privé collection, whilst models were adorned with costume jewellery pieces that could easily belong to someone’s fabulous, eccentric great-aunt. Observers also noted that some skirts were tight enough to cause the models difficulty when walking. The Christian Dior show saw sprite-like models don feather light, intricately ornamented creations in a refreshing spring shades as they wandered through a beautiful spring woodland in place of a runway. The enchanting landscape, created by Wirtz International, featured verdant bushes that gave way to slender trees, reminding us that Couture shows act not only as a platform for fashion labels, but for architects, graphic designers, landscape engineers and many other talented creators.
Lagerfeld’s use of his Couture show as a platform for cultural change is admirable, yet beyond such political messages do these Couture shows contain anything of relevance to us at all? Indeed, they provide us with richly detailed, aesthetically pleasing garments and perhaps inspire us creatively, but we, like the majority of the world, are not Haute Couture customers.
That designation is reserved for the relatively few people that can afford the exorbitant price tag that accompanies a Couture garment. The fact is, the patronage of Haute Couture Ateliers has seen a dramatic decline over the past 50 years with the BBC placing the number of active buyers around only 200. At the peak of the Global Financial Crisis, the decrease in the customer base was so drastic that media outlets widely touted the demise of Haute Couture, yet here it remains. Recently, the primary market for Couture pieces has seen a move from Europe and the United States to emerging economies such as China, the Middle East and Russia. Despite this new customer base, Haute Couture often fails to make a profit because of the astronomical cost of production. The French Government pays a certain portion of the expenses of French Haute Couture ateliers in order to keep the fading handcrafts and cultural traditions it supports alive. Very few designers can afford to produce Haute Couture simply because it is markedly less profitable than their Ready-to-Wear lines, which have become more popular as their quality and perceived prestige increase.
While the Couture customer base is shrinking, there are still many for whom Haute Couture provides a lifelong career. Handcrafts such as embroidery, millinery, shoe making, feather work and weaving have now fallen largely to machines and very few artisans now possess the technical skill to perform such tasks. Those that do are employed almost exclusively by ateliers, who have become perhaps the last patrons of the vanishing crafts. François Lesage, whose legendary embroidery atelier served the likes of Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior and Chanel, spoke to the New York Times about the decline in expert artisans, ‘Since the 1920′s, when there were about 10,000 French embroiderers, the population has shrunk to about 200’. Lesage’s own atelier has only 55 staff. The number of feather work specialist has fallen from 300 to less than a handful over the course of 60 years. Many family owned, century old workshops were left without heirs in recent years, and would likely have been lost if it weren’t for Chanel purchasing six celebrated ateliers over the course of recent years, including Lemarié, a designer of flowers and feathers and Desrues, a button and costume jewelry maker. Couture seeks not only to serve the rich, but also the skilled: crafts people and artisans are rewarded by the industry.
Impeccable workmanship is the soul of Couture. It must be so extravagant, so unthinkably perfect or else, or as Karl Lagerfeld has said, ‘it has no reason to exist.’ The allure of Couture lies in the luxury of being the very best money can buy. In the words of François Lesage, ‘It is a dream of quality with no consideration of cost’, a dream realised only by those with the means to spend $50,000 on a single garment. So are those ultra-riche who keep Haute Couture alive materialistic magnates or true patrons of the arts? I’m thinking Donatella Versace might be right.
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Coheed and Cambria have announced a US tour that you simply cannot miss. The tour, entitled NEVERENDER GAIBSIV, will feature Coheed playing Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness in it's entirety at every non-festival show.
Tickets go on sale Jan. 27 and can be purchased here.
The band got our attention with a mysterious video posted yesterday. Fans began discovering secret messages in the video including “1/24/17” and “pw: tenspeed.” Check out “So run little children, play” below!
The Dear Hunter will also be joining Coheed on this tour. The Dear Hunter also joined Coheed and Cambria on tour back in 2010 when Coheed was supporting their fifth album Year of the Black Rainbow.
This tour is bound to be another staple of the NEVERENDER series of concerts they've done. NEVERENDER is the moniker given to these album performances by the band and it first started in 2008, when Coheed performed their first 4 albums over 4 nights – completing the feat in 4 different cities – New York, London, Chicago and Los Angeles.
This tour isn't the only exciting news coming out of the Coheed camp either. Comic Book Resources has revealed that frontman Claudio Sanchez plans to release a 12-issue comic book series for Good Apollo as part of his Amory Wars series which will debut this April. The Amory Wars: Good Apollo will be written by Sanchez alongside his wife Chondra Echert. Rags Morales will be doing the art for the series. Morales did the art for DC's reboot of Action Comics in 2011.
Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness was Coheed's third album and peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 back in 2005.
Where will you be seeing this amazing tour? Let us know in the comments!


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Ten czarujcy hotel jest usytuowany w Usedom. Nie jest to hotel przyjazny dla zwierzt.
W czase pobytu w obiekcie takim jak Aurelia Hotel St.
Ten czarujcy hotel mieci si w Usedom. adne zwierzta nie s dozwolone na terenie obiektu.
This modern and comfortably furnished bungalow is on a small, fenced property.
This convenient and modestly furnished duplex bungalow is located on the property of the landlord in close proximity to the waters of Achtersee.
This robust and conveniently furnished semi-detached duplex apartment is located on the property of the landlord.
This wonderful and large holiday home with a thatched roof is located near Szczecin Lagoon in the small town called Stolpe on the Usedom Island.
This small, comfortably furnished bungalow is on a shared, well-tended, lush property.
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This robust holiday home is built over two floors and is partially and rustically furnished.
Ten uroczy hotel jest pooony w Usedom.
Ten uroczy hotel jest usytuowany w Usedom. Gocie nie bd kopotani podczas ich pobytu, poniewa nie jest to hotel przyjazny dla zwierzt.


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Jason Momoa's Aquaman 2 release date revealed — Will it also cross $1 billion?
Warner Bros. has finally set the release date for Aquaman 2.
Warner Bros. and DCEU had a blast after Jason Momoa's Aquaman movie made over a billion dollars at the global box-office collection. After the success of the first movie, the release details of the next part in the series has finally been unveiled.
As per an earlier report, Aquaman earned over $330 million in the domestic market (the United States and Canada) and went on to earn over $805 million worldwide. As of now, the total box-office of Jason Momoa's superhero movie is $1.138 billion, making it the highest earning DCEU movie of all time. Given the fact that the movie earned so well at the box-office, fans knew that Warner Bros. will surely be going to make Aquaman 2.
After much anticipation, Warner Bros. has finally set the release date for Aquaman 2. The Jason Momoa-starrer DCEU movie is all set to release worldwide on December 16, 2022. As of now, there are no other details revealed about Aquaman 2 but fans are speculating the possible story. As per ComicBook, Aquaman fan community, The Aquaverse are predicting that the sequel movie is going to feature The Others.
As per DC comics, The Others are a team of heroes comprised of six members, each of which has an Atlantic relic. These members are, Aquaman, Prisoner-of-War, The Operative, Sky Alchesay, Ya'Wara, and others. These members reunite on and off, generally when Arthur Curry needs their help.
Considering the massive success of Aquaman, it seems obvious that hopes will be rocket-high with Aquaman 2. James Wan's Aquaman was praised for a lighter tone, Wan's direction, visuals but several critics panned that the film failed to impress them because of the lousy plot. Even Avatar 2 director James Cameron spoke about Aquaman and stated why he could never make a film like this. So, if in Aquaman 2, the creators will get to address these issues then there are chances that just like the first one, even this Jason Momoa-starrer will earn over a billion dollar.
Aquaman also featured Amber Heard as Mera, a fierce warrior and Aquaman's closest ally, Willem Dafoe as Vulko, Patrick Wilson as Ocean Master, Dolph Lundgren as the King of the Atlantean tribe Xebel, Nicole Kidman as Arthur Curry's mother, and others.


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I’m Paul Pollock, a long-distance runner from Belfast. Previously I was a doctor but gave up my job this year to concentrate on the running full time. Recently I came 21st in the World Championships marathon in Moscow.
I had treatment at Optimax as I was struggling with glasses and lenses. The early starts when it was dark or wet made training difficult, and now training is safer and more enjoyable.
The treatment has been a great help, I can see so much more clearly and see where I am going, even in poor light. Looking back I wish I’d had the treatment earlier, as my result has been fantastic. My eyesight is incredible now, compared to how it was before.
The whole experience was very worthwhile, very fluid and the staff made sure I knew what to expect at every stage. The follow up care was exceptional as well.
Now I’m getting ready for the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games next year, and feel a lot more confident thanks to the surgery at Optimax.

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Why use a TLS Certificate?
A TLS (Transport Layer Security) certificate enables a secure channel between your website and the end-user. There are a lot of reasons to do this. In August of 2014, Google announced that they would be using HTTPS as a ranking factor. This simply means that sites that use HTTPS will have their rankings adjusted favorably when the site is indexed by Google. TLS is an evolutionary step forward from SSL. TLS v1.0 was basically SSL v3.0, but since then TLS has become the mainstream method for securing a site with HTTPS.
Besides a better ranking score from Google, offering HTTPS to your end-users is a great value-add for your site in general. In fact, there is no reason not to enable HTTPS on all of your endpoints, including a RESTful API if your site has one. The computational expense for enabling HTTPS is negligible with modern processors.
This website offers many different API services for consumers of big data. There are many RESTful API endpoints provided by this website that serve data from Reddit — some of which require authentication or API keys to use. Keeping everything over HTTPS benefits the consumers of pushshift.io’s API by providing privacy and security. Forcing HTTPS connections only adds an additional 1% CPU utilization overall.
If you examine our certificate, you will see that it uses SHA2 and is publicly auditable . If you would like to get started with enabling TLS for your website, read on!
Enabling HTTPS for your website begins with choosing a certificate provider. There are many to choose from with prices ranging from free to thousands of dollars. A basic TLS certificate is domain and subdomain specific. In other words, the certificate would apply only to one web address such as www.pushshift.io. I’ve used DigiCert in the past and have had very positive experiences with them. Although they generally cost more than other providers such as Comodo, Digicert has a great response time if you should ever have an issue with your certificate.
Once you choose a certificate provider, you will need to generate a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) for the certificate issuer before they can create a new certificate for your organization. There are three main pieces to the puzzle — your private key (which you never give to anyone), the CSR which is signed by your private key and the certificate that is generated for you by an issuer using the CSR you provide to them.
openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -out pushshift_io.csr -keyout pushshift_io.key -subj "/C=US/ST=Maryland/L=Linthicum/O=Jason Michael Baumgartner/CN=pushshift.io"
Always keep your private key safe. If you lose your private key or suspect that it has been copied, you will want to contact your certificate issuer immediately and rekey your certificate!
Once you submit the CSR, the issuer will verify your identity and ownership of the domain. They will then issue you a new certificate that you can use within your web server configuration to begin serving pages over HTTPS. Keep in mind that the entire process from start to finish generally requires a couple hours (most of that time spent waiting for the provider to issue your new certificate).
This basic SSL configuration does a few things. First, all connections over port 80 (HTTP) are rewritten and forced to go over port 443 (HTTPS). The ssl_protocols directive forces TLS only connections and also prevents the POODLE vulnerability. The POODLE vulnerability was an attack vector aimed at SSL v3.0 and basically was the death knell of SSL. The ssl_ciphers directive is an additional configuration option to fine-tune the types of protocols allowed when negotiating a new connection.
Once the configuration is put in place, you can reload the Nginx configuration by typing “nginx -s reload” and it will reload the configuration without taking the server offline. If everything works, you should get a very high score when checking Qualys SSL Labs site.
For every 100 million comments, approximately 25 gigabytes of storage is used in this table alone. There are approximately 800 million comments in this table with a projected total of 1.8 billion once the initial data scrape is completed. From that point forward, the table will be fed data at an average rate of 25 comments per second (based on the current average of comments made to Reddit per second).
Samsung makes a lot of high-quality electronic devices. The 850 EVO SSD drive is no exception. This particular drive, besides storing slightly less than a terabyte of data, has read/write speeds of 520 MB/s. More importantly for the database, this drive also has an extremely fast IOPS speed of ~ 95,000.
Why is this number important? A database stores data in such a way that the retrieval of data isn’t always in a sequential format. For the com_json table, an API call may request individual records that are located randomly throughout the data file. Sequential reads aren’t really applicable for SSD drives, though. Platter drives, however, benefit when data is distributed in a sequential order. Getting back to the relevance of IOPS speed, if an API call requests 1,000 comments, those comments may be distributed in basically random locations in the table data file. The ability for the SSD drive to retrieve the data quickly is directly related to the IOPS speed. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it could retrieve 95,000 comments per second, though. There is also page caching and disk buffering in the OS itself which would influence the retrieval speeds. A page read on this particular SSD is 8k, which means that a full comment object would fit within a page read about 90% of the time. It also depends on the page boundaries and exactly where the database rows are located within the table data file.
Benchmark testing has shown that this drive will support approximately 50,000 comment object retrievals per second — which is fantastic compared to older platter drives.
SSD drives perform three main activities — reads, writes and erases. Read and write operations are aligned to page boundaries while erase operations are performed on entire blocks. The block size for the 850 EVO is 1536 Kb (192 pages per block).
LVM, or logical volume manager, is a type of abstraction layer created by Heinz Mauelshage that allows for extending disk size easily. It allows for combining block devices (like the Samsung EVO 850) into volume groups. Volume groups are then partitioned into logical volumes that can span across multiple disks. Logical volumes can also be set up with striping or mirroring enabled (RAID 0 or 1 respectively). For my database, I used RAID 0 striping across two 1 TB drives to give a total storage capacity of 1.7 TB.
Raid 0? Are you crazy? That means if either drive fails, you will lose your database! If you mentioned this, you would indeed be correct! Fortunately, I sat down and did the math to figure out the MTBF (Mean time between failures) for this particular SSD. My strategy is to keep a real-time backup of the database’s raw data (the com_json table) and if a failure were to occur, I would have to rebuild all indexes from the backup. The MTBF for this drive is 1.5 million hours. For two drives, the math works out to 750,000 hours, or over 85 years, between failures of the entire logical volume. This makes a two drive RAID 0 striped array perfectly acceptable for my use case considering that other backups are made in real time.
Setting up an LVM volume with Linux is a simple process. Using Ubuntu for example, all of the software tools needed are included in a standard server or desktop install. A decent guide to the process is located here.
In closing, the API tools I have created for researchers would not be possible with standard platter drives given the immense size of the database and the main table com_json. Although it could work theoretically with platter drives, it would definitely require an immense amount of RAM to buffer disk pages. The API itself would probably end up becoming extremely slow due to the random retrieval of records from many of the API calls in service.


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The Nordic Aquafarms salmon farm in the City of Belfast will go through a comprehensive permitting process prior to commencing operations. Permits and approvals will be obtained from all levels of government – from the local planning board to state and federal agencies. The purpose of the permits is to ensure that the project complies with zoning and land use requirements and regulations designed to protect the environment as well as public health and safety. The permitting process will be comprehensive, requiring our adherence to strict rules and regulations.
We will be submitting a site plan application to the planning board seeking comprehensive review and a building permit for the project. In connection with the site permit, we shall be seeking certificates and/or permits related to other specific municipal concerns. For details regarding the City’s permitting process, you can refer to the zoning and land use regulations in the City’s charter.
This permit is related to the water discharge. For more information regarding the wastewater permitting process please visit the MDEP webpage.
The Site Law permit is required for any development that impacts a specific amount of land area. For more information regarding the Site Law requirements and permit please visit the MDEP Site Law webpage.
A NRPA permit is required when a building project takes place in or near a protected natural resource, such as a wetland or significant wildlife habitat. For more information regarding NRPA permitting please visit the MDEP NRPA webpage.
This certification must be provided before the project can be considered for certain federal permits. The Water Quality certification will be reviewed in connection with the MEPDES and NRPA permit. For more information regarding Water Quality Certification please visit the MDEP webpage.
The state of Maine requires a license for land-based aquaculture operation. It requires information about what is being grown, what quantities and what it will be used for. For more information regarding the Land-Based Aquaculture License please visit the DACF webpage.
Prior to construction, the project shall be approved by the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), which coordinates with state and federal agencies to make sure that the project will not harm historic properties, wetlands, endangered species or ecosystems. More information is available at the Corps webpage.


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Vera Lapitskaya is a dance artist. Natalia Koshelenko is a musician. They started to collaborate in the year 2014. In the year 2015 in Helsinki they established an art group which aims to create performances of different forms and genres accessible to versatile target groups: from children to elderly. NotaBene also invites other artists for collaborative projects. In the past years the group worked together with dance artists Paolo Cingolani (IT) and Nadja Pärssinen (FI), actress Alisa Salonen (FI), writer Marjatta Hinkkala (FI), paintor Hiroko Imada (JP) – to name the few. The group actively peforms in Finland mainly in metropolitan area, but is also open for international touring.
Vera Lapitskaya studied dance in North-Karelian college Outokumpu, Finland; University of Music and Performing arts Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Kannon Dance school St.Petersburg, Russia. Since 2009, she has been working as performer independently and in collaborations with other artists both in Finland and abroad. She has been making choreographies for a number of productions, including dance films and also writting scripts for theater. In her artistic work she is interested in composing dances and texts instantly in close relation with live music and objects. Her practice is to go beyond the surface of narrative meanings towards complexity and multiplicity of poetic metaphors.
Natalia Kochelenko studied music in Art College of Murmansk, Russia. At the beginning of her career she had been playing violin in the Orchestra of Nothern Navy, Severomorsk, performing mostly classical repertoire. After mooving to Finland in 1997 her professional interests went beyond classical music. She got interested in interdisciplinary art as well as in electronic music. Natalia has graduated from University of Applied Science in Helsinki from the program of cultural management and producing. She has been involved into many crossdisciplinary art projects as coordinator and producer. As musician she has been making sound design and composing music for number of theater and dance production.


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Maximizing the effect of the remedy with frequent dosing and changes in the potency.
Using six selected case histories with varying types of cancer, the author describes his particular treatment strategy. In a variation of “single remedy homeopathy”, he splits doses by switching between an organ-specific remedy and a patient-specific nosode. To increase the effect of the remedy, he has developed the “plussing method”, which is presented here in detail.


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According to the automotive supplier, the Mahle system will function bidirectionally so that parked vehicles can also feed their energy back into the grid. In addition, high overall efficiency will be achieved by using waste heat from the charging process to preheat the passenger compartment, for example. According to Mahle, in contrast to the inductive charging system currently available, the system will also score points for its robustness.
“We believe this technology offers strong market potential. Our solution will enable fast, reliable, and highly efficient charging,” says CEO Dr. Jörg Stratmann. Mahle will be able to contribute its expertise in the fields of control electronics, software and heat management to the development. Customers can expect a modular, compact and upgradeable solution.
At the heart of the system is WiTricity‘s patented technology, to which Mahle now has access under license. However, the Stuttgart-based company is by no means the only one: Toyota, Aptiv (previously Delphi), TDK, IHI, Shindengen, Daihen, Brusa and Anjie Wireless also have licence agreements with WiTricity.

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A couple final (?) thoughts on the November 6 election in North Dakota.
Did racism play a role in the 2018 North Dakota election?
As I’ve said repeatedly over the past few months, North Dakota Democrats needed to focus ALL their messaging opportunities on two topics: Trump’s trade wars and Republicans trying to take away health insurance. But Democrats being Democrats, they wandered all over the place in the final weeks of the election campaign. One of the places they wandered was onto the state’s Indian reservations. One of the biggest stories of the last few weeks of the campaign was the charges by the Democrats that Republicans were trying to suppress the vote on the state’s reservations by requiring hard-to-obtain identification cards in order to vote.
Not only was that a huge distraction, but it may have put Democrat candidates on the wrong side of our state’s dirty little secret—most North Dakotans really don’t like Indians all that much. I’ve always believed that North Dakota has a subtle, subconscious racist streak. It doesn’t surface often, because there aren’t often obvious opportunities for it to surface. We have a very small black and Latino population, and Indians are generally relegated to their reservations–out of sight, out of mind. But racism had an opportunity to surface recently with the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy. That was about as blatant an example of racism as I have ever seen in our state.
That controversy, and the negative feeling it generated toward Native Americans, was still pretty fresh in our minds as we approached the 2018 election. There is still, nearly two years later, a lot of raw emotion afloat in the land over all that we saw about DAPL in our nightly television newscasts.
So as the election of 2018 approached, and stories appeared that said Heidi Heitkamp narrowly won election in 2012, by just 3,000 votes, because of the Indian vote—she had a winning margin of more than 3,000 votes in reservation counties—there was pretty likely a simmering resentment among the more than 150,000 voters who supported Heidi’s opponent, Rick Berg, in that election.
So when the Indian issue resurfaced as the election approached, when all over the news were stories about how there was an extra effort being made on the reservations to get them ID cards so they could vote—and elect Heidi Heitkamp again—those same voters weren’t going to let those Indians steal it again, By God.
And Kevin Cramer was the beneficiary of that. I can just see Kevin and his staff and Republican Party leaders rubbing their hands together in glee every time one of those stories appeared. Because they knew, deep down inside, North Dakotans would be resentful of that, and it would help Cramer and the Republicans on Election Day.
So even though efforts to get Native Americans to the polls were successful, even though more of them voted than likely would have without the controversy, I believe the effort backfired, in that it motivated racist Cramer voters, the result being an increase in voters of almost 75,000 over the last midterm election in 2014. And Cramer got 20,000 more votes against Heidi than Rick Berg did in a presidential election year.
And it wasn’t just Cramer who benefited. I think all Democrats on the statewide ballot suffered because of it. I don’t know that it would have changed the outcome of any statewide races, but it likely changed the margins and forced our dirty little secret, that’s there’s an inherent racial bias in North Dakota, out into the light of day. And Democrats, by association, paid the price for that. All of which makes me sad.
A couple things of note on Measure 3, the legalization of marijuana, which was defeated by a margin of 60-40 percent.
So what were the other three counties voting to legalize pot? Here’s a hint: They have something in common. They are Benson, Rolette and Sioux counties—reservation counties—home to the Spirit Lake, Turtle Mountain and Standing Rock tribes. And it ran pretty strong in Mountrail County, which contains much of the Three Affiliated Tribes reservation. My friend Mike Jacobs, who comes from Mountrail County and considers it one of his bellwether counties in elections, pointed this out to me, speculating it might have something to do with Native Americans’ traditional use of herbs as medicine. Well, maybe. You draw your own conclusion.
The second thing of note was called to my attention by another friend, former State Senator Tracy Potter, who pointed out that marijuana in North Dakota is more popular than Democrats. Measure 3 got more “Yes” votes than every Democrat on the ballot except Heidi Heitkamp. 131,585 North Dakotans voted to legalize marijuana. Heitkamp got 143,737 votes. The next closest Democrat was Tax Commissioner candidate Kylie Oversen, with 128,244, losing to marijuana by just over 3,000 votes. Kylie will go down in history as being almost as popular as marijuana.
Thanks to Mike and Tracy for their research. Hmmm, I wonder why they were so interested in that measure.
Now, as a final note, let me talk about coincidences. On November 6, 322,613 voters cast ballots for either Cramer or Heitkamp in the U.S. Senate election, the race at the top of the ballot. Way down at the bottom of the ballot, 324,736 cast ballots on the marijuana measure. So there were about 2,000 more voters on the marijuana issue than for Cramer and Heitkamp.
Now then, there were just over 2,000 write-in votes in the Senate race. Coincidence? I don’t think so. I don’t have access to those ballots, and nobody keeps track of the names anyway, but I can envision this conversation taking place around North Dakota the day after the election.
North Dakota’s population peaked in 1930 at 680,000 and then dropped. It didn’t come back to that level until 2011 during the fracking boom. Meanwhile, the U.S. population over that time increased by 260%. What happened to the people born in ND in the interim? Most of them left. And who stayed? Mostly conservative people who were uncomfortable with change. One of ND’s primary exports is liberals. However, during this period, ND went from being a primarily rural state to an urban one, with 60% of its population in urban areas. Heidi won Cass County. That’s no accidenthy, but why did she lose Burleigh? The future of the Dem-NPL is with that 60% urban population.

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text: The Ontario Maple Syrup Producers’ Association are hosting the fourth Annual Maple Weekend on April 6 ~ 7, 2019 from 10 AM to 4 PM. Participants in Maple Weekend can be found across the province in a number of maple syrup producing areas, including nearby in Lanark County. Maple weekend gives you a first-hand opportunity to see how maple products are produced, from tree to table, along with the chance to taste and purchase quality maple products.