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Barely four months after announcing The Hall Formerly Known As Avery Fisher (THFAAF) was up for naming rights dibs, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts found a taker. According to an article by Robin Pogrebin in the 3/4/2015 edition of New York Times, the naming rights are going to cover approximately 1/5 of the half a billion dollar renovation.
The individual picking up the tab is David Geffen, #195 in Forbes‘ big list of billionaires and the 68th wealthiest man in the US, and he doesn’t want his gift to go the way of the Fisher family. According to Pogrebin’s report, the 72 year old entertainment industry magnate insisted that the Lincoln Center keep his name on the hall in perpetuity.
Adjusted for inflation, Geffen’s gift is nearly double what the Fisher family donated in 1973 and per our speculation back in November, it looks like we won’t be treated to anything outside of the ubiquitous donor name for a very (very) long time.
More palatable perhaps than LC’s former State Theatre now known as the David Koch.
I think the lesson they will learn is that renovation will only make so much improvement to the acoustic. It seems in other cities, buildings didn’t survive (at least as a hall for symphony concerts) unless they had good enough acoustics to surpass any newcomer. And until that happens, I don’t know why the bricks are worshipped. As long as you are aiming for a Musikverein, Concertgebouw, or Boston – consider what led to the building of those buildings. Paris may have just built their “Musikverein” – perhaps LA has too. It is a subjective and individual thing too – what highlights qualities in the NYPO that are distinctly theirs (which can be determined by hearing them in other good places). It comes down to renovation every 15-20 years, or building new and getting it “right.” It’s just as dangerous to assume that any new hall must be better. But until you get it right, the issue won’t go away.
If gutting the building to the outside walls and completely reconfiguring the actual hall cocooned inside and reducing seating by 400+ is the plan, then it just may succeed.
Well, for NYC, and I’m not saying I agree with this argument – but a comparison will be made with Carnegie Hall. And if enough people think Carnegie Hall is still better, the issue of renovation will not rest.
If this kind of money is floating around, it is possible for them to build the best hall in the world. If any city could do it, it’s NYC. We don’t know what the orchestral scene will be like in 20-30 years – maybe things won’t be as bad as some forecasts – but these opportunities shouldn’t be overlooked.


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Interested in exporting your RV? You can easily ship motor home from Baltimore to overseas through a reliable international shipping company. But before you start looking for a suitable shipper, it is important to have a basic understanding of the procedures that are involved in the overseas shipping of motor homes.
In the following section we will discuss some of the vital transport requirements that need to be followed in order to ship motor home from Baltimore to overseas.
One can ship motor home from Baltimore to overseas either through international roll-on roll-off carriers or on flat rack containers. In roll-on roll-off shipments, the vehicles are simply wheeled onto the vessel while special protective containers are used to transport cargo in the latter case. If your vehicle is being shipped in a container then the very first requirement is to drain all the fluids from the tank as well as secure the battery wires before disconnecting the battery.
The second measure to ensure when you decide to ship motor home from Baltimore to overseas is that the keys are not left inside the car and there are no additional items in the boot or in the main vehicle area. In case you need to ship some small cargo along with your vessel it is very important to mention it to the company to avoid hassles or rejection with the Customs.
When you decide to ship motor home it is also very important to ensure that you vehicle has been covered properly so as to avoid getting damaged during the shipping process. While most of the shipping companies take care of the packaging process of vehicles it is important to personally ensure that the body has been sheeted in a sufficiently thick and shock proof material.
Finally, in order to ship motor home from Baltimore to overseas successfully, always remember that every vehicle is measured at the shipping company’s pier before its departure. It is therefore very crucial to submit the exact dimensions to the company at the time of booking your shipment so that there are no rejection hassles at the port of origin.
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The goal - create a flexible identity for all of our games, a united banner for all we do. The games we create at Santa Monica Studio become the very essence of who we are as a studio, and vice versa. Our games are the studio’s brand, and now our logo exemplifies who we are.
Our studio logo, with its bold, simple structure can become a frame to the world of our games, filled with elements of the game such as key colors, textures, game content and screenshots. When you see the new animated logo boot up with our next external dev games such as Fat Princess: Adventures, you’ll further understand how we crafted a mark that allows our games to visually become part of the brand.

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Reset & Restart your goals by going through the Unlock Your Passion Challenge. In this devotional you will heart how to develop 3 habits that will unlock the passion that is in your heart.
Understanding these three habits will push you into reaching your target every time, Think, Speak, and Be.

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The Blackstar HT112M 1x12” 50W speaker cab is designed to pair with the HTMETAL5H 5W amp head to produce big-time Blackstar metal tone, but in a combination made for practice or the studio.
The cab features a single 12” 50W Blackbird speaker rated at 16Ω that was custom designed by Blackstar to make the most of the tube overdrive from the HT Metal series. It’s housed in rugged plywood construction with a metal speaker grille to keep it safe.

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Children can be diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder as young as 2 years old, and some show signs as early as infancy.2 If you are concerned about a child’s development, there is no need to “wait and see” until a particular age, because early diagnosis and early intervention (if needed) lead to better outcomes.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends Pediatricians administer screening checklists for ASD at Well Child Checkup visits within the first two years of life (usually starting at around 15-18 months of age). You may be asked to fill out a questionnaire called the M-CHAT (The Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers) at one or both of these visits. If your child is screened for possible ASD at a pediatric visit, make sure you ask about the results and follow any recommendations for additional assessment or intervention.
When a developmental professional evaluates your child for possible ASD, he or she should spend adequate time learning about your child – the evaluation should include a comprehensive parent/caregiver interview to gather information about your child’s development and current concerns, direct observation and interaction with your child during structured and unstructured activities, completion of standardized measures or checklists, and review of records or consultation with other professionals who have worked with your child, if applicable. There is no one medical or psychological test that diagnoses ASD, but a good evaluation will combine information from multiple sources to make an accurate diagnosis, and then provide referrals and recommendations for appropriate treatments and services.
Families should also know about Early Childhood Intervention (ECI). ECI is funded by the federal and state governments to provide developmental evaluations and interventions to children with disabilities and developmental delays from birth to 3 years old. ECI professionals include speech therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, developmental specialists, and other health professionals. Intervention services are provided according to a Family Cost Share plan based on income level, and many children receive services at no cost. Evaluations, case management, development of the child’s intervention plan, and translator or interpreter services are provided at no cost. ECI professionals cannot diagnose autism, but they can identify delays that qualify the child for intervention services, and they may alert the family to the need for a referral for an autism evaluation. More information about ECI is available here: https://hhs.texas.gov/services/disability/early-childhood-intervention-services/eci-information-parents/eci-what-a-parent-needs-know.
Some children with more subtle signs of Autism Spectrum Disorder are not identified until later in childhood. These children may demonstrate mild or more subtle developmental delays, and may be bright and academically advanced yet struggle with social relationships or show rigid, repetitive behaviors. Some of these children may have been diagnosed with other conditions earlier before an underlying ASD is recognized. If you have concerns about possible ASD in a child of any age, talk to your pediatrician or seek out additional information to gain a better understanding of areas your child may struggle with as well as their strengths. It’s never too early to gain insight into your child’s development and behavior, and it’s never too late!
Guest post by Cathy Guttentag, Ph.D.
Dr. Guttentag is a licensed clinical child psychologist and associate professor of pediatrics at UTHealth's McGovern Medical School. Dr. Guttentag provides diagnostic and developmental evaluations to infants and children with concerns about autism and related disorders.


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By Aman Tiku / Nov. 12, 2017, 4:39 p.m.
This September, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved the lower house of the Japanese parliament and called a snap election a year in advance. In justifying his decision, Abe stated that he wished to gain a clear “mandate from the people” on his handling of the North Korean issue so as to forge ahead with “strong diplomacy.” On October 22, Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won a two-thirds majority in the lower house of parliament, significantly increasing his chance to extend his premiership another three years and become the longest serving prime minister in modern Japanese history. Abe’s latest victory is particularly significant: in the wake of growing tensions over North Korea, Abe is likely to use this geopolitical situation to successfully push for an amendment to Japan’s postwar pacifist constitution during the remainder of his premiership.
The modern Japanese Constitution was established during the post-World War II Allied occupation of Japan to replace the country’s near-fascist dictatorial monarchy system with a liberal democracy (as well as to negate any communist pressures from the Soviet Union). The constitution has never been revised since its inception in 1947. Its most controversial provision has always been Article 9, which declares that “the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes.” Although Japan does have an armed security force, the Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF), this organization is not the same type of standing military force that nations such as the United States rely on.
Many Japanese conservatives want their country to regain the military authority and influence that they deem “normal” for a country in Japan’s position to wield. One such individual is Abe, whose family has always been deeply involved in Japanese politics (his grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, was a member of Hideki Tojo’s cabinet during World War II and was prime minister from 1957 to 1960). Since Abe was re-elected for the first time in 2012, the Japanese government has eased back on the pacifism of Article 9. In 2014, the government reinterpreted Article 9 as allowing the SDF to defend Japan’s allies—a move supported by Japan’s principal ally, the United States, but criticized by opponents at home because Abe dodged the constitutional amendment process.
North Korea has always been a delicate topic in Japanese political circles, given the rogue nation’s perpetual unpredictability and proximity to Japan, but recent tensions have only intensified the ongoing debate over Article 9. In recent months, North Korea has launched two ballistic missiles over Hokkaido, Japan’s northern island. Such provocations have been a stark reminder for many Japanese citizens of the danger North Korea presents to a nation whose laws handicap its capacity for a military response, or even any demonstrations of force. Abe aimed to calm worried Japanese citizens in his response to North Korea, asserting that his government would “never tolerate” such actions.
But talk against North Korea is becoming increasingly cheap. Abe’s decision to call for a snap election a year before Japanese elections were scheduled to be held was a legitimate call to action for Japan. It reflects a shrewd political maneuver on Abe’s part: knowing that the North Korean issue is becoming a more central point of contention in Japan’s political discourse than ever, Abe asked the Japanese people to throw their support behind his anti-pacifist philosophy and give him a political mandate to confront the crisis at hand with greater leverage. The results of the snap election speak for themselves. The LDP’s victory has only further strengthened the standing of Japan’s most powerful postwar political party, with Abe presumably at the helm for 3–4 more years. Abe has been transparent about his goal to revise Article 9 by the year 2020. The LDP’s victory has important implications for the future of the Japanese Constitution because the party won a two-third majority in parliament (the number needed to propose a constitutional amendment).
Though any such change to the wording of Article 9 could be viewed as only symbolic in nature, a legitimate revision of the constitution would still reflect a significant shift in Japan’s long-term stance towards militarism in general—certainly more so than the previously discussed reinterpretation did. In addition, such a move would allow Abe to take advantage of a real confrontation revolving around North Korea in the Asia-Pacific and use the situation to expand Japan’s military power further. Abe asked for a mandate on North Korea, but what he really wants to do is dictate the future of Article 9. Opposing North Korea is a critical objective for Abe’s government but is nonetheless superseded by his Article 9 agenda. The political debate on altering Article 9 is very slow and has often been totally stagnant in Japan’s postwar history. Abe gambled by calling a snap election to accelerate this goal of his, and it appears that his calculated political risk is going to pay dividends.
The United States’ support will only further embolden Abe in his mission to amend Article 9. While the United States was adamant about imposing the pacifist restrictions of Article 9 on Japan in the immediate aftermath of World War II, that decision was a product of its time. Japan had just fought and lost as the aggressor in the deadliest conflict in human history, and would require substantial political and economic guidance by the United States to become a stalwart pro-US liberal democracy in the Asia-Pacific. Now that Japan has been refashioned into that country, the US has begun tacitly supporting pro-militarism efforts by Japanese politicians because increasing Japan’s regional presence amounts to an extension of pro-US interests in the Asia-Pacific.
President Donald Trump, erratic as he may be, will likely become a great asset for Abe because Trump’s upfront nature aligns well with Abe’s endeavors concerning Article 9. Trump reportedly wanted Japan to shoot down the two aforementioned North Korean missiles and apparently asked why Japan would hesitate to do so, given its “samurai warrior past.” Glossing over the glaring cultural insensitivity those comments exhibit, Trump’s desire to see Japan take a more militaristic stance against North Korea should be music to Abe’s ears. The convergence of domestic and international factors has never been better to pursue Article 9 revisions. The threat of North Korea looms large, the leader of Japan’s greatest ally wants to empower Japanese militarism, and the Japanese people have just handed Abe the political capital he needs to make it happen.
The North Korean issue is very significant to the Japanese public and their political leanings. Abe recognizes this; he called this snap election at an opportune moment to exploit the precarious geopolitical situation North Korea has created for Japan and the Asia-Pacific to support his ultimate goal: the constitutional revision of Article 9. If Abe can accomplish that task and return Japan to the standing military norms he believes the country requires, he will have set in stone the most enduring and controversial aspect of his political legacy. Such an act would almost certainly have a reverberating impact on Japan, its relationship with the United States and the Asia-Pacific region at large for years to come.
That being said, an amendment to Article 9 will not happen overnight. For an amendment to be successful, it must be proposed by a two-thirds majority in both sections of Japan's parliament and must be sanctioned through a referendum by a majority of voters. But with Japan at risk of becoming one of North Korea's first targets in a legitimate international crisis in the Asia-Pacific, Abe will continue his earnest pursuit of a more militaristic Japan unhampered by the decades-old pacifism of its postwar constitution.

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Alex Albon, the Thai-English F1 driver, says he was was satisfied with yesterday’s work in Melbourne after the first Thai driver in Formula 1’s modern era threatened a huge shock before settling for a respectable 14th place at the Australian Grand Prix.
In Friday’s practice, Albon suffered the dubious honour of becoming the first driver of the season to crash out, sending his Toro Rosso car spinning into the barriers.
But then Saturday’s qualifying saw him unexpectedly surge past his more experienced Russian teammate Daniil Kvyat into 13th place on the grid. Kvyat, with a season of F1 already under his belt, was two grid places behind as the red lights blinked out and the Thai stomped on the accelerator yesterday.
The result was a lightning start for Thailand’s new era at the top of global motorsports.
“That was pretty much as good as it got for me, though,” he added, complaining that the Toro Rosso tyre strategy failed to pay off.
Despite losing ground to more experienced rivals as his tyres began to wear, Albon declared himself satisfied with his performance in Melbourne.
Team Principal Franz Tost was impressed by Albon’s driving accuracy on Melbourne’s tricky street circuit.
Thai AirAsia X flies to Brisbane June 2019. Thai Airways cut services to Australia.

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Jeff and Joann Brown, Knoxville residents and the owners of CertaPro Painters of Knoxville & East TN were recently the recipients of the company’s highest honor, the CertaCup award.
America’s premier outdoor living space builder, Archadeck Outdoor Living, is pleased to announce the opening of Archadeck of Seattle Northwest.
After more than 25 years serving the community in the non-profit sector, entrepreneur Val Traore is excited to transition her skills to a new kind of service as the local owner and operator of Fresh Coat Painters of Burlington-Camden.
Local entrepreneur Derek Stafford is pleased to announce the launch of his new business, Fresh Coat Painters of Carolina Shores.
Trevor Taylor is pleased to announce the launch of his new professional painting company, Fresh Coat Painters of North Sacramento.
Bernie Mascarenaz is looking forward to offering a new kind of professional painting experience to the Lancaster County area with his new business, Fresh Coat Painters of Lincoln, Nebraska.
Experienced business owner and manager Jay Holcomb is pleased to announce the launch of his new professional painting company - Fresh Coat Painters of Katy.
The Glass Guru of Amarillo, TX has had a transfer in ownership. Josh Hipskind completed Initial Franchise Training at The Glass Guru headquarters in Roseville, CA on October 5th, 2018.
Mr. Handyman, a Neighborly company, is celebrating Halloween with a photo contest to give North America's pumpkin carving pros a chance to show off their unique handmade creations.
Paul Davis supports the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) Fire Prevention Week, October 7-13.
Dominick Passafiume, a local entrepreneur and experienced business leader, is pleased to announce the launch of his new professional painting business, Fresh Coat Painters of White Plains.
Bryan and Heidi Disdier are pleased to announce the launch of their new, local, professional painting company, Fresh Coat Painters of The Woodlands.

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In early 2008, the only Thai restaurant I considered worthy in Vinohrady closed down. Tiger Tiger's Pad Thai and red curry chicken were favorites, and I was a regular eat-in and take-out customer.
Oddly, after it was gone, there was no other serious Thai restaurant in that upscale neighborhood or even in neighboring Žižkov and Vršovice.
Sure, these days you can pick up some Thai-like food at Sushi Tam Da or Sawadi, but it is mostly stuff would not try more than once.
As far as I'm concerned, there hasn't been any serious Thai food in this part of town for years. When I wanted Thai, I'd go to Noi, Modry Zub, Lemon Leaf or maybe Siam Orchid.
So I was quite intrigued when I saw that Kiin Modern Thai Restaurant had moved into the large space once occupied by Ristorante Soave.
It's in the neighborhood between Flora and Jiřího z Poděbrad.
During the warmer months, they have tables set up outside.
I really liked sipping their homemade lemonade with ginger (49 CZK) out there on a sunny day.
It's not too sweet (though they can make it sweeter if you like), with plenty of sharp, freshly-grated ginger at the bottom. The fresh mint lemonade (49 CZK) was equally refreshing and commendable.
They also had a "white sangria" I found too sweet.
Inside, the spacious restaurant looks much the same as it did during its Soave days. There is a small, darker, somewhat intimate space near the bar area.
Then there is a larger, brighter space with modern furniture and neon-green walls and accents.
There is also a semi-private dining area in the back.
I made five separate visits and ate my way through a lot of the menu, which has cute names for many of the offerings.
I tried the Pok Pok Wings (69 CZK). I'd recommend this little starter.
They were very spicy, with sliced red chilis mixed into the sweet glaze. The two full, unseparated wings sat on top of a carrot salad with the flavors of citrus, fish sauce, and lime leaf. It's a small dish, but there was big flavor.
The "Daisy in Pyjama" (90 CZK) was a nice twist on Vietnamese-style summer or salad rolls.
The cool rice paper was filled with cold, sliced duck breast, mango, and mint. Inside, there was also carrot, cucumber, and rice noodles. There was a hoisin dipping sauce. The mango could be riper and sweeter. A bit of the duck was too hard and chewy. But I'd get it again.
They also do a cold roll with smoked salmon (79 CZK).
I found that one more mundane.
If you like hot, fried spring rolls, you could go for the "Gold Fingers."
These were filled with taro, a starchy root vegetable, rice noodles, and vegetables. The soy-flavored dipping sauce went well with it.
The Sun Burn (75 CZK) was described as moo krob or "crispy, pork bacon and honey mustard sauce." This dish was less successful in both execution and description.
It was barely warm, dry slices of crispy pork belly. The sauce had no semblance to honey mustard, but was more of an Asian barbecue sauce. Apologies for the poor iPhone photo.
From the salad section, I tasted the "Crying Tiger" (145 CZK). This was a generous portion of warm flank steak with red onion, lime juice, fish sauce, green onion, and lime leaf.
It was very tangy and the red chili spice level was seriously high, which I liked.
Although cooked to medium, the beef was disappointingly chewy and tough. I mentioned this to some international foodie-types I met on a later visit, and they told me theirs was tender. So maybe I had bad luck.
On many visits, I had a half-liter of Pilsner Urquell (35 CZK), which they have on tap.
The beers were almost always perfect, chilled to the right temperature, with a sharp sparkle as it went down. However, the last time I tried it, the beer was not as well-poured or as cold as the previous visits.
One dish that I liked, but could be even better, was the "Lonesome Heart" (185 CZK) This was a roasted duck breast glazed with chili, garlic and ginger sauce, served on a bed of red lentils mixed with coconut milk and red curry.
It came with a bowl of rice, which I found unnecessary and went uneaten.
The duck skin was nicely crispy, though some of the meat underneath was dry. The lentils had light sweetness and a slow-building spicy kick. They worked well with the meat on the fork. I'd get it again.
I also sampled the "Canard Enchainé" (175 CZK). This was roasted duck leg served with lychee red curry sauce and rice.
My friend liked it. I thought it was too sweet.
Pad Thai is one of my favorite dishes and something I use as a benchmark to judge a Thai restaurant. I had Kiin's Pad Thai (150 CZK with chicken) three times -- twice for take-out and once in the restaurant.
It was OK, not great. The noodles were lightly sweet, which I like, and the requisite egg, bean sprouts, carrots, and green onions were in there.
On the downside, the peanuts were too roughly chopped and didn't mix in well. There was a lime slice, but I wished for more citrus and salty notes in the balance. For me, the standard-setter in Prague is still at Noi, which almost always balances the flavors well and includes smoky strips of tofu in both their chicken and shrimp Pad Thai. The last issue with Kiin's, and it is not a small one, is some of the noodles were only warm and some were actually cold.
I enjoyed the "shoryuken" (195 CZK) more than the Pad Thai. It was homemade rice noodles with flank steak, asparagus, green onion, broccoli, carrots, and bean sprouts.
There was a hint of sweetness combined with a bit of soy saltiness. The noodles were on the soft side and it was also unevenly heated. But the deliciousness outweighed the defects.
The Sweet Sticky Rice (59 CZK) was a fun and satisfying choice for dessert.
It was served in a cool-looking glass with its own glass cover. Inside was a mix of black and white rice, raisins, amaretto, sesame, and walnut. It tasted like a fancy rice pudding.
Although it was small, I'd recommend the pandan crème brûlée (55 CZK). It was super-creamy and they went very light on the sugar.
The pandan leaf gave it a green coloring and I thought it had a green tea-like flavor.
The service I experienced was very good. I had the same male and a female servers on most visits. They were very helpful, friendly, and charming with a sense of humor. These two definitely added to the warm, neighborhood feeling of the restaurant.
On my first visit, I was told that the kitchen staff included cooks from Modrý Zub and SaSaZu. That, of course, will raise expectations for some. Those expectations should be tempered.
Kiin's kitchen needed to be more consistent. Some dishes, like the duck and red lentils, were very tasty. Some were dry, including the same duck and red lentils. Several offerings weren't heated properly. The pork belly and lamb satay didn't thrill me. The Pad Thai could be better with a few tweaks.
Yet, there is nothing like Kiin in this part of town. Some of their offerings are unique, with combinations of flavors you'll find nowhere else in Prague. Many dishes were not large, but I still thought the prices were very reasonable.
Kiin is still relatively new, having opened in May. I'm hoping they'll iron out their imperfections, combining imagination with consistency to make their restaurant the star of the neighborhood.
I love your photos and descriptions. The lemonade with ginger sounds amazing!!!
It became our local favourite, yet, after a couple of months, I must say that they are already suffering from what happens to a lot of good places in Prague.
We were waited by staff which was either undertrained or undermotivated, in any case, it devalued the feel-good impression (food was excellent and so was the wine, which is not usual at this price level). the waitress first took my plate while my partner was still eating, then she left us unattended for about half an hour (our water run out, our candle burned out and we could not order a dessert) after which she had the balls to advise us where to put the tip. I would still give them a chance, though.

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Is The Economist left or right? – its digital editor Tom Standage answers the question ‘yes and no’: which can only mean that it’s really liberal.
Boris Johnson: The man who would be king – Andrew Gimson in The Spectator profiles “the Merry England maverick … already spoken of as a man for the top job or for no job at all”. And you can find out why I made Boris my CentreForum Liberal Hero of the Week here.
Jimmy Saville’s Knighthood: The Civil Service Rearguard – Damian McBride gives us the inside gen on the civil service’s rearguard action to block posthumous honours, including Gordon Brown’s attempts to have Alan Turing recognised.
Polling on abortion – Anthony Wells looks at what we know of public opinion — including that women voters are more likely than men, and Labour voters more likely than Conservatives, to favour a reduction in the abortion limit.

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Wikipedia is in danger. Google has just released a new project that aims to unseat the siempre_presente_en_todas_las_búsquedas: Wikipedia.
The new project is called Knol (http://knol.google.com/) And it is in beta.
And it is that Google does not want to be left behind in any of the fronts on which Internet progresses. While already leading the search, free email, maps, calendars, etc .. and now wants to also lead the online dictionaries.
Knol aims to be Google's response to the phenomenon Wikipedia. According to Google itself, the name comes from the word "knowledge" in English: "knowledge" and it will be a database of knowledge, self-feeding like Wikipedia, but with tighter control of the content published.
One of the main differences between Knol and Wikipedia is that Knol articles will sign experts may include a photograph in their chips expert and will have a profile where the feedback of users of these authors appear. The structure of the articles, on the other hand, will not vary much from the Wikipedia offers.


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A purple and steel Gemini D10 dice set by Chessex. Includes ten dice.
A purple and steel Gemini D10 dice set by Chessex - a high quality dice manufacturer. Includes ten individual 10 sided dice. These dice are of the standard 16mm size normally used for boardgames and roleplaying games. Ten sided dice are particularly useful for percentages and Dungeons and Dragons!


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What’s good for Heston’s diners is worth a second glance….
Consider walking into any branch of Hollister. The stores have a very strong identity whether you’re shopping in Dubai or Glasgow – the same beach hut exterior, dim lighting, evocative scent, music and, of course, the same Californian inspired clothing.
Enveloping the senses in this way evokes a feeling, a sense of belonging, which Hollister customers enjoy and return time and again for. Of course, the experience is not to everyone’s taste – and that’s equally important. Hollister customers are teenagers and young adults who are economically able to enjoy the brand’s image.
Anyone outside that niche probably finds the store’s signature scent overpowering, the dim lighting irritating, and might question the price and individuality of the clothes themselves. But they aren’t the target market. Similarly, the hushed tones, subtle music and delicate scents used by upmarket hotel chains are probably an anathema to the majority of young people, but they aren’t the hotel’s target market. Their target group are business people and prosperous holidaymakers.
This maturation of sensory marketing has sped up over the last decade. A car manufacturer has worked on creating a certain sound when a door shuts. This sound has been developed to become synonymous with quality in the ears of its customers.
Retail units of global brands are carefully planned to place both auditory and aroma points to encourage purchases of certain items, usually items with a higher price tag. And at the very edge of technology there are very personalised sensory marketing techniques being trailed in the world’s bigger cities. Cameras can capture images of people walking towards a store and that data can be fed back to a computer. Images and sounds are selected to appeal to the customer profiled, and as they walk past the store their senses are engaged in the hope they’ll walk in and make a purchase.
Online things are getting just as interesting. Recently a marketing company encouraged visitors to a web site to take a sip of any brand of whisky while visiting different coloured ‘rooms’ on their site (where the promoted whisky brand was being prominently displayed at all times), and giving feedback on their experience. This helped the branding company see how colours and textures impacted on the visitor’s enjoyment of whisky generally, while the repeating of the name of the branded whiskey probably led to many visitors going out and trying it in real life.
All this is expensive, but it doesn’t mean the smaller business can’t harness some of the big company’s sensory marketing tricks. Again, it’s down to research. Find out how it’s being done by the bigger companies, and replicate it to your own budget. Sensory marketing is proven to work around the world; it taps into deep parts of the human brain, working on an almost subliminal level. Done well, a little Dubai company can use sensory marketing as effectively as the global brands.


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Xiaoran Shi couldn’t handle the Strewth.
Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander, and one of Australia’s foremost Indigenous journalists. Here, she speaks to Xiaoran Shi.
Xiaoran Shi needs to listen to some bands other than Dinosaur Jr.
Xiaoran Shi left out Hole, Garbage, and The Spice Girls. Because everybody knows TLC was the best.


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According to Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick and Dina Cappiello (in article in The Boston Globe), the biggest environmental bill in decades is all set for being debated upon. The bill obviously seeks to preserve Mother Earth for future generations. Once voted and passed, it will set “nationwide limits on the gases blamed for global warming emitted from power plants, factories and automobiles.” Driving passage of the bill is President Obama himself who the writers quote as saying that the bill will “finally spark a clean energy transformation” and reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil.
The United States is keen to get its house in order before the meeting in Copenhagen in December that is likely to see a new international agreement to curb the emissions linked to global warming. However, the Republicans are not for passage of the bill, it seems, with Minority Leader John Boehner writing to fellow republicans and stating that it will have a “disastrous impact”. It will be interesting to see the passage of the bill and what it portends not only for the U.S.A. but also for the rest of the world.

industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


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All original images (or modifications to art placed under public domain) posted on this web subforum after the 23th of May 2015, unless otherwise clarified on the post in question, are assumed to be contributions to the OPP Project.
As such, all assets under the OPP Project are made freely available under public domain.
Earlier contributions are licensed CC-BY-3.0, unless the authors agreed to move their work into the public domain and appear on this list.
The aim of the project is to create and spread quality pixel art that is technically usable and modifiable by anyone for any purpose. We strongly believe that public domain is the best technical solution to license complications. For more information on why we chose public domain over other licenses, see the original announcement.
If you don't wish for your contributions to go into the public domain, please do not share artwork in this forum, in the chat or on our website.
I am aware that this post and the public domain in general is a legally insignificant sham, all we can do is trust that you indeed wish your artwork to be used freely :).

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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The accounting firm is a boon for small and large business. If you are running any business this is the first foremost thing which you will look into. Many entrepreneurs get benefit from the accounting firms. They generally hire accounting firms because they get help to keep a record of bookkeeping and at the same time business is operational. Accountant keeps a record of costs and operations going on. There will be areas where your business needs improvements. All things will be clear and handy with the help of an accounting firm. Financials record keeping is very important for business. Before hiring them it is very important what kind of services they are providing, whether it will be beneficial for us in long run or not. TW Accounting firm specialize in many tasks such as tax management, consulting mergers, acquisition, public accounting and tax accounting. Additionally, bookkeeping firm services offered are payroll, bank reconciliation, credit and sales reconciliation, tax preparation, loan matters. It is up to business which services you want to render from the firm. Whatever you demand from the accounting firm all necessary services will be provided.
Business taxes and Accounting firms: While handling day to day issues business hiring accounting firms, a number of companies decide to work with them due to the tax related issue. They have to collect sales tax, as well as payroll tax for the employees. Paying quarterly taxes is a very difficult process. A business firm can provide all the compliance with state and local taxes.
Fees: Accounting firm fees vary from year to year and companies to companies. There are various accountants who charge a very hefty amount for each financial task they perform. For filing a return and preparing profit and loss statement they charge a heavy amount. There are many firms who charge minute by minute and every call you do for that they charge a different amount.
Specialties: There are specialties in accountants which they carry and being certified added a more value to this. This will help to serve better. Before hiring the company, it is compulsory which degree they are holding and in which thing they are specialized. By this company will also know whether it is an added advantage or not.
Certification: These firms hire not only taxpayers but also train them so that in a long run they are beneficial for the business firm. As the needs increase more and more CA and CPA’S are in demand for the companies. TSO, it’s very important to check their certificate and validity of their CA. As our business cash flow system is in their hands.
Advice: When you are looking to hire a firm, you need to be very strong in asking a question. By twisting question how much help they can do at the financial crisis and what advice they can give to a business so that it can come out from the crisis and again reaches to a new height.
Level of Service: It’s very important while deciding what kind of service will be given to the clients. With clients, the cordial relationship is very important. It is very easy for them to track the payments and receipts. If there are any loopholes they can directly contact them and solve the issue. In short, they should not stick to the accountant role only, in between manager role is important too.
Availability: The firm should be in such a way that when the need arises they should be available. For that only business, the firm is paying to them. Which help to both of them to grow stronger in future? If the need arises to show book of accounts, he should be a phone call away to show all the ledgers and balances of the company.
Audit Support: Well, every business needs to be audited. So main criteria lie here also that it should be audited and firm should have through knowledge on it. It’s very important to cross-check whether the accountant has done a right entry or not. Some firms hire a different auditor for a quarterly period so that work can be done easier and who have full knowledge of the software system.
References: Before hiring any firm always take a reference from one or two. By them, you will come to know the whole picture of the firm. With the help of referrals, the life of the owner becomes easy in deciding which one to appoint for their firm.
By all the above points, one can definitely check while appointing accounting firm. In today’s world, it has proven to the added benefit for the large, medium and small business.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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As what the renowned line stated, “The first impression is the last” is the most effective thing that you should think about if you want to be employed on job. Before you fret what clothing to use during the interview, it is essential to ensure initially that you are equipped with an excellent and competitive resume. Generally, the resume is the most importantly vital point to think when making an application for a particular placement. Lots of employers nowadays are very meticulous when it concerns examining resume.
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Mobile Food Vehicle trial begins 1 January 2019 and will run until 30 May 2019.
This trial is to determine the feasibility of implementing a permanent Mobile Food Vehicle policy. If you have feedback, please contact Council staff at council@wagga.nsw.gov.au or (02) 6926 9100 and address your correspondence to Dominic Kennedy.
Residents are requesting greater choice and convenience in food and beverage options at Wagga Wagga’s many recreation and open space areas. Through better activation of these locations it is anticipated that there would be positive social, economic and security impacts.
Established and start-up food and beverage businesses have also identified this market need with several submitting requests to operate mobile food vehicles on Wagga Wagga City Council owned land. This presents an opportunity for these businesses to either expand their market, or start something new.
Council will be working closely with businesses in the Wagga Wagga region to identify impacts related to the operation of mobile food vending vehicles during the course of this trial. Data and feedback collected as part of the trial will aid in consultation with the local community and determination of a path forward.
The City of Wagga Wagga is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) from qualified and suitable mobile food vendors in the local government area to participate in a Mobile Food Vehicle trial. This trial is in accordance with resolution 18/440 – Councillors resolved to proceed with the trial at the Monday, 26 November 2018 Ordinary Council meeting.
To be eligible completed Expression of Interest forms are to be submitted by Monday, 17 December 2018 by 9am. The trial will be conducted from January to May 2019. Permits will be limited with review and approval by Council staff. Successful vendors will be required to participate in a survey to determine feasibility of a permanent mobile food vehicle policy.
The Mobile Food Vehicle EOI will be open for 14 days. The deadline for submissions will be Monday 17 December 2018 at 9:00 am, with Council retaining the option to extend this deadline by an additional seven days if an insufficient number of applications are received.


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I saw you on TV. I thought that you were a character on American Horror Story. You were standing on the steps of the asylum in a green suit, ballpoint pen and steno pad in hand, an independent woman of the sixties. It gave me an overwhelming sense of dread to see you on the show, to know what was going to happen to you.
I saw how they locked you up because you wouldn’t stay quiet, because you were gay. I saw the electroshock. Weren’t you scared? Weren’t you scared that first time, Margaret?
I saw everything that happened to you and I finally knew.
No. This is not you. I have to keep reminding myself this isn’t true—not entirely. This is me trying to impose a narrative. But I know the story now.
Here is what I remember: Gramma was not herself at my tenth birthday party. As I sat eating birthday cake, sucking frosting off the tines of my fork, I heard her say to my mother, “My sister isn’t doing too good.” I thought the only sister Gramma had died before I was born. I didn’t know there was another. I didn’t think to say anything in that moment because I was only ten, and it was my birthday, and surely I must have misunderstood.
The day after my tenth birthday my mother sat me down at the kitchen table and explained to me that you were our aunt, that you had spent most of your life in a mental hospital, and that you had died that morning. She said she was ten when she found out about you. Your mother had died and they put your name in the obituary. Mom didn’t know who you were. Grampa told her not to ask questions about you. I think Grampa is still afraid of you. I can’t get a straight answer out of him when I ask about you. He said you liked to smoke, then after a long pause added, “and cuss.” He didn’t say anything about the fire. It seems cruel to press him for questions at this point in his life. There are only five people left who knew you from before.
My mother remembers going with Gramma to visit “a friend” on Sundays. They would go to a place that looked like a hospital, but it had a bowling alley and a malt shop in the lobby. Mom never went beyond the lobby, never got to meet the friend who lived at a hospital that wasn’t a hospital.
That was the first part of the story I learned. I was an adult when I learned the rest. I was afraid that I would never be ready. I still don’t think I am.
When they took you it was in the 50s. It was 1952 and you were thirty-eight, although I always picture you in your twenties, the same age as myself. You had been living with Gramma and Grampa and you set their apartment on fire. Gramma said it was an accident, though there had been another fire before. That one, as I would read in your medical records, was on purpose.
Before the fires you went to California with a friend. One aunt says you went there because you were pregnant; I wondered if your friend was your lover and the two of you needed to go someplace far away where you could start over. In your medical records it’s explained that you met a man out there, but had a nervous breakdown and had to come home. They say you never got over your lost love. This was a part of the story that made sense. I know the urge of wanting a lover, a new life, a new beginning, and all of it being too much to bear.
Then there was the story of the butcher knife.
I know you tried to stab your mother with a butcher knife so they put you away. They called you schizophrenic. Your niece told me that the door to your bedroom was always closed, then one day the door was wide open and you were gone. No one talked about you after. It’s mentioned in your medical records how much time you spent in your room, how it began in your teen years. This information is meant to sound strange in your records, but to me it seems normal. I still don’t like to leave my room, and when I do I feel vulnerable. It’s easier to hide, but people don’t understand that. I wonder how much of this story is merely about not understanding one another.
I have told both of my therapists about you. I try to talk about you so I don’t have to talk about me. They ask me about the washing, the obsessing, the dark places I have to snap myself out of before I go in too far. Even on my best day there is an underlying despair that cleaves to me. Does any of this make sense?
Both therapists tell me that you were probably bipolar. The disorder runs in our family, though schizophrenia does not. They say that your doctors might have gotten the medication wrong—this part I understand. Could you see when they got my medication wrong? Did you see all the times I cried for no reason, my bursts of anger, the kind you were famous for?
I keep writing about you, Margaret, because it’s the only way I know how to keep from turning into you. It’s the only way I know how to keep from going crazy. Isn’t that what they called you? Crazy? Not right in the head. On the first page of your medical records the word “insane” appears three times. I hope you never had to see those papers. There is a part of me that wants to protect you, another that loves you even though we never met, and still another that is afraid of you too.
I don’t think I think right Margaret, even when everyone says how well I’m doing. I hope that if I can make sense out of your life then I can make sense out of mine. When I look at photographs of you from the 40s, wearing the expensive dresses you spent months saving up for, I can’t help but notice how normal you look. You are with friends, you are at the beach, you are holding a bunny in your hands. I imagine someone picking up a picture of me someday and wondering who I am. But I can’t know if that will ever happen. There’s so much I don’t know.
I only know that it seemed easier when you were a character on a TV show and not my great aunt.
It was easier not to think about sharing DNA with you.
It was easier not to think about how I don’t think right.
It was easier to think I’m not already you.
Perhaps the door has always been wide open after all.
Patrick Thornton is a 2015 graduate of Columbia College Chicago’s Creative Nonfiction MFA Program. After completing school he attended a summer residency at the Vermont Studio Center. His work has previously appeared in Redivider, The Lab Review, and Ghost Proposal. He has also performed his work in Listen To Your Mother, a national reading series featuring local writers.

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For over a decade, Tony Rio has been putting his heart and soul into one thing: Making the best music and providing the best entertainment, for his fans. Week in and week out Tony gives his all to provide A-level entertainment for his loyal fans who continue to come and see his electrifying performances. Not content to rest on his laurels, Tony is hard at work evolving his show to continue to provide the quality performances that his fans have come to expect.
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The non-vintage rosé is the end result of a desire to create a rosé champagne with a delightfully luscious, fruit-based charm. Jacques Péters, the cellarmaster, and his team wanted a champagne that would be accessible and naturally engaging while conserving Veuve Clicquot's essential values in terms of style.
The blend includes a particularly high percentage (25-35%, sometimes 40%) of reserve wines originating from several harvests (usually 5 or 6), which ensures the consistency of the house style. The reserve wines, some of which are 9 years old, are kept separately depending on the origin of the crus and the years in which the wines were produced. This blend is completed with 12% of red wines using red grapes especially raised and selected to give a marvellous balance to this rosé.
WINE ENTHUSIAST REVIEW: This seems drier than its stablemate, the famous Yellow Label, and is the better for it. There is an urgent freshness here, driven by red currants and tight plum skin flavors. It is lively but full in the mouth, and shows just the right bottle age.
WINE & SPIRITS REVIEW: This has the bright savor of a strawberry dipped in sea salt. It’s light, with a hint of smokiness to balance the fruit. Together with the fine bubbles, that fruit savor will clean up after cured sausages and other charcuterie.
WINE SPECTATOR REVIEW: A smoky version, exhibiting light berry and watermelon notes. Quite firm, as much from the chalky sensation as from the lively acidity. Despite its lightness, this shows intensity and length.

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Hussein Fatal, a member of the Tupac affiliated rap group The Outlawz, has passed away. The rapper reportedly died in a car accident, he was 38.
Details of the accident have yet to be revealed but the group took to Twitter to confirm his death. Born Bruce Washington Jr., Hussein and the Outlawz ran with Pac during the height of the East Coast vs. West Coast rap beef and also recorded with Ja Rule.
Rest In Power Hussein Fatal.


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Are management consultants no better than the charlatans of the Old West selling snake oil? In light of recent supply chain events, such as the discovery of faulty ignition switches in General Motors cars, I was particularly drawn to the discussion in Douglas Hubbard’s book, The Failure of Risk Management, on how organizations ranging from the United States Government to large pharmaceutical companies can fail to adopt the most effective risk management methods despite their best efforts. Risks in the supply chain, after all, are highly relevant and can have disastrous consequences: wasted resources, the selection of a poor advertising agency, or even a fatal factory collapse in Bangladesh.
Hubbard is scathing when it comes to management consulting, likening the seemingly “scientific” methods adopted by organizations to reduce risk—scorecards, Key Performance Metrics, and market assessments—to using astrology to predict the future. How can a consultant brought in from the outside possibly understand all the intricacies of a business? And the so-called metrics used to evaluate suppliers? What about those infamous RFIs and RFPs? Aren’t they just, well, arbitrary?
I admit that Hubbard is quite convincing when he points out the dangers of putting too much stock in weighted scores and other metrics. He emphasizes that organizations should depend on strong quantitative analysis by making statistical inferences based on large samples and looking for direct causes and effects. But before we start panicking and overhauling supplier selection processes and discounting benchmarking, it’s important to take a step back and note some points.
First off, sourcing practices have evolved to be more robust than Hubbard asserts. When implementing sourcing strategies for clients, for example, firms make significant efforts to assess various data. They are also equipped with resources and tactics to reduce risk, such as reviewing a supplier’s financial stability and actually looking at the effects of reducing costs (rather than just cutting costs). In procuring marketing services, for instance, consultants often work with the legal departments of both the client and the supplier to ensure that contractual obligations are met, and the actions to be taken if they are not.
Moreover, there are several components involved in risk management, and many of these components are qualitative in nature. When it comes to risk management in supply, activities can also include forming strategic alliances, investigating buffer strategies, and assessing various process improvements. For a more specific example, see how business disruptions can be addressed in telecom and IT. Furthermore, as pointed out by Steve Culp in Forbes, in an environment of increasing geopolitical risk and globalized supply chains, it is important to engage in risk management strategies that evaluate the whole, not just the parts. The systemic nature of supply chain risks means that the entire organization can be affected in the event of a mishap; in large organizations, it’s difficult for departments to have the resources or communication channels to see beyond their immediate day-to-day tasks. As stated by Yves Leclerc of West Monroe Partners, good risk management is “both a technology and business-process effort.” Areas that need further improvement include gaining access to greater visibility, encouraging collaboration among supply chain partners, and breaking down the “silos” disrupting the flow of information within a company.
At the end of the day, CPOs have their work cut out for them. Rather than dismiss the resources in risk management off hand, organizations should work with their procurement teams to gather quantitative as well as qualitative information, and to use this data to build more comprehensive and creative frameworks to assess their sourcing strategies.
I agree with much of what you have written and would further state that client companies that want to run a proper risk mitigation strategy frequently have no time, experience, nor resources to address such a project. Cost to qualify alternative materials and suppliers to mitigate risk frequently are not budgeted (batch runs, testing, QA, analysis, aging studies, more analysis, comparison, reports, Regulatory submissions, retention, disposal, etc) and as such it all becomes additional layers of challenge in properly addressing risk.Thought provoking. Thank you.

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PA PowerStations is obsolete. This page is intended for legacy product support only. The PA2 family is the recommended replacement for the PS family of products.
The PA Family of PowerStations is CTC-designed and manufactured to include 5", 6", 8", 10.4" and 15" color touchscreen displays. All units combine the connectivity, functionality and expandability of Interact HMI software with standard hardware features such as CompactFlash storage, RS-232, RS-422/485 and 100BaseT Ethernet ports. PA PowerStations allow you to choose the right system for your application without sacrificing the features you need!


text: Tefiliah, Hebrew for prayer, incorporates the Jewish Amidah prayer, the Sephardim, the Prayer Book, and is one of the many terms, especially most common in the Bible, for prayer in general. The Hebrew root means "to think, entreat, judge, intercede," and the reflective means "to judge oneself" and "to pray." Prayer in the Bible is both individual and corporate, with the Psalms containing both as well as being embedded in both Temple and sanctuary ritual. The destruction of the second Temple accelerated the development of regular liturgical prayer, as a counterpart to the vanished Temple worship and sacrifices, which was known as avodah she-ba-lev, "the service/worship of the heart" (B.Ta'an. 2a). With a strong emphasis on blessings and benedictions, Jewish prayer eventually (around 8th or 9th century AD) led to the compilation of prayer books. The risk of formalism (despite reiterated reminders that prayer, if it is not to be empty, must be accompanied by emotion and right intention, iyyun tefillah, B.Shab. 127a) led to the more emotional and freer styles of prayer returning, especially among the Hasidim. Biblically, if possible, Jews should pray facing toward Jerusalem; Muhammad initially followed this custom as well, see Qibla. A.G.H.


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Join us for an intimate gig from this fantastic musician.
Over the past decade Derrin has solidified his reputation as a singer, acoustic guitar player and songwriter of very high order. He is one of the busiest artists on the acoustic scene at the moment in many parts of the world, but to think of Derrin as just another troubadour or journeyman would not paint an accurate picture.
Derrin has forged a sound comprising of incredible guitar skills, soulful vocals and powerful songs and lyrics which has won him much praise and many fans. As testament to this Derrin is endorsed by Yamaha guitars and also has had the lyrics to his song "Shipwrecked" published in a text book for English literature by Cambridge University Press (see photos of the text book in the reviews section of the website for more details). Derrin over the years has also featured in session on the Bob Harris and Paul Jones show on BBC radio 2, Tros Musik Cafe in Holland and Triple J radio in Australia.
Derrin's latest offering is his 10th album entitled "Crazy World". For this album, Derrin has signed with one of the foremost acoustic labels in the world, USA label Candyrat Records. Candyrat Records has been home to some of the most astonishing musicians from around the world of the past 10 years and a fitting home for this new album.
Derrin's touring also career has no hint of slowing down. On top of extensive tours planned across the UK, Germany and Southern Europe, Derrin has just returned from an extensive tour of Australia and a successful tour of Russia including a Philharmonic hall sell out!!.
This is what Derrin says of the new album "Crazy World" himself: "I had built much of my career around my live solo show, but realised for some reason I had never recorded a primarily solo studio album. I wanted to rectify this. I spent vast amounts of time on the arrangements to make the album as interesting as possible. I was desperate for it not to be a boring solo album. It had to have a purpose and take people on a journey. Hopefully I have achieved that."


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ZVEZDA-ENERGETIKA has a vast experience in construction of power plants fuelled by associated petroleum gas and mine gas.
APG utilization ensures significant reduction of fuel expenses and optimization of oil extraction process; it is also in line with the federal oil extraction policy of recent years. During 9 years of work, ZVEZDA-ENERGETIKA OJSC has launched approximately 11 APG-operated objects. Apart from the main equipment, those projects include gas preparation systems designed by ZVEZDA-ENERGETIKA itself and heat recovery systems. It is the gas preparation systems that determine the operating efficiency of the facility and the life span of the equipment. Company experts are constantly analyzing the operation of gas-piston power plants on those sites for the purpose of optimizing gas preparation schemes.
ZVEZDA-ENERGETIKA OJSC offers complex turnkey solutions based on gas-piston and gas-turbine engines for different compositions of APG, including those with high sulphur content. The complex APG preparation systems designed by ZVEZDA-ENERGETIKA OJSC ensure working capacity and efficient operation of generating equipment even with serious changes in composition and quality of APG inevitable in extraction.
ZVEZDA-ENERGETIKA offers complex turnkey solutions based on gas-piston and gas-turbine engines for different compositions of APG, including those with high sulphur content. During 9 years of work, we have launched approximately 11 APG-operated objects.
So far ZVEZDA-ENERGETIKA OJSC has developed technological and technical solutions for application of mine and coke oven gas as fuel for power generation; a pilot project is in the implementation stage. Utilization of mine gas means not only cost-effectiveness and ecological compatibility, but also increased safety in coal mining.
In March, 2010, ZVEZDA-ENERGETIKA OJSC was awarded the status of an official dealer of MWM GmbH with exclusive rights to supply mine gas-piston engines to the Russian market, perform maintenance works and supply spare parts. This dealer arrangement is the result of multilevel audits of the company’s engineering service regarding equipment designed for mine gas operation and providing maximum efficiency of power and quality. One of the capacities of MWM GmbH is making gas engines designed for compound fuel operation.
ZVEZDA-ENERGETIKA’s high engineering potential enables it to develop solutions for every single site with consideration of its operating features and the customer’s individual requirements.


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Learning the names of planets will be a whole lot easier with these free printable Solar System Word Search Puzzles.
And once they master the names they can also solve the solar system worksheets with ease!
I’ve made a few different variations of these so your kids won’t easily be fed up with them.
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I really hope your kids will enjoy these and that their interest in space will only become stronger as it really is magnificent – I catch myself sometimes just looking at the stars and thinking about all the wonders space has to offer.
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Turkish political parties which do not enter an alliance with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the upcoming presidential elections are “not part of the nation”, said AKP deputy leader Öznur Çalık.
The elections, due before November 2019, will select the first president under a new system of executive presidency, in which the head of state will take on greatly expanded powers.
The ruling party has already agreed terms of a “People’s Alliance” with the opposition Nationalist Action Party (MHP), with other right-wing parties also expected to join.
“Those non-native, non-national political parties which stand against the People’s Alliance will be given their appropriate punishment by the nation at the ballot box,” said Çalık.


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A former leader of the South Carolina Republican Party known for his incendiary tweets about Trayvon Martin, Nancy Pelosi and others is now facing charges after allegedly slaughtering a family dog.
Todd Kincannon, a former lawyer, told officers that he had to “sacrifice” his mother’s dog because he is “the second coming of Christ” and God told him to do so, going on to say that Jesus needs a sacrifice and blood must be spilled every 1,000 years, according to a police report.
Police said the incident happened at Kincannon’s parents’ home in Simpsonville, S.C., where he had been living. His father called police about 1:30 a.m. on July 26, saying that his wife had locked herself in the bathroom because she was “absolutely terrified” of their son, who had just killed their dog “with his bare hands,” the report says.
Police found Bailey, his mother’s 10-year-old beagle and cattle dog mix, lying on the kitchen floor, riddled with stab wounds and covered in blood, the report says.
Kincannon, 37, was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital for a mental-health evaluation, police said. He has not been arrested, and it was unclear Friday whether he was still at the hospital. He has been charged with ill treatment of animals. A spokesman for the Simpsonville Police Department did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Kincannon made headlines several years ago for several inflammatory tweets about Pelosi, whom he referred to as “crooked,” among other things, often using vulgar epithets.
He caused further uproar in 2013 with tweets he wrote during the Super Bowl, which was being held in New Orleans.
“It hasn’t been this dark in the Superdome since all those poors occupied it after Hurricane Katrina,” he tweeted in February 2013, the year a blackout delayed the game.
Minutes later, he wrote comments about Martin, the black teen who was fatally shot by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in 2012.
“Will karma find me as quick as it did Trayvon?” he wrote in one of the tweets. “Oh wait I make it past my 18th birthday. So I guess the answer is no,” he wrote.
In an interview with HuffPost in 2013, Kincannon said he tweets incendiary comments to rile people and watch their outrage for fun.
I see no causal link between "GOP" or "GOP leader" and these actions.
What I do note is that this < expletive deleted > has some clear mental issues in his trolling hobbies. People that think it's fun to tweet incendiary comments to rile people up and watch their outrage are disturbed.
There were clear signs of a problem that people ignored.
Well, no pardon for this guy. He can't muscle in on Dotard's acting like he's the second coming.
I really don't see the point of this post, unless it's to add proof to Shakespeare's "Kill all lawyers."

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“I don’t even need it,” said Gertrude Stein, 47, Kangaroo Flat.
Apparently Miss Stein has held a gym membership for eight years and not touched the front door once.
“I don’t even use the hand-break on my car,” said Miss Stein.
In a growing class of people who own things they never use, Miss Stein is a beacon for the cause of waste want.
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“I have a bread maker in the cupboard, and own a bicycle that looks like it was once a go-kart,” said Miss Stein.
But her biggest win has been shopping at Aldi.
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In 2013 the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Francois Englert and Peter Higgs for their development in 1964 of the mass generation mechanism (the Higgs mechanism) in local gauge theories.
This mechanism requires the existence of a massive scalar particle, the Higgs boson, and in 2012 the Higgs boson was finally observed at the Large Hadron Collider after an almost half a century search. In this talk we review the work of these Nobel recipients and discuss its implications.
The awarded mechanism is a central part of the Standard Model of particle physics that describes how the world is constructed. According to the Standard Model, everything, from flowers and people to stars and planets, consists of just a few building blocks: matter particles. These particles are governed by forces mediated by force particles that make sure everything works as it should.
The entire Standard Model also rests on the existence of a special kind of particle: the Higgs particle. It is connected to an invisible field that fills up all space. Even when our universe seems empty, this field is there. Had it not been there, electrons and quarks would be massless just like photons, the light particles. And like photons they would, just as Einstein’s theory predicts, rush through space at the speed of light, without any possibility to get caught in atoms or molecules.
Nothing of what we know, not even we, would exist.
The Higgs particle, H, completes the Standard Model of particle physics that describes building blocks of the universe.
Both François Englert and Peter Higgs were young scientists when they, in 1964, independently of each other put forward a theory that rescued the Standard Model from collapse. Almost half a century later, on Wednesday 4 July 2012, they were both in the audience at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, outside Geneva, when the discovery of a Higgs particle that finally confirmed the theory was announced to the world.
The idea that the world can be explained in terms of just a few building blocks is old. Already in 400 BC, the philosopher Democritus postulated that everything consists of atoms —átomos is Greek for indivisible.
nucleus made up of neutrons and protons. And neutrons and protons, in turn, consist of smaller particles called quarks. Actually, only electrons and quarks are indivisible according to the Standard Model.
The atomic nucleus consists of two kinds of quarks, up quarks and down quarks. So in fact, three elementary particles are needed for all matter to exist: electrons, up quarks and down quarks. But during the 1950s and 1960s, new particles were unexpectedly observed in both cosmic radiation and at newly constructed accelerators, so the Standard Model had to include these new siblings of electrons and quarks.
Besides matter particles, there are also force particles for each of nature’s four forces — gravitation, electro magnetism, the weak force and the strong force. Gravitation and electromagnetism are the most well-known, they attract or repel, and we can see their effects with our own eyes. The strong force acts upon quarks and holds protons and neutrons together in the nucleus, whereas the weak force is responsible for radioactive decay, which is necessary, for instance, for nuclear processes inside the Sun.
The Standard Model of particle physics unites the fundamental building blocks of nature and three of the four forces known to us (the fourth, gravitation, remains outside the model). For long, it was an enigma how these forces actually work. For instance, how does the piece of metal that is attracted to the magnet know that the magnet is lying there, a bit further away? And how does the Moon feel the gravity of Earth?
The explanation offered by physics is that space is filled with many invisible fields. The gravitational field, the electromagnetic field, the quark field and all the other fields fill space, or rather, the four dimensional space-time, an abstract space where the theory plays out. The Standard Model is a quantum field theory in which fields and particles are the essential building blocks of the universe.
In quantum physics, everything is seen as a collection of vibrations in quantum fields. These vibrations are carried through the field in small packages, quanta, which appear to us as particles. Two kinds of fields exist: matter fields with matter particles, and force fields with force particles — the mediators of forces. The Higgs particle, too, is a vibration of its field — often referred to as the Higgs field.
Without this field the Standard Model would collapse like a house of cards, because quantum field theory brings infinities that have to be reined in and symmetries that cannot be seen. It was not until François Englert with Robert Brout, and Peter Higgs, and later on several others, showed that the Higgs field can break the symmetry of the Standard Model without destroying the theory that the model got accepted.
This is because the Standard Model would only work if particles did not have mass. As for the electromagnetic force, with its massless photons as mediators, there was no problem. The weak force, however, is mediated by three massive particles; two electrically charged W particles and one Z particle. They did not sit well with the light-footed photon. How could the electroweak force, which unifies electromagnetic and weak forces, come about? The Standard Model was threatened. This is where Englert, Brout and Higgs entered the stage with the ingenious mechanism for particles to acquire mass that managed to rescue the Standard Model.
The Higgs field is not like other fields in physics. All other fields vary in strength and become zero at their lowest energy level. Not the Higgs field. Even if space were to be emptied completely, it would still be filled by a ghost-like field that refuses to shut down: the Higgs field. We do not notice it; the Higgs field is like air to us, like water to fish. But without it we would not exist, because particles acquire mass only in contact with the Higgs field. Particles that do not pay attention to the Higgs field do not acquire mass, those that interact weakly become light, and those that interact intensely become heavy. For example, electrons, which acquire mass from the field, play a crucial role in the creation and holding together of atoms and molecules. If the Higgs field suddenly disappeared, all matter would collapse as the suddenly massless electrons dispersed at the speed of light.
So what makes the Higgs field so special? It breaks the intrinsic symmetry of the world. In nature, symmetry abounds; faces are regularly shaped, flowers and snowflakes exhibit various kinds of geometric symmetries. Physics unveils other kinds of symmetries that describe our world, albeit on a deeper level. One such, relatively simple, symmetry stipulates that it does not matter for the results if a laboratory experiment is carried out in Stockholm or in Paris. Neither does it matter at what time the experiment is carried out. Einstein’s special theory of relativity deals with symmetries in space and time, and has become a model for many other theories, such as the Standard Model of particle physics. The equations of the Standard Model are symmetric; in the same way that a ball looks the same from whatever angle you look at it, the equations of the Standard Model remain unchanged even if the perspective that defines them is changed.
German mathematician Emmy Noether could show that the conservation laws of physics, such as the laws of conservation of energy and conservation of electrical charge, also originate in symmetry.
Symmetry, however, dictates certain requirements to be fulfilled. A ball has to be perfectly round; the tiniest hump will break the symmetry. For equations other criteria apply. And one of the symmetries of the Standard Model prohibits particles from having mass. Now, this is apparently not the case in our world, so the particles must have acquired their mass from somewhere. This is where the now-awarded mechanism provided a way for symmetry to both exist and simultaneously be hidden from view.
Our universe was probably born symmetrical. At the time of the Big Bang, all particles were massless and all forces were united in a single primordial force. This original order does not exist anymore — its symmetry has been hidden from us. Something happened just 10–11 seconds after the Big Bang. The Higgs field lost its original equilibrium. How did that happen?
It all began symmetrically. This state can be described as the position of a ball in the middle of a round bowl, in its lowest energy state. With a push the ball starts rolling, but after a while it returns down to the lowest point.
However, if a hump arises at the centre of the bowl, which now looks more like a Mexican hat, the position at the middle will still be symmetrical but has also become unstable. The ball rolls downhill in any direction. The hat is still symmetrical, but once the ball has rolled down, its position away from the centre hides the symmetry. In a similar manner the Higgs field broke its symmetry and found a stable energy level in vacuum away from the symmetrical zero posi tion. This spontaneous symmetry breaking is also referred to as the Higgs field’s phase transition; it is like when water freezes to ice.
The universe was probably created symmetric, and the invisible Higgs field had a symmetry that corresponds to the stable position of a ball in the middle of a round bowl. But already 10–11 seconds after the Big Bang, the Higgs field broke the symmetry when it moved its lowest level of energy away from the symmetrical centre-point.
In order for the phase transition to occur, four particles were required but only one, the Higgs particle, survived. The other three were consumed by the weak force mediators, two electrically charged W particles and one Z particle, which thereby got their mass. In that way the symmetry of the electroweak force in the Standard Model was saved — the symmetry between the three heavy particles of the weak force and the massless photon of the electromagnetic force remains, only hidden from view.
The Nobel Laureates probably did not imagine that they would get to see the theory confirmed in their lifetime. It took an enormous effort by physicists from all over the world. For a long time two laboratories, Fermilab outside Chicago, USA, and CERN on the Franco-Swiss border, competed in trying to discover the Higgs particle. But when Fermilab’s Tevatron accelerator was closed down a couple of years ago, CERN became the only place in the world where the hunt for the Higgs particle would continue.
CERN was established in 1954, in an attempt to reconstruct European research, as well as relations between European countries, after the Second World War. Its membership currently comprises twenty states, and about a hundred nations from all over the world collaborate on the projects.
CERN’s grandest achievement, the particle collider LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is probably the largest and the most complex machine ever constructed by humans. Two research groups of some 3,000 scientists chase particles with huge detectors — ATLAS and CMS. The detectors are located 100 metres below ground and can observe 40 million particle collisions per second. This is how often the particles can collide when injected in opposite directions into the circular LHC tunnel, 27 kilometres long.
Protons are injected into the LHC every ten hours, one ray in each direction. A hundred thousand billion protons are lumped together and compressed into an ultra-thin ray — not entirely an easy endeavour since protons with their positive electrical charge rather aim to repel one another. They move at 99.99999 per cent of the speed of light and collide with an energy of approximately 4 TeV each and 8 TeV combined (one teraelectronvolt = a thousand billion electronvolts). One TeV may not be that much energy, it more or less equals that of a flying mosquito, but when the energy is packed into a single proton, and you get 500 trillion such protons rushing around the accelerator, the energy of the ray equals that of a train at full speed. In 2015 the energy will be almost the double in the LHC.
A possible discovery in the ATLAS detector shows tracks of four muons (red) that have been created by the decay of the short-lived Higgs particle.
Particle experiments are sometimes compared to the act of smashing two Swiss watches together in order to examine how they are constructed. But it is actually much more difficult than so, because the particles scientists look for are entirely new — they are created from the energy released in the collision.
According to Einstein’s well-known formula E = mc2, mass is a kind of energy. And it is the magic of this equation that makes it possible, even for massless particles, to create something new when they collide; like when two photons collide and create an electron and its antiparticle, the positron, or when a Higgs particle is created in the collision of two gluons, if the energy is high enough.
The protons are like small bags filled with particles — quarks, antiquarks and gluons. The majority of them pass one another without much ado; on average, each time two particle swarms collide only twenty full frontal collisions occur. Less than one collision in a billion might be worth following through. This may not sound much, but each such collision results in a sparkling explosion of about a thousand particles. At 125 GeV, the Higgs particle turned out to be over a hundred times heavier than a proton and this is one of the reasons why it was so difficult to produce.
However, the experiment is far from finished. The scientists at CERN hope to bring further ground breaking discoveries in the years to come. Even though it is a great achievement to have found the Higgs particle — the missing piece in the Standard Model puzzle — the Standard Model is not the final piece in the cosmic puzzle.
One of the reasons for this is that the Standard Model treats certain particles, neutrinos, as being vir tually massless, whereas recent studies show that they actually do have mass. Another reason is that the model only describes visible matter, which only accounts for one fifth of all matter in the universe.
The rest is dark matter of an unknown kind. It is not immediately apparent to us, but can be observed by its gravitational pull that keeps galaxies together and prevents them from being torn apart.
particle is special; maybe it could manage to establish contact with the enigmatic darkness. Scientists hope to be able to catch, if only a glimpse, of dark matter, as they continue the chase of unknown particles in the LHC in the coming decades.
Le physicien Peter Higgs reconnaît lui-même devoir partager la paternité de « sa » particule avec plusieurs collègues, aux premiers rangs desquels deux Belges, Richard Brout et François Englert.
Preuve que l’idée était dans l’air du temps, trois autres chercheurs, Gerald Guralnik, Carl Hagen et Tom Kibble, ont eux aussi publié un papier très similaire avant la fin de l’année 1964, toujours dans le même journal. Certains manuels de physique appellent d’ailleurs le mécanisme décortiqué indépendamment par les six chercheurs, mécanisme de Brout-Englert-Higgs-Hagen-Guralnik-Kibble (ou BEHHGK).
Un prix Nobel pour François Englert et Peter Higgs?
«Il faut attendre 1972 pour qu’un autre physicien, Gerard ‘t Hooft, Prix Nobel en 1999, formalise l’existence d’une particule associée au champ scalaire», explique Étienne Klein. C’est d’ailleurs à cette époque que l’idée commence à s’installer dans la communauté scientifique. «Alors qu’on dénombre moins de dix citations par an du papier de Higgs jusque-là, le nombre décolle à 20 puis à 50 pendant les années 1970», rapporte le chercheur. Peu à peu, la nouvelle particule prend alors une place de plus en plus essentielle dans le modèle standard de la physique, dont elle vient combler les lacunes.
Il serait tentant de penser que Peter Higgs a cherché à tirer la couverture à lui en tentant d’imposer son nom au boson éponyme, mais il n’en est rien. L’homme, aujourd’hui âgé de 82 ans, n’a eu de cesse de répéter aux médias qui ont bien voulu l’interroger à ce sujet que cette «découverte» théorique ne lui appartenait pas et qu’il y associait bien volontiers ses collègues. François Englert répète quant à lui à l’envi qu’il ne souhaite pas que son nom soit accolé à celui de Higgs. Il aimerait en revanche qu’on retienne l’appellation de «boson scalaire», qui, selon lui, décrit mieux ce qu’il représente.
Les deux hommes pourraient obtenir un prix Nobel conjoint pour leurs travaux dès cette année. Leur collègue Richard Brout, décédé en mai 2011, n’aura malheureusement pas cette chance, la prestigieuse récompense ne pouvant être décernée à titre posthume.

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