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Stir the gin and Martini over ice for 20 seconds and then strain into a frozen cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon to serve.
“This is the hour of diminishing, of slowing down, of quieting” – the wise words of the late American author and ‘Martini Advocate’, Bernard DeVoto.
Although the cocktail hour may be less prevalent in modern London as it was in post-prohibition New York, there are many of us who still preserve the ritual of a potent cocktail or two before dinner.You’d be hard pressed to find a drink more elegant and more fitting for this timeless ritual than the Dry Martini.
Whilst there will always be a contrast in opinion as to the correct formula and method for producing this simple yet elusive drink, the subjective nature of the martini is essentially the key to its beauty. Maybe you subscribe to the Winston Churchill mantra of merely passing the bottle of vermouth over the mixing glass, or maybe you have a penchant for all things saline and crave a healthy dash of olive brine? Either way, the more you know about how you like it, the more likely you are to receive the perfect companion during this hour of stillness.
This is down to you. Although, yes, the first martinis did favour our juniper laced friend, if you don’t like gin then choose a vodka that you do like.
Don’t be scared to challenge your preconceptions about vermouth. Many advocates of the ‘Naked’ or ‘Bone Dry’ martini have ended up that way, most probably, due to an unfortunate encounter with an over diluted, vermouth heavy concoction. As a result they have hence vowed never again to let anything other than pure gin or vodka into their precious martini. It is here where I feel compelled to speak up. Whilst the spirit is of course the star of the show, a small amount of vermouth can really bring the drink to life. The word spirit is actually quite apt as the liquid itself is essentially the spirit of its previous living self (achieved through distillation). The wine base of vermouth gives the martini that injection of life and its subtle herbs, spices and citrus element help to lift the flavours of the spirit.
The oils and aroma of a good twist of lemon rind can provide the perfect entrance to your martini. The origins of the olive’s introduction however are not fully known. One story is that, during the prohibition era in America, when their native gin was no longer available people started putting olives in their martinis to disguise the taste of these new ‘foreign gins’. It’s up to you. If you can’t choose… then why not have both?
Whilst most bartenders will reach for the mixing spoon by default, it’s completely your prerogative to ask for it to be shaken if you want an extra cold drink. However, before you do so, you may wish to take the following into consideration: when the drink is shaken, tiny air bubbles form in the liquid causing the drink to take on a slight haze. Personally I find this a bit of a shame. A delicately stirred martini will produce a more clear and pure aesthetic.
Yes, shaking the martini will make it colder but it will also create more dilution. If you still want a potent elixir then maybe opt for a navy strength gin such as Plymouth Navy Strength or Sipsmith VJOP.
This might sound bizarre at first but think of it like this. Unless you plan on knocking it back in two swift gulps your drink will start to warm up as soon as it leaves the shaker. The colder it is to start, the more rapidly it will appear to warm up (unless you are at a cocktail party in an igloo). For me a stirred martini served in a frozen glass yields the best level of continuity.

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A garden at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, where I spent some memorable hours in July 2013.
Often we think of art as something that hangs in a frame on a wall, but in reality the work of countless artists surrounds us so pervasively that we scarcely notice it most of the time. The photo above was taken in a lovely little garden at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, where I was able to spend some quiet moments during the long day of waiting for Grady to be born. Megan had checked in the night before and labor was induced early that morning, but Grady was not letting anyone hurry him, and he didn’t show his face until almost 9:00 p.m. that night.
I had spent many long hours in hospitals for most of the preceding year, so it wasn’t a difficult wait for me. However, I was eager to see our grandson, and increasingly anxious to know all would be well. I escaped to that little garden more than once that day when the waiting area became too dull, and was outside there when Drew’s friend Paul (who was staying in touch with the delivery room via texts with Drew) called me to report that they had decided to do a C-section.
Being a physician, Paul was able to give me enough details to reassure me that this was a sound decision based on avoiding risk of complications from prolonged labor, and not an emergency situation. Everyone was fine, and I would be seeing our grandson in an hour! So the photo above brings back a lot of happy memories about the night Grady was born.
A variety of artists made that healing little garden a reality. Landscapers, architects, and woodworkers joined forces to create a perfect setting for the sculpture of a newborn baby lovingly held in two hands. In the years since it was finished, I believe hundreds of nervous family members must have found calm and solace in that serene space, as I did.
I’m so thankful for the imaginative spirit that each of us has, in some measure, which we use in various ways. Whether you are engaged in producing art, or appreciating the work of others, I hope your life will be touched today with the healing power of creativity.
Yes Merry, I was thankful the hospital planners had thought to put it there. Hope you have a lovely day!
Julia, that’s such a calm, serene setting. Don’t you love finding a soothing “spot” that’s created just for that purpose? I love the sculpture! There is a sculpture in Brookgreen Gardens of a man reading a newspaper on a park bench that is so popular. It’s probably one of the most photographed, as people want to have a picture taken, sitting beside him. Fun!
Thank you Sheila! You must have radar because “make it happen” has been my unspoken motivation today – getting a lot of little (or medium sized) tasks done that have been hanging around nagging at me for weeks. I just love statues. I have a sort of collection of photos of me and/or various family members posing alongside different statues we’ve seen over the years, as if part of the sculpture. I’m not ashamed to admit it, since even sophisticated intellectuals such as Dave Barry also do this. In fact, sometime I’ll have to post some of those photos here. Do you have a photo of yourself reading with that man in Brookgreen Gardens? If not, I’ll have to come down there sometime and take one to post here! 🙂 Thinking of your and hoping you are doing OK. Keeping you and Bill in prayer.
Yippee! Feels so good to tackle those overdue tasks; even “baby steps” will help. I’m glad one of us was productive. I did little more than looking out the windows all day. These ice storms are not our normal, so I’m intrigued… from inside and with electricity. You would love Brookgreen Gardens! Although, I don’t have a photo of me sitting with the man, I took one of my mom. I commented at the time that she was “quite the flirt”! Just last week, I took a photo at Bristol Herald Courier of a statue outside their entrance. Appropriately enough, a paperboy! 🙂 I keep you, Jeff, and Matt in my prayers.
All the hospitals should have such green spots where the patients or bystanders can relax. The people won’t have much to do while at the hospital. I remember going for strolls in the minimum nature available while spending during my days as a bystander.
That sculpture is unique and many must have found it fascinating.
Thank you Bindu, I agree! There are several little courtyard gardens at Bethesda (the huge hospital complex where Jeff takes his cancer treatments and had his surgeries) and even when when I just see them out a window as I’m walking by, they do bring a moment of serenity. When Jeff was in the hospital back in May, and had been there nearly two weeks, one of the surgery residents told us about a rooftop garden at the hospital that we could visit. It was very nice, and at night it was even lit up. It had fountains and lots of benches all around with glass walls so you could see the view. It was part of the mental health floor but anyone who knew about could go up there. I guess the resident knew that after two weeks of complications such as Jeff had just endured, he could use a little boost to the mental health, as could I! I think all hospitals should plan for such places. That was a very unique sculpture and it’s even more interesting when you’re there waiting on a baby to arrive, as almost everyone at that place is! Thanks for visiting with us today.
Beautiful sculpture and garden. Is that the Northside hospital in the Buckhead area? They are now building a branch campus out near Canton. I think it is called Northside Cherokee Hospital.
Keep my son in your prayers for round two- or is it three – storm Atlanta. Called Pax? Where did they come up with that? I think he is on the ambulance crew today.
BTW yesterday I heard part of a talk by the author of your quote- Rachel Naomi Remen. The talk was on self care for health care workers. She has a book out called “Kitchen Table Wisdom” which is recommended .Have you heard of it?
Michael, I haven’t heard of that book, but it sounds interesting. I think that health care workers are often in need of that sort of advice. It has always amazed me how Matt’s surgeons, and now Jeff’s, seem to live at the hospital. You see them very late in the day, and then before dawn in the morning. Whenever someone I know has surgery scheduled, I always hope or pray that the surgeon(s) got adequate sleep the night before.
Well friends, I have been a baptized Christian since I was around 15 or 16 years old. I joined the Presbyterian Church and I was sprinkled. Later on I joined the Baptist Church and I was immersed in the baptismal pool. In my adult life and only minimally committed or just going along with the crowd, I joined the Episcopal Church and for the life of me I don’t ever remember being confirmed which is the ritual in our church equivalent to the previously mentioned rituals.
But I am spiritually confirmed in my intense interest and devoted focus to growing spiritually.
Should I be publicly confirmed in the church?
Is this a necessity for getting into heaven?
Don’t I dip my toes in the heavenly pool as I declare in daily prayer, “Thy kingdom come!”?
Am I joining God in the creative process as I exercise this art of communication which is a pure gift and was I also doing this in the life I lived which was beyond my comprehension in the practice of the art of medicine?
Lots of times I wonder what the fairly long interval of the devoted practice of love towards two God’s would have been like on the other hand? Would the results have been different? Would I have existed and been effective at a higher level?
I doubt all this but only God knows!
Harry, you raise a lot of interesting questions here. I can’t really follow the part about two Gods (are you referring to God and medicine? Or devotion to medicine vs. art?) but in any case, I do have some thoughts on your other questions. I do believe that Christians should be baptized, and should be part of the church. The debate about “which church” could take hours, so I won’t go into it here. As far as what is necessary for getting into heaven, I try to avoid that as a motivating factor at my stage of the game; I find that whenever I catch myself asking “yes, but do I HAVE to do that?” I’m usually on the wrong track. However, there is much in the Bible that does address these questions fairly extensively. The book of James being one that is uncomfortably clear and candid about what constitutes a living faith. So clear and candid that it makes some of us squirm, so much so that some people (including Martin Luther, a man I tremendously respect in most ways) have apparently tried to have it thrown out of the canon of scripture!
Given that I feel as if I’ve been living, breathing and existing in the land of medicine for about 35 years — a place I never intended to end up, being much more fond of the creative arts — I am intrigued by your reference to it. Were/are you a physician? I still refer to myself as a librarian though I have not worked in that capacity for years.
Amy, that book does sound really good. I had never heard of Walker Hancock despite growing up in Atlanta and hearing about the Stone Mountain carving, which was unfinished in my childhood. I have happy memories of going to Delft with you, especially visiting the china factory. I uploaded a photo from that shop here a short time ago when we were discussing odd trees. Maybe it will bring back some memories! I hope someday we can go back and have loads of time to prowl around more interesting European towns. Hope you are all staying warm as the snow is falling. Jeff feels pretty good tonight which makes me so happy. Just keep praying that chemo zaps those lung tumors. He expects WRNMMC-Bethesda to be closed tomorrow for weather, so he’ll have to disconnect his IV drip from his port on his own, which is fine by him. He still has to keep giving himself daily shots in the stomach (to prevent blood clots) but he’s a tough guy, thank goodness he’s always done that for Matt who also has to have them any time the week or so pre-op. Yuk, I’m afraid I couldn’t do needles very well!
Today is my son’s birthday in Atlanta. He survived yesterday on the ambulance. Today he is snowboarding down the hills around his housing complex in Canton. They got about 4 inches of powder last night. I will try and upload a pict of him.
I will have to check out the garden at Northside Hospital. We have a nice garden here in Renton. It has a walking labyrinth for meditation which is rarely used- unfortunately.
BTW have you read Paul Fleishchman’s young adult book- Bull run? It is kind of fun and can be used as a reader’s theatre in 11 voices. He is one of my faves. Author that is. I have read most of his stuff-my favorite being Seedfolks- a classic.
Hi Michael, I’m glad your son is having an easier, more festive day today. I have seen several labyrinths here and there, but as you say, very few people choose to walk them. I did take the labyrinth walk inside Grace Cathedral in San Francisco – they have one indoors and outdoors, but I did the one indoors (fewer distractions). All the others I’ve seen have been outdoors and I think those of us who are more easily distracted might find it hard to focus long enough to get through it. Also, without posted information, I would not have known what one was or how to use it.
Paul Fleischman is one of those “I need to read him” authors on my list, but since I quit working as a youth services librarian, a bit of the urgency to get acquainted with his work has faded. As you probably know, he’s very highly regarded among librarians and other literary types. I’ve bought his books for collections where I’ve worked, but haven’t read him. I wouldn’t know where to start with his works, so thanks for the tip about Seedfolks. I haven’t read any of his father’s books either, though I think Jeff and Matt read The Whipping Boy and maybe Jim Ugly. It’s pretty unusual for two generations to win the Newberry Medal, as both of them have done.
Of course, I love this account from Grady’s birth day! What a day it was, but quite the happy conclusion! I’m thankful we were in such a nice hospital — I knew they took good care of me and Grady, but was unaware how pleasant it is for guests too.
Yes, Megan, that day is a happy memory for me. Nothing is more fun to wait for than a grandchild! The best part is they just keep getting more and more fun!

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


text: Crystals and a good cocktail have one thing in common-they both have healing properties. This silicone mold creates one jumbo ice quartz that looks like its growing from the bottom of your glass. High vibrations and good times guaranteed with this chilly crystal in your drink.

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As part of their promotional campaign, Nintendo is offering a free Scarf with any purchase over US$20.
This campaign is found on the Toys-R-Us website. It is a perfect example of a great promotional gift with purchase, utilizing the famous computer gaming character, Mario.
These kind of promotional products can be a great incentive for consumers to purchase your products, and makes them feel like they have earned a reward for their custom.
Promotional products do not have to cost the world to produce, and cost effective products like this can be a perfect marketing incentive for consumers to boost your sales!!

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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What's your favorite under cabinet lighting for the kitchen?
The old fluorescent lights under my cabinets are slowly dying. I need some task lighting! What do you recommend?
I would like to know also.I have cord hanging down, I hate it!
Thanks Steve..but I dont think that discussion is what I am looking for. I just want some under counter light for my kitchen. I have flourescent tubes screwed in right now. I am curious about "puck lights"? but I dont even know what i am talking about. I am not going to rewire anything, do those little battery operated stick on things really work? Amanda is this what you are talking about too?
OK, I think maybe your best bet may be something like this: http://tinyurl.com/79qwqpf They run on AAA batteries, so you could just get a couple of sets of rechargeables and keep them running. The main complaint I have heard with these is that they go through batteries fairly quickly, but I guess that is a tradeoff for not wanting to rewire the lights.
Yesss... how cool, thank you! Do you suppose they have this in store also?
Sorry Bernice, I missed your response. I don't know if Home Depot carries this, but you can order anything for in-store pickup and you are not required to keep anything you don't like.
Ok, I will be out and around,. Will check at HD and if they don't carry in store, I can order. Thanks so much.

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I think it’s reasonable to assume both candidates misrepresented each others record and positions. Welcome to politics. But I think Palin hitting the “memorable” nail on the head gave her an edge over Biden’s much drier performance.
Lastly, I think Governor Palin did manage to keep Senator Biden on the defensive.
I found myself impressed by her composure and rhetoric in a moment of extreme pressure and exposure to the public (particularly since she has been shed in a very negative light for the past few weeks in the press). Also, Palin has a very likable personality. She speaks in a conversational tone that can relate to the average American, and uses cute phrases such as “gosh darnit” that may appeal to certain people.
Can’t you just see her meeting with someone like Putin, smacking him on the arm and saying, “Doggone it, Vladimir - there ya go again?” She could make Bush’s groping of Angela Merkel look like the epitome of stiff upper lip diplomacy.
There was no single devastating moment. But the contrast was striking. She had nothing substantive to say on a whole host of issues — e.g., the constitutional role of the VP and McCain’s tax on employer-provided health benefits. It was all sound bites and snark. Those are fun for a while, but the reality soon became clear that she’s out of her league. I mean, she flatly ignored how many questions posed?
Biden pointed out that John McCain has called for deregulation on countless occasions and even favors letting the free market take over the health care industry. Ifill asked Palin if she wanted to respond and Palin said, “I would like to respond about the tax increase….” and proceeded to do so. After Biden pressed the point that deregulation was one of the major causes of the market meltdown, Ifill asked Palin again if she wanted to respond, and Palin said: “I’m still on the tax thing…” even refusing to engage in the debate at hand saying: “I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I’m going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record…” Her only response to McCain’s history of support for deregulation was to say that McCain has called for strict rules and cited his support for tougher laws on the tobacco industry and work on campaign refinance reform, neither having anything to do with the economic crisis.
Had Ifill been overly aggressive in pointing this out, we’d instead be hearing about how Ifill attacked Palin during the debate for avoiding questions. Most people aren’t stupid and they know when someone’s dodging a question and can read their body language when someone’s staring at notecards and reciting something that’s got nothing to do with Ifill’s question. Criticizing Ifill for not actively pointing this out during the debate, I think, underestimates (barely) the intelligence of an average, undecided debate viewer. Had Ifill interjected, the story would’ve been: Palin exceeded expectations and usually knew what she was talking about, but occasionally was chided by the moderator for straying off topic, maverick that she is! Instead, the story is: Palin exceeded expectations but sometimes avoided issues and gave unrelated answers on questions that Biden showcased the depth of his knowledge. There’s only room for two characters in a story about a debate, and I’d much rather it be about Biden and Palin than Ifill and Palin.
I won’t lambast her position on the causes of climate change, though she is demonstrably wrong. My point is simple logic: How can you “affect the impacts” if you aren’t willing to consider the causes? This is not about differences of opinion. It’s about coherence and rational argument. Without this, there is no basis for constructive problem-solving.
She actually said nothing at all, other than displaying a considerable lack of knowledge of what the constitution actually says about the office of Vice President. Her personal pronouns need a little work; who is the “we” that will “do what is best” etc? To paraphrase Joe Biden that, ladies and gentlemen, is babbling.
Biden’s response about being a single parent, particularly a single father, essentially beat Sarah Palin and the GOP at their own game. Accuse him of play-acting all you want; I’m not about to question a man’s grief, no matter what side of the aisle he’s on. But beyond that, this one moment may have won over woman voters more than anything the Obama-Biden campaign has done so far. More than “oh my God, he cried!” it shows women that Biden understands what it’s like to be a parent, and he understands how hard it can be to make ends meet, especially in the wake of tragedy. This was the most effective moment in his attempt to connect with the middle class, and Palin’s response didn’t help her.
And that’s great for Little Leagues– hell, I was that kid– but when it comes to a grown woman who could potentially be the President of the United States in less than four months, all this lowered expectations cheerleading is pathetic, condescending, and let’s face it, sexist. Any man who got up on stage and so obviously dodged questions he hadn’t studied for, stuck so closely to rudimentary talking points, and whose goal was clearly not to communicate but to survive would have been torn apart.
If you want to find an alternative to “lowered expectations cheerleading,” try the blogosphere. Of course that, too, offers up many forms of sexism.
Let’s face it, the guys have had (literally) thousands of years… and while they have done well making tall buildings and gas guzzling V-8 automobile engines, they have pretty much failed in the economic and world peace department. I’m all for letting the gals have a shot. Even if their political leanings don’t exactly jibe with your own, they can hardly do any worse than 230+ years of testosterone inspired policy.

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The ex-girlfriend of the football star whose plane disappeared has spoken out — making a sensational claim about who is behind the crash.
Argentine football player Emiliano Sala's light aircraft has gone missing over the English Channel. He had recently signed for premier league team Cardiff City from French team Nantes.
Emiliano Sala’s model ex-girlfriend is claiming that the “football mafia” is behind the doomed plane crash in the Channel.
Berenice Schkair, 27, said her “heart is broken” and she is “destroyed” after hearing the plane her former partner was on vanished on its way to Cardiff.
She said she feels “pain, fear and anger” and is desperately waiting for good news, adding: “We are waiting for you”.
In an emotional post on social media, she wrote: “I want to wake up and all of this to be a lie. Please investigate because I cannot believe this accident.
Posting her message last night, she added: “I cannot believe they’re suspending the search until tomorrow, they’re losing time and aren’t investigating.
“The thing I regret most is not having told you that you made me feel like I haven’t felt in a while and I love you,” she continued.
“Why does this misfortune happen to such a fascinating man full of projects, hardworking, a good person dedicated to his job.
The model was born in the Tres de Febrero area of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.
The search for Cardiff’s recording-signing striker is ongoing.
He was one of three people on board a Piper Malibu plane travelling from Nantes to the Welsh capital Cardiff when it went missing on Monday evening.
Sala was on board a plane being flown by a pilot who had told pals he was feeling “a bit rusty” just days before the doomed aircraft vanished with the football ace on board.
Married dad-of-three Dave Ibbotson, 60, was at the controls when the single turbine-engined Piper PA-46 Malibu disappeared off the Channel Islands.
Ibbotson had been carrying Sala, Cardiff City’s new record signing, from Nantes, France, to Wales when the aircraft got into difficulties.
Facebook posts shared before the flight departed on Monday night show Mr Ibbotson talking about being “a bit rusty with the ILS (Instrument Landing System)”.
He tagged himself at Nantes Airport on Saturday before replying to comments about the flight on Sunday.
Sala sent audio messages about the “bumpy ride” he was having as the plane hit bad weather near Guernsey on Monday.
It lost contact near the Casquets lighthouse and vanished at 2300-feet at 8.30pm.
As searchers offered little hope on Wednesday of finding Sala alive, some in football posed the first sensitive questions over insurance and the fee Cardiff had just agreed to pay for the Argentine striker.
Sala signed with the Premier League club on Saturday from French Ligue 1 club Nantes for a reported $27 million, and at the same time agreed a three-and-a-half year contract with his new club.
Fans in both Nantes and Cardiff held vigils for the player on Tuesday night but one question that faces both clubs, is who will pay the transfer fee, which represents a substantial amount of money for both clubs.
“The transfer contract is valid as soon as it is registered with FIFA,” Alexandra Cohen Jonathan, a lawyer and partner at the Paris firm August Debouzy, told AFP.
According to a source close to FC Nantes, the deal had been finalised. “The contract was signed Saturday at 5pm and approved Monday,” said the source.
Broadly, big clubs take out two types of insurance to cover players. There is liability cover, against bodily injuries suffered by players which is attributable to the employer.
Then there is key man insurance, originally designed to protect businesses from the sudden loss of important members of the company, which football clubs use to cover themselves in case they lose valuable squad members. It is based on transfer values.
As for the liability insurance, that would only come into play “if one of the two clubs was the organiser of air transport,” said Cohen Jonathan, adding that this does not seem to be the case.
Cardiff president Mehmet Dalman said on Wednesday that the club had offered to arrange Sala’s trip but the attacker had opted to make “his own arrangements”.
In plane accidents, the carrier is responsible for compensation but the payout is normally capped at $160,000, said Cohen Jonathan.
But that cap disappears “if you prove the air carrier is at fault,” the lawyer added.
The interested parties would need to prove the owner of the plane was to blame and, indeed, to establish who that is.
Shortly before take off, Sala sent relatives a desperate message saying the plane looked like it was “going to fall apart”.
That message “will necessarily lead to an examination of the plane’s maintenance log” to try to establish a possible fault and the responsibility of the air carrier or, in case of the failure of a component, an equipment manufacturer in case of failure of a component, said the lawyer.
“In any case, someone will have to pay ($27 million),” said Cohen Jonathan.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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Just got word that my story "After Hours" will be part of the micro fiction collection available at the H.P Lovecraft Film Festival and Cthulhucon. This year hasn't been big for me insofar as sending out submissions goes, so this makes me giddy.
Speaking of which, if you're thinking of going and haven't bought your ticket yet you should consider the Kickstarter. Only three days left!

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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Wade Belak’s tragic death has created debate and discussion throughout the hockey world.
From seeing other former players come out and put pressure on the NHL and NHLPA to do things to better assist players to the league and the union saying they’ll team up to start improving things, it’s been a terrible summer for the league and for those who care for its players.
As for what ailed Wade Belak, who’s believed to have committed suicide, his mother says that he suffered silently with the same issue that addled Rick Rypien: Depression.
James Mirtle from The Globe & Mail shares the story.
Speaking from Nashville, where Belak’s funeral will be held Sunday afternoon, Lorraine Belak told the CBC on Friday that the family believed he was in “control” of the problem.
“I think he was taking control of that,” she said. “We didn’t talk about it all the time, or a lot.
Two players dead over the course of a month and both dealt with depression problems. Depression is a difficult problem because many who suffer from it do so privately never wanting to put on a public face that shows pain. Others don’t want to their family and friends to worry about them.
In Belak’s case, given what others have said about him after his death, many never seemed to know that he was struggling with depression. With his mother saying she knew as well as TSN host Michael Landsberg also confirming Belak’s personal ordeal, it shows how an illness like this can go unnoticed and unknown by even those that work with him daily.
It’s so sad to see these things come to a head in such terrible ways. Seeing someone get to a point where they feel their only escape is to end their own life is the most tragic and terrible situation and one that affects everyone around them after the fact. Getting players and people the help they need when they feel hopeless is something that hockey fans are getting to know all too much about now.
Rick Rypien’s death prompted the Vancouver Canucks to try to plan a tough battle against depression and with good reason: the former tough guy is far from the only hockey player to struggle with such demons. Daniel Ryder ranks as an ex-NHL prospect whose issues held him back to the point that he went from being a promising player to someone who ended up in a psychiatric hospital after turning himself in amid accusations of holding up a convenience store.
The sad story of the brother of former Boston Bruins and current Dallas Stars sniper Michael Ryder (pictured) might take at least a small step in a positive direction, as CBC News reports that Daniel was found not guilty for that robbery today. In total, the CBC reports that he was cleared of three charges: theft, robbery with violence and wearing a disguise.
It seems like the case came down to a lack of concrete evidence of Daniel’s guilt, according to the judge’s decision. The Packet provides a few more strange details from the trial and the court’s decision.
Judge Patrick Kennedy cleared the former hockey star on all charges. Kennedy took almost two hours to read his decision, indicating there was a high degree of evidence pointing to Ryder’s opportunity to commit the offence. However, he said, the burden of proof was not met by the Crown.
The trial was based around a video of the robbery and circumstantial evidence of Ryder’s activities on the night of the robbery. Nobody could positively identify the suspect in the video, and there was no forensic evidence linking Ryder to the scene of the crime. Ryder’s behaviour at the time was unusual which, according to testimony in court, was due in part to mental illness that was diagnosed after the robbery.
Hopefully Daniel Ryder is in the process of getting the help he needs to turn his life around, even if hockey left the picture quite a while ago.


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“COMPUTER REPAIR TRICKS AND TIPS” – Were we learn for a possible way to recover from power surge. We saw an example of “Power LED Blinking/Beep Code” diagnostic system that some (Dell, HP and etc. ) computer manufactures are using to diagnose common problems.
“COMPUTER FIX” – We learn about one of the most breakable part in the computers – hard drive, internal storage, HDD – and this is common factor for desktop computers and laptop computers including MAC.
In the computer repair business we want to make sure that a hard drive is fail or I about to fail before we start disassembling any hardware. That’s why we can use a free diagnostic tool like HDDScan v3.3 (a downloading link is provided in the bottom of the page). This is Windows based, standalone software that provides accurate state of the internal or external storage device.
To test a storage device with HDDScan, choose a drive from the drop-down area and then click the round button in the middle of the program. From here, you can access all the tests and features that are offered. Every new test will be added to the Test Manager section at the bottom and queued to launch when each previous test is finished. You can pause or delete tests from this part of the program.
HDDScan can run tests against devices like PATA, SATA, SCSI, USB, FireWire, or SSD connected hard drives to check for errors and show SMART attributes.
. You can also use HDDScan to start or stop the support of various types of hard drives and identify information such as the , firmware version, serial number, supported features, and model number. Some parameters, such as a hard drive's AAM (automatic acoustic management) details, can be changed. RAID volumes are also supported but only a surface test can be ran.

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There's so much to love about Studio Ghibli movies, whether it's the engaging and fantastical stories or the gorgeous and vibrant animation style. But let us not forget about the music, since Hayao Miyazaki's movies are filled with iconic scores and songs. They transport you instantly to the time when you first heard them, taking you straight back to the bus stop in My Neighbor Totoro or Yubaba's bathhouse in Spirited Away.
A couple months ago, the London-based radio station NTS Radio streamed a Radio Ghibli mix that included an hour of the music from films released between 1986 and 1992, and it was a beautiful thing (via ComicBook.com). This was the period that yielded classics like Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies, Kiki's Delivery Service, Only Yesterday, and Porco Rosso, so it was a packed hour of whimsical nostalgic fun.
The mix was apparently a hit, since NTS Radio decided to share a second installment in the series this week, which covers 1994 to 2001. That period gave us Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Pom Poko, Whisper of the Heart, and My Neighbors the Yamadas.
There's also a third mix set to come out later this year, and assuming it goes from 2002 to present, some strong movies will be represented: The Cat Returns, Howl's Moving Castle, Tales From Earthsea, Ponyo, Arietty, From Up on Poppy Hill, The Wind Rises, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, and When Marnie Was There.
Check out the two existing mixes above, and for a taste of what the third might include, listen to perhaps my personal favorite Ghibli song, "Kaze ni Naru" from The Cat Returns, below.
Could an anime-style nosebleed turn you into a rocket?


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Chocolate swiss roll, potato chips and coffee.
XL is one of my ‘oldest’ friends – not in terms of age, but of the number of years we’ve known each other. She was my classmate in Primary one, which means we knew each other when we were 7 years old. So, x years minus 7... Unbelievable!


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Q: Why is the RDNO no longer accepting “Blue Bag Recyclables” at RDNO Recyclng Drop Centres (RDCs) as of Janauary 1, 2019?
A: The world’s largest recyclable commodity purchasers have started implementing strict regulations on imported materials. Markets for Blue Bag Recyclables has been significantly impacted by these regulations. Secondary markets are too small to absorb the glut of material produced in North America. A contamination level of 0.5% ha also been implemented. The Blue Bag recyclables from RDNO DDFs is consistently at a contamination level of 3% or higher. Because of the restrictions, the contractor that manages Blue Bag Recyclables on behalf of the RDNO will not accept material from RDNO RDCs as there is no market for the contaminated material. The only material that will be accepted at RDNO RDCs after January 1, 2019 is clean, flattened Old Corrugated Cardboard (OCC) and boxboard (cereal boxes).
Q: What can I still drop off at RDNO Diversion & Disposal Facilities?
Q: Why can't the RDNO monitor people at the recycling bins better?
A: The RNDO simply doesn’t have the staff resources to monitor every customer using the RDC bins. There are other recycling options available for RDNO residents. The RDNO RDCs represent a duplication of a service that is provided by the private sector under the Recycle BC Packaging and Paper Product (PPP) stewardship program.
Q: What are my alternate recycling options?
A: RDNO residents are encouraged to utilize Recycle BC Curbside Blue Box Collection program or to use Recycle BC Depots located in Vernon, Lumby and Armstrong. Businesses are encouraged to utilize existing programs or to contact private waste management contractors to see what their options are for recycling services.
Q: Why is my recycling day different than my garbage day?
A: The residential blue box recycling program is provided by Recycle BC. Garbage collection services are provided by your municipality. Please contact Recycle BC for residential curbside recycling information or your municipality for more information about residential garbage collection. If you are a resident of the District of Coldstream or one of the Electoral Areas and wish to receive curbside residential garbage collection, you must engage the services of a private contractor as there is no municipally provided garage collection in these areas.
Q: Is there a place I can drop off my recycling?
A: Recycle BC provides Recycling Depots in Vernon, Armstrong and Lumby. For more information contact the BC Recycling Hotline at 1.800.667.4321 or download the Recyclepedia App from the App Store or on Google Play.
Q: Does Regional District of North Okanagan (RDNO) still manage the residential, curbside recycling program?
Q: What types of plastic are accepted at RDNO Diversion and Disposal Facilities for recycling?
A: None. Residents will have to use their Recycle BC curbside collection program or nearby depot to recycle these items.
Q: I have a lot of cardboard boxes. Do I have to put it in bags when visiting a Diversion and Disposal Facility?
A: No, the RDNO only accepts loose cardboard at each of the Diversion and Disposal Facilities.
Q: What type of metal can I bring to an RDF for recycling?
Q: Does the RDNO accept agricultural plastic for recycling at its Recycling and Disposal Facilities?
A: No. Agricultural plastics such as twine, irrigation tubing and silage wrap are not widely recyclable and are treated as garbage.
Q: Can I recycle milk and milk substitute cartons?
A: These containers are accepted in the Recycle BC curbside collection program, at Recycle BC depots and at specific Return-It bottle depots. These containers are NOT accepted for recycling at RDNO DDF recycling drop centers. All empty milk, cream, and milk substitute (soy & rice) beverage containers (plastic, cartons, and jugs) are included in these programs. Please rinse and flatten before returning. These items do not have a deposit at the point of sale, and therefore do not have a deposit paid back upon return. For more information visit www.recyclebc.ca.
Q: Where can I recycle Styrofoam?
A: Residents with Styrofoam products may also utilize a Recycle BC depot, at no charge, in Vernon at Interior Freight and Bottle Depot, and Venture Training Centre, the Venture Bottle Depot in Lumby, and the Armstrong Bottle Depot in Armstrong.
Businesses and residents with clean, stickerless Styrofoam blocks, containers, cups, egg cartons, meat trays and peanuts can be taken to Diversion and Disposal Facilities in Vernon and Armstrong for a minimum charge.
Q: Where can I recycle batteries?
A: Batteries are included in the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs and are accepted free-of-charge for drop-off recycling at many other locations. To find a depot or find out what is accepted, go online to www.call2recycle.ca.
Q: Where can I go to find out about all the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) drop-off recycling programs?
A: To better understand all of the drop-off recycling programs that currently exist for North Okanagan residents and businesses, go online to www.bcrecycles.ca.
Q: Where can I dispose of paint?
Q: How do I properly dispose of my old, unused or unwanted medicines safely?
A: You may return expired or unused medications to your pharmacist for environmentally responsible disposal. For more information on medication returns go to www.healthsteward.ca.
Q: Can I recycle electronic waste?
Q: Where can I take non-labeled hazardous waste for recycling and disposal?
A: Hazardous waste can be taken free of charge, year round, during regular hours of operation to Interior Freight and Bottle Depot in Vernon.

industry_corpus2: Petrochemicals


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Following example shows how to use Expression.isNull() and Expression.isNotNull() methods.
These methods test whether the target entity field value is null or not null.
hibernate-jpamodelgen 5.3.7.Final: Annotation Processor to generate JPA 2 static metamodel classes.


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English Breakfast is either a blend of Assam and Ceylon, or just plain Ceylon. This Organic Ceylon comes from biodiverse farms in the beautiful hills of Sri Lanka.
Our tea farms are high in the mountains where moisture and atmosphere sit just right to produce this sweet, deep and malty black tea.
Tea was brought to Sri Lanka from China by the British in 1824. The area has the perfect conditions to produce a robust Ceylon Black Tea. In the 19th century this tea revolutionized tea drinking due to its sweet, deep, malty and complex taste.
Traditionally English Breakfast is a blend of Assam and Ceylon or just plain Assam or Ceylon. We have chosen to use a beautifully rich, robust, sweet and deep Ceylon, creating a bold, malty and smooth flavour that lends well to breakfast tea enjoyment.
Directions: 1 level teaspoon per 200ml water. Steep for 3 to 5 minutes.
Status: Organic Ceylon. Contains Caffeine.
Is High Tea your thing?

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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Build entire content-rich and data-driven .NET Websites in real-time for each major server platform without compilation.
Build self-contained content-heavy and documentation websites without any code.
Provide marketers a live editing experience to easily generate plain-text and HTML Templates.
Use #Script's built-in functionality and live interactivity experience to author and preview smart documents in real-time.
Use #Script to execute adhoc queries on the state of a running .NET App.
Easily query data sources offering free-text APIs like using SQL to query RDBMS's with OrmLite.


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The ultimate aim of the NIHR Health Services Research (HSR) programme is to lead to an increase in service quality and patient safety through better ways of planning and providing health services.
Launched in October 2008, the HSR programme has a predicted annual budget of £5million. The HSR programme will fund both primary research and evidence syntheses, depending on the availability of existing research and the most appropriate way of responding to important knowledge gaps. All types of study proposals expected to enhance knowledge and understanding in the field of health services research will be funded by the programme. The programme will either fund multiple small studies or a single large study of national or international importance.


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Can horses have twins?This is a rare, intriguing and miraculous occurrence not many know about since only around 1 in 10,000 twin foals survive to term, but the short answer is yes!
If you’re a horse owner, you know the joy and excitement that comes when a foal is born.
But can you begin to imagine how you would feel if two foals were born at once? Mixed feelings of thrill and anxiety would probably take over since it usually doesn’t happen.
A couple that owns a farm in Bastrop County near Austin experienced quite the surprise last week when two foals were born within minutes of each other.
The Tuckers, the family who owns the farm, don’t typically perform ultrasounds on their pregnant horses; instead they watch the horses’ bellies grow over an 11-month span. However, if vets decide to actually perform an ultrasound and happen to see twin foals, they typically pop one of the eggs or in some cases abort both since it can be very dangerous to bring both to term.
Bonnie and Clyde, the dynamic duo, were born on May 11th and have been being treated at the Elgin Veterinary Hospital where they are receiving bags of fluid and plasma to increase their odds of survival. Every day the horses grow stronger and are expected to return to the farm mid-June where the Tuckers will care for them.
There is no way to avoid or prevent twins in pregnancy. The best option is to focus on early detection and have the mare checked before 16 days. If the exam isn’t performed early, it’s harder to eliminate one or both of the twins. Try to have your horse checked regularly, keep an eye on the size of the belly, note any unusual behaviors and continue to care for your momma-to-be.
If your horse is expecting, you’ll want a quality barn to raise the foal. Contact Deer Creek Structures today for more information.


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In this in the deepest southwest Africa lying state with borders too South Africa is something viniculture operated, but by the hot and dry on average climate natural limits are set. The largest part of Namibia lies in the tropical summer rain area with irregular, often very heavy rains between November and April. During colonization, missionaries planted vines and pressed wine. Today there are three companies that deserve the name "Weingut". The "Kristall Kellerei" was founded in 1990, where Namibia became independent, as the first winery by the German family Kluge. The company is located in Omaruru northwest of the capital Windhoek. Here are on some acres Colombard and Ruby Cabernet cultivated, the first harvest was in 1995.
The former manager Allan Walkden-Davis built in 1996 at the foot of the Naukluft Mountains on the edge of the Namib Desert in the south of the country on his large farm "Neuras" a small winery and produces one hectare of the "Namib-Red" Shiraz ( Syrah ) and something Merlot, This wine even caused an international sensation. The third operation is the "Thonninghii" wine farm in the Otavi Valley in the north of the country in Namibia's most precipitous area known as the "corn triangle". It is run by the full-time doctor Bertus Boshoff, whose son oenology studied and practiced in South Africa. On half an acre will be with different varieties like Viognier. Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz experiments.
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Show your gameday swagger in a Eli Manning Ole Miss Jerseys, and you can show your team colors in official Eli Manning Merchandise featuring Eli Manning Football Jerseys, T-Shirts, Hoodies and Hats. Pull together an iconic outfit to honor the Eli Manning in from our stock of University of Eli Manning Clothing. All of the Eli Manning College Jerseys comes in sizes for Men, Women, and Children, as well as Big & Tall and Plus Size styles, so the whole family can congregate in true Eli Manning apparel. Be ready to cheer in your new University of Apparel.
View All: Robert Griffin III Baylor Jerseys , Bo Jackson Auburn Jerseys.


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Herbs de Provence herb plant collection. Grow your own Herbs de Provence blend with Rosemary, Thyme, Sage and Lavender. Harvest the herbs at the same time and use fresh or dried. Add this classic blend of fragrant herbs, reminiscent of the south of France, to tomato and vegetable dishes. Mix with olive oil to brush over roasted or grilled meats, poultry or seafood.
Grown organically at our licensed farm and plant nursery in Oregon! Organic Herb de Provence Collection is a great gift idea!
This listing is for (4) plants each grown in a 3.5" container. Herb collection contains Rosemary, Sage, Thyme, and Lavender. Ideal herb collection for kitchen garden. Easy to grow herbs are ready to be used on arrival.


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Animation is the illusion of motion created by viewing a sequence of pictures in rapid succession. Each picture is slightly different than the previous one, and when viewed quickly it appears to be moving. Just like your Saturday morning cartoons, or stop motion special effects used in Godzilla or the original King Kong.
Making an animation for the computer is just the same. You're making a series of pictures to be viewed one after the other to simulate motion. The one difference being the animation is usually looped, so it plays over and over. If you can use Microsoft® Paint, you can make an animation. More advanced software will, of course, let you make more professional looking animations.
Each individual picture in an animation is called a Frame. A frame can be composed of pictures, text, or a combination thereof. Once you have created all your frames, you're ready for the next step - animating them.
Of course, to put it all together you need a gif animator program. There is no shortage of those on the marketplace. Just type "gif animator" into a search engine and you'll see what I mean.
The various animation programs each have their good points and bad. Some have snazzy bells and whistles to make cool effects, some require an IQ of no less than 150 and a PhD in Computer Science to figure out. Which one you choose is up to you. Most software vendors will offer a free trial. With any luck you'll figure out how to use it before the trial expires! Once you find one that's easy to use, buy it. The enjoyment you'll have will be worth the price.
The software will allow you to set the duration of each frame, also known as frame delay. This is how long a frame is visible before the next frame is displayed. By changing a frame's duration, you can make the smile last longer, or roll the eyes slower or faster. This animation has a duration of 0.5 seconds for the first frame, 0.1 seconds for frames 2 to 9, and 1.25 seconds for the smile.
With Ulead Systems® latest software, Ulead GIF Animator 5 (UGA 5), you make animations with Objects. The following are the objects used to make the frames above.
These objects are simple enough to create in Microsoft Paint. In this instance, UGA 5 was used, as it has a nice set of paintbrush tools similar to Paint.
It may be of interest to note that UGA 5 will let you edit the objects with an external image editor. Supported image editors are Adobe® Photoshop®, Jasc® Paint Shop Pro, or Ulead PhotoImpact. Any program that will save in either Photoshop's ".psd" format or Ulead's ".ufo" format can be used.
UGA 5 will also let you use most Photoshop-compatible filters (.8bf extension) as plug-ins. With an external editor or a plug-in filter, our Smiley Guy above can become a more visually appealing animation. The Smiley Guy version on the right used Photoshop 5.5 with the Extensis PhotoBevel 2.0 Solo plug-in filter... Unfortunately, PhotoBevel 2.0 is not compatible with anything except Photoshop.
UGA 5 imports Photoshop's ".psd" format of layers as objects. This means that each layer of a Photoshop image will be opened as an object by GIF Animator 5. These objects can be positioned where you want in each frame, or hidden in a frame if desired.
With UGA 5, you create the number of frames you'll need, then in each frame you position the objects where you want them to be. The screen shot below shows 10 frames along the top. At the bottom left is the Object Manager, which lets you select objects, arrange the layering order, make an object visible in a frame (or remove it from a frame), move or lock an object's position, delete or duplicate, and more.
Whatever software you decide to use to create and animate your frames, the old saying, "practice makes perfect" is the key. Don't give up, just keep trying. If you're stuck, read the software's Help files. If you're still confused, try the vendor's web site.


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Today the day is typical wintery: rain, dullness and cold. Eventually, this weather has all of us under blankets with a hot cup of coffee or tea and maybe a book. When I want to beat this feeling of dullness due to weather I wear bright/white clothes to cheer me up.
I created this outfit to keep me warm and feel bright from inside out.
Of course I wanted to wear my lovely new fur coat that I received a couple days ago. I just can't stop wearing it because it is so fluffy and smooth - and of course super warm.
Do you wear white during winter months? I also love white with camel coats and booties.
Hope you had a beautiful weekend everybody!


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Kathleen « Kay » Walsh (1911 - 16 april 2005) was a British actress and writer who played Mrs. Hudson in 2 episodes of the TV series Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson with Geoffrey Whitehead (Holmes). In 1965, she played Cathy Eddowes in A Study in Terror with John Neville as Sherlock Holmes.
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Star Wars: Empire at War Heaven » Forums » Strategy » How do I build structures on things?
Topic Subject: How do I build structures on things?
Well, in the game, I sometimes try to click on little building pads and facilities on rocks in space while in battle, but it seems like not matter how many times I wave my mouse over it or click on it, it won't let me do anything, unless I repeatedly click and wave until my cursor turns into a hammer, but if I'm just a few pixels off, it will not work.
Other times, it won't work no matter what I do. So, what do i need to do? Also, how do I delete units?


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Sno Top, located on Fayette Street in Manlius, opened in 1957 and was built in the style of a Dairy Queen. Yelp reviewers rave about their ‘dole whip’ and flurries which consist of ice cream or yogurt blended with various candy choices.
Marcellus Lanes Ice Cream is not only an ice cream shop but also a bowling alley and restaurant. Located at in Marcellus, they are known for their huge portions, soft serve flavor bursts and dipped cones.
Right around the corner in Downtown Syracuse, The Ice Cream Stand is serving up soft serve and hard ice cream including vegan and dairy free flavors. According to Yelp, their S’mores flavor comes with roasted marshmallow on top!
Big Dip offers everything imaginable. Milkshakes, more than 10 soft serve flavors, hard ice cream, flurries, slushies, floats, frappes and of course, dipped ice cream cones. Their seasonal pumpkin soft serve sounds amazing.
Gannon’s Isle is known for their homemade hard ice cream. With flavors like ‘Cuse Trax’ (vanilla based ice cream with a fudge swirl and mini peanut butter cups) and ‘Chocolate Bavarian Torte’ (chocolate ice cream with a caramel swirl and fudge pieces) every SU student must go to one of their two locations at least once. They also offer soft serve, sherbet and sorbets.
Located in the south side of Syracuse, Arctic Island has been operating since 1948. They serve about 15 homemade hard ice cream flavors including Peanut Butter Espresso Oreo and Peppermint Patty. They also offer vanilla and chocolate soft serve.
Abbott’s Frozen Custard is a frozen custard chain with a location in Syracuse. Yelp reviewers praise the ice cream’s rich, creamy and dense consistency. The Chocolate Almond flavor seems to be a popular favorite.
Right near campus in Liverpool, Antonio’s Ice Cream is a hidden gem. They offer soft serve, shakes and hard ice cream like every other shop but their menu stands out from the rest with the addition of Italian ices, gelato and specialty dip flavors like toasted coconut.
While this bucket list only has 8 places right now, I’m sure it will expand over the next four years. Although we all miss our hometown ice cream shops, I’m confident I’ll find something just as good (or maybe even better) in the 315.


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ENTRANCE HALL Accessed via a composite and glazed door with double glazed side panels. Ceramic tiled flooring, stairs to the first floor, radiator and coved ceiling.
STUDY 14' 2" x 8' 0" (4.34m x 2.46m) With double glazed window, ceramic tiled flooring and radiator.
LOUNGE 20' 11" x 11' 6" (6.38m x 3.53m) Spacious lounge with double glazed bow window to the front, two radiators, feature fireplace with electric fire, double glazed doors and engineered oak flooring.
DINING/LIVING KITCHEN 37' 11" x 8' 11" (11.58m x 2.74m) KITCHEN 15' 4" x 11' 4" (4.67m x 3.45m) Generous open plan space to include a range of quality high gloss base and eye level units and incorporating steel grey quartz work surfaces. Space for range style cooker with extractor hood over. Integral dishwasher, stainless steel sink and drainer with mixer taps, breakfast bar with storage, draws and cupboards. Twin double glazed windows to the rear, double glazed double doors and triple Velux windows, radiator, ceramic tiled flooring, and down lighting. Doors leading off to Utility, Cloakroom and Garage.
CRAFT ROOM 10' 5" x 10' 0" (3.18m x 3.05m) Situated just off the kitchen this room offers a flexible space with ceramic tiled flooring, under stairs cupboard and radiator.
CLOAKROOM With white suite comprising wash hand basin and WC. Extractor fan and ceramic tiled flooring.
UTILITY ROOM 7' 8" x 4' 9" (2.34m x 1.47m) With ceramic tiled flooring, plumbing for washing machine and space for further appliances.
UPSTAIRS Approached from a central landing with airing cupboard are the master bedroom with en suite, four further bedrooms and family bathroom.
MASTER BEDROOM 15' 3" x 13' 3" (4.67m x 4.06m) With double glazed window to the front, radiator, loft access and door leading to the en suite.
EN SUITE 7' 1" x 6' 7" (2.18m x 2.03m) With contemporary white three piece suite comprising free standing bath, wash hand basin with storage drawers underneath, WC, shower cubicle with mains shower, extractor fan, heated towel rail and opaque double glazed window.
BEDROOM TWO 14' 6" x 10' 5" (4.42m x 3.2m) With double glazed window, radiator, laminate flooring and coved ceiling.
BEDROOM THREE 10' 0" x 10' 0" (3.05m x 3.05m) With double glazed window, radiator, laminate flooring and coved ceiling.
BEDROOM FOUR 11' 1" x 7' 4" (3.4m x 2.24m) With double glazed window, radiator, laminate flooring and coved ceiling.
BEDROOM FIVE 9' 3" x 6' 9" (2.82m x 2.08m) With double glazed window and radiator.
BATHROOM 11' 6" x 6' 7" (3.53m x 2.01m) Comprising a modern contemporary white suite with claw foot free standing bath, wash hand basin with storage, WC, shower cubicle with mains shower, extractor fan, opaque double glazed window and radiator.
OUTSIDE The property is set back from the road behind a lawned front garden with driveway leading to integral Double Garage. To the rear there is a private garden with patio, shaped lawn, established borders and enclosed by hedged and fenced boundaries.
DOUBLE GARAGE 16' 4" x 16' 4" (4.98m x 4.98m) With up and over door, Ideal Classic wall mounted boiler and rear service door.


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Like kathak, the king of pop placed emphasis on the small things – the glance, the movement of a single finger (almost like mudras) – and on delicacy.
Students of kathak will tell you that if there is one dancer Birju Maharaj loves to watch with avid interest, it is Michael Jackson. For the greatest living legend of kathak, there is something deeply rivetting about the one-man Jackson gharana.
Dancer-producer Anand Bhatt shares Birju Maharaj’s fascination with the king of pop. Through the 1990s and early 2000s, he was one of the best-known Jackson impersonators in the United Kingdom. He also trained in kathak for 13 years, though he chooses not to perform. In his three decades in dance, Bhatt found that the expressive and dynamic elements of Jackson’s style, cemented and strengthened his links with kathak.
In December, Bhatt taught a roomful of young kathak artists some essential Jackson in a movement material class in Delhi. The sassiness, the commanding here-watch-me swagger, those small delicate shifts in body weight, the flick of the wrist, and the quicksilver changes – all typically Jackson – form a language that the dancers at Drishtikon Studio, run by avante garde kathak artist Aditi Mangaldas, were comfortable with.
Anand Bhatt as a Michael Jackson impersonator.
Bhatt’s fascination for the moonwalker started when he was all of three. Born to a Gujarati migrant family with African roots, he recalls watching the video of the song Thriller, released in 1983, from behind a curtain in his London home, fascinated and terrified in equal parts.
The first opportunity to do a Jackson came after the family shifted to a working-class estate in Leicester, when Bhatt was nine. Dressed on a whim in a saree, at a large family gathering, he decided to break into a Jackson medley. Impressed by the skills, Bhatt was gifted a suit and tie to pull together the Jackson look, and within two months, he was on stage, performing on Billie Jean as an MJ impersonator at a mayoral fund raiser in Leicester. It wasn’t long before Bhatt became a fixture at community events in the city – suit, tie, hat and MJ moves in place.
“I was like a big fish in a small pond, dancing at about 150 odd venues, which were not very prestigious,” he recalled.
Bhatt teaches a roomful of young kathak artists.
After four years Bhatt dropped out – it was too much effort reconciling kathak and a working-class childhood in a tough neighbourhood. Jackson, though, continued to be a part of his life till 2004, when the artist, with his white skin fixation and child abuse allegations, became something of an untouchable in the entertainment industry.
Around the same time, Bhatt started Bollywood dancing classes at Desi Masti, a school he founded in 2003. He was quite likely the first teacher of the form in Leicester, at a time when filmi thumkas weren’t quite the global phenomena they are today.
The school was the stage for an important collaboration that would have a profound impact on Bhatt’s career. This is where Bhatt met Aakash Odedra, a dancer from Birmingham with roots in Saurashtra and Mumbai, who had perfected his kathak under Nilima Devi in Leicester. In 2006, the two dancers decided on an exchange arrangement – Odedra would teach Bollywood, kathak, jazz and contemporary dance to Bhatt’s Bollywood students and in turn, get to use Bhatt’s Desi Masti studio space. The sacred lines that divided classical, popular and contemporary dance in India were practically non-existent in UK’s Asian dance scene, leaving enough room for experimentation.
Bhatt became a producer with the Akash Odedra Company in 2008. And in curious ways kathak and Jackson again came together to help Bhatt create a buzz around Odedra’s talent. Odedra is now arguably the best-known young Indian classical-contemporary dancer in the West.
In 2009, Bhatt resurrected his Jackson career – but this time as a show producer – doing two big hit events around the singer’s works. He followed this up with a tribute, Timeless, when Jackson died. The return to his life as a Jackson impersonator also piqued Bhatt’s interest in kathak. He took up the dance form again, this time as an aware and interested learner.
Bhatt produced a solo that was choreographed for Odedra by Akram Khan, the wunderkind of kathak-modern dance, in 2009. Rising, staged at the prestigious British Dance Edition in 2012, drew acclaim for Odedra’s kathak but not enough buzz to break through the clutter.
Soon after, Odedra landed his first big performance at the Cinars festival in Canada. He performed Akram Khan’s Rising, which was described by The Guardian dance critic Judith Mackrell as the “dance equivalent of a red-carpet event”, and the rest was dance history. Today, both Jackson and kathak inform Bhatt’s decisions on production.


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Wow!! What a red letter day March 31was! I received the digital copy of the letters from both of my kids. Hooray!!
Wow!! What a red letter day March 31was! I received the digital copy of the letters from both of my kids. The introduction letter from Clara,and a second one from Edward. They both mentioned receiving a letter and gift along with what they got with the money. Hooray!! But the first page with the questions wasn't translated in Clara's letter, perhaps the translator felt that it was self explanatory, but I can't tell for sure what the answers are. Also I haven't yet received a hard copy of Edward's first letter. It would be much easier to read then it is on this small phone screen. I can't enlarge the image in the app so I can read it.
This is both praise and problem, and question . I received the paper copy of Clara's letter on 4/3. Which is great! Now that I can see it better, I can tell that the first page is indeed translated as much as necessary in the body of the letter. I also see that the date of the letter is 3/7/17. At the top it says it's her first letter, but should there be an introduction letter? Is the date when it was received in the translation office? Could someone please check whether there is a letter still stuck in the system some where? Also, i still haven't received a paper copy of either of Edwards letters. In his first letter, he asked for prayers for his dad who had surgery, in this letter, he asked for prayers for his mom who has surgery. I'm wondering if this is a translation problem, or if they are having so many problems. Would anyone have time to look into this for me so I can pray more intelligently? Thank you for your patience and kindness.
Mr. & Mrs. Hughes, I am so sorry as it looks like we missed your question from over a month ago! I am also very sorry as I was unable to locate your account. Please let us know if you were able to reach us another way and if not please post Clara's number so we can check into her letters for you.
I wondered if you had missed the questions or if maybe they weren't good questions to ask. Clara's number is brq45400577. That 1letter is all I've gotten from her, but it seems like there should be a letter before it. Edward's number is niq20700466. I have received the paper copy of his second letter, but not the one of his first letter. I still am puzzled by both parents having surgery so close together, his father is not mentioned in his profile anymore, so I'm not sure if I should mention him in future letters or not. Thanks for checking with me.
Hi Mr. and Mrs. Hughes!
Secondly, I apologize that you did not receive printed copies of your letters from Edward. I have resent these two letters and they should be on there way shortly!
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The Mississippi Library Partnership is a consortium of libraries that share a library automation system as a means of increasing the sharing of resources, automation costs, and technical expertise. As members of the Partnership, each library adds its bibliographic and patron databases to the library automation system housed at MSU, and uses this system for its circulation, online catalog, acquisitions, and serials.
The mission of the Partnership is to build a central database that provides patrons with easy access to resources from all of the member libraries. Along with other useful services, the Partnership enables patrons to request books from any member library and pick them up at their own member library.
Training, support, and upgrades for the Mississippi Library Partnership is provided by the Systems Department at Mississippi State University Libraries. MSU’s Information Technology Services houses the central server and performs regular backups. Member libraries are responsible for their own Internet connections and computers.
Formerly known as the Golden Triangle Regional Library Consortium, the Partnership was renamed in 2012 to better reflect its coverage area. The charter members of the Partnership include the Mississippi State University Libraries and the Mississippi University for Women Fant Memorial Library.
For more information, contact Stephen Cunetto.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Human society depends upon energy – whether it be heat from a fire or electricity from a power station, yet paradoxically much energy production pollutes the environment in which we live. Societies all over the globe are becoming increasingly dependent on electrical power. In fact, in the West, it is almost impossible to imagine life with out electricity, and we rely on it for everything from making our first cup of tea in the morning, to walking home under streetlamps at night. Now with the introduction of electric cars our dependence on electricity will be further increased. Electric power can be produced in many different ways – some of them ‘clean’ and renewable, such as water, wind or solar power, and some of them polluting for the environment, such as burning fossil fuels, or the use of nuclear energy.
The scientific network of the Planetary Association for Clean Energy (PACE) are continuouslu researching and developing new energy sciences and cautioning the public when new products are rolled out without sufficient testing and without the needed state regulation. This is often happening when science and industry are ahead of government policy as has been the case with mobile telephony (and issues related to radiation and electro hyper-sensitivity), to nano technologies, artificial intelligence, weather modification methodologies, cloning, remote transportation modes (e.g. drones) etc.

industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


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New Olympus DS-9500 WiFi Digital Dictation Recorder. Replaces previous flagship DS-7000 recorder.
Price Lowered by $100.00 3/19!!
The New Olympus DS-9500 WiFi Digital Dictation Recorder is here and it is incredible!
From the industry leader is efficiency and reliability comes the latest in a long line of digital dictation success stories, the Olympus DS-9500 WiFi digital dictation recorder.


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Stephen “Bimbo” M. Kaheiki, Jr.
61, of Keaukaha, Hawaii, died in Hilo on May 9, 2018. He was born in Hilo. Visitation: 3:30 p.m.; Services: 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 24, 2018 at Dodo Mortuary Chapel.


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Ash Wednesday at Manning Valley Anglican College.
Manning Valley Anglican College commenced the holy season of Lent with a special Ash Wednesday chapel service.
The chapel service was gracefully lead by MVAC captains Abigail Watman and Shauna Kelliher.
Director of Welfare, Mr Eamonn Lawless and Director of Early Learning, Mrs Karen Brown joined local clergy the Reverend Brian Ford (from Wingham Anglican Parish) and the Reverend Mark Harris (from Forster / Tuncurry Anglican Parish) in making the sign of the cross with ash on the foreheads on all members of the MVAC community.
Lent is a season of 40 days which Christians use to prepare themselves for celebrating the joys of Christ’s resurrection at Easter. The period of 40 days is a reminder of the time that the Lord Jesus Christ spent praying and fasting in the wilderness in preparation for his mission.
In the lead up to Ash Wednesday our students also marked Shrove Tuesday, often called Pancake Tuesday. The making of pancakes is a traditional means of using up ingredients before fasting throughout Lent.
Students were given the opportunity to buy a pancake with jam and / or cream. The proceeds from the pancakes were donated to the Anglican Board of Mission to assist with the Church’s mission of evangelism and social justice in Burma.
The Primary Chapels and Assemblies, which are held every Monday at 9am in the hall, continue to be extremely well attended by members of the College community. At our most recent Chapel / Assembly, Mrs Langford spoke to the students about our theme for the year, ‘Pieces of the Puzzle’. This theme ties in closely with our focus in the Primary School on our students developing into respectful, responsible learners. Many students have eagerly embraced this concept, with the points that they are earning for exhibiting such qualities going to their House groups as they compete for the Spirit Cup that is presented during these weekly assemblies. While this presentation is certainly an exciting part of our assemblies, I believe the real highlight has been the class items that have truly entertained and informed those in attendance. Thank you to Mrs Murray, Miss Nuttall, Miss Geerts, and their respective classes for the wonderful contributions they have made.
While numerous co-curricular activities like the BEBRAS Computational Thinking Challenge and Milo After School Cricket have kept the students busy this week, for me the true highlight has been the presence of the Life Education Van, and in particular Happy Healthy Harold. Although the Life Education program often deals with serious issues relating to the health and safety of our children, the content is delivered in a manner that allows the students to be immersed in a fun and interactive educational experience. It was particularly sobering to be involved in the Year 6 session as the students came to the realisation that they were bidding farewell to Harold the giraffe for the very last time.
An enthusiastic group of Year 11 Biology students escaped from school on Thursday 23rd February in order to conduct a detailed field study of the Marine Rock Platform at Black Head. They worked extremely hard throughout the day and collected a wealth of data for their first assessment task. Mr Dawes and I would like to thank the students for their commitment, effort and cooperation. It was a pleasure to take such a delightful group of students on an excursion.
Last week Year 11 Visual Arts students joined SCAS Visual Arts and Textiles students on a 2-day excursion to Sydney. Students visited a number of exhibitions and galleries including: The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Art Gallery of NSW and The State Library of NSW. They were also given the opportunity to visit Cockatoo Island, where they took photographs and completed preliminary sketches which will be used to create A Body of Work. This curriculum focused excursion provided a wonderful opportunity for students enrich their study and collaborate with students from other schools.
Congratulations to Bronte – 8 Years Girls and Nathanial – 12 Years Boys who achieved the titles of individual age champions for their respective age groups at HRIS Primary Swimming in Maitland. A fantastic achievement for swimming so well all day.
At the conclusion on the championships results for both Division 1 and 2 were compared and I have the pleasure in announcing that Nathanial has also been selected to compete at the NSW Combined Independent Schools Championships as part of the HRIS team. He will contest the Boys 12 Years 50m Freestyle. Congratulations Nathanial and we look forward to hearing of your achievements at CIS.
Well done to all our Primary swimmers and thank you to all the parents who were in attendance supporting our team.
HRIS also conducted the first of their trials for Primary Boys Football on Monday 6 March. Congratulations to Kai and Scott who will head back to Cessnock next week to participate in part 2 of the trial. Both boys have made the final 24 after great performances on Monday. Good luck boys.
All members of the MVAC community are invited to the 2017 Night of Notable Inventors. This is a showcase of the research undertaken by the students in the Carpe Diem classes from Year 3 through to Year 10.
This year, students from Years 6 – 10 Carpe Diem classes will be representing inventors, some of whom are well-known and others who have received very little fame or fortune. You will have the opportunity to ask these inventors about their inventions and how they may have impacted on our lifestyles, past and present.
Students from Years 3 to 5 Carpe Diem classes will have their latest “inventions” on display. You will be able to be the first to see and learn about inventions that may change our lives in the future.
Please mark the date, Wednesday, 29 March, in your diary as a very special event at MVAC that shouldn’t be missed!
As we progress on to the later half of Term 1 we will be conducting Parent Teacher Interviews. Year 12 Parent Teacher Interviews will be held on Monday, 13 March. Kindergarten to Year 11 will be held on Monday, 3 April.
If you do not have a Parent Lounge username and password please contact the school administration.
Pull out your favourite sporting shirt or jersey and grab a hotdog! Friday 17 March will March our first ‘Clash of Cultures’ day. Students are encouraged to wear their favourite sporting team shirt and jersey on this day. For a charge of $5, they will also receive a hotdog and drink. Money will be used to support costuming the Manning Valley Anglican College dancers and the purchase of resources for Visual Arts.
Please assist us in sharing these invitations with family and friends. You can also find these on our Facebook page.


text: Dove First School received some pupil premium money in its school budget. The Pupil Premium is allocated to children from low-income families who are currently known to be eligible for free school meals. The Government believes that the Pupil Premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for free school meals and their wealthier peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most.


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Singapore is one of the global cities. It is also a popular tourist destination in the Singapore. Rochester is a good source of air traffic from United States to Singapore. Rochester has good air connectivity with this city through direct and indirect flights to the Changi International Airport (SIN). Many people from the United States fly to Singapore for vacation and other purposes. No matter if you have to make last minute travel to the Singapore, do not worry about airfare. iEagle issues cheap last minute flight tickets to Singapore (SIN) from Rochester (ROC).
It’s never too late to book last minute travel, especially when iEagle offers cheap airfare deals for Singapore flights from Rochester. We issue last minute flight tickets with the airlines flying to the Changi International Airport (SIN). No need to cancel or postpone your trip to Singapore for usually expensive last minute flights. We are committed to making your last minute travel cheaper with secret deals for Singapore flights from our airline partners. iEagle, one of the best online flight booking sites, strives to deliver on its promises to book cheap airline tickets for last minute flights from Rochester to Singapore, Singapore.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


text: "It is much more astonishing that not everybody remembers his or her previous death; and, because of this lack of remembering, most persons do not believe there was a previous death. But, likewise, they do not remember their recent birth - and yet they do not doubt that they were recently born. They forget that active memory is only a small part of our normal consciousness, and that our subconscious memory registers and preserves every past impression and experience which our waking mind fails to recall."


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Investors think VR and AR could be the next iPhone. And it’s hobbling the potential of both technologies.
If you’re hoping to create a product that changes the world, the iPhone seems like an obvious model for success. And in 2016, one of the most obvious new technologies on the cusp of a world-changing breakthrough is VR and AR. But there are plenty of reasons to think that the iPhone’s example is actually hurting VR and AR. Let me explain.
VR and AR are each exciting in their own right. Just imagine being able to travel from the bottom of the Mariana Trench to the top of Mount Everest in the span of a minute, or to see the real world overlaid with filters that bend it to your will. But more than that, these technologies potentially represent new interface paradigms—and interface paradigms are what change the world. Just look at the mouse or the iPhone.
But the iPhone’s success was unheralded for a different reason. For literally hundreds of years, innovations in technology have begun with the business world. The telephone was a business gadget before it was a household item; so too was the desktop computer. The iPhone broke that mold. It was a device that was launched first with consumers—and only afterward caused a trickle-down effect known by the snooze-worthy jargon of “the consumerization of IT.” But that trend was incredibly powerful. After all, it really was the iPad that inspired the CEO of GE to ask why the software that runs a jet engine wasn’t just as easy to use. That conversation happened in myriad different industries, from health care to manufacturing.
It was as if the normal laws of gravity had been turned off. Why putz around with wonky gadgets designed for industry when you could just go directly to consumers, garnering headlines and buzz? Perhaps the most famous victim of that thinking was Google Glass. Glass made sense as a surgical aid or a repairman’s futuristic how-to manual. But it never made sense as a gadget for your family—even if your family was exceptionally dorky.
In retrospect, the consumer-first strategy behind Glass seems clearly ridiculous. But the ridiculous part is that it’s happening yet again.
When you look at the $1 billion acquisition for Oculus, or a $750 million dollar investment in Magic Leap, you’re seeing bets based on the assumption that these gadgets won’t just be modestly successful when they arrive—they’ll be almost ubiquitous, as the iPhone was.
We don’t know how much Microsoft has spent on Hololens, but the very design of the gadget speaks to the expectation that it’ll be a product for the masses. It isn’t tethered to a big computer—it’s meant to be mobile. Its industrial design is also surprisingly slick and lust-worthy. But as well designed as it is, the fact that it’s not tethered means that it’s far too underpowered at present to deliver on the true promise of AR—the promise of having almost limitless data about everything within your gaze, or being able to look through the eyes of another person. Today, most AR and VR demos relegate these devices to the role of a very fancy display gadget for trade fairs, or a novel gaming device for very, very simple games.
There may never be another product like the iPhone, which changes the world in the span of just a few months.
“The investments in Oculus and others have been so big that these startups feel like they have to go first to consumers,” says Jake Barton, founder of the design firm Local Projects. “But I’ve seen startups make this mistake when they don’t find a niche first. Google Glass was a brilliant niche product, kiboshed because they tried to go big first.” VR also has its own version of this problem: creating a breakthrough piece of content that displays what VR should be is so expensive that early adopters simply can’t subsidize it. “With VR, there’s a lot of interest from the Hollywood players but the challenge is that until there’s enough eyeballs there’s not enough money to warrant making the Avatar of VR,” says Rob Girling, cofounder of the design firm Artefact, which is currently creating story editing tools for VR.
Of course, companies can invest their money however they choose—who cares if they lose billions of dollars on a pipe dream? But when Facebook, Google, and Microsoft all make the same bet that VR and AR will be consumer products in just a few years time, that bias becomes infectious. Investors start herding toward the same picture of success. Other startups begin remaking themselves in the same mold. An ideological monoculture takes over, and the also-rans–who dreamt of a much dorkier future for VR and AR–find it that much harder to survive.
Make no mistake, as cool as VR and its cousin AR might be, their most mind-expanding applications are inherently niche, inescapably wonky, and necessarily industry focused. But they are no less amazing. Imagine, for example, being a surgeon tasked with a tricky or unfamiliar procedure, and being able to don a headset that allows one of the best surgeons in the world to see through your eyes and guide you through each step. Or imagine being a mechanic, who’s now able to fix all kinds of machines that you’ve got no experience with—simply because you can easily tap into the experiences of others.
Both AR and VR suggest a world in which experts can lend their experience to anyone, anywhere they are—and that’s a world in which expertise is far more scalable than it has ever been before in history. We shouldn’t get too carried away, but the last great technology that made expertise instantly accessible was the freaking internet. “To me, where things get interesting is in the next generation of hospital monitor or flight simulator or factory manual,” agrees Nick de la Mare, cofounder of the design firm Big Tomorrow. But we don’t hear about these things, because they’re far harder to imagine as billion-dollar products that will appear in millions of hands almost overnight, as the iPhone did. They don’t earn TechCrunch headlines.
The last great technology that made expertise instantly accessible was the freaking internet.
Outstanding use cases for VR and AR are inherently easier to find in the humdrum reality of the working world, simply because the working world is so complex that there are many more problems to solve. You can find an analog to this dynamic in your own home. Think about how many hundreds of tools companies try to sell you, to do everything from coring an avocado to peeling an apple. All those tools exist because there are so many specialized problems that you deal with in the kitchen. But in the living room? The problems of consuming more media are so broad and already so well solved that it’s incredibly hard to get us to buy a device that promises to be just a little bit better.
VR and AR are faced with the same challenge. How good would they have to be, to be better than a TV or a phone at entertaining us? Pretty damn good, and very cheap. When it comes to VR and AR, the products that Sony and Oculus and the rest are all trying to sell us are going to be slow, halting, and straight-up disappointing—in large part because those companies won’t have had the benefit of hundreds of businesses investing in products that would never have a chance to be used at home—and then refining those limitations until they’re extinct.
By focusing on the consumer market, the tech giants investing in VR and AR are hobbling the ultimate potential of those technologies. By rushing to make them cheap and easy to use, they’re skipping over what those technologies could be if they were insanely expensive and horrible to operate. They’re trying to make them easy to use before we’ve even figured out why we’d want to use them at all. Once again, we need the working world to help that transition happen. And beyond being bad investments, rushing these technologies on to the consumer market too soon for there to be amazing applications runs the risk that consumers will become disenchanted—and harder to win over once the technology is finally ready for prime time.
There may never be another product like the iPhone, which changes the world in the span of just a few months. Moreover, there may never be another time that a big company can work on a world-changing gadget in secret and pull it off almost perfectly, while no one else was expecting it.
That’s fine. We all want to see the future. But it only ever arrives one day at a time, and the most exciting things typically happen at moments when no one cares to look.


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What we don’t normally realize, is that true success isn’t developed overnight, and looks can be deceiving.
We didn’t know that when they were first married, he worked 2 full time jobs and only slept for 4 hours a night for 3 whole years to make ends meet. We didn’t see the sacrifices made and all the hours worked without wages while they started up their own business. We didn’t see the long hours, the disappointments, and the uncertainties.
We didn’t know that he bought a beat up car straight out of high school and drove it for 10 years until his Dad died and left him an inheritance, with which he bought a new truck. We didn’t know that he would gladly trade the truck in for another 10 minutes with his Dad.
We only see what meets the eye, and we get jealous.
This reminds me of Joseph in Egypt after he had been put in power by Pharaoh.
I’m sure there were people all around him, wishing they were in his shoes.
But how quickly would that change if they realized that in order to get to that destination and position, they would have to spend 13 years in slavery, innocently imprisoned, and slandered? Would you be so eager to get into his shoes?
The hard-times, the disappointments, and the failures. Some stories are more public than others, but we all have them.
Lets make it our goal this week to pursue the success that God has for us, instead of wanting what others are experiencing. We’re likely to miss-out on what’s coming our way if we’re always rubber-necking.
When taken to the next step, it’s important to realize that we as Dads are also called to lead our children through life, equipping them with the values, skills, experiences, and attitudes necessary to navigate life until they come of age. Now, this is no easy task, but fortunately for us, we aren’t doing this alone. God’s word makes it crystal clear that He is ready, willing, and able to hand out wisdom all the time. It’s up to us to ask, the effort demanded on our part.
How awesome is it, that our God isn’t up in heaven thinking about how stupid we are when we don’t know what to do? Instead he’s right there, with his hand outstretched over us ready to give us all that we need.
I can’t tell you how many times Angela and I have asked God for wisdom in certain situations, and the number of times that the required wisdom has come at just the right time.
Everything from the best discipline techniques for each child, how to be fair in certain situations, and especially for more patience on my part.
Be encouraged this week! We don’t have to have all the answers for life, just for the problems of the day, and God is more than willing to give us these when we are obedient by first asking, and then listening.
So go ahead, ask Him how to handle the situations you are in, His arm is not shortened by our uncertainty, and He will never belittle us for asking for His help.
Have you ever had a time where God totally gave you an amazing answer for a problem you had? One that you never, ever would have thought of? Please share!


text: Designed to increase process efficiencies in scan-intensive operations, the LS4208 handheld bar code scanner speeds data capture by reading bar code information in one pass. It helps you increase productivity with a unique array of features not found in other available scanners, including an innovative multi-line rastering scan pattern, wide working range and superior motion tolerance. With the LS4208, novice and advanced users alike will be able to rapidly and accurately scan all types of one-dimensional (1D) bar codes, including damaged symbols or stacked reduced space symbology (RSS) bar codes. As your productivity increases, you’ll require fewer resources to capture more data in less time.


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The news was shared by games industry veteran Geoff Keighley on Twitter, who claims Epic hired West quietly to aid their game development efforts.
Epic Games has been flexing its financial muscle fueled by the wildly successful Fortnite battle royale game. West previously served as CTO of Infinity Ward before later founding Respawn with Vince Zampella after Activision fired the two. It also created the popular Gears of War franchise and the Unreal Tournament series. West left Zampella in charge of Respawn in 2013, and it was not made clear where his next work would be. Epic has put out titles in various degrees of early access for much of the past few years, but nothing's caught on the way Fortnite has.
This will be the first gaming project that Jason West will be a part of since his departure from Respawn Entertainment. However, there has been no confirmation from Epic Games regarding what kind of work West has been, and will be, doing for them.


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Norbert Ehrenfreund was born and raised in Peekskill, NY, the son of Jewish immigrant parents. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, Norbert distinguished himself in World War II as a Field Artillery Forward Observer in Patten’s army. He took part in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps and received a Bronze Star for valor during the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, Norb took a reporting job with the American military newspaper Stars and Stripes in Europe and was sent to cover the Nuremberg trials, an experience which would inspire his decision to move into the legal profession.
After receiving a master’s degree in political science from Columbia University, Norbert went on to Stanford Law School, where in 1960 he received the accolade of “Graduate most likely to bring honor to the profession.” He was with the San Diego District Attorney’s office until 1968 when he left to help found and act as chief trial attorney for Defenders Inc., a private nonprofit firm that provided counsel for the indigent and underserved.
Always interested in breaking the cycle of recidivism, Ehrenfreund tried unsuccessfully throughout his career to bring the very efficacious rehabilitation program Delancey Street Foundation to San Diego. In February of 2018 the San Diego County Board of Supervisors announced that they will be bringing in a center for addicts and ex-felons based on the Delancey Street model.
Always interested in furthering democratic justice, Ehrenfreund lead a demonstration of an American jury trial in Portugal, and helped craft the details of a new Albanian constitution. He was voted Trial Judge of the Year in 1983 by the San Diego Trial Lawyers Association, and in 2001 was given the Award of Judicial Excellence from the National Conference of State Trial Judges.
Throughout his career, Norbert also continued to act and write; he was a regular lead actor at the old Mission and Coronado Playhouses, and received a best actor Atlas award from the Old Globe Theater. He wrote several novels and short plays and published The Nuremberg Legacy (which studies the influence of the Nuremberg trials), as well as two entertainment books, You're the Jury and You Be the Judge, all of which have been used in law classes around the world.
Retiring from the Superior Court in 1995, Ehrenfreund remained active on the bench on assignment in Sacramento and San Diego for many more years. He also developed and toured a presentation on the Holocaust and taught classes on the Nuremburg trials at USD, Cal Western, and Thomas Jefferson law schools. Later he lectured and gave poetry readings in retirement and convalescent homes and volunteered serving meals at a homeless outreach kitchen. He never lost interest in the direction his profession was taking and was enthusiastic about the emerging support for restorative justice. In 2016, a 95 year-old Ehrenfreund was the first member of the judicial branch ever to attend a meeting of San Diego’s Reentry Roundtable, a group of various stakeholders in the criminal justice system interested in improving re-entry and reducing recidivism.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would have ‘difficulty’ taking advice from his intelligence chiefs after their Senate testimony earlier in the week countered his foreign policies views.
Today, a U.S. Treasury employee named Natalie Mayflower Sours-Edwards was arrested and charged with leaking to numerous reporters multiple financial reports about suspicious financial transactions related to: Paul Manafort, Richard Gates, Maria Butina, and others.
Comey’s rehabilitation on the left was inevitable once Trump turned on him and he turned on Trump, but I didn’t expect that rehab to be so total that it might now amount to de facto blasphemy among some of them to question Comey’s motives.
According to Foreign Policy, incoming National Security Adviser to the President, John Bolton, is planning a significant ‘clean house’ removing a significant number of people within the system.