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The more Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcasts I make, the more I learn about a subject which not only yields more and more, but also satisfies both the mind and the soul.
A lot of that is down to what these podcasts are: a chance to speak to practitoners about their work, compensating for a years of missed opportunities by now living vicariously through the life and experiences of artists.
Recent episodes including the Peter Donohoe interview or the podcast spotlighting the work of composer Dani Howard are good examples. This Podcast 34 does the job well too.
It’s largely about the Holy Week Festival at St Johns Smith Square in London (visit sjss.org.uk for more information about the festival which runs from 14-20 April.
This podcast features contributions from (in order of appearance) composer James MacMillan who celebrates his 60th birthday this year and Tenebrae conductor Nigel Short both of whom appear with other artists and ensembles at the festival.
The podcast also includes a cheeky bonus follow-up question I’ve wanted to ask Nigel Short for at least a year. He was game. It’s always rather lovely to nerd out from time to time I find. Be sure to listen out for the bass notes.
News of Verbier’s 2019 season reminds me of an important moment in time. A sort-of rite of passage. A coming of age. The moment in time when I discovered chamber music and when the Thoroughly Good Blog was legitimised.
It feels a little odd to be writing about a festival, the memory of which in some respects still leaves a mildly sour taste in the mouth.
For those not aware, those who have forgotten, or those who hadn’t put two and two together at the time, it was Verbier which prompted quite a lot of soul-searching and industry foot-stamping on my part last July.
For the backstory read this.
Festivals, artists and other creative endeavours want coverage. They want influencers to bang the drum (pun intended), but when it comes to thorny question of costs, a lot regard only the mainstream ‘press’ as legitimate editorial platforms.
It turned out to be a difficult issue to grapple with on my part. But I’m glad I did, because it helped me legitimise in my own mind what I was doing on the Thoroughly Good Blog and with the Podcast too.
Verbier marks a transition in this way. A sort-of rite of passage. A coming of age. A really glamorous ex-partner who a year later has got back in touch (via a third-party) with a new brochure, a new-looking logo and details of its newest season.
In some respects Verbier could programme a volunteer to read entries from an archive telephone directory and it would still feel like art.
Such is the power of the environs. Distractions are stripped away, attention is focussed. New musical discoveries can be made because proximity to the artists and immediacy of the art have been prioritised.
That’s largely because of its relative seclusion. It’s also to do with the clear air and the steep hills. Most importantly its to do with the meeting of artists. We as audience are not so much concert attendees as observers of art in creation. Art in laboratory conditions.
Verbier is where I finally acquired an appetite for chamber music.
It’s where I discovered Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor, witnessed clarinetist Martin Frost‘s circular breathing technique, marveled at the terrifying energy of Janine Jansen, and finally understood Beethoven’s late string quartets.
Intense performances in intimate surroundings (make a beeline for Verbier L’Eglise over the hangar-like Salle des Combins) that create deeply personal and lasting memories.
Evgeny Kissin in a programme of Beethoven works, and violinists Joshua Bell and Alexander Sitkovetsky.
The reappearance of Daniil Trifonov is also a must-listen. I count his performance of Lizst’s Transcendental Etudes as one of a handful of personally transformative experiences. Also, the premiere of Thomas Ades Three Berceuses for Viola and Piano.
I read the press information and see more British representation in the programme as a whole which might help the Festival gain international cut-through outside of France, Germany and Switzerland – something of an aim of theirs as I recall a few years back.
Know that if you want to attend, you’ll need a train journey to the bottom of the mountain and a cable car (or taxi) to get to your destination. And be sure to book early to get the best rates. A cool beer at the cafe in the centre of town is a must. So too a glass or rose in the mountains.
I don’t want to boast, but I do attend quite a lot of launch events. Some work, a lot don’t.
The well-thought out well-executed launch event achieves two important things: they sell the event and they provide a networking opportunity.
Such events foster a warm spirit and sense of anticipation for the product the press event is selling.
Attendees leave the event wanting to speak favourably about the pitch not because of the wine or the nibbles, but because of the spirit that exudes the event.
Case in point. Festival de musica Setubal‘s launch event yesterday.
Not heard of it before? Unsure of Setubal’s location? You’re not alone. That doesn’t really matter. Setubal is in Portugal. And given that the nine-year-old music festival brings international musicians and young people from the locality in community-focussed music-making, it’s perhaps not surprising it’s not on the radar of most classical music-related festival goers.
Artistic Director Ian Ritchie began his introduction in the EU Commission in London just as Geoffrey Cox stood up in nearby Parliament to offer his views on the ‘Joint Instrument’.
There was an irony to proceedings.
An invited crowd convened at Europe House – the EU’s London HQ in St Johns Smith Square – to hear British arts administrator Ian Ritchie introduce this year’s festival (23-27 May 2019). His presentation deftly illustrated how differently one European nation regards the value of music education, and the way in which participation can promote wellbeing in the community.
At the same time just 5 minutes walk away, enraged red-faced Leavers were screaming at similarly bedraggled-looking Remainers, one side demanding an immediate withdrawal from Europe, whilst the opposing side could be heard singing ‘Shove Brexit, shove it up your arse’ to the tune of ‘We Shall Not Be Moved’.
What makes Setubal’s offer compelling is the way events – a mixture of low-price and free admission – are built as active experiences for audience and participants alike.
The four-days of events bring international musicians, young Portuguese professionals, and composers together designed to inspire around 1500 young people in the Setubal area. Community ensembles and local schoolchildren participate in song-writing projects, drumming parades, and site-specific performances.
It’s difficult not to feel uplifted by the idea of professionals and young people sitting side-by-side in creative endeavours intended ostensibly for the community. A sort of four-day youth orchestra infused festival of musical loveliness that leads on social inclusion and celebrates music’s power in our everyday lives.
And at its heart, a two-day symposium exploring music, mental health and wellbeing featuring contributions from industry leaders, thinkers and influencers.
An altogether rich and authentic event in an unexpected location.
At least that’s my impression. That’s my hope. Because, as I mentioned to an education person during my third modest glass of red (at lunchtime), I can’t think of any funded arts festival in the UK that is built first around community engagement.
Tickets via the Festival de Música de Setúbal website.
Earlier this week I wrote about the criteria for writing up a press release. See here for a recap. Note: I’ve added additional criteria since the publication of that post.
Consequently it is incumbent on me to blog about very exciting news. Leeds Piano Competition winner Eric Lu who blew me away with his semi-final performance you may recall (see below if you don’t), is performing at LSO St Lukes in The London on 4th April.
And, in the interests of emphasising that I do consider the world outside of London, he’s also performing at The Venue, Leeds College of Music on 30th March. Both concerts are at 7.30pm.
I don’t normally get excited about artists; I’m usually more driven by programmes. But the prospect of hearing Lu again is the exception.
It’s a test. Did I imagine what I heard that night in Leeds? Did I just let emotion run away with me? Was I in fact drunk?
As it happens, I wasn’t drunk that night at the Piano Competition, nor at the competition final a few days later. But there’s still a level of interest around whether Lu’s playing can transport me in the way it did in September last year. There’s also the question of what impact the competition had on his playing. Will I detect something different given that the competition is no longer present in the mind of artist or audience? Or will there be greater pressure on the part of the artist to prove their win?
Aliya Alsafa, Jasper Heymann and Shuheng Zhang (the Young Scholars in the Lang Land International Music Foundation) also make their Leeds Piano Festival appearance.
Listen to the Leeds International Piano Competition Thoroughly Good Podcast on Audioboom or via Spotify.


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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Next Jan. 1, millions worldwide will be watching the televised 94th Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena, and the 199th Rose Bowl Parade with its celebratory floats. One of those floats, saluting the 2008 Chinese Olympics, has already stirred worldwide protests because of China's many human rights violations against its own people as well as China's large-scale financial partnership with Sudan, perpetrator of the continuing genocide in Darfur.
"The Olympics, which brings nations together, is the epitome of a global celebration  providing a worldwide spirit of cooperation, supporting athletes in peaceful competition." But there are no celebrations among the many victims of China's chronic cruelty.
The acutely controversial float is sponsored by the Pasadena-based Avery Dennison Corp., which, the Pasadena Weekly reports, "employs more than 10,000 people in factories it owns in China," making office and consumer products. Among the gathering critics of the Avery float are international human rights organizations Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch.
Sophie Richardson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asian Division, accurately points out: "The people who are organizing the parade should be fully aware that the Chinese government uses this kind of opportunity not for just promoting the Olympics, but for real political propaganda purposes. The float will certainly be construed as not just support of the Olympics, but for the Chinese government's staging of it."
The supporters of this particular float are very likely to claim that protests about China's complicity in human rights violations  including the ongoing genocide in Darfur  have become irrelevant by citing China's support of the unanimous July 31 Resolution by the U.N. Security Council. The resolution will purportedly send 26,000 U.N. and African troops and police into Darfur to begin to end the genocide.
But before that Security Council vote, China greatly undermined the resolution by stripping from the original language a clause pledging sanctions against the government of Sudan if it prevented the implementation of the resolution. Sudan's president, Gen. Omar al-Bashir, has broken every agreement he has signed to end the horrors that have cost the lives of more than 450,000 black Africans in Darfur. On that record, the genocide will continue.
This acclaimed but deeply flawed July 31 U.N. resolution also prevents the disarming of the al-Bashir's militia, the Janjaweed, responsible for most of the mass murders of the people in Darfur, and the huge numbers of gang rapes of Darfur's black women.
Because of lethal holes in this U.N. resolution, the growing international campaign to shame China, Sudan's largest investor and supplier of arms, into pressuring its genocidal partner to really end the atrocities there is continuing. On Jan. 1, the world will see the shaming on television and in international newspapers if the Avery Dennision Corp. floral float remains as a focus of the Rose Bowl Parade, billed as "The Passport to the World's Celebrations."
However, it is not too late for the Tournament of Roses Association and Pasadena city officials to clearly disassociate themselves from the float's propaganda value for China's dictatorship. In a letter to Tournament of Roses President C.L. Keedy, Robert Menard, secretary-general of the invaluable champion of international press freedoms, Reporters Without Borders, showed how the Tournament of Roses can greatly add to the campaign to disgrace China into pressuring Sudan to end the mass murder.
Menard urged Keedy and Pasadena officials to "say clearly to the Chinese authorities that you will not allow the Rose Parade to be associated with the Chinese Olympics by hosting the Avery float until the Chinese (Olympic Committee) organizers, who are for the most part also senior (Chinese government) officials, release prisoners of conscience, reform repressive laws and end censorship."
A similar letter, reports the Pasadena Weekly, has been sent to Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard. This public focusing on China as one of the pariahs among civilized nations will also put increased pressure on China  even if its Olympics float is not removed from the Rose Parade  to compel Sudan to stop the Darfur genocide so that China will no longer be identified with these atrocities, which British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told The New York Times is "the greatest humanitarian disaster the world faces today."

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I must concur with the last post....we stayed here for the convenience and location but BIG mistake,,,garbage disposals were overflowing that stunk. No one around to help. Left message with management but got no return calls. Annapolis is such a beautiful area but this marina does not share the same appeal.
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nice location. marina is not kept up. Poor facilities and bathhouse was filthy. Poor management. We only stayed one night and left. There are a lot of "liveaboard" boats that were loud throughout the night. KEEP LOOKING!
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$25,000 reward: Do you know the men who robbed a Dallas mailman?
DALLAS -- Do you recognize the two in this video? Probably not. But if you do, $25,000 in reward money could be yours!
Authorities are trying to find the two men who robbed a united states postal service mailman.
Here`s how investigators say it happened: Two men ran up to the the poor guy, one whipped out a gun while the other snatched mail and other belongings from the guy. Then ran off from a neighborhood in Oak Cliff, on Falls Drive.
Now, we`ve heard all about the package nabbers stealing boxes off porches. But, apparently that isn`t cutting it anymore and criminals are getting bold! It`s already a tough job delivering mail.
You see, because they are federal employees... if you rob one, you can get locked up for 10 years. And if you do it with a gun, 25 years!
Investigators say most people don`t take that big of a risk, but these two did. And if you don`t recognize their feet there`s a little bit more to go on.
Both are black men in their 20`s somewhere between 5`6 and 5`10. One of them has a cross tattooed under his right eye.
Do you know someone like that? $25,000 is on the line.
Robbery of a USPS employee is a violation under Title 18, United States Code, Section 2114, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Use of a dangerous weapon, such as a gun, increases the potential penalty to up to 25 years imprisonment.
Anyone with information regarding this attempted armed robbery should call 817-359-2814 or 1-877-876-2455 (select Postal Emergency). All information will be kept strictly confidential.
The USPS asked us to share the information in Spanish.
No tome ninuga medida para apprehender a estos sospechosos.

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It rains all night long, and it is still sprinkling at 6 am when we finally begin to stir. We pack up all that we can inside the tent and then head back to our dryish spot under the trees for breakfast. The tent is soaked! Once we are all packed up, we head down to the river to take a few shots of our lovely watering hole before hitting the trail to catch the train back to Durango. The train stops at Needleton on the way back to Durango at 3:55, so we take our time heading back down the trail trying to notice things that we might have missed when we were coming in the opposite direction.
First, it’s the river, and then we snap some more photos of the green hellebore leaves. They are even more photogenic with all of the water droplets from the rain on them, and they make good frame-filling subjects.
Next up is the wildflowers. There are so many different species growing right along the river, it’s hard to know when to stop.
It finally dawns on us that, at this rate, we are never going to make it back to Needleton in time to catch the train! So, reluctantly, we put the cameras away, pack up our bags and start heading down the trail.
Before too long, we run into the herd of goats again. They have invaded a large campsite and are wandering among the tents. They seem a bit more skittish today and keep their distance from us. They are kind to accept us humans in their home for these summer months.
The trail down is beautiful, and we notice more of it now that we are traveling with gravity on our side instead of fighting against it. We run into two forest rangers headed out on a 7-day backpack over Columbine Pass and eventually out Elk Creek—a trip that would be great to come back and do ourselves someday with a little more time to spare. The rangers are carrying a hand hoe and are repairing drainage ditches (rain bars) as they go. We tell them how much we appreciate their hard work to keep the trail well maintained for people like us and wish them a good journey before continuing on.
We keep stopping on the way down to admire the enormous purple and white columbines in bloom. Having met as Northwestern Wildcats, I guess we are predisposed to love the color purple!
We arrive at the Needleton Whistle Stop at 2:30 with plenty of time before the train arrives, so we take out all our wet gear and take advantage of the Colorado sun to dry it out. The tent is so wet that we set it up again so it will dry out quicker.
Of course, we don’t even think to stake it down, and, when a big breeze blows up and sends it rolling along the grass like a tumbleweed (no, we didn’t learn our lesson in Zion!), we panic. I go running after it, but it’s fast and rolling in random directions with the wind. Luckily, I catch it before it goes flying into the Animas River!
The incident reminds us of an interesting story that the volunteer forest ranger on the train told us on the way up to Needleton. The Animas River was named by two Franciscan explorers who were looking for a route to California. They lost several horses and men when crossing the river. Those lost souls were never given last rites, and the Rio de los Animos Perditos (River of Lost Souls) was named after them. We are thankful that we saved our tent from joining them!
The train arrives a little behind schedule, and we find our seats in a car closer to the engine than on the way up. Matt immediately makes his way to the Concession Car and buys two celebratory beers for the journey back to Durango. The train ambles it’s way back through the San Juan Forest traveling at its usual snail’s pace. It’s kind of surreal to move so slowly that you can notice things like butterflies flitting about and prairie dogs watching the train go by.
Since we are seated closer to the engine, we can really see the action of the engine “blow out” when the conductor lets off all of the accumulated steam in a massive exhale. All the trees and bushes within 50 feet on each side of the engine car twist and turn violently under the power of the hot air. They don’t seem any worse for the wear, but they must be awful tough to withstand that kind of treatment!
We enjoy our celebratory beer as we take in the Colorado landscape and savor the satisfaction of completing another backpack journey that has been on our list for some time. The train pulls back into the station in Durango in the late afternoon summer heat, and somehow everything seems different as we grab our bags off the boxcar and head back into town. Our trip into the Chicago Basin was short but sweet and definitely worth every minute.
We grab a quick bite to eat before jumping in the car to continue the drive to California. Next stop: Moab, Utah, and a quick visit to Arches National Park on our way to Yosemite to begin the John Muir Trail!
So so cool! What a beautiful place! I thoroughly enjoy reading the recaps of your summer. Can’t wait to read about the JMT!
Thanks, Jared! Colorado is just a treasure trove of great hiking, and we have barely scratched the surface. We definitely need to spend some more quality time in that state! JMT posts should be coming out soon. Stay tuned!
Gorgeous captures of the raindrops on leaves!
What a beautiful and dramatic location! I love the photographs of the wildflowers and the leaves and of course, the goats. Lucky you!! I might have missed it in another post, but why the reference to Chicago?
Those kinds of trains are oh so fun!
Thanks so much, Peta! The Chicago Basin is so beautiful. We were there at this exact same time last year, and we wish we could go back again for even longer. We are not sure how the Chicago Basin got its name, but there is a New York Basin, too. Someone must have had an affinity for the big cities. Thanks for stopping by!

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MAGIX Music Maker Movie Score Edition کامپیوتر شما را به یک استودیو مجازی آهنگسازی برای ساخت موسیقی فیلم تبدیل می کند. بدون داشتن هیچ گونه تجربه ای در زمینه آهنگسازی می تواندی یک استودیو مجازی داشته باشید و با استفاده از ابزارهای پیشرفته و همچنین طیف گسترده ای از صداها، لوپ ها و افکت هایی که این نرم افزار در اختیار شما قرار می دهد، موسیقی متن منحصربفرد و فوق العاده ای را با صرف کمترین هزینه و زمان ممکن ایجاد کنید. رابط کاربری این نرم افزار به گونه ایست که حتی به افراد مبتدی نیز اجازه می دهد که به راحتی آهنگ های مورد علاقه خود را ساخته و آن ها را تنظیم کنند. MAGIX Music Maker Movie Score Edition به کاربرانش اجازه می دهد تا انواع موسیقی هایی که در ذهن دارند -از صداهایی با وضوح و کیفیت بالا از کلاژ صدای آرام گرفته تا ملودی ارکستر پویا- را بدون هیچ محدودیتی و به صورت کاملاً خلاقانه ایجاد نموده و در نهایت آن را در فرمت های رایج مانند سی دی صوتی یا فایل mp3 ذخیره کنند و یا در شبکه های اجتماعی مجازی مانند Facebook و SoundCloud با دیگر کاربران به اشتراک بگذارند.
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The Russian Air Force has conducted more than 60 flights and bombed over 50 ISIS targets in three days, according to Russia’s top armed forces official.
EDITOR’S NOTE: On September 10, 2014, US President Barack Hussein Obama authorized airstrikes on ISIS in Syria. After a couple of photo-op bombing runs, they for all intents and purposes stopped or were so weak that they had little to no effect. Over the past 12 months, the strength of ISIS in Syria has increased exponentially. All that came to a crashing halt 3 days ago. Why? Because Russia began actual airstrikes designed to inflict actual damage on ISIS, and the net result has been spectacular. In the regions where Russia began bombing, there is no sign of any anti-aircraft or terror activity on the part of ISIS. This does more than make Obama simply “look bad”, it gives credence to the allegations that Obama has been protecting ISIS and allowing them to grow. Putin’s zeal makes America look lazy , apathetic and sympathetic to the cause of the Islamic State. Because we are.
Kartapolov added the strikes have significantly reduced the terrorists’ combat capabilities. “The airstrikes were being conducted night and day from the Khmeimim airbase and throughout the whole of Syria. In three days we managed to undermine the terrorists’ material-technical base and significantly reduce their combat potential,”Lieutenant General Andrey Kartapolov, head of the Main Operation Directorate of the General Staff of Russia’s armed forces, told reporters on Saturday.
He added that according to Russian intelligence the militants are fleeing the area that was in their control.
“There is panic and defection among them. About 600 mercenaries have left their positions and are trying to reach Europe,” he said.
Washington has notified the Russian Defense Ministry that there were only militants in the areas of Russia’s military operation against IS in Syria, he added. “The Americans informed us during contacts that there was no one except terrorists in this region,” he said.
No anti-aircraft activity has been registered within the Russian task force’s sector of interest in Syria.
“As you can see, a direct hit on the installation resulted in the detonation of explosives and multiple fires. It was completely demolished,” the spokesman said.
Another bomber on a sortie from Khmeimim has dropped a KAB-500 air bomb on an Islamic State camp near Maarrat al-Numan. It destroyed fortifications, ammunition, fuel and seven units of equipment, Konashenkov said at a media briefing on Saturday. KAB-500 bombs are accurate to within five meters.
Assault aircraft from at Khmeimim airbase have also inflicted airstrikes against terrorist forces near Jisr al-Shughur in Idlib province, destroying vehicle storage depots used for organizing terror attacks.
Regarding the airstrike on a target near Jisr al-Shughur, Igor Konashenkov pointed out, “footage of a huge pillar of smoke indicates a direct hit resulted in the total elimination of the facility.” Drones stationed at Khmeimim airbase are maintaining “round-the-clock monitoring of the situation in Islamic State’s operation areas,” Konashenkov said.
“All disclosed targets are promptly engaged, regardless of the weather or light conditions,” said the Defense Ministry’s spokesman.

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In March 2015, EUR/USD bears challenged the monthly demand level of 1.0570, which had been previously reached in August 1997. Later in April 2015, a strong bullish recovery was observed around the mentioned demand level. April’s monthly candlestick came as a bullish engulfing one. However, the next monthly candlesticks (September, October, and November) reflected a strong bearish rejection in the area around 1.1400.
December’s candlestick came as a bullish engulfing one, allowing the current bullish pullback to take place towards 1.1370. Previously, the price zone of 1.1350-1.1400 acted as a significant supply zone during the previous bullish pullback. Hence, another bearish rejection should be expected around the current price zone during the current bullish swing. On the other hand, the level of 0.9450 will remain a long-term bearish target in case the current monthly candlestick closes below the depicted monthly demand level of 1.0570.
In November 2015, daily persistence below the level of 1.0800 (prominent key level) ensured enough bearish momentum towards 1.0550 (monthly demand level) where the most recent bullish swing was initiated. During the last few weeks, a consolidation range between 1.1000 and 1.0800 was established on the daily chart. On February 3, a bullish breakout was executed above this consolidation range.
That is why a quick bullish movement took place towards the zone of 1.1350-1.1400 where previous daily bottoms and the backside of the broken uptrend were depicted on the daily chart. On February 12, a strong bearish engulfing daily candlestick was expressed near the mentioned supply zone.
Hence, a quick bearish decline towards 1.1000 was executed. A temporary bearish breakdown below 1.1000 (upper limit of the broken range) was seen on the daily chart. A quick bearish decline was expected towards 1.0820 where the most recent bullish swing was initiated.
Trading Recommendation: A valid SELL entry can be offered around the current supply zone of 1.1350-1.1400. T/P levels should be placed at 1.1200 and 1.1070. S/L should be placed above 1.1460.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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As one of a small number of attorneys selected to Super Lawyers, Phil Abernethy gained this recognition through professional achievement, peer recognition, and other distinguishing criteria.
He graduated from The University of Mississippi School of Law in 1978. He was subsequently admitted to legal practice in after passing the bar exam.


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Mass Effect 3 multiplayer expansion to come in form of DLC?
Just yesterday, in-between rants of cursing BioWare for essentially forcing me to play the game’s multiplayer in order to get the “best” single-player ending, I asked, “Why does Mass Effect 3 still not have a PvP multiplayer component?” The community and fan interest are unquestionably there, and the question as to whether or not BioWare could implement the power wheel successfully into a fast-paced multiplayer has been firmly answered. While my inquiry has yet to be addressed directly (Casey Hudson – answer my Tweets, dammit!), we may in fact be one step closer from the looks of this leaked image that a user was able to snap while playing Mass Effect 3‘s co-op mode.
The above image, which was taken by an anonymous gamer and uploaded to his Facebook was naturally picked up by Reddit and began to make its way around the Internet.
The screenshot appears to show a multiplayer unlock-pack featuring a bunch of new multiplayer classes including the addition of the Geth and Batarian races. New character types added in the pack include a Geth Engineer, Geth Infiltrator, Batarian Soldier, Batarian Sentinel, Krogan Battlemaster and Asari Justicar.
The gamer noted that the unlocked pack was “test DLC” that was to be released to the masses in the near future. Once he had unlocked the pack, the DLC became available from the ME3 multiplayer store.
While this doesn’t confirm anything other than the already-plausible fact that BioWare was planning on expanding the multiplayer component of Mass Effect 3, it does give us a glimmer of hope that a PvP element is perhaps in the works. Would BioWare put all of this work and dedication solely into trying to make a more expansive co-op mode? Let’s hope not. We want to shoot each other and/or see who among us is the best biotic!

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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The Park is open 365 days of the year, from 5am to 9pm (subject to seasonal change). Tickets can be purchased at the National Park entry station. Entry fee is $25, valid for three consecutive days.
Hours are subject to seasonal change.
Free guided walks run daily from the Mala carpark to the base of Uluru. Guided along a shaded track, the Rangers tell the story of the Mala (rufous hare wallaby) people, and describe the history and traditions associated with Uluru, including traditional and contemporary Anangu life and culture, rock art and the management of the park.
Uluru Hop On Hop Off offers a scheduled transfer service to and from Ayers Rock Resort and the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and picks up from all Hotels and the Campground and drops off at the Cultural Centre, sunrise and sunset look-outs and Kata Tjuta and Uluru walks. Hiring a car is also a great option if you’re looking to experience the Red Centre at your own pace. All guided tours provide pick-up and drop-off to your hotel or campground. Another great thing about joining a guided tour is that you’ll also learn more about the history, culture and landscape thanks to an expert guide.
You will receive a map and information on the walks at Uluru and Kata Tjuta with your National Park entry ticket. Visit the Park Information Desk at the Cultural Centre for up to date information and suggestions on making the most out of your visit. Information Desk open daily 8am-5 pm.
The most popular walk is the Uluru Base Walk which allows you to fully appreciate the natural and cultural beauty of Uluru. Start and finish from the Mala carpark, this walk is a 10.6 km loop and takes approx. 3.5 hrs.
Download the Uluru- Kata Tjuta National Park visitor guides and maps, available in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
The National Park is a World Heritage area, please ensure that you stay on marked paths, take notice of signs and not take rocks or soil as souvenirs.
Help protect this place for future generations.


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Peyton Blackmer is going to participate in the upcoming 14/48 High School Festival. 14/48:HS is “an instant theater festival produced, managed, and created entirely by high-school students,” according to the festival’s website. The night before the festival she will only have twelve hours (8pm to 8am) to write a short play that will be performed only hours after she has submitted it. And she’s ready for the challenge.
Before being accepted to write for 14/48:HS, Peyton had some prior experience with SAAS’s own version of the festival during Spring Days last year. When asked about the experience, she said, “It was really interesting because everything I had done up to that point was more along the lines of poetry instead of scripts.” Peyton was exciting to spend time thinking about characters and writing within the time constraints of the project.
Peyton has gone to multiple open mics and especially liked one called Youth Speaks Seattle. She was nervous about it until she walked through the door and was embraced by such a welcoming environment. She loves Youth Speaks because of the overwhelming support and all of the different perspectives she was able to hear.
Her favorite piece of writing is the poem that she wrote for the junior class poetry reading last year, which was a very cathartic experience for her.
Peyton finds inspiration for her writing in the little things she sees and hears around her. One idea she’s had on her mind lately is “How much does a color weigh?” She asked this question when having a conversation about race in her English class.
In the future, Peyton hopes to keep writing and going to open mics and to someday become a published author.
The 14/48 High School Festival opens at North Seattle Community College on October 8th, at 7:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. only.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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After a SOLD OUT event in 2010, you'll want make sure to save the date for the 16th Annual Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, September 14-16, 2011 in Chicago, IL and register early.
This year, our keynote speaker is so exciting, we are keeping it a secret!
Do you think you know who will be speaking? If you guess the keynote correctly, you will be entered in a raffle to win an iPad!
Want to know what else is new in 2011?


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Dimensional scanners are machines that scan, identify and calculate detailed shipment characteristic information based on an individual shipment’s weight and measurements. They give carriers the ability to obtain real time information on a shipment such as its density with minimal effort and cost, which affords carriers the opportunity to closely monitor shipment characteristic changes. By using these machines, carriers can easily identify cumbersome and costly freight. They also give carriers a better understanding of what’s moving through their networks, which allows them to formulate better pricing models more closely aligned to service costs.
Like random security checks at airports, to verify shipment accuracy carriers perform random weight and inspections on shipments. When performed, these inspections require additional handling beyond the norm, which is an added cost of service to a carrier. These inspections are necessary, however, because in addition to accurate weights and measurements, they help carriers verify proper commodity classifications. In the past, carriers have relied heavily on a shipper’s word along with random weight and inspections for ensuring that shipment information is accurate and up to date. These dimensional scanning machines reduce the amount of time and cost necessary for performing inspections and are allowing the carriers to check more shipments than ever for accuracy with minimal investment.
In general, dimensional (volume) weight is calculated by dividing the cubic measurement of a shipment by a predetermined factor (number). Historically speaking, LTL freight has been priced based on mileage, weight and commodity class. The different freight classes that presently comprise the NMFC classification system are already based partly on the density of the commodity. Rather than pricing shipments according to several characteristics, dimensional scanning machines are also somewhat symbolic of the shift to a more granular pricing approach being taken by carriers, which focuses on capacity utilization and detailed, customer specific pricing based largely on one characteristic: shipment density (dimensional weight).

industry_corpus2: Transportation


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The second-seeded Phoenix ousted seventh-seeded Georgia Southern 4-0 on Friday at Jimmy Powell Tennis Center.
The host Phoenix (20-3) will take on third-seeded Furman at 10 a.m. today in the semifinals.
The quarterfinals began with singles matches because of the threat of inclement weather. Doubles weren�t needed.
Bryn Khoury won at No. 3 singles, topping Mary Phillips Smith 6-0, 6-1. Then came Frida Jansaker�s 6-1, 6-1 victory against Jordana Klein at No. 2.
Viviana Stravreva topped Stephanie Woods 6-3, 6-2 at No. 3 before Barbora Lazarova�s 6-2, 6-3 victory against Natalie Maffett at No. 5 clinched the team outcome.
Georgia Southern ended up 10-11.
Furman edged sixth-seeded Chattanooga 4-3 in the quarterfinals.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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This BPEC Gas Safety training course is for candidates looking to complete/renew their CCN1 initial assessment. The course includes gas pipework, gas supply, combustion, appliance gas safety devices and controls, ventilation requirements, emergency procedures and the Gas Safety (Installation & Use) Regulations 1998.
Assessments take the form of practical assessment and multiple choice question papers.
ACS Gas Certificates are valid for 5 years, on expiry candidates can undertake a re-assessment within 6 months of their certificate expiry date..
Gas Safety (Installation & Use) Regulations 1998.

industry_corpus2: Petrochemicals


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“It’s been the same offseason for me, but the final few weeks were strange knowing I didn’t have to pack up my stuff,” said Luongo, who was traded from Florida to Vancouver in 2006 before being re-acquired by the Panthers in March.
Luongo became a star in Vancouver, his image plastered throughout British Columbia and western Canada.
Vancouver was one of the NHL’s top teams during Luongo’s seven full seasons there. The Canucks twice won the Presidents’ Trophy for most points in a season.
The Canucks struggled in the postseason, however, and the clock on Luongo leaving Vancouver started not long after the Canucks lost the final two games of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals to Boston.
Vancouver’s undisputed starter — Luongo won 193 of 327 games from 2006 to ’11 — became embroiled in a goalie controversy, first with Cory Schneider (traded to New Jersey before the 2013-14 season) and then with Eddie Lack.
Coach John Tortorella, fired after just one season in Vancouver, got the trade winds going by starting Lack over Luongo in the Heritage Classic on March 2.
Luongo’s agent was told he could start shopping his client, and he quickly called the Panthers.
Three days later, Luongo was headed back to Florida.
On Friday, Luongo started his first training camp with the Panthers since 2005.
Much has changed since he left, from the front office to his teammates and even the training facility in Coral Springs.
Although he isn’t playing for one of the league’s premier teams anymore, Luongo said his will to win is stronger than ever. Luongo has never played in a playoff game with the Panthers, and he wants to change that.
“He’s a world-class goalie who wanted to be here,” Florida goalie coach Robb Tallas said.
One big reason the Panthers are looked at as a potential playoff team this season is because they have Luongo in net.
Now 35, Luongo is still considered to be one of the top goalies in the league, playing on what has been one of the league’s lowest-scoring teams.
If the Panthers are to make it back to the playoffs for the first time since 2012, Luongo, the franchise’s leader in games played by a goalie, wins, saves and shutouts, will have to lead the way.
▪ The Panthers practice Sunday at the Coral Springs IceDen from 10 a.m. to 11:15a.m., and they will scrimmage from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.


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Bay . Beachwood . Beaumont . Bedford . Benedictine . Berea . Brecksville-Broadview Heights . Brooklyn . Brush . Chagrin Falls . Cleveland Central Catholic . Cleveland Heights . Cleveland School Of The Arts . Collinwood . Cuyahoga Hts . Design Lab @ Jane Addams . East Technical . Euclid . Fairview . Fuchs Mizrachiof Cleveland . Garfield Heights . Garrett Morgan Schl Of Science . Gilmour Academy . Ginn Academy . Glenville . Hathaway Brown . Health Careers Center . Holy Name . Independence . James Ford Rhodes . Jane Addams Business Careers . John Adams . John F Kennedy . John Hay Early College . John Hay School of Architecture & Design . John Hay Science & Medicine . John Marshall . Lakewood . Laurel . Lincoln-West . Lutheran East . Lutheran West . Magnificat . Maple Heights . Martin Luther King Jr . Max S Hayes . Mayfield . MC^2 STEM . Midpark . Montessori HS at University Circle . Mosdos Ohr Hatorah . New Technology @East Tech . New Technology @Garrett Morgan . Normandy . North Olmsted . North Royalton . Olmsted Falls . Orange . Padua Franciscan . Parma . Richmond Heights . Rocky River . Shaker Heights . Shaw . Solon . St Edward . St Ignatius . St Joseph Academy . St Martin De Porres . St Peter Chanel . Strongsville . SuccessTech Academy . Trinity . University . Valley Forge . Villa Angela-St Joseph . Warrensville Heights . Washington Park . Westlake . Whitney Young .
Explanation: The above table can be confusing. As an example, Holy Name is ranked number 160 in Ohio in its overall Performance Index Score, but it performed better than it did in its overall score. Note that all subjects with rankings in blue italics performed better than the other subjects. The 10th grade teachers of those subjects (and those teachers in earlier grades) should be commended. To improve the overall rankings, the non-italicized subjects need to improve. This table is only based on the results for the 2013-2014 school year. More than one year of analysis should be used when evaluating teachers and programs, and in many cases, another year is provided above for most schools.


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MIAMI — Alex Rodriguez flashed his turnover chain, Jennifer Lopez waved a pompom while dancing in her seat most of the night and 63,000 of their closest friends roared from start to finish.
The Hokies came in with the nation’s No. 2 scoring defence, giving up a mere 11.5 points per game. They were outgained 429-299 by a Miami team looking to make a statement.
Virginia Tech: Jackson got hurt when Jonathan Garvin knocked the ball out of his grasp midway through the fourth, and stayed in the game after getting checked out on the sideline. … The Hokies were 39-3 since 1996 when intercepting at least three passes, and were 4-0 against Miami when having that many.
Miami: The Hurricanes set the tone early when they threw six passes on their first drive — and Rosier was the intended receiver on two passes, a trick-filled start. … Miami had seven passes for more than 15 yards, and six runs of more than 10 yards. … Rosier is now 9-0 as a starter.


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The rain has been falling steadily since early this morning, leaving a gray, cold, heavy feeling in the air. I feel it in my spirit as well – the heaviness pressing down on places of pain. As I listen to what my body is telling me, I am aware of a need for warmth and comfort. I began my day wrapped in a warm blanket, holding a steaming cup of coffee, reviewing my plan to make soup, bake bread and write this post. What felt like an agenda before has now become a necessary act of nurture and comfort.
Suffering brings with it an inherent need for comfort: arms to wrap around, shoulders to lean against, eyes to see and speak love. When loving presence is combined with a steaming bowl of soup, Campbell’s would have us believe all is right with the world.
My love for soup began early in our marriage, after moving across the country from Michigan to California, which felt like a foreign land to this conservative, quiet, Midwest girl. Chris and I were invited to dinner with some other teachers from the school where I was teaching, and I was hopeful for an opportunity to perhaps belong somewhere. My fellow teachers at the small private school had been welcoming and kind, something sorely needed for my lonely heart that was far away from any family or friends. Our hostess carried out a large pumpkin and removed the top to reveal a Chicken Curry Soup, complete with scrapings of soft roasted pumpkin. Everything in me warmed and relaxed as I sat taking it all in.
Soup didn’t speak the same way to Chris, at least not at first. Perhaps it was his childhood memory of cheap, canned vegetable soup at his babysitter’s house, which he tried in vain to conceal in a napkin and flush down the toilet, only to be discovered and punished. Whatever the reason, he was sorely disappointed that night to learn soup was not only the first course; it was the only course! It was one of many experiences that took us both out of the sheltered culture we’d been raised in and forced us to embrace a much bigger, more complex and colorful view of the world and of ourselves.
Our time in California was the beginning of a season in our lives that would bring many moves. Each move brought with it the slow process of building new relationships and the tearing away of the same when we would move again. I often sought comfort in a place I could connect my heart and my body and all it was feeling – my kitchen. Whether creating a soothing meal for my family, welcoming those around our table who were also away from home, or bringing meals to others in need, I found peace in creating warm, nourishing food.
There is something about soup that ministers to grief, sickness, discouragement, exhaustion or loneliness like nothing else. I have gathered a collection of recipes over the years that are paired in my memory with people and places: Corn Chowder, Creamy Chicken and Wild Rice, Tomato Basil, Broccoli Cheese, Vegetarian Chili, Butternut Bisque, Chicken Noodle, Spicy Black Bean, Italian Bread and Zuppa di Farro.
Today my heart bears the weight of suffering – my own and others. I listened to stories full of tragedy and pain in Journey groups all day Saturday. Over the weekend I felt again the silence in our house with both of our sons gone at college. I received news from a friend who’s just been diagnosed with cancer. My tears flow and my heart aches and I reach out for comfort. Today’s assignment is perfectly timed kindness for my soul.
Cook wild rice in water with a little bouillon added for flavor, drain any leftover liquid and set aside. (1/2 c. Uncooked with 11/2 c. Liquid) In a separate pan, place chicken breasts in just enough water to cover, simmer until tender. Sauté chopped vegetables with olive oil in large, heavy stockpot. When tender, add butter, salt and pepper, and flour. Cook a couple minutes, until the flour/butter mixture turns light brown. Slowly whisk in chicken broth until mixture is smooth and free of lumps. Stir constantly until mixture returns to a boil, boil for a couple minutes until mixture is thickened. Add milk and/or cream, reduce heat to simmer, stirring often. (Do not boil once milk is added.) Remove chicken breasts from broth, shred with fork. Add chicken and cooked rice to soup, heat gently. Season with poultry seasoning or sage, additional salt and pepper to taste.
* I used a mixture of part half and half, part non-fat milk. The cream gives it a creamier consistency, but also adds calories and fat, so it’s easy to adjust with milk depending on your taste. You may also add more milk at the end if you desire a thinner consistency.
Janet, your words are so timely and soothing. My spirit has been lifted in the past by your “soup to feed my soul”. The beauty and hope you offer comes as you invite us in to your personal struggles with such honesty. I’m looking for God hugs today as I struggle through this second surgery and ponder all the “why questions” swirling around me. I think it’s a good day to make Janet’s chicken soup to soothe my heart and my swollen abdomen.
Lovely recipe, certainly soul warming and life affirming! Thank you.
Thank you for such a kind and heart warming entry. I will be weaving this into my life in the days ahead.
Making this today. So timely. Thank you Janet.
Just made bread myself. Your soup soon. You are an old fashion homemaker, Janet. Bread and Soup are becoming a lost art in our hurry up generation. Nothing like smelling the bread and soup. When the family walks in tonight…they will know Mom has been busy preparing for them.
Such kindness and comfort offered from the warmth of your heart! Can’t wait to try this recipe! Thank you.
Janet, I so enjoy hearing from you and want to thank you again for sharing your love of soup with us as we grieved Paul’s mom’s death. Thank you Jesus.


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At least the Nationwide is a mutual with a decent reputation but I am bitterly disappointed that the Government did not do more to keep the Dunfermline Building Society an independent Scottish mutual especially as the Government is partly responsible for its difficulties.
One hundred and thirty years of trusted mutual tradition in Scotland doesn't seem to be valued enough by the Treasury.
My concern now turns to jobs, branches and the HQ.
If the Government was to force the sale of the Dunfermline Building Society it would be a betrayel of 130 years of mutual borrowing and saving tradition - and of the hundreds of people who work for the society.
The Government has contributed to the difficulties at the society, through the 7.2m pounds compensation levy and excessive capital requirements, and therefore must accept some responsibility to save it.
There is an offer on the table from the UK's building societies which would inject finance into the society so keeping mutual and independent.
This is Gordon Brown's building society. He should step in.
A solution to the problems at Dunfermline Building Society should involve a partnership between the mutual sector and the Government. And it must involve keeping the Society as an independent Scottish mutual.
It would be unacceptable for the society to be merged with another society, to be taken over by the government or to to be sold off to a private buyer. It's important that we do everything to defend Scotland's biggest mutual.
I can't believe that the Government thinks its argument against an immediate inquiry into the Iraq war has a shred of credibility. It's two years since the USA undertook their Baker-Hamilton inquiry and a year since our Prime Minister promised one - in the future.
I've just left the debate on the subject in the Chamber. The Foreign Secretary praised our brave and professional troops but then proceeded to inform the House that they would be distracted by an inquiry. Indeed they are professional and wouldn't be so easily distracted.
Something to hide? I think so.
The mutual building societies have always been seen as safe and sometime boring institutions. Yet the government and its regulator seem intent on treating them the same as the more risky banks.
For example, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme is a finance industry scheme to compensate customers in the event of an institution becoming insolvent.
Because of the difficulties at the London Scottish, Bradford and Bingley and the Icelandic banks – all banks – the mutual building societies have been required to stump up £millions. Dunfermline Building Society’s share is £7.2m. This is not an insignificant sum especially during the current economic crisis and it has contributed to the difficulties at the Society.
Why should the Dunfermline be paying for someone else’s difficulties when they’ve got plenty of their own to deal with?
It’s perplexing that one of Scotland’s most trusted financial institutions is the subject of extensive reports about it's future. It’s clear that the Dunfermline Building Society is having difficulties but the Society is refusing to or can’t say what the extent of it is. My objective is to keep the Society as an independent Scottish mutual. I met with the Scotland Office Minister today and Ming Campbell and I are planning more meetings next week.
“Paying through our nose to lose our freedoms” was the line of our Scottish conference in Perth. Tavish, of course, was referring to the introduction of the government’s ID card scheme which is a waste of money especially during a recession. His ‘up and at ‘em’ approach to politics was in abundance during his first leader’s speech to the main conference.
We had a buoyant weekend as we celebrated our coming of age. Twenty years since the merger it’s hard to believe how far we have come. It was great to hear from Bob Maclennan, our joint party leader in ’88, who made well composed speech spiced with the regal and passionate.
But we also celebrated Vince Cable’s stunning performance throughout the recession. Vince has an incredible ability, in his measured style, to encapsulate the issue in a single phrase. Referring to RBS and Scottish independence he said it would be like a bank with a country attached such were the relative sizes of the two.
All in all a good effort which will set us up well for George Lyon’s Euro Election in June.
Yesterday I joined Ann Cryer, MP for Keighley and Ilkley, in calling for a a reduction in the charges imposed on building societies by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Because of the failure of Northern Rock and other high risk banks, the scheme has increased its charges to cover the cost of their failure. But because building societies, like the Dunfermline Building Society, have a lot of savers they have been charged a disproportionate fee. The scheme puts far too much weight on the value of the deposits than on the risk nature of the organisation.
My mother and father, who are in their seventies, receive a discount on their insurance because they are deemed safe drivers and those who are deemed a higher risk, those who have frequent accidents, have to pay higher premiums. It's about time this sensible logic was applied to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
Why has it taken fifteen months for the MOD to decide that the Nimrod aircraft are not safe to fly after all? The Defence Secretary in December 07 announced the findings of the RAF board of inquiry but allowed the Nimrod to continue to fly.
In fact why has it taken two and a half years since the crash which cost the lives of fourteen servicemen for that to be determined?
These aircraft were unsafe to fly with aviation fuel washing over a hot pipe but because of the pressure to support the troops on the ground with air surveillance the planes were flown.
It's about time the MOD realised that they should not turn the can-do ethos of the armed forces into make-do.
Turn in or look out?
Turnout in European elections has been traditionally very low but with the five yearly polls only three months away this time they have an added significance on two fronts.
Firstly, people are angry about Labour’s recession. They’re likely to take this opportunity to send a message to my constituent about this mess. With Vince Cable providing sound leadership on economic issues I would suspect that many will choose us as a vehicle to send that message.
Secondly, there is a strategic decision to be made about the future direction of the nation. While the country is in recession do we turn in or look out to seek solutions? The Tories and SNP are clearly on the isolationist side of the debate and whilst outward looking Labour have preferred to blame other countries rather than work with them.
I usually love elections but June 4th I suspect I will especially enjoy.
Even though it has been a rocky road from within weeks of his elevation, my constituent (that's code for the PM) has shown this week why he's on his way out of office.
The Labour Party, him included, have been devoting considerable effort to the punishment of bankers, especially Sir Fred Goodwin. They’re right as their poor judgement has partly led to this economic crisis - and his pension is an insult. Yet many have rightly detected that the comrades' actions were diversionary in nature to avoid the spotlight being shone on the contributory role of my constituent.
However, the spotlight has shifted and it is shining directly into the eyes of my constituent. Yet unlike Sir Fred he's not even said sorry. He stumbled, looked left, then right and snatched a t an apology over the 10p tax rate fiasco - something which has nothing to do with the economic crisis.
I'm not sure why my constituent believes it is right to blame the rest of the world for all the problems on his doorstep but refuse to accept any responsibility himself. He used to boast that he was leader of the fourth largest economy with great influence and power yet now we learn he is the victim of a global bully.
If only he had listened to Vince.


text: Myosin light chain kinases (MLCK) are the most studied of the calmodulin-activated enzymes; however, minimal sequence information is available for the smooth muscle form of the enzyme. The production of an antibody against the enzyme and the use of expression vectors for constructing cDNA libraries have facilitated the isolation of a cDNA for this kinase. The derived amino sequence was found to contain a region of high homology (54%) to the rabbit skeletal muscle enzyme and also very significant homology (35%) to the catalytic subunit of phosphorylase b kinase and cGMP-dependent protein kinase. All of these homologies were found in the known catalytic domains of these enzyme, thus enabling us to predict the location of the catalytic domain for the chicken gizzard myosin light chain kinase. Within the catalytic domain a consensus sequence for an ATP-binding site was located. Subcloning and expression of different regions of the cDNA defined a 192 base pair fragment coding for the calmodulin-binding domain of MLCK. Both of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase phosphorylation sites were identified by sequence homology. A linear model for MLCK is presented placing the various domains in relative position. Northern blot analysis and S1 protection and mapping experiments have revealed that the mRNA for MLCK is 5.5 kilobases in length, but there also exists a second mRNA of 2.7 kilobases that shares a high degree of homology with about 520 base pairs at the 3' end of the cDNA for MLCK.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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All references to figures, tables, and boxes are boldfaced and in color, for easy differentiation from the body of the text. Nabokov's son Dmitri, who recounts this tale in the afterword to this book, is also a synesthete—further illustrating how synesthesia runs in families. Although most synesthetes acquire their unusual sensory perception in middle childhood and keep it for a lifetime, there are some rare cases in which people may lose or gain synesthesia at puberty. The book is well structured, and filled with examples and testimonials from individuals with various forms of synesthesia. Synesthetes rarely talk about their peculiarsensory gift--believing either that everyone else senses the world exactly as they do, or that noone else does. S93 C964 2009 Preceded by Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia is a 2009 book written by and documenting the current scientific understanding of , a perceptual condition where an experience of one such as sight causes an automatic and involuntary experience in another sense such as hearing. The authors describe the landscape of associations in the brain as being similar to a mountainous landscape, in which only some of the peaks break through the cloud cover of consciousness.
Could this be the basis of increased creativity, intelligence, or madness? I definitely think that people should take more interest in Neuroscience because it does pertain to who they are. In Touch With The Future explores the science of touch, bringing together the latest findings from cognitive neuroscience about the processing of tactile information in humans. As a design student, I was interested in the condition and how it affects the perception of the mind in terms of associations, accumulative experience and metaphors. Cytowic and Eagleman are leading synesthesia researchers. No merecuriosity, synesthesia is a window on the mind and brain, highlighting the amazing differences inthe way people see the world.
Definitely the most comprehensive book on synesthesia that I've read thus far. The book as an epilogue by Navokok's son Dimitri, who, like his father, is also a synaesthete. In this book, they present a detailed description of synesthesia, providing a catalog of synesthesia experiences and an overview of current theories of how these experiences come about. The authors present theories as to why. Synesthetes rarely talk about their peculiar sensory gift—believing either that everyone else senses the world exactly as they do, or that no one else does. He is currently a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law.
Description: viii, 309 pages : illustrations chiefly color , music ; 23 cm Contents: What color is Tuesday? A synesthete might hear a voice and at the same time see it as a color or shape, taste its distinctive flavor, or feel it as a physical touch. Reality, they point out, is more subjective than most people realize. Moreover, there is evidence that synaesthetic experiences not only activate brain areas typically involved in processing sensory input of the concurrent modality; synaesthesia seems to cause a structural reorganisation of the brain. Today scientists in fifteen countries are exploring synesthesia and how it is changing the traditional view of how the brain works. The skin protects our body from the external world and, at the same time, informs us about what occurs on its surface.
And, it really does feel like that. Cytowic and Eagleman argue that perception is already multisensory, though for most of us its multiple dimensions exist beyond the reach of consciousness. When they discover that is not the case, they often switch extremes, believing that nobody experiences what they experience. This collection features essays written by Boyd since completing the biography, incorporating material he gleaned from his research as well as new discoveries and formulations. Sound like an acid trip? Such variances in intensity of the experience lead to the question: how much synesthesia is normal? The first chapter of the book explains difficulties with establishing an accurate prevalence of synesthesia. Yet synesthesia occurs in one in twenty people, and is even more common among artists. Today scientists in fifteen countries are exploring synesthesia and how it is changing the traditional view of how the brain works.
Despite this unfortunate fact, Cytowic and Eagleman are well-versed in the field and introduce the reader to synesthesia, its various forms, experimental results, and the current state of exploration. Attempts to train non-synaesthetes with synaesthetic associations have been successful in mimicking certain behavioural aspects and posthypnotic induction of synaesthetic experiences in non-synaesthetes has even led to the according phenomenological reports. Yet critical thinking skills are also honed as the reader is alerted to the many widely held myths about the neuroscience of behavior and educated about facts that sound unlikely to the uninformed. Not a disorder but a neurological trait—like perfect pitch—synesthesia creates vividly felt cross-sensory couplings. It also goes into detail about very interesting topics. References include both the well-known e. Cytowic and Eagleman argue that perception is already multisensory, though for most of us its multiple dimensions exist beyond the reach of consciousness.
The book begins with an anecdote to convey the view of synesthesia from the inside perspective and open the reader's mind. I sometimes wonder if my mother's reaction was because she herself was - and had never spoken about it. This title brings together a broad body of knowledge about this condition into one definitive state-of-the-art handbook. Because there were not enough points on chicken served at a dinner almost two decades ago, Cytowic came to explore a deeper reality that he believes exists in all individuals, but usually below the surface of awareness. Nevertheless, it remains a fascinating book for anyone who's ever wondered how their perception of the world lines up with everyone else's. Denn das Gehirn spielt uns fortwährend Streiche: Es versetzt uns in Angstzustände, als verfolge uns der Säbelzahntiger, quält uns an Bord eines Schiffes mit Übelkeit oder entwirft ein völlig überzogenes Bild von uns selbst. It's still unclear how much of the population is synesthetic.
Cytowic explains that synesthesia's most frequent manifestation is seeing days of the week as colored, followed by sensing letters, numerals, and punctuation marks in different hues even when printed in black. Contributors examine the extent to which the senses act in concert, rather than as discrete modalities, and whether this influence is epistemically pernicious, neutral, or beneficial. Besides informing us about the cognitive mechanisms of synaesthesia, synaesthesia research is relevant for more general questions, for example about consciousness such as the binding problem, about crossmodal correspondences and about how individual differences in perceiving and experiencing the world develop. For a neuroscience book, and one that is discussing an issue, not widely addressed as Synesthesia, this book might be a good start. Further, they claim that, if this were the case, the cross-connections of synesthesia may be present in all brains, but contained below the level of consciousness. These sensory phenomena are in addition to the normal senses.
Synesthetes rarely talk about their peculiar sensory gift -- believing either that everyone else senses the world exactly as they do, or that no one else does. I didn't find the first part of the book, in which the various kinds of synthestic experiences are described in detail, particularly engaging, but others, especially those who experience synesthesia themselves may be reassured in finding that synesthesia is indeed a recognized and normal part of the human experience for many people. The trait of crossed senses is now seen as important to understanding how brains perceive. You'd never guess it was written by two people. Sharing his personal reflections, Boyd recounts the adventures, hardships, and revelations of researching Nabokov's biography and his unusual finds in the archives, including materials still awaiting publication.
I found the book very interesting and informative. This is an intriguing book about synesthesia and the different patterns people with synesthesia see, hear or feel. It was way more scientific-y than I usually prefer, and took a while to get through because of that, but it basically explains so many things about my life. In Touch With The Future explores the science of touch, bringing together the latest findings from cognitive neuroscience about the processing of tactile information in humans. Individuals that have synesthesia have always had synesthesia, and generally assume that everyone else perceives the world in the same way, much as nonsynesthetes do. Sharing his personal reflections, Boyd recounts the adventures, hardships, and revelations of researching Nabokov's biography and his unusual finds in the archives, including materials still awaiting publication.


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text: Abstract: Italy is currently implementing a Capacity Remuneration Mechanism (CRM) in a power sector that is paradoxically characterised, at least for the time being, by a significant overcapacity. This article aims at building a critical review of the Italian CRM design. It first presents the Italian context, explaining how the discussion started more than a decade ago and how it evolved since then. Then, it provides an in-depth description and critical analysis of the mechanism under proposal, based on its main design elements, keeping always as a reference the guidelines issued by the European Commission on CRMs. Many valuable lessons can be extracted from the Italian experience to shed light on other similar processes currently under development.

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Paul Hawken has dedicated his life to changing the relationship between business and the environment. He has written numerous articles on the topic for Orion, and his books include The Ecology of Commerce, Natural Capitalism, and Blessed Unrest, which catalogued the worldwide grassroots movement for social and environmental change. His newest work, called Project Drawdown, is a book, digital platform, and basis for curricula that identifies the 100 most important and achievable solutions to the climate crisis, from mass transit and micro-grids to the education of girls and the restoration of wetlands.
Project Drawdown describes how 100 different efforts, employed globally and together, could solve climate change. How did you go about crafting the list?
We went looking for the 100 most substantive solutions that currently exist, initiatives that are in place and have robust science, data, and research behind them. We’ve shied away from general terms like “organic farming” and “renewable energy,” because you cannot measure generalities. Instead, we’ve tried to get specific: the list includes particular strategies, like multi-strata agroforestry, telepresence, and co-generation, for example.
Does anything about the list surprise you?
We’re surprised by how underrepresented land-use solutions are in the climate conversation, and by how significant they are when you do the math. Photosynthesis and the miracle of stomata are often overshadowed by an emphasis on Promethean energy solutions. Our analysis is still in the works, so I can only guesstimate at this point, but I would say 40 percent of our list’s top twenty solutions involve land use and food.
What does the term “drawdown” refer to?
Drawdown refers to that time when CO2 in the atmosphere goes down on a year-to-year basis. Drawing down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is the only way to ensure the continuation of civilization on this planet. There are three trillion trees and several quadrillion plants out there, and they are our allies. As we nurture, protect, feed, and honor them, we regenerate life on Earth and reduce our collection of greenhouse gases. We need other solutions as well—solar, wind, electric transport, net zero buildings, and so on—but without plants and trees, we cannot achieve drawdown.
You’ve worked for decades at the intersection of business and the environment. What role can the private sector play in enacting some of the solutions on your list?
I’d argue that, in 2015, business is the creator and destroyer on planet Earth—it’s our Vishnu and Shiva. And one by one, it is dawning on companies that climate disruption is not just another sustainability issue. It’s a survival issue. We’re working with one company that has changed its mission to reflect the fact that they’re now in the business of reversing climate change. They’re the first I know of to do this. But it’s what our situation calls for; any goal short of it doesn’t make sense.
Why build this list in the first place? What do you hope to do that’s not been done before?
Well—this sounds almost loony—but a list of this kind has never been made before. It’s incredible: We have known about climate change for decades, but, until now, no one has compiled a list of the fifty, seventy-five, or one hundred most substantive, extant solutions to the problem.
Three years ago, Bill McKibben wrote a great piece in Rolling Stone called “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math.” It was based on the work of a researcher in London who calculated that, if human civilization is to survive, most of the oil, gas, and coal companies’ carbon assets are simply unburnable. We’re trying to put forward a hopeful rejoinder to this idea—we’re describing the “brilliant new math” of climate solutions. And the reason we’re doing it is because no one has done it before.
Paul Hawken is the featured speaker at the Quivira Coalition’s annual conference, The Next Wave: Cultivating Abundance in New Mexico, from November 11 to 13. Tickets to the evening event that features him on November 11 are available here.
Learn more about Project Drawdown at www.drawdown.org.
The first 100 most important solutions to climate change are all the same: STOP HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH. Until the human population shrinks … SIGNIFICANTLY SHRINKS … no solution will have a lasting influence to reverse climate change.
It’s saddening, and interesting, that during our most pugnacious presidential season that climate change get’s short-changed. The crisis of the moment takes center stage…it seems we need ‘sustainable’ attention.
Our brains seemingly are not rigged to hold on to long-term, complex challenges–at least not collectively.
The New York Times put out an article calked ” The Tope Ten Things You Can Do for Climate Change,” at the time of the Paris talks. Missing was anything related to population reduction. When people wrote in questioning this , their respolnse was, of course, population is key, but it’s too controversial. As with climate draw down lists, it is up to us to make it a prominent, everywhere conversation because it IS the number one issue that, without which, a climbing population will increase landscapes like Syria where no plants remain to help us.


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There's a bit of a funny story about how I came to have a copy of this book. I had first learned about this book because my partner Tobie had supported the Kickstarter project for the game based on the book - Machine of Death: The Game of Creative Assassination. We've been playing the game every now and then during our game nights and that got me looking into the book. But just as I was about to buy the book, I realized that I had already acquired a copy - ironically through another Kickstarter project by one of the editors of the book.I just hadn't read it yet. And after a bit more digging, he realized that he had a copy of the book as well. Life's funny that way.
So here we are with my review for Machine of Death - the book. And I have to admit, I wasn't expecting all that much at first from this crowdsourced collection of short stories about a world where your cause of death may be known. But instead, I was pretty much hooked on the darn thing and I tried to read as much of it as I could whenever I had free time. And a lot of these stories required a fair amount of thinking afterward, thus sprinting through the entire collection just isn't quite ideal.
As humorous as the core premise of the book is, the resulting stories are far more interesting and downright thought-provoking.
Synopsis: Machine of Death is a collection of short stories edited by Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics), Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki (Wondermark). The core premise of the book began as one of North's webcomic strips that eventually led to the trio soliciting stories from the internet at large given the titular premise.
The Machine of Death is a fictional device that is somehow able to extrapolate how a person is going to die. It will not explain when this is going to happen nor will it go into detail as to how the death will happen. Instead it spits out a small card with a few words that describe the death - anything as basic as CANCER or perhaps even OLD AGE. But the twist is that the predictions can be interpreted in any number of ways. For a person whose prediction says BUS, does this mean he'll be hit by a bus? Will he die as a passenger on a bus? Or will he trip on a toy bus and fall down the stairs? The machine is deliberately vague, but it's also never, ever wrong.
The collection features 34 stories by a wide variety of authors that all try to tackle the question of how life would change if people knew how they were going to die. The stories range from the seemingly silly like a high school girl trying to figure out what social clique she might fit in based on her death prediction to more epic stories that try to tackle the very nature of the machine itself. Are our lives so predetermined that a machine can figure out how we'll meet our eventual demise or does the act of reading that prediction card trap us in some self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts?
And the stories that were selected for this collection are pretty amazing in different ways. Things start out fairly light and often humorous, but then things start to push the limits and raise bigger and bigger questions, the sort of questions we explore with the best science fiction stories. If cause of death is potentially known, how are doctors supposed to treat patients who appear to be doomed to die once their condition is assessed in the ER? Would people use their predictions as a reason to live life to the fullest or will they become frozen in fear of dying? The questions go on and on.
It's almost inevitable that the stories eventually touch on a lot of topics related to free will, predetermined fate and perhaps even how much of our "modern" society is patterned after not knowing something like our cause of death. But best of it, the stores focus on the human perspective, how the individual tries to cope with the grim reality of pretty much living with death as a companion the moment you get yourself tested by that machine.
Machine of Death is a rich reading experience that is more than worth whatever you end up paying for it given it was also released under a Creative Commons license. This is over 450 pages of well thought out science fiction and speculative writing that will make you think about a lot more than how you're going to die. And this is why I'm confident enough to give this collection a full 5 comically ironic deaths predicted by the Machine out of a possible 5.

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Alayah Cardenas Dining Room Furniture, 2018-07-23 15:33:02. The most important piece of furniture in a dining room is the dining table. The dinning table is to be selected keeping the dimensions of the dinning room in mind, how big you want the table, and the design you would like to go for. Dining tables are available in a variety of sizes and finishes. You can get all that you want; right from the designs and styles to different price ranges. But it is on you to decide on your priorities and be clear on what will go well with the space your dining room offers.
Sofia Hensley Dining Room Furniture, 2018-07-21 11:18:06. Though the dining room furniture is an individual choice, it is good to always remember that it is the most likely place that you will have your guest for dinner. One of the most preferred dinning furniture set is the contemporary designs. As you will see they blend well with a wide variety of interior decor creating am ambience of tranquility that is very smart. On the other hand, this style is not good for everyone but it is a good way to start for a new dinning room.
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What is Drospy and How Can I Identify It?
Dropsy is not a disease that is confined to Bettas. It’s not even confined to fish. In humans it is generally referred to as Edema. In fish, dropsy is the swelling up of the body due to retention of excess fluids. There are several reasons for this with the most common, and only treatable, being a bacterial infection. Other known causes are liver or kidney failure.
Dropsy in Bettas can be identified by the rounding of the abdomen and other areas of the fish. The scales will begin to stick out and look like a pine cone. The fish will become lethargic, refuse to eat and may lose some of its color. Fish with dropsy often have signs of other diseases as well because of the immune system’s inability to combat the bacterial infection that is present.
Why Did My Fish Get Drospy?
There are two major causes of dropsy. One is poor water quality and the other is introduction from an outside source. If you have recently added plants, fish or new decorations to your tank the dropsy causing bacteria may have hitched a ride in on one of them. If this is the case, there was really little that could be done about that. If, however, you have poor water quality, then the bacteria that was already present in the tank has been able to overcome the fish’s defenses because it has been fighting off other water-related problems. Check your ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels as well as the pH of your tank. If any of these are out of whack, then they need to be fixed as soon as possible.
How Do I Treat Dropsy?
Immediate treatment is required for fish with dropsy. The best treatment for Betta fish is to move them to a quarantine tank (unless they are already living alone) and treat them with Chloromycetin or tetracycline. These antibiotics have been proven effective against the particular bacteria that attack the fish’s kidneys. The treatment is best administered by adding 25g per fish to each feeding. Other treatments include using methyl blue and Epsom salt baths. The methyl blue and salt mixture should be added at 1/8 of a teaspoon per five gallons of water while also raising the temperature of the water to around 86 degrees.
Although there is a chance that dropsy in betta fish can be contagious, it is more a disease related to tank conditions than the individual strain of bacteria. Still it is important to quarantine the fish immediately and begin treatment because the original tank is part of the cause of the disease. The original tank should also undergo cursory treatment so that the fish housed there are protected from the dropsy bacteria. Dropsy in Betta fish has a high fatality rate because once the symptoms are recognized there may have already been significant internal damage. To avoid this, it is important to check your fish everyday and be especially careful to notice any changes in behavior that may indicate that something is wrong.

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A Colorful Life is all about living life to its fullest! Packed with 18 papers and 77 whimsy elements it's good for both boys and girls.
Contents: 12 patterned/brushed papers, 6 solid papers, 4 different type arrows, spilled beads, whimsy swallow, 3 artsy borders, 2 brads, 3 pretty colorful butterflies, 3 painted buttons, smiley, artsy cloud, date tag, dominoe, a lot of different paper, felt and chipboard flowers, 2 frames, different hearts, painted leaf, 6 different artsy overlays and splatters, page border, ribbons, scribbles, speech bouble, stars, stitches, string, tapes, 1 vintage brad and a lot of artsy word art, labels and word strips.
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A public camera obscura on Margate Pier, England. Postcard detail.
The Camera Obscura Project brings together an international group of artists and other researchers interested in cameras obscura, related optical phenomenon and the meeting places of: art and science, cultural and wilderness settings, learning and play. With funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada the Project is based at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, B.C.


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Kout Food Group is a leading organization that is engaged in providing various hospitality services including establishing, managing, and operating international, regional and own created restaurant franchise concepts, with all its related activities as well as food preparation, representing international companies working in the foodstuff business.
Kout Food Group operates in Kuwait, UK and Iraq managing a large amount of restaurants.
Martin gained extensive experience in the Food and Beverage and catering industry, where he was managing a large catering operation in North Africa. He was later on appointed as a consultant for trade and investment for the Government of Malta’s trade and investment agency - Malta Enterprise. His role was to attract businesses to Malta and assist Maltese businesses set up their base overseas. He was also representing a large Italian Group of Companies where he was instrumental in assisting them entering the Polish Market with their airport restaurant concepts.
Martin obtained his degree in Business Management from the University of Malta and is currently reading an MBA (Henley) UK.

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