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Singer Kelsea Ballerini attends The 59th GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on February 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Kelsea Ballerini is proof that you can be an absolutely massive superstar but still live in what is essentially the world’s tiniest tiny house on wheels. The singer-songwriter, best known for her hit "Peter Pan" and new single "Yeah Boy," was nominated for best new artist in the all-genre category at the 2017 Grammy Awards. Immediately after the awards show February 12, Ballerini is heading out on the road with fellow country star Thomas Rhett for 16 tour stops, and calling her bus home. While she winds her way from Michigan to Tennessee, we couldn’t help but wonder, what’s it like to eat healthy, squeeze in a workout, lock in a solid eight hours of snoozing, and get glam on a cramped tour bus with only about 400 square feet of living space? Here’s what Ballerini told us: You get used to it. All of it. The sleeping, the eating, the exercising. The bus life just comes with the job, and it’s nice work if you can get it, Ballerini thinks. “There are usually three people—my tour manager, my assistant, and me—traveling on my bus, sometimes more, and that’s much different than my first tour. On that one, we had 12 people,” Ballerini tells SELF. “My first artist bus was Jason Aldean’s old bus, with deer antlers over the lights and cowhide on the back of the couches. It was such an absolute dude bus. The one I’m in now is more of a girl bus, so I have a bedroom in the back and the right lighting over the mirror, which makes getting ready for shows so much easier,” she says. Ballerini doesn’t demand much in her tour rider. There’s no rock star clause forbidding yellow M&Ms. “All I want is hummus for some reason. It’s a comfort thing. I have to have it. There’s always like seven containers in my fridge. I eat it all the time with veggies or pita chips,” she says. While the galley kitchen on board may be smaller than studio-apartment small, Ballerini says that having a little stovetop and a full-size fridge makes all the difference for her now. “It took a while to learn to eat healthy on road. It’s really hard. Really, really hard. But on the bus, I can use the stovetop in the morning to make a veggie scramble. And have lots and lots and lots of coffee. I try to have protein for dinner so I have energy for the show,” she says. Lately, Ballerini has enlisted the help of Vibe Chefs, which specializes in custom-prepped tour food. “They make me gluten-free protein bars, a couple kale salads, and a few healthy pastas so I can get my carbs after a show instead of having a burger,” says. The meals are all microwavable, and she credits them with helping her stay on track. She also makes sure her bus fridge is stocked with LaCroix. And if she’s driving past a Whole Foods, Ballerini says she will always make a pit stop. “I love their California Chicken Salad with grapes. I’ll get a big tub of that and pita chips, plus a kombucha, and just go to town. That’s my favorite thing,” she says. Getting to sleep is a struggle for so many women, and that’s when the bed is staying put. So what’s it like when the bed is rolling down the interstate at 65 mph? “On the first tour, when I was on the road with Rascal Flatts, there were 12 of us in bunks stacked three high on each side. And I was on the bottom bunk. So I could feel the tires right underneath me. You get used to it, though, and the hum of the bus always helped me crash out. I think the rock of the bus actually helps me sleep now,” she says. Bus bunks are smaller than 3 feet by 7 feet, with a sliding privacy curtain. But the back room Ballerini has now has a bed that’s closer to full size, and a much better fit for all 5 feet 8 inches of the lanky country star. She says that timing is everything when it comes to peaceful, easy nights. “I don’t ever try to get to sleep right away, because when you walk offstage, you’re kind of full of adrenaline. We do most of our hanging after the show. You’re just trying to come down off that stage high." Ballerini adds, "But I am really aware of my sleep, because if I don’t get enough, I’m not at my best. So I’m not scared of a good nap now and then,” she admits. “If I have a two-hour chunk of downtime during the day, you better believe I’m napping.” The front lounge of a bus might have enough room for a few Sun Salutations, but not much else. So how does Ballerini get by without a proper workout setting like she has when she’s back in Nashville? A trainer will come with her and Thomas Rhett on the upcoming tour, but the show Ballerini puts on is probably a better workout than most people get at home. The vastness of an arena stage tends to make up for the cramped space inside the bus. “I try to exercise when I’m on road—I really do try—but I also try not to push myself too hard. I just try to move,” Ballerini says. And she makes up for it when she’s off the road. The trainers she works with design workouts for her; she uses #strongisthenewskinny and #nomorechickenlegs hashtags on her Instagram posts. When your dreams come true, you are more than willing to deal with mini-struggles along the way. “There’s this misconception out there that at any level of celebrity, you have someone to do hair and makeup when you’re out touring. But no. It is just not the case. I do it all myself,” Ballerini tells SELF. She keeps things very organized, and that helps when it comes to prepping for a hang with fans or the show itself. “The little counter has little drawers under it, so I have all my face and eye makeup in one and my lip and sparkle stuff in another one. When it’s time to get ready, I shut the door, crank music, and just do one thing at a time. When I’m doing my hair, I lay the curling iron in the sink—the water’s off, obviously—and that way it doesn’t fall off the small counter,” she says. Buses aren’t nearly spacious enough to accommodate walk-in closets, girl caves, wardrobe rooms, or color-coded shoe shelves like her new Nashville townhome is. But Ballerini does have one closet on board big enough for her stage clothes. “My wardrobe for the concert is in the bus closet, and then I pack my regular clothes and meet-and-greet outfits separately, and I kind of live out of suitcases,” she added. And there’s always the junk bunk—the one no one sleeps in—for a little extra storage space. Ballerini was nominated for best new artist along with the Chainsmokers, Anderson. Paak, Maren Morris, and winner Chance the Rapper. Not bad for the 23-year-old who was shut down during her first trip to Music City. Ballerini arrived in Nashville at 14 ready to sign with a label and be a star until an industry big shot told her, "Don't you know there's already a Taylor Swift?" The tough life lesson she learned that day—don’t be a voice that's already a voice—has stayed with her through the years, and through her first three number-one songs. The objective of this study was to improve the vehicular emissions inventory for the light- and heavy-duty fleet in the metropolitan area of São Paulo (MASP), Brazil. To that end, we measured vehicle… (More) Degradation of volatile organic compounds in the gas phase by heterogeneous photocatalysis with titanium dioxide/ultraviolet light. Several technologies have been developed in the last years to treat effluents. Among these, special attention has been given to Advanced Oxidative Processes (AOP). 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Be sure to get details if you are looking for independent living - you really need to understand what type of facility they are licensed to be and what they can and cannot do (they can't help you up if you fall, so they say, for example). The facility is beautiful, apartments are lovely, and most of the staff members are great - but administrators seem to have a lack of understanding of resident desires (listening only to a few "special" residents who do not speak for all). The follow up on resident concerns is generally "we will look into it" - with no follow-up. They use the HIPAA law as an excuse for many issues they don't want to address, and don't seem to really understand what that law covers. The food is so-so and the chef refuses to listen to concerns of the residents (to provide healthier, fresh alternative) - being told that the only diets of concern are for assisted living residents. There are also a lot of family relationships within the staff and administrators - so if you do have concerns about a staff member, the supervisor may be related to him/her and they protect one another. Thank you for taking the time to review New Perspective Howard and for commending our safe, clean environment and great staff. We offer three basic types of senior living - independent, assisted, and memory care. It is very important for all seniors to understand what type of services are available for each type of care level, as state regulations often dictate what we can and cannot do in most instances. We are also required by the federal government, under the HIPAA law, to ensure all of our resident's healthcare information is protected. Since the personal and business implications are very significant if we do not comply with these regulations I hope you understand why we often err on the side non-disclosure. While we do offer a variety of forums and committees for residents to share their suggestions and concerns, we obviously have not afforded you the opportunity to adequately share your concerns. We will be using your comments as a learning opportunity to see where improvements in our process are necessary. New Perspective was a very good facility and one that I would be happy to place my mom. I am having some issues with her corrent place that I need to resolve. If I did not have these issues, I would probably be working to move my mother in here. The rooms at NP are very nice, and I liked how they did their nursing, they tried to keep residents busy and engaged, they have a pool for rehab therapy which is nice, they have a skilled nurse on at all times. [name removed] did a nice job of answering all my questions. This property is right on the edge of a forest area around some woods and some trees. They have a newly paved walkway for residents to walk around if they wanted to. The cleanliness of the place is very good. My loved one has someone come in to her apartment every Sunday to clean her apartment. There are also some activities that are offered like bingo, sewing, and art stuff. Once in a while they have an interactive game, like the board game Clue, where it’s a mystery deal and between everyone they have to solve who did what. The food seem to be just fine, they have different meal options daily. Like every Friday would be a fish meal. Overall, I would recommend this location to other families. Hi there, thank you for taking the time to leave a review for us at New Perspective Senior Living | Howard. We're happy we could meet your expectations! njoyed your experience here at New Perspective Senior Living | Howard! Thank you again for letting our team know how we did! Take care! Beautiful, top of the line Senior Living. Unfortunately, the cost was out of reach for my parents and if they could afford it, the location was not optimal. [Removed] was very helpful in finding a place for my aunt!! She checked in with us often to see how everything was going and even after we got our Aunt settled in!! I would definitely recommend this to everyone looking for a place for a loved one!! Hward. Thank you, and have a fantastic day! Mom seems to be doing fine since she moved here. She is making friends and enjoying the activities and social events they might have planned. The staff is nice very kind but as of today, they are in transition of a maintenance person the regular one is out and the temporary one is doing the best he can. I've been told my mom the food is very good. ward. The facility is beautiful, and has many whiz bang features, like a pool, and underground parking for the residents. It feels like a really big operation, not as personal as we were looking for, and very pricey. We felt like we were in a time-share sales pitch. Hi, thank you for your review; we are happy to pass along your comments to the team here at New Perspective Senior Living | Howard. Thank you again for taking the time to let us know how we did. We hope you have a great day! I really liked this community. We did like the staff and it seemed like the residents were active. They had a lot to offer. They have nice activities for the residents. They offer a good menu. We liked the clean environment. We would recommend this community for good care and the atmosphere. Things are going really great so far! The staff are just wonderful and they take great care of me! There are plenty of activities to join and people to meet; they definitely keep you busy here! Everything is going just fine, I'm really liking it here! Gorgeous! Felt like we were in a nice hotel. Large rooms, excellent use of space, open and cosy at same time. We took a tour of New Perspectives and immediately decided it was the place for my elderly mother-in-law. It is the most beautiful place, truly like a Five-star hotel. It is not full yet (only open less than a year) so she could move right in, unlike all the other places that had waiting lists. But even better is the WONDERFUL staff, from management on down. They quickly became like family and bent over backwards to meet my MIL's needs even as she became very ill and had to transfer to the high level care wing. Highly recommend New Perspective!! Hw Perspective Senior Living | Howard. If there's anything further we can do for you, we are happy to help! I have lived here for almost four months and absolutely love it! Everyone working here has been great. They always have a listening ear for whatever you need or don't quite understand. The facility is beautiful, the meals are very good. The chef is great and takes an interest in the needs of those he is cooking for! I look forward to enjoying New Perspective In the coming years and look forward to meeting more new residents. They will love it, too! We're so glad that we were able to go above and beyond your expectations! Thank you again for taking the time to let us know how we did. We hope you have a great day! This facility was just beautiful! Our primary concern, however, was the price of the facility. We also found that the facility seemed a little empty, almost like a ghost town. In the end, we did not end up choosing this facility for my loved one for these reasons. I spent the day at New Perspective Senior Living and absolutely loved it! I swam in the 92 degree water pool and used the water weights. The massage was absolutely the best. I had lunch and unbelievable the extent of the lunch menu. I had Chicken Cesar Salad and it was one of the best. The portion was right on and not too much like in a restaurant. The wait staff was prompt and really polite. Spent some time in the beautiful library. The rooms are absolutely gorgeous. I would have no problem staying in this beautiful environment. You have to see it to believe it. Also, there wasn't one employee that wasn't really friendly and accommodating with whatever I needed. I highly recommend! I had the pleasure of visiting New Perspective on Saturday. I first took a quick dip in the oh so warm pool. After my leisurely swim I took a shower in the locker room and even spun my suit dry with the spinner. What a nice addition. My next treat was a delicious lunch. I felt as though I was in a five star restaurant. The personnel were so kind and accommodating. I , then took a tour of the facility. It is beautiful and clean and they have everything anyone would ever want or need. A big applaud to the Executive director and all the personnel for making New Perspective, Howard Wisconsin a beautiful place. Thanks for the feedback, we strive to provide excellent service at New Perspective Senior Living | Howard. Wishing you a great day until the next time we meet. New Perspectives has wonderful caregivers for the residents. When we first moved in it was a hard transition for our family, after our adjustment we have grown to appreciate all the staff for the care provided. Everyone was so pleasant and kind to us all. I would have liked to have seen a contact list made of pertinent phone numbers when we moved in. They promise the moon to get you to sign the dotted line but will fall way short of your expectations. Most of the workers (not all) put on a fake front. I have watched them not walk 10' to make any effort to involve a resident in an activity. It is so sad. During a tornado warning there was one person on to help three floors get to safety which was a total disaster, they had residents going to two different locations and not what they advised the residents to do. The food is all most always cold and not good and you will be lucky if you actually get what the menu says. The sandwiches and salads in the bistro might be 3 days old so be sure to check the date. They cancel the activities and not tell anyone or better yet the activity might be flying a kite...wow. The workers are loud and there is no respect for quiet time and the walls and floor have no insulation. The only thing this place has going for it is the beautiful building. Expect to pay a premium for everything and do not expect good care for your loved ones. If your loved one has allergies don't bother to let them know because I personally witnessed the kitchen say "she should know what she can and can't have." I could go on and on with items that I have personally witnessed...I do not recommend this place. Beautiful building, but even more impressive staff...they went out of their way to make my mother-in-law feel welcome and at home! Can't beat the community areas - I love spending time at happy hour with her!!! Our experience with New Perspective Senior Living has been a very positive one! The people are friendly, and the place is clean and nice looking. I would definitely recommend them! Lknow where I want to go when I sell my house ?? Lesn't accept VA funds yet.I know where I want to go when I sell my house 😃 Thank you for your kind words, we hope you'll come back and live with us. Until we meet again, enjoy the day. New Perspective Senior Living - Howard, WI

Sebastian’s new temp is far from perfect. Part of him wants to fire the agency for wasting his time and send Colette and her sassy smile packing. The other part of him has very different ideas of what do with her. But is there more to her than her smart mouth, tight skirt, and high heels? Harry and Gabrielle get together for one night of passion, but what will happen when it’s time for them to part? Caleb normally goes for elegant, sophisticated women, and then he meets Roxie with her ripped tights and black spiky hair. She’s totally wrong for him. So why does it feel so right? Elen meets Kane while drowning her sorrows over a breakup in a bar. She has no intention of seeing him again, but guess who’s the new employee at Hearktech? What would you do if your friends said they’d donate two-hundred dollars to a kids’ charity if you went on a date with your best mate? Billie is determined not to fall for Jonah Sharpe. The lusty firefighter might rescue kittens from trees and children from burning buildings, but Billie would rather date anyone in New Zealand than this outrageous flirt, especially after her last relationship ended so badly. Her friends have other ideas, though, so she agrees to go on one date. But one turns into two and then into three, and even though she’s said she won’t sleep with him, Jonah isn’t giving up. A month later, and he wants to take her for a weekend away in the snowy hills of Wellington, and Billie’s finally ready to hand over her heart.

Job 23:8-10 (HCSB) 8 If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot perceive Him. 9 When He is at work to the north, I cannot see Him; when He turns south, I cannot find Him. 10 Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold. One of the metaphors that the Bible says about life is that it is a test. God continually tests people’s character, faith obedience, love, integrity, and loyalty. Character is both developed and revealed by testing. And the truth of the matter is – All of Life is a Test. You are always being tested. God is constantly watching how you respond to people, problems, success, conflict, illness, disappointment and even the weather. What I would like to do this morning is look at several ways God’s people have been tested. For you see trials can be: Trials and tribulation can be a test of patience. The Lord has a timing for fulfilling His plans and purposes. Often His plans take much longer than we expect. In the meantime we go through severe trials and tribulations and they seem to last forever. These seasons are tests of our patience. Are we willing to wait for God’s timing? Listen to what the scripture says in James chapter 1. “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trial, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But Job’s life was a test of patience. In fact the Bible says in book of James, “Remember the patience of Job.” Trials can be a test of our faith. Do we believe in God even in the midst of pain and suffering? Do we believe in the promises of God even when everything looks impossible? Do we trust in God even if He does not deliver us? Do we trust in God even when we do not understand His ways and working in our lives? Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego were tested and showed their faith. Daniel 3:16-18 (HCSB) 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we don’t need to give you an answer to this question. 17 If the God we serve exists, then He can rescue ues not rescue us, we want you as king e. They can reveal whom or what we love most in our lives. They reveal our priorities and desires. The Lord wants us to love Him more than anybody else or anything else. The depth of our love to God is revealed during the seasons of trials. Peter is an example of this test. John 21:15-17 (HCSB) 15 When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” “Yherd My sheep,” He told him. 17 He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved that He asked him the third time, “Do you love Me?” He said, “Lord, You know everything! You know that I love You.” “Feed My sheep,” Jesus said. Trials can be a test of our endurance. How much are we willing to endure for the Lord? Will we give up easily from following the Lord? Will we endure till the end? The life of Paul is an example of endurance. 2 Corinthians 11:24-27 (HCSB) 24 Five times I received from the Jews 40 lashes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the depths of the sea. 26 On frequent journeys, [I faced] dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the open country, dangers on the sea, and dangers among false brothers; 27 labor and hardship, many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst, often without food, cold, and lacking clothing. The property is My Place's third in Washington State and is located at 21 South 18th Street. The three-storey hotel marks America's 44th My Place location across 21 states. My Place Hotel-Yakima, WA is independently owned and operated by Thind PMR Enterprises IV, Inc. The location becomes the brand's first to be opened by a member of AAHOA (Asian American Hotel Owners Association), the largest hotel owners association in the world. Thind PMR Enterprises president, Minnie Thind, said: "We are extremely excited to be able to open the doors to the very first My Place Hotel in Yakima. From the very beginning, the concept of My Place resonated with us and aligned with what we recognised the community needed. Being able to expose Yakima and its surrounding communities to such a phenomenal brand that offers a quality stay at a reasonable price leaves us with such warm feelings that will last over the location's many years to come." Terry Kline, My Place Hotels EVP of franchise sales and development said: "We are extremely excited to congratulate our partners at Thind PMR Enterprises on opening their first My Place Hotel. As our brand continues to proliferate in the Pacific Northwest region and make our mark on Washington state, we can only be grateful for our franchise partners who have made it possible for us to tap into such a great community, while also upholding the very pillars of our brand as the trailblazers of our westward expansion." Previous M&E works complete at Edinburgh Mode aparthotel project Next BBF launches its first apartments in Antwerp

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Gardner McKay is one of the most fascinating men you've probably never heard of: actor, playwright, novelist, sculptor, photographer, lion-tamer -- yes, lion-tamer -- and accomplished sailor. It's tempting to aggrandize someone with multiple talents as a cliché "Renaissance Man," or to dismiss someone whose interests shifted continually as a dilettante. Neither label suited McKay, who died in 2001. He just did what he loved, and he did it all quite well. McKay's 1971 play Sea Marks is a perfect reflection of the man: a modest gem, less about surface flash than the facets underneath. This love story between a lonely Irish fisherman and an ambitious publisher's assistant has a quiet charm that works its way into your heart. Director Nick Corley has refreshed the two-person piece with a delightful new adaptation that integrates music into the storytelling. This updated version, in its world premiere at Waitsfield's Skinner Barn, floats on a tide of traditional and freshly composed Celtic tunes by the Vermont folk ensemble Atlantic Crossing, who fiddle, strum and drum throughout the show. There were surprisingly few rough edges, even on opening night. The combination of stellar acting and a toe-tapping score made Sea Marks a swimming success. "The simpler the stories, the more epic they are," McKay was once quoted as saying. And characters don't get any simpler, on the surface, than Sea Marks' Colm Primrose: a middle-aged fisherman conversant in mackerel, gulls and gales, but barely acquainted with electricity or women. He lives on a remote, rocky island off the coast of western Ireland, where his fishing partner is a father figure called the MacAfee. Colm looks forward to "coming off the water at night," rather than drowning, and drinking whiskey with his fellow fisherman at the pub. He seems content never to have "courted" -- until a woman from Liverpool, visiting the island for her cousin's wedding, catches Colm's eye. But the vision of Timothea Stiles, the city sophisticate in a red dress, sparks his imagination, and he begins an awkward correspondence with her. She doesn't remember Colm at first -- despite his inelegant collision with a punchbowl at the reception -- but gradually warms to him over many months of letter writing. The passionate way he describes the land and the water intrigues her. Romance blossoms via post across the Irish Sea. When Timothea returns to the island for another cousin's nuptials, the smitten Colm agrees to accompany her back to Liverpool. The transition from a written courtship to a physical one is difficult; even harder is taking the fisherman out of the elements that nourish his soul. The biggest shock is what career-minded Timothea has done with the poetic prose of Colm's letters: She let her boss turn them into a book entitled Sea Sonnets. The publication of his intimate thoughts embarrasses Colm. He reluctantly agrees, because he loves Timothea, insisting only that the volume be renamed Sea Marks, after "those lines that the highest reach of the tide leave on the land to remind you that it'll be back." His discomfort increases -- with the city and the relationship -- as he finds himself marketed as the "primitive" poet of Clifforn Heads. In the end, shocking news from home about the MacAfee arrives like a cold jolt of seawater, and the title of Colm's book foreshadows his own destiny. Casting is critical in a two-person love story. If the actors can't conjure believable chemistry, then it doesn't matter how compelling the script is. With Jim Price as Colm and Kate Kearney-Patch as Timothea, director Corley hit a home run. Both actors are seasoned pros with a wealth of Broadway, off-Broadway and national credits. They worked marvelously together, tracing the arc of the relationship across the play -- how it buds tentatively long-distance, opens with awkward charm when they meet, flowers, and then begins to wither in Liverpool. As the unease melts into familiarity, as their characters flirt and banter and fall in love, Price and Kearney-Patch made you care deeply about Colm and Timothea. Also important for Sea Marks is that the actors match their characters' physical types. Price was appropriately rugged and brawny for the roughhewn, cold-climate fisherman. Kearney-Patch, by contrast, had delicate features and pale coloring that made her look refined but not fragile -- perfect for Timothea, the city woman with roots as a Welsh farm girl. At its heart, Sea Marks is Colm's story, and Price lovingly revealed all the layers of McKay's "simple" Irish fisherman. He's a man of great confidence in his own demanding environment, and Price stood proud-shouldered in Colm's dirty Aran sweater and Wellies. He also captured Colm's intelligence and inimitable Irish sense of irony with a wry smile and quizzically arched eyebrows. His faraway gaze showed that Colm also longed for something over the horizon. Colm's confidence melts when the "44-year-old spinster-man" tries to woo Timothea in person. Price was simply hilarious in the moonlit scene, fortifying himself with swigs of home-brewed hooch as his character tries to drink his way to courage. Eventually, the confines of Liverpool sap Colm's strength, reflected in Price's subtle slump. He showed how the glint goes out of Colm's eyes, and the audience learns -- perhaps before the characters do -- that only the light of the sea will restore it. There are layers to Timothea, too; like Price, Kearney-Patch painted a nuanced portrait of her character. Although Timothea occasionally reveals what lies beneath, she cannot change what she has become and will not go back to who she was before Liverpool. While Kearney-Patch's face softened with Timothea's love for Colm, her straight spine conveyed her character's resolute commitment to her job and her city life. The former farm girl has turned her back on the "killing roughness" of her Welsh rural origins, "where things taste good only because they're hard to come by." Kearney-Patch matched Price's comic gifts as well. She gave the moonshine-drinking scene a Hepburn-esque screwball feel: Timothea struggles to maintain her veneer of prim dignity while getting slightly sauced and trying to seduce Colm into moving to Liverpool. When Timothea reminisces about her childhood, Kearney-Patch lapsed into a coarse Welsh lilt and sprawled comfortably on the floor -- a sharp contrast to her character's otherwise tightly controlled physical carriage. Director Corley used Atlantic Crossing's lively music in several ways: to flesh out the story; to speed up the dramatic motion of long stretches of letter-reading; and to create an expanded sense of the characters' emotional and physical worlds. Band members Peter MacFarlane, Viveka Fox, Rick Klein and Brian Perkins became an integral part of the action, playing from on stage for much of the show. Some of the songs were entirely new; others featured fresh lyrics set to traditional tunes. The lyrics often commented on or advanced the story line. The opening song, "The Last Lonely Bachelor of Bally Bay," established Colm as the central character, and Atlantic Crossing as the troubadours of his tale. "When Maggie and Ernie Wed" recounted the cousin's unseen wedding -- and gave the actors time to change costumes during the humorous number. "Guiding Star" was a beautiful love song that launched Colm and Timothea from the island to Liverpool. The integration of words and music wasn't entirely smooth, however. Performers sometimes struggled to balance the volume between dialogue and instruments. These problems occurred primarily in Act I, which was frontloaded with music. According to producer Peter Boynton, alterations have been made since opening night to address these issues -- music changes to reduce competition with the actors and improve audibility of dialogue underscored with sound. The barn provided excellent acoustics overall, as well as the ideal rustic backdrop for the simple set. The farmer who built it surely never envisioned his posts and beams as a lovely proscenium arch. One doesn't have to stretch far to find thematic echoes between the fictional Colm Primrose and the real Gardner McKay -- inadvertent renown, and a deliberate turning away from success as defined by others and towards fulfillment from something else. Fame found McKay almost accidentally from the time he was in his early twenties. Sculptor? An early work landed in a Museum of Modern Art exhibit. Photographer? His photos of the sinking Andrea Doria appeared in Life and The New York Times. The classic "you-oughta-be-in-pictures" discovery in a Hollywood coffee shop (by then-studio executive Dominick Dunne) led to McKay's starring role in the 1959-62 TV series "Adventures in Paradise" as Captain Adam Troy, a dashing voyager across the South Pacific. His looks and charm landed him on the cover of Life magazine, and linked in the tabloids with starlets such as Ann-Margret, Julie Newmar, Suzanne Pleshette and Joan Collins. Fan mail gushed in at the rate of 5000 letters a week. But McKay walked away from the spotlight -- including a movie role opposite Marilyn Monroe -- and into restless years of real travel and adventure in the Caribbean, South America, North Africa and France. When he returned to Los Angeles, he acted occasionally on stage, but began to write plays and drama criticism. He also raised lions, cheetahs and ocelots. Eventually McKay married a beautiful Irish painter, had a family, and made his home in the shadow of an extinct volcano called Koko Head at the southeastern tip of Oahu. He became an avid sea kayaker, often paddling to distant Diamond Head and back. He wrote novels, as well as short stories for a program on Hawaii Public Radio, on which he read tales he'd written "about people off to one side." The program ran until just before his death, from prostate cancer, at age 69. The poet of Koko Head penned his own epitaph. The last stanza reads: "I have sailed toward a high, steep island / Where my dreams would all come to be. / Never wanting to be done with the ocean, / Till each wave was done with me."

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Unfortunately, my large bowl of assorted favorites had to be replenished over and over again long before Oct. 31. Here’s the real sad thing — because of the narrow country road on which we live, we’ve never had a trick-or-treater in the 20 years we’ve lived here. Buy and hand out candy you don’t like: Love Snickers? Enjoy Reese’s? Do Twizzlers titillate you? Then don’t buy them. Do Nerds turn your stomach? Do you feel disdain towards sour gummies? Buy them. Even if it’s your children’s favorite candy, don’t have it hanging around if it floats your boat. There are Halloween stickers, cards, pencils, balls, glow sticks, and a myriad of other bulk-packed treats that kids love to get. Best of all, they are calorie-free. This hint is even for you overly prepared moms who like to have everything set weeks ahead of time. Try living dangerously just this once. Go trick-or-treating with your kids: Go for the exercise, not the candy. Bring a hot cup of coffee or a bag of 94% fat-free popcorn. Let your spouse do the candy inspecting: I know this is an important job, but if you can pawn it off, you’re one step ahead of the game. Stay accountable: I always go so far as to announce that “Mom isn’t having candy this year, so don’t give me any no matter how hard I beg.” Or you can invite a weight-loss buddy and his/her kids over to trick-or-treat with your family. It’ll make the evening easier and more fun. Remember, Halloween will be over in just one night, but its effects could stay on your hips for a long time. Kim Bensen, author of “Finally Thin!,” was a lifetime yo-yo dieter who lost 200-plus pounds and has kept it off for more than 10 years. She owns the Kim Bensen Weight Loss Center and Kim’s Light Café and Smoothie Bar at 405 Bridgeport Ave., Shelton. 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Dianna starred in the video for Sam’s song I’m Not the Only One, and rumour has it that she and Jack had a lot of fun partying together – something which Caroline only recently found out about. “Caroline didn’t know Jack was at those places and only found out later though friends,” a source told The Sun.

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It’s 2003 and the night of the senior prom in 'Okay,' a play by Obie Award-winning playwright Taylor Mac. More… Inspired by true events, 'Okay' is the story of a teenage girl giving birth in a bathroom during her senior prom. Friends and enemies pass through, hyped from the party and unaware of the life-altering circumstances in the next stall. Coming-of-age in a post-9/11 world isn’t easy, and these seven teenagers have a lot of decisions to make...but tonight, they just want to dance. Though 'Okay' was originally performed as a one-man show by playwright Taylor Mac, UglyRhino reconceives it for an ensemble of actors, with the audience immersed in a 2003 prom, complete with drama, drinks, and dancing. "A subversively brilliant production...Each of the seven characters that appear onstage contain archetypal qualities that are beautifully humanized by the layered work of the ensemble. Most of them deliver cleverly written monologues in which they comment about the state of America in the aftermath of 9/11...It’s the end of the world as they knew it...Mac’s writing perfectly encompasses the heartbreak, disillusionment, but also the undefeatable lust for life they feel." Full Review "A rare ensemble drama with distinctly developed characters whose journeys complicate, rather than compete with, one another's...Witnessing the prom-goers confront the burdens of confinement, intimacy, and the impatience of waiting for their lives to begin, we are reminded that these intricacies of personal connection never disappear...'Okay' is full of attitude and a lot of fun, and a gentle reminder that there is life on the other side of high school and September 11, 2001." Full Review Elvis Presley is alive for his fans in memory and in sales. As far as charity goes, however, Elvis has left the building. Both of the foundations connected to him– the Presley Foundation and the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation– are moribund. It’s the 40th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death. Is he still popular? This year alone, according to Buzz Angle, his records have had so far 290 million streams. He’s sold almost 292,000 albums this year–2017– to date. Elvis has sold 465,800 songs– that’s singles– this year, too. Even after 60 years, ain’t nothing but a hound dog. These days, Elvis and Graceland are money making machines. Forbes estimated that Elvis raked in $55 million in 2015. The total value of Elvis’s estate could be as high as $500 million. Some background: Lisa Marie Presley inherited her father’s estate. In 2005, she sold 85% of the estate– except for Graceland and Elvis’s personal possessions– to CKX Inc for $100 million. In 2013, CKX sold their holdings to another company, Authentic Brands. Lisa Marie still holds that 15% plus everything done at Graceland, etc. It’s a lot of money. And it’s always coming in. Graceland maintains a website for the Presley Charitable Foundation. But over the years this group, run by Lisa Marie, has rapidly dissipated. Registered in Santa Monica, the Presley Charitable Foundation had just $26 in revenue in 2014-15. Yes, twenty six dollars. Claiming total assets of $112K, they made exactly one donation in that year– to St Jude’s Children’s Hospital, for $4,500. (This is from their Federal tax filing form 990.) The Presley Charitable Foundation touts low cost housing– an apartment building they put their name on in Memphis called Presley Place in conjunction with other Memphis charities. But the latest tax filing doesn’t mention the building or any other projects. The Presley Charitable Foundation lists an address in Santa Monica, California. But when I called there yesterday, a woman who answered the phone said they were long gone. Meanwhile, there’s the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation, registered in Memphis. Lisa Marie is president of this charity, too. On their Form 990 for 2014 which goes to the end of 2015 the EPCF had just $59,588 in its till. In 2015, they made a total contribution of $2,525 divided among four groups. It wasn’t always this way. Back in 2006-07, the EPCF gave away $277K to mostly local charities. Even as late as 2010, they gave almost $250K to another set of locals. But the estate contributed almost nothing that year, and funds were dwindling. According to the group’s website at “The Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation receives a portion of the overall business income of Graceland/Elvis Presley Enterprises, with additional funding from the company’s royalties on specially licensed products and from special benefit events the company stages. A meaningful amount of the EPCF’s funding also comes from donations made by Elvis fan clubs and individual Elvis fans and admirers from around the world.” Of course, as with most celebrity families there are a lot of mouths to feed. Lisa Marie lives off the estate. She has four kids by two ex husbands and is currently in a bizarre divorce/custody battle with the most recent one. (The two other ex husbands– Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage — didn’t need her money.) Then, of course, there’s her mom, Priscilla Presley, who helped turn Graceland into a huge business, and Scientology, to whom both Lisa Marie and Priscilla have given money in the past. But at least one of Elvis’s descendants turns out to be a surprise bread winner– Lisa Marie’s daughter, actress Riley Keough. She’s been a total success, currently starring in Steven Soderbergh’s “Logan Lucky” and the director’s TV series, “The Girlfriend Experience.” She turns out to be Elvis’s greatest legacy.

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Kenan Thompson and Taran Killam sang “Ebony and Ivory” as Cam Newton and Peyton Manning on Saturday night’s episode of 'SNL', and they joked about the media’s treatment of the two quarterbacks. WASHINGTON (AP) The Nationals planned to recall top prospect Lucas Giolito to make his major league debut Tuesday against the New York Mets. ''It's impossible to answer,'' Baker said. ''Has he had enough seasoning down there? Probably not, but sometimes guys do. You just don't know.''

When I set a “look at” constraint on my camera, how can I well pan and navigate with my “look at” target ? That's freaky…. I was just about to ask the exact same thing. Either that or a feature request for a softimage style camera with aim. I'm not sure what you are after. The camera is constrained, so the rotate channels are overridden. When you move the camera to a new position, even if interactively the view direction changes, the constraint will reset the view direction based on the constrained direction. It looks like you might be after some kind of “two-way” constraint, where the constrained location is translated interactively by moving the camera. Such an operation is not feature of the constraint tools. It would be possible to design such a tool, the scripting operations make pretty much anything possible. Such a tool would have to dynamically dhe request such a tool if you think it would enhance your workflow. You may not actually need a constraint if all you want to do is interact with the camera by adjusting a look-at target interactively. The built-in camera handle works this way when not viewing through the camera. Yes, that would be a tool that dynamically dd in camera contain a temporary “look-at” with special handles, that's not exactly like in Softimage where this look-at is a reel null and the camera doesn't have any particular controlers in the viewport. If I understand correctly, if I set a “look at” target constraint to my camera and pane in viewport, my camera will constantly facing target during operation. What I ask for when I started this thread, is the possibility to pan with the “look at” target constraint moving in synchronization. I'm having to move my camera and aim null in a front/side/top view to get the camera to do what I want. The default setup of having to rotate the camera to get it to point at an object is a pain especially if your camera is moving all over the place and the object you're interested is also moving around. If I don't set up an aim null then my perspective camera will orbit around some arbitrary point in space rather than a specific point in space. Being able to lock down a point in space that the camera is looking at AND move the camera around with the ease of view tools is what I and i think Julca are after. Once you get used to a target cam and find out how fast it it to work with and set up smooth rotations, not to mention manual matchmoving or alignment, the H cam feels like a relic from the last century. Due to the nature of the lookat constraint it is not really helpful to build a target camera, since it just overrides but not exposes the calculated rotation to the local axis which means the local alignment of the gizmo is always the same as the world alignment, making it impossible to “dolly” along the cams z axis for example. Once enabled, you no longer get that “snapping back to the look-at” on MouseRelease, but instead it will update the constrain every update. In the viewport, under the camera menu ( The icon which says ‘no cam’ by default ), there is an option near the bottom of the menu called ‘Export View Continuously’. This is the feature that Ondrej had mentioned previously. When using the view track/pan tool the interest null gets translated the same as the camera so the camera rotation remains the same. 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Here we present an array of elastin-like polypeptide conjugate coating materials (Aminated-ELPs) that are biocompatible, have spheroid-forming capacity, can be coated atop traditional culture surfaces, and maintain structural integrity while ensuring adherence of spheroids over long culture period. The Aminated-ELPs were synthesized either by direct conjugation of ELP and various polyelectrolytes or by conjugating both ELP and various small electrolytes to the reactive polymer poly(2-vinyl-4,4-dimethyl azlactone) (PVDMA). Spheroid morphology, cellular metabolic function, and liver-specific gene expression over the long-term, 20-day culture period were assessed through optical microscopy, measurement of total protein content and albumin and urea production, and quantitative real-time (qRT) PCR. We found that the amine content of the Aminated-ELP coatings dictated the initial hepatocyte attachment, but not the subsequent hepatocyte spheroid formation and their continued attachment. A lower amine content was generally found to sustain higher albumin production by the spheroids. Out of the 19 Aminated-ELP coatings tested, we found that the lysine-containing substrates comprising ELP-polylysine or ELP-PVDMA-butanediamine proved to consistently culture productive spheroidal hepatocytes. We suggest that the incorporation of lysine functional groups in Aminated-ELP rendered more biocompatible surfaces, increasing spheroid attachment and leading to increased liver-specific function. Taken together, the Aminated-ELP array presented here has the potential to create in vitro hepatocyte culture models that mimic in vivo liver functionality and thus, lead to better understanding of liver pathophysiology and superior screening methods for drug efficacy and toxicity. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 105A: 377-388, 2017. Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) have an important role in atherosclerosis development. Evidence has demonstrated that adipose differentiation‑related protein (ADRP) is associated with foam cell formation and atherosclerosis progression. However, to the best of our knowledge, no previous studies have investigated the role of ADRP knockdown in platelet‑derived growth factor (PDGF)‑stimulated proliferation and migration of VSMCs in vitro. Furthermore, the effect of ADRP knockdown on neointima formation in vivo remains unclear. In the present study, primary human aortic VSMCs were incubated with PDGF following ADRP small interfering (si)RNA transfection. Cell viability, migration and cell cycle distribution were analyzed by MTT, wound healing and Transwell assays and flow cytometry, respectively. Extracellular signal‑regulated kinase (ERK), phosphorylated (p)‑ERK, Akt, p‑Akt, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)‑2 and MMP‑9 protein levels were determined by western blotting. Apolipoprotein E-/- mice fed an atherogenic diet were injected with siADRP or control siRNA twice a week. After 3 weeks of therapy, aortas were excised and ADRP mRNA and protein expression was determined. Neointima formation was assessed by hematoxylin and eosin staining. The results of the current study demonstrated that ADRP knockdown significantly inhibited PDGF‑induced increases in VSMC viability, caused G1 phase cell cycle arrest and decreased PCNA expression. Knockdown of ADRP inhibited PDGF‑induced migration of VSMCs by reducing MMP protein expression and activity. In addition, the present study also demonstrated that ADRP knockdown inhibited ERK and Akt signaling pathways in response to PDGF. Furthermore, siADRP administration suppressed neointima formation in the mouse model. The results of the present study indicate that ADRP may be a potential target for the treatment of atherosclerosis.

Traditional media threatened by surge of net ads - Life | - Ireland's Technology News Service With close to 900,000 people with broadband connections, the internet market in Ireland is becoming the mass market that may replace the increasingly fragmented TV sector in terms of advertising spend, a new report claims. The latest State of the Net report from Amas, published in conjunction with the Irish Internet Association, predicts that broadband subscriptions in Ireland are likely to break through the one million barrier this year. Two third of Irish homes now have a PC, and increasing numbers of Irish businesses are using services like Skype as well as mobile broadband services. The report suggests that the greatest increase in internet usage over the past four years has come from those over 56 – the so-called ‘silver surfers’. At 18pc, the over-56 year olds have some distance to go on 16- to 24 year olds, where internet usage was at almost 70pc. Even so, that 18pc compares with a meagre 7pc in 2004. Businesses have taken a real shine to e-government services. The number using the internet for full electronic case handling increased significantly between 2006 and 2007. As many as 59pc of businesses said they used the internet for full electronic handling with a public authority, compared with 46pc the previous year. Form filling is among the most popular online activities, with 82pc of businesses obtaining government forms online and 68pc returning completed forms online. However, in its focus on online marketing Amas predicts a major sea change in ad spending with the internet becoming the prime advertising medium. The UK Internet Advertising Bureau predicts where advertising will become the primary channel after 2010. In the UK, online advertising stood at £2.8bn sterling in 2007, a 106pc increase in just two years. It commands a 15.3pc market share of advertising spend, overtaking old media stalwarts like radio and regional newspapers. As a category, online advertising (display, search, classifieds, email) is in third place behind press at 19.9pc and TV at 21.8pc. “Ireland is playing catch-up but there are strong indicators that Irish marketing professionals are shifting their budgets online,” said Aileen O’Toole, managing director of Amas. “This is good news for online publishers but less so for traditional media. Based on experiences in other countries press and TV could lose out as advertisers divert their spend online and realise the value, reach and accountability of online advertising and marketing,” O’Toole said. Her colleague Fiachra O’Marcaigh explained: “The audiences for traditional media are becoming more fragmented. TV has gone from five stations to 50 to 500 in this country in a decade. Only a small number of TV shows now get the mass audiences of a decade ago.” He says that studios like Endemol are adapting to the change. “There are now four soaps on Bebo with substantial budgets behind them. I don’t think we’re talking about an overnight revolution so much as a fast-paced evolution.” Is it too late for traditional media formats like newspapers and magazines to move to the online world? “A lot of successful Irish media brands are already adapting to this and are moving a certain amount of content like classified ads into places that work best online. “By varying degrees, many traditional Irish media brands have recognised the threat and are adjusting their offerings,” O’Marcaigh said.

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This is resolved the same way as with treasure - the player with the highest trait can simply take it. If the players agree, the defeated challenge card can be given to a player with a lower score. Ties are broken by dice rolls. In Challenge mode, Exploration is an alternative option to Challenging a space on the board. To Explore, in the planning phase, a player places their dice on the Explore icon on their Character board instead of a trait. In the Action phase, a player that chose to Explore looks at the Challenge card in the coordinates they have selected (if it is not from a higher Reality) and returns it to it's space face down without showing the other players. If multiple players Explore the same space in a turn, each of them look at the card, then it is returned face down - there is no combat. If the space is Challenged at any time, the card is turned face up and remains that way (as usual). Exploration is a useful tool to gain information on a tile if you are worried that a rival will steal the loot from you if you miss with the initial Challenge, or to gain information without risking death. Environmental rules add flavor and variation to Simulation Theory. Each Reality has a different global effect for all players on that reality. Depending on the order of the reality, the effect can also vary. For example, The players agree that the order is Stone Reality (1st), Ark Reality (2nd) and then the Prison Reality (3rd). Use the environmental rules for Reality 2 (“Hull Breach”) for Ark Reality, and Reality 3 (“Lockdown”) for the Prison Reality. The first reality never has any environmental rules. Environmental effects only take effect on a player when that player is on that reality. For instance, if a player ascended to the prison reality, the third reality of that game session, the "Lockdown rule" will then come into effect for him or her, but not affect the other players who have not ascended to that reality yet. Reality 3: "Dragons wrath" - A powerful dragon hunts the stone seekers. Whenever a Stone reality challenge is beaten, roll 1d6. If the result of the die roll is higher than the trait currently used by the player, that player undergoes Descension (See below). Reality 2: "Blackouts" - Every time the turn ends, turn all face up Prison reality challenge cards face down. Reality 3: "Lockdown" - Automated sentries hunt down the escaped inmates. The lowest trait value face up Prison reality challenge card has its trait score doubled. If there is more than one face up prison reality challenge card with the same lowest trait value, double all of them. If a player has their character killed by a challenge card in the Prison reality, that player undergoes Descension (See below). Reality 2: "Hull Breach" - At the beginning of each turn, before players set their dice, take the topmost, and then leftmost challenge card and shuffle it back into its challenge deck. This can be a card from any reality. Reality 3: "Apoxia" - The oxygen levels on the Ark are plummeting due to a compromised life support system. Each turn when players in the Ark reality make their selection, they can only select one dice: The Red or the Black, and then roll the other dice to randomly determine the other coordinate. If the roll results in the selection of a blank space, that player undergoes Descension (see below). A roll resulting in six will simply be treated as a miss. In the turn sequence, players on the Ark Reality will reveal only one dice and then roll the second dice in full view of all the other players. Some environmental rules use Descension and indicate an effect that 'Descends' a player(s). Descension is the reverse of ascension where a player is demoted to the lower reality instead of going into the next reality. The player returns the highest reality character back into its corresponding character deck. Next, that player loses a treasure card from the highest reality, shuffling it back into the corresponding treasure pile. Then place the previous reality's challenge cards into all the vacant spaces from left to right, top to bottom. Example: If a player undergoes descension from reality 3, that player returns the reality 3 character to the reality 3 character deck. Discard a reality 3 treasure and shuffle it back into the reality 3 treasure pile. That player uses his or her old reality 2 character. He / she then places reality 2 challenge cards from the reality 2 challenge deck to fill in all the blank spaces. 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'Wonderwoman' Gal Gadot: "They said that I was too skinny and my boobs were too small" | Beauty & Body Image, Celebrity Quotes | Skinny VS Curvy They said that I was too skinny and my boobs were too small. After they asked me here, In Israel, if I have eating disorders and why am I so skinny, they said my head was too big and my body was like a broomstick I can take anything. It’s just empty talk. I understand that part of what I’m doing means being exposed. And part of being exposed is being under fire (criticism). When I was younger I would take criticism really hard. But now it mostly amused me. The true amazons had one boob so it won’t bother them in their archery. So it’s not going to be like real amazons. We always try to make everyone happy but we can’t. gal gadot boobs, Boobs of Gal Gadot, gal gadot my butt instagram, Gal gadot model photo beauti, gal gadot legs, gal gadot is not curvy enough for wonderwoman, gal gadot i was skinny and boobs were too small, gal gadot ass, curvy wonder women, gal gadot too skinny for wonder woman I think that the way the Israeli (from the interviews I’ve read, they have been tackier than anybody else) media has treated her has been pretty stupid and disgusting. However, I do find their decision to potray a Wonder Woman who doesn’t look strong or even athletic really weird, especially considering how Superman and Batman look in this franchise. They made Henry Cavill – who was muscular to begin with – buff himself up to a total beefcake to play Superman and from what’s been seen and heard Ben Affleck has done the same for Batman. When Gadot was cast… Read more » I’m sorry, but those accusations were CORRECT. this photo is a f—g wonder WOMAN. she is built with muscle, and looks like a woman not a 12 year old girl. I agree, I also don’t think Gadot could look like that even if she majorly worked out and bulked up… her frame is too tiny. I don’t really care much about the b❆❆bs but Wonder Woman should look like she can kick some major ass. I think she has an amazing body. She certainly looks better her current size and with small boobs. While I like her as is, but I don’t think she fits as Wonder Woman. She said athletic looking, not thick vs. thin. Izabel has a ton of muscle; this girl doesn’t. And even WITH all of Izabel’s muscle, I’d have a hard time thinking she could win in a fight against, say, a character played by Jason Statham or The Rock or something, as I’m sure the people WW beats up in the movie are by no means small or out of shape. totally agree–it doesn’t even matter who plays what part anymore b/c most films are CGI (action anyway–esp marvel recreations). furthermore, there are marketing agents involved who have influenced in who gets cast for what (the sell-abilities). psychologically, people want to relate to and BE the person on screen, and most women would want to be a skinny chick kicking booty than an average or overly muscular woman kicking butt realistically. suspension of disbelief…hollywood is silly. I agree Chros, but some women get so defensive if you say something like that, they need a reality check. And did you missread my quote? I said society in general has criteria and there is no point in being hurt if you don’t fit a certain mold. Molds are everywhere. That’s all I’m saying. But I’m not everyone, I didn’t even comment on that since I don’t care, so no need with this random comment. Hmm the criteria of fantasy? Hollywood? Comic book women? Let’s not play coy and this criteria doesn’t exist and that everyone is good for everything. No one said thicker, she said more athletic. Which is perfectly reasonable. I don’t think Isabel Goulart can kick my ass. I am positive that Serena Williams or Jennifer Ennis-Hill could do it, though. That’s what I understand by athletic, not spongy a– Scarlet. I think her point was, that she just did not want to get bothered anymore. Set a point and stop if you are not comfortable with things going on, and that’s what she basically did. this is not a skinny thing…and btw I don’t recall people coming to jenns defense I member hardcore huger games fans bashing her for not fitting the role its the same thing I grew up a nerdy comic book cartoon fan… and this girl is beautiful and has a sick body. SHE AINT NO DIANA PRINCE ut that’s not her fault its hollywoods…just like how Lawrence didn’t fit catniss but you got used to it 3 films later…and that costume effing sucks. im done now..i wont watch this movie anyway ill watch cartoons on Netflix. People are saying these things because they’re true! The bottom line is, she should NOT have been cast. Just like you wouldn’t cast Kim Kardashian as a ballerina or high fashion model, Gal should not be Wonder Woman. I agree! I somehow totally respect actors and actresses who change their physique completely for a movie: nathalie portman for the black swan, hugh jackman for wolverinr, jared leto in several movies, renee zellweger for the bridget jones movies and, and, and…. They seem so dedicated to their roles! I think when gal gadot makes comments like these (or also jennifer lawrence for the hinger games to be fair) I always think that they could have put in a bit more effort! It’s not like they’re not paid enough… Yep, but the Lawrence/Katniss case was different for two reasons: The attacks on Lawrence were mostly pretty sexist and they actually gave a pretty good reason to present a silm Katniss in the movies instead of a thin one. First, almost the whole population of District 12 – including Liam Hemsworth’s Gale – was supposed to be malnourished. However, in most cases only Lawrence was criticized for not being skinny. In Man of Steel and in Batman v Superman all the super heroes and villains are buff – except for Wonder Woman. Second, Hunger Games was and is hugely popular… Read more » You said everything I was thinking! Thanks, now I don’t have to go through the trouble of typing it =) Previous ArticleJessica Alba Swimsuit PicturesNext ArticleKourtney Kardashian: “I like to live a bit dangerously. I had a Krispy Kreme doughnut last night” I think she’s gorgeous. I’m guessing some of you are gonna be annoyed by her past phrase about being genetically blessed, but I agree with the new one. It’s more grounded and honest than the typical “I’m so hot that I don’t get good roles, I hate being a sex symbol, it’s a course” that bad actresses say (Jessica Alba, Megan Fox). This woman is insufferable. There’s a fine line between being confident and being arrogant/full of yourself and she crosses it everytime. However, I agree, she’s very pretty facially (is it natural? I don’t know) and I like that she isn’t a stick. Still, as we all know, beauty fades. Does she have a lot more to offer? I don’t see it… She had a nose job,I am not sure about her lips though, to me her nose looks very fake, she was even more gorgeous before she had it done. I feel like being objectified is a part of being a woman period, no matter your career is unfortunately. And no matter how great you look you still don’t get the respect you deserve, it’s never a winning game. At the end of the day at least you can look good for yourself. And I think this chick is alright, she lives in her own world which is cool by me. She’s one of those okay girls who seem to think they’re stunning. she is pretty, i thins the prettiest thing about her is her eyes… but i live in Sinaloa, Mexico and we have gorgeous woman here, maybe i’m used to see pretty women everyday and thats why i find her just pretty, could be my neighbor. i said she is pretty, i just dont thing the has a exceptional, natural beauty lets say like emma watson, liz taylor, clarlize theron, Brooke Shields, natalie portman, if you look into Bollywood you find Aishwarya Rai and Deepika Padukone they are really pretty! and as for sex simbol, what about eva mendez, salma hayek, michelle pfiefer, angelina jolie, sharon stone, scarlet johanson, I mean dont get me wrong, Priyanka is a beautiful woman, i never say she wasnt, but i wouldnt reffer to her as sex simbol or natural beauty , i think her nose job is not doing… Read more » lol you liked your own comment? Anyhow, I get what you’re saying and all those women you mentioned are striking. I think Priyanka also has a sexy, sultry voice. Some attractive features don’t translate as good on photographs. I don’t see her as a sex symbol either but I get why some do. And I was curious because I know so many people in Mexico think the whiter= the better. People with darker and more “ethnic” features are seen as less attractive in our country. Just look at our celebrities. I know Indians also have some issues with this beauty… Read more » I don’t know, I guess I’m in minority, but I find her extremely unattractive, borderline ugly. Bloated, puffy and saggy. she looks better in motion. and her accent annoys me, but her voice is sexy. idk if that makes sense lol also, yeah. she’s honest af. she is hot and the job is to be objectified. anyone who says otherwise is fooling themselves or trying to make money off insecure women. sensible quote from her, still dont think she’s some fort of great beauty. michigan avenue, she’s below average. Tbh her body is super average, and I’m not one of those who say it about everyone. Her face is pretty in that green dress picture. Is she really that much of a sex symbol…? I think she thinks she’s god gift to all men. On another note, her eyebrows really suck imo. Too mannish and evil looking lol. Her and Ashley Graham both have the same personality and they both believe they are way hotter than they are, which is ok i guess but its annoying too.

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The Wizards shooting guard and St. Louis native talks about what he's adding to his game this summer, his brothers, his eating habits and his tattoos. The 2014-15 season was a good one for Bradley Beal. Forget the regular season, one during which the 22-year-old (!) guard helped carry the Wizards to 46 wins by averaging 15.3 points per game and shooting 41 percent from downtown. In the playoffs, Beal absolutely exploded. In 10 games he averaged 23.4 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists. The Wizards ended up falling to the No. 1-seeded Hawks in the second round, but they have now made it that far two consecutive years. Five years ago, fans would have laughed at the idea of the Wizards being a perennial playoff team. All-Star PG John Wall gets most of the credit for Washington’s resurgence—and rightfully so. But the continued improvement of Beal has also played a major role. The St. Louis native is spent last week in his hometown running a basketball camp but he carved out time to talk to SLAM about what his plans are for the offseason, drawing and the work he’s doing with Gatorade. BB: You know what? I do it every blue moon—that’s what’s so weird about it. I’m decent at it but I just never really pursued it the way I probably should have. BB: When I was younger. I always enjoyed coloring, I always enjoyed drawing and things like that but I never got into it in-depth. BB: Probably the one with my brothers on my right bicep. My brothers are my guys. I have four brothers and four letters in my last name. I have four stars and each star represents one of my brothers, so that’s definitely my favorite. SLAM: Speaking of your brothers—all of them played college football, and two were offensive lineman. So what are you, half their size? BB: You know, I have no idea, because I eat probably more than any of them. I just have a huge metabolism I guess, because those dudes are huge. BB: Oh, yeah, all the time. My mom had to break up fights all the time. One time me and one of my little brothers got into a food fight, it got out of hand. BB: I don’t know, it was over something dumb, like probably something like who wanted the last piece of chicken. SLAM: What was the one food that your mom would bring home and it would just get absolutely devoured. BB: Yeah, it was always—we were real competitive, no matter what we did. Sports, video games, school, we always competed in everything we did. That’s what I attribute a lot of my success to. Those guys pushed me a lot in life. BB: Staying healthy, that’s my number one goal. Just making sure I’m taking care of my body properly, eating healthy, lifting, hydrating. BB: You just gotta get with a program. You got to figure out a program that’s good for you. I’m getting together with some of our trainers soon to do do that. We’re going to talk about what kind of things I need to eat, what I should stop eating and what I need to do to stay injury-free. SLAM: You love shooting the midrange jumper, even though that’s an unpopular shot in today’s NBA. Is that something you’re going to keep doing? BB: That’s definitely a shot that, even though a lot of people in the NBA don’t like, I’m going to continue to work on it. It’s an open shot and I think you’re probably more open shooting that shot than a lot of other shots. It’s just about being able to get the mechanics down and the rhythm down and being able to knock it down. BB: Not really, nah. They just let me play my game. Coach Wittman loves those shots. He wants you to shoot everything possible whenever you have the opportunity to. BB: Putting the ball on the floor a little more, being able to create more to help John out a little bit, to create for my teammates a little bit better and for myself as well. Defense is also a big one. BB: Just working on my moves, just doing whatever it takes. Just making sure I’m doing the right thing. Just basic stuff, it’s really more confidence than anything. Just making sure you have good belief in yourself when you handle the ball that you’re not going to turn it over and that you’re going to make the right decision. That’s something that needs to get better. BB: Gatorade is supporting my camp. I hold a camp for St. Louis kids every year, ages 6 to 16, and it’s basically us just trying to teach kids the importance of hydration. Not even just for kids, but for all athletes. A lot of injuries are caused as a result of people not being hydrated. We want people to know how important it is to stay hydrated and get those electrolytes back in your system—to “Beat the Heat.” SLAM: You grew up near Ferguson and talked about your relationship with the town and Michael Brown when the riots were going on. Is this your first time time back in St. Louis since then? BB: Yeah, it is, it’s the first time I’ve been back since that. Everything’s been kind of calm, though, so it’s good. BB: Not really. I think things have finally calmed down. I think we’re starting to realize what’s important and what the big picture is.

Tenochtitlan. One of the main cultural centers for the Aztec civilization.Said to be consecrated by both Tlaloc and Huitzilopochtli.All religious ceremonies were directed on the main temples.. Tenochtitlan Temple Pyramid. The Gods. Quetzalcoatl TlalocThere are actually hundreds of gods associated with the Aztecs. These are the most prominent. Also called the Creator gods.. Move the Modular Force TLO and ELOs Terminal Learning Objective Enabling Learning Objectives : Terminal Learning Objective Identify the missions, capabilities and employment of HBCT and sustainment brigade transportation elements. Identify considerations for planning ground and air transportation support and the interface of transportation planners, managers and mode operators. Identify procedures for estimating transportation requirements to support the concept of operations. FM 55-30, Army Motor Transport Units and Operations (with Change 1 Sep 99) (Pending revision FM 4-01.40) Transportation is moving and transferring units, personnel, equipment, and supplies to support the concept of operations. U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) controls strategic movement through its three component commands: Focus is on building force structure; reception, staging, and onward movement; opening ports; establishing LOCs; and providing C2 for movements. TTP: Provide space/facilities for maintenance, servicing, and rest. Semitrailers are exchanged between line haul tractors. Planning and resource allocation for current and future requirements is executed by planners and managers at each level of command involved in an operation. Bottom Line: Prevents a free-for-all on routes. Units and supplies move along routes in an orderly fashion. Requesting units must be disciplined and return Corps, Division, and BSB assets when their mission is complete. b) Empty trucks sitting idle benefit no one. When the mission is complete, return the asset so it can be fully utilized. May be necessary to augment destination unit’s reception and clearance capabilities (pre-stage a forklift to help the destination unit download pallets from a Corps medium truck company). Controlled by the trans officer (03/88A) and the trans management NCO (MOS 88N20) in the BSB support operations section. Situational understanding (facilitated by SA systems and thorough understanding of the commander’s intent). Use PLS, HEMTT-LHS, and CROP to reduce handling requirements forward on the battlefield. (Note: Capabilities and descriptions of the PLS, LHS, and CROP are outlined on the slides that follow). These systems extend throughput capability and enhance velocity through flatrack exchange at or near the BSA and the FLD TRNSs. Note: Additional variations of flatracks exist (M3A1, IPF-M1). Refer to TB-55-46-2 (Equipment Characteristics) for details on these and all other pieces of equipment in the Army inventory. Available at (use your AKO login). Flatrack employment, management, and retrograde operations are the responsibility of distribution managers integrated at each echelon of support throughout the HBCT area. Flatracks will be dispersed throughout the distribution pipeline, particularly from the HBCT rear boundary to the combat trains command post (CTCP) of a combat battalion or dispersed throughout the area of operation. Flatrack exchange is the preferred method for retrograding flatracks from the Field Trains. The Flatrack Collection Points (FRCPs) are designated for flatrack consolidation purposes when required, and this proposed location is reported to the BSB support operations officer. FSC Distribution Platoon Leader, FSC Executive Officer, BSB SPT OPS Movement Control NCO, and the Trans Platoon Leader (from the BSB’s Distribution Company) Ensuring flatrack exchange procedures are optimized using Division throughput assets as a matter of priority. Maximizing the use of BSB DC transportation LHSs for retrograding/back hauling flatracks from the FRCP back into the distribution pipeline. Reporting flatrack on-hand quantity by location, status, and condition to the Transportation Branch at the Division. Coordinating with the Division Transportation Branch for supplemental transportation support when retrograding flatracks from BSA FRCP. Support Operations (SPO): Provides integrated and automated C2 and planning for distribution management within the Corps/ Division AOR. Plans for air and surface transportation assets and maintains MSR status, automated transportation tracking, and request system. Each of the BSB traffic management officers and NCOs coordinate with the Transportation Branch when requirements exceed capability. Note: The S4 is the HBCT Logistics Officer. The S4 and SPO work closely together to support the HBCT. Consists of two traffic management coordinators assigned to control the movement of assets in and around the BSB. Coordinate, monitor, control, and supervise the movement of personnel, equipment, and cargo via air, rail, highway, and/or water. Develop and review movement programs (to include convoy planning) for logistics support functions within the BSB/BSA. Ensure allocation of transport capability is appropriate to accomplish each mission in a cost-effective manner. Coordinate support with the Transportation Branch in the sustainment brigade’s support operation section. Conduct resupply LOGPACs to the FSC's distribution assets for their LOGPAC operations and receive resupply from Corps/Division. Consolidates support requirements and passes them to the FSC CP for execution by the distribution platoon. Mission: Plan, coordinate, synchronize, monitor, and control logistics operations within assigned AO. Coordinates Host Nation Support (HNS) and contracting. Provide support to joint, interagency, and multinational forces as directed. Mission: To move bulk, containerized, general non-containerized cargo, and bulk POL from supply and stockage points to users. Mission:To move general and non-containerized cargo and personnel in support of Corps and Division units. The Brigade Support Battalion (BSB) distributes supply Classes I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and IX. It carries the sustainment stocks that exceed the organic carrying capability for the brigade’s three replenishment loads for high intensity operations. No doctrinally taskable truck assets, however, some movement missions may be executed using CULT assets. Planning, routing, scheduling, controlling, coordination, and in-transit visibility of personnel, units, equipment, and supplies moving over LOCs. The goal is to sustain movements according to the commander’s priorities and to make the most effective and efficient use of the road networks. Used to pre-plan both known h known trol: Planning, routing, scheduling, controlling, coordination, and ITV of personnel, units, equipment, and supplies moving over LOCs. Commitment of allocated transportation assets according to command planning directives. Maneuver Control: Movement of forces supported by fire to achieve a position of advantage from which to destroy the enemy. Battlefield Circulation Control: Ensuring combat personnel, equipment, and supplies move smoothly, quickly, and with little interference on MSRs. It includes route reconnaissance and surveillance, enforcement of highway regulation, straggler and refugee control, and information dissemination. Mission: Provide centralized movement control and highway regulation for moving personnel and materiel into, within, and out of the Corps and Division area. It also ensures effective and efficient use of available transportation capability. Expedite, coordinate, and monitor transportation support on an area basis or at a transportation terminal. Continually update the location of units, equipment, personnel, and supplies as they travel within the transportation system. - Movement Tracking System (MTS) provides the needed ITV/situational awareness that enhances flexibility and responsiveness. The FDRP is a point established near a boundary or along a MSR that diverts drivers and cargo to an alternate consignee or destination. TC-AIMS II supports unit deployments/movements, convoy planning, and transportation requirements estimating. Allow units to update their operational equipment list (OEL) and unit deployment list (UDL) and to electronically send the updates through the chain of command to the installation transportation office (ITO). Locate convoys and drill down on their supply increments to individual TCN, DODDAC, or requisition number. Build march credits, de-conflict convoy routes, produce Gantt charts, and track movements using ITV. Share relevant movement information with the maneuver commander during the military decision making process with a COA analysis and execution tool using a current and future running estimate. Situational Awareness (SA) system linked to GPS that is found in most C2 platforms, TOCs/CPs, and many transportation assets. MTS is a global positioning system that can identify the position, track the progress, and communicate with the operators of tactical wheeled vehicles anywhere. MTS is a satellite-based tracking/communication system consisting of a mobile unit mounted in a vehicle and a base unit controlled/ monitored by movement control and mode operators. MTS has a movement control capability that improves trafficability on MSRs and reduces the potential for fratricide. Since all tactical wheeled vehicles do not have MTS installed, it is important to place vehicles with MTS in the front, rear, and center of a convoy. Force protection of logistics nodes and convoys is more difficult in urban areas (3-levels to worry about). This is a talk on a fundamental approach to thinking about scalability, and how Hadoop, HBase, and Lucene are enabling companies to process amazing amounts of data. It's also about how Social Media is making the traditional RDBMS irrelevant. Thanks for the follows everyone -- there'll be *more* to come later in the year! Be sure to hit up my blog, . I've got 3 essays in the pipeline: 'How To Scale: A Problem-Solving Framework', 'HBase Analytics', and possibly 'A Comparison of NoSQL Databases'. Social Mediies Why RDBMS Bad •Nonlinear scale cost •Used ayou special? •What are you willing to sacrifice? •How will you structure the data? Avoiding Impedance Mismatch •Most problems can be divided into High or Low latency •Get a lot of da•Sacrifice: Joins, Secondary Indexes

The Hour of Code ishops are set up all over the world, centered around short tutorials to teach the basics of coding. Anyone, anywhere can participate in an Hour of Code event – no experience needed. Every year, during Computer Science Education week, which falls on the first week of December, we host a public event which is aimed at encouraging students to learn about the power of coding. This year, Small Biz Up and The Josephine Louise Public Library are again Co-Hosting a Free Hour of Code event in Walden, NY. Whether or not your child aspires to be a Computer Scientist in the future is not important. Computer science concepts also help nurture creativity and problem-solving skills to prepare students for any future career. They will learn patience, logic and communication skills just by participating in this event.

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The Russell family attempts to do feed the hungry and clothe the homeless, but it blows up in their faces and puts their entire community in danger. More It was easy to tell his son he should have compassion for the less fortunate, but when a homeless man shows up on Collin’s doorstep, that’s an entirely different story. After much deliberation, the Russells invite the beggar to move in with them on a temporary basis. It’s only after the man takes over their son’s bedroom that they learn he was previously accused, but not convicted of performing a heinous act on another young boy. Evicting the man would be the simplest route to follow, but the Russell family doesn’t want rumors to cloud their judgment. For all they know, the guy could be perfectly innocent. Instead of kicking him to the curb, they enlist themselves as amateur detectives. Discovering the truth will be harder than they could ever imagine as they come face-to-face with threats, assaults, kidnappings, and murder. 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Naval warfare of the future will be chock-full of zapping, burning and melting laser beams, says The Economist. Drawing on a long history of light-based weapons systems, dating back to at least the ancient Greeks, the modern push for laser weapons “was revived when American strategists began thinking in earnest about the technologies they would need to shoot down nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.” Unlike bullets or missiles, lasers are particularly well suited for taking down small, swift, highly-maneuverable targets that a physical projectile would struggle to hit. That is, of course, assuming that these small objects can be tracked and locked onto for long enough that the laser, traveling at the speed of light, can do its work. So far, tests have seen ship-mounted lasers take down a small boat and an unmanned aerial vehicle or drone. The Economist draws up a list of different laser-weapon technologies which either have, or will, come to fruition in the near future: Fiber lasers, such as BAE System‘s “Tactical Laser System,” are relatively low-powered lasers that could “be useful for frightening off (or burning holes in) small boats that look threatening but wouldn’t warrant a hail of machinegun fire.” Solid-state lasers, with a bit of work, could be turned into weapons capable of “shoot down high-speed cruise missiles.” Such lasers are being developed almost exclusively by the American navy because they are too big to fit on planes or trucks. They work by shooting a stream of electrons at high speed through an undulating magnetic field, causing the electrons to emit radiation that coheres to form the beam. As well as being powerful, free-electron lasers have the advantage that they can be tuned to a precise frequency, allowing the beam to be adjusted for different atmospheric conditions. 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One of my favorite expressions had always been how my life had been turned upside down by this or that. A career change, a new foster child, filing for divorce, moving from a small village to a very big city ─ I can't even begin to count how many events have taken such a toll on me that I didn't know which way was up. All of those experiences left me with my feet on the ground. Taking a first step afterward may have been frightening and even unsteady. I managed. I conquered fear. I survived. I could feel the cold, damp mud against my right shoulder when three men meticulously rolled me onto my side to slide the backboard beneath me. At some point, maybe when I found myself in simulated flight as I was lifted from my car, I caught a glimpse of sleeve shreds unfurling in the breeze of movement. Now, as I grimaced atop the stiffness of my new bed, I silently questioned how the steering wheel had so radically whittled my favorite Rockies shirt, a one-of-a-kind item that wouldn't be easy to replace. "Swing for the Fences!" it read. No one else had one exactly like it. At least not in Downtown Denver on home game days. I tried to soothe my out-of-control breathing by visualizing the tedious steps of replacing my sleeve so the shirt would look brand new. The thought process also kept me from concentrating on how uncomfortable the backboard was and how much I wished the paramedics would stop taping pieces of me to the wood. It was as if there had been a superb sale on duct tape, for it was coming forth in massive abundance. The scratchy peel of tape being pulled from rolls was going off all around me like fireworks tossed in a campfire. "What are you trying to do? Replace the Pharaoh exhibit at the museum?" I thought to myself but did not voice aloud. The dampness must have kept the tape from sticking properly, so they were using it more like rope to hold me in place, tying the ends instead of pressing them into place. The crew was so intent on securing me for the trip back to the city, nobody could hear me begging for someone to get the glass out of my eye. Of course, I'd waited for a rather inopportune moment to notice my right eyeball was being scraped with every blink. Raindrops poked me like wet pins but couldn't blunt the grating sensation. My salty tears had so thoroughly soaked my facial flesh, the sky's moisture could only trickle off my exposed skin like a car wash in the rain. I closed my eyelids and attempted to keep my eyes from wandering. Flashbacks of the rear tires careening to the right prodded me and my eyes, so I tried to find a peaceful thought to dwell on instead. I remembered a surprise complimentary e-mail I'd sent to a co-worker the day before. I wondered if it had been received yet, and I thought about all the possible reactions my co-worker may have experienced, from annoyance to bliss. When I initially composed the warm fuzzy, I knew it would be welcomed as such, but the horror of my current predicament motivated me to psychoanalyze the consequences of my friendly impulse. Something to do on a rainy day, so to speak. After all, it wasn't like I could pick up a ball of string and crochet snowflakes, or skim through a newspaper to pass my sudden unforeseen chunk of unproductive time. Long ago I had learned my kids' hyperactivity was contagious. By virtue of parenting them, I had become inflicted with the curse of busy hands. I hate being tied up! The bumpiness of the shock-absorberless trek to the ambulance jolted me back to the current time and place. Every bounce forced me to remember that something was wrong with my left side and my shoulder. Inside the ambulance, I could see the lines of traffic outside slowly crawling by through the ajar side door. Non-drivers were bobbing back and forth, hands pressed against their steamy windows, trying to get a better look at the oddity ─ which in this case would be me. I wanted to hold up a sign: "No, I'm not dead, and nothing's missing." A paramedic temporarily relieved the humiliation by standing between me and the open door to check my vitals. He lifted the layers of blankets from my shoulder to examine my injury. My head was tightly taped, but because everything was so wet, muddy and bloody, turning slightly to look at my shoulder didn't pull my hair from the roots. The motion didn't do much good, however. Enough shirt sleeve remained to obscure the raw part of my arm, and the only skin I could see was caked with what looked almost like a sticky coating of burgundy-hued Rocky Road, laced with rocks instead of nuts. The paramedic reached across me to stick the IV in my right wrist. I quickly took the opportunity to remake an important request. He straightway dropped my arm in place and placed both of his hands on my head to gently pull back my lid and get a closer look. He then removed the IV bag from its hanging post and poked a hole in it with a hypodermic needle. Another paramedic climbed into the van from the open back door to hold my eye open while the first guy poured IV fluid across my face. Within seconds the chips flushed away, and I experienced immediate relief. The respite didn't last long, though. The second paramedic had commandeered a pair of sheers and was blazing a path through my shoelaces, followed by my sneakers and then my socks. He tugged on one leg of my jeans, the only pair of '70s-flavored ice wash jeans remaining on the planet. The shivers that raced through my spine as he lifted the scissors to begin denim surgery put every pain in my body on second priority. how can you remeber so much? I guess you really need to write it down. But, I know what those feet leels like. Monica, I wrote most of this in 1996; it truly was therapy when I wrote it. I hope what I recorded will help others who might be struggling with regaining confidence. I don't know which is worse - the glass in your eye or the realization that you couldn't do anything to help pass the time. (Not joking here.) It must have seemed as though things were happening both very quickly and very slowly. Ugh. Catching up here. Am amazed at how you remember so many thoughts... probably because I have a poor memory. Ha ha! I sometimes suffer from poor memory; usually when stressed. Which I was at the time this occurred. Fortunately, I also kept a journal of the most traumatizing things, so there was no lack of detail whatsoever. This is kind of scary to read but it helps to know that you did survive this ordeal and, in fact, ride a bike and make beautiful snowflakes. ;) I've said this before... but I am so glad that I know that you're alive and well. You write so grippingly that I feel as if I am you as I read. This is quite a series. Is it a book yet? I'll buy it if it is. Thanks, KB! The goal is to publish as an e-book, but I haven't submitted it to the library of congress yet. It's coming! Things at work just have to slow down for a few minutes!!!

The different Load Strategies available in SoapUI and SoapUI Pro allow you to simulate various types of load over time, enabling you easily test the performance of your target services under a number of conditions. Since SoapUI also allows you to run multiple LoadTests simultaneously (see an example further down), a combination of LoadTests can be used to further assert the behavior of your services. Select the desired Strategy for your LoadTest from the Strategy Toolbar in the LoadTest Window: Let's have a look at the different Load Strategies available and see how they can be used to do different types of Load/Performance tests. The Simple Strategy runs the specified number of threads with the specified delay between each run to simulate a breathing space for the server. For example if you want to run a functional test with 10 threads with 10 seconds delay, set Threads to 10, delay to 10000 and random to how much of the delay you want to randomize (i.e. setting it to 0.5 will result in delays between 5 and 10 seconds). When creating a new LoadTest this is the default strategy and set at a relatively low load (5 threads with 1000ms delay). The Simple Strategy is perfect for Baseline testing. Use it to assert the the basic performance of your service and validate that there are no threading or resource locking issues. Ramp up the number of threads when you want do more elaborate load testing or use the strategy for long-running soak tests. Since it isn't meant to bring your services to their knees, a setup like this can be used for continuous load-testing to ensure that your service performs as expected under moderate load; set up a baseline test with no randomization of the delay, add LoadTest Assertions that act as a safety net for unexpected results and automate its execution with the command-line LoadTest runner or maven plugins. One thing that the Simple Strategy does not do is guarantee a number of executions within a certain time, for example, if you might want to start your TestCase 10 times each second no matter how long it takes to execute. Using the Simple Strategy you could set up 10 Threads and a delay compensating for the average gap between the end of the TestCase and the start of the next second, but this would be highly unreliable over time. The Fixed-Rate strategy should be used instead; set the rate as desired (10 in our case) and off you go; the strategy will automatically start the required number threads for this setting attempting to maintain the configured value. As hinted in the headline, there are some twists here: what if our TestCase takes more than one second to execute? To maintain the configured TPS value, the strategy will internally start new threads to compensate for this; after a while you might have many more than 10 threads running due to the fact that the original ones had not finished within the set rate. And not surprisingly this could cause the target service to get even slower, resulting in more and more threads being started to "keep up" with the configured TPS value. As you probably guessed the "Max Threads" setting is her to prevent SoapUI from overloading (both itself and the target services) in this situation, specifying a value here will put a limit on the maximum number of threads the SoapUI will be allowed to start to maintain the configured TPS, if reached the existing threads will have to finish before SoapUI will start any new ones. The "Request Level" setting will attempt to maintain the TPS not on the TestCase execution level but on the request level instead, for example if you have a data-driven LoadTest or a TestCase with many requests, you want the TPS setting to apply not on the execution level of the entire TestCase but on the request level. In any case, the Fixed Rate strategy is useful for baseline, load and soak-testing if you don’t run into the "Thread Congestion" problem described above. On the other hand, you might provoke the congestion (maybe even in combination with another LoadTest) to see how your services handle this or how they recover after the congestion has been handled. There are several strategies that can be used to vary load (the number of threads) over time, each simulating a different kind of behavior. They can be useful for recovery and stress testing, but just as well for baseline testing, either on their own or in combination with other strategies. Let's have a quick look: Running this with the strategy interval set to 5000 the number of threads will change every 5 seconds: Variance strategy - this varies the number of threads over time in a “sawtooth” manor as configured; set the Interval to the desired value and the Variance to the how much the number of threads should decrease and increase. For example, if we start with 20 threads, set interval to 60 and Variance to 0.8, the number of threads will increase from 20 to 36 within the first 15 seconds, then decrease back to 20 and continue down to 4 threads after 45 seconds, and finally go back up to the initial value after 60 seconds. In the Statistics Diagrams, we can see this variance easily: Burst Strategy - This strategy is specifically designed for Recovery Testing and takes variance to its extreme. It does nothing for the configured Burst Delay, then runs the configured number of threads for the “Burst Duration” and goes back to sleep. Here you could (and should!) set the number of threads to a high value (20+) to simulate an onslaught of traffic during a short interval, then measure the recovery of your system with a standard base-line LoadTest containing basic performance-related assertions. Let's try this with a burst delay and duration of 10 seconds for 60 seconds: The diagram displays the bursts of activity. Also note that the resolution has been changed to 250ms (from the default "data" value), otherwise we would not have had any diagram updates during the "sleeping" periods of the execution (since no data would have been collected). The Thread Strategy lets you linearly change the number of threads from one level to another over the run of the LoadTest. It’s main purpose is as a means to identify at which level certain statistics change or events occur, for example, to find at which ThreadCount the maximum TPS or BPS can be achieved or to find at which ThreadCount functional testing errors start occurring.Set the start and end thread values (for example, 5 to 50) and set the duration to a relatively long duration (I use at least 30 seconds per thread value, in this example that would be 1350 seconds) to get accurate measurements (more on this below). Grid Strategy - This strategy allows the user to specifically configure the relative change in the number of threads over a defined interval of time. Its main use for this is more advanced scenario and recovery testing, where you need to see the services behavior under varying loads and load changes. For example let’s say you want to run for 60 seconds with 10, 20, 10, 40, 10 threads. Configure your LoadTest to start with 10 threads and then enter the following values in the Grid: Script Strategy - The script strategy is the ultimate customization possibility. The script you specify is called regularly (the Strategy Interval setting in the LoadTest Options dialog) and should return the desired number of threads at that current time. Returning a value other than the current one will start or stop threads to adjust for the change. This allows for any kind of variance of the number of threads, for example the following script randomizes the number of threads between 5 and 15: Many of these strategies will change the number of threads which has an important impact on the statistics calculation that you need to be aware of; when the number of threads changes, this will usually change the response times of the target services, resulting in a change in avg, tps, etc., but since the LoadTest has already run at a previous number of threads the results for those runs will skew the result for the new ThreadCount. For example, say you have been running at 5 threads and got and average to 500ms. Using the Thread Strategy you increase the number of threads gradually; when running 6 threads the average increases to 600ms but since the “old” values collected for 5 threads are still there, these will in total result in a lower average. There are two easy ways to work around this; select the “Reset Statistics on ThreadCount change” value in the LoadTest Options dialog, or manually reset the statistics with the corresponding button in the LoadTest toolbar; in either case old statistics will be discarded. To see this in action let's do a ThreadCount Strategy test from 10 to 20 threads over 300 seconds (30 seconds per thread), below you can see results both with this setting unchecked and then checked: In the latter you see the “jumps” in statistics each time they are reset when the number of threads changes, gradually leveling out to a new value. The final TPS calculated at 20 threads differs about 10% between these two, showing how the lower results “impact” the higher ones. Ok, let's have a quick look at this. We'll create one baseline test with the simple strategy and a low number of threads, and at the same time run a burst strategy to see how the baseline test performance "recovers" after the burst: Here you can see the simple strategy (bottom diagram) recovering gradually after each burst of load. Hopefully you have gotten a good overview of the different load strategies available in SoapUI and how they can be used to simulate different load test coverage scenarios. As you may have noticed, SoapUI focuses more on "behavioral" load testing (understanding how your web service handles different loads) instead of exact numbers, which is hard to calculate since there are so many external factors influencing it.

It is often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, however, this statement can be problematic with respect to those suffering from addiction. Anyone who has been in the throes of their disease can attest to the fact that there is no beauty seen, heard, or experienced, anywhere. When we are out there running amuck, throwing caution to the wind, and wreaking complete havoc in our lives and in the lives of those who love us, we are completely devoid of any legitimate splendor, ecstasy, and beauty. One of the foundations of our vision here at South Orange County Detox & Treatment (SOCD) is to restore the beauty of life that is within any individual’s reach to grasp. This, however, is not a quick and easy process and requires more work than merely picking flowers by the wayside. This process is integral and vital to the longevity, quality, and evolution of the individual who is treading the treacherous road of sobriety. At SOCD, we focus on flipping the script of each person’s narrative so that they come to see that they have everything they are searching for already within themselves. For so long we have sought after every external measure to create a false sense of internal beauty. We have tried everything; alcohol, drugs, relationships, sex, gambling, and power, only to find that all that is left is a vacant sense of self and an engagement with life that is vapid and unfulfilling. Learning to love oneself is the primary task at hand when finding inner beauty as it comes from the inside out rather than how us addicts mistakenly perceive it which is through the external sources named above, coming from the outside in. After we can accept this love for ourselves, we can pass this on to others so that rather than merely working on our recovery, we can live it and share it with others who need compassion, empathy, and understanding. In other words, as Rumi says, “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do”. Here at SOCD, we focus on each individual in order to create an experience where our clients learn to love themselves in order to love others and, in this process, create a sense of being where it is understood that the beauty we harvest is within ourselves and the connection of love with others is personified in the actions and beauty we share with them. If we take our recovery seriously, we begin to find that there is an abundancy of beauty in most everything, and more importantly, we see how when we are living as slaves to our addiction, we are left blind to it. With clarity of vision we find beauty and in finding beauty, our vision becomes clear. Tagged: Best Drug Rehab, oc rehab, beauty, south orange county detox and treatment, san clemente, dana point, word of the week, RECOVERY BLOG

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The Sooke U13 girls lost their District Cup quarter final cup game, 2-0 against Peninsula last Saturday at Fred Milne Park. “The girls played awesome in the slipperiest, hardest running conditions you can have,” said Sooke coach Bruce Milton. “We put the ball on the net, we even put one on the keeper that landed on her feet, but we just didn’t have the luck to get it to land at the back of the net.” “Overall, they did an awesome job. They had good spirit, and they definitely commanded the game,” Milton said.

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Nico Rosberg nicked a close result against his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton in the 2015 edition of this race. The winners of this game will qualify for next season’s Champions League but will also claim a major piece of silverware. The current Europa League holders are Sevilla who beat FK Dnipro 3-2 in last year’s Final at the National Stadium, Warsaw. Action from Hampden Park. Last season saw 10-man Inverness Caledonian Thistle beat Falkirk 2-1 thanks to a late goal from James Vincent. One of the highlights of the English sporting calendar as two teams run out at Wembley to compete for the fabled trophy. Arsenal won 4-0 last year against Aston Villa. They were knocked out in the quarter-finals this time around. The flagship European Tour event continues at Wentworth in Surrey. Taking place on the iconic West Course, the event invariably attracts a world-class field. Last year the event was won by An Byeong-hun of South Korea. A long, gruelling season comes to an end in the Aviva Premiership. Saracens are the reigning champions, having despatched Bath in comprehensive fashion in last year’s Final. Renowned as one of the most valuable matches in world football, the winner of this game will get a golden ticket into the hugely lucrative Barclays Premier League. Tensions are sure to be running high amongst players, fans and the management alike. The San Siro Stadium in Milan hosts this showpiece event featuring the two best teams in Europe. Barcelona are the holders, having beaten Juventus 3-1 in Berlin. This Minnesota Twins Team Logo House Flag hangs vertically and is a great way for the baseball fan to show their team spirit! This Morehouse Maroon Tigers Logo PennMaroon Tigers Logo Penn, Jun 25 (PTI) For long Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been rated as the best wicketkeeper-batsman in white ball cricket but Austr Asked to rate Buttler, Paine, who himself is a 'keeper-batsman said: He's good, he's very good. Right now, he'd have to be the best white-ball wicket-keeper batsman in the world. "I don't think there's too many guys to challenge him. MS Dhoni is pretty good, but at this moment, Jos is at the absolute peak of his powers. He understands his one-day game so well and knows his strengths inside out and just doesn't go away from him." He's someone for our batters to watch and see first hand. Those experiences are going to be really good for D'Arcy Short or Travis Head to see him and Jonny Bairstow and Jason Roy at their best, Paine added With Gonzalo Higuain confirming his move to Juventus earlier this week and Arsenal desperately looking for a striker, there's a huge cyclic effect currently on play involving some of Europe's top strikers – including Inter Milan's Mauro Icardi. The Argentine has been an incredible signing for the Milanese club but has constantly been linked with a move to the Premier League or one of La Liga's top two guns in Barcelona and Real Madrid. Icardi is also highly sought after by Napoli who want the 23-year-old to replace now-departed Higuain. Napoli have even bid a mammoth £45.5million for the striker but the club have turned it down and have insisted that the youngster isn't going anywhere this summer. “We’re not going to sell Icardi. We’ve received offers – from Napoli too – but we’re not going to sell him,” Chief Erick Thohir told Inter Channel. “We extended his contract a year ago. We’re like a family and we can always talk if there are problems or discuss what we’d like to achieve together in future.” Arsenal were reportedly so interested in signing Icardi that they called his agent – who also happens to be his wife – to London to discuss what could be his future. Reports soon emerged that the Argentine agreed to send his wife to the Gunners' meeting only so he can gain an upper hand in contract negotiations with the Milanese club. Napoli have already had more than three bids turned down by Inter this season. The 23-year-old scored 16 goals in 34 appearances for Roberto Mancini's side last season further outlining his talent in front of goal. Given his tender age, he has all the right ingredients and the time to ensure he improve as a striker. It looks like Napoli are going to bid a few more times to ensure they force Inter into considering parting with the striker. More on that as it happens. 2 minutes to go. @Telugu_Titans are completely owning this. They lead @DabangDelhi 36-25 #ProKabaddi Smart work by Telugu Titans' youngster Sandeep Narwal to get Rohit Kumar out. Titans 29-16 Dabang Delhi 14' Dabang Delhi are ALL OUT as Kashiling Adake is caught by the Telugu Titans defence. 13-5 in Titans' favour. Telugu Titans' star raider Rahul Chaudhari was caught, but Dabang Delhi defenders had stepped out. Titans 3-1 Delhi.

London. Singapore. Hong Kong. Now, Kuala Lumpur. Prachanda’s rendezvous, according to a Maoist politburo member, with Indian intelligence operatives at distant locations never seem to end. Accompanied by the fellow leader of theMaharagate fame, the Maoist supremo was ostensibly on a tour for “party work.” If the recent rhetoric and the actions of the Maoist party are any indication, it becomes clear that the “party works” remain focused on regaining the seat of power Pushpa Kamal Dahal was forced to vacate one and a half years ago. After the three abortive trips earlier, Prachanda this time flew to Kuala Lumpur following a series of “positive” meetings with two of his bête noire -- president Ram Baran Yadav and prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal. Yadav’s action over the army chief row was instrumental in Prachanda’s exit from Baluwatar where Madhav stepped in to replace him. In his meeting with Madhav, Prachanda agreed to be “flexible” to resolve the vexing Maoist combatants’ integration and management issue. The meeting with Yadav over dinner was aimed at regaining the trust of the president who is being allegedly readied to take another drastic action to end the long-running political stalemate. Prachanda has since then withdrawn from the prime ministerial race in parliament and has shown a surprisingly accommodating position on the combatants’ issue. Insiders say, what he is trying to achieve is winning the hearts and the minds of key actors for a comeback to Singh Durbar central secretariat. What is, instead, becoming clear is that his Kuala Lumpur mission proved to be no different from London, Hong Kong and Singapore. CLIFTON PARK — When I met with Titanics last week, the band was fresh off a stop in Boston that put the group back in Albany at 4 am that morning. October has been a busy month for the Albany based tranquil-pop duo comprised of Mark Lombardo and Derek Rogers. Titanics dropped its third release, “Hotel” on Oct. 7, six strong tracks at four minutes or less — you’ve got to love a band that can tell you a story in four minutes or less. The duo’s approach to writing, recording, producing and even graphics is efficient and self-contained. All in house. As a matter of fact, just being a two-man band allows their tour ride to be a Honda Civic. And, of course, this scenario is probably only possible because Rogers and Lombardo are best of friends. You see it when you chat with them, and you see it on stage. I also learned that the duo aren’t necessarily looking to be road warriors. I don’t think they are looking to be traditional rock stars at all. They believe the ground rules have changed and that the record companies are becoming less and less important. The music industry model is changing and they seem prepared to help usher it in. Lombardo recently left his day job of refurbishing student violins and has become self-employed through his music production business. Rogers, on the other hand, continues his day gig as a graphic designer. Both of these careers seem to work well in conjunction with their musical visions. If “Hotel” says anything about Titanics, it says things are good. These two friends have their focus and have plans to stay the course. The Rusty Nail will be hosting “An Intimate Evening” with Titanics Friday, Nov. 4 from 9 to 12 p.m.. This will be a great opportunity to see Lombardo and Rogers. Normally, when you see Titanics it’s usually a 35-minute set in a larger venue. The Rusty Nail will be a change of pace. Not only will you get to hear music from all three releases, you’ll be treated to some acoustic versions and covers as well. Sorry to say that we're not going to be performing in the AviChoice Awards show due to organization difficulties. Please accept our sincere appreciation for the willingness of those we asked to participate with us. I know we would have done an awesome job with you all there with us looking your fabulous selves! Stop by the store to see the demo where you can open and close the curtains and change the colors. Also available on Marketplace.

M. Manto is neurologist. He is researcher at the FNRS-Belgium. He is the founding and current editor of the international journal The Cerebellum (Springer). He is the President of the Medical Board of Euro-Ataxia. He has founded the Society for Research on the Cerebellum “The Handbook of the Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders represents a monumental effort on the part of the editors and the contributors of the individual chapters to bring to fruition a single set of books that covers almost any aspect of the cerebellum that one can imagine. … It is a reference source that should be found in the library of the serious contemporary neurobiologist, especially those with interest in the cerebellum and its myriad of related brainstem nuclei.” (Duane E. Haines, The Cerebellum, Vol. 13, 2014) “The editors sought to provide a thorough summary of the current understanding of the cerebellum and its disorders. … It is intended for all audiences who may have an interest in the cerebellum, its function, and its disorders. It can be used by literally all healthcare professionals and neuroscientists. … This is a must have for any university, medical center, or healthcare facility. It is an important addition to the literature and the content is appropriate for all audiences.” (Joseph I. Sirven, Doody’s Book Reviews, October, 2012)

Video games are often seen as a reason for numerous psychological changes, both positive and negative, in players. For instance, many authors believe that video games push children and adults towards risky behaviors and impulsivity. The study aimed to analyze both theoretical and empirical evidences of that sort, as well as to investigate parameters of personal and cognitive impulsivity and risk-readiness in adult video gamers. The sample of gamers included 223 participants, all from Russia. Impulsivity and related personal traits were measured with Eysencks’ Impulsiveness Scale (I-7) and Kornilova’s Personal Risk Factors Questionnaire. Impulsivity as cognitive style was measured by Kagan’s MFFT. No evidence of high impulsivity was found, though video game players, who played more than 12 h per week turned out to be more venturesome, compared to less active gamers. Sex-related differences were investigated: female gamers scored lower in empathy, while male gamers showed higher venturesomeness. In a cognitive style study, video gamers were more accurate compared to non-gamers, and thus showed no tendency for impulsivity. The results are contrasted to the published data, when applicable.

The junior Minister for Forestry has expressed his pleasure at the re-start of plywood production by the Barama Company Ltd (two articles published in Guyana Chronicle on Sunday, June 19). This re-start is at a production level of 1600 m3/month, rising to 2400 m3/month, which are 18 and 27 per cent of the installed production capacity of 9000 m3/month (108,000 m3/year). In December 2006, the same Minister was expressing concern that Barama was not fulfilling its (vaguely expressed) investment promises, against which it was receiving tax concessions under its secret foreign direct investment arrangement with the Cabinet. However, in 2006, Barama’s recorded production was 34494 m3, 32 per cent of its capacity. So why is Minister Robert Persaud now expressing satisfaction at a lower level, and without a timeline for reaching even the 27 per cent level? Potentially good news is a rise in “recovery rate of 11 per cent,” promised by Barama’s Corporate Affairs Secretary and Head of Forest Planning. A rise from what level? In 2006 the volume conversion of log to plywood was about 46 per cent. Is Neil Chand now indicating an increase to 57 per cent? Could Barama’s Head of Forest Planning show how this increase will be achieved and what are the consequences for the log harvest, in terms of volumes per species of timber per hectare per year until the end of Barama’s concession licence period? And as the Guyana Chronicle articles indicate that Barama is purchasing logs, what are the predicted effects on the sustainability of the logging concessions from which it is buying? Late last November the Government of Antigua gave notice to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Disputes Settlement Body (DSB) that if the United States did not reach “an appropriate and beneficial settlement” in relation to a legal adjudication made previously in its favour, it would act to recover the revenue it has lost. At the heart of the matter was a decision by the US Government to invoke US federal laws (the Wire Act, the Travel Act, and Illegal Gambling Business Act) to halt gaming companies incorporated in Antigua, and others, from providing such services on a cross border basis into the US. Despite this, Antiguan consultations in Washington on a financial settlement led nowhere, with the US declining to provide compensation, causing Antigua to take the issue to the WTO’s Disputes Settlement Body Arbitrator to request permission for trade retaliation. In 2013, at the end of a long judicial process the body formally authorised Antigua to take measures that would compensate it for the economic damage caused. In doing so, the arbitrator agreed to allow it to lift US intellectual property protection on up to US$21m annually on, for example, copyrighted music, movies or books, in a manner that would enable government to retain the royalties that would have otherwise gone to their US creators. Hoping that this would resolve the issue, Antigua once again sought to resolve the matter with the United States Trade Representative through a negotiated financial settlement. However, when it became apparent that the US was not prepared to reach a reasonable financial settlement, it informed the Disputes Settlement Body at its November 2016 meeting that it was prepared to legally enforce the suspension of copyright on the sale of US intellectual property, as allowed for by the WTO’s dispute settlement ruling of January 2013. Responding formally at the Geneva meeting, the US said that it remained committed to resolving the issue and had taken a constructive approach to resolving the matter. It however told the meeting that it expected Antigua to ensure any such “unprecedented step” was “transparent and within the DSB’s authorization”, warning that the suspension of intellectual property rights “would be counter to Antigua own interests”. In Geneva, the US also suggested that Antigua was standing in the way of a package of multilateral service concessions that it was offering to WTO members as compensation for having previously removed internet gambling from the US schedule of commitments. This lengthy process is worth describing in detail because it makes clear that Antigua has done everything required of it to make its case and obtain an outcome under WTO rules that legally and morally justify its seemingly aggressive present position. More importantly, the case is not just about Antigua or the representations made by successive Antiguan governments, but about important matters of global principle and governance at a time when the US may be about to set aside the established trade order. The case is in many respects extraordinary as it demonstrates that despite successive US governments frequently stated commitment to a rules-based international trade system, Washington has not been prepared to accept its WTO commitments and settle with Antigua. As Antigua told the Disputes Settlement Body in November, the “protracted failure” by the US to settle its non-compliance with WTO rules “has the potential to collapse confidence in the efficacy and credibility of the rules-based trading system.” It is of course no secret that in some parts of US government, officials express unrelated reservations about Antigua. However, that is of no relevance in this instance. The final WTO ruling and the arbitral award are clear cut, having the support of the members of the WTO, a multilateral body that up to now the US has regularly brought complaints to when it believes that its trade interests have been damaged. Moreover, its failure to conform means more generally that it cannot be WTO compliant until it either reaches a settlement, or takes the unlikely step of opening its market to internet gaming from Antigua. In the last few days the US President elect has nominated Robert Lighthizer, a long-time advocate of greater protectionism, to be his US Trade Representative. Although the Antigua issue is unlikely to figure high on his agenda, it ought to, as it speaks directly to the US government’s willingness or otherwise to respect its rules-based trading relationships with the rest of the world. ‘One day at an enquiry, or in the Courts, he will be invited to ex­plain, step by step, day after day, how this happened,” the WPA said. ‘It is really the most thought­less mistake in all his reporting. He will have to reconstruct that whole escape…but can never suc­ceed before a tribunal in such a tale. For this reason, we are thank­ful for this lie – one that is a key to others,” it added. WPA said: “We hope readers will ask themselves why the WPA would, as Smith claims, rush him off to a place of safety in Cayenne and keep Donald Rodney here to face possible violence and a criminal trial for all sorts of offences. Not only that, but he was named by Donald Rodney while he Smith was in the country, so that WPA was putting him and itself in danger.” It is not true that Donald named Gregory Smith only when he gave the statement to the Police. In his earlier interview to the Press, be­fore he was strong enough for Police interrogation, he did name Smith. It was CANA that exercised its discretion to omit the name in its reporting. Why then would WPA name Smith on June 14 or 16 (1980) when it is hiding him and the public does not know him, yet run the risk of hiding him after naming him and labelling him a wanted man responsible for Walter Rodney’s murder?” The party said it was glad Smith has started talking ‘regardless of what he chooses to say,” and urged Guyanese to “read everything…and demand a Court trial for Smith, or failing a trial by jury, an indepen­dent investigation to lay every­thing bare.” Gregory Smith would not be an agent if he could not have worm­ed his way by similar pretense as those in ‘Stabroek News’ into Walter Rodney’s confidence. Kindly permit my letter space in your newspaper to clarify a position on brothers representing Guyana at youth cricket. There have been quite a number of occa­sions where brothers have represented Guy­ana at youth cricket, As far as I know Alvin and Derek are the only Kallicharrans who represented this country at youth cricket. If the claim that three brothers represented Guyana at youth cricket, is correct would you inform me on his name, the year he played and what he played as? There is indeed a third Kallicharran brother who played youth cricket for Guy­ana. He played as the wicketkeeper in the away matches of the 1968 BAT Under 21 series and was replaced by Keith Aaron when the team returned home. His name is Stan­ley Kallicharran. DESPITE what many consider a prohibitive licence fee of $l million, the three bookmakers have reopened. They have, however, introduced a new tax on punters to try to recover the extra half a million, the licence was previously half a million Under the new plan, punters are required to pay a tax of 10 per cent on all amounts they bet. In other words, if they bet $10 on a horse, they have to pay the bookmaker an extra $1 in tax. If the bookmaker’s total bets are about $30 000 a day this will net him $3 000 a day and about $900 000 in a year. He would thus succeed in passing the entire licence fee on to the punter. The question is whether the punter can or will bear this addi­tional imposition. When the first big increase of licence fees was in­troduced, the book­maker sought to re­cover this from the punter by shading the odds paid to the punter. They reduced the starting price by 10 per cent. If a horse started at 10-1, they paid 9-1 on it. Many punters felt this was an ex­cessive imposition and had already made win­ning virtually impos­sible. Now the addi­tional tax on the bet drives the nail in the coffin. They feel the bookmakers will re­cover more than the tax. Observers feel that the government duty is unconscionably high (about $3 000 per working day) and can only be interpreted as an attempt to close the bookmakers. In­deed, they may only survive if the al­ready hard-pressed punter will bear this huge additional burden. First reports indicate that betting has decreased a lot as punt­ers consider the new 10 per cent tax prohibi­tive and unfair and, that the shaded odds are already adequate to cover the book­maker. THE 36 people now homeless as a result of a fire in Meadow Bank, East Bank, Demerara two weeks ago, are not too happy with the performance of the Fire Service at the scene of that fire. They felt that quicker work and the use of a fire hydrant in front of the destroyed two-storeyed building could have “saved the day” for them. Neighbors and on­lookers said that the hydrant was not used, during the fire after water from the tanks of the two tenders was exhausted in the, early stages of the blaze. One report said that a live electrical wire rested on the hy­drant when firemen needed it most, bring­ing into question the response of the Guy­ana Electricity Cor­poration’s emergency crew who are part of the emergency re­sponse system. Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday committed Osafo Swain to stand trial at the High Court for the attempted murder of Ewart Blair, after ruling that a prima facie case had been made out against him. The allegation against Swain is that on July 26, in Georgetown, he discharged a loaded a firearm at Blair, with intent murder him. The chief magistrate made the announcement shortly after the conclusion of the preliminary inquiry into the charge. Police Prosecutor Arvin Moore successfully maintained his objections to bail, citing the use of a gun in the alleged commission of the offence. That weapon, he noted, is yet to be recovered. Guyana completed their fourth successive win in the ongoing Regional One Day Under-19 tournament yesterday, with a commanding 10 – wicket over Barbados at the Conaree Cricket Club Ground in St Kitts. The inform Raymond Perez and West Indies Under-19 wicket-keeper batsman Joshua Persaud completed the ten wicket pounding after scoring 87 not out and 75 not out, respectively, to get Guyana to 167 – 0, at the beginning of the 40th over. Guyana’s opening batsmen Joshua Persaud (left) and Raymond Perez (right) after seeing Guyana to a commanding ten wicket victory Spinners Kevin Sinclair (left) and Ashmead Nedd (right) who together took eight wickets to rout Barbados for 166 Perez, who now has 224 runs from four innings, on the back of three half centuries, laced six boundaries, while Persaud’s knock included the same amount of fours and one maximum. Barbados, who had earlier won the toss and elected to bat, were bundled out for a paltry 166 in the 46th over, with spinners Ashamed Nedd (4-29), and Kevin Sinclair (4-23), having their own way with the Barbadian batsmen. Only West Indies Under-19 opener, Shian Braithwaite showed any resistance against the Guyanese spin attack while compiling 59, a knock which lasted 99 deliveries, and included seven fours and a solitary maximum. Guyana will now turn their attention to Trinidad and Tobago tomorrow, in what is expected to be the virtual final, since they are also unbeaten in the tournament. (Royston Alkins) Come April, the 20th Commonwealth Games will commence in Australia and Guyana, as is customary, will be represented in seven of the 18 disciplines (10 core sports) that will be contested. The Guyana Olympic Association, an affiliate of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently announced that 20 athletes from the seven disciplines will represent Guyana at the XXI Commonwealth Games, commonly known as Gold Coast 2018, which will be held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia between April 4 and 15. The Commonwealth Games, known as the British Empire Games from 1930 to 1950, the British Empire and Common-wealth Games from 1954 to 1966 and British Commonwealth Games from 1970 to 1974, is an international multi-sport event open to members of the Common-wealth of Nations. The games are run by the Common-wealth Games Federation which selects the host cities among other things. Unlike the Olympic Games, where Guyana has won only one medal to date – a bronze through the efforts of boxer Michael Anthony Parris- Guyana has done reasonably well at the Common-wealth Games winning its first medals at the 1930 British Empire Games held in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, a silver and a bronze. The silver medal was won by high jumper Colin Gordon while the bronze medal came in the coxed four rowing event. At the 1934 British Empire Games in London, England, Phil Edwards won this nation’s first gold medal when he outclassed the field in the 880 yards in a time of 1:54 seconds while at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia, swimmer Walter Spence won a silver medal in the 220 yards breaststroke in a time of 3:00.5 seconds. No games were held in 1942 and 1946 because of World Wars I and II while British Guiana did not participate at the 1950 British Empire Games held in Auckland, New Zealand. In 1954, when the name was changed to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Julius Park won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the games held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 30th July to 7 August while at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales from 18th to the 26th July, Winston Roy Mc Arthur won a silver medal in weightlifting. Guyana continued its medal winning ways at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia from 22nd November to 1st December through Martin Diaz who won a bronze medal in weightlifting. The 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games were held in Kingston, Jamaica from the 4th to 13th August. This was the first time the games would be held in the Caribbean and once again weightlifting was the discipline that shone with Martin Diaz winning a silver medal in the bantamweight division. The 1970 British Commonwealth Games, held in Edinburgh, Scotland from 16th July to 25th July 1970, saw the late boxer Courtney Atherly winning a bronze medal in the bantamweight division. Guyana did not participate at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games held in Christ Church, New Zealand from the 24th January to 2nd February. However, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games held in Edmonton Alberta Canada August 3-12, Winfield Brathwaite won a gold medal in boxing in the light welterweight division while James Wren Gilkes won a silver medal in the 200 metres men’s open clocking 20.18 seconds while June Marcia Griffith won a bronze medal in the long jump with a leap of 6.52 metres. Guyana failed to secure a medal at the 1982 Commonwealth Games were held in Brisbane, Australia from 30th September to the 9th October and this country again did not participate at the 1986 Commonwealth Games held in Edinburgh, Scotland from 24th July to the 2nd August. At the 1990 Commonwealth Games held in Auckland, New Zealand from 24th January to the 3rd February, boxer Wesley Christmas won a bronze medal in the bantamweight division but Christmas’s glory was spoiled because he defected in Miami whilst in transit back to Georgetown. Guyana failed to medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games held in Victoria in the province of British Columbia in Canada from the 18th to the 24th August and the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They struck gold, however, at the 2002 Commonwealth Games were held in Manchester, England from the 25th July to the 4th August through a virtual unknown then in Aliann Pompey who burst into stardom by winning the 400 metres in a time 51:63 seconds. Guyana, though, failed to medal at the 2006 Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia from the 15th to the 26th March. In 2010 when the games were held in Delhi, India from 3rd to the 14th October, Pompey won a silver medal in the 400 metres at a time of 51.65 seconds, however at the 2014 Games held in Glasgow, Scotland from 23rd July to the 3rd August 2014, Guyana failed to medal. This time around Guyana will compete in badminton, boxing, rifle shooting, squash, swimming, table tennis and track and field. The teams will be accompanied by 10 officials and, according to GOA president K.A Juman Yassin, the nation’s top sportsmen and women could do the nation proud at the upcoming games. If one was to take a look at the performances of Guyanese at past Commonwealth games one would see that boxing, weightlifting and track and field are the best bets for medals. Table tennis has a history of being represented at the games but neither team nor player has yet managed to win a medal. This time, Godfrey Munroe, a former men’s singles national champ, has high hopes for the men and women’s teams. The players Trenace Lowe, Pricilla Greaves, Christopher Franklyn, Natalie Cummings, Shemar Britton, Nigel Bryan and Joel Alleyne are in New York and play today play a tournament at Westchester, run by former Caribbean men’s singles champion Robert Roberts prior to commencing a week long training camp with another former Caribbean men’s singles champion Sydney Christophe. Despite the retirement of the former world ranked WISPA professional Nicolette Fernandes there is still high hopes that the discipline of squash might be able to produce a medal. “The good thing for squash is that most of the top players in the world are from countries within the Commonwealth, and as such, I think the games will give them a chance to play the best in the world and I’m sure they will give their best,” he said. Guyana’s Simon Pure have a history of winning medals at the games and coach of the two-man team Sebert Blake is optimistic that Keevin Allicock and Collin ‘Superman’ Lewis can deliver the goods. Undoubtedly, though, Guyana’s best bet for a medal rests with athletics in the form of Troy Doris, who represented Guyana at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio where he placed a disappointing seventh in the triple jump with a leap of 16.90 metres. Coached by former national sprinter and record holder, Julian Edmonds, the other members of the team are Winston George, Emanuel Archibald, Leslain Baird, Natricia Hooper and Natrena Hooper. Despite his rapid climb up the international rakings, not much is expected of the lone badminton player Narayan Ramdhani nor from swimmers Andrew Fowler and Jamila Sanmoogan. The rifle shooting team of Paul Slowe (Coach), Ransford Goodluck and Lennox Braithwaite could be the dark horse of the competition and might be able to spring a few surprises. On October 16, 2017, one of the major headlines in the sports section of the Stabroek News read, `Champs, at last, Essequibo win maiden tournament.’ Skipper Anthony Adams, who been on the receiving end of a few heavy defeats at the hands of Demerara and Berbice, led Essequibo to championship honours in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Jaguars three- day league. It was a thrilling day for the cricketers, both past and present, from Guyana’s largest county which, before that triumph, had been considered the whipping boys on Guyana’s cricket landscape. Nine months on, while there is no telling whether they can, coach Ryan Hercules and the hierarchy of the Board are doing everything within their grasp to have the boys from the Cinderella County ready to defend their crown. From all indications, the players are also keen to prove that last season’s display was not a fluke, or a flash in the pan performance. The team, in that regard, is receiving support from the business community and a few political offices as they look to hold training camps ahead of this year’s tournament. He said the team intends to begin preparations as soon as the dust has settled on their championship run even as they gear up for another. “We will be working on players’ mental and physical fitness where a number of fitness examinations will be done over the six weekend periods,” Hercules added. “We’ll also be involved in a number of practice matches… being the defending champions in the three-day format, we’ll have to put a lot of work in so when the tournament starts, we will be ready for competitive cricket. “We are giving ourselves enough time to be prepared for the tournament,” he disclosed adding that Essequibo cricket is hoping to come of age this year in a bid to be taken seriously. He noted that his unit is being rewarded for last season’s efforts with the business community and county’s administrative office in the county of their roots, throwing their support behind the team. Some of the business he mentioned “who wants to see Essequibo cricket moving forward” are V Net Communications, West Vibes Bar (Tuschen), Supreme Petroleum, and Iman Bacchus and Son. The narrative, however, won’t be as easy to rewrite since other teams will be gunning to dethrone the champions and will no doubt remove any sense of complacency they once harboured. At the very least, Essequibians will be hoping for another competitive showing from their franchise. Last season, they were well led by skipper Adams, who bagged 52 wickets and amassed 260 runs, which included a century to cap off an excellent all-around effort. Ricardo Adams also had a stellar showing with both ball and bat. In one particular knock, he bludgeoned 11 maximums in an unbeaten innings of 116 to spearhead a massive win over Georgetown. Wicketkeeper-batsman Kemol Savory was also a high flyer in the tournament, scoring 465 runs which included a century. He gloved the best wicketkeeper award after completing 22 dismissals while West Indies Test selectee Keemo Paul tallied 230 runs from just three matches with a best of 175 while snaring nine scalps.

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(W/A/CA) Frank Thorne This huge art book presents the complete original artwork, in an archival format, of all of Frank Thorne's signature creations: Ghita, in her first full length adventure. This definitive first volume is 15 x 22 inches and is being printing on special archival paper that simulates the original Bristol board used by Thorne in the creation of this popular culture masterpiece. In 1978, fresh off his run on Red Sonja, Frank Thorne went on to create the lusty warrior-goddess, Ghita. Imbued with the spirit of a mighty general, she would lead a rag-tag band against bloodthirsty armies, and along the way get in some tumbumping. This initial volume showcases some of Frank's earliest art of Ghita including her first appearance in the erotic epic 'Ghita of Alizarr,' early character designs, unproduced movie storyboards, the Wizard and Warrior Women portfolio, pin-ups and covers. This oversized edition, measuring 15' x 22', presents Frank's artwork full size, as originally drawn. The artwork has been scanned from the original pages in color to ensure the closest reproduction. Special limited Edition with a special plate signed and numbered by Frank Thorne limited to 125 copies Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI – A new website on noted composer Hoàng Vân (1930-2018), offering the most valuable material on his life and works, has been launched by his children. The website, was initiated by popular music conductor Lê Phi Phi and music researcher Lê Ly Linh as many of their father’s works had been lost during wars. “During the 2000s, I just thought of recording all his works on CDs to store in my family’s library and later publish a book on all his works,” Linh said. “However, music is a kind of living art, in which music should be played, song should be sung so that the works are alive. Hence, the page is an irreplaceable facility for the mission of a ‘living’ museum”. On the website, people can find Vân’s works arranged by topics by using key words in the search tool. The site also has various music pieces by the composer. Plenty of articles on Vân’s life and works are also available for both public and researchers. “We hope to list everything involving the composer,” Linh said. With the help of the site, Vân’s family can connect with singers, composers and music organisers throughout the world to exchange and liven up his songs on stage as he would have wanted. “Our father was lucky as he had millions of fans,” Linh said. “We expect to collect all his memories and publish them so that the public can have a better understanding of his life… [Read full story]

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Global Movements: Dance, Place, and Hybridity provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between the global mobility of ideas and people, and its impact on dance and space. Using seven case studies, the contributors illustrate the mixture of dance styles that result from the global diffusion of cultural traditions and practices. The collection portrays a multitude of ways in which public and private spaces—stages, buildings, town squares as well as natural environments—are transformed and made meaningful by culturally diverse dances.Global Movements will be of interest to scholars of geography, dance, and global issues.

This collection is an attempt to integrate India's glorious cuisines. Each region has its own special subtle blend of flavours and ingredients for example coconut is used abundantly in coastal cuisines, cereals and pulses in Gujarati and Rajastani cuisine as they are more drier areas as fresh vegetables are not abundantly available throughout the year. This is a collection of cookbooks put together especially for lovers of Indian cuisine.

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This worksheet introduces students to changing nouns from singular to plural form. When you want to make a noun plural, you usually add s. When the noun ends in ch, sh, x, or s then you add es. If the noun ends in y, change it to i and add es. Students are given opportunities to practice changin Resources to help students use singular and plural nouns correctly.Only plural nouns needing -s or -es are used.8 sheets: students read the sentence and write the correct form of the word in the blank. Students have to decide if the word needs -s, -es, or needs to be singular. (to allow for diffe 36 flash cards with singular/plural nouns -s, -es, -ies and 10 worksheets. Check the PREVIEW to see some of the worksheets. This packet includes 20 worksheetYou might be interested i This word search on nouns also doubles as a coloring sheet!. The solution to the puzzle is included. Terms Included: Proper Nouns: ♦ New York ♦ January ♦ Jupiter ♦ Christmas Singular Nouns: ♦ Boat ♦ Dolphin ♦ Te This packet includes 20 worksheets and 63 noun puzzles to help your and Plural Nouns - Worksheet and Answer Key In this three-page worksheet, students are introduced to the various rules for changing singular to plural nouns and vice-versa. Students must: - convert singular to plural nouns - convert plural to singular nouns - convert singular to plural n Students show their knowledge of singular and plural nouns by adding either S or ES to the ends of words. A bonus question to test their knowledge of plural nouns is added at the bottom This is a three part activity, originally designed as a file folder game. Students will start out by sorting 20 cards into 2 stockings: Action Verbs or Linking Verbs. They will read the card, identify the verb, and then place the card on the appropriate stocking. After they have sorted the cards, they have a chart to fill in with the list of action verbs and the list of linking verbs. Once this is complete OR as a seperate assessment component, students will complete an action and linking verb worksheet. For this assignment, students will identify the verb and circle whether it is an action or linking verb. At the bottom, students are given 5 verbs, (some action and some linking). They must construct their own sentences using one verb in each sentence. We use the fundamentals of fractions and units throughout math and science, so this worksheet and key are excellent starting points for many subjects. Sample problems: If you pay $3.50 for two pounds of apples, how much do apples cost per pound? A college student can type 460 words in .5 hours, how many words can he write a minute? Practice the concept of teen numbers with this St. Patrick's Day 10's and 1's matching games. Print and laminate each of the cards. Students can use them in a group or individually to pair the cards together. Half of the cards have a number on them and the other half have a set of corresponding blocks. Includes cards for numbers 10-30 along with a recording sheet to keep students accountable for their work. This product is included within a larger bundle. Save 50% on four literacy and four math centers when purchasing within my St. Patrick's Day center bundle! This money saving deal can be found here: March Center Bundle

The BSA is famous for overhyping its claims. It puts out completely bogus stats about how much unauthorized software "costs" the industry -- which count pretty much every unauthorized copy as a lost sale and doesn't count back in any of the benefits software firms get from people using copied versions of their software. The BSA is also the firm that hypes up how you can get a million dollars for turning in your boss for using unauthorized software, even though the details suggest that the firm rarely pays out more than $5,000. The Associated Press looked into the BSA's tactics and found that the organization makes a ton of money from going after these small firms, and also notes that its advertisements telling people to rat out their bosses for unauthorized software usage push employees to turn in their employers rather than actually fix the problem by making sure the firm properly licenses its software. Of course, when squeezing small firms is so lucrative, why would the BSA and its big software backers want more legitimate licenses? That just takes away from the ability to squeeze much more money out of small firms than they ever would have paid for in purchased software. And people wonder why more small businesses are looking to make use of open source products whenever possible? Update: Changed the link to a longer version of the AP story that includes even more details about problems with the BSA's tactics, including a couple of interesting points. First, it notes that the BSA keeps the money it gets, rather than distributing it to the software companies who support the BSA. In other words, the group has every incentive to keep squeezing money out of companies, rather than actually reducing unauthorized use. Second, the article points out that the BSA's actions are, indeed, driving more people to swear off the software of the BSA's supporters. It's an absolute nightmare for small business to be in compliance with software licenses. For a business with less than 20 people, they generally don't have the resources/time available to fully understand the license agreement. In most cases, even the company issuing the licenses don't understand it as you'll get widely different answers when you call to clarify usage restrictions. The software companies can then build in compliance to check for users/devices out of range of the license count. We also need to start looking at activation standarization. This is the next big class-action lawsuit waiting to happen. Think of the situation where 15 years from now you want to use your copy of Microsoft Office 2003, but you can't because the activation center was taken offline and Microsoft no longer officially supports the product. You have a legal copy but can't use it. Whenever a company decides to use activation for license compliance they are handing the client a life-long support contract for activation and activation support which they probably can't cost justify after the first 5 or 10 years. While most folks understand that they don't own the software, just the right to use it, this essentially means that you are now leasing your usage rights to the software for x years. A better design would be to require all activation type software to automatically unlock after 7 or 10 years. I can use it to host a web-site; write "Word" like documents, balance my accounting books, blah, blah, you get the picture. Unfortunatly, open source will only take you so far. Free software is great, but you cannot eat or pay bills on the income of open source. The problem is that people want to charge for products that are not really very difficult to reproduce. Maybe they should adjust their business models to focus on service generated revenue rather then overpriced boxed software. It isn't a new idea, and it works really well. i call bull. you can fully make tons off open source, ask any web host... ask google... ask pretty much anyone... oh, you want to work from 9 to 5 and write code all day without any im and get paid huge amounts of money like it's the 80's? good luck with that, those days are over. I make custom made software using free open source that interop with comercial closed source programs and i am doing well. Technology is growing faster than economy and politics, they're living in the past (they're like the old lady that uses an iPad as a chop table). Opensource opened the hole for people that got fired by companie's downsize to become their own business, there is so much to do for so many people out there. You may like open source or pay as you go. But it all sucks in operation. Open source is free to get but costs a bundle when you have problems. Pay as you go (Windows, Mac) costs up front but they support the product after you buy it. Whats the difference between the two, well basically nothing. Each has a cost associated with them. Windows/Macs are easier to use and have standards associated. Open Source roll your own has no standards an tech support is almost nonexistent. With Windows/Mac you are assured that your hardware will work with the OS with Open Source you have to depend on third parties for most drivers. Dont get me wrong I use all three and do not have a favorite. Just wish we could Pass laws that all software is interoperable with any OS that way we are quaranteed it will work. So is proprietary software support. Ever bought support from Oracle? It isn't cheap. Even Microsoft doesn't give it away. Microsoft loves to use non-standard file formats and to do other things in non-standard ways. It's called "lock-in" and is a favorite tactic among proprietary software vendors. Just the opposite. Open source software is far more likely to follow standards that proprietary software. "Lock-in" isn't a goal with open source. And if you want paid support there are companies offering that for open source as well. There is a lot of hardware out there that no longer works under the newer versions of Windows. A friend of mine for example has to keep an old Windows 98 box around just because the video capture card in it will not work with anything later than 98. Tell me who assures that it will work under XP so that I can send him to them for a fix. Yeah, thought so. How do you know? Have independent experts had a chance to look at the source? Of course not. That's what makes open source more trustworthy. Could have fooled me. By the way you've been bashing open source I would've sworn you were a proprietary software shill. commercial software has the same problems that open source software has, only OSS has a community that will help you. try it some time. good luck finding help with a mac OS or windows problem. sure you can buy books, but they make OSS books too. check out or they are huge searchable repositiories for advice on open source software. in the windows world, nothing even comes close, especially when you are dealing with sever stuff like SQL or IIS. Perhaps, as Web based software develops into maturity, this may be the answer for certain business applications and small businesses, especially as offline editing becomes a common feature. Some businesses are still uncomfortable with this software as service business model. Some are also uncomfortable with open source and want to stick to the mainstream. However, many users do not fully exploit the full features of their client based business productivity apps - and each new upgrade brings more features that rarely get used while consuming more memory. Yes and how does that help wen programs like AutoCAD, in which there is no alternate of the same quality, are required to run your business. Most business make money from software by having it do a required job that supports some other activity other than writing or distributing software. If you work for a company that may be short a few licenses, Why try to fix the problem?? If you are let go for some reason, you have a nice $5000 severence package waiting for you. (As long as licensing software wasn't your responsibility) BSA's tactics coupled with incomprehensible licensing is pushing more small businesses to drop shrink-wrapped software whenever they can. I have a friend whose small business was struggling to pay for the M$ Office and OS software licenses. We looked at what they did with their Office software and determined OpenOffice offered all the features they needed so they dumped M$ Office. Next, they figured out Google Mail was a much cheaper alternative and didn't require them to maintain a mail server - flush. Now they are looking to switch to Linux for their server OS. My bet is they are looking to dump their PC OS too. Granted, not all businesses can do this and there is a support/compatibility risk but when cost is nearly $0 many companies will examine these type of options. BSA's tactics will simply fuel the drive to switch. I got angry at Microsoft a long tome ago when media failure, not personal choice dictated the purchase of new software. Also vexing are M$'s schemes to tie licenses to hardware so when hardware dies the OEM license dies with it. It seems that whenever technology changes, proprietary software capitalizes on it. Quite true. It's unfortunate that a consumers monetary/time costs are not considered when a company whines about their lost dollars. Recently, I bought my daughter a Samsung MP3 player, it has a proprietary USB cable. That is totally unnecessary. We had to replace our Belkin UPSs. We discovered that they are now proprietary. WindowsXP used to recognize them withtout installing any software. Now you have to install Belkin's proprietary software. Chargers, wouldn't it be nice to have one standard 12V charger that could be used on any device. We don't need a plethora of incompatible chargers for our electronics. It's not, because you don't have to be ignorant unless you want to. There's a funny thing about software licensing, and that is that the software company wants to sell licenses. And while their licensing schemes may be complex, they're not unintelligible. I know that the article is about the BSA, but The simple fact is that most companies, even those that make an effort to stay properly licensed, inevitably fall a few licenses short. But you can call someone at Microsoft Licensing and they will help you sort out what you need. At the end of the audit we discovered (unsurprisingly) that we were short on some licenses. But instead of being fined all we had to do was purchase the missing licenses within 60 days. Microsoft got some money, we got straight on the licensing, and we actually got some really good information not only on how the product licenses worked, but also about other Microsoft licensing options that we hadn't considered before that provide more value. I think that's probably part of the problem. Most people just don't bother to learn what's out there for businesses. To an expert. Or sometimes not even then. I've called Oracle's licensing department with the same licensing question six different times and gotten six different answers. If even they can't figure it out, how am I supposed to? That's nice and all, but most small businesses don't have IT directors and Microsoft doesn't fly consultants out to them either. In other words, you're going to wind up BSA bait. That's why many are swearing off those products. Using them is a big risk liability they can't afford. Again, while I'm sure those things are nice for large companies, let me remind you that we're talking about small business. Those things aren't available to small business. Ignoring the businesses that exist just to sell or support free software, let's look at businesses that USE only free software. Example #1: Ernie Ball. Textbook example of how you can switch your existing business from Windows to Linux if you really get pissed off at the BSA. There have been others since. Example #2: Thawte. Remember that Shuttleworth guy? He got comfortably rich without ever booting a Windows PC. Example #3: Google. I think they're still turning a profit. I seriously doubt that it would be possible to scale any version of Windows server to an operation this size. You guys kill me. Why don't one of you go out and raise money for a startup. Then pay for rent, employee salaries, all that crap Then that get's blasted to Torrents and now tens of thousands of people are downloading your hard work/money for free. Ohhh, I can hear you kiddies now. "Oh, but each pirated copy gets someone to buy the real product"...or, "Things could be so much easier if they weren't so jealous about protecting their own crappy code" That's great because that usually means that tens of thousands of people (if not more) are paying for the software. I despise it when old farts think that because it's freely downloadable means that no one is paying for it. If I really wanted to I could get Windows for free. Not hard at all. Do you see them losing money over it? How about Doom, Half-life, World of Warcraft? I can run my own server for warcraft and use it for free. Doesn't seem to be stopping blizzard. What you don't get is that if your software is good, people will pay for it (windows is probably not a good example). Yes people will download it. That will not change. (get that threw your thick skull) If you make your software harder for legitimate people to use then more people will go the easy route and download it. But as I said before people will still pay for the good stuff. The days or writing a program and getting paid every time someone wants a copy are on the way out. You need to find a new business model. Running a completely unrelated business (like making and/or selling clothing, CDs, or guitar strings) on free software is possible, although not a lot of people are doing it yet. Offering support and training for free software is likely to be a growing market. A lot of businesses are taking a serious look at free software, and often the only thing holding them back is readily available suport and training. If you want to get paid for writing software, remember that even now 90% of software is written in-house to meet a particular need. For example, IBM employs thousands of full-time developers (I can't find the exact number right now) who are paid very well to write code for Linux and other open-source projects. They don't do it because they're philanthropists, they do it because it makes good business sense. IBM isn't in the business of selling software, they're in the business of selling hardware and solutions that work for their customers. You make money from selling services: enhancements, upgrade services, troubleshooting, production support outsourcing, productivity seminars, sponsored user group forums, etc. etc. Stop thinking of software as the product...the product is the service people buy to more productively use the software. Ernie Ball) it's completely possible to survive without closed-source software. (Those who say it can't be done Couldn't it be possible to have the employee's sign a document stating that if they turn them into the BSA without first telling the employer of the problems and giving them ample time to upgrade then said employee would have to pay the BSA and all legal fees it took defending against the BSA and to find out who the BSA paid

Are you a visiting scientist or undergraduate conducting research in Berlin? Are you interested in learning more about this hub of innovation about its facilities and institutes that are shaping the future of cities and urban landscapes, and shared interdisciplinary interests? If so, you are cordially invited to the next Researchers Forum on the 25th November 2013! In the coming years we will have to face new challenges right at home: we have to find new ways to deal responsibly with our resources and environment, ideas for managing the increasing traffic and transportation demands, and new methods for easily accessible information. Right now, over 300 institutions in Berlin are working on solutions to tackle these tasks. Thanks to the unique scientific community and urban landscape, Berlin-Brandenburg has become one of Europe’s most successful leaders in urban technologies. Nowhere else you can find so many interdisciplinary projects that have successfully made it from test phase to daily operations. If you are doing research in these fields or want to find new approaches to these topics, the TSB Technologiestiftung Berlin cordially invites you to the Researchers Forum – Focus on Smart City & Urban Technologies. Furthermore, you will get the chance to meet and introduce yourself to representatives from institutions and companies, and fellow visiting scientists from all over the world.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, British prime minister Theresa May says her country is taking aim at some of tech’s biggest issues. Fighting fake news: A new UK national security unit, part of the nation’s defense program, will be “tasked with combating disinformation by state actors,” notes the Guardian. At Davos, May echoed previous comments by asking social-media firms to “step up to their responsibilities.” Making AI moral: The Telegraph ($) says a UK Center for Data Ethics will try to make machine learning safe and ethical. It hopes to coordinate with other nations, and May says she hopes it will help Britain become a “world leader in innovation-friendly regulation.” Warning to investors: The BBC reports that May has also urged investors to demand more from the firms they back, by “ensuring trust and safety issues are being properly considered.” But: It’s unclear if the UK government will be able to truly shape global action on these topics, especially in AI, where the country is a relatively minor player compared with the US and China.

OPPO F7, the 2018 iteration to the Chinese handset maker's hero model for developing markets like the Philippines and other South Asian countries, has just been teased by OPPO Mobile India on Twitter through this online banner. Looking at the photo, it's clear that this upcoming smartphone will have a notch on top of its tall 18:9 display. According to China's State Intellectual Property Office, on January 9, 2017 - way before Apple iPhone X's market release, OPPO applied for patent for use of a full-screen with multiple notch shapes on top. Here are some of the designs that OPPO included in its application (source): If OPPO successfully got the patent for these display and notch renditions from the Chinese Patent Office, then I guess we should really expect the company to come up with smartphones that don this trendy feature. While the notch appears to the distinguishing characteristic of the OPPO F7, one of our friends from the company told me that the main selling point of this upcoming device will actually be its stellar 25 MegaPixel Selfie Camera with AI Beautification Technology. When it gets officially released, OPPO F7 will have the highest resolution front-cam of any smartphone that's available in the market, which should delight consumers who love snapping selfies and sharing the shots on social media. OPPO F7 with 25 MegaPixel Selfie Camera and Display Notch, Arriving Soon Reviewed by Mark Milan Macanas on 3/11/2018 Rating: 5

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Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson attends a cabinet meeting hosted by Theresa May at the Prime Minister's country retreat Chequers in Buckinghamshire to discuss department-by-department Brexit action plans Credit: Stefan Rousseau Former ministers and assorted Remain campaigners have joined forces to form the campaign group “Open Britain”, a successor to the Stronger In campaign. Their aim is not to overturn the results, with their mission statement making it clear they “respect the democratically expressed verdict of the British people”, but to influence the post-referendum debate and “win the peace”. Open Britain has inherited 500,000 grassroots supporters from Stronger In as well as the campaign’s social media assets; so this represents a serious regrouping of pro-EU forces. It’s time for Brexiteers to get their act together. The question still hangs in the air; what will Brexit look like? Open Britain want to ensure that the “pull up the drawbridge” brigade don’t get their way, but in truth this is actually a minority view anyway. In saying they want an “inclusive” society, they are revealing their continued lack of understanding of the main drivers of the vote to leave. What Remainers are finding so hard to understand is that the vast majority did not vote for a Britain closed off from the world. It was not a vote for xenophobia. We voted to leave the EU because, and this conclusion may shock you, we wanted to leave the EU. Yes, really. Post-referendum polling has shown that the majority voted for self-governance and that is the instruction the government must carry out. The truth is that Remainers, like Open Britain supporter Anna Soubry, want to remain in the EU or, failing that, retain a relationship which is as close to EU membership as possible. Anna is a committed Europhile who considers the vote to leave a tragedy, who could forget the sight of her undignified weeping as she addressed a pro-EU protest which had reportedly been hurling abuse at MPs earlier on the same day? This kind of defeatism cannot be allowed to win out. It is time to consider how we can reap the long term benefits of independence. In the long term we must look beyond the Single Market. Already we see that the substance of much of the “rules” of the market derive from global standards produced by global regulators. The EU’s dominance of regulations and standards is slowly but surely coming to an end. Globalisation is making the Single Market seem insular. We shouldn’t be unambitious; Brexiteers have a vision of a global trading nation opening up markets all over the world. We must look to break the protectionist walls around the EU and help to build a global marketplace. Where Soubry really ties herself in knots is on the issue of freedom of movement, which she wants to retain exactly as it is, which even Liberal Brexiteers like myself understand is not tenable. Her logic is baffling, claiming that we “didn't have a debate about the positive benefits of immigration” and that we are in “grave danger of assuming as a result of that vote that people want curbs on immigration”. This is nonsense. The debate on immigration has been intensifying gradually for over a decade, long before the referendum campaign. Pro-immigration voices; from politicians, to journalists and think tanks, have made their case, they have been heard and they have dominated government policy for decades. Worst of all, Soubry is framing the immigration debate as totally binary between total free movement and closing the borders, between pro-immigration inclusiveness and anti-immigration xenophobia. In this, she is the one making the grave error. The majority of the British people understand the benefits of immigration but simply want it to be controlled. The evidence is clear. ICM’s new post-referendum research for British Future has found that only 12 per cent of people would like to see a reduction in the numbers of skilled workers coming to Britain; nearly four times as many people (46 per cent) would like to see more of it. The issue is with unskilled migration, with 62 per cent wanting the numbers to be reduced. Clearly the vote to leave was not a mandate for an insular Britain or closed borders, but there is a clear desire for better management and reduced numbers of unskilled migrants. This means freedom of movement cannot remain unaltered. We therefore have a fine balancing act to perform in our negotiations. We need a mutually beneficial settlement on trade, but we must have better control of immigration and cannot concede on the issue. It has to be a red line. To simply ignore the public’s desire on this is an open invite to demagogues to take advantage of the inevitable resentment and toxify the debate even further. That’s when the pro-immigration case begins to fall on deaf, and bitter, ears and nobody wants that. The Remain campaign has regrouped and is campaigning to keep us as close to the status quo as possible. That cannot be allowed to happen. Brexiteers now must re-organise and offer their own ambitious vision of a global, self-governing Britain taking advantage of its newfound freedoms and taking back control of its destiny.

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In my previous trip report I described fishing a cast of three flies: a CDC & Elk, a yarn bodied soft hackle and a small bead head nymph. Today's report gives the "on the other hand." I started the day with a very similar rig - size 3 Hi-Vis fluorocarbon line about 3' shorter than the rod, a tapered "leader" consisting of a foot each of size 2, size 1.5 and size 1 clear fluorocarbon (actually, 2X, 3X and 4X Varivas tippet material), then 18" of 5X and 18" of 6X. My top fly was a CDC & Elk on a 5X dropper, which was tied around the 4X and slid down to butt up against the knot between the foot of 4X and the 18" of 5X. I left the tag end of the 5X-6X knot long and tied on a yarn bodied soft hackle. At the end of the 6X I tied on a small bead head Killer Bug. This is the reason I don't often go to the trouble of tying tapered leaders and fishing three flies: In the first pool I fished, I got the CDC & Elk AND the soft hackle snagged on a downed tree in water deeper than I wanted to wade out to. I ended up losing all three flies. Losing one fly is bad enough. Losing three at once is more than three times as frustrating. In my first attempt at pesca mosca Valsesiana a few years ago, I lost four flies at a time TWICE within about 50 yards. I about gave up fishing multiple flies for good that day. If one of the things that attract you to tenkara is the simplicity, you can't beat the simplicity of just tying a meter of 5X tippet straight to your line and tying a wet fly to the end of the tippet. It doesn't get simpler and it does catch fish. Today wasn't quite that bad. After losing the three flies I switched to a single fly and picked up a couple fish, went to two flies and caught one more, and then again back to one and caught my final fish of the day. Of course, then Coach and I went to a much smaller stream (above photo) and I proceeded to lose a bunch of flies one at a time (and that gets frustrating, too). The frustration is worse if the only things eating your flies are the trees. The fish shown above and below proved to be the nicest fish of the day at just under 12 inches. At the time I was fishing with a Nissin Pro Square 6:4 360 and the fish sure made the line sing. For modest fish in the 10-14" range, I must say I do like the Pro Square. Such a smooth casting rod. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the day was that despite it being late December, two out of my four fish came on a dry fly. When people think of December dry fly action, I am sure they think about midges. The fish I caught today took a size 14 CDC & Elk - the same dry fly I fish year 'round. The third fish came near the head of a pool just before the ripples disappeared. I was fishing a size 18 Killer Bug tied with Sunglow yarn below a CDC & Elk. When the CDC & Elk slid under the surface, in a spot too deep for the Killer Bug to have hit a rock, it had to be a fish. It wasn't a huge fish (photo upper right corner) but on the delicate Nissin Tsuzumi, it was still quite a battle. I've never done a page on the Tsuzumi, but it is a light 330cm rod with a bamboo motif. One of the nicest things about it (aside from they way it makes even modest fish a lot of fun) is that it it has a matte finish - just what you'd want on a sunny day on a wild trout stream. If you would be interested in one, let me know. The last fish of the day took a fly that is a cross between a Killer Kebari and a Little Dark Kebari. - basically, a Killer Kebari tied with the Little Dark Kebari yarn and starling hackle. The copper wire underbody should get the fly a bit deeper than a Little Dark Kebari. With the yarn body, which is just a bit shaggy; and the starling hackle, which is extremely mobile, it is a very buggy looking fly. All in all it wasn't bad day. I got to play with couple nice rods, got to listen to the line sing a bit and didn't even get too cold. No application is an island…In today’s connected world, each and every professional developer must assume that his or her applications will need to communicate with other applications. Distributed applications, however, present a large set of unique challenges, like, What do I do when the network is disconnected? How do I coordinate the actions of two separate applications? How do I handle peak times? How do I guarantee delivery? How do I upgrade my application without breaking the communication? We at the Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) team have worked hard to provide an elegant solution to these questions and many others. This book will help you leverage this work by using MSMQ in your distributed applications so that you will be able to concentrate on the business logic rather than network problems. What is MSMQ? MSMQ is message-oriented middleware (MOM) that comes as a standard component of Windows and allows applications to exchange messages among them using queues—outgoing queues for messages waiting to be sent, and incoming queues for messages waiting to be received. Queues—like dams—guarantee nice and controlled flow of information, even when the network is congested or suffers frequent disconnects. Moreover, queues are a very natural programming metaphor. Most people would agree that working from a queue of to-do tasks is more effective than responding to requests on the spot. The same is true for computer programs. Programs that process queues of incoming messages tend to be simpler and more efficient than programs acting on interrupts. The availability of powerful, yet simple, MOMs like MSMQ on millions of desktops and servers have changed the way programmers design and write distributed applications. The simple concepts of queue and message—along with powerful features like quality of service, transactions, and security—have enabled a new breed of distributed applications in a wide range of industries. In addition, MSMQ provides an excellent solution for integrating existing applications—for the Internet or for enterprise-wide systems like ERP. Even after nine years on the MSMQ team, I am amazed to see the number of ways customers use this technology: in airlines and communication, financial services, e-retailers, traditional department stores, and even online games. In addition to covering the essentials of MSMQ, this book is the first book covering the cool new features introduced in MSMQ 3.0 (which was released as part of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003) — features such as multicast, triggers, HTTP messages, and more. In addition, it is the first book covering the novel .NET MSMQ APIs: System.Messaging. Today, MSMQ knowledge became a standard requirement for a professional Windows developer, alongside such skills as Visual Basic, Visual C/C#, SQL/IIS/ADO/COM+, and others. Reading this book is a great way to get started. If you consider yourself a professional Windows developer, and you know that no application is an island any longer, then this book is for you. I am proud to be a part of the revolution MSMQ brought to the Windows application development world. I hope that you will enjoy using MSMQ as much as I—together with the other MSMQ team members—enjoyed developing it. This book explores MSMQ so that you can initiate robust, asynchronous communication between applications. MSMQ provides three APIs to incorporate message queuing into different applications. These APIs include "C" from unmanaged C/C++ code; a COM component from VB or C++ code; and the System.Messaging namespace, which integrates MSMQ with managed C# or VB .NET applications. This is the only book on the market to cover all three APIs. Plus, this book discusses the newest features of MSMQ 3.0 (released with Windows Server 2003), and explains sending and receiving MSMQ messages on a PocketPC device.

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I will admit, he looked a little tired as he sat down to chat. I'm referring to Santa Claus, that is. The stockings were hung on the banister with care. All 26 of them. After all, he and Mrs. Claus have six children, 11 grandkids and even a new little great-grandson named Adam, who is the apple of their eye. So anyway, just days before Christmas, I visited with the Claus Clan. A great big red poinsettia decorated the room. There was a counter full of cookies. There were kids galore and Mrs. C. in her red Santa shirt. Ten busloads of Ida Sue kids had just finished their visit. Santa had done his Ho Ho Ho-thing and was finally settling down for a short winter nap when I barged in on his lunchtime. The Kobilarciks were celebrating their 19th season of yuletide festivities, as they told me the origin of the 248 figurines that dance and wave in their display all through the season. I presented Albert with a new Santa cup, as he began telling me about the Ida Sue kids pointing to him and saying, "He's the REAL Santa." Albert's blue eyes filled with tears as he described the many years he has impersonated the man in the red suit and the countless kids that have touched him deeply. "Not long ago, a little 7-year-old sat on my lap. I asked her what she wanted for Christmas," Albert said as tears rolled down his cheeks. "She said, 'I don't think you can give me what I want. My mommy just died last week.'" Albert swiped the tears. "I looked in the sky and saw a star. I said to her, 'See that star up there in the sky? That's your mommy watching over you,' and she smiled and even accepted a toy from my bag." Santa then described his efforts to give toys to every child who visits, hundreds and hundreds of them. Every year, the Milltown residence boasts 10,000 visitors. Twenty elves help Santa pull off the event, from set-up to tear down. A host of Santas help fill the big red suit every weekend night from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day. And on Christmas Day, Albert's off to the hospital visiting the sick when he's not on his own front step "ho ho ho-ing" with the best of them. In the many years of playing Santa, Albert hosted a wedding on his front step, held a 96-year-old woman on his lap, and cheered the hearts of thousands upon thousands of children from all over the world, not just Wooster. "I don't do it alone," Albert smiled impishly. "I've got Mrs. Claus and the family, a team of elf doctors to repair the motors of the toys. My kids help find toys for the children at flea markets and garage sales. It's a collective effort." The phone rang. Would Santa be coming to visit that night, a community friend asked? "I'll be there," Albert responded with a twinkle in his eye. So much for naps, even short ones. In one of my favorite Christmas movies "Miracle on 34th Street," Kris Kringle says, "Santa Claus is the symbol of the human abilityyou can't accept anything on faith, and you're doomed for a life dominated by doubt." That quote fits Albert Kobilarcik. Like the kids say, he's the real Santa Claus. He's someone who never stops giving. Someone who makes everyone a believer.

He got his goal-scoring efforts off the mark last night as he scored ATK’s winner against Delhi Dynamos. Keane’s 78th minute strike sealed his side’s first home win of the season and move up to seventh in the table. And manager Teddy Sheringham, a former teammate at Tottenham, was full of praise for the Dubliner afterwards. “If I said he does that at least once every day in training, I wouldn’t be exaggerating,” he said of Keane’s finish. “He’s got class. That’s why I wanted to bring him here. As soon as I knew I was coming to India, I thought, ‘who could be my star player?’ He was the man first on my list and I’m delighted he’s here.” Injury ruled Ireland’s record international goalscorer out of the first three games of the season, but he’s kickstarted on the right foot. Keane made his Indian Super League debut earlier this month, impressing off the bench against Chennaiyin FC. He’s due to return to home soil for Christmas but will be back to finish out the League season with ATK. Feedback on “'He's got class' - Keane rolls back the years and hits first Indian Super League goal”.

Arkansas State runs away from Cajuns to claim series The Ragin' Cajuns baseball team fell to Arkansas State 14-2 on Friday night at Tomlinson Stadium. Check out this story on JONESBORO, Ark. — The Ragin' Cajuns baseball team fell to Arkansas State 14-2 on Friday night at Tomlinson Stadium. Starter Nick Lee was tagged with his third loss of the year for the Cajuns (11-15, 2-6 SBC) as he gave up eight runs (six earned) on a career-high 10 hits with three walks and three strikeouts in 6.0 innings. Nate Alberius claimed the victory for the Red Wolves (11-12, 3-5 SBC) tossing a complete game while limiting UL to two runs on seven hits with seven strikeouts. Arkansas State outhit UL 14-7 in the game. The loss marks the six straight series loss for the Cajuns this season. Junior Daniel Lahare went 2-for-3 with a home run to lead the Cajuns offensively, while freshman Hayden Cantrelle extended his hit streak to 10 games going 2-for-4. The Cajuns scored first in the top of the second inning when Zach LaFleur brought home Kennon Fontenot on an RBI ground out to shortstop to make the score 1-0. Arkansas State evened the game at 1-all in the bottom half of the inning on a two-out RBI infield single by Casey Vaughan. The Red Wolves exploded for four runs in the bottom of the third on three hits and a hit batter to jump out to a 5-1 advantage. A two-run double by Kyle MacDonald highlighted the scoring in the inning. A-State increased its advantage to 7-1 in the bottom of the fifth on a pair of RBI singles by Jeremy Brown and Andrew Leggo. The Cajuns and Red Wolves traded runs in the sixth as Lahare registered his first home run of the season with a solo shot to right field. Louisiana and Arkansas State close out the series Saturday at 1 p.m. at Tomlinson Stadium. Senior left-hander Colten Schmidt will make the start for the Cajuns and face off against A-State right-hander Peyton Culbertson.