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Hi all! Welcome to another week of Now Listening with Lala! I hope you're handling finals and kicking butt through the end of this semester. Almost there, we got this dudes! If you needed an inspirational, emotional, and musical pick-me-up through these times of trouble, I've got just the thing for you.
Yet again, Queen Bey silently dropped a visual album on April 25th, Lemonade. Rawer and realer than ever, Beyoncé is running the world and has revolutionized the music industry with this work of art. Beautifully cinematic and raw in the most unpredictable of ways, this 12 track album tells a story.
Giving insight to the troubles of her marriage with Jay-Z, Beyoncé discreetly touches on motherhood, police brutality, discrimination towards people of color, and the Black Lives Matter movement. This album is broader than an unfaithful relationship. Beyoncé has taken a political stance and spoon feeds you her most relentless and empowering album yet. This is a phenomenon you just cannot ignore.
Lemonade is an actual documentation of Beyoncé's greatness. Musically, each track is inspired from other genres: hip-hop, alternative, R&B, jazz, rap, folk, electro. This woman is the Pop Goddess. In addition, some great artists are featured on this album. Jack White, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, and James Blake all appear on tracks. However, they weren't the only artists to have collaborated with Beyoncé. Father John Misty, Diplo, Ezra Koenig, and many more have played a part in this incredible masterpiece.
Much of this album's interpretation is focused on the infidelity between her marriage with Jay-Z. But there is more to this story than just cheating. Granted, the first few tracks are clearly directed towards Jay-Z. With lyrics like "Uh, this is your final warning / You know I give you life / If you try this sh*t again / You gone lose your wife" in the track Don't Hurt Yourself, Jay-Z better be on his best behavior. As the album progresses, the focus of tracks shift from anger to bargaining to depression to acceptance. This thread of emotions expresses that Beyoncé is invested in her relationship, she intends to fix her marital issues in order to make it stronger than ever.
Life handed Beyoncé lemons and she made lemonade. The most delicious and refreshing lemonade in the current music scene. A worthy listen, this album is only streaming on Tidal, but is able to be purchased on iTunes and Amazon. If you're thirsty, take a sip of some Lemonade asap. ❃
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The Identification of Music group on Facebook functions as both a place to learn from the industry's most knowledgeable people and to hear fresh music that hasn't hit the mainstream yet.
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A moderator deemed my response acceptable a few days later and I was admitted into The Identification of Music Group, a private Facebook community for heads, punters, rave obsessives, vinyl collectors, UK lads, trainspotters, disc jockeys, and ketamine users who have heard a song they don't recognize and want to find out what it is.
What Shazam does when it cannot identify an obscure tune.
As rule number one implies, the Identification of Music Group fills the gap left by Apple-owned Shazam, an app that can identify music by listening to it through a microphone, which in 2014 had 100 million active monthly users and had identified songs 15 billion times. When failed by that application, IOM users can harness the combined musical knowledge of its 95,000 members. Here, those unrecognized earworms that pleasantly but annoyingly haunt your memory and camera roll are finally pinpointed in a crowdsourcing exercise as satisfying as it is silly.
Scrolling down the page, it takes only ten seconds to find a good example of how the Identification of Music Group functions. One user, Lewis, had posted a short, shaky video with the caption "Dixon ID?". In the video, the popular German DJ, Dixon, plays for a crowd in Tulum, Mexico. Blackened outlines of dancers sway, strobes flash and bass is distorted through the phone's internal mic. The song in question has a persistent house kick, tribal hand drums, a synth melody and a female vocalist singing in an African language.
A few fellow IOM members agreed that the song was cool, but didn't know the track themselves, so they each commented a "b", both to to bump Lewis's post's algorithmic visibility on the page and so they, too, would be sent a notification if an enterprising future commenter rescued the mystery record from sonic obscurity. Ffive minutes later, a user named George commented, leaving just a YouTube link to"Gatluak (Nandu Mix)" by Nyaruach. Case closed.
If you're a person with a normal brain, the necessity of the Identification of Music Group might sound suspect. Streaming service libraries and their recommendation algorithms serve up more music than a person could listen to in a thousand lifetimes, clearly displaying song metadata without the need for an international network of detectives. If you hear a new track on the radio or in a restaurant, Shazam probably won't fail you. And if it does, why not just accept the song's ephemerality in that moment? Why go through an elaborate, multi-step process to identify a piece of music that we will eventually outgrow or forget or play to death in a world of endless audio?
In the case of IOM, its members may seem to have a particular affliction that requires them to consume repetitive robot-fart music in sweaty warehouses for hours on end. Others compulsively purchase first-pressing disco twelves on vinyl resale sites. And whether in a packed rave or in the living room of a friend's apartment, those people form intense connections to the music they hear not just aurally, but kinesthetically and visually, almost in a narcotic sense. For them (or really, us, if I include myself, which I should), a great song played at the right time can transform a night or weekend, and letting it slip into the ether unrecognized feels like a minor tragedy.
Some of the most satisfying posts in IOM come about when posters give the group scant detail to work off of. Some postings are completely devoid of audio or video, and resort to onomatopoeia to describe all-instrumental tracks ("I'd say the tune's around 130 BPM, the synth line goes doo doo, bee bee bee, dummm"). Others sing half-remembered melodies into their voice memo apps. Such Hail Marys don't always work, but these challenging IDs get a lot of engagement from users who are amused by and sympathetic to the efforts of the original poster; the group's helpful and competitive streaks kick in, resulting in dozens of suggestions.
The plight of IOM members has a lot to do with the genres we're interested in, which are at once specific and not. They're best put under the umbrella of "dance" music––most identification requests are tracks cherry-picked from DJ sets performed by the type of artists covered by Resident Advisor, one of the only online electronic music magazines that isn't perceived as a cancer by true devotees. While younger Americans might associate dance music and raves with fur-booted, Electric Daisy Carnival imagery, the editors, writers and readers of Resident Advisor put little stock in the ostentatious EDM popularized in the US in the 2000s. Uninterested in that subgenre's poppy vocals andinfamous "drops", the publication and its community favor loopy techno, refined house, breakbeats, ambient, experimental, dance classics and uncovered rarities.
The eccentricities of these strains of dance music and its performance can often prevent a rigid, inhuman tool like Shazam from properly identifying songs, creating a need that the people-based network of IOM satisfies. Most dance music is performed by DJs, who layer two or more tracks on top of each other while manipulating their sonics with pitch, equalization, filtering and effects. These fundamental aspects of DJing make songs sound unlike themselves, and it's easy to imagine how that fucks with Shazam.
What's more, a DJ's tracks might also appear ostensibly unidentifiable if they're very new or very old. In terms of the former, DJs reward live audiences and pique the interest of IOM members with brand new tunes that have yet to hit steaming services, record store shelves, or Shazam. UK artist Four Tet, for instance, played outhis edit of Bobby Powell's "Question" for months before releasing it to the public, leaving the heads on IOM to clamor in vain.
Factor in other quirks, such as the scene's longstanding fetish for digitization-eschewing, vinyl-only labels, and you can see why dance devotees are often denied the big data promise of Shazam. The existence of this void moved a guy named Daniel Rothwell to found the Identification of Music Group in 2015 to beat the machine with a comparatively analog, community-oriented solution.
The discourse is overwhelmingly friendly and functional, in my experience. Original posters are often still buzzing, literally and figuratively, from the performance they saw the night before, and would like to get some particularly resonating tracks identified before they forget. Their happiness comes through in their caption. In the comments, strangers from around the world bump the post and tag their friends, validating the unknown music as good and a worthwhile contribution to the group. And despite their often-encyclopedic dance music knowledge, commenters that swoop in to ID tracks don't gloat or shame people for not knowing a tune, they just drop a link.
Some interactions can skew a bit cruel; there are lighthearted ribbings when someone posts a particularly cheesy track or genre. The song gets identified anyways. At the heart of IOM is a strangely kind, communal instinct to help people you'll never meet with their inconsequential sonic mysteries, sharing arcane knowledge without any material reward.
The Identification of Music Group's congeniality is partly due to being a closed group with tactful moderation, and to the group's utilitarian purpose. The page's limited scope of discourse is a welcome reprieve from the fraught, open-ended discussions that can make other music communities (of all genres) exhausting. Instead of picking apart artists, industry trends, and album reviews, people on IOM simply capture, share and ID songs that make us happy.
Dance music has always provided escape from the professional and political, and while it's important that people and publications interrogate the scene's artistry and activism, it's also valuable to have online spaces like IOM that distill its innate diversion. Because it's quite popular, there are certainly chin-strokers out there who want to debate the group's "effect on the scene." But IOM is just a place where a hundred thousand people who like goofy, repetitive music can rave vicariously and scratch the itch of having unidentified songs identified. It's a surprisingly useful tool that happens to also yield an endless, exciting feed of new combinations of lights, music, and lizard-brain stimulation––all in a nonhierarchical community free of bickering, hot takes and purity tests.
There's something admirable about dance music fans, who go to events and listen to mixes not in spite of, but because of the fact that they'll mostly hear songs they don't recognize. It's nice to believe that an unhealthy appetite for new music means my entire personhood isn't yet hopelessly calcified. Here, I watch dodgy videos of dance music posted by people who don't know the names of the songs they're posting. I try to help. And sometimes they help me.
Joe Silt is a writer and DJ in Los Angeles.


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It's the beginning of a new year of high school, and school clubs are diligently recruiting members to take part in their activities. However, Natsuki Ando has decided to join the "Going Home Club," a fictional club which students who have no club affiliation and simply go home right after school jokingly claim to be members of. However, Natsuki and her new friend Karin soon discover that this particular school has a real, bona fide Going Home Club! Teaming up with club members Claire, Botan, and Sakura, the official unofficial Going Home Club gets up to all kinds of kooky trouble and hilarious fun!
A first year in high school. The highly-anticipated "Super Rookie." She is in charge of retorting. She joins the Going Home Club after being encouraged by Karin. Her cowlick bugs her.
A first year in high school. She's the "cute one" of the Going Home Club. She has irresistible feminine appeal. A sometimes airheaded girl, she is the one who convinced Natsuki to join the club with her.
A second year in high school. The president of the Going Home Club. She lives her life freely, with no regrets. A fairly normal girl compared to Botan or Claire.
A second year in high school. Heir to the Hagitsuki-ryu school of martial arts. She is the martial arts master of the Going Home Club. She is very athletic and many of her heroic deeds have become legend.
A second year in high school. The daughter of the owner of the Kokonoe Corporation. She is in charge of the financial affairs of the Going Home Club. Her money sense is uncanny.


A meteor that exploded over Russia this morning was the largest recorded object to strike the Earth in more than a century, scientists say. Infrasound data collected by a network designed to watch for nuclear weapons testing suggests that today's blast released hundreds of kilotons of energy. That would make it far more powerful than the nuclear weapon tested by North Korea just days ago and the largest rock crashing on the planet since a meteor broke up over Siberia's Tunguska river in 1908.
"It was a very, very powerful event," says Margaret Campbell-Brown, an astronomer at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, who has studied data from two infrasound stations near the impact site. Her calculations show that the meteoroid was approximately 15 meters across when it entered the atmosphere, and put its mass at around 40 tons. "That would make it the biggest object recorded to hit the Earth since Tunguska," she says.
The meteor appeared at around 09:25 a.m. local time over the region of Chelyabinsk, near the southern Ural Mountains. The fireball blinded drivers and a subsequent explosion blew out windows and damaged hundreds of buildings. So far, more than 700 people are reported to have been injured, mainly from broken glass, according to a statement from the Russian Emergency Ministry.
Despite its massive size, the object went undetected until it hit the atmosphere. "I'm not aware of anyone who saw this coming," says Heiner Klinkrad, head of the European Space Agency's space debris office at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany. Although a network of telescopes watches for asteroids that might strike Earth, it is geared towards spotting larger objects — between 100 meters and a kilometer in size.
"Objects like that are nearly impossible to see until a day or two before impact," says Timothy Spahr, Director of the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which tracks asteroids and small bodies. So far as he knows, he says, his centre also failed to spot the approaching rock.
The meteoroid itself was likely made of actual rock, but may have also been made of nickel and iron. Campbell-Brown says it probably came from the asteroid belt, a region containing hundreds of thousands of rocky bodies and located between Mars and Jupiter. ESA does not believe the meteor is related to a much larger asteroid known as 2012 DA14, which will be passing within about 20,000 kilometers of Earth later today. Both the timing of the meteor's appearance and its location indicate it came from a different direction, Klinkrad says. Campbell-Brown agrees: "We happened to have close approaches to two of them, and one of them got us," she says.
Although there are reports of fragments of the meteor, or meteorites, striking the ground, Klinkrad says that he believes the vast majority of damage in the region was caused by shockwaves of the explosion, as the rock broke up in the upper atmosphere. Campbell-Brown says that the infrasound data shows a very shallow angle of approach — a feature that funneled much of the energy from the blast to the city below. Still, she adds, "It's lucky that there wasn't more damage."
The infrasound stations belonged to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation, an international body that is designed to watch the Earth for nuclear weapons tests. It is likely not the only source of data on the strike. Both the United States and Russia have satellites in geosynchronous orbit that watch for the heat signatures of missile launches and warhead re-entries. The US military has released data on meteor strikes in the past, but it is unclear whether they will do so for today's event.
Klinkrad says it would have been tough to give warning of the blast. In addition to being relatively small in size, the rocky meteoroid was likely dark in color, making it even harder to spot against the backdrop of space. "We just have to live with it," he says.
This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on February 15, 2013.


Loyalty can be overextended. I feel emotionally involved with the woman I drop my laundry off to, the lady who does my nails, and each work relationship I have. I am learning, that this is a flaw – the most important working relationship I have is with myself. To be able to exist and work in a way which benefits my career is my greatest goal through my internship, and it is a lofty one.
I've found it difficult to understand which relationships must be maintained, which should be left on the back burner, and when to call in favors. This kind of understanding is deeply ingrained in my worldview, and it all comes down to business ethics. And ethics and personal career goals should never be in conflict. I am learning to take what I have been given, and to never apologize for my strengths.
I am lucky to be at a company that is changing, and the value of the lessons taught to me through my work at BMG is higher than I could have ever anticipated. However, I'm working so hard, every day, and I will not act in a way that demeans my intelligence, just because I am an intern. I have been given the honor to sit in as an assistant a few times during this internship, and I feel as if I cannot do my job as well as I should, because I'm caught in etiquette's trap.
From this moment forward, I make a pledge to myself to be confident in what I do. Excessive humility, while in Atlanta or Nashville may be appropriate; in the NY office seems not only unimportant, but foolish. Femininity should not equal weakness. Student should not connote inferiority. Musician should not mean irresponsible. I like to think that when opportunities of importance come about, I am deserving of advancement. If we're deserving, we should take them. If you do away with fear, and what society shows us to be polite, think of how many opportunities exist for the taking. If someone gives you the gift of a compliment, accept it with a "thank you." Receive it graciously. And if it's your chance, take it!


The Citizen's Police Academy (CPA) is a program designed to acquaint individuals who are not sworn police officers with an overview of the criminal justice department and the activities of their local police department. The CPA offers the community a better understanding of how law enforcement and the public can work together to prevent crime. The goal of the academy is to provide a greater perspective, understanding, and awareness for the challenges and decisions that law enforcement officers face on a daily basis safeguarding our community.
The CPA consists of a 8-week course which introduces citizens to the police department and their practices. You must be at least 21 years of age, have no prior felony convictions, and must live or work in the Leesburg area. The weekly class allows participants to get a hands on learning experience in policing, including patrol techniques, response to resistance, community engagement, crime scene processing, and more.
The instructors are officers, supervisors, and commanders of the Leesburg Police Department who offer years of experience and training in their areas of expertise. These officers also bring real life street experiences and help residents and community leaders better understand how and why police officers do what they do.
After completion, citizens are eligible to apply with the department's Citizen's on Patrol, a group of citizens who assist the department by patrolling the community, managing traffic during city wide events, and more. Academy graduates may also be eligible to join the Police and Community Roundtable, a group that regularly meets with the Chief to discuss policing in the community. Police and Community Roundtable.
The Citizen's Police Academy is free of charge. The next session runs from: March 18th - April 29th, 2019 meeting every Monday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. There is one Saturday class, April 13th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Seating is limited and pre-registration is required. Most classes will be held at the Leesburg Police Department, located at 115 E. Magnolia Street in Leesburg.
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The next session runs from: March 18th - April 29th, 2019, meeeting every Monday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. There is one Saturday class, April 13th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Seating is limited and pre-registration is required. Most classes will be held at the Leesburg Police Department, located at 115 E. Magnolia Street in Leesburg.
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Circle in the Square
Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabbalistic Symbolism
Elliot R. Wolfson - Author
Hardcover - 288 pages
Release Date: July 1995
ISBN10: 0-7914-2405-7
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This book deals with the issue of gender in Jewish mysticism showing the thematic correlation of eroticism and esotericism that is central to the kabbalah.
"A tour de force in terms of historical range, analytic boldness, textual sources, and interpretive constructions. An important contribution in every sense to Jewish thought and interpretation." -- Michael Fishbane, University of Chicago
"Wolfson has a knack for selecting particularly difficult texts and elucidating them for the reader." -- Daniel Matt, Graduate Theological Union
This book deals with aspects of the gender imaging of God in a variety of medieval kabbalistic sources. It provides the key to understanding the phenomenological structures of mystical experience as well as the thematic correlation of esotericism and eroticism that is central to the kabbalah. The author examines the role of gender utilizing current feminist studies and cultural anthropology. He explores the themes of the feminization of the Torah, the correlation of circumcision and vision of God, the phallocentric understanding of divine creation as a process of inscription mythologized as an act of sexual self-gratification, and the phenomenon of gender-crossing in kabbalistic myth and ritual. Collectively, the studies explore in great depth the androcentric phallocentrism that is characteristic of medieval Jewish mysticism.
Elliot R. Wolfson is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He is the author of The Book of the Pomegranate: Moses de Leon's Sefer ha-Rimmon; Through A Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism; and Along the Path: Studies in Kabbalistic Myth, Symbolism, and Hermeneutics, also published by SUNY Press.
1. Female Imaging of the Torah: From Literary Metaphor to Religious Symbol
2. Circumcision, Vision of God, and Textual Interpretation: From Midrashic Trope to Mystical Symbol
3. Erasing the Erasure/Gender and the Writing of God's Body in Kabbalistic Symbolism
4. Crossing Gender Boundaries in Kabbalistic Ritual and Myth
Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Esotericism and Gnosticism
Jewish Mysticism
30107/30108(WDE/MS/FK)
Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought
Gersonides on Providence, Covenant, and the Chosen People
Philip Roth and the Jews
Freud's Dream of Interpretation
Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish
Jewish Hearts
Studies in Jewish Myth and Messianism
American Talmud
The Slayers of Moses
Jewish Baby Boomers

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Fox & Hounds in Denmead has a beer garden. The pub has a car park, it serves food. Fox & Hounds serves real ale. The pub has a real fire, it shows football on TV. Fox & Hounds has terrestrial TV. The pub is a member of Cask Marque.


You can use Horizon Administrator to assign the Administrators role to a user. See Configuring Role-Based Delegated Administration.
If you are logged in as a user with insufficient privileges, you can use the -b option to run the command as a user who has been assigned the Administrators role, if you know that user's password. You can specify the -b option to run the vdmadmin command as the specified user in the specified domain. The following usage forms of the -b option are equivalent.
If you specify an asterisk (*) instead a password, you are prompted to enter the password, and the vdmadmin command does not leave sensitive passwords in the command history on the command line.
You can use the -b option with all command options except the -R and -T options.


Anatomy & body structure Made really visible is an leading edge new reference that brings medical matters to lifestyles utilizing a shiny, picture presentation. just like the really effortless sequence, the highly visible sequence takes tough scientific subject matters and provides them in a transparent, concise, easy-to-understand demeanour. The hugely visible nature of this e-book makes anatomy and body structure basics obtainable to the reader in a different and engaging approach that allows quickly evaluate and comprehension in addition to sensible program. for every physique approach, the ebook logically first offers anatomic basics essential to comprehend the complicated body structure of the physique. Then physiologic methods are offered extra visually than ever ahead of. This new method of scientific content material maximizes the ability of visible pondering by means of getting readers as on the subject of the medical content material as they could get with no really being within the room with a sufferer. advanced principles are damaged down into their part components, with every one part made unmistakably easy in appealingly colourful and photograph methods. Readers will learn much less, comprehend extra, and spot issues extra sincerely than ever before.
A useful source to all physicians treating infertile undefined. The textual content emphasises the perform of infertility within the workplace atmosphere, reflecting the present development clear of the sanatorium into the outpatient setting, with the most up-tp-date and complex remedies to be had mentioned via acknowledged specialists within the box.
Utilizing dynamic visuals and kinesthetic workouts, practical Anatomy is helping readers discover and comprehend the buildings, areas, and layers of the physique, from bones to ligaments to superficial and deep muscle tissue. Muscle profiles point out beginning, insertion, and innervation issues whereas step by step directions educate powerful bone and muscle palpation.
This publication is a wealthy resource of knowledge on biomarkers acceptable to the pathology of neoplastic problems of the mind. Thorough descriptions are supplied of the concepts presently on hand for medical and experimental evaluate of biomarkers in mind neoplasms, together with in situ hybridization, array-based equipment, methylation profiling, next-generation sequencing, and functional gene panels.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Biologie - Humanbiologie, word: 1,7, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Warum wir schlafen müssen und welche Vorgänge genau während des Schlafes im Gehirn stattfinden, ist eine Frage, die heute noch sehr aktuell und nicht weitreichend erforscht ist.


Blog Gems - Air Your Archives is a forthnighly linky list where I will give a prompt and you select a post from your archives that fits the prompt. You do not have to create content for the prompt, unless you want to. All you have to do is copy and paste the url of the post into the linky list. Voila, an old post gets a second shot!
Oh, how wondrously beautiful! "Someone with autism loves me." Right on.
that last line just reduced me to tears.
If you make that bumper sticker, I will buy a hundred.
Oh, K. Your ability to convey love is unparalleled in my reading.
I have been reading (stalking?) you for almost a year since my son was diagnosed but am shy about commenting...with this post, like you often do, you are speaking from my heart. Ditto on wanting that bumper sticker!!
It is hard and it is gorgeous. Well said K.
I love that photo of you and a tiny R. It screams LOVE and affection and deep nurturing. Completeness.
Oh, though it is a gem among gems, this may be my favorite post of yours. I love your writing. You have a beautiful heart.
But it will also be gorgeous."
How sweet that thought is! Their love does seem a little different doesn't it? More childlike, more pure, less conditional.
A true gem! Love this.
My favorite post of yours, without a doubt. It always makes me cry.
Thank you for this heartfelt post. I also love a child with autism. I am grateful each time my son demonstrates his love for me. Thank you for writing a post that captures this emotion so well.
Beautiful -- so much hope in the photo, no? Thank you for visiting my blog and I look forward to reading more of yours!


Three weeks ago I attended DebUtsav-Delhi organized by the Debian and free folks in North India.
Debutsav-Delhi is the third edition of its kind. Initially Mozilla Delhi backed the Debutsav-delhi when they pitched the idea but later they withdrew for some reason and just became a supporting member. I must say Debian India events are happening frequent now. Some years ago in India Debian hang around with other FLOSS events. Now its DebUtsav giving chance to other FLOSS people to meet around Debian.
As the usual way of DebUtsav, this one also was two day event with separate track for Debian related talks and for general FLOSS talk. I gave a talk about Debian LTS project. On first day evening some speakers and organizers gathered for dinner.
On second day there were talks from SFLC - Digital Security and Privacy. Srud conducted a interactive session with topic Gender diversity in FLOSS projects. We reserved afternoon sessions for Bug Squashing Party and introducing packaging tutorial to newcomers. All together it was a wonderful gathering. I also met isaagar whom with I have corresponded in matrix a lot but finally able to meet him IRL.
Special appreciation to Hamara Linux for sponsoring the event.They are becoming the de facto sponsors of every Debian events in India.


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Evonik Industries has strengthened its leading position in C4-based products and has successfully, and on time, put into operation new production plants in Antwerp (Belgium). Also in the Marl Chemical Park (Germany), the C4 capacities are being increased. For this, the company has invested a total amount in the three-digit million range (Euro) in the two sites.
The new plants result in an expansion of capacities for butadiene in Antwerp, for the plasticizer alcohol Isononanol (Marl) as well as for the antiknock agent MTBE (Marl and Antwerp). According to market analyses, the global demand for these products increases by two to five percent per year.
"By expanding our C4 capacities and the necessary and important investments into the supply of raw materials at our sites, we are sustainably strengthening our market positions. At the same time we are supporting our customers' growth plans in Europe and worldwide," said Klaus Engel, Chairman of the Executive Board of Evonik.
With long-term supply contracts, Evonik has sustainably ensured the raw material supply for the operation of the new plants. As a technology leader, Evonik has also for the first time made FCC- C4 material flows from refineries usable. This demonstrates Evonik's technological excellence on C4 and is an important contribution to a sustainable production.
Evonik has been a globally leading provider of C4 - based products such as butadiene, MTBE, isobutene, 1-butene, INA (Isononanol) as well as 2-PH (2-propylheptanol) and DINP (diisononylphthalat) for a long time. For this, Evonik operates integrated large-scale plants for the processing of C4 raw materials. The group offers its customers long-term logistics competence and an excellent global service network.
With the expanded production networks in Antwerp and Marl, Evonik wants to further develop and strengthen its market positions in C4 chemistry for the long-term.
Butadiene is mainly used in synthetic rubbers, for example for the manufacturing of tires. Furthermore, there is a wide range of application for elastomer and plastics.
The anti-knock agent MTBE (Methyl -tert.-butylether) increases the octane number of fuels in petrol engines and results in an improved combustion of fuels in the engines. This way, MTBE contributes to a better air quality.
Isononanol (INA) is mainly used as an alcohol component in the manufacturing of PVC plasticizers. Plasticizers based on INA are characterized by excellent properties, both in the plastisol and thermoplastic processing.


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Sharyl Attkisson asks the key question post-Mueller Report
When unraveling a whole cloth of lies, it is important to start pulling on the correct thread.
Now that we know that the entire theory of Trump-Russia "collusion" cooked up by the Hillary campaign was a pure fiction, it is time to start inflicting the consequences on the miscreants. But that's a process that could take time if and when A.G. Barr, or maybe U.S. attorney Peter Huber — commissioned by former A.G. Sessions to investigate possible FBI abuses — present evidence of criminality to a grand jury.
In the meantime, there is some posterior-kicking, AKA public shaming, due. And I think Sharyl Attkisson has identified the first targets in need of disgrace, especially because of where that disgrace will lead:
If Clapper, Brennan, Rice, Power, Comey genuinely believed Trump "colluded" with Russia and he didn't, what does that say about the judgement of our one-time top intel types?
— Sharyl Attkisson🕵♂ (@SharylAttkisson) March 25, 2019
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The biggest reason I want to start with shaming these people is what it says about the man who appointed them: Barack Obama. He entrusted our national security to a bunch of dishonest clowns. And their efforts have been aimed at covering up his culpability in the Hillary email scandal (because he received emails from her private account and lied about not knowing she had one, thereby incriminating him in improper handling — "gross negligence" — of classified material) and the even bigger scandal of authorizing spying on the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
Make no mistake: Obama is the prize. Unraveling the threads that lead directly to him would have a seismic impact on the course of American politics. All of the Democrats' fantasizing about the SDNY indicting Trump and prosecuting him after he leaves the Oval Office would suddenly turn against their own champion.


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The DMW Boss took to his insta-story to show off the gift he gifted to Chioma, he's been calling his wife.
A quick check on Cartier's website shows the bebautiful gold-looking bracelet is sold for $6,300 which is 2.2 million naira.


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"The Armenian"mechanism" as a lever of pressure on Russia REVIEW of ACADEMICIAN ANATOLII PESHKO
30 September 2017, 13: 54
https://haqqin.az/news/111990
A notable event of this week is the decision of the Armenian standing parliamentary Commission on foreign relations, which voted against Armenia's withdrawal from the Eurasian economic Union. Recall that, as already reported haqqin.az, the initiative of the country's exit from the EAEU was made by the conditionally Pro-Western bloc "Elk".
Meanwhile, in an interview with haqqin.az Vice-President of the Academy of economic Sciences of Ukraine, political expert and former Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, academician Anatoliy Peshko said that the solution to this was to be expected. "It is important for Yerevan to remain in the Eurasian economic Union. Whatever it was, the EAEU member States are Armenia's partners. And it is the former republics of the USSR, close to Armenia mentally," said Pesko.
According to the expert, the post-Soviet countries have developed close relations over the decades of their stay in the USSR. "You have to understand that the attempts to separate Armenia from other countries of the Eurasian Union, is the handiwork of US who want to keep their world domination. The us Federal reserve, and many other things are used for this, including the "Armenian mechanism" as a lever of pressure on Russia," Peshko said.
According to the academician, one of the ways to weaken Russia is, for example, the Armenian-Azerbaijani and other conflicts that broke out in the territory of the former USSR, including Ukraine.
"The draft law on Armenia's withdrawal from the EAEU is another attempt by the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, who actually control America, to maintain maximum leverage on the processes in the world. Note: even the President of the United States Donald Trump is not given the opportunity to make independent decisions", – said A. Peshko.
As for the agreement between Armenia and the European Union expected to be signed in November, which was opposed by Moscow in 2013, as a result of which the document was never signed, the expert agrees with the opinion that this is in a sense a factor of blackmail on the part of Armenia, which wants to get more bonuses from Russia.
"But I want to give you an example of Ukraine, which has followed the path of Association with the European Union. We have nothing to gain from this. We had a huge common market with Russia and received about $ 40 – $ 60 billion a year from the sale of our goods here. And now Kiev has abandoned the Russian market, and the country has lost a lot. And if Armenia will agree to sign an Association agreement with the EU, the more you will lose", – said A.Peshko.
Continuing to talk about the example of Ukraine, the expert said that it was not by chance that he cited the figure of 40-60 billion dollars: "Today the European market gives us only 20 billion. That is, we have 2-3 times reduced the market. Europe in any case can not replace Russia. And besides, Ukrainian goods, as well as Armenian ones, by their characteristics, by their certification requirements do not meet European standards. Our products are not in demand in the EU, which means that we will not be business partners."
"In Europe, they thought that Ukraine could become a market, but then they realized that even in this capacity we are not suitable, because the standard of living of Ukrainians has fallen significantly over the past three years – after the so-called "revolution of hydration" ("Euromaidan". – Ed.). Armenia will find itself in the same situation," said haqqin.az.
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Sociodemographic factors associated with sleeping position and location.
Royal New Zealand Plunket Society, Central Regional Office, Wellington.
Recent research has implicated infant sleeping body position and bed sharing as risk factors in the sudden infant death syndrome. The sociodemographic associations of infant sleeping body position and location were examined in this study. This showed that the majority (86.4%) of New Zealand parents now place their infants to sleep on their sides. The remainder place their infants supine (1.3%), prone (4.8%), or no particular way (7.5%). In the waking position, 57.9% were usually found on their sides, 18.2% supine, and 6.1% prone. Infant sleeping position showed marked sociodemographic variability. These findings are a marked contrast to previous New Zealand studies which showed a reversed pattern, with most infants put to sleep prone. There were also highly significant sociodemographic differences in the place of sleeping. Overall 12.2% of infants shared a bed, with infants of younger less well educated mothers who were of non-European origin, with a parity of five or more, or unmarried significantly more likely to do so. Infants of unemployed and lower socioeconomic group (Elley-Irving groups 5 and 6) fathers were also more likely to share a parental bed.


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Brother's call for average speed cameras as powerful vigil held for tragic Jamie
This week marks a year since the death of Jamie Symons
Alex RichardsDeputy Head of Content
The brother of tragic Jamie Symons has called for Average Speed Cameras to stop erratic and dangerous driving on the road where he was struck by a car and killed.
It follows last night's powerful tribute held on the first anniversary of the 'kind and hard-working' 27-year-old's death.
It saw a line of burning candles cast a glow for a quarter-of-a-mile along College Way, Dartmouth - the scene of the collision near the entrance to Britannia Royal Naval College.
Painted stones have also been laid, daubed with messages including 'speed kills' and 'save a life.'
Vigil for Jamie Symons
Adam Bodinnar, 20, had been driving without qualification or insurance when he hit Jamie and left him to die on the roadside on September 26 2017.
A year on, his grieving family are hoping lessons can be learned.
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Rick Symons, 29, said: "You can scream and shout at some people and they just won't listen.
"But this [vigil] might get through to people, and stop them driving like a douchebag."
He added: "Just pray it is never your own family member this happens to."
Jamie Symons - described by mother as a 'kind young man who would help anyone'
He believes that speed cameras are the only way to stamp out poor driving along the A379 for good.
"I would like to see average speed cameras along that road. It is so secluded and it's the only way to slow people down.
"Nobody likes being controlled but it is necessary."
How do average speed cameras work?
The multiple cameras (at least two) are set at separate locations along a stretch of road (at a minimum 200m apart) and are synchronised to record the exact time that each car passes using number plate reading technology.
Then a computer will work out the average speed between the cameras to determine if the car was over the speed limit.
Some people wrongly think that each camera records a driver's speed as they pass each camera before the computer works out the average speed as the car passed every camera - this explains why some drivers think they can speed up between the cameras and slow down as they pass them.
But doing this is likely to land you with a fine - the cameras simply record the time you pass them and the computer works out how long it has taken you to pass the distance between them.
Do the cameras work at night?
Yes. They are fitted with infra red illuminators to ensure they work night and day, and all weathers.
Can the cameras run out of film?
No. Unlike some other speed cameras, average speed camera information is saved to a computer.
Can the cameras catch motorbikes?
Yes. The cameras are equipped to capture all types of vehicles.
If a vehicle changes lanes will they avoid any fines?
No. The cameras calculate for lane changes. But this myth can mean people dangerously switch lanes increasing the chance of crashes.
If a driver passes more than two sets of average speed cameras in a sequence while over the speed limit, will they be fined more than once?
This is unlikely. Only certain cameras in the sequence are usually 'paired', so where, for example, there are four in a sequence it may be your speed between the first and third that is recorded, or the second and fourth or first and fourth, and so on.
But you will not know which ones are recording your number plate at any time.
If you are less than 10 per cent above the limit, will you get a ticket?
It has been commonly assumed by many drivers over the years that you will not get a ticket so long as your speed does not exceed the limit by more than 10 per cent plus 2mph. This is because of guidance to officers from the National Police Chiefs Council.
Several police forces nationwide have indicated that drivers can expect far less leeway, as cameras become more accurate - and the law states that a driver can receive a ticket as soon as they have exceeded the limit, even if it is only by 1mph.
How can you avoid getting a fine?
There is only one way to be sure that you do not get a ticket from average speed cameras - and that is to drive without speeding.
How Adam Bodinnar was jailed
In May, Adam Bodinnar, 20, admitted causing the death of Jamie Symons by careless driving and driving without a licence at the time of the incident late on September 26 last year in College Way, Dartmouth.
However, his basis of plea was contested by prosecutors.
A fact-finding hearing at Plymouth Crown Court heard from his passenger, Andrew Prout, who told the court he felt Bodinnar was driving "erratically" and had repeatedly told him to slow down prior to running over the prone body of Mr Symons.
At times becoming emotional Mr Prout, aged 28, explained how he had made contact with Bodinnar to buy cannabis.
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He said Bodinnar dropped the drug off at around 10.20pm but he later contacted him again through a Facebook friend, asking Bodinnar for a lift into the heart of Dartmouth to visit a late night burger bar.
He told prosecutor Peter Coombe, the 20-year-old's driving was "quite erratic, driving at speed, taking corners dangerously [in] twisty roads."
He said he estimated Bodinnar was driving at "50 to 60mph" in a 30mph zone.
He said he had told Bodinnar to slow down but was ignored.
The court had previously heard statements from police which noted Bodinnar's Citroen Saxo had dipped lights on at the time rather than full beam.
They also noted no bumper damage, which suggested Mr Symons was not standing up at the time of the collision and his injuries were consistent with being run over.
Prosecutor Peter Coombe had told the court Mr Symons had been drinking at the Royal Castle Hotel bar that night and witness had described him as "very polite".
He had asked for a taxi but when he learned none were available, he headed off on foot saying he could not wait as he had to get back to his caravan as his dog had recently had a litter of puppies.
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A short while later he had encountered a local police officer who he knew. The officer later gave a statement saying Mr Symons was "drunk but jovial" and noted how the 28-year-old had claimed how "things were looking up for him and he was getting his life sorted".
A passing motorist in College Way told police they had seen a man at 11.50pm walking in the road rather than on the pavement.
Jamie Symons and his beloved lurcher Corley
A Chief Petty Officer from the nearby Britannia Royal Naval College found a seriously injured Mr Symons at 12.20am face down with his feet touching the kerb and called other officers to help give first aid.
Fighting back tears Mr Prout told the court he felt uncomfortable in the car, adding: "He shouldn't be driving like that. I'm a fool for getting in the car."
He said he saw Mr Symons a split second before the Citroen ran him over "laying down, in the foetal position.
"His head was next to the kerb, facing the car.
"The last thing I seen was his eyes".
He said he knew it was a body as the car "lifted" up, but immediately tried to convince himself it was a sheep adding: "I tried not to think it was human.
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"I tried to tell myself it was a sheep but I knew exactly what it was.
"I told him [Bodinnar] to stop the car... to stop the f****** car!"
However, he said Bodinnar replied "no, I'm not legal" and continued to drive.
He said Bodinnar came to see him the next day by which time DevonLive had reported on Mr Symon's death.
Mr Prout told the court: "I told him you need to come forward and speak to police" but said Bodinnar refused, saying lots of other cars were about that night and that he had "got away with it".
Responding to questions from Bodinnar's advocate Emma Wilson, Mr Prout said he did not call police because he was "in a bad place" saying it was "hard to get my head around".
He denied outright Bodinnar's recently-made claims that he had told the younger man he would change his police statement if Bodinnar supplied him with cannabis for free.
Taking the stand Bodinnar denied he visited Mr Prout's home to deliver cannabis but admitted he drove without a licence to the burger cafe with the older man.
In a quiet croaky voice, barely blinking, he admitted driving "fairly fast" but not 60mph.
He admitted he had only been learning to drive "for a couple of months" on a provisional licence.
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He insisted he only ever thought he hit a kerb on the straight College Way road and claimed Mr Prout suggested they had hit a sheep.
Answering questions by Mr Coombe, he said Mr Prout had offered to change his statement for "£20" of cannabis and had made the claim while the pair of them were in a shed at his friend's home.
He said when police put Mr Prout's statement to him during interview he did not understand what it meant.
When Bodinnar claimed he did not know why he did not tell police about the suggested 'blackmail' attempt, Mr Coombe suggested he was lying.
Mr Coombe said: "You say Mr Prout has told a pack of lies and tried to blackmail you but it slipped your mind until today's hearing?"
Bodinnar replied: "I just didn't think of it. I didn't read the statement. I didn't know. I didn't think."
Judge Peter Johnson said he rejected the basis of plea regarding the three offences of causing death by careless driving, causing death while being unlicensed and uninsured and failing to stop after a road traffic accident.
He said that on the evidence presented it was clear Bodinnar knew he had run over a human being.
He added that Bodinnar's evidence was "riddled with inconsistencies".
To a packed courtroom, filled with relatives and friends of both families, Mr Coombe read out a heartbreaking victim personal impact statement from Jamie Symon's mother, Tina.
She wrote: "Mothers' hold their children's hand for a while but their hearts forever. My son Jamie was a kind young man who would help anyone, he was hardworking and would turn his hand to anything.
"When news of Jamie's death was released tributes and messages of condolence flooded in from hundreds of people across the UK, all with anecdotes and kind words about how they had met him and how he had touched their lives.
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"Jamie adored animal, none more than his beloved dog and companion who travelled everywhere with him.
"It is hard for me to put into words how Jamie's death has affected me as it is all encompassing.
"From an early age Jamie found mainstream life challenging. He needed to be free and from an early age he was a wanderer yet he would just turn up at my house with that daft grin on his face, his visits were never planned, he didn't do routine, he would just appear any time of day or night and I loved him for it."
Tina wrote how she now has to "check myself when I hear the front door open, that split second of hop as I expect him to call in is immediately overtaken by the crushing pain I feel when it isn't him and I have to accept that he will never come home again.
"Night times are the worst times for me, without the distractions of the daytime jobs to keep me busy I lay awake in bed thinking over and over about his last walk.
"I don't sleep much and dread 5am – the time that the police knocked on my door and gave me the devastating news that Jamie had been killed."
She said she had been left with feelings of regret, wishing she had spent more time with her son. She noted how happy he was in Dartmouth and recalled how shortly before his death he had invited her to visit.
Sadly, she wrote how she did not manage to make the trip "and I have feelings of failure as his Mum".
She wrote: "He told me that when he knocks or hurts himself at work, he can't help but think of the pain that Jamie must have felt in his last minutes as he lay alone in the road."
She added: "On the 27th September 2017 my world was blown apart and right now I don't know where or how to start rebuilding.
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"No words can express the pain we are feeling as a family, we are utterly devastated not only at the loss of Jamie but in the way in which he died".
After a short deliberation Judge Johnson, returned to court, telling Bodinnar: "It was a callous act on your part, that you simply decided to lay low."
He said the 20-year-old was "overconfident" about his driving ability and he had no doubt Bodinnar knew he had ran over a person.
He said: "You dragged [Mr Symon's] body along. Your car was damaged. Bits of it were left at the scene. You thought you had got away with it.
"You lied and lied again about hitting the kerb."
After noting Bodinnar's previous good character and early guilty plea Judge Johnson passed a sentence of 13 months for the death by careless driving, eight months for death by driving whilst uninsured and unlicensed and four months for the failure to stop, all to run concurrently.
Bodinnar's was also disqualified for two years, with an extension period of six and a half months.
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Since 1926, owning businesses (investing in equities) has been the greatest path to wealth creation - earning 9.6% vs. bonds at 5.5%.
Source: 1926-2011 Ibbotson Yearbook, 2012.
For a couple of years now, I have been warning investors about the dangers involved with owning bonds in their portfolios.
The answer is simple. Interest Rates are at historical lows while the U.S. economy continues to improve.
Yes, it is true that if you hold a bond until its duration, you will more than likely get your principle back. However, in a rising interest rate environment, many investors choose to sell their lower yielding bonds and purchase new bonds in favor of a higher yield and longer duration. Many investors do this because they think it is a less volatile instrument, but history does not support that notion.
As we look over today's landscape, we see the 10 Year Treasury hovering around 2.40% to 2.50%. This yield is down from the start of the year when the 10 Year was at 3.02%.
Yields have moved lower in 2014 for various reasons; this is a sharp contrast to 2013 when the 10 Year yield went from 1.71% to 3.02%. Obviously, a big move.
The debate still rages on - when we will see a sustained move up in interest rates from the historical lows we are presently experiencing. Lots of very smart people are trying to find the answer to this very big question.
At this point in the interest rate cycle, I really believe that many investors do not understand the potential risks they are taking longer term when investing in longer term bonds at these historically low rates.
To add fuel to the fire, many historical studies have been done that look at the volatility of bonds and interest rates relative to equities. I believe the results would surprise many, as history has shown bonds to be more volatile than stocks! I know, hard to believe! Remember what happened to bond prices in 2013?
Obviously, there are many variables that go into these studies, but one thing is for sure, the statistical benefit of owning bonds today is very low. As I often say to investors: you must view bonds as a diversification tool and beta mitigator during volatile periods in the equity markets.
However, it is the stock market volatility that is creating, and will continue to create, opportunities in the future to invest in great businesses at lower prices.
Despite today's low interest rate environment, I do believe that for many portfolios, bonds have a place for diversification. However, it is important for investors to understand why they own the bonds in the first place and also know that they are not going to be great investment tools in the near future.
This leads me to Ibbotson information at the top of this piece. As I have said for many years, I believe the greatest path to wealth creation is being an investor in businesses, not the stock market. It's an important distinction. Market corrections create the opportunity to invest in specific businesses, like a business owner would, with a long-term view of value and growth potential of those businesses.
As we enter the final quarter of 2014 stock market volatility has been picking up and the U.S. stock market sits around its historical average valuation... investment opportunities are coming and media noise will abound.
As 2014 comes to a close and we enter 2015, there is no doubt in my mind that the greatest opportunities for investors will be based on viewing the companies they own as long-term investments and ignore the short-term noise. Volatility will undoubtedly bring great opportunities in 2015.


NAI Columbia is pleased to announce the sale of the former Dianne's on Devine restaurant located at 2400 Devine Street in Columbia, SC. Principal and Director of Retail Services, Patrick Palmer, CCIM represented the seller in the transaction. The building sold for $975,000 to Hickory, NC-based Backstreets Bar & Grill, who is purchasing the building to open a new location of its North Carolina restaurant.


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What Is MozCast?
MozCast is an experiment in tracking the "weather" patterns of the Google algorithm. While big updates like Panda and Penguin get a lot of press, Google revealed that they made 516 changes in 2010, and all evidence suggests that pace has continued. What we notice is barely the tip of the iceberg. MozCast was designed to help you keep track of the day-to-day changes in the Google algorithm.
It all starts with this: every 24 hours, we track a hand-picked set of 1,000 keywords and grab the top 10 Google organic results. Keywords were deliberately chosen to avoid obvious local intent, are distributed evenly across 5 "bins" by query volume, and are tracked at roughly the same time every day from the same location. In other words, we do our best to keep the data set tightly controlled.
Each day, we take the current top 10 and compare it to the previous day's top 10 (for any given keyword), and calculate a rate of change or "delta". Specifically, we use two metrics – called Delta 100 and Delta10 – which measure the change across the entire set of top 10 results. Then, we crunch Delta10 across all 1,000 keywords and multiply the resulting average by a fixed multiplier (currently, 28.0) to produce something that looks like a temperature (in °F). An average day is about 70°F.
So, What's a Delta10?
Ok, here's the more complicated version of the story. We tried a lot of metrics for comparing two sets of top 10 results, and we ultimately landed on two that seemed to work pretty well but were simple enough to explain. The first is "Delta100" – for any two days of top 10 rankings, it gives us a number from 0-100, calculated by the following rules:
+0 if the ranking stays the same
+|#| if the ranking moves in the top 10
+10 if the ranking drops out of the top 10
If a ranking moves, then "#" is the number of spots it moves – in other words, if a URL drops from the #2 spot to the #5 spot, then +3 gets added to Delta100 for that keyword. Across all 1,000 keywords, Delta100 looks like a power curve, so to normalize the data (and make statistics like the mean and standard deviation easy to calculate), we take the square root of Delta100 to create Delta10 (called that because it theoretically ranges from 0-10). All temperatures and long-term reports on MozCast are directly based off of Delta10.
Put simply, the hotter the temperature, the more change we saw in Google rankings in the previous 24 hours. Each temperature also gets converted into one of five severity levels:
The temperature and severity are completely connected at this point, so a big algorithm change means you'll see hot and stormy weather. Again, the weather part is just for fun. Think of the severity as the at-a-glance view and the temperature as the refined view (a direct representation of our internal Delta10 metric). If it's a stormy day, then something big happened.
Stay Tuned...
Data updates automatically every morning (~7:30am Pacific Time), and the 5-day history is available from the left sidebar. Check out the Google Algorithm Change History on moz.com for a list of how recent algorithm updates have scored on our scale. Follow us on Twitter @mozcast for your daily weather report.


When you look at a picture, what do you see first? The subject? In this picture of his family by the French artist Henri Matisse, do you notice first of all the black and white checkerboard? Or Matisse's two sons, Pierre and Jean, one moving a piece, the other thinking hard about his next move? Or do you see the artist's daughter Marguerite before anything else, standing on the right? If I could show you a reproduction of this painting in color, your eye would be caught by the bright yellow cover of the book she carries, and her bright emerald-green shoes. But perhaps it is Matisse's wife doing embroidery on the left who stands out.
On the other hand, you will notice that it is not just the main people and things in the picture that are important. It is a picture full of patterns (and colors). The carpet, the seats, the wallpaper, and even the tiled fireplace are like a field of flowers. Only the three children are not decorated with patterns: The two boys are in plain red sweaters and shorts, the girl in a plain black dress.
So what you might expect to be ``background'' in this picture actually stands out because it is so full of little colored decorations, and the people, whom you'd expect would interest Matisse most, are so simply painted that they become less important. Not even the features of their faces matter very much. Matisse has just lightly painted their eyes, noses, and mouths, as if they were no more than a pattern of lines on their skin. You wouldn't recognize them if you met them in the street. He has made much more fuss over the carpet than he has over his own wife's face!
Matisse explained it this way. He said that when he painted, for instance, a woman, ``Above all, I do not create a woman, I make a picture.'' He felt very strongly as a painter that it was the painting he had to give most of his attention to, and that the subject took a back seat in comparison. So he wanted his picture to be interesting in every part, and not just have some of its obvious features stand out.
He loved colorful old Persian paintings and Islamic decorations. He learned from them that big spaces in pictures are not what matters most. Perspective to describe spaces began to interest him less and less.
What mattered was that the colors painted on the flat surface of the painting should have happy and effective relationships with one another - like notes in a song, or like the flowers arranged in the vases on the mantelpiece. Or like different members of the same family.
``The Artist's Family'' (1911), by Henri Matisse, belongs to the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad. Until Nov. 14, it is on exchange-loan to the Villa Favorita in Lugano, Switzerland, in an exhibition of 40 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings from Moscow and Leningrad.


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Abu Dhabi Climate Meeting set to spur leaders to action
The meeting will take stock of progress being made ahead of the UN Climate Action Summit in New York in September
Two centuries of burning fossil fuels has left a perilous legacy. Frank Augstein / AP
Ramola Talwar Badam
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, will open the Abu Dhabi Climate Meeting today by urging leaders to summon the political will to tackle the impact of climate change.
The two-day meeting in the UAE capital will gather more than 1,700 government ministers, business leaders and experts from the private and public sector from 160 countries. They will assess the progress made in implementing the goals set by the 2015 Paris Agreement and the challenges that lie ahead.
A group of young people will interview Mr Guterres following his opening remarks, reflecting an awareness that the younger generation plays a key role in the clean green energy revolution.
Dwelling on the opportunities offered by investing in the green economy, Mr Guterres has said, "people around the world are demanding immediate climate action and inclusive development".
"The green economy offers countless benefits. But to reap them we need rapid transition, deep transformation and political will," he wrote on Twitter while attending the G20 summit in Osaka this week.
Climate change is the biggest threat we have ever faced but it is also our greatest opportunity. A clean and green future is good for the economy, your health and the planet's health
He has earlier called for greater ambition and bold action backed by concrete plans in renewable energy, emission reduction, sustainable infrastructure and agriculture.
Mr Guterres also made a reference to the scorching temperatures and heat wave across southern and central Europe with France registering an all-time high at 45.8°Con Saturday.
"The heatwaves reaching Europe are proof that climate change is striking everywhere and it is a serious public health threat," Mr Guterres tweeted.
"Climate Action cannot wait."
The call to action was also sounded by Thani Al Zeyoudi, UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment.
Mr Zeyoudi urged residents to do their bit to prevent the planet's natural resources from being eroded.
Extreme weather conditions caused by climate change put massive pressure on the ecosystem, he said in a video posted online, "It affects you. It affects me. It affects everyone.
"I have two simple messages for you. Climate change is the biggest threat we have ever faced but it is also our greatest opportunity. A clean and green future is good for the economy, your health and the planet's health."
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He said the Abu Dhabi Climate Meeting aimed to compile solutions and build political support to deliver on the Paris Agreement.
The historic deal in 2015 brought consensus among the world's nations about the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to keep global temperatures below 2°C above pre-industrial times and limit the increase to 1.5°C.
The meeting in UAE's capital will help prepare for the UN Climate Action Summit in New York in September.
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, leader of conservation group WWF for global climate and energy practice, said the meeting would give people a chance to take stock of the progress being made before the September high-level conference.
Describing the period as pivotal in history, he said momentum was urgently needed.
"Governments have a range of levers at their disposal – of tried and tested mechanisms, such as carbon pricing, energy efficiency standards and clean energy mandates – that can encourage companies and individuals to reduce their climate impacts," he said.
The conference will also host a climate and health ministers meeting with non-government representatives to pinpoint measures that could save billions of dollars in health costs while battling climate change.
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To win the game, you have to play through the song without starving.
The more you play, the more fans will gather up to listen to you. This will multiply your earned Blues Power. But making music is exhausting! Your Hunger Bar (red) is constantly drained, an empty Hunger Bar means that you loose the game.
This means that you have to snack some fans from time to time to refill your Hunger Bar, tap on the dino to eat some tasty fans. But don't eat too many fans! With less fans you will earn less Blues Power, possibly making a level impossible to finish!
Bei bei mir funktioniert das Spiel leider nicht. Ich kann nicht auf Start drücken. Und wenn ich über die Level Anwahl gehe, sehe ich zwar das Spiel aber es tut sich nichts.


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Sheykh Sar Mast (, also Romanized as Shaikh Sarmast; also known as  Sheikh Sarmes) is a village in Nazluy-ye Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 524, in 139 families.

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Populated places in Urmia County

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These clear 1/16" thick Acrylic bases are for use with Dropzone Commander infantry.
The bases look best if the mounting circle at the bottom of the infantry figure is removed before placement. Clip the excess mounting circle from around the feet and then file the remaining metal/plastic down to the sole of the foot.
NOTE: Cyanoacrylate (Super) glue will cloud the surface of Acrylic. Use it sparingly. Typically, light clouding can be removed by rubbing it off with your finger.


After removing/adding the twitter Facebook 'app' this is working again!
A service like DYNdns but firebrick and AAISP service based.
For those of us who for what ever reason can't get AAISP or who want static services over dynamic connections. Having a fixed IP routed to a good router via i good service provider. Perfect!
We can offer a L2TP connection - it's 'unofficial' at the moment, but email in to support for more info.
see the pricing options on TT working too.
This is working, I think it was fixed at the time, sorry for a delay in updating this Idea!
It would be good if customers could change/generate their own passwords for the accounts web site without contacting support and then having the password relayed over an insecure medium.
This is now possible. The lost password system of the billing system has been revised and updated.
Have an email hyperlink on http://www.aaisp.net/broadband-support.html rather than making us copy 'n' paste said address.
On http://www.aaisp.net/broadband-support.html you list all the contact methods. Great! Some of them are even links that fire up the service. But why is the email address not a mailto: link?
This has been updated, thanks!
Good point, but it has been suggested in the past that keeping the peak hours can be useful when considering changing tariffs. However, i'll add a note to the page about peak to being relevant to all tariffs. Thanks for the idea though.
We are currently (ie now!), creating a new front page for the status page - this will make things much clearer and simpler. eg splitting the front page posts in to categories rather than a whole list.
Status pages have now been updated.
The line links in clueless such as Log and Usage open in new windows. If I wanted a link to open in a new window I'd do it myself.
see what happend to the broadband issue that existed at 7pm today, what happened, why did dissapear!
There is no mention of it in your logs. Yet I know it happened and AAISP status at 7pm showed it happened. Yet looking at 11pm there is no sign of it. What happened?


... which of them would wave that wand?
I'd say, people like Frank Field and Jess Phillips, yes - but Blair, Mandelson etc?
Isn't it the case that some "reformers" do enough to justify the need for themselves, and not so much as to make themselves redundant?
From what I read of the Fabians, they started out as posh people discussing "doing good" unto the lower classes without the slightest desire to elevate the latter to their own level - in fact they had quite an enthusiasm for eugenics. So really it was about power - themselves as gardeners, weeding and pruning their social inferiors.
And as for people like "Tony" - didn't he do well out of "doing good"? Not just what in the Seventies was called an "ego trip", but money and status. Then there's the serpentine Peter, and the other managerial types, both smooth and rough, who had a d**n good career out of it all - the nearest I ever came to hearing from Roy Hattersley was when his megaphone car toured the constituency to say so long and thanks for all the fish.
Yet on the other side of the Commons, what do we see? Friends of property developers and money-shufflers, gatherers of directorships and inside tips. With honourable exceptions, I suspect that many would wave their wand to vanish the great unwashed and make piles of money appear; or alternatively, to create millions more poor, MD-enriching people, so long as they were kept well away from where the ruling elite live.
I'm beginning to see some points of cross-party resemblance.
I'm not clever enough to imagine what the LibDems might magick. Though looking at the education and careers of the Cleggs one can see what the wand has done for themselves, if not for others.
The masks slipped in the Palace of Westminster when Cameron led the applause for Blair, and when both sides stamped on electoral reform (proposed by the LibDems, but mostly for their own purposes).
Getting out of the EU is just the start.
Love the description of the Fabians.
And yes, Westminster's biggest problem as always is that those who want to be there shouldn't be permitted and those who should be there aren't interested.
"...and good health practices rather than burgeoning sickness services..."
What do you mean here? Modern evidence-based medicine includes trying to make people healthier.
P: I know, but people ignore it and keep finding ways to injure themselves and make themselves sick. Some of it I think is a symptom of a society that is failing economically and socially.
... and the political dialogue then becomes one about how much we are spending on the NHS rather than doing.
"Getting out of the EU is just the start." assuming we actually ever get out of the EU, if it happens it will be a triumph for adversity against the overwhelming vested interests.
Liked the view of the political parties, you left out the Greens, a law to themselves regards do as I say not as I do, vision of a nation living in yurts eating gruel and rubbing sticks together to keep warm no firebad just the exercise and all ruled from Brighton !
Would be nice to magic wand Brexit into existence and Gina Miller out.
I disagree that we should be trying to get people healthy if they don't want it. We need to engineer cigarettes so they keep people completely healthy to age 60 or so, then kill them very quickly. Saves healthcare and pensions.
I appreciate the libertarian argument. But there is the complex question of the "captive will" - libertarians hate the notion of addiction because it undercuts their belief in themselves as totally free and rational individuals.
On the one hand there is a limit to what others should do to "nudge" their fellow men into what they consider to be correct behaviour; on the other hand, there's a lot of nudging in the opposite direction - not only huge advertising budgets but (in the case of alcohol in the UK) a vast proliferation of sources and brewers' lobbying to relax licensing laws. This issue could be the subject of a whole series of posts and arguments.
In the UK, one drug currently offering both escape and, in a growing number of cases an early grave, is Black Mamba, a variant of Spice. Makes money for the dealers, too - ticks all the boxes.