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Karmacoda Shares Alluring Single, 'Dare' Ahead Of Album, 'Lessons In Time.'
Elegant USA-based band KARMACODA shared their song 'Dare', which is taken from their latest album, Lessons In Time, via Sola Musa Music.
In the spirit of love, Karmacoda's impassioned songstress Jessica Ford makes her desire known in the single, as she risks it all and takes the leap. Jazz-inspired instruments entice, while each word teases, calling a lover to action. Jessica brings the track together with her seductive vocals, making its final destination a sweet embrace.
Discussing the LP, the band's on vocals and producer, Brett Crockett (aka B) says: "We began writing Lesson in Time immediately after the completion of the album before it (Slow Down, Melt and Catch Fire) which dealt with the uncertainty of the early parts of the pandemic. Lessons in Time is about both looking forward to what the future will be and simultaneously looking back at what we once had, what we loved, and what we lost. Themes of time and flying and the need for emotional personal connections emerged, unconsciously, but they were obvious once the album was done."
Having been placed in several film and TV scores, the three-piece band has won several awards including the Hermes Creative Awards (Platinum) for the 'Lo-Fi Girl' video and 'Make Me The One' video which also earned one Unglued Music Video (Gold) and three Davey Awards for Video Entertainment, Best Use of Music and Art Direction (all Silver). Based in San Francisco, USA, KARMACODA is comprised of Jessica Ford (vocals), Brett Crockett (aka B. on vocals and producer) and Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist Eric Matsuno (bass and other unique elements). The trio's sound has been compared to a unique mix of Paloma Faith, Adele, and Pixie Lott.
'Dare' follows their video for 'Time Flies' , which clocked up over 12K views since its release last month.
January 19, 2023 January 19, 2023 by Tracey Dawkins Categories: new singlesTags: indie group, indie music, jazz music, Karmacoda Dare, love song, Music, new releases 2023, new single 2023, San Francisco, Sola Musa Music, soul music, USA Leave a comment
New Lease Music's Top Ten Songs of 2022
Here's the blog's top ten songs, which completes the top releases of 2022.
Some of the songs on the list were staples on the NEW LEASE MUSIC weekly charts in 2022, whereas others quietly clocked up heavy amount of streams and views via the blog.
So are you ready to explore the list? Good!
Just in case you missed it, you can view the Top Ten Music video here and Top Ten Albums here.
10. DO IT LIKE THAT – CAITLIN MIN FA
9. DANNY BOY STEWARD – DONE ME WRONG
8. SHARE MY LIFE – RAPHAEL TATE
7. REMEDY – FRENCH THE KID
6. UNCONDITIONAL – DARREN PARRY
5. STRUGGLE BUS – OLTEA FRANCES
4. LORD I NEED YOU NEAR – RAPHAEL TATE
3. DANCING WITH THE ENEMY – JVSTN
2. BOSS (CALL AWAY) – K HARRISON
1. IT ENDS WITH US – APRIL JAI
January 6, 2023 January 12, 2023 by Tracey Dawkins Categories: new singlesTags: Australia, Ballad, Canada, hip-hop, indie artists, indie music, London, Music, New Lease Music top ten songs of 2022, pop music, r&b, reggae, singles, soul music, UK talent, unsigned artists, unsigned music, USA, Wales Leave a comment
Song of the Day: Miracle X – The Fur (ft. GET UP Soul Choir)
Swedish Grammy-nominated artist and producer THE FUR returns with the Christmas single 'Miracle X'. It is a re-work of the recent single 'Miracle' which was co-written by guest singer Tyte (known for her work with Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Mary J. Blige), the new version offers a fresh take on the track with festive percussion and vocals from GET UP Soul Choir adding a soul and gospel feel to the pop ballad.
With an ongoing career as a classical musician, The Fur is a dance-pop project to complement his other musical endeavours. Despite only releasing music as The Fur since June 2021, the solo artist has already smashed through one million streams on Spotify and continues his growth as an artist.
The idea behind the new single 'Miracle X' was to expand and elaborate on the Christmas elements in the original song 'Miracle', with the addition of being produced in one of Sweden's most famous recording spaces, Baggpipe studios.
Sonically, 'Miracle X' is a prime example of The Fur's ear for melodies and ability to create warming, cinematic pop soundscapes which encompass both polished pop production and live instrumentation. Layering soulful gospel vocals over two pianos playing in unison, the track instantly sets an affecting, emotive tone. As the track develops introducing bass, drums and strings courtesy of Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, the gospel undertones of the track brought largely by the GET UP Soul Choir come to the fore as the ear-worm vocal line shines.
Speaking on the new Christmas single, The Fur shares: "I felt that you could do something more Christmassy with the original song. To simply make a good contribution to Christmas music. You get really tired of all the commercial Christmas music that is played everywhere. Miracle has a Christmassy message where you ask for a miracle, but it doesn't sound like a typical Christmas song. It feels like a song you can imagine listening to at Christmas, but it stands out a little from the crowd."
Check out the official video for 'Miracle X' below…
December 23, 2022 by Tracey Dawkins Categories: Songs of the DayTags: Christmas songs, gospel music, indie artist, indie music, Music, music video, Songs of the Day, soul music, Sweden, The Fur Miracle X ft. GET UP Soul Choir, Unsigned artist, unsigned music Leave a comment
Song of the Day: Sunshine – Micah Willis
MICAH WILLIS is a rising pop singer with old soul sensibility when it comes to instrumentation and production, this would seem natural as Micah is the son of blues great Kenny Neal. His single, 'Sunshine', which comes off the upcoming mixtape, 'Who The Hell Is Micah Willis,' was recorded in Baton Rouge with Kennys band brings a gospel-like emotive and inspirational lyrics sung with powerful female backing vocals strengthen the belting delivery of Micah over an organ's swirl, glittering with the guitar of Kenny Neal.
'Sunshine' came into existence after Micah felt a wave of hope on a plane ride home from a successful gig in Orlando. He says this is the fastest a song has ever come together for him. The reason that wave of hope lead to such a powerful single is Micah suffers from anxiety and depression and like a lot of us it has been more challenging in recent years.
The more he shared the outline of the song, the more people were quick to jump on board – first producer Chance Clift, then Christian Lucy on keys. Micah then sent it to his father Kenny Neal who on hearing it wanted to bring his full band in. Micah realising the connection this song was making brought in some amazing vocalists Mimi Knowles and Raven Flowers to fill out the sonic hug.
Micah says of creating the single: "I haven't ever experienced creating a song the way we created this. I feel like there was so much love in every session we did with this song, and that is what this song is all about. Love, hope, and happiness."
Have a listen to 'Sunshine' below…
November 23, 2022 by Tracey Dawkins Categories: Songs of the DayTags: indie artist, indie music, Inspirational songs, Micah Willis Sunshine, Music, Songs of the Day, soul music, Unsigned artist, unsigned music, USA Leave a comment
Listen to Teon Gibbs' Single, 'Easy', Inspired by True Love.
Hip hop artist TEON GIBBS is quickly becoming one of the most well known voices coming out of Canada. His second soulful single from his own label (100 Collective Records) 'Easy,' is inspired by new love – one that has successfully moved from friends to lovers. For Teon, the relationship snapped into place and felt easy.
Teon says of his memerising offering:"'Easy' is meant to feel like floating, kind of embodying the joy of a new relationship with someone and trying to hold on to those moments of new love. I developed the drum pattern and then brought in an A-list Team. Falcxne, JT, Jaspa, Jub and Nate from Potatohead People and I created this song off of pure synergy. This genre-bending single feels like a milestone moment in my career growth, and sound exploration. Feel like it gives people a taste of what's to come next."
Originally from Botswana, Teon has lived in the UK, South Africa and Angola before settling in Vancouver, Canada. He's currently working with 3 x Grammy Award winning producer Chin Injeti (whose Grammy wins include: Eminem's Recovery, Marshall Mathers LP 2 and Lecrae's Gravity) to perfect his genre-bending soulful trademark – a sound that's already praised by the likes of Exclaim! and Complex UK.
Why not check out the lyric video for 'Easy' below…
November 16, 2022 November 16, 2022 by Tracey Dawkins Categories: new singlesTags: 100 Collective Records, Canada, hip-hop, indie artist, indie music, Music, new releases 2022, new single 2022, songs about relationships, soul music, Teon Gibbs Easy, Vancouver Leave a comment


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Barkhamsted Lighthouse Village
Barkhamsted CT.
History of the Area: Peoples State Forest is located in the Pleasant Valley section of Barkhamsted. The forest was established in 1924 through the efforts of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association which coordinated subscriptions for donations. The donations came from citizens groups such as the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Connecticut Federation of Women's Clubs and many other groups and individuals who purchased land and donated it to the people of Connecticut for approximately $8.00 an acre. The West Branch of the Farmington River, designated as a Wild and Scenic River by the National Park Service, is the center point of river-based recreational activities including trout fishing, canoeing, kayaking and tubing. Other attractions include the 200 year old white pine picnic groves in the Matthies Grove and Whittemore Recreation Areas, over 11 miles of hiking trails, the Barkhamsted Lighthouse and other cultural and historic sites. See American Legion State Forest for nearby camping opportunities. Jessie Gerard Trail (Yellow): Starts at East River Road near the old Indian Settlement known as Barkhamsted Lighthouse. The right trail fork goes through the lighthouse site and continues northerly to the Chaugham Lookouts. The left trail fork climbs more directly to the overlooks by 299 stone steps. The views from this area are some of the best in the state. Continuing north, the trail passes between the Veeder Boulders to the picnic area on Greenwoods Road. Distance – 1.3 miles. www,stateparks.com/peoples.html
FROM THE CONNECTICUT WALK BOOK, 1978 – Barkhamsted Lighthouse – "The Jessie Gerand Trail (yellow), starts from the old Indian Settlement, 3 m. from Pleasant Valley, known as Barkhamsted Lighthouse. The nucleus of this settlement was the high-spirited Molly Barber of Wethersfield, who, when crossed by her father in a love affair, eloped with the Indian Chaugham. Stage drivers, pointing to the light from the Chaugham cabin, would shot to their passengers: "There's Barkhamsted Lighthouse; only five more miles to New Hartford." BARKHAMSTED Lighthouse Archaeological Site, People's State Forest, East River Road – At this site was a village made up of Native Americans, African Americans, and whites who in their time were considered outcasts. The village was established ca. 1740 by Molly Barber, a white woman from Wethersfield, Connecticut, and her husband, James Chaugham, a Narragansett Indian from Block Island in Long Island Sound. They moved to the northwestern Connecticut wilderness to escape the wrath of Molly Barber's father. The community was abandoned around 1860 after nearly 120 years of occupation. Today, as an archaeological site inside People's State Forest, it commemorates people who lived on the margins of society. They were ordinary individuals who created an extraordinary multicultural community. The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. http://www.ctfreedomtrail.ct.gov/site/concept.html
A Cornucopia of Classic Countryside: Proceed on Rte. 318 west and Rte. 181 south for one mile. Take the right just before the metal bridge and follow East River Rd., once the main thoroughfare to Hartford, to the charming village of Riverton. This narrow serpentine road follows the west branch of the Farmington River, a designated National Wild and Scenic River. Your drive takes you through Peoples State Forest where you can visit two museums, picnic in a 200-year old pine grove, camp, fish, and hike on many well – marked trails. The American Legion State Forest whose rugged terrain with rocky hillsides typifies the landscape is located on the opposite bank of the Farmington River and offers camping, picnicking, hiking and fishing. Along the way you will pass Squire's Tavern (just before the entrance to Peoples State Forest) built between 1795 and 1801 and operated by the Barkhamsted Historical Society. The house was on a stagecoach route and has an interesting and varied history as a tavern that picked up customers from the wagon traffic hauling iron products from the Colebrook forge going to Hartford as well as chairs from Lambert Hitchcock's chair factory. In later years, it became a prosperous farm until the 1920's when it became part of the State Forest. Today visitors to the house will see how the Society is restoring this historic gem. To visit The Stone Museum, drive into People's State Forest, the museum is on the left. Built in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps of local fieldstone taken from old stonewalls and American chestnut which was salvaged from the trees killed by the chestnut blight, the museum exhibits mounted taxidermy specimens of many mammals and birds that are common in the forest in addition to a wide range of Indian artifacts, including soapstone and Indian pottery bowls, arrowheads and other weapons, tools and decorative art. Flora and fauna identification is easy and fun with samples of twigs, bark and wood of local trees on display, and electric games to match animal tracks, trees and birds with their pictures. Dioramas show events in the history of Peoples Forest including Camp White, Barkhamsted Lighthouse and Soapstone Quarry. Trail maps and forest information is displayed on a board in front of the museum when it is closed. Continue your drive to Riverton. http://www.litchfieldhills.com/app/attractions/attraction.jsp?catname=touring&subcatname=drivingtours&assetId=13607
THE PEOPLES STATE FOREST – Typical of the Second Growth Forests of Connecticut By: AUSTIN Foster HAWES, – State Forester LOCAL HISTORY Pg 5-7 "The Barkhamsted lighthouse" far from navigable water is said to derive its name from the fact that the stage driver of early days, when settlements were far apart, would cheer his passengers by pointing to the light from these cabins and facetiously calling it the lighthouse. The remains of the old road may still be seen just above the present road, Closely associated with this settlement is the well known story of Molly Barber. She was brought up in Wethersfield, but after being thwarted in love by her father, made the boast that she would marry the first man who proposed whether he were white, red or black. This spirit of independence apparently appealed to the Indian Chaugham, for they eloped and founded this settlement in what was then a remote region. For many years it was a well known and perhaps rather notorious place, but the cabins fell to pieces long ago and , trees are now growing in the cellar holes. Of this settlement now contained in this forest and properly marked the historian Barber says : "A little more than a mile south of this place (Hitchcockville now Riverton) a few of the last remnants of the Narragansett Indians have a location, they came here about the year 1779 and purchased about 200 or more acres of land. Their houses or rather cabins are along side of the road, there are about 20 souls that make their constant residence here, though at times they number as many as 30 persons." : The cellar holes and beds of lilies, and nearby graves may still be seen. At the time of the pageant dedicating this forest in 1924 a woman of the neighborhood and her two children attended, who showed plainly the Indian features inherited from these Narragansetts. http://ia341210.us.archive.org/2/items/peoplesstatefore00haweuoft/peoplesstatefore00haweuoft.pdf

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Actor Lee Ingleby says he was deep into his research about autism for his role in The A Word when he had a light-bulb moment.
"I'd bought a fair few books and contacted the national autistic society," says the actor, who plays Joe Hughes, the father of a young boy diagnosed with autism in the critically acclaimed British drama.
Instead, he decided he should learn about autism at the same pace as his character.
In season one, the extended and slightly dysfunctional Hughes family – Joe, wife Allison (The Replacement's Morven Christie), sister Rebecca (Molly Wright) and tactless grandfather Maurice (former Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston) – struggle to come to terms with learning that its youngest member, five-year-old Joe (Max Vento) is autistic.
The response from viewers was overwhelmingly positive.
"After the first series, this lady came running up to me in the street and said, 'That programme that was on the other night, I just wanted to say thank you'," Ingleby says.
She went on to explain that her son – who was on the autism spectrum – had never been invited to a birthday party but that all changed after an episode of The A Word screened.
"Somebody had rung up and invited him to his first birthday party. It was just a nice thing to hear that somebody had watched and had had a second thought about maybe that child isn't weird after all," Ingleby says.
At the end of season one, Joe's family is reconciled to his diagnosis and the second season picks up two years later.
"Without giving too much away, it's a different set of circumstances now," Ingleby says.
There are also new cast members, including a young actor who is himself on the autism spectrum.
"He's 17 but he's playing a bit younger; he's playing 15. It's his first acting role and he's brilliant," Ingleby says.
"It's fascinating because he talks quite openly about how he struggled when he was a lot younger.
Ingleby, too, has relished making the series, which is so different to his roles in dramas such as Inspector George Gently, The Five, Our Zoo and Line Of Duty.
"It's fun because at the end of the day, it's got a lot of heart. Whether you like the characters or not, they've got experiences, they've got background. There's no car chases, or crimes, just matters of the heart.


1. —Is there a hospital near here? 这附近有医院吗?
2. —Oh… where's Center Street? 噢……中心大街在哪里?
1. What does / do + 主语 + look like? ……长得什么样?
1. —What does he look like? 他长什么样?
2. —Do they have straight or curly hair? 他们留直发还是卷发?
3. —Is he tall or short? 他高还是矮?
3. Why don't you + do sth.? 何不做某事?
1. What kind of noodles would you like? 你想要哪种面条?
3. What size would you like? 你想要多大的?
5. Would you like a large bowl? 你想要一个大碗的吗?
1. How + be…? + like? ……怎么样?
1. —How was your school trip? 你的学校郊游怎么样?
2. —Did you go to the zoo? 你去动物园了吗?
3. —Did you see any cows? 你看见一些牛奶了吗?
4. —Were the strawberries good? 这些草莓是好的吗?
1. —What did you do last weekend? 上个周末你做什么了?
2. —Who visited her grandma? 谁看望了她的奶奶?


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Antonio Costa (Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans, Francia, 1767-Lyngs Odde, Dinamarca, 11 de agosto de 1808) fue un militar español.

Biografía

Cuando estalla la Revolución francesa en 1789 se dirige a Barcelona para organizar un batallón de voluntarios, naturalizándose español en 1794. Fue nombrado capitán y luchó en América en la guerra anglo-española de 1796-1802.

Participó en la expedición española a Dinamarca de 1807. Era el capitán del 5.º escuadrón del Regimiento de Caballería del Algarve. Cuando las tropas se encontraban en Dinamarca al servicio de Napoleón se produce la Guerra de la Independencia contra los franceses, por lo que las tropas españolas urden un plan para salir de Dinamarca y regresar a España. Las tropas del capitán Antonio Costa no pudieron salir de sus plazas porque las tropas francesas se lo impidieron y ante lo numeroso de las tropas del mariscal Bernadotte y la imposibilidad de seguir parlamentando, sosteniendo la brida del caballo con la mano derecha, se sacó la pistola del cinto con la mano izquierda y se disparó en la cabeza.

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Fue enterrado en la misma ciudad donde murió, en Lyngs Odde. A la postre el oficial danés Karl Bardenfelth lo trasladó a Fredericia y, al ser un suicida y ante la imposibilidad de enterrarlo en lugar sagrado, fue enterrado junto a la iglesia del cementerio en una tumba anónima. En 1872, por una ampliación de la iglesia, se exhumaron los restos y los de Costa, distinguidos del resto por ser el cuerpo del cráneo con un tiro en la cabeza, fueron fácilmente identificados y enterrados por el señor Larsen, inspector del instituto de Fredericia, junto al muro del cementerio con una lápida en forma de hoja de palma con la inscripción "Recuerdos a España de Antonio Costa. 11 de agosto de 1808". La frase "Recuerdos a España de Antonio Costa" fue la última que pronunció el militar. En 1908 fue colocada una lápida con dos sables cruzados por los oficiales de caballería de España. En 1985 fue colocada una corona de bronce sobre la pared por una comisión oficial española.

Referencias

Bibliografía

Emigrantes franceses hacia España
Militares de España del siglo XVIII
Militares de España del siglo XIX
Militares de España en las guerras napoleónicas
Suicidas de España
Suicidas por arma de fuego
Suicidios masculinos

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I want to go through the words in Column B and check if they exist in Column C, then return a simple TRUE or FALSE.
I have tried everything I could, really appreciate the help!!

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A: regexmatch  is the function you want to look into. it only works on text, and is case sensitive. So you may need to convert the contents of the cells to all be uppercase.
Here is something you might want to look into
Is there a way to REGEXMATCH from a range of cells from A1:A1000 for example?

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Prosper is a town in Collin and Denton counties in the U.S. state of Texas. Prosper is located within the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, its population was 9,423; as of 2020, its population was 30,174.

History
The first settlers arrived in 1846 to farm cotton in the black fertile prairie soil. Between 1850 and 1902, two settlements existed - Rock Hill was two miles south of the present town and Richland was one mile north. The development of these small communities was expedited in 1876 when county courts ordered small tracts of land to be established for a quick sale. These tracts, each about 160 acres in size, were sold for $3.50 per acre. Dr. A. T. Bryant of McKinney purchased what later became the center of the present town.

The towns merged during the establishment of St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad in March 1902. For years, Prosper was the central stop for the railroad between Dallas and Sherman. When community officials applied for a post office with the name "Richland", they were informed that the city name was already taken. Postmaster B.J. Naugle asked for an alternative name, and J.C. Slaughter suggested the name "Prosper" because crops that year had been very prosperous.

Prosper was incorporated in 1914 with a commission form of government and a population of 500. Uncas Norvell Clary was mayor and served in that position for the next 49 years. Prosper became a growing area with many new homes and communities being developed. The Prosper Community of Windsong Ranch features a man-made crystalline lagoon.

Geography
Prosper is located in western Collin County and eastern Denton County at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which  , or 1.09%, is covered by water.

Demographics

According to the 2020 U.S. census, the town of Prosper had a population of 30,174, up from 9,423 at the 2010 census.

Arts and culture

Prosper holds an annual Christmas festival, and Fourth of July event. Each May, Prosper Founders Fest celebrates its history, people, and arts. The event combines the Prosper Fire Department's "Barbecue Cookoff", a 5K race, an art show, a music festival, and a Sunday Family Fellowship.

Education

Most of the Town of Prosper is served by the Prosper Independent School District.
 Rock Hill High School (grades 9–12, in Frisco)
 Prosper High School (grades 9–12)
 Reynolds Middle School (grades 6–8)
 Rogers Middle School (grades 6–8)
 Rushing Middle School (grades 6–8)
 Hays Middle School (grades 6–8, in Frisco)
 Baker Elementary School (grades K–5, in McKinney)
 Boyer Elementary School (grades K–5, in Celina)
 Cockrell Elementary School (grades K–5)
 Folsom Elementary School (grades K–5)
 Furr Elementary School (grades K–5, in McKinney)
 Hughes Elementary School (grades K–5, in McKinney)
 Johnson Elementary School (grades K–5, in Celina)
 Light Farms Elementary School (grades K–5, in Celina)
 Rucker Elementary School (grades K–5)
 Spradley Elementary School (grades K–5, in Frisco)
 Stuber Elementary School (grades K–5)
 Windsong Ranch Elementary School (grades K–5)
 Reeves Elementary School (grades K–5, in McKinney)
 Bryant Elementary School (grades K–5)

In January 2018, Prosper ISD began construction of a natatorium and a football stadium. The facilities opened in the fall of 2019.

Prosper ISD will open their third high school, Walnut Grove High School, in the fall of 2023.

The Glenbrooke and Doe Creek subdivisions in far west Prosper are within the Denton Independent School District. Residents currently attend:
 Savannah Elementary School (grades K–5)
 Navo Middle School (grades 6–8)
 Ray Braswell High School (grades 9–12)

The Texas Legislature designated Collin College as the community college for all of Collin County and for Prosper ISD. The majority of Denton County, including the part of Prosper in Denton ISD, is zoned to North Central Texas College.

Notable people

Chris Buescher, NASCAR Cup Series driver for RFK Racing who won the 2015 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship
Matt Carpenter, Major League Baseball player, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees
Todd Eldredge, three-time Olympian and six-time world champion figure skater
Pat Fallon, president of Virtus Apparel, based in Prosper, and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 106 in Denton County
Marc Fein, journalist and NBC news anchor
Justin Forsett, NFL player
LaTroy Hawkins, MLB player
Torii Hunter, MLB player, Minnesota Twins and Anaheim Angels
Ronald Kauffman, Pairs figure skater (with his sister, Cynthia) in 1964, 1968 Olympics; Four-time US Champions 1966–69; Two-time North American Champions 1967, 1969; US Figure Skating Hall of Fame Inductee (1995)
Dak Prescott, NFL player
Jaret Reddick, musician
Lorene Rogers, biochemist; first woman in the United States to lead a public university, the University of Texas
Deion Sanders, professional athlete
Ann Ward, winner of the 15th cycle of America's Next Top Model
Davis Webb, NFL player and former quarterback for Texas Tech University and the University of California

References

External links
 Town of Prosper official website

Towns in Collin County, Texas
Towns in Denton County, Texas
Towns in Texas
Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex


Italy is known throughout the world for its delicious cuisine. Yet, some tourists return home feeling confused by the country's culinary traditions and disappointed by their dining experiences. Below are the 6 biggest mistakes you can make when eating in Italy (and how to avoid them). Follow this advice, and you'll soon have tastier and more enjoyable meals.
Florence is home to some of the world's greatest artistic and historical treasures. Yet high ticket prices and hordes of tourists can prevent even the most seasoned traveler from fully appreciating what the city has to offer. Fortunately, you don't have to abandon your budget nor spend all your time surrounded by tour groups while there. Here are four activities to do in Florence that avoid crowds and save you money.


Beautiful Lake Michigan provides the setting for one of the biggest parties in Chicago, the July of 4th celebration. The weather is warm and the flowers are in bloom. Windy City visitors can begin the day with a reading of the Declaration of Independence at the Chicago History Museum. The institution's annual Independence Day outdoor event at Uihlein Plaza also includes patriotic music and a children's costume parade. The world's tallest Uncle Sam leads the procession. Afterward, you can enjoy the afternoon as you relax and listen to classics by Bernstein, Gershwin, Sousa, Copland and other composers during the Grant Park Music Festival. You can also participate in a wide variety of family-friendly activities on Chicago-area beaches. One of the city's baseball teams usually has a home game.
The Navy Pier amusement park has been a gathering place for games, rides, fun and excitement for over ten years. The entertainment complex is filled with activities that residents and visitors can enjoy as they await the evening's culminating event. You can watch the colorful fireworks reflect off Lake Michigan as they illuminate the sky. The 15-minute extravaganza is perfectly choreographed to patriotic music. One of the best vantage points for watching the fireworks display is atop the 150-foot tall Ferris wheel. Another great option is to enjoy the fireworks during a Chicago boat cruise.
Chicago does its best each year to honor the nation while combining food, fun and fireworks.


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Issue 29:1 | March 2009
Rosalie Gascoigne The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia 19 December 2008  15 March 2009 Curator: Kelly Gelatly
Rosalie Gascoigne The Colonel's lady 1976, wood, metal, collage, found objects, 39.1 x 59.7 x 8.8 cm. Collection: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Purchased 1976. © Rosalie Gascoigne Estate administered by VISCOPY, Australia.
Despite its reputation as the most monumental and formal of all state galleries in Australia, in recent years the National Gallery of Victoria has presented contemporary art exhibitions with an intellectual rigour and respect for the audience that outpaces its often self-indulgent, selective and self-serving visions of heritage art; one thinks of the lost opportunity provided by the highly conventional Heidelberg School exhibition of 2007. The Rosalie Gascoigne survey follows the same high standards set by the recent Howard Arkley exhibition, presenting both a comprehensive selection of work and an authoritative catalogue that will be of great value to both scholars and practitioners, with high quality illustrations of the works in the show. The exhibition provides a point of reflection and analysis not only about the artist under discussion but also the society and the art milieu that nurtured and produced her. Gascoigne is one of the great achievers of the expanded Australian art consciousness of the 1970s, demonstrating that the strength and potential of Australian contemporary art can outlast its first moment of critical acclaim. The retrospective provided both intellectual and sensual delight. Gascoigne's reputation is confirmed with this retrospective, even though some of the work, for example 'But Mostly Air' (1993-1994), seems a little banal and empty, and the plywood landscapes such as the 'Age of Innocence' (1993) are contrived, heavy-handed and somewhat trivial. Some works based upon assemblages of natural objects e.g. the 'Feathered Chairs' (1978) and 'Feathered Fence' (1979) also border on the naff, and offer little of the insights and poetry of her best works.
Yet despite occasional lapses, Gascoigne's overall oeuvre remains impressive, singular and unchanging across the passage of years. Her works are as good as memory and illustrations suggest. Many have become iconic in any overview of the last three decades of Australian art, and yet when seen again their strength invites us to find something new, valid and unexpected in both the formalist rigour of their assemblage and arrangement and in the poetic suggestiveness and mobility of surface, recalling the transcendental nuance of Rothko's work and offering a validation of non-representational intellectualism as a fundamental value in art. Many are exquisitely balanced and thought through without any slippages or mistakes.
Gascoigne's sense of visual rhythm and pattern, as she slices, rotates and montages her found objects, produces a fertile range of images from the tight grids and legible poesie concrete of 'Promised Land' (1986) or 'Scrub Country' (1982) with their stencilled logos of vanished companies to the shimmering blurred asymetricality of 'Monaro' (1989). The artist plays confidently with a range of scales from the intimate to the monumental and with a range of intentions from the clarity of her early boxed works with their found imagery of postcards and prints and certain of her road sign works such as 'Street Lovers' (1990) to the enigmatic and fragmented such as 'Far View' (1990). Whilst her found domestic ware, shells, broken china and weathered glass are frequently used by other artist bricoleurs, Gascoigne's leverage of compelling visual content from the bourgeois chintz floral patterns of salvaged lino on one hand and the workaday no frills aesthetic of road repair signs on the other was an entirely idiosyncratic discovery which is one of the almost magic elements of her art. The transformations and subdivisions of her lino works are particularly effective.
Her works are timeless, but also recall a particular moment of expansion in Australian culture in the 1970s. Threading through Gascoigne's effective reconfiguration of the ordinary was the widespread interest in folkloric objects, the vernacular products and styles of settler Australia, informed by the pop art revisiting of the everyday object. Her early works particularly reference pop art, with their usage of scavenged Victoriana and art deco fragments. The seeking of beauty in the palimpsest, the worn, the weathered, partly allowed for a de facto narration in nominally abstract art, but also spoke of a scrutiny of the colours and character of the Australian landscape that could be tracked back to the Heidelberg artists or even to colonial art, insinuating the textures and materials of settler Australia into Australian nature as a sort of mystic marriage. The nationalist confidence of the Whitlam years was rarely expressed in such lyrical terms. Gascoigne also ennobles and romances a far less prosperous Australia where enamelled tinware did duty for cooking and hygiene, where commodities were packed in plywood crates, printed linoleum provided colour in interiors and houses were built of particle board that crumbled into cloud-like forms. Before post-colonialism Gascoigne could express the Whitlam era's straightforward love of country, at a time when the sentiments of the elite, at least of settler Australia, were not seen as an inauthentic, intrusive voice. Gascoigne found a parallel authority in post-war Australian poetry as well as visual art, across the spectrum from Judith Wright to Les Murray, who despite the difference in their respective politics also jointly presented a hypersensitivity and receptiveness to the landscape that outpaced the expected and conventional modalities of creative interpretation.
Curiously the catalogue, as did Gascoigne herself on occasion, seeks to distance her from the feminist movement, but it cannot be denied that she opened up a different placement of women artists. For three decades in Australian art, women artists in particular have found Gascoigne's authority and calmness, but concurrent romantic delight in rethinking basic materials, inspirational. Linda Nochlin posed the question in her 1971 essay of the same title 'why have there been no great women artists?'. In some ways I would suggest that Gascoigne answers the questions around the merit of women's art as memorably and with greater visual sensibility and formal strength than such international luminaries as Louise Bourgeois and Judy Chicago.
Atomic Clock: microtime of the molecular and good old-fashioned molar beer
The responses of digital artists David Haines, Jon Hunter and Pete Newman to the molecular scale on which our world is now micromanaged are contrasted with the work of the late Jon Wah whose work stopped time with a saddhu-like discipline of the will. Jon Wah died in August 2008, aged 27. A posthumous retrospective was held for him at Serial Space, Chippendale, Sydney, 8-18 December 2008.
Published March 2009
Crystalline signs of the small and poetic
Danni Zuvela
In Audrey Lams Under Development (2007), two detectives investigating a murder seek answers in an ominous, half-built structure. Close attention to the lush, inky compositions reveals the frozen temporality of a Brisbane landmark: the film records the historic erection of the Gallery of Modern Art.
Contemporary Australia: Optimism
Curatorial Manager: Julie Ewington
Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane
Emma Bitmead
Contemporary Craft and Design
24 October  7 December 2008
Daniel Crooks: the future of the past
Laurence Simmons
An edited version of a lecture by Laurence Simmons, Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland, given in association with Daniel Crooks' exhibition everywhere instantly curated by Justin Paton at the Christchurch Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu in 2008. Simmons links Crooks' work to Walter Benjamin's Angel of History and the experiments of Etienne-Jules Marey, the inventor of chronophotography.
Ghost in the backyard
Kate Sandford
Using the work of two current Antipodean artists, Amy-Jo Jory and David Pledger, Melbourne-based Kate Sandford explores the place of suburbia in our consciousness and the way that even though real suburbia has changed, some representations of it have stayed the same.
Better Places
Curator: Melissa Keys
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)
4 December 2008  1 February 2009
Discord: Art from MONA
Lucy Hawthorne
Curator: Nicole Durling
9 January  1 February 2009
Salamanca Arts Centre and various locations
An analysis of Aboriginal conceptions of time and its similarity to the ideas of modern physics, science fiction, and those of artists such as Monet, Cézanne, Picasso, Breton, Klein and Richter, and philosophers such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Deleuze and Derrida. They too have sought to feel and know spacetime in the pressing and intimate way that Aborigines do.
Brook's way with kinds, categories and memes
The Awful Truth About What Art Is
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Reviewed by Lucas Ihlein
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The Average American Worker Earns Less Today Than 40 Years Ago
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It's not just unemployment that matters. Many full-time workers take home less money, after inflation, than in decades.
Because most everything we buy gets more expensive over time, we have to earn more money each year just to maintain our existing standard of living. When we're not given raises that keep up with this rate of inflation, we're effectively suffering a pay cut.. That's why many American workers are actually poorer today than four decades ago. They may be earning more money. But, in real terms, they're getting less for it. Measured in 2014 dollars, the median male full-time worker made $50,383 last year against $53,294 in 1973, according to new U.S. Census Bureau figures.
At $50,383, the figure is the lowest it's been since 2006. It's also $450 lower than in 2013. Women have seen bigger increases in real pay in the last few years, though from a lower (unequal) base. The median female worker earned $30,182 in 1973 (in 2014 dollars), but $39,621 last year.
As we explored in our income inequality series recently, technology, globalization, and reduced union bargaining power are all factors behind stagnating wages. The economy has been getting bigger, driven by continuing increases in productivity. But, for one reason or another, workers haven't been sharing in those gains. But they're not just disappearing: They're making a small group of people very, very rich. What are we going to do about that?
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2016 Election, trade unions
Bernie Sanders Draws Blue-Collar Workers in Iowa
Bernie on the picket line in Iowa
By Vaughn Hillyard
Beaver County Blue via NBC News
DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept 7, 2015 — A picketing president? Bernie Sanders said it could be him.
"Yeah, I might. That's right. Why not," Sanders said when asked about the possibility after addressing AFSCME union members on Saturday in Altoona, Iowa.
The day before, Sanders picketed outside a Cedar Rapids plant that produces specialized starches alongside union workers engaged in a battle with the plant's parent company, Ingredion, over new contract negotiations.
And to a crowd of 400 on Thursday in Burlington, Iowa—an old, union town hit hard over the last three decades by shuttered factories—Sanders emphatically stated: "The bottom line is: For millions of American workers, wages in this country are just too damn low."
Since announcing his candidacy, Sanders has zeroed in on blue-collar voters, consistently addressing low wages, unemployment issues and the country's trade policies in stump speeches—pushing back against the notion that the economic recovery is as strong as often touted.
"I assumed I would be a Hillary supporter—and rightly or wrongly, probably because I feel like in the last twenty years, the greatest time we had between financial stability was during Bill Clinton's run," said Ron Lowe, 52, of Grinnell, Iowa.
But Lowe said he will caucus for Sanders in February. He drove 45 minutes with his mother-in-law last Thursday to see the Democratic candidate at a rally.
"I feel like he's not a filthy rich millionaire," Lowe said. "He wants to take on the rich, powerful people that seem to make all these decisions without any regard to the people in the middle to lower class. And it's so obvious that the rich keep getting richer."
Lowe, a father of four, is unemployed after losing his job three months ago. He worked in Grinnell's Donaldson plant—since the age of 24—manufacturing mufflers for agricultural equipment. But over the years, the company moved jobs to Mexico and other states, where Lowe said non-union facilities gave the company a cheaper option. Its last employees are expected to be out of work by the end of the year.
At a time when Democrats tout the economic recovery, Sanders harps on the economic data point of real unemployment, a point often used by his Republican counterparts. Despite a decrease in nationwide unemployment to 5.1 percent, the unemployment rate does not account for individuals who are underemployed, have given up looking for work, and others who are working part time but would like to work full time. Including those individuals, the unemployment figure is 10.3 percent.
"It is absolutely imperative that we stop the hemorrhaging of decent paying jobs because of our disastrous trade policies," Sanders said. 'You are looking at a Senator and former congressman who voted against [North American Free Trade Agreement], against [Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement], against permanent trade relations with China. And you're looking at a senator who is going to do everything he can to help defeat this disastrous Trans-Pacific Partnership."
Sanders provides a contrast to Sec. Hillary Clinton on trade—without naming her directly. Though she hasn't taken a stance on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Clinton helped kickstart the negotiations, and Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law.
"To simply blame the Republicans for that would be unfair," Sanders said on Saturday. "Democratic presidents have been involved in that trade policy. It has been bipartisan. It has been wrong."
Matt Richards, 56, of Newtown lost his job in 2007 when the town's Maytag plant closed, putting more than 2,500 employees out of work. Richards worked at the facility for 23 years as an oiler, doing jobs like greasing conveyer lines.
"It's a whole different town now. There was a lot of money here when Maytag was here," Richards said. "The crazy part of it is these jobs—for a small town like we are—was awesome pay, good benefits, you had some vacation time…It makes it tough in this small town."
Richards—though not ready to fully commit to a candidate—says Sanders' message resonates.
"A lot of people like Bernie. He has a lot of good ideas," Richards said. "And what he talks about, getting our wages up there, you got to let a guy make a living wage to take care of a family. You know, nine bucks an hour isn't going to cut it or ten bucks an hour. You've got to let a guy get to where he can make some money."
Last month, Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, called Bernie Sanders "a warrior" at a labor forum hosted in Iowa.
"I want to say thank you for being a warrior for working people—not just lately but for your entire career," Trumka said to Sanders in front of 200 union workers. "All of us are living a little bit better because of that. And we want to say thank you for those efforts. You've earned them."
Trumka, however, made it clear on Meet the Press this Sunday that he will not personally endorse a candidate and likes both Clinton and Sanders.
Another former Maytag employee and United Auto Workers union member, Lonnie White, 66, a porcelain sprayer at the time, sat in the back row of Sanders' event on the Meskwaki Settlement in central Iowa on Thursday.
"I think that he's what the Democrats used to be," White said. "I think the Democratic Party used to be exactly what he represents. Taking care of each other. I think we've gotten away from that and gone to the middle."
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Minimum Wage Debate Heats Up in Pennsylvania
Meagan Gemperlein, 25, is a part-time tipped worker at Pittsburgh's Wigle Whiskey. Wigle owners say they pay each of the workers at least twice the tipped minimum wage of $2.83.
By Molly Duerig
Sept 1, 2015 – PITTSBURGH — Cori Shetter is a college graduate and aspiring actress who's worked minimum-wage jobs for 15 years.
"It's like swinging from Tarzan vine to Tarzan vine. One vine's about to end and break, so you just grab the next one, but you're never really putting your feet on solid ground," said the 31-year-old Pittsburgh resident.
Living in her Lawrenceville home is only possible because her parents own it, and Shetter pays them as much of the mortgage and other expenses as she can.
The one major thing she could do to further her career goals — auditioning — has fallen by the wayside as she invests most of her time in serving jobs for small, but reliable, paychecks. She supplements that by cutting hair for up to 10 clients a month at home.
Many servers, like Shetter, earn Pennsylvania's tipped minimum wage of $2.83 per hour. The standard minimum wage, both state and federal, is $7.25.
Many believe the minimum wage hasn't kept up with the times, and movements to raise it are being led by grassroots groups and governments in communities across the nation. In June, Los Angeles became the biggest city in the country to raise its minimum wage to $15 by 2020.
Nineteen U.S. cities and counties experienced mandated wage increases this year; 29 states and Washington, D.C., already require employers to pay workers more than $7.25.
Pennsylvania isn't part of this group – yet.
There are five bills pending in the state Legislature proposing to raise the minimum wage, with different methods and standards ranging from $8.75 to $15. Some politicians and business owners said they worry that putting this mandate on employers could mean fewer job openings and other cutbacks in the business community.
"If minimum wage is hiked, many of these jobs will vanish, or work hours will be drastically cut," state Rep. Stephen Bloom, R-Cumberland, wrote in an email. "Employers simply find less costly alternatives, either through automation, technology or other means."
Even economists, who also have opinions, disagree about the impact. Although some studies indicate a minimum-wage increase would cause job losses, other studies show just the opposite, said Sean Flaherty, the economics chair at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster.
"There's just no strong consensus evidence that this is a significant problem when you have a modest increase in the minimum wage, done in stepwise fashion," Flaherty said.
The proposals
The federal wage hasn't increased since 2009, when it rose from $6.55 to $7.25. In 2008, it rose from $5.85.
Several states, counties and cities are taking the matter into their own hands.
In Pennsylvania, the most ambitious proposed bill is from Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Delaware, Montgomery. His "One Fair Wage" bill would raise the wage to $15 an hour and tie it to inflation across the board, for regular and tipped employees.
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When we used the form to manually put in an Speech, we repeatedly received an error message but it didn't say what had gone wrong. We were prompted to hit on the Previous button to go back and fix the issue but we could not because the page had expired out of our browser (Firefox) cache. After a few attempts, the entire webpage crashed. This is an odd experience, to say the least. Constant Contact has ensured us has greatly improved because our first test and this is unlikely to happen again.
The file upload import, and CRM Migration options, on the other hand, were secure and easy to use. We believe most people would end up using these options. We tracked the upload improvement under"Contacts: Activity" and was informed while the import was finish. Like Campaigner, Constant Contact allows Mailinator and disposable speeches. It is too bad most services don't follow the example of GetResponse$15.00 at GetResponse, which filters out famous disposable domains. Constant Contact instead flags contacts which are inclined to be transactional or other similar email addresses so the user can decide whether to eliminate or store them.
Our only quibble with the Contact Manager is That it is a pain. When we glued our listing and cut, we dropped in addresses. We didn't have other areas, such as name or address. To bring this, update the subjects and we needed to load each person record. This wasn't that simple because the pages were slow to load in our testing. Since we could see the entire list in Contact Manager, it would have been nice to be able to simply click on the lost area, input, and just keep going down the page. So, lesson learned: Be sure to have all the relevant fields before uploading the names populated from the listing.
Constant Contact also enables you to create forms That clients can use to sign up for emails and newsletters. These forms may be hosted on your site or on Constant Contact's servers. The consumers can be segmented by you based on if they used alternative procedures or the form, which can be helpful. The business also recently announced a brand new signup form editor that is designed to allow users to produce inline forms which may be embedded onto a website as well as pop-up forms that can be customized to show after a fixed amount of time or when a visitor attempts to leave the website, the company stated.
Constant Contact requires you to confirm that You have consent from your whole list–no bought lists allowed! You can't use set addresses such as [email protected] or advertising @ addresses or distribution lists as there's no way to confirm you've got permission from each individual getting messages. You can also make autoresponders, listed under the button, to send every time a user is added to a list. We used the templates to construct a special Welcome newsletter .
If you do not want these features, However Constant Contact is a superb choice. If you need a bit more flexibility in your marketing strategy, then have a look at email marketing Editors' Choices Campaigner and MailChimp instead.
That is because, unlike other tools, for example Editors' Choice marketing automation systems Pardot and HubSpot, Constant Contact does not doesn't offer branching logic. It focuses on just two triggers to begin automation campaigns. By way of example, you can begin an automation workflow whenever someone joins a list or accomplishes a landmark, like a birthday or anniversary for a customer. You can not change automationsbased on whether someone opened an email, forwarded an email, or clicked on a link.
Automation platforms automatic, slightly more smart and, well, compared to email marketing tools, make life personalized and easier for entrepreneurs for clients. In addition, Constant Contact does not provide A/B testing (they do provide subject line A/B testing), no research advertising inclusion, and the restricted workflows it is possible to create do not offer drag-and-drop builders, that are pretty much standard nowadays. If you need basic automation for interactions with clients Constant Contact is a reliable automation program. However, if you want adaptive workflows and sequencing that adapt to your clients' specific activities, then Constant Contact is not strong enough to compete at the marketing automation space.
The issue, nowadays, is that there are Lots of other email Tools offering even greater than Constant Contact, and also for a lot less cash. This includes not only attributes, but also user expertise. In reality, for the amount you pay with Constant Contact, you could end up using far stronger tools like GetResponse and ActiveCampaign.


Raised in Waco, TX, Erin graduated from McLennan Community College in 2003 with a degree in radiology. She excelled in her field and began traveling as a Radiologic Technologist in 2008. After several years mastering her trade, Erin and her husband, Robbie, decided they needed a change of pace. They moved to Brady, TX to start a family and a new life.
Soon after moving to Brady, Erin began working for a CPA and quickly realized she had a passion for accounting. Within her first two years, she studied to become an Enrolled Agent with the Internal Revenue Service. Erin will be performing bookkeeping, payroll and tax preparation services for our clients.
Erin is also a director on the Brady Economic Development Corporation and serves her community in other charitable ways. She is the proud mother of her son, Lincoln, and fur babies, Bukha and Beeps. She and her family enjoy the outdoors and spending time with family. She loves the fall season with an emphasis on Thanksgiving and homemade pecan pie.


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November 9-10, 2019 @ Hilton Los Angeles North/Glendale | Glendale, CA
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PC Gaming with San Diego LAN
October 28, 2019 /in 2019, Gaming, Programming /by Allison Thater
San Diego LAN Is proud to be bringing PC gaming to Pacific Media Expo! Join us in the San Rafael room for e-gaming action! We'll have computers set up for free play LAN games including:
Blur – Racing Game
In addition to our LAN we'll also have a couch co-op station with same-screen games like:
Stick Fight
Finally, if you're looking to try out V.R. you can show off your skills on the HTC VIVE set up with Beat Saber!!
Come test your skills, bring a friend and let's get gaming!
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Workshop: Shorin Ryu Karate with Sensei William Christopher Ford
October 7, 2019 /in 2019, Featuring 2019, Martial Arts, Martial Arts Panels & Workshops, Panels & Workshops /by Allison Thater
For the first time ever, Pacific Media Expo will be presenting a Shorin Ryu Karate workshop with Sensei William Christopher Ford.
Sensei Ford has been a student and practioner of the martial arts since 1974. He is a 5th degree black belt in Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate and the Chief Instructor at Kaizen Dojo Martial Arts & Self-Defense in Torrance, CA. Additionally, William is an actor and film-maker. In 1989, he was cast as Cobra Kai Bad Boy "Dennis' in Karate Kid 3 and currently produces and directs film and video projects, the most recently "52 Masters" , "The Last Dojo", and the forthcoming dramatic/action web series "Xander'.
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Workshop: Yaw Yan, Sayaw ng Kamatayan (Dance of Death) with Master Jordan Labuyo
October 6, 2019 /in 2019, Martial Arts, Martial Arts Panels & Workshops, Panels & Workshops /by Allison Thater
Fresh off his kickboxing victory at the International Muay Thai tournament in Tacoma Washington, Master Jordan Labuyo will be giving a hands on demonstration and workshop on Sayaw ng Kamatayan (translated to Dance of Death).
Yaw Yan, as it is more popularly called, is the Philippines own kickboxing system developed in the early 70's by Grandmaster Nap Fernandez. Not for the weak of heart, the brutal kicks, knees, and elbows, of this art rivals that of Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Do, and other similar martial arts.
Don't miss out on witnessing and participating in this rare martial arts form that has gained popularity in California
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But before you put the pedal to the metal, remember this is not an immediate shift from 60mph reverse to 60mph forwards.
Engines don't work like that, and neither do planets.
Mercury will still be in the 'shadow zone' for another little while, slowly picking up speed as he accelerates from 16 through to 29 degrees of Pisces.
For the next few days, relish the potential for a mental shift into some new and enticing thoughts about what comes next.
what would feel good to do next?
what do I really, really want next?
what daydream excites me now?
who do I want to be next?
In addition to a new direction for Mercury, we'll see Mars moving into Gemini, activating a sense of get-up-and-go in all aspects of communication: talking, listening, writing, reading, teaching, learning (exact times below). Actions around your words will have a brand new zing, and you may find yourself suddenly able to articulate things that have been foggy up till now.
And if that weren't enough, a few days later we get a gorgeous New Moon in Aries, right plonk in the middle of the sign at 15 degrees.
Aries and New Moon are both about new beginnings, fresh energy, the start of something that's not been seen before.
And Aries, this fiery Mars-ruled sign, is a big fan of new adventures and challenges. It's the only sign in the zodiac which genuinely enjoys competition for its own sake.
Aries loves to initiate and then let someone else do the follow-up. Its catch cry might well be 'follow me, I know the way!'. And even when Aries is not exactly sure what the details look like right now, its approach is one of certainty and enthusiasm for even the most impossible of quests.
Aries knows that once the first steps are taken, everything else follows behind. It's a spectacular ally if you're looking to imbue your life with fresh energy and enthusiasm, and that's incredibly helpful if you've been feeling the weight of the recent astro weather.
Meanwhile, Pluto moves into the most potent angle of his current conjunction with the Lunar Nodes, at 23 degrees of Capricorn (dates below).
The sense of deep change afoot will increase until that moment, and will still be around for a couple of weeks to come.
remembering that if you feel unsettled you're probably doing it right, so don't panic!
You can also journal about what you want as though it were already here, aka scripting. That will be a powerfully supportive activity, for sure.
But be warned. If you put up a lot of resistance to whatever change is trying to happen within, that will significantly increase the turbulence and make it a far rockier ride than it needs to be. So don't do that.
All in all, this week will be a great time for picking up new ideas and new plans, and getting ready to run with them.
But don't hit that gas pedal full on right now, because before the New Moon we'll experience a Piscean Dark Moon – at around the same time as that Pluto / Nodes exact moment.
Expect extra potency, combined with a deep desire to pause.
Any Dark Moon is a representation of the death of the old, before the rebirth into something new. It echoes the cocoon from which the butterfly emerges, or the seed hidden beneath the desert sands awaiting water to germinate.
This Dark Moon has a particular potency because it starts in Pisces, where all boundaries dissolve – even the boundaries between past, present and future.
The best way to leverage this period, then, is to recognise the need for a psychic pause, supporting that through literally pausing in our busy lives – in whatever way you can, for however long you can, even if it's five minutes in the tub.
With Dark Moon starting in Pisces, any element of magic or sacred ritual is a good idea, even if it's merely lighting a few candles before you sink into the bath (though don't have naked flames if you're likely to fall asleep). Or you could tuck a favourite soothing crystal under the pillow while you nap. Or you could actively pursue supportive Piscean habits such as meditation, or losing yourself in a good novel or immersing in your favourite poet or watching uplifting TV shows (me? I have a date with the Fab Five all lined up on Netflix).
It's a good idea to have a notebook handy for brilliant epiphanies and ideas which might land while you relax in the tub or nap in the sunshine.
Let your internal energy be nourished and nurtured in preparation for the New Moon, so the fabulous Aries momentum can zoom you forward with maximum enjoyment.
There's some wonderful potential around this week. Enjoy!


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UH College of Medicine to open primary care clinic for uninsured
Local // Houston
Brittany Britto, Staff writer
July 28, 2021 Updated: July 28, 2021 5:08 p.m.
Students and administrators pose for a group photo during the University of Houston College of Medicine Inaugural Class White Coat Ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. The university welcomed and recognized 30 students as the first medical class in 50 years in Houston with an emphasis on improving public health through primary care. The students recited their class oath and received their coat.
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University of Houston College of Medicine will open a low-cost direct primary care clinic on the Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital campus to assist low-income and uninsured residents.
The medical school will offer direct primary care to patients — particularly those from low-income backgrounds — and will implement a low monthly membership fee for a range of primary health care services, according to a recent release.
The clinic will start this fall in Southwest Houston, where a third of the population lives below the federal poverty rate and the uninsured rate is 45 percent — five times the nation's rate. UH health professions students will also benefit from training from medical school faculty physicians, who will run the clinic.
The College of Medicine's founding dean, Stephen Spann, said in a written statement that the college's goal is to "restore primary care as the foundation of health care."
"We have developed a model with strong incentives to innovate the delivery of primary care designed to improve quality and more effectively control the cost of care," he said. "We are building our model upon the four pillars of access, population health, social determinants of health and trusting relationships. In this framework, the physician is accountable for the health of their member panel and will demonstrate long-term cost and quality outcomes."
The new offering — made possible by a $1 million gift from The Cullen Trust for Health Care, an organization that grants money to healthcare services in the Houston area — is an alternative to how services are typically paid for, including insurance or direct fees. The membership-based plan excludes third-party payers, but still offers vital services, including primary care and telehealth services, and at-cost lab testing.
The initiative is a part of a greater effort to increase access to healthcare and comes at a time when 25 percent of residents in the Greater Houston population are uninsured, the highest rate in the nation. That number is even more dire for the area's Hispanic population, of which half are without coverage. The hope, according to officials, is to expand the College of Medicine's offerings to other Houston communities in need.
The school was founded in 2020 to help improve health in underserved communities in Houston and throughout the state. It welcomed its second class of medical students this summer and became a member of the Texas Medical Center earlier this year.
brittany.britto@chron.com
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Brittany Britto is the features enterprise reporter at the Houston Chronicle, reporting in-depth stories focused on marginalized communities, underrepresented neighborhoods, histories and sub-cultures in and around the Houston area. She'll work to amplify fascinating and untold stories in one of the most diverse cities in the country and dig into what it means to be a Houstonian.
Previously, she covered higher education at the Chronicle and did a five-part series on HBCUs in Texas.
She previously worked as a general assignment features blogger and reporter for The Baltimore Sun.
Brittany has been recognized for her cultural coverage by the Society for Features Journalism. In 2018, she was named a Penny Bender Fuchs Diversity Fellow for the national features organization and won four awards - a tie for the most won in one year in recent SFJ history -- for her diverse portfolio and noteworthy features on Baltimore's distinct culture.
Brittany is a two-time graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, with a master's in multiplatform journalism and a bachelor's in English.
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Infrastructure services firm Costain notched up a record order book for 2018 as it hailed "another year of progress".
Shares in the group - which headed a consortium that last year completed the £100 million Shieldhall Tunnel in Glasgow , Scotland's biggest sewer - lifted 5% as it said it finished the year with an order book at £4.2 billion, up from £3.9 billion at the end of 2017, and remains on track to meet full-year forecasts.
It said this was helped by the trend for clients to consolidate supply chains to deliver increasingly large, multi-billion pound investment programmes.
The group - whose two largest customers are Network Rail and Highways England - said it had made further progress on its strategy to reposition itself to meet the "increasingly complex and fast-changing nature of its clients' requirements".
Costain, which employs 4,000 people, finished 2018 with preferred bidder status on around £600 million worth of contracts, up from £400 million a year ago.
Chief executive Andrew Wyllie said: "This has been another year of progress for Costain.
"The benefits of our integrated offering, long-term strategic relationships with our clients and strong balance sheet position us well for the future and the significant opportunity we see across our rapidly changing end markets."
The Shieldhall Tunnel which runs under Glasgow took two years to complete and involved 100 workers from around the world.
Other projects in Scotland highlighted included completion of work on a hydrochloric acid dosing plant for Total's Edradour-Glenlivet facility and the Stella field development programme for Ithaca.


Last year, neuroscientists used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains.
What they discovered is that the brain is full of multi-dimensional geometrical structures operating in as many as 11 dimensions.
It pains me to say this, but I believe we may be in Hell.
We're not in Hell, we're just in a state of flux. Matter and energy, constantly being recycled. Yes, it sounds hippy "We're all part of the universe" but we are. Who knows what conscious or otherwise form we become once our current arrangement of molecules (human form) breaks apart.
I like to think that, as wonderful and miraculous "life" is, that if this is possible, perhaps anything is possible . . . meaning that, far from "heaven, hell and earth" there is an existence (consciousness) awaiting us that is far more complex/wonderful than we could ever begin to understand in this form.
Regardless, we will all find out one day . . .
"it pays to keep a bag packed"


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It's a new year, and time for another Amazon giveaway! Tenebrae Manor will be free to download from Sunday 1st until Thursday 5th February. If you haven't had a chance to read this gothic novel yet, now is your chance! Stay tuned for more information and kick start your reading year with a good book!
If perhaps you were looking for something a little lighter, be sure to check out A Boy Named Art, an illustrated poem also available on Amazon.


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ELECTRIC CLASSIC CARS – THE SMOG CLOUD'S SILVER LINING?
Posted by Glenn Rowswell on 26th September 2018
Electric classics are on the march, if the developments of the last week or two are anything to go by. Not only have we seen retro-themed EVs from two major manufacturers, but demand for conversions on existing classics continues to rise.
The biggest news comes from Jaguar Land Rover Classic, which has confirmed that it intends to sell a production version of its all-electric E-Type. The battery-powered sports car made its debut in concept form at the Jaguar Land Rover Tech Fest in September 2017, but was famously propelled into the limelight during the Royal Wedding in May.
The first customer cars are likely to be delivered in summer 2020 and though pricing and technical specifications are yet to be confirmed, we reckon it'll cost around the £300k mark. What we do know for sure is that it'll be built at the same Coventry-based Classic Works facility as the firm's E-Type Reborn restorations, and the production version will be based on the iconic Series 1 model. Unlike other manufacturer 'restomod' projects this one will be road-legal, and there will be a conversion service for existing E-Type owners offered too, which will be fully reversible.
An electric powertrain with single-speed reduction gear has been specially designed for the E-Type EV, borrowing technology used for the Jaguar I-Pace SUV. The lithium-ion battery pack has the same dimensions and a similar weight to the standard E-Type's six-cylinder engine, and is in the same location. The electric motor lies just behind the battery pack, in place of the E-Type's gearbox, while a new propshaft sends power to a carry-over differential and final drive.
The powertrain and dash instrumentation many be different, but the car's structure, including its suspension and brakes, has not changed. JLRC says this means it drives, handles, rides and brakes like an original E-Type. The front-rear weight distribution is also unchanged, but the Zero should accelerate faster – its 0-62 sprint time of around 5.5 seconds shaves about a second off that of the original. A range in excess of 170 miles is being targeted, with the 40kWh battery taking six to seven hours to recharge, depending on power source.
Tim Hannig, Jaguar Land Rover Classic Director, said: "We've been overwhelmed by the positive reaction to the Jaguar E-Type Zero concept. Future-proofing the enjoyment of classic car ownership is a major stepping stone for Jaguar Classic."
Keeping with the retromod theme but with an entirely different realisation is a company you may associate with making guns rather than cars. Russian firm Kalashnikov, better known for the AK-47, has also unveiled a retro-inspired electric car based on the 1970s IZh 2125 'Kombi'.
The choice of an old Soviet hatchback as the template might seem unusual, and to be honest, we're not entirely sure if it's serious. Nevertheless, it's proved to be a great talking point, prompting both delight and a fair degree of derision regarding its styling. The IZh 2125 the new CV-1 is based on was produced between 1973 and 1997 and was itself based on the Moskvitch 412. Kalashnikov has dreams of challenging the likes of Tesla, calling the CV-1 an 'electric supercar' and saying it has developed a revolutionary inverter that gives a range of 271 miles on a single charge. It's still very much a concept though, with no launch date or price announced.
But these are not the only firms looking back to go forward. Earlier this year, MINI showcased a one-off classic Mini that had been converted to electric in order to raise awareness of its forthcoming electric production model. While only capable of a mere 65 miles on one charge, it all went in without any chopping of the bodyshell and, like the Jaguar, shows the potential for retro-fitting classics with electric power units.
Indeed, Electric Classic Cars, a Wales-based firm which specialises in converting cars from the '50s to the early '80s into EVs, is reporting a waiting list of two years. "The future is bright," said founder Richard Morgan. "We've been converting classic cars for over three years now, not just in the UK but globally. We've converted E-Types already, and we've done everything from Range Rovers down to Minis and Fiat 500s. It's something that I think more and more people will start considering – the amount of emails we get per day has gone up tenfold in the last year."
Options include a complete drivetrain replacement from something like a Tesla, or swapping the original motor for an electric one and retaining the existing gearbox. "You're taking out the engine and replacing with another, it just so happens that this one is electric, and you're taking out the petrol tank and replacing it with a 21st century one, which it just so happens is batteries. It's all very reversible," added Richard.
Not everyone agrees that silence is golden of course; for many an internal combustion engine and the associated exhaust note is a crucial part of the experience and by removing it, you no longer have the essence of a proper classic car. That's a view we empathise with, and we certainly hope that traditionally-powered classics can still be driven and enjoyed to the maximum in future. It's far from curtains for the internal combustion engine yet in any case – sales of fully-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles currently only account for around 2.5 per cent of the total vehicles sold in the UK. There are a number of reasons for that – the time taken to recharge, for instance. Fundamentally though, it's a range issue: EVs are just not as versatile as their petrol or diesel equivalents as yet.
That said, new EV sales are on the increase, with more than a million examples now in Europe and even more in China, which is the world's front-runner in electric-car adoption. And, according to figures from Auto Trader, the electric Renault Zoe is now the UK's fastest-selling used car. With ever-tighter emission regulations, especially in urban areas, and ever-moving goalposts, the electric vehicle is here to stay. After all, no emissions, no fuel bills, reduced maintenance and the ability to visit major cities without being fined are attractive advantages. Don't forget that the UK and France have promised to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2040, and sales of new diesel cars have plummeted.
So with that in mind, any moves to keep the classic experience alive for future generations should surely be commended. Whilst we won't be giving up our traditionally-powered classics yet, these electric conversions show the future of motoring doesn't have to be restricted to soulless white goods. Whether the technology will improve enough to convince everyone, only time will tell.
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August 4, 2009 August 4, 2009 by Edward Champion
2009 is Boring By Comparison
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At the bash at Jimmy's that Warner Brothers records gave for Alan Price (he wrote the score for "O Lucky Man!" and performs in the film), Malcolm McDowell's cock was the center of attraction. The wife of a rock writer couldn't take her eyes off of his pants and she said she'd give a year of her life to be with Malcolm — in them. Malcolm posed for photos with Alice Cooper. Alice wore teeny hot pants which showed his inverted belly-button and little else. He said the last film he saw was "Sleuth" and he had to take it easy because a fan got him in the head with a tequila bottle in Texas.
Ed McCormack of Rolling Stone sat on the floor and showed off his Russ Tamblyn haircut. Fran Lebowitz of Inter/view sat on a barstool and showed off her new figure. Alan Price sloshed up to Jude Jade O'Brien and tried to convince her that ignorant people will understand "O Lucky Man!" and Jude said that everyone in the world is ignorant and Alan called her a snob and Jude yawned in his face. Jude, earlier, asked Malcolm McDowell if his bedroom had a mirror on the ceiling. Lindsay Anderson looked uncomfortable. An r&r man vomited while talking to Alice Cooper and Alice said it was cool and they continued as if nothing had happened. A stench filled the corner of the room. Lisa Robinson left the party. Everybody left the party, except six people, who talked about the sweetness of Malcolm. The joints came out.
From "Hype! Hype! Hooray!" by Arthur Bell, The Village Voice, June 21, 1973, p. 12.
Yes, you can now find the Village Voice inside Google News Archive Search results. 3,000 word columns devoted to science fiction, Andrew Sarris reporting from Cannes, Jill Johnston's feminist columns. It's certainly a lot more exciting than anything published in newspapers today. Or even anything published in Salon or the Huffington Post. We're all pussies by comparison. Yes, people were actually paid to write this stuff. And here's the thing. They were encouraged to take chances. Do you want to save newspapers? Do you want to save culture? Do you want to save the publishing industry? Well, take a trip down Memory Lane and see what used to be done. It would certainly be a start. Also, grow some balls.