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Polish Amber Ablaze
Mystery, magic, glamour and the quest for the golden grail...these aspects have all fuelled the flame for humankind's age-old search and love for amber. From ancient times, this organic gem was prized by Greeks and Romans as 'petrified sunlight', as they believed it to possess the warming, healing and life-giving powers of the sun. According to Greek mythology, amber originated from the tears shed by the Heliades sisters (daughters of Helios, the Sun God) over the death of their brother Phaethon, who fell to earth with his horse-drawn sun chariot. The weeping sisters transformed into poplar trees on the bank of the Eridanus River, and their tears became 'glistening drops of amber'.
The true origin of Baltic amber is less lyrical but equally fascinating. Between 35 to 70 million years ago, the region that is now the Baltic Sea and Scandinavia was covered with a massive prehistoric coniferous forest. As the climate became warmer the conifer trees – a type of now-extinct pine tree – started to exude large amounts of resin to protect themselves against insects and fungus. Over time, the changing sea levels made amber settle on the bottom of the sea and liquid resins caught in the sediments were fossilised into amber. The dead tree trunks were washed southward to the coastal area between the mouth of the Vistula River (near the Polish port of Gdańsk ) and the Sambia Peninsula (now located in Russia's Kaliningrad area). The hardened lumps of resin, the rough rock that is now knows as amber, drifted to the seashore in massive quantities where people simply collected them in baskets. This region is estimated to provide 90% of all gem-quality amber in the world, with deposits in Poland alone totaling approximately 650,000 tons.
Wide Variation
The word 'amber' has long applied mainly to the fossilised tree sap found the the Baltic and North Sea regions, although larger deposits of this soft gem – ranging from 20 to 120 million years old – have also been discovered in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Lebanon, Siberia, Burma, China, Italy and Romania. Amber that is less than 10 million years old and has not gone through the complete fossil evolution is called copal, a white-coloured stone that is found predominantly in Columbia, New Zealand and some African countries.
In Poland, amber most frequently washes up on the shore line after a large storm. The waves drive amber-trapped seaweed onto the beaches where amber collectors can easily scoop them up in the tide line. It's found in a luscious array of hues – with over 256 identified colour varieties worldwide – ranging from shades of yellows and browns to greens and reds. The most expensive and scarcest 'cherry' amber is a deep purple, while the classic Baltic amber is usually called 'cognac' or 'honey', but there's also amber in green, brown and bone-white – created by microscopic gas bubbles – found in the Baltic region. This mineral is not only valued for its colour palette, but also for its degree of transparency that can vary from clear to cloudy, and its cleanliness. The clear and translucent versions range from light yellow to dark maroonish yellow, while cloudy types (filled with tiny air bubbles) come in all colours and can range from semi-transparent to opaque.The chemical composition of amber also determines its quality, value and and use. The active ingredient in Baltic amber is succinic acid that is present in a range from three to eight percent (the highest level in any amber found around the globe); the acid, which is a medical substance, was discovered by German Nobel-prize winning scientist Robert Koch in 1886. Koch was the first to confirm that amber's succinic acid has a positive influence on the human organism, from improving immunity to balancing acid levels and strengthening the body. Other than its dazzling range of colours, amber is also a remarkable material that delineates evolutionary history with a variety of once-living inclusions preserved in the amber itself. In other words, each piece of amber tells a unique story, since the gem trapped insects, flowers, leaves, moss, pine needles, flies, beetles, ants, spiders and even lizards millions of years ago when the oozing resin was still viscid. Scientists have been able to identify 3,000 species of prehistoric insects and over 214 plant types in amber, varying in size from a few millimeters to four centimeters. The visibility, size, rarity, placement and scientific value of the inclusion all determine the value of an individual piece of amber.
Peculiar Powers
Amber's beauty, ease of processing and mysterious powers made it a sought-after stone for decoration and ornamental goods for primitive inhabitants of the Baltic Sea region. Archaeological evidence shows that the use of amber dates back to 35-45,000 years ago, when the stones were tooled into precious talismans and pendants for protection against dangers during hunting journeys. Depending on various cults, some amulets were crafted in the form of sun-like round discs decorated with dots and other geometrical shapes, while others were shaped to look like animals, deities and hero figures. The ancient Romans also believed in the protective powers of amber, using it to decorate the gladiator arena as well as burying their dead with a piece of amber to ward of evil spirits in the afterlife.
Throughout the centuries, Baltic amber has also been said to possess medicinal properties. When worn on the skin, this 'healing stone' releases healing oils believed to have calming, healing and uplifting effects. Its tension-relieving effects have long been used in European cultures to help children with teething pain. Beyond pain palliating, folk medicine utilised amber as a remedy for swollen glands, fever, goiters and different liver and kidney illnesses. Ground amber powder mixed with honey was used against unclear vision, amber powder dissolved in water cured sore throats and crouching over the smoke of burning amber was believe to heal hemorrhoids. Some even thought it could cure depression, nervousness and curb suicidal tendencies. Later, through the 17th and 18th centuries, doctors recommended amberremedies for patients suffering from lung, heart and rheumatic diseases and skin disorders. Today, homeopathic pharmacies in Poland still sell a variety of amber ointments and powders that help against arthritis, neuralgic pains - and even hangovers.
New Age practitioners believe amber opens and charges the third chakra, the so-called 'solar plexus'. On a physical level, the warm mineral imbues the body with the power of the sun and by soaking up negative energy and sending it upwards, moods are balanced and mental clarity provided. It's also believed that when worn near a chakra center, amber instills intellectual focus.
Trade Trail
As soon as this non-precious stone starting washing up on the shores of Northern European countries (including territories of present-day Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden), it became a prized possession that brought faraway nations into contact with one another. Tradeways between East and West were established as early as the second millennium B.C. during the so called 'New Stone Age'. By about 1500 B.C. the network of roads and waterways in eastern and central Europe had linked together to create the 'Amber Road'. This ancient amber trade route ran from the Baltic Sea, down the Vistula, Elbe and Danube River all the way through Italy, Greece, the Black Sea and Egypt, and connected with the Silk Road that led to obscure Asian areas. Intensive trade in amber continued throughout reign of the Roman Empire until the third century A.D., when ongoing wars shattered the trade route. Poland and the Baltic region eventually came under the control of the Order of the Knights of the Cross (a.k.a. The Teutonic Knights) in 1264 and they took absolute control over the manufacturing and trading of amber.
By order of the Knights, all amber had to be given to the appointed official of a given region, and anyone caught trying to hide or steal the stone would be sentenced to death. Amber trade saw a resurgence in Poland after the Polish-Lithuanian forces defeated the Teutonic Order in 1410's Battle of Grunwald. The ageold amber-bearing city of Gdańsk was incorporated into the country in 1466 and the first amber craftsman's guild was established in 1477. Other historically important amber guilds in Poland were founded in the coastal cities of Elbląg, Kołobrzeg, Koszalin and Słupsk. With the rapid development of amber guilds, specialists and goldsmiths re-established connections with the historic trade partners and forged contemporary channels of commerce.
Gdańsk: Amber Capital
Bound with the inexhaustible treasure of the Baltic Sea, Gdańsk became the centre of amber craft as early as the 15th century. Following the downfall of the Teutonic Knights, guilds and craft organisations multiplied in numbers and artistic amber craft developed rapidly in the town. By the 16th and 17th centuries, with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in its strongest phase, amber crafting had reached an apex of creative development and prestige, turning from use in mainly devotional items to ordinary objects and lavish objets d'art. Amber craftsmen in both Gdańsk and Königsberg (modern-day Kaliningrad) used amber to make an assortment of kitchen utensils (glasses, bottles and cutlery), frames, candlesticks, boxes, chessboards and interior design trinkets for nobility, clergymen and other well-to-do citizens. Special one-off amber artefacts were also given as gifts in diplomacy for European rulers, religious figures and celebrities. Anna Jagiellon, the Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania during the second half of the 16th century, for example, received a heart-shaped pendant with the portrait of Hungarian King Stefan Bathory, made by a Gdańsk-based amber master.
Political turmoil and economic hardship saw the beginning of the backsliding in the 'heyday of amber craft' during the mid-18th century. The two world wars effectively wiped out the Polish and European amber craft, destroying every single amber workshop in Gdańsk. While the 1960s and 1970s spurred a resurgence of amber trade and affairs, it wasn't until the collapse of the Communist system in 1989 that the new era of the business of amber really began. Today, the city boasts hundreds of amber shops, studios and galleries – several of which are stationed on a narrow, cobble-stone Mariacka Street – showcasing hand-made necklaces, rings, bracelets, brooches, earrings, colliers, rosaries, key chains and carvings. At present, local amber craftsmen are hard at work designing and building a 120 m2 amber alter in the city's St. Bridget church, which will incorporate over six tons of the golden stone.
The city has also become a respected center of amber-related scientific research, with the main offices of the International Association of Amber Masters and the National Amber Chamber of Commerce both based in Gdańsk. Moreover, the city's main university features the world's first and only Department of Amber.
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http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SOeje0D60zo/T-osyz9hkXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/Uid3QtrFjnI/s320/maui%2Bbrewing%2Bco.JPG (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SOeje0D60zo/T-osyz9hkXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/Uid3QtrFjnI/s1600/maui%2Bbrewing%2Bco.JPG) Sometimes, you look at a business and just say to yourself "what the hell are they thinking?". For example, the Orkney Islands host two breweries. The climate on Orkney must be something special to lure two breweries there, given that they have to import all the ingredients to make the beer, bar the water, which I'm told is plentiful. And then they have to freight the majority of the beer back to the mainland for it to be sold. Mental, I tells ya.
Orkney is about 10 miles off the coast of the Scotland. Maui, one of the islands that makes up the 1500 mile long Hawaiian archipelago, is 750 miles from mainland USA. One has to question why Garrett Marrero decided to found Maui Brewing Co (http://www.mauibrewingco.com/mbc/MBCHome.html) there. I mean, why on earth would you want to live in a blue-oceaned, sun-beaten paradise, making craft beer (in the American sense)? It would be easy to paint the whole thing as some slacker "Aloha, whoah, surf's up dude" idyll, were it not for the fact that you don't make good beer without putting in a lot of hard work. And that hard work is evident in the beer.
The beer that perhaps most people will be initially drawn to, Big Swell IPA, is a really solid IPA - think Odell IPA, in terms of that classy Anglo-American crossover, where malt and hops actually work together to produce a rounded, integrated whole. Slightly more off the wall, but showcasing a local ingredient (at least, I'm assuming they use Hawaiian coconuts rather than importing them from the Maldives, although given the island brewer mentality, nothing would surprise me), is their Coconut Porter, which really does taste faintly of coconut, and is a pretty damn special porter to boot. Smooth, silky and slightly unctuous, with a heap of mocha flavours. Aces.


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import {expect} from 'chai';

import {
  createUrlConfigHash,
  fetch,
  mock,
  restore,
  overloadUrlconfig,
} from '../src/index.js';

describe('pseudofetch', () => {
  beforeEach(() => {
    restore();
  });
  describe('#createUrlConfigHash', () => {
    it('should create a urlConfigHash with all parameters', () => {
      expect(createUrlConfigHash({host: 'host', port: '1234', protocol: 'http'})).to.equal(
        'host:host|port:1234|protocol:http'
      );
    });
    it('should create a urlConfighash with one or more parameters missing', () => {
      expect(createUrlConfigHash({host: 'host', port: '1234'})).to.equal(
        'host:host|port:1234|protocol:'
      );
    });
    it('should not crash when given a bad arguments, but instead return the default hash', () => {
      expect(createUrlConfigHash(undefined)).to.equal('host:|port:|protocol:');
      expect(createUrlConfigHash(null)).to.equal('host:|port:|protocol:');
      expect(createUrlConfigHash(2)).to.equal('host:|port:|protocol:');
      expect(createUrlConfigHash('string')).to.equal('host:|port:|protocol:');
    });
  });
  describe('#overloadUrlconfig', () => {
    it('should handle arg0 being a host-string and arg1 being undefined', () => {
      expect(overloadUrlconfig('host')).to.deep.equal({
        host: 'host',
        port: '',
        protocol: '',
      });
    });
    it('should handle arg0 being a host-string and arg1 being a port', () => {
      expect(overloadUrlconfig('host', '1234')).to.deep.equal({
        host: 'host',
        port: '1234',
        protocol: '',
      });
    });
    it('should handle arg0 being a host-string, arg1 being a port and arg2 being a protocol', () => {
      expect(overloadUrlconfig('host', '1234', 'https')).to.deep.equal({
        host: 'host',
        port: '1234',
        protocol: 'https',
      });
    });
    it('should handle arg0 being an object and arg1 being undefined', () => {
      expect(overloadUrlconfig({host: 'host', port: '1234', protocol: 'http'})).to.deep.equal({
        host: 'host',
        port: '1234',
        protocol: 'http',
      });
    });
    it('should handle arg0 being an object and arg1 not being undefined', () => {
      expect(overloadUrlconfig({host: 'host', port: '1234', protocol: 'http'}, {})).to.deep.equal({
        host: 'host',
        port: '1234',
        protocol: 'http',
      });
    });
    it('should handle bad arguments, resolving to the default config', () => {
      expect(overloadUrlconfig(0)).to.deep.equal({
        host: '',
        port: '',
        protocol: '',
      });
      expect(overloadUrlconfig((x) => x)).to.deep.equal({
        host: '',
        port: '',
        protocol: '',
      });
      expect(overloadUrlconfig()).to.deep.equal({
        host: '',
        port: '',
        protocol: '',
      });
      expect(overloadUrlconfig(null)).to.deep.equal({
        host: '',
        port: '',
        protocol: '',
      });
      expect(overloadUrlconfig([])).to.deep.equal({
        host: '',
        port: '',
        protocol: '',
      });
    });
  });
  describe('#fetch', () => {
    it('should fail when no server is registered', () => {
      expect(fetch).to.throw();
    });
  });
  describe('#mock', () => {
    it('should replace the global fetch', () => {
      expect(global.fetch).to.not.equal(fetch);
      mock();
      expect(global.fetch).to.equal(fetch);
    });
  });
  describe('#restore', () => {
    it('should return fetch to its original state', () => {
      let current = global.fetch;
      expect(current).to.not.equal(fetch);
      mock();
      expect(global.fetch).to.equal(fetch);
      restore();
      expect(global.fetch).to.equal(current);
    });
  });
});

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Can a managing general agent (MGA) be held liable for damages resulting from the advisors actions?
If an advisor defrauds a client, and the advisor's managing general agent (MGA) had been tipped off that the advisor had a criminal record and serious allegations of fraud levied against him yet did not act on those allegations, can that MGA be held liable for damages resulting from the advisor's actions?
That is the focus of an ongoing lawsuit filed by two elderly brothers in Connecticut, who had been told they would earn high returns if they allowed the advisor to manage or invest their money in annuities that were supposed to be placed with two carriers.
By the time the advisor was arrested in January 2007, the advisor—currently serving a 7-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to a variety of federal fraud charges after an FBI investigation—had spent more than $1.2 million of the brothers' money on exotic cars, fine jewelry, Las Vegas gambling junkets and exotic dancers.
The brothers allege that the MGA committed unfair and deceptive business and insurance practices by, among other things, vouching for the character of the advisor despite its knowledge that the advisor had a prior criminal record for fraud.
The suit further alleges the MGA continued to act as an intermediary for the advisor even after receiving reports of his forgery, embezzlement, and pattern of lies, and failed to disclose these reports to potentially affected insurance consumers and to carriers who, based on the same information, would most likely have taken steps to terminate their relationship with the advisor.
An Appeals Court's recent decision on the brothers' appeal substantially broadens the potential duties of general agents under G.L. c. 93A (Massachusetts General Law chapter 93A, referring to consumer protection) to disclose to insureds, annuitants or insurance companies credible allegations of a producer's possible fraud or embezzlement.
The case raises a variety of ethical issues, which I asked Stephen R. McCarty, Chairman of the National Ethics Association, to address. Not being an attorney, McCarty said he can't comment on the legal aspects of the case but was happy to weigh in on the ethical issues.
"First, doing business ethically always demands careful balancing of the concerns of multiple constituencies. Here, we have the needs of a marketing intermediary, the agent, the ultimate consumer, and the life insurance companies all vying to be heard and resolved fairly. Unfortunately, it appears as if [the MGA] failed miserably at achieving an equitable balance," McCarty said.
"Problem is, [the MGA] tiled the balance so far in the direction of serving its own interests (and that of its contracted producers) that it failed to act to protect the [brothers] against [the agent's] predatory actions or to protect the interests of [the carriers]," McCarty continued.
Once they did, another ethical question, McCarty said, is whether the MGA tolerated inappropriate sales practices. "Had there been signs of egregious self-dealing to which [the MGA cast a blind eye? The fact that [the MGA] received a tip-off letter suggesting as much tells me problems already existed, but [the MGA] never took them seriously," McCarty said.
McCarty had one more point to add regarding the case. In financial services, an industry in which trust plays such a large part, a company's ethics are only as good as the ethics of all its partners.


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InfiniD Learning Labs are now in 10 elementary schools in Davis School District and more are coming soon. Plus, new innovations in their technology will allow more students access to their engaging simulations.
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The controversy surrounding wrongful birth and wrongful life litigation has existed for many years and is well documented. The courts faced with these issues have overwhelmingly rejected wrongful life actions while at the same time approving those for wrongful birth. In part, this has occurred because courts have found it more palatable to identify lost parental choice as the injury than to answer the metaphysical question of whether non-existence is ever preferable to life, however burdened. In contrast, many tort scholars who have addressed this issue have concluded that both wrongful birth and wrongful life actions should be permitted to go forward. They reason that both torts correspond well, if not perfectly, with traditional negligence principles.
In the midst of this robust public debate, there is one point of view that has received less attention--that of individuals with disabilities. Although much has been written about the impact of genetic testing as a general matter, surprisingly little legal scholarship has focused on the impact that wrongful birth and wrongful life actions might have on the community of people with disabilities. Often, the consideration tort scholars give to this viewpoint is confined to a discussion about the benefits of providing needed compensation to disabled individuals and their caregivers. Particularly in the wrongful life context, scholars have argued that the theoretical difficulty in identifying "life" as an injury does not outweigh the practical reality of an injured party who needs assistance.
The problematic aspects of wrongful birth and wrongful life actions, however, far exceed the conceptual difficulties that attach to these torts. Wrongful birth and wrongful life suits may exact a heavy price not only on the psychological well-being of individuals with disabilities, but also on the public image and acceptance of disability in society. Rather than focusing on a defendant's conduct, as in a traditional tort action, both wrongful birth and wrongful life suits ultimately focus on the plaintiff's disability, a status that is at least partially a societal construction. Juries in such actions are required to evaluate whether a particular disability is so horrible, from the nondisabled perspective, as to make plausible the choice of abortion or contraconception by the parent, or non-existence by the disabled child. Since only the child's diagnosis is ascertainable at this critical point in time, the centrality of impairment in defining personhood is reinforced and inescapable. Any benefits secured by individual litigants in court are thus taxed to the community of people with disabilities as a whole, placing at risk, in the drive for individual compensation, the gains secured by collective action and identity.
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Equal Protection of the Laws?


Released "Yamaha Synth Book" version2.0.
Welcome to Yamaha Synth 40th Anniversary special site!
Opening movie "Shape of Sound"
Beginning with our release of the SY-1 in 1974, Yamaha's rich history of development and production of synthesizers has now reached the 40-year milestone. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Yamaha synthesizer—which has remained consistently at the forefront of the music industry—we explore this innovative history, looking back on the products, technologies, and developments unique to each period.
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Beatles autographs from Shropshire concert fetch £4,200 at auction
By Dominic RobertsonWhitchurchMusicPublished: Oct 22, 2019
Beatles autographs signed when the Fab Four played at a town hall in Shropshire have sold for nearly twice their estimate at auction.
The framed set of autographs
Hansons' music memorabilia specialist Claire Howell with the Beatles signatures
The signed piece of paper, bearing the autographs of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, were put up for sale by a Wrexham woman who had held on to them for 56 years.
She had managed to catch up with the band after they performed at Whitchurch's former Town Hall Ballroom on January 19, 1963 – the very night the Fab Four appeared on Saturday night TV show Thank Your Lucky Stars, an appearance which changed their fortunes.
Please Please Me had just been released as a single and fame and fortune were a whisker away.
Auction house Hansons had estimated that the autographs would go for £2,000 to £3,000, but confirmed that they had eventually sold for £4,200.
Jill Gallone, head of media at Hansons, said that there had been strong competition from bidders trying to secure the lot.
She said: "There were two telephone bidders and a lot of bidders on the internet as well. It was quite a battle and an internet bidder won the battle in the end."
The winning bidder was confirmed as a private UK buyer.
The seller, who wishes to remain anonymous, attended the auction and watched as the four autographs she collected on that bitterly cold night in 1963 were sold.
There was relief for the former Ellesmere resident, who is now 72, because she also turned down an offer of £100 for the autographs 20 years ago.
Ms Gallone said that they were delighted with the price secured for the lot and added that the back-story behind the item had been key to the success.
She said: "We are always delighted if something goes well above the estimate, that is a very good result.
"There are a lot of Beatles fake autographs knocking around and that is why this did particularly well, because the vendor had the story. She was happy to share how she got them and that immediately gives it very good provenance."
The seller, who is a retired secretary, said she was "chuffed to bits" with the result.
When she put the lots up for sale she explained how she had got them, saying: "The Beatles were playing at the Town Hall Ballroom in Whitchurch. But hardly anyone was there. The room was pretty empty. There was no atmosphere. I'd heard of The Beatles but they weren't well known at the time. I think the cold kept people away too. There was snow on the ground and the temperatures were sub-zero.
"Because there was so few people there, it was quite relaxed and we got to chat to The Beatles and ask for autographs. We spent about 15 minutes with them. I remember John Lennon plonking away on the piano after the gig. At the time I didn't even know Ringo Starr's name. They were all really nice to us.
"I asked Paul McCartney for his autograph and, as he wrote it, he said out loud, 'To the most beautiful girl in the world, with all my love and affection'. I expect he said that to all the girls. He was only joking but it's been my claim to fame ever since!
"It was just before The Beatles made it big. On the same day they performed Please Please Me on ITV's Thank Your Lucky Stars. I saw them perform later on in the 60s but by then they were huge.
"I framed the autographs and put them away in a cupboard for 56 years. I was worried the names would fade if I left them in the light. I wasn't sure how much the autographs were worth. I thought they might go down in value the longer I kept them."
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The company gained its current name, "Armenian Copper Programme" CJSC, on the 1st of June, 2002. Before that the company was known as "Manes and Vallex" CJSC. Copper smelting and mining facilities in Alaverdi, Lori region, owned by "ACP" CJSC have a history of over 240 years. In the 18th and 19th centuries Alaverdi copper smelter was able to produce from 60 to 200 tons of copper per annum.


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Progressives, Democrats and environmentalists are all baffled when it comes to understanding Obama's proposal to open up offshore drilling. Some have called it sensible middle ground, and others only register a big question mark. Laura Flanders turns to Senior Staff Reporter of Grist.org Dave Roberts to explain what the proposal is all about.


Ian McKellar gave a presentation on the Songbird media player at LugRadio Live this past weekend. The talk introduced some of the underlying goals behind the Songbird project and included a demonstration of some of the core technologies in the Songbird media player.
The Songbird developers aim to create an open ecosystem for media technologies that will liberate users from the closed end-to-end media solutions offered by Microsoft and Apple. The monolithic media architectures used by those companies, which tie music stores to specific software players and specific devices, have stifled creativity and innovation. Songbird gives users a way to escape from vendor lock-in and also creates the potential for more competition and innovation in media services and digital content distribution.
"There are a few major players in the market right now and the users are left out in the cold," said McKeller. "We need a way that we can build services to do exciting new media stuff, but built on open standards and built on open source—the stuff that empowers users and developers and builds better creativity."
New protocols like BitTorrent make it easier for independent content creators to distribute material. There are also increasingly popular labels like Matador which eschew RIAA membership and sell DRM-free music. These factors have led to the emergence of an independent, web-driven music ecosystem that exists outside of Apple's walled garden, but there is no equivalent of iTunes to bring all of the pieces together. That is where Songbird fits into the picture. "The missing piece is the user agent," McKellar told the audience. "We need a Mosaic or Mozilla for the media web."
Inspired by Mozilla's model of Internet empowerment, the Songbird developers "took a web browser and a media player and stitched them together," so that users could "browse [their] music and play the web," McKellar stated. Songbird is built on a variety of open source technologies, including Firefox's Gecko rendering engine and the GStreamer multimedia framework. The Songbird developers are active upstream contributors and have been working with Fluendo and Collabora to improve cross-platform GStreamer support so that the framework can be used across all operating systems and leverage native codecs on Mac OS X and Windows.
Songbird also includes built-in web browsing capabilities and offers a unique page API that enables web content creators to interact with the media player. When given permission by the user, web sites can use the Songbird page API to retrieve information about currently playing tracks, create playlists, and interact with the user's media experience in other ways. Some independent labels like Matador even use the APIs to turn Songbird into a user-friendly music store for their content. Since these capabilities are all documented, anyone can use Songbird as a platform for building new content distribution channels and innovative web-based media services.
Although Songbird is very promising, the player itself is still relatively new and will require some additional work. The developers intend to focus on improving performance, usability, device support, and music management capabilities.


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Too many high school athletes only start to consider their sports recruiting options when their teammates or friends begin to take college visits or correspond with college coaches. Senior year is when we begin to see the panic in athletes and their families because they have done nothing to increase their chances of being recruited, nor have they expressed any interest in colleges they hope to attend.
Athletes waiting around, not researching colleges that they would like to attend will not be happy with the options they are left with. Taking some time each year of high school to move forward in your recruitment will only increase your chances of finding that perfect fit.
How bad do you want to play sports in college?
What is your dream school if you are unable to compete? Is it the same or different?
What colleges will you be happy to attend?
Are you willing to increase your recruiting chances, by communicating with coaches from all division levels?
Will you be open to being a walk-on athlete?
If you are ready and able to answer these college-bound questions you will be better equipped to take on the challenge of getting recruited.
Getting recruited is about student-athletes who are proactive, and ready to do all they can to find the right college team to compete for. Sure, you have a dream school in mind, but what happens when you don't even come close to meeting the athletic or academic requirements for that college?
There are thousands of recruits out there striving to play college sports at an NCAA division I school, but will they have what it takes to make it through the recruitment process? This is where the most persistent and hardworking athletes will gain the upper hand; once you are willing to dedicate your time to learning the ins and outs of college recruiting you will have a much greater chance of getting offered a spot to play on the college team on your list.
If you have more questions about being successful in your recruitment, than leave a comment below or connect with us on Facebook and Twitter.


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Peace Incense
Written by Ayala Sender
Filed under Australia, Bay Laurel, Bay Leaf, Eucalyptus, Fire Tree, Grass Tree, Incense, Incense for Peace, Incense Making, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Peace On Earth, Perfume for Peace, Seeds of Peace, Xanthorrhoae
It is a long standing tradition to create at least one form of incense during the Oriental Perfumery courses. This fall (November 10-14, 2019), we created incense cones using a very unusual material fire tree resin AKA grass tree (Xanthorrhoae) that one of my students harvested herself and brought all the way from Australia.
The incense blend was born out of the concept of marrying plants and resins from both Australia and the Middle East: bay leaves, eucalyptus leaves, fire tree resin, Australian sandalwood, and an array of Middle Eastern resins. On the leaves we've written prayers before causing them into pieces and grinding them. Prayers that will go up in smoke and come true.
As we were writing on the leaves it, I recalled a dream I had about teaching perfume and incense to youth with the vision of harnessing the alchemy of it to sawing seeds of peace - first within and then outwardly to our environs.
I am now praying to have the courage, strength, wisdom, and the right help and partnership to be sawing these seeds for real in my everyday life.
Without any messed up politics, but through meeting people's true essence, and mine... This requires serious self reflection and internal alchemical transformations that transcends trauma, hurt and long history of pain and destructive defense mechanisms.
Of course, it is so much easier said than done... So I am hesitantly putting it here and trusting you to guard this and save this as a reminder to make this come true on all levels. The process begins from within. I hope that soon enough I will be ready to share it and bring it outwardly and lead others through this process.
Musk Malabi Fundraising Campaign for Syrian Refugees
Filed under Blogala, Fundraiser, Fundraising, Middle Eastern Dessert, Middle Eastern Perfumes, Musk, Musk Malabi, Neroli, Orange Blossom, Peace, Perfume For A Cause, Perfume for Peace, Rose, Syrian Refugee Crisis
Musk Malabi, my fundraiser perfume to support Syrian Refugees, was launched a couple of years ago. There was only marginal interest in the cause, unfortunately, so I was unable to make any substantial contribution to this cause.
Now that the refugee crisis has come to the forefront of the media - I hope you can help me raise enough funds to help sponsor refugees who are arriving to Canada in these tough times. For every 15mL bottle sold, $50 will be donated to a community-sponsored family; and from each mini bottle, $20 will be donated.
If you are in Canada, I urge you to find a community-sponsorship as well, or initiate one yourself in your community or workplace. According to Canadian law around sponsorship of immigrants, groups such as religious community associations (i.e.: non-profit NGOs) and community based organizations (i.e.: mosques, churches, synagogues, etc.) but also corporations can sponsor refugees, and any group of 5 or more Canadians that can provide a feasible settlement plan for the refugees. That is one way to guarantee the safe asylum of a family fleeing the horrors of the Syrian civil war, and much more meaningful way to invest smaller amounts of charitable money than to support a huge organization in which whatever contribution I could make will just be a drop in the bucket.
Of course, if you wish to donate to larger organizations - there are some that are more effective than others and which will utilize your donations more efficiently. Do your research first. For example, charities that are recommended for maximum help in the ground zero of the Syrian refugee crisis and that have a minimum administrative costs are listed in Charity Intelligence (Canada) and Charity Watchdog (USA).
Below is an excerpt from the original press release (March 2014) and the updates regarding pricing and donations policy.
Inspiring Peace & Harmony with Musk Malabi's Olfactory Love Triangle
Vancouver, Canada, March 5th, 2014. Get caught in a love triangle with Musk Malabi Ayala Moriel's newest limited-edition perfume Musk Malabi. Released to coincide with the spring equinox and Persian New Year, Musk Malabi is an intoxicating floral confection. Unabashedly feminine, subtly exotic and hopelessly romantic - the fragrance evokes the sensory experience of a passionate love affair.
Inspired by the traditional Middle Eastern dessert of the same name, Musk Malabi centers itself around rich, milky musk. Having grown up in Israel, the sights, sounds, and smells of the Mediterranean have always been a source of inspiration for Ayala Moriel, the company's in-house perfumer. "What has always captured my imagination about malabi is its soft, evocative sounding name, and its unique fragrant combination of rosewater and neroli water", explains Ayala. "Rose and orange blossom are such noble flowers yet oh so different."
At the heart of the fragrance, neroli and rose come unexpectedly together with musk to create an unusual and mesmerizing triad. Musk plays cupid, pulling all the strings in between and drawing the lovers (rose and neroli) together. Designed to smell as close as possible to deer musk, the botanical musk brings an effortless fluidity to this magnetic fragrance. A company that prides itself on being all-natural and free of animal cruelty, all of Ayala's fragrances are created using botanical essences.
With spicy notes of cardamom and coriander as the opening act for voluptuous rose and prudent neroli, the top and heart notes rest on a silky bed of atlas cedarwood, botanical musk and Tahitian vanilla. Light-hearted yet mysterious, Musk Malabi is a fragrance unlike any other and will transport one effortlessly to the exotic Middle-East, jet-lag free.
Top notes: Bitter Orange, Cardamom, Coriander, Blood Orange
Heart notes: Turkish Rose, Bulgarian Rose, Tunisian Neroli, Egyptian Orange Blossom
Base notes: Atlas Cedarwood, Botanical Musk Accord, Tahitian Vanilla
Available in eau de parfum 4ml ($69) and 15ml ($180) via www.ayalamoriel.com. For every 15mL bottle sold, $50 will be donated to a community-sponsored family; and from each mini bottle, $20 will be donated.
Perfume for Peace
Filed under Frankincense, Lavender, Olibanum, Olive, Perfume for Peace
Back in the day, Escents Aromatherapy in Vancouver sold a blend called "Peace" with lavender and vanilla. It was lovely, and was a diffuser oil blend and also in a variety of scented body products. There was something truly luxurious and peace-invoking about it. Lavender to me really is a very peaceful scent. It brings a sense of well-being, calm and is at the same time also uplifting rather than sedative or narcotic. The healing properties of lavender are wide and well known, both emotionally and physically. But it is not the only essential oil that promotes such state of mind.
I spent most of yesterday morning uncorking vials in my perfumer's organ, in search for scents that will inspire and induce peace through the sense of smell. I've decided to go by intuition alone in my selection process, but then also researched the aromatherapeutic and spiritual uses of these oils and cross-reference my choices with some of the known traditions.
Inspires peace and calm. Very uplifting, gentle, soothing...
Frankincense:
Spiritually, frankincense is connected to the heart. On a biochemical and psychoactive level, frankincense smoke brings a heightened spiritual awareness and helps the mind to enter a meditative state.
Grounding, centering, very spiritual, and also goes with everything and anything.
Olive essences:
1. Olive tree resin that I prepared from resin my brothers picked from our family's trees.
2. Olive fruit absolute
3. Olive leaf absolute - grassy, leafy, bitter essence. A little similar to tobacco and tomato leaf, actually but not as harsh.
These are unusual raw materials, and are not commonly used in aromatherapy, healing or ritual. But the choice of olive is obvious, since a dove carrying an olive branch is a biblical symbol of peace.
The association with Peace pipe was inevitable. Tobacco is a sacred plant to the First Nations and was used for healing and for the famous "Peace Pipe" to seal deals and peace treaties between tribes.
I'm still unsure about how these essences will come together in a perfume. I feel as if this process can take one of two directions:
1) A harmonious continuum of peaceful aromas. That sounds kinda boring actually. But sometimes what's necessary is a good example...
2) My perfume is going to be like a peace process between clashing elements that are an unlikely partner for any collaboration whatsoever...
A Brief History of Perfumes for Peace
Filed under Perfume for Peace
Perfumes dedicated to peace, as a quick Basenotes search brings up includes 33 results. Here's a roundup of the ones that are probably easier to find - in order of appearance:
1999 Time for Peace by Kenzo comes in a masculine version (mandarin, sage, chestnut, tonka bean, amber, cedarwood vetiver and vanilla) and feminine (mandarin, bergamot, blackcurrant, freesia, peony, jasmine, amber and musk).
2001 Imagine... Peace by Bath and Body Works sounds like another nondescript bouquet of sandalwood, musk and flowers (muguet and waterlily). Probably watery and boring...
2003 I Am Peace (Danica Aromatics) was created by a company in Santa Monica that I've never heard about till now, and has notes of white peony, tuberose, jasmine, heather, myrrh and sandalwood.
2006 The Scent of Peace (Bond No. 9) was created as a fundraiser for the UN, whose headquarters are in NYC. It's a nondescript aquatic-citrus-woodsy scent with grapefruit, cassis, muguet, hedione, cedar and musk. Rather forgettable.
2008 - Kenzo Peace is a reissue of the limited edition from 1999: a blend of tonka, musk, heliotrope, cedar, mandarin and vanilla.
- Peace On Earth (Liz Zorn) now renamed "Solstice" (changed the name to avoid copyright battles with Bond No. 9). This is an all-natural fragrance with white flowers and incense.
2009 Botanical Perfume devoted to peace, 1st Edition (Roxana Illuminated Perfume) was created for Project "Peace on Earth" - an annual worldwide telecast concert of Superstar musicians performing Sacred Music from the most mystical concert venues on the planet: Egypt's Great Pyramids, England's Stonehenge, Australia's Ayers Rock, Peru's Inca Pyramids, Japan's Mount Fuji, and California's Mount Shasta. It's a cinnamon and spice botanical fragrance.
2010 Peace Love & Juicy Couture
seems like a crowd-pleasing fruit-punch for the concious teenager, with top notes of Meyer lemon blossom, Hyacinth, Apple and Blackcurrant; heart notes of Sambac jasmine, Star magnolia, Malibu poppy, Honeysuckle and Linden blossom; and base notes of Iris, Patchouli and Musk
2012 - 7 Virtues Middle East Peace
Some of you might remembered that two summers ago there was much talk about the threat of Iran on Israel, and the Israeli government was looking for many excuses to strike and start a war. Thankfully that never happened. But many Israelis and Iranians were very scared of this prospect, and the spontaneous online campaign that ensued showed many Israelis and Iranians around the world showing that they love each other and do not want to go to war.
Inspired by this, Canadian company-with-a-cause 7 Virtues launched Middle East Peace. Combining Israeli grapefruit and Iranian lime and basil, and although citrus goes along easily (and this scent is a not a particularly unusual citrus at that) - the scent still is a metaphor to the alchemy that can happen in the bottle when you allow two or three elements to mingle and marry. I believe it's just as easy to do so in real life, if we let the two sides of the conflict speak to each other. Once the artificial walls of separation and hatred are eliminated, there is only compassion, understanding and willingness to find a solution that will be a win-win situation.
You can continue following this campaign, which shows what real people want in this region: Israel Loves Iran and Iran Loves Israel. Similar campaigns are active for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, both online and in real life, for example: Jews and Arabs Refuse To Be Enemies on Facebook, and many other peace organizations in Israel and occupied Palestine that work towards peace and reconciliation from the grassroots level, locally and internationally.
- In Peace by Space NK sounds perhaps a little more promising with peppery pimento and freesia opening, iris, mimosa and suede heart, but still a generic-sounding base of white musk, sandalwood and tonka bean. ore importantly, it has a cause: 10% of net profits from the purchase of each bottle will go directly to Women for Women International's sponsorship program which supports women survivors of war to enable them to rebuild their lives and promote peaceful communities.
2013 Inner Peace by Tisserand is an aromatherapy perfume blend of rose absolute, cardamom, rose geranium and frankincense.
2014 - Axe Peace with citrus, nutmeg and cedar. The name is ironic, because so many peace initiatives are undermined too early with a swift blow of an axe.
- Peaceful Harmony by Philosophy seems to repeat the theme of light florals (neroli, iris, lily of the valley and lotus) with citrus top notes and a musky base (also with cedarwood and oakmoss) that seems to thread in many of those peacefully named perfumes. It's the newest fragrant peace initiative and sounds not much different than the rest of the light, inoffensive, clean fragrances from this brand.
Bringer of Peace
The outpour of tragic news from my home country have practically taken over my life. It's difficult to think about anything else but this summer meteorite of pain and hostilities. Try as I may to not get political, I simply can't these days. In fact, I never had a stronger political view in my life. In 2 sentences it goes like this: Stop the violence. Make peace NOW.
There is very little I can do, but I'm trying all I can to encourage people around me and especially back home that there is another way. That fear does not need to be the ruling factor. And I'd like to use this blog to also promote this idea, because maybe there is someone reading it that it could help them think differently.
There are lots of things we can do on a daily basis, and one of them is non-violent communication. Something we can all learn and achieve. I can only wish all the leaders of the Middle East (if not the world over) will adapt this approach.
Lastly, with the very little influence I have, I want to talk about peaceful perfumes and fragrances. And I'd like to dedicate the upcoming month of August as a Perfume for Peace month. Please wear a perfume that inspires peace and share your comments here and everywhere else on the social networks. Maybe with combined efforts and intent we will be able to move something in this world... Of course that does not come instead of actions such as demonstrations, signing petitions, dialog with the people we were raised to be at war with, and finding non-violent ways to communicate and resolve conflicts with the people around us.
First installation in the Perfume for Peace will be posted tomorrow... In the meantime, try to get restful sleep.


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'Hurting for news stories': Disconnect exists between community groups and coverage - National Association of Black Journalists-Chicago Chapter
'Hurting for news stories': Disconnect exists between community groups and coverage
In NABJ-CC, News
By Lindsey A. Wright
Rudd Resources LLC
On Dec. 18, representatives from three community activist organization representatives met with NABJ Chicago Vice President of Print Phil Thompson to talk about ways to bring more press to black-owned movements, businesses and nonprofits. Rudd Resources, a black-owned communications firm, hosted the meeting in their location in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.
Among those present was activist Lisa Daniels, a member of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board who advocates for mothers, like herself, who have lost children to gun violence in Chicago. On Jan. 21, Daniels will host a summit for grieving mothers to help them strive toward healthier ways of healing.
"Not everyone grieves in a healthy way," Daniels said. "Rather than finding purpose in it, they tend to wear it as a badge of honor. There's a comfort level and an advantage that hinders that moving beyond process because it's easier and profitable."
Joining the conversation was Otis Monroe of the Monroe Foundation, which works to help black-led nonprofits build legitimacy. Monroe took an impassioned stance on black activists thinking beyond protest marches and doing more to help themselves and each other. He wants to use journalism as an alternative to marches because he believes that journalism can be more impactful.
Tanya Woods is an attorney associated with the Westside Justice Center who would like to see more South and West Side news coverage by not only more mainstream news outlets in Chicago but also the outlets that are based in those areas. "I have four community newspapers on the West Side and I can tell you how many times they've covered what we do at Westside Justice Center. Twice." She said. "And I know they're hurting for news stories, I can see it."
The rest of the discussion centered around ways more black news can be reported – besides violence.
"There's a lot of clutter in the newsroom," says Thompson. "Stories are like diamonds, sometimes you have to sift through the dirt to get to them."
Thompson encourages nonprofits to get to know more about the writers, not just the outlets themselves. "Learn who does what, read what they do on a daily basis.
In some cases, "some media database spit out my name and you sent me a churned-out press release-that doesn't show any type of personalization."
From the many ideas that were bounced around throughout the meeting some of them included pitching an NABJ-CC forum to create a conduit between organizations and newsrooms to help build relationships: holding regular calls, sharing stories and listening to pitches each month.
Another idea was a workshop to help demystify the newsroom, explaining the roles and titles of the people who work within it to make the media more accessible to smaller organizations who may not have built relationships with journalists yet.
A final goal is to have more conversations like this with more leaders between community leaders, activists, journalists and others to push toward inclusion in media.
Top image: (Pictured from left to right) Otis Chandler Monroe II, CEO of the Monroe Foundation; Raschanda Hall, president of the National Black Public Relations Society-Chicago Chapter; Tanya Woods, executive director of the Westside Justice Center; Phil Thompson, NABJ Chicago vice president-print; Kimberley Rudd, president of Rudd Resources LLC; Lisa Daniels, member of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board and founder of the Darren B. Easterling Center for Restorative Justice; and David Rudd, senior counselor of Rudd Resources. (Kimberley Rudd/Rudd Resources)


Have you ever felt the need to challenge yourself? Of course you have felt that way before. Well, for me, I more than feel to do so, I intend to give a challenge a shot. Today, I prepare to embark on a new journey, one that will allow me to explore new life's possibilities. A great level of curiosity is what I intend to take with me to that new "classroom" of life.
To attempt anything new requires that we utilize a level of curiosity. As if contradictory to this, the famous adage that "curiosity killed the cat" comes rushing through my mind with a plan to sabotage my new enthusiasm. Thinking aloud I shout to the top of my voice, – "Oh thief of fear and doubt, get the heck out of here." This thief forgets that I am aware of the other adage that "Cats have nine lives"? It is with this knowledge of "nine-lives" that I am going to press on toward my new challenge.
Employment of the nine-life effect will hold my curiosity just where it requires to be. Snooping, questioning, reading, researching, listening, writing, and exploring will be some tools at use during the next 13 weeks of my life. A sense of hope rushes through my psyche as I prepare to mentally dig deeply towards the commencement of this new intellectual challenge.
If you have a curiosity, if you are thinking about attempting a new challenge, give it a shot. Life happens, but not like guesswork. Rather, life happens by the seconds, constantly, unstoppably and requires that we engage it, more that exist in it.
At this stage, I choose to withhold information as pertains to my curiosity, except to call it a challenge, a new dimension. I hope you can wish me well as I embark on this one in which I intend to fully engage myself.
Well you know I will alway be happy for you and wish you success but I must say that you have stirred my curiosity. However as you say I will be patiently awaiting the results amd the enlightenment. So my dear go for it whatever it is.
Heya, thanks much Alice. Indeed, sometimes we anticipate more from things than there actually are. All the same, I am pressing on toward a mark. One day, I will share the information with you.


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Meet the Team: Dr. Joe Marks
Joe Marks, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Center for Machine Learning and Health where he leads strategic initiatives, business development, and negotiations. Dr. Marks brings a unique background of innovation and entrepreneurship experiences to the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance, including roles at BBN Technologies (Bolt, Beranek and Newman), Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, and Walt Disney. He recently sat down to share his journey to the Alliance.
You've said before that chess kickstarted your career in innovation, how?
I grew up in Dublin, Ireland in the '60s and '70s playing chess. I've always enjoyed how it's a simple game – pieces can only do a few types of moves – yet the strategy possibilities are endless. When I was at Harvard as an undergrad, computers were still relatively new but I immediately saw a connection to chess – the code had a simple set of rules, but there was no limit to what you could do with it. I began by taking night courses and then became completely hooked. From there, I knew computer science was what I wanted to be involved with for the rest of my life.
Unlike other healthcare innovators, you didn't start immediately within life sciences – what came first?
Out of Harvard, I had a few great opportunities that surrounded me with extraordinary people and machines. At BBN Technologies, I worked on a team developing computer-based simulations. The work was cutting-edge, and the technology was used as the foundation for all future military trainings. Interestingly, because I came to the United States when I did – I never learned how to drive. So, the first time I drove something, it wasn't a car, it was an M-1 Abrams battle tank to fine-tune our simulations.
On top of that, just down the hall from me at BBN was Ray Tomlinson who invented peer-to-peer email and the use of the "@" symbol in email addresses. It was environments like this where I understood that writing code could truly change the world.
With all of this early experience and knowledge, where did you go?
I went off to get more knowledge! I knew that there were opportunities available at institutions similar to BBN for people with advanced degrees, so I went back to Harvard to get my master's and doctorate in computer science. These degrees opened up doors for me to become a research scientist and director at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs where I both conducted and oversaw research in computer graphics and human-computer interaction. After Mitsubishi, I teamed up with Disney and Pixar to launch a premier R&D arm of the corporation. At Disney, I helped set up labs around the world that would research video processing, robotics, media distribution, and other computer-related entertainment and media fields. Through all of this, I became an expert researcher, director, and leader, but still, I wanted to do more. I wanted to be involved with startups and work on initiatives that could have world-changing impacts.
What better way to learn about startups than to start your own?
Exactly. I traveled back to Ireland where I learned first-hand what to do – and also what not to do. One startup led to another, and before long I was back in the United States. I, again, happened to be in the right place at the right time and was introduced to the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance. The Alliance was a combination of everything that I wanted: academic research, trailblazing computer science, and the opportunity to positively impact something we all have in common – our health. I joined on and haven't looked back. My favorite days are the ones where I get to hear great project proposals or where a team has an exciting breakthrough – which, I'm happy to add, are days that occur with alarming frequency.
Thanks for sharing your journey with us, any final thoughts?
Play more chess. It's a great game filled with strategies that make you think more dynamically. Plus, you never know who you're going to meet – I made a friend back on my grade school chess team who applied his innovative thinking in a slightly more musical direction.
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Bulldogs TV has spent the evening at Revesby Heights Junior Rugby League Club to find out the history of the club and spend time training with the under 8's.
The Revesby Heights Rhinos will this year enter into their 52nd year in the junior league. Here is a snap shot of the history of the club.
1963 Revesby enter the Canterbury Bankstown DJRL.
Club colours are Red, White & Blue, with the first playing jersey having horizontal stripes.
1967 Revesby District changes name to Revesby Heights.
Playing jersey changed to old "Berries" pattern with red "V"
2010 Revesby Heights change name to "Revesby Heights Rhino's JRLFC"


During Christmas, 1985, Tom Hodge addressed the subject of Halley's Comet in his column. "Several years ago while writing about the impending approach of Halley's comet in early 1986," he said, "several local residents reported their own sighting of the 1910 comet to me.
1. Joseph Hufham, who was eight years old when Halley came calling in 1910, later became a journalist. "The day the earth was supposed to pass through the tail of the comet," he wrote, "people were pretty well stirred up." Newspapers had been telling folks about the comet for weeks. One newspaper related accounts of how some people had gone outside to view the comet and dropped dead. In those day before radio and television, there were numerous unfounded rumors spreading everywhere. Hufham further recalled standing on the porch of his father's store and looking up. The comet was yellow like the moon and bulged like an onion. The tail on it looked like an old cheap sweep broom, not much longer than the body. He could just visualize it swooping down and scrubbing on mountain tops.
2. Fred Shaw was 18 in 1910 and came home from working in the fields. Nobody was there so he called out, 'Whare's everyone at?" "Down in the cellar," one of them yelled back. Sure enough, they were scared and huddled in the potato cellar. His wife remembers, "We weren't really scared; we just stood at the bedroom window and watched. But our mama told us, 'Y'all shut that window. Ah, but everyone didn't react that way.'"
3. Ruth Butler was 13 at the time and said her grandfather took all the children out after supper to see the comet. "He knew we'd been hearing all kings of superstitious stories about it, and he reassured us that none of them were true."
4. French Bordeaux was seven in 1910. He recalled, "Our parents woke us up from a deep sleep that night and took us out on the porch to see the comet. It looked like a big old star, with a tail behind it. It didn't seem to worry me much, but it had some of our neighbors all worked up."
5. Josephine Jacobs was 27 when the comet appeared. "I was so busy taking care of 15 children. I worked in the fields, picked cotton and peas, and cooked meals on an open hearth, which didn't leave much time to be gazing up at Halley's Comet. I was busy with life on earth."
6. Mona Moore was a 20-year-old teacher in 1910. "Some people thought the comet's tail consisted of stardust," she recalled, "and when the comet got close to earth, the tail would shed, and all that dust would throw the world off balance."
7. Ryda Lennon rushed to her baby chickens. People were saying stars might be falling, so she took the hen off her biddies and covered them up good so that no stars would hit them. "I didn't seem to worry about people," she said, "just my biddies."
8. Van Benson noted that a friend brought an almanac by with a picture of the comet in it. It showed the celestial body looking like a snake and heading for earth. When they turned the page, they encountered a picture of Teddy Roosevelt with a baseball bat knocking the comet away. The caption read: "The comet found out that Teddy was on earth." They all had a hearty laugh over that.
9. Richard Hall (82), a 7-year-old plowing his field, hollered at his mule, "Whoa, you mule. Look a-yonder." He and the mule stared up at the comet that had a tail like a monkey. He remembers that people were shouting that it would burn the earth.
On the 1910 Halley's visit, word circulated in advance that the comet wouldn't be quite as visible that visit and maybe would be accepted with less fear and worry. The next Halley's arrival is scheduled for July 28, 2061; don't count on this writer being around to cover it.


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Amazon says Fire TV is bigger than Roku, but there are caveats
Jared Newman
May 15th 2019 4:29 pm May 15th 2019
Amazon is notorious for keeping hard usage numbers secret, but it's been making exceptions for Fire TV devices. The company says it now has 34 million active Fire TV users worldwide, up from "well over" 30 million users in January, and more than the 29.1 million active users Roku disclosed on its latest earnings report.
While it looks like Amazon is widening its lead over Roku, TechCrunch notes that Amazon also distributes Fire TV devices in more countries. Roku also points out that it typically counts a family with multiple users as a single active account; it's unclear whether Amazon is doing the same. I'll also add that Fire TV allows users to sideload Android apps like the Kodi media player from outside Amazon's app store. Whereas Roku is more locked down, Fire TV's open nature might result in more people using the device in illicit ways.
In any case, there's plenty of room in the streaming TV wars for both Amazon Fire TV and Roku to thrive. The bigger losers here might be Apple and Google, which haven't been as eager to share specific usage numbers.


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Tomorrow I turn 23 years old and who knows what percentage that is of my life so far. I think that's a good enough reason to write a reflection piece.
Being in the world for 22 years gives you an insight to many things – education, friendships, relationships, work etc. However, I believe that life has plenty more things to throw my way. Whether they are from the similar situations or new ones. I think life has a funny way of working, but it can also be quite wonderful too.
There are still many more questions I have to ask. Where will I be this time next week – will I have finally be back in employment? Will there be a change in my life?
The truth is, I don't know. That's for the employment part anyway. As for the change, I think there is always change happening in our lives. Every day we are growing without even seeing it. From a child you grow taller, and as you get older, you hope to grow to be a lot wiser.
I'm the place I thought I would be in the way that I continually completed my education and graduated. I'm still lucky to have my parents and my friends. But there are also things I wouldn't have expected, from looking back to let's say 16-year-old me.
The things that are happening right now are the things I used to think about a lot. I wondered what it would feel like to be in a real relationship. I didn't imagine to have spent the last four years in a relationship with someone who I used to see as being way out of my league. It turns out we are the same person.
Obviously we have different traits and preferences but we know each other and I mean truly know each other. We have the same way of thinking and like to help each other resolve struggles that one or both of us may be facing.
It is crazy how I look back to 16-year-old me texting that same guy. I actually laughed in someone's face when my friend told me that he likes me. I couldn't have been more foolish. The most important thing though, is that we found each other again. When something you never seen before turns into something so meaningful, you know you've got something special.
I also wondered what it would feel like to get that dream job. So I'm still working on that one but I know I'm getting closer. I'd be lying if I said I haven't got really upset about it or that I haven't felt so lost.
When I was younger I used to know everything was going to be okay if my mum or my grandad told me it was going okay. But today, it's not as easy. That's where I am thankful to have a person who holds me and makes me know eventually, things will be okay.
Truthfully, no matter what age you are, you'll always need someone. I know we can depend on ourselves but I mean when it comes to the really difficult things.
Take my best friend for example, I must send her the biggest texts that are like essays, she'll talk me through it and then I will feel more relaxed. It's always good to have those kind of people in your life. And today, I couldn't be more thankful for the ones that are in mine.
22-year-old me has definitely come a long way. I've learnt the importance of having a great deal of patience; how to confront difficult situations, and the biggest thing of all, to never lose myself in the process of it all.
So here's to tomorrow, turning 23 on 23rd April. I'm not sure if I'll ever look like those other 23 year olds who seem to have everything together and everything seems complete.
But I do know one thing, I want to be a happy 23-year-old. I hope to move out by the age of 24 with my boyfriend and I know that I will definitely be back in employment some point in the near future at the age of 23. I think I will always be known as the 'baby'. I always seem to be younger than everybody else in the office.
Thank you 😊 I'm glad you liked the post. Ah yeah it really is going fast. I don't even wanna think about how quick 26 will come around for me!
Thank you very much 😊 I'm glad you liked the post.
And all the best for your future.
None of us reallly know what tomorrow holds in store! Keep pushing for that dream job – and Happy Birthday.


The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a show cause notice to the government for not formulating a separate law dedicated to oversee all the matters related to climate change.
Responding to a writ filed on Tuesday by advocate Padma Bahadur Shrestha demanding a separate act for governing climate change issues and pressing for effective implementation of the existing programmes, a single bench of Justice Deepakraj Joshi has asked the government to furnish its response in writing in 15 days mentioning the reasons behind failing to do so.
According to Shrestha, the apex court had put the case on priority considering the urgency of the matter.
In his petition, Shrestha said that the existing laws and provisions neither address nor incorporate wide-ranging issues particularly related to climate change.
According to Shrestha, the existing Environmental Protection Act, 1997, which is the major law for protecting the environment, has failed to cover climate change.
"The EPA, not even mentioning about the adverse effect of climate change, its mitigation, adaptation measures and failing to include legal provisions for making accountable for responsibility of its impacts, indicates that it cannot protect human, environment, wildlife, flora and fauna and physical properties from impacts of climate change," reads the writ.
Shrestha in his writ petition has also pointed out that, though the government has already taken some steps for fighting against the adverse impacts of climate change by formulating programmes and polices like National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) 2010, National Framework for Local Adaptation Plan for Action (LAPA) 2011, Climate Change Policy, 2011, their poor implementation has kept Nepalis at the greater risk.
The writ argues that the Climate Change Policy 2011 doesn't cover the issues of climate change in detail, hence a separate act for governing all-encompassing areas of climate change is required.
"For dealing with a globally alarming issue like climate change, a policy will not be enough. It doesn't make the state accountable enough to protect its citizens from a major problem like climate change," added Shrestha, who is also the environmental law committee coordinator with the Nepal Bar Association According to the writ, programmes under the NAPA and LAPA will not be sufficient while combating climate change, which needs widespread efforts for minimising effects on climate change vulnerable communities.
Besides, the writ has also asked for setting up climate change mitigation units at all the local levels of all 75 districts as implementation of various programmes under NAPA and LAPA has been sluggish.


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Senior Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy
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Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics — University of Pennsylvania (1980)
B.A. in physics — University of Pennsylvania (1971)
Bruce Hrivnak's research focuses on:
Light and velocity variability in proto-planetary nebulae
Mid-IR spectroscopy of evolved stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and in the Large Magellanic Clouds
Using H2 to probe the nebular structure in proto-planetary nebulae
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Items Les fêtes d'Hébé
Les fêtes d'Hébé
Filmed dance
New York Public Library. Dance Division
Turocy, Catherine
Jacoby, Ann
Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764
Gautier de Montdorge, Antoine, 1701-1768
Schneider, Jeffrey
Chiment, Marie Anne
New York Baroque Dance Company
Concert Royal (Musical group : U.S.)
Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation
Additional title: Fêtes d'Hébé (Choreographic work : Turocy and Jacoby)
New York Public Library. Dance Division (Producer)
Turocy, Catherine (Choreographer)
Turocy, Catherine (Dancer)
Jacoby, Ann (Choreographer)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764 (Composer)
Gautier de Montdorge, Antoine, 1701-1768 (Librettist)
Schneider, Jeffrey (Designer)
Chiment, Marie Anne (Costume designer)
New York Baroque Dance Company (Performer)
Concert Royal (Musical group : U.S.) (Musician)
Jacoby, Ann (Dancer)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764. Fêtes d'Hébé
Venue: Videotaped in performance at the Hunter College Playhouse, September 1986. Reconstruction of a ballet in three entrées (1739)
Creation/production credits: Music: Jean Philippe Rameau. Libretto: Gauthier de Mont-d'Orge. Choreography: Catherine Turocy & Ann Jacoby. Set design: Jeffrey Schneider. Costume design: Marie Anne Chiment.
Performers: Performed by: Concert Royal and The New York Baroque Dance Company. Featured dancers include: Luisa Meshekoff, James Martin, Ken Pierce, Ann Jacoby, Ron Taylor, Catherine Turocy, Patricia Beaman Whitley, Miriam Cooper, Diane Epstein, Hugh Murphy, and Renouard Gee.
Extent: 3 videocassettes (U-matic) (134 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.
RLIN/OCLC: NYPY887000328-F
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7217c530-4b4f-0133-b761-60f81dd2b63c
Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Les fêtes d'Hébé" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1986. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7217c530-4b4f-0133-b761-60f81dd2b63c
Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Les fêtes d'Hébé" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed February 2, 2023. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7217c530-4b4f-0133-b761-60f81dd2b63c
Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1986). Les fêtes d'Hébé Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7217c530-4b4f-0133-b761-60f81dd2b63c
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The handsome Sergei Breselov stirs something in Benjamin, and to his surprise, his feelings are returned. Despite the forbidden nature of their association, their bond tightens as Sergei heals, and they are again thrust into the thick of war as the revolution rages around them, threatening to topple the Russian court forever.
I was really looking forward to reading a WWI love story, since I haven't read many of those…nor were any of them primarily set in Russia. So I was really excited to read this book! Two soldiers fighting for different armies; forbidden affair in so many ways… Whats not to love? Unfortunately, I struggled a bit throughout the story.
I really loved the setting. The dark and desolate time in Russia during WWI and the subsequent revolution. There were many detailed specifics surrounding the war and the Russian Revolution, and while I found those pieces interesting, I felt like it took too much away from the romance of the story.
It took me a long time to really feel anything of the connection between Benjamin and Sergei. Their early, brief encounter when Benjamin escorts Sergei home felt too forced and superficial to me and I didn't really see what they saw in each other. In fact, it felt like the majority of their getting-to-know-each-other scenes were "told" and not "shown". It wasn't until much later, until their reunion, before I ever starting rooting for a HEA between them.
I wanted more of the letters that were shared between Benjamin and Sergei to also be shared in detail with me. I was "told" what was in some of the letters, but I wanted to "see" the letters. I wanted to learn more about the characters' lives and their childhood. Why was there this connection between them? What did they have in common? I wanted to fall in love with them just as they feel in love with each other. Yes, I know there were no intimate feelings or communications shared in those letters, but I wanted more romance. Share it with me! Don't just tell me about it.
In the beginning, the frequent POV switches kept pulling me out of the story because it felt too choppy. Eventually, I think I just got used to it because it stopped bothering me…but the POV switches were still there and as frequent until the very end. I'm sure that was probably intentional on the author's part, it just didn't come across as a smooth telling story for me.
By the end, I was totally cheering for Benjamin and Sergei to be reunited. I just had to know how they would ever find their way back to each other; and even though their reunion was totally implausible, it was still a sweet HEA.
Now I want to see John Mason get his HEA.


Laura Lyons is the main villainess from "Hounded," episode 4.16 of Elementary.
She was played by Jennifer Ikeda.
Laura Lyons is an employee at Stapleton Innovations and (as revealed later on) a Baskerville heiress. Her father was Ike Stapleton (who died when Laura was only five), the brother of Laura's boss, Roger Stapleton, whose cousins are Charles and Henry Baskerville. Laura was fourth in line regarding the Baskerville inheritance, and she plotted a murderous scheme to move closer to her goal.
Laura stole GUS 5, one of a collection of 10 robotic dogs created by Stapleton Innovations, and used it to track and stalk Charles Baskerville, which resulted in Charles being struck and killed by a vehicle while attempting to flee. Later on, the evil Laura sent the same machine after Henry, who was on the phone with Sherlock at the time, but Henry successfully escaped thanks to Sherlock's help.
As part of her villainous plan, Laura was going to frame Roger in his cousins' murders, but Henry surviving slightly foiled her scheme. Having figured out that an heir is behind the scheme, Sherlock set a trap to catch the killer, which had Henry "kill" Roger and for the "murder" to be publicized. The "murder" moved Laura to the top of the line, and while collecting, she handed in emails that she claimed were from Roger as part of a conversation they had; they were revealed to be forged by Laura. It was at that moment that Laura heard Sherlock from outside the room, and the villainess was shocked to see Henry and Roger standing behind Sherlock and Joan, as she realized she had been tricked. Laura was later arrested (off-screen) for Charles' murder and the attempt on Henry.


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Anne Marie Jugnet
1958 | La Clayette, France
√ Film and video √ Installation √ Painting √ Photography √ Sculpture √ Conceptual art √ Light installations √ Black-and-white photography √ Digital technologies √ Figurative art √ Writing √ Langage √ Light √ Mythology √ Europe	√ France	√ 1980s √ 1990s √ 2000s √ 2010s
Bourel Michel & Ditche Stéphanie (eds.), Anne-Marie Jugnet, exh. cat., Centre international d'art et du paysage de Vassivière, Vassivière (15 October – 31 December 1994), Centre international d'art et du paysage de Vassivière, 1994
Anne-Marie Jugnet, Centre international d'art et du paysage de Vassivière, Vassivière, 15 October – 31 December 1994
Anne-Marie Jugnet, La Galerie Carrée, Villa Arson, Nice, 18 January – 9 March 1997
→ Artist's website
→ Works by the artist in the French public collections of the Videomuseum network
— Anne-Marie Jugnet
French visual artist.
A former student of the School of Fine Arts in Bourges and a successor to conceptual art, Anne-Marie Jugnet makes extensive use of words, exploring their formal dimensions in order to access their meaning. She selects snippets of sentences, which she then uses to inspire the imagination of the viewer. Her works are often site-specific, like À perte de vue [As Far as the Eye Can See, 1991], a neon piece suspended above the courtyard of a building and drawing attention to the infinity of sky behind it. While neon – on the verge of what is visible and invisible – and light are the main elements in her work, she is also known to use slide projection, video, painting, and drawing. In 1997, she began an artistic collaboration with Alain Clairet, who was at the time a writer and historian. Their work focuses on the edges of the image, on the exploration of its limits, its appearance, its representations, and its disappearance, focusing on subjects as varied as the desert and television static noise. The couple created their series Switch (2001) in motels in the American West – they have since settled in New Mexico. The series consists of paintings of television screens marked with the dot of light that lingers in the middle of a TV screen when it is switched off. They sculpt what is "almost nothing", creating marble clouds (2006) and focusing on shape after colour.
They use popular myths, such as the paranormal alien manifestations in Roswell or the manufacturing secrets of the atomic bomb. For the latter, in the late 2000s, they made paintings of objects they brought back from the Los Alamos laboratories, which they then scanned. The phosphorescent paint they used creates the effect of a "memory of the light" (Still Life, Los Alamos series). They took photographs of uniform blue skies (1997-2002), which they presented as monochromes, thus raising pictorial questions while avoiding the materiality of painting.
Anaël Pigeat
From the Dictionnaire universel des créatrices
© 2013 Des femmes – Antoinette Fouque
Anne Marie Jugnet, De toi à moi, 1995, luminous projection of the words " De toi à moi", Courtesy Anne Marie Jugnet, © ADAGP, Paris
Anne Marie Jugnet, Pour rien, 1986, cibachrome, 120 x 120 cm, Courtesy Anne Marie Jugnet, © ADAGP, Paris
Anne Marie Jugnet, Disparaître, 1986, black and white silver photography, 90 x 120 cm, Courtesy Anne Marie Jugnet, © ADAGP, Paris
Anne Marie Jugnet, Loin de tout, 1989, black and white silver photography, 120 x 150 cm, Courtesy Anne Marie Jugnet, © ADAGP, Paris
Anne Marie Jugnet, Autoportrait photographiant "Loin de tout", 1990, Courtesy Anne Marie Jugnet, © ADAGP, Paris
Anne Marie Jugnet, Fragment, 1991, five copies of 482 words arranged in a box, in aplphabetical order, and photocopied on 1138 sheets of tracing paper A4, box dimensions : 23 x 32 x 12.2 cm, Courtesy Anne Marie Jugnet, © ADAGP, Paris
Anne Marie Jugnet, À perte de vue, 1991, white neon, aluminium and cables, 7 x 34 x 5 cm, ø : 60 cm, Courtesy Anne Marie Jugnet, © ADAGP, Paris
Anne Marie Jugnet, Erreurs-exact, 1994, white neons, aluminium and cables, 7.5 x 31 x 5 cm et 9.5 x 23 x 5 cm, Ø : 80-90 cm, Courtesy Anne Marie Jugnet, © ADAGP, Paris
Anne Marie Jugnet, Urteil, 1996, with de linguistic collaboration of Jochen Klein, two white neons Ur et Teil, Courtesy Anne Marie Jugnet, © ADAGP, Paris
Anne Marie Jugnet, Ah, 1997, luminous projections on four walls, by means of four projectors places on the ground, variable dimensions, Courtesy Anne Marie Jugnet, © ADAGP, Paris
1929 | Japan
Takako Saito
1959 | Zimbabwe
Berry Bickle
1964 | Israel
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Q: Header is displaying link color Let me start by saying I am a CSS newb.  I am using wordpress and my post heading (h2) is displaying the color of the links on the page.  I would like to keep all h2 headings black while all other links would be red.  When changing the link color in the css, it also displays the post heading red as well.
How can I override this?  I am sure this is something simple.
Thanks in advance for any help.

A: You need to show some HTML to get a definitive answer, but to colour all links in h2s green:
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If your h2s have a certain class, you can drill it down to that specific class:
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A: Replace '#color' with your hex digit.
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You may have to put !important after the color if something else is overriding or if its done in the wrong place.

A: maybe something like this can help you.
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