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Contemporary folk due Neptune's Car to play Denmark Arts Center
Neptune's Car will take the stage at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 22.
Steve Hayes, left, and Holly Hanson are Neptune's Car, performing at DAC on June 22.
DENMARK — Denmark Arts Center will present Neptune's Car, a folk duo featuring Holly Hanson and Steve Hayes, at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 22.
Hanson's light soprano blends perfectly with Hayes' warm tenor. Vibrant lyrics and compelling melodies nestle in inviting arrangements, telling stories rich in detail, from a miner's life in "A Blue Sky Turned to Rust," to "Emily Dickinson," told with lyrics as beautiful as the poet's work. "Saugerties, New York" uses this charming town as the backdrop to a romantic weekend at a lighthouse where you have to time your arrival so the tides will be out.
The title cut of their most recent release, "The 45th Parallel," is an engaging road song. With a laid-back feel of guitars, bass and harmonies, you can envision that broken white line slip by as they sing: "The moon it glows like embers in the branches of the pines / In this small town in September on this parallel line."
Hayes comes from a musical family, from a grandfather who played guitar, banjo and ukulele, to his brother, a founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show. He's an award-winning guitar player who can play just about anything with strings; from his first gig at age 13, to his 13-year association with Hanson, he's played all kinds of music, including rock, country, jazz, funk, blues and, of course, folk. You can hear several influences in their music, from vivid story songs like John Prine's, to intricate guitar work inspired by Tony Rice.
If you're looking for watertight harmonies, tasty guitar and solid songs, look no further than Neptune's Car.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and concessions will be available.
The Denmark Arts Center is at 50 West Main St. To purchase tickets or find more information, visit www.DenmarkArts.org/events (events or calendar) or call the box office at 207-452-2412.
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and severity of malocclusion and orthodontic treatment needs in a sample of 12-year-old South African school children using the Dental Aesthetic Index (DAI), and to assess the relationship between malocclusion and certain socio-demographic variables. The sample comprised 6142, 12-year-old children attending school in seven of the nine provinces of South Africa. For each subject the standard demographic information such as gender, population group, location type and employment status of the parents were collected, after which an intra-oral examination for occlusal status using the DAI was performed. The results showed that 47.7 per cent of the children in the sample presented with good occlusion or minor malocclusion, just over 52.1 per cent presented with identifiable malocclusion, a DAI score larger than 26. Of these, 21.2 per cent had definite malocclusion, 14.12 per cent had severe malocclusion and 16.89 per cent had very severe or handicapping malocclusion. Malocclusion as defined in this study was found to be significantly associated with the different provinces, the different population groups in South Africa, gender and dentition stage, but not with the location type or the employment status of parents. The results of the individual variables showed that anterior maxillary and mandibular irregularity occurred in more than 50 per cent of the sample. More than 40 per cent of the children examined showed signs of crowding. Spacing in the incisal segments occurred in almost 28 per cent of the sample and maxillary midline diastema was present in 16.66 per cent of the sample. At the age of 12 years, Black children, showed a higher prevalence of maxillary midline diastema, larger than 2mm, than their White, Coloured and Asian counterparts. A maxillary midline diastema, larger than 2mm, was more prevalent in 12-year-old females than in males. Thirty one per cent of the sample had an increased overjet larger than 3mm and a severe overjet of 6mm or more occurred in only 2.18 per cent of the sample. More Black 12-year-old children presented with an edge-to-edge anterior relationship and significantly less Black children had an increased overjet. Mandibular overjet affected only 10.43 per cent of the sample and was more prevalent in the late mixed dentition stage than in the early permanent dentition stage. Anterior openbite occurred in 7.7 per cent of the sample and ranged from 1mm to 8mm. Almost 44 per cent of the sample had a antero-posterior molar relation discrepancy. The results of this study indicated a high prevalence of malocclusion in 12-year-old South African children. The findings provide reliable base-line data regarding the prevalence, distribution and severity of malocclusion as well as useful epidemiological data on the orthodontic treatment needs of 12-year-old children in selected rural and urban areas in South Africa. The inclusion of occlusal traits as part of the index provided an opportunity to assess several occlusal characteristics in 12-year-old South African children, separately.
Thesis (MChD (Orthodontics))--University of Pretoria, 2004.


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May 4, 2018 David Fahey Uncategorized
Texas prohibitionists (book)
Joseph Locke,
Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion(Oxford University Press, 2017).
By reconstructing the religious crusade to achieve prohibition in Texas, Making the Bible Belt reveals how southern religious leaders overcame long-standing anticlerical traditions and built a powerful political movement that injected religion irreversibly into public life. H.L. Mencken coined the term "Bible Belt" in the 1920s to capture the peculiar alliance of religion and public life in the American South, but the reality he described was only the closing chapter of a long historical process. Through the politics of prohibition, and in the face of bitter resistance, a complex but shared commitment to expanding the power and scope of religion transformed southern evangelicals' inward-looking restraints into an aggressive, self-assertive, and unapologetic political activism. Early defeats forced prohibitionist clergy to recast their campaign as a broader effort that churned notions of history, race, gender, and religion into a moral crusade that elevated ambitious leaders such as the pugnacious fundamentalist J. Frank Norris and US senator Morris Sheppard, the "Father of National Prohibition," into national figures. By exploring the controversies surrounding the religious support of prohibition in Texas, Making the Bible Belt reconstructs the purposeful, decades-long campaign to politicize southern religion, hints at the historical origins of the religious right, and explores a compelling and transformative moment in American history.
Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain (book)
Beyond Brian Harrison, an update (book)

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It's official: Roy Halladay is joining the Phillies as a spring training instructor.
"Doc" will be with the team Tuesday, but no report as to for how long he'll hang out in Clearwater. Either way, just the fact that Halladay is around the young pitchers is great news.
CRAWFORD MENTORING MONIAK: Meghan Montemurro reports that J.P. Crawford is mentoring Mickey Moniak. "I'm just looking out for him, like a little brother," said Crawford of the 18-year-old first-overall draft pick.
Apparently the two have already spent time together at the batting cages, they play video games together and they went on a fishing trip together.
Only good news there. The fact that Crawford is taking a leadership position like this is pretty impressive.
WILL THE PHILLIES SIGN BRYCE HARPER?: It's possible.
PLAYERS ON THE PHILLIES RAVE ABOUT MIKE TROUT: Stop it.
GALVIS ON LOSING HIS SPOT: Freddy Galvis isn't that worried about potentially losing his starting job this season to J.P. Crawford. But he is looking to improve his offensive approach.
PHILLIES NATION PODCAST: We'll batter you with this announcement – the Phillies Nation Podcast returns March 27! And we're looking for your music and stories! Email Tim at Tim@PhilliesNation.com if you have music for the podcast.


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network address translators (NAT) are used to overcome the lack of IPv4 address availability by hiding an enterprise or even an operator's network behind one or few IP addresses. The devices behind the NAT use private IP addresses that are not routable in the public Internet.
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has established itself as the de facto standard for voice over IP (VoIP) communication. In order to establish a call, a caller sends a SIP message, which contains its own IP address. The callee is supposed to reply back with a SIP message destined to the IP addresses included in the received SIP message. This will obviously not work if the caller is behind a NAT and is using a private IP address.

Probably the single biggest mistake in SIP design was ignoring the existence of NATs. This error came from a belief in IETF leadership that IP address space would be exhausted more rapidly and would necessitate global upgrade to IPv6 and eliminate the need for NATs. The SIP standard has assumed that NATs do not exist, an assumption, which turned out to be a failure. SIP simply didn't work for the majority of Internet users who are behind NATs. At the same time it became apparent that the standardization life-cycle is slower than how the market ticks: Session Border Controllers (SBC)  were born, and began to fix what the standards failed to do: NAT traversal.

In case a user agent is located behind a NAT then it will use a private IP address as its contact address in the contact and via headers as well as the SDP part. This information would then be useless for anyone trying to contact this user agent from the public Internet.

There are different NAT traversal solutions such as STUN, TURN and ICE. Which solution to use depends on the behavior of the NAT and the call scenario. When using an SBC to solve the NAT traversal issues the most common approach for SBC is to act as the public interface of the user agents. This is achieved by replacing the user agent's contact information with those of the SBC.

SBC handling of user registration and NAT traversal

In order for a user agent to be reachable through the public interfaces of an SBC, the SBC will manipulate the registration information of the user agent. The user includes its private IP address as its contact information in the REGISTER requests. Calls to this address will fail, since it is not publicly routable. The SBC replaces the information in the contact header with its own IP address. This is the information that is then registered at the registrar. Calls destined to the user will then be directed to the SBC.

In order for the SBC to know which user agent is actually being contacted the SBC can keep a local copy of the user agent's registration. The local copy includes the private IP address and the user's SIP URI as well as the public IP address included in the IP header that was assigned to the SIP message by the NAT.

Alternatively the SBC can store this information in the forwarded SIP messages. This is displayed in the figure here. The user's contact information is combined in a special format and added as an additional parameter to the contact header. The contact information include the user's private IP address and SIP URI as well as the public IP address in the IP header of the SIP message. When the registrar receives a request for the user, the registrar will return the complete contact information to the proxy, which will include this information in the SIP message. The SBC can then retrieve this information from the SIP request and use it to properly route the request to the user.

Adding the user agent's contact information to the registered contact information has many advantages. As the SBC does not have to keep local registration information this solution is simple to implement and does not require memory for keeping the information. Further, requests destined to the user agent do not necessarily have to traverse the SBC that has processed the user agent's registration messages. Any SBC that can reach the user agent can correctly route messages destined to the user agent based on the information included in the SIP request. This advantage applies, however, only in some cases. In case the NAT used in front of the user agent accepts traffic only from the IP addresses which the user agent has contacted previously then only the SBC that has processed the user agent's REGISTER requests will be able to contact the user agent.

The other option is to keep a local copy of the registration information which can, however, increase the processing requirements on the SBC. The SBC will have to manage a local registration database. Beside the memory requirements the SBC will have to replicate this information to a backup system if it is to be highly available. This will further increase the processing requirements on the SBC and increase the bandwidth consumption.

However, keeping a local copy of the registration information has its advantages as well. When receiving a message from a user agent a network address translator binds the private IP address of the user agent to a public IP address. This binding will remain active for a period of time –binding period. In case the user agent does not send or receive any messages for a period of time longer than the binding period then the NAT will delete the binding and the user agent will no longer be reachable from the outside. To keep the binding active, the user agent will have to regularly refresh it. This is achieved by sending REGISTER requests at time intervals shorter than the binding period. As REGISTER messages have to be usually authenticated, having to deal with REGISTER messages sent at a high frequency would impose a high performance hit on the operator's infrastructure. SBCs can help to offload this load. When a user agent sends the first REGISTER request, the SBC forwards the REGISTER request to the operator's registration servers. Once the registration was successfully authenticated and accepted by the operator, the SBC will keep a local copy of the registration information.  Instead of forwarding each incoming REGIETER request to the operator's registration servers, the SBC will only send REGISTER requests to the registration servers at rather large time intervals (in the range of hours). Registration requests arriving from the user agent that do not change the content registration information will be replied to by the SBC itself. The SBC will also inform the registration server once the local registration expires or changes.

SBC handling of call establishment and NAT traversal

Similar to the registration case, the SBC will also include itself in the path of INVITE and other request messages. When receiving an INVITE from a user agent behind a NAT, the SBC will include a via header with its own address, replace the information in the contact header with its own address and also replace the address information in the SDP body with its own address. Thereby, all SIP messages and media packets will traverse the SBC.

SBC handling of media packets and NAT traversal

After the establishment of a call using SIP, media packets, namely voice, video or data are exchanged -usually using the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP)
While NAT traversal of SIP messages may appear complicated after all, the yet more complex task is enabling media to traverse NATs. The initial problem statement is the same. If SIP devices behind NATs advertise their IP addresses, their peers on the other side of NATs cannot route traffic to them.
The solution SBCs came with simply ignores the way SIP works. Instead of sending media to the IP address and port number advertised in the SIP SDP bodies, SBCs send media for a user agent symmetrically back to where the agent has sent its own media from. This symmetric communication typically works because it is the traffic pattern NAT manufactures have been used to before the arrival of VoIP.

It is important to know that while this mostly works, it has several limitations. First of all, it only works with clients that are built "symmetric way", i.e., they use the same port for sending and receiving media. Nowadays that's fortunately the majority of available equipment.

The other noticeable disadvantage is "triangular routing": an SBC must relay all VoIP traffic for a call, to make the paths caller-SBC and SBC-callee symmetric. That is in fact quite an overhead for a VoIP operator. With the most common codec, G.711, a relayed call consumes four 87.2 kbit/s streams: two outbound, two inbound.

Some other disturbing limitations may occur too. For example, if a SIP device uses voice activity detection (VAD) and fails to send any voice packets initially, the SBC will not learn its address and will not forward incoming media to it as well.

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I've been wanting to create some new wood shelves for my bathroom. After going to Home Depot and looking at all the stains, I couldn't find on that I loved. I found a couple that I really liked, but they were expensive.
A quick Google search shows me I could make the stain myself. I figured it was worth a shot to make a 'free' stain rather than spend money on one I may not like.
I was going for a really old wood, barnyard, rustic feel. This stain is perfect for that and I love the way it turned out.
Know that whatever you put this in will probably get ruined. My mason jar had a rust ring around it that we could never get off.
Put the steel wool in the bottom of the mason jar after fluffing it out a bit. Then pour the vinegar over the steel wool. You can put the cap on half way, but it needs the air to oxidize.
I decided since I had some extra time and a scrap piece of wood to do an experiment. The goal was to see what the coloring would look like each day for 5 days.
I started on Sunday, creating my steel wool and vinegar stain. Then I would apply the stain to the same piece of wood on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
My goal was to see how long you actually had to let the stain sit. I used the coarsest steel wool: 3, because that what we had purchased.
Personally, I like the coarse wool because you can get many different stains and I don't mind waiting a few days. But if you need faster results, buy a finer wool.
On day one, I thought for use the stain wouldn't work. It didn't look like anything had happen with my mixture. As I applied it, it just looked like wetting wood. But it did change the color of the wood.
After this experiment, I think letting it sit for 3-5 days is best. You can definitely let it sit less and get results. I think the one day coloring looks good too, and want to stain something with it.
This is an optional step. You could leave the wood as is. I found that the stain sort of rubs off though. It doesn't make the wood any lighter, but it does get your hands dirty.
I've heard you could use polyurethane, but I didn't have that on hand. I decided to try Annie Sloan Soft Wax in clear.
The wax gives the wood a nice finish. It also helps the stain stay it place and you'll no longer get your hands dirty.
2.) If you want faster results use the finest steel wool: 0000. If you don't mind waiting a few days for a dark stain, you want a lighter stain, or you want more control over your stain, go with the coarser steel wool: 3. There's also many options in between.
3.) The stain will be very light when you apply it. It will darken as it soaks into the wood, and then may lighten as it dries. I recommend a test piece of wood.
4.) You really can't go by the color of the vinegar mixture. It's going to stay relatively clear, maybe get cloudy, but it will still work.
5.) Steel Wool is not sold in cleaning sections. You'll have to go to a home improvement store, or the paint section at WalMart.
Interesting. Any ways to create different colors?
You mean like blue or green? I'm not sure. I know apple cider vinegar produces a different color stain, I think it's more grey. But I don't know if you could do like rainbow colors. Something to experiment with!
I've never seen a wood staining process like this before. What a great idea! And using items that we probably already have at home. Thanks for sharing your experiment!
This is very creative. I've never heard of anyone making their own stain before. I haven't had any problem finding stain I liked (I love warm natural woods) but do know others that found it challenging.
That's very interesting – I had no idea you could do this. I have only finished something with polyurethane, not used a wood stain. This looks like an interesting technique.


5 days of the surveillance in Kaluga.
Home address: Ukraine, 91038, Kaluga, Kravchenko street, 28, 43.
in Kaluga. And it's rather interesting.
Elena go to at the address : Kaluga, Kravchenko street, 28, 43.
07.00 - 19.00 the surveillance was going on at the address Kaluga, Kravchenko street, 4, 3.
Sviridova Helena, Viktorovma was born on 18.11.1972 in Kaluga.
of Ukraine in Kaluga region on 01.05.1986.


See the gallery for quotes by Kathy Mattea. You can to use those 5 images of quotes as a desktop wallpapers.
You find yourself in this place where you really get to find out what you're made of, and what I found was that when I was at my time of greatest need, there were people who appeared in my life, and helped me through it.
Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and I don't know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts.
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life.
You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.
There's nothing more fun than sitting in a circle playing with people who are really into it.
Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.
Much more quotes by Kathy Mattea below the page.
I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.
I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball.
I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.
I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.
If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.
Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.
We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity.
What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.


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Team HEALTH + Nine Inch Nails on Dark New Song 'Is Not Everyone'
By Donald Weeks	 Last updated May 11, 2021
Want a dark, brooding, and slightly sinister sound? We've got the pairing for you as experimental rock band HEALTH has teamed up with Nine Inch Nails on the new song "Isn't Everyone" which certainly sums up that slightly baffling darkness in which both bands thrive.
Both acts serve as co-producers on the song, with Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails mixing the track. Being brutal enough with a quote to sell the song, HEALTH said, "It's fucking Nine Inch Nails. It speaks for itself. You don't need a smart quote to encapsulate it. "The track appears as part of HEALTH'S DISCO4 :: Part 2.
The song marks the first new offering from HEALTH since their 2020 album DISCO4 :: Part 1, which has collected all of their collaborations since 2017. Likewise, this is the first we've heard from Nine Inch Nails in quite some time, given that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won an Oscar for their scoring work on the disney movie Soul.
Nine Inch Nails last posted a pair of Ghosts albums last year, following the last vocal release Bad witch in 2018. Following the Oscar win last month, Reznor said he and Ross would return to Nine Inch Nails "probably tomorrow" following their string of recent hit movie music projects.
If you like the song "Isn't Everyone" by HEALTH x Nine Inch Nails, you can grab it here.
HEALTH x Nine Inch Nails, "Ain't that everyone"
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Tutor in Math for three years. Junior in college, studying Zoology.
The slope of a graph is the difference in y divided by the difference in x. The difference in y is 12-7= 5. I does not matter with one you subtract first as long as you keep that pattern the same for the x values. For example, since we subtracted 7 from 12, we have to subtract 5 from -3. So -3-5= -8. The slope of this graph is -5/8. we can check this by drawing the line and checking if the y value decreases as the x increases and drawing a triangle to see "rise over run".
The missing number is 51. An arithmetic sequence is a sequence of numbers such that the difference between the consecutive terms is constant. Start by subtracting 65 from 72. the difference is 7. See if that is true for 65 - 58, we see that the difference is still 7. So subtract 7 from 58. This is how we arrive at 51.


Hemp is so often confused with cannabis and that scares some people. I've long loved hemp in beauty products as my mum used various hemp creams and lotions during my childhood which really helped her with her dry skin without causing a stinging pain. Over the years I've come to realise just how amazing hemp actually is which is partly why I buy so much of it each year.
Hemp's overlooked by so many skin care lovers as there are a lot of fads items that are hyped up and make there way onto the market. For example, there was super food creams, snake venom creams, resins and herbal creams, wax creams and lately there's been a huge hype over coconut oil as an the new all round do-gooder ingredient.
Don't get me wrong I adore coconut oil on my hair, as a mouth treatment (oh yes I still oil pull believe it or not) but NEVER on the skin because it's comedogenic, it clogs the delicate pores leading to buildup and spots. Hemp however helps to reduce the size of blackheads, acne and pores as well as detox the skin from free radicals that make us age prematurely. As far as skin and body care goes it's pretty amazing.
Considering other ingredients and how they can sting, cause redness or leave the skin feeling sensitive and sore, hemp is suitable for even the most sensitive of skins including those with psoriasis and eczema - due to it's anti-inflammatory benefits it's ability to actually soften, heal and reduce redness if used regularly.
If you're a feminine fragrance lover then chances are this isn't going to cut it for you. Let's also keep in mind that those fragrances (chemically created and not essential oil based) can dry out your skin leaving you in a vicious circle - hemp oil smells natural, earthy and real. Once applied it absorbs quickly and the scent naturally dissipates so you don't need to worry about it clashing with your actual perfume or body scents.
The Body Shop sell a range of products in their hemp collection including body butter, foot protector, face protector, a hemp soap bag (you pop in a soap, close and use it to scrub yourself), intensive hand butters, oils and my more.
Products range from £4 for the lip balm up to £13 for the large Body Butter. I actually still purchase the Hemp Hand Cream for my mums end of year stocking and personally I can't get enough of the foot protector! It's absolutely incredible on your tootsies as well as the rest of your skin if you suffer from dryness.
So all-in-all hemp's pretty incredible isn't it. So what do you say? Are you going to grab some hemp or some coconut oil next time you're shopping for skin care?


You may remember these from your childhood, we used to fill them with popcorn and sweets and hang them on the tree.You can leave the ribbon off as I have done and fill them with little bits and pieces for a gift. The size of your finished hanger will depend on the size of the original paper The ones in the photos are 30cmx 30cm sheets.
Now decorate as you want.
If you want to hang it on the tree punch a small hole in either side and add ribbon. Don't forget to check out Craft Mad's Santa's Workshop for some wonderful Christmas ideas.
A sweet little way to share your favourite Christmas recipes with your friends. I have used heavy chipboard for the album itself .
I thought this was the perfect gift for the man who has everything. A money tree. I used a small table tree and tied scratch lottery and lotto tickets to it.
I know I am always making lists and notes at Christmas time. Here is an inexpensive idea for a gift . Simply cover a note pad with Christmas paper and decorate.
With Christmas just around the corner I am going to share some ideas for gifts and cards for the next few weeks. Today I have a couple of Christmas cards to show you.
I made this miniature project as a decoration for our home a little while back and thought I would like to share it with you. It stands at the front door on an easel.
We had our regular Create and Chat last Friday night at Craft Mad We made these adorable little milk cartons. Mine is now filled with sweets and waiting to go under the tree for my friend.
This is also part of the Santas workshop at Craft Mad.
Every day Monday to Friday for the next three weeks a new Christmas project will be posted on the Craft Mad home page.
Today I would like to share a really fun tag card. My friend Kerry from Kerrys Place to Escape shared the instructions for this card with me.
Thank you for visiting my blog this week . I hope you have enjoyed it. Please come back soon.
Sara Kay Altered Gift Bag I have shown you this bag before but several people have asked for a tutorial so at long last here it is .
For this project I have chosen a clear plastic paint tin however any see through container would work well. Glue ribbon around the top and bottom of the tin. Glue alphabet stickers slightly above the ribbon and decorate with stickers I have chosen stars and a best wishes sticker. Tie ribbons around the handles. Add some shredded cellophane to the base of the tin and insert a soft toy or gift of your choice. Cover the lid with a Spellbinders die I have used a Shapeabilities Lattice Pendant and added an embellishment on the top.
Every day for the next three weeks, Monday to Friday a new Christmas project will be posted on the Craft Mad home page.
Go here Craft Mad to check out all of the Christmas projects.
Craft Mad's Santa's Workshop starts today. Every day for the next three weeks an new Christmas project will be posted on the Craft Mad home page.
Go here Craft Mad to check out the first project from Kerry.
"My Pet" Brag Books & Matching Cards These quick and simple little albums would be the perfect gift for an animal lover.
.....so time to start thinking about some gifts that you can make for your family and friends. Today I have some trinket boxes which I made from paper mache boxes from the bargain shop.


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Ohio's jobs dilemma - in a picture
Ohio to divert $8.1 million owed to consumers on inane marketing campaign
Let's see if we understand this right.
1) Ameritech successfully lobbies the the Republican controlled Ohio legislature and Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to "loosen" the rules on required capital improvements.
2) Ameritech equipment declines and customers suffers weeks and weeks of no service, and is meanwhile purchased by SBC.
3) Faced with mounting public outrage over its poor service in 1999 and 2001, this "new" SBC is fined $9.8 million by the PUCO for failure to meet even minimal service standards.
4) The PUCO "unable to determine how to divide it equitably among customers who received bad service."
5) Six months after he declares that jobs is his #1 concern for 2004, Gov. Taft creates the Ohio Business Development Coalition to attract new business and investment through marketing. SBC picked to be part of the OBDC.
6) The Republican dominated Controlling Board diverts the PUCO fine pool and gives it to the OBDC.
In otherwords, the compensation meant for the Ameritech/SBC residential and business customers gets shunted back to - you guessed it, SBC! And for what? Some inane marketing program.
The brazeness of this who deal is really breathtaking. Talk about the rewards of one-party rule.
And, one has to wonder what kind of insanity rules in business development circles that thinks that Ohio's economic problems can be aided - even a smidgen - with a multi-million dollar image campaign? Do these guys have any business sense, or is this the just the old country club crowd doing some harmless playing around with someone else's money.
Are we Ohioans such rubes that we are willing to put up with this crap?
More on jobs bad news
Well, you heard the worsening news about Ohio's jobs picture here first. Now that the official announcement has been made, we know more of the details:
Non farm jobs actually dropped 6,600, not 6,000 as we earlier reported
Service sector jobs dropped by 9,000
Trade, transportation, and utilities jobs dropped by 3,500
Leisure and hospitality dropped 2,900.
Professional and business services lost 1,800)
Information services lost 400)
Financial related jobs dropped by 100
Meanwhile, some surprising job increases occurred such as in the badly battered manufacturing arena:
Construction added 1,500 jobs
Manufacturing grew by 800 jobs
Natural resources and mining increased by 100
Small employment growth was also noted in educational and health services (+800) and government (+500). Experts tell us this is a one-time phenomenon that attributed to the secondary placement of teachers and other education staff as schools fill remaining staff gaps.
As we said earlier, this is all very bad news that we will have more to say on over the next few days.
New Ohio jobs/unemployment report to show major setback
Exactly four weeks ago, the Bush campaign got a small gift. Ohio had been the poster child for the economic failings of W's administration. But the jobs/unemployment numbers released in late October showed a faint twitch in the numbers, an small hiccup that if one were to squint just right might somehow be seen as good news.
Bush and his surrogates - unchallenged by most of the Ohio press corps - proclaimed that the net growth of 5,500 jobs in September and a drop in the unemployment rate from 6.3% to 6.0% proved that Ohio had turned the economic corner. Funny thing was, however, roughly half the state knew that was utter nonsense.
Unfortunately, we now know which have was right.
Our sources say the jobs and employment report that will be released tomorrow - covering data from October - will show bad economic news.
How bad? Pretty bad. Bad enough to make you stay awake at night wondering what would have happened with the election if this had been the report given in four weeks ago. For example, the new report will show:
The unemployment rate jumping from 6.0 to 6.3%
New unemployment claims rising by nearly 6 %
The number of workers not employed but seeking work growing by 5%
Non-farm employment falling by 6,000
Average weekly earnings fell by over $13 per week.
Total employment down over 50,000 and non farm employment down nearly 14,000 from a year ago.
We need to put this in context (using the format developed by the good folks at Policy Matters Ohio who will probably have their own analysis out Friday afternoon). These new results mean that the state has gained a total of about 18,000 jobs since December, an increase of about a third of one percent. At that rate, it will be about ten years before Ohio regains the jobs lost since the recession officially began in March 2001.
The Republicans can be expected to blame this all on Gov. Bob Taft. Or they will blame it on the unions. Or they will blame it on the taxes. Or they will blame it on the size of government. Or they will blame it on the lawyers.
Taft is a boob, but he hardly deserves all the blame. All but the comatose know Speaker Larry Householder and Sen. Pres. Doug White with their 2:1 Republican majority in both houses ran a tight ship. A very tight ship. For nearly 16 years the Republicans have had the run of the Statehouse, and Ohio's middle class has suffered greatly. And what's there to show for it? Wretched public school funding, a blatantly unfair income tax system that gives virtually a free ride to businesses, a gutted manufacturing sector, and a public services that allow the severely mentally ill and mentally retarded to fall through the cracks. Oh - and let's not forget a term-limit system, Republican initiated, that lets those responsible for the mess flee before anyone catches on.
The downward spiral in Iraq
"Stars glittered over the Baghdad hotel where I blew out the candles on a cake decorated by my four closest Iraqi friends. We stayed up until the dawn call to prayer rang from a nearby mosque, telling stories and debating the future of a country I'd grown to cherish. - Hannah Allam, Knight Ridder journalist.
Kudos to the Beacon Journal and the rest of the K-R chain for printing this. Yes, whatever the reporters are experience is only a fraction of what some Iraqis are going through, but this story shows how far things have coming from the "thrilling" stories that the press corps was churning out during the early months of the war.
It's hard to say when it changed. By last autumn, insurgents had improved their bomb-making skills and organized themselves into sophisticated cells. Reporters waded into an alphabet soup of military terminology: VBIED, vehicle-borne improvised explosive device. RPG, rocket-propelled grenade. PSD, personal security detail [ . . .]
The pace and scope of attacks grew exponentially. Targets came to include foreign journalists and the Iraqis working with them. Two of the Iraqi friends at my birthday party were shot to death at point-blank range as they drove home one spring night. Two weeks later, American soldiers opened fire on the third friend, an Iraqi television reporter who was speeding to the scene of a mortar attack. His last gasps were broadcast on live TV. I couldn't work for weeks. The fourth friend fled Iraq after receiving death threats.
So far, we've been lucky at Knight Ridder in escaping death or serious injury. Our American and Iraqi correspondents have been shot at countless times, attacked by knife-wielding rebels and bruised by stones lobbed from angry mobs. They've been trampled by riotous demonstrators, arrested by a renegade police force, taken hostage by militiamen and burned by red-hot shrapnel.
After one bombing, a young boy shoved a severed hand in my face. Another time, I used a tissue to pick shreds of human flesh off my shoes after covering a car bombing. Gagging, I gave up and pushed the sneakers deep into the trash.
As the close calls grew, the Iraq we knew shrank. The northern mountains and southern marshes are off-limits now because the roads out of Baghdad are lined with bombs and gunmen. Even a jaunt to the grocery store is a meticulously planned affair. Do you have a radio? A flak vest? A second car to watch for kidnappers?
I just turned 27. With the war still raging and the heartbreaking absence of my four Iraqi friends, there seemed little to celebrate.
Why didn't this come out before Nov. 2?
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Dispatch misses story while Southeast Airlines problems continue
How's this for a lede:
The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed fining Southeast Airlines $240,000 for safety violations that include allowing a plane to make 279 landings in a 72 days without required inspections for fuselage cracks
It's a pretty scary story, too. Seems there were problems with two other Southeast planes and all three are still flying. Since Southeast only has eight planes, chances are pretty good that if you have flown the airline recently out of Columbus, you rode one of these questionable birds.
Since Columbus is one of Southeast's principle destination/departure points, could this fine reporting have come from the Columbus Dispatch? Are you kidding? That the Dispatch has made some improvements over the last few years isn't news. But, as the dust up over its presidential endorsement showed, these changes have been quantitative, at best, and definitely not qualitative.
Nowhere is this more painfully obvious than it's "Business" section. This lame, lazy name is perfectly symbolic for the lame and lazy reporting that goes on there. If it wasn't for the PR shops at the insurance companies and the banks, these guys wouldn't cover anything close to "news." And "hard" news? Well, maybe when someone local business exec is finally doing a deserved perp walk. But, don't count on the Dispatch's Business Team to do any serious digging, let alone report on something with a possible labor or consumer slant.
Case in point: Southeast Airlines. Southeast (NOT Southwest) is a low, low cost operator that flies routes to locations like the Tampa Bay area, the Orlando area, the Columbus area, the Philadelphia area, the New York area. The key word is "area". Southeast avoids the large, higher landing fee airports and instead goes to the St. Petersburg airport instead of Tampa and Rickenbacker Airport instead of the main Columbus airport.
Nothing wrong with that business model, per se. Southeast, apparently, engages in some other aggressive cost-cutting techniques which may include flying overweight planes, using sub-standard equipment, omitting mechanical inspections and engaging in corner-cutting training of pilots.
Nevertheless, Southeast has been fairly popular with consumers in the Columbus area and has had regularly scheduled flights several times a week to Florida destinations for over a year.
Several months ago, we had something of a blind post suggesting some of the problems mentioned above were going on at what was obviously Southeast airlines. This was based on some interesting reporting going on at the St. Petersburg (Fl) Times. That newspaper had been in contact with a couple of disgruntled pilots who had gotten canned and were retaliating by spilling the beans about Southeast management ignoring safety rules in order to keep to the airline's flying schedule. This story caught our eye since we had several alarming experiences with three consecutive Southeast flights.
We know the Dispatch eventually knew about this story because we sent it to them. As a matter of fact, after we posted the information, we also sent a message via email to every Dispatch business reporter whose email we could find.
End result? Nada! Now, this wasn't totally surprising. After all, they had already been scooped by the folks in St. Pete. Just running their story would have been fairly embarrassing, and finding a new angle on the story would have meant getting to work before 10 am or missing a lunch or a golf game. So, since no one besides Hypothetically Speaking even knew about the problem - who cares what some washed-up, whinny pilots say is going on.
Who cares? Well, actually a good reporter - Jean Heller - in St. Pete still does. Last week she reported the story above and how Southeast had been using substandard brake and wheel assemblies that had been overhauled by a company that is not even in business anymore.
It should be noted that the story of the proposed fines didn't just drop into Heller's hands. As she recounts:
The FAA proposed the fines last year, according to spokesman Christopher White, but they did not become public until the action appeared on the FAA's Web site this month and the agency supplied documentation Friday to the St. Petersburg Times.
In otherwords, she had to do some work - like monitoring the FAA site. Good for her. Bad for the Dispatch's crew. None of them apparently can hack that kind of effort.


A decision over whether to charge guards from the private security firm G4S over the death of detainee Jimmy Mubenga is imminent, Britain's most senior prosecutor has said.
Mubenga, a 46-year-old Angolan asylum seeker, died after being restrained by the guards, who were deporting him on a British Airways flight from Heathrow in October 2010.
The investigation into the father of five's death has been ongoing for 17 months, prompting complaints from his family and asylum-seeker campaigners.
Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, has now given a detailed account of the delays and suggested the final decision will be taken shortly.
In a letter to Keith Vaz MP, the chairman of parliament's home affairs select committee, said prosecutors had been reviewing detailed pathology reports and information from experts in restraint and resuscitation. They have also had access to 320 witness statements, including 145 from passengers on the aircraft.
Starmer said the guards have been bailed eight times over the past 17 months. Their next bail date is 28 March.
Police arrested the three guards two days after Mubenga's death, after a Guardian investigation revealed accounts from passengers who said the Angolan had been forcibly restrained before losing consciousness.


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Q: Cocos2D, CCMenuAdvanced Implementation Error: "_OBJC_CLASS_$_CCMenuAdvanced" linker command failed with exit code 1 Ok.  I'm starting a new Cocos2D template to try to figure out how CCMenuAdvanced works, exactly.  Started with a Cocos2D 2.1 b2 project with no physics, added the CCMenuAdvanced.h and CCMenuAdvanced.m files to my project, deleted the boilerplate code from the HelloWorldLayer.m init method and everything runs fine.  Black screen.  Looks to me like I imported all the libraries as I should, when I type in anything having to do with CCMenuAdvance, it autocompletes, so that appears to be working fine.  Here's all I put in the HelloWorldLayer init method:
CCMenuItemImage *scrollableSprite = [CCMenuItemImage itemWithNormalImage:@"640x2272ScrollableImage.png"
                                                    selectedImage:@"640x2272ScrollableImage.png"
                                                           target:self
                                                         selector:@selector(iDunnoYet)];

As expected, it compiles and runs with an unused variable 'sprite' warning, but it runs fine.  As soon as I add this line of code to the project, expecting to get another unused variable error (menu):
CCMenuAdvanced *menu = [CCMenuAdvanced menuWithItems:scrollableSprite, nil];

I get this error:
Undefined symbols for architecture i386:
  "_OBJC_CLASS_$_CCMenuAdvanced", referenced from:
      objc-class-ref in HelloWorldLayer.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture i386
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

I've commented out that line and again, it builds and runs fine.  I've read two different things that might throw this error:  1) that I imported a file or library twice in my project, and 2) that I haven't properly included a necessary library in my build settings.  To the first, I've checked my headers and they look fine.  I only #imported the CCMenuAdvanced.h file in my HelloWorldLayer.h file.  To the second, it's a Cocos2D template which works fine without the above-mentioned line of code, so I think all the necessary libraries should already be included.
Anyway, if someone could possibly point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.  Thanks in advance.  Of course, I can supply more code, if need be.

A: Verify that CCMenuAdvanced.m is added to your project's target. Select the file, open the Utilities view and review the target membership of the file. There should be a checkbox next to the file. Like this:

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


It's official! For the sixteenth time in seventeen years, the Yankees will play October baseball. It was pretty much a foregone conclusion, but this afternoon's 4–2 victory over the Rays guaranteed that, even if they choose to henceforth field a lineup of sleepy toddlers and lose their remaining games, New York will be at least a wild card. Despite that plan's potential for cuteness and fun for the whole family, the Yankees are striving for greater goals, and are withholding celebration as another opportunity presents itself immediately. Today's win, which included a lively eighth inning comeback and yet another Mariano Rivera save, was the first of a doubleheader. The second game is this evening, and a win there, combined with a Red Sox loss, would cement the Yankees as the AL East champion. What an eventful day that would be!


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Consumer Robotics: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing The Game
Building A Digital ESG Narrative That Accelerates Moonshot Innovations
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Seven Guiding Principles Of Mature Leadership
The Impact Of Choice Deprivation On Loyalty Programs
Gender Pay Reporting And The Need For Transparency
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Equal pay for equal work — it seems like a fair enough concept.
Yet as we enter 2020, the gender pay gap remains a major problem for organizations around the world. Not only are these pay disparities unfair and unethical, but they also destroy business competitiveness, demoralizing employees and damaging brand reputations along the way.
While some progress has been made in this arena recently, we still have a long way to go.
For years, U.S. companies have been sending in demographics focused on gender, race and ethnicity to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In 2019, however, they were required to collect and submit detailed race and gender pay data for the first time. In Europe, organizations based in countries like France, Germany and Denmark have been doing this for years.
While the development in the U.S. is a welcomed one, there are a few glaring differences.
Currently, the United States does not plan to make any of the data it collects public — nor will it require organizations to report year-over-year data (it says collecting this data has proven to be more costly than anticipated). Instead, the EEOC has said that all data will remain private and stored on an individual company level.
Unfortunately, keeping data private won't help bridge the gender pay gap. Sunlight is the best disinfectant in this situation. As such, I believe that complete transparency is the only way to solve this issue. Without transparency, the U.S. gender pay gap will persist. It's clear that something needs to change, as current estimates say the gap won't close until 2059.
By publishing gender pay reporting information, however, organizations would be pressured by the public to narrow and eliminate pay disparity as quickly as possible. I think it is good corporate governance for companies to declare and make available a high-level summary of gender pay data. As an investor, I would expect nothing less than that from a listed company and a large organization.
Case in point? In 2017, one study showed that nearly 90% of British companies had a pay gap that favored men. While those gaps didn't close over the ensuing two years, companies have transformed their recruiting processes to arrive at equal pay faster. What's more, a separate study from Denmark revealed that bringing transparency to gender pay reporting helped narrow the pay gap there by 7%, according to Harvard Business Review (registration required).
Taking A Proactive Approach To Gender Pay Reporting
Just because regulators aren't asking for gender pay data to be publicly available doesn't mean organizations are prevented from taking a proactive approach to lead the way.
For example, Intel, which recently reached a $5 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor to resolve pay discrimination allegations, announced that it would be publishing the information it sends to the EEOC.
"The risk of releasing this information is backlash over the data not being where you want it to be," explains Julia Ann Overcash, Intel's vice president of human resources and director of compensation and benefits. "You must be willing to put yourself out there as a company that can withstand criticism to achieve real progress."
Intel is optimistic that its decision will inspire more of its peers to do the same. However, findings reveal that only 65 of the largest companies have published their pay gap reports.
I believe that when it comes to closing the gender pay gap, this risk of inaction is greater than the risk of disclosure.
While publicly publishing information that showcases a company's shortcomings might seem like an exercise in bad PR, it turns out that the opposite is actually true. Taking an active approach to closing the pay gap often results in positive brand recognition.
As organizations begin putting energy into equal pay initiatives, there may be some bumps in the road along the way. For example, there may be initial pain points associated with rolling out new systems and reporting tools. Further, companies may have to deal with the loss of top talent once pay disparity revelations are made public. But that's to be expected when you're making any changes.
Why The Tech Industry Should Take The Lead
The technology industry makes up the largest sector in the U.S. economy, and it is projected to grow by 12% through 2028. While tech has less of a pay gap than other sectors — one recent study found that women get paid 3% less than men — the industry perhaps needs to eliminate the gap sooner than other industries due to its sheer size and impact on the economy. Further, since tech salaries tend to outpace salaries in other industries, a 3% gap can often translate into a significant dollar-for-dollar deficit.
Publishing gender pay reporting information may have some negative effects in the short term. While you may experience some fallout upfront, you can mitigate that impact by being honest, developing a clear plan and taking a proactive stance.
Understand that some of your employees will almost certainly be upset, and that's perfectly within their rights. Communicate openly, and monitor employee sentiments, keeping them informed of your progress. At the same time, don't try to sugarcoat your failures or keep your employees in the dark. Such an approach will almost certainly backfire.
However, with the right plan in place, those negative effects will be mitigated relatively quickly. You'll end up on the other side as an organization that pays people the same rates for the same work — regardless of their gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation. And everyone — from customers to employees to jobseekers — will know it.
Add it all up, and that's the ticket to happier and more engaged employees who radiate joy — which, in turn, translates into happier customers who are prepared to continue supporting a business that does things the right way.
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A heptathlete, a decathlete and the relay teams headlined a meet full of strong finishes by the Plattsburgh State track and field team at the two-day Cortland Classic last weekend.
"It was a great meet all-around, which I think was partly due to the weather, but we had a lot of really good performances. I'm really happy with how it went," said Nicholas Jones, head coach.
Day one saw the relay teams for both the men and women dominated the weekend overall, with the 4×400-meter and 4×100-meter teams finishing within the top five all around.
The women's 4×100 team of State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) female track athlete of the week and sophomore Elisabeth Plympton, sophmore Marissa Jones, freshman Janyll Barber and senior Ashlee Estes took second place at the meet qualifying for the All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference meet with a 49.99-second time, while the 4×400 team of Barber, Marissa Jones, sophomore Taylor Canet and senior Stephanie Boucher won with 4:05.68 time.
Boucher also won the 800-meter event with a 2:15.88 time and third place in the 1500-meter run with a 4:52.20 time while Plympton won the 100-meter dash with a personal record 12.22 seconds.
For the men, seniors Sobaan Ayub and Zach Grandy, junior Brian Fabian and freshman Michael Warchol ran a 3:26.57 time in the 4×400-meter relay to win, while Fabian and Ayub were joined by freshman Jordan Kane and sophomore Anthony Ciccarelli in finishing fifth in the 4×100-meter event.
Warchol also ran a second-place finish in the 800-meters with a 1:57.38 time.
Junior Matt Jenkins ran a 32-second personal record en route to finishing second in the 10,000-meters with a 32:52.00 time.
Day two's standouts for the Cardinals were Ciccarelli and freshman Mikayla Rossier.
Ciccarelli finished his weekend of decathlon events with a final score of 5609 points — good enough to earn himself third place and an AARTFC regional qualification, while Rossier finished her heptathlon events with a final score of 3208 points, which was good enough for a SUNYAC conference championship meet qualification.
Also on the women's side of things, senior Heather Chapman threw 39.04 meters in the discus finals, good for third place and a personal record.
Chapman, a veteran of the team, was happy that this performance finally came around.
Chapman went on to elaborate on how the improving weather helped at Cortland, and will continue to help as the season continues.
Now PSUC will head on the road one last time before SUNYACs to the Saints Twilight Invitational at St. Lawrence University this Saturday.
For athletes who have already qualified for conference and regional meets, it will mark a chance for a rest. For those still on the outside looking in, it marks one final meet to get it right.


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Good morning everyone and thank you for being here today.
Without a doubt, the last week has been the most difficult of my life.
I want to thank my family, friends, my team and supporters. Your phone calls, texts, and emails of support have been incredible. Thank you!
As I reflect on my time as mayor of this great city I can confidently say that my team and I have accomplished many things that have moved Fall River forward.
And so many other accomplishments.
But perhaps the best part of being Mayor has been attending community events, shaking the hands of our citizens and making our city a better place.
After a successful first term in office and my overwhelming 64% reelection by the citizens of Fall River to a second term, the city, today, is cleaner and safer and has a firm foundation for continued growth.
It is because of this profound belief and trust that I share with the citizens of Fall River that I am here today to address the most recent attempt to derail the progress we've been making.
Some politicians may run and hide. But I stand here today ready to respond directly to the false, politically motivated allegations that have been made against me.
As you all know, in November 2015 I was elected mayor after defeating a former District Attorney. We now know a federal investigation began shortly after I was sworn in as mayor in January of 2016. I do not believe this is a coincidence.
We know that the investigation was unrelated to SnoOwl and that the FBI and other federal agencies were seeking information in response to a smear campaign of false allegations being made by political enemies.
Those allegations related to city grants, fire truck purchases, privatizing trash, hiring choices and virtually every other decision I was making as mayor.
We also know there are no charges relating to any of my duties as mayor of Fall River.
And during this same time the business of SnoOwl continued, and there were no investor complaints. Out of seven investors only 4 are referred to in the indictment.
During 2016 the son of investor #1 repeatedly sought a job with the city.
Throughout this period, and because he was not qualified for the job, I continued to refuse to hire him but pointed him in other directions. The investor became upset as his cousin launched his mayoral campaign against my re-election in 2017. These are not coincidences, rather, these motives, false statements and exaggerated claims to federal agents led us to where we stand today.
At the heart of the government's charges against me is the theory that there was never a viable consumer product and that after becoming mayor I abandoned SnoOwl.
These allegations are false! I delivered a fully functional SnoOwl app that was available on the Apple App Store and I made explicit plans to transition SnoOwl to new leadership.
In fact, after being elected mayor I met with investors to transition the business to a new CEO. In consultation with investor #1, I was encouraged to hire his nephew to assume the role of CEO in early 2016. Yet the government asserts that I was concealing information.
In the Government's indictment, they attempt to demonstrate that I stole money and that I filed fraudulent tax returns only after knowing I was under investigation. The indictment references an email, however, the government omits half of the email. I would like to show you the full email, not the one sided argument that led to these false charges.
Per advisor #1's suggestion, a week later I engaged an accountant for the purpose of reviewing all SnoOwl financial records and preparing necessary financial statements and tax returns.
The government in the indictment suggests that the tax returns filed by me, prepared by accountant #1 were filed after I was made aware of a federal investigation in March of 2017 and for the purpose of concealing some type of inappropriate conduct.
In fact, as I just stated, the accountant was engaged with a formal engagement letter dated May of 2016, 9 months before March 2017.
Accountant #1's efforts to prepare tax returns commenced long before I was aware of any investigation.
In addition to these tax charges, the thrust of this case is that the SnoOwl app, which I put my blood, sweat and tears into developing since I was 20-years old, was somehow a scam.
That answer is just plain wrong!
The central theme of the government's case is that investors were deceived because the SnoOwl app was not completed and not available to consumers.
Over the course of 4 years from 2013 to 2016 I worked diligently to honor my commitment to bring to market an app that had value.
I raised funds to launch SnoOwl. I hired a team of programmers to develop the app. I spent countless hours fine tuning SnoOwl's brand, look and feel, and the visual design of the app. All of that hard work paid off on May 19th, 2015, when Apple approved SnoOwl for download in the App Store.
Far from a prototype, according to Google Analytics; SnoOwl had over 3,000 users who used the app over 100,000 times.
Put simply, I worked incredibly hard to deliver a fully functional SnoOwl app, available to consumers via the Apple App Store, just as I told my investors I would achieve.
But for the unjustified attacks on me, SnoOwl would today likely be thriving.
So I stand here before you adamantly denying the charges that have been lodged against me. I state once again, unequivocally, that I am innocent of all of these charges.
I will continue to serve as the mayor of this city and to stand up for truth.
I will not be bullied out of office.
I humbly ask that the citizens, not the city council, not state and federal elected officials, not bullies, not the press or social media posts, but the citizens of the City of Fall River, to either re-affirm my status as mayor or challenge my status as mayor through the recall process.
This is America and I am presumed innocent until proven otherwise. I will not allow political enemies to remove me from office for their own selfish agendas.
I understand the enormous power and substantial financial resources that the government possesses. I must admit this is intimidating.
But I will not be deterred and am committed to doing my job every single day and clearing my name.
Once again, thank you to everyone who has shown their support and to the many people of Fall River who continue to stand by my side.


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Pippa Middleton at the GQ Men of the Year Awards
Fashion Pippa Middleton
September 3, 2014 September 3, 2014 by katemiddletonreview24 Comments on Pippa Middleton at the GQ Men of the Year Awards
Anyone want a Pippa Middleton update? I haven't covered Pippa in a long time. Pips was on hand at the GQ Men of the Year Awards to present the Innovator of the Year award to Ewan Venters. So random, right? Why would they choose Pippa to be a presenter? Anyway, Pippa sat next to Conde Nast International President Nicholas Coleridge. Nico Jackson wasn't there. I usually call Nico the Male Waity, but I guess he decided to stop Waity-ing and got a new job in Switzerland a few months ago. Who knows whats going on with that relationship. I wonder if Pippa got paid to show up to this event. I mean, her book bombed, she was fired from her part-time article writing gigs, what does she do to make money?
Pippa wore a pale pink sequinned dress by Hugo Boss–the event's sponsor. I don't like it. It comes to just above the ankle. I think it's either too long or too short. Like, it either needs to be floor-length or be knee length, cutting it off at the ankle makes it look weird. Her shoes are ugly, too. I'll say something nice, though, I like her hair up like that; it's pretty.
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Two candid Cambridge sightings in two days: Will and Kate on a wet-haired dinner date in Norfolk, arriving back in London
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pipa is not an attractive woman and her sister is also overated, so she was onthe prowl for something better, poor pippa, shes past getting any attention from wealthy men, what can she offer these men NOTHING!
Dag Tagart says:
You're right, the dress length is horrid and even if it were a different length, it's dowdy. If it were floor length it would be lovely for a "woman of a certain age". Her hair? I realize you're stretching to find something nice to say, but really? The hairstyle is also for an older (much older) woman. She could have a youthful updo….having one's hair "up" does not automatically mean dull, but that's what she's got. Why can't Pippa and Kate get it right? They're young enough to dress with an edge, they're rich enough to have stylists.
Re her hair: at least it's up, you know what I mean. I'd love it if Kate were to try that hair style, just for the change of pace.
I think it might be the color making it dowdy, too. If it were knee length and in a jewel tone it would look fine.
Good point…that dress in ruby or emerald would be great.
midd women no looks, poor fashion sense, no personality, you really have to wonder what was william thinking marrying one of them! I am sorry but passion lacks in this couple, date night indeed, they looked like two co workers out for dinner!
I'll bet William is wondering "what was I thinking?"
" they looked like two co workers out for dinner"
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I'm the minority, but I don't hate the dress. The ankle hemline seems to work for this not-quite-serious award gathering. Her shoes seem like hideous daywear, though. The color flatters the tan, and if she didn't have one, it would be a case of the frumpies.
As far as work goes, there was talk at the start of summer that she might be work for NBC. I have no idea about her articles, but ooof, her book was dead weight with mundane tips.
Yes, there were rumors of a possible NBC job. I wonder what ever happened to that. Were they just rumors started by Ma Midds to make it seem like Pips was a hot commodity, or was there really a job offer but the palace squashed it? I could see it being either.
No I did not need an update on a publicity-seeking scraggly-toothed young woman with a vastly overrated behind and vastly too much time on her hands evidently. Thanks anyway!
Adam i agree with both your posts above! Halia
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I don't hate the dress. However, I am middle-aged and no fashionista. It looks like something a woman my age would wear, if it had sleeves. Oh, and I actually really like that skirt length for evening wear. In my day it was called "tea length." I wish it would come back in style because it's my favorite for formalism events.
Now, regarding Pippa, herself, I wish she would get a life,various real job or career and move on. She doesn't need to be I. The shadow of an older sister who lives in the shadow of her husband.
Pips seems to be at the stage of "famous for being famous", unfortunately. She really needs to quit trying to become a celeb in her own right and find a career and a life that makes her happy. But then again, maybe this life does make her happy?
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Pippa has has the difficult situation of being perpetually "the younger sister of" and like Lee Bouvier Radziwill (sister of Jackie Kennedy Onasis) will have to carve out her own niche. I see many similarities there. At least Pippa seems a bit more normal than Kate, less stuck on herself, and comes across in general as not so much of a doormat to powerful men. Go Pippa !
"Pippa has has the difficult situation of being perpetually "the younger sister of" " Very true, and she's tried to carve out her own thing, with the book, with some other stuff, but it hasn't worked for her at all. I think it would be best for Pippa to stop trying to be a celeb in her own right and just go have a real career and not worry about it.
I agree. "Younger sister of" will follow Pippa around till she's grey. She does seem to have that useless sort of fame, but I do like that she did a couple sporting challenges for charity. The ones she did we're pretty tough.
Ugh autocorrect. WERE, not we're.
I respect her for doing those challenges. She knows what her strength is, and those challenges are probably a fun way for her to help with charity.
I agree that Will married the wrong one. Pippa will work. But I am tiring of seeing her so much. Maybe it's because we see her 24/7 and we only see Kate once every 30 days.
I don't think we see as much of Pippa as we used to. For a while there she was getting papped every day. Maybe I've just been ignoring her. Pippa, I think, is the more outgoing of the two Middleton girls. I agree that Pippa would probably enjoy the royal work more–she definitely has more hustle than Kate. But then again, Will probably wouldn't want that; he wants someone to be lazy with him, who oddly enough takes a lot of the blame for the lazy title and he can fly under the radar. That's changing, though, people are criticizing him more and more for his lazy ways.
I wonder what Diana would think or even do about his laziness. While I would hope that she would guide him, I also think that she would indulge him.
If Diana had not died, I don't think Will would have gotten away with his laziness for as long as he has. Charles and everyone else only indulge(d) him because of the Diana card; if Will didn't have that, I'm sure Charles would have not indulged Will for the years following his mother's death, and now. Also, if Diana had not died, then Will's hatred of the press for killing his mother wouldn't be there. Maybe we'd see a whole different Will if she were still alive. Or maybe his BS would have manifested anyway, just in a different form.
I really don't get Pippa! She should really stay out of the spotlight. Her claim to fame is being someone's sister, that's it. With the attention she gets from the media she has absolutely nothing to say.
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En otros apartamentos donde he estado mantienen cosas básicas no perecibles como azucar, sal y aceite que han dejado inquilinos anteriores. De mi lado compre todo y como asumi que no se lo dejarian al siguiente inquilino me lo lleve. Pero pienso que es util dejar alli ese tipo de cosas si el inquilino anterior las ha dejado.
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Q: Spring boot graceful shutdown mid-transaction I'm working on a spring-boot service that performs sensitive payment processing, and would like to ensure that any shutdown to the app will be done without interrupting these transactions. Curious on how to best approach this in spring-boot.
I read about adding shutdown hooks to spring-boot, and I was thinking maybe to use a CountDownLatch on the class to check if the thread has completed processing - something like this:
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Constructive feedback is greatly appreciated - thanks.

A: I ended up using @PreDestroy annotation on the shutdown method:
@Service
public class PaymentService {

    private CountDownLatch countDownLatch;

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Q: Angular CLI 7 Webpack Bundle Analyzer modules concatenated I'm running Webpack Bundle Analyzer for my Angular 7 app and it's producing output like this:

This is a known caveat when webpack.optimize.ModuleConcatenationPlugin is used per the troubleshooting section found here.  They have a recommendation for Angular CLI < 6.  I've also found suggestions here which suggests commenting out ModuleConcatenationPlugin, however, it does not identify where it should be commented out.
Do you know how to fix modules concatenated for Angular CLI 7.1.0?  Thanks for your time.

A: I believe you've found the answer to your question here.
In the left sidebar there's a checkbox labeled "Show content of concatenated modules" which is unchecked by default. Check it and you will see a much more detailed breakdown of what is in your main.js file.


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About the Fukuda Art Museum
Concept / Outline
Museum Café & Shop
Official Online Tickets
Striving to Create a Museum That Lasts for 100 Years
My father, the owner of this museum, was born and raised in Kyoto, and it was also in Kyoto that he started his business. He frequently said that it was the generous support of local residents that enabled him to continue with his work, and expressed his gratitude for the encounters he had with outstanding works of art and his relationship with the Arashiyama area. This led to his decision to build this museum as a way of realizing his wish to someday repay Kyoto for its kindness.
For the next 15 years, my father devoted himself to acquiring art. His collection, consisting of works by major artists from the Edo Period to the modern era, is made up of some 1,500 items with an emphasis on pieces from the Kyoto circle of painters.
Associated with poetry since ancient times and loved by nobles and cultured people, Arashiyama has long served a source of inspiration for superb art. Today, as one of Japan's leading tourist destinations, the area attracts sightseers from all over the world. Along with scenery that changes from season to season, Arashiyama is blessed with the flowing waters of the limpid Oigawa River, and Togetsukyo Bridge, which seamlessly blends into the surrounding landscape. By creating a place to view works by some of Japan's greatest artists on this site, a product of the beautiful natural landscape, we hope to make a positive contribution to the transmission and succession of Japanese culture.
It is our dream that this museum will last for 100 years. We are committed to making every effort to convey and preserve the endlessly stunning scenery of Arashiyama and priceless art and culture for future generations.
Kawabata Misa
Director, Fukuda Art Museum
The Fukuda Art Museum Opens
in the Saga-Arashiyama
District of Kyoto in October 2019
A Harmony of Beautiful Nature and Japanese Art –
A New Place to Transmit Japanese Culture
Since ancient times, the Saga-Arashiyama area, home to the Fukuda Art Museum, has been loved by nobles and cultured people, and served as a source of inspiration for outstanding art. Today, the area has become one of Japan's leading tourist destinations, attracting domestic sightseers as well as visitors from all over the world. By enabling viewers to enjoy the beautiful natural landscape along with works of Japanese art, it is our hope that Arashiyama will become one of the world's leading sites for culture.
About the Building's Design
Japanese Architecture Suited Both to Arashiyama and the Future
Based on the essential qualities of Kyoto's traditional machiya townhouses, the museum building aims for a new kind of Japanese architecture that will serve as a standard for the next 100 years.
A Large Basin or "Water Mirror" Reflecting Arashiyama
Galleries Inspired by Storehouses
Beautiful Glass Exterior Wall with a Wickerwork Pattern
Verandah-like Corridor
A Café with the Most Beautiful View of the Togetsukyo Bridge
Nearly Seamless Display Cases with 92-percent Transparent Glass
The refined Japanese-modern exterior perfectly blends into the surrounding natural landscape, and a large basin in the garden reflects Arashiyama, functioning like a water mirror connected to the Oigawa River, which flows right there in front of you.
In order to rigorously protect the museum collection, the galleries were designed like traditional Japanese kura (storehouses).
A traditional wickerwork pattern is printed on the glass exterior wall. The lines in the design grow thicker further up the wall, providing a fine view of the garden and scenery.
The corridor, which connects the entrance to the galleries, affords a commanding view of the garden, replete with seasonal flowers in bloom. While tranquil, the space recalls the engawa (verandah) in a traditional machiya townhouse by creating a link to the outside.
The museum also contains a café, which was designed to provide the most beautiful view of the Togetsukyo Bridge, a local landmark.
The glass cases in the galleries were specially made by Glasbau Hahn, a German company internationally renown for its highly advanced technology. With a high transmission rate of 92 percent, the large four-meter-wide cases are unlike anything else in the world.
The Elusive Collection by Prominent Artists Boasts a Universally Impressive Selection of Works
View Collection List
Members of the Press Are
Requested to Read This
10:00 am – 5:00 pm (last entry 4:30 pm)
Tuesdays (following day if a holiday),
exhibit-replacement days, New Year's holiday
View the Users' Guide in more detail
3-16 Susukino Baba-cho, Sagatenryuji,
Ukyo-ku, Kyoto
Tel.: 075-863-0606 Fax: 075-863-0607
View the Access page in more detail
Copyright © FUKUDA ART MUSEUM. All Rights Reserved.


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