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As well as the short stories and series posted on this blog, I do the occasional longer work and will be doing these as PDF booklets. Novelettes are 8,000 to 17,500 words, novella are 17,500 to 50,000. I very much doubt you'll see a full novel here any time soon. But never say never I suppose. The Jita Ripper came close at 35,000 words.
Sentenced to 35 years hard labour, Riku knows he'll not serve that time. As an ex-operative for the Caldari Navy Intelligence Services, he knows where the bodies are buried, he put many of them there. However the largest mercenary organisation in New Eden sees potential in him. They are just in time, as their next contract they'll need all his skills if they are going to stop a fanatical organisation with a terrible weapon.
Novella, Action-Adventure, Suitable for all.
The Gallente Federal Investigation Bureau are called to a low-sec outpost. A murder has occurred in a captains quarters, a capsuleer's captains quarters. The detective arrives to find what appears to be an open and shut case with the prime suspect already in custody. But what is her story and why would a bio-chemist with a doctorate kill an exotic dancer in an Empyrean's station quarters?
The crew of the Katsu Maru are charged with tracking down the missing granddaughter of a retired Caldari Navy Admiral. What appeared to be a simple missing person case soon develops into a situation that threatens to enslave an entire race.
Soon (TM). Need to kick the Gentleman who was proofreading it for me.


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Five second basemen the A's could consider in free agency
Matt Kawahara Dec. 11, 2020 Updated: Dec. 11, 2020 8:58 p.m.
1of5Oakland Athletics' Tommy La Stella watches his throw get Chicago White Sox' Jose Abreu at first base after forcing out Jarrod Dyson at first base in 8th inning during Game 3 of Wild Card Series at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, October 1, 2020.Photo: Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
2of5Oakland Athletics' Tommy La Stella doubles in 1st inning against San Diego Padres during MLB game at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, September 6, 2020.Photo: Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
3of5Los Angeles Dodgers' Enrique Hernandez drops his bat as he hits a solo home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Thursday, March 28, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)Photo: Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press
4of5LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 30: Joe Panik #12 of the San Francisco Giants hits a solo home in the ninth inning of the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on March 30, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images)Photo: Jayne Kamin-Oncea / Getty Images
5of5OAKLAND, CA - SEPTEMBER 03: Jed Lowrie #8 of the Oakland Athletics hits an rbi single scoring Marcus Semien #10 against the New York Yankees in the bottom of the fourth inning at Oakland Alameda Coliseum on September 3, 2018 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)Photo: Thearon W. Henderson / Getty Images
The A's began 2020 without a clear everyday second baseman and ended up using six players at that spot in 60 games.
Early this offseason, the picture isn't any more defined.
Tommy La Stella, who manned second and made a strong impression on the A's after being acquired in a late-August trade from the Angels, is a free agent and figures to attract lots of interest as a high-contact, left-handed hitter who can play multiple infield positions.
Tony Kemp, Chad Pinder and Vimael Machin, all under contract for 2021, can play second base, with Sheldon Neuse another option in the A's system. Facing the likelihood of having to replace shortstop Marcus Semien as well, the A's could be inclined to address second base from within.
"I think we feel good about the versatility in that group," A's general manager David Forst said Wednesday. "All have played significant time at second base, a little less so at short, when you think about Pinder and Machin, but they have done it. … We feel good about their ability to play both places, but their experience at second is certainly going to be valuable."
If the A's do explore free-agent options at second base, though, here are five players they could consider:
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Tommy La Stella
A's executive Billy Beane has said the A's want to re-sign La Stella. Forst reiterated that Wednesday: "Billy made it clear at the end of the season how valuable Tommy was for us the last month of the year and into the postseason. So it's still very much a conversation here."
La Stella was an All-Star in 2019 with the Angels, batting .295 with 16 home runs in 80 games, and posted a .370 on-base percentage in 2020. He was the hardest hitter in the majors to strike out this season and drew more than twice as many walks (27) as he had strikeouts (12).
La Stella, 31, has also fared nearly as well against left-handers (a .702 OPS) in his career as against right-handers (.766 OPS) while playing second, third and some first base.
César Hernández
If the A's want to invest in defense at second, they could pursue Hernández, who won a Gold Glove in 2020 with Cleveland. Hernández, 30, might not be as polished a hitter as La Stella — he had 100-plus strikeouts each season from 2016-19 — but he's a career .277 hitter and led the AL in doubles in 2020.
A switch-hitter, Hernández has similar career figures against right-handers (a .741 OPS) and lefties (.722). He was the Phillies' everyday second baseman for four-plus seasons before signing a one-year, $6.5 million deal with Cleveland for 2020, batting .283 in 58 games and winning his first Gold Glove by posting the second-highest SABR defensive index of any AL position player.
Hernández and the Indians reportedly have mutual interest in a reunion but contract size is a factor, as it likely would be with the A's.
Kiké Hernández
Hernández, 29, has played all over the diamond in six seasons as a Dodgers spark plug. But he logged his most innings at second base and played it well. Hernández tied for the most defensive runs saved (eight) among major-league second basemen in 2020, according to fieldingbible.com, despite playing about half as many innings as co-leader Nicky Lopez of the Royals.
Despite not having a set position in Los Angeles, Hernández played in 130-plus games each year from 2017-19 due to his versatility. It's a trait the A's value and Hernández could also provide depth at shortstop and in the outfield. Hernández is a career .240 hitter with a .474 slugging percentage against left-handers (.386 against right-handers).
He hit a career-high 21 home runs in 2018 with a career-low strikeout rate (16.9%). The latter rose to 20.9% in 2020 while his walk rate dipped to a career-low 4.1% and he batted .230 with five homers in 48 games.
Joe Panik
Bay Area fans will remember Panik's six seasons with the Giants. Panik hit .312 in 100 games in 2015 and won a Gold Glove in 2016, but his numbers dropped in following years and the Giants released him mid-season in 2019.
Panik, 30, signed a minor-league deal with the Blue Jays last offseason, made their roster and appeared in 41 games at second base, shortstop and third. Otherwise, he has played exclusively at second base in the majors and as a left-handed hitter could help balance out an A's lineup that for much of last season was heavily right-handed.
Panik struck out more often in 2020 but he has been a high-contact hitter during his career with just a 9.7% strikeout rate. He would be an affordable option with experience.
Jed Lowrie
The A's acquired Lowrie before — twice. He'll turn 37 in April. And he played in just nine games the past two seasons after signing a two-year, $20 million deal with the Mets because of injuries. Before that, though, Lowrie had maybe his best major-league season in 2018 as the A's everyday second baseman, batting .267 with 23 homers and 99 RBIs and receiving MVP votes.
If the A's think Lowrie is healthy and has something left in the tank, they could take a chance on a re-reunion. Defensive metrics were mixed on Lowrie in 2018 and mobility would be a question after his knee troubles and other injuries of the past two years.
Matt Kawahara covers the A's for The San Francisco Chronicle. Email: mkawahara@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @matthewkawahara
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%                the function pop_rejmenu() and the history eegh() function.
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% Global variables:
%  EEG        - structure containing the current dataset
%  ALLEEG     - array of structures containing all the loaded datasets
%  CURRENTSET - index of the current dataset in the ALLEEG array
%  LASTCOM    - most recent command run by EEGLAB
%  ALLCOM     - cell array containing the EEGLAB session command history
%               See the history (h) function for more details.
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% Author: Arnaud Delorme, CNL / Salk Institute, 2001
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% See also: eeglab()

% Copyright (C) 2001 Arnaud Delorme, Salk Institute, arno@salk.edu
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% This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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%global H_MAIN;		% main window
%global EEGMENU;		% main menu
global ALLCOM;		% all commands (history)
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Jason Peter Miller (born November 23, 1983) is an American mathematician, specializing in probability theory.

After graduating from Okemos High School, Miller matriculated in 2002 at the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 2006 with a B.S. with joint majors in mathematics, computer science, and economics. In 2006 he became a graduate student in mathematics at Stanford University. In 2011 he graduated there with a PhD supervised by Amir Dembo with dissertation Limit theorems for Ginzburg-Landau  random surfaces . Miller was a summer intern in 2009 at Microsoft Research and in 2010 at D.E. Shaw & Co. He was a postdoctoral researcher from September 2010 to July 2012 at Microsoft and from July 2012 to July 2015 (as a Schramm Fellow and a NSF Fellow) at MIT's department of mathematics, where he worked with Scott Sheffield. In 2015 Miller became a reader at Trinity College, Cambridge and in the University of Cambridge's Statistics Laboratory.

His research deals with many aspects of probability theory, including "stochastic interface models (random surfaces and SLE), random walk, mixing times for Markov chains, and interacting particle systems."

With Scott Sheffield, he did research on the geometry of d-dimensional Gaussian free fields (GFF fields), also called (Euclidean bosonic) massless free fields, which are d-dimensional analogs of Brownian motion. The two mathematicians introduced an "imaginary geometry" which made it possible to integrate the Schramm-Loewner evolution in many GFF fields. Miller and Sheffield also proved that two models of measure-endowed random surfaces, namely Liouville quantum gravity and the Brownian map, are equivalent. (The two models were introduced by Alexander Markovich Polyakov.)

Miller won the Rollo Davidson Prize in 2015, the Whitehead Prize in 2016, the Clay Research Award in 2017 (with Scott Sheffield), and the Doeblin Prize in 2018. He was an invited speaker with talk Liouville quantum gravity as a metric space and a scaling limit at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. He was awarded the Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics of the AMS in 2023 jointly with Scott Sheffield.

Selected publications

References

External links
 Kevin Hartnett, A unified theory of randomness, Quanta Magazine, 2016

1983 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
University of Michigan alumni
Stanford University alumni
Academics of the University of Cambridge

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Hotels.com Throws a Party
A site by Hotels.com encourages people to substitute their faces and the faces of friends for those of actors in videos that nod to "The Hangover." In a Web promotion reminiscent of the movie, Hotels.com is encouraging people to cast themselves in their own hotel misadventures by substituting their faces and the faces of friends for those of actors in provocative videos. On a site for the campaign, TripYourFace.com, a user can upload a photo from a Facebook profile and profile photos of up to three friends. After choosing the actors to superimpose the faces onto, users crop uploaded faces, adjusting brightness and color to match those of the actors, and then are taken to a screen that features a hotel room in New York, Las Vegas or Paris. As in "The Hangover," each features a tableau of unconscious characters in a room in disarray. In Paris, for example, feathers are strewn all over a room where four blindfolded musicians, in formal attire, are slumped over their instruments, a fencer in a white outfit and mask is asleep in a chair, and Dennis Rodman, the retired basketball player, is passed out shirtless in a bed along with two lingerie-clad women. Clicking one of three play buttons in the scene prompts a video "flashback" that helps piece together the scene: for Paris, one clip shows the two women in a pillow fight, then tearing off Mr. Rodman's shirt as he sprays the room with Champagne. But with the face substitutions, one actress ripping off Mr. Rodman's shirt can instead be a Facebook user's friend. And a segment of the video, starring that unwitting friend, can be posted directly to her Facebook profile, which Hotels.com of course hopes will prompt her to visit the Trip Your Face site and subsequently engage other friends in the campaign.
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The College is governed according to its Trust Deed, (which was created in February 1953), and in accordance with the laws of Zimbabwe.
Board Members give huge amounts of time to the College. They do this for no reward, not even reimbursement of expenses. They receive no monetary payments from the College whatsoever.
The Board is self-perpetuating, in that suitable persons are invited to participate. There is no limit to tenure, except in the case of Chairman, who resigns at the end of each year and may or may not offer himself for re-election.
The Board's role is fundamentally to formulate policy. The Board distances itself from day to day running of the College, which is left in the hands of the Headmaster, who naturally has far more experience in such maters than do members of the Board.


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This year's opening stanza of spirits and beer tasting notes begins with a lovely group of Cognacs, which hail from a trio of distinguished producers: A. Hardy, François Voyer and Polignac. Of particular note are two of the Hardy offerings, the Noces de Diamant 60 Year Old and the Perfection. Both are Grande Champagne-designated Cognacs, meaning that the grapes that constitute these exquisite brandies were cultivated in vineyards that lie in the district demarcated as Grande Champagne within the Cognac region.
Grande Champagne is the premier cru, the Bentley of Cognac districts. Boasting approximately 32,000 acres of vineyard, mostly planted to Ugni Blanc, the district's hub is the town of Segonzac. The soil around Segonzac is rich in calcium carbonate, ideal for producing light, delicate, flowery wines for the distillation process. Yet the resulting Grande Champagne Cognacs are beloved for their depth and multilayered character. Many require long aging periods in French oak. Others take on that rare and coveted mystical quality, called rancio. Grande Champagne Cognacs are supreme brandies that easily rank with the world's finest spirits.
A. Hardy Noces de Diamant 60 Year Old Grande Champagne Cognac (France; A. Hardy USA, Rosemont, IL); 40% abv, $500 (includes crystal decanter). Topaz color. Opening bouquet is compelling as biscuity, spicy, botanical waves of black pepper, milk chocolate and oaky vanilla vie for dominance; bouquet turns fruity, ripe, mildly spirity and leathery later on. Palate entry is firmly structured, candied, grapy and appropriately woody-resiny; midpalate is rich, grapy, honeyed, marzipan-like and nougaty. Aftertaste is ripely sweet. Loved it from start to finish.
A. Hardy Perfection Grande Champagne Cognac (France; A. Hardy USA, Rosemont, IL); 41% abv, $6,000. Blended in part from prephylloxera (pre-1870s) Cognacs. Very deep amber color. Initial nosings detect stately aromas, including tea leaves, cigar tobacco and delicate touches of oaky rancio; aeration releases leathery and spicy notes. Palate entry is nougaty sweet, luscious, honeyed and deep; by midpalate the flavor phase reaches a zenith, offering richly sweet tastes of rancio, sap, honey, brown sugar, sugar biscuits and cocoa. Finishes voluptuously honeyed, almost like Pedro Ximenez Sherry. If this Cognac were art, it would be a Rembrandt.
A. Hardy Noces de Perle 30 Year Old Grande Champagne Cognac (France; A. Hardy USA, Rosemont, IL); 40% abv, $500 (includes crystal decanter). Amber honey hue. Initial nosing pass detects a mildly spicy bouquet that's ready to fly; aeration doesn't deepen this nose as much as it sweetens it, blending in comely notes of toffee, brown sugar, leather and vanilla extract. Palate entry is sap-like, sugary and oaky; midpalate shows generous flavors of pineapple, guava, mint, caramel and oak resin. Aftertaste is firm, semisweet and more fruity than woody.
A. Hardy Noces d'Or 50 Year Old Grande Champagne Cognac (France; A. Hardy USA, Rosemont, IL); 40% abv, $150. Deep amber-bronze in color. Opening nosings pick up distant, delicately fruity and viny aromas; time in the glass allows for more expressive aromas such as pine, honeysuckle and oak to come alive. In the mouth, the sweet flavors of dark caramel, honey, oloroso Sherry, candied walnuts and spiced pears make for intriguing and beguiling tasting from palate entry through midpalate. Closes beautifully, as rich, warming tastes of tea, cedar, tobacco and honey excite the taste buds.
François Voyer XO 25 Year Old Grande Champagne Cognac (France; 1er Cru Collection, Alto, MI); 40% abv, $125. Attractive bronze hue. Opening nosing passes detect traces of butterscotch and dark caramel; further time expands the bouquet to include scents of honey, bark, ripe grapes and leather. Palate entry is pointed, tart, semisweet and moderately honeyed; at midpalate, mature, fully evolved, dessert-like flavors of brown sugar, old oak and cocoa take charge. Finishes with spirity heat that warms the tongue. Intriguing and piquant.
François Voyer Extra 40 Year Old Grande Champagne Cognac (France; 1er Cru Collection, Alto, MI); 42% abv, $275. Brilliant, new-copper-penny color. This bouquet is biscuity, fruity and off-dry, but distant; aeration works miracles, as the aroma opens up with scents of nuts, hard candy, honey, cinnamon and oak. Palate entry is polite, intensely fruity, off-dry and lip-smacking; midpalate features delicious flavors of baked pear, nectarine, white raisins and oaky vanilla. Aftertaste is long, smoldering hot, biscuity again and semisweet. A luscious Cognac that takes time to evolve.
François Voyer Napoleon 15 Year Old Grande Champagne Cognac (France; 1er Cru Collection, Alto, MI); 40% abv, $75. Amber-topaz color. Bouquet rushes up in zesty, compelling waves of spice (nutmeg, coriander) and black raisins; more exposure to air stimulates deeper, more profound scents of marzipan, nougat, dark honey and oak resin. Palate entry is so dry as to be austere; midpalate displays more fleshiness but it's the dominating presence of oaky resin that lasts on and singes the tongue. Aftertaste is long, mineral dry, resiny and not the least bit generous. Atypical Grande Champagne Cognac, which usually is rich and concentrated. Austere.
Prince Hubert De Polignac Premier Grand Cru Grande Champagne Cognac (France; Gourmet International Food & Beverage, Las Vegas, NV); 40% abv, $35. Pretty copper-henna color. Opening bouquet offers scents of cocoa butter, oak and ripe grapes; eight more minutes in the glass finds the bouquet deepening as aromas of bell pepper, palm oil, citrus rind and butter show genuine substance. Palate entry is sweet, candied and almost honeyed; the honey quality turns more brown sugar-like and sappy at midpalate. Finish is zesty, oaky and sweet.
Prince Hubert De Polignac V.S.O.P. Cognac (France; Gourmet International Food & Beverage, Las Vegas, NV); 40% abv, $25. Burnished orange. First nosing passes pick up raisins and prunes; aeration expands the bouquet profile by adding zesty scents of black pepper, leather and pear. Starts smoothly at palate entry, then turns a bit hot at midpalate as off-dry flavors of dried red fruit, ripe grapes and candied almonds seem baked, minerally and overly spiced. Rounds out in the steely, slate-like finish.
Prince Hubert De Polignac X.O. Cognac (France; Gourmet International Food & Beverage, Las Vegas, NV); 40% abv, $50. Orange hue. The nose after the pour shows no typical aromatic traces of grape brandy; several more minutes in the glass help by releasing friendlier, more appropriate off-dry aromas that include oak and ripe grapes. Texture at palate entry is surprisingly thin for what's supposed to be an X.O.; midpalate displays more flavor, mostly in the forms of mild oaky vanilla, candied nuts and brown sugar. Aftertaste is lean, dry and a touch hot.


Similar to the tube variant this box set is an ideal gift for watercolourists who prefer pan colour. 2 x Artists' Water Colour Sable Brushes, 1 x Artists' Water Colour Pad, 1 x 2B pencil, 1 x Kneaded Eraser, 1 x Sponge, 1 x Cleaning Towel, 1 x Artists' Water Colour leaflet, 12 x half pans of Artists' Water Colour: Transparent Yellow, Winsor Yellow, Scarlett Lake, Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Green Ultramarine Hue, Winsor Blue (Red Hue), Winsor Blue Umber, Permenant Sap Green, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Ivory Black. Actual contents may vary.
A lightweight black enamelled box containing 12 assorted Artists' Water Colour half pans with space for an additional 12 colours. Includes: Winsor Yellow, Lemon Yellow (Nickel Titanate), Winsor Red, Permanent Carmine, French Ultramarine, Prussian Blue, Winsor Green (Blue Umber), Permanent Sap Green, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, Ivory Black. Actual contents may vary.


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Swieqi United
08.02.15 Plucky Swieqi stun Zejtun
Building up on the previous week's positive performance vs Zabbar, Swieqi United stunned Zejtun by beating them 1-0 at the Charles Abela Stadium.
Buoyed on by a 5 game winning streak and a sizeable crowd, the Corinthians entered the game in confident mode. Nevertheless, the Orange seemed more aggressive than the Southerners and were rewarded when on 16 minutes Kenneth Ekezie dribbled inside the Zejtun box and scored from underneath the goalkeeper.
Both sides exchanged good chances but unfortunately, goalkeeper Matthew Sapiano was seriously injured when he landed awkwardly right before half time. After the game, it emerged that he had suffered a dislocated shoulder and a broken bone - meaning he will be missing the rest of the season.
Matthew Mulholland duly replaced him and entered well pulling off some fine saves as Zejtun increased the pressure and tempo. However, Swieqi were in no mood for being complacent and the defence stood firm in the face of a barrage of long balls.
Zejtun did go close in the dying stages when a shot went wide but it was all smiles at the end as the Orange held on for a much needed win.
Formation: M. Sapiano (M. Mulholland), M. Asciak, K. Calleja, G. Refalo, M. Farrugia, J.C. Borg, J.G. Coleiro, O. Smeir (J. Briscoe White (D. Calleja Cremona), K. Ekezie, L. Konda, S. Bonello
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Once stood at a major crossroads that linked Scotland with England and shared a common link with its sister inn the Highland Drove as a drover's stopping place and also as a coaching inn.
History – or is it local gossip – recalls the area was the haunt of highwaymen and one came to a sticky end on a gibbet erected on Beacon Edge!
A way of saying thank you, to you our loyal customers for your continued support. We hope that you will reap the rewards from it in the months and years to come.
And don't forget you can use your Drovers card at the Highland Drove and our sister pub, The Cross Keys Penrith.
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Living in White Rock, she self-published The Border Guide: Rules And Rates For Shopping In The States (1988) when she was unable to find a publisher for her time-sensitive material. She now operates The Self-Publishers' Press from her home. [BCBW 1995]
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The Border Guide: Rules & Rates for Shopping in the States ($9.95)
ACCORDING TO STATSCAN, CANADIAN shopping across the border is up 22% from the previous winter. Little wonder BCAA is retailing Ann Corcoran's The Border Guide: Rules & Rates for Shopping in the States ($9.95) directly to its membership. "I don't feel guilty or unpatriotic about shopping in the States," says the White Rock author, "but my paranoia level is higher than ever." While offering nuts 'n' bolts advice for shoppers on the ramifications of the Free Trade Agreement, Corcoran also examines the vagaries of poorly written U.S. tariff schedules and flaws in the U.S. Customs computer checks. "Also, it is frightening to hear of the number of people who have been detained at Customs because of anonymous phone tips," she says, "often made by business competitors." She points out that U.S. Customs officials carry guns and that the very nature of the job tends to attract a higher proportion of bullies than other jobs might. For further info, contact 531-8661.


How can individual employees as well as managers create a more pleasant work environment? Thinking positively and giving to others are two good places to start.
Employees and managers can feel better at the office and create a more successful work environment by following a few easy suggestions from Shawn Achor who has studied happiness and human potential for the last ten years at Harvard University. Most importantly, he says, a positive mindset is a precursor for success: "If we can raise the levels of positivity in the midst of challenges, we find productivity and engagement rises and creativity triples."
Happiness doesn't mean being giddy or ignoring the faults that exist in ourselves and in others. It means being realistic and giving encouragement. According to Achor, having social support networks is the greatest predictor of happiness. In other words, if you're stressed or depressed, avoid working too much. "Seventy-five percent of employees' job performance is predicted by three factors: belief that their behavior matters; their social support network at work and at home; and seeing stress as a challenge rather than a threat," says Achor.


as long as there are also common areas for DISCUSSION using the LCD.
Female, Feminist, Gender, etc., types of issues. There is BALANCE.
once again our first priority is the LCD.
newsgroup structure that mirrors the mailing lists.
credit it deserves for making so much of the "Internet" easy to use.


In a recent revelation, four of the most respected London universities have achieved global renown after overriding executive pay, underprivileged pay and censorship in the "safe room."
Bangalore Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has made it to the list of the Top 100 World Ranking Rankings 2018. The last time it was presented was 2011.
According to this year's World Reputation Rankings, there are only nine UK institutions in the top 100 – out of ten last year, with Durham failing. While Cambridge retains the 4 th position, Oxford, which had already finished fourth last year, dropped to fifth.
College London dropped by two places in 18th place and Imperial College also dropped by two to 20.
with many universities receiving so-called criticism Practicing "snowflake" students who suppress free speech and demand "safe spaces" in lectures where controversial topics are censored.
The other British universities ranked 100 in the top were Manchest he, in joint 51, and Warwick in joint 81.
Oxford and Cambridge were the only non-US universities to reach the top ten , The list was crowned by Harvard.
The Indian Institute of Science is the only Indian university with 91 points, which has made it to the prestigious list.


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House Jugular
Fashion in cold places
House Jugular began in 1991 originating as a label for screen printed and ultimately rave clothing. I was able to teach myself to sew with my friend Pam and had access to fabrics from the thrift stores to start making hats and T-shirts. We started burning screens for T-shirt printing and developed a screen an ink that we could flavor and it would hold its lick-ability. Moved out of Pam's parents basement and worked out of my parents garage for a while, then ultimately opening the studio above the HUB Bar in downtown Idaho Falls. I was in the unheated ballroom of two drag queens making giant hats, and bouncing frocks in the sub-zero temperature. Assembling orders to ship across the country to the stores required serious determination.
Small town Idaho Falls Idaho in the snow. Looking down the street in front of my house... into the white.
House Jugular Clothing
Basement photoshoot with friends. We would make a ton of clothes for raves or to tour with Lollapalooza. Before we would head out, we would try and photograph everything. As most of the group was one of a kind due to vintage fabrics or screenprint variations, the photos are really the only record of these garments.
Photos with friends in the drag queens ballroom. lots of love. Some of my earliest sewing attempts. Mostly drapes and fake fur.
at Hub Bar Studio space in Idaho Falls
House Jugular labels and hang tags
Hang tag for items destined for Blue Boutique. I have always had a penchant for something a bit brutal in nature. Shows up once in a while.
Original House Jugular Label. Hand-screen printed on polyesther ribbon or grosgrain, we would fold under the two raw edges, and topstitch into place nice and flat. All labels were printed with Jugular's top-secret flavored screen-printing ink. You could lick the label. It drove people crazy.
Hang tag for the Rhonda Thunderclap collection. Consisting mostly of color blocked sports mesh and ironed on lettering don at the mall store. Made for Cahoots, Galaxina and Blue Boutique in Salt Lake City. the velvet ironed-on letters would say things like "Coma", "Kill", "Destroy", and "Knife."
Machine printed acetate
After the move to Salt Lake City, all Jugular pieces transitioned to having this earliest of Jared Gold Labels. The impetus was to be able to use a bunny. The bunny is a likeness of the king of Bunnyburry in the book Glinda of Oz. An entire fantasy race of rabbits with exquisite fashion sense watched over personally by the good witch herself.
House Jugular Runway Events
This is the invite to one of my first event style fashion shows. I was really focused on making sure there was something ro remember at the event. One of the models rode a scooter to the runway, and was unable to stop, thus crashing off the ramp and into the crowd spilling gasoline. OF course we never rehearsed anything.
Photos and stills from various runway events in my early years designing as Jugular in Salt Lake City. I learned early on the there was no end to the demand for crazier and crazier. I was selling my collection at Blue Boutique, Cahoots, and Galaxina, and occupying the basement of the Bennet Paint and Glass building. Hard winters in a dungeon-like workroom produced bright colors and larger-than-life characters.
Church of Santa Clause
My friend Richard Couch was working on very abstracted outsider art. It was beautiful and compelling in a way that all of the people around us including people at the raves in San Francisco would like to buy. Richard and I would spend hours writing the names of garments and hats for each of my Jugular pieces. We would try to make them as surreal as possible and sitting there naming the articles was very serious business. IT seemed that since the items were constructed of mostly vintage materials, a unique name was necessary for each.
Eventually Richard (St. Thella) would start hand painting tiny cereal boxes with a new brand called "Pickel-Os" They were dehydrated pickle chips, and dehydrated marshmallows that have been soaked in pickle brine. The boxes were each a work of art, when unsuspecting ravers would purchase the Pickel-Os they were always very disappointed, alarmed, puzzled.
The Church of Santa Clause was an organization headed by St. Thella and could be considered a complex obtuse offshoot of Jugular. It had a very religious / art humor. Two Mormons working on something very dark and remote in its meanings. There is a coloring book we produced as a zine. Scan is upcoming.
Of the enormous amounts of painting produced by St. Thella, most of the colectors, or people in the little scene, still have their pieces. Beautifully framed as a memento of these days.
Saint Thella business card from the Church of Santa Clause. He was so cheap he would go around and collect other business cards, and turn them into his own. Each one is a sweet little masterpiece. He would have piles of these just handing them out.
House Jugular Raves and Clubs
After figuring out how to sew clothing, I needed to get it sold somehow. We started throwing rave parties that were actually thinly veiled marketing devices to sell clothing. When you are the only show in town, you are the only show in town. The parties built immediate, large followings. Attendees would develop larger, crazier and more elaborate costumes. It had its own type of pageantry that would probably be considered as a regional thing. It was totally positive, and centered around making things. Whether it be screen printing t-shirts or building party decor on an art crew for over a month. The Jugular rave scene in Idaho Falls united gays and straights and allowed for the first time total acceptance of people.
Planet Horton
The first rave in Idaho Falls was really an elaborate set promotion and hype to get it started. People were completely uneducated about what it was, but in end, ,that didn't really matter. In Idaho, if there is something going on, anything...you HAVE to go. This rave was not completely formulated. The locals really needed to go through their first party, in order to see how we danced and behaved-- then return to the following party, much more organized.
Photos from Planet Horton. The first House Jugular rave party. Held at the "nightclub" Galleria in Rexburg Idaho. Friends from Sacramento Dj the party.
Mr Pesto, our headlining dj was a guy from Sacramento living in the dormitories at BYU Idaho. He had a few techno records, why not. He later becomes a well respected DJ in Salt Lake City and beyond.
I consider the content of the flier to mostly fiction. The idea was not to really give people everything, but to really craft a mystique based in a carnival crier-like manner. IT went quite well. At 3$ a head, an evening of feverish mind shattering rave...we delivered.
Yes! Local Press!
Local news drummed up to get the party started. I love the font work! Thank you to Jesse Walker for the scan.
Candy Genie
This rave was such an ambitious project , we were really supporting the raves with the clothing sales at this point. We had met many friends raving and selling our clothing in San Francisco and wanted to bring as many of them to Idaho Falls as we could to help us put on the party. It turned into a very magical time. Pam's parents were out of town and everyone stayed with her in the countryside. The city bound kids from San Francisco had to deal with snow and animals and entertaining yourself. We ended up driving a huge group of people back from San Francisco for the party. The rest of the people flew into Slat Lake City and had to be retrieved all the way up to Idaho. The party was amazing. so happy and creative. The after party was really a two day dress fest. Yes, the angry debutante's ball, which had become yearly tradition.
Candy Genie Flier, made on a photocopier at the grocery store. I saved up to buy the astrobright. I really wanted to make sure I could deliver everything I could that I put on the flier this time. Yes, we had a go-go with a flamethrower. Everyone needed a logo for some reason now.
When the San Francisco kids came to Idaho Falls. We made clothes for most of them, threw parties, fed them, and had the best time when they play that perfect San Francisco House. World fasmous DJ Destructo plays his first gig in Idaho Falls at Candy Genie.
Universe New Year's Eve
I wanted to be sure we had 4 distinct fliers for this event. The images scanned below belonged to Larva. She explained to me that she would lie in bed staring at the fliers. Turning them over and over reading them over and over. Getting lost in the mysterious glamour. She also drew on these fliers. Love. No photos have surfaced of this event. I remember the sound being incredibly loud thanks to Lovechild Entertainment. (Matthew, my friend had nice speakers.)
Steel Rhonda-gate
Jesse, the rave promoter, and I wrote this flier over the phone one evening. The parents of Idaho Falls were NOT amused. Jesse's sense of identity for the parties always seemed to require a slightly foreboding, but seriously thrilling flier. The cops were called, ON THE FLIER. Perfect. Oh you better believe Rhonda happened...she was brief, but FIERCE.
The print quality of this flier is astonishing. Offset printing in a world of relatively bad photocopies. It had an eggshell finish and slightly raised black ink. Jesse was always a fetish for clean perfect.
This party was held in a de-accessioned mormon church. The owners said that if me and my friends came out and moved all of the benches out, we could have a party. We spent two evenings moving benches and wore ourselves to hell. We started preparing the art direction by printing acres of lick-able wallpaper that we were planning to cover the entier inside of the entry to the hall. Once inside, St. Thella from the Church of Santa Clause had painted enormous murals of animals in outer space. Most of the paintings were 6' long or larger. All with his characteristic style of a very crudely hewn, vigorously abstracted animals with giant diamond rings. By the time the police arrived the team of Dj's and friends from Slat Lake City arrived to witness our version of a rave. All the dark and abstract art direction, relatively low-tech everything, and a room packed with eager beavers who are completely sober save a bit of weed and a wine cooler or two. It was really about the live Church of Santa Clause performance with St. Thella playing an amplified accordian on a ladder as the police enter. Rave.
The officers recounted the multiple incidences in which the police department had been contacted with complaints of Satan worship in the neighborhood. They were required by law to inspect the building. They saw people licking the wallpaper, deafening obtuse accordian, and a full black light treatment, they new they had arrived. The officer actually pointed at one of St. Thella's painted and asked "What's that supposed to be?" I told him it was art. He scoffed and said "not to me." We had to move the party to a hotel by the river. We left all our art behind in the church, and it was gorgeous.
My only party using a map-point to get people around. No cell, or internet, just fliers, and an answering machine. Instructions to meet by the giant indian, and purchase tickets there. You get a map to the pulsing, solid stone and stained glass behemoth situated on a lonely plain behind a windbreak of cotton wood...totally black Idaho skies swirling disco lighting. Photos are still surfacing.
Servo Crush
The largest rave production in Idaho Falls for me, the largest party required enormous art direction that absorbed up to 10 people over a couple months of work out the elaborate sets and props.. Stealing large cardboard boxes, sculpting and painting set pieces, roving characters, giant koo-koo clocks, 2 story rolling house of cards. It was a beautiful party of painstakingly hand-made art. All painted cardboard done through the dead of winter in the unheated dancehall of the drag queens that was our workroom. I managed to organize quite a few sponsors for the event including the humane society, limousine service, pagers, intelligent lighting and really heavy sound equipment shipped up to Idaho Falls from Salt Lake City. There were drag queens, a team of Dj's imported from San Francisco. We were shuttled around all evening by a limousine service. I believe I had a carload of friends and we went by a girls house to help her sneak out and climb into the limo to come to the rave. A huge team of helpers built all the props and sets, images are still surfacing of this event. As soon as we opened the doors, all of the t-shirts and Jugular clothing were sold out. The smart bar was literally processing trash bags of money. It all started when my dad had to rig the sound system directly into the hot-leg circuit of the building with car jumper cables. Hillbilly style.
The fliers were produced by Pioneer Printing in Shelly Idaho. They printed them for free if they would allow us to print them on any paper they had available. The colors were insane and the quality was hell. I designed it on the Mac at my piano teachers house. She let me use her computer.
The appearance of the Church of Santa and the live accordion performance at the Forbidden Planet Rave showed the first full tilt art direction at a party to achieve a full environment. Servo Crush was an enormous space to be filled with enormous sets. A wide open space with a half mezzanine was a perfect place for the fur lined Barbarella's Tiki Wonderlounge chill out pit.
The pre-requisite item for every Idaho rave was the security pass. This was was quite special. On clear jelly cord, the names of the staff were handwritten on the back and authenticated with a rainbow holigram star.
Regarding the color theory of the printed materials. It was beautiful. Very propaganda style. I had very limited layout abilities...but hammered you with text as usual. The printer would run the job for free as long as she could choose the paper. I marched all over town top secure our sponsors. I think they thought," why not?" Everyone was really nice.
Lollapalooza was a yearly tour for House Jugular for three years. During this time I would make friends and build accounts across America. It was really a free for all for making clothing and objects to simply thrill people. I was working from the directive of being more toy-like and less clothing-like.
I just LOVE the pull quote. "I.F. team scrounges to design odd clothes." That's how you sell it. Learning how to sew in a small town becomes something newsworthy. I just love everything about this. Community.
A life changing trip to San Francisco. Moontribe beach party, Enrique Calendar signing, first rave at the Russian River Amusement park and my first break-in party with Dj Carlos in San Francisco. My first eye opening. The experiences that inspired House Jugular.


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• Voluntary Social Service Organizations [Registration and Supervision] Act Number 31 of 1980.
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• Circular Letter of the Secretary to the President dated 26/2/1999.
Sections, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 In the Act are Applicable For Legal Action Against NGO's
Where, in respect of a voluntary organization registered under this act, any allegation of fraud, or misappropriation is made by any person, the minister may refer such matter to a Board of Inquiry.
1. The Minister may appoint a Panel consisting of six persons of standing who are not public officers.
2. The Minister may, for the purpose of this act, constitute a Board of Inquiry, each consisting of three members chosen from the panel. The Minister may nominate one member to be the Chairman of a Board of Inquiry.
3. The members of a Board of inquiry shall be paid such remunerations as may be determined by the Minister in consultation with the Minister in charge of the subject of finance.
1. Where a matter is referred to a Board of inquiry under section 10, such Board shall inquire and report on such matter to the Minister.
2. The procedure for the hearing and disposal of any matter referred to such Board shall be in accordance with the regulations made in that behalf.
3. Such Board shall submit the report on its findings to the Minister within fourteen days after the conclusion of the inquiry.
For the purpose of an inquiry under section 12, a Board of inquiry shall have the power
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This week's love list is a collection of smoothies and milkshakes that sound delicious and are perfect for summer!
Thank you for sharing my smoothie! These all look delicious!
Thanks for the Cast Iron Canteen mention and other ideas! They all sound perfectly refreshing on a hot summer's day!
he coffee biscotti milkshake looks delicious! I think I'll try my hand at that one!


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The Last of Us: The initial plans for Tess's story are different (video) – Fourals
Both in the video game and in its television adaptation The Last of Us, little has been known about Tess, played by actress Anna Torv. But in the podcast for the second episode, co-creators Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin mentioned how they would like to tell her past so that we can learn more about the heroine.
According to the original plans, Tess had a family. Wife and son before arriving in Boston. But these two were infected. She killed her husband, but she couldn't do the same to her son. So he locked him in a basement and theoretically he still lives, as a Clicker.
There were two ideas. One for the basement door to close and loud noises to be heard, the other for Tess to share her story with Joel and Ellie. But both Mazin and Druckmann imagined that this backstory would create a confrontation between Tess and Joel.
"(Tess) is brave enough to dare to hope," the co-creators said, noting that's something Joel currently refuses to do.
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Pursuant to the principle of reciprocity, Estonia responds to Russia and expels its ambassador
The release of the accused of stealing Dina El-Sherbiny's jewelry
New revenue record for Samsung in 2022 – Fourals
Ming-Chi Kuo does not expect a new iPad before 2024 – Fourals
EA canceled Apex Legends Mobile and Battlefield Mobile – Fourals
Samsung announced the new series of Galaxy Book 3 laptops – Fourals
343 Industries has no plans for story DLC for Halo Infinite – Fourals
The release of the accused of stealing Dina El-Sherbiny's jewelry
Two criminals were arrested for stealing car tires and rims in Giza
Taiwan announces the monitoring of 9 military aircraft and 3 Chinese warships across the country within a day
Motorola announced the Moto G73 and Moto G53 – Fourals


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Nora laid across the bed as she lazily watched James strategically apply paint onto the large canvas. The scent of his sheets had made her dizzy with feelings she didn't quite understand yet as she watched with a curious stare, much like how a student would watch a teacher.
His bedroom wasn't much of a bedroom, but more of an artistic studio for him to do his work that so happened to have a bed for him to lay his restless head at the end of the day.
Nora was 20, and James was 24, having over a thousand days more worth of wisdom and experience than her.
Nora had wished that she would look as beautiful as he did when he was working on his paintings as when she was writing her stories.
They were stories of people that came and went in her life, but as for James, she never figured to write a story on him, for as she imagined he would always be around for her to simply observe, shifting and changing her outlook on life for as long as he'd have her.
She had nothing on him.
Nora hadn't taken a single drop of alcohol that night but she still felt drunk. Drunk from James' words; they were words that she had been told all her life, but hadn't believed until that very night.
"I wish I was half as talented as you," Nora sighed softly; she hadn't moved her eyes away from him.
James gave a soft laugh, the kind of laugh that made all serious things seem like a joke, like seriousness wasn't necessary to be able to live.
The only necessary thing was to live, and Nora hadn't understood that concept.
"You're too hard on yourself," James smiled as he kept his eyes on his painting.
"You're too humble," she grinned back at him, "There's no hope for me," her melodrama was riddled with a playful tone as Nora rolled over onto her back to look at the ceiling where a blanket was pinned up, making the room seem like a whimsical circus tent that she had run off to.
"Don't lose hope," James' voice had become paternal and encouraging. This was a habit of his when he sought to teach her something. He'd constantly offer her gifts from what he learned.
Nora referred to these moments as, 'Professor James' Daily Dose of the Know'. she had admitted to herself on several occasions that he did know more than her, and what was more, she accepted it and embraced it.
"What hope is there?" she challenged as she rolled over to look at James again.
"There's the hope that for one moment, no matter how long or short, you will be the most important person in the world," his smile was as honest as his paintings; raw and straight forward.
The colored shapes pieced together perfectly with the sharp lines created from his brush. There was no ambiguity. It was either one color or the other, never shaded with confusion.
"Just one moment?" Nora's eyebrows rose as she gave him an incredulous glance. "That didn't seem very hopeful at all," her voice trailed into a defeated mumble.
"Yes, one moment," James assured her with no hesitation whatsoever as if it were a commonly known fact.
"That's rather sad," her voice cracked. The realist had slighted the romantic pessimist.
"Is it?" James finally looked up from his painted canvas to meet Nora's terribly naive and childish eyes.
life, and had chosen that instead of fighting them, he'd adapt to them.
Nora ignored her sentimental and reckless instinct to tell him that if he would have her, she would give him that moment he spoke of, and that moment would last him throughout his whole lifetime.
Neither of them would have to aimlessly search for basic truths for the rest of their lives.
Still, Nora wouldn't dare to tell him that she loved him.
What scared her even more than the 'I love you', which she was admittedly terrified of, it wasn't even the 'goodbye', but the 'see you later'. This was because she had grown so terribly comfortable with faded promises that there was no absolution.
People never disappear, they are either there with you or they have become blurred and indistinct ghosts, haunting you until you yourself have become a ghost.
'See you later' was the most ambiguous promises in the book.
"Those moments don't exist," Nora's face remained expressionless as she spoke, refusing to allow him to see right through her paper thin heart.
"Yeah, they do, little Miss Grouch," James laughed again. He always made laughing seem so easy.
"Yeah? How so, Einstein?" This time, Nora glared at him, matched with a smirk.
'Live' was always an uncomfortable word, almost as uncomfortable as 'love'. Still, as shudder-inducing as they were, they were enticing in the most addictive sense, in a way that a fool would yearn for a glorious and fictitious treasure.
Were 'living' and 'loving' things worth growing old and tired for in years of search? Nora's face said that she had decided that they weren't, but in truth she was undecided. The lines of James' paintings blurred into gradient shades, boundaries were crossed with the conflicting pigments of reds and greens.
She believed she deserved a 'moment', just as much as she believed James did too. It would be a moment of living and loving.
Nora knew they both had spent too much time of their lives rolling over in bitter acceptance during the important parts and fighting to the death for whatever parts were left in their lives.
'Perhaps the treasure isn't fictitious…' Nora thought to herself.
She could have her own story and maybe, if he'd have her, it could be real.
This was Nora's profound revelation, one that could not and should not be ignored. She laid across the bed as the sheets seemed to hug her into a certain un-escapable warmth that couldn't be better described than as the warmth of home.
James' attention had returned to the painting, his brush dictating the lines.
"I think I should be heading back to my place," Nora sat up from the bed.
Whatever this moment would have been, or could have been, it would have to remain a mystery to both James and Nora.
There they stood. It had become significantly colder since the sun had finally set. The smog from the ambitious city covered the stars in the sky like a blanket. The breeze was bitter, biting at their backs each time a train would shoot by on the rhythmic tracks, matching the tempo of Nora's impressively calm heartbeat.
"See you later," James pulled Nora into a stiff embrace, sneaking a final kiss on the cheek before letting her go. The cold breeze was almost pulling her away from him.
"Goodbye," Nora said stubbornly. He wouldn't change her beliefs. Not this time.
She watched him as he walked away. She didn't scream, she didn't cry, she didn't even attempt to hit him. Nora simply watched him expectantly as he became an opaque figure in the horizon.
With his back turned, she could finally let off her forced smile, calmly walking the opposite direction the train was going.
Another train flew by. The different colors of the carts merged into an unsettling gray by the speed the massive machine was moving.
Nora took a deep breath to turn around one last time, to watch him leave, his ghostly body would be hovering in the dark, along with the rest of the ghosts in her life.
Her eyes then focused on a body that remained closer. It was still, and difficult to spot in the dodgy lighting. It was her own body, lying beside the tracks, her arms rested on each side of her in a form of humble defeat.
What was more unsettling was the fact that her body in the distance was just as blurred and indistinct as James'.
She too had become a ghost.


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To act and learn to treat others with honor, dignity and respect for better relationships with family, friends and associates and to learn and practice ballroom dance.
Welcome to the National League of Junior Cotillions® (NLJC®). Established in 1989, and growing steadily since, we are a team of directors nationwide who believe in intentionally teaching children courtesy and character in order to build confident, self-assured, and influential adults in our communities. Our programs offer parents an opportunity to provide their school-aged children with the confidence of practicing life skills in a supportive and encouraging environment. We include training in courtesy, character, social dance, mannerly conduct, and more. We truly believe manners will never go out of style and the skills we help children develop are the skills of a lifetime.
Why, you may wonder, do we care so much? Why do we teach with such passion? Why are our students among the most successful in their graduating classes? To find the answer to these questions (and more), it is best that we start at the very beginning.
The story of the National League of Junior Cotillions® begins over 25 years ago, in Lincolnton, North Carolina circa 1979 when Anne Colvin Winters, a visionary young woman with a background in performing arts, began teaching etiquette classes to children in her small town. She wanted, more than anything, to teach the young people of her community confidence, courtesy, and the social skills she believed necessary for success. When Anne met Charles Anthony Winters in 1981, the two fell in love and were married. Anne enlisted her husband to start helping with her classes, and the two began to build a thriving cotillion program from the ground up. Their first class was held at an armory in Lincolnton, for which the young couple had to rent absolutely everything, right down to the very punchbowl used to serve their students and parents. However, the humble beginnings of the NLJC® are only the beginning.
As the program in Lincolnton grew, Anne, an entrepreneur at heart, envisioned a training program through which other women who shared her passion for community involvement and education could learn to build their own cotillion programs, too. While cotillions, programs where children practiced social dance, were fairly common, the way in which Anne approached her programs was quite unique. Most programs at the time taught mainly dance, but she believed strongly in the importance of including courtesy, etiquette, and life skills as a major part of the curriculum. She believed in keeping an equal ratio of young men and women in each class, and she believed in a structured learning environment where every child felt comfortable, safe, and successful. And so, the National League of Junior Cotillions® was born.
Over the next few years, Anne and Charles traveled around the country training directors and building communities. Anne's dedication to her directors was legendary. She was deeply invested in each and every director, and made sure they all knew how much she appreciated their efforts. With the help of a writer from Charlotte, Anne developed detailed training manuals in the early years, meticulously outlining the steps to building a successful program for her new directors. Order and organization made each director comfortable from the beginning, and the structure she put in place meant each cotillion operated smoothly. Directors from all walks of life began building their own programs and enjoying the impact their work had on the community.
Anne Winters, her husband, and her dedicated directors built today's NLJC on a foundation of respect, courtesy, and faith, and though she is no longer with us, her legacy lives on. Her impact through the National League of Junior Cotillions™ lives on in each graduate who completes a first college interview with poise, confidently introduces himself to the date who may become his future spouse, or feels comfortable at a social gathering for the very first time. We will remember her always, and our directors strive to carry on her legacy.
Today, Charles heads the organization. Charles Winters II (Charles and Anne's son) and his wife, Jennifer, work closely with Charles to carry on Anne's legacy. National League of Junior Cotillions® now consists of a team of over 100 passionate directors nationwide, operating 300 thriving cotillion chapters in over 30 states, teaching thousands of enthusiastic students in courtesy, etiquette and social dance. No other program has trained as many children in character, and social education. New directors join the team quarterly, eager to build programs in their own local communities. Parents enroll children year after year and are thankful for the positive impact NLJC® has had on their children and family. This is an organization built in tradition, carried out by passionate people, and impacting generations of families in a positive way. We invite you to join the NLJC®, whether as a parent, student, or new director, in our journey to empower the youth of this (and future) generations to live a confident, purposeful, and successful life. For more information on becoming a part of the NLJC®, please call our office in Charlotte, NC at (phone number), email, or request more information through our website.
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Cooman ha ricevuto le prime lezioni di pianoforte all'età di tre anni e ha intrapreso lo studio dell'organo a dieci anni sotto la guida di Bruce Klanderman. Ha studiato musica alla Università di Harvard e quindi alla Università Carnegie Mellon, sotto la guida di Bernard Rands e Judith Weir.

Cooman è un compositore assai prolifico, che prima di raggiungere i trent'anni aveva già composto quasi mille lavori. In qualità di interprete, esegue tournée di organo concentrandosi sulla esecuzione di compositori contemporanei: ha suonato prime esecuzioni di più di cento nuovi lavori per organo.

Cooman è anche un autore: dal 2005 al 2009 è stato editor del Living Music Journal ed è un contributore della rivista di musica Fanfare. Attualmente ricopre la carica di composer-in-residence alla Memorial Church della Università di Harvard.

Nel 2018 Cooman ha composto Two Orgelkids Pieces per il progetto educativo Orgelkids.

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Bibliografia
 W. Simmons, "Carson Cooman". The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition (rev. May 28, 2015, Oxford Music Online).
 M. Power, "A Minimum of Means". Choir and Organ 15 (2007), pp. 15-17.

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My new earrings came yesterday WOOHOO!
I showed the photo of my steampunk necklace on which the wonderful MadArtJewelry made, but of course the moment I put it on I realised I needed earrings.
And here they are! It's my birthday on Friday so we're going to Brighton where my sons live so that they can take me out to lunch (though I expect we'll be taking them, LOL) so I will be packing only clothes that go with my steampunk bling.


Calls for immediate repairs to a busy link road into Portadown have been made by the DUP.
Candidate Lavelle McIlwrath called on the Department for Infrastructure to urgently look at the condition of sections of the Mullahead Road, Tandragee and take immediate action to rectify some of the worse parts of the road.
Mr McIlwrath said 'Mullahead Road is a major link road between Portadown/Lurgan and the wider Tandragee area and thousands of vehicles use this busy route every single day.
"Some sections of the road are in extremely poor condition and need urgent attention.
Mr McIlwrath said: "I have raised the issue of the condition of Mullahead Road directly with DfI Roads and urged them to look at this busy arterial route with a view to carrying out the necessary resurfacing on the worst sections of the road.


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Wisconsin, Minnesota Agencies Emphasize Training To Combat Sex Trafficking
Wisconsin Department of Justice Reached Around 5,000 People Through Trainings In 2018
By Danielle Kaeding
Friday, January 11, 2019, 7:00pm
Agencies across Wisconsin and Minnesota have been intensifying efforts to increase awareness of sex trafficking, as well as train people to recognize the signs of sexual exploitation.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice created a Human Trafficking Bureau in 2017. Last year, the department reached around 5,000 people while conducting trainings with community members and businesses, according to Julie Braun, a policy advisor with the agency. Braun said they held trainings with the transportation and hospitality industries, as well as the health care sector to help them better recognize sex trafficking in the state.
"By training people on the front lines to look for certain things or recognize things when they see them as part of their everyday job, we want to increase the number of tips that come in. We want to increase the quality of tips that come in," said Braun. "We want to make sure that people in those sectors understand for the safety of themselves and of their clients what trafficking is and how their business might be exploited by traffickers."
In the first year of the bureau, Braun said the Wisconsin Department of Justice received 174 tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the nonprofit organization Polaris Project, which combats human trafficking.
"Traffickers move victims around a lot. They do that sometimes to evade detection," she said. "They want to make money in different communities so they move victims of sex trafficking around to different venues."
The scope of the problem is difficult to gauge. The National Human Trafficking Hotline, which is operated by the Polaris Project, received 261 calls in Wisconsin that reported 91 cases of human trafficking in 2017. The majority of those cases pertained to sex trafficking. In the first six months of last year, the hotline received 122 calls – 54 pertained to sex trafficking.
The Wisconsin DOJ has worked with organizations like Truckers Against Trafficking, which Braun said has contributed significant leads to the national hotline. In 2019, the agency plans to do a series of trainings with the bus industry, including stops at regional safety meetings for the Wisconsin School Bus Association in the spring.
"Our school bus drivers see our kids every day. They know the neighborhoods. They know bus stops," she said. "They may be the last person to see somebody who's going to school that decides not to go to school anymore or has been taken somewhere by traffickers."
Braun said children or teenagers who are being lured or groomed by sex traffickers may show up with expensive gifts, talk about an older boyfriend or girlfriend, or somebody may be waiting for them at the bus stop.
"They might see some of the clues that nobody else is seeing," she said.
The International Labour Organization estimates around 4.8 million people are sexually exploited around the world, according to most recent data.
Twin Ports Trafficking Task Force
Just across the bridge from Superior, the Twin Ports Trafficking Task Force has been working to raise awareness of sex trafficking throughout the area and northeastern Minnesota. This month, the task force emphasized the need for training to spot the signs of trafficking while kicking off a series of events to target the problem.
Native women and children are disproportionately affected by sex trafficking, according to Kathy Hermes, task force member and youth program coordinator for Lutheran Social Services in Duluth.
"Racism is certainly a reason. Vulnerabilities associated with colonization resulting in people living on reservations lends to this," said Hermes.
The Minnesota Department of Health found 826 youths who were sexually exploited received services from a Safe Harbor provider between July 1, 2015, and June 30, 2016, according to a 2017 state report. Minnesota lawmakers passed the Safe Harbor law in 2011, which no longer charged youths with the crime of prostitution. Around 39 percent of youths helped by providers were white, but about 8 percent were American Indian. However, American Indians make up less than one percent of Minnesota's population.
"I think that the fact that school age children are drawn into trafficking is something that many of us just struggle to accept is taking place in our community," said Hermes.
Last year, tribes formed an anti-sex trafficking coalition called Tribes United Against Sex Trafficking (TRUST). Fond du Lac Police Chief Herb Fineday said tribes have been laying the foundation for collaboration with one another through mutual aid agreements.
"It basically means that an officer can go on to that agency or that tribe and they can exercise the same powers as a law enforcement officer on that agency," he said.
Fineday said that means officers from the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa could make an arrest on another tribe in Minnesota with which they've reached an agreement. He said they're hoping to build on that initiative in the coming year as tribes tailor agreements to their needs.
While cooperation among agencies is essential, Fineday said recognition of the signs of sex trafficking remains the greatest challenge.
"I think more training needs to be put out there to the public sector, and I think that's going to be the biggest challenge for this initiative," he said.
Fineday said some signs of sex trafficking may include someone who lacks control of their finances, doesn't know the time of day, where they're located or is not allowed to speak for themselves and interact with others.
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Hear Me Out, March 1, 2019
Tribal Initiatives Unveiled Ahead Of Evers' Budget Address
Red Cliff Tribe Awarded $1M To Expand Community Food System


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America's Dairyland reels as low milk prices destroy family farms
Farmers look to Congress for help as include suicide hotline information to dairy association members
America's Dairyland reels as low milk prices destroy family farms Farmers look to Congress for help as include suicide hotline information to dairy association members Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2HERk0G
Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 1:26 p.m. ET May 1, 2018 | Updated 2:00 p.m. ET May 1, 2018
Wisconsin lost 500 dairy farms in 2017, and about 150 have quit milking cows so far this year, putting the total number of milk-cow herds at around 7,600 — down 20% from five years ago. Wochit
Tom Tienor walks along a row of cows eating at Riverside Dairy in Cato.(Photo: Jaslyn Gilbert/HTR)
MILWAUKEE -- Gina Stokes says she will keep fighting for her family's dairy farm, where the cows have names, not numbers, and the land tugs at her heart.
"There is no better place to raise my family," Stokes said about her farm, near Omro, Wis., that she and her husband, Dan, have with their four children.
"It's a fair representation of what true life is," Stokes said. "I cannot expose my kids to anything more real than the struggles, the benefits and the responsibility we all take in it."
Wisconsin lost 500 dairy farms in 2017, and about 150 have quit milking cows so far this year, putting the total number of milk-cow herds at around 7,600 — down 20 percent from five years ago.
Last month, more than 50 groups from across the country — including the Wisconsin Farmers Union, Family Farm Defenders and the National Family Farm Coalition — asked Congress for emergency relief from the deepening troubles on small dairy farms.
Among other things, they want the government to set a minimum price that farmers would get for their milk — at a break-even point of $20 per hundred pounds, or about 11 gallons, compared with $13 paid in some months of the downturn.
Gina Stokes makes a photo of her 14-year-old daughter, Sidni, and their dairy cow Smorz while her husband, Dan, and son, Spencer, look on at their farm in Omro. All the animals in their herd have names instead of numbers that many dairy farmers use. (Photo: Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
They're seeking a milk supply management system to stabilize volatile markets. And they're asking the government to purchase surplus milk for use by emergency food providers, such as food pantries.
Some of the solutions may seem extreme, but so is the crisis that's rapidly eroding America's rural economy and threatening families, according to the farm groups.
"The milk checks are not covering the bills," Stokes said of her family's dairy operation, which has about 75 cows.
More: Family farms decimated by Wisconsin's dairy crisis
More: Iconic Waterbury, Vt., dairy farm burns to the ground, killing all the animals
More: Eating yogurt could lower your risk of heart attacks and stroke
Yet there's strength and defiance in her voice as she talks about the value of small family farms and why people in the city might buy more milk if they knew the stories behind them.
"What you are going to find here is love. You are going to find animals that are treated like our children and that get more pampering than the adults on this farm," Stokes said. "If I have to cut back on something to make sure the bills are paid, and say a few more prayers, that's what I'm going to do because I am a lifer in this business."
That last notion, at least, is often expressed by farmers searching for answers in a crisis that threatens their way of life as well as their livelihood.
Suicide worries in dairy country
The situation has become so dire that dairy marketing cooperatives have started providing suicide hotline information to members along with milk checks.
Yet critics say the proposals being put forth to save family diary farms could make matters worse.
"I have always felt that the market is the best way to sort out the amount of milk required," said Mike North, president of Commodity Risk Management Group in Platteville, Wis.
Creating a minimum price, especially without supply management, could encourage farmers to ramp up milk production in a market already awash in it.
"It's a very temporary fix followed by the same headaches down the road," North said. "Any time the government becomes the leading decision-maker of how much is produced, you immediately ruin a market."
Some of the farm groups cite Canada's dairy system as an example of how milk supply management, coupled with price controls, has kept small farms in business.
But Canada has its flaws, too, said Gordon Speirs, a former Canadian dairy farmer who now milks about 2,000 cows in Brillion, Wis.
"I can tell you that it doesn't run as smoothly as they would like you to believe. Seemingly every year they are trying to change the rules … to deal with overproduction or underproduction or meeting a quota," Speirs said.
"All of those things we have witnessed happening in the U.S. are in fact also happening in Canada, just not as quickly."
Still, Speirs sympathizes with farmers' complaints about the U.S. government's Dairy Margin Protection Program, which is kind of an insurance policy for farmers when their milk price plummets.
"It's like a safety net that is hanging five feet above the ground when you are jumping off the Sears Tower. It's not going to save you," he said.
'Too damn good'
Dairy farmers face tough decisions when milk prices are low because producing more lowers their cost on a per-unit basis but adds to the oversupply problem.
Even as the number of dairy farms has fallen, milk production has soared from better cow genetics and improved livestock feed.
"We are just too damn good at what we do, as an industry," said Speirs, who is on a committee of farmers advising Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative in Green Bay, Wis.
Small farms say the milk surplus has crushed their market, even at some local cheese plants that used to buy from them, but now get cheaper milk trucked in from Michigan and other states.
"We have non-farm income to keep us afloat, so far. But it feels like we're one bad decision, or one bad weather event, from falling off the edge," said Randy Wokatsch, a dairy farmer near Wausau, Wis.
"Prices are already adjusting themselves," said North, with Commodity Risk Management Group.
"That's how these markets work. They ebb and they flow," he said.
Looking to supply and demand
Not everyone agrees.
Some farm groups say the dairy industry is not a marketplace where the supply-and-demand equation sorts itself out naturally, because it's driven by government policies.
"It's absurd to call it a free market," said Kara O'Connor, government regulations director for Wisconsin Farmers Union.
"Our nation's supply of milk badly exceeds the demand," O'Connor said.
Most agriculture subsidies go to a few, but very large, agribusinesses, said U.S. Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.).
"Policy-makers have had their thumb on the scale, and unfortunately that scale has tilted away from our small and midsize farms for too long," Kind said.
The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, the state's largest farm group, doesn't favor a minimum milk price or a supply management system.
There have been improvements made in the Dairy Margin Protection Program, and more changes are coming, said Kevin Krentz, a Farm Bureau board member with a 600-cow dairy farm in Waushara County.
Farm Bureau says it supports growth in the export of dairy products, and increased consumption of milk domestically, as ways for the industry to work through the price slump.
No government program is a "quick fix" for scores of dairy farms on the edge of shutting down, according to Krentz.
"That is the sad part about this, but it's the reality," he said.
Wokatsch and his wife, Kerry, milk 55 cows on their 330-acre farm.
He would like to see some type of supply management system included in the Dairy Margin Protection Program.
"I believe we can turn things around, or if not, at least slow the current trend. But this can only happen if farmers and non-farmers become informed, engaged and work toward the goal of saving the legacy of Wisconsin's family dairy farms," Wokatsch said.
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Willis Gorman
Rep. Willis Gorman
Former Representative for Indiana's 6th District
Gorman was the representative for Indiana's 6th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1851 to 1853.
He was previously the representative for Indiana's 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1849 to 1851.
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From Dec 1849 to Mar 1853, Gorman missed 291 of 1,027 roll call votes, which is 28.3%. This is on par with the median of 27.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1853. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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Seven-time Grammy winner Carrie Underwood is bringing her 2019 tour to several Southern cities next year.
The mega country star is stopping in nine Southern states as part of her international "Cry Pretty Tour 360" in 2019.
The tour kicks off in Greensboro, NC on May 1, and will hit Birmingham, AL, and San Antonio, TX in the same month.
Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, August 17 at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster.
Special guests Maddie & Tae and Runaway June will also join the all-female lineup as openers.
Underwood also announced even more surprising news for fans. The singer opened up about her pregnancy during her tour announcement via Twitter.
This is the second bundle of joy for Underwood and her husband former professional ice hockey player Matt Fisher. In the video clip, she points to her pregnancy as the reason why fans have to wait until May 2019 for the start of her tour.
"You might be wondering or asking 'Carrie, why is your tour starting in May?'" the singer said in the video clip before revealing her big pregnancy news. Underwood said her and Fisher are "excited to be adding another little fish" to the family.
Carrie Underwood rose to fame winning season 4 of "American Idol," going on to become one of the biggest names in country music.
Underwood will release her new album, "Cry Pretty," on September 14. It will be her first studio album on Capitol Records Nashville and marks the first time she has co-produced her own album.


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Spotlight: International Animation
Rhizome | Fri Oct 5th, 2007 8 a.m.
During the month of October the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California, will be spotlighting slices of the history and practice of animation from around the world. The first program, part of their ongoing Alternative Visions series, highlights the work of New Zealand-born artist Len Lye (1901-1980). Lye's early experimental films have many similarities to the 'visual music' style of animation championed by artists like Oskar Fischinger and Hans Richter, but the color and handmade treatment of the film stock itself also foreshadows the work of Stan Brakhage. 'Swinging the Lambeth Walk,' set to music by Django Reinhardt, is a charming example of Lye's direct interventions on to the filmstrip, and his more figurative 'Rainbow Dance' illustrates his interest in dance and motion. The rest of the 'Spotlight: International Animation' month includes a special series on the Czech animator Jan Svankmajer, another on Japanese animator Naoyuki Tsuji, and a series of popular Chinese animation. Though hardly a complete picture of the wide field of 'International Animation,' the program does comprise a few entertaining chapters in the history and international reach of the animated moving image. - Caitlin Jones