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Drunk Miami Man Steals BMW from Crash Scene on I-75
Kyle Munzenrieder
Kyle Munzenrieder | October 28, 2011 | 11:01am
Alligator Alley may be one of the country's most boring drives, unless, of course, you happen to be joy riding in a stolen BMW while drunk. That's what Miami resident Richard Jouel Abraham allegedly did yesterday, but now he's sitting in the slammer.
Abraham, 35, stole a black 2006 BMW from a crash scene on I-75 near mile marker 31 in Broward County yesterday, according to The News-Press. Its not known whether Abraham was involved in the original crash.
He then high-tailed it out of there in the stolen Beemer and made it all the way to miler marker 86 in Collier County. That's when Florida Highway Patrol troopers pulled him over.
Abraham turned out to be rather drunk, FHP says, and he was arrested.
He now sits in a Collier County jail accused of DUI, Grand Theft Auto, and, just for good measure, driving on a revoked license.
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newsletter March 16, 2010
3-Minute WOM Lesson: How to turn a fan into a spokesperson
By Cale Johnson on March 16, 2010
[Welcome back to the You Can Be a Word of Mouth Marketing Supergenius! newsletter. This is text of the great issue all of our email subscribers just received. Sign yourself up using the handy form on the right.]
Help turn customers and casual fans into spokespeople by adding these key elements to your word of mouth program:
1> Exclusive content
2> Status and recognition
3> Helpful tools
If everyone knows about something, there's not much value in sharing it — even for a hardcore fan. It's the exclusive, all-new, never-before-seen, super-nerdy details that fuel conversations. Not everyone will fully appreciate the specs and geeky news, but the enthusiasm it generates among your core talkers can be hard for everyone else to ignore.
Give status and recognition to your biggest fans to both initiate conversations and promote existing ones. In some programs, it's the status that generates the talking (like Microsoft's MVP program), while in others, it's the talking that earns the status (like say, White Castle's Hall of Fame). Either way, it all adds up to a lot of conversations about you.
Tools that create conversations help turn a casual customer into an evangelist. We're not talking about ads and brochures (at least in the traditional sense). We're talking about amazing welcome kits for new customers, demos fans can share with friends, and simple hand-outs that make it easy to introduce you.
Tags: evangelist, exclusive content, Maker's Mark, newsletter, spokesperson, tools, White Castle, wom, word of mouth, word of mouth marketing

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March recorded 139 crime incidents.
February recorded 135 crime incidents.
January recorded 127 crime incidents.
In the past three months, March had the most number of crimes in Bell Gardens, California.
March had about 1% more crime than January, with March producing 12 more crimes than January.
March had about 1% more crime than February, with March producing 4 more crimes than February.
Over the past three months, Theft was the most committed crime overall making up about 34% of crime in Bell Gardens, California.
The most committed violent crime was Assault, making up about 97% of violent crime in Bell Gardens, California.
The most committed property crime was Theft, making up about 71% of property crime in Bell Gardens, California.
We recorded 1 shootings over a three month period in Bell Gardens, California. That's an average of about 0.333 shootings per month. March saw the most shootings with 1, followed by February with 0 shootings, and January with 0 shootings.


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REC proposes further measures to reduce debt
Norway's Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) has proposed three new bond repurchase options today, pursuant on the company successfully splitting its operations silicon operations from its downstream solar business.
August 23, 2013 Jonathan Gifford
Vertically integrated solar company REC is attempting to move forward with plans to split its operations in order to reduce its debts and prolong bond maturities. It has proposed three bond repurchasing options, amended from its previous offer – which is indicated in brackets.
REC01: Redemption of up to 100% (up from 60%) of the principal value at 103% of par;
REC02: Redemption of up to 67% (up from 40%) of the principal value at par;
REC03: Redemption of up to 67% (up from 40%) of the principal value at par.
The bondholders meeting, from the REC01, REC02 and REC03 bonds, will meet on August 27 to consider the offer and to decide on the proposed split of the company's operations.
REC says that the measures, with the issuance of a new $110 million 2018 convertible bond, will prolong debt maturities. The company, in a release issued today, claimed that since its debt peak in 2010, it has reduced its debts from NOK9.4 billion ($1.5 billion) to NOK2.2 billion ($363 million) at the end of Q2 2013.
The transactions and splitting of the company will further reduce this NOK1.2 billion ($280 million), with annual interest payments of NOK100 million ($16.49 million).
Last month it was reported that a note from Citigroup said that the initial restructuring proposal was unlikely to be approved by bondholders, in light of anti dumping duties imposed on polysilicon by the Chinese government.
In today's statement, REC said that it is hopeful of a positive outcome from discussions between the U.S. and China regarding the duties. REC continued that it is continuing to ship polysilicon at expected levels and its operations are running at full capacity.
Jonathan Gifford
Jonathan is the Founding Editor of pv magazine Australia. Jonathan joined pv magazine in 2011 and became the Editor in Chief in 2014.
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Реализовать со стороны ILMT поддержку получения информации об использовании лицензий IBM через VMware vRealize Operations (для исключения прямого обращения ILMT к ESXi и vCenter).
vmman is loosing data collected to vcc, case is : upload collected by vmman.sh are failed because of the max of upload is exceed by the agent ( can be modified by console) .
Since ILMT 9.2.15.0 the reports will by exported by their given name. This should also be possible via ILMT Rest API.
REST API, retrieve "Catalog Scan Not Uploaded"
Enhance REST interface to also support retrieval of computer group information.


Professional one day training course - A blend of Indian face massage, Japanese facial massage and Acupressure for the face taught by our skilled tutors. Gateway Workshops are the only course provider in the UK to offer this exclusive Facial Massage course. The popularity of this Natural Lift Facial Massage TM course has increased through word of mouth since 2006 due to its effectiveness.
This has made it consistently one of the most popular courses that we offer; we were the first to bring this unique one day natural lift facial course into the complementary health domain. Although others have followed they will differ and no-one will offer the same in-depth course as our material is copyright.
FREE ONLINE REFERENCE NATURAL LIFT FACIAL MASSAGE VIDEO ACCESS WHEN YOU COMPLETE THIS COURSE WITH US - OUR GIFT TO YOU.
Also Acupressure for the face, these new therapies are becoming increasingly popular with clients.
Finally our massage encompasses the beauty facial techniques making this a wonderfully relaxing massage to receive and offer your clients.
Two of our most experienced tutors developed this unique facial massage and the sequence has been compiled in such a way that makes it easy to remember.
What products can you use?
Depending on your clients' needs and preferences, you can choose oils, creams or an aromatherapy blend to carry out your Natural Face lift Treatment.
The techniques are versatile and adaptable so there is not one product we recommend, it is entirely your choice as to which medium you prefer to work with and what is most suitable for your client.
This is our most popular course that we offer and will achieve impressive results.
Complete beginners are able to attend this course without any previous massage qualifications - It is accredited by the top professional bodies, you are able to obtain insurance allowing you to use it with the general public and charge for this therapy.
"We are fascinated by anti-ageing. Open up a magazine and you're likely to find an article on looking younger, while chemists' shelves groan under the weight of anti-wrinkle products.
However for every person willing to spend vast amounts of money and time on their looks there's another looking for a cheaper, less extreme alternative.
We all left the class glowing and my face felt firmer and tighter. I was buzzing as I went home and couldn't wait to give my unsuspecting husband the full treatment. "
Why choose to train in natural lift facial massage?
Many have heard of the term 'everything going South'; but you can do something to help.
A gentle face massage, using a range of simple techniques taught by our skilled tutors helps to relieve deep tension giving the facial muscles a lift.
Why is this therapy so popular with clients and in demand?
The amazing results are clear for all to see, over a period of time skin appears rejuvenated, and wrinkles seem to be dramatically reduced for many without the need for painful surgery. A natural instant facelift can be achieved with this treatment and clients return again and again for the results.
Natural Lift Facial Massage is very different to the mini face massage you will learn on an Indian head massage course.
This course is more in-depth for the face and is known as the natural face lift method or Facial Rejuvenation.
If you have already completed the Indian head massage this is the ideal course to follow.
It incorporates the Indian face massage, Japanese face massage, Acupressure and Face Reflexology techniques.
Please be aware this course is the only one to include facial reflexology, Lymphatic Drainage & methods from Indian face massage as well as the other 'East meets West' techniques making it exclusive to Gateway Workshops.
Other copycat versions are available on the market but do not adhere to the high quality and collection of techniques offered on our course. Furthermore, for your protection, our courses hold copyright so no other course will be exactly the same.
Can I really learn enough in just one day?
Our philosophy is to keep classes small that way more attention can be given to each student. You will learn the same technique offered by other companies; however we pride ourselves on one to one tuition in smaller classes. If the tutor feels a second day is needed this will be offered free of charge.
You will receive a comprehensive manual on the day to take home which covers the course material. This includes all the relevant Anatomy and physiology and details on how to get insurance.
Additionally we have produced our own DVD's which show the techniques step-by-step exactly as you have learnt them; including the contraindications.
The DVD will also be available on the day of the course and makes an excellent visual reference (£10.00).
These DVD's are available exclusively to our students and cannot be purchased without attending the course. Gateway Workshops feel it is essential that you've both performed and received the massage and training to ensure you are safe and competent.
The treatment lasts for around 30-40 minutes and during your training the tutor will advise you on cost to charge the client and how to obtain insurance to practice.
With our training you will receive your Practitioners Certificate at the end of day, you will then be able to obtain insurance and practice on the general public and charge for the treatment.
This is a small section taken from our Natural lift facial DVD, this is one of our most popular courses that we offer and it gives you an idea what to expect when you book one of our courses.
We have taken just a small section of the DVD for you to view, on the day of the course you will be with other students enjoying learning this new therapy together.
Please remember to have your sound on whilst viewing this clip.
This course is insurable and accredited by the professional bodies,	CTHA, Embody, Guild of Holistic Therapists, ABT - Associated Beauty Therapists, Towergate.
Fantastic tutor a real passion for teaching massage and it is contagious. Even step and detail of the massage was thoroughly explained and she was more than happy to answer any questions. I would highly recommend her and would be interested in her other courses with Gateway too.
Tutor was amazing and very welcoming. I was a bit nervous as the course was a new experience for me. But she made me feel very welcome and I would not hesitate to book with her again. A very friendly comfortable environment. I would definitely attend another course with Gateway. They are very professional and friendly.
I came across gateway after surfing the net for the course I wanted to attend. I was impressed with the courses offered also I could collect CPD points for my CThA insurance, being one of the factors guiding me to attend your courses. I will definitely attending more courses with you.I am so glad I came across the site.
My tutor was a beautiful person and has a wonderful energy. She is an excellent teacher and her passion and love for her craft really shows. Being quite a shy person, I was a bit nervous as it was my first hands on treatment, but she made you feel at ease and she was wonderfully engaging. The teaching method is brilliant as the treatment is broken down into stages and you get to try each part on each other. As the classes are kept small, everyone can get the most out of the day and it is a great feeling when at the end you put the whole treatment together and you realize that you have actually learnt it. You also receive a manual, which is informative, concise and easy to follow. Also a DVD is available to purchase which helps to refresh what was learnt on the day, once you are back into your own environment. I have looked, and researched many training companies and eventually chose Gateway, as I like the ides of small classes and being able to learn a skill in a day. I was really pleased and are now looking forward to other courses. I am thinking of the Chair Massage course next! Thank You Gateway.


Day 01 : Waengapu – Arrival ( East Sumba ).
Pick up service at your hotel in Lombok to Selaparang airport to take a flight to Waengapu via Denpasar Bali . Waengapu arrival our Guide will pick you up and transfer to hotel Elvin dinner and overnight. Afternoon visit white sandy beach of Kanmbera island for swimming, back to hotel.
Day 02. Waengapu- Waekabubak (BLD).
After breakfast at the hotel the tou start drive to Waekabubak and stop for a nice picture for the panorama few tehn continue to waekabubak check in hotel at Manandang hotel. Afternoon city tour visit Arung Village and Praiijing village enjoy with the local people at this village then back to hotel dinner and overnight.
Day 03. Full day tour to Bondo Kodi Districk west coast of Wae Kabubak. visit Praonabaro Village, Ranggabake Village, Ratenggaro and Wae nyapu Village. This part of this village is very famous in the west of Sumba Island after back to Hotel Dinner and overnight. Lunch box on the picnic style.
Day 04. Waekabubak- Lamboya- Waengapu (BLD).
After breakfast at the hotel visit Lamboya district visit Wunga village and take a picture for nice panorama view then back to hotel. Have lunch then continue to Waengapu check in hotel dinner and overnight.
Day 05. Waengapu- To Next Destination (B).
After breakfast at the hotel transfer to MAU HAU Airport of Waengapu to take a flight for back to mataram Lombok.


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The Sad Passions
by Veronica Gonzalez Peña
344 pp., 6 x 9 in, 17 b&w illus.
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
The lyrical story of a Mexican family torn apart by the fragility and madness of one of its members.
Told by six women in one family, Veronica Gonzalez Pena's The Sad Passions captures the alertness, beauty, and terror of childhood lived in proximity to madness. Set against the backdrop of a colonial past, spanning three generations, and shuttling from Mexico City to Oaxaca to the North Fork of Long Island to Veracruz, The Sad Passions is the lyrical story of a middle-class Mexican family torn apart by the undiagnosed mental illness of Claudia, a lost child of the 1960s and the mother of four little girls.
It is 1960, and the wild and impulsive sixteen-year-old Claudia elopes from her comfortable family home in Mexico City with Miguel, a seductive drifter who will remain her wandering husband for the next twenty years. Hitchhiking across the United States with Miguel, sometimes spending the night in jails, Claudia stops sleeping and begins seeing visions. Abandoned at a small clinic in Texas, she receives electroshock treatment while seven months pregnant with her first daughter. Afterward, Miguel leaves her, dumb and drooling, at her mother's doorstep.
Living more often at her mother's home than with Miguel, Claudia will give birth to four girls. But when Julia, her second daughter, is inexplicably given away to a distant relation in Los Angeles, Claudia's fragile, uncertain state comes to affect everyone around her. Julia's disappearance—which could symbolize the destabilizing effect of manic depression—will become the organizing myth in all of the daughters' unsettled lives; for if one can disappear, why not all of them?
Veronica Gonzalez Pena is the author of twin time: or, how death befell me, which won the Premio Aztlán Literary Prize in 2007. She is also the founder of rockypoint Press, which produces a series of artist-writer collaborations.
In Veronica Gonzalez-Peña's The Sad Passions, four sisters, daughters of a mad mother, devoted to her and afraid of her, tell their versions of a tortured family romance. The sisters' and mother's raw, impassioned voices are intricately interwoven, and, Rashomon-like, the novel speaks of familial love's strange demands, harsh effects, and lasting ties. Veronica Gonzalez Peña's The Sad Passions is honest and riveting.
Lynne Tillman
In Veronica Gonzalez's truthtelling novel of four bright sisters growing up with a mentally ill mother, the lucid, elegant writing defies the very havoc it describes. Built of multiple voices, with curious, haunting photographs, The Sad Passions is immersive, harrowing, and wonderfully intelligent.
Michelle Huneven, author of Blam
Five women, including a mother and her now grown daughter, Julia, who was discarded when she was young, narrate this novel of fractured family, selves, and hearts, which gently mesmerizes with its rhythmic prose, and the emotionally rich and complex strategies each woman employs in telling her story. A beautiful and moving choral tale of isolation, love, damage, and intimate struggles. Its many landscapes, especially Mexico City, sing too.
Francisco Goldman, author of Say Her Name: A Novel
For all of the effects of erasure and absence on The Sad Passions, the narration is incredibly present, crawling on the page in spidery, sprawling observations, setting up pools and lairs that lure a reader in.
Margaret Wappler
The Sad Passions, Veronica Gonzalez Peña's extraordinary novel of desire, loss, and matrilineal history, explodes the teenage pregnancy script through its unflinching plumbing of the bond between mother and daughter. The Sad Passions begins with a story we think we know, and then shows us how little any of us understand: about our ancestors, our parents, ourselves.
Lisa Locascio
The Los Angeles Review of Books
An exquisite and moving panorama of late 20th century life in Mexico and the US.
George Porcari
California Literary Review
I like the way the [cover] image moves with this novel, the way the absence becomes the presence. Veronica Gonzalez Peña does not write absence as a form of lack, her absence froths and grows agitated, it fills up the page with pulsing need.
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> Ayondo UK Announces Termination of Thomas Winkler as Director
Ayondo UK Announces Termination of Thomas Winkler as Director
Thursday, 18/10/2018 | 10:25 GMT by Celeste Skinner
According to the regulatory filing, he left this position on August 1, 2018.
Ayondo // ToDo refactor when changes on back-end are ready
Ayondo Markets Limited, the United Kingdom-based subsidiary of the Zurich investment firm ayondo, announced the termination of Thomas Winkler as a director. According to the regulatory filing through companies house today, he left this position on August 1, 2018.
In July, the re-designation was first announced through the Singapore Exchange Exchange An exchange is known as a marketplace that supports the trading of derivatives, commodities, securities, and other financial instruments.Generally, an exchange is accessible through a digital platform or sometimes at a tangible address where investors organize to perform trading. Among the chief responsibilities of an exchange would be to uphold honest and fair-trading practices. These are instrumental in making sure that the distribution of supported security rates on that exchange are effectiv An exchange is known as a marketplace that supports the trading of derivatives, commodities, securities, and other financial instruments.Generally, an exchange is accessible through a digital platform or sometimes at a tangible address where investors organize to perform trading. Among the chief responsibilities of an exchange would be to uphold honest and fair-trading practices. These are instrumental in making sure that the distribution of supported security rates on that exchange are effectiv Read this Term. Specifically, it said that Winkler would move from Executive Chairman to Non-Executive Chairman. This arose as a result of his impending executive position in an unnamed Blockchain Blockchain Blockchain comprises a digital network of blocks with a comprehensive ledger of transactions made in a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin or other altcoins.One of the signature features of blockchain is that it is maintained across more than one computer. The ledger can be public or private (permissioned.) In this sense, blockchain is immune to the manipulation of data making it not only open but verifiable. Because a blockchain is stored across a network of computers, it is very difficult to tampe Blockchain comprises a digital network of blocks with a comprehensive ledger of transactions made in a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin or other altcoins.One of the signature features of blockchain is that it is maintained across more than one computer. The ledger can be public or private (permissioned.) In this sense, blockchain is immune to the manipulation of data making it not only open but verifiable. Because a blockchain is stored across a network of computers, it is very difficult to tampe Read this Term initiative.
As a result, Winkler will also cease his role as a director of ayondo Asia Pte. Ltd and ayondo Markets Limited. He will, however, continue to remain as a director of ayondo Holding AG.
Thomas Winkler
On his LinkedIn profile, it still shows that he is the chairman and founder of ayondo Holding AG. It also shows that between April 2013 until September 2014, Winkler was a managing director at ayondo GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany.
Scope Markets Elevates Pavel Spirin to Chief Executive Officer
Thomas Winkler's Career Before ayondo
Throughout his career, Winkler has gained more than three decades worth of experience in the financial industry. Before working at the firm, Winkler's most recent role was a partner at Baltic Bau between 2006 and 2013.
Prior to this, he was based in the banking industry. In 2001, he joined ABN AMRO, starting first in the company's Swiss operations as the CEO until 2006. At the same time, he was also the Global Head of Private Investor Products at ABN AMRO Bank from 2002 until 2006.
During his career, Winkler was also an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs. Here he worked from 1996 until 2001. Throughout his time working for the American multinational investment bank he was based in London.
In 1994, Winkler joined SBC Securities Ltd in Sales and was based in Zurich for the two years he worked for the company. Before this, he kick-started his career at Bank Leu AG where he was a credit Manager from 1988 until 1990.
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Last week Mayor Rob Ford and City Council honoured two men who saved an elderly woman from the fire above Brioni's supermarket. David Evans and Shawn Murphy were honoured at the Council meeting on Tuesday, though only Evans was able to attend.
According to news reports, this was no common rescue: the men had to fight through smoke, flames, and exploding oxygen bottles to rescue the woman.
CityTV has the story and a video.
my sympathy goes out to the woman who was rescued from the fire. i hope she gets better very soon.


A writer (Arnon Grunberg) thinks that the time has come to take up the defence of mankind, to exonerate his species, too long and too often humiliated, from all guilt. He takes on an actor (Josse De Pauw) to deliver his defence speech to the court. Possibly out of habit, the actor engages a singer (Claron McFadden) and a pianist (Kris Defoort) with the aim of making the hymn of praise sound more convincing. Together, they will try to raise man out of the mud bath in which he is plunged by half-baked intellectuals, confused philosophers and perverted novelists. The question is, will our four heroes succeed? This production gives you the answer.
A good fifteen years ago, Arnon Grunberg wrote Mankind Be Praised, a pamphlet in which he declared that although mankind may well be greedy, lecherous, violent and cowardly, it can in its defence be said that 'this is all it knows'. All these years later, the writer still stands by the words he wrote at the time. At Josse De Pauw's request, Mark Schaevers adapted the piece for the stage, while De Pauw thought up a concept and performs it onstage with Claron McFadden, Kris Defoort and Arnon Grunberg.
Enough! Enough! Stop cheering me. I don't want any applause. I don't want money either. I'm doing this free of charge. I'm doing it because mankind is a splendid race, an intelligent race – the pick of the bunch. We are thinkers, great thinkers. We are cleaners too, if need be. We invented money, the microwave, brotherliness, the cuckoo clock, the woollen jumper and equality. Even the Red Cross was invented by my client, and humour too.


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L.A. Controller Maps Publicly-Owned Properties in L.A. to Create Affordable Housing, Community Development Opportunities
by the City of Los Angeles on June 20, 2019
L.A. Controller Ron Galperin released Property Panel, an online, interactive tool that maps 14,000 publicly-owned properties located within the City of Los Angeles — 7,500 of which are owned by the City itself. Available at lacontroller.org/propertypanel, Property Panel provides the public with information that could help put government properties to better use. Galperin aims to spur innovative ideas that create new economic development, affordable and homeless housing, revenue generation and other opportunities to improve communities.
Property Panel builds on the work Galperin's office has done since 2017, when he released a map of City-owned properties. The new version — built with Esri mapping software and data from the L.A. County Assessor's office — has an upgraded look and expands the scope by including all City-owned properties plus those owned by five other major government entities: the County of Los Angeles, LA Metro, the State of California and the federal government. Property Panel employs a color-coded system to delineate which government or public agency owns each property, and provides the property's location, size and name.
Users can search the map by typing in an address to find public properties nearby and also scroll through data dashboards that filter properties by Congressional, State Senate, State Assembly, County Board of Supervisors and City Council districts, and by Neighborhood Council boundaries.
Explore Galperin's Property Panel at lacontroller.org/propertypanel.
Follow L.A. Controller Ron Galperin at @LAController on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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Metal Sucks REVIEW: ABSVRDIST'S 'ILLUSORY' IS NUTS!... IRON MAIDEN NEWSWATCH: BRUCE'S KEYNOTE SPEECH, NEW...
REVIEW: ABSVRDIST'S 'ILLUSORY' IS NUTS! N-V-T-S NUTS!
October 12th, 2012 at 2:00pm
There's a point when genre nitpicking is just a plea for accuracy. There's a difference between scoffing at Mayhem's Chimera being referred to as black metal because it has production value and was written by a dude who hasn't been dead for almost 20 years, and not feeling quite right with Absvrdist being referred to as "blackened grindcore." First of all, blackened grindcore has already been perfected by two very angry men from England, and Absvrdist sounds nothing like that. Secondly, the very little about Absvrdist's debut album Illusory that qualifies as black metal seems incidental; a few intensely-strummed minor chords over insistent blastbeats isn't a genre qualifier so much as it is an aside. Absvrdist are only a little more a black metal band than Ghost (though the similarities stop there pretty definitively).
But that doesn't speak to the quality of Illusory at all. If you like metal fast and vicious, Absvrdist is your shit. It's the kind of fierce, big, chunky grindcore that's pretty impossible to resist. It's punky without being fey and heavy without being rigid. Think Rotten Sound or Trap Them, but darker and angrier. Grindcore can be fun or impressively nimble, but the best of it simply bowls you over. In that regard, Illusory may as well have been recorded on the bottom half of a bloodied steamroller. The guitars are huge and crunchy, the vocals righteously pissed, and the drums… oh, those drums. (I'm hot and cold on The Faceless, but between Absvrdist and Fleshwrought, I'm cool with their drummers' side projects.) There isn't a whole lot of metal this year that's more forceful and insistent.
That's because unlike mediocre grind, Illusory's songs all feel fleshed-out regardless of their duration. The two-and-a-half minutes of "Exposure" is as complete and lived-in as the blistering 28 seconds of "First World Problems" or "Needful Things." The band volleys between jittery tech-grind, beefy hardcore and, yes, black metal so well that it all functions as an extension of the same thought. Perhaps my qualm with hailing Absvrdist as blackened grindcore is because their brief wobbles into blackened whatever — the first half of "Amongst Humans" and the Brown Jenkins-style open Godflesh chords that swallow the last two-thirds of closer "Abstract Absurdities," in particular — hint that there could be a really brilliant blackened grindcore album in them. However, Absvrdist is absolutely fucking fine as is. In fact, leave the necro icewind harnessing to the ones who do it best and let the band stick with the pummeling, sweaty, all-encompassing grind they already do so well.
(4 out of 5 horns)
-SO
Listen to and purchase Absvrdist's Illusory here.
Tags: absvrdist, Anaal Nathrakh, Brown Jenkins, ghost, Godflesh, mayhem, Rotten Sound, The Faceless, Trap Them
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of mathematics created in the 17th century by I. Newton and G. W. Leibniz amidst debates of continental percentages. There was an acrimonious concern of precedence which took a long method to settle. It is now accepted that the 2 starting daddies made their discoveries separately, with Newton being the very first to come up with some fundamental concepts, while Leibniz was the very first to release his outcomes. To Leibniz we likewise owe the typical notations nowadays utilized in Calculus and the term Calculus itself. The story is not a quite one. Calculus relates subjects in a stylish, brain-bending way. You understand why sugar and fat taste sweet (motivate intake of high-calorie foods in times of shortage).
– How does a formula diminish and grow? Collect gradually?
– When does it reach its highest/lowest point?
– How do we utilize variables that are continuously altering? (Heat, movement, populations,).
– And much, far more!
The official research study of calculus began with the 17th century by widely known researchers and mathematicians like Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, although it is possible that it has actually been at usage as early as the Greek age. It is a mathematical discipline that is mainly interested in functions, derivatives, integrals, and limitations simply among others. This discipline has a special tradition over the history of mathematics. Despite the fact that it is divided in between the 2 meanings of Newton and Leibniz, it has actually still had the ability to develop a brand-new mathematical system and was utilized in a range of applications. Calculus was established from a have to comprehend continually altering amounts. Newton, for instance, was attempting to comprehend the impact of gravity which triggers falling challenge continuously speed up. The speed of a things increases continuously every flash as it falls.
No mathematics prior to Newton and Leibnitz's time might address such a concern, which appeared to amount to the impossibility of dividing no by absolutely no. Derivatives are slopes of specific lines called tangent lines, and the reader might remember that slope of a line is an idea from Descartes' graphing. Calculus assists develop principles and forecasts through making use of derivatives, integrals, limitations and functions. It's burglarized 2 subgroups called differential calculus and essential calculus Differential calculus utilizes function derivatives and differential procedures to evaluate the habits of particular amounts and anticipate charts through estimations. Important calculus opposes differential calculus by making use of anti-derivatives.
In physics, calculus is utilized in a lot of its principles. Among the physical principles that utilize principles of calculus consist of movement, electrical power, heat, light, harmonics, acoustics, astronomy, and characteristics. Even advanced physics ideas consisting of electromagnetism and Einstein's theory of relativity usage calculus. In the field of chemistry, calculus can be utilized to forecast functions such as response rates and radioactive decay. In biology, it is used to create rates such as birth and death rates. In economics, calculus is utilized to calculate minimal expense and limited earnings, making it possible for economic experts to forecast optimal earnings in a particular setting. In addition, it is utilized to inspect responses for various mathematical disciplines such as data, analytical geometry, and algebra.
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TriMission wide Shepherdess International Certification Seminar Level II with the theme "Ablaze with Jesus" was held on May 17-19, 2018 at Davao Mission Headquarters, 5 Palm Drive, Bajada, Davao City. This is participated by the SI's coming from three missions; Davao Mission, Northeastern Mindanao Mission, and Southern Mindanao Mission.
The seminar was spearheaded by our very own SPUC SI coordinator, Mrs. Rufina Gulfan supported by the three participating missions' SI coordinators; namely, Mrs. Beth Rosa of SMM, Mrs. Marivic Saramosing of NEMM and Mrs. Marilyn Moralde of DM. They were also the lecturers of the said seminar and they discussed about the following topics; time management, managing conflict creatively, self-esteem, money management, and dealing with anger. The seminar was supposed to guide the wives of the pastors in becoming effective women leaders, supportive wives in the ministry and faithful servants of God.
Aside from the lectures, there were also invited speakers that gave inspiration to the SI's during the morning and evening devotionals. We were blessed to have such dynamic speakers: Pr. Edwin T. Magdadaro – President of Davao Mission; Pr. Alex Necessario – Executive Secretary of Davao Mission; and, Mrs. Zenaida Necessario – the wife of Pr. Alex Necessario. They all inspired us to be ABLAZE WITH JESUS.
This trimission-wide seminar enabled the shepherdesses to meet, get acquainted with each other, form a special bond among ministers' wives, share and inspire each other. The program ended with renewal of commitment where we prayed for each other to always be ablaze with Jesus even with different challenges in the ministry.


Why it seems like just last week that I was discussing White Feminism's (TM) latest fail. Oh wait.
There's almost no way that you've arrived at this post and don't know what this is about, but just in case: Arquette made some comments about wage disparity at the Oscars on Sunday which might have seemed progressive, but were actually super White Feminism (TM.) The worst of what she said wasn't on stage. Later to the press she said.
So the truth is, even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface, there are huge issues that are applied that really do affect women. And it's time for all the women in America and all the men that love women, and all the gay people, and all the people of color that we've all fought for to fight for us now.
Obviously, as the joke of the title of this post indicates, I don't have really anything substantive to add to the conversation. So many other people have thoroughly explained the issues here forward and backward. But with it being the big feminist topic du jour, I feel I would be remiss if I didn't just note how much I agree with the backlash against these statements. It's infuriating how so many of my fellow white feminists continuously fail to think about anything beyond their own position in life. When you have the power of a podium behind you like the Oscars stage and you want to say something very BIG, you had better think through what it is you're actually saying and wanting for the world before you open your mouth.


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Cord Cutting: A Slow But Steady Thing
From the look of it, consumers gradually are shifting from viewing TV from the couch to watching content via online video streaming.
Ericsson ConsumerLab just released the results of its study, "TV & Video Consumer Trend Report 2011," showing people are spending slightly less time watching scheduled broadcast TV and more time watching online TV.
Data was collected in Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the U.K., the United States and South Korea. Of the almost 400 million consumers surveyed, 38 percent reported watching Internet-based, on-demand TV more than once a week, while some 80 percent watch broadcast TV more than once a week.
Glenn Britt, CEO at Time Warner Cable, recently made headlines when he said broadband was becoming the MSO's "anchor service."
"People want both broadcast and on-demand viewing to be available," said Anders Erlandsson, senior advisor at Ericsson ConsumerLab, in a statement. "TV and video have not been negatively affected by the Internet in the same way that print has; we just watch TV in many more ways than we did before."
Ericsson ConsumerLab's findings are aligned with data from other groups, including SNL Kagan and Forrester Research (For more, see ?OTT Continues to Chip Away at Pay-TV Subscriptions).
More than 40 percent of respondents to Ericsson's annual survey are multitasking – using social media on such devices as smartphones and tablets while they watch traditional TV.??
"Our in-depth interviews – especially those in the U.S., which is a frontrunner in TV/video consumer trends – show how social media usage is impacting viewing," Erlandsson explained. "The majority of families combined TV viewing with the use of Twitter, Facebook, texting, voice calls and forum discussions about what they watched. This is particularly the case when watching reality shows and sports."
In terms of what consumers want most from their TVs, good quality remains the top factor and is more important than, for example, the availability of 3D TV and access to applications. The service for which consumers are most willing to pay is access to the newest movies that still are running at the theaters.
-Linda Hardesty


In this week's episode of The BGR Show podcast, Jonathan and Zach discuss a major, transformative event that only comes around once in a lifetime: Jonathan finally got his gold Apple Watch Edition. Oh, and he just got married, too. Also covered this week are the BGR team's expectations for iOS 9 and WWDC 2015, and plenty more.


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Where Credit's Due
Posted on 14th September 2016 13th September 2019 by thetowerofstars
In a previous life, I was never that bothered about being credited. So much of what I did was collaborative, at editorial direction or straightforward revision of pre-existing text, that it often felt odd to put my name to it as a 'written by' credit. (This, of course, became ironic as the one book I have written every word for does not, and never will, bear my name.)
On the other hand, I absolutely understood it was important to others. The closest I've ever come to feeling strange about this was when I saw a line of text I'd written being used to promote another person's work, implicitly crediting that line to them. (Presumably they'd used my line as part of their work, and it was then quoted in promotion of the same.)
Still not sure how I feel about that, except… odd. But sometimes, credit goes beyond matters of oddness…
The Strange Tale of Jack Kirby
Recently Marvel celebrated the birthday of superstar artist and grandfather of the modern comic book, Jack Kirby. As one or two sources have pointed out, this seemingly exciting gesture can't quite escape the whiff of hypocrisy.
By all accounts, Marvel treated Kirby extremely poorly while he was still in the land of the living, while continuing to trade off the success of his creations. And it's a big, long list. The Fantastic Four, the Avengers, Magneto, Doctor Doom, Black Panther, the Hulk – recognise these from any recent films? Even the Inhumans – which Marvel seem determined to force down readers' throats as a replacement for the X-Men – were a Kirby creation. But despite the popularity of the characters, Kirby was denied credit, creative control and a share of the money brought about by his success.
Now, you may think that this is distasteful, but is it really that bad? After all, Kirby was hired to do a job, and was paid for it, yes? Well, yes and no. The US laws concerning 'Work for Hire' contracts didn't surface until the 1970s – well after Kirby had created most of Marvel's iconic characters – and Marvel's attempts to effectively backdate such contracts, granting them copyright to Kirby's creations, is shameful to say the least. The truth is, without Jack Kirby the superhero boom would not have occurred.
Some Justice
The issue was never resolved in Kirby's lifetime (he died in 1994), but in 2014 Marvel settled a case with his heirs, the day before it was due to go before the Supreme Court. And, certainly in the twenty or so years in which I've been reading comics, Kirby has been credited in reprints, collected editions and so on. But why was it a fight in the first place? Why did it take decades for Steve Ditko to be credited as a (co-)creator of Spider-man? Why did Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster have to fight for the right to be credited as Superman's creators? Why does Bill Finger – widely attributed as pivotal to the Batman who rakes in millions each year – receive little to no official credit?
The answer, of course, is money.
As far as I can see, the fear runs thusly: give a creator credit for their work, and you open the door to them (and their descendants) claiming entitlement to a cut of the royalties from such characters.
In a way, the Work for Hire contracts (and their non-US counterparts) clear this up. You may have the moral right to be asserted as a creator (although I understand this is a bit muddy in the US, and it's certainly waived as standard in a lot of contracts elsewhere) but if you're an employee, and you're under such a contract, your employer owns the copyright, end of story.
But should they? I'm not now talking about appropriate reimbursement for creators – those are long, complicated topics that I'm poorly placed to judge on as I don't work in the comics industry. Rather, I wonder if this practice is crippling modern comics publishers.
The Price of Popularity?
Look back over the years of modern superhero comics. Since the 1978 cut-off for Work for Hire in the US, how many characters have been created that even come close to echoing the popularity of those original Kirby creations? Wolverine's first appearance was 1974. Not one of the Guardians of the Galaxy (as present in the film version) was created this side of the cut-off. That's not to say that the rights to these characters reside with anyone but the publisher (I'm not privy to whatever contracts Len Wein, Jim Starlin, Bill Mantlo and the rest worked under), but it's interesting all the same.
I'll go out on a limb here, and suggest that the only superheroes created post-1978 and to have hit anything like mainstream popularity are Deadpool (1991), Harley Quinn (1992) and Hellboy (1993). (Although Hellboy's an odd one because he's creator-owned). Yes, we all have favourites that sprung into being during the same time period, but are they popular? Really popular? Like, if you ask your non-comics-reading, superhero-film-boycotting mate (we all have one) who they are, would they know? Maybe the Kamala Khan Ms Marvel will get there? I'd hope so, but it's too early to tell.
Why is this? Well, nostalgia plays a large part – concepts that don't fade entirely with age take on new weight. Older characters are more cherished because they remind us of earlier (perhaps happier) times. But I have a theory to propose: once you rob a creator of their right to acknowledgement for their own creation and the prospect of profiting by it, you risk no longer getting their A-game. What should be born of inspiration and imagination becomes more about paying the bills than art. Of course they'll sometimes hold the best back for themselves, even if they don't do so consciously.
Last time, I spoke about how I hate coming up with names. Good names (or at least, names I like) are a limited resource. Precious. Is there a voice in the back of my brain parsing each one, determining whether or not I should use it on a piece of work for hire, or hold it back for creator-owned stuff? I know of only one occasion on which I've consciously done so (and I'm damned if that wasn't the right thing to do), but the doubt will always be there.
And that's names. Irritating though they are to come up with, they're simple, straightforward. When we're talking about comics characters, it's a name, a backstory, a supporting cast and – most important of all – a visual design. That's a lot of pieces that need to come together in order for the whole to launch as a multi-million dollar franchise.
Who Loses?
And the comics industry really does need the help. Ironically, while the cultural presence of superheroes has never been stronger, comics themselves are ailing, with both DC and Marvel in a perpetual cycle of relaunch and reboot, attempting to bring in new readers through gimmick after gimmick. One of said gimmicks is the re-leveraging of existing characters as gender- or race- swapped characters, because it's easier to look like you're embracing diversity than to actually do it. After all, nothing says equality like telling the world that anyone can be equal, so long as they're trading off the reputation of a white man… Oh, wait…
Are there creators who can generate fantastic new IP to make comics truly representative? Yes. Are there creators capable of crafting new product to replace the mainstays of Superman and Batman when their copyright finally lapses in a few short decades? Yes, of course there are. So, Marvel, DC. It's time to learn from the mistakes of the past. Find those professionals, empower them. Give them a stake in their creations, like you should have done with Kirby, Ditko and the rest. Nurture their talent, rather than strip-mining it. You'll get better results, you'll make more money, and we'll get better comics.
(Tiny wee note. I'm not a lawyer, and it's entirely possible I've muddled some of the contract law and moral rights issues. However, my overall point still stands).
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Looking Through His Lens Clearly: The Photography of Wig Tysmans
by Art Radar on Sep 12, 2015 News | Comments Off on Looking Through His Lens Clearly: The Photography of Wig Tysmans
BY JAY BAUTISTA |
Despite of the emergence of digital camera, photography in the Philippines still develops into a very blurred picture and has yet to evolve from its commercial roots into an art form it was meant to be more than a hundred years ago. The lack of exhibitions dedicated to it and even the absence of a National Artist given to photography is proof enough despite the many who have blazed the trail by reinventing the art form, some even brought honor to the country by exhibiting abroad. Photography is still relegated as just "one of those subjects" under visual arts.
Herwig "Wig" Tysmans has been at the forefront in this struggle in turning the lens and clearing Philippine photography's focus having been one of the country's top portraitists and commercial photographers in the last 40 years or so.
Unlike other master lensmen, Wig had artistry in his Belgian and Ilocano roots. His grandfather is a known painter in Belgium. He had a writer for a father and a mother who was engaged in a shell handicraft business in Zamboanga City which exported its products to some parts of the world. The Tysmans eventually moved to Manila in 1961 when they closed the business.
The young Tysmans would discover his love affair with the camera at 15 years of age in 1971 during his final year in high school in Dumaguete while being involved with the school yearbook project. With a borrowed Olympus PenF camera, he was among those who took photos of his batch mates to be featured in the said annual publication.
On that same year, a field trip to Baguio will eventually make him comeback and stay longer. The cool climate, rich culture and warm hospitality of its people made him fell in love with this city of pines. He convinced his parents to allow him to enroll there after his high school graduation. With the influx of foreign tourists Baguio was a visual feast and fertile ground for his creativity, thus, plant his artistic roots of this city planned by the Americans. Unable to find a fine arts degree in any of the educational institutions there, Wig enrolled in the closest course possible, architecture at St. Louis University.
It was in this period that his love for photography brought back and fully bloomed. Together with four other Engineering and Commerce friends who became his friends, they formed a sort of photography cooperative in the campus. For a cost P25, they would photograph people and blow it up 20 x 24 inches size.
"We were into business because we wanted to buy our own equipments," Wig reminisces, "we made more than a hundred blow-ups, we made good money." A Nikon F with a 50 mm lens was his first gift to himself from his initial earnings. In time his friends became more interested in their courses while Wig took frequent and longer trips to the darkroom. Word of their good work spread fast and St. Louis became too small for their immense passion. In fact local newspapers relied on whatever he and his photographer friends would give them to end up in their pages. Converting his extra bathroom into a bigger dark room, Wig went full time after college.
Wig had a well-rounded background in laying the groundwork of his artistry. Among his early jobs also included documentary work doing publications in the countryside, some magazine assignments, and a stringer for Associated Press for three months World Chess Championships between Korchnoi and Karpov in Baguio.
Out on his own in 1976, Wig started doing portraits of old people who migrated to Baguio before World War II. Since he had access to them, he was able to convince them for a photograph them among them were Robert Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Chan of the Old Pagoda, and the Ifugao Lam-ang who wore G-string to Congress. From 1977 to the early 1980s, he was building up a series of portraits for his future one man show.
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Writer Eric Caruncho in an article, "Wig
became part of an emerging art scene that included fellow photographers Tommy Hafalla and Mannix Santos, filmmakers Boy Yñiguez and Kidlat Tahimik, and painters BenCab, Santi Bose and Roberto Villanueva. His early influences were painters: modernists such as Roberto Chabet and Lee Aguinaldo whose works exhibited a zen-like simplicity and straightforwardness that Tysmans sought to emulate in his photographs."
Wig reflects: "Malaki ang influence ng Baguio. Iba angculture sa Baguio kasi yung mga artists magkakalapit studios or nasa cafes. Unique in a sense is that we were all respected artists in group but we were opinionated. You could hang out and discuss ideas which hindi mo magagawa sa Manila. The environment itself was conducive to the arts as it was rich in indigenous culture, the Cordilleras. Plus there was a constant influx of tourists, thus, we would get a taste of Europe and America and have access to their photography. We could also go to Camp John Hay Library and see photos."
In 1981, in a chance meeting with Gilda Cordero-Fernando he was able to be introduced to Don Jaime Zobel de Ayala. Through Don Jaime's help, Wig was finally able to organize a group show for the Baguio Photographers Group at the Ayala Museum. He eventually showed his portraits for his first one-man show also at the Ayala Museum later in 1984. This same show would later tour in other consulates and the Philippine embassy in the US such as San Francisco, Chicago and Washington showing the same images, his manager and curator was now National Artists Arturo Luz.
By this time, there was no stopping the boundless energy of Wig. His next show was bigger and better with 90 portraits of writers and artists, some even in the nude at Goethe Institute in Quezon City. With the overwhelming acceptance, commercial work easily came in.
"Fashion photography was the closest thing to portraiture which I really like. It was the only direction for me – merging of my angst as an artist and limelight of the fashion scene. Press photographers lang gumagawa ng fashion photography nun. Sila lang yung may access sa newspapers, Sunday magazine and Lifestyle sections. Through my fashion work I ended up doing major portraiture. Subsequently since show biz is related to fashion, that followed too. Book photography came in as well." Wig adds.
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"The hallmarks of a Tysmans photograph are his minute attention to detail and a flawless technical sheen. Through his mastery of the subtleties of lighting, the photographer manipulates light and shadow to throw one or more particular features in bold relief while keeping others intriguingly swathed in various shades of light and dark. Through his mastery of darkroom technique, these qualities are brought out and enhanced in the final, museum-quality print," wrote Caruncho.
Early on Wig admits his influences were all foreigners such as the portraits of Richard Avedon and Eugene Smith who was a war correspondent. He clarifies though that he does finer versions in his attempt to be different.
Wig stresses: "For example Irving Penn, when I shot Sinaunang Habi book he was my influence, I even brought my back drop with me while shooting ethno-linguistic communities as how Penn did when he was shooting the Indian tribes in Peru and in the Andes, pero syempre iba yungapproach."
Equally lauded as his portraits are his nudes. "I like it because it is the most basic, wala kang dadamitan. Walang mag-didictate but I will have to catch the character of the person. I have a way of making him relax with me and capture his soul. That's why I favor artists as subjects because they are willing as they trust me," emphasizes Wig who is known for his signature borders which came from his Hasselblad bracketing and his having a one light source.
Of late he has done collaborative work for people in other disciplines. For example with Antonio Garcia, florist, "Ako nagpapalabas ng form, Ilalagay niya yung elements like flowers and chili. Sometimes the drive is not for an exhibition but more of an exercise. Depending on the magnitude, the body of works could in the long run be for a show." Nearing the landmark age of 60, he is planning to do another show of portraits but this time with more of people of our time and many of them new personalities.
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Susan Sontag writes in her famous essay On Photography: "Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all objects that make up and thicken the environment we recognize as "modern. Photographs really are captured and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge—therefore, like power."
For Wig a good photograph should tickle your imagination when one views it. One gives you wonder, doubt and amazement at how the image was done not that we want to analyze it, for sometimes the photo speaks for itself. He adds "the really nice photographs are the ones that you retain after a week, a month, a year you still remember them. These are the types of photographs that become iconic."
Wig's aesthetic sense leans towards the stark and macabre. "If the image is dark, I sometimes wonder why he did it because it is that was the situation or is it because he wanted to portray something to establish a mood? As a photographer you will have to know the intention."
"When digital photography came out ten years ago hindi ko feel," Wig further explains, "Some of my friends, kahit 3 mega pix bumili sila. It cost a lot of money. At a time kaya naman ng film then drumscan in Hong Kong. Purist ako just for a little more, this will I get. Bangko Sentral's Ginto book was my first venture into digital. Somehow I was convinced I could shoot something reflective like the BSP gold collection."
Recently a clothing line featured Wig's infrared photographs he did of popular spots Baguio Cathedral, Camp John Hay and Session Road in Baguio in the late 70s to early 80s. It was only Wig who had access to infrared film then which makes these photos more significant. Since infrared gives one an ethereal somewhat fleeting feel, quite apt since much of these scenes have changed or even gone forever. Baguio will always be beautiful for Wig: This is where I was energized and discovered my talent for photography, a medium for me to express myself."


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Meet your expert guide and walk together through the most fascinating and interesting places of Florence. See famous highlights including the Santa Croce Square with the stunning Basilica, Lungarno Torrigiani with the magnificent view of Ponte Vecchio, Signoria Square with Palazzo Vecchio (exterior) and the famous statues of Loggia dei Lanzi.
Next, enter the Uffizi Gallery to visit its famous and beautiful collections of Italian Renaissance paintings. Take the opportunity to see the works of the greatest artists from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance including Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and Michelangelo. At the end of the tour, feel free to explore the museum collections on your own before until closing time.


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Sophie Adventures
Dick King Smith, Hannah Shaw
Five-year-old Sophie finds that going to school and making friends is more difficult than running a farm! The ups and downs of Dick King-Smith's stoic, determined heroine will appeal to children and parents alike.A classic story for young readers by the beloved author of Babe. From the beloved author of Babe comes the second of six stories about Dick King-Smith's most adored (human!) character, the inimitable Sophie, re-imagined twenty years later by the witty, perceptive paintbrush of the award-winning Hannah Shaw. At last, Sophie has a farm of her very own - complete with barn, pond, cows, sheep and even a spotty pig! But a model farm is not quite the same as the real thing. Sophie's fifth year brings new challenges, like going to school, making friends and chicken-pox. Another year older and even more determined...
This book is part of a book series called Sophie Adventures .
There are 112 pages in this book. This is a chapter book. Publishers market early chapter books at readers aged 6-10 years. This book was published 2015 by Walker Books Ltd .
Authors featuring on this anthology include Margaret Mahy, Allan Ahlberg, Dick King-Smith, Adele Geras, Michael Rosen, Linda Allen and Vivian French Hannah Shaw is the hugely talented illustrator of the award-winning THE GREAT HAMSTER MASSACRE. She has also written and illustrated several successful picture books, including EVIL WEASEL and ERROL. Her brilliant work on CROCODILES ARE THE BEST ANIMALS OF ALL by Sean Taylor attracted the attention of the judges when it was shortlisted for the 2009 Roald Dahl Funny Prize.
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The Sophie Stories follow Sophies over four years of family life, as she starts school, goes on holiday and learns to ride. Sophies dream is to own her own farm, and at the end of the series a family inheritance makes her dream come true
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NEW YORK — Are consumers of "green" products more likely to be miserly and thieving? A series of psychological experiments at the University of Toronto — the results of which are scheduled for publication in an issue of the journal Psychological Science — seemed to suggest, at least in some contexts, just that.
The study is one of the latest entries in an expanding effort to understand the human disposition toward environmental issues, an area of inquiry that has gained new urgency among scientists, politicians and environmental advocates as popular agreement on the gravity of that über-environmental issue, climate change, continues to wane.
That is not to suggest that the Toronto researchers — two assistant professors, Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong — were investigating the climate issue. But their findings do seem to highlight the complexities involved in shaping popular opinion — and action — on issues that can seem hopelessly abstract, morally overwhelming and utterly far, far away.
Ms. Mazar and Mr. Zhong were investigating a particular tributary of human psychology that explores the ways exposure to certain ideals, as well as perceived adherence to them, can regulate behavior.
In an initial experiment, 59 student volunteers were asked to assign attributes like cooperative, altruistic, and ethical to two different groups of consumers: those who purchase environmentally friendly products and those who buy more conventional goods.
As expected, the consumers in the first group — those perceived to be making "green" choices in the market — were more likely to be assigned noble attributes than the nongreen shoppers.
But things got more interesting in the next two experiments.
In one subsequent exercise, 156 volunteers were placed in front of computers where they were exposed at random either to an online shop offering mostly eco-friendly products or to one offering mostly conventional goods.
Some shoppers in each group were asked to rate the products only on "aesthetics of design" and the "informativeness" of their description. The rest were invited to make purchases.
All participants were then asked to engage in a seemingly unrelated exercise that involved sharing money. The result? Those who had simply been exposed to the "green" store — that is, those who had merely rated the products — shared the most money.
Those who had purchased products at the green store were easily the least generous.
In other words, those participants who perceived themselves as having already done their bit for the world by purchasing green products felt no particular obligation to be benevolent afterward.
Things got even worse in the final exercise, in which 90 students initially shopped in either the green store or the conventional store, as before. Afterward, they were presented with a computer visualization task in which they were told they could earn money by correctly identifying which side of a box, divided by a line, contained more dots — although the dots were, in practice, always arrayed as to make the answer quite obvious.
A tally of individual earnings was visible to each participant as they proceeded, but the computer was, in fact, programmed to provide payment regardless of whether the answer was right or wrong. That is to say, it simply recorded payment for making a keystroke.
The experiment was also designed so that this apparent system glitch would become quickly obvious to participants.
In the end, despite having been told that the results might be used to develop future studies and therefore accuracy was vital, the volunteers who had shopped at the green store were significantly more likely to have answered incorrectly. This suggested that a greater number of the green shoppers were simply plucking randomly at the keys to get more money rather than trying to be accurate.
When given the opportunity to pay themselves from cash-filled envelopes that participants had been given at the outset, the green shoppers were also more likely to pluck out a little more money than the tallies on their screens entitled them to.
I chatted about these studies last week with my colleague Andrew C. Revkin, whose coverage of global warming for The New York Times over the past 15 years has exposed him both to the evolving science as well as to the ebb and flow of popular opinion on what should be done about it, and at what cost.
As I wrote at our Green Inc. blog last week, he was immediately reminded of another widely discussed psychological phenomenon known as the "single-action bias," a term that arises often in discussions of climate change.
For many citizens of the comparatively wealthy West, the question of climate change is often less a physical threat — at least in the near term — than a moral one. The worst and most immediate risks of a warming planet, after all, accrue to those living in poor, often coastal countries whose communities and livelihoods are more intimately tied to the whims and ravages of nature.
And that action, it seems, gave them subsequent license to quietly — and sometimes quite fraudulently — pursue their own private gains.
If that is the case, it is perhaps little wonder that neither the practical risks of climate change, nor the moral imperatives attending it, have done much — at least so far — to bring nations together on a solution.


The skilled ought to sit down with you and listen to your needs. The architect ought to discuss with you every element of the construction. For example, when you need a warehouse, the skilled ought to listen to your ideas after which advise you on the proper things to do.
The professional must also let you recognize about the risks and regulations surrounding the design that you have in mind.
Many purchasers are likely to take designs from their buddies or business associates with the purpose of replicating them on their sites. When a building is constructed in a given area it doesn't mean that it can be constructed in another place. The architect should analyze the design that you've got and let you know whether or not it may be replicated in your building site.
To provide you higher advice the skilled ought to visit the construction site.
After getting agreed on the right design, now it is time for the architect to design the building. The design process entails each the structural and pc designs. To create the pc designs architects use computer programs corresponding to AutoCAD.
If the architect is working a big agency, he/she shall be responsible for making certain that the design is perfect. The professional will also present the completed design to you (client).
Before you're allowed to assemble your building the design should be approved by the relevant government authorities. It's the responsibility of the architect to current the design to the authorities and comply with it up till approved.
Once the design has been authorised the development can now begin. The architect ought to assist you to find the right materials for the work. To make the work easy, the skilled ought to work intently with the development engineer.
In addition to purchasing the raw materials, the professional must also go to the construction site earlier than and during the construction process and be certain that everything is done according to plan. If there are reports to be made to the government authorities, the architect ought to assist you in doing it.
These are a few of the obligations of the architect. You must note that not all architects provides you with good results; due to this fact, HSW credits you need to do your research and determine the reputable professionals in your area. You may get great references from friends and relatives.


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Q: Solving the ordinary differential equation: $(1 + x^2)\frac{dy}{dx} + 4xy = \frac{1}{(1+x^2)^2}$. I tried using integrating factor but was stuck at the integration of $e^2x^2/(1+x^2)^2$

A: Hint: The integrating factor is $$\exp{\left(\int \frac{4x dx}{1+x^2}\right)}=(1+x^2)^2$$ Note that I assumed you wrote the ODE as its standard form with $1$ as the coefficient of $y'$.

A: We transform the ODE $$a\cdot\frac{dy}{dx}+b\cdot y=c$$
into:
$$\frac{dy}{dx}+Py=Q$$
then the Integrating Factor is $e^{\int P\space dx}$
Here, we divide by $(1+x^2)$ so that $P=\frac{4x}{1+x^2}$ and $Q=(1+x^2)^{-3}$
Then the Integrating Factor is $$e^{\int{\frac{4x}{1+x^2}dx}}$$
Use the substitution $u=1+x^2 \to dx=\frac{du}{2x}$ to evaluate the integral.
Finally, the shortcut:
$$I y=\int{IQ \space dx}$$
(where $I$ is the Integrating Factor) will help you the rest of the way.

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The issue of vehicle towing, including if, when and how the body corporate can tow an "illegally" parked vehicle, has been raised at a number of public information seminars presented by my Office.
There are no simple answers to these types of questions. Each situation is different and it depends on the facts to hand, including what–if any–by-laws about parking and towing are applicable.
In this article, I will provide an overview of some adjudicators' orders about towing as a way of providing guidance about this sometimes vexed issue, by presenting some of the adjudicators' statements of their reasons.
I stress that orders are made specific to a scheme and the facts of a dispute. It is up to bodies corporate and owners to consider the orders and how applicable they may be to their own circumstances. All adjudicators' orders are published at www.austlii.edu.au, with the ability to search by keywords.
I would also point out that within these orders, there are references to other orders about parking and towing, which of themselves may be of relevance.
• It is unwise for a body corporate to assume its by-laws provide for parking and towing without having first checked that such by-laws are properly registered.
• It is equally ill-advised, if not more so, for a body corporate to undertake or even consider undertaking towing without having first informed itself about its potential liability arising out of towing–that is, by seeking legal advice.
• On the flipside of the equation, it is not a good idea for owners and occupiers to assume they can park 'anywhere' or that there will not be consequences if they continue to park in contravention of by-laws.
• The body corporate must undertake a proper decision-making process, including acting reasonably, if it is considering towing a vehicle.
• Part of acting reasonably might include giving some kind of notice of warning for when it is intended to tow a vehicle.
Putting these points to one side, it needs to be remembered that towing is just one option of several available to a body corporate in addressing a parking problem and, as such, does not need to be the only option a body corporate ever considers.
At the risk of repeating myself from other articles and statements I've made in seminars and presentations, it should not be assumed that all owners and occupiers–let alone visitors–know what the by-laws are about parking and towing.
A body corporate facing issues about parking should be asking itself, have we done enough to ensure the by-laws are widely known? Are we making clear what our by-laws say about where someone can park and when? If we are considering towing, are we giving sufficient notice about that? Do we need to consider our signage and our communication to owners and occupiers (and visitors, if possible)?
While neither I nor my Office can provide advice about parking or towing or comment on the appropriateness or validity of a by-law, the information in this article might at least provide some prompts for bodies corporate on what they need to think about.
For further, general body corporate information please contact my Office on 1800 060 119 or visit www.qld.gov.au/bodycorporate.
This article was contributed by Chris Irons, Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management.


Babies are very expensive, so at a time when your income is about to be reduced as your outgoings increase, you need to save as much money as possible. Local newspapers and many websites are full of second hand baby equipment, and friends and family will see your new arrival as a great opportunity to clear out the attic.
Here are some tips on what not to buy - and what you can safely get second-hand.
A cot can be bought second hand, most will only need a clean up or a coat of paint or varnish (check paint is child friendly and allow several weeks for all solvents to disperse before using the cot). However you should always buy a new mattress, you don't know how many times the previous occupant vomited or had a nappy leak.
Baby baths will only be used for a few weeks, so get them second hand too. They should only need a clean up as well.
Second-hand car seats, however, should only be used if you know their full history. This is because you should never use a car seat which has been in an accident, and if you don't know the seller you cannot be sure of this.
Good playpens are expensive and if you can find a used one you could save a lot of money. A safety note; Many items are sold as travel cot/playpens. These are flimsy and usually on legs which could make them unstable once a child can stand. Go for the heavier, metal ones which are flat to the floor.
Pushchairs and Prams will get a lot of use and do need to be robust. Only buy a second-hand one if it is almost new. In my experience the more worn out they are, the harder they are to steer. Don't buy very cheap ones; they wear out quickly, are hard to steer, and the handles are shorter, which means you will stoop and this will make your back ache especially if you are tall.
Do not buy a babywalker. 4000 children a year are injured in babywalker accidents. Shall we read that again? 4000 children a year are injured in babywalker accidents.
DO NOT BUY ONE. DO NOT LET ANYONE BUY ONE FOR YOUR CHILD. DO NOT LET YOUR CHILD USE ONE AT A FRIENDS HOUSE OR AT A TODDLER GROUP. THEY ARE VERY DANGEROUS.
Accept any offers of baby clothes, you cannot have too many, but always wash them in non-biological powder before use, as babies skin is very sensitive. Only buy second-hand soft toys if they can go in the washing machine before your baby plays with them. I always wash second-hand plastic toys in disinfectant if I'm not sure of their origin.
Do not buy baby changing tables, a child can easily roll off one. Always change your baby's nappy on the floor, after all you don't know when they will decide today is the day to roll over by themselves!
These suggestions should save you quite a bit of money at what is always a very expensive time!


Lahore: A trial run of the Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) has been conducted, according to a news source. The trial took place near the OLMT depot. The source further reports the authorities as saying that a 12 kilometre long portion of the OLMT track between Dera Gujran and Lakshmi Chowk will be completed during this week.
On the occasion, Advisor to the Chief Minister Punjab and Steering Committee Chairman Khwaja Ahmed Hassan was quoted as saying that four additional train sets for OLMT have also arrived in Lahore. A total of 15 train sets have arrived in Lahore. As a related part of the project, he explained that roads leading to and from Dera Gujran have also been repaired.


Match report And so the Final League game was set set, Torre travelled to La manga resort with 10 men but with the best intentions to finish the league season with a high.
with the pitch being damp from the september night dew and Torrevieja finally winning a toss (3 times out of 10 this season) they decided to bat first.
Skipper K.Wood and C.Guichard lead the batting attack and looked to set a key opening partnership but with the opening bowlers of T.Vine and Rumo bowling tight lines the batsmen only managed 25 runs from the first spell of bowling but were still at the crease. A Bowling change saw the runs speed up when R.Williams went for 18 runs in 3 overs but creating chances when K.Wodd was dropped twice in 1 over.
Reaching almost half way through the innings the batsmen had reached the 50 partnership and decided to start the attack but saw C.Guichard stumped by some quick hands and saw the drinks break come 5 balls early. 53/1.
quick drink to regroup, Torre knew the 2nd 20 overs meant that the top order batsmen had the license to start attacking but saw P.Harvey smash one to mid-wicket but expertly taken by a one handed catch by S.Simkins. D.Reid came to the crease and was soon walking back when trying to strike some big shots and mis timed the ball comfortably to cover. P.Michael came in to join K.Wood and watched as he tried to sweep a straight one and was given LBW for a well worked 41.
Hein entered at his new spot at no.6 and contributed Little before being caught by another amaxing catch at point. The common middle order callaspe saw Torre 53/1 change to 75/4 in the space of 8 overs. P.Singh pushed a good few singles with P.Michael before being caught behind and then walked in R.Singh with good intentions and assisted P.Michael in a very valuable partnership at the end. P.Michael was finally bowled after a cameo of runs and pulling his hamstring a couple overs before. C.Wood came in but defended T.Vine out while R.Singh but some final runs on the board.
A very motivated Torre took to the field and prooved to be deadly as the fielding was Sharp and bowling was quick. Wicket in the 3rd over saw an amazing one handed catch in the slips from P.Michael after rellieving himself from the stumps. Followed by another wicket from C.Guichard taking a catch of his own bowling to dismiss the 2nd opening batsmens. 15/2. few overs ticked on and T.Vine was kept very quiet as C.Wood bowled good áreas with alot of pace and soon got T.Vine to Nick one thro to K.Wood who took the gloves for the day. few overs later saw A.Mcdowell cash in on a wicket as he got Rumo to Nick another one behind for K.Wood to catch comfortably. by the 20 over mark La Mange had managed 68/4 with Torre seeming the team infront. BUT with the drinks break saw D.Williams the no.3 batsmen gain some ground and put on an important partnership with R.James to wear out the torre field and bowlers. overs passed with singles coming here and there and ALOT of wides assisting. Lack of energy saw bowlers losing aim, a few mis fields come along and before knwoing, La Manga needing 15 to win of the last 8 overs. Both teams seeing the finsh line, Energy came back to Torre and the bowling became tight again. 5 overs left and 10 to win. But with C.Wood and R.SIngh bowled out, P.Singh stood up and wanted responsability. but couldnt stop D.Williams who wanted to finish the game there and then who hit 3 4s to end the game.
A good game where cricket was the winner and La Manga yet again chasing the score for the 2nd time this season in what was another close finish.
Friendlies are now being played by Torre in the following weeks and soon the anual AGM where the trophies will have new owners.