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Biografia
Pierre Gamarra fu un poeta, romanziere e critico. Fu anche autore di spettacoli teatrali. Il suo lavoro per i giovani è spesso insegnato nelle scuole francesi.
Viene considerato uno degli autori francesi più interessanti per la gioventù, sia in prosa che in poesia. I suoi racconti e poesie sono particolarmente ben noti agli studiosi. Infatti, gli insegnanti di letteratura francese trovano nella sua poesia, in particolare, assonanze mnemoniche notevoli. Questa parte del suo lavoro ha una costante preoccupazione pedagogica: quella di dare al pubblico infantile il piacere del testo.

Nel 1951, Pierre Gamarra venne sollecitato dagli scrittori Jean Cassou, André Chamson e Louis Aragon ad assumere la responsabilità della redazione della rivista letteraria, Europe, sotto la direzione di Pierre Abraham, al quale successe poi alla testa della rivista nel 1974. Egli fu anche sia critico letterario che collaboratore regolare dell'ebdomadario della CGT, La Nouvelle Vie ouvrière (La nuova vita operaia).

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Opere tradotte in italiano
L'Avventura del serpente piumato, Paravia, Torino 1964
 L'inciadiario de Tolosa, Valentino Bompiani (Milano), coll. Pieno Vento, 1969, traduzione di Diana Bonacossa
 Il Mistero della Berlurette, traduzione, introduzione e note di Ugo Piscopo, G. B. Palumbo, Palermo 1972
Parole e animali, Editori riuniti, Roma 1975
La Festa dei costumi, Editori riuniti, 1975
Impara a leggere, Editori riuniti, 1975

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Scrittori per ragazzi
Autori di fiabe
Autori di favole


It's that time of year again! I love the fact that Amy puts together the Blogger's Quilt Festival! She does such a fantastic job, so thank you Amy for all of your hard work!
I have really been debating about which quilt to enter this time around. And I have finally decided on my AMH Half Square Triangle Quilt! It is a very recent finish for me. In fact, I finished stitching the binding down last week!
I used the Loulouthi line for this quilt. I have been a fan of this line for such a long time and once I got my hands on some of this amazing fabric I knew it would soon become a quilt of my very own!
Make sure you go check out all of the other amazing quilts that are linked up over at the festival!
I have made a bit of progress with my Weekender Bag over the past weekend! I finished piecing my 120+ blocks and finished quilting them today!
I love these blocks! I am so excited to start putting together the bag! I really hope I don't mess this up!
These pics have the large front pocket laying on top of the panels. It was not my intention to make the black stripes line up! Unfortunately it didn't work out like that for both sides but I'm okay with that.
I plan on spending the rest of the evening reading my directions over and over and trying to get a game plan in mind for assembling the bag! I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!
Don't forget that Beth, over at Plum and June is hosting a giveaway today for the Long Weekend Blog Hop. Make sure you go and check that out here! Beth is pretty amazing I know you will love stopping by her blog!
Well I have cut some fabrics and have started piecing them together ..... I think I have made my Weekender Bag even harder than it needs to be. But I am hoping my craziness will be worth it in the end.
I plan to have some pics of my progress later this week hopefully!
I'm not used to paper patterns. I think I read the patterns 20 times because I didn't want to mess anything up!
No wonder I had this pattern for a year and a half and didn't do anything with it! The shear volume of print on this page is intimidating, let alone what it's telling you to do!
It's a horrible pic but here are some fabrics that I will be using, as long as my plan turns out the way I want it to!
Don't forget that Debbie from A Quilter's Table is having a giveaway and offering tips and advice. Stop by here to enter the giveaway and see all the nifty info!
The Long Weekend Giveaway Winner!
I am starting to compile ideas for my Weekender Bag and my zipper came in the mail today! I plan on trying to work on it a little this weekend. I will definitely show some pictures once I start the process, but let's get on to the giveaway winner.
If you remember, the amazing shop, Cotton Blossom Farm, sponsored our giveaway. Up for grabs was a FQ bundle of Gypsy Girl by Lily Ashbury.
Allison, I have emailed you! Thanks everyone for jumping in on the giveaway! Be on the lookout because another one might be coming shortly!
A couple of months ago, Heidi from Fabric Mutt started a Quilt-Along. I just happened to have some Christmas fabric laying around that needed to be put to good use. And so a new quilt was started!
It is finished! This is my first holiday related quilt and I love it. I don't know about you but my favorite part of the quilting process is piecing the top. And my least favorite is basting, I absolutely dread basting a large quilt!
Well, since the surgery, I'm not allowed to crawl around on the floor and baste quilts. My wonderful hubby says I have to wait at least 6 months to do that! He's uber protective of me, mainly because he knows I push myself too far. But in this instance, I gladly obliged .... as long as I could send it to a long-armer!
And that's exactly what I did! I normally don't shell out the money for that kind of thing but oh my goodness, it was wonderful! I love seeing all the fantastic designs they can do!
I picked a snowflake pattern and it adds so much to the quilt!
I'll be linking this up with the wonderful Heidi!
And the 4th Quarter Finish-A-Long!
The Long Weekend Blog Hop and a Giveaway!
Heidi from Fabric Mutt and I have teamed up to bring you The Long Weekend Event. We both love Amy Butler's Weekender Bag but haven't had the moxy to give it a try yet. I know there are others that also love the pattern but have been a little intimidated by all of the craziness! Well we have decided that it's time to jump in and do it!
And since the quilting/sewing community is so amazing we figured what better way to tackle something difficult than to tackle it together! The Long Weekend Event will be a place for us all to learn from each other.
We have a group started on Threadbias; you can find it here. We will be able to start threads to ask for support or offer advice!
We will have featured bloggers who will offer their advice from their own experiences with The Weekender Bag. And during the course of events, you could be making your own bag! At the end of the event, you will have the chance to link up your finished Weekender Bag for the chance to win some amazing prizes from our amazing sponsors!!!
October 15: Kick Off Day!!
I hope you will join in with us, I really do think it's going to be a great event!
Just in case you need the pattern, Pink Castle Fabrics has some for sale here. They also have been so generous to offer 15% off anything in their shop when you use the code LONGWEEKEND15. The code is good until November 19th.
Heidi and I have noticed that the pattern and the zipper can be tough to locate so we have complied a list of places you might want to check out.
Here are some of our fabulous sponsors!!
Now to kick off our event with a bang, why don't we have a giveaway!
Make sure you go and visit Heidi too! She's having a giveaway today as well!
This giveaway is sponsored by the wonderful shop, Cotton Blossom Farm!
For the giveaway they have donated a fantastic fat quarter bundle of Gypsy Girl by Lily Ashbury. Such a great line of fabric, isn't it?
1. Leave a comment whether or not you think you might join along and what fabrics you are thinking about using.
2. Blog, Tweet, or share on facebook about the event, and leave the link.
This giveaway will be open until October 19th at 7am CST. The winner will be announced Friday, October 19th. That's it! I can't wait to see who will be joining us! You will probably see some of my progress over the next few weeks!
Wow! This year has really flown by! I have several projects that I need to finish before the end of the year! I am so glad Rhonda from Quilter in the Gap put this event together, it really has motivated me to get some things done!
1. All that needs done is stitching on the binding. I'm soooooo close! This will be done and posted by the end of the week!
2. All I need to do with this is stitch down the binding. This is going to be MY quilt! I am sooooo excited. I absolutely loved how it turned out!
3. This is going to be a Christmas Tree Skirt made from Log Cabin blocks.
4. I need to finish this for a friend. It's going to be a cash system wallet. It's based off the Dave Ramsey money system.
5. I have all of the pieces to make a felt sewing kit. The owl will be the scissor holder. A tree stump will be a pincushion. And a mushroom will be a retractable measuring tape holder. It's going to be so cute.
6. This is a practice pillow. I joined the Pillow Talk Swap and I have a design I really wanted to use for my partner but I have never pieced curves so this is my practice run. So far it's going well!
7. This is the fabric that I will be using for the Pillow Talk Swap. I have the template cut out and ready to go. I just have to make sure that I am confident with piecing the curves!
8. And last but not least .... the Weekender Bag. Heidi from Fabric Mutt and I have teamed up and are hosting The Long Weekend Event! It's a support group for all of those who need a little push to tackle the patter, myself included! This will be done by the second week of November!
Thanks Rhonda for creating a fantastic event! I hope you think about doing it again next year!
Something New and Fun is Coming!
Heidi and I are announcing a new event tomorrow!
I don't know if you guys have seen all of the amazing Weekender Bags that have been popping up in blogland lately.
Well I definitely have noticed, and I have had the pattern in my possession for over a year. But at that time I was newbie in the sewing world and was terrified of the pattern. Even though I don't consider myself a newbie anymore, I am still intimidated by the craziness of the Weekender Bag.
So I got to thinking ..... I contacted Heidi .... and we have decided to host an event all based on Amy Butler's Weekender Bag. You could consider this a support group for all of those who are a little scared of trying this pattern.
So tomorrow will be our official kick off day telling you about all of the details! There will be giveaways, there will be guest bloggers who will give advice on how they tackled the pattern, there will be a link up party and there will be prizes!!!
We have also started a group on Threadbias. If you are not familiar with Threadbias, it's a great program! You can create an account for free. We have started The Long Weekend Event group, and this will be a place where we all can ask questions and can offer support to one another!
I hope you guys will help spread the word and consider joining us. We have some fabulous sponsors and you won't want to miss the fun!
Back in July I linked up with the 3rd Quarter Finish-A-Long, you can find that post here.
Here is a finish that I will be linking up with Rhonda's Post 3rd Quarter Finish-A-Long.
This is a baby quilt made from the Ruby fabric line. Such a cute line for a little girl!
This was posted previously but I needed a separate link.
Here is one of my finishes that I will be linking up with Rhonda's Post 3rd Quarter Finish-A-Long.
3rd Quarter Finish-A-Long Link Up!!
All-in-all, I think I did pretty well. Here are my finishes that I will be linking up with Rhonda's Post 3rd Quarter Finish-A-Long.
1. The finish I am most proud of!!! I actually just finished hand-stitching the binding today!
My LQS had a monthly challenge with our Bring and Brag group. For the past year, we have been given two different colors and were asked to make ticker tape blocks with those colors. So I pieced all 24 colors, and because I was one of the first ten participants to finish the top, I had it quilted for free!!! I just finished the binding this afternoon. I absolutely love how it turned out!
2. My second finish was a set of Christmas coasters!! I love this vintage print by Alexander Henry.
3. My third finish was the first of two baby quilts. Nothing super fancy here. But it did go to a super cute little girl!!
4. My fourth finish is another baby quilt. It doesn't have a home yet but I do have a friend that is expecting!!
5. My fifth finish is my Christmas Tree Skirt. I love how this turned out. I can't wait to use it this Christmas!!
This is a shot of the back.
There was only one project that is still unfinished.
My pogo stick quilt top is pieced and the back is ready to go. All I need to do is baste, quilt and bind this puppy! But this project will have to wait. I'm not going to be crawling around on the floor anytime soon basting quilts. I was planning on using this quilt to practice my free motion quilting. I should be able to get back to this in about 5 months. Until then I will concentrate on all of those little projects that I have been wanting to do!!!


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Mexico, Canada seek U.S. soft spots to bolster NAFTA defense
MEXICO CITY/OTTAWA (Reuters) – From launching a data-mining drive aiming to find supply-chain pressure points to sending officials to mobilize allies in key U.S. states, Mexico and Canada are bolstering their defenses of a regional trade pact President Donald Trump vows to rewrite.
Trump has blamed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs and has threatened to tear it up if he fails to get a better deal.
Fearing the massive disruptions a U.S. pullout could cause, the United States' neighbors and two biggest export markets have focused on sectors most exposed to a breakdown in free trade and with the political clout to influence Washington.
That encompasses many of the states that swept Trump to power in November and senior politicians such as Vice President Mike Pence, a former Indiana governor or Wisconsin representative and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Prominent CEOs on Trump's business councils are also key targets, according to people familiar with the lobbying push.
Mexico, for example, has picked out the governors of Texas, Arizona and Indiana as potential allies.
Decision makers in Michigan, North Carolina, Minnesota, Illinois, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, California and New Mexico are also on Mexico's priority list, according to people involved in talks.
Mexican and U.S. officials and executives have had "hundreds" of meetings since Trump took office, said Moises Kalach, foreign trade chief of the Mexican private sector team leading the defense of NAFTA. (Graphic:tmsnrt.rs/2oYClp2)
Canada has drawn up a list of 11 U.S. states, largely overlapping with Mexico's targets, that stand to lose the most if the trade pact enacted in 1994 unravels.
To identify potential allies among U.S. companies and industries, Mexican business lobby Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CCE) recruited IQOM, a consultancy led by former NAFTA negotiators Herminio Blanco and Jaime Zabludovsky.
In one case, the analysis found that in Indiana, one type of engine made up about a fifth of the state's $5 billion exports to Mexico. Kalach's team identified one local supplier of the product and put it touch with its main Mexican client.
"We said: talk to the governor, talk to the members of congress, talk to your ex-governor, Vice President Pence, and explain that if this goes wrong, the company is done," Kalach said. He declined to reveal the name of the company and Reuters could not immediately verify its identity.
Trump rattled the two nations last week when his administration said he was considering an executive order to withdraw from the trade pact, which has been in force since 1994. He later said he would try to renegotiate the deal first and Kalach said the lobbying effort deserved much credit for Trump's u-turn.
"There was huge mobilization," he said. "I can tell you the phone did not stop ringing in (Commerce Secretary Wilbur) Ross's office. It did not stop ringing in (National Economic Council Director) Gary Cohn's office, in the office of (White House Chief of Staff Reince) Priebus. The visits to the White House from pro-NAFTA allies did not stop all afternoon."
Among those calling the White House and other senior administration officials were U.S. Chamber of Commerce chief Tom Donohue, officials from the Business Roundtable and CEOs from both lobbies, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Mexico has been the prime target of NAFTA critics, who blame it for lost manufacturing jobs and widening U.S. trade deficits. Canada had managed to keep a lower profile, concentrating on seeking U.S. allies in case of an open conflict.
That changed in late April when the Trump administration attacked Ottawa over support for dairy farmers and slapped preliminary duties on softwood lumber imports.
Despite an apparently weaker position – Canada and Mexico jointly absorb about a third of U.S. exports, but rely on U.S. demand for three quarters of their own – the two have managed to even up the odds in the past by exploiting certain weak spots.
When Washington clashed with Ottawa in 2013 over meat-labeling rules, Canada retaliated by targeting exports from the states of key U.S. legislators. A similar policy is again under consideration.
Mexico is taking a leaf out of a 2011 trucking dispute to identify U.S. interests that are most exposed, such as $2.3 billion of yellow corn exports.
Mexico is also targeting members of Trump advisory bodies, the Strategic and Policy Forum and the Manufacturing Council, led by Blackstone Group LP's Stephen Schwarzman and Dow Chemical Co boss Andrew Liveris respectively.
Senior Trump administration officials and Republican lawmakers in charge of trade, agriculture and finance committees also feature among top lobbying targets.
Canada has spread the task of lobbying the United States among ministries, official say, and is particularly keen to avoid disruption to the highly-integrated auto industry.
A core component of Mexico's strategy is to argue the three nations have a common interest in fending off Asian competition and exploring scope to source more content regionally.
The defenders of NAFTA also say that it supports millions of jobs in the United States, and point out that U.S. trade shortfalls with Canada and Mexico have declined over the past decade even as the deficit with China continued to climb.
Part of IQOM's mission is to identify sectors where NAFTA rules of origin could be modified to increase regional content.
For example, U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials are debating how the NAFTA region can reduce auto parts imports from China, Japan, South Korea or Germany, Mexican officials say.
"The key thing is to see how we can get a win-win on the products most used in our countries, and to develop common manufacturing platforms that allow us just to buy between ourselves the biggest amount of inputs we need," said Luis Aguirre, vice-president of Mexican industry group Concamin.
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Happy June! Schools are out, pools are open, festivals are rocking – and we have some great Stapleton real estate for your consideration! This week we have 47 total resale listings including a great variety of price points and housing types. You can review them all, plus the under contract and sold listings from around the neighborhood, here in our weekly Stapleton update!
We only have 6 new resale homes this week. Eek! Of those 6 listings, 5 are attached homes between $395,000-$515,000. We may only have a handful of new listings this week – but if you are looking for something under $500k, this may be your weekend as you have 14 possibilities!
Not finding the single family home you were hoping for under $600k? No worries – you are in luck! Wonderland Homes has 2 fabulous "Spec" homes in Beeler Park that will be ready in August and another one scheduled for Sept/Oct! The August delivery homes are both over 2200 sqft with finished basements, upgraded kitchens, quartz countertops, oversized garages and priced at $544k and $565k – that's with all finishes included! With Spec homes, there are no uncertain upgrade costs since all the selections have already been chosen by professional designers and are included in the price! If you can wait until Sept/Oct, Wonderland has a beautifully upgraded 2-story Craftsman with 3bd, 2.5ba and an unfinished basement for under $520,000. I love Spec homes – you get a brand new home, new construction pricing but you don't have to wait and you know the finishes are going to look great! I have details on these homes, photos of the finish selections and can walk you through how to get one. Just send an email or call anytime!
7 Stapleton homes went Under Contract last week – which is a little quiet, but makes sense given that it was a holiday weekend and the end of the school year. The median "days on market" (meaning the time it took from when they were listed to when they went under contract) was 10 days and all but one were listed under $600,000.
7 Stapleton homes closed over the past week, and, on average, sellers received a touch over 100% of their original asking price. Great for those sellers! The median "days on market" was 7 days, and 5 of the 7 went under contract in less than a week. If you're a potential seller – let's talk! We're in the prime selling season and inventory is still lower than buyers need – so let's get your home sold!
There are currently 47 active resale listings in Stapleton. This week confirmed the trend we've seen that homes under $600k are moving quickly but homes in the $800k+ range are taking longer to find a buyer. The median "days on market" for homes in this higher price range is just shy of 1.5 months – so if you are a seller in the higher price range, be sure to give yourself a little more time to sell when you're planning to move.
– Mid $400k's – KB Homes single family home on a courtyard. Walking distance to Westerly Creek Elementary and Stanley Marketplace. 3 bed/3 bath, 1,556 sf. Completely renovated and move in ready. Listing June 17!
– Mid $500k's – Wonderland Homes "Cimarron" floor plan in Conservatory Green. Like new. Sleek finishes, finished basement, 4 bedrooms, South facing, private backyard and shared courtyard out front. This listing is now coming in around mid June so if you're interested lets chat! We don't have pictures yet, but here is another recent Cimarron sale just so you can see the style and layout.
– Low $600k's – Thrive Home Builders "Belcaro" floor plan in Central Park West. Corner lot, open layout, tons of upgrades and a finished basement! 4 beds and over 3,000 finished sf. This one is a good fit for someone with patience, it won't hit the market until Fall with a late 2017 possession date for the buyer.
That wraps up our weekly update – hope you enjoyed it! As always, if you're looking for a Stapleton-based agent (and neighbor) to help you find your perfect home, Joe and I at Focus Real Estate are here to help!
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Modern Educational Building-The University of Aberdeen in Scotland SHL Architects
Updated on November 25, 2013 November 3, 2022 by Bogdan Profir
The Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen have designed yet another modern library, as impressive as The Black Diamond in Copenhagen which we previously featured on our website.
The building replaced the university's former library, the Queen Mother, constructed in 1965. The new building was officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain on the 24th of September. Its purpose is very important and represents a strategic step in the development of the city of Aberdeen. Since the library has opened its doors to public, more than 700,000 people have visited it, in less than a year. This marks a significant achievement and proves that architecture can make a difference. It is however something more than just a library where people go to find books and read; it is a state of the art research and learning center for students, university staff, visitors and the public. Morten Schmidt, one of the people who laid the foundations of the Dutch firm gave a statement on the matter:
"The University of Aberdeen New Library functions as a meeting place and a cultural center for the students of the University as well as the Aberdeen community. The façade of the building shimmers during the day and glows softly at night, creating a luminous landmark – a beacon – for the city of Aberdeen. The increase in visitors shows that the new library has affected the students everyday behavior. The students come to study in the new library and to be a part of the social community of the University."
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects have gained a lot of experience over time in designing libraries. They have ongoing projects all across the globe which are surely to be very appreciated concerning what they have come up with so far. Even if most of their projects have the same function, each of them is unique and bears the mark of the ingeniousness these architects possess. The project this article is all about has a very dynamic interior featuring a spiraling atrium expanding all the way from the first to the eighth level, connecting them all at the same time. Kind of unusual for a library but definitely intriguing, the vortex is a wonderful piece of design that attracts visitors and eliminates that dull feeling you get when entering a library.
The relationship between the interior and the exterior is defined by a very powerful contrast which creates an element of surprise for the visitors. When approaching the building you get the sense that its regular forms are to be found inside as well and that the library is just a very normal place, probably a bit boring. This effect enhances the intriguing attributes of the atrium even more and helps you remember the place. The clean cut exterior has a very organic appearance created by the full and empty, creating a ratio of 50% transparent and opaque panes. The windows found between the white colored elements on the facade enable a great amount of natural light to flood the interior while offering great panoramic views of the city of Aberdeen, at the same time. And during night time I can only imagine how wonderful this structure would enlighten the sky.
The facades have been carefully designed having in mind sustainability as well; the opaque panels help reduce heat loss. Overall, the building meets the highest sustainable standards, minimizing long term running costs and energy use, and has been certified BREEAM Excellent.
Chris Banks, University Librarian & Director, Library, Special Collections & Museums, University of Aberdeen expressed his appreciation for this great academic achievement:
"The building is a bold and affirmative statement from the University. It says 'We mean businesses and it also says 'you are welcome here'. I love the way in which academics demonstrate their pride in the building: by bringing colleagues from other universities into it and also by bringing along members of their own families. I'm also delighted that the building has attracted so many more students to use the library and the way in which it provides for both social and formal meeting spaces. It has, for the first time, allowed us to truly showcase our very significant special collections."
Homesthetics conclusion:
Public architectural programs like libraries and concert halls should always be given the utmost importance because they contribute to our society's well-being and education. However, what Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects have achieved is something more than just a building that serves an academic purpose; it is a wonderful piece of architecture that defines this occupation's goal, which is to turn the basic task of building into art.
Photo courtesy to Adam Mørk and Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Title: Sir Duncan Rice Library
Architect: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Client: University of Aberdeen
Area: 15,500 m²
Construction sum: € 40 million excl. VAT
Competition: 2005, 1st prize in restricted international competition
Status: Construction period 2009 – 2011
Engineer: Arup & Partners Ltd
Quantity Surveyors: Davis Langdon LLP
Landscape Architect: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Interior: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
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Bogdan joined Homesthetics in 2013
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Bogdan's full time architecture practice in Bucharest leaves him little time for writing these days but he's experience writing for Homesthetics for 9 years shaped our very processes. Today any article that revolves around architecture and or urbanisms is being vetted by him before being published. When he is not architecting, writing or fact-checking articles here, he is enjoying the outdoors, mountaineering around Romania as often as possible.
Bogdan graduated UAUIM's Master of Architecture in 2017 with a major in Architecture
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and at Monkton Wyld Court, Near Lyme Regis, Dorset.
Improvers' Masterclass at the West Country Scythe Fair, 7 and 8 June 2019.
• people who want to teach scythe use to others.
The cost will be posted here soon. Meals are provided. Camping on site is available.
I came away with a far deeper understanding of the scythe and my technique, as well as the tools and course structure to teach others in a safe and efficient manner. It has revolutionised our team at BBOWT, and we now use scythes for a great many of our tasks. As a result our management is more wildlife sensitive and volunteer friendly. A number of my colleagues have now also done the course. This has enabled us to train in the region of 50 staff and volunteers across our three counties in just 2 years. Great for wildlife, great for people.
I run scythe courses at Monkton Wyld Court, on the Dorset/Devon border, four miles from Axminster, half a mile from the A35.
only on Sunday if you are an improver who has already done a beginner's course. Friday evening attendance is advised but not essential.
Beginners often imagine that a two day course is a bit excessive, just to learn how to use a garden tool; and that is true if all you want to do is knock down weeds. But anyone who wants to mow grass on any scale will benefit from a two day course, and people who do the course come away saying "I don't know how you could cram all that into one day". Two days gives you enough time to practice different peening methods; I also spend a couple of hours on grass management, and demonstrate how to make and stack a hay rack, which enables you to make hay even in changeable weather.
To book or for more information ring e-mail scythes@myphone.coop or ring 01297 561359.
I send out The Scythe Association's newsletter, The Windrow, which lists scything events, courses and developments in the UK. It comes out once or twice per year, and there are now about ten people throughout the country offering scythe courses. To get on the list to receive an emailed pdf of The Windrow, please e-mail scythes@myphone.coop, entitling your e-mail "Scythe Mailing List".


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Barend van Eijsen (fl. 1679 in Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter and sculptor.

Biography
According to the RKD, the painter B. van Eijsen was probably the same person as the sculptor Barent van Eijsen who worked in Haarlem in 1679. He is listed in the 1702 Vincent van der Vinne list as a past and deceased member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke.

The painter Sara van Baalbergen married a Barent van Eysen in 1634 in Haarlem, but it is unclear if he represents the same person or a member of the previous generation.

Barend probably was related to P. van Eijse, thought to be identical to Pieter van Eijsen, who was a painter active in Haarlem in the 1660s. Two works attributed to P. van Eijse are vanitas still life paintings in the style of Vincent van der Vinne dated 1661 and 1662, while another formerly attributed to Evert Collier is attributed to him.

References

Barend van Eijsen on Artnet

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Nursery Managers and Practitioners of Elmscot Group Day Nurseries, Nursery Schools and Out-of-School Clubs across Cheshire have come together to show their support for World Mental Health Day.
#HelloYellow is a campaign launched by YoungMinds, a UK charity that fights for the future of children and young people's mental health. By wearing a pop of yellow or even an entire yellow outfit and making a donation, people across the country have shown their support for the cause.
ITV's Britain Get Talking campaign has also been supporting mental wellness and is centered on bringing families closer. Backed by the YoungMinds charity, the campaign highlights that anxiety and depression in children has risen by 48% since 2004. Through silencing popular television programmes and advertising, families are being encouraged to "tune back in to the story in your living room".
Elmscot Group understands that good mental health and wellbeing is important to enable children and young people to reach their full potential, build resilience and self-regulation – all vital life skills to become a confident and able adult.
Back in April 2019, Managers and Practitioners across the childcare group completed either a Level 2 course in Understanding Children and Young People's Mental Health or a Level 2 course in Awareness of Mental Health Problems. These courses focused on support and early intervention from early childhood and on adult and workplace health awareness, respectively.
Most recently, seven of the Managers within Elmscot Group have successfully trained in Mental Health First Aid – showing the group's continued commitment to mental health support and awareness.
Rachael Lyons, Elmscot Group Operations Manager said: "The importance of good mental health and support is a priority for us across the group. We are gradually getting closer to achieving the goal we set out this year of becoming an emotionally healthy childcare business.
"Being able to show our support for such an incredible campaign means a lot to us and we were delighted to donate and raise awareness amongst Elmscot Group families."
Elmscot Group provides outstanding childcare and education to over 1,800 children across Cheshire.
To find out more about Elmscot Group and to enquire about childcare places, please call 0161 980 0003 or visit our website at: www.elmscot.co.uk


Let us pull up a chair as the dining room proudly presents – your dinner!
What is also yet to be released is what this will do to Pricing or Credits on the Disney Dining Plan. But, with menu items that sound this rich, I wouldn't be surprised if the Dinner Reservations are changed from a 1 Table Service Credit to a 2 Table Service Credit Meal. As for now, it seems like the Lunch Menu is remaining the same, so here's hoping that this will remain a Quick Service Meal.
Reservations including this new Dining Experience will open this Friday, February 23rd, 2018 and can be booked on My Disney Experience or by calling 407-WDW-DINE.
Admittedly, I have no idea what any of these dishes are. They seem pretty fancy for a family who is happy with Kraft macaroni and cheese. But, I'm sort of interesting in trying the tortellini (provided I don't find out that there's actually any meat in there).
You're right, the french onion soup is already on the menu. I think they just wanted to emphasize the "french" menu and to let guests know that this favorite will not be taken off the menu. I don't eat chicken, though, so I'm not much of a help on that dish. Maybe it's prepared differently?
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Jose "Pepe" F. Balderama is a Director covering executive to middle-level placements in the Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Energy sectors. He has recently added to his Practice the Education sector – having placed a University President and College Deans. He was the Managing Director of Asia Select Inc. until January 2017 and served as a member of the Board of Directors of ZMG Ward Howell India Pvt. Ltd. in Mumbai, and P.T. Asia Select in Jakarta. He managed some of the firm's Special Projects such as the staffing of start-up of shared services projects of global companies like Procter and Gamble, Watson Wyatt, Caltex, and Baker & McKenzie Law. He has been invited as a resource speaker in Shared Services conferences in Asia. The other Special Projects that he accomplished are the staffing of the Philippines' pioneer naptha cracker plant; placement of the management team for a start-up global firm in the design and manufacture of advanced miniature components for hearing instruments and acoustics; the hiring of the project team for a 300 MW coal-fired power plant and a 81 MW wind farm, among others.
Pepe is a member of the People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP). He holds a Certificate in Technology Transfer from INSEAD and a Certificate in Standardization from the Swedish Institute of Standards of Stockholm. He attended short management courses in IESE Business School.
He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering and his Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of the Philippines. He is a graduate of the Strategic Business Economics Program of the University of Asia and the Pacific.


I love that Victoria's Secret supermodel and new mom, Miranda Kerr, knows how to still look chic while running errands. Miranda's wearing one of this summer's hottest trends of colored denim mixed with a touch of nautical. Her look is very Parisian chic...LOVE the ballet flats!


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In the chapter of his book "The Hardest Game" titled "The Alpha," Hugh McIlvanney writes almost apologetically, "The book begins with (Muhammad) Ali and it ends with him. That seems appropriate." Ali, nicknamed "The Alpha and the Omega" by his aunt, Coretta, not only opens and closes "The Hardest Game"; he is the light by which McIlvanney sketches the rest of his characters.
If there is one fighter deserving of the distinction as this generation's Alpha and Omega, it is WBO welterweight titlist Manny Pacquiao, who slapped around handpicked opponent Jessie Vargas for a unanimous decision victory at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
What's this? Not Floyd Mayweather Jr., who so soundly defused him before a record audience and under a cloud of asterisks? No, because Mayweather's lasting legacy includes, among other things of varying merit, the mass exodus of so many of his supporters (his Acronym Army) upon his first retirement. Of the two, Mayweather and Pacquiao, Pacquiao has given more to boxing and who, when he, after however many half-steps, leaves it for good, should leave it for the better.
At the moment, however, with pay-per-view fees getting affixed to dwindling fare and boxing's Great Swindle still too recent to forget, criticism of Pacquiao is as rampant as it has ever been. And that is significant, considering his most vociferous critics went a-tilting at other windmills when his greatest rival retired.
Pacquiao, of course, is hardly insulated from criticism. Perhaps none of that criticism, however, not the heat he takes for his knowingly compromised performance in the Mayweather fight, nor the outrage his political and religious views elicit, not even the complaint that he holds boxing hostage is as damning as this: Pacquiao has become the wrong kind of predictable.
No, the feints and footwork that once spun heads before his fists removed them are no longer the nightmare proposition they were before age and too many rounds against world-class opposition took their toll. Pacquiao has not scored a stoppage since he brutalized Miguel Cotto in 2009 in a display of precision and ferocity so unrelenting, it drove Cotto's family from ringside. Mind you, the only opponent Pacquiao has fought since then who had been stopped prior to facing "Pac-Man" is Antonio Margarito, a man who outweighed him by 17 pounds in the ring and whose preternatural capacity to absorb punishment is deservingly legendary. Those who witnessed what bloody mischief Pacquiao accomplished that night, though, even those who have only seen a recent picture of Margarito, know what price the Tijuana fighter paid to preserve his machismo and his countrymen's reputation.
But while the speed of hand and foot and the surprising power still persist, Pacquiao can muster little more than 30 seconds of his dynamism per round. The fighter who, round after round, stormed out of his corner and through Miguel Cotto, even the one who bounded out of his corner and into a fading Juan Manuel Marquez's end-of-days right hand, is gone.
What is left is a fighter still so formidable, he need fight but a sixth of each round to pocket it and then coast the rest. And that sounds very much like the approach Mayweather used. It was one that earned Mayweather, the greatest defensive fighter of his generation, the slings and arrows of most everyone looking for drama and daring in a prizefight. For the greatest offensive fighter of his generation to employ a tempered assault, however, regardless of its explanation, is doubly disappointing and requires we look no further than to Pacquiao's idiomatic violence to celebrate his performances. Yet Pacquiao's violence endeared him even to the Mexicans whose native sons were left in his wake. Violence is what made him.
So Pacquiao apologists rightly look to his level of competition to defend him. There are a number of welterweights who could trouble – even beat – Pacquiao were they to fight. None of them fought better competition than Pacquiao this year. He is 37-years-old and still facing a level of competition to where his would-be usurpers have just now advanced. Ask yourself what credit Errol Spence Jr. or IBF welterweight titlist Kell Brook – two fighters who could very well beat Pacquiao – would receive for sweeping the cards and scoring two knockdowns against Tim Bradley as Pacquiao did earlier this year. Bradley's reputation may now exceed his ability but he remains better than Leonard Bundu and Kevin Bizier. It is a testament to how good Pacquiao was and how good he remains that no other welterweight – perhaps no other fighter – is held to the same standard.
It is this higher standard that dogs him. Because, right or wrong, fans who have not yet dismissed Pacquiao still look to him to give something more of himself, which is why his streak of decisions is so often leveled against him. They want more than the counter left hand that dropped Vargas in the second round, more than the quickness that allows him to punch with authority without setting his feet – and they want it against one of only a few of the realistic opponents who could defeat him.
Perhaps were his contemporaries, these preordained stars, a bit more stellar, Pacquiao would be given a pass, even in the form of disregard. But they are not and certainly not with the level of consistency that would see them fight a nemesis three times in 20 months, as Pacquiao did Erik Morales, or face fighters of the quality of Juan Manuel Marquez and Bradley twice each in a three-year span, as Pacquiao did between 2011 and 2014. So with WBC junior bantamweight titlist Roman Gonzalez too small to be the face of a blood sport, Pacquiao remains, perhaps undeservedly – and unfairly – the standard bearer.
Pacquiao, because of his age and his and his promoter's financial concerns, is more like the thumb-twiddlers of Premier Boxing Champions than he has ever been. And if that is reason to turn one's back on him, there are further turns to make.


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Swimming and ALS, Perfect Together
A Long Swim is a series of open water swimming events benefiting ALS research. (Lou Gehrig's Disease) Led by English Channel Swimmer, Doug McConnell, these swims are designed for triathletes and open water swimmers and are professionally timed. Each swimmer has an opportunity to fundraise and earn a package to waive their registration fee and earn triathlon and open water swimming gear.
For the ALS patient, or for the people who love them and care for them, hearing the ALS diagnosis carries with it an overwhelming feeling of powerlessness. It was that powerlessness that made us want to do something. Raising money to dedicate to ALS research was what would make us feel less powerless, so we came up with a creative way to do that. We settled in on swimming; not just pool swimming, but open water swimming as the ultimate test of endurance.
As a sharp contrast to the loss of someone's ability to use their muscles, swimming requires the use of all of the muscles, all of the time. Open water swimming is said to be the fastest growing sport in the world, but it is still something of a niche sport, and ALS is a niche disease.
The strategy of A Long Swim is to build the association between open water swimming and ALS; we think that open water swimming and ALS perfectly go together. Our goal is to get to the point where, when people think of ALS, they think of open water swimming. At least in the Chicago market, we think that the bridge between ALS and open water swimming is being built.
We informally started A Long Swim in 2011, and formalized it as a nonprofit in 2015. A Long Swim now has three separated but related initiatives, including Marathon Swims, Athlete Sponsorship, and Competitive Open Water Swims.
Marathon swims by Doug McConnell:
Tampa Bay 24 miles 10 hours, 45 minutes April 2011
English Channel 21 miles 14 hours, 18 minutes August 2011
Catalina Channel 21 miles 12 hours, 41 minutes September 2012
Manhattan Island 29 miles 9 hours, 29 minutes June 2014
Molokai Channel 32 miles 16 hours, 3 minutes July 2016
Future marathon swims under consideration:
Northwestern-to-Northwestern
(Evanston to Chicago) 15 miles Lake Michigan Autumn 2020
Strait of Gibraltar 15 miles Atlantic/Mediterranean Spring 2020
Nantucket Sound
(Nantucket to Martha's Vineyard) 18 miles Atlantic Ocean Summer 2019
These swims have attracted a good deal of notoriety across the US. Between magazine and newspaper articles, radio and TV interviews, A Long Swim has enjoyed a wonderful amount of publicity.
A Long Swim sponsors a team of triathletes, wherein the athletes wear distinctive A Long Swim apparel in exchange for dedicated fundraising on behalf of the nonprofit. Between local Sprint and Olympic-distance triathlons, to the Chicago Triathlon (with 8,000 athletes), half-Ironman and full Ironman events across the US and Canada, these A Long Swim ambassadors have been extraordinarily successful in spreading the important message of collaborative ALS research.
Are you a triathlete, and are you interested in being on the A Long Swim Triathlete team?
Competitive Open Water Swims
Lake Swims
A Long Swim provides open water swim events to triathletes and open water swimmers for the opportunity to compete in professionally-timed events under real race conditions. The distances offered are 750 meters (equal to the swimming leg of a Sprint triathlon), 1,500 meters (the swimming leg of an Olympic triathlon), 1.2 miles (the swimming leg of a half-Ironman) and 2.4 miles (the swimming leg of a full Ironman). For real open water swimming enthusiasts, A Long Swim also offers a 5K swim (3.1 miles).
The unfilled demand for these swims stems from triathlon, which is a very popular sport in the Chicago area. The Chicago Tri alone attracts 9,000 athletes every year, and the International Triathlon Union event a few years ago really put Chicago on the triathlon map. For triathletes, there is an uncountable number of running event alternatives for training purposes. The number of cycling events is almost as large. The number of swims that are available, even in a market the size of Chicago, could be counted on a few fingers. Ironically, swimming is the sport in which most triathletes need the most work, as it tends to be most triathletes' weakest event.
We now host a well-attended series of two events, all in the Chicago Suburbs. The 2019 schedule is:
June 2, 2019 — A Long Swim – Lake Zurich
August 4, 2019 — A Long Swim – Tower Road Beach (in Winnetka)
Chicago River Swim
Beginning in 2015, A Long Swim initiated the plan to host an open water swim in the Chicago River. Other cities around the world have coined the term "urban swims," which is a good description of capitalizing on an urban waterway (many of which have been hopelessly polluted in years past, but have experienced significant turnarounds in terms of cleanliness) as a way to showcase their cities from a unique perspective. Cities that have turned urban swims into realities include New York, Boston, Portland, Paris, London and Amsterdam. The next city is Chicago.
Competitive swims were held in the Chicago River with some regularity through the 1920s, but discontinued because of fouled water. The River has spent most of the next 100 years being terribly polluted, and the City's reaction was to largely turn its back on that unique body of water.
As the Chicago River flows from Lake Michigan to points south and north, the River has gone a long way to clean itself as industry has complied with environmental regulations. In addition, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) built and activated water sterilization plants on both the North Branch and the South Branch in 2016, and now reports that the River is swim safe. Other catalysts for the remarkable environmental turnaround for the Chicago River include the Mayor and City Hall, the City Council, as well as key nonprofit organizations like Friends of Chicago River.
Further, A Long Swim has identified the need to upgrade the water safety of Chicago residents, particularly children. To address that, A Long Swim plans to use the Chicago River Swim to support Make A Splash, which is a learn-to-swim nonprofit that would be a partner to Chicago Park District. Our goal is to be able to use that structure to teach 2,000 Chicago children to be safer around the water.
The target date for the inaugural Chicago River Swim is September 2019.


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using Cradiator.Config;

namespace Cradiator.Model
{
	public class BuildBusterFullNameDecorator : IBuildBuster, IConfigObserver
	{
		readonly IBuildBuster _buildBuster;
		IDictionary<string, string> _usernameMap;

		public BuildBusterFullNameDecorator([InjectBuildBuster] IBuildBuster buildBuster, IConfigSettings configSettings)
		{
			_buildBuster = buildBuster;
			_usernameMap = configSettings.UsernameMap;
			configSettings.AddObserver(this);
		}

		public string FindBreaker(string sentence)
		{
			var username = _buildBuster.FindBreaker(sentence);

			if (_usernameMap.ContainsKey(username))
				username = _usernameMap[username];

			return username;
		}

		public void ConfigUpdated(ConfigSettings newSettings)
		{
			_usernameMap = newSettings.UsernameMap;
		}
	}
}

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I've hated exercise for most of my life. Not in an "I'm tired, can't be bothered" kind of way, more in an "I despise this sensation and everything that goes with it" way.
As a a teenager. I dreaded P.E and it didn't matter how hard I tried, I'd always be pretty much bottom of the class. I'll never forget one of the popular girls at school saying to me during rounders "the idea of fielding Jo is to catch the ball", after I'd missed it for the umpteenth time.
After leaving school, I did my level best to avoid exercise, and since at uni we walked everywhere, it didn't matter too much. It was whilst I was at uni that my sister became badly ill with anorexia. I saw the damage that extreme eating can do, and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. As a consequence, I became very much anti-diet and anti-exercise. In my eyes, serious exercise equated to weight loss, and weight loss was not a good thing.
I'm glad to say that she is now healthy, living the fullest life, and has to be one of the most inspirational girls/women I know. Her experiences made her stronger, and are a lasting reminder to me that striving for "thinness" is not the one. As far as I'm concerned, striving for it brings nothing but misery, and my friends know how cross I get if anyone even mentions dieting! I don't think any food should ever be off-limits and I truly believe that this is the healthiest approach we can have, because deprivation is the root of unhealthy patterns (maybe a separate blog for another day).
I've realised in the last year however, that whilst I've developed a healthy attitude to food, I've had a really unhealthy attitude to exercise for most of my life. Although I've done bits and bobs as an adult – fitness DVDs in the privacy of my room, or the local Zumba class with my housemate – I've never really got into any routine or regular activity.
When friends have got into going to the gym, I've actually felt worried about them. I'm always scared that they're going to take it too far, get obsessed, start losing too much weight etc. And I suppose partly if I'm honest with myself, I've felt a bit jealous because they're doing something that I haven't managed to, and uncomfortable because it's brought back those teenage memories of embarrassment and inferiority.
Last summer, after doing my back in, and being told by specialists just how weak my back was – and that the injury probably wouldn't have happened if I was stronger – I realised reproachfully that my attitude was going to have to shift. I started with simple stretches, and then joined a yoga class with work. Yoga was a lot more difficult than expected, but also incredibly therapeutic, and after just a few weeks the osteo mentioned that my back looked stronger. Spurred on I continued, and joined the gym at the back end of last year, shock horror. Guys, I even bought a sports bra.
Of course, joining the gym and actually going to the gym are two different things. I can't pretend that I'm going often, but bit by bit, I've started to get over the fear of walking in there, and learnt how to use a few of the machines. I say this, in one session I actually fell off the cross trainer, which was mortifying, and pretty painful, because the pedals obviously keep going so your leg starts to get mangled. Smooth. But you know what? I got back up, bruised calves and all, and the cross trainer has become my friend. Sort of.
This blog is an admission I suppose, that I've been wrong. However much I've hated it, it's not right to stubbornly keep going through life without looking after my body in the most physical sense. I'm never going to be a gym bunny, or someone who runs marathons (I mean, I've never even run a 5k), but just gradually, I'm trying to do a little bit more to keep healthy.
What are your experiences with exercise? I feel like it can be a funny one for a lot of us, so I'd love to know your thoughts on this.


Word Play, Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ. Curator: Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph.D.
Home, Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ. Curator: Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph.D.
Holy Lives in World Religions, Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ. Curator: Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph.D.
Who We Are: Contemporary Portraits, Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ. Curator: Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph.D.
The Great Swamp, Flora, Fauna, Etcetera, Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ. Curator: Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph.D.


WestJet has dropped the price of their February 2017 flights from Calgary to Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago down to $451 CAD roundtrip including taxes.
It's unusual for WestJet to drop the prices of their flights from Western Canada to Trinidad and Tobago, especially to 40% below the typical best price.
The flights are also as fast as Calgary to Trinidad and Tobago can be done. The flights do have a pretty tight connection in Toronto in the way there (1 hr) and a 3 hr connection on the way home.
Below, I've posted some info about flying between Trinidad (POS) and Tobago (TAB) for $65 CAD roundtrip including taxes.
When you get to the WestJet website, choose the flight with 10 hours of total travel time on the way there, and 13h51m on the way back. WestJet lists the longer flights first.
On Skyscanner, you may find that the 4th flight down the list of the search results are the fastest flights.
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Spyware stoppers target biz networks
By admin | November 9, 2004
Spyware has become such a big problem at Scott & White Hospital that the organization is drawing up plans to drastically restrict its staff´s Internet access.
"The biggest issue we´ve got is spyware, the malware that comes down through subversive Web pages," says Steve Raynes, IT audit manager for the Temple, Texas, healthcare company.
Spyware not only clogs PCs used for patient care but sometimes redirects Web pages to alternate sites. The 7,000-person staff is already banned from accessing gambling and pornography Web sites via filtering software, and Raynes says Scott & White is contemplating adding online shopping to that list to avoid spyware infections.
Raynes is "desperate" for anti-spyware software with the kind of reporting, automated updates, group policies, quarantine and remote configuration seen in anti-virus products. "I can´t find it," he says.
Until recently there were no anti-spyware products designed with large networks in mind – only stand-alone consumer software or freeware. But consumer-oriented anti-spyware products from Computer Associates (which recently acquired anti-spyware maker PestPatrol), Tenebril and Webroot are getting beefed up for enterprise networks.
CA this week plans to unveil eTrust PestPatrol 5.0 in packages designed for consumers and for small and large businesses. The corporate edition initially will feature a central console. Later, CA plans to integrate the anti-spyware program with its anti-virus software management controls.
Aluria, Giant Software, McAfee and Sunbelt Software say they intend to announce anti-spyware software for enterprise networks, too.
While IT managers are certain to welcome the growing number of choices, one issue that buyers face is that each software vendor defines spyware a little differently and tout wide-ranging numbers of signatures – anywhere between 20,000 to 200,000 – to target spyware files that end up on computers. That means there´s no easy way to compare these products.
"There are no common definitions for the industry," says Josh Blanchfield, CEO of Tenebril.
However, most vendors seem to agree that spyware includes adware used for marketing purposes in addition to malicious Trojans and key-loggers.
McAfee prefers to not even use the word spyware because some online marketing firms, including Claria, which makes the Gator eWallet and other software for targeted ad presentation, bristle at the term. McAfee uses the term "potentially unwanted programs" instead.
The anti-spyware industry operates with each vendor deciding which adware or Trojan that ends up on a computer should be wiped out based on an assessment of what´s good and bad.
Sometimes the definition of what´s good or bad changes overnight. Aluria, which plans to expand beyond consumer anti-spyware into the corporate market by February, last week generated criticism by saying it would no longer detect and eradicate adware from WhenU.com, which is an adware company whose software provides customers with information on bargains and online savings by examining keywords, URLs and search terms favored by the user..
"They stopped their ActiveX and drive-by downloads," explains Rick Carlson, Aluria´s president. Aluria´s approach is to evaluate spyware according to its own standards for consumer protection, he says.
If an adware firm changes its practices, it can be considered legitimate and not subject to detection and eradication. Aluria now feels so comfortable with what WhenU is doing that the two have signed a joint marketing deal.
One vendor getting into the anti-spyware market intends to leave it up to system administrators or end users to decide what to eradicate, keep or quarantine. Sunbelt, which makes a range of management and utility products, including LanHound and iHateSpam for Exchange, this week is expected to introduce its CounterSpy line of anti-spyware products for corporate and consumer customers.
While it´s unclear which method will catch on, demand for corporate anti-spyware offerings is clearly on the rise.
Jared Winter, the PC and LAN supervisor at Western United Insurance in Irvine, Calif., says he had to find a tool after spyware brought his company´s imaging system to its knees. He uses CA´s PestPatrol.
"Some of the spyware was downloading viruses," he says. "So I´ve found using anti-spyware is some help against viruses, too."
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This thesis focuses on the fabrication of a hybrid fluorescent silicon carbide (f-SiC) based warm white light-emitting diode (LED). This type of white LED employs a nearultraviolet (NUV) LED as the excitation source and a donor-acceptor-pair (DAP) codoped f-SiC substrate as the wavelength-conversion material. In comparison with the commonly used wavelength-conversion material like phosphors, the f-SiC based white LED does not contain any rare-earth element and has a longer material lifetime.
This work starts with the fabrication of the NUV LED device, which functions as the excitation source in the f-SiC based white LED. Then, to enhance the electroluminescence (EL) output of the NUV LED, the work of performance optimization on aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) as a current spreading layer (CSL) is demonstrated. In the end, to produce a hybrid f-SiC based warm white LED, a bonding method for combination of the NUV LED and a nitrogen (N)-boron (B) codoped f-SiC epi-layer is presented.
To make a NUV LED device, standard postgrowth fabrication process including the formation of mesas, CSLs and pads is carried out on NUV LED epi-wafers. In addition, to obtain strong output light of the NUV LED, it is critical to employ a proper CSL with both good conductivity and high transparency in the NUV wavelength region. Therefore, transparent conductive oxide AZO is studied and optimizations are carried out on the AZO based CSLs. It turns out in the end that a graphene interlayer can improve the performance of the AZO based CSL by decreasing the Schottky barrier height between the CSL and the semiconductor.
On the other hand, to fabricate a hybrid f-SiC based warm white LED by combining the NUV LED and the f-SiC epi-layer, an adhesive bonding approach is employed. Hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ) is used as the bonding material due to its high transparency in the NUV wavelength region. By using this method, a NUV LED grown on a 4H-SiC substrate is successfully bonded to a free-standing N-B co-doped f-SiC epi-layer. EL emission from the NUV LED on the top excites the bottom f-SiC epilayer to generate light finally presenting a warm white emission.


You know you love mariachi music! Now you have a good excuse to play it in the class and use it to improve your students' cultural knowledge, vocabulary and grammar. (Including subjunctive, commands, preterite, imperfect, etc.) The book contains the words to 16 songs, listening exercises and many grammar comprehension, vocabulary and poetry exercises.
Performed by professional Mexican mariachis. Contains 16 of your new and old favorites like Las Mañanitas, Cuatro Milpas, Rancho Grande, Una Paloma Blanca, Cielito Lindo....Y más! Indispensable for intermediate Spanish classes.


There are two ways to own your home. Either you can pay cash upfront or you can pay little by little, year after year. For most us, monthly mortgage payments are the most feasible option. While we continue to chip away paying off our homes, some of us may wonder how we can speed up the process. Whatever your reason may be to reduce debt faster, there are a few simple strategies you can easily put in place now to help you pay off your mortgage early.
When you pay off your home loan faster, you end up paying less for your home than if you were to pay the minimum required payment for the term of the loan. Paying off your house early will save you thousands, tens of thousands of dollars and possibly more, over time. How? Let's do the math with the following hypothetical example.
Let's say you get a $300,000 home loan based on a 30-year term and at a fixed annual percentage rate (APR) of 4.46% (current APR as of 10/1/2018). If you were to pay the minimum, your monthly mortgage payment would be $1,512.93 every month for 30 years. However, by the time you pay your house off, you would not have paid $300,000 for your home but significantly more, in fact, nearly double because of the cost of interest.
In this example, the amount paid in interest is nearly equal to the original home loan. With such a sizeable interest payment, it's easy to understand why paying off your mortgage sooner is so appealing. But what can you do? Before you start buying lottery tickets or cashing in your coin jar, here are some simple tricks you can use to knock years off your mortgage while saving money in the process.
This strategy could reduce a 30-year mortgage to 25 years and save you tens of thousands of dollars in the process. Essentially, you will take your monthly mortgage payment (including taxes and insurance), divide that in half, and then make a payment every two weeks rather than once a month. In effect, this strategy will have you make the equivalent of 13 monthly payments per calendar year instead of 12. The result is significant as you can see below.
If we were to use our $300,000 mortgage example from above and apply a biweekly payment of $765.47 (which is half the original mortgage payment) instead of the full monthly payment of $1,512.93, this would be the result.
Not only do you reduce your mortgage by 5 years but you also end up saving $42,835.37 in the process. Before you implement this strategy, check with your lender to see if they accept bi-weekly payments without charging a fee. If they do charge a fee, this may not be the best tactic to use to reduce your mortgage and you should possibly look to one of our other recommended strategies.
This strategy is highly relative to your situation. If you currently have a high-interest rate but have been in your home for a few years and have built up some equity, refinancing your mortgage may be a good solution before interest rates go up. Even a 1% decrease in your APR can save a considerable sum of money in the long run. Alternatively, if you feel financially capable to handle a larger mortgage payment, a 15-year mortgage over a 30-year could save you tens of thousands of dollars. Again, using our hypothetical example from above with a higher monthly mortgage payment of $2,289, we get these results.
Typically, with a 15-year home loan you're rewarded with a lower APR than a 30-year term; however, even with keeping the APR the same at 4.46% we can still see a substantial difference in total interest paid. Not only would you pay $132,663 less in interest you would have also effectively eliminated 15 years of paying on a mortgage!
You may think that little amounts don't count for much in the larger picture of a 30-year home loan; such as the money you spend on your morning cup of coffee. However, what if you could shave off years from your home loan by skipping your coffee and instead put that money toward your mortgage? Even one hundred extra dollars each month could save you thousands of dollars in interest payments.
For example, let's say you don't buy your morning cup of coffee and instead applied that five dollars toward your mortgage. In this situation, we estimate a morning cup of coffee is five dollars- once you add your coconut milk, splash of vanilla, and leave a tip, it adds up! At five dollars a day, we are looking at an additional $100 month that could be going toward your mortgage. Back to our original example of a $300,000 home loan, we will add an additional $100 a month against your mortgage.
In this scenario, we have not only effectively knocked off a few years of your mortgage payments, but also reduced your interest by $33,640. Don't worry, we're not taking away your coffee. The main takeaway is that a little extra cash towards your home loan can go a long way.
The main strategy for those wanting to pay off their mortgage early is to focus on reducing the overall principal of their home loan as fast as possible. Monetary windfalls are any form of extra money that comes your way and is technically unplanned for. This could include things like gifts, bonuses at work, cash from working overtime, inheritance, or tax refunds among others.
As we saw in the prior example that even paying an extra $100 a month, or $1,200 a year, you can reduce your mortgage payment by years. Just imagine how many years you could reduce your mortgage if you were to start putting a larger portion of your extra money against your home loan.
Make sure to speak with your mortgage lender about your financial situation and how you want to pay off your mortgage faster. You don't want to begin a strategy to pay off your mortgage early only to find out that your lender has penalties for early payments. Some lenders may only allow extra payments to be made within a specific timeframe. Make it clear that when you apply an additional payment that it needs to go against the principal of your home loan and not towards any future mortgage payments.
Paying off your mortgage early is all about having the right strategy, tailored to you. Take your time to explore your options, get counsel from your lender and pursue the strategy that will pay off your mortgage the fastest.
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Alternative things to do in Hanoi
You've spent a few days in Vietnam's capital Hanoi, and the city has captivated your senses like no other in the world. A stroll along Hoan Kiem lake has you charmed, and the Old quarter's party scene has you spending your nights at the Beer Corner.
While no visit to Hanoi is complete without seeing the top attractions and foreigner areas, but did you know there's actually more places to visit in Hanoi than Tripadvisor's top recommendations?
Seeing some of the more unexpected delights Hanoi has to offer is a way of discovering another side of Hanoi, an off the beaten path, which reveals the mysterious facets of the city that only locals see.
Here are some of the best alternative things to do in Hanoi.
1. Back alleys of Hanoi's Old Quarters
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At first , Hanoi's Old Quarter appears to be noisy and crowded, a cluster of narrow streets, deep alleys, motorcycles whizzing in all directions, while travellers, street vendors and endless cafes all occupy the highly dense, but small area.
However, a walk through the labyrinth of streets and hidden spaces in between will give you a glimpse of Vietnamese life. Hanoi's traditional "tube houses" with red tiled roofs are occupied by generations of Hanoian, preserving lifestyles and cultures of Hanoi.
The "tunnel homes" unseen by casual visitors are long and deep lining the streets because they are not very wide but extend far behind the street front. Some of these buildings are just amazingly narrow that two people can barely stand next to each other in some of them.
It's a scene repeated throughout the Old Quarter, where travellers casually weave past thin sidewalk vendors selling drinks and snacks. The narrow streets are filled with motorcycles and endless horns, no wonder these places are overlooked.
By exploring the backstreets of the Old Quarter, you shouldn't expect to find any standout attraction, instead, take your time observe and stand in bewilderment of the historic hidden away neighborhoods, seeing the ancient signs and the ancient architecture of houses in this area.
2. Local life at the tracks
Explore the stretch of railway running between Hanoi and Long Bien Station, which are bustling epicenters of local Hanoi life, just few streets away from the traditional tourist sites. Normally, twice a day at 4pm and 7pm, the local train passes between a narrow residential neighborhood, just inches from their door steps.
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Observe life between the tracks where locals go about their day, from residents sipping their coffee, children playing among the tracks to the houses and markets all the way along the line. It's mind boggling to imagine that the front yard of someone's house is inches away a train track. Nevertheless, it makes a great scene for a photography spot, one of many Hanoi's urban highlights.
3. Ancient Village of Bat Trang, Vietnam, Where Everyone Makes Pottery
Just a 13 km bus ride away from the center of Hanoi lies Bat Trang village, an ancient pottery haven dating back to the 14th-century.
Wander the winding pathways of Bat Trang's pottery market and with every turn see beautifully, intricately hand-painted vases and tea pots. The variety of ceramic creations are overwhelming, but take your time to appreciate the very fine details painted on the vases.
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If you happen to peek through open doorways, you might get invited to come watch Hanoi's ceramic artists in action, making ceramic creations of all sorts. You can even make a pottery piece yourself as a souvenir to take home.
4. Le Mat Village (Snake Village)
If you're craving a different type of lunch, then a visit to Le Mat Village will have you tasting a unique snake dish. The ancient village in Viet Hung ward of Long Bien District are full of snake restaurants and the most popular snakes served are grass snakes and cobras. Cobra's are ten times more expensive than grass snakes, and they are all alive.
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If the thought of eating snake sounds repulsive, then know that in Vietnam it is believed to have to promote strength and virility. Still don't fancy it? Try the Snake wine, an alcoholic beverage made by infusing whole snakes in rice wine or grain alcohol. The wine is so overpowering that it subdues the flavour of anything it comes into contact with. You needn't worry: Venom is dissolved in the alcohol.
A visit to Le Mat Village will be an unforgettable Hanoian experience and will easily be a great tale to tell friends and family back home.
5. Visit the Huc Bridge & Hoan Kiem Lake at night
In the daytime the Huc bridge is swarming with tourists, it's hard to get a shot of it surrounding the emerald water. At night the waterside is illuminated by lanterns hanging from the trees and the bridge glows a vibrant red, adding to the reflections in the Hoan Kiem lake.
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The Huc Bridge brings you across to Jade Island where you'll find Ngoc Son Temple, a colorful pagoda which provides amazing views across the water.
6. Trompe-l'œil Murals of Hanoi
At the other side of Long Bien Bridge is a joint art project between Vietnam and Korea, that covers the blank walls between stone railway arches with whimsical murals. The murals depict scenes from old times in Hanoi easily illuminating the street with color and history.
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Pedestrians enjoy photographing each other blending into these mural illusions while the train that goes down Hanoi's "train street" passes above. Next to the murals are plaques which provide detailed explanations of the paintings in both English and Vietnamese.
7. Wreckage of B-52
Huu Tiep Lake in Hanoi is the site that still preserves a part of the war remnants from the Vietnam War. Knocked out of the sky during a bombing raid in 1972, the US B-52 wreckage may look like a pile of metal, but it's a sobering reminder of Vietnam's victory over the Vietnam war. Go visit Huu Tiep lake for a stroll, and maybe locals will tell you historical stories about the war.
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We hope these places will keep you intrigued, wowed and even shocked. There are also much more to discover, that you'll want to stay in Hanoi a bit longer.
For further local places to see in Hanoi, check out Hanoi packages tour 2019
By Jo Nguyen
Jo Nguyen is the digital content creator of Outlanderly.com. Based in Taiwan, she documents her travels through stories and short movies of her travel experiences in Asia and beyond.
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Amateur Danny Denison put pre-tournament favourites Vijay Singh and Ernie Els in the shade as the sun shone on his brilliant opening round at the Commercialbank Qatar Masters.
The 20-year-old, who is based at Howley Hall Golf Club in Leeds, lies just one stroke off the lead held by Ricardo Gonzalez, of Argentina, and Swede Henrik Stenson after the Yorkshireman shot a five-under-par 67 in Doha.
Denison, the sole amateur in the event, put his local knowledge to good use having been granted entry as his prize for winning the Qatar Open Golf Championship around the same course last month.
Playing in his first professional tournament, he bogeyed just once, at the last, in a round that included six birdies.
He said: "I didn't see my name on the leaderboard until the 12th and it was a great feeling to see it above some of the others who are here this week.
"Going into the weekend, I just wanted to prepare as normal and forget about who was in the field, and thankfully I did.
"I played with Lee West-wood on Wednesday and although I didn't play that well, it didn't bother me.
"I was quietly confident that I was hitting it well and if I got the putter rolling, I would be in with a shout of shooting a good score."
A place on the leaderboard at his first European Tour tournament is a long way from the club bar and golf shop where he has worked part-time to make ends meet in recent years.
And his day's work was put into perspective by problems he encountered since his days in boys' golf, when he represented England and Europe.
"I didn't adapt quite as well as I had hoped to do to the men's game," he said. "Although my game was improving, I wasn't getting the results. I can't quite put my finger on why, it just wasn't there.
"But now I am stronger and fitter and my all-round game is improving. I think I am playing well enough to turn professional in September."
Denison's opening-day score will raise his profile and possibly help him secure the sponsorship he needs to fulfil that ambition.
A call-up for the Walker Cup in the autumn "would be a massive honour", but his short-term goal is to make sure he is still involved in Doha come Sunday.
"Making the cut is my goal and I've got myself into a good position, although I'm not getting carried away with 18 holes to play on Friday," Denison added.
Singh and Els, whose faces adorn billboards promoting the event across a city that resembles one big building site, found the going difficult.
The Fijian world No 2 had dismissed fears about his putting before the event, but accepted he needed to change his putter after making only three birdies in a one-over-par round of 73.
Singh said: "I just didn't get it going, although I didn't actually play that badly. I had chances but I didn't take them and every time I missed the green I seemed to make bogey."
South African Els, the world No 5, had a marginally better day in his first competition of 2006.
A rusty front nine, where he dropped two shots, was followed by three birdies on the way back to leave him one-under-par, and far from disheartened.
Steve Webster maintained the status quo in his friendly rivalry with fellow Atherstone golfer Paul Broadhurst, both firing level-par 72s while Droitwich's John Bickerton came in a shot behind on the leaderboard.


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Can We Expect a Ready Player One Book and Movie Sequel?
So, I definitely wasn't the world's biggest fan of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. And without a doubt, it was nowhere near as good as its source material. However, it was a box office sensation that pulled in $582 million worldwide. And when Hollywood sees dollar signs like these, you can almost guarantee a sequel. Heck, I wouldn't rule out a Marvel-Like universe based on the original Cline novel. (Not to mention the fact that it comes with an easily enumerated title: Ready Player Two, Ready Player Three. Even Ocean's Eleven is envious.)
Well, come to find out, Ernest Cline – who, if you are ignorant of the fact, wrote the 2011 book upon which the Hollywood offering is based – might just be penning the next title in the series. Now, I have to say, that if Cline is just pulping out a sequel for a Hollywood payout, I will be enormously disappointed. But if Cline really is writing a full-fledged literary response to book one? I couldn't be happier. Which, would obviously mean a cinematic sequel as well. So yeah, if this great writer can be persuaded to write more, then the Hollywood hype and drivel surrounding the first picture could be worth it. But will the author be affected by the silver screen version of his debut work?
Ready Player One draws on Nostalgia Magic
Cline's Ready Player One novel was highly innovative in that it imagined a world in which virtual reality had already become widely used and people could effectively live their lives within a simulation. There are also elements of nostalgia, though, as the author frequently referenced popular games of days gone by, along with much-loved movies like Monty Python and the Holy Grail. For the cinematic offering, these nostalgia references were cranked up a few notches, as this has been a surefire way to attract audiences in recent years.
One of the current trends in gaming is to have modern elements mixed with retro themes. Games like Pokémon Go, for instance, have been immensely successful. The Niantic mobile title combines augmented reality with the classic 1990s Gameboy game to great effect. It seems that the creators of Ready Player One realized this, and used the same strategy to reel in viewers. The science fiction adventure was hugely futuristic in its vision, with sprawling VR worlds in which anything was possible. But because it also involved characters and settings that people could relate to, this made it accessible to a wide range of cinema goers of all ages. Younger viewers would get the more recent gaming references, while older viewers would appreciate the callbacks to older, classic games.
Well-Known Memories Helped Add to the Appeal
The film was jam-packed with so many Easter eggs for gamers that it was impossible to catch them all. In the introduction scene, viewers are taken on a journey through the OASIS, as Wade Watts explain why so many players choose to don the virtual reality headgear and escape into other worlds. Throughout this journey, there are references to a multitude of popular games and characters from gaming history, and this was used as a way to bring familiarity to viewers. There were a number of characters who appeared in the film who didn't turn up in the book, and this technique could be used again in a sequel as a way to attract players of other games.
Some of the most notable character cameos in the movie included Freddy Krueger and Tracer from Overwatch. Krueger is one of the most enduring villains in the game world, and has appeared in a number of different titles. Recently, the dream demon was immortalized in the Nightmare on Elm Street slot game and also showed up as a playable character in Behavior Interactive's Dead by Daylight. The version of the character shown in Ready Player One was closest to his Mortal Kombat incarnation in 2011.
It was also quite appropriate for the movie to feature Tracer, as Overwatch is one of the most-played eSport games around right now. The Blizzard Entertainment title is considered to be one of the greatest video games of all time, and has won numerous accolades since its release in 2016. If there is a sequel to Ready Player One, it will almost certainly contain a number of other references to games which are current at the time.
When Will the Next Book be Released?
Cline's debut novel was met with high critical acclaim, and USA Today noted that it had elevated the author to the status of "hottest geek on the planet right now." Immediately after securing a book deal with Crown Publishing Group for Ready Player One, Warner Bros. bought the film rights. These massive deals for a first book meant that there was a lot of pressure on Cline to craft further offerings. The author decided not to immediately follow up his debut book, and instead released Armada in 2015. Universal Pictures bought the film rights for that title, so that will be a standalone movie away from any potential cinematic universe involving Ready Player One.
Soon after the release of Armada, Cline announced that he was in the process of writing a third book, which would be a sequel to Ready Player One. Not much is known about the next offering, but Cline did mention that it would involve a lot of the popular characters from the first one with a number of pop culture references throughout. It appears that Cline already had the follow-up in mind and had started writing it even before the success of the movie, but it will be hard for him not to be influenced by the screen version when refining it in his later drafts.
Although book fans were generally disappointed with the Ready Player One big-screen offering, there is some joy to be found in the fact that the Hollywood deal helped persuade Cline to write another episode in the series. Because it is set in such a large world where the possibilities are endless, there is so much scope for a franchise here which could explore a large number of different characters. The pressure is on Cline now, though, as his second book was nowhere near as well-received as the first. The talented author needs to bounce back, and continuing the popular VR tale may be the way for him to do so.
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