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Why is it that black and white always looks better than anything else? After seeing day after day of dizzying color on the runways of Paris couture, it was most refreshing to be treated to Azzedine Alaia's chic and tailored study in black and white.
I have a feeling that this favorite color combo will also be the color palette of choice for many designers on their fall/winter 2003 runways (Yohji Yamamoto showed his fall collection with the Couture this past week and it too was a study in black and white complete with an explosion of houndstooth checks).
Speaking of black and white, I am adding a black and white silk/satin Chanel blouse from the 80's to my shopping cart. In my opinion, it defines timeless chic.


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Franz Xaver Schmid ist der Name folgender Personen:

* Franz Xaver Schmid (Pfarrer) (1800–1871), deutscher Pfarrer und Politiker
 Franz Xaver Schmid (Philosoph) (Pseudonym Schmid-Schwarzenberg; 1819–1883), österreichisch-deutscher Theologe, Religionsphilosoph und Schriftsteller
 Franz Xaver Schmid, deutscher Unternehmer, Gründer von F.X. Schmid
 Franz Xaver Schmid (Pfarrer, 1937) (Franz X. Schmid; * 1937), deutscher katholischer Priester, Kunst- und Kirchenhistoriker
 Franz-Xaver Schmid (* 1945), österreichischer Objektkünstler, Fotograf und Filmemacher
 Franz Xaver Schmid (Biochemiker) (* 1950), deutscher Biochemiker und Hochschullehrer
 Franz Xaver Schmid-Breitenbach (1857–1927), deutscher Maler

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 Franz Xaver Schmidt

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The announcement by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) that egg freezing is no longer considered experimental is just one more step to changing the way patients will access a donor egg in the future. Donor egg banking is finally a reality and likely to become more widely used in the coming years.
For years men and women have enjoyed the ease of shopping on line for donor sperm. They can look through a website for a donor who has the attributes most important to them and have the frozen sperm shipped to their doctor's laboratory. But for those individuals who need a donor egg, it has been a long and arduous process.
Traditionally, couples have had to find an egg donor through an agency or through a fertility center. Though a couple may be ready for a donor, few donors will be ready to begin the process of donating their eggs. Therefore the couple must delay treatment until the donor has satisfied the psychological, genetic and infectious disease screening that clinics and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may require. Not all donors will pass the screening tests and the couple may find that they need to select another donor. This can again delay treatment. Once the donor is considered eligible to donate her eggs, her menstrual cycle must be synchronized with that of the woman who will receive the fertilized embryo into her womb. Traditional egg donation can take anywhere between 3 and 12 months to complete a cycle.
Egg freezing is changing the fertility world. Now, through donor egg banks, couples can shop online in the same way one would shop online for sperm. Egg freezing allows a donor to complete the screening process, begin a medicated cycle to retrieve her eggs and have those eggs frozen and ready to use by a recipient patient.
There are many advantages to using a frozen donor egg. Since the donor has already been fully screened and completed her cycle, the eggs are ready for use. There are no waits to access care and begin the treatment cycle. The database for a donor egg bank may also be broader allowing for more choice in the donor selection process. For example, fertility programs who collaborate together on an egg bank will be able to cycle donors reflective of their geographic area. Therefore, a clinic in San Francisco or Hawaii may have greater opportunity to cycle donors of Asian descent and a clinic in Texas may be able to cycle more donors of Hispanic descent.
A frozen donor egg bank cycle can be very predictable, taking much of the uncertainty out of the process. For example, potential recipients can find out exactly how many mature eggs are available per donor. No longer does the recipient or intended parent need to worry about how a donor stimulates or if enough eggs will be available. And since the eggs are already frozen, the timing of the thaw and transfer can be conducted at a time convenient to the recipient's schedule.
Success rates with frozen donor eggs rival many fresh programs. Our company quotes a pregnancy rate of 53% and a delivered baby rate of 47%. While success is not guaranteed and many men and women will require more than one cycle to deliver a baby, the success rates of frozen donor egg treatment are very reassuring and help explain why ASRM removed the experimental label.
Egg freezing is taking the fertility world by storm this week. Everyone is talking about ASRM's historic decision to remove the experimental label. While the chatter may die away in a few months time, thankfully, what will last is the positive impact this decision will have for thousands of men and women who need a donor egg to have a baby.
Heidi Hayes is the CEO of Donor Egg Bank, USA. She has more than 20 years of healthcare experience, having worked in the fields of pain management, physical therapy, dialysis and reproductive endocrinology. In addition to her understanding of the business of assisted reproductive therapies, she has personally experienced it. Heidi and her husband are the parents of three children and have built their family through adoption and donor egg treatment.


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Spectra BlackPearl line grows family, archive customer base
Paul Crocetti
Spectra Logic BlackPearl NAS disk appliance launches – SearchStorage
Spectra Logic Corp. upgrades BlackPearl with more ... – SearchDataBackup
Spectra Logic ArcticBlue released for cold storage – SearchDataBackup
Chaucer Produces Business-Critical Risk Analytics with Automated Workflows –K2
Spectra Logic is extending its BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway line upwards and downwards. The tape vendor has added an entry-level model and a much larger offering that more than triples the number of LTO drives the original product could manage.
Spectra BlackPearl appliances, originally introduced in 2013, offer a direct interface from any workflow into an active archive, providing access to nearline storage, tape and cloud. The new additions are the BlackPearl V Series and BlackPearl P Series.
The V Series can store 300 million objects and transfer data at up to 300 MBps sustained to disk or tape, while the P Series can store more than 1 billion objects, transfer up to 3 GBps sustained to disk or tape, and manage more than 20 LTO-7 tape drives.
Those new products join the previously available BlackPearl S Series, which can transfer data at up to 800 MBps to disk or tape.
The V Series could fit well in a small post-production house that works on a job-by-job basis, perhaps doing color correction, said Spectra CTO Matt Starr.
"They're not retrieving hundreds of terabytes per day," Starr said.
The P Series is for large organizations. A typical customer might have 20 or 30 Avid edit stations running every day and hit the archives more often. The P Series is up to four times faster than the original product.
The goal of Spectra BlackPearl was to open tape up to places where the medium was rarely used or usage has greatly expanded because of recent trends. Starr pointed to data from body cameras as an example – police departments may need that footage for a month if it is not required as evidence, but may need to retain it much longer if it is.
Starr doesn't anticipate adding a fourth unit, as he said the three types of Spectra BlackPearl appliances cover the market well.
The V Series starts at $12,000, plus a yearly maintenance fee. The P Series list price is between $80,000 and $90,000, depending on the configuration. The original S Series starts at $33,000.

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Born in Spain, she has a graduate in Biology and a graduate in Fine Arts from University Complutense de Madrid. She began her artistic career in 2008, participating in several group as well as solo exhibitions. Her work mixes art, love and science, paper, technology and stitchery. She uses books as a media, maps and tools.


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1. PN2480 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) — Ron A. Bloom — United States Postal Service Ron A. Bloom, of New York, to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service for a term expiring December 8, 2020, vice Mickey D. Barnett, term expired. Date Received from President: 09/06/2018 Committee: Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Latest Action: 01/03/2019 - Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate. (All Actions)
1. PN2480 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) — Ron A. Bloom — United States Postal Service Ron A. Bloom, of New York, to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service for a term expiring December 8, 2020, vice Mickey D. Barnett, term expired. Date Received: 09/06/2018 Referred: Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Latest Action: 01/03/2019 - Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate. (All Actions)
2. PN1324 — 105th Congress (1997-1998) — John U. Sepulveda — Office of Personnel Management John U. Sepulveda, of New York, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel Management, vice Janice R. Lachance. Date Received from President: 07/30/1998 Committee: Governmental Affairs Latest Action: 10/21/1998 - Confirmed by the Senate by Voice Vote. (All Actions)
2. PN1324 — 105th Congress (1997-1998) — John U. Sepulveda — Office of Personnel Management John U. Sepulveda, of New York, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel Management, vice Janice R. Lachance. Date Received: 07/30/1998 Referred: Governmental Affairs Latest Action: 10/21/1998 - Confirmed by the Senate by Voice Vote. (All Actions)
3. PN1209 — 105th Congress (1997-1998) — Kenneth Prewitt — Department of Commerce Kenneth Prewitt, of New York, to be Director of the Census, vice Martha F. Riche, resigned. Date Received from President: 06/23/1998 Committee: Governmental Affairs Latest Action: 10/21/1998 - Confirmed by the Senate by Voice Vote. (All Actions)
3. PN1209 — 105th Congress (1997-1998) — Kenneth Prewitt — Department of Commerce Kenneth Prewitt, of New York, to be Director of the Census, vice Martha F. Riche, resigned. Date Received: 06/23/1998 Referred: Governmental Affairs Latest Action: 10/21/1998 - Confirmed by the Senate by Voice Vote. (All Actions)
4. PN1104 — 105th Congress (1997-1998) — Jacob Joseph Lew — Executive Office of the President Jacob Joseph Lew, of New York, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, vice Franklin D. Raines, resigned. Date Received from President: 05/13/1998 Committee: Governmental Affairs Latest Action: 07/31/1998 - Confirmed by the Senate by Voice Vote. (All Actions)
4. PN1104 — 105th Congress (1997-1998) — Jacob Joseph Lew — Executive Office of the President Jacob Joseph Lew, of New York, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, vice Franklin D. Raines, resigned. Date Received: 05/13/1998 Referred: Governmental Affairs Latest Action: 07/31/1998 - Confirmed by the Senate by Voice Vote. (All Actions)
5. PN13 — 98th Congress (1983-1984) — Barbara Jean Mahone — Federal Labor Relations Authority Barbara Jean Mahone, of New York, to be a Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority for a term of five years expiring July 29, 1987, vice Leon B. Applewhaite, term expired. Date Received from President: 01/25/1983 Committee: Governmental Affairs Latest Action: 03/07/1983 - Confirmed by the Senate by Unanimous Consent. (All Actions)
5. PN13 — 98th Congress (1983-1984) — Barbara Jean Mahone — Federal Labor Relations Authority Barbara Jean Mahone, of New York, to be a Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority for a term of five years expiring July 29, 1987, vice Leon B. Applewhaite, term expired. Date Received: 01/25/1983 Referred: Governmental Affairs Latest Action: 03/07/1983 - Confirmed by the Senate by Unanimous Consent. (All Actions)
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Antique Print Club | Edward Lear Charmosyna Papuensis, Papuan Lory. Lizars engraving c1836.
Antique Prints - AUSTRALIAN Nature - Australasian Birds - Edward Lear Charmosyna Papuensis, Papuan Lory. Lizars engraving c1836.
Edward Lear Charmosyna Papuensis, Papuan Lory. Lizars engraving c1836.
Antique print of Psittacus papuensis, the Papuan Lory. Fine original hand-coloured steel engraving by Edinburgh engraver William Home Lizars after a drawing by Edward Lear who assisted John Selby with illustrations for his work on Parrots published in London circa 1836 for Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library.
Between 1830 and 1832 Lear worked as a natural history draughtsman at the Zoological Society in London, he recorded the different members of the parrot family for his Illustrations of the family Psittacidae, or Parrots, considered a perfect combination of science and art, and resulting in his being elected an associate of the Linnaean Society. Lizars small, finely engraved portraits are exquisitely presented against the uncoloured engraving of each bird's habitat.


As the art world opens up to accept photography as a form of art that has evolved from advancements in technology, which allows photographers to manipulate their images to fit their artistic expression, the photo-artists are encouraged to look at photography as a medium that goes beyond being just a form of archival, and, drastically change the outcome of an image through choosing various cameras, lenses, film, and the framing and timing of a shot. The results, more often than not, have been amazing, opening a whole new world of perceptual experience.
With acceptance comes inclusion. At the India Art fair this year, Artistic Director of Chennai Photo Biennale, Pushpamala N., and Magnum photographer Sohrab Hura reflected on trends in contemporary photography and how the medium is likely to evolve in coming years. This very interesting conversation, established beyond point why photography is an inherent part of art and creative expression.
Another high point of the fair was the exhibit by Museum of Art and Photography that brought together a photographer, a Gond-Pardhan artist and a modernist to enable the audience to understand how each of these artists drew not only from a familiar rural landscape, but also from each other to mature their own body of work.
At the fair's newly introduced books section, American photographer Thomas Laird presented photographs of rarely-seen murals in his book, titled 'Murals of Tibet' that has been published by Taschen. Laird has spent nearly 50 years studying and documenting the art, culture and history of the Himalayas. Bharat Sikka's signing of his 120-page photographic collection called 'Where The Flowers Still Grow' was the other highlight. The book, published by Loose Joints, is an ode to Kashmir by Sikka, who has captured the region's faces against the backdrop of stunning landscapes through his lens.
Cut to a month later, the second edition of month long Chennai Photo Biennale (C`PB), an international biennale of photography, opened in the capital of Tamil Nadu on February 22. The Biennale, co-founded and co-organised by the CPB Foundation and the Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai, offers large scale exhibitions in a variety of public spaces, showing works by over 50 artists in print from 13 countries across the city.
It also includes an open to all International Photography Conference to be held on the 16 and 17 of this month. Supported by the Shergil-Sundaram Arts Foundation and presented by Savera, the title of the conference is Light Writing: The Photographic Image Reloaded and is to be attended by artists, curators and scholars from different parts of the world who will present papers and discuss the state of photography today.
In Delhi, the second edition of Habitat Photosphere, a year-long photography festival conceptualised and curated by Dr Alka Pande around the theme of sustainable development and initiated by India Habitat Centre, kicked off with the announcement of this edition's four awardees of the Photosphere fellowship — Juhi Saklani (New Delhi), Thulasi Kakkat (Kochi), Zishaan A. Latif (Mumbai) and Syed Adnan Ahmed (Rajasthan) — who have been given a Rs 2 lakh grant to produce a significant body of work that is being exhibited during this grand finale. Also on showcase is a special exhibit showcasing works of the four eminent photographer, Aditya Arya, Bandeep Singh, Parthiv Shah and Prabir Purkayastha at the Visual Arts Gallery.
Come to think of it, photography is such an empowering form of art because of its potential as teaching tool. It is an incredible visual medium that exposes people of all ages to important societal and cultural issues and touches on the global perspectives.
There is so much to learn from this medium — how people in other cultures embrace their traditions, how global warming is affecting the planet, where political unrest is making waves, whether there is beauty in something… Photos evoke so much emotion. They have the power to bring joy, stoke anger, nostalgia and even remembrance, to get embedded in our minds calling for re-creation at other times.
Acknowledging the power of this medium, at ArtCultureFestival, we are happy to announce a very special pop up dedicated to photography as art and chronicler of visual experience. Starting this month, we are introducing a special page that would feature the works of the photographers, interviews, features and announcements related to the world of photography. The visual section (open to all photographers exploring it a medium of art) is being curated by our guest and a very talented professional lifestyle photographer, Ankush Dewesar. A third-generation photographer, Dewesar is the founder of 'Chasing Light Fotography', the photo company known for creative and innovative photographic concepts.
So, join us to make this page a success and share your best works, feedback to the section. Write in/send entries to us at: acfeditorial@gmail.com . After all, what better than the camera as a perfect tool to create art and to tell stories with?


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Recombinant rat IL-6 is a 21.7 kDa peptide containing 188 residues corresponding to full-length mature rat interleukin-6.
IL-6 is a pleiotropic cytokine involved in the regulation of immune and inflammatory responses.
Purified recombinant protein expressed in E. coli - lyophilised.
Reconstitute with 0.1 ml distilled water. For extended storage the addition of 0.1% BSA is recommended.
ED50 of < 0.01ng/ml when assayed by proliferation of IL-6 dependent murine 7TD1 cells. This corresponds to a specific activity of 1 x 108 units/mg.
>98% by SDS PAGE and HPLC analysis.
Storage in frost-free freezers is not recommended. This product should be stored undiluted. Avoid repeated freezing and thawing as this may denature the protein.
3 months from date of reconstitution.
Where this protein has not been tested for use in a particular technique this does not necessarily exclude its use in such procedures. Suggested working dilutions are given as a guide only. It is recommended that the user titrates the product for use in their own system using appropriate positive/negative controls.
Recombinant rat IL-6 may be used as a standard for ELISA applications with either anti Rat IL-6: purified (AAR35) or anti Rat IL-6: biotin conjugate (AAR17B).
Recombinant Rat IL-6 may be used as the positive control for western blotting applications with either anti Rat IL-6: purified (AAR35) or anti Rat IL-6: biotin conjugate (AAR17B).


Node.js has been designed to be single threaded. So for all practical purposes, applications that launch with Node will run on a single thread.
However, Node.js itself runs multi-threaded. I/O operations and the like will run from a thread pool. Further will any instance of a node application run on a different thread, therefore to run multi-threaded applications one launches multiple instances.
Understanding the Event Loop is important to understand how and why to use multiple threads.


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Tackle Kids Cancer
Josh Stiefel December 4th, 2018
NFL quarterback Eli Manning with young patients at Hackensack University Health Center in New Jersey
Before the age of 20, about 1 in 285 children in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer. Eighty percent of children who are treated survive. Thanks to philanthropic programs like Tackle Kids Cancer, the chances for a full recovery are continually improving.
Tackle Kids Cancer is based at the Children's Cancer Institute at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. The nonprofit organization raises money for cancer research, patient care programs, and access to clinical trials.
"Pediatric cancer is the number one cause of death in children after accidents," Amy Glazer, director of Tackle Kids Cancer, told me in a recent interview. "While we have made great strides, we still need to find a cure."
ELI'S CHALLENGE
The Institute has a secret weapon—its partnership with the New York Giants. Quarterback Eli Manning leads the way with a program that he helped create. It's called "Eli's Challenge." Manning matches every donation that an individual donor makes. This has helped inspire schoolchildren around the state to raise funds for the effort.
Manning also takes time to visit young patients. "Hearing kids' stories," he said via email, "and seeing their strength and fighting spirit are huge motivations for me. It makes me want to do more to help find a cure for childhood cancer."
Photo courtesy of Hackensack University Medical Center


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Police and Public Safety
How Do Private Security Patrols In Seattle Neighborhoods Affect Livability?
Guest Contributor and Wanda Bertram (Guest Contributor)
In December 2015, a team of private security guards from Central Protection began making six-hour patrols around the Magnolia residential area. In February 2016, Joe Villarino, director of the neighborhood association that hired them, posted their first results online. Comparing Magnolia crime data from that last December to crime in December 2014, Villarino pointed out "a 7% decrease in property crimes," as well as in crimes "across the board." The patrol, he meant to say, was doing its job.
Magnolia is one of a number of Seattle neighborhoods—also including Laurelhurst, Windermere, and Whittier Heights—that have hired security teams in recent years to deter and respond to property crime. The logic of the neighborhood groups is simple: If property crime is rising throughout Seattle and law enforcement cannot keep pace, hiring extra security is a sensible, if expensive, recourse.
But is it working?
It depends on whom you ask. Brad Renton, director of the Whittier Heights Patrol Association since its inception in 2014, says crime in his area has fallen. "'People will come up and say, 'Hey, I left my laptop in my car overnight and it was fine—two years ago it would have been gone in the morning,'" he says. But locating data to support those conclusions is tricky. Renton says he gets his numbers by asking the Seattle Police Department how many calls have come in from his neighborhood.
The police station could not provide such data on request, and pointed instead to the online Neighborhood Map that tracks Seattle police reports. But when data on the map for Magnolia, Whittier Heights, and Laurelhurst are analyzed over critical time periods, no decline in crime is apparent.
Police Reports by Month: Time periods reflect dates after patrols were hired or expanded.
The only clear takeaway from this data is that crime is highly variable and numbers easy to misinterpret. A difference of, say, 7% between two months is actually insignificant.
Of course, containing criminal activity at existing levels, or mitigating its rise, could be seen as a success when crime is rising in general. But there's no evidence that the increase in crime in these neighborhoods is any slower than in neighborhoods nearby. Here's Ballard as an example:
Police Reports by Month – Ballard Area: Whittier Heights (blue) is compared with downtown Ballard (green), Loyal Heights (purple), and Crown Hill (red) over a two-year period.
So if the data don't reveal a decrease in crime, why do residents feel safer? The Laurelhurst Blog, which has published reports of its patrol's activity, suggests an answer. Two reports from the blog show security mostly kicking the young and the homeless out of public parks after hours. Renton, too, attests that his officers have confronted homeless drug users, saying their policy, rather than making arrests, is to confiscate any drugs and induce the parties in question to "move along."
All this suggests a cautious conclusion about extra neighborhood security: it probably doesn't push crime out, but it does push people out.
Patrol Activity Reports from the Laurelhurst Blog.
Under the banner of hired security, there are real differences between privately-trained guards (the kind Villarino's patrol hires) and off-duty SPD officers (the kind Renton's hires). Private guards are limited, legally, in how they can respond to an incident: They can't make formal arrests, tow cars from public spaces, or anything else a private citizen can't do.
Off-duty law enforcement are limited in where and when they can respond: They can't search property or stop people without probable cause, and they are duty-bound to protect everyone in the neighborhood. But their police status means they can respond to 911 calls, reducing the delay that upsets so many Seattleites.
But no matter whom neighborhoods choose to hire, crime patrols, by nature, often focus most of their attention on monitoring "suspicious" individuals. And officers need to be careful "not to do anything to target," says Sergeant Paul Gracy, who has been at SPD for 36 years and heads the West Precinct's Community Police Teams. The CPT often handle conflicts between permanent and transient neighbors, and make it a policy to reach out with conversation and offers of social services before pursuing other action. Hired officers "should be out there to protect," Gracy warns. "You can't hire your own police department to pick on people."
Seattle Police vehicles. (Photo credit: Andrew Kim)
The other option for neighborhoods is to register a watch group, a practice Gracy says is becoming more common. Interestingly, it might also be what security companies would prefer.
Kim Legaspi of Seattle Security Inc., a company chaired by prominent members of the Seattle Police Officers' Guild, says they have struggled to find officers who want consistent neighborhood assignments or have time to take them. Legaspi believes that neighborhood watch groups are a better choice for taking care of "unwanteds" in a community. She says her own watch group saw a suspiciously parked car and was able to call the police to have it removed.
Private security might have handled the incident differently. In March, a Central Protection officer on Magnolia's neighborhood patrol encountered a local resident sleeping in his car. Their interaction led to the officer pepper-spraying the man, pinning him against his car and destroying his phone, resulting in a lawsuit against the company.
Negative interactions like these, Renton says, contributed to his choice to hire off-duty SPD officers, who in his view have superior training.
But Legaspi thinks it would be "crazy" if every Seattle neighborhood hired off-duty police. "The officers wouldn't get any sleep. They're already paid to be everywhere at once, so why can't we help them out?" she protests.
More than anything, these disagreements raise the question of what, exactly, neighborhood security guards are being hired to do. If their function is to reduce crime, it doesn't appear to be working. But if their main function is to respond to 911 calls, then the increased monitoring of locals, particularly the homeless, is a lamentable side effect. One wonders whether different solutions could bypass this problem, or even serve to connect residents on the street to more social services. Sergeant Gracy, for one, says he could always use more staff.
Wanda Bertram is a Seattle-area freelance writer focused on policing, incarceration, and inequality.
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What do you do when you have a bad day? You call your friend or partner to tell them about it, right?
That's what this little girl did after she had a bad day at school. The girl was new to the class, and decided to call the little boy she had befriended. She was upset and told him how two girls were being mean to her at school on Friday.
To cheer her up, the little boy had his mom drive over to her house, just so he could sing a rendition of Bruno Mar's "Count On Me" to her in the driveway. The boy's mother took video and uploaded it to Facebook. It has since received more than 60K views already.


Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez is an upcoming welterweight title fight scheduled for Nov. 12, 2011, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The fight pits reigning world champion Pacquiao against lightweight champion Marquez, and will be contested at a 144-pound catchweight.
This is the third fight between Pacquiao and Marquez. The two fought to a draw in 2004, and Pacquiao won a split decision in the rematch in 2008.
The fight will be broadcast by HBO PPV, and an HBO "24/7" series will lead up to the fight.
I've seen both of their fights previously and man they were battles in the Ring.Back and forth neither man giving up that's Boxing.Both men have the skills to win, honestly I can see Manny losing Saturday since Marquez knows him to well.If Manny wins again, c'mon Floyd time to man up sir.I see Manny knocking Marquez in the last round, but I expect the cards to be close the whole fight.


We survived our first show – but society still remains the same! Thanx to everyone involved Thursday night and to the huge crowd that didn't kick us off the stage. It was an amazing night. Special thanks to Bi-Marks – check them out when you have the chance!
Franz Strøsuk – Thank God for Abortion – Live @ SUb 23.05.2013 – YouTube.
Check this y-tube playlist for the entire show in moving pictures and sound!
Franz Strøsuk is looking for more shows to play this summer and autumn!
If you want us to play at your venue or at a show you are about to organize, please send us an email! We are eager to make some noise and spread some more propaganda!
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The big game's ads, broken down by sentiment, social engagement and more.
Minutes of national ad time — the third highest in history.
Freshman advertisers: ADT, Bumble, Expensify, Mint Mobile, SimpliSafe and The Washington Post.
U.S. households tuned in — down 15% from 2018.
#AvocadosFromMexico sparked over 606 million impressions.
Number of impressions hashtag #PepsiMoreThanOK earned.
Anheuser-Busch InBev was the game's top marketer, spending around $59M. Its 5:45 of ad time was its largest Super Bowl buy in more than 25 years.


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Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival Confirms Cancellation of 2019 Edition
A statement released by Okeechobee Music & Arts has verified what surfaced last week.
EDM.com Staff
Credit: Ching Chen
Last week it came to light that Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival would not take place in 2019, but the festival's organizers had not commented on the matter themselves. In a statement issued today via Twitter, "Team Okeechobee" has formally addressed the turn of events.
"After much consideration and looking at many different options, we have decided to take a fallow year and not hold our annual Okeechobee Fest in 2019," their statement starts out. After mentioning some highlights from the festival's three-year history, it suggests that the organizers don't plan to discontinue it indefinitely. "While the OMF portal won't be opening in 2019, we're looking forward to March 2020, and we can't wait to see you again," reads a passage near the end.
EDM fans had already known that the festival wouldn't return in 2019 prior to the statement. Reputed leak account Festive Owl had uncovered minutes from an Okeechobee County Board of Commissioners meeting, a line of which read, "There will be no festival in 2019."
It remains to be seen whether Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival will indeed return in 2020.
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After taking 2019 off, Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival is set to return in 2020.
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There was a SpaceX launch during Bassnectar. Need we say more?
Bassnectar Drops Unreleased Drum and Bass Track at Okeechobee
Bassnectar switched things up with an unreleased drum and bass track at the Sunshine Grove-based festival.
Ultra Music Festival 2020 Confirmed Canceled
The City of Miami held a press conference confirming that the festival will be postponed until 2021.


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Cream butter and cream cheese together. Add sugar, eggs and vanilla, and mix well. Gradually add flour and salt, and mix well. Bake in a Bundt pan at 325 for 90 minutes. The cake can be garnished with sifted powdered sugar or a simple citrus glaze: confectioners sugar and fresh lemon or orange juice mixed together.


A Blue Angels flight demonstration exhibits choreographed refinements of skills possessed by all naval aviators. The Blue Angels' C-130, affectionately known as Fat Albert, begins each demonstration by exhibiting its maximum performance capabilities during a ten-minute performance.
experience while showcasing the tactics and maneuvers utilized during training during WWII.
against two of the elite pilots from the GEICO Skytypers team. Watch the show to see who wins and claims bragging rights!
Lt. Col. John Klatt is one of the top aerobatic performance pilots in America. He has thrilled millions of air show spectators for the past decade, with his own unique blend of precision, power and performance. He has served in the Air National Guard for more than 20 years – flying combat, air support and humanitarian missions throughout the world in the F-16 "Fighting Falcon" and the C-130 "Hercules" aircraft.
Rob Holland is one of the most decorated, respected, and innovative aerobatic pilots and airshow performers in the world today. Flying the Window World MXS-RH by MX Aircraft, Rob Holland brings an unrivaled performance to airshows across North America, thrilling millions of spectators with his dynamic and breathtaking display.
Jim Tobul is the man behind the stick in "Korean War Hero", but rather than the owner, he considers himself more the caretaker of this beautiful warbird and her storied history. An avid pilot for over 40 years, Jim takes great pride in carrying the legacy of the veteran Corsair to airshows all over North America.


Book Three of The Puzzle Quests: Sketchy Dinosaurs started in November with NanoWrimo. The goal was to write every single day to finish a 50,000 word novel in one month. I reached day 14 with 14,000 words and hadn't picked up the story until yesterday.
That's not to say that I completely forgot about Mark, Boulder, and the wonderful dragons and characters that live in Dragonia. I created my storyboard filled with themes, action/danger points, setting, and of course old and new characters.
From the photos and the title, you have probably figured out that book three will include dinosaurs. There were references in Book two–Saving Atlantis with Mark falling into dino poop and taking an interesting rock home with him. References like meteors and large footprints that could only have been made from a T-Rex.
There are a broad spectrum of ideas, and I might have to deal with questions like: Was the Smilodon around during the same time as the T-Rex? How did dinosaurs and dragons actually connect when one is extinct and the other supposedly never existed? How did the dinosaurs get around in Dragonia where there is so much water? How did they even get there? And the biggest question of all–why would my readers care?
I came up with the idea of dinosaurs basically because Mark loved dinosaurs as a child and his nickname was T-Rex. So now I'm developing this entire story to include dinosaurs, so I need to be able to answer these questions, make the answers believable, and continue to create characters and connections that we care about.
Man, I love writing and all the possibilities! I'm excited to get the first draft completed. Until then, read Shimmer's Eggs and Saving Atlantis to get to know all the fun characters and storylines.
Today's book signing at Market Block Books is dedicated to all the children who have lost their lives to cancer and their peers who have been so terribly affected. I think about the siblings, friends, cousins, and fellow classmates who carry the pain and fear of losing someone so young and close to their age. It gives them a hard lesson in mortality at an age when they should be filled with possibilities not finalities.
Children battling cancer or any life-threatening illness suffer from the loss of innocence, structure, playfulness as well as the loss of physical abilities, hair, and possibly having a family of their own.
I write fiction to soften the harshness of these realities and provide hope where it can be tough to find any. Today, two of my beta readers came by and bought books for themselves and friends. (Well their mom did! Thank you, Felicia!) One book was dedicated to Blue Creek school readers in memory of Ben Stowell, an amazing boy who lost his life to cancer. This request made me pause. They would have been too young to know Ben, but their mom makes sure they are aware and know the impact that Ben has on their community. They are affected just knowing that cancer exists.
No matter how much Rose struggles and screws up her quests in Saving Atlantis, she can always start again and have hope that the next time she will succeed. No matter how much Peter wishes Luke was home with him, he has a family that loves him unconditionally. Through love there is hope.
No matter how much I miss my beauty of a boy, my Nick, children like Rebecca and Mackenzie spread hope by remembering Ben Stowell. I wish the world will one day be free of cancer and that no child will have to suffer. Connections like I have with these two beautiful young ladies carry me through another day.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Awareness to find a cure, safer treatments, and provide emotional support to everyone affected, whether it's through counseling, supportive gatherings, or a book filled with possibilities.
To everyone who came to my event today, you helped this mission. Thank you.
Until I had the books in my hands, I worried that Saturday morning would come and I wouldn't have any books to sell! But fear not, Meradith from Troy Book Makers did everything in her power to get my book on time. I highly recommend her and the company!
Meradith from Troy Book Makers! Everyone knows they have to take a photo with me!
Karen, one of my prestigious proofreaders and inspiration for mother of Rose wore her special Atlantis t-shirt. I can always count on her to go all in!
Iris inspired the Cuban food gathering in Saving Atlantis. Food heals and brings family together.
So now the fun begins. There are many opportunities to get a copy of your book, and I want to support independent bookstores. Purchase a copy of Saving Atlantis or Shimmer's Eggs between September 21 and October 5, take a photo of you with either book outside the independent bookstore so its name is visible. Share on my Facebook page Instagram or Twitter with hashtag #savingatlantisindiebookpromo and your name will be entered into a drawing to win one of two puzzles.
Check out the many opportunities to get your copy. I hope to see you at one of my events. Thank you to everyone who has helped me fulfill my dream of writing and sharing my adventurous stories!
Please remember that September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month. Part of my mission as a writer is to share hope for anyone going through a life-threatening illness or loss. No matter where you are there is hope. Partial proceeds from all my book sales benefit Nick's Fight to be Healed Foundation, which emotionally and financially supports children with cancer.
The Puzzle Quests: Saving Atlantis is on its way! Book release date is September 21! Pre-orders are available on my website at www.janinedetilliocammarata.com. Free poster with the first 100 orders!
I have quite a few book events/signings, as well as writing events at area schools and the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library with more coming. All are listed on my website, but here is a Save the Date list.
Book Release and Creative Collaboration!
Look for Facebook Live interviews with my Beta Readers, illustrator, editor, and Rose–the inspiration for the second book in this series.


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BOISE, Idaho (PIX11) – It had been two years since this young Idaho man saw his father, and when he finally met him in the airport the sight brought tears to his eyes.
Duane decided he was going to secretly lose weight after his son went to Brazil on a mission for two years. The results left his son, Ty, in tears when he got back.
Ty Higley was meeting his dad, Duane Higley, at the Boise Airport after completing a mission in Brazil for his church. Because of the nature of the trip, Ty had limited contact with his father, making it possible for Duane to keep his weight loss a secret.
When Ty finally saw his father, it left him speechless and brought tears to his eyes.
Father and son say they are continuing the workout regimen together, and have plans for a half marathon over the summer.


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Steeleville school board hears peanut concerns
Steeleville District 138 Superintendent Stephanie Mulholland
By Pete Spitler
editor@heraldtrib.com
updated: 12/20/2017 10:53 AM
As part of its regular December meeting on Monday, the Steeleville District 138 Board of Education heard from two parents regarding their daughter's peanut allergy.
Chad and Stephanie Knop addressed the board during public comment.
"We have students who have food allergies and peanut allergies are different for a lot of people," said District Superintendent Stephanie Mulholland in a phone interview. "It can be through contact, it's that simple, and people can go into anaphylactic shock."
Mulholland said the parents requested the district to consider going nut-free.
"The parents did mention having consulted an attorney and at that point, we went into closed session under the exemption of potential litigation," Mulholland said. "The board is taking (going nut-free) under advisement and I'll be doing some research on that.
"(The board members) want some additional information and we'll go from there."
In other news, the board approved the 2017 proposed tax levy of $1,770,425. That amount is more than 5 percent from the previous year, which required a truth in taxation hearing.
Randolph County is a Property Tax Extension Limitation Law (PTELL) county, which limits the amount of increases in property tax extensions for non-home rule taxing districts.
Factoring into the limiting rate calculations for property tax levy collections is the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which has a factor of 2.1 percent for 2017.
"The purpose of going over CPI is to capture any new revenue sources that may come onto the tax rolls," Mulholland said. "It allows us to capture any new growth we may not be aware of."
The board also approved a resolution to abate taxes levied for 2017 to pay debt service on general obligation school bonds from 2015.
Mulholland said the district would use funds raised from the county's 1 percent facilities tax to pay down the bonds and would not levy real estate taxes.
During the informational items portion of the agenda, Mulholland updated the board on the results of lead testing in the district's water supply.
One water fountain in the grade school gymnasium did not meet federal guidelines, while two faucets in the kitchen did not meet Illinois standards - which Mulholland said are more stringent than the federal rules.
"We're going to replace all three faucets in the kitchen," Mulholland said. "I'm not positive, but I think our custodian can do it because it's an issue of the actual faucet."
Mulholland added the water supply will be turned off to the water fountain in the gym.
• The board approved the resignation of 6th-8th grade special education teacher Tessa Menefee, who is taking a job in another district. Her resignation was effective Dec. 20 and Mulholland said the district is working on finding a replacement.
• The board approved Neal Haertling as Steeleville High School track coach.
• The board reviewed the minutes of its executive session and voted to keep those records sealed.
• The board approved changing the January meeting date to Jan. 8 at 7 p.m. Mulholland said the board would be having a hearing about a non-resident tuition waiver for the children of certified employees of the district so that they may attend the district's schools even if they live out of district.
• The board heard curriculum reports from Sheila Grafton (junior high math) and Nicole Brokering (fourth grade). The pair talked about how they were wrapping up the semester in their classes and Brokering talked about her students building volcanoes and erupting them outside.


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Q: How to recognize preamble in on-off keyed waveform using Java I'm trying to figure out how to parse a captured waveform using Java to recognize a preamble with a cadence of high and low states (each nominally 5ms/240 samples long), concluding with a 20ms high, and determine the offset of the first 'negative' sample after the preamble's final sample.
You can assume the data is an array of signed integers. I could capture in a different format (unsigned bytes, floats/doubles, etc) if it made things easier.
The method does not have to be realtime or single-pass/stream-friendly. Inhaling the whole waveform into an array, making copies of it to non-destructively apply different software filters and experiment with multiple approaches at runtime, etc, is all OK. You can safely assume it's running on a computer with gigabytes of RAM and a hefty multi-core desktop CPU.
Here's an example of the waveform I'm trying to interpret. The preamble is at the start (followed by MFM-encoded bits, but that's a problem for a future question... I'm trying to keep this question as tightly-focused as possible and limit its scope to just the preamble's recognition).
In real life, there could potentially be up to ~20,000-40,000 samples with random noise prior to the preamble's start.

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*This particular preamble has six high-low pulses that all showed up clearly in my test waveform, but in real life, the preamble would probably be longer, and it's entirely possible that the first few could be mangled or missing.

*If changes to the preamble format would make the task of recognition and synchronization easier, I can easily make them.

At the moment, I'm just (stupidly) plowing through it looking for 950-970 'high' samples in a row, then examining the samples 120, 360, 600, and 840 before it to confirm that they're low, high, low, and high (ignoring the very real possibility of noise, drop-out, or just an anomalous value that looks correct amidst a sea of wrong ones).
I know there has to be a better way that probably involves filtering... but I don't know what it is, and want to find out.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to intelligently recognize the preamble, even if it's not completely noise-free. Abstracting it a bit, let's say I'd like to be able to recognize a preamble with 4+ high/low periods, followed by a burst of random noise that concludes with a detectable high at a plausible offset, a 5ms low, and the 20ms high end marker.
I'd also like to be able to use the preamble to discern the sender's exact timing. Nominally, each preamble-pulse is high for 5ms/240 samples and low for 5ms/240 samples... but it's obviously possible that if the sender's and receiver's clocks aren't precisely identical, the receiver might perceive the pulses as being 239, 238, 241, 242, or some other close-but-not-quite-240 stride apart.
So... what's a good way to accomplish preamble-recognition and recover the sender's clock?


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Gilligan in Gotham by Gemma
Gemma, from the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra, made this lovely Sonic Uke video of the song from Gilligan's Isle while Irene howled in the background....
WIUO website
Goodnight, Irene.
Sing it loud, strum it long. I pray it keeps the water from your home. Link
(Note the subject keywords: Celebrities Portraits Spouses Recreation Vice Deception Suicide Distress. No Hurricane. Still, sounds like a Craig Robertson song.)
A Whole Host of Ukuleles at Strathmore
Official count: 944. A new record? Link
Dancing into September
Only 5 more days! My newest CD "Dancing on the Edge of the Knife" will be available on Bandcamp as a 'name your price' download. Starting in September, it will be $15 a download. Here is my song about imprisoned Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo from the album
(all proceeds from the sale of this CD go directly to Amnesty International)
Great Ukulele Instruction Book....!
Once you get past the silly title (Ukulele for Dummies), you realize that Al Wood (who runs www.ukulelehunt.com) has actually put together a marvelous compendium of ukulele knowledge that takes you from novice to expert. I'm not always a fan of 'teach yourself an instrument' books, but this one of Al's is, really, a ukulele bible. A great reference, with an included audio dvd, and some very witty writing that makes it fun to read.
Go get it. Now.
Ukulele for Dummies
No excuses...
For those of you who do NOT live in Boston. (is there a world outside of Boston? I've heard one exists, but I'm not convinced) You will be able to tune in to a LIVE (well, undead anyway) Noir Cabaret show at Passims in Harvard Square.
Here's the show poster, and this is the link to Passims Concert Window.
The show will start at 8pm, Boston time, and will have some cool performances from New England musicians. Lots of different instruments and a variety of approaches to live music.
Tune In, Turn On, and Drop What You're Doing.
Jake Shimabukuro: Rolling Stone Live Videos
"Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro stopped by the Rolling Stone studio recently to play a couple of his original compositions along with a gorgeous, delicate rendition of the Queen classic "Bohemian Rhapsody." After the set, Shimabukuro demonstrated how he developed his distinct ukulele style and talked about how thrilled he is that his instrument has enjoyed a recent resurgence in popularity."
Strathmore Uke Fest World Record Attempt
If you're in the Strathmore (MD) area on Wednesday, August 24, grab your uke and join Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer and a cast of the usual suspects as they attempt to break the world record for Largest Ukulele Ensemble. Info on the fest and the record attempt here.
Michihiro Matsuda's Experimental Ukulele
Ukulelia's Commander of Expeditionary Lutherie Forces, Michael Simmons, points us to luthier Michihiro Matsuda's experimental ukulele, currently featured on the Fretboard Journal blog.
The top is made of a sandwich of Nomex® and spruce, bent into a bow shape. Nomex is a lightweight, ultra-strong high-tech material used in the manufacture of aircraft.
Read more and see a video of the uke in action here.


I am hating these sequels in "name only", like the recent APRIL FOOL'S DAY. This, however, is not only that but more of a sequel to Taurus Entertainment's DAY OF THE DEAD: CONTAGIUM (2005), in which it's an airborne man-made virus that's turning people into zombies. There's only some vague references to the Romero classic, such as some of the character's names. And these zombies are not only the fast kind, they are hyper quick. In one scene several zombies are running through a hospital hallway and one is moving so fast he ends up scrambling across the ceiling. Goofy.
The movie takes place in a small town in Colorado and starts with the army trying to prevent the townsfolk from leaving town because they know the virus has been unleashed. Sarah (Mena Suvari) is a soldier from this town and goes back to her house to check up on her mother and brother. The mother has the bug and they take her to a hospital, where the next half of the film takes place. Then there's lots of the typical running around, shutting doors, hiding, et cetera.
Unlike the original there are no underground mines. In the last third of the movie the survivors do make it to an underground bunker where the scientists had created this "Wildfire" virus and at this point the movie feels like a lame imitation of a RESIDENT EVIL movie far more than it does any relation to a Living Dead movie.
The only decent scene in the entire film is five minutes in which a zombified Ving Rhames is crawling through an airduct after Mena Suvari. Otherwise this movie is a terrible waste of time and an insult to any horror fan out there. Crap. Utter crap!


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Thompson, Francis Joseph, 1859-1907 (poet)
Family papers, 1842-1973
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/A
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection includes Meynell's archive of papers in his various occupations, including his years at the Pelican Press (1916-23) and Nonesuch Press (1923-36 and 1952-68, although the papers of what he called 'pre-war Nonesuch' are mostly lost). Further papers related to typographical and other design come from Meynell's work for the Limited Editions Club, the advertising firm Mather and Crowther, the Board of Trade, H. M. Stationery Office, the Post Office, and others. Besides these, the...
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9813, Papers of Francis Meynell
New judgments: Francis Thompson (1942), 1941-1944
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B3
The programme was recorded and broadcast on the BBC Home Service on 4 Dec. 1942. The recording was re-broadcast on 15 May 1944.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9813, Papers of Francis Meynell / Compositions by Francis Meynell
Other broadcasts, 1933-1971
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B60
Included are some broadcasts that are not Meynell's compositions, namely poetry readings and Brains Trust programmes (1943-1944).
Remarks on Francis Thompson to open an exhibition, 1959
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B59/62
Typescript of 2 pages (carbon copy); and correspondence with the organizers (Jane Downton and James Brown) This was for the Francis Thompson exhibition at the Harris Library, Preston. Meynell's remarks were recorded and played at the opening on 22 Oct. 1959.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9813, Papers of Francis Meynell / Compositions by Francis Meynell / Other talks and lectures
Remarks on the sixtieth anniversary of Francis Thompson's death, 1967
Typescript (carbon copy) of 2 pages dated July 1967 and marked 'FM at Palace Court meeting of F. T. Society'.
Speech for the celebration of the centenary of Francis Thompson at Boston College, 1959
Original typescript of 2 pages with ms. alterations, and 2 carbon copies. The typescript is marked 'Tape recording sent to Father Connolly at Boston College Library Oct. 59'. With these are a letter from Connolly and a printed programme for the centenary exhibition at the library.


The 2014 Stratford Festival's theme is "Madness: Minds Pushed to the Edge," and includes more than 150 debates, concerts, workshops, and, of course, theater, theater, and more theatre. The play offerings examine the madness of love, family, power, war, desire and money!
Though the snow and cold weather are still swirling, in some cases due to the frigid Canadian weather which they graciously share with Americans, those people up north, also, when spring and summer come, offer wonderful accommodations, good food, unusual shopping, and theatre, theatre and more theater, in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
KING LEAR (May 5-October 10)—In this Shakespeare classic, an aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom between this three daughter, with consequence he little expects. In the process he discovers the essence of his own humanity.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM (May 16-October 11)—Shakespeare's comedy about Hermia, who elopes with her lover Lysander, and is pursued by a rival suitor , Demetrius, and jos spurned admirer, Helena. It's a tale of love's giddiest lunacy.
THE BEAUX STATAGEM (JULY 31-OCTOBER 11)—George Farquhar's tale of larcenous lovers who realize that their hearts might be susceptible to ensnarement.
MAN OF LAMANCHA (May 8-October 11)—"Dream the Impossible Dream" as you are taken on the mythical journey of Don Quixote in a mythical reenactment of the Miguel de Cervantes enduring and endearing tale.
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS (April 30-October 12)—Climb through the living-room mirror with Alice as she enters a world of wonders populated by "fantastical" characters and dreams of the mind.
HAY FEVER (May 28-October 11)—Noël Coward's witty tale of a stage star, novelist husband and two grown children who have each invited guests for the weekend which results in flirtations and histrionics. Will they survive the weekend with their sanity intact?
KING JOHN (May 21-September 20)—Yes, Shakespeare's mad world of mad kings highlights the inevitable war, excommunications, attempted atrocities, rebellion and assassination that results when the King of France demands that King John of England relinquish his crown.
MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN (May 15-September 21)—Bertolt Brecht's compelling tale of what happens when Mother Courage, who sells provisions to both Protestant and Catholic combatants during the Thirty Years' War, discovers that the very chaos that sustains her will eventually cost her everything she holds most dear.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (August 3-September 20)—Reason and judgement prove no match for the tsunami of mutual passion engulfing Mark Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare's tale of the love that shook the very foundation of the world.
CHRISTINA, THE GIRL KING (July 29-September 21)—Michel Marc Bouchard's tale of Queen Christina who seeks to make her country the most sophisticated in Europe, but her goals put her at odds with her culture's expectations of her, both as a monarch and as a woman.
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, a chamber play (July 11-September 20)—Two couples become gods, animals, demons, monsters, children, playing things in Shakespeare's classic masterpiece about our multiple selves and conflicted identities.
What's the lodging like? Hotels, motels and bed and breakfasts abound to fit any wallet. I like a b & b. You get to meet new people and there is a nice friendly feel of being more than a guest. My favorite is the Avery House (http://www.averyhouse.com).
Hungry? For moderate cost and high quality, try The Annex Cafe (38 Albert Street) and the Stratford Thai Cuisine (82 Wellington Street).
Theater and housing packages can be arranged by www.theatrevacations.com. Stratford Escapes (theatrevacations.com), is an efficient way to make reservations. For individual tickets call 800-567-1600 or go on-line to http://www.stratfordfestival.ca.
Helpful hints: The ride from Cleveland is about six hours through Buffalo. Go on-line to the festival for directions. The routings offered by AAA and Yahoo maps are confusing and miles longer. To satisfy border requirements carry your passport. Nothing else will do.
Go to Stratford, Canada! Find out what lovely hosts Canadians are, and see some great theatre!


A good (reasonably priced) cupcake has been a hard thing to come by here in Korea. The one place I knew with amazing cupcakes ended up closing a while back and I was devastated. Maybe I'm being a bit dramatic, but I was pretty bummed. So, It seemed like fate when my dog and I happened to pass by a cupcake place I had never noticed before.
Creamfields has this Southern California hipster vibe that makes me feel like I'm right back in LA (if only for a few hours). The interior has a nice open feel with its glass walls, white chiffon curtains and open kitchen. The space is occupied with marble gold-trimmed tables, fresh flower arrangements and California inspired framed posters. The cafe is riddles with unique little details and quirky pop culture references, from "Cake by the Ocean" napkins to "Pick me, choose me, love me" cup sleeves. In all honesty, it's everything an Instagram obsessed millennial could hope for.
Anyhow, Creamfields makes some pretty awesome cupcakes. They have this balanced consistency between moist and dense cake. I usually prefer my cupcakes a bit more on the moist side, but I think these are bit of a compromise for people on both sides of the spectrum. As for the the frostings, they range anywhere from the creamy cream cheese type found on the earl grey cupcake to the surgery buttercream type found on the mint cookies & creme cupcake. Typically, desserts in Korea are geared towards appealing to Korean taste preferences which often results in desserts that lack the richness or sweetness they're known for. While these are not 100% western style cupcake, they come pretty darn close.
What I really like about this place is that they are always changing up their cupcakes. So whenever you pop in, you're almost always guaranteed to find a cupcake you haven't tried before. Even if there are repeats, the design, toppings or even colors change on a daily basis. Also, they have a couple of other non-cupcake options like handmade pastel rainbow meringue cookies, rainbow marble pound cake, NYC brownies and even marshmallows.
Moving on to their drink menu… they offer a variety of coffees, organic teas and even beer and champagne. Personally, I really enjoy their iced Vienna coffee. However if you only have once chance to visit the cafe, I recommend trying out one of their specialty drinks: the Monster Latte, Harlem Shake or Skinny Red Lemonade.
I'm a bit obsessed with their "Monster Latte." This is an iced caffe latte topped with a thick whipped cream and garnished with a handful of handmade pastel rainbow meringue cookies. I'm not really a fan of meringue cookies, but these are soft, crisp, just a tad chewy and let's be honest… absolutely beautiful! These cookies are the perfect way to add a bit of sweetness (and color) to an ordinary cafe latte. Take a sip, take a bite… perfection!
Whenever I'm in the mood for something light, refreshing and non-caffeinated, I always opt for their "Skinny Red Lemonade." It is to die for! The lemonade is made with real strawberries and freshly squeezed lemons. It's sweet, tangy and makes you feel like it's ok to scarf down that second cupcake.
Generally speaking, this cafe has definitely made it to my list of Seoul favourites. It has great drinks, tasty desserts, a fantastic ambiance and the staff is super helpful and nice. If you're as indecisive as me, they are always more than happy to offer a recommendation (in English or Korean). So if you have a sweet tooth that needs to be appeased, definitely give this place a try.
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Hi! I will be visting Seoul soon and would really love to check this place out! Do you happen to have the exact directions to the cafe?
Hi there! You can get there from Hongik University Station (홍대입구역). It's a bit of a walk from there, so I recommend taking a taxi. It'll only be about a 10min ride.
You can get there from Hongik University Station (홍대입구역). It's a bit of a walk from there, so I recommend taking a taxi. It'll only be about a 10min ride.


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Helen Reddy said it best in the 70s: "I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore…" The 70s may have had some bad clothes and disco music, but the 70s also opened the door for women, and in many ways, became the Decade of The Woman.
Women have become empowered over the last 30 to 40 years in wide variety of ways, but one of the biggest ways women have become empowered is through business ownership.
These businesses employ over 13 million people, and (as of 2008) had generated $1.9 trillion in sales.
Women-owned businesses make up over 40% of all privately held companies.
One in five companies reporting revenue in excess of $1 million is a woman-owned business.
3% of businesses owned by women report revenue of $1 million or more.
Women-owned business have been growing at twice the rate of all U.S. companies.
Women of color owned 1.9 million businesses in 2008.
These businesses generate $165 billion in revenue annually, and employee 1.2 million people.
Between 2002 and 2008, women of color owned businesses grew more quickly than any other privately held companies.
Clearly, women are a very entrepreneurial group! Studies have long shown that women are capable multi-taskers, effective problem solvers, creative in approaches to many aspects of daily life, and are often the financial planners at home. These unique skills have lent themselves beautifully to the empowerment of women through business ownership.
Women often create successful businesses because they have identified a need through a specific set of circumstances. Women have created hair care products specifically due to the lack of products they want or need and can't find. Mother's Helpers and Home Fairies came about because women have long wished that "they had a wife." Niche businesses developed for women by women are hugely successful simply because women identify with other women on a very specific level.
There are many opportunities in today's market for an enterprising woman to develop her own business, big or small.
However, the list for starting your own business is virtually endless. Take a look around you and see if there is a business need that can be filled.
Many of these business ideas can be started with little working capital. Not all businesses take a large investment for start-up costs. Many of the ideas listed above can be done from home with no employees and no overhead costs such as rent, insurance, additional utilities, etc. And, many work-from-home businesses are entitled to a tax break because you are using your home as an office.
If starting your own business is appealing to you, or starting your own home-based business is an idea you'd like to turn into a reality, then pick a direction, research what you would need to get you started, and join the millions of other women who have been empowered through business ownership!


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Galion sports roundup: Three Tiger wrestlers win titles at invitational
Three Galion wrestlers win invite championships
TIFFIN — The Galion Tigers participated in the Calvert Gene Kimmet Invite on Saturday.
The Tigers crowned three individual champs.
In the 126-pound class, Cody Brady went a perfect 3-0 en route to being crowned the champion. Garrett Kuns continued his strong season, finished 3-0 and being named champion in the 182-pound weight class. At 285-pound pounds, Mason Weldon. Weldon was a perfect 4-0 on the day.
Brenden Ganshorn would finish the day with a 3-1 record in the 106-pound weight class, which was good for a second place finish. Gavin Pennington finished fourth in the 170-pound class with a record of 3-2. Finishing at 3-1 and earning third place at 195-pounds was Noah Grochowalski.
Galion finished third of nine teams.
Van Buren won with 163 points, followed by Mohawk-152, GALION-144, Seneca East-126, Tiffin Columbian-120, Tiffin Calvert-111, Oak Harbor-89, Fostoria-65 and Buckeye Central-21.
Galion will be at their home gym on Wednesday Feb. 8 to wrestle in a dual-meet against the Bucyrus Redmen.
Mohawk girls beat Galion 51-25
GALION — On Monday, Mohawk beat Galion 51-25 in girls high school basketball action. The loss drops Galion to 4-17 on the year. Mohawk is 10-10.
Galion took a quick 4-0 lead vs. Mohawk, but the Warriors soon found their shooting touch and grabbed a 12-9 lead at the end of the first quarter. The Mohawk lead was 23-14 at the half and 40-22 at the end of three quarters.
Gabby Kaple was Galion's top scorer with 15 points on 6/18 shooting. Kaple was 3/3 from the free-throw line and grabbed seven boards. Dani Schieber contributed five points and Julie Clouse and Jaime Ehrman both scored two points. Natalie Rodriguez scored a point, but grabbed 10 rebounds.
The Lady Tigers had a rough night shooting making just 1/15 three-point attempts and converting 8/33 from the interior. Galion did well from the free-throw stripe however, finishing 6/9 as a team. In total, Galion grabbed 29 rebounds, recorded three steals, had four assists, but committed 18 total turnovers.
Chelsey Trusty continued to show why she is one of the top scorers in the N-10 Conference. Trusty finished the night with 20 points for Mohawk and was the only Lady Warriors player in double figures.
Galion will play their final game of the regular season on Saturday Feb. 11. The Lady Tigers will play host to the Harding Prexies in a MOAC Red matchup.
Galion boys fall to Alder, 61-38
PLAIN CITY — Galion dropped a road game Saturday to Jonathan Alder 61-38. Galion is 3-15 overall, 1-9 in the Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference Red Division. Jonathan Alder improves to 13-6 and 6-4.
The Pioneers jumped out to a 17-5 first-period lead and led 33-17 at halftime. The game got no closer
The Tigers were just 12 of 44 shooting. Galion grabbed 26 total rebounds, including 12 on the offensive end. Rounding out the stats for Galion were five team assists, five steals, two blocks and just nine turnovers.
"Our stats were good as far as turnovers and giving up offensive rebounds. However, the defensive effort was not there and our shot selection was poor," said Galion coach Matt Valentine. "The kids need to learn to not take breaks on defense and play together as a team," Valentine concludes.
Leading the way against the Pioneers was Chase Cooke with 12 points and seven rebounds. Gage Lackey, Isaiah Alsip and Tristan Baldy all chipped in five points apiece in the contest. Colton Powell and Zhamir Anderson both scored three points and Colten Skaggs contributed three points and eight rebounds in the losing effort. Jack McElligott finished up the Galion scoring, adding two points on the night.
Pleasant beats Galion in girls MOAC action
GALION — The Galion Lady Tigers basketball team hosted the Pleasant Lady Spartans on Friday night in Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference Red Division play. Galion is still searching for its first conference win after falling 58-35.
The Lady Tigers fall to 4-16 overall and 0-11 in conference play and the Lady Spartans improve their record to 15-3 on the season and are 9-1 in the MOAC Red.
Pleasant was in control of the contest from the opening tip. Galion managed just four points in the first quarter while the Spartans put up a lofty 19 points. The Lady Tigers outscored Pleasant in the second, 13-11 but still found themselves trailing at the half, 30-17. Following the break, Galion put up just 18 points in the second half of play as the Lady Spartans put up 28 en route to their 23-point victory.
As a team, the Lady Tigers grabbed 17 rebounds for the game, dished out four assists and recorded two blocks and steals. They had 17 turnovers.
Gabby Kaple would be the top scorer on the evening for head coach Nick Vukovich. Kaple dropped in 15 points while grabbing three rebounds and notching a steal. Lauren Huggins added six points for Galion and Jaime Ehrman five. Julie Clouse finished the game with four points and Kat Talbott chipped in three points. Natalie Rodriguez wrapped the Tigers' scoring with two points.
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4 Key Qualities of the World's Best Charities
As a global nonprofit, we know firsthand that the world is full of people living in survival mode and in desperate need of basic essentials like food, water, shelter, and healthcare. Thankfully, there are thousands of charities and organizations dedicated to providing relief and support for people in these circumstances, but it's only possible because of gracious donations from people like you.
Deciding where your donations should go and how they can make the biggest impact for those in need can be a daunting task. Often, people who are compelled to give lose sight in their search due to a lack of donor transparency that ultimately prevents people from giving at all. Databases that certify some of the best charities can provide guidance, but not all nonprofits are included and the latest industry innovators are often missed.
Despite the uncertainty and overwhelming number of nonprofit options, there are ways to cut through the noise and find a worthy cause that speaks to you. We compiled a list of the four key qualities that some of the world's best charities — in our humble opinion — showcase in order to help guide you to a trustworthy, transparent charity where you can give with confidence.
Quality #1: Strong Values
Strong values are apparent not just in marketing and catchy headlines, but in the decision-making and priorities of the organizations themselves. When a charity truly believes in their work, they live and breathe their mission, and every decision ultimately rolls up to the values they hold. Values aren't just words on a webpage: they're how the charity makes decisions and guides their impact. Watsi is a model example of an organization with strong values; the universal healthcare nonprofit believes wholeheartedly in the power of technology and uses it in every aspect of their work.
Quality #2: Monetary Transparency
Transparency translates to trust in nonprofit work — whether with donations, practices, or resources. By showing allocated funds, a charity that prioritizes transparent operation models demonstrates that they can be trusted. By being upfront about where donor money and resources are going, how they're being used, and who it's helping, a charity better informs their benefactors and builds a reputation of honesty and integrity.
One organization that embodies this quality is charity: water. As a nonprofit dedicated to bringing clean drinking water to people in developing countries, charity: water has always inspired us with their commitment to transparency across the board. From tracking every dollar raised to providing in-depth financial reports, this organization clearly demonstrates transparency by defining how donations are used.
However, when charities lack focus on transparency, problems can ensue. It becomes all too easy to channel designated donor funds into avenues like overhead costs, rather than allocating significant funding to the actual cause itself. The Charities Review Council recommends no more than 35 percent of spending on overhead and at least 65 percent of total spending on program expenses.
Donating to charities that practice to 100% model is one way to ensure transparency in giving, but there are other ways to figure out if a charity is allocating money well. For example, charity: water identifies every completed project on a GPS map, so donors know exactly where their money went and how it was used. Charities can also share annual impact reports, videos demonstrating the overall impact, and ratings and reviews from donors and partners.
Quality #3: Partnerships
The best charities are almost always tackling problems so big they can't be solved alone. That's why they turn to other organizations for thoughtful partnerships. But great charities don't take this decision lightly; in fact, they spend a lot of time ensuring that their future partner shares similar values.
Identifying who a nonprofit partners with can help you learn a great deal their priorities. Partners with strong values who are open and honest are a good indicator that the charity in question has done their research and made thoughtful, informed partnership decisions. You can uncover this information by checking out a charity's partner page before deciding to donate or volunteer. If you like what you see and what they stand for, then they might be a good fit for you.
Quality #4: Efficiency
It isn't news that technology is dramatically changing every industry. While in general the nonprofit sector lags behind in technology, some of the best charities in the world are currently using top-of-the-line technology solutions to streamline their operations, multiply the impact from donations, and solve long-term problems.
But technology can be more than just an efficiency tool; the best charities are innovative and forward-thinking when it comes to solving problems with tech.
WATERisLife is a nonprofit that's using the latest water filtration technology to efficiently provide safe drinking water to those without it. They exercise innovative technology and research to build a variety of different breakthrough solutions for water filtration devices based on the needs in different communities around the globe. Additionally, our team at New Story has been working to end global homelessness since 2015 by building homes for people living in survival mode without adequate shelter. As part of that mission, we've leveraged technology to develop tools like our survey software, which makes it easy to gather data from the field to understand our impact.
We believe that by sharing our innovations with organizations and governments to amplify our impact, we can fight global homelessness for the estimated 3 billion people who will be living without adequate shelter by 2050. We invite you to join us on this journey to end global homelessness.
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Now that you know what goes into making a charity great, it's time to find the perfect charity to donate to. Check out our blog post to learn about charities that are really moving the needle with some of the world's most critical issues.
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Q: ADAL on Android Does Not Persist Tokens in Release Mode but Works Fine in Debug Mode I have Xamarin.Forms (v2.2.0.31) targeting Android that uses ADAL 3.13.1 in Visual Studio 2015.
When I load the app using Debug configuration it works as expected. After signing on once the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) uses the Token Cache even if I close the app out completely and go back into it.
However, when I open the exact same project in Release mode it prompts me for credentials again.
When I attached Log Cat it shows the following when I access my Web API in DEBUG mode...
CacheType: Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.Activedirectory.TokenCache (1 items)
Log Cat shows the following when I access my Web API in RELEASE mode...
CacheType: Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.Activedirectory.TokenCache (0 items)
...then it prompts for credentials again.
This happens only after closing the app out completely otherwise it must keep it in memory. Do I have to enable special permissions in the Android Manifest for persistent token caching to work in Release mode?
EDIT: Ok, the problem has to do with Linking Behavior in the Android Project Properties > Android Options > Linker Tab. In release mode I was Linking SDK Assemblies Only to reduce space but apparently ADAL uses reflection and it's excluding some needed files. So I changed it to None and it work (but it bloated my app pretty good). Is there anyway to make this work and still link SDK Assemblies?
More information on linking behavior here...
https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/advanced_topics/linking/

A: There has been issues with linking libs. Seems it's not fixed.
Try skip linking these:
Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory;Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.Platform;System.Runtime.Serialization;
Especially, I think just skip System.Runtime.Serialization would work.
Cheers,
Max

A: This is a known issue with DataContractSerialization. When ADAL fails to write the cache blob, it simply swallows the exception.  https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=37491