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Makkal Selvan Vijay Sethupathi, post the success of his last two movies Chekka Chivantha Vaanam and 96 is all set to be seen next in the emotional, comic entertainer Seethakaathi directed by Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom director Balaji Tharaneetharan.
This is the director's third movie and the movie also stars Archana, Gayathrie, Mahendran, Mouli, Bagavathi Perumal, Rajkumar, and many others. Bankrolled by passion studios, this movie was a Vijay Sethupathi's milestone silver jubilee flick and is scheduled to release on November 15 after being censored a clean U.
Now the Tamilnadu theatrical rights of the movie are bagged by trident arts who had last year released his blockbuster Vikram Vedha. Since Vikram Vedha was a huge hit, they've confidently taken the rights of Seethakaathi which revolves around an 80-year-old drama artist.
The actor also has a pile of releases under his kitty and is expecting them to get a release soon. Meanwhile, the actor recently supported Director Prem Kumar for '96' movie and the plagiarism issues around it.
He cleared the air and came in support of the director and said that the story was narrated to him a long back even before he was a star actor. He also said the writers should register their script so that no one else can claim it.


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MarTech » Performance Marketing » Amazon says push notifications are coming soon to Alexa-enabled devices
Amazon says push notifications are coming soon to Alexa-enabled devices
The opt-in-only alerts will be tested in select skills before Amazon opens the feature to all developers.
Matt McGee on May 17, 2017 at 8:56 am
A big change is coming to Alexa-enabled devices. Rather than only responding after a human asks for information, skills will soon be able to send out alerts when they have information that the user has requested. Amazon revealed its plans Tuesday for the new push notifications feature.
Push notifications will only be sent after a user has opted in to getting them. And to be clear, the Echo or Dot unit isn't going to suddenly start talking on its own. Instead, the device will light up and send out a chime sound to indicate that an alert is ready:
When available, users will be able to opt-in to notifications per skill using the Amazon Alexa App and will be alerted when there's new information to retrieve by a chime and a pulsing green light on their Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, or Echo Show device.
Amazon says push notifications will be tested initially by companies such as AccuWeather, The Washington Post, Just Eat and Life360. Once enough user feedback is collected and appropriate improvements are completed, Amazon will release the development tools to all skill builders. There's no specific time frame mentioned in Amazon's announcement, but it does refer to a wider rollout "in the coming months."
This should be very welcome news to companies that are looking to the Alexa platform as a new way to connect with their customers and audiences. Push notifications, when done right, can be an effective tool to grow user trust and loyalty, increase sales and so forth. But if an Alexa skill gets too pushy, users can cancel the alerts permanently at any time. Alerts can also be disabled temporarily by putting the device into Do Not Disturb mode.
There's been some separation between what users can do with Alexa-enabled devices and typical mobile devices — push notifications being one big difference. This news, along with last week's announcement that Alexa devices can support phone calls and messaging, shows that Amazon doesn't consider Google Home its only competition, but your smartphone and tablet, too. And Amazon has made both of these announcements just as two of its biggest competitors hold major developer events of their own — Microsoft Build last week, and Google I/O, which begins Wednesday.
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TV's next frontier: online streaming. CBS today announced a new "Star Trek" TV series will premiere on the network in January 2017, then go directly to the digital subscription service CBS All-Access. The crux of the deal is to appeal to OTT (over the top) viewers, ie. cord cutters.
After the premiere episode, all subsequent episodes will be available exclusively on CBS' All Access digital subscription service. The goal for CBS is to jump-start the CBS subscription video on demand business.
The network said All Access will cost $5.99 per month and include local CBS TV stations, eg. KCNC-Channel 4 in Denver. CBS All Access already offers every episode of all previous "Star Trek" television series.
The new "Star Trek" will arrive just as the original celebrates its 50th anniversary. The 2017 edition will introduce new characters "seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966," CBS said.
CBS controls the TV side of the "Star Trek" properties through its ownership of the Paramount TV library.
Here's the full network release.
I can not buy another thing. Star Trek will have to boldly go without me. I'm stopping at Netflix and Hulu. Not buying nbc's comedy streaming channel either.


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Colombian leader replaces defense chief to speed up FARC peace talks
Controversial minister and current US ambassador to Washington will switch roles
Elizabeth Reyes L.
Bogotá - 21 May 2015 - 15:41 Actualizado: 21 May 2015 - 15:41 UTC
President Juan Manuel Santos (r) with Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón in February.luis acosta (AFP)
In a strategic move aimed at speeding up peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has replaced his defense minister.
The former minister, Juan Carlos Pinzón, was a long-term collaborator who had taken a firm stand against the rebel insurgency, which has been fighting a war against the government for 50 years.
Pinzón is not being sent to Washington to sabotage the peace process – that would be very serious"
Pinzón has been appointed as Colombia's new ambassador in Washington, while the current envoy, Luis Carlos Villegas, will take over as defense chief, Santos announced.
At the same time, Santos named Foreign Minister María Ángela Holguín and Gonzalo Restrepo, the president of the state-owned oil company Ecopetrol, to become part of the government's negotiating team, which is currently holding talks in Havana with members of the FARC.
Opposition criticizes switch
Supporters of former President Álvaro Uribe, who has been a strong opponent of his successor's decision to hold talks with the rebels, criticized Santos's decision to swap his defense minister with the country's US ambassador.
Senator Alfredo Rangel, an Uribe ally, wrote on Twitter: "Pinzón leaves a negative balance when it comes to security issues: there are more attacks, extortions, kidnappings and terrorism. He helped this with his tough rhetoric."
Others believe the move was politically motivated in an effort to groom Pinzón for a presidential run.
As for Villegas, Uribe supporters told the news magazine Semana that "as ambassador, all he did was spend $40 million on a building, and as minister, the only thing he will do is help shrink the country's morale."
The talks, which were initiated in November 2012, have been moving at a slow pace. Currently, both sides are trying to come to terms with an eventual bilateral ceasefire, reparations to victims of the conflict, and transitional justice regarding war crimes.
Holguín, who will remain foreign minister, and Restrepo won't be based permanently in Havana but will make frequent trips so that they can sit in on the negotiations, the president said.
"The moment has come to make decisions and to work even harder. Let's not let this historical train pass us by," said Santos.
Pinzón has been one of Santos's closest and most-trusted aides for the past four years as defense minister, but his statements in defense of the military have made the FARC uneasy, according to some analysts. In the past, he has described FARC members as terrorists and has made remarks such as: "Of course, they live like kings [in Cuba]," and stated that "their logic is cowardly."
But some observers believe that Pinzón's past statements were part of the government's strategy of putting pressure on the FARC.
"I think that Pizón's hardline approach was approved by Santos not only to calm down [his opponents'] fears but also to quell the FARC's own pretensions [in the peace talks]," said political analyst Juan Carlos Palou, who also believes this strategy is no longer effective at this final stage of the negotiations.
"Colombia's peace negotiations with the FARC are irreversible"
"Forgiveness is the pillar of peace," says victim of FARC
Colombian rebels force 15,000 people from their homes every month
"Pinzón is not being sent to Washington to sabotage the peace process – that would be very serious," Palou said.
Nevertheless, other observers see Villegas, who was assigned to Washington at the end of 2013 after serving as a government negotiator with the rebels, as a more conciliatory official who will play an important role during the post-conflict period.
"He was named to calm the fears of two big powerful factors that exist in Colombia: the military and the private sector and, of course, the United States," said María Victoria Llorente, director of the Bogota-based think tank Ideas for Peace Foundation.
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Sub-State Governance through Territorial Autonomy
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Territorial autonomy, as sub-state arrangements in general, is an organizational framework that facilitates participation, because the powers that a sub-state entity has been vested with have to be managed in a decision-making structure that fulfils the ordinary requirements of legitimacy. Elections are therefore presupposed as a participatory mechanism. As a consequence, sub-state entities often display a party structure which is different from that of the rest of the state. The referendum does not have any significant role in regular decision-making in sub-state entities, but certain fundamental decisions of a constitutional nature may sometimes be made by direct popular vote, such as the creation of the sub-state arrangement and changes of its basic features. Some sub-state entities also provide for more atypical forms of participation.
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So first off I went to the session titled 'Local/Regional eGovernment: Programme for Change' with Tim Rainey from Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, Kari Nenonen, from Finland, and Tom Auwers from Belgium. Again some highlights..Tim highlighted the significant cost savings from the internet for dealing with customers, 21 euros for fac2face as against 0.37 euros for using the web. Kari started off by bringing Xmas greetings from Lapland, outlined the work of his city of Oulu, and pinpointed despite their considerable successes the need to raise levels of awareness among officialdom – key to implementing services rather than simply repeating current processes in digital format. Tom meanwhile produced a nice example in dealing with social security benefits where one key process time in dealing with customers had been reduced from 3-4 weeks to five seconds.
I followed this up with a session on procurement, which I freely admit is not the sexist of subjects, but starts to seem more appealing when you talk in terms of billions of pounds in the context of the NHS. And representing the health service, Peter Holt from DH, outlined the significant work being done in this area including the establishment of a commercial directorate within DH in 2003, and the restructuring of the national procurement organisation PASA, with the idea that the bottom line work in saving money in procurement feeds through to top line targets in freeing up money to plough into patient services. This chimed with AT Kearney's Stephen Fowles who noted the gap in many public sector organisations in joining together procurement and core business performance – in contrast to the private sector – even though the cost level is about the same to both public and private sector. Finally, Mikkel Hipp Brun from Denmark raised the importance of standard business documents, and the role of the OASIS universal business language in this respect.
Right at the end of the morning Rolf Alter from CISCO in a plenary session highlighted again the potentially revolutionary impact of customer choice and co-creation, with work from around the globe from Victoria in Australia to Catalonia in Spain where co-production involved all stakeholders from individual to government. Don't know if I agree that technology and government connect together simply because they both in their own way represent the 'crystallisation of aspiration' but it was a nice note to end the morning.


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A few weeks ago it was pointed out to me that I hadn't done much baking for the office. I also realised I hadn't bought anything back from holiday with me. So I decided to make some cupcakes to take into the office. Since the weather had been pretty rubbish, I thought some sunflower cupcakes might help bring the sun out… and they did! Maybe only for a week but it was better than more rain.
I got the idea for these from my Hello Cupcake! book. There were several flower/summery ideas but these ones jumped out at me so I decided to give them a go. I also had a pack of Oreos in the cupboard. I needed mini ones too to make the smaller sunflowers which I didn't have, but I got round this by using a small circle cutter to cut out some mini ones. I also think you're meant to use whole Oreos but since there weren't enough in one packet, I split each one in half to double the number. I baked a batch of vanilla cupcakes, spread some vanilla buttercream on top and then dipped each one into crushed Oreos to make them look like they were full of soil. I coloured half a batch of vanilla buttercream yellow and the other half green. I placed the green buttercream into a piping bag with a leaf nozzle attached (I used a Wilton no. 70). Using a cocktail stick, I drew circles on each one marking where the Oreos were going to be. I then piped leaves round each circle which I'd marked and then placed the Oreos on top.
I placed the yellow buttercream into a piping bag with a petal nozzle attached (I used a Wilton no. 352). I piped petals round each Oreo – I did 2 layers, one right on the edge and then second just inside it.
To add the finishing touch, I took a few red and yellow Smarties, and using a paintbrush and some black food colouring I painted dots and stripes to turn them into ladybirds and bees (I used a tiny amount of white fondant icing for the wings on the bees).


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Troopers investigate 14 traffic deaths during holidays; most did not wear seatbelts
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During this past holiday season troopers with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's (ALEA) Highway Patrol Division investigated crashes that resulted in 14 deaths on Alabama's roads, that's down from the year before.
"We would like to thank the motoring public for their diligence and continuous efforts in assisting law enforcement, which enabled ALEA Troopers to reduce the number of traffic crashes, injuries and fatalities, ultimately making Alabama roadways safer. However, this holiday travel period still reminds us that we need to remain constant in our resolve to create an environment of safety on our state's roadways. Unfortunately, this year there were 14 lives tragically lost," said ALEA Secretary Hal Taylor.
The fatal crashes occurred in Baldwin, Chambers, Chilton, Dallas, DeKalb, Elmore, Jefferson, Limestone, Marshall, Monroe and Tuscaloosa counties. Of those killed, 11 were drivers, and three were passengers. All were traveling in vehicles equipped with seat belts, four individuals were using them, nine were not. In one case, it is unknown whether a seat belt was used.
Colonel Jimmy Helms, Director of ALEA's Department of Public Safety said "notifying the loved is one of the most difficult parts of our job and we at ALEA offer our heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones."
During 2022, ALEA troopers investigated a total of 31,990 traffic crashes, which resulted in 10,914 injuries and 586 fatalities. That's down 2,185 from the year before. Injuries were also down 646 in 2022.
ALEA is focusing 2023 on an initiative to get people to use seat belts.
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UWIMAA CANADA'S DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD 2020 GOES TO DR GARTH SMITH
The 2020 Annual General Meeting was held via Zoom for public health purposes.
A tribute to Dr Garth Smith was made by Dr Moodie, recognising his work in developmental paediatrics and especially his work with the First Nations people of Canada.
Dr Moodie presented the award virtually and Dr Smith accepted it and expressed gratitude.
Dr. R Garth Smith graduated from the University of the West Indies in 1981. After completing a Rotating Internship at the Mona Campus, he accepted a Residency Position in Pediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1982. He was elected Chief Resident in 1986, and during that year co-Edited the Hospital for Sick Children Residents' Handbook, published in 1987. He completed a Perinatal Fellowship at Women's College Hospital in 1988. After doing 9-years of a Consulting Pediatric Practice in Chatham, Ontario, and obtaining further training in Developmental Pediatrics in Chapel Hill, NC, he was successful in obtaining the position of Developmental Pediatrician and subsequently Medical Director of the then Child Development Centre, Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at Queen's University. In 2007, he was successful in being promoted to Associate Professor. He works with children with a wide range of Developmental Disabilities including Autism, Neuromuscular Disorders, Hearing Impairment, Acquired Brain Injuries and others. He also works with First Nation Children with disabilities from the James Bay Region. He has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals, and a a recent chapter on Update in Autism Spectrum Disorder , in a textbook, Update in Pediatrics (Springer, 2018).
We are delighted to call him our colleague and fellow alumnus! Congratulations Dr Smith!
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Endowment policy generates a cash value and non-guaranteed dividend (some endowment policies offer guaranteed dividends) which will normally be increasing during the policy term. The policy will pay a lump sum upon reaching an agreed date if you survives or pay a death benefit if you die before that date. If you surrender your policy too early, the cash value and dividend recovered might not be sufficient to cover the amount of premiums paid.
Income replacement plan offers a percentage amount of your salary to replace your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury.
Some life insurance policies such as endowments or whole life policies include an element of savings. Where a life insurance policy which has investment features and its policy value is linked to performance of underlying fund(s), it is also named as Investment Linked Assurance Scheme (ILAS).
You may lower the premium of your life insurance, but that usually implies a change in policy. If you give up a certain protection, such as critical illness or income replacement plan, the premium can be reduced, as in the case if you reduce the duration of a policy. However, you should assess your financial obligation to your beneficiaries.
Always consider fees and charges against what you can afford, especially for payments over a long term.
Insurance is subject to the principle of utmost good faith. Tell the insurer all necessary information such as your existing medical conditions and career when applying for or renewing an insurance policy. If you provide incomplete or inaccurate information, the policy may become invalid.
It is important for you to read the small print before taking out the policy so that you know exactly what you are buying. Make sure you know what is and is not covered. Ask your insurer or insurance intermediary if you see something you don't understand.
Think carefully about your life insurance needs before committing to any policy. Is your primary goal to protect your family in the event of your death or are you prepared for long-term commitment?
It is required that new life policies come with a cooling-off period for policyholders to review the terms and conditions of their long-term insurance policies. The cooling-off period is 21 days after the delivery of a life insurance policy or issue of a notice to you or your representative, whichever is the earlier.
If you change your mind and wish to withdraw, you can give a written notice to your insurer within this period for a full refund of the insurance premiums (subject to a market value adjustment where applicable).


Future Proof Museum is an intensive development programme proven to significantly improve resilience in museums across England.
I'm proud to be a core trainer and mentor, alongside Andrew McIntyre, Susan Royce, Mark Wright, and Mel Larsen.
The programme takes place over several months, working with 20 museums in each cohort from across England. Together we explore how the the museums might change, adapt, influence and remain relevant in an ever-changing world.
Each museum taking part explores their ambition and future direction as a team together with one of the Future Proof specialist trainers.
This takes place within the museum to enable a range of people to take part; to explore different perspectives across the organisation and to highlight areas of agreement as well as those that might be contradictory.
Different leaders have different areas of the programme that they want to focus on and take forwards. We work closely with each leader to craft follow-up support back in their museum. This might include mentoring for the CEO, facilitated sessions with the senior management team or trustees, or masterclasses on key topics.
For more information please see the Future Proof website.
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Across the Board: Who Else is Responsible for the Atlanta Cheating Scandal?
The media in recent weeks has focused a great deal of attention on the cheating scandal in Atlanta in which authorities have indicted 35 officials and teachers in the Atlanta Public Schools system for allegedly altering the results of students' state standardized tests to reflect higher scores.
There have been similar allegations in other schools and districts around the country. What is unique about Atlanta, however, is the scope of the alleged fraud. Those who work in education know that it is virtually impossible to keep a secret about even the most trivial matters in a large urban school district. One cannot help but ask, therefore, how a scheme of this magnitude (with so many teachers and administrators directly involved) could gain such momentum.
By all accounts, it appears that pervasive in the culture of the district was the "Machiavellian" notion that the ends of increasing student test scores outweighed the means, and that it was this culture that enabled such widespread cheating. Indeed, many point to an array of incentives that the superintendent allegedly used to reward those who generated higher test scores, whatever the cost to students.
The superintendent, however, does not operate in a vacuum. Even the superintendent is accountable to the school board. The superintendent alone cannot establish policy. Nor can she create financial incentives for employees without the approval of the school board. She takes her cues as the tone of her leadership and school district culture from the school board. If not, the school board should remove her. Why then has there been so little media attention on the role of the board in the Atlanta cheating scandal?
The school board, at least as much as the superintendent, is responsible for creating a culture of integrity, honor, and accountability within the district. Effective school boards model these values both in the conduct of school board meetings and in their interactions with school communities.
Moreover, effective school boards recognize and constantly communicate to others the critical importance of accurate data in improving instruction and learning outcomes. They establish policies to ensure the integrity of test results.[1] They examine student data on a routine basis, and hold district and school administrators accountable for the effective use of the data. In so doing, the board ought to catch extreme abnormalities in the data, ask probing questions, and err on the side of a full investigation any time there is any reason to suspect even the slightest impropriety.
Reading the media accounts of the Atlanta cheating scandal, one is reminded of the Enron scandal, in which high level executives engaged in fraudulent accounting practices that devastated a company, its shareholders and employees right under the noses of its board of directors. In response to such abuses, the federal government passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which imposes a higher standard of accountability on corporate executives and boards of directors. Among other things, the Act requires top management to certify the accuracy of financial reports. The Act also imposes heightened responsibilities on corporate boards, through standing audit committees, to oversee the actions taken by top management.
Testing data is to schools, students and parents as financial information is to corporations, shareholders, and employees. Perhaps a set of rules similar to those imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is necessary to ensure the integrity of student data. Perhaps top management (such as the Superintendent, and chief accountability officer) should be required to personally investigate and certify the accuracy of student test data. Likewise, perhaps school boards should be required to have standing committees to review the process and ensure its integrity.
Many argue that the lesson learned in Atlanta and elsewhere is that "high-stakes" testing will inevitably lead to cheating. This is a sad conclusion, indeed. It reflects a lack of confidence in the ability of all students to improve, and excuses from responsibility those adults upon whom our students are relying to help them improve. Worse yet, it excuses those adults from even behaving ethically, and endorses behavior that sets a terrible example for students. Cheating is not symptomatic of an inherent flaw in high-stakes testing (though there may be flaws). Instead, cheating reflects a lack of integrity, leadership and good governance that is essential to the success of our system of public education.
There are very few areas in which school districts require more rather than less regulation. Sadly, it appears that this may be one such area. With or without additional regulation, however, the critical role of the school board in preventing such abuses cannot be overstated or overlooked.
[1]For further guidance on best practices in testing security, see "Issues and Recommendations for Best Practices," which is based on comments and ideas generated during a Testing Integrity Symposium that the U.S. Department of Education held in February 2012. This publication can be found at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2013/2013454.pdf.
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Rasanya jarang banget ya gw nulis tentang skincare di blog gw. In fact, kebanyakan review yang gw buat mostly adalah tentang produk dekoratif. Selain karena skincare gw rata rata hasilnya so-so aja, menulis tentang skincare itu lumayan susah karena takes time and research karena ga mau nulis pernyataan bodong.
Nah, belum lama ini, gw diundang oleh PT Mahakam Beta Farma (MBF) dalam sebuah event bertemakan "Discover Your Timeless Beauty". Di acara ini, kita diperkenalkan tentang beberapa skincare yang diproduksi oleh MBF antara lain Ecla C-Lite, Ecla Gold, Collastin Beauty, QV Wash, QV Lotion dan QV Cream. Dari semua produk produk yang gw sebutkan, seminggu sebelumnya dikirim ke gw untuk dicoba, dirasakan dan bila perlu, ditanyakan pada saat event.
Dalam mencoba produk dari MBF terutama 2 item yang gw coba secara khusus, jujur gw merasa amazing dengan hasil yang gw dapetin. Tadinya agak ga percaya juga sih..tapi setelah acara event, gw jadi ngerasa lebih yakin dengan hasil yang gw dapet.
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The South Florida community is invited to attend "The White Party™." Saturday, November 24th from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. This elegant affair in white will celebrate the remarkable advancements of Care Resource; a not-for-profit community-based healthcare organization serving South Florida's diverse community for over 30 years. Party guests will enjoy a night in white, signifying elegance and purity, under Miami's romantic moonlight sky at the historic Villa Vizcaya Museum on Biscayne Bay complete with live performances, fashionistas, a community awards ceremony and open bar provided by Bacardi, with musical icon Chris Deejay Smeejay on the turntables and a special live performance by Grammy winner Kimberly Davis!


Forget the announcements regarding the new Retina display MacBook Pro, OSX Mountain Lion and other non-mobile related products. According to Twitter, iOS 6 was the hottest topic of Apple's WWDC keynote.
Tweets containing information regarding iOS 6 made up 18% of the above-mentioned Twitter talk, finishing just ahead of the new MacBook model at 15%. OSX Mountain Lion, Apple's upcoming Mac update, accounted for 6% of the tweets. And bringing up the rear was iPhone-related chatter — folks disappointed that there was no mention of a new handset — at 5%.
In all, the results aren't really too surprising considering the current state of the consumer electronics space. Aside from the ongoing talk that we're in a post-PC revolution, more than 50% of Apple's revenue comes from the sales of its iOS products.
Perhaps more interesting is the attention that Apple received during its keynote. WWDC-related tweets flooded Twitter during the media event, accounting for 8 of the service's top 10 trending topics, and brought the site down on a number of occasions.
What other tech companies garner that type of response to announcements?


I can't walk into Target without stopping at the dollar bins. I found these bottle cap coasters a few weeks ago and grabbed several packages (I think there were 6 in a package for $3.00) I wasn't sure what I was going to do with them, but I bought them anyway.
I decided to turn them into magnets. A little paint, a piece of scrapbook paper, a photo, some washi tape and magnets and I had myself an adorable new magnet. The last photo shows the comparison with a typical sized bottle cap...these things are big!
The possibilities for these lovely "coasters" are endless. I suppose you could actually use them as a tacky place to rest your beer, but why would you want to do that? I think I'm going to try making a wind chime with them next. I'll let you know how that goes.


This past weekend the Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Communications team hosted 8 bloggers to experience the destination of Hershey. From touring our Resorts, getting a sneak peek at Reese's Cupfusion, riding coasters in Hersheypark, going behind the scenes at ZooAmerica and eating delicious food, it sure was a sweet weekend!
Wondering who our 8 bloggers were? Take a look below at their blogs and give them a follow on social media!
What goes good with chocolate?? More chocolate! The King Size Shakes at @hersheypark are incredible! This is such a yummy and totally shareable park treat!
I'm spending the weekend at the @thesweetestplaceonearth for a fun press trip and I *finally* got a chance to taste the infamous S'mores Jar and it DID NOT DISAPPOINT! It was so good!!
Chocolate tasting at Tastings inside @the_hershey_story !
Double tap if you could go for a milkshake!!
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It would be very helpful to allow filtering of the @since tax archive by whether the change in a given version was a "newly introduced" vs. a "modification" from previous versions.
This would be useful not only for developers but also for those writing dev-notes (or the Field Guide) as a new release is being readied.
2847.diff (6.6 KB) - added by pbiron 23 months ago.
2847.2.diff (1.3 KB) - added by pbiron 10 months ago.
2847.3.diff (7.3 KB) - added by pbiron 9 months ago.
The patch I just added implements the "type of change" filtering.
I'm more than open to suggestions for changes to the implementation if people think the general idea is a good one.
Of particular note is the fact that I do the filtering in a function hooked to posts_pre_query. This seemed the easiest way to do it at this stage. What would be easier though would be if phpdoc-parser were to add a specific post_meta that indicated whether a @since was an "introduction" or a "modification" and then the filtering would be done with a simple meta_query.
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #docs by pbiron. View the logs.
I put together a little plugin that lets you run this via WP_CLI. I hope that the WP_CLI version will be helpful for those prepping dev-notes, etc for future releases. If the general idea of this ticket is accepted, it would be best to fold the plugin directly into wporg-developer...but I felt it best to do it as a separate plugin at this stage.
Anyone interested can get it from https://github.com/pbiron/wp-since.
@pbiron Nice patch and plugin!
It feels odd (to me) that modified functions/hooks/etc are included in the since archives in the first place.
Another route could be to exclude them by default and add a checkbox to include them back.
I hope we can get some feedback on this.
obviously, I can only speak for myself, but as a developer I am generally more interested in learning what has modified in a given version than what has been introduced, since those changes might adversely affect existing code I have written.
Hence, my reason for requesting that such changes be more easily discoverable in the @since archives.
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@pbiron Is patch 2847.2.diff correct? I get patch does not apply while the first one does apply.
With the first patch I get a PHP warning: Warning: Parameter 2 to DevHub\since_change_type_filter() expected to be a reference, value given.
No, clearly it wasn't :-) Not sure where I got that one.
2847.3.diff is what I had meant to attach.
FYI: I included output from https://github.com/pbiron/wp-since in a Change Log section in the post announcing the 4.9.8 Release Candidate 1.
This ticket was discussed in slack.
The introduced, modified and deprecated metas should be added to posts by the phpdoc-parser. The deprecated version should also be added to the posts wp-parser-since terms. This allows the deprecated posts to be displayed in the since archives. See #3699.
My proposal was to use post meta instead of term meta. With post meta you can do queries like this.
That said, I'm not wedded to any particular implementation as long as the front-end functionality is there!


The strangest thing is that it never happens that way. I have already wandered out into the middle of the church, in front of everyone, to read the Gospel, before I dogleg like a drunk into the pulpit on the way back to my seat.
I wonder who this geezer is, then, who races me there?
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A ``three-stage gun'' was developed at LSD by mounting an accelerating tube on a two-stage gun. A Ta flyer (32 mm diameter by 0.5 mm thick) was driven by a graded-density impactor (GDI) up to $\sim $9.61 km/s for Hugoniot measurements. The velocity of the Ta flyer was measured using a Doppler probe system, or determined from 1D hydrodynamic code calculations based on the projectile velocity measured by using optical beam break technique. The incident and transmitted time of shock front through the Ta specimen was detected by electric shorting-pins. The Hugoniot states of Ta specimen were determined using impedance-match method. The preheating effect resulting from the GDI driving on the Ta flyer was estimated by model calculations. Two data pairs of shock velocity versus particle velocity were obtained and consistent with the extrapolation of reported data.


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Lesley Stahl: Donald Trump Said He Attacks the Media "So When You Write Negative Stories About Me, No One Will Believe You"
The "60 Minutes" correspondent described Monday how Trump told her off camera that he "demeans" the press as a conscious strategy to neutralize bad coverage.
Jon Schwarz
May 22 2018, 8:32 p.m.
In an appearance Monday night at the annual Deadline Club awards dinner in New York City, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl said that President Donald Trump told her off camera in July 2016 that he attacks the media as part of a conscious strategy to protect himself from damaging coverage.
Stahl stated that the conversation took place in Trump's office at Trump Tower before she spoke to him for "60 Minutes" just before the Republican convention. According to Stahl, there were three people present: herself, her boss, and Trump.
Trump, she said, attacked the media during the meeting, and she asked him why he was continuing to do so even after he'd won the Republican nomination. Trump responded: "You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you."
Stahl made the remarks during a conversation with fellow journalist Judy Woodruff:
WOODRUFF: How do you deal – I mean, you had the first interview with Donald Trump after the election, big scoop, everybody wanted this interview.
STAHL: I'm happy I got it.
WOODRUFF: I mean, how did you deal with it?
STAHL: Before the interview I met with him in Trump Tower. And he really is the same off camera that he is on camera, exactly the same. And at one point, he started to attack the press. And it's just me and my boss and him – he has a huge office – and he's attacking the press. And there were no cameras, there was nothing going on. And I said, "You know, that is getting tired, why are you doing this? You're doing it over and over and it's boring, it's time to end that, you've won the nomination, and why do you keep hammering at this?" And he said: "You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you." He said that. So put that in your head for a minute.
The Stahl and Woodruff conversation at the Deadline Club can be watched in full here. The section about Trump begins at about 21:00.
Stahl did not immediately respond to a request for further comment. Stahl's remarks were first reported by The Intercept's National Security Editor Vanessa Gezari on Twitter:
Lesley Stahl asked Trump in semi-private meeting why he's always attacking the press. His answer: "I want to demean you and discredit you so that when you do negative stories about me, no one will believe you." @deadlineclub #deadlineawards
— vanessa gezari (@vanessagezari) May 22, 2018
Correction: May 25, 2018
An earlier version of this story stated that Stahl was describing a conversation with Trump that occurred prior to her "60 Minutes" interview with him in November 2016 following the presidential election. It has been corrected to reflect that, according to CBS News, Stahl meant that the conversation happened in July 2016, before a previous "60 Minutes" interview with Trump.
Jon Schwarz[email protected]theintercept.com@Schwarz


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Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera ties Lou Gehrig for hits
Chris Nelsen
Special to the Detroit Free Press
Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera, going through a power slump this season, has taken heat from fans after blaming his decline, in part, on a lack of power hitters in the team's lineup.
In Friday night's 7-2 loss to the Oakland Athletics, Cabrera looked like he could be returning to form — though he's stuck on one home run in 155 at-bats.
Among his two hits at Comerica Park against the A's, raising his average to .290, Cabrera's RBI double in the ninth was career hit No. 2,721, tying him with Lou Gehrig for 63rd all-time in MLB history.
"You just mentioned the name (Gehrig), that's one of the greatest names in the game," Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said. "When you start matching up with people like that, that tells you a little about his career and how long he's played."
Cabrera also had a line drive double to left field to begin the fifth inning — the Tigers' first hit off A's starter Frankie Montas — and he had a deep flyout to the warning track in the seventh. He struck out swinging in the second.
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"He's hitting what, .290, so I don't think that's bad," Tigers catcher John Hicks said. "Obviously, he hasn't hit the homers people are accustomed to, but if a guy's hitting .290, I don't think anything is wrong.
"It seems like every hit he gets, he's passing somebody in the Hall of Fame in some category. His at-bats were good today."
Despite Cabrera's effort, the Tigers (18-25) extended their losing streak to five games, a stretch they've been outscored, 48-11, by the Astros and A's. The Tigers have now lost 14 straight to Oakland.
"You got to keep plugging at it," Gardenhire said. "It's a little rough moment right now. We have to find a way to dig out of it."
Daniel Norris, hoping to give the Tigers a strong effort from their starting rotation, had mixed results against the A's, who blew out the Tigers on Thursday, 17-3.
Norris (2-2), who began the season in the bullpen and has pitched well since joining the rotation, went 5⅓ innings and allowed six earned runs on seven hits and a walk. He allowed two home runs and threw a wild pitch.
Entering the game with a respectable 3.63 ERA, Norris threw 94 pitches, 61 for strikes, and struck out two. His ERA rose to 4.50 in the loss.
"My objective was to come in, give us a chance to win and stop the bleeding," Norris said. "This is the best I've felt. My mechanics felt good the whole time, pitches were good. My stuff was the best it's been all year."
Norris looked good early, retiring nine of the first 10 A's hitters. Khris Davis led off the second inning with a single and moved to second on a wild pitch, but Norris got the next three batters in order.
Oakland made good contact in the fourth, getting consecutive singles from Matt Chapman and Stephen Piscotty to start the inning. After a deep flyout, Matt Olson had a fielder's choice RBI to make it 1-0.
In the fifth, Norris allowed a lead-off walk to Jurickson Profar and then Mark Canha hit a two-run homer to right, making it 3-0.
In the sixth, aided by a fielding error by Tigers centerfielder JaCoby Jones, things unraveled for Norris. With a runner on first, Olson shot a ball up the middle and Jones was unable to field it, rolling all the way to the wall. The next batter, Chad Pinder, blasted a 437-foot homer, making it 6-1.
"One pitch at the end kind of spoils it," Norris said. "But at the end of the day, I have to keep in mind where I was (earlier this season) and where I am now."
The Tigers bullpen helped stop the A's momentum. Buck Farmer relieved Norris, getting the final two outs in the sixth and working a scoreless seventh.
Sandy Baez worked the eighth, allowing an RBI single to Davis, and closer Shane Greene pitched a scoreless ninth.
"It was nice not to give up any more runs right there," Farmer said. "I made some pitches when I needed to, and it helped me throw some good innings."
Montas (5-2) went 8⅔ innings for the A's, allowing four hits and striking out 10. Cabrera's double in the ninth ended his complete-game bid.
"We hit a few balls on the nose at people, but he pretty much shut us down," Gardenhire said. "He used a variety of pitches ... kept us off-balance."


Komo TV has broken the story on Pacific Equestrian Center, run by Dean Solomon – their coverage includes information about the horses seized and the animal cruelty charges she faces.
Solomon's arraignment will be April 29th in King County Superior Court.
The situation at PEC has been brewing for a long time. In January, emails and a Craigslist posting publicised the situation, followed by rebuttals. Jenny Edwards of Hope for Horses wrote about the situation in her blog.
Other rescues tried to help remedy the situation, including Patricia Clark at Serenity Equine Rescue, who took horses from the overpopulated property and began to rehab them for placement through her own rescue.
However, conditions remained bad at Dean Solomon's faciity.
In a wet Western Washington winter, mud can easily get out of hand. In itself, mud isn't dangerous – but when a horse stands day long in mud that is mixed with manure and uneaten hay, it is like a bacterial soup, and scratches, thrush, soft hooves and other nasty and painful conditions can result.
When kept in crowded pens in group situations, the herd pecking order ensures that the dominant horses get enough food. Unless the horse keeper pays particular attention to distributing hay in widely separated piles, hooves fly and the weaker horses are driven off and sometimes injured. Their condition can deteriorate dramatically even while others may be getting enough to eat. In these kind of situations, nasty infections like strangles can take hold, even in the apparently healthy horses.
The Pacific Equestrian Center website and the Washington Thoroughbred Transitional Facility websites disappeared last summer. Dean Solomon has found a new outlet through the rescues only board. Members have now formed a new "rescue" calling themselves Rescues Only. The group is private, so I am not sure ishe is a bona-fide member, but she has made several postings publicising their efforts.
Rescues Only purchased seven horses at the Enumclaw Auction on April 6th, which can be seen at their website. I am not attacking their efforts, just hoping these horses are kept somewhere besides Solomon's property. The site is thin on information, although it does list the costs of acquiring and maintaining the horses. The adoption contract and follow up policies are not specified there.
The charges against Solomon may divide the local rescue community just at a time when drawing together would be most productive. Too bad – but it's about time the curtain was pulled back on this messy, mucky situation.
Of course Fugly Horse is all over this mess. Warning – you will need a XXL pair of hipwaders.


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Gandalf Rabbit
April 18, 2002 - February 16, 2007
We will always remember your snorts, your licks,
and your beautiful Spanish eyes.
May you forever hop in peace on the rolling pastures of Heaven.
Mommy, Daddy and Galady miss you.
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The secret to a long and happy life: No left turns
This little story by Michael Gartner really moved me.
Michael Gartner has been editor of newspapers large and small and president of NBC News. In 1997, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.
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A LIFE WITHOUT LEFT TURNS
"My father never drove a car."
Well, that's not quite right.
I should say I never saw him drive a car. He quit driving in 1927, when he was 25 years old, and the last car he drove was a 1926 Whippet.
"In those days," he told me when he was in his 90s, "to drive a car you had to do things with your hands, and do things with your feet, and look every which way, and I decided you could walk through life and enjoy it or drive through life and miss it."
At which point my mother, a sometimes salty Irishwoman, chimed in: "Oh, bull----!" she said. "He hit a horse."
"Well," my father said, "there was that, too."
So my brother and I grew up in a household without a car. The neighbors all had cars—the Kollingses next door had a green 1941 Dodge, the VanLaninghams across the street a gray 1936 Plymouth, the Hopsons two doors down a black 1941 Ford—but we had none.
My father, a newspaperman in Des Moines, would take the streetcar to work and, often as not, walk the three miles home. If he took the streetcar home, my mother and brother and I would walk the three blocks to the streetcar stop, meet him and walk home together.
Our 1950 Chevy
My brother, David, was born in 1935, and I was born in 1938, and sometimes, at dinner, we'd ask how come all the neighbors had cars but we had none. "No one in the family drives," my mother would explain, and that was that. But, sometimes, my father would say, "But as soon as one of you boys turns 16, we'll get one." It was as if he wasn't sure which one of us would turn 16 first.
But, sure enough, my brother turned 16 before I did, so in 1951 my parents bought a used 1950 Chevrolet from a friend who ran the parts department at a Chevy dealership downtown. It was a four- door, white model, stick shift, fender skirts, loaded with everything, and, since my parents didn't drive, it more or less became my brother's car.
Having a car but not being able to drive didn't bother my father, but it didn't make sense to my mother. So in 1952, when she was 43 years old, she asked a friend to teach her to drive. She learned in a nearby cemetery, the place where I learned to drive the following year and where, a generation later, I took my two sons to practice driving. The cemetery probably was my father's idea. "Who can your mother hurt in the cemetery?" I remember him saying once.
For the next 45 years or so, until she was 90, my mother was the driver in the family. Neither she nor my father had any sense of direction, but he loaded up on maps—though they seldom left the city limits—and appointed himself navigator. It seemed to work.
The ritual walk to church
Still, they both continued to walk a lot. My mother was a devout Catholic, and my father an equally devout agnostic, an arrangement that didn't seem to bother either of them through their 75 years of marriage. (Yes, 75 years, and they were deeply in love the entire time.) He retired when he was 70, and nearly every morning for the next 20 years or so, he would walk with her the mile to St. Augustin's Church. She would walk down and sit in the front pew, and he would wait in the back until he saw which of the parish's two priests was on duty that morning.
If it was the pastor, my father then would go out and take a two-mile walk, meeting my mother at the end of the service and walking her home. If it was the assistant pastor, he'd take just a one-mile walk and then head back to the church. He called the priests "Father Fast" and "Father Slow."
After he retired, my father almost always accompanied my mother whenever she drove anywhere, even if he had no reason to go along. If she were going to the beauty parlor, he'd sit in the car and read, or go take a stroll or, if it was summer, have her keep the engine running so he could listen to the Cubs game on the radio. In the evening, then, when I'd stop by, he'd explain: "The Cubs lost again. The millionaire on second base made a bad throw to the millionaire on first base, so the multimillionaire on third base scored.") If she were going to the grocery store, he would go along to carry the bags out—and to make sure she loaded up on ice cream.
As I said, he was always the navigator, and once, when he was 95 and she was 88 and still driving, he said to me, "Do you want to know the secret of a long life?" "I guess so," I said, knowing it probably would be something bizarre.
"No left turns," he said. "What?" I asked.
"No left turns," he repeated. "Several years ago, your mother and I read an article that said most accidents that old people are in happen when they turn left in front of oncoming traffic. As you get older, your eyesight worsens, and you can lose your depth perception, it said. So your mother and I decided never again to make a left turn."
"What?" I said again. "No left turns," he said. "Think about it. Three rights are the same as a left, and that's a lot safer. So we always make three rights."
"You're kidding!" I said, and I turned to my mother for support. "No," she said, "your father is right. We make three rights. It works." But then she added: "Except when your father loses count." I was driving at the time, and I almost drove off the road as I started laughing. "Loses count?" I asked. "Yes," my father admitted, "that sometimes happens. But it's not a problem. You just make seven rights, and you're okay again."
I couldn't resist. "Do you ever go for 11?" I asked.
"No," he said. "If we miss it at seven, we just come home and call it a bad day. Besides, nothing in life is so important it can't be put off another day or another week."
My mother was never in an accident, but one evening she handed me her car keys and said she had decided to quit driving. That was in 1999, when she was 90. She lived four more years, until 2003. My father died the next year, at 102. They both died in the bungalow they had moved into in 1937 and bought a few years later for $3,000. (Sixty years later, my brother and I paid $8,000 to have a shower put in the tiny bathroom—the house had never had one. My father would have died then and there if he knew the shower cost nearly three times what he paid for the house.) He continued to walk daily—he had me get him a treadmill when he was 101 because he was afraid he'd fall on the icy sidewalks but wanted to keep exercising—and he was of sound mind and sound body until the moment he died.
A happy life
One September afternoon in 2004, he and my son went with me when I had to give a talk in a neighboring town, and it was clear to all three of us that he was wearing out, though we had the usual wide-ranging conversation about politics and newspapers and things in the news. A few weeks earlier, he had told my son, "You know, Mike, the first hundred years are a lot easier than the second hundred." At one point in our drive that Saturday, he said, "You know, I'm probably not going to live much longer."
"You're probably right," I said.
"Why would you say that?" He countered, somewhat irritated. "Because you're 102 years old," I said. "Yes," he said, "you're right." He stayed in bed all the next day.
That night, I suggested to my son and daughter that we sit up with him through the night. He appreciated it, he said, though at one point, apparently seeing us look gloomy, he said: "I would like to make an announcement. No one in this room is dead yet."
An hour or so later, he spoke his last words: "I want you to know," he said, clearly and lucidly, "that I am in no pain. I am very comfortable. And I have had as happy a life as anyone on this earth could ever have." A short time later, he died.
I miss him a lot, and I think about him a lot. I've wondered now and then how it was that my family and I were so lucky that he lived so long. I can't figure out if it was because he walked through life.
Or because he quit taking left turns.
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Hello, my dear readers! I have been away for a while and that's because I am attending to so many things.
First, the wedding. Second, the magazine. Third, our new home!!!
Funny, of the three we're most excited about the house (then our magazines, then the wedding last). I guess that's because the wedding's just a silly little party while the condo unit is our future home. We are so thrilled! We want to move in ASAP!!!
A WEDDING IS THE EASIEST THING
Not that I don't care about the wedding.
I am so glad I work in a magazine. Fixing a wedding in less than three months is actually quite a breeze! I have no idea why there are stories about bridezillas, and brides and grooms and mothers fighting, or brides needing a year or two to plan a wedding. Really, it's just like one big photo shoot.
Well, it does help that I know a lot of people in the photography, beauty and fashion industries. And my experience as an editor makes it very easy for me to review locations and services, ask the right questions, and book vendors. I did all of that in a week! It also helps I have the most amazing future sisters-in-law, Lizelle, Anj and Reza. My goodness. I do not know what I'd do without them! If I can only make them all my maids of honor, I would. They have helped me A LOT.
So I have the loveliest little garden chapel to get married in (Archbishop's Palace), the most elegant restaurant to hold our reception (Le Soufflé at The Rockwell Club), Manila's darling designer to make the gowns for me and my ladies (Kate Torralba), a talented makeup artist and hairstylist to do my hair and face (Jigs Mayuga and Nhey Guese of L'Oreal), and my own brother to provide the music with his string quartet (Theodore Amper, cellist for The Manila String Machine). Now, all I need are the rings, the cake, the flowers, and... well, I need a lot of other things. But so far, so perfect!
Weddings are a piece of cake.
THE NEW HOME
Now the house is an altogether different story.
What a complicated business buying your own home is! So many papers, so many taxes, so many fees, so much... government! Grabe. The condominium unit we purchased is a two-bedroom, two-bathroom affair with a breathtaking 90-degree view of the city. It is an amazing place. I kid you not. Great way to start a new life together!
And then the government stepped in. The fees and taxes just kept coming and coming and coming. We paid for so much more on top of what the house cost. It is not right.
CORRUPTION TAINTS EVERYTHING
Speaking of that, let me go back to the wedding. When we went to our city hall to apply for a marriage license, Vince and I could not believe what was happening. Every question we asked cost us P10. Unbelievable but true. And I was naive enough to ask for a receipt! I am so stupid. Faced with corruption, I did not know what to do except to ask for the right thing. And when it was refused me, I was lost. Buti na lang marami akong barya! Finally, Vince told me to stop asking questions.
When we were also getting Vince's baptismal and confirmation certificates, we found corruption yet again. At the Dela Strada Parish Church along Katipunan Ave., the parish workers gave us Vince's confirmation certificate without a hitch or money exchanged. In the Parish of the Sacred Heart Church in Sta. Mesa, I observed that this time we had to pay for the baptismal certificate. It was okay since the church looked like it needed it and it was just P45 (I heard the woman behind the window charge the lady ahead of me). But when it was my turn, I got charged P55 for the same thing! Was it because I was dressed well and the lady before me wasn't?
It's not right. Dela Strada did not charge us anything and it was a church in a wealthy neighborhood. Sacred Heart was in the middle of an impoverished place—their parish people shouldn't be shelling out money anymore! Well, it does make sense that Dela Strada won't charge; perhaps their offerings every Sunday are more than enough. Still...
I am learning a lot these past few days. I am learning a lot about how churches work, how the government works. I am learning about how families work, mine, Vince's, and combined. I am meeting so many different kinds of people. I am seeing so many new places. Some bad, most good. If there's anything I'm grateful for because of this wedding (aside from getting me a mighty fine hubby!), it's the experiences.
They are amazing.
Now, I don't know when I'll be back but do drop me a line now and then!
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If you have ever had the deja-vu experience of catching a scent in the air and being taken straight back to a childhood memory, you will understand just how powerful our sense of smell is. Not only does scent capture the imagination and trigger associations, scent can also repel or attract. Scent, aroma or fragrance marketing makes use of the powerful impact of scent on consumer behavior and more and more companies are turning to scent as a way of drawing customers in and influencing purchase behavior.
Food and drink brands such as Cinnabon and Starbucks rely on the smell of their products as a lure – the enticing aroma of baking or freshly brewed coffee – and work hard to insure these are part of the customer experience. Scent marketing is an approach that many supermarkets are now taking to promote the freshness of their produce and to encourage purchases.
Hotel chains, shopping malls, clothing retailers and other businesses in which scent plays an influential role are increasingly turning to Experience Marketing Association (EMA) professionals to leverage the sense of scent. EMA professionals offer experienced insights, executional expertise and results that flow from leveraging scent to create a welcoming ambience, encourage people to stay longer and create positive associations with their brands. Gyms, medical clinics and spa brands can use scent to create a sense of cleanliness – a move which has also been adopted by public transport systems in London, Hong Kong and Paris.
Tapping into this powerful sense can have rewarding short-term and long-term benefits which are worth exploring. Ask your EMA professional to be your guide!


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Faith leaders demand aldermen put people first in budget
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A man holds a sign outside the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. Over 70 residents gathered outside on Monday to protest a number of proposed budget cuts, chanting "prioritize our people, we shall not be moved."
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Over 70 residents gathered outside the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center Monday to protest a number of proposed budget cuts, chanting "prioritize our people, we shall not be moved."
Attendees at the rally, which was co-organized by a number of churches and community organizations throughout Evanston, demanded a full accounting of the city's budget process with a focus on its potential cuts to social services across the city.
Interfaith clergy leaders held a press conference on the steps of the civic center, addressing various proposed cuts to the city budget. Since its release at the beginning of October, the 2019 budget proposal has garnered criticism from residents for proposed cuts and restructuring to the Department of Health and Human Services, the Youth and Young Adult Division and the possible closure of Evanston Fire Department Station 4 in the 2nd Ward.
The group labeled itself as POP — Prioritize our People — and focused on the human impact of the proposed budget cuts.
Rev. Michael Nabors, who represented the Second Baptist Church and the NAACP, said residents are aware of the deficit, but even more aware of the programs that would potentially be cut.
"Every citizen and resident of our town should be inspired," Nabors said. "Inspired that they are in a town where our voices are heard. Inspired that they are in a town where our opinions matter, and inspired that we are in a town where the consent of the governed is the lynchpin for effective government."
Nabors said residents and aldermen should ask themselves what is more important to them — a balanced budget or "balanced families." Nabors weighed the city's need to fill its projected $7.4 million budget deficit with needs of residents, and urged local leaders to advocate for a long-term solution to the budget process, not a quick fix.
He said Evanston should not try to "find an easier route to make ends meet rather than taking the long, arduous avenue that includes everybody."
"My simple task is to say this along with every single person of goodwill in Evanston," Nabors said. "We care for the less fortunate, we watch out for the distressed. We speak up for the voiceless. We are one Evanston. What happens to one person and one program affects every person and program."
Rabbi Andrea London, of Beth Emet the Free Synagogue, echoed Nabors' sentiments. When Nabors began in the ministry, she said, he may have felt like he could change the world. Now, he feels like he and other residents can change Evanston, and London said she stands with him.
"We're going to be that shining example," London said. "We are the power of the people to make this change. We are going to have a budget that says our value is that we love each other as we love ourselves."
Pastor Daniel Ruen, of Grace Lutheran Church, said he wonders what the city would do if the interfaith communities across Evanston would cut their services, in a similar manner to the proposed budget cuts. He said the effect on the city would be great, and that city officials should look to these communities and the way they provide services.
"We are powerful, and it's time for the city to recognize that we pick up a lot of their slack that they should be providing," Ruen said. "We have a powerful voice to go into the city and say: 'Look you say you can't find money? You know what happens when we can't find money? We do it anyway.'"
Samantha Handler contributed reporting.
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In 1814, Babbage wrote his graduate thesis in which he expressed his progressive views on religion and firmly stated that God was more of a material agent in this world than a spiritual force. Early life of Charles Babbage Born on 26 December 1791, Charles was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and Engineer who is known as originator of the concept of a programmable computer. The Difference Engine consisted entirely of mechanical components; numbers were represented in the decimal system by the positions of 10-toothed metal wheels mounted in columns. Alas, Babbage was born 100 years too soon! Filled with sorrow, at the end of 1827 Babbage made a long one year trip to Europe, when he met a lot of leading European scientists. It was to be digital, automatic, mechanical, and controlled by variable programs. It turns out that his design concept was accurate. With the help of an army engineer, he directed the work of a number of clerks.
Babbage's new machine was an enormous step forward. He was one of the first to talk about the impact of the factory in economics and to discuss the division of labor. At age 16 or 17, Babbage returned to Devon to live with his parents. He began to devote part of his time to writing a collection of reminiscences. The idea of mechanically calculating mathematical tables first came to Babbage in 1812 or 1813 while at the university; he was shown a table of logarithms which contained numerous errors, which led him to posit a way to have them worked out systematically, instead of by purely human computation.
In 1812 he makes an Analytical society with J. What else did Babbage create? The Z1 consisted of over 30,000 metal parts and is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable computer. Babbage was not recognized for his contributions to science until after his death. Define what constitutes a computer, and the answer will become clear. His other talents include inventions, mechanical engineering and philosophy. Babbage's brain is preserved at the Science Museum in London. By 1823, he described it as a machine which would tabulate calculations for up to 20 decimal places.
After the prototype for the Difference Engine was constructed in 1823, Babbage's project was funded by an enthusiastic British government. Here he was to meet new friends who would remain close to him for the rest of his life. Hershel, who would later make important contributions to the development of photography, worked with Babbage on early ideas on electromagnetism, but they failed to put all the pieces together and were overtaken by the work of Michael Faraday. After returning to England, his famous charm, wit, and humour had been restored, but he had clearly changed and his family life was gone. See our for a complete list. His mother was Betsy Plumleigh Teape.
For many years after graduation he remained unsuccessful in finding a good job. He was the son of William Herschel, the outstanding astronomer, who had discovered the planet Uranus in 1781. It was also fundamental to Marxist theory of capitalist socio-economic development. Only three of their 8 children became adult. Computer : A Simple Electronic Machine without which we cannot imagine our life today.
Who is real father of computer, Charles Babbage or Allan Turing?
His autobiography, titled Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, was published in 1864. Charles Babbage was one of the most influential figures in the development of technology. That principle is a mathematical method of resolving polynomial expressions by addition, and thus resolvable by simple machinery. Despite his many achievements, the failure to construct his calculating machines left Babbage in his declining years a disappointed and embittered man. Before long, the Babbage soirées formed an important part of the London social scene. Only he and his sister Mary Ann survived early childhood.
Unfortunately, because of funding issues, this computer was not built while Charles Babbage was alive. What ideas can you take from this biography to apply to your life? Construction ceased in 1833, when Clement refused to continue without advance payment. He had carried out intensive mathematical research and had published a fair number of articles. However, Babbage was not a politician; he lacked the ability to smooth relationships with successive governments, and, instead, alienated people with his impatient demeanor. Besides his lifetime engagement with the construction of and , Babbage did make occasional forays into other fields. Babbage however did not think it was worth the distraction from his beloved Difference Engine.
Tragically, Charles' father, his wife and one of his sons all died in 1827. Now secure both financially and academically, Babbage could turn his full attention to his diverse pursuits. Dissatisfied with the declining state of science in early 19 th century Britain, he campaigned for higher standards and more rigorous science, as well as making proposals to improve the processes of manufacturing in the early factories of the Industrial Revolution. With such an income, the couple could maintain a modest life without lavish entertaining. Without any further government grants, his funding ran out.
When in 1811, he went to Cambridge to study, he discovered that his tutors were deficient in the new mathematical landscape, and that, in fact, he already knew more than they did. Despite his destroyed reputation, Babbage quickly managed to progress in scientific circles due to his unprecedented brilliance. Elizabeth Teape came from a prominent Devonshire family. He had also, once again, shown his predilection for reform by becoming one of the co-founders of the Astronomical Society in 1820. She and her mother visited factories to see other machines at work. He was a major influence on economists, including John Stuart Mill to Karl Marx.


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