Toronto Airport, at 11 in the morning, is almost deserted. In the arrivals area, waiting along with the ladies from the rent-a-car companies, are three girls-their men are coming home from work.
The men are Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and Neil Peart, their work is rock and roll, and soon American Airlines will deliver them from Columbus, Ohio, safe and tired and weary from six weeks on the road.
Lifeson, Lee, and Peart are the members of a band called Rush. In the last six weeks they've been to New York and New Jersey, California, and an endless string of states and cities. Among them St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, and dozens more.
Through the barrier windows, the girls watch as the three members of the band, their road manager, and three roadies, gather in a solemn conclave with customs officials. Check lists are checked, clipboards are consulted. Eventually the musicians are free to leave, and resplendent in velvet jackets and patched jeans, long hair, and stacked-heel boots, they enter the real world, unencumbered by nosy customs men asking silly questions.
The roadies are left, filling in forms, opening up instrument cases, boxes of patch cords and microphone cables, and enormous yellow-and-silver custom-made crates, all stencilled "Rush Productions, Toronto", full of speakers and amplifiers. They'll be here for a couple of hours yet, before it's all loaded on a rented truck, and shipped off to the next gig.
In the deserted arrivals hall there are hugs and kisses. They leave quickly-time is short; Lifeson, Lee and Peart have just two days off. And then it's back on the road again.
Rush is not the best-known band in Canada by a long way. For a start, they play the sort of music that the local critics, without exception, hate: Heavy metal rock. Canadian radio stations play very little of it, writers off-handedly compare Rush to Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath or Uriah Heep (three British groups pre-eminent in the idiom) and go on to write about "noise bands", "lack of subtlety", "primitive instrumental techniques", "screeching vocals".
Most critics and most disc jockeys and radio programme directors are in their early thirties, of course-and nowhere does a generation gap evolve so quickly as it does in the world of rock. But whatever the critics say, whatever they play on the radio, the word gets out-by word-of-mouth, rumour, osmosis, or whatever-and the heavy metal bands are incredibly popular.
The Rush story is simple enough - and probably common enough. Three friends from suburban Willowdale at the north end of Toronto get together in high school, and drive their parents nuts with the noises they make down in the basement. After a while, they play a few gigs at the school, and all their friends say they're far out. Then they get ambitious, and join the union. Soon, they're deep in debt to the instrument store, and there's a battered truck to take the band and the gear to one-nighters in Oshawa, and Peterborough, and Delhi, and Midland; small-town Ontario where the kids are dying of boredom and where a band at the high school is the social event of the season.
By now, this particular trio has a name - Rush, with its connotations of high-style good times, speedy energy, and sheer sassyness, seemed to be a good name for a band like that. No one knows who came up with it, now-and the only annoyance has been the discovery of another Canadian band (this one from Montreal) that's on the road calling itself Mahogany Rush. By now it's too late for either band to change; both groups live with the inevitable confusion.
Rather before the legal age, the band is playing Toronto bars as well as those one-nighters-the pubs that teenagers with their older sisters' ID cards can get into, where the local critics wouldn't be seen dead, and where the kids might tell you that the local critics are dead.
Eighteen and over (or faking it), these kids are breaking away from home and school and family ties, growing up and away-and this band and this music are just right. It's rough and ready, loud and proud, and simple to the point of thundering repetition.
Rush plays this circuit for three years, fully professional, and with the publicity photographs and the invoices from the instrument store to prove it. If you can keep up your energy levels and your enthusiasm, all this work tightens up the music, improves your instrumental techniques, teaches you how to write and rehearse and how to work with an audience.
Early in 1973, Rush - with a lineup which consisted of Geddy Lee on bass and lead vocals, Alex Lifeson on guitar and vocals, and John Rutsey on drums - finished an evening's work, and went into Eastern Sound in Toronto right afterwards. Eight hours later the band had part of an album, but after living with it for a while, the band decided they could do better. Clutching the original tapes, the band went back into the studio - this time Terry Brown's Toronto Sound - and re-recorded some of the material, and re-mixed the rest. Three days later, they had an album.
Various Canadian record companies heard the tape, and offered the standard "page-one" deals that most "new" Canadian bands are handed. Ray Danniels, the group's manager, decided to pass-and with his partner, Vic Wilson, set up Moon Records (and Core Music to publish the material) and put the album out themselves. Eight cuts (some as long as seven minutes); all the songs written by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, except one, In the Mood, issued as a single and written by Lee on his own.
The reviews were sparse, but good. Playlist was complimentary; the Ottawa Citizen called Rush a "still-Canadian group charged with life", and this magazine described the music as "loud, proud and take-it-or-leave-it, played with shrieking energy and some musical skill." Canadian radio stations, by and large, ignored the album and the single.
But an album is an album, and Danniels and Wilson had something to sell at last. In Cleveland, where one radio programmer on an underground FM station loves Canadian music (Donna Halper at WMMS), Rush became a local phenomenon, and the album, imported into stores from Canada, became a best-seller.
In New York, Danniels and Wilson made a deal with Ira Blacker, powerful executive vice-president of ATI, a major American booking agency-and Blacker moved fast in a way that only New York heavies move when they figure it's worth their while. First of all, his agency signed the band, and then Blacker sold the record - for a six figure advance - to Mercury in Chicago, who had made several million dollars with another Canadian group, Bachman-Turner Overdrive. (Later, Blacker quit the agency, and set up his own management company. Rush, needless to say, became one of his first clients).
Rush was ready to invade the United States.
First, however, some changes had to be made. John Rutsey, on the brink of the first U.S. tour, left the band. Press releases talked about "musical differences", but in fact Rutsey is a diabetic, and his longtime friends knew that his health would simply not stand up to an extended tour.
Neil Peart, an articulate, experienced drummer from St. Catharines, Ontario, got the job-and immediately Lee and Lifeson began to change their approach. Peart, simply, was a more flexible drummer, technically more proficient, and able to add a variety of new rhythmic changes to what is, essentially, a rhythm group.
Visas in hand, Rush went to America. Second or third (and even, occasionally, fourth) "on the bill to every heavy metal rock band; touring the States, Rush just stood up there and did what it had always done-pounded out the music, got the kids up on their feet, and delivered the goods.
Fortunately, the musicians in Rush are young themselves-Lee and Lifeson are in their early twenties, Neil Peart a couple of years older. Frankly, they need to be.
Playing is not the part of being a rock and roll musician that makes it the physically demanding occupation that it is, even when you play with the energy that Rush uses. What kills the brain cells and yellows the flesh is the travel-the constant time-warp of new airports, new cities, new rental cars, new hotels (even though most Holiday Inns are the same), new places to eat, new college reporters looking for new insights for another new interview, and new fans wanting just a few minutes (or hours) of your time. After that, playing is simple.
Rush has a road manager - an experienced, tough, and cheerful young man called Howard Ungerleider - and three roadies to shift all the equipment about, set it up, and tear it down again, but the schedule has been exhausting. In the middle of it all, the band has been writing new material, and doing television as well. They have taped shows in Canada for Keith Hampshire's Music Machine on CBC, but they've also taped sets for the big three American shows, In Concert, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, and Midnight Special, which have taken Rush into millions of American and Canadian homes in the past few weeks.
And the record is selling like hot cakes. All it takes, say the experts, are lots of in-person appearances, and some good television exposure.
Two days after coming home, the band is at work again. Massey Hall, Canada's most venerable and best known concert hall, is sold out - Rush is sharing the bill with Nazareth, a Scottish rock and roll band just beginning a coast-to-coast Canadian tour.
The equipment is spread across the stage-masses of stacked speakers, amplifiers, two drum kits, thousands of feet of cable, lighting booms. In the audience, expectant kids bounce giant balloons and throw paper darts; this is party time.
The lights dim, the follow-spots pick up the musicians, the crowd begins to yell-and suddenly you begin to understand why the group's name makes such sense. The volume is incredible; thundering drum patterns, skittering and screaming guitar lines, Lee's shrieked vocals, high in the upper registers. Instinctively, you know why the critics hate it and the kids love it-the noise and the sheer flash of it all.
The set runs through the material on the album, with two or three newer pieces. The pace and the volume increase, and at the end, with the spotlights criss-crossing the audience and the stage, the band reaches a shattering finale, with the crowd standing and cheering.
And Geddy Lee, direct from Willowdale, throws his head back and laughs at the sheer fun of it-at the rush, if you will-and shouts: "It's great, it's just great, to be home!"
The future? Well, Rush is part of a world where fads and fashions change faster than they do in the women's wear business, and they know it. The constant touring exposes the band, the television shows build its reputation, the record sales help-but everything depends on what the band can do now.
As you read this, in early January 1975, Rush is in the studios with Terry Brown. This is the second album, and it has to be a show-stopper. It will have to have at least one hit single on it. The material-written and honed in performance for the last eight months or so-has to be exactly right.
This time, they're taking more care; everyone knows that this one is more important - no, this one is vital. This record can make Rush, or consign it to the list of good bands who came close, but never quite pulled it off.
If Rush - and Terry Brown, and Vic Wilson and Ray Danniels and Ira Blacker and the roadies - if they can all do it, then Lifeson, Lee and Peart will become millionaires. Just like the guys in The Guess Who, just like Gordon Lightfoot, just like Randy Bachman and Fred Turner. That's a sobering thought. Indeed.


Ancient arrows and called too many names, some statistics are 98 species. But the main is the following several types.
1, taper arrows, the most common arrows, is the kind of flat prism of the arrow, used to kill, can also be used for armor, but the destruction and armor are weak, the advantage is cheap, easy to manufacture.
2, broken arrows, longer than the cone-shaped arrows, penetrating power, the distance can break the leather armor and scales, but the effect of the plate is not ideal. The disadvantage is that the lethality is small.
3, heavy arrows, arrows larger, generally with barbs and blood tank, armor ability weak, but the lethal strong, people were shot in a short time will lose the fighting ability.
4, three arrows, arrows were triangular-shaped, with barbs and blood tank, armor and lethality are very strong, but the manufacturing process is complex, high cost.
5, the arrow, also known as dysprosium, is shot out of the whistle signal arrow, no lethality.
6, crescent arrows, arrows were crescent-shaped or fish-like, no lethal to the people, mainly used to shoot the flag and sails on the rope.
7, pier arrows, arrows are wooden piers, no lethality, shoot people will cause pain, mainly used to warn, and now the same as the rubber bullet function.
8, horse arrows, generally conical, for horses.
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On 5 September 2017, the Grand Chamber, which hears appeals from the European Court of Human Rights, confirmed that an employer's access to its employees' messages on the employer's communications system without first obtaining the consent of its employee was unlawful and amounted to a breach of the Right to Privacy under Article 8, of the European Convention on Human Rights (Barbulescu v Romania 2017).
In Barbulescu v Romania, the employer's computer usage policy prohibited employees from using work communications systems for personal messaging. The employer had not sought the employee's consent to monitor his emails and it was disputed that the employer had notified the employee that his computer usage may be monitored. The employer did access the employee's communications on the Yahoo Messenger service, which it had asked him to use for work purposes. It found that he had used it for personal messaging and dismissed him for a breach of its computer usage policy.
The employee, having received no redress in the domestic courts of his country (Romania), which all found that his employer had been entitled to access his emails and to dismiss him, took his case to the European Court of Human Rights claiming that his dismissal amounted to a breach of his rights under Article 8 to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. The ECtHR also found in favour of the employer. However, had the messages been marked 'Private & Confidential' in the title box, the employer's access of them very likely would have been a breach of the employee's Article 8, right to privacy. (Yahoo messenger service does not have a title box). The employee then appealed to the Grand Chamber of the ECHR, who found that his dismissal was in breach of his right to respect to his correspondence under Article 8 and the domestic courts had failed to protect that right and he was accordingly entitled to compensation.
run through the terms of the policy in an induction programme or other form of in-house training.
Many employers do choose to allow reasonable usage of computers for personal purposes. In this case, employers should still ensure that they have obtained employee consent to monitor emails, and that they have an internet, email and communications policy which includes advising their employees to mark any personal emails private & confidential.
Employers should take legal advice before accessing an employee's email (or other internet message) marked private & confidential.


NEW YORK – December 28, 2009 – Pop star phenomenon Lady Gaga, known for her fashion-forward outfits, surprises the designers and provides inspiration on Launch My Line, airing Wednesday, January 6 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. In this week's challenge, the teams look to Lady Gaga for inspiration to create an avant-garde outfit, but they must make sure they are pushing the boundaries of fashion without crossing the line of good taste. Meanwhile, the tension between some teammates gets intense and someone pushes their teammate to the edge.
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I have been traveling the two-way street of Tonglen practice, more stuck in traffic than not, truly bumper-to-bumper. Tonglen is the "giving and taking or sending and receiving" of compassion but I was doing neither.
Fortunately, technology glitches forced a publishing pause of the #DailyDose. My voice recognition software crashed; as well, there were some glitches with setting up my new laptop.
Whatever the reason for such pauses, they happen. Theirs is an energy all their own, a static interrupting the daily flow.
Walls fall, part of the obstacle that is the path crumbles. In the rubble of our rigidity there is insight, if we will only look.
For me, that meant opening myself to the perspective of the medical profession regarding this first hip-joint replacement surgery. Both the orthopedic center and I bring valuable experience to one another.
By meeting the center's expectations with equanimity, I gain insight, no matter the depth of my own experience. It is up to me to do what is helpful, for ultimately that benefits everyone.
I have three weeks for this specific Tonglen practice.


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Cheap oil weans Gulf state firms off public purse, pushes them to market
Building projects from universities to soccer stadiums were funded entirely by the public purse but that is changing due to low oil prices
The Gulf's state-linked firms are being forced to wean themselves off direct government funding, and focus more on capital markets and private investment, to push ahead with projects in an era of cheap oil.
In the previous several years of high oil prices, building projects from universities to soccer stadiums were funded entirely by the public purse. That is changing as governments scale back non-essential plans and look to markets to share the financial burden.
"The future, as we see it, are projects that connect to private investment," Abdullah bin Mohammed al-Nuaimi, the United Arab Emirates' Minister of Public Works, told Reuters.
This could be a boon for bankers, who have long wanted to play a bigger role in arranging financing packages for Gulf governments.
"Projects that do come to fruition will have the most coherent economic justification and be more likely to require standalone financing. This points to a greater need for project finance," said Andy Cairns, global head of debt origination and distribution at National Bank of Abu Dhabi.
So far the shift is most evident in the smaller Gulf Arab nations which lack huge cash reserves but have big projects in the pipeline: Oman and Bahrain. Oman Electricity Transmission Co issued a $1 billion debut bond in May, while Aluminium Bahrain will use the capital markets to part-fund its $3.5 billion smelter expansion.
But the change is also occurring at some of the region's largest enterprises. In the past, utility Saudi Electricity Co used the market to fund power plant construction but also received regular contributions from the government in the form of interest-free loans. In June 2011, it said a royal decree had awarded it around 50 billion riyals in this manner, and it received a similar injection in March 2014.
Now it is seeking more finance via the market. It announced plans for a $1.5 billion sukuk programme in August as well as for a corporate loan worth around $2.3 billion; bankers said it was the first time that SEC had sought the kind of back-up revolver facility which many big firms have.
Bankers are also encouraged by new laws in Dubai and Kuwait this year facilitating public-private partnerships (PPPs), which grant ownership stakes in and revenues from assets to investors in exchange for helping pay the original costs.
In Kuwait, clauses covering land ownership in previous legislation prevented Islamic banks and investors from participating in projects. The new law resolves that issue and should encourage greater backing for PPPs in the country, said Alex Saleh, partner at law firm Al Tamimi and Co.
The difficulty for state firms, though, is that they are approaching these alternative funding solutions at a time when the market is changing.
As governments' oil income shrinks, local banks are receiving fewer new deposits, reducing the cash available for projects. Money markets reflect this as rates rise.
Meanwhile, new Basel III global banking standards make less feasible the loans of 20-plus years that Gulf state firms have often sought.
"During that 20-year term, the margin is fixed but rules come in and change the capital requirements for banks, so what was profitable on day one is no longer the case," said Mario Salameh, HSBC's head of project finance for the Middle East and North Africa.
This may drive borrowers towards bonds rather than loans, bringing the Middle East into line with other areas of the world such as Australia and the United States, where infrastructure is either originally funded by project bonds or shorter-term loans are refinanced with bonds soon after the project is operational.
Project bonds have long been talked about in the Gulf as the future of fund-raising, but so far only a handful have come to market.
PPPs have also struggled outside the utilities sector because Gulf states have been reluctant to cede control of assets. For example, Saudi Arabia's Medina airport expansion in 2012 was conceived as a PPP project but the ultimate structure was different, awarding the private sector concession rights rather than full ownership of a stake.
"Ultimately, what the market really lacks is a big transport PPP which has come to the capital market and that can be used as a template," said Karim Nassif, credit analyst at Standard & Poor's. "I think the potential is there but the jury is out on what will be the next deal outside of power and water."


The largest opportunity cost is directly correlated to the length of time involved in a contracting cycle. The typical response of any supply chain member usually involves an eye roll and "that's just the way it is". The reality though is that this is time-consuming because of the manual work involved in sourcing (pulling data, cross-referencing, research, vendor communication, and meetings). For example, manual sourcing methods for total joint projects can take eighteen to twenty weeks to quantify an opportunity, develop a plan, structure the RFP, and analyze offers. Another twelve to twenty weeks can also be anticipated for evaluation. You'll need to determine how much precious resources (time, money) you can devote to contracting cycles and be prepared to step in if parameters are being pushed too far.
Not only is the sourcing process time consuming, but resources are limited which is normally what drives executing on the 80 / 20 rule. It makes sense to focus attention on total joints, spine, CRM, and other major physician preference item categories. This comes with a tradeoff and sometimes large savings get missed. Opportunity costs from unknown savings cannot be quantified until they have been identified but those numbers usually do not find their way into the equation.
As an example, it is not uncommon for at least $60,000 of savings to be present in every smaller category today. Often times, those categories will go months without being reviewed. If ten months pass the health system will have overpaid $50,000 per category. While you're scouring for dollars to make the budget, the capital you're looking for is being left on the negotiating table.
Twentieth-century processes lead to twentieth-century problems. Supply chains are experiencing gaps of epic portions between developing an effective people strategy and an effective information strategy. As a result, supply chain becomes reactive to the contract calendar and only a few sourcing initiatives can be tackled outside this cycle. This market represents $179 billion in revenue annually and includes eleven thousand separate businesses.
New competitors are entering and prices are changing frequently throughout the year. To some, it may appear that the market is volatile, but in reality, it is ripe for those empowered with the right data elements to engage and refuse to accept million dollar losses from slow and reactive strategies as being "par for the course". This will involve tackling an additional 35 – 40 savings projects this year. Twentieth-century problems lead to twenty-first-century solutions for those willing to step out of the prescribed course of action.
Supply chains of the future use technology to push savings to the forefront so opportunities are always being worked with the highest return, not just the highest volume. The game changers in supply chain will go to market, engage, and evaluate vendors all the time with technology. Check out our most recent whitepaper to see how 5 hospitals used a technology strategy to save over $750,000.


Sandy Straits and Beyond: Backyard Blues!
Love the color in your backyard!
I love the story of the damp footprints, and the wet birds. Lorikeets are gorgeous!
Wonderful kind of blues and other colours!
Your grass sounds much the same as mine. Even Penny leaves muddy paw prints when she races across the lawn. A couple of days of Sunshine and now back to rain again.
Hi Mick. I think - when it rains the birds stay dry and don't feed as much. The cooler air also makes the insects less active, but as soon as the sun comes out the insects do too. Birds are clever enough to know when insects are both more abundant and more active.
The lorikeets are beautiful and that one doesn't look as wet as I bet you did coming in. Our lawn in Oregon would be squishy like that after days of rain (in our former life.... it has been 20 years or more since we worried about mowing lawns, but I remember it just growing and growing in late winter/early spring but too wet to do anything about it.
It sounds like you have had enough rain. Lovely colours.
Nice! they are loving the berries and seeds in the trees, and they are so colourful.


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Review: One of year's best movies, 'Whiplash' doesn't miss a beat (w/video)
One of the year's best movies, Whiplash nails every beat in its battle between a domineering jazz teacher and a drummer striving to be great.
Andrew (Miles Teller) is a freshman at a music conservatory, under the tutelage of Terrence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons). For an interview with Teller, go to tampabay.com/movies.Sony Picture Classics
By Steve Persall
Whiplash is musical drama with a Hitchcock heart, a minor-key thriller set to a double time swing beat. That's one jazz rhythm Andrew Neyman hasn't mastered on the drums, and his future, perhaps his sanity, depends upon it.
Andrew is a wallflower freshman at fictitious Shaffer Conservatory of Music, under the tutelage of Terrence Fletcher, a jazz perfectionist in the cruelest ways. Whenever Fletcher acts supportive is the cue for Andrew to steel himself or duck. Andrew wants to be the next Buddy Rich. Fletcher will find out how badly.
Writer-director Damien Chazelle went through an experience like that, and you see what he's doing today.
Yet with Whiplash he makes a movie like a musician. A piano has 88 keys but countless songs are created with only those notes, varying and combining notes in different ways. Chazelle pulls together disparate material we know — Fame, The Paper Chase, even Full Metal Jacket — and offers a fresh take on the familiar, rousing as Rocky was in its time.
Much of the credit goes to the fine, ferocious pairing of former Lecanto resident Miles Teller as Andrew, and J.K. Simmons as Fletcher, a role he originated in Chazelle's 2013 short film inspiring this one.
The key to this battle of wills is that neither adversary is particularly appealing. Certainly not Fletcher, whose abusive nature in class — verbally and physically — is relentless. Simmons is a perfect physical representation of Fletcher's ramrod obstinance: bald and perpetually dressed in black tee and jeans, nothing that wastes the time it takes for perfection, not haircuts or fashion choices.
At the risk of hyperbole, I'll say that Simmons' intensity, his raging command and sheer fearsomeness reminds me of nothing less than George C. Scott in Patton. He's that frightening, yet after initial repulsion we empathize with why. One of Whiplash's chilling moments is Fletcher inviting an alumnus' daughter to take his class someday, that in context feels like a moment from Fritz Lang's M.
Simmons is countered and matched by the Cusackian brusqueness of Teller, who is among the most interesting young actors today regardless of where he hails from. Andrew's drive to be someday remembered as a jazz drummer is easy for an audience to get behind until Teller exposes the insecure self-centering behind it.
There's a love interest in Nicole (Melissa Benoist) intruding just enough to prove Andrew's heartless potential. His caring, widowed father (Paul Reiser) is there for good advice to be ignored, and witness his son's evolution into something like the monster Fletcher. Teller plays notes all over the emotional chart, dovetailing into a divine riff on ambition. And he does nearly all of Andrew's drumming, aggressively and impressively so.
Sharone Meir's camera circles these fighters like a referee doing nothing about the low blows. Art can be vicious in Whiplash, while the beauty of its creation is revealed through glimpses of shuffled sheet music, licked reeds and evacuated spit valves.
And of course the music, curling into flights of cool jazz fancy until Fletcher hears a false note, something Chazelle's movie knows nothing about. Whiplash's climax is a drum solo, often the dullest part of concerts but here one of 2014's most exciting movie sequences, in one of the year's best films.
Contact Steve Persall at spersall@tampabay.com or (727) 893-8365. Follow @StevePersall.
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Sports on TV/radio for Monday, July 15
Rays open series at Yankee Stadium and more sports on the air.
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Wimbledon, Rays and more sports on the air.
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Wimbledon and more sports on the air.
The arrest was the second time this year the singer has been taken into custody in Chicago on sex charges.
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Rays travel to Baltimore and more sports on the air.


With D-backs top pitching prospect Archie Bradley facing former Cy Young winner and 14-year veteran Jake Peavy on Monday night, Arizona continues its 10-game road trip in San Francisco, as the National League West rivals open a four-game series at AT&T Park.
This will be the first time these clubs have met this year, and a pair of intriguing pitching matchups will highlight the series. Zack Greinke faces Madison Bumgarner on Wednesday night and Shelby Miller squares off against Johnny Cueto in the finale on Thursday afternoon.
While the series is a continuation of a road swing for Arizona, it is a homecoming for the Giants, who have played just three games so far at AT&T Park. The Giants will play their next 10 games at home, with visits from the Marlins and Padres also on the schedule.
• Peavy is looking to rebound after a rough start against the Rockies at Coors Field. The right-hander allowed six runs on 11 hits in four innings.
• Last year against the D-backs, Peavy was 1-1 with a 7.20 ERA in two starts.
• The D-backs' regulars should be rested for Monday's opener. First baseman Paul Goldschmidt, right fielder David Peralta and second baseman Jean Segura were all given days off in Sunday's series finale with the Padres.
• The D-backs have played poorly over the years at AT&T Park, but last season was a different story, as they were 8-2 there.


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15 Game Awards Reveals Promised Through Twitter Interview
By Hunter Miche Dec 10, 2019 Oct 26, 2021 Share
A new interview on Twitter featuring Geoff Keighley has said that we'll be getting 15 new Game Awards reveals for upcoming games that night. While we don't know what most of them actually are yet (except for Left 4 Dead VR which was leaked earlier today), hopefully they're something to get excited for.
The Game Awards has become one of the biggest gaming events of the year since it first began back in 2014, which many studios and publishers taking advantage of its audience to show off new or already-announced games with new trailers during the ceremonies.
This year will be no exception, and we're hopefully going to be in for a treat if there are going to be 15 new Game Awards reveals at the event. We only know one of them, Left 4 Dead VR, and even that is suspect until it actually happens, so who knows what we'll be seeing.
While many of the trailers shown might be trailers for games that were announced or shown at this year's E3 like Cyberpunk 2077, Halo: Infinite, Doom: Eternal, and others, it's equally likely that other upcoming games will also get some screen time at the show.
Everything else has already been announced for the Game Awards this week, considering that the event will be taking place this Thursday. All the nominees have been set up and the gaming crowd has voted on what games they believe deserve to take home their various categories during the event.
These categories include things like Game of the Year, Best Action Game, Best Action-Adventure Game, Best Art Direction, Best Audio Design, Best Community Support, and a number of different esports-related categories. You can vote for your own favorites before the Awards by following this link.
Hopefully all of the Game Awards reveals are games that will catch peoples' interest, but we'll just have to wait until Thursday to see. The Game Awards will be airing that day at 7:30 PM, Central Standard Time, or whenever that is for your own time zone.
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We're on high alert here. It has been another long and difficult day, but we are finally beginning to get some answers. We have done multiple blood cultures, urine cultures, stool cultures. She has been on antibiotics for more than 24 hours. But the fevers have not eased; every 4 hours, as the Tylenol wears off, the fever reappears, anywhere from 99-102.1 today. We stopped feeding her, and she refuses to eat. She is getting I fluids to keep her hydrated.
More troubling has been her behavior. She has been awake and quiet for more than 12 hours. She just won't sleep. She got Benadryl and Ativan for nausea, and still didn't sleep (Ativan usually knocks her out within 20 minutes). She has just been looking around and laying still all day. She definitely looks sick and weak, and has gone down hill since yesterday.
After waiting all day for some positive change, I realized her fontanel was full, and the veins on her head were very prominent. I had them call for someone who knew her head situation more specifically; since her head is different than any other baby head, the few professionals that see her regularly are the only reliable sources of information about what is "normal" for her.
When the chemo nurse practitioner came in, she agreed immediately that something was not right inside her head. They ordered a STAT CT scan to get an idea of what might be going on. We rolled her down to the imaging department, and she finally perked up a little and looked around; the "fresh" air of the hallway and the new sights got her attention for a little while. She dozed during the CT scan (my phone didn't save the picture!) but woke again as soon as we moved her back to the crib. She takes 5-10 minute cat naps, but wakes back up again.
The next step was to check that her shunt is functioning properly. A neurosurgeon came to "tap" the shunt. She stuck a needle into the resevoir under the skin and took a sample to culture. She also checked that it was draining into her stomach properly...it wasn't.
The preliminary results show bacteria in the spinal fluid. She is exhibiting "altered mental status". One of the doctors mentioned meningitis. Her antibiotics have been ramped up to cross from her blood into spinal fluid (the two fluids don't touch. Only certain medications can cross the blood brain barrier. This is part of why her chemo is so severe, too). We hope to get more information in the morning.
Just before I hit "post", the neurosurgeon came back for an update. There is a high level of bacterial infection in her spinal fluid. Basically, her shunt is infected, and is draining infection into her abdomen. She is scheduled for surgery first thing in the morning to have the tube from her shunt pulled out of her abdomen and hooked to an external bag. It is a short, simple non-invasive procedure that should take less than an hour (small beans in Scarlett-land).
We will be transitioning between oncology and neurosurgery teams, and moving to the PICU, so I won't be able to post an update until we are settled somewhere later in the day.
Good luck guys! Always praying for and thinking of miss Scarlett and you. I don't often post but I check for updates regularly. Praying for an easy surgery and quick recovery from this little bump in the road.
So sorry to hear you've had this speed bump.. I'm thinking of you all and sending lots of healing vibes your way.. WE LOVE YOU SCARLETT!!! hope you can fight that infection off soon!!!
You are an amazingly strong woman, even with the incompetent nurses at Er to you having to go to the ER by yourself. Praying for you tonight, for your husband and little Scarlett!
It is very scary how quickly things can change and go downhill. I think you do a very good job at maintaining a sense of awareness but still trying to help Scarlett have a 'normal' life right now. You are so very strong and I truly believe Scarlett will pull through and be around for a looonnngg time to put you through stress and worry. At this point, boys would seem like a cakewalk, huh?
Wow....I'm so sorry to hear about this latest development. But good for you for dragging yourself out of bed at 3am and getting her to the ER and then back to her regular doctors. She's in good hands. This is a marathon and you guys have amazing endurance. She is a strong girl (as are you!) and you'll get through this setback. Take good care. We're sending lots of good thoughts from London.
So Sorry to hear this Brandi and Chris. Hope she is on mend soon.
I am so glad to hear it is not meningitis. Our family had to go through this the past few months. My dad had it. It was Thanksgiving Day. He's better now but since then we've been dealing with the aftermath. We almost lost him because of his stubbornness.
Praying that she bounces back quickly from this. Sending my love to you three.
I'm so glad they finally figured out what is going on with her and can work on getting her better. As a new mom myself, I can't imagine the strength it must take to handle Scarlett's situation. I am constantly in awe of how strong and together you and Chris remain while getting your sweet girl through all this. You all are in my thoughts and prayers. Stay strong Scarlett!
I am so sorry to hear about Scarlett. I hope that the surgery is quick and the medicines start working soon. I will be praying for you and your family!!
Praying so hard for you guys right now. I hope that she is able to fight off this infection!!
Praying for Scarlett all of you!
So sorry to hear! I am praying for you guys, stay strong!
I am so sorry to hear about this latest development! I check every day and hope that Scarlett is getting better. My thoughts will be with her and with you. She is so strong.
Praying for you all! Infections are so scary...thank you for keeping us pray warriors updated!! You're doing an awesome job, being the best mommy, so keep staying strong!! Hugs to you all.
Poor baby, I think and pray for her often. She is such a strong girl, she really deserves to have things go right for a while and I hope do immediately.
Praying for your sweet Scarlett!
Praying for that brave little girl! I'm in your October baby birth club, and your story has really touched me. I'm praying so, so hard for Scarlett! Fight, baby girl! I hope she can fight this infection quickly and get feeling better soon!
Oh my goodness! I've been without a computer for almost two weeks and just caught up with Scarlett's progress.... Your blog is the first thing I looked up!
My 8 month old son and I continue to pray for Scarlett and your family every night before bed. After reading how much all of you have been through lately, I feel as if we need to pray much, much louder!
Brandi....I am in awe of your strength and courage. I spent 21 days in the NICU/surgical floor with my son, and it was the most draining and stressful 21 days of my life. I cannot even begin to imagine walking in your shoes....in awe of you. May God give you the strength you need to continue on this journey with your beautiful baby girl.
Good luck with the surgery today! We will be praying for Scarlett. She is such a trooper. And good for you for noticing even small changes in her appearance, you are a terrific mother!!
My stomach turns to hear this news. I will be praying hard for Scarlett and your family. Hopefully things get back to normal ASAP. Thank you for keeping us so updated so we know how to pray specifically.
Lots of love and prayers for your family and Scarlett's miracle!! I have complete faith that she will breeze through this surgery just fine! She is stronger than a whole lot of adults I know, Scarlett will be one tough, brilliant cookie!
I am so sorry to hear this, Baby Scarlett you are such a fighter, Stay strong baby girl! Brandi and Chris, you are both amazing, and so very strong. We will continue to pray very hard for all of you.
I'm praying for Scarlett today, that the infectious fluids in her abdomen just go away however they do that, and let that little girl get healing again!
Thinking about you guys today, and hoping to hear a good update soon!
I guess its good to get some answers, even when those answers seem very frightful.
We will be praying for her, you & Chris.
I have never posted before, but I read regularly. Sorry to read about this setback. Hope Scarlett is better soon!
I've followed your story from the beginning, as we were going through our own medical mystery with our 3-year old son.
Scarlett is amazing, and I continue to be in awe of your strength and courage in this situation.
Sending many, many prayers for all of you.
All of our thoughts and prayers are with you all tonight. She is a strong little girl and tomorrow will be a better day. We love you all tons and will keep checking in for updates.


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Das Großsteingrab Gaarden 1 () ist eine megalithische Grabanlage der jungsteinzeitlichen Nordgruppe der Trichterbecherkultur im Kirchspiel Mårum in der dänischen Kommune Gribskov.

Lage
Das Grab liegt westnordwestlich von Kagerup auf einem Feld. In der näheren Umgebung gibt bzw. gab es mehrere weitere megalithische Grabanlagen. Etwa 240 m östlich befindet sich das Großsteingrab Gaarden 2. 1,4 km östlich liegt das Ganggrab Kagerup und 1,4 km nordwestlich das Großsteingrab Myregård 1.

Forschungsgeschichte
Mitarbeiter des Dänischen Nationalmuseums führten in den Jahren 1886 und 1942 Dokumentationen der Fundstelle durch. 1988 erfolgte eine weitere Aufnahme durch Mitarbeiter der Forst- und Naturbehörde.

Beschreibung
Die Anlage besitzt eine rechteckige Hügelschüttung, über deren Orientierung und Maße unterschiedliche Angaben vorliegen. Gemäß der ersten Dokumentation von 1886 ist der Hügel nordnordost-südsüdwestlich orientiert und hat eine Länge von 25,5 m, eine Breite von 13 m und eine Höhe von 1,5 m. Nach der Dokumentation von 1942 ist der Hügel hingegen nord-südlich orientiert und hat eine Länge von 40 m, eine Breite von 17 m und eine Höhe von 2 m. 1988 wurde der Hügel nicht erneut vermessen, seine Breite wurde aber auf maximal 10 m geschätzt.

Der Hügel wies ursprünglich eine steinerne Umfassung auf, von der nur noch Reste erhalten sind. 1942 standen an der nördlichen Schmalseite noch zwei, an der westlichen Langseite fünf und an der östlichen Langseite sieben Umfassungssteine. In der Umgebung des Hügels lagen weitere Steine, die ebenfalls zur Umfassung gehören könnten.

Im Hügel liegen zwei Grabkammern, die wohl beide als kleine Dolmen anzusprechen sind. Die erste Kammer liegt 12,5 m vom südlichen Ende des Hügel entfernt. Sie ist nord-südlich orientiert und besteht wohl aus vier Wandsteinen, die zwar alle noch vorhanden sind, von denen aber nur der südliche Abschlussstein noch in situ steht. Zu den Maßen der Kammer liegen keine Angaben vor. Die zweite Kammer liegt 8,5 m vom Nordende entfernt. Hier sind nur noch zwei Steine erkennbar, die keine Rückschlüsse auf die Orientierung und die Maße der Kammer zulassen.

Literatur
 Klaus Ebbesen: Danmarks megalitgrave. Band 2. Katalog. Attika, Kopenhagen 2008, ISBN 978-87-7528-731-4, Nr. 27 (PDF; 2 MB).

Weblinks
 Fund og Fortidsminder: Gaarden (dänisch)
 The Megalithic Portal: Gaarden Langdysse (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Gaarden 1
Archäologischer Fundplatz auf Seeland (Dänemark)
Nordgruppe der Trichterbecherkultur
Kultbau
Dolmen
Bauwerk in Gribskov Kommune
Sakralbau auf Seeland (Dänemark)
Grabbau in Europa
Archäologischer Fundplatz in Europa
Geographie (Gribskov Kommune)


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Intern Spotlight – Madeleine Vinz
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Published by Marc Hooks at April 5, 2022
Madeleine is a Marketing Management major at Northern Illinois University with a minor in Spanish. She serves as an intern with Opportunity House as part of the Internship Program.
Q: What project(s) are you working on as an intern?
Madeleine: I am currently working on social media posts, monthly newsletters, and website updates. I am also working on a campaign to empower people with disabilities as well as planning for Band Together, which is an event to raise funds for Opportunity House Athletics.
Q: What is the biggest benefit and/or the best part of your internship experience?
Madeleine: I have made stronger connections within the community and to get a feel for the nonprofit world and see if it is what I want to do for a career. This internship has helped me a lot in the classroom. A specific example of this is in one of my classes we are working as consultants for a small business. The business uses platforms like Constant Contact (mass emailing) and Canva (graphic design). I have been using these platforms at my internship, which gives me an advantage.
Madeleine: Students should pursue internship opportunities because it allows them to gain job-like experience which is appealing to employers. It's also just a great way to network and students are able to explore different career paths and test them out in a way.
Madeleine: Thank you so much to Roberts Family Foundation for your generosity and willingness to give to the community. I am beyond grateful to have the opportunity to build my experience and explore my potential career path. This wouldn't have been possible without your support. Thank you!
The Internship Program is a collaboration between the DeKalb County Nonprofit Partnership, the Center for Nonprofit and NGO Studies, and Career Services at Northern Illinois University, supported by the Douglas C. and Lynn M. Roberts Family Foundation.


Tuition is $160.00 per week for returning campers, $175.00 for campers registered on or before May 1st, and $185.00 for campers registered after May 1st . Payments can be made by cash, money order, Discover, Master Card, or Visa. Tuition is due every Friday for the following week. If payment is not made on Friday, your child will not be allowed to return to camp on Monday. Any absences due to holidays, vacations, illnesses, and closure due to extreme weather conditions are payable.
You may choose to participate in our field-trip payment plan, which is 4 weekly payments of $50. The fee must be paid in full by May 31st. Registration fees and trip fees are non-refundable.
May 3, May 10, May 17, May 24. Delinquent payments will be assessed a $25 late fee.
A report card or letter of recommendation is needed.
At Camp Intercoastal we strive to offer meals that are both nutritious and delicious. We will provide breakfast, lunch and one snack daily.
If you are called to pick up your child due to an illness, your child cannot return to school the following day. DCF requires the children to remain out of school for at least 24 hours.
If your child is not picked up by 6:30 pm, a late pick up fee of $10.00 per child for any part of 10 minutes will be added to your account.
Please be courteous to the staff and be on time.
Our discipline policy is to redirect and talk to the child after the incident has occurred. If we feel that the problem needs to be discussed with the parent, we will give the parent a call as well. If the child is consistent with the behavior and redirecting does not resolve the issue, we will first set up a conference with the parent. If this does not work, the child will be sent home for one day and will not be permitted to attend the field trip(s) for the week. If the behavior continues after these attempts, your child will not be permitted to return to camp. Any child who threatens bodily harm, has a violent temper, is aggressive, or that causes injury to another will be immediately dismissed.
Be ready for fun and excitement this summer. Download, print and fill out the enrollment package that is listed below.


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Center for Refugee Services helps resettle newcomers to the U.S.
From the moment the Center for Refugee Services opens in the morning, volunteer staff members are working on the problems of hundreds of clients. That sense of urgency starts at the top, with the center's executive director, Margaret Costantino.
If she's not in her office reviewing a case with a client, she's in the lobby or one of the classrooms, helping put a client's mind at ease.
For the past eight years, Costantino, a licensed professional counselor, has led the nonprofit, which helps hundreds of refugees each week with a range of services that include child care, education, employment, health care and housing.
The center offers refugees free programs, such as citizenship and English as a Second Language classes, individual and family counseling, maternity support, music classes and tutoring. She works with more than 30 volunteers at the center that's funded by donations and grants.
Many of their clients fled persecution, war and famine. Now, as they start new lives in America, the center offers them aid, as other agencies have for millions of immigrants through past decades.
Catholic Charities brings refugees to San Antonio through an agreement with the U.S. State Department. Since 2004, the resettlement program has helped more than 8,000 refugees from Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Nepal and Myanmar.
In 2006, after Costantino retired from the University of Texas at San Antonio, her doctoral work in counselor education and supervision led her to work with refugees. Working beside Community in Schools caseworkers she began working with refugee parents. She joined Ria Baker and three other women to set up an office on the Northwest Side in the heart of the refugee community.
On a recent afternoon, an Iraqi man explained his dilemma to Costantino, as children tussled over toys in a corner. Their voices were lost in the chatter of different languages, tapping of keyboard keys and a shrill trumpet that blared from a radio. Behind them, a volunteer helped a man with medical paperwork as the director outlined programs that could help the client and his family.
"I will not forget," she said.
"Thank you very much," the man replied.
He left with plastic bags bulging with food. The man and his family were still on her mind as she reviewed cases with Jean Sherrill, manager of the center's World Mosaic Market.
"I'm not just going to let them fall through the cracks," Costantino said.
Pat Ireland, a center supporter, said the help given by Costantino and the volunteers is vital to the refugees.
Before the center closed for the day, she met with Lal Maya Biswa, 32, from Bhutan. Biswa, holding a stack of documents, sought help in seeking citizenship . She lived in a refugee camp in Nepal for 20 years before immigrating to San Antonio.
Costantino helped Biswa correct entries on the paperwork under posters on her wall of the Dalai Lama and Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistan girl who spoke out for education for girls and received the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism.


Jesse's excerpt from Marc Maron's hilarious NYT article yesterday coincidentally comes just a day before I finished my interview with Kiya Babzani. As Marc's article alludes to, there are some seemingly strange beliefs today on how to get the perfect pair of jeans: wear them in the bathtub when you first get them home, don't wash them for six months, stick them in the oven (!) or freezer if they start to stink, run around in the ocean with them on, etc.
I asked Kiya if he could talk with us to see if some of these things are true. Kiya is the co-owner and founder of Self Edge, a very popular shop for jeans with locations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. On menswear forums, he's commonly considered an expert on denim, so I thought he'd be a great person to talk to about denim lore.
Derek Guy: Let's start with the most popular piece of advice: that one should not wash their jeans for at least the first six months of them being worn. Is this true?
Kiya Babzani: To my knowledge, that's something that was started by APC and/or Nudies. There are a couple of reasons why someone would recommend that you shouldn't wash your jeans. First, people getting into raw selvedge denim are usually looking for a certain type of look – one that has high contrast fades with dramatically defined lines around the top of the lap and behind the knees. This kind of fading is difficult to achieve with denim that has been done to death, which is what most brands use.
KB: I mean fabric that has been singed, mercerized, calendered, and sanforized. They've taken every bit of life out of the fabric, leaving something very smooth and even. With denim treated like this – yes, you'll normally need infrequent washings to get a very high-contrast fade at the end. But what most people don't talk about is how if you buy a pair of jeans made from unsanforized denim, you'll get these kinds of fades even if you washed your jeans every two weeks.
With unsanforized loomstate denim, the fabric is rigid and creases set in far faster. Additionally, due to the micro-hairs on the fabric (which are sometimes visible), the denim is more abrasive, which will allow you to get that very defined, high contrast look naturally, even with frequent washings.
DG: So denim that has been heavily treated – singed, mercerized, sanforized, etc. – will need longer periods of not being washed in order to get those high contrast fades, but unsanforized loomstate denim can achieve that with regular washings (every two weeks or so)?
KB: Yes, but add to this the fact that washing your jeans regularly is the sanitary thing to do, and doing so will make your jeans last longer. Cotton fibers become brittle with time and they need to be routinely "moisturized" (for lack of a better word). The longer you go without washing, the more prone your jeans are to crotch blowouts and "punch holes" behind the knees.
In the end, however, you never get fades on sanforized denim that are as interesting as you would on unsanforized denim. Of course, this is all very subjective, but in my opinion, unsanforized denim will always develop a more beautiful and interesting look.
DG: What about denim that has just been sanforized, but nothing else?
KB: Sanforization is the leading cause of what I explained above, with everything else being a minor addition.


Here's what we think will be the 5 web design trends in the coming months and what features will be the websites made of in the coming months.
One one hand, websites will be created more like applications and on the other hand it will force us to simplify the layout and elements of the site. The sidebars even on larger screens will be favored over fixed horizontal menu or pop-up menu, while the content takes up the whole width of the page.
Thanks to the enormous success of infographics, web design such as graphic design texts leave room for elements of visual communication that allow us to communicate the message immediately. Now the texts are becoming shorter, accompanied by high quality images, graphs, maps, icons and buttons. And to tell stories and communicate more complex messages comes the video, also used as a background.
Even Apple has abandoned the previous design trend with the introduction of iOS8 (although it has not yet changed the horrible menu of the website). The flat design trend should finally make websites with shadows and reliefs to be obsolete in favor of websites that are designed flat and clean.
The flat design pushes the designer to simplify the elements and graphics of the site. So then in the new sites are very simple and often monochromatic palette will be used to further complement the flat design concept.
Are the websites designed and developed from scratch dead? Of course not! But we can't deny that many important projects are using CMS and framework and will definitely continue to see this feature in the coming months. Consider for example the websites made with WordPress or those based on Bootstrap or Foundation and how the use of CMS and framework can help speed development time and optimize results.
These are some of the trends that we are following this year and it will remain the same for next few months until 2015 arrives in style.
Design can make or break websites these days. But the problem is: It's not always clear how to improve the design of web sites, mobile apps and connected devices. Is it just about making them cleaner, more streamlined, and less cluttered?
I'm purposely not calling these flat.Whether designers like it or not, iOS7′s design will force them to also create cleaner icons, lest their creations look like tacky dinosaurs in Apple's clean interface. Expect more minimalist icons that are easily recognizable across platforms and across the color wheel.
Speaking of the color wheel, unless you want your app to be invisible, it must be rendered in color. If you're like many people, your app dock these days is probably a sea of blue. Apple's new design is a boon for color theorists. While traditional app colors like blue suggest reliability, they also infer the status quo. Using bright colors can provide a visual indication that something new is in the works.
Instead of creating data visualizations in other software and uploading them onto a website, data-driven elements are part of the web page from the start. The result: interactive data visualizations that are also crawlable, meaning they can be found through a search engine. Tools like this continue the trend of making data part of the design process, not an afterthought.
Web fonts used to mean a handful of glorified print fonts that were simply digitized for the screen. That meant many of the design elements that made text beautiful in print failed to shine in pixels. The proliferation of web-safe fonts presents all kinds of new possibilities for making fonts look as attractive as the content it's expressing. Keep an eye out for more expressive fonts and larger font sizes.
Parallax scrolling—a trick used in animation when background images move more slowly than the foreground text—is tricky. But done well — like in the New York Times' "Snowfall" or The Verge's arcade piece—it creates an immersive experience, and punctuates a story with necessary breaks, transitions and visual cues.
Marketing is one of the ultimate determining factors in a website's success or failure. Social media and viral marketing are exploding in many different websites. Digg used to reign popular in this domain but has since conceded to rivals like Reddit. You can check practically any social community for sharing badges and will likely find a great solution. You can position these badges pinned to blog posts and articles anywhere in your layout. These are still used actively by readers and fans who want to share content quickly on places like Facebook, Twitter, or even LinkedIn.
User interface design is one of the most complex topics when building digital products. This rings especially true for website layouts, trying to match navigations and content styles for a successful user experience. These design trends aim to point designers in the right direction.I hope you may consider some of these ideas and think about how they do affect modern day websites.


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Since co-founding the company in Silicon Valley in 2005, David has led WANdisco on a course for rapid international expansion, opening offices in the UK, Japan and China. David spearheaded WANdisco to a hugely successful listing on London Stock Exchange (WAND:LSE) and shortly after the acquisition of AltoStor, which accelerated the development of WANdisco's first products for the Big Data market.
With over 20 years of executive experience in the software industry, David sits on a number of advisory and executive boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. A passionate advocate of entrepreneurship, he has established and successfully exited several highly successful silicon valley technology companies. David was the founder & CEO of Librados, an application integration software provider, and led the company's acquisition by NASDAQ listed NetManage, Inc. in 2005.
David is a frequent commentator on a range of business and technology issues, appearing regularly on Bloomberg and CNBC. David holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Huddersfield.
In 2017 David was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Sheffield Hallam University in recognition of him being a champion of British technology and a passionate advocate of entrepreneurship.
For more information on the EIR's skills, please view the full profile.


More and more people around the globe today choose to store their beautiful bike inside, even in the living room, to enjoy it as work of art. Cycling is their passion and they want to declare it to the world. But as not all cyclists are lucky enough to live in a mansion, space-saving solutions are very much welcomed.
VERTIK is the answer: not only it's a breath-taking floor lamp that illuminates the room with a radiant light and, thanks to its sleek contemporary design, stands out in all surroundings like a luminous sculpture.
But, above all, as a freestanding bike stand, it stores the bicycle upright, enhancing the frame design and… saving a lot of space. It's a radical innovation, 100% made in Italy, that turns a new light on your passion.
VERTIK lamp stem – shaped as our handlebar-shaped logo – is made of satin aluminium on one side and plexiglasson the other: two halves that mirror one another to create a silhouette that changes from every perspective.
Inside the shell, a LED string casts a dimmable neutral light in the room highlighting the beauty of the bicycle. The lamp is provided with a high-tech touch sensor switch: you tap on it to switch VERTIK on and off, while you can dimmer its luminosity by pressing the sensor with your finger. When the floor lamp is switched on, a luminous blue dot points out the sensor.
VERTIK dome-shaped base has a groove in the middle, designed to fit all kinds of wheels, from track bikes' to MTB's.
A spheric cap embellishes the stem's junction, enhancing the lamp's flexuous lines.
The base, made of dark silver hand-varnished rigid polyurethane, sits on a revolving metal apparatus: it allows to direct the lampshade according to your needs. And it makes it easier to park the bike, you just turn it around to accomodate the wheel and then turn it back in the right position.
Once the back wheel is placed in the base groove, you just lift your bike upright and figure out the correct position for the provided leather covered metal pin that has to support the fork. Then you just screw it in the suitable threaded hole once for all… that is, unless you decide to change your bike, of course!
Before screwing the pin in the convenient threaded hole, you tuck it in the leather fork strap, provided with several black automatic buttons. You just wrap the strap around the fork and close the button. Thanks to its adjustable length, it securely blocks all kind of bicycles.
VERTIK doesn't need any assembly: it's delivered already mounted, ready to be switched on.


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Prime Day 2019: Everything You Need to Know
Prime Day is (probably) upon us. Ahead of Amazon's annual Black Friday-like event, here's what you need to know to snag the best Prime Day deals.
Image credit: Beata Zawrzel | NurPhoto | Getty Images
Grant Brunner
This story originally appeared on PCMag
Are you ready, deal hunters? No need to wait until Black Friday to save big; Amazon appears poised to once again hold its annual Prime Day this summer.
What Day Is Prime Day?
The company has not yet confirmed when Prime Day 2019 will be held, but in the last two years, the discount extravaganza has expanded into a two-day opportunity to give your credit card a workout.
Prime Day 2018 started on Monday, July 16 at noon PT / 3 p.m. ET and lasted 36 hours. The year before that, it began at 9 p.m. ET on Monday, July 10, and ended at 3 a.m. ET on Wednesday, July 12. So we can probably expect something similar for Prime Day 2019.
This being Prime Day, you'll need to be a Prime member to get the best bargains. If you're not, it's free to join for 30 days, after which it's $119 per year.
What Will Be on Sale?
One sure bet for Prime Day savings are discounts on the devices that Amazon itself produces. Look for deals on Echo devices, Fire tablets, Kindle e-readers, Fire TV media streamers and other smart home gadgets.
Deals will likely start before Prime Day. Last year, in the two weeks leading up to Prime Day, Amazon offered discounts on Amazon devices, AmazonBasics gadgets, Kindle Unlimited and more. So keep an eye on the site as July kicks off.
In 2018, people purchased more than 1 million smart home devices on Prime Day, Amazon said. But shoppers also snapped up more than 300,000 Instant Pots and 150,000 LifeStraw Personal Water Filters, not to mention millions of pencils and pens ahead of back-to-school season.
Here at PCMag, we'll be keeping an eye out for the best deals on laptops, desktops, TVs, networking equipment, smart home gadgets and more.
How to Shop on Prime Day
Naturally, you can log on to Amazon.com via your laptop, but here are some options to consider, too.
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Amazon app: If you'll be out and about on Prime Day, download Amazon's mobile apps, log in, and you'll be ready to shop wherever you are.
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Whole Foods: In 2018, Prime members got $10 on Amazon for Prime Day when they shopped in Whole Foods Market. There were also Visa cashback and discounts on select items in-store.
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1861-1935 Walter Burley Griffin November 24, 1876?CFebruary 11, 1937) was a US architect and landscape architect, who is best known for his role in designing Canberra, Australia's capital city. He has also been credited with the development of the L-shaped floor plan, the carport and the first use of reinforced concrete. Influenced by the Chicago-based Prairie School, Griffin went on to develop a unique modern style. For much of his career Griffin worked in partnership with his wife Marion Mahony Griffin. In the 28 years of their architectural partnership, the Griffins designed over 350 building, landscape and urban-design projects as well as designing construction materials, interiors, furniture and other household items.


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Collection - Ao Vivo 10 Anos é o terceiro álbum ao vivo e sétimo trabalho musical da cantora Eyshila, lançado em 2006 pela gravadora MK Music. O álbum consiste em uma releitura dos maiores sucessos da cantora regravados com novos arranjos, ganhando versão em CD e DVD, com produção artística de Marina de Oliveira.

O registro ao vivo foi realizado na Riosampa (Nova Iguaçu, RJ).

O projeto contou com a participação de Fernanda Brum na faixa "Vem Encher-me", do saxofonista Josué Lopes na faixa "Vou Glorificar" e do compositor Klênio na faixa "O Senhor é Bom".

Faixas
 Chuva de Poder
 Tira-me do Vale
 Fala Comigo
 Eu Quero Ser Santo
 Deus Proverá
 Salmo 1
 Vou Glorificar
 Na Casa de Deus
 Posso Clamar
 Terremoto
 Senhor, Eu Te Amo
 Vem Encher-me
 O Senhor é Bom
 Vontade de Adorar

Ver também
 DVD Collection 10 anos - ao vivo

Álbuns de Eyshila
Álbuns lançados pela MK Music
Álbuns ao vivo de 2006
Álbuns em língua portuguesa
Álbuns produzidos por Rogério Vieira


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Cycle of Insurgency: How the US military is expected to put down an insurrection
by Justin King • August 25, 2016
Washington, DC (TFC) – One of the overriding questions when discussing an insurgency within the United States has always been the debate over how the military would respond. Those who hope for the military to break ranks and join the resistance will be disappointed. Those who would believe the military will employ surgical strikes to remove dissidents through technology will be surprised. The American people don't have to guess how the US military would respond any longer. Two respected academics chose to war game a scenario using the United States Operating Concept (2010) as a guide.
The first thing to understand about an insurrection is that it isn't terrorism. The terms are often used interchangeably by the media, but there is a significant difference.
"insurgency is a movement – a political effort with a specific aim. This sets it apart from both guerrilla warfare and terrorism, as they are both methods available to pursue the goals of the political movement."
As pointed out throughout this series, insurgencies that matured through the cycle of insurgency win. Always. There is a reason for this. Insurgencies, though typically weaker militarily, have great advantages over their adversaries. One of the greatest small unit commanders and unconventional warfare experts in modern times, Richard Marcinko, described three things needed to win in combat: speed, surprise, and violence of action. When transferred to the strategic and operational levels, the insurgency possesses these attributes. The greatest advantages of the insurgency are:
Mobility: The refusal to stay in a static location negates technologically advanced weapons systems.
Initiative: The insurgency is able to choose the time and place of most of the battles they fight.
Surprise: Because the insurgents have the ability to choose the time and place of the fight, they can select moments when the opposition is weakest.
Camouflage: The insurgent does not wear a uniform. As the father of modern insurgency, Michael Collins, said: "Our uniform will be that of the man on the street and the peasant in the field." This makes distinguishing between friend and foe difficult for the opposition.
Unpredictability: A force that is unpredictable on a battlefield is dangerous. Field commanders train to fight conventional wars, in which both sides attempt to take and hold territory, the insurgent seeks destabilization of the opposition's government, not land. Tactics designed to defeat a conventional army are useless against an enemy that doesn't seek to hold territory. The value of remaining unpredictable has created an adage in military circles: "Professional soldiers are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs." The implied meaning is that the amateur is more dangerous.
Factional divides: In a conventional military setting, a force should function like a well-oiled machine and have clear command and control. Insurgencies typically operate with loose alliances between factions who follow a particular commander. Sometimes they work together, sometimes they don't. Just when the opposition gains a feel for the tactics and strategy of an insurgent commander, a new one arises. This leads to unpredictable actions being taken by the various factions, which increases their overall effectiveness.
Civilian sympathies: Insurgencies typically maintain a great deal of support from the local populace, which means the opposition can't move without information detailing those moves reaching the insurgents. In a conventional conflict, the lines of battle hinder civilians from collecting intelligence and passing it to the opposing force. It can be done, but it is difficult. Insurgencies have no front lines.
Insurgencies maintain several other key advantages, but they are more nuanced and are beyond the scope of this article.
The US Army has adopted a doctrine of "Full Spectrum Operations". Loosely it means the combination of offensive, defensive, and either stability operations overseas or civil support operations on U.S. soil. It's a concept developed for conventional wars, with little application in unconventional conflicts. To produce a desired outcome (a US military win), the scenario has to be carefully crafted. The academics who published Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A "Vision" of the Future were able to accomplish that. The scenario they present is:
The Great Recession of the early twenty-first century lasts far longer than anyone anticipated. After a change in control of the White House and Congress in 2012, the governing party cuts off all funding that had been dedicated to boosting the economy or toward relief. The United States economy has flatlined, much like Japan's in the 1990s, for the better part of a decade. By 2016, the economy shows signs of reawakening, but the middle and lower-middle classes have yet to experience much in the way of job growth or pay raises. Unemployment continues to hover perilously close to double digits, small businesses cannot meet bankers' terms to borrow money, and taxes on the middle class remain relatively high. A high-profile and vocal minority has directed the public's fear and frustration at nonwhites and immigrants. After almost ten years of race-baiting and immigrant-bashing by right-wing demagogues, nearly one in five Americans reports being vehemently opposed to immigration, legal or illegal, and even U.S.-born nonwhites have become occasional targets for mobs of angry whites.
In May 2016 an extremist militia motivated by the goals of the "tea party" movement takes over the government of Darlington, South Carolina, occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council, and placing the mayor under house arrest. Activists remove the chief of police and either disarm local police and county sheriff departments or discourage them from interfering. In truth, this is hardly necessary. Many law enforcement officials already are sympathetic to the tea party's agenda, know many of the people involved, and have made clear they will not challenge the takeover. The militia members are organized and have a relatively well thought-out plan of action.
With Darlington under their control, militia members quickly move beyond the city limits to establish "check points" – in reality, something more like choke points — on major transportation lines. Traffic on I-95, the East Coast's main north-south artery; I-20; and commercial and passenger rail lines are stopped and searched, allegedly for "illegal aliens." Citizens who complain are immediately detained. Activists also collect "tolls" from drivers, ostensibly to maintain public schools and various city and county programs, but evidence suggests the money is actually going toward quickly increasing stores of heavy weapons and ammunition. They also take over the town web site and use social media sites to get their message out unrestricted.
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The scenario continues with descriptions of the activities of politicians prior to the military being involved, but the actions of the "insurgent" already guarantee a US military victory. In the presented scenario, the insurgents surrender every single advantage they have. They attempt to hold territory, losing the advantages of mobility, surprise, initiative, and unpredictability. Because they are operating openly and in a defined area, they have lost the advantage of camouflage. The battle lines established by the insurgents themselves at the checkpoints negate the benefits of civilian sympathy. They have a unified command structure that reduces unpredictability.
In the scenario, DOD responds to this threat by establishing a "show of force" to demoralize the insurgents. They then mount offensive operations by surprise to take down the checkpoints. Towards the end of the campaign, the military seizes power and radio stations and so on. It then begins mopping up operations once the civilians of Darlington have fled.
When faced with the realities of a modern insurgency, this response is completely fictional. There can be no "show of force" to insurgents who don't take and hold territory. Because the insurgency would operate in a loosely defined area, it would be the US military setting up checkpoints (as in Iraq) that would be ambushed, not the insurgents. Wise insurgents would use mobile communications to spread their message, not a static radio station. The power stations would have been destroyed to foster a belief in the civilian populace that the government can't even keep the lights on, much less defeat the insurgency. The civilians that conveniently remove themselves from the battlefield in the scenario will be in the line of fire during an insurgency because there is no front line. There is nowhere to evacuate to.
The academics responsible for this scenario specifically created a simple set of conditions that allowed them to explore the logistical aspects of the doctrine on US soil, without considering the real world applications. The US counterinsurgency doctrine is fundamentally flawed. Even when practiced in a foreign country, away from the intense criticism of the US media and populace, it failed to pacify Iraq or Afghanistan. In the US, the doctrine is worthless.
In the joint publication on counterinsurgency doctrine used by all branches, even before the table of contents, it spells out the expected failure. On page iii it states:
"US counterinsurgency efforts should provide incentives to the host-nation government to undertake reforms that address the root causes of the insurgency."
In a US-based insurgency, the United States is the "host-nation government". While the above scenario makes for a fun read, current US doctrine is to meet the demands of domestic insurgents, while protecting as much of its credibility as possible.
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You've heard the saying "pick somebody's brain" . . .
now it's your turn to do it.
Step #1: Remove the leaves from the cauliflower and carefully cut out most of the stem, leaving the outside intact. This will create a hollow area in the middle. Use toothpicks to help hold the outside together if you need to.
Step #2: Using a toothpick or a tiny paint brush dipped in the salsa, "draw" veins by following some of the natural lines in the cauliflower.
Step #3: Pour salsa into a shallow bowl or pan until the bowl is nearly full.
Step #4: Set the cauliflower in the middle of the salsa with the hollow side facing up.
Step #5: Fill the hollowed-out area of the cauliflower with the guacamole dip.
Step #6: Serve with chips.
It'll tease your taste buds.


All elephants are herbivores and can spend 16 hours a day eating Elephants feed mainly on roots, grass, leaves, fruit and bark, As they digest only about 40% of what they eat, they need to consume large volumes of food. Elephants in the wild are most active at dusk and dawn, and typically sleep at night (accumulating only about four hours a night, either while standing or lying down). Younger elephants can consume approximately 80 – 90 kg a day, however as they get bigger they can consume as much as 150 kg a day.
Appropriate levels of Vitamin E are essential to muscle function in elephants. Low Vitamin E can lead to muscle weakness, can affect reproduction and other medical related issues. It is generally considered that elephants should have Vitamin E levels in the blood of around 0.5 -1 ug/ml. Zinc supplements may be needed to ensure normal immune function and biotin supplements have been shown to improve foot health.
Elephants in captivity must be offered a balanced diet composed of an appropriate variety of food items provided in quantities that are sufficient to maintain appropriate body condition.
Grass hay with an Acid Detergent Fibre content of > 30% (to avoid colic) should be provided to elephants and can be mixed with legume hays.
All hay feed should be of high quality, properly dried and regularly assessed for nutritional content. Hays that are dusty, mouldy, or infested with poisonous plants or insects, or other dangerous substances should never be used.
Concentrated pellets provide a nutritionally complete diet and can be offered in addition to hay.
Pellets should be high in fibre and low in starch.
Other food items like bamboo, banana and cocos palm and an array of fresh fruit and vegetables such as pineapples, melons, bananas can be provided.
Providing browse for elephants increases foraging time, can add important nutritional benefits, and can promote dental health. Supplementation of elephant diet with vitamin E is recommended to avoid problems with reproduction, anaemia and muscle disease among others.
Browse, consisting of foliage from shrubs and trees, is eaten in the wild and should be provided in captivity as it keeps elephants busy for hours as they strip off the bark, eat the leaves and chew on the wood. Logs and branches should be provided whenever possible, but should be from species "approved" for elephant consumption. Altering the way in which food is presented is one of the most effective ways to keep elephants busy. This can involve varying feeding times, offering different portion sizes and scattering different food items around the enclosure. The latter encourages elephants to move around and explore their surroundings, and is similar to foraging in the wild. Simulating browsing from trees using hay nets or foliage suspended above the elephant's head, are useful ways to keep animals happy. To feed from these nets, the elephants must concentrate on manoeuvring their trunks (burning energy and sharpening senses), and are only able to pull down small portions at a time.


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2017 (53rd) BaekSang Arts Awards
1 Profile
2 Nominees and Winners (Movies)
2.1 Grand Prize (Daesang)
2.2 Best Film
2.3 Best Director
2.4 Best Screenplay
2.5 Best Actor
2.6 Best Actress
2.7 Best Supporting Actor
2.8 Best Supporting Actress
2.9 Best New Director
2.10 Best New Actor
2.11 Best New Actress
2.12 Most Popular Actor
2.13 Most Popular Actress
3 Nominees and Winners (TV Dramas)
3.2 Best Drama
3.7 Best New Actor
3.8 Best New Actress
3.9 Most Popular Actor
3.11 Best Male Entertainer
3.12 Best Female Entertainer
3.13 Best Variety Show
3.14 Best Educational Show
3.15 Instyle Best Style
3.16 Lifetime Achievement Award
Event: BaekSang Arts Awards
Korean 백상예술대상
Edition: 53rd
Presented By: IS PLUS Corp.
Location: Seoul, Korea
Nominees and Winners (Movies)
Grand Prize (Daesang)
Winner: Park Chan-Wook ("The Handmaiden")
Winner: "The Wailing"
"The Wailing"
"The Age of Shadows"
"Train To Busan"
"The Handmaiden"
"Asura: The City of Madness"
Winner: Kim Jee-Woon ("The Age of Shadows")
Kim Sung-Su ("Asura: The City of Madness")
Kim Jee-Woon ("The Age of Shadows")
Na Hong-Jin ("The Wailing")
Park Chan-Wook ("The Handmaiden")
Hong Sang-Soo ("On the Beach at Night Alone")
Winner: Yoon Ga-Eun ("The World of Us")
Lee Ji-Min & Park Jong-Dae ("The Age of Shadows")
Park Chan-Wook & Jung Seo-Kyoung ("The Handmaiden")
Yoon Ga-Eun ("The World of Us")
Winner: Song Kang-Ho ("The Age of Shadows")
Kwak Do-Won ("The Wailing")
Song Kang-Ho ("The Age of Shadows")
Yu Hae-Jin ("Luck-Key")
Lee Byung-Hun ("Master")
Ha Jung-Woo ("Tunnel")
Winner: Son Ye-Jin ("The Last Princess")
Kim Min-Hee ("The Handmaiden")
Kim Hye-Soo ("Familyhood")
Son Ye-Jin ("The Last Princess")
Youn Yuh-Jung ("The Bacchus Lady")
Han Ye-Ri ("Worst Woman")
Winner: Kim Eui-Sung ("Train To Busan")
Kim Eui-Sung ("Train To Busan")
Ma Dong-Seok ("Train To Busan")
Bae Sung-Woo ("The King")
Um Tae-Goo ("The Age of Shadows")
Cho Jin-Woong ("The Handmaiden")
Winner: Kim So-Jin ("The King")
Kim So-Jin ("The King")
Ra Mi-Ran ("The Last Princess")
Bae Doo-Na ("Tunnel")
Chun Woo-Hee ("The Wailing")
Han Ji-Min ("The Age of Shadows")
Best New Director
Winner: Yeon Sang-Ho ("Train To Busan")
Yeon Sang-Ho ("Train To Busan")
Lee Yo-Sub ("The Queen of Crime")
Lee Joo-Young ("A Single Rider")
Lee Hyun-Ju ("Our Love Story")
Best New Actor
Winner: Ryoo Joon-Yeol ("The King")
Do Kyung-Soo ("My Annoying Brother")
Ryoo Joon-Yeol ("The King")
Woo Do-Hwan ("Master")
Ji Chang-Wook ("Fabricated City")
Han Jae-Young ("New Trial")
Best New Actress
Winner: Lee Sang-Hee ("Our Love Story")
Kim Tae-Ri ("The Handmaiden")
Kim Hwan-Hee ("The Wailing")
Lim Yoon-A ("Confidential Assignment")
Lee Sang-Hee ("Our Love Story")
Choi Soo-In ("Our Love Story")
Most Popular Actor
Winner: Do Kyung-Soo ("My Annoying Brother")
Jin Young ("A Stray Goat")
Xiumin ("Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River")
Hyun-Bin ("Confidential Assignment")
Kim Nam-Gil ("Pandora")
Zo In-Sung ("The King")
Kang Ha-Neul ("New Trial")
Kim Woo-Bin ("Master")
Jung Woo ("New Trial")
Jung Woo-Sung ("The King")
Hwang Jung-Min ("The Wailing")
Most Popular Actress
Winner: Lim Yoon-A ("Confidential Assignment")
Ahn So-Hee ("A Single Rider")
Go Ara ("Phantom Detective")
Kim Hae-Sook ("The Handmaiden")
Seo Yea-Ji ("Another Way")
Soo-Ae ("Run-Off")
Shim Eun-Kyung ("Queen of Walking")
Uhm Ji-Won ("Missing")
Jung Yu-Mi ("Train To Busan")
Nominees and Winners (TV Dramas)
Winner: Kim Eun-Sook ("Guardian: The Lonely and Great God")
Winner: "Dear My Friends" (tvN)
"W" (MBC)
"Love in the Moonlight" (KBS2)
"Dr. Romantic" (SBS)
"Guardian: The Lonely and Great God" (tvN)
"Dear My Friends" (tvN)
Winner: Yu In-Sik ("Dr. Romantic")
Song Hyun-Wook ("Another Miss Oh")
Yu In-Sik ("Dr. Romantic")
Lee Eung-Bok ("Guardian: The Lonely and Great God")
Jung Dae-Yoon ("W")
Hong Jong-Chan ("Dear My Friends")
Winner: No Hee-Kyung ("Dear My Friends")
Kang Eun-Kyung ("Dr. Romantic")
Kim Eun-Sook ("Guardian: The Lonely and Great God")
No Hee-Kyung ("Dear My Friends")
Park Hae-Young ("Another Miss Oh")
Song Jae-Jung ("W")
Winner: Gong Yoo ("Guardian: The Lonely and Great God")
Gong Yoo ("Guardian: The Lonely and Great God")
Namkoong Min ("Good Manager")
Park Bo-Gum ("Love in the Moonlight")
Cho Jung-Seok ("Jealousy Incarnate")
Han Suk-Kyu ("Dr. Romantic")
Winner: Seo Hyun-Jin ("Another Miss Oh")
Kim Go-Eun ("Guardian: The Lonely and Great God")
Kim Ha-Neul ("On the Way to the Airport")
Park Bo-Young ("Strong Girl Bong-Soon")
Park Shin-Hye ("Doctors")
Seo Hyun-Jin ("Another Miss Oh")
Winner: Kim Min-Suk ("Doctors")
Gong Myung ("Drinking Solo")
Kim Min-Suk ("Doctors")
Ji Soo ("Strong Girl Bong-Soon")
Jin Young ("Love in the Moonlight")
Kim Min-Jae ("Dr. Romantic")
Winner: Lee Se-Young ("The Gentlemen of Wolgyesu Tailor Shop")
Kang Han-Na ("Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo")
Gong Seung-Yeon ("The Master of Revenge")
Nana ("The Good Wife")
Minah ("Beautiful Gong Shim")
Lee Se-Young ("The Gentlemen of Wolgyesu Tailor Shop")
Winner: Park Bo-Gum ("Love in the Moonlight")
Eric ("Another Miss Oh")
Park Hyung-Sik ("Strong Girl Bong-Soon")
Baekhyun ("Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo")
Lee Joon-Gi ("Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo")
Yook Sung-Jae ("Guardian: The Lonely and Great God")
Seo In-Guk ("Shopping King Louis")
Lee Dong-Wook ("Guardian: The Lonely and Great God")
Nam Joo-Hyuk ("Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-Joo")
Lee Min-Ho ("The Legend of the Blue Sea")
Ha Seok-Jin ("Drinking Solo")
Lee Jong-Suk ("W")
Ji Sung ("Defendant")
Yoon Kye-Sang ("The Good Wife")
Jung Kyoung-Ho ("Missing Nine")
Cho Jin-Woong ("Entourage")
Winner: Kim You-Jung ("Love in the Moonlight")
Kim You-Jung ("Love in the Moonlight")
Han Hyo-Joo ("W")
Kong Hyo-Jin ("Jealousy Incarnate")
Nam Ji-Hyun ("Shopping King Louis")
Park Hye-Soo ("Hello, My Twenties!")
Yoo In-Na ("Guardian: The Lonely and Great God")
Lee Young-Ae ("Saimdang, Memoir of Colors")
IU ("Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo")
Jeon Do-Yeon ("The Good Wife")
Gianna Jun ("The Legend of the Blue Sea")
Best Male Entertainer
Winner: Yang Se-Hyung "Mobidic - Yang Se-Hyung's Short-terview" (SBS)
Best Female Entertainer
Winner: Park Na-Rae "I Live Alone" (MBC)
Best Variety Show
Winner: "Mom's Diary - My Ugly Duckling" (SBS)
Best Educational Show
Winner: "Ssulzun" (JTBC)
Instyle Best Style
Winner: Kim Ha-Neul
Award Winner: Kim Young-Ae
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3.17.15: The Penn Fusion '01G NPL team, U13, and the Penn Fusion '00G ECNL team, U14, were 2015 Jefferson Cup Tournament Finalists. The U13 NPL team opened up play with 2-0 and 3-0 wins over their opponents on Saturday and a closely fought 2-1 match vs NPL foe Boston Breakers on Sunday morning. The girls played very well but lost 2-1 to PDA Shore in the Championship. The U14 ECNL team, playing in the second division, also opened up strong with 4-1 and 3-0 wins on Saturday followed by a 1-0 win on Sunday before losing 0-2 in the Championship game. The teams were joined at the Jefferson Cup by the Penn Fusion '01G Pre-ECNL team and the U14 NPL team who also had great weekends.


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An eagle's nest built against a hillside, offering one of the finest panoramic sea views in the South of France. This architecturally designed villa oozes class and sophistication, cleverly moulded from both rough stone and polished glass, the villa feels as if it's sculpted from the rock itself.
The villa boasts an impressive interior sculpted staircase which takes you to all levels; alternatively, take the lift with access to all levels. Perfect for sundowners, the lush roof-garden has the most impressive views. Within the villa, the spaces are light-filled and extravagant, designed for calm contemplation or, equally, for impressive entertaining. And, always, everywhere, those spectacular views are around every corner!!


Mrs. Charles Cowman Devotional - Streams in the Desert - Devotional for March 12.
"Not much earth" (Matt. 13:5).
Shallow! It would seem from the teaching of this parable that we have something to do with the soil. The fruitful seed fell into "good and honest hearts." I suppose the shallow people are the soil without much earth--those who have no real purpose, are moved by a tender appeal, a good sermon, a pathetic melody, and at first it looks as if they would amount to something; but not much earth--no depth, no deep, honest purpose, no earnest desire to know duty in order to do it. Let us look after the soil of our hearts.