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Dr. Michael Wolfe graduated from University of Washington School of Medicine in 1998.
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As an ear, nose & throat specialist, otolaryngologist Dr. Michael Wolfe offers medical and surgical care for patients suffering from complications, diseases and disorders of the head and neck – including the ears, nose and throat. Dr. Wolfe may treat a variety of disorders that affect upper-airway breathing, speech, swallowing, and balance and hearing, among other functions. Common conditions treated by an otolaryngologist may include post-nasal drip, asthma, and ear infections.
Abnormalities of the crucial areas of the nervous system can sometimes cause neurological complications. Dr. Michael Wolfe addresses these conditions by conducting tests, scans and arriving at a diagnosis. The diagnosis is needed to come up with a treatment plan for a patient, which can include medication management, special therapies, and lifestyle changes.
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The risks associated with ASIC solutions increase in magnitude with the move to smaller process geometries. This coupled with the increase in design complexity is compelling companies to look for viable technology options that offer low unit and total costs, high-level of system integration, wide selection of IP, design flexibility with faster time to market, and no/minimal incremental design or design tool investment. Such alternatives must also avoid the pitfalls of ASICs that include high NRE and re-spin expenses, slow turn around times, and complexity of the design environment and ecosystem, and hidden costs of conversion, verification and development.
This article will compare two such alternatives — (customer-specific) FPGAs and Structured ASICs. Structured ASIC product offerings tend to be similar to FPGAs in that they have pre-defined combinations of gates, memory and I/Os. However, their architectures tend to trade off flexibility in favor of reduced area in order to achieve their cost targets. Yet, in reality the vast majority of designs that are expected to go into volume production are initially prototyped in an FPGA. Ultimately, the decision becomes a risk-reward evaluation of the migration path from an FPGA to Structured ASIC conversion or to the new class of customer-specific FPGAs that offer a conversion-free path to high volume production devices priced below Structured ASICs.
On the surface, it seems economical to migrate to an ASIC once a design is finalized. However, conversions are not as seamless as promised by Structured ASIC vendors. In fact, it is fraught with risks and hidden costs of conversion.
The first consideration faced by designers is mapping the final design to the target architecture,. This revolves around the mapping of the logic, I/O and memory resources from an FPGA to a Structured ASIC. FPGAs generally tend to have columnar memory architectures and offer an efficient means to form larger memory structures when required. On the other hand, the use of distributed memory blocks in some Structured ASIC architectures can pose problems when large contiguous blocks are required by design. The need to join together blocks that are physically separated to form a larger block that is logically monolithic can increase congestion in routing. This not only can adversely impact the access times of those memory structures, it may also leave fewer routing resources available for logic thus impacting design performance.
Another challenge inherent with Structured ASIC conversions has to do with pad limitations, especially as process nodes shrink. To get an adequate number of pads, Structured ASIC vendors sometimes have to grow their die size and increase the effective cost to end customers. This problem is compounded by the fact that Structured ASIC I/Os tend not to be as flexible as FPGA I/Os. To keep I/O structures small and less area intensive, Structured ASIC vendors have to make some difficult choices about what standards they want to address and how. For designs requiring large buses of input and output I/Os (e.g., SSTL2 buses for SDRAM or HSTL buses for certain telecom protocols), the limitations in I/O designs can make it difficult to achieve pin compatibility in the FPGA to ASIC conversion. This scenario often results in either a board re-spin or a migration to a larger device – both unpalatable options. Apart from memory and I/Os, there are a whole host of issues such as difficulties with mapping other clocking and I/O structures such as PLLs and high-speed transceivers that designers should consider while re-targeting their FPGA designs to Structured ASICs.
High-end FPGA families provide fully featured platforms of embedded hard IP such as MGTs (Multi-Giga Bit Transceivers) and Ethernet MAC Cores. FPGA vendors offer a rich portfolio of soft IP that are qualified for their FPGA architectures and need to be qualified for the target ASIC. With Structured ASIC conversions, designers must consider IP availability, design conversion and the royalty associated with the use of the IP in the targeted Structured ASIC devices. Even when suitable IP is available, it may not be silicon-proven in a particular Structured ASIC vendor's proprietary architecture, thus exposing companies to unnecessary risks.
Apart from the actual design conversion, consider the daunting task of design verification and qualification. Once the design has been remapped to a Structured ASIC, it must be verified and debugged to ensure that it complies with the original specification. This involves significant amounts of time and valuable resources developing test benches or test vectors and working with Structured ASIC vendors' engineering teams to ensure functional verification. In addition, once prototypes are delivered, the customer has to redesign and qualify the system with the prototypes delivered by the Structured ASIC vendor before fully qualifying the design for production. Structured ASIC customers must also maintain a suite of expensive EDA tools to ensure compliance with their vendor's handoff format requirements, often complicated by mismatch of tool versions between the end customer and Structured ASIC vendor. These issues significantly increase the costs in terms of cycle time, design tools and manpower that are better utilized on more value-added tasks.
Customer-specific FPGAs offer a viable alternative to Structured ASIC conversions. They are identical in functionality and timing to the standard FPGAs on which a design is prototyped – the only difference being that the latter are completely programmable while the former are not. As a result, memory mapping and performance achieved is identical to that achieved in a standard FPGA. The one-to-one mapping between such customer-specific FPGAs and standard FPGAs extends over Look-Up-Tables, Memory, I/Os, IP and all features in the Standard FPGA to overcome the problems associated with design conversions from FPGAs to Structured ASICs. Also, there is no additional IP royalty, design tools or engineering costs associated with the move to volume production.
Time to market is even more important in the age of shrinking geometries and shorter product life cycles. Since Structured ASIC vendors only customize the top few mask layers in the fabrication phase, they are able to offer compressed lead times when compared to Standard Cell ASICs. With customer-specific FPGAs, the prototype fabrication/evaluation phase of a Structured ASIC is completely eliminated and companies can go directly to production.
Once a design has been frozen, the cycle time required to bring the design to market with a Structured ASIC has three phases. The first is the elapsed time from RTL (or design handoff) to prototype sample delivery. Typically, this takes from four to eight weeks depending on the design complexity, vendor lead times, etc. This is followed by the prototype qualification phase, a very important and often overlooked part of the time-to-market claim.
Once a Structured ASIC vendor delivers prototype samples, the end customer has to perform detailed verification/qualification of the prototypes to ensure that the silicon meets the original design specifications prior to volume production. This can vary from one to three months accounting for time to discover and fix any problems and also qualify the end system with the prototypes. Occasionally, re-spins may be required adding to cost and time to market.
Once the design is qualified and prototypes approved, the vendor may take an additional 12 to 14 weeks for delivering production parts. Overall, the time to volume production can take anywhere in excess of 20 weeks not accounting for any major bug fixes or re-spins. Since it is a custom solution, even a minor re-spin or a bug can set back schedules by an equal amount which can prove very costly in the long run. Studies show that a four-week delay in product rollout results in a 14 percent loss of market share for customers.1 See Figure 1.
One solution to mitigate this problem is to use standard FPGAs for prototyping and seamlessly move to customer-specific FPGAs in production without any additional steps in between. With standard FPGAs, time to market is almost instantaneous. The advantage of customer-specific FPGAs, such as EasyPath™ FPGAs from Xilinx, is that companies can go directly from design freeze to volume production in eight weeks. Since such FPGAs are identical to the corresponding FPGA prototypes, the entire prototype evaluation cycle is eliminated. Companies can get production parts in significantly less time than it takes Structured ASIC vendors to provide prototype silicon. Shorter lead times not only mean faster time to market, they also allow design teams to adjust the design freeze milestone as needed to accommodate the demands of a fast-changing marketplace.
The path to lower cost for Structured ASICs comes about primarily as a result of customizing fewer mask layers per design. For example, a typical 0.18-micron Standard Cell design uses six customized metal layers (and the vias in between) and a 0.13-micron design uses eight metal layers (and the vias in between). Structured ASIC vendors use the top few (typically two to four) metal layers only. The base modules are all buried in the lower layers with their ports coming up to the programmable layers. During the fabrication phase, the connections between various ports are made to realize the requisite logic. This approach has both cost and architectural implications.
Structured ASICs have fewer customized top layers which imply that companies only pay for what they use and get NREs that are lower than corresponding Standard Cell ASICs. On the other hand, Structured ASIC architectures tend to have a fair amount of overhead burden that reduces the amount of routing resources available for a particular design. As a result, the final routed densities, measured in KGates/mm2 (that directly determines the silicon real estate customers pay for), tend to be significantly lower than Standard Cell architectures. The number of customizable mask layers (metal and vias included) a vendor uses, to a large extent, is proportional to the magnitude of routed gate densities that are achievable. However, a higher density implies a higher NRE and vice versa.
Figure 2 shows the comparative economics of standard cell ASICs, structured ASICs, standard FPGAs, and customer-specific FPGAs. FPGAs have traditionally offered a zero-NRE, low-upfront cost solution. Standard cell ASICs have a high NRE and a relatively low unit cost, but with the overhead discussed earlier. Structured ASICs promise to lower the NRE at a unit cost that is higher than that of standard cell ASICs, but lower than that of standard FPGAs. With the new class of customer-specific EasyPath FPGAs from Xilinx, companies now enjoy unit prices as well as NREs that are lower than Structured ASICs. Customer-specific FPGAs provide the lowest total cost solution for volume production through a combination of factors — industry's lowest NRE charges (starting at $75K), low-cost design tools and IP, prices below structured ASICs, fastest times to production and a conversion-free path to implementation.
One of the major advantages of FPGAs over ASICs is the flexibility to make design changes in case of a specification change or design error. Traditionally, designers have had to forgo this advantage as they move from FPGAs to an inflexible custom solution like standard cell or structured ASICs.
However, recent developments by Xilinx in customer-specific FPGAs now preserve some of the flexibility of the FPGA while also maintaining a low cost approach.
Xilinx Spartan-3™and Virtex-4™ EasyPath FPGAs enable companies to buy a custom device that supports two applications or two variations of the same design. For example, companies can use one bit-stream to perform system diagnostics on the entire system and the other to load the second application-specific bit-stream. In addition, designers can change LUTs and I/Os even after these devices have been deployed in the field. For instance, a line card in a router might need to have the drive strength (and slew rate) adjusted a notch or two depending on what load it encounters. Companies can implement a range of drive strengths that are available for certain I/Os. This new level of customer-specific flexibility offers a unique blend of FPGA-like features at (or below) ASIC-like prices.
Structured ASIC vendors can roughly be grouped into two camps based on their ability to address IP-centric designs. Some vendors have a wide portfolio of embedded IP, while other companies can only address generic designs. Most vendors typically offer a choice of 8 to 15 devices across a couple of product families. Generic designs are those that require nothing more than gates, memory and I/Os. While some Structured ASIC vendors focus exclusively on this segment, almost all vendors have product families at 0.18-micron and 0.13-micron that can address these needs. This class of designs tends to be very price driven due to increased competition. For designs that require a lot of IP such as PowerPC processors, DSP or Ethernet MACs, the translation to a Structured ASIC vendor often requires a revalidation of the IP on the vendor's silicon platform.
With customer-specific FPGA solutions, designers have to access the same wide range of validated IP as with the standard FPGAs. The bottom line is that whether it is a generic design or an IP-centric design, customer-specific FPGAs offer very competitive and cost-effective solutions for high volume migration as compared to Structured ASICs.
The path to volume production need not be hard for companies looking for the right combination of feature-sets at the lowest cost and fastest turn around times. Table 1 highlights the most notable differences between Structured ASICs and customer-specific FPGAs.
Structured ASICs attempt to fill the niche between FPGAs and Standard Cells. However, they fall short on the promise due to the high hidden costs of conversions, longer lead times and lack of flexibility — all of which are easily addressed by FPGAs, be it standard FPGAs or the new class of customer-specific FPGAs. With a seamless one-for-one conversion-free path for customers across a wide portfolio of product families and FPGAs, customer-specific FPGAs allow companies to get to production volumes much faster and at lower prices than with Structured ASICS.
Gokul Krishnan is a Sr. Marketing Manager with the Market Specific Products Division at Xilinx, where he is responsible for new product directions and market opportunities for the EasyPath FPGAs. Gokul has 10+ years of experience in technical and marketing roles in FPGAs, Structured ASICs and Optical Networking. He holds a B.S. from Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, a Ph.D from the University of Notre Dame, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
Balaji Thirumalai is a Senior Marketing Manager with Xilinx, where he is responsible for the worldwide marketing of EasyPath FPGAs . Balaji has 10+ years of industry experience in FPGAs, EDA and semiconductor technologies in various engineering and marketing roles. He holds a B.E. in EE from the University Of Madras, India, an M.S in EE from the State University of New York at StonyBrook, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley.
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Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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daughter Madeline Colbert, and sons Peter Colbert & John Colbert.
University of Virginia's College of Arts and Sciences
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1963 Born to father Joseph McGee
1999 Started to appear in film world
2019 Net worth around $1 million
1993 Married to Stephen Colbert
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Born to father Joseph McGee
On 23 July 1963, Evelyn McGee-Colbert was born as Evelyn Brabham in Charleston, South Carolina, the United States. She is the daughter of parents; Joseph McGee, a renowned civil litigator who worked for the House of Representatives of South Carolina and his wife.
Started to appear in film world
Evelyn McGee-Colbert's career began with small occasional special roles in a number of TV series and movies in 1999.
Net worth around $1 million
She mainly earns her net worth from her career as an actress and a TV personality. While the exact net worth of the actress is not out, many sources claim her net worth to be around $1 million.
October 9 , 1993
Married to Stephen Colbert
Evelyn McGee-Colbert is married to Stephen Colbert. They exchanged their marital vows on 9 October 1993 in a private wedding ceremony. The couple is blessed with three children; daughter Madeline Colbert, and sons Peter Colbert & John Colbert.
Evelyn McGee-Colbert is an American actress known for the TV show Strangers with Candy and successful movie The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Evelyn is married to Stephen Colbert for almost 26 years and yet they are living a happy life.
On 23 July 1963, Evelyn McGee-Colbert was born as Evelyn Brabham, in Charleston, South Carolina, the United States. She is the daughter of Joseph McGee, a renowned civil litigator who worked for the House of Representatives of South Carolina.
A lady with American nationality and belonging to the white ethnic group, Evelyn McGee-Colbert is born under Leo of the Zodiac signs.
Evelyn is an intelligent and well-educated lady. She earned a degree from the University of Virginia's College of Arts and Sciences. Also, she has double majored in Drama and English literature.
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As of 2019, Evelyn McGee-Colbert is 55 years of age.
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Evelyn McGee-Colbert's career began with small occasional roles in TV series and movies in 1999.
Until 2014, she appeared in a number of movies and TV series including Strangers with Candy, Strangers with Candy: Retardation, a Celebration, Oprah's Next Chapter, Alpha House and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
She had a short career in the film industry. She also appeared on her husband's show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2015.
On the other hand, her husband Stephen Colbert is estimated to have a net worth of around $45 million. He also earns his net worth from his professional career as an actor cum comedian.
Regarding her personal life, Evelyn McGee-Colbert is married to Stephen Colbert. They exchanged their marital vows on 9 October 1993, in a private wedding ceremony.
The couple is blessed with three children; daughter Madeline Colbert, and sons Peter Colbert & John Colbert.
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Evelyn met her husband in 1990s during Spoleto Festival. According to her, Stephen saw him in the food line after which he approached her and they talked for more than two hours looking straight at each other.
In an Interview, Colbert said that when he saw Evelyn for the first time, he said to himself: "That's your wife. You're going to marry her. You will kick yourself for the rest of your life if you do not turn around and say hello to her!"
Shortly after the incident, Stephen broke up with his girlfriend Ann and began dating with Evelyn McGee.
The couple is blessed with three children, a daughter Madeleine Colbert along with sons, Peter Colbert and John Colbert.
It's been almost 26 years of their marriage and they are living happily in the South Carolina house.
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LearnBoost Bets on Better Tools for Teachers
San Francisco-based LearnBoost made a splash earlier this week with news of a $975,000 venture financing win. But much of the news coverage focused on the fact that four major venture firms, plus an assortment of angel investors, had participated in the relatively small financing round. To get more of the story behind the startup's actual technology, I met up yesterday with co-founder and CEO Rafael Corrales, near the company's headquarters at Pier 38. He's pushing a radical notion: that teachers, students, and school systems are entitled to great software at low cost.
Like the U.S. healthcare system, the nation's public schools are going through a halting, painful, and often expensive shift to electronic record-keeping. So-called "student information systems"—the education equivalent of corporate enterprise resource planning software—can track matters such as enrollment, class schedules, attendance, grades, disciplinary actions, and student health. Increasingly, these systems are Web-based, meaning teachers, administrators, and often parents can access them from any computer with an Internet connection. Software-as-a-Service products called Blackboard, made by the Washington, DC-based company of the same name, and PowerSchool, made by New Jersey-based Pearson Education, are the leaders in this market.
But schools are paying dearly for this new convenience. Pearson doesn't share pricing information publicly, but documents available online show that PowerSchool can cost a medium-size school, with an enrollment of 1,500 students, about $45,000 to implement and $7,000 per year to maintain. On top of that, according to Corrales, many educators surveyed by LearnBoost complain that PowerSchool can be hard to use, and that it's loaded down with features and options that overpower most teachers and administrators.
"Teachers are fed up with the solutions they have, both free and paid," says Corrales. "The customer development work we did confirmed this. A lot of teachers said, 'I've been waiting for you to come along, and if you can deliver what you promise, I would switch in a heartbeat.'"
Corrales says LearnBoost plans to deliver by applying the latest principles of open-source Web software and effective user interface design. "Just look at Apple and the products they design," he says. "The iPhone, the iPad—they just work, and all of these things seem intuitive. The design is really solid. All of those subtleties are the things we have taken care of, for a field that has been overlooked."
LearnBoost will release its first product—a free Web-based gradebook designed to help teachers take attendance, develop lesson plans, keep calendars, and track students' grades—in early August. But that's just a piece of what LearnBoost is building: If the company can persuade enough teachers to try the gradebook over the course of the 2010-11 school year, Corrales says, it will then be in a position to roll out a more comprehensive student information system that handles the same core functions as PowerSchool or Blackboard but costs schools much less. The basic function of LearnBoost's system will stay free, while the company will charge for advanced features, Corrales says.
How will the LearnBoost gradebook improve on existing tools? The startup's website gives a basic sketch of the planned features, but Corrales shared a few exclusive previews that illustrate LearnBoost's emphasis on ease of use. Few teachers enjoy the daily or hourly task of … Next Page »
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There's a surreal beauty to watching a group of dirt bike riders simultaneously pop perfect wheelies in slow motion. Instead of a daring stunt, the act looks more like a synchronized dance, with bikes and riders magically suspended—front tires reaching valiantly toward the sky. It's images like these that make 12 O'Clock Boys such a mesmerizing film. Directed by newcomer Lotfy Nathan with an assured hand, the documentary follows a group of Baltimore men as they tear through the city on dirt bikes and quads. The film refers to the group's name, which comes from the ultimate goal of wheelie-ing so that their motorcycles sustain a completely vertical position. It's a sport with no has no real judges or rules, just the thrill of the ride and the respect of the community.
Though Baltimore is often associated with the poverty, drugs, and violence depicted in shows like The Wire, 12 O'Clock Boys is more concerned with the loose-knit group of riders and their families than the broader socio-economic problems facing the city. Still, riding four wheelers and dirt bikes through urban areas is very much an illegal activity, so the interplay between the police and the 12 O'Clock Boys represents a large part of Nathan's film. The heart of 12 O'Clock Boys, however, isn't riders' cat-and-mouse game with the cops, but the journey of a young boy named Pug as he grows from a wanna-be with a tiny quad to a full-on 12 O'Clock Boy. With Pug, Nathan gives us one of the most compelling real-life personalities in recent memory, as we follow the cocky youngster's quest toward sub-cultural acceptance. We caught up with Nathan to talk about the many years it took to make the film, his relationship with Pug, and the most dangerous part of filming the 12 O'Clock Boys.
NATHAN REESE: Let's start with how the project began. When did you first decide to film the 12 O'Clock Boys?
LOTFY NATHAN: So, I was living in Hawaii at that time… just kidding! No, I was living in Baltimore, studying painting and fine art in college there. While I was attending school there I'd seen these guys buzzing around the city on a few occasions during my first few years there. I took a documentary production course just kind of on a whim. I thought it would be interesting to pursue these guys, not really expecting results. So essentially it started off as a school project. I saw that that they were receptive to being filmed. The material that I was getting was really speaking to me and quickly took over my creative efforts.
REESE: What was their reaction when you first approached them to film? Were they cool with you hanging out with them from the start?
NATHAN: Yeah, I would say so. For the most part it was all about getting acknowledged anyway. The reason that a lot of the riders film themselves, put it on YouTube, name themselves, rebrand it every summer, tear through the streets—it's to be seen. They all want to be understood. I think, obviously, there's the question of who's filming you? What are their intentions? But I stuck around long enough to thaw out whatever skepticism there might have been.
REESE: Was there ever any concern from them that the police might use the footage to prosecute them more effectively?
NATHAN: That was a concern I had as well. Everybody had that concern. But, again, the riders were filming themselves at first. It wasn't revolutionary, it wasn't the first time they were seen. The police would actually have had an easier time pulling from the stuff that's been made public, rather than my footage that I was building up for a documentary that is actually very difficult for police to subpoena. I think the recent Ken Burns film, Central Park Five, actually redefined policy on that. As I understand it, the material was almost subpoenaed by prosecutors in New York and it wasn't allowed.
REESE: How did you meet Pug for the first time?
NATHAN: I met Pug in 2010 after about a year and a half of filming the riders. I was getting a lot of action-packed, high-octane material, but it was just a general subculture piece. I was looking for heart in the story and narrative thread. So I was really still fishing. In April, I was introduced to a little kid who was zipping up and down his block on a little four-wheeler. He immediately had a lot of character in my eyes. His family was very colorful. His mother was sharing her whole story and, I didn't know it at the time that he would be seen as the protagonist of the film, but there was this vulnerability on his face and at the same time he was making efforts to emulate the older riders. Intuitively it felt like a great point of entry.
REESE: What has Pug's response been to the film since you've started screening it?
NATHAN: Well, it's hard to distinguish between what of his confidence, or determination, or ego is based on the film and what is just him as a kid. He's got a very strong personality—his whole family does. I've felt that at festival screenings he was surprisingly unfazed by it. He was pretty cool and collected. But it's impossible to say, right now, what that the impact will be. There's the initial buzz and how it could be in five years—really I have no idea.
REESE: Do you think that your presence around a kid growing up in the environment was changed the way his life was heading? Was that a concern of yours?
NATHAN: Yeah, of course. That really personified the whole issue of filming the dirt bike riders in general. I didn't want to cause accidents. I didn't want to encourage it, per se. And then filming Pug, like I said, there's vulnerability on this face. I didn't want anything to happen to him—I don't want anything to happen to him. But I knew that I was endeavoring to make this movie and I knew that was the story to tell. Ultimately I see Pug being such a strong-willed person, let alone a subject in a film. He knew what he wanted. His aim was very clear. His mother's word takes precedent over mine. There's a certain dynamic and structure that he's living in that dictates much stronger than whatever I could ever bring. And at the same time, I was never going into these situations to preach or to teach. I was learning, if anything. Even as a young kid. Inevitably I did have personal conversations with Pug about the whole thing, my perspective on it. That stuff happens. But he's just diehard about wanting to ride dirt bikes. And he would be regardless.
REESE: What were the moments you felt most unsafe while filming?
NATHAN: I think the most unsafe-feeling moments were in clashes with the police. Because I was filming the riders and that was my focus, I became a sort of enemy of the police, just by association. There were times when I was held up by the police and that was really uncomfortable. I tried to explain the intention, but that was obviously a big debate. There are members of the police force who are really frustrated, and who are being taunted by the riders on certain occasions. When they got someone like me, I think some that was kind of coming out.
REESE: There's a pretty long span from the beginning of the film to the end. How were you organizing your life during the filming process?
NATHAN: Like I said, it started off as a school project. I spent maybe two days filming in 2007, maybe five days in 2008, 10 days in 2009, and then 60 days in 2010. That was always during the summer, for the most part. By 2010, I was ready to call it quits. I had moved to New York. Then, really begrudgingly, I went back summer of 2011 and went at it again. Something would always bring me back to Baltimore, as much as I tried leave and say that the project was finished. So then that basically happened three years consecutively. It wasn't some valiant effort. It was draining to keep the effort to film, but it was the most valued creative work I was doing. The shooting fizzled out as the edit took over. Eventually we were shooting for the edit, which is a great place to be. This whole project moved really intuitively, really slowly. Finally the edit took precedent and any other shooting was speaking for that edit.
REESE: How many hours of footage did you have?
NATHAN: We had about 300 hours of footage. Another thing I will say, is that it was difficult to keep going with this project but there was a lot of help. It wasn't financing from institutions or things like that—this film didn't necessarily have a pretty subject. It wasn't a social issue. It wasn't a heartwarmer. It wasn't sweet. So it was really hard to get help with it for a long time. But friends and peers—producers on the film—their help really helped keep the project afloat.
REESE: Some of the most striking scenes in the movie were the ultra slow-motion shots of the riders. How did you capture those?
NATHAN: It wasn't just me filming, and the Phantom camera stuff was brought it by my producer Eric Blair. They did incredible work bringing super high-end production value to something that was otherwise pretty scrappy. The Phantom camera shoots were really hard to pull off. By then I had the trust of a lot of the riders, and knew the patterns and where to go. It's a very finicky camera, it takes a large time to set up, and it's temperamental—It takes a large time to set up.
REESE: Near the end of the film, it's intimated that Pug is able to steal back his bike, but it's left open-ended. Can you talk a little bit about your decision to end the move on an ambiguous note?
NATHAN: It's intentional that it's sort of vague. I think that the ending should speak for itself.
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Morgan Gibbs-White
Young scholar showing his potential
Morgan Gibbs-White has a habit of being in the right place at the right time.
Last May the then 15-year-old turned up at the Sir Jack Hayward training ground to play for the club's under 16's, before being summoned to play for Rob Edwards' under 18 squad for their match with Brighton and Hove Albion.
The surprise call up would be quite daunting for some players, but not Gibbs-White who had a debut to remember. Wolves would go on to win the match 8-0, with Gibbs-White scoring the sixth goal with a superb finish.
"I originally came to play for the 16's but Rob Edwards said 'Morgan, you're with us today on the bench'," said Gibbs-White.
"I was a bit shocked!
"I came on for the last 20 minutes and scored, so it was a great day for me."
His dream debut brought back memories of another occasion where he was in the right place at the right time – the day he signed for Wolves after impressing watching scouts at a junior tournament.
Gibbs-White recalls: "I was playing in an under 8's Sunday League tournament in Penkridge for Stafford Juniors.
"Bradley Carr was with me as well, and they asked us to sign there and then."
Eight years on he has now agreed to sign his first professional contract to commit his future to the club when he turns 17.
Understandably happy with the deal, Gibbs-White, currently working with the Under-18s, has now set his sights on one day playing for the Under 21's.
His rise through the Academy ranks and goalscoring cameos have certainly left an impression with Academy staff.
He has continued his high level of performance this season, featuring consistently for Jerry Gill's Under-18 side as well as maintaining his eye for goal by scoring away at Everton in November and in last Saturday's match with Leicester City.
And Gibbs-White certainly feels that he is improving game by game.
He said: "I think I am [improving] definitely; this year I've come on so well.
"Playing for the 18's is a lot different than the 16's as it's more physical and it's a lot quicker.
"Earlier in the season I came off the bench now and then, but more recently I've been starting for them [under 18's].
"I was happy with my goal on Saturday, it was a bad touch to start with, but I ended up taking it around the goalkeeper and slotting it in."
Playing in different positions will also help Gibbs-White in developing his game.
Traditionally a number 10, against Leicester he started off playing in an unfamiliar central midfield position while also playing part of the game as a winger.
His willingness to play in a number of positions against Leicester earned praise from Gill who described him as having a 'good attitude and desire about his game'.
Speaking about being versatile Gibbs-White said: "I personally see myself as a number ten, but put me in a position and I'll play there.
"When I play as a 10, I have a good awareness of what's around me, I know the players well and I can find a pass for them.
"On Saturday, I felt that I adjusted to the positions pretty easily, I wouldn't mind playing there again but I want to cement myself as a number 10."
Gibbs-White is hoping to be involved with the Under 18's in their Black Country derby with West Bromwich Albion on Saturday, in a fixture that when played always contains an added spice, no matter what level.
"I've played in a lot of derbies before and it is going to be a tough game," he admitted.
Saturday's derby is the latest item on Gibbs-White's already jam-packed 2016 calendar.
And there was some more good news today with the announcement that he has been selected in the England Under-16 squad for a forthcoming Montaigu tournament in France, involving initial group fixtures with Russia, the USA and Brazil.
Also, over the next couple of months as well as playing for Wolves and England, there is the small matter of finishing school and taking his GCSE's.
He said: "My first exam is in the next month and a half, so I need to find the right balance between my football and school work.
"But I'm confident that if I put the revision in, I'll come out with good grades."
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The internet supports a global ecosystem of social interaction. Modern life revolves around the network, with its status updates, news feeds, comment chains, political advocacy, omnipresent reviews, rankings and ratings. For its first few decades, this connected world was idealized as an unfettered civic forum: a space where disparate views, ideas and conversations could constructively converge. Its creators were inspired by the optimism underlying Stuart Brand's WELL in 1985, Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web and Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow's 1996 "Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace." They expected the internet to create a level playing field for information sharing and communal activity among individuals, businesses, other organizations and government actors.
One of the biggest challenges will be finding an appropriate balance between protecting anonymity and enforcing consequences for the abusive behavior that has been allowed to characterize online discussions for far too long.
Respected internet pundit John Naughton asked in The Guardian, "Has the internet become a failed state?" and mostly answered in the affirmative.
The U.S. Senate heard testimony on the increasingly effective use of social media for the advancement of extremist causes, and there was growing attention to how social media are becoming weaponized by terrorists, creating newly effective kinds of propaganda.
Scholars provided evidence showing that social bots were implemented in acts aimed at disrupting the 2016 U.S. presidential election. And news organizations documented how foreign trolls bombarded U.S. social media with fake news. A December 2016 Pew Research Center study found that about two-in-three U.S. adults (64%) say fabricated news stories cause a great deal of confusion about the basic facts of current issues and events.
A May 2016 Pew Research Center report showed that 62% of Americans get their news from social media. Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times argued that the "internet is loosening our grip on the truth." And his colleague Thomas B. Edsall curated a lengthy list of scholarly articles after the election that painted a picture of how the internet was jeopardizing democracy.
2016 was the first year that an internet meme made its way into the Anti-Defamation League's database of hate symbols.
Celebrity social media mobbing intensified. One example: "Ghostbusters" actor and Saturday Night Live cast member Leslie Jones was publicly harassed on Twitter and had her personal website hacked.
An industry report revealed how former Facebook workers suppressed conservative news content.
The Center on the Future of War started the Weaponized Narrative Initiative.
Many experts documented the ways in which "fake news" and online harassment might be more than social media "byproducts" because they help to drive revenue.
#Pizzagate, a case study, revealed how disparate sets of rumors can combine to shape public discourse and, at times, potentially lead to dangerous behavior.
Google (with its Perspective API), Twitter and Facebook are experimenting with new ways to filter out or label negative or misleading discourse.
Researchers are exploring why people troll.
And a drumbeat of stories out of Europe covered how governments are attempting to curb fake news and hate speech but struggling to reconcile their concerns with sweeping free speech rules that apply in America.
Participants were also asked to explain their answers in a written elaboration and asked to consider the following prompts: 1) How do you expect social media and digital commentary will evolve in the coming decade? 2) Do you think we will see a widespread demand for technological systems or solutions that encourage more inclusive online interactions? 3) What do you think will happen to free speech? And 4) What might be the consequences for anonymity and privacy?
While respondents expressed a range of opinions from deep concern to disappointment to resignation to optimism, most agreed that people – at their best and their worst – are empowered by networked communication technologies. Some said the flame wars and strategic manipulation of the zeitgeist might just be getting started if technological and human solutions are not put in place to bolster diverse civil discourse.
A number of respondents predicted online reputation systems and much better security and moderation solutions will become near ubiquitous in the future, making it increasingly difficult for "bad actors" to act out disruptively. Some expressed concerns that such systems – especially those that remove the ability to participate anonymously online – will result in an altered power dynamic between government/state-level actors, the elites and "regular" citizens.
Anonymity, a key affordance of the early internet, is an element that many in this canvassing attributed to enabling bad behavior and facilitating "uncivil discourse" in shared online spaces. The purging of user anonymity is seen as possibly leading to a more inclusive online environment and also setting the stage for governments and dominant institutions to even more freely employ surveillance tools to monitor citizens, suppress free speech and shape social debate.
Most experts predicted that the builders of open social spaces on global communications networks will find it difficult to support positive change in "cleaning up" the real-time exchange of information and sharing of diverse ideologies over the next decade, as millions more people around the world become connected for the first time and among the billions already online are many who compete in an arms race of sorts to hack and subvert corrective systems.
The majority in this canvassing were sympathetic to those abused or misled in the current online environment while expressing concerns that the most likely solutions will allow governments and big businesses to employ surveillance systems that monitor citizens, suppress free speech and shape discourse via algorithms, allowing those who write the algorithms to sculpt civil debate.
One other point of context for this non-representative sample of a particular population: While the question we posed was not necessarily aimed at getting people's views about the role of political material in online social spaces, it inevitably drew commentary along those lines because this survey was fielded in the midst of a bitter, intense election in the United States where one of the candidates, in particular, was a provocative user of Twitter.
Most participants in this canvassing wrote detailed elaborations explaining their positions. Their well-considered comments provide insights about hopeful and concerning trends. They were allowed to respond anonymously, and many chose to do so.
These findings do not represent all points of view possible, but they do reveal a wide range of striking observations. Respondents collectively articulated four "key themes" that are introduced and briefly explained below and then expanded upon in more-detailed sections.
The individual's voice has a much higher perceived value than it has in the past. As a result, there are more people who will complain online in an attempt to get attention, sympathy, or retribution.
An anonymous respondent commented, "The tone of discourse online is dictated by fundamental human psychology and will not easily be changed." This statement reflects the attitude of expert internet technologists, researchers and pundits, most of whom agree that it is the people using the network, not the network, that is the root of the problem.
Trolls now know that their methods are effective and carry only minimal chance of social stigma and essentially no other punishment.
Some leading participants in this canvassing said the tone of discourse will worsen in the next decade due to inequities and prejudice, noting wealth disparity, the hollowing out of the middle class, and homophily (the tendency of people to bond with those similar to themselves and thus also at times to shun those seen as "the other").
Unfortunately, I see the present prevalence of trolling as an expression of a broader societal trend across many developed nations, towards belligerent factionalism in public debate, with particular attacks directed at women as well as ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities.
As billions more people are connected online and technologies such as AI chatbots, the Internet of Things, and virtual and augmented reality continue to mature, complexity is always on the rise. Some respondents said well-intentioned attempts to raise the level of discourse are less likely to succeed in a rapidly changing and widening information environment.
As more people get internet access – and especially smartphones, which allow people to connect 24/7 – there will be increased opportunities for bad behavior.
Several of the expert respondents said because algorithmic solutions tend "to reward that which keeps us agitated," it is especially damaging that the pre-internet news organizations that once employed fairly objective and well-trained (if not well-paid) armies of arbiters as democratic shapers of the defining climate of social and political discourse have fallen out of favor, replaced by creators of clickbait headlines read and shared by short-attention-span social sharers.
The weaponization of social media and "capture" of online belief systems, also known as "narratives," emerged from obscurity in 2016 due to the perceived impact of social media uses by terror organizations and political factions. Accusations of Russian influence via social media on the U.S. presidential election brought to public view the ways in which strategists of all stripes are endeavoring to influence people through the sharing of often false or misleading stories, photos and videos. "Fake news" moved to the forefront of ongoing discussions about the displacement of traditional media by social platforms. Earlier, in the summer of 2016, participants in this canvassing submitted concerns about misinformation in online discourse creating distorted views.
Most respondents said it is likely that the coming decade will see a widespread move to more-secure services, applications, and platforms and more robust user-identification policies. Some said people born into the social media age will adapt. Some predict that more online systems will require clear identification of participants. This means that the online social forums could splinter into various formats, some of which are highly protected and monitored and others which could retain the free-for-all character of today's platforms.
Some experts in this canvassing say progress is already being made on some fronts toward better technological and human solutions.
The future Web will give people much better ways to control the information that they receive, which will ultimately make problems like trolling manageable.
Technology will mediate who and what we see online more and more, so that we are drawn more toward communities with similar interests than those who are dissimilar.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google and other platform providers already "shape" and thus limit what the public views via the implementation of algorithms. As people have become disenchanted with uncivil discourse "open" platforms they stop using them or close their accounts, sometimes moving to smaller online communities of people with similar needs or ideologies. Some experts expect that these trends will continue and even more partitions, divisions and exclusions may emerge as measures are taken to clean things up. For instance, it is expected that the capabilities of AI-based bots dispatched to assist with information sorting, security, and regulation of the tone and content of discourse will continue to be refined.
The expert comments in response to this canvassing were recorded in the summer of 2016; by early 2017, after many events (Brexit, the U.S. election, others mentioned earlier in this report) surfaced concerns about civil discourse, misinformation and impacts on democracy, an acceleration of activity tied to solutions emerged. Facebook, Twitter and Google announced some new efforts toward technological approaches; many conversations about creating new methods of support for public affairs journalism began to be undertaken; and consumer bubble-busting tools including "Outside Your Bubble" and "Escape Your Bubble" were introduced.
Some participants in this canvassing said they expect the already-existing continuous arms race dynamic will expand, as some people create and apply new measures to ride herd over online discourse while others constantly endeavor to thwart them.
A share of respondents said greater regulation of speech and technological solutions to curb harassment and trolling will result in more surveillance, censorship and cloistered communities. They worry this will change people's sharing behaviors online, limit exposure to diverse ideas and challenge freedom.
While several respondents indicated that there is no longer a chance of anonymity online, many say privacy and choice are still options, and they should be protected.
Terrorism and harassment by trolls will be presented as the excuses, but the effect will be dangerous for democracy.
A number of respondents said they expect governments or other authorities will begin implementing regulation or other reforms to address these issues, most indicating that the competitive instincts of platform providers do not work in favor of the implementation of appropriate remedies without some incentive.
My fear is that because of the virtually unlimited opportunities for negative use of social media globally we will experience a rising worldwide demand for restrictive regulation.
Experts predict increased oversight and surveillance, left unchecked, could lead to dominant institutions and actors using their power to suppress alternative news sources, censor ideas, track individuals, and selectively block network access. This, in turn, could mean publics might never know what they are missing out on, since information will be filtered, removed, or concealed.
The fairness and freedom of the internet's early days are gone. Now it's run by big data, Big Brother, and big profits.
This section features responses by several more of the many top analysts who participated in this canvassing. Following this wide-ranging set of comments on the topic will be a much-more expansive set of quotations directly tied to the set of four themes.
Was the idea of 'reasoned discourse' ever reasonable?
1) Nowness is the ultimate arbiter: The value of our discourse (everything we see or hear) will be weighted by how immediate or instantly seen and communicated the information is. Real-time search, geolocation, just-in-time updates, Twitter, etc., are making of now, the present moment, an all-subsuming reality that tends to bypass anything that isn't hyper-current.
2) Faceless selfism rocks: With photos and video, we can present ourselves dimensionally, but due to the lack of 'facework' in the online sim, our faces are absent or frozen in a framed portrait found elsewhere, and so there is no face-to-face, no dynamic interactivity, no responsive reading to our commentary, except in a follow-up comment. Still, we will get better at using public discourse as self-promotion.
"3) Anonymity changes us: Identity-shielding leads to a different set of 'manners' or mannerisms that stem from our sense (not accurate, of course) that online we are anonymous.
4) Context AWOL: Our present 'filter failure,' to borrow Clay Shirky's phrase, is almost complete lack of context, reality check, or perspective. In the next decade we will start building better contextual frameworks for information.
5) Volume formula: The volume of content, from all quarters – anyone with a keypad, a device – makes it difficult to manage responses, or even to filter for relevance but tends to favor emotional button-pushing in order to be noticed.
"6) Ersatz us: Online identities will be more made-up, more fictional, but also more malleable than typical 'facework' or other human interactions. We can pretend, for a while, to be an ersatz version of ourselves.


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The Home Missions Committee empowers the congregation of St. Philip's to minister to the people of Charleston that they might come to know and experience the saving love and mercy of Jesus Christ.
The Home Missions Committee is a team commissioned by the Vestry to discern, communicate, and organize the parish's local mission and outreach efforts in partnership with the clergy. The team is comprised of members possessing a heart for both evangelism ("missions") and mercy ministries ("outreach") and who possess one or more of the following gifts: Communication, Administration, Leadership, or Wisdom and Discernment.
As a Christian church commissioned by our Lord to "go therefore and make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28:19), our aim is to partner with organizations who share this Great Commission, and whose outreach ministry (Matthew 25:34-46) is an outflowing of this shared mission. We use the term "missions" as an explicit reference to the Great Commission, helping nonbelievers find the saving grace of Jesus Christ. We also use the term "outreach" to refer to acts of service outside the borders of our parish, particularly those acts that help people with basic needs. While we are grateful for all persons and organizations who seek to relieve suffering, we will focus our outreach partnerships and contributions on those organizations who undertake such efforts in the name of Jesus.
We believe that we can do far more good, by God's grace, if we focus our prayer, financial and volunteer efforts on 3-5 mission organizations. Doing so will allow us to form meaningful relationships with both the mission organizations we support as well as the people we serve. The Home Missions Committee is charged with discerning (in consultation with the clergy) which organizations the congregation will support as well as determining the length of our commitment to such organizations.
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Double-digit growth in all regions helped to propel Q2 sales growth at the sporting goods brand.
PARIS — Puma SE saw net profits surge in the second quarter, suggesting the German sportswear firm controlled by Kering is on track for a year of strong growth.
Despite the positive results, Puma chief executive officer Bjørn Gulden, who has been steering its turnaround since 2013, said he still sees "room for development" at the Herzogenaurach, Germany-based firm.


The theme for Halloween this year was "down to the wire". Hope decided the day before Halloween that she didn't, in fact, want to be a store-bought Princess Peach, but thought a butterfly was a much better idea. I spent my entire Friday painting butterfly wings, sewing sparkly fabric to a sweatshirt, and fashioning antennae for her costume. I'm proud to report that I finished everything up 5 minutes before our neighborhood Halloween parade was set to start. We made it in time, ran into the Denbows at the parade, and had a fun night. Poesy was a great little Pinocchio, and though she was mistaken for a boy many times, handled it much better than I expected. "I'm not a boy, I'm just dressed like Pinocchio. I'm really a girl." I, on the other hand, was continually mistaken for a grown-up dressed as Elsa by every little girl ever, and didn't handle it quite as gracefully as Poe. Lesson learned.
Anyway, I hope your Halloween was great!
My favorite time of year. This is cute.
hope's costume turned out beautifully! love it!
Hope's costume is amazing! I love the pictures. You girls are the cutest.
Hahaha everybody decided to be Elsa and Anna this year! I totally love that you dressed up as the blue fairy from Pinocchio !
Poe is the cutest and I love that little girls thought you were Elsa! You're such a wonderful mom.
The butterfly wings are so cute, well done. Very sweet outfits and so many people, lovely.


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using Alachisoft.NosDB.Common.Communication;
using Alachisoft.NosDB.Common.Configuration.Services;
using Alachisoft.NosDB.Common.Net;
using Alachisoft.NosDB.Common.Replication;
using Alachisoft.NosDB.Common.Serialization;
using Alachisoft.NosDB.Core.Configuration.Services;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace Alachisoft.NosDB.Core.Toplogies.Impl.HeartbeatTasks
{
   // [Serializable]
    public class HeartbeatInfo: ICompactSerializable, ICloneable
    {
        public DateTime LastHeartbeatTimestamp { get; internal set; }
        public Membership CurrentMembership { get; internal set; }
        public int MissingHeartbeatsCounter { get; internal set; }
        public OperationId LastOplogOperationId { get; internal set; }
        public ConnectivityStatus CSStatus { get; set; }

        #region ICompactSerializable Members
        public void Deserialize(Common.Serialization.IO.CompactReader reader)
        {
            LastHeartbeatTimestamp = reader.ReadDateTime();
            CurrentMembership = reader.ReadObject() as Membership;
            MissingHeartbeatsCounter = reader.ReadInt32();
            LastOplogOperationId = reader.ReadObject() as OperationId;
            CSStatus = (ConnectivityStatus)reader.ReadInt32();
        }

        public void Serialize(Common.Serialization.IO.CompactWriter writer)
        {
            writer.Write(LastHeartbeatTimestamp);
            writer.WriteObject(CurrentMembership);
            writer.Write(MissingHeartbeatsCounter);
            writer.WriteObject(LastOplogOperationId);
            writer.Write((int)CSStatus);
        }
        #endregion

        #region ICloneable Members
        public object Clone()
        {
            HeartbeatInfo nodeInfo = new HeartbeatInfo();
            nodeInfo.CurrentMembership = CurrentMembership;
            nodeInfo.LastOplogOperationId = LastOplogOperationId;
            nodeInfo.MissingHeartbeatsCounter = MissingHeartbeatsCounter;
            nodeInfo.LastOplogOperationId = LastOplogOperationId;
            nodeInfo.CSStatus = CSStatus;
            return nodeInfo;
        }
        #endregion
    }
}

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Q: divorcing free proxy service from client http://ultrareach.com is the free proxy service I use to access the web. Its comes in two parts: the client and the service. Is there any way that I can dissect the client to see whether it uses any type of standard protocol to connect to the servers? I would like to be able to access the service from another client, specifically one that would run on linux.

A: what you describe might break the license terms of the software+service.
use network sniffer [ eg wireshark ] to analyze communication between client software and another tunnel endpoint. since they mention encryption - it will be quite a difficult job...

A: Have you tried to run it under WINE in LINUX? Lots of Windows apps. will run this way. Would certainly be easier than trying to reverse engineer and re-write their client.

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Co-op Legal Services were instructed by Mrs A to help with the administration of her late mother's Estate. Mrs A was named as the sole Executor and Beneficiary in the Will and she wanted the assistance of our Probate Solicitors to deal with Estate, particularly as there were complex issues involving Inheritance Tax and assets in Western Australia.
With our Probate Complete Service we take full responsibility for obtaining Grant of Probate and dealing with the Legal, Tax (not VAT), Property and Estate Administration affairs*.
We applied for the Grant of Probate, including a claim to transfer the unused Inheritance Tax allowance from the Estate of her mother's first husband, resulting in there being no Inheritance Tax to pay. Once the Grant of Probate had been issued we transferred the house into Mrs A's name, and transferred to her or sold the other assets of the Estate as she wished.
In relation to the assets in Western Australia, we instructed Australian Probate Solicitors to apply for a re-sealed Grant of Probate in Western Australia, and maintained contact with the Australian bank involved. We dealt with the Probate Solicitors in Australia on Mrs A's behalf and arranged for the bank accounts in Western Australia to be closed.
This provided peace of mind to Mrs A that everything in her late mother's Estate had been dealt with, saving Mrs A from the daunting prospect of having to deal Probate Solicitors in Australia, and with financial organisations whose processes may differ to those in England and Wales.
Throughout the Estate administration process, we ensured Mrs A was fully informed at all times, including explaining the process of dealing with the Western Australian Grant of Probate.
Mrs A was pleased with how we helped her and her family through the entire Probate and Estate administration process, and has contacted Co-op Legal Services subsequently to deal with the sale of her late mother's property.
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The latest smartphones come with unlimited features for all users, but you'll need to explore the massive app store to unlock their full potential. Apps have been progressively enhancing the experience since the debut of the Google Play Store (formerly known as Android Market) at the beginning of Android. There's an app for everything, from basic activities like balancing a checkbook or calculating a tip to integrated applications with commercial communication platforms and all of the biggest brands in social media.
The Google Play Store is home to roughly 3 million apps, including gaming and betting apps like Betway. Below is a list of the finest Android applications in various categories to help you select the best apps for your everyday life.
1 Betway App
3 YouTube
4 Twitch
5 Soundcloud
6 Slack
Betway App
Almost everybody loves sports, and people who love sports tend to love sports betting. If you are one of the enthusiasts then the Betway app download for Android is a must. It is an all-in-one app for betting on real sporting events taking place from around the world and stimulated virtual events.
There is no way 2 billion people can be wrong. The world's most popular social network has an official functional app. Engage your family and friends, be a part of instant conversations, and receive push alerts. Best of all, Facebook isn't simply a place to publish stuff copied from Reddit and Twitter; it has been divided into dating, shopping, and video areas. For the ultimate double-act, pair it with Messenger.
The YouTube mobile app is simple and easy to use, bringing the full video-sharing site at your fingertips. Subscribers to YouTube Premium have access to all premium content and unique benefits such as audio playback while the screen is turned off. YouTube, though, is indispensable even when used as a free app.
While services such as Facebook Gaming strive to compete, Twitch remains the most popular platform for video game broadcasting, with a growing list of star broadcasters. Thanks to Amazon's clout, Twitch is unlikely to be dethroned any time soon.
If you're after an all-you-can-eat sound buffet with no commercials and no monthly payments, then Soundcloud is for you. You can get new music and stream it from the cloud, but this isn't a Spotify substitute: most of the music on Soundcloud is by relatively obscure artists, and if you can't find it on Spotify, you'll almost certainly find it here. Listening is free, with SoundCloud's pro editions reserved mostly for artists. It is more than just music; there are plenty of podcasts to be found here as well. An excellent addition to another music streaming service.
Slack has gone from the latest craze to a contentious productivity tool to an indispensable workplace tool. It is easy to use, and comes in a familiar instant messaging feel to it. However, the service's advanced features, such as configurable alarms and a Do Not Disturb mode, helped it become popular. Slack can be used to hold VoIP calls with your coworkers. A free account will get you started, but a monthly subscription will provide you access to even more powerful search capabilities.
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Janie Steps In (La Rochelle #7)
Title: Janie Steps In (La Rochelle #7)
Brent-Dyer, Elinor Mary
→ Jo Returns to the Chalet School (Chalet School #12)
← The Highland Twins at the Chalet School (Chalet School #16)
Publisher: W. & R. Chambers Ltd.
When we first met Janie, she was a bit of a drippy teenager. Now she's a competent wife and mother, and it's her turn to look after a drippy teenager. -- Goodreads.com. [Suggest a different description.]
Author Bio for Brent-Dyer, Elinor Mary
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer was born Gladys Eleanor May Dyer on April 6, 1894 in South Shields, in the northeast of England. She wrote over a hundred books of children's literature during her life. From lower middle-class roots, she went to a small private school and became a teacher after attending the City of Leeds Training College. As a teacher, she worked at both public and private schools, and even as a governess. She had an interest in the theater, and her first book Gerry Goes to School (the first in her La Rochelle series) was written in 1922 --for the child actress Hazel Bainbridge. About this time, inspired by a vacation to the Austrian Alps, she wrote The School at the Chalet in 1923 (the first in her Chalet School series). Brent-Dyer continued to teach and tried rather unsuccessfully to run her own school from 1938 to 1948. After this, she quit teaching but continued writing until her death on September 20, 1969 in Redhill, Surrey.


Working-out and eating right is probably my least favorite, but it's a MUST DO. After the wedding, I'll admit, I kind of sort of let myself go– and that's just not right.
In this topic, I'll post different cleanses, food recipes and work-outs.