This has always been one of my favorite Al songs. I agree that the subtlety is really fantastic. It's one of Al's songs that you really have to pay attention to. Musically, it's my favorite Al song. I'd love to hear him do more country/bluegrass style parodies. Based on this one, he'd be great at it.
I'm listening to this great song right now, and I'm thinking, I'd love to do a performance for it at my drama class's next Coffee Talk (read: performance), even if no one knows when that'll be. It'd be a great way to introduce the populace to Al's "other" side (which can mean both originals and subtler works). Basically, I think I'd slow dance around on stage with a girl friend (not my girlfriend, because I don't have one), while lip-syncing the lyrics.
P.S. It'd also be an excuse to get close to a girl and learn to dance.
P.P.S. In case you're wondering, my other choice is "I'll Sue Ya," but we're a family show, and funny lyrics do not a parent-friendly rap/rock song make.
P.P.P.S. A dramatic showing of the 5 stages of grief, set to the fabulous and powerful Nine Inch Nails instrumental "Just Like You Imagined," is yet another idea on my mind.
P.P.P.P.S. Have all these postscripts gotten annoying yet?
avesjohn @ Feb 10 2007, 01:24 AM wrote: P.P.S. In case you're wondering, my other choice is "I'll Sue Ya," but we're a family show, and funny lyrics do not a parent-friendly rap/rock song make.
ISY might be okay. I performed it for my drama class a few months ago and things went over pretty well. What grade(s) are the kids in that the performance is for?
You should use Fark-Slashies, avesjohn .
Barney Slayer @ Feb 10 2007, 08:54 AM wrote: ISY might be okay. I performed it for my drama class a few months ago and things went over pretty well. What grade(s) are the kids in that the performance is for?
I think my message came out wrong. We're a high school, and so our audience is mostly our friends and family, which in some cases means younger siblings. I think I just meant that, although "I'll Sue Ya" is by all means family-friendly, the music could quickly get annoying to the older members of the audience. It's not out of the question to perform it, of course, just a concern I have for said older members, and possibly the younger siblings as well.
I love good enough for now....it's so funny!!
Good enough for now is one of my favourite originals. I actually don't really like coutry & western music - even though I'm a lapsed square dancer, but I totally love Good enough for now & Truck drivin' song (especially TDS).
avesjohn @ Feb 10 2007, 11:41 PM wrote: the music could quickly get annoying to the older members of the audience. It's not out of the question to perform it, of course, just a concern I have for said older members, and possibly the younger siblings as well.
who cares?! you're in HIGH SCHOOL!!


Scratchings in the Dirt: We won!!
The Midgets won the Provincial Northern Final series! It was an amazing game Saturday night. There must have been 500 people in the old barn. What a night! Arborfield was up 2 goals from the first game, and they scored early in the game to put them up by three. But the Thunder turned on the heat and won the game 5 - 1. I cheered and hollered more than I have all year, and even scared my little brother, Rob, who came out to watch his nephews. (Well, nephew, since Adam didn't even get one shift. But that's another post for another time!) When I was done cheering, I cried. I was so proud of the team for playing so well. And they were so happy!
So we are off to Davidson for the Finals on Sunday, after they come here for Game 1 on Friday. Should be another great series, if my heart can take it!
We also got to meet baby Avery Victoria on Saturday. Bobbi had everyone over in the afternoon to get a look at Don & Tracy's first, and she is a cutie! They did well. Don is one proud papa, and can he ever swaddle that little thing. She's going to be fun at the reunion this summer.
So that's it for today. I have a hockey game to arrange. I can get you in for free if you want to come!!
It was indeed a lot of fun to be there. Stephen is sure a great hockey player, although the girls seemed to be calling Adam's name quite a bit. I don't know who is getting the better end of the deal.
Unfortunately, I'll be in Banff for the weekend so I won't be able to see either game. I expect up-to-the-minute updates on this blog.
Congratulations on the boys win...also pass on my greetings/ Congrats on Don & Tracy's first new born!
Rob, I'm afraid with expectations that high, you are going to be sorely disappointed. I can text you, though, if you'd like!
Congratulations on your boys' win!
Well, anonymous, the Saskatchewan Hockey Association divides the province into north and south divisions for playoffs. Arborfield, and Kerrobert, are in the north in that sense!


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Big Wheel Tours Offers Outdoor Experience During the Shutdown
Riding Into 2021
Big Wheel Tours offers an outdoor recreation outlet during the shutdown with private, guided tours to experience Greater Palm Springs' desert wonderland.
Thomas Meagher January 3, 2021 Attractions, Current Digital
Big Wheel Tours offers an outdoor outlet during the current shutdown.
PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY BIG WHEEL TOURS
At least 2020 started great for Big Wheel Tours (BWT). "It was our best January and February ever, by far," Evan Trubee recalls.
Trubee is the owner of BWT, one of the Coachella Valley's bike rental and touring outfits, and during the first months of 2020 he saw encouraging signs that his 22-year-old company was starting to realize the benefits of such recent initiatives as opening a new store in Palm Springs.
But then, COVID.
"Basically, everything fell off a cliff," he says. "All we were doing for about a month or two was issuing refunds." The next few months were bleak, to say the least – a disheartening time for small business owners everywhere. But Trubee is buoyantly optimistic by nature and has somehow managed to find silver linings even in the pandemic's darkest clouds.
To begin with, Big Wheel Tours, as an outdoor-based enterprise, never had to shut its doors. There was a stretch when Trubee was the only one working at BWT, and the company did lose many of its seasoned tour guides. Currently, however, with gyms closed and people looking for COVID-safe outdoor exercise during the latest lockdown, BWT offers an outlet.
BWT also managed to update its fleet of bicycles during 2020, navigating successfully through a period when the cycling industry's supply chain was seriously disrupted and demand for bikes skyrocketed.
With 2021 just underway, how are Trubee and BWT continuing to be COVID-safe for their clientele?
Trubee points first to the fact that BWT's guided tours are private: you, your group, and your guide are always the only ones in the vehicle.
"That's really the major change for us," Trubee explains. "Pre-COVID, if we had three couples book the same tour, I would put them together in one vehicle. But now we keep the parties separate – three couples means three tours, three vehicles."
The other COVID-conscious protocols that BWT has in place are set forth in the email each customer receives after booking a tour or a rental. These protocols include the following:
• Bike rentals are transacted outside – "it's a completely outdoors experience," in Trubee's words.
• Tour guides are temperature checked every day pre-tour.
• Vehicles and bikes are meticulously sanitized before use.
• Guides and clients must all wear masks.
• Vehicle windows are kept down (weather permitting) to promote the free flow of air.
At the same time, some things haven't changed at BWT. For instance, the roster of tours is the same, and so are the prices: refusing to take advantage of the pandemic, Trubee says he never even considered raising his rates. Thus, a four-to-six-hour guided mountain bike tour for your group still ranges from $125 to $250 per person, depending on the group's size, while the popular Joshua Tree National Park Jeep Adventure is still $169 a head.
"I am very, very grateful that we're still able to operate," Trubee says. "It's heartbreaking to see what's happened to the indoor-based tourism and hospitality industries. So I thank my lucky stars that we can still accommodate tourists and snowbirds and year-round residents with a COVID-safe option to get out and explore."
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i say happy birthday to you today. i have wished you on facebook. and sent you 21 smses. the flowers should be on their way. with the wine. and the Terry Pratchett you were looking for.
you know what. i don't mean any of it. Especially the happy in the birthday.
last weekend, we took the plunge. and bought the SLR.
there lives another momma blogger in our apartment.
me and her have met just a few times — hellos in the lift, a little chatter about restaurants, she's seen firstborn and baby param; and i think her son is ultra cute.
i spilt the beans, when she called about a playdate.
baby param is ill. i am trying to persuade him to sleep. he's too nose-blocked, too ventolin-y, too antibioticked, way too angrytiredsleepy.
baby param is responding to the silence. i pat him. his lower eyelashes are an eyelash away from the upper eyelashes.
sleep. yes. rapid eye movement. yes.
"MA! AM I PLAYING QUIETLY ENOUGH, NOW?: firstborn booms from the hall.
actually firstborn decided the hole count so he is the judge of that.
and my friend kamini, who authored AR Rahman's bio, was the judge of the contest. she was a natural choice because she is COMPLETELY batty.
kamini says she loved art's caption (artnavy too got the answer right at 17) and almost declared her the winner — but shruti's thoroughness/innovation in terms of counting made kamini decide in shruti's favour.
spl congrats to shipa's keen eyesight for also spotting 17 holes.
do feel free to let everyone know who you thought was the WITTIEST, in your opinion..
thanks all for participating. it was so MUCH fun.
hurry. rush in your entries.


There's alot happens when you have a baby that you didn't previously have a clue about … and when you ask, people look at you in a baffled way and say, "oh everyone knows that" or something equally designed to make you feel tiny!
I never knew that breastfeeding could be difficult or even impossible for people … I'm lucky I have been able to breast feed with no problem at all and really enjoy it … only had a brief interlude of mastitis and not had sore nipply parts at all … AND it seems to be working well – today is Hope's 3 month birthday – and she was weighed and is now over 10 pounds – the big lump! Bless her I feel very proud. During the last week she's put on a whole 11 1/2 oz, even the health visitor was pleased … funny give it 18 years and she'll probably be keen to lose that much weight in a week … funny old world.
Anyway, to celebrate Hope's 3 month birthday we had a quiet morning and then had to go to the doctors for her second batch of jabs … poor little pumpkin arrived all chipper and cheery and left inconsolable (even though I breast fed her on both sides and gave her a little bottle of milk). She's been out of sorts ever since but did finally settle when we had a huge walk around the block and the park (twice) in her large pram with two of her stuffed friends Mr Rabbit (from Helen and Paul) and Funky Bear (hand knitted by my mother's friend Ann) … she's now asleep downstairs – still in the pram and has had a little Calpol which hopefully will ease her angst. I do feel so sad that she's had to deal with so much nastiness in her short life – I know every baby has jabs, but Hope's had 4 lumbar punctures, 2 canulas, umpteen blood tests, and heel prick tests and been nose tube fed and had lots of antibiotics by drip and in her mouth with little syringe. Poor baby girl … so she didn't really have much fun on her 3 month birthday – 13 weeks – perhaps not so lucky for her – but she has now been fortunate enough to be inoculated against all sorts of things so that's good at least.
Where was I? Oh yes… who knew … when I was chatting to the health visitor today I suddenly remembered that I hadn't had a period since having Hope and thought hmmmm how odd … so I asked her, and was told it was because I'm breastfeeding … who knew? Everyone I guess except me … anyway – I was interested!
Right then – thank you cards to finish (sorry they've been slow) and getting round to designing a Christening card for her big day in May.
I am so lucky, I still can't quite believe that this is all real and she is so perfect and such a source of delight (and yes I'll still think that after she keeps me up all night tonight – though I hope she doesn't for her sake poor girl and the jabs don't affect her so badly now she's had some medicine) … I am so lucky.
Happy three month birthday, Hope. I will have to come and see you again when Anne Faulkner has had her baby.


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"If you don't ask, you don't get." Susan Borke first used this simple principle as a financially-strapped college student who needed to find a way to get course credit for an unpaid internship, without paying tuition. It was one of her first successful negotiations and helped to spark her passion for teaching this strategy, and other effective negotiating techniques, to business people of every level.
Susan Borke, the Principal of BorkeWorks is passionate about helping people develop as effective negotiators. She believes no one is born a master negotiator. Great negotiation skills come from a combination of knowledge, training, and practice. Susan has over 35 years of negotiating and negotiation training experience.
Susan started her career in television finance at CBS. After law school, she practiced at a firm in Washington, DC. Susan subsequently transitioned to a 28-year career with National Geographic Society.
Susan established and ran Legal and Business Affairs for National Geographic Television for over 10 years. She went on to a successful role as Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for the National Geographic Society. During her career, Susan negotiated with domestic and international commercial companies, educational institutions, and nonprofits. She also developed and taught programs on contract basics and negotiation skills to National Geographic staff.
After retiring from the National Geographic Society, Susan founded BorkeWorks and focused on teaching people to negotiate effectively. In addition to her private corporate and nonprofit clients, Susan is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies where she teaches negotiation courses in several programs.


Consultancy group Devoteam Middle East hosted a conference on Sunday, to discuss the future direction of internet services in Saudi Arabia.
Devoteam, along with the Saudi Commission for Information Technology and Communications, hosted internet and telecom service providers at the event, which focused on Internet Protocol version 6 (IPV6), the 'next generation' of internet standards.
The conference included sessions on technical developments in IPV6 and IPV4, the current standard for internet communications, and the progress made in upgrading Saudi Arabia to IPV6.
The IPV4 standard is facing a number of capacity problems, mainly with lack of IP addresses, with available IP addresses expected to be exhausted between 2010 and 2012. IPV6 uses 128-bit addresses, compared to IPV4 32bits, to allow many more addresses to be allocated, and the standard also includes enhanced address management and security functions.
Devoteam is the lead consultant on Saudi's IPV6 Focus Group, and has also been heavily involved in IPV6 developments in Europe. The company shared this experience with operators including Saudi Telecom, Mobily, Zain, ITC, and Atheeb at the event.
Osama Ghoul, managing partner of Devoteam Middle East said:. "The internet is at the centre of our business and personal lives, and what we're talking about today will affect us tomorrow unless action is taken. The work currently being undertaken by the Saudi IPv6 Focus Group is of immense importance. Without it, we could run out of internet addresses sooner than we think.
"Most of the net still uses IPv4, which is nearly twenty years old. We're now seeing issues in this standard, namely that there's a growing shortage of IPv4 addresses. IPv6 fixes a number of problems in IPv4, such as the limited number of available IPv4 addresses, as well as adding improvements in terms of security. It's vital that both national bodies as well as data providers are ready for the transition, otherwise the net's growth will grind to a halt," added Ghoul.


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Alumni Reunion
On Sunday 8 June around a hundred former students and staff gathered at the School for our very first Alumni Reunion, many bringing their families with them. They were also joined by present staff and current and former governors, including Zamira Menuhin…
YMS students Natasha Petrovic, Sharon Wong, Lucia Polo Moreno, Rosie Bennet and Kingsley Lin, together with staff members Jessica Buchanan-Barrow and Dawn Larter-Evans, ran in the Race for Life in Richmond Old Deer Park on Sunday 15 June to raise money fo…
Final Alumni Concert
On Sunday 22 June the School celebrated the final concert in the 50th Anniversary Celebrity Alumni Series with Alina Ibragimova and Friends in The Menuhin Hall. Alina, along with Benjamin Marquise Gilmore and Bartholomew LaFollette began the concert wi…
Kevin wins Segovia Competition
Many congratulations to YMS student Kevin Loh (16) who won first prize in the 14-16 age group of the 8th Andrés Segovia International Guitar Competition for Young Guitarists held in Velbert, Germany from 18 to 21 June 2014. Well done, Kevin!
Music in the Crystal Grotto
YMS musicians performed this week in the beautiful setting of the 18th-century 'Crystal Grotto' of Painshill Park, the first time this very individual setting had been used as a musical concert-space. The sunlight glittered on the waters of the lake ou…
Paolo Pegoraro
YMS guitarists have just spent a day experiencing the outstanding and inspirational teaching of Paolo Pegoraro, professor of guitar at the Kunstuniversität Graz. Paolo attended Thursday's opening concert of the YMS Summer Festival and then spent the wh…


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The small program is designed to foster innovation in the healthcare industry.
Apple, Samsung, Fitbit and a handful of other companies are joining a new pilot program to speed up the approval of healthcare-related apps and services.
On Tuesday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the digital health software precertification pilot program (FDA Pre-cert) during the AdvaMed MedTech Conference in San Jose, California, of which nine major companies will be acting as guinea pigs in the pilot stage.
Apple, Fitbit, Johnson & Johnson, Pear Therapeutics, Phosphorus, Roche, Samsung, Tidepool, and Verily are the first batch of companies to join the scheme, which the FDA says "will help revolutionize digital health regulation in the US."
If the new program results in a regulatory framework which speeds up the acceptance of acceptable health-related services, apps, and products, this not only benefits the businesses themselves bringing such ideas to market but consumers themselves.
However, rather than focusing purely on products themselves, the FDA wants to be able to "pre-certify" companies that meet a set of standards for quality.
Once a company is pre-certified, made possible through the FDA's analysis of software design, maintenance, supply chains and reputation, then they will be able to submit "less information to the FDA than is currently required" to gain approval for products and services.
Every company in the pilot has agreed to provide the FDA with access to development, testing, and maintenance protocols, including how post-market data is gathered.
Apple is the provider of Carekit, Health, and ResearchKit, while Samsung has also tested the waters with the Samsung Health app. Should the scheme go well, both of these tech giants -- together with the other companies -- could find FDA approval processes sped up, leading to a quicker time to market for new applications and systems.
The FDA says the agency is also considering whether and how precertified companies "may not have to submit a product for premarket review" in some cases.
"Our method for regulating digital health products must recognize the unique and iterative characteristics of these products," said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb. "We need to modernize our regulatory framework so that it matches the kind of innovation we're being asked to evaluate, and helps foster beneficial technology while ensuring that consumers have access to high-quality, safe and effective digital health devices."
"These pilot participants will help the agency shape a better and more agile approach toward digital health technology that focuses on the software developer rather than an individual product," the executive added.
The Pre-cert program was officially launched on 27 July as part of the agency's Digital Health Innovation Action Plan. Over 100 companies applied to join the pilot program, leading to the selection of nine in total.


In general, wills or living trusts that are valid in one state should be valid in all states. However, if you've recently moved, it's highly recommended that you consult an estate planning attorney in your new state. This is because states can have very different laws regarding all aspects of estate planning. For example, some states may allow you to disinherit a spouse if certain language is used, while other states may not allow it.
Another event that can cause problems with moving and estate planning is moving from a community property state to a common law state or vice versa. In community property states, all property earned or acquired during marriage is generally owned in equal halves by each spouse, with some exceptions, such as any property received by only one of them through gift or inheritance. The property that is considered community property includes income, anything acquired with income during the marriage, and any separate property that is transformed into community property. Separate property includes anything owned by either spouse before marriage, property received by only one spouse by gift or inheritance, and any property earned by one spouse after permanent separation. One spouse is not required in community property states to leave his or her half of the community property to another spouse, although many do.
In common law states, property acquired during a marriage is not automatically owned by both spouses. In common law states, the spouse who earns money and acquires property owns it by himself or herself, unless he or she chooses to share it with his or her spouse. Common law states usually have rules to protect a surviving spouse from being disinherited.
Whether a couple lives in a community property state or a common law state is important for estate planning purposes, because that can directly affect what each spouse is considered to own at death.
If a couple moves from a common law state to a community property state, there are different rules about what happens depending on where you move. If you move from a common law state to California, Washington, Idaho or Wisconsin, the property you bring into the state becomes community property. If you move to another community property state (Alaska, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, or Texas), your property ownership won't automatically change. If a couple moves from a community property state to a common law state, each spouse retains a one-half interest in property accumulated during marriage while they lived in the community property state.
As you can see, the laws of different states vary significantly with respect to incapacity planning, estate planning and inheritance rights. Therefore, it's important to contact an estate planning attorney in your new area, especially if you are moving from a community property state to a common law state, or vice versa.


The ingestion should always be avoided. Food and drinks should not be brought into stored, prepared or consumed in areas where paint is stored, or used. In addition to this, smoking in such area should always be prohibited.
It should be remaindered that the inhalation of paint, dust or fumes should be avoided by use of local ventilator or extraction. You can wear suitable respirator or mask to avoid the fumes or dust. The proper ventilation to exhaust the solvent fumes is also vital.
If ventilation is not possible use air fed mask.
Do not cover mouth with common cloth because they can get soacked with paints and are not at all good as air filter. We know that the solvent fumes are heavier than the common air and will tent to accumulate at the bottom of tank or in confined space.
Always wear working clothes which covers the body to maximum possible extent. You can also use gloves and eyes shield, clean eye shield frequently to remove paint miist.
In addition, you can also take precaution like don�t touch eyes, mouth, nose etc., with gloves. If the clothes are soacked with paints or thinner change them immediate and wash with soap and water. Properly wash hands and mouth with fresh water immediately after painting. The ring, watch etc. should be removed while starting the paintings as this can trape solvent or paints resulting in prolong skin contact.
If thinner or paint splashed in eyes wash them with clean water continuously for 10 minutes and take medical advise. In the event of the paint spillage on skin if necessary remove it by swabbing it with solvents soacked rag wash it with soap and water.
All paint except water thinned contains organic solvents which are flammable.
The quantity of the materials stored in the actual working areas should be as small as is possible.
Adequate ventilation and extraction should be provided and maintained.
Do not attempt to fight fire with water this cause the fire to sprade. Fight fire with dry chemical, foam or carbon dioxide extinguisher.
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The first line should be center aligned. Bootstrap useful?
Something like this (without the > signs):
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A Colombian DJ popular with the stars but wanted by Interpol for alleged drug trafficking has been arrested in Italy, Colombian police said on Wednesday.
DJ "Fexter," whose real name is Fernsterbein Fernando Ramirez, was arrested earlier this week in the northeastern Italian city of Udine.
Police dubbed him "one of the most dangerous offenders" in San Andres, a Colombian island in the Caribbean, but he had lived in Italy since 2013 after fleeing the law.
Though police say that he maintained links to Colombian drug traffickers and allege that he was head of the "Los Mellos" criminal gang, which is accused of mass murder, the sale of narcotics and extortion.
Police in Italy and Colombia have launched investigations into the Colombian.


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Where Piano Music Lovers Come Together to Discuss the Sounds of the Ivory Keys
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Best Piano Songs To Learn How To Play As A Beginner
Post author By pianist pat
If you have just made the decision to learn how to play the piano, or you are still a beginner, you might be wondering what songs you should try to play. After all, there are only so many scales and drills you can practice without getting bored.
You may have a piano teacher who has given you some suggestions for songs to play. Either way, it always good to know which songs are well-suited for beginners to learn how to play. That way you can get the most out of your practice, play songs that you enjoy, and make fast progress on your way to becoming a skilled pianist. The following are 10 of the best piano songs to learn how to play as a beginner.
Prelude To The Well-Tempered Clavichord – Johann Sebastian Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavichord by Johann Sebastian Bach is a classic piece for beginner pianists to learn to play. On the left hand, it uses just two notes, which makes it easy for you to get started with. The arpeggios are played by the right hand. The reason why this is such a good song to practice is that you can work on improving your two-hand dynamics and it is a short and sweet piece.
Sonata No. 16 (Sonata Facile) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart actually wrote his Sonata No. 16 for beginning piano players. "Facile" means easy. It is a good piece for beginning and intermediate piano players to learn and much less challenging than many other Mozart pieces.
Ode To Joy – Ludwig van Beethoven
This is one of the first songs that many beginning pianists learn to play. The notes are played with your left hand and the melody is played with your right hand. Ode To Joy is so easy to play that many beginners learn to play the song by ear.
The Entertainer – Scott Joplin
The Entertainer by Scott Joplin is a classic song from the Ragtime era. Joplin wrote the song in 1902, and it is still recommended to this day for beginner piano players. It uses basic chord progressions that help to support memorizing this piece. In terms of rhythm, the song offers a great opportunity for studying basic ragtime beats and syncopation. The left-hand patterns bounce back and forth to develop your keyboard awareness, chord-finding ability, and timing. Most important of all, it is a very fun song to play. You can first learn how to play it at a slow tempo, and then over time speed things up.
Smoke On The Water – Deep Purple
Only four notes are used by this song, so it very easy for beginning pianists to master it. Another thing that makes it easy for beginners to play Deep Purpose is that the hand position does to change. That means the beginner can learn to pay the four notes while practicing them using both hands.
Lean On Me – Bill Withers
This is one of the most common songs that beginner pianists learn how to play since it has every chord in a major key that all move in a stepwise manner, which makes it easy to remember and learn how to play.
Billie Jean – Michael Jackson
This classic hit song dates back to 1982 and appeared on Jackson's "Thriller" album. To play "Bille Jean" your right hand only needs to play three chords. That is the synth part of this song. That makes it easy for beginners to play. With your right hand, you play the following chord sequence: F# minor, G# minor, A minor, and G# minor. Then you can add your left hand in, with the four-note bass line. It will take a bit of practice, but after you have mastered playing this song, you will be able to play the famous riff from this hit song by Michael Jackson.
Someone Like You – Adele
This song was a huge hit when it was released in 2011. This is also an excellent song for beginning pianists to learn how to play since it has just four chords that continue to repeat: A, E, F# minor and D. The four chords are played in a repeating pattern.
When you are first learning how to play the song, you can start out slowly, and then continue to increase your speed as you gain confidence until you have the right tempo. After mastering the four-chord sequence played with your right hand, then your left hand can be added to play the intro.
All About The Bass – Meghan Trainor
Although this song might seem like it would be hard to play, it's actually a great one for beginning players to learn. Just four chords are used and they repeat throughout the entire song, so after the sequence is mastered, you will be able to play the whole song very easily.
Stand By Me – Ben E. King
This is a classic beginner's song due to its highly recognizable melody and easy, repetitive bass line. The main chords of the song are C, Am, F, and G that repeat over and over again.
Continue To Learn
After you have mastered these best piano songs for beginners, you can then take on more complicated songs or more complex versions of these songs. Always keep a good selection of songs handy to practice to help you stay motivated and continue to hone your skills. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect.
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Our annual Trivia Night is always fun!! You have folks that you don't usually see and I think getting so many people from our wonderful parish together is great idea, and I think it's a great way to get to know other people!! Everyone has a GREAT time, there's NO pressure, and of course, the main goal is to have FUN!!!
I walk in there feeling pretty good about my trivia facts, but I leave feeling somewhat dumb!! At any rate, it's a FUN,WONDERFUL, and GREAT evening! I'm already thinking about next years!!
Great school, Awesome teachers/staff and Excellent environment!


Fr Philip, Rosemary, Peter Seymour, Stuart Grigg, Kay Younie, Evelyn and Ruth went to our country sister parish of Blayney last weekend (3-4 March); all of us except for Evelyn stayed at the Goldfields Motel in Blayney. We knew before we arranged this weekend that the Rector Anastasia Webster-Hawes was on Long Service Leave and that Fr Philip was filling the position of Locum for the day.
Fortified with cups of tea and a rest after our arrival at our motel, we drove on to Carcoar to meet up with members of the parish at the historic Carcoar Church. We arrived to the sound of the bell ringing the Angelus (this was from further up the hill at Shalom Retreat House). We entered the little church to the beautiful sounds of the Richardson pipe organ being played by Bp Richard Hurford; then followed a very informative talk on the church and district by the local custodian and church warden, Ron Murray, who faithfully prays the morning and evening office every day in the church and has done for the past 40 years. This church had a very Anglo-Catholic tradition and was lovingly built by the people from bricks made in the local brickworks, with beautiful stained glass windows (even had chandeliers at one time); the cost of the recent restoration work on the church, the organ and the steeple, has been contributed by the parishioners and local community who take great pride in their historic village. It has to be seen to be fully appreciated.
At 7 p.m. we joined yet more parishioners at the Royal Hotel for conversation, drinks and an excellent dinner. As we left about 9.30 p.m. the air was very cool and the sky very black; the full moon appeared huge and bright as we drove up from the valley along the road back to Blayney.
We joined Fr Philip (Celebrant and Preacher) and Rosemary at the 8.00 a.m. said Holy Communion at Christ Church Blayney where Bp Richard Hurford assisted and welcomed us on behalf of the parish. We presented the Pascal Candle to Church Warden, Gill Haylan, during the notices and we suggested a reciprocal visit to our parish at the end of the year.
Peter and Stuart departed, and the rest of us, including Evelyn who had joined us that morning from Bathurst, left Blayney about 9.00 a.m. for the short drive to the beautiful town of Milthorpe. The LLM (Licensed Lay-Minister) Deidre welcomed us, as did the organist, Francis Dormer, formerly from Christ Church St Lawrence. Francis moved his family to Milthorpe about 6 years ago and has settled in well after their "tree change". Fr Philip was again Celebrant and Preacher, assisted in the service by the LLM. We sang the Eucharist and 5 hymns to a harmonium (pedal) organ, manfully managed by Francis – not an easy task! We presented the gift of our Paschal Candle to Deidre, wishing them a blessed Lent and a Holy Easter and invited the parishioners to come to St Luke's. We suggested maybe the weekend of our St Luke's Patronal Festival on 20/21 October. Accommodation may be arranged for them at Golden Grove and we will correspond further with the parish secretary in due course. Most of the parishioners seemed enthusiastic about coming, however, being a rural community with many of them from farming properties, we realise it is not always easy for them to get away.
Following a lovely morning tea/coffee and lots of chatter, the parishioners departed and the rest of us went for a wander around the old church grave yard. We eventually found John Lister's grave, the man credited with finding the first gold in the area. The numbers of babies and children buried in these graveyards is always a solemn reminder of how hard times were for these early settlers. The hot sun soon sent us scarpering back to our cars, pulling out the grass seeds embedded in our clothing!! We departed on our separate ways, Evelyn returned to Bathurst and the rest of us to Sydney. It was indeed a most successful Parish Visitation.


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Six Degrees have secured Big Lottery funding worth £350,000 to provide a new dementia training programme that will aim to help thousands of families across Greater Manchester.
The free, EmPoWereD Conversations training, founded by Dr Phil McEvoy, will be rolled out across all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester to family carers and professional carers. With the aim of alleviating communication issues, the course helps people to break down barriers by improving relationships and giving practical ways to connect and stay connected.


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Freemans Village - miasto w Antigui i Barbudzie, na wyspie Antigua (Saint Peter). Liczy 1072 mieszkańców (2013)

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Miejscowości w Antigui i Barbudzie

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Dr. J. David Andrew is the Medical Director for Meritage Medical Network. Dr. Andrew joined Meritage over twenty years ago, and has held the position of Medical Director for many of those years. His leadership and guidance has been instrumental in company growth and success. Dr. Andrew specializes in family medicine, and has over forty years of experience in his field.
Prior to Meritage, Dr. Andrew served as Medical Director for Ross Valley Medical Clinic from 1984 – 1989. He has been an active staff member with Marin General Hospital since 1977, and received recognition for his outstanding achievements when Marin Magazine awarded him Top Doctor in 2014.
Dr. Andrew earned his medical degree from Dalhousie University, in Canada, and completed his Internship with St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, in Vancouver.


Karl Leister founded "Karl Leister Elektro-Gerätebau" in Solingen, Germany as a sole proprietorship.
The first product: Leister FIX W200, handheld vacuum cleaner.
With three employees, began production in the basement of his parents' home.
Karl Leister invents the Leister KOMBI, a hot-air tool for welding thermoplastics.
First production building in Solingen.
First Leister trade show booth at the 'K' fair, international plastics trade fair, in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Expansion of sales network: ten countries in Europe and Australia.
Opening of branch office in Kaegiswil/Obwalden, Switzerland with four employees; 30 employees in Solingen.
New production building in Kaegiswil, Switzerland, with 50 employees.
New Process Heat product line: Air heater with blower.
Expansion of sales network in six countries in Europe, as well as the U.S.A., Canada, South Africa, Israel and Japan.
New production in Solingen, Germany with 45 employees.
First production expansion in Kaegiswil.
All business activities moved from Solingen to Kaegiswil.
Second production expansion in Kaegiswil.
Production in Solingen is shut down.
The "Karl Leister Elektro-Gerätebau" company now has its new location in Switzerland with 100 employees.
A historic farm house is turned into offices in the production area in Kaegiswil.
Third and fourth production expansions in Kaegiswil.
Expansion of sales network in 17 countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Sales and service centers with sales partners in 41 countries.
Christiane Leister takes over control of the company and executive management as a successor.
New "Weldy" product line: Hot-air blowers for DIY and private label customers.
New business activities: Axetris gas sensors and micro-optics.
Acquisition of "Lemantech SA," a start-up company from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, as an entry into micro-technology.
New Leister product line: Laser systems for welding plastics.
New company building with high-bay warehouse in Sarnen/Obwalden, Switzerland.
Integrated clean room for Axetris in Kaegiswil production building.
Leister Technologies LLC, Itasca, Ill., U.S.A.
Production of Weldy hot-air tools—do-it-yourself and private labels―moves from Switzerland to China.
More history of Leister China.
Acquisition of "IR Microsystems SA" to expand Axetris product portfolio.
Acquisition of a representative industrial building in Kaegiswil on Galileo-Strasse. The "Cockpit" becomes the company's new headquarters.
The separate companies—Leister Process Technologies, with Leister and Axetris business units, and the Leister subsidiaries abroad―are transformed into a corporate structure.
Leister AG becomes the holding company for the Leister Group.
Weldy AG, Kaegiswil: Global distribution of Weldy products under the do-it-yourself and private labels.
Acquisition of Seamtek, Inc., Sandpoint, Idaho, U.S.A., to expand the Leister product portfolio with welders for film welding.
Weldy becomes a trademark of Leister.
The Leister Group takes over long-time distribution partner, Klappenbach GmbH, Hagen, Germany.
Leister invests 35 million Swiss francs in production line expansion and new clean rooms for Axeris AG.


The Man from Ocado (it's Richard, in the Apple van in case you need to know) says he needs to see proof of my age to check that I am over 25 before he can deliver my bottles of Prosecco. What a smoothie!
I wonder why I found it necessary to offer explanations anyway. It's a definite Sign of Weakness in my book, though I am aware I am not the only person so afflicted.
It's the same with apologies, don't you know? A wise person advised me once never to apologise in advance before, for example, serving up a meal or embarking on a presentation. The only one who knows, for certain, how things were supposed to turn out is Yours Truly. By drawing attention to slight - or even major - deficiencies in what is to come, it leaves absolutely no room for doubt.
I'm sure all the chefs who appear on TV have learnt this simple lesson. I bet you anything you like that there are times when they look at the sorry mess they are about to consign to the oven and thank their lucky stars that they have invested in One They Prepared Earlier.
Apart from the arrival of Mr Ocado Man it's not been the most eventful of days. My greatest excitement was ordering ten bags of multi-purpose compost to be delivered on Tuesday morning, for the filling of our vegetable trough. All we need to do now, I tell Mr B, is to agree what we should grow therein. "Vegetables?" he queries, poker faced. What a wit! Based on that, and similar performances, he could easily get a job with Ocado and drive around in vans fancifully named after assorted fruit and vegetables.
Personally I hanker after carrots. This is because I have a fond memory of my dear Dad treating my Foursome, when they were just littl'uns, with baby carrots lifted straight from his vegetable patch. Never did carrots - or a memory - taste so sweet. I like the idea of taking my own grandchildren out into the back garden and digging them up a carrot each from the vegetable trough.
My own Grandad, when washing my hands before dinner, would make his hands all soapy then take each of my tiny mitts in turn between his big hands, enclosing my dirty paw completely as he tenderly bathed it clean. As loving gestures between grandfather and grandchild go, it takes some beating. I have never felt more totally loved and protected than I did standing at the wash basin with my Grandad. I have tried to copy his actions but my grandchildren are obviously rather more independent-minded than I was and are quick to tell me they can "do it myself!"
I suppose I have created, over the years, a few traditions by which my Truly Tremendous Ten may, or may not, remember me when they reach my Great Age. A Giant Penguin on the doorstep. Ready, Jelly, Go traffic light jellies. Birthday banners and summer holiday songs. It's something of a strange list, I have to admit.
Will those memories linger as long and as sweetly, I wonder, as the taste of a freshly dug carrot or the enveloping comfort of my Grandad's hands?
I make no apologies for living in hope.


Walt Karl is a character in the 3D Universe who is mentioned in Grand Theft Auto III.
Walt Karl is, in 2001, a news reporter for the Liberty Tree newspaper who writes the Gangs Rife on our City Streets, Corruption Everywhere article in May 2001.
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The brain has functions analogous to a computer –writing (communicating), storing, recalling via a formal syntax. For decades, human programmers have been coding behavior using languages such as machine-command Assembly Language, and higher-level Basic, C#, Java, HTML/XML, IOS, etc. These language programs consist of step-by-step instructions that instruct a machine to create, manipulate, store and recall data.
Facebook, Google, Microsoft use massive distributed computational systems mimic the multilayered neural connections of the human brain. Thus, Facebook knows what tidbits to assemble as your news feed, Google Search is moving from human-written algorithms to reliance on deep neural networks.


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Kevin Haskin: Heaps eager to take over at Kansas
Circumstances differ from previous transfer QB Crist
Kevin Haskin
DALLAS — One transfer quarterback was throttled into submission a year ago for all to see at Kansas.
Dayne Crist came in from Notre Dame with considerable promise, yet never had a chance to succeed. He eventually lost his starting position and the Jayhawks lost every game they played against Bowl Subdivision teams.
Losing streaks mounted, on the road (20), within the FBS (19) and within the Big 12 (21).
Now, another transfer steps in at QB. Can we believe things will be any different with Jake Heaps?
"Actually they're totally different situations other than the fact that they're coming in new," KU coach Charlie Weis said.
One issue with Crist that KU could not ascertain during camp was any degree of uncertainty stemming from his recovery from ACL tears in both knees.
"So you don't know what's going to happen when the real bullets start flying," Weis said. "(Crist) wasn't playing with a lot of confidence, wasn't playing with that air about him."
No air completely grounded the Jayhawks. They relied almost exclusively on a rushing attack, which, though potent, could not produce the yardage necessary to keep pace in the Big 12.
"You knew when teams would bring their safeties up within 10 yards," said tailback James Sims, "that defenses were looking to stop one thing, the run."
Maybe not so much in 2013.
For starters, Heaps has no physical concerns. Second, he had a year to sit out and study the system after transferring from BYU. Third, he gained familiarity with teammates.
"Just that feel Jake got from having the year off has put him a step ahead," Sims said. "With Dayne it was, 'You just gotta get going right now.'"
Not that the off year was easy.
"It was excruciating," Heaps said. "I'm a big-time competitor and I love to be out with my teammates. That's the first time I've sat out. Ever. To have the game taken away from me, I learned a lot and stepped back and got to assess how I can get better as a quarterback."
Heaps often wanted to grab a helmet. Instead, he had to wait and now will wear the latest head gear, displayed for the first time at Big 12 media days, adorned — finally! — with the Jayhawk mascot.
"Last year was really hard on me, because I felt I could go out there and play and help my teammates," Heaps said. "But I had to be the best teammate I could be. It made me a better leader to be honest, because I was able to pull guys aside and keep their heads up and be positive."
Yet not throw one pass.
Rated as the No. 1 pro-style quarterback in the country coming out of Sammamish, Wash., Heaps was recruited back then by Weis. A connection was forged, though Heaps signed with BYU after Weis was bounced out of Notre Dame.
Heaps broke every freshman record at BYU and drew 10 starts. He lost the job in 2011 when his touchdown passes (nine) barely exceeded his interceptions (eight). He learned Weis landed at Kansas, then dialed his number.
Weis not only could provide an opportunity, his NFL experience could help in Heaps' desire to turn pro.
"When I came to Kansas it was all for coach Weis. It had nothing to do with KU,'' Heaps said. "I fell in love with the campus, plus you get to work with coach Weis, who has one of the best offensive minds in the history of the game."
That mind was stifled, however, last season. Much of the playbook was scrapped, particularly Weis' favorite section, the passing game.
"He loves to throw the ball just as much as I love to throw the ball," said Heaps, "but the cool thing about it is you got to see how great a coach he is and how amazing he was at designing plays and coming up with a new scheme.
"Everybody knew we were going to throw the football. Everybody knew we struggled as a passing offense, but every week he came out with something new that threw people off."
Kansas trailed by a touchdown through one half at Kansas State. It rallied to scare Oklahoma State. It had Texas on the ropes in the fourth quarter. It extended Texas Tech into double overtime.
But it went winless in league for a second straight season.
Right or wrong, those losing streaks are now on Heaps. In addition to yards, completions and efficiency, quarterbacks are measured on wins.
"It gets brought up because you want to end it," Heaps said of KU's skid. "For me personally, I haven't been part of that streak, but it affects me just as much because these are my teammates and this is my program.
"It's a new team and we'll knock all those barriers down one game at a time. When we get there it will be great."


BREAKING NEWS: Pilgrim's Pride, a U.S. unit of Brazilian meat company JBS, made an unsolicited $6.4 billion takeover offer for Hillshire Brands, as it tries to derail Hillshire's acquisition of Pinnacle Foods. Bloomberg has the story.
Whatever happens with the income tax rate in Illinois — reports say House Speaker Michael Madigan has declared an increase of the extension is dead — the matter is going to be the focal point for a clearly drawn election-year debate over the future of the state.Crain's takes a look at the arguments.
— Plus, Crain's Greg Hinz reports that Chicago wants to bump its cell phone tax from $2.50 a month now to $3.90.
After losing a few major food deals at sports venues to data-focused rivals, Levy Restaurants is analyzing data on its stadium sales and customer habits. "Food quality is still important, but it's not No. 1 anymore," says one Levy exec. "Now it's data, it's analytics." Crain's Danny Ecker has the story.
What's Thoma Bravo's secret weapon in dealmaking?
Since Chicago private-equity pioneer Carl Thoma hired Orlando Bravo, Thoma Bravo LLC has become one of the top five technology buyout shops in the U.S. Crain's explains that now the test for the tech titan is besting, or at least matching, prior returns.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal also would require gun stores to videotape every sale to deter customers from buying firearms for crooks. The ordinance is a response to a federal judge's ruling in January that Chicago's longtime ban on gun stores was unconstitutional, writes the Sun-Times.
Who's taken advantage of Obamacare so far? Check out Crain's graphic for breakdowns on the 8 million or so people across the country — including the roughly 217,000 people in Illinois — who have signed up for health coverage via an online marketplace.
Archer Daniels Midland is among the bidders for German drink and food flavors maker Wild in a transaction valued at $2.04 billion, sources tell Reuters.
In a proposal sure to be watched closely by energy companies and others, the Obama administration next week will unveil a proposed rule aimed at allowing states to use cap-and-trade systems, renewable energy and other measures to meet aggressive goals for reducing carbon emissions by existing power plants. The Wall Street Journal reports.
Chicago-based Durata Therapeutics says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its first drug, a once-weekly intravenous antibiotic aimed at acute bacterial skin infections and skin structure infections. The Chicago Tribune has more.
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is pushing a plan to set up the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum as a free-standing state agency. But as the Chicago Tribune notes, opponents are concerned it would become a patronage haven.


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An AWX antenna is an antenna which means that it can be used for All Wave radio frequency and is shaped like X.

It has two "V" shaped elements. Two types to place these two elements exist for this antenna. First, one element is placed left side spreading out for left and the other element is placed right side spreading out for right. This is balanced type. Second, one element is placed upper side spreading out for upward and the other element is placed lower side spreading out for downward. This is unbalanced type.

RF energy is fed at two vertices of each element.

It can be used in very wide frequency range whose gain is higher than a dipole antenna. To obtain enough gain, the antenna must be set at enough high place off the ground to avoid the effect of the ground.

The antenna is used by radio stations which need to communicate in wide frequency range such as amateur radios, military radios and maritime mobile services.

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Bloomberg Businessweek: The NASA Veteran Cracking Down on Illegal Gold Miners
June 19, 2019 / Tim McDonnell
Satellite-imaging software helps government officials identify unlicensed mining sites.
A small-scale mining operation in Kibi, Ghana.
PHOTOGRAPHER: RUTH MCDOWALL FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK
A small-scale mining operation in Kibi, Ghana. PHOTOGRAPHER: RUTH MCDOWALL FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK
This story first appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek.
The illegal gold mine is hidden just past a thick grove of cocoa trees, a little ways off the two-lane road through Sagyimase, Ghana, a rural town a couple hours' drive north of the West African nation's capital, Accra. It sits on a torn-up patch of ground the size of a football field, where three dozen workers operate backhoes and a tangle of generators, pumps, and hoses, washing peanut-size nuggets of gold out of the red earth. Gold was Ghana's biggest export last year, and mines like this are common throughout the country, often a more lucrative alternative to cocoa farming. But this mine—like too many others, government officials say—is operating without a valid permit, without oversight of its severe environmental impact, and without paying taxes meant to underwrite the land's eventual restoration.
In Ghana's vast agricultural hinterland, such mines often operate with little fear of regulators. Felix Addo-Okyireh, an official with Ghana's Environmental Protection Agency who oversees the small-scale mining industry in Sagyimase and the rest of the country's Eastern Region, has two enforcement officers patrolling an area slightly smaller than New Jersey. "It's difficult to identify the illegal mines unless we happen to bump into them," he says. Mining is a big reason why Ghana has the world's fastest-growing rate of deforestation, according to the World Resources Institute, and often leads to the contamination of farmland and water sources with toxic chemicals including mercury and cyanide. So Addo-Okyireh and his colleagues have turned to NASA for help.
National Geographic: Cameroon's embattled ebony trees get a lifeline—from guitar maker
NPR: Rewards — And Risks — Of Using Antibiotics As Silver Bullet For Kids In Africa


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Dow briefly passes 11,000, but low volume of trading worries analysts
By Associated Press and Bernard Condon |
NEW YORK — Think Dow 11,000 is a big deal? Think again.
The Dow Jones industrial average briefly hit the milestone Friday for the first time in 18 months before closing at 10,997.
But Wall Street analysts who study key stock index levels say all the attention paid to 11,000 is more like a big distraction. They worry that investors, at their peril, are ignoring another number: The surprisingly low volume of trading. As stocks have risen over the past year, the volume reflects the vulnerability of a rally riding on the shoulders of relatively few participants.
And that's given pause even to the bulls.
"It worries a lot of us," said Wellington Shields' Frank Gretz, a technical analyst who specializes in pinpointing market levels at which stocks might suddenly rise or fall. He wonders whether the volume signals that the rally could soon peter out, like the big surges that preceded steep declines in the 1930s in the U.S. and in Japan more recently.
Louise Yamada, a 29-year veteran of technical analysis who heads an eponymous firm in New York, said she's not just concerned but confused.
"Why is the market going up?" she asks. "You usually don't see advances without volume."
The Dow hadn't passed 11,000 since Sept. 29, 2008, just as the worst phase of the financial crisis was beginning.
The Dow very briefly went over 11,000 in the final five minutes of trading Friday before settling slightly lower. The average of 30 industrial stocks ended with a gain of 70 points. Broader indexes also rose.
The Dow rose 70.28, or 0.6 percent, to close at 10,997.35. The Standard & Poor's 500 index climbed 7.93, or 0.7 percent, to 1,194.37. The Nasdaq composite index rose 17.24, or 0.7 percent, to 2,454.05.
The Dow's rise Friday gave the index its sixth straight weekly gain for the first time since a stretch in March and April 2009, just after the market bottomed out at 12-year lows.
The widely cited Dow index is up 70 percent from its lows of more than a year ago. The climb has been one of the strongest in history, and it may herald a strong recovery. But it's been propelled by relatively few trades.
The 200-day moving average volume on the New York Stock Exchange is now at 1.2 billion shares, down from 1.6 billion, or nearly 25 percent, a year ago.
In other words, if there is wisdom in crowds, the stock market is getting dumber.
One reason volume is lower: Main Street investors have largely stayed out of the market, abandoning it to hedge funds, pension funds and other professional investors. Last year, individuals, as tracked by mutual fund flows, yanked $14 billion from stock mutual funds.
Bulls argue that the Dow breaching 11,000 might convince ordinary investors that the rally will last. And that will bring a flood of money into the market, pushing indexes higher.
But Janney Montgomery Scott analyst Dan Wantrobski isn't convinced.
"Main Street investors need confidence in the economy more than the Dow at 11,000," he said. "They need a drop in the unemployment rate."
On that front, there are signs of hope.
Last week, the Labor Department reported 162,000 jobs were created in March, the most in three years. The unemployment rate was unchanged, at 9.7 percent.
Another boost to the outlook came Thursday from retailers: Sales at stores open at least a year rose 9 percent last month.
And, of course, there are plenty of other indicators of stock market health besides volume.
Technical analysts will make your head dizzy with their talk of "double tops," "double bottoms" and "Fibonacci retracements." Some of them prefer to make the case for a bull market.
For starters, they like that most stocks in various indexes have rallied, and not just a few powerful ones, as is sometimes the case. They also note that nearly nine out of 10 stocks are trading above their 200-day average price — a bullish sign.
Then there's the argument that maybe volume isn't really all it's cracked up to be.
In the last bull market, the trend was completely opposite the one today. The 200-day average daily volume surged to 1.7 billion shares in late 2007, up more than a third from early 2002, as individuals grew more confident in the rally.
As it turns out, they should have sat on their cash. In October 2007, shortly after volume peaked, the market began to collapse. Investors will still be down 22 percent — even if the Dow does eventually close above 11,000.
Bernard Condon
Political Cartoons: ICE raid hype fizzles nationwide
No Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids were reported in the Bay Area Sunday.
Man accused of killing California student Mackenzie Lueck appears in court
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A tech worker charged in the death of a Utah college student made his first court appearance Monday as friends of the slain woman held hands in the front row.
Red light in San Jose changed after 'rebel' Roadshow reader complains
If your car has a flat tire or is damaged in some way, always try to drive to the shoulder of the road rather than stop and get out and walk.
Netflix removed graphic suicide scene from '13 Reasons Why' finale
Netflix has decided to remove a graphic suicide scene from the Season 1 finale of its show "13 Reasons Why" as the series prepares to launch its third season.


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Diamond Head; it is a volcanic landmark in the area.
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Vadim Valentínovich Yevséyev (en ruso: Вадим Валентинович Евсеев; 8 de enero de 1976) es un exfutbolista ruso que se desempeñaba como lateral derecho y fue internacional con la selección de fútbol de Rusia. Actualmente es entrenador.

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Jugador

Entrenador

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FC Spartak de Moscú

 Liga Premier de Rusia: 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99
 Copa de Rusia: 1998

FC Lokomotiv de Moscú

 Liga Premier de Rusia: 2001-02, 2003-04
 Copa de Rusia: 2000, 2001
 Supercopa de Rusia: 2003

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 Profile (en ruso)
 National Football Teams

Futbolistas del FC Spartak de Moscú
Futbolistas del FC Torpedo Moscú
Futbolistas del FC Lokomotiv Moscú
Futbolistas del FC Saturn Moskovskaya Oblast
Futbolistas del Torpedo Zhodino
Futbolistas del Arsenal Tula
Futbolistas de Rusia en la Eurocopa 2004
Entrenadores del FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo
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Q: NullPointerException while launching an application from JNLP with Java 64 bit 1.7.0_06+ The following app works perfectly with Java 1.7.0_05 and older:
<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://localhost/demo/">
    <information>
        <title>BPI 4.7</title>
        <vendor>Fox Technical Services Inc.</vendor>
        <homepage href="/home.html"/>
        <description>Fox Client</description>
        <description kind="short">Fox</description>
        <icon href="base/Fox64.gif" height="64" width="64"/>
    </information>
    <security>
        <all-permissions/>
    </security>
    <resources>
        <j2se href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" version="1.6+"/>
        <jar href="base/application.jar" main="true"/>
        <jar href="base/sessions.jar"/>
        <jar href="base/swingSessions.jar"/>
        <jar href="base/sharedClientServer.jar"/>
        <jar href="base/baseLookAndFeelNoDecorations.jar"/>
        <jar href="base/clientCommon2.jar"/>
        <jar href="base/httpProvider.jar"/>
        <jar href="base/swing.jar"/>
        <jar href="base/swingImages.jar"/>
        <jar href="base/glf.jar"/>
        <jar href="base/vnc.jar"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/TableLayout-bin-jdk1.5-2007-04-21.jar"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/dbswing.jar"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/dx.jar"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/beandt.jar"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/jnlp.jar"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/alloy.jar"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/commons-beanutils.jar"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/commons-collections-3.1.jar"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/commons-logging.jar"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/commons-codec-1.3.jar"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/commons-lang-2.0.jar" download="lazy"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/httpclient-4.0-beta2.jar"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/httpcore-4.0.jar"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/log4j-1.2.15.jar" download="lazy"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/jbcl.jar" download="lazy"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/mail-1.4.jar" download="lazy"/>
        <jar href="thirdPartyLib/activation-1.1.jar" download="lazy"/>
        <jar href="base/javolution.jar" download="lazy"/>
    </resources>
    <application-desc>
    </application-desc>
</jnlp>

When I try to run it with Java1.7.0_06 and newer, I get an exception :
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.getMainClassName(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

The console logs are :
Java Web Start 10.7.2.11
Using JRE version 1.7.0_07-b11 Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
User home directory = C:\Users\val
----------------------------------------------------
c:   clear console window
f:   finalize objects on finalization queue
g:   garbage collect
h:   display this help message
m:   print memory usage
o:   trigger logging
p:   reload proxy configuration
q:   hide console
r:   reload policy configuration
s:   dump system and deployment properties
t:   dump thread list
v:   dump thread stack
0-5: set trace level to <n>
----------------------------------------------------
Match: beginTraversal
Match: digest selected JREDesc: JREDesc[version 1.6+, heap=-1--1, args=null, href=http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se, sel=false, null, null], JREInfo: JREInfo for index 0:
    platform is: 1.7
    product is: 1.7.0_07
    location is: http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se
    path is: C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe
    args is: null
    native platform is: Windows, amd64 [ x86_64, 64bit ]
    JavaFX runtime is: JavaFX 2.2.1 found at C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\
    enabled is: true
    registered is: true
    system is: true

    Match: ignoring maxHeap: -1
    Match: ignoring InitHeap: -1
    Match: digesting vmargs: null
    Match: digested vmargs: [JVMParameters: isSecure: true, args: ]
    Match: JVM args after accumulation: [JVMParameters: isSecure: true, args: ]
    Match: digest LaunchDesc: null
    Match: digest properties: []
    Match: JVM args: [JVMParameters: isSecure: true, args: ]
    Match: endTraversal ..
    Match: JVM args final:
    Match: Running JREInfo Version    match: 1.7.0.07 == 1.7.0.07
     Match: Running JVM args match: have:<>  satisfy want:<>
#### Java Web Start Error:
#### null

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

A: It feels strange that your application-desc element is empty.
According to the jnlp-secification it must contain the attribute attribute main-class.
<application-desc main-class="com.yourcompany.MyCoolApplication" />


Ranging from textile products and household appliances to food from all over the world, we offer our customers a wide variety of different products, both through our core range and our weekly range of special buy items. Throughout our global supply chains, we assume responsibility for promoting fair working conditions and environmental compliance.
Our requirements towards suppliers and products are recorded within the ALDI "Social Standards in Production" as well as other specific standards. Using suitable monitoring approaches, audits, and training measures, we strive to ensure that our suppliers are able to fulfil our requirements. In this context, we closely collaborate with our suppliers in order to achieve continuous improvements.
We regularly review and, if necessary, update our requirements. For example, having joined the Greenpeace Detox campaign in 2015, we are committed to eliminating certain chemicals from textile and shoe production by 2020. By participating in industry and multi-stakeholder initiatives, we actively contribute to the further development of standards and practical approaches as well as knowledge sharing.
On a regular basis, we assess the potential risks related to social and environmental standards connected to the production of certain goods or in certain regions, and then prioritise our planned measures accordingly. For several years now, a major focus of our efforts has been on the production of textiles and shoes in Bangladesh, China, and other countries in Asia.
Through our programme aimed at reviewing and improving social standards (Social Monitoring Programme, SMP) and the implementation of the Detox Commitment, we have seen great achievements over the past few years. 99.58% of the non-food production facilities used for the manufacture of products which are covered by an SMP could present valid social audits in 2017. All Bangladeshi production facilities which were used by our suppliers in 2017 have already been visited by ALDI representatives within the scope of an ALDI Social Assessment (ASA). Through our ALDI Factory Advancement (AFA) Project, which we conduct in Bangladesh, we offer additional training measures at almost 40 production facilities with the highest relevance for ALDI. Regarding the implementation of the Detox Commitment, we have achieved important initial milestones. Among others, wastewater analyses − which provide information on the use of chemicals in production − are already available for 89% of all pre-suppliers using wet processes.
We are committed to continuing our efforts in this area. To do so, we will continue to increase the transparency of our supply chains and work towards continuous improvements at all levels of the supply chain together with our suppliers. We regularly review new requirements and integrate them into our processes.
A strategy is only as good as its implementation. With regard to sourcing, this means that our commitment to sustainability and responsibility needs to be reflected in our purchasing practices. The majority of our products are not sourced directly from producers, but from suppliers who commission the manufacture or import of the products. Therefore, collaborating with our suppliers is an essential factor in achieving our sustainability goals.
In 2017, we began consolidating our global garment textile supply chain and intensifying discussions with suppliers about Corporate Responsibility (CR)-related topics. As a result, the number of production facilities used by our suppliers in this sector has already decreased by 31%. Thus, our suppliers are able to achieve better capacity utilisation of production facilities, enabling investments in the improvement of working conditions and environmental compliance to pay off sooner.
To ensure continued compliance with our high standards in the future, new garment textile suppliers must first undergo an auditing and approval process conducted by the responsible CR department. Furthermore, these suppliers are obliged to specify a fixed production facility pool for the production of ALDI merchandise. New production facilities may only be used once we have confirmed that they adhere to our requirements.
At the same time, we have begun to systematically assess our suppliers' CR performance. On the one hand, we wish to support our business partners in improving their performance. On the other hand, we aim to increase collaboration with those suppliers implementing our CR requirements to a particularly high degree. During the introduction phase, we initially accepted various suppliers of garment textiles and other non-food items into the programme. In the future, we will extend the CR performance assessment programme to include additional suppliers.
The starting point of our CR performance assessment programme for suppliers is a review of all available information on our business partners and their production facilities. In order to evaluate our suppliers' CR set-up, we analyse a wide variety of information. In doing so, we not only take their plans and CR strategies into account but also query information on personnel resources and organisational structures for the implementation of our CR requirements. For the verification of these information, we use the findings gained during on-site visits conducted as part of our ALDI Social Assessments. As a rule, these on-site visits are conducted by employees of our ALDI CR Units in Hong Kong and Dhaka together with independent auditors and supplier representatives.
Based on our assessments, we regularly conduct supplier interviews in order to identify potential for improving our suppliers' CR performance. Wherever required, we support our suppliers in further developing their processes by providing targeted training sessions.
The CR assessment is an increasingly important factor which influences contract placement. In future, we plan to increase our cooperation with those suppliers which fulfil our CR requirements to a particularly high degree and to discontinue our business relationships with other suppliers. Consequently, particularly committed suppliers will be able to expand their collaboration with us by increasing their investments in sustainability.
Continuously increasing the sustainability of our supply chain is a task we face together with our suppliers. In order to achieve effective changes, we need to steadily enhance the knowledge of our own supply chains and our understanding of the related challenges and opportunities. Therefore, measures for improving transparency are the initial focus of many of our initiatives. By assessing the CR performance of our suppliers, we are taking an important step towards ensuring that we can meet the ever increasing challenges of the future together.
Cycle of the suppliers assessment: In the 1st year, a self-assessment questionnaire is filled in by the suppliers, they are monitored and evaluated. In the 2nd year, suppliers receive an appropirate training, are monitored again and evaluated. Depending on the results, the business relationship with the supplier is either being discontinued or intensified.
Please find all information in the table view.
ASAs are audits of production facilities that are carried out by ALDI SOUTH employees together with external auditors and supplier representatives mainly in Bangladesh and China.
The indicator takes into account all contractually agreed main non-food production facilities located in risk countries, as defined by the amfori Business Social Compliance Initiative (amfori BSCI), and which are already integrated within an ALDI SOUTH Social Monitoring Programme as well as all social audit reports and certificates accepted by ALDI SOUTH.
The indicator is based on all contractually agreed, main non-food production facilities used for ALDI SOUTH production which are located in Bangladesh.
The indicator is based on all risk-relevant garment textiles suppliers of ALDI SOUTH.
The indicator is based on all wet-processing facilities used for textiles and shoes which have been contractually agreed with ALDI SOUTH and on test reports for wastewater and sludge analyses which are no older than one year.


Grosvenor Place Kamizonocho is a large, luxurious condominium complex for families, located amongst a downtown oasis of quiet, leafy streets surrounding the large public grounds of Yoyogi Park. This area is popular for its fresh environment and its proximity to both the chic and sophisticated boutiques of Omotesando and the department stores and nightlight hotspots of downtown Shibuya and Harajuku.
The building includes 4 upper stories + 3 basement floors and has 45 units ranging in size from 154 ~ 363 sqm (1657 ~ 3905 sqft). Inside, all apartments boast luxurious interior fittings, with penthouse units even featuring a jacuzzi on a private rooftop terrace.
All residents also enjoy a full-bilingual concierge, and private areas within a large, open-planned common lounge space, s a fitness gym and outside, an exclusive garden area.
Close by there are 3 supermarkets, Seijo-Ishii, Maruman-store and Maruetsu Peti , which provide international goods for everyday living. The building is in the Yoyogi Kamizonocho area, which is a very prestigious location, famous for expat families, and as such both the United School of Tokyo (15 minutes walk away) and the British School of Tokyo are nearby.
From Shibuya station you have quick access to a number of key places in Tokyo, including elsewhere in the central metropolis on the Yamanote Line and further afield, popular cities other attractions such as Yokohama. The Narita Express line also stops off in Shibuya, putting the airport within touching distance.


Sitting on its original site among the gleaming modern high rises of downtown Fort Lauderdale is Broward County's oldest building and its most popular historical site, Stranahan House. This house is a classic example of "Florida Frontier" architecture. It speaks of the history of Fort Lauderdale as it was built in 1901 by Frank Stranahan, the area's first permanent white settler, and was first operated as a trading post, set up to service early settlers and Seminole Indians. It contains turn-of-the-century furnishings and historical photos of the area. Daily tours are available at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. and last about 45-60 minutes. No reservations are required.
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The earldom of Tullibardine was passed to William's brother Patrick whilst his son John obtained the earldom of Atholl.
Charles was created 'Duke of Rannoch' by James Stuart, 'the Old Pretender'. He played a prominent role in the Jacobite rebellion and was attainted for treason.
Their eldest son became 2nd Lord of Glenlyon then 6th Duke of Atholl.
Sir Mungo inherited the viscountcy from his kinsman, and wife's uncle, the 1st Viscount. After his death it passed by special entail to James Murray, 2nd Earl of Annandale.


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Q: Custom video-js width and height on Dynamically Loaded Content I'm dynamically loading video-js inside a foundation reveal, and I have to trigger the width and height each time it loads. The odd thing is, once I've loaded one video on the page, it won't change it again no matter what, it only sticks to the one size.
This is my code
    $(document).on('opened.fndtn', '[data-reveal]', function () {
        if($('.sd-video').length) {
            console.log('SD Detected');
            videojs($('.sd-video')[0], {"width": 640,"height": 480}, function() {});
        }
        if($('.hd-video').length) {
            console.log('HD Detected');
            videojs($('.hd-video')[0], {"width": 1287,"height": 720}, function() {});
        }
    });
    $(document).on('closed.fndtn', '[data-reveal]', function () {
        $('#'+$(this).attr('id')).html('');
    });

and no matter what I try, once it's loaded HD, the SD will not resize, and vice-versa. Any ideas?

A: You can try to change by using CSS values. It does not matter whether the player is loaded or not. You can change the dimensions even when the video is playing.
For example, you can check this example https://codepen.io/caglar62/pen/BebKMX.
You can change the dimensions of the video player with one button click like this
<div class="container">
    <video id="my-video" class="video-js" controls preload="auto" width="870" height="364" ></video>
    <input type="button" value="Click me" onclick="changeSize()">
</div>

<script>
   function changeSize(){
      document.getElementById("my-video").style.width = "200px";
   }
</script>

This is just a simple example but you can write more complicated algorithms that suit your purpose in the same approach.


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Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon (French: République du Cameroun), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Its coastline lies on the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. Due to its strategic position at the crossroads between West Africa and Central Africa, it has been categorized as being in both camps. Its nearly 27 million people speak 250 native languages.
Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilization around Lake Chad and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest. Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area Rio dos Camarões (Shrimp River), which became Cameroon in English. Fulani soldiers founded the Adamawa Emirate in the north in the 19th century, and various ethnic groups of the west and northwest established powerful chiefdoms and fondoms. Cameroon became a German colony in 1884 known as Kamerun. After World War I, it was divided between France and the United Kingdom as League of Nations mandates. The Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) political party advocated independence, but was outlawed by France in the 1950s, leading to the national liberation insurgency fought between French and UPC militant forces until early 1971. In 1960, the French-administered part of Cameroon became independent, as the Republic of Cameroun, under President Ahmadou Ahidjo. The southern part of British Cameroons federated with it in 1961 to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. The federation was abandoned in 1972. The country was renamed the United Republic of Cameroon in 1972 and back to the Republic of Cameroon in 1984 by a presidential decree by the then president Paul Biya. Paul Biya, the incumbent president, has led the country since 1982 following Ahidjo's resignation; he previously held office as prime minister from 1975 on. Cameroon is governed as a Unitary Presidential Republic.
The official languages of Cameroon are French and English, the official languages of former French Cameroons and British Cameroons. Its religious population is predominantly Christian, with a significant minority practicing Islam, and others following traditional faiths. It has experienced tensions from the English-speaking territories, where politicians have advocated for greater decentralization and even complete separation or independence (as in the Southern Cameroons National Council). In 2017, tensions over the creation of an Ambazonian state in the English-speaking territories escalated into open warfare.
Large numbers of Cameroonians live as subsistence farmers. The country is often referred to as "Africa in miniature" for its geological, linguistic, and cultural diversity. Its natural features include beaches, deserts, mountains, rainforests, and savannas. Its highest point, at almost 4,100 meters (13,500 ft), is Mount Cameroon in the Southwest Region. Its most populous cities are Douala on the Wouri River, its economic capital and main seaport; Yaounde, its political capital; and Garoua. Limbe in the Southwest has a natural seaport. Cameroon is well known for its native music styles, particularly Makossa, Njang, and Bikutsi, and for its successful national football team. It is a member state of the African Union, the United Nations, the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), the Commonwealth of Nations, Non-Aligned Movement, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Originally, Cameroon was the exonym given by the Portuguese to the Wouri River, which they called Rio dos Camarões meaning "river of shrimps" or "shrimp river", referring to the then abundant Cameroon ghost shrimp. Today the country's name in Portuguese remains Camarões. Wikipedia
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class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  # Prevent CSRF attacks by raising an exception.
  # For APIs, you may want to use :null_session instead.
  protect_from_forgery with: :exception
  include Pundit
  rescue_from Pundit::NotAuthorizedError, with: :user_not_authorized

  before_action :configure_permitted_parameters, if: :devise_controller?

  def configure_permitted_parameters
    devise_parameter_sanitizer.permit(:sign_up, keys: [:username])
  end

  protected

  def configure_permitted_parameters
    devise_parameter_sanitizer.permit(:sign_up, keys: [:name])
    devise_parameter_sanitizer.permit(:account_update, keys: [:name])
  end

  private

  def user_not_authorized(exception)
    policy_name = exception.policy.class.to_s.underscore

    flash[:error] = t "#{policy_name}.#{exception.query}", scope: "pundit", default: :default
    redirect_to(request.referrer || root_path)
  end
end

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