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The universe will provide for what you want once you take care of you and get to where you need to be. From one divorced woman to another…it does get better (as cliche as that is) and it gets easier. There is REAL love out there. If I can find it, I know anyone can.


Agile methodologies advocate a constant improvement over time of the quality of software delivery. This improvement comes in many ways, improving the overall quality of the software being built with every iteration, the ways of working of the delivery teams, removing blockers, removing processes that are not adding value, proposing better processes while improving the ones in place.
This is particularly evident in Scrum where teams meet on a daily basis, where any hindrance or any blockers are quickly dealt with, and in peer-programming and peer-reviews where developers improve coding standards and software quality.
This feedback is constant, improvement at all levels is promoted, for every iteration and every software delivery to be built with better quality and pace.
Regular feedback and improvement is at the heart of Scrum, and is best represented in the Daily Standups and the Sprint Retrospective.
The outcomes of this discussion are recorded by the Scrum Master, and new ways of working are introduced for the next Sprint.
This regular meeting allows the team to take immediate measures: it's a feedback loop as important as the daily standup.
When this Retrospective is missed or not taken seriously, team members don't get an occasion to speak up and share concerns or introduce new ideas, which is essential in any collaborative project setting. Opportunities to improve are lost and one of the fundamental principles of Agile methodologies is absent.
The Retrospective is meant to be an open discussion where all members have a chance to share their views, and there's an obvious problem with that: the risk is to end up in endless conversations and not end with useful Actions/Decisions. In open discussions of that form, the meeting greatly depends on the personalities of team members, how the conversation unfolds, what importance the items discussed are really given.
These meetings can easily be fruitless, hours seem lost, and that may be exactly why many teams decide to skip this event altogether.
The Starfish Method for Sprint Retrospectives is an easy way to: achieve focus, give a voice to every member, and provide clear outputs and decisions.
Team members get to write their ideas on post-its, and stick them on a board that looks like a starfish.
Once members are done with this process, a discussion can start on each of the areas and outputs are decided by consensus.
"Stop doing" topics are typically activities and processes that are a hindrance to progress and provide no value to the team whatsoever nor do they improve quality of delivery.Example: Asking all team members to write a daily report by email with detailed activities - when those details are not useful especially when a 2-minute conversation is sufficient.
"Start doing": Introducing new processes or activities that will improve quality or speed of delivery.Examples: Having team-members pair-up for peer-programming activities. Introducing Continuous Integration.
"Keep doing": Aspects that the team would not want to change as they are key to a successful Sprint.Examples: Daily stand-up taking place at a good time for every member. Continuous testing. Code reviews.
"Do more of": Any aspect or process which is useful but not fully taken advantage of. By spending more effort in these activities, quality will be improved.Examples: Coding standards have been introduced but more are needed for upcoming features. More team events that foster collaboration and good spirit.
"Do less of": Useful processes to the team and to the delivery, but taking more time or effort than really needed.Examples: Less email communication. Less involvement in technical forums outside the scope of the current delivery.
Stop Doing, Do Less Of, Keep Doing, Do More Of, Start Doing.
Once team members are done placing their post-its on the starfish, a member of the team (usually the Scrum Master) reads them out loud, one "area" at a time, and a consensus is found, ideas are given more importance because of the frequency with which they are present on the board, new ideas are discussed and the team goes away with a list of decisions for the next Sprint. A list of Actions/Decisions is written for each area and shared with all team members.
New ways are working are introduced right away which will again be re-assessed at the end of the next Sprint by doing another Retrospective, using this method again. With this regular feedback loop, each iteration benefits from the experience of the previous one.
The Starfish Method can benefit Scrum teams in a very short time with a very focused conversation. It prevents ideas from being lost in conversations involving up to 10 people.
Outside of Sprint Retrospectives, this focused discussion method can also benefit other types of meetings when assessing or reviewing any form of process, product, activity. It informs teams on what works and what doesn't in meaningful ways, enabling the introduction of new ideas by way of constructive feedback.
Constant improvement is a foundation of Agile deliveries, and Sprint Retrospectives are key to achieve it. The Starfish method is one of the best tools to go about this fundamental process.
Excellent! I've also seen projects use the top 3 retrospective feedback items to create user stories for the next sprint. These stories are selected by a team member to monitor and ensure the team incorporates the feedback for the next sprint. These items are then reviewed in the subsequent retrospective and provides perspective on the improvements being made by the team.


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Q: C - How to give a name to a struct dynamically I am trying to change the number that identifies different structures dynamically (being the last digit of the struct name meant to be the same as the i variable).
Here is an example of what I mean:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

struct Person {
    char * name;
    char * job;
    int age;
};

int main () {
    time_t t;
    srand((unsigned) time(&t));

    long random = rand() % 20;
    for (int i = 0; i != (random + 1); i++) {
        struct Person strcat("Person", i");
    }
    return 0;
}

I would like that for each i the struct's name changed. So let's say that i = 2. I would like the struct name to be Person2.
Is there any way for me to do this in C?

A: No, that is not possible. identifiers in C don't change at run-time. In fact, for variables, they generally don't even exist at runtime.
As @VladFromMoscow suggests, what you're probably after is an array of struct Person's, e.g.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

struct Person {
    char * name;
    char * job;
    int age;
};

#define MAX_PERSON_NAME_LENGTH 50
#define MAX_NUM_PERSONS 20

int main () {
    time_t t;
    srand((unsigned) time(&t));

    long random = rand() % MAX_NUM_PERSONS;
    struct Person persons[random];

    for (int i = 0; i != (random + 1); i++) {
        persons[i].name = malloc(MAX_PERSON_NAME_LENGTH + 1);
        if (persons[i].name != NULL) {
            sprintf(persons[i].name, "The %d'th person", i);
        }
        else {
            perror("allocating memory for a person name");
            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
        }
    }
    // do something with persons
    return 0;
}

A: no, but there's no need for such a function anyway. you can achieve what you want by simply creating an array of structs. So, you will access them by doing Person[0], Person[1] etc.. instead of creating 1 different name for each structure

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Colorado Avalanche vs. Edmonton Oilers Odds, Pick, Prediction 4/22/22
April 22nd, 2022 By: BTB
The 2021-22 NHL season continues Friday, April 22, with the marquee Western Conference matchup at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, so we have prepared the best Avalanche vs. Oilers betting pick and odds.
The Avs opened as small road favorites on Bookmaker Sportsbook, looking to sweep their three-game series against the Oilers. In their previous two meetings in 2021-22, Colorado beat Edmonton 3-2 in overtime as a -185 home fave and 2-1 in a shootout in a pick 'em contest at Rogers Place.
The Avalanche hope to snap their two-game skid
The Colorado Avalanche (55-16-6) put an end to their nine-game winning streak last Monday, suffering a 3-2 home defeat to the Washington Capitals. Two days later, the Avs visited the lowly Seattle Kraken as huge -290 moneyline favorites and suffered another 3-2 loss.
Pavel Francouz guarded the cage against the Kraken and yielded three first-period goals. Seattle outshot Colorado 29-27, and Philipp Grubauer had a big game against his former teammates, posting 25 stops on the night.
Darcy Kuemper should return between the pipes Friday. The 31-year-old netminder is enjoying an excellent season, carrying a 36-10-3 record, 2.43 GAA, and .924 save percentage. In two meetings with Edmonton in 2021-22, Kuemper has allowed only three goals on 75 shots (.960 SV%).
The Oilers shoot for their fourth victory in a row
The Edmonton Oilers (45-26-6) extended their winning streak to three games last Wednesday, outlasting the Dallas Stars 5-2 as -180 home favorites. They took a whopping 50 shots towards Scott Wedgewood, while Mike Smith allowed a couple of goals on 36 shots.
Smith has guarded the cage in the previous three games, posting a couple of shutouts in the process. The Oilers have blanked Nashville and Vegas, scoring four goals on each occasion. Smith is now 14-9-2 with a 2.88 GAA and .913 save percentage on the season.
The Oilers should give Mike Smith another starting call Friday when they welcome the Avalanche. Edmonton surrenders 3.06 goals per game (18th in the NHL) while scoring 3.44 in a return (7th). The Oilers boast the third-best power-play percentage in the league (25.8%).
9-2 in the last 11 games overall
11-1 in the last 12 games at home
Colorado Avalanche vs. Edmonton Oilers Pick
The Avalanche have already clinched the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference, but they continue to fight the Florida Panthers for the best record in the NHL. On the other side, the Oilers are fifth in the West, only three points ahead of the Nashville Predators.
Both teams have played very well over the last few weeks, though the Avs have dropped their previous two contests. I'm expecting a tight contest between a couple of talented teams, and it's tough to predict the outcome. Just three weeks ago, the Avs and Oilers decided the winner in a shootout. Edmonton has improved defensively as of late, while the Oilers' offense is certainly capable of scoring a few goals against Darcy Kuemper.
Pick: Take Edmonton Oilers
The Total:
The Avs own the third-highest scoring offense and the seventh-lowest scoring defense in the NHL. The total has gone under in 13 of their previous 19 outings at any location. On the other side, six of Edmonton's last seven contests have gone under the total.
I would ride those betting trends, looking for another strong performance from both Darcy Kuemper and Mike Smith. Kuemper has been terrific against the Oilers in 2021-22, while Smith has allowed only six goals over his last six starts.
Pick: Go under
Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Diego Padres Odds, Pick, Prediction 4/22/22
Memphis Grizzlies vs. Minnesota Timberwolves Game 4 Odds, Pick, Prediction 4/23/22

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We questioned why we couldn't cross the bridge anyway, especially as there was little traffic on the six-lane highway. They responded that the West Bank was not going to become New Orleans and there would be no Superdomes in their city. These were code words for if you are poor and black, you are not crossing the Mississippi River and you were not getting out of New Orleans.
I am eagerly awaiting the mainstream media -- supposedly newly entoothed with fierce prosecutorial vigor -- to pick this story up.
The story won't be picked up of course. This will end up in a slick in a few months, and referred to obliquely by pundits, with standard dissembling from the non-reality based community.
Katrina has left an oozing sore on North America on many levels. The scabby crust of see-no-evil racial politics in America has been ripped. The energy structure that feeds the beast, smashed apart.
Will this event enforce a moral awakening in the United States? No, the poor will get $2000 dollar debit cards, and a flood of donated goods, but their social class will not change.
Heavily armed Blackwater mercenaries on 6 month rotations will patrol poorblack infested regions, earning $350 dollars a day for the privilege of keeping the criminal element in line with social expectations.
Meanwhile poor children in America still won't get enough nutrition to focus in school. That is a privilege of the middle class in America.


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Head-On Collision Kills Issaquah Resident, Drugs May Have Been Involved
The Seattle Times is reporting somber news: a 19-year-old driving in Conway crossed into northbound lanes of traffic and killed a 64-year-old Issaquah resident, Joseph Gibbons. The crash occurred around 2pm and involved four vehicles, injuring two other travelers.
The young woman blamed the car crash on her dog, which was moving in her vehicle and distracting her. The authorities also found a pipe in her vehicle, possibly making the death a drug-related vehicular homicide.
Pets and Distracted Driving
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration does not keep track of accidents caused by pets, but we have an idea, thanks to a survey conducted by AAA and Kurgo, a company that specializes in pet travel gear, that there are roughly 78 million pet dogs in the country and that more than half of their owners (56%) admit to driving without them restrained.
Needless to say, this is very dangerous. Countless websites offer advice on restraining pets while traveling. Companies focus exclusively on canine travel aids.
Cars, Animals, and the Law
Anyone who is representing the family of Joseph Gibbons needs to collect as much data as possible about the crash. Not just physical evidence, which is the first kind of evidence that springs to mind when you see crime scene investigators at a crash site, but cell phone records that could hold data elucidating the factors that led to the crash.
It's possible the driver's dog contributed to the wreck, but driving under the influence of marijuana (which, presumably, the pipe was used for) is becoming far more common, as this recent Time article points out:
"According to the most recent national roadside survey from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of weekend nighttime drivers, 8.3 percent had some alcohol in their system and 12.6 percent tested positive for THC—up from 8.6 percent in 2007."
Representatives in this case should have a thorough history with both legal issues surrounding wrongful death and animals.
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Russ - Shake The Globe Tour 2021
POSTPONED FROM MAY 17, 2020
Ticket Prices	 POSTPONED FROM 5/17/20
Previously purchased tickets are valid for new show date
$62.95 Front Bowl
$52.95 GA Floor & Reserved Floor/Mid Bowl
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Sunday, May 16 8:00PM Buy Tickets
RUSS at H-E-B Center at Cedar Park on May 17, 2020 is rescheduled to May 16, 2021. All previously purchased tickets will be honored for the new date; ticket holders will be emailed directly with the ability to request a refund. For any further ticket inquiries please reach out to point of purchase.
Russ is a rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer. He'll be bringing his Shake The Globe Tour to H-E-B Center at Cedar Park.
On May 5, 2017, Russ released his twelfth studio album, There's Really a Wolf, which debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200 and number four on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. On April 18, 2018, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over 1,000,000 units in the United States. Prior to releasing his album, Russ announced on his Twitter account that he would be headlining his tour, The Wake Up Tour, from May 16 to August 5, 2017.
Russ will spend 2021 touring in support of his new album, Shake The Snow Globe.
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To purchase or for more information, contact the Group Sales Department at 512-600-5098 or [email protected]


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Board of Trustees selects Lynn Torres as lone finalist for Lufkin ISD Superintendent post
by Sheila Adams | Jun 5, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Lufkin ISD, Superintendent's Corner | 0 comments
New Lufkin ISD Superintendent Lynn Torres, center, poses with the Board of Trustees and members of her family after a special called meeting Tuesday night.
Lynn Torres
Lufkin ISD Superintendent
The Lufkin ISD Board of Trustees in a special called meeting Tuesday evening named Deputy Superintendent Lynn Torres as the lone finalist for Superintendent of Schools. Mrs. Torres has been with the district for 42 years and will be the third female superintendent to take the helm of Lufkin ISD. She will succeed Dr. LaTonya Goffney, who accepted the Superintendent's position at Aldine ISD.
Trustee Andra Self made the motion to select Torres as the new Superintendent, Don Muhlbach seconded the motion, and the board voted unanimously to approve her selection. Trustee Hall Henderson applauded the deep talent pool in the district, President Scott Skelton called Torres the smartest person in the room, and Allyson Langston praised her passion for the district.
Mrs. Torres began her career with Lufkin ISD as a Spanish teacher at Lufkin High School, where she taught students for 27 years. She then took on a leadership role at the high school as an Associate Principal. In 2006, she moved to Administration as an Assistant Superintendent. She was named Deputy Superintendent in 2015.
She received her Bachelor's degree in Spanish/Sociology, Masters degree of Spanish in Spanish Literature, and Masters of Education degree in Educational Administration, all from Stephen F. Austin State University.
Lufkin ISD Board President Scott Skelton said, "Mrs. Torres knows Lufkin ISD and its students and staff better than anyone, since she has served the district for 42 years. She has been key to Lufkin's successes in the past, and the Board knows she is positioned to lead LISD forward."
Recently the community elected to pass a $75 million bond for a new middle school, high school multi-purpose facility and high school baseball/softball fields. One of the first orders of business will be to manage the construction of these facilities.
Skelton said, "Mrs. Torres' involvement in past bond elections and building projects gives her keen insight to the implementation of the Lufkin Middle School building program, as well as the projects to take place at Lufkin High School."
Mr. Skelton also gave kudos to Mrs. Torres' involvement in the recent development of the Early College High School.
He said, "Mrs. Torres has been a key person in the development of LISD's Early College High School initiative. Mrs. Torres is the right person to lead Lufkin ISD and continue the district's commitment to excellence."
Mrs. Torres said, "I am thrilled to be able to serve Lufkin ISD as Superintendent. I will use my years of experience to build upon the successes of Lufkin ISD, expand the sense of pride in the district, and to ultimately make a difference in the lives of all children."
Mrs. Torres has been a member of the Lufkin City Council since 1999. She is the current president of the Deep East Texas Council of Governments and has been a member of its board since 2001. She is a member of the Lufkin 4B Economic Development Corporation, City of Lufkin Finance Committee, City of Lufkin Tree Board, Kurth Memorial Library Board, Angelina County Appraisal District Board, Chamber of Commerce Board, Museum of East Texas Education Committee, and the STEM Advisory Committee at Stephen F. Austin State University.
Mrs. Torres is married to Pablo Torres, who retired as a principal from Coston Elementary. They have two adult children and four grandchildren.
Mrs. Torres will receive a contract after a 21-day waiting period mandated by the state.


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Thistledown The Cunning Plan Shiraz
Nordes Gin 750ml
Discover the origin of one of the very best gins, made using a perfect combination of ingredients to achieve a fresh, aromatic and well-balanced flavour. Nordés has a truly unique character as far as premium gins go, made possible by ingredients which grow wild in Galicia and capture the essence of the Atlantic.
The botanicals used in Nordés are sage, bay leaf, lemon verbena, eucalyptus, peppermint, glasswort, ginger, cardamom, hibiscus, black tea and, of course, juniper. The exact amount of each one is added to achieve the subtle and well-balanced notes which give it its distinctive aroma.
- Distiller's Notes
Producer: Nordes
Website: https://nordesgin.com/en/
Type: Gin and Jenever
Gin has come a long way since its infamous origins as the scourge of the working classes in 18th century in England. Once called "mother's ruin," gin and its closest relative, Jenever, enjoyed mass popularity during the early 20th century, in cocktails and punches across the globe, but declined with cocktail culture in the 60's and 70's. The international resurgence of martinis and speakeasies has led to a boom in microdistilleries producing high-quality gins for all tastes, from dry to sweet, and with all the aromatic variety of a spice market.


Trillium's largest project in eastern Canada includes a convention centre, office space and a boutique hotel.
Bremner Tower is a 30 storey, LEED® Gold-certified office tower. The building features a green roof, green podium and 13,000-square-foot fitness centre.
Trillium worked on the design phase with Sweeny &Co and EllisDon. We were later selected to supply and install the doors, hardware and automatic operators.


Born in Apia, Western Samoa, Albert Wendt has published a huge range of fiction and poetry, as well as theoretical writing. He is internationally recognised as a leader of developments in New Zealand and Pacific literature. Albert Wendt was awarded the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature in 2000. His publications often feature his own drawings, and in 2008 an exhibition of his paintings opened in Auckland. He has edited a number of important anthologies and continues to play a major role in fostering and promoting Pacific literature.


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Q: Is it possible to override gutter-styles in certain contexts in Singularity to get fixed gutters? I have a matrix of images. Each row 2 images, one a width of 1/3 the other 2/3 and a gutter in between the two. All the images have the exact same height. But if reduce the viewport width at certain viewports the 2/3 image gets smaller in height than the 1/3 image. I suspect that it is due to the default gutter-style i use in this particular case. In all other occasions it behaves fine but maybe here it is the root of the problem.
My grid settings are:
$grids: 6;
$grids: add-grid(9 at 675px);
$grids: add-grid(12 at 850px);
$grids: add-grid(15 at 1075px);
$grids: add-grid(18 at 1200px);
$gutters: 1/3;
$output:'isolation';

and a sample part of the css looks that way ( i have 3 more of those switch-baseline includes):
@include switch-baseline($baseline850, $vr-850...) {
    &:nth-child(4n+1) {
        @include isolation-span(4, 1, 'right', $gutter:.5);
    }
    &:nth-child(4n+4) {
        @include isolation-span(4, 9, 'right');
    }
    &:nth-child(4n+2) {
        @include isolation-span(8, 5, 'right');
    }
    &:nth-child(4n+3) {
        @include isolation-span(8, 1, 'right', $gutter:.5);
    }
    &:last-child {
        @include trailer(2);
    }
}

Now my question is, would it be possible to override the default gridsettings for a single mixin or layout context? I've tried $gutter-styles: fixed after $gutter:.5 as well as add the gutter-styles statement to the layout mixin - both lead to an compass error. i am using singularity 1.1.2 . best regards ralf

A: Absolutely! You can either pass $gutter-style to your grid-span call, or $gutter-style to the @layout mixin. See the Context Overrides section of the documentation.


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Q: Changing word template for knitr in Rmarkdown I'm using Rstudio to make a markdown document which I want to convert to a word document. I would like to change word template that is automatically generated when you knit to Word. For example, I want the margins to be narrow when I knit to word.
I'm on a Windows 64 bit, with Windows 7.

A: To use a specific template or styled document, you can create a file with the appropriate styling and reference this file in the YAML header of your markdown file. As described in this article: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/articles_docx.html
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output:
  word_document:
    reference_docx: "filepath\\ref.docx"
---

A: I prepared a video for this task. Please see if it helps. Basically you generate a Word document from an arbitrary R Markdown document, then modify the styles in the Word output document, and use this document as the template for future R Markdown documents.


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Anna Kristina Constance (Stassa) Wahlgren, född Persson den 14 januari 1858 i Göteborg, död den 9 oktober 1929 i Stockholm, var en svensk revyskådespelare och operettsångare.

Biografi
Scendebuten ägde rum 1880 i rollen som den unge markisen i Hvita nejlikan på Stora Teatern, Göteborg. Hon fick därefter engagemang hos Thérèse Elffors 1880–1882, Frithiof Carlberg 1882–1886, vid Vasateatern 1886–1887, hos Mauritz Fröberg 1887–1889 och åter vid Stora Teatern 1889–1890. Hon gifte sig 1886 med skådespelaren August Wahlgren och de uppträdde tillsammans som varietéartister 1890–1897. Därefter var hon vid Lombergska sällskapet 1897–1899, vid Folkteatern, Göteborg 1900–1901, hos Albert Ranft 1901–1903, hos Mille Strömberg 1904–1905, hos Oskar Textorius 1905–1906, hos Albert Ranft 1906–1911, hos Carl Deurell 1911–1912, hos Anton Salmson 1912–1913, vid Södra Teatern 1914–1916, vid Skådebanan 1917–1918, på privat konsertturné 1918–1919 och åter vid Stora Teatern 1919–1920.

Makarna är begravda på Sandsborgskyrkogården i Stockholm, där även parets son, predikanten Olof A. Wahlgren (1887–1959) och hans fruar vilar.

På scen och skiva
Stassa Wahlgren utmärkta sig inte minst i en rad Emil Norlander-revyer där hon ofta fick spela "burlesk Stockholmsmadam" och framförde klassiska Norlanderkupletter som "Spiskroksvalsen" och "Balen på bakgården". Den senare, en duett med Victor Sonnander ur nyårsrevyn Tokiga Amelie från 1910, ingick även bland det knappa halvdussin 78-varvarsidor hon spelade in för Gramophone vid denna tid. Wahlgren och Sonnander genomförde även gemensamma turnéer i landsorten som "duettistpar".

På film
Stassa Wahlgren medverkade också i några av de allra tidigaste svenska försöken att spela in ljudfilm. Dessa filmer, vilka spelades in av Charles Magnussons bolag Svenska bio i Kristianstad 1909–1910, var dock endast "ljudfilmer" i så måtto att man spelade in stumma treminuters filmer med kända artister sjungande "playback" till sina egna grammofoninspelningar. Därefter spelades film och skiva upp synkront. Ingen av dessa filmer har sparats till eftervärlden, men de är dokumenterade genom bevarade tryckta programblad.

Teater

Roller (ej komplett)

Diskografi
 1910
Ack en vals (Grammophon 284000; duett med Victor Sonnander ur "Susanna Wallström")
Balen på bakgården (även utgiven som Friarevalsen) (Grammophon V*74117; duett med Victor Sonnander ur nyårsrevyn "Tokiga Amelie eller En bröllopsnatt vid Nordpolen")
Carl Edvard Magnusson (Grammophon 583042; ur revyn "Kofvander, Bofvander & Co")
Du ska få en flaska Lassarull (Grammophon V*74116; duett med Victor Sonnander ur nyårsrevyn "Tokiga Amelie eller En bröllopsnatt vid Nordpolen")
 1911
Älskar du mej som förr (Grammophon 284109; duett med Victor Sonnander)

Referenser

Noter

Tryckta källor

 Scenisk konst, volym 7-8 (1908), sidan 72
 Stassa Wahlgren i Svensk mediedatabas

Externa länkar

Svenska revyartister
Svenska operettsångare
Svenska skådespelare under 1800-talet
Svenska skådespelare under 1900-talet
Svenska sångare under 1800-talet
Svenska sångare under 1900-talet
Skådespelare från Göteborg
Sångare från Göteborg
Gravsatta på Sandsborgskyrkogården
Födda 1858
Avlidna 1929
Kvinnor

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South Charford is a hamlet in western Hampshire, on the banks of the River Avon, across from the village of Breamore. It is close to the Wiltshire border. It was once a village, but there is no village today - just a few farm buildings.
The Avon here meanders through a broad floodplain cut through with many rills. To the east rises a steep, wooded slope, which is the edge of ther New Forest, on the top of which is the hamlet of North Charford.
The year 508 entry tells that following a battle to the east "the land as far as Cerdic's ford was named Natanleaga"
The year 519 we are told that "Cerdic and Cynric succeeded to the kingdom [of the West Saxons]; and in the same year they fought against the Britons at a place called Cerdic's ford".
This is a strategic position on the Avon, and if a battle really did take place here then it is possible that the boundary of Hampshire was first established here. No archaeology has yet proven a fight here though.
In the time of the Domesday Book of 1086, South Charford (Cerdeford) was a fairly large settlement of around 24 households. The manor was held of Hugh de Port by William de Chernet, and it remained in the Chernet family for over 200 years. In 1293 Iseult de Chernet was dealing with the manor, which passed by inheritance or purchase to Oliver de la Zouche. Sometime before 1428 it was evidently sold it to Sir John Popham, who served in France under Henry V and the Duke of Bedford. It then came into the possession of the Bulkeley family and followed the descent of Burgate in Fordingbridge until 1600, when John Bulkeley conveyed it to Hugh Grove. Sir William Dodington was holding it in 1624. His son Herbert died childless in 1633, and his father, who survived, held the manor until his death in 1638, when it passed to his younger son John. South Charford passed by sale or settlement to Fulke Greville, 5th Baron Brooke, and remained in his family until 1747–8, when Francis Greville, 8th Baron Brooke sold his Hampshire estates. South Charford passed to Henry Archer and then followed the descent of North Charford.
A chapel is said to have been built by Sir John Popham with the consent of the Prior of Breamore, and was dedicated in 1404. The chapel was in ruins by the mid 18th-century when Thomas Archer made use of the material for enlarging and rebuilding of the church of Hale. The site is in a field near South Charford Farm, and is now occupied by a large yew tree.
South Charford was long a separate parish, although for a period in the early 19th-century it was reckoned as a tithing of the parish of North Charford. The population of South Charford in 1870 was 70 people living in 13 houses. The civil parish of South Charford was abolished in 1932, and South Charford is now part of the civil parish of Breamore.
↑ Domesday Map - South Charford. Note that two entries for South Charford (Phillimore reference 23,1 and 23,53) appear to be close duplicates of each other. The ownership of another piece of land (Phillimore reference: 23,3) was disputed territory.
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Principal Krull stated that UTM will experience a reduction in the amount of undergraduate students accepted.
Enrolment to be cut
U of T enrolment rates to be smaller
Ali Taha
Olivia Adamczyk
The second Town Hall meeting of the academic year held last Monday discussed announcements from the provincial government to post-secondary education institutions, as well as some collaborations happening between the University of Toronto Mississauga and multiple organizations.
The provincial government has recently specified experiential learning as a needed aspect of post-secondary education. Such examples of experiential learning include performance and artistic productions, clinical placements, co-op programs, internships, work-place simulations, and work-study programs.
The government also ruled that the number of undergraduate enrolment be limited. In regards to the University of Toronto's population, there will be a reduction of undergraduate students allocated to the university, as UTM's Principal Ulrich Krull stated. "We've been told that [high enrolment rates] can't be allowed. Given that the University of Toronto has over 80 000 students, the reduction numbers, which total around 2,000, is of not great consequence."
Krull said that UTM will slow down the amount of undergraduate students that will be accepted in the coming years, as well.
In an attempt to attract the tech giant Amazon, the provincial government intends on funding at least 1,000 more graduate-level jobs that relate to the fields of data analytics and technology.
According to Krull, "We can attract Amazon to southern Ontario by demonstrating that we are prepared to create a highly educated workforce."
UTM will also be building a relationship with Trillium health partners, who will work with the Institute for Management and Innovation and the Centre for Medicinal Chemistry to work on a patient care system.
Krull stated: "[Trillium] would like to work with the Institute of Management and Innovation to be able to revise and refine patient care. This will be through the management of patient care, the efficiency of the hospital."
The university also received a visit from the president of the National Research Council, which is the premier research department of Canada. The organization has multiple laboratories across Canada, except in the GTA. The NRC would like to invest on "building a new NRC centre close to the campus and invited UTM to be the institution to partner with them."
When asked if there are any plans on building a hockey rink on campus, Krull responded by saying that the university has "a plan to build outdoor, but not indoor ice," and also suggested that the university could pay to rent a bus for fans to transport them to and from one of their hockey games.
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North Rose-Wolcott senior Hannah Cook's photo, "Sunflower Dreams," was recently named a recipient of the Biomedical Photo Communication Award at the Start Here 2019 exhibition. Cook was recognized at a reception held at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where her artwork was displayed until February 2.
Start Here 2019 is an invitational exhibition that features artwork from middle school and high school students in the Rochester and Finger Lakes regions.
NRW art teacher Kelley Allen praised Cook for her excellent attitude and creativity.
"Hannah is one of the best art students we have in the district, and I'm so proud of her for this achievement," said Allen. "She has an outstanding work ethic and a creative perspective.
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Issue Number 280 April 30, 2020
All back issues of the newsletter and subscription information are available online. A number of the newsletters are available in Spanish on the AGATE website mentioned above. Dave Moursund's book, The Fourth R (Second Edition), is now available in both English and Spanish (Moursund, 2018a, link; Moursund, 2018b, link). The unifying theme of the book is that the 4th R of Reasoning/Computational Thinking is fundamental to empowering today's students and their teachers throughout the K-12 curriculum. The first edition was published in December, 2016, and the second edition in August, 2018. The Spanish translation of the second edition, La Cuarta R, was published in September, 2018. These three editions of the Fourth R have now had a combined total of more than 95,000 page-views and downloads, and more than 21,000 of these are the Spanish edition.
I am currently writing a book tentatively titled ICTing and Mathing Across the History Curriculum. Four earlier IAE Newsletters contain substantial content of this work in progress book. See IAE Newsletter - Issue 254 - March 31, 2019; IAE Newsletter - Issue 255 - April 15, 2019; IAE Newsletter - Issue 256 - April 30, 2019; and IAE Newsletter - Issue 257 - May 15, 2019. This current newsletter is the eighth in a series that will be parts of the book and began with https://i-a-e.org/newsletters/IAE-Newsletter-2020-273.html.
Across the History Curriculum. Part 8
"If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow." (John Dewey; American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer; 1859-1952.)
"Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed." (Seymour Papert; South African/American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator; 1928-2016.)
"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium—that is, of any extension of ourselves—result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology." (Marshall McLuhan; Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar; 1911-1980.) [Bold added for emphasis.]
"The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by McLuhan in his 1964 book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. His statement and ideas apply both to current computer technology and to written language developed more than 4,000 years ago. Both are powerful change agents.
I have been fortunate to live during and participate in a significant part of the history of computers in education. In addition, I have been interested in computers as an aid to problem solving, teaching, and learning throughout my professional career. A 1988 article I wrote with my colleague Karen Billings summarizes some of the history of computers in education up to that date (Billings & Moursund, Fall, 1988, link).
This and the following IAE Newsletter provide a brief introduction to Computer Assisted Learning (CAL). The term CAL is used very broadly to include all forms of online teaching and learning, no matter where or for what purpose it occurs. Most people use the term online to refer to using a device connected to/through the Internet. But, of course, one might be using a local area network that is not connected to the Internet. For example, consider a network serving employees in a "top secret, highly secure" building. Through this network they are only able to communicate in their building through the computer (the server) running the local area network.
I carry this definition one step farther. I have a large number of documents and software programs stored on my computer. For example, I have many Microsoft Word and Spreadsheet documents. When I use these for learning or academic writing purposes, I consider this to be online learning, even though I am not using the Internet or a local area network.
I assume you know quite a bit about using CAL in your everyday life. For example, when you deposit or withdraw money using an ATM, you are being instructed by the machine on the steps you must take. Eventually, you probably memorize the steps. If you make a mistake, the machine helps you to correct your error. This is a type of online instruction.
I do a lot of online purchasing. I begin by using the Web to get information about products that may fit my needs. This is a type of online learning. I then interact with a specific company, following the directions they provide. Again, this is an example of online learning combined with feedback if I do something incorrectly.
The current coronavirus pandemic has forced tens of millions of precollege students in the U.S. into a home school, online learning home schooling environment. Thus, if you are currently a teacher, there is a good chance you are making use of CAL materials with your students. This is occurring worldwide (Gonser, 4/8/2020, link). With schools closed in 185 countries, about 9 out of 10 students are out of school worldwide right now.
Using computers as an aid to learning is no longer a new concept. Educators have had more than 60 years of research, development, and use of CAL. In very brief summary, in many different settings we have substantial evidence that CAL is an effective aid to teaching and learning.
Improving Education
Both informal and formal education have very long histories of development and continuing improvement. Here is an amusing way to think about some progress in education that occurred before the development of CAL.
Hands-on show and tell using grunts and gestures by prehumans who had not yet developed comprehensive oral language. Think about how prehumans about 3.3 million years ago helped others learn to make sharp rocks by flintknapping. It is likely this typically occurred in a one-on-one or very small group tutorial mode.
Hands-on show and tell using a comprehensive oral language and storytelling. This has been going on for at least 90,000 years. (Historians are not sure when comprehensive oral language first developed.)
Book assisted learning. Of course, this required the invention of written language, and students first had to learn both reading and writing. The development of mass produced, relatively inexpensive books beginning less than 580 years ago greatly broadened the use of book assisted learning.
Audio assisted learning, Video assisted learning, and Audiovisual assisted learning. (Think about phonographs, tape recorders, motion pictures, radio, and TV.)
The technologies mentioned in the third and fourth bullets have contributed substantially to improving informal and formal education. However, there is research evidence suggesting weaknesses in our current efforts to improve our schools (Barshay, 6/27/2013, link):
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), test scores for 17 year old's have not improved since the early 1970s. That is, the average 17 year old in 2012 got about the same score in reading and math (287 and 306, respectively) as a 17 year old in 1971 or 1973 did (285 and 304, respectively). Scores have bobbled up and down a point or two over the years, but, statistically speaking, they've been indistinguishable from each other.
I addressed this need to improve our schools in an earlier IAE Newsletter (Moursund, October, 2016, link):
More than ten years ago I read and later wrote about Robert K. Branson's [seminal, 1987] article, Why Schools Can't Improve: The Upper Limit Hypothesis (Branson, 1987). … In brief summary, Branson's article presents the case that in 1987, schools in the U.S. were about as good as they were going to get without use of the new computer technologies. [Bold added for emphasis.]
Now, nearly 30 years since Branson's 1987 article, we can look back over a great many years of national data on K-12 education and see that little progress is occurring in the overall quality of student performance in areas such as reading, writing, science, and math. Branson argued that our educational system was performing at approximately the 95% level of possible performance by the mid 1960s. All of our efforts to improve our educational system since then have had little effect on performance in reading, writing, science, and math.
Branson's 1987 article argues that a paradigm shift—based on computer technology—would propel education to much higher levels of achievement. I developed the diagram in Figure 1 to illustrate the idea of a major paradigm shift. A paradigm shift is like starting anew from the level that has previously been achieved.
Figure 1. Paradigm shift (jump), opening room for more incremental change.
Moving from left to right, consider just the first curve in this diagram. A newly hired clerk begins working at the checkout counter in a store before it is computerized. The clerk gains speed and accuracy through memorizing prices on many items, getting better at using the scales and making change, and so on. Daily changes in some of the prices, such as for special sales, is an ongoing challenge. With practice, the clerk eventually becomes about as good as he or she can be.
There is a considerable change in all of these procedures when computer technology is installed. This technology includes a barcode scanner, automatic weight scale pricing, an automatic change dispenser, and ability of the store to process credit and debit cards. Every item for sale in the store is barcoded, and this leads to faster and more accurate data entry for each item sold. Nothing is to be gained by the clerk memorizing prices of some of the items, and there is no problem in dealing with price changes. The scanner input also leads to better control of inventory.
During the first few days while the clerk is learning to use the new computerized system, the clerk's productivity is likely less than before. The second curve in Figure 1 shows a drop in productivity as the paradigm shift system is first used. Then the clerk's productivity moves very quickly to a much higher level than it was before.
Here is an example of a paradigm shift in electronics. Before the invention of the transistor, vacuum tubes were an essential component of electronic equipment. Vacuum tubes (much like incandescent light bulbs) were relatively large, fragile, had a short life, and produced a lot of heat. Such tubes were gradually improved over time since their invention in the early1900s. However, it seemed likely that they were approaching their upper limit in the 1940s, just as electronic digital computers were beginning to be developed.
These early computers were machines that used many thousands of vacuum tubes. In essence, the developing computer industry was stymied by the power consumption and heat of the best tubes that could be produced. You may find it both instructional and amusing to read a little bit about the 18,000 vacuum tube ENIAC computer built in the United States during 1943-45. One interesting article is EINAC: 10 Things You Should Know About the Original Super Computer 65 Years Later (Wink, 2/15/2011, link):
The ENIAC contained 17,468 vacuum tubes, along with 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 1,500 relays, 6,000 manual switches and 5 million soldered joints. It covered 1,800 square feet (167 square meters) of floor space, weighed 30 tons, and consumed 160 kilowatts of electrical power.
The invention and development of transistors was a major paradigm shift in electronics. Beginning after the invention of the transistor in 1947, vacuum tubes rapidly gave way to transistors. Now, about 70 years later, a smartphone contains more than a billion transistors. Try to imagine your smartphone or computer as a machine containing a billion vacuum tubes, each the size of your thumb and each giving off 25 watts of heat. At ten cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity, the hourly cost of running such a machine would be about $2.5 million! This does not include the cost of the needed air conditioning. If this example makes you chuckle, just think of the size and weight of such a machine, or estimate how many railway freight cars it would take to carry it!
An Early Example of Computer Use as a Tool and a Teacher
In the 1950s, as possibilities grew of a nuclear war, the United States decided to build a radar and computer-based early warning system. The Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) became operational in 1957. It was a very sophisticated computerized radar and communication system, spanning the northern part of Canada. The system included a type of instructional system whereby simulated threats or attacks could be displayed on the radar screen, and the human operators could interpret the displays and data, and take appropriate actions (Massey, 2018, link).
This was a very important instructional idea: the tool was designed to serve a specific purpose and also designed to help train its users. We now know that every computer tool can potentially be designed with these dual capabilities. For example, think of a computer game as a tool designed to help solve an entertainment problem. Typically, computer games are also designed to teach a user how to play the game.
Here is another example. Consider a computer program designed to teach computer keyboarding. A student keyboards content that is contained in computer memory and is displayed on the computer screen or on a piece of paper. The computer can determine keyboarding speed and accuracy, and provide that information as a report to the student (and, if the system is designed to do so, to a human instructor).
This type of computer as a keyboarding teacher is only a small step forward. But, the computer can also be programmed to keep track of the speed of each finger, each hand, and for each character on the keyboard. It can keep track of the types of errors that occur—for example, are one or two fingers making most of the errors, or are certain combinations of letters producing more than their share of the errors. A "smart" (artificially intelligent) program could then generate a new practice session for the student to keyboard that provided extra practice in these problem areas.
In summary, as computers have become more capable and less expensive over the years, we have developed a wide variety of computerized tools that have built-in tutoring capabilities. There is substantial research on the effectiveness of this combination. As computer tools become more and more effective aids to solving some of the problems addressed in the various academic disciplines, we will continue to see an increasing use of this type of embedded, interactive instruction.
Each discipline area that is taught in our schools addresses some of the problems inherent to that discipline. The value of computers as an aid to solving these problems varies considerably from one discipline to another. For many disciplines, this value has increased considerably over the years, often leading to quite substantial changes in method and/or content.
The new electronic methods of storage, processing, and retrieval of information have strongly affected every discipline of study. Some specific areas that have been substantially changed by ICT include marketing and advertising, graphic arts, writing and publishing, film making, research in all of the sciences and in many other areas, and so on.
For me, this situation suggests a number of important education questions. Here are a few:
If a computer can solve or greatly help to solve a general category of problems that are currently considered important in a curriculum area, what should students be learning about using computers to solve these problems?
If a computer can be shown to be an effective and cost effective aid to teaching content that is currently considered important in a curriculum area, how should this be reflected in the content, pedagogy, and assessment in this curriculum area?
What should the teacher in any particular curriculum area know about and be able to effectively implement in the classroom based on widely agreed on answers to the first two questions?
The coronavirus pandemic with its school closures and home schooling has made it clear that there are extensive education-oriented inequalities in the United States and throughout the world. For many years, people have noted the inequalities of access to books in homes. An internet connected computer is a natural and now common extension of hardcopy books and other print material, and lack of online access has now become another serious inequality for many students.
I now believe that for children living in economically advantaged countries such as the United States, computer and connectivity access at home and in school should be considered an inalienable right (Moursund, 10/21/2018, link).
The next newsletter will delve more deeply into these questions and issues that are related to Computer Assisted Learning in our schools.
Barshay, J. (6/27/2013). High school test scores haven't improved for 40 years; Top students stagnating. Education by the Numbers, The Hechinger Report. Retrieved 4/19/2020 from http://educationbythenumbers.org/content/high-school-test-scores-havent-improved-for-40-years-top-students-stagnating_251/.
Benjamin, L.T., Jr. (1988). A history of teaching machines. Free PDF file retrieved 4/25/2020 from https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=2ahUKEwjFyfHj9oTpAhVKpZ4KHVlr
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Gonser, S. (4/8/2020). What past education emergencies tell us about our future. Edutopia. Retrieved 4/22/2020 from https://www.edutopia.org/article/what-past-education-emergencies-tell-us-about-our-future?utm_source=Edutopia+
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Massey, D. (2018). The DEW Line and other military projects. beatriceco.com. Retrieved 4/27/2020 from https://beatriceco.com/bti/porticus/bell/dewline.html.
Moursund, D. (10/31/2018). Inalienable rights of children. IAE Newsletter. Retrieved 4/27/2020 from https://i-a-e.org/newsletters/IAE-Newsletter-2018-244.html.
Moursund, D. (October, 2016). Robert Branson's Upper Limit Hypothesis. IAE Newsletter. Retrieved 4/18/2020 from http://i-a-e.org/newsletters/IAE-Newsletter-2016-195.html.
Wink, C. (2/15/2011). ENIAC: 10 things you should know about the original super computer 65 years later. Technical.ly. Retrieved 4/19/2020 from https://technical.ly/philly/2011/02/15/eniac-10-things-you-should-know-about-the-original-modern-super-computer-65-years-later/.
David Moursund is an Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Oregon, and editor of the IAE Newsletter. His professional career includes founding the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) in 1979, serving as ISTE's executive officer for 19 years, and establishing ISTE's flagship publication, Learning and Leading with Technology (now published by ISTE as Empowered Learner). He was the major professor or co-major professor for 82 doctoral students. He has presented hundreds of professional talks and workshops. He has authored or coauthored more than 60 academic books and hundreds of articles. Many of these books are available free online. See http://iaepedia.org/David_Moursund_Books .
In 2007, Moursund founded Information Age Education (IAE). IAE provides free online educational materials via its IAE-pedia, IAE Newsletter, IAE Blog, and IAE books. See http://iaepedia.org/Main_Page#IAE_in_a_Nutshell . Information Age Education is now fully integrated into the 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, Advancement of Globally Appropriate Technology and Education (AGATE) that was established in 2016. David Moursund is the Chief Executive Officer of AGATE.


One of the brothers opens the meeting with a few comments and a prayer. After several congregational songs, we have a scripture reading and a devotional. Sometimes we have an extended time for congregational testimonies and prayer requests. After prayer we turn the time over to the brother bringing the sermon. Sunday school classes for children and adults follow the sermon.
Some visitors are concerned about fitting in or embarrassing themselves (or us!) when they visit. Don't be! We want to make you feel welcome. The notes below give some idea what to expect.
We take an offering during our worship service, but no one is obligated to give.
Unlike some conservative Mennonite congregations, men and women do not sit separately for the service. We usually sit as families.
Children stay with their parents or other adults during most of the service. You will occasionally see parents taking fussy or sleepy youngsters to the back. At the end of the service we have a 30 minute Sunday School in which children age four and up separate into classes by age brackets.
The congregation sings in four-part harmony without accompaniment. We do not normally clap to accompany our songs, but if the Spirit leads you to clap, we will not be offended!
Men in the congregation may greet each other with a kiss on the cheek or a hug. Women may also greet one another similarly. This is called a "holy kiss" and is a part of both Christian and Mennonite tradition. (See Romans 16:16, I Corinthians 16:20, 2 Corinthians 13:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:26, and I Peter 5:14) People in the congregation will not typically initiate this greeting with visitors unless they know you are from a similar congregation that shares the practice.
We would be glad to welcome you to our next service!


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Review: The Possession by Michael Rutger
August 3, 2019 Ali@abookishlifeLeave a comment
I can't remember the last time a book gave me chills the way this one did. I will admit to never really having read Stephen King so I can't say if it's as perfect for his fans as the cover claims but for me – who used to devour James Herbert and Dean Koontz books, was a huge fan of shows like X-Files, the Twilight Zone, Poltergeist the Legacy and pretty much any and every horror film – this was right up my street. It's a lot of fun but so, so creepy and atmospheric. I loved it.
THEY CAME LOOKING FOR ANSWERS
A group of explorers arrive in the remote town of Birchlake, Northern California, to investigate the appearance of mysterious stone walls.
WHAT THEY FOUND WERE QUESTIONS
A teenage girl has disappeared without a trace.
FOR NOT EVERYONE IS AS THEY SEEM
Soon it becomes clear that the two events may be connected in the most terrifying way. Because sometimes the walls we build end up closing us in . .
I didn't realize when I started reading this that it was the second in a series but honestly it didn't matter one bit. Yes there are a few references to the first book (which are mild spoilers if like me you plan to go back and read it later) but I didn't really feel like I'd missed much. Hell, I was around 150 pages in before I even discovered it was the second in a series (and that was only when I was looking it up on Goodreads).
The blurb is a little lacking in detail but the series is about a team who investigate myths, urban legends and unexplained phenomena, filming it for a YouTube show. When the team's leader and presenter, Nolan, discovers his ex wife Kristy is in a small town in Northern California investigating the disappearance of a teenage girl he convinces his team that now's the perfect time to visit that town to look into the mystery surrounding miles of walls in the area. No one knows who built these walls but they're incredibly old, are scattered throughout the area and often run for miles with no discernible purpose.
This is really an excuse to keep an eye on his ex (and maybe rekindle something) but as both Kristy and Nolan and his team start to experience some very strange things it seems both mysteries may be connected and there may be something very wrong in this town.
It's a classic creepy horror story with everything that entails – think Blair Witch (dark woods, mist, deserted streets, strange noises in the middle of the night, objects turning up in places they weren't left and a strange figure only certain people seems to see). Basically there were moments when it scared me witless and yes I did have to put it down to go check the doors were locked (more than once).
What makes it a great fun read though is how the author mixes these genuinely chilling moments with a lot of humor. One second I'd be wanting to hide under the covers and the next I'd be chuckling at a one liner. I loved the relationships between Nolan and his team (Ken, Molly and Pierre). Ken and Nolan in particular are clearly close friends with a long history and there is some great banter between them to break the tension when it all starts to get a bit much.
The story itself fascinated me too. Initially I was probably in a pretty similar place to Nolan's team when he said walls, I mean how excited can you really get about some walls? But, the more that's revealed about them the more intriguing it gets and it turns out these walls are a real thing (I googled). I was probably less interested in the missing teenager side of the story (sorry missing teenager) but when the things happening get increasingly strange and spooky it was definitely hard to put the book down.
I do think the first half of the book was the strongest as the mystery around what's going on in the town, whether supernatural forces are at work or there's a more rational and scientific explanation, keep you glued to the pages. For me the unknown is almost always scarier than known so once the reveal was made it lost a lot of the tension and on occasion wandered into the slightly bizarre and confusing. As for the ending, I think it worked but was maybe a little too easy or maybe I mean too resolved.
Regardless of this though I loved the author's writing style and the tone of the whole book. The characters are likeable and the humor just worked for me. Was it a little slow in places? Maybe, but the other parts had enough tension and atmosphere to more than make up for it.
Overall a great read and one I'd recommend if you love a creepy horror story and don't mind a wander into the weird. I'm off now to read the first book in the series as I think Rutger could become a favourite author.
I won a copy of this book in a Readers First Giveaway. This has in no way influenced my review.
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You know it is the Christmas season when the jingle bells sound and for several city hotels, the mood is set as soon as the traditional cake mixing ceremony starts.
Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel, Sarova Panafric, and Tamarind Tree are some of the hotels that recently invited guests to the joyous cake mixing ceremony.
Christmas cake with lots of alcohol, nuts
Sunday December 05 2021
Executive Pastry Chef Rupet Odera and Executive Chef Avraj Marwa at Sarova Panafric mix the traditional Christmas cake ahead of the holidays. PHOTO | POOL
For hotels, it is a cake and a game rolled into one.
Large quantities of liquor, wine and honey poured over dried fruits, nuts, powdered grains, fresh fruits, and spices are mixed using hands, a tradition that dates back to the 17th Century.
The fruits are laid out and then spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg are sprinkled into the mix. Next comes alcohol, which is poured on the mixing table. People then mix this up as the dough changes colour.
The soaked mix is put into jars and left for a few weeks for the fruits to soak up the alcohol to give a moist, juicy, delectable cake.
Christmas Cake for the Season
Firing up holiday cooking with alcohol
At Crowne Plaza, the team was led by Executive Chef Brahmanand Singh, who plated a host of nuts with a variety of alcohol for the rich mix of the cake which will be cooked later.
Tamarind Tree's fruit cake had 11 types of fruit nuts such as cashew nuts, macadamia, almonds, glazed cherries both green and red, mixed peels, raisins —dried grapes, sultanas — a variety of dried grapes, and walnuts, all in different measurements.
Then came in the seeds; sesame, pumpkin, and sunflower which were mixed with spices like cinnamon and nutmeg to add flavour to the cake. Honey was added to act as a sweetener.
Robai Wamoto, Tamarind Tree Hotel Executive said alcohol is introduced into the mixture before it is left to ferment for 40 days.
They put beers, spirits, brandy, wine, whisky, and rum which are used to give the cake different kinds of flavour as well as act as a preservative.
For Tamarind, they use Jameson, Bacardi, Viceroy, Malibu, Captain Morgan, Vodka, Rums (Myers), Bombay, KWV Ruby, Red Wine, Kenya Cane and White Wine.
"We use 40 litres of alcohol while the mixture of the nuts and seeds totalled 75 kilos," said Chef Wamoto.
The fermented mixture is then mixed with unsalted butter, eggs, flour, baking and margarine before the cake is prepared, she says.
The 40 days given for fermentation is to allow the fruit nuts and the seeds to fuse.
She explains that the cake is a traditional fruit cake made up of 70 percent fruits.
"If the mixture is not fermented for 40 days it will not have the same flavour. This one has that nice, fruity flavour. If you also don't put enough fruits then the taste will not be the same," she said.
After the fermentation, she points out, the whole mixture will not be baked but will be divided into portions depending on orders.
Chef Wamoto adds that after fermentation, the potency of the alcohol would have drastically reduced and evaporated even further during baking making the cake safe for children and those who do not tolerate alcohol.
If one wants to prepare one kilogramme, for instance, use eight whole eggs, one kilogram of flour, 500 grammes of butter, 500 grams of the mixture, and 500 grammes of margarine.
This will then be baked for like 45 minutes at a temperature of about 160 degrees Celsius. After it has been allowed to cool, explains the Chef, one will decide whether to ice it or save it as it is.
"This is a tradition we have had here for the past four years now as part of our festive celebrations. The baking will start on December 20, 2021. The baked cake will be served to our guests, children's homes, suppliers, and our staff," says Chef Wamoto, who started as a casual cook at Tamambo and grew to become a junior sous chef at Sarova Salt Lick for two years.
"I then joined Sarova Whitesands in the same position for another two years before Tamarind Tree Hotel came calling as executive chef," she says.
Tamarind Tree's Nairobi General Manager John Musau said the preparation of the giant cake has been a tradition for welcoming the festive season.
The cake is baked just before Christmas and served to customers visiting the hotel, with 50 percent of the proceeds used to support different children's homes in Nairobi.
"We use the event to set the mood for the festivities. It has been a tough year with Covid-19 and so let us enjoy. We have decided to lighten the mood by creating hope that all is not lost and we want every customer and client to come here and enjoy," says Mr Musau.


Should be a quick meeting. Only one action item and one update item on the agenda. The action item is request for a T-Mobile "Monocypress" tree, at 7839 Emerson Place. That's a bit east of Del Mar, backing up to Duff Elementary School.
The update item is on the Wal-Mart annual review. Accoustical engineers redid the sound monitoring. But this time, they measured at the "line of sight" from the second floor windows of the condominiums on Delta.
Guess what? The city's noise ordinance *is* being violated. So staff is going to ask Wal-Mart to put some sort of sound deadening barrier between the air conditioning units and the adjacent residences.
There's also another letter from SCE, that is a bit more adament about whether or not the transformer could have been placed below ground.
Submitted by Zebra24601 on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 10:35.
Hmmm. So if they've been violating the sound ordinance every day since the store was opened, does that mean there's a big cash settlement coming our way?


Alternative investment data and analytics provider eVestment has launched a digital assets universe as part of its monthly hedge fund database that includes return expectations, market exposure, investment process and process type, the company has announced.
The additions will allow users to compare to other investment opportunities in the eVestment platform, the company said in a statement. Digital assets tracked could include crypto currencies like bitcoin, ethereum or litecoin, as well as ICOs and other yet-to-be-developed digital assets.
The step is in response to rising demand from investors, investment consultants and hedge fund managers for sharing information about digital assets investment opportunities and comparing them to other investment opportunities. Submitting digital assets hedge fund data to eVestment will be free for fund managers, the statement added, while access to the new digital assets universe will be included in client subscriptions. Multi-strategy hedge fund managers with digital assets investments among their strategies will continue to submit to the eVestment multi-strategy fund universe where they can note their digital assets in their fund narrative.
Acquired by NASDAQ in September 2017, Atlanta-based eVestment was founded in 2000 by Jim Minnick, Matt Crisp and Heath Wilson. The company boasts one of the largest, most comprehensive global databases of traditional and alternative strategies and provides institutional investment data intelligence and analytic solutions to clients worldwide.


Vinyl Villain and I originally linked up a few weeks back and discussed getting together to see what he's got cooking. Last week he reached out and offered me a glimpse into the mixing of 2 brand new tracks he's got coming out. He told me to come by Jon Glass' studio to check out the product.
Glasshouse studios is owned and operated by Jon Glass in Beverly MA. It occupies a seemingly unassuming garage space down by the Marina next to the shoreline. Inside the space, however, is packed with crates of vinyl, couches that just pull you in and all the tools and equipment needed to operate a studio capable of supporting a variety of types of music.
When I arrived there, an event was just ending and I was warmly greeted by Jon Glass and Vinyl Villain. They both introduced me to some local cats there for the event and I immediately felt at ease in the studio.
The track begins with a sample from The Departed which features an ice cold Jack Nicholson quote. Villain highlights Nolan's staccato flow with a sawing accordion along with organs and layers some ticks and boom appropriately. If your local mafioso ristorante played hip hop during dinner, this would be the jam. Nolan flexes his wordplay and machine gun bars while Villain shines with his versatility on production.
A quote from The Wire pulls you into the track as Vinyl Villain lays down a grimy beat with a sinister effect for the Heist brothers to murk over. Ty Da Dale has some sharp rhymes and almost sounds like Killa Cam in his prime on a few bars. Sauce brings his usual brand of fiery yet smooth NY street rap. Sauce has quietly established himself as one of the more consistent underground lyricists lately.
Glass did his thing with ease and proficiency. He would highlight certain aspects he felt needed to be emphasized and Villain gave him some feedback. Villain let Jon do his thing, which is make an already dope track sound that much better.
Throughout the course of mixing while Jon was working his magic, Villain and I chopped it up about artists he'd sent beats to, dudes he's got tracks in the works with and artists that he's really feeling at the moment. He cited AnkhleJohn as an artist who is on top of his game. I was able to pry out of Vinyl Villain that he has an upcoming project with Sauce Heist in the works. He also mentioned that he and AnkhleJohn have a new EP in the works; one with a grand, cinematic vision. This follows up Ankh-nasty, released last month, which featured 2 Vinyl Villain produced tracks.
We joked that his catchphrase has become: "Music to extort small businesses by." He credits CodeNine for bestowing that descriptor on his work. I suggested that be the title of his full length album. Now I'm starting to think that he should remove the word "small." There's nothing small about Vinyl Villain's expanding resume and Rolodex of clients.
After Villain's 2 tracks were mixed, he cue'd up an obscure jazz sample to mess with. He played it a few times and Jon was loving it. Jon flipped it and just started chopping it up and was "hearing" it all come together as he plucked the pieces apart and then placed them carefully together, adding other elements along the way.
Jon added some drum fills and a spaced-out sax loop to drift your head right into the clouds.
This track ended up extremely dope in such a short flip. Jon is a true professional and a talented musician along with being a skilled producer and mixing engineer. Excited to hear if this track comes to fruition and excited for whatever Jon has next in store.
Both Jon Glass and Vinyl Villain have got plenty more gas in the tank to keep banging out great hip hop. Keep your ears open for more from both of these talented cats.


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American Sign Language level 1 classes are being offered in Kemptville, Tuesdays starting April 9, 2019. Level 2 classes will begin on Thursdays starting April 11, 2019. 2 1/2 hours per week for 8 weeks for $295 per person, plus $95 materials cost. These courses are important for Special Education teachers, students wishing to pursue linguistics, plus parents of new babies and young children! Email for more info. Classes are held at St Michael's High School, 2755 County Road 43, Kemptville, ON.
Jane Lalonde is an American Sign Language teacher that will be bringing Level 1 American Sign Language, to North Grenville. Jane has been deaf since birth, but communicates well through lip reading, hearing aids and American Sign Language. The prerequisite for attaining the American Sign Language teaching status, is that each individual must be deaf.
Jane started teaching American Sign Language (ASL) 15 years ago, and then took an extended break until last year, to raise her young children. She took upgrading classes, offered by the Canadian Hearing Society, before returning back to teaching. In 2000, Jane taught International Sign Language to hotel staff members, in preparation for the World Federation of the Deaf Conference that was held in Montreal.
Jane is passionate about teaching, enjoys photography and loves to travel. Jane was born and raised in Montreal, and moved to Cornwall 9 years ago with her husband and their 4 children. She is a graduate of the Social Service Worker Program at St. Lawrence College. Janes' dream is to work as an Educational Assistant and to continue to teach ASL, in the communities of Cornwall and Kemptville.
Please join Janes' classes, and tell others of this amazing opportunity that is now available in North Grenville. She looks forward to making new friends, and to teaching many people the ability to Sign.