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Rome Final: Rafa v Nole. 10 Things To Look For.
Sunday, 16 May 2021 / Published in ATP Tour
G'day from Roma!
It's been an amazing week in Rome working with the coaching teams of Jan-Lennard Struff, Matteo Berrettini, and Lorenzo Sonego as well as the Italian Tennis Federation. Having limited crowds back at matches is amazing. The electricity in the stadiums has been sorely missed by players. They really do feed off the energy of the crowd so much.
Today's final between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal will no doubt be a cracker. Both players had at least one tough match during the tournament that could have easily seen them defeated. Nadal saved two match points to Denis Shapovalov 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(3). Djokovic scraped by Stefanos Tsitsipas 4-6, 7-5, 7-5.
Djokovic leads the head-to-head against Nadal 29-27, so there is some extra motivation to grab this win today to either close the gap or extend it. After sitting courtside for almost all their matches in Rome this week, I have put together a list of 10 things I will be closely monitoring as the final unfolds.
1: Thrive On Adversity
Consider this quote from Djokovic…
"[I had to dig] very deep. Without a doubt, until the last shot I didn't know whether I was going to win but I believed that I could," Djokovic said.
And Nadal, who saved two match points against Denis Shapovalov.
"[It] is an important victory for me [to] be able to win matches like today, three hours and 27 [minutes], in the Barcelona final three hours and 38 [minutes], long matches," said Nadal. "To be able to win these kinds of matches against young players gives me confidence with my body. It's true that I have to do things better for tomorrow. But the main thing today for me is [to] recover physically."
Both guys have had their feet to the fire this week in Rome. That will provide valuable experience for today's match. If either of them shows any sign of weakness with their body language then the other player will surely draw motivation from it. Novak got too angry in Belgrade. Rafa got too disappointed in Monte Carlo.
Whoever stays the most positive when adversity surely arrives will be the winner.
2: Novak 1st Serve Patterns
Novak's primary (7 out of 10) serve locations against Rafa should be wide on both sides to exploit Rafa's ultra-deep return location. If the return is short then Novak can step forward and attack the open court on the other side. He can also let Rafa run hard to open the court and play behind him. Getting a few easy points like this will go a long way to taking the pressure off his service games.
3: Novak's Backhand Return
This shot is really, really dialed in at the moment. I was in the coach's box as part of Lorenzo Sonego's team and could not believe how well Novak hit his backhand return deep in the court. It felt like it was always landing within two racket lengths of the baseline from a 200 km/h+ 1st serve from Lorenzo. Rafa needs to serve more to Novak's forehand return today. In 2011/2012 Novak won seven straight matches against Rafa – all finals. Rafa finally defeated Novak 6-3, 6-1 in the Monte Carlo final. He didn't direct one first serve to Novak's backhand return in that match.
4: Novak's Drop Shots
This shot can be a bit of a mixed bag for Novak. Sometimes he uses it at the right time, which is typically earlier in the rally, and other times he bails out of a rally and it barely makes it halfway up the net. The absolute best time to hit a drop shot vs. Rafa is with the very first shot after the serve (Serve +1). The reason is that Rafa is at his deepest behind the baseline and you can sneak it in early with him a country mile away.
5: Rafa Break Points
This absolutely drives me crazy when I watch Rafa in big moments. When he is serving to save break point, he is always bold and plays at such a high level. I have often said that the toughest point to win in tennis is break point vs. Rafa. It feels the exact opposite when Rafa is trying to convert break points. I get the feeling he is far more timid, far more defensive than normal and his return lacks power and depth. When he gets an opponent to 15-40, I feel a passive point is coming and the score will quickly be 30-40. He simply can't hope the opponent will gift him the break point – especially against Novak.
6: Rafa's Run-Around Forehand
This has the potential to be the most lethal shot on the court. Novak will no doubt go at Rafa's backhand to grind it down. If Rafa can find a healthy amount of run-around forehands standing in the Deuce court, he can then attack Novak's forehand out wide in the Deuce court. This is Rafa's favorite way to end the point from the baseline. An inside-out forehand to his opponent's forehand. Novak needs to make Rafa hit backhands standing in the Deuce court.
7: Serve & Volley
It's such a smart play on clay because the returner is typically so far back. Novak likes to do it in clutch situations to bring the battle to the front of the court. We may not see any today, but I have spent a week in Rome watching many, many matches and have seen serve and volley work incredibly well. The more uncertainty you can create in your opponent's mind the better.
8: Novak's Forehand
I have been very impressed with how well he is hitting it this week. He gets a lot more spin and shape on the ball on clay than he does on hard. He is hitting his forehand cross court roll exceptionally well and will need that shot to pull Rafa off the court to hit a backhand. Early in the point is all about pushing the opponent back with depth. Later in the point is the time to exploit that deep court position with heavy short angles. Novak has that shot in spades this week.
9: Rafa's Ad Court Forehand
Rafa lost 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 to Andrey Rublev in Monte Carlo. He lost to Alexander Zverev 6-4, 6-4 in Madrid. He had to save match points here in Rome against Denis Shapovalov. Rafa's regular, run-of-the-mill cross court forehand is misbehaving and the main reason these clay court losses are happening. At the start of the week here in Rome Rafa spent many hours hitting rally forehands to try and find his range. It was off. It was too flat. The shot lacked shape and was spraying on him. It's improved as the week progressed, but if Rafa loses confidence in hitting routine forehands cross court this afternoon vs. Novak, then his goose is cooked.
10: Attacking Rafa's Forehand
Novak has got to make sure that all the attacking he tries to do in the point is not happening too much to Rafa's rock-solid backhand wing. Rafa does not miss a lot of backhands, so consistently hammering away here is not the answer. One or two balls to Rafa's backhand, and then attacking wide in the Ad court to the forehand is the smart play. That is what worked so well in the 2019 Australian Open final where Novak won 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 – and it wasn't that close.
I am greatly looking forward to the final and will be writing an ATP analysis of it this evening.
Have a great final gentlemen!
Here are some photos of Novak and Rafa from the practice court and their matches earlier this week.


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Personal Statement for MS in Marketing
"Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals- they are both essential ingredients for long-term success." This quote by Bill ford perhaps held the most relevance during the recent pandemic induced lockdown. Using my business acumen to curate a digital fundraising campaign for marginal dairy farmers to avail free veterinary services for their precious cattle made me realise the potential to apply business strategies to social issues and make them traverse the premise of corporate social responsibility to be promoted as a front-line business. The experience made me realise that I lack the business management skills that I can employ to promote social organisations more austerely. With an academic background in commerce, I feel that a graduate program in business management/marketing will provide the perfect impetus for my career aspirations.
Hailing from a service class background, the business has always been a fascination for me. The idea of being independent and not working under someone anchored in me since my teenage. A sense of purpose will always be present in entrepreneurship, which acts as the motivation needed to wake up and go to work. I was adamant enough to follow my passion which helped me to narrow down my career options. Ambiguity and confusion never crossed my mind when it came to deciding my future. Luckily, my scholastic prowess allowed me to pursue my desired economics and commerce stream. My incessant hard work and love towards the subject helped me accomplish a seat in my dream college, the prestigious Shri Ram College of Commerce in Delhi, where I came across some brilliant minds who gave me a different outlook on business entrepreneurship. All this ushered me to correspond to a research paper titled "Corporate Social Responsibility expenditure trends in Indian Economy" at the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, where I worked as an intern. I also took up an internship at India's first homegrown LGBTQ Network app, where I handled market research and communications alongside signing up with four potential business stakeholders on board.
Given my passion and interests, after my undergraduate, I moved progressively and started working for World Bank and Microsoft award-winning start-up 'MoooFarm'. Here, I was responsible for business development, marketing and customer acquisition. Here, I initiated some exciting campaigns, such as providing digital veterinary help to the farmers during the lockdown, which was crucial for the farmers and small-scale dealers. Initially, due to the pandemic, there were many hurdles, but gradually the balls got rolling. Today, over 20000 farmers from three north Indian states are registered users of the app. These projects helped me gain first-hand experience, paving the way for me to collaborate with international business and help grassroots level that has enhanced my knowledge of business management and its permeability. It also gave me a lot of motivation and purpose to move forward towards my objective. This experience provided a new dimension and a sense of purpose. During this phase, the primary skills I attained were learning quickly, being a team player, communicating clearly, creating confidently, and thinking originally. Concurrently, I was part of the peacebuilding research and consequently pursued a part-time diploma in "Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding" from the renowned Lady Shriram, University of Delhi.
Further, I participated in the theatre for my passion for social change. I also handled the Deputy Coordinator's position (of India's largest fest with a budget of 10.2 million INR and footfall of 25000 people) to explore my leadership skills in marketing and organising. This multi-tasking attitude of handling two extremes helped me find the opportunities which lie at the intersection of my passion and skills. As a result, I have maintained a balance of both personal and professional trajectories.
"Business opportunities are like buses; there's always another one coming". Being a very opportunistic person, this quote had a significant influence on me. My rationale's central provenance was how simple the leading brands of today commenced and grew out of nothing. It made me perceive that even a person like me coming from a humble background could effectuate it big with the right adroitness. Retrospection of my knowledge and aspirations reveals the need to polish my marketing skills to promote social causes to a greater reach and instigate a snowball for social change. In this pursuit, I posit that international education will broaden my outlook and equip me with practical business management and marketing dexterity. Also, meeting new enthusiastic minds globally across the country will definitely provide me with insight that will add to my present business skills. Assignmenting in Australia would give me global exposure and adapt to a heterogeneous society to develop my people skills. It would play a requisite role in providing me with networking opportunities and international exposure for acquiring my goals. Lastly, I also believe that this opportunity will help me grow professionally and personally.

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Anime Challenge Day 29: What Anime Made You Laugh?
Mary and the Witch's Flower is a cute little anime with a great self-discovery story where young Mary travels to Endor College and learns magic. Endor College has to be the coolest magic school around and could even compete with the Wizarding World in Harry Potter. The lunch room alone is amazing!!
One of the funniest scenes is when Mary first finds the broom stick and learns to fly. I can't help but laugh as she's bouncing her way out of the forest with Tib following along behind.
Overall, Mary's a quirky little ten-year old with some of the funniest lines, such as "wait, I'm not done complaining about my life yet" and when she brags about only using 40% of her magic even though she doesn't actually know what she's doing. Mary is basically all of us who have ever struggled figuring out what we are and who we should be in life.
What anime made you laugh?
P.S. This is Day 29 of A Geeky Gal's 30 Day Anime Challenge, which you can find more about here.
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    return app.exec();
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Written by Scott Joseph on 21 June 2016 on 21 June 2016 .
Although the name sounds like it might be the name of a far off land, Itar is actually a portmanteaux of Italy and Argentina, the two cuisines represented on the menu. It also sounds a little like Ishtar, the infamous movie that starred Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty. But that was a bomb; Itar is a hit.
I first told you that Itar Bistro Market was being planned for a space in Metro West's Veranda Park almost exactly two years ago, in July of 12014. But it didn't actually open until August of last year.
Itar is the project of Mariana Moya, a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu who serves as the chef. Quite ably, I might add. Everything that my companion and I sampled on a recent visit was top notch, both in quality of ingredients and their preparation.
We started with an appetizer of Grilled Octopus, which Moya imports from Spain (Maybe the name should be Spitar?). It's not always on the menu because of the availability, but if it's offered when you go, grab it. If I've had a better serving of octopus, I can't recall it. The tender tentacles had just a perfect char on the outside, and the smoky flavor complemented the sweet meat nicely.
We also had the Marido & Mujer, a serving of a traditional sausage, made with a blend of beef and pork, and an Argentine blood sausage. The name means "husband and woman"; I'll let you decide which is which. The traditional sausage had a nice, firm texture and mild flavors. The black sausage was characteristically mushier and had sharper flavors. They were served with a wedge of griddled polenta that didn't add much to the enjoyment.
For an entree, my friend chose the Churrasco, a marinated and grilled skirt steak that was impossibly tender. He sprang for an extra two bucks for a fried egg to top the steak, which added some nice unctuousness with the yolk. And a side dish of Brussels Sprouts sauteed with lots of bacon bits was wonderful.
If there had to be one thing that didn't fully thrill it would be the Egg Pappardelle alla Bolognese. The pasta was nicely produced and cooked al dente, but the sauce was a bit dry. Good flavors, but not enough sauce to coat the wide noodles.
Our server was quite good (though really one should learn the Spanish names of the dishes). And others on the staff were just as warm and gracious. Seating is available inside and on a patio.
As the name implies, Itar is also a market, though that part of the business doesn't seem to be as well thought out as the bistro side. Still, you might be able to find some interesting imported canned goods on the few shelves, and there are almost certainly some worthwhile prepared items in the display cases to take home.
Itar Bistro Market is at 7065 Westpointe Blvd., Orlando. It is open for lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday. The phone number is 407-757-0553.


The situation: Candlemas—K.U. Leuven's one-day school holiday. Horrible weather—grey, windy and sleet-y. And the subject at hand—restless and annoyed at the weather, not to mention bored (but not willing to let go of the one-day holiday to do lab-work).
To break the boredom, to challenge myself and to channel the restlessness (what my former chemistry students would term "metaphysical unease") to do somethiing useful, I hunted for my text-file copy of a typical Flemish dish—stoofvlees or beef stew (or la carbonnade a la Flamande). It's the simplest one I could find via Google, although for my version I tweaked the one I found in here (a forum for Americans with Flemish descent) with this one. I even made my own fries to go with this—I was that bored!
Marinate the beef cubes with salt, pepper, garlic, dried thyme and Dijon mustard for at least 15 minutes. Shake with flour until cubes are lightly coated.
Fry the floured beef cubes in butter on a skillet until golden brown. Set cubes aside in a Dutch oven.
Saute the chopped onions in butter (using the same skillet) until golden and translucent. Scoop the onions on top of the beef cubes.
Deglaze the skillet with a portion of brown beer. Pour the resulting mixture over the beef and onions. Pour the rest of the beer and add one bay leaf.
Place Dutch oven on top of the stove (set at medium), cover and let it simmer for an hour. Stir every once in a while to prevent sticking.
Once the sauce has thickened, add the vinegar and appelstroop. Mix very well. Adjust seasoning (salt, pepper) as you see fit.
Serve with hot, crispy fries.
Can I use a non-Belgian beer? As long as it's brown or dark beer, that is. Dark beer has a more complex taste which makes it ideal for cooking and can stand up to the richness of beef, butter and onion mixture. Guiness may work, or cervesa negra.
Can I use other Belgian beers? Why not? 😛 I can imagine stoofvlees made with kriek for that cherry kick. I was torn between using a Trappist brew or a geuze, but I wanted the sweet nuttiness that comes from Trappist beers.
Does this go well with fries only? You can't think of fries without stoofvlees, but the sauce has that sweet-sour piquancy that it can go with ANY bland carbohydrate source—I can eat this with rice, provided that it's steaming hot. 😀 Definitely not traditional Flemish, but Flemish-Asian fusion, haha.
If there's one thing I've noted in this particular Flemish comfort-stew…because of the alcohol and vinegar used in cooking, this dish has the potential of aging well when stored at cool temperatures (makes me think of adobo yet again). Preparation and cooking take up a lot of time for stoofvlees, so it's ideal to make this as a weekend dish, to be stored in batches in the fridge. To save more time, serve this with ready-made fries.
But then again, can you really call yourself becoming Flemish if you don't make your own fries?


The master craftsmen of Medea know the most remote secrets of the art of furniture building, carving, polishing, lacquering and padding, secrets that are handed down from father to son. The choice of woods and processing techniques used are the same as in ancient times, as well as the meticulous attention in the selection of materials, fabrics and leathers. Every detail is attended with great care to embellish each piece. The Medea products can live in any type of home, both classical, giving a sense of harmony and elegance, and modern, where the furniture create a harmonious sense of contrast with the rest of the environment.
The master craftsmen of Medea know the most remote secrets of the art of building, carving , polishing, lacquering and padding, secrets that are handed down from father to son.
The choice of woods and processing techniques used are the same as in ancient times, as well as the meticulous attention in the selection of materials, fabrics and leathers. Every detail is attended with great care to embellish each piece. The Medea products can live in any type of home, both classical, giving a sense of harmony and elegance, and modern, where the furniture create a harmonious sense of contrast with the rest of the environment.


SO many believers are avoiding gluten! This might help you for potlucks!
I see that she has a bunch of $2.99 recipe books; one features almond flour, another coconut flour, and a whole lot of slow cooker recipes.
Publisher says: Are you looking for a versatile gluten-free flour that doesn't need special treatment or added ingredients? Do you love baking and want to enjoy your food without worrying about your waistline?


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Workers' compensation laws protect people who become injured or disabled while working at their jobs. The laws provide the injured workers with fixed monetary awards, in an attempt to eliminate the need for litigation. These laws also provide benefits for dependents of those workers who are killed because of work-related accidents or illnesses. Some laws also protect employers and fellow workers by limiting the amount an injured employee can recover from an employer and by eliminating the liability of co-workers in most accidents. State statutes establish this framework for most employment. Federal statutes are limited to federal employees or those workers employed in some significant aspect of interstate commerce.
State and Federal Laws Related to Workers' Compensation
There are both federal laws and state laws which relate to workers' compensation.
The Federal Employment Compensation Act provides workers' compensation for non-military, federal employees. Many of its provisions are typical of most workers' compensation laws. Awards are limited to "disability or death" sustained while in the performance of the employee's duties but not caused willfully by the employee or by intoxication. The act covers medical expenses due to the disability and may require the employee to undergo job retraining. A disabled employee receives two-thirds of his or her normal monthly salary during the disability and may receive more for permanent physical injuries or if he or she has dependents. The act provides compensation for survivors of employees who are killed. The act is administered by the United States Department of Labor.
The Federal Employment Liability Act (FELA), while not a workers' compensation statute, provides that a railroad company engaged in interstate commerce is liable for injuries to their employees if the company has been negligent.
The Merchant Marine Act (the Jones Act) provides seamen with the same protection from employer negligence that FELA provides to railroad workers.
The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA) to provide workers' compensation to specified employees of private maritime employers. The Office of Workers' Compensation Programs administers the act.
The Black Lung Benefits Act provides compensation for miners suffering from "black lung" (pneumoconiosis). The Act requires liable mine operators to pay disability payments and establishes a fund administered by the Secretary of Labor providing disability payments to miners where the mine operator is unknown or unable to pay. The Office of Workers' Compensation Programs's Division of Coal Mine Workers' Compensation regulates the administration of the act.
Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations provides an example of a comprehensive state plan for workers' compensation. It is applicable to most employers. The statute limits the liability of the employer and fellow employees. California also requires employers to obtain insurance to cover potential workers' compensation claims and sets up a fund for claims that employers have illegally failed to insure against.
For more on workers' compensation, see this Stetson Law Review article, this Temple Law Review article, and this page from the United States Department of Labor website.
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Federal Material
U.S. Constitution and Federal Statutes
U.S. Code:
Federal Employees' Compensation Act - 5 U.S.C. §§ 8101 - 8193.
Federal Employment Liability Act (FELA)- 45 U.S.C. §§ 51 - 60
Merchant Marine Act (the Jones Act) - 46 U.S.C. § 688
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA) - 33 U.S.C. §§ 901 - 950.
Black Lung Benefits Act - 30 U.S.C. §§ 901 - 945
CRS Annotated Constitution
Title 20 C.F.R., Chapt. I
Federal Judicial Decisions
U.S. Supreme Court:
Recent Workers Compensation Decisions
liibulletin Oral Argument Previews
U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals: Recent Workers Compensation Decisions
CRS Annotated Consitution: Fourteenth Amendment Rights Guaranteed, Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection
State Material
State Statutes
New York Workers' Compensation Law
California's Workers' Compensation Act - California Labor Code §§ 3200 - 6149
State Statutes Dealing with Labor
State Judicial Decisions
N.Y. Court of Appeals:
Recent Decisions on Workers' Compensation
Commentary from liibulletin-ny
Appellate Decisions from Other States
Key Internet Sources
Workers' Compensation (Nolo)
Useful Offnet (or Subscription - $) Sources
Good Starting Point in Print: Arthur Larson and Lex K. Larson, Larson's Workers' Compensation, Matthew Bender (1994)
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Talisman - Character Pack #17 - Woodsman
Alert me on price drops
Activates in United Kingdom
Åland Islands, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, plurinational state of, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bouvet Island, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Holy See (Vatican City State), Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea, Republic of, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Federated States of, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Palau, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of North Macedonia, Reunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Helena, Ascension And Tristan Da Cunha, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French Part), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Province of China, Tajikistan, Tanzania, United Republic Of, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, British, Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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The Woodsman character pack for Talisman: Digital Edition.
The Woodsman originally appeared in the 2nd Edition of Talisman over 30 years ago. Now, revised and updated, he makes his return to challenge for the Crown of Command.
Character Stats -
Strength: 4
Craft: 2
Lives: 4
Fate: 2
Gold: 1
Alignment: Neutral
Starting Space: Forest
You begin the game with an Axe from the Purchase deck. If you lose the Axe, you may take one from the Purchase deck for free if you visit the Forest.You may add 1 to your attack score when you use a Weapon that has the word 'Axe' in its title.
Whenever you land on the Woods, you may draw two Adventure cards, instead of one, but you must encounter both cards. If there is a card already on the Woods when you land there, you may draw a second card, but you must encounter both cards.
You may add 1 to your die roll in the Forest.
Animals will not attack you, although you may choose to attack them.
10 MB available space
256MB Video Memory


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Q: Java Script works with a single value but not with two I have a Java Script that stops working when I try to input two values. This is the script that works:

click here

Nothing fancy. It just adds 3.L in blue color to the end of a line.
I want this function to do some other things so I change function addsuggest(name) to function addsuggest(name, id) and onClick=addsuggest('3') toonClick=addsuggest('3', 'John')
These are the symptoms I have:

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*It won't work. I tried making it a button. Again it won't work.

*When I hover over the link it shows javascript:onClick=addsuggest('3' and not the rest. So it's stopped reading it at the comma.

*Rest of the page content goes blue as if it's link but not clickable.

This is the simplest thing I've done with Java Script. It's just inputting values and then printing it. So, what's the matter?

A: You need quotes surrounding the href attribute (and should place them around all other attributes), otherwise the single quotes around the function parameters will break the link:

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and for readability:
function addsuggest(name)
{
    document.getElementById("recipients").innerHTML += name + ".L";
}

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package net.coding.program.project.init.setting;

import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.Message;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Toast;

import net.coding.program.MyApp;
import net.coding.program.R;
import net.coding.program.common.CustomDialog;
import net.coding.program.common.Global;
import net.coding.program.common.SimpleSHA1;
import net.coding.program.common.WeakRefHander;
import net.coding.program.common.ui.BackActivity;
import net.coding.program.common.umeng.UmengEvent;
import net.coding.program.login.auth.AuthInfo;
import net.coding.program.login.auth.TotpClock;
import net.coding.program.model.AccountInfo;
import net.coding.program.model.ProjectObject;
import net.coding.program.project.init.InitProUtils;

import org.androidannotations.annotations.AfterViews;
import org.androidannotations.annotations.Click;
import org.androidannotations.annotations.EActivity;
import org.androidannotations.annotations.Extra;
import org.androidannotations.annotations.ViewById;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

/**
 * Created by jack wang on 2015/3/31.
 * 删除项目
 */
@EActivity(R.layout.init_activity_project_advance_set)
public abstract class ProjectAdvanceSetBaseActivity extends BackActivity implements Handler.Callback {

    protected final String TAG_DELETE_PROJECT_2FA = "TAG_DELETE_PROJECT_2FA";
    protected final String TAG_TRANSFER_PROJECT = "TAG_TRANSFER_PROJECT";
    private final String HOST_NEED_2FA = Global.HOST_API + "/user/2fa/method";
    @ViewById
    Button deleteBut;
    Handler hander2fa;

    @Extra
    protected ProjectObject mProjectObject;

    private EditText edit2fa;

    @AfterViews
    protected final void initProjectAdvanceSetActivity() {
        hander2fa = new WeakRefHander(this, 100);
    }

    protected boolean checkInput() {
        return true;
    }

    @Click
    void deleteBut() {
        if (!checkInput()) {
            return;
        }

        showProgressBar(true);
        getNetwork(HOST_NEED_2FA, HOST_NEED_2FA);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean handleMessage(Message msg) {
        if (edit2fa != null) {
            String secret = AccountInfo.loadAuth(this, MyApp.sUserObject.global_key);
            if (secret.isEmpty()) {
                return true;
            }

            String code2FA = new AuthInfo(secret, new TotpClock(this)).getCode();
            edit2fa.setText(code2FA);
        }
        return true;
    }

    private void showDeleteDialog() {
        LayoutInflater factory = LayoutInflater.from(this);
        final View textEntryView = factory.inflate(R.layout.dialog_delete_project, null);
        final EditText edit1 = (EditText) textEntryView.findViewById(R.id.edit1);
        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
        AlertDialog dialog = builder
                .setTitle("需要验证密码")
                .setView(textEntryView)
                .setPositiveButton("确定", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                        String editStr1 = edit1.getText().toString().trim();
                        if (TextUtils.isEmpty(editStr1)) {
                            Toast.makeText(ProjectAdvanceSetBaseActivity.this, "密码不能为空", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                            return;
                        }

                        actionDelete2FA(SimpleSHA1.sha1(editStr1));
                    }
                })
                .setNegativeButton("取消", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {

                    }
                }).show();
        CustomDialog.dialogTitleLineColor(this, dialog);
    }

    private void showDeleteDialog2fa() {
        hander2fa.sendEmptyMessage(0);
        LayoutInflater factory = LayoutInflater.from(this);
        final View textEntryView = factory.inflate(R.layout.dialog_delete_project_2fa, null);
        edit2fa = (EditText) textEntryView.findViewById(R.id.edit1);
        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
        AlertDialog dialog = builder
                .setTitle("需要验证码")
                .setView(textEntryView)
                .setPositiveButton("确定", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                        String editStr1 = edit2fa.getText().toString().trim();
                        if (TextUtils.isEmpty(editStr1)) {
                            Toast.makeText(ProjectAdvanceSetBaseActivity.this, "密码不能为空", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                            return;
                        }
                        actionDelete2FA(editStr1);
                    }
                })
                .setNegativeButton("取消", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                    }
                }).show();

        CustomDialog.dialogTitleLineColor(this, dialog);
        dialog.setOnDismissListener(new DialogInterface.OnDismissListener() {
            @Override
            public void onDismiss(DialogInterface dialog) {
                hander2fa.removeMessages(0);
                edit2fa = null;
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public void parseJson(int code, JSONObject respanse, String tag, int pos, Object data) throws JSONException {
        if (tag.equals(HOST_NEED_2FA)) {
            showProgressBar(false);
            if (code == 0) {
                String passwordType = respanse.optString("data", "");
                if (passwordType.equals("totp")) {
                    showDeleteDialog2fa();
                } else { //  password
                    showDeleteDialog();
                }
            } else {
                showErrorMsg(code, respanse);
            }
        } else if (tag.equals(TAG_DELETE_PROJECT_2FA)) {
            showProgressBar(false);
            if (code == 0) {
                umengEvent(UmengEvent.PROJECT, "删除项目");
                showButtomToast("删除成功");
                InitProUtils.intentToMain(ProjectAdvanceSetBaseActivity.this);
                finish();
            } else {
                showErrorMsg(code, respanse);
            }
        } else if (tag.equals(TAG_TRANSFER_PROJECT)) {
            showProgressBar(false);
            if (code == 0) {
                umengEvent(UmengEvent.PROJECT, "转让项目");
                showButtomToast("转让成功");
                InitProUtils.intentToMain(ProjectAdvanceSetBaseActivity.this);
                finish();
            } else {
                showErrorMsg(code, respanse);
            }
        }
    }

    abstract void actionDelete2FA(String code);

}


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WWE Spoilers: RAW Celebrating 20th Anniversary on January 14!
During last night's Christmas Eve edition of RAW, local advertisements revealed that the January 14 edition of RAW will be a celebration of another huge milestone in WWE history, the 20th anniversary of Monday Night RAW. The flagship show of the WWE premiered on January 11, 1993 and, twenty years later, only one Superstar is still an active competitor now that was also on the very first episode of RAW and that is The Undertaker. RAW's 20th Anniversary Celebration will emanate from the Toyota Center in Houston, TX. WWE has not yet made any announcements regarding any special guests, but a Shawn Michaels appearance seems all but a certainty with RAW airing from his home state. RAW's 20th Anniversary Celebration comes less than six months after RAW celebrated its 1,000th Episode on July 23.
The same week that RAW celebrates 20 years on the air, SmackDown will also make history as the January 18 show will mark the 700th episode of SmackDown, which will be taped on Tuesday, January 15 at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, TX. SmackDown premiered on April 29, 1999 and was originally intended to only be a one-time only special, but the show's popularity led to it becoming WWE's secondary show and, a few years later, WWE's second brand as SmackDown would make the trip from UPN to The CW to MyNetworkTV to its current home on Syfy.
What would you like to see on RAW's 20th Anniversary Celebration? Post your comments in the box below.
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I hope Hbk and Stone cold and triple h return


Landcom is seeking on behalf of the Vendor, Sydney Metro, Expressions of Interest (EOI) from experienced developers to acquire these high density, mixed use sites adjacent to the Kellyville Station.
Kellyville Station Precinct Stage 1 comprises Lot 170 (known as Site 1) and Lot 169 (known as Site 2). Stage 1 is a landmark development opportunity with nearly 2.5 hectares of combined developable land. Site 1 has the potential to produce up to 100,000 m2** Gross Floor Area (GFA) while Site 2 has the potential to produce up to 80,000m2** GFA (subject to approvals).
The proximity of the new metro station will offer great amenities and convenient services for residents, local workers, visitors and metro customers.
The property is for sale by Expressions of Interest (EOI) closing Monday 17 December at 3pm.
- Significant Kellyville landholding with a total land area of approximately 2.5 ha*.
- Close access to Kellyville Station which is due to be completed in early 2019.
- The sites are subject to a maximum Floor Space Ratio (FSR) of 4.1. Clause 8.3 of the Hills Shire Local Environment Plan 2012 allows for land dedicated for a public purpose to a Council/public authority to be included in areas calculated for GFA.
- Easy connections will integrate this new precinct to existing and future surrounding communities and local attractors, including Castle Towers Shopping Centre, Macquarie Park and Norwest Business Park.
For more information on this outstanding development site please contact the Colliers International Development Site Sales team.
** Clause 8.3 of the Hills Local Environment Plan 2012 allows for land dedicated for a public purpose to a Council/public authority to be included in areas calculated for GFA.


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Q: NodeJS - express + mongoose + BAL with single connection I'm new to NodeJS and I setup a new express app with mongoose and I have read a lot about how to manage the DB connection in this app.
I read that the best practice is to setup the connection to the app.locals of the express instance and that's good but my code look like something that is hard to maintain and complex.
In every endpoint I need to insert this first line:
 const db = req.app.locals.db;

And the code looks like that:

const create = async (req, res) => {
    const db = req.app.locals.db;

    const sysUserModel = {
        email: req.body.email,
        password: req.body.password,
        firstName: req.body.firstName,
        lastName: req.body.lastName,
    };

    const model = new db.models.sys_user(sysUserModel);
    const sysUser = await model.save();

    res.json({
        status: true,
        data: sysUser
    });
};

I want to add a Business access layer with services to refactor my code and prevent decoupling in my code, but I can't find any articles or blog post about a single connection with express app and how to add services that uses the connection as a best practice.
I thought about passing every time the db connection to some service class but again it hard to maintain.
How you suggest to solve this?
Thanks.

A: You don't need db object directly to access the database through mongoose. You just need access to your models.
So just create a separate directory for models and you can import all the models in an index file inside that directory. Now, whenever you want to access db you just require in the models folder and access database from there.
File structure can be like this:-
models/
  user.js // user model
  post.js // post model
  comment.js  // comment model
  index.js

index.js file might look like this
module.exports = {
 User: require("./user"),
 Post: require("./post"),
 Comment: require("./comment")
}

File where you want to access db might look like this
const db = require(".../models");

const create = async (req, res) => {

    const sysUserModel = {
        email: req.body.email,
        password: req.body.password,
        firstName: req.body.firstName,
        lastName: req.body.lastName,
    };

    const user = new db.User(sysUserModel);
    const sysUser = await user.save();

    res.json({
        status: true,
        data: sysUser
    });
};


I recently had the opportunity to speak at the Penn Humanities Forum in a symposium on cores ande peripheries. I enjoyed myself tremendously. It was a welcome opportunity to have an opportunity to expand my work on networked publics and network culture, especially with such a great synergy between speakers, responders, and audience. I gave two talks, first a position statement and second, a talk on how power configures itself in networked publics.
I've uploaded the second talk to Vimeo and am including the text here. I don't have video for the first talk, but I will upload the text soon.
Networked Publics or Pareto's Revenge from Kazys Varnelis on Vimeo.
In this talk I want to explore how core and periphery might appear in networks and how they are networks reconfigure their structural conditions.
During the last two decades, networks have become our dominant cultural logic. The Internet and mobile telecommunications devices have revolutionized our lives by connecting us in new ways, but more than that, in a book length study of network culture that I am slowly picking away at, I want to suggest that there has also been a mutation that produces this condition and that this condition is no longer simply postmodernity.
So, too, commonplace menaces like Peak Oil and Global Warming are commonly shrugged off as being solvable with technological fixes.
The network is the cultural dominant of our time, much as the machine was for the modern era. Like the machine, the network is a technology, and in this, our time shares a return to the modern obsession with technological change.
In this talk, I want to focus on "networked publics," a term that I wound up working with as a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication in the 2005-2006 academic year after a semester here at Penn. I want to pose the question of what sort of logics of hierarchy emerge within networks and how do these give form to the public, that meeting ground in which we come together to observe and discuss culture, politics, and other matters of common concern?
Let's start with culture since it is key to the public. In Ancients and Moderns Joan DeJean shows that those debates on cultural matters in the seventeenth century were the theater in which a modern idea of the public first emerged.
The cultural, of course, is the political; the stakes were high for Boileau and Perrault, no question And what of the decline of the public sphere or rather its metamorphosis into mass media and the development of the mass? Habermas descries the mass media as commodified, "a public sphere in appearance only," its mission being to encourage consumption.
But we should remember another meaning to the mass, which is that of a certain Utopic strain of modernity, that strain that can't help but call forth an absolutist argument, be it Lissitzky, Corbusier, or Eisenstein. There is no alternate viewpoint to be entertained, no debate to be had, only Agitprop for the avant-garde that advocated a universalizing instrumental rationality.
Postmodernity not only did not return a public sphere, it broke up the mass. After all, postmodernity and postmodernism were defined by the thorough triumph of the culture industry, with postmodernism in Jameson's words, "the cultural logic of late capitalism." But with this too, came the fragmenting of mass media in response to the shift from manufacturing to the service industry in postmodernity and the culture industry's need to expand its market by directly targeting consumer groups.
But if the rise of the culture industry is a constituent of postmodernity, during the last decade we have witnessed a stunning reversal. Culture has had tricks up its sleeve to foil the market, networked tricks. Just as its triumph seemed complete, the culture industry faced an unprecedented crisis of value. During the last decade, the free availability of information on the Internet has undone entire media ecologies. Just when it seemed to be defeated by commodification, culture decided to fight back and shrug it off. In part, consumers—particularly young consumers—have proven that they have little allegiance to the culture industry's ideas of ownership, and are glad to pirate what they can. But even when the means are legal, consumers seek to optimize their spending on culture, throwing the media into crisis. That new media corporations such as Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google, and Mog are eager to help in the "creative destruction" only makes this more so.
Network culture, then is the age of networked publics. Networked publics are groups of individuals who congregate around issues and media that they share an interest in, regardless of their location. Networked publics do not merely receive information, they communicate bottom-to-top-and side-to-side, sharing opinions, reworking, and redistributing information. In this, networked publics have not only utilized but also greatly shaped the technological platforms that constitute media culture today. Think not of comments on newspaper articles, forums about television shows, YouTube, academic listservs and on and on.
We can see this sort of segmentation in, for example, the clusters that geodemographic marketing firm Claritas produces. Utilizing data like this, politicians tune their messages to generate the most votes. Now networked publics do link individuals across political boundaries, but the basic problem remains, you dig yourself deeper.
So networked publics seem to be a set of peripheries that can't coalesce. But there's more to it than that and the rest of my talk will address networks themselves. We've seen the diagram of distributed networks, but if the nodes in a network are allowed to make their own link, something curious happens. Some nodes will connected more to others. Some of those highly-connected nodes will get even more connections. The result is the emergence of "hubs" that will have vastly more connections than other nodes. Take for example the Web site for this conference and compare it to Google.
As network theory shows, Shirky argues, this is absolutely natural: "Freedom of Choice Makes Stars Inevitable." Shirky suggests that although this might one day be a problem, for now we can content ourselves with knowing that this is a natural property of the network. Fair enough, I suppose but if we see the network as a model for society, then we know that this is going to lead straight into neoliberalism and into the creation of a new set of cores and peripheries, network style.
More than that, former Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson suggests that if we look at media consumption as a scale-free network, then the low section of the graph, or the Long Tail, is particularly rich. Anderson observes that aggregators such as Amazon or iTunes make as much money or more from the Long Tail in their libraries as they do from the hits oat the top. Artists in the Long Tail, Anderson suggests, can make decent livings from a dedicated community of fans, a networked public that revolving around them.
Curiously, what happens is an evisceration of the middle. We all share knowledge of the big hits, but the middle is now obscured. We have networked publics—our love of Kung Fu movies or noise music or shoegaze—but will we ever meet except at the most basic big hit level?
But ultimately my point, to get back to what I was speaking about this morning is this. There is a power rippling through networked publics and that power is neoliberalism. For the network naturalizes its propensity toward creating ever-greater GINI coefficients. I want to finish by pointing to one particular origin of network theory that also gives rise to my talk's title. The scale-free network in which 80% of the hits are taken by 20% of the nodes was first formulated by sociologist and economist Vilfredo Pareto, active in Italy in the first part of the last century. He came to this insight when he sought to explain the development of power in societies. Pareto himself believed that such scale-free networks were just. A ruling class, he argued, would always emerge. In writings that appealed to Mussolini and the fascists, he suggested that since this was the natural order of things, the state should simply get out of the way, allowing the natural social law to maintain itself.
If recent apologists for Pareto have suggested that had he not died within a year of the Fascist assumption of power, he would have turned against it, it seems to me that our network culture might have been more acceptable to him. For networks may not seem to have cores and peripheries, but make no mistake, they give rise to power structures no less intractable.
It still strikes me that we haven't made the right links between the housing bubble and starchitecture. If much of the world is economically devastated, high-end architects and developers in global cities find their offices thriving. If starchitecture has pulled back a little, its perhaps in name only as the boom seems to continue, having missed only a beat or two.
If the self-congratulating promoters of the creative city may pat themselves on the back these days about the failure of vast swaths of tract homes, they still fail to understand that the products of Toll Brothers and the products of Richard Meier Associates are the results of the same economic mutation.
I think we can all agree that there is an obvious relationship between the ill-fated real estate bubble of the 2000s and the new products for real-estate consumers developed and popularized at the time such as interest-only mortgages, balloon payments, subprime mortgages, and home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) as well as complimentary instruments for financial investment such as mortgage-backed securities and the credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) that backed those securities. The creative innovation that brought us these financial instruments is the highest form of production in the global city, at least from an economic perspective. If the creative class that produced and marketed these instruments worldwide lived in the towers made by starchitects, the relationship also goes deeper than that.
Tract homes and designer apartment buildings were two sides of the same radical speculation, both precarious constructions of finance, carefully targeted to the appropriate demographic. The endless proliferation of tract home sameness found an echo in the ceaseless production of unprecedented formal innovations. If the latter aimed to always be new and photogenic, such works were not so much the products of polemical statements about architecture as they were of assembly lines capable of endless stylistic variations. Typically utilizing the most advanced computer-aided design and construction technologies available, such work cements a conception of architecture not as a series of enduring monuments but rather as part of a consumer fashion cycle.
The difference between the repetition of the same and the repetition of the different is not so much an abstract notion of quality as a question of finance and motivation. The tract house was marketed as both a place for a family to dwell and as a lucrative but safe investment, an interchangeable commodity that could be exchanged at will for an ever-greater price. Its ubiquity was assured by the therapeutic figure of the realtor and the process of staging the interior to substitute traces of the unique with the universal. In turn, the high-end residential apartment was billed as a theatrical pied-à-terre, a temporary residence aimed less at existing city populaces than at individuals from abroad seeking to cement their identities as members of a global elite. They sought to join this society while diversifying their real estate investments internationally to hedge against any localized collapse in property values.
Developers of starchitect-designed properties targeted that demographic of the global elite already interested in investing in the art market or owning works of reputed cultural significance. In this, it is instructive to compare the branding of starchitect-designed apartment buildings with how Donald Trump-branded apartment buildings targeted at a market-segment interested in associating itself with more conventional ideas of celebrity and with conventional amenities such as interior waterfalls, high end French restaurants and billiards rooms. Whatever name a luxury building was branded with, be it Herzog and de Meuron or Donald Trump, the deeper pockets possessed by purchasers ensured that after the global downturn in real estate, the market would remain liquid and prices wouldn't collapse the way they did for suburban tract homes.
It's really the Pareto priniciple at work. After the collapse, the overproduction of real estate worldwide only served to cement the value of the core of global cities as what David Harvey has called a spatial fix for capital, thus demonstrating its value even further. In other words, it all worked out very nicely for everyone holding the cards, didn't it?


text:
import { Router } from 'express';
import * as validate from 'express-validation';

import * as dictionaryController from './word.controller';
import { authJwt, authRole } from '../../services/auth.service';
import wordValidation from './word.validations';

const routes: Router = Router();

routes.post('/',
  authJwt,
  authRole('Admin'),
  validate(wordValidation.createWord),
  dictionaryController.createWord);
routes.get('/', dictionaryController.getDictionary);
routes.get('/:id', dictionaryController.getWordById);
routes.patch('/:id',
  authJwt,
  authRole('Admin'),
  validate(wordValidation.updateWord),
  dictionaryController.updateWord);
routes.delete('/:id',
  authJwt,
  authRole('Admin'),
  dictionaryController.deleteWord);

export default routes;


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Commentary: Deployment in Syria could risk U.S. entanglement; Shifting role may draw America into costly war
Military City, USA // Military City
Zeina Karam March 17, 2017
FILE - This Tuesday, March 7, 2017 frame grab from video provided by Arab 24 network, shows U.S. forces patrol on the outskirts of the Syrian town, Manbij, a flashpoint between Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters, in al-Asaliyah village, Aleppo province, Syria. Rolling 200 Marines backed with Howitzers into northern Syria, the Trump administration is ditching its predecessor's style of working quietly behind the scenes in Syria's conflict, opting instead for dramatic displays of U.S. force in an attempt to shape the fight. The latest deployment significantly widens America's footprint in a highly toxic battlefield and risks drawing troops into a long and costly war with unpredictable outcome. (Arab 24 network, via AP, File)
Photo: Uncredited, HONS / Associated Press
BEIRUT - Rolling around 200 Marines backed with howitzers into northern Syria, the United States is shifting from working quietly behind the scenes in Syria's conflict, turning instead toward overt displays of U.S. force in an attempt to shape the fight.
The latest deployment widens America's footprint in a highly toxic battlefield, with U.S. credibility and prestige on the line. It also risks drawing troops into a long and costly war with unpredictable outcomes.
The Marines' deployment, intended to back local forces in the campaign against the Islamic State group, came just days after another intervention. Dozens of Army troops, riding Stryker armored vehicles waving American flags, drove outside the Syrian town of Manbij in a mission aimed at keeping U.S. allies Turkey and Syrian Kurds from fighting each other and focused instead on the fight against ISIS.
The latest dispatch brings the number of U.S. boots on the ground in Syria close to 700.
The previous troops were quietly sent by the Obama administration to work with local allies against ISIS; most of them were special forces and advisers, and none brought heavy weapons like artillery with them.
Crowded battlefield
But as the fight against ISIS gears up, so does the U.S. profile. After months of preparations, U.S.-backed Syrian forces are getting closer to launching an all-out assault on the Islamic State group's de facto capital, Raqqa, in northern Syria. The more robust presence could also reflect a freer hand given to the military by President Donald Trump, whose administration is drawing up plans for a Syria policy he has vowed will "obliterate" ISIS.
But the Americans are stepping into a crowded space in northern Syria, where U.S.-backed Kurdish groups, Turkish and Russian troops, Syrian government forces and Islamic State militants are all within firing range of one another.
U.S. officials say the battle for Raqqa will look much like the fight in neighboring Iraq, where the United States has waged a heavy air campaign and deployed special forces at the front lines to back the Iraqi military, now in a fierce battle to retake the northern city of Mosul from ISIS. Over the past two years, the U.S.-backed international coalition has spent billions training and arming the Iraqi military.
In Syria, U.S. forces do not have a national military to partner with - unless Washington were to make a dramatic reversal and overtly partner with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Partnering with the Kurds to take Raqqa could also cause major damage to the U.S. relationship with NATO ally Turkey. Turkey has suggested its own military and its allied Syria forces should mount the fight, and that U.S.-backed Syrian Kurds should be excluded.
"If the U.S. were to prefer terrorist organizations over Turkey in the fight against (ISIS), that would be their own decision, but that wouldn't be something we would consent" to, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Thursday.
Implied alliance?
By partnering with the Kurds in the Raqqa assault, the U.S. also risks being seen as entering into an indirect alliance with Russia and Assad's government, which it backs.
Promising to scale up the war on the Islamic State group, Trump has hinted he would be less averse to an implied alliance with the Russians and perhaps even Assad, which he has described as a better option than the rebels.
But even a perceived lean toward Moscow and Damascus could bring a backlash from fiercely anti-Assad factions on the ground, threatening to draw American troops into the wider civil war in Syria.
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The adoption of blended learning is an under-researched process in the Lebanese academic context, especially when students are teachers in professional development. Although the movement towards blended learning is generally initiated in some university courses, little research has investigated teachers' perceptions of the factors that determine their success and minimize resistance, especially at the level of delivery. This article explores the adoption of hybrid training in a course at the Lebanese university. This case study explores, based on the questionnaires administered to a sample of 65 trainee teachers, the concept of blended learning from their points of view. The questionnaire included five main lines based on the literature such as (a) learning process, (b) trainer support, (c) equipment, (d) collaboration and (e) technology. The results indicated that teachers were satisfied with both their participation in the course and the knowledge gained during the training as well. The results also revealed a number of factors to consider when designing such courses in the Lebanese context.


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Diario, also known as Diario della Settimana, was an Italian news magazine published between 1996 and 2009 in Milan, Italy.

History and profile
Diario was first published on 23  October 1996 as a weekly linked to the daily newspaper l'Unità. Enrico Deaglio, Luca Formenton and Amato Mattia were the founders of the magazine. On 8 September 2008 Massimo Rebotti, previously of Radio Popolare, became the editor-in-chief.

Diario provided news stories based on investigative journalism. Enzo Baldon, an Italian journalist working for the magazine was killed in Iraq in August 2004.

In 1997 the magazine became independent of l'Unità and on Friday 7 September, after 567 issues, it became a fortnightly: a state of affairs which lasted for 28 issues and until 6 March 2009. From the issue of 3 April 2009, Diario became a monthly, with each issue being devoted to a particular subject. The magazine ceased print publication after the issue of December 2009.

The periodical achieved great successes with monographic issues such as 'Memoria' and 'Berlusconeide'; in 2006 and 2007 it was at the centre of large-scale polemics which resulted from its investigations into the alleged rigging of the 2006 elections. On 5 December 2002 Diario, along with the Serbian daily Danas, received in Paris the Prix de Le Guide de la Presse.

See also
List of magazines published in Italy

Notes
This article originated as a translation of this version of its counterpart in the Italian-language Wikipedia.

1996 establishments in Italy
2009 disestablishments in Italy
Biweekly magazines published in Italy
Defunct political magazines published in Italy
Italian-language magazines
Magazines established in 1996
Magazines disestablished in 2009
Magazines published in Milan
Monthly magazines published in Italy
News magazines published in Italy
Weekly magazines published in Italy

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© 2020 Psychotropic Films LLC
Made with Xara
7:05 PM (11-Minutes)
Crown Chimp Productions is a video production boutique company comprised of filmmakers, technicians and artists. While we are proud to be part of a long tradition of video production in Arizona (our core collective is based in Tucson and Phoenix), we continue to provide creative video solutions across the United States. Crown Chimp specializes in artistic storytelling approaches to web video production, sports commercial, broadcast and branded content work.
Director: Nickolas Duarte (Tucson)
"What You Need revolves around a little boy who is half monkey, half human, looking at his day to day life, culminating in his meeting of a homeless man dressed as a king. Looking at the film, it is clear that Duarte continues to improve his craft, raising the bar above his previous narrative efforts. He and his usual collaborators from Crown Chimp, Matthew King and Adam Ray, seem to have a great working relationship that shows on screen, as nothing is muddled or feels like it was not thought about beforehand in some fashion."
- Eric Shlapack - Tucson Film Industry Examiner
Evening Program Independent Short Films
ArivacaFilmFestival.com
Saturday March 2nd 2013 at 6:30pm
Crown Chimp Productions
Music & Digital Production: Dean De Benedictis (LA)
(3-Min)
Director: Adam Ray (Tucson)
An ant approaches a discarded battery in 'The City'. The director asks: "What are the parallels between a colony of ants, human society; and what we make of life?"
Adam Ray is an executive producer at Taxman Entertainment Pictures where he coordinates and manages on site corporate film and video productions. Adam independently produces, directs and edits short films to compete in national film festivals. Formerly on the team at Crown Chimp Productions in Tucson where he acted in all aspects of film production including assistant direction and Production Screenwriting.
8:10 PM - Science Fiction
Director: Angelo Lopes (Tucson)
Production Company: Scott Hellon's Point of View Pictures
David Pike has been involved in the filmmaking world for almost 10 years now. He started by making music videos that have screened at film festivals in Australia, Germany, and cities from Los Angeles, Detroit, and New York. He then wrote and directed his first short called Red Door, which played at the Cannes Short Film Corner, London, and the Arizona International Film Festival (Arizona Daily Wildcat called it Best of the Fest). Critics called Red Door a stunning debut with an impressive directorial style, and one of the top filmmakers to watch. In 2007 he created a film series called Strange Behavior in which he screened cult films at The Loft, and other venues around Tucson. From that experience he decided to start a cult/genre film festival called the Arizona Underground Film Festival, which showcases filmmakers with definitive independent visions from around the world. Entering its 6th year, it has been called by critics as one of the biggest and best genre/cult film festivals in the country. He noticed that Tucson has never had a definitive outlet for just horror films on the festival circuit, and decided to create the Tucson Terrorfest. A horror film festival that now is entering its 3rd year, and will screen the best horror films from independent filmmakers. David Pike's day job consists of working at Tucson's only Indie film distribution company, BrinkVision. Where he acquires films for distribution, works PR for films, and is also the account manager. NOTE: DAVID PIKE PHOTO AND BIO SOURCE FROM THE INDEPENDENT FILM ASSOC. OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA
Filmmaker: Bart Santello (Arivaca) Executive Producer: Steven Ablondi (South Africa) Production: Psychotropic Films
MZUNGU: Loosely defined as 'stranger' in Swahili, mirrored the filmmaker's sentiment in 2006 as he and a small exploratory team navigated through South Africa, then Rwanda and Uganda in east Africa; in search of wildlife while on this adventure. Utilizing his unique and original approach to digital filmmaking, director Bart Santello envisioned the structure of MZUNGU to mirror stages of sleep and the corresponding imagery that inhabits the dreaming subconscious mind. Working within this framework, Bart crafted into the film, artistic visual elements identified from both raw footage and audio recordings from the field. Deeply integrated into the film is an extraordinary soundscape provided by respected ambient/electronic musicians: Richard Bone, Jeff Greinke and a posthumous A PRODUCE.
Director: David Pike (Tucson)
Film Synopsis: A street girl wakes up one day thinking she has acquired superpowers to get rid of her troubled life.
Stardust and the Bandit follows the misadventures of a former mob bookkeeper placed in the witness protection at a quirky roadside attraction, Old Tucson Studios. He inadvertently joins the wacky cast of stunt performers, can-can girls and employees of this famous film studio turned western theme park. The show is a clever madcap comedy; slapstick mixed with romance.
Stardust and the Bandit is a contemporary romantic situation comedy developed as a pilot episode envisioned for original entertainment programming in broadcast, cable or new media networks.
1) Found: Nothing Missing uses missing pet posters to explore the larger meaning of loss. Still images are cut together to form a loose narrative and signs are deconstructed, using humor, in order to re-construct meaning for the viewer (3-min).
(5-Min Total)
2) In/Organic Transmissions functions as a conversation that is not taking place. In this film, elements of natural disintegration attempt to engage with the artifical and nan-made in a child-like dance, This piece mocks the advances of technology, which claim to improve connections, but often hinder our ability to interact with one another (1-Min).
3) Open is a transformative video which investigates time, space and history. This short piece was developed from a single still frame (1-min).
Director: Patricia McInroy (Colorado)
Patricia McInroy graduated with an MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2007. Her video work has screened at film festivals in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, New York and California. She taught as an adjunct instructor at the University of New Mexico and currently teaches at the Art Institute of Colorado.
Concept: Traveling to sites around the United States with only a laptop computer in hand, electronic music producer Dean De Benedictis uses ambient music techniques to create unobtrusive moods and full-blown music productions in the most unlikely of locations.
Travels Rendered gives a refreshing, insightful and adventuresome take on the mobile music revolution, coming from the perspective of a traveling electronic musician.
Dean De Benedictis is an experienced American recording artist and musician who specializes in forms of experimental and alternative music that foster a cinematic quality. He is most noted for his alternative electronic music under alias Surface 10. For more info on Dean, click on his photo above.


NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A teenage male student in tenth grade in Newport News was arrested Wednesday after a gun was found in his backpack, according to a school official.
Newport News Police said the gun was loaded, reported WTKR.
The school official said that around midday, a student at Heritage High School approached a school security officer and shared information about another student possibly in possession of a weapon and gave that student's name.
The security team brought the student into their office and then searched the student and his belongings, and officers found a gun in his backpack.
The student is currently in custody and the school official did not know under what charges but said the student will likely be expelled.
The official said the student claimed that the gun was not to harm anyone within the school but it was for protection outside the school.
Students' parents were notified by phone message system.
The school said they are thankful for students who came forward and encourages them to always step up if they see something.
They do have metal detectors in the school (hand held and walk through) but they are used randomly.


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Home Made è un film muto del 1927 diretto da Charles Hines. Sceneggiato da C. Carrington su un proprio soggetto, aveva come interpreti Johnny Hines (fratello del regista), Marjorie Daw, Edmund Breese, Margaret Seddon, DeWitt Jennings, Maude Turner Gordon.

Trama
Johnny White, trovandosi in disaccordo con il patrigno, va via di casa, recandosi a New York per promuovere le conserve di frutta fatte in casa di sua madre. Per guadagnarsi da vivere, trova un lavoro come cameriere e, in tale veste, incontra Dorothy Fenton, sua zia e il signor Tilford, un produttore di confetture. Johnny porta la ragazza in un negozio di fonografi dove si ascolta musica e si balla. Poi, ingaggiato come cameriere a un ricevimento, deve destreggiarsi a fare sia il cameriere, sia l'ospite. Arriverà al successo impiegando il proprio talento di ventriloquo: pubblicizza infatti l'Ulika Jam attraverso la radio, uno stratagemma che si rivelerà il modo giusto per sfondare sul mercato e a ingrassare finalmente le sue finanze.

Produzione
Il film fu prodotto dalla Burr & Hines Enterprises (C.C. Burr Productions Inc.)

Distribuzione
Il copyright del film, richiesto dalla First National Pictures, Inc., fu registrato il 1º novembre 1927 con il numero LP24592.
Distribuito dalla First National Pictures, il film uscì nelle sale statunitensi il 20 novembre 1927. In Portogallo, fu distribuito il 25 aprile 1930 con il titolo O Rei da Marmelada, in Brasile con quello di Cavando o Dele.

Non si conoscono copie ancora esistenti della pellicola che viene considerata presumibilmente perduta.

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Vlado Delić, PhD (1964). Professor, researcher and project manager at Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad (UNS), Serbia. Prof. Delić has created curricula in acoustics, audio engineering and signal processing, as well as speech technologies at FTN-UNS. He has become the chief of the Chair for Telecommunications and Signal Processing.
He has been leading major projects in the field of speech technologies in Serbia including the largest on-going regional R&D project "Development of spoken dialogue systems for Serbian and other South Slavic languages".
He has (co-)authored several books, 4 patents and 10 acknowledged technical solutions, and more than 250 research and technical articles in scientific journals and conference proceeding.
Darko Pekar, MSc (1972). Graduated at FTN in 1998, in the field of speech technologies. Up to 2003 he was the leading expert of a highly successful R&D group in the field of speech technologies at FTN, where he obtained wide-ranging experience in the field of speech technologies and their applications, as well as management of scientific and technological projects.
In 2003 he became the CEO of the company AlfaNum, and in cooperation with FTN he continues to manage teams working on development and application of speech technologies. He is the sole author of several successful products and services based on speech technologies. Although he is mainly focused on practical development and realisation of market-ready ASR&TTS products, he has also published more than 70 papers in national and international scientific journals and conference proceedings, and has also co authored more than 20 acknowledged technical solutions and 5 patents.
Milan Sečujski, PhD (1975) is Associate Professor and researcher at the Faculty of Technical Sciences. His research is oriented on speech technologies, particularly their linguistic aspects. He has worked with the research team at the Faculty and AlfaNum for more than 15 years, mostly in the field of speech synthesis, but has also worked on the development of various linguistic resources used in a number of applications of speech technologies.
His expert knowledge of phonetics, morphology, syntax as well as intonational phonology of South Slavic languages is one of the main strengths of the research team and contributes to the leading position of this team in the region to a great extent. He has (co-)authored more than 100 research and technical articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings, including 10 acknowledged technical solutions. For his work related to the introduction of natural intonation into synthesised speech in Serbian, he has received the prestigious Pupin's award of Matica srpska.
Goran Djakovic (1961) finished American High School in Hague, Holland, and 1st degree University of Electrical Engineering (University of Belgrade). In 1989, he established the Saga Company, which grew in a company that is for almost a decade a number one system integrator in Serbia (according to the official revenue reports).
Mr. Djakovic has long-running experience in doing business with prominent multinational companies and dealing with "C" level executives, as well as government and political executives. Mr. Djakovic is member of Serbian Association of Managers, chairman of the Board of Informatics Association of Belgrade Chamber of Commerce, Board member of Belgrade and Serbian Chamber of Commerce, and member of many other business and professional associations.
Fathy Yassa, PhD (1950) has over 30 years of management as well as R&D experience with small, medium and large software companies, taking basic ideas and inventions to product and markets as a lifetime commitment.
Prior to founding SMI, the strategic partner of AlfaNum, he held the position of CEO at Yvent Networks, a company he founded in 2002. He previously held the positions of Sr. Director of Engineering at Neomagic Corporation, Director of Product Development with Pulsent Corporation, Director of Business Development and Director of Engineering with Synopsys, Product Design Manager with Motorola, and Manager of Coding and Image processing department. He is the primary author and co-author of over 40 US patents and two European patents.
He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering, a Master's of Science in Mathematics, a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics Engineering.


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Roy Porter (1) [1946–2002]
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Roy Sydney Porter was born December 31, 1946. He grew up in a south London working class home. He attended Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell, and won an unheard of scholarship to Cambridge. His starred double first in history at Cambridge University (1968) led to a junior research fellowship at his college, Christ's, followed by a teaching post at Churchill College, Cambridge. His Ph.D. thesis, published as The Making Of Geology (1977), became the first of more than 100 books that he wrote or edited. Porter was a Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge from 1972 to 1979; Dean from 1977 to 1979; Assistant Lecturer in European History at Cambridge University from 1974 to 1977, Lecturer from 1977 to 1979. He joined the Wellcome Institute fot the History of Medicine in 1979 where he was a Senior Lecturer from 1979 to 1991, a Reader from 1991 to 1993, and finally a Professor in the Social History of Medicine from 1993 to 2001. Porter was Elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1994, and he was also made an honorary fellow by both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Roy Porter died March 4, 2002, at the age of 55. (Bowker Author Biography)
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from… 770 copies, 7 reviews
English Society in the Eighteenth Century 550 copies, 1 review
Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World 500 copies, 6 reviews
Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul 435 copies, 4 reviews
London: A Social History 414 copies, 6 reviews
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine 373 copies, 7 reviews
Madness: A Brief History 372 copies, 6 reviews
A Social History of Madness: The World Through the Eyes of the Insane 137 copies, 1 review
England in the Eighteenth Century 125 copies
The Enlightenment (Studies in European History) 116 copies
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine 104 copies, 1 review
Dictionary of the History of Science (Editor) 92 copies, 1 review
Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad Doctors & Lunatics 92 copies, 2 reviews
The Faber Book of Madness 91 copies
Quacks: Fakers & Charlatans in English Medicine 76 copies, 1 review
Gibbon: Making History 67 copies, 1 review
The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 4: Eighteenth-Century Science (Editor) 64 copies
Bodies Politic: Disease, Death, and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 58 copies
Medicine: A History of Healing : Ancient Traditions to Modern Practices 57 copies, 1 review
Gout: The Patrician Malady 44 copies
Consumption and the world of goods (Editor) 42 copies
The Cambridge History of Medicine (Editor; Contributor) 38 copies
The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists (Editor) 33 copies, 1 review
The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950 32 copies
Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860 31 copies
Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present (Editor) 29 copies
The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Helicon Science) 24 copies
Patient's Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England 22 copies
Drugs and Narcotics in History 18 copies
The Renaissance in National Context (Editor) 18 copies, 1 review
Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment (Editor) 17 copies
The Age of Anxiety (Editor) 15 copies, 1 review
Myths of the English 15 copies
Man Masters Nature: Twenty-Five Centuries of Science 15 copies
Revolution in History 15 copies
The Scientific Revolution in National Context 14 copies
Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial… (Editor) 13 copies
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Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science 12 copies
The confinement of the insane : international perspectives, 1800-1965 11 copies
The Anatomy of madness : essays in the history of psychiatry 11 copies
The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of… (Editor) 10 copies
Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth-Century Domains (Editor) 9 copies
Languages and Jargons: Contributions to a Social History of Language 9 copies, 2 reviews
Pleasure in the eighteenth century 8 copies
The popularization of medicine, 1650-1850 8 copies
The making of geology : earth science in Britain, 1660-1815 8 copies
BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF SCIENTISTS.|THE (Editor) 7 copies
Romanticism in National Context (Editor) 6 copies
In Sickness and In Health: The British Experience 1650-1850 5 copies
Religion, health, and suffering 5 copies
Doctor of Society: Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late Enlightenment… 4 copies
Medicine In The Enlightenment.(Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series… 4 copies
Problems and methods in the history of medicine 4 copies
Rape (Editor) 3 copies
The Dialectics of Friendship (Editor) 3 copies
George Cheyne : the English malady (1733) 3 copies
Uncensored France: An Eyewitness Account of France Under the German… 3 copies
The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, Vol. 1 2 copies
The History of Medical Education in Britain (Clio Medica/The Wellcome… 2 copies
Reading is Bad for Your Health 2 copies
The Anatomy of Madness 2 copies
The Anatomy of Madness - Essays in the History of Psychiatry - Volume III… 2 copies
Earth Generated and Anatomized: An Early Eighteenth Century Theory of the… 2 copies
Doctors, Politics And Society: Historical Essays.(Clio Medica/The Wellcome… (Editor) 2 copies
The Medical History of Water and Spas 1 copy
The Eighteenth Century 1 copy
History of science, Volume 11, Parts 1-4, Number 11-14: March 1973. 1 copy
'Tissue Wars' in LRB 22/5,2 March 2000 [review of Hooper's 'The River: a… 1 copy
Dizionario biografico della storia della medicina e delle scienze naturali… 1 copy
Forbidden Pleasures: Enlightenment Literature of Sexual Advice 1 copy
the journal of historical sociology september 1991 volume 4 number 3 1 copy
Science and profit in 18th-century London 1 copy
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A history of London (Foreword, some editions) 328 copies, 3 reviews
The Norton History of Chemistry (Series editor) 142 copies
Historia del cuerpo I: del renacimiento a la ilustracion (Taurus Historia) (Contributor) 41 copies, 1 review
The Modern Historiography Reader. Western Sources (Contributor) 33 copies
The Timetables of Medicine : An Illustrated Chronology of the History of… (Introduction) 26 copies
The Timechart History of Medicine (Introduction) 16 copies
The Alice Companion: A Guide to Lewis Carroll's Alice Books (Foreword, some editions) 14 copies, 1 review
Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade (Contributor) 8 copies
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The descriptions below provide a notation "(_)" as a key to the ambigram style of the greeting card titles further below.
The majority of my greeting cards can be rotated 180 degrees (turned up-side-down) and still read the same.
Using "normal" letters, it is much like looking at the word NOON when written in all caps.
All of my Scripture Art [link not yet active] fits the "Acrostic" category - the ambigram is formed by a sequence of words whose initial letters do their second job as one new word or phrase when rotated a quarter turn - and can be formatted to fit on the cover of a greeting card.
Some words and phrases are better suited to a rotation that overlaps its inversion, in an infinite chain. For example, you may want to try the word "SURPRISE," and invert the initial "S" with the "S" near the end of the word instead of inverting it with the final "E." If you were to do this, you'd have it reading "SURPRISE" in one direction, and "ESURPRIS" in the other direction, so repeating the word as a continuous chain would allow you to read the full word in either direction. These "Infinity Chains" look nice arranged in a ring.
A reflected ambigram is also called "bilateral," whether on the vertical or horizontal axis.
Greeting Cards in this category will look the same when viewed in a mirror or when viewed through the other side of the paper -- much easier to see when back-lit.
Using "normal" letters, here are a few examples: OTTO, MOM, TAT, OXAWAXO (OK, so that one's not a real word, but it gives you a visual image of letters that look the same left-to-right).
I am more likely to reflect Word Art [link not yet active] in this way than a Greeting Card. These ambigrams will work when flipped on the horizontal axis, like seeing it in a reflection on the surface of a still lake.
OHIO, HEllO, COD, BOX, OK.
Also know as "Oscillation," a Perception Shift can be described as seeing more than one object or message within the image without rotating or flipping it. One common example is "Do you see a silhouette of two faces, or an ornate vase?"
Yes, you will even find greeting cards that aren't made with "real" ambigrams. In the "Love and Friendship" section below, the thumbnail image with a child's hand showing the American Sign Language sign for "I Love You" is an example of this. I have added lettering to finish writing the words "I Love You" on the wall, and there is room above the hand to put the name of your or your child's recipient, written as though with the unsteady hand of a child in the "crayon color" of your choice. Whether you have a Grumpa, MeeMaw, PopPop, Gigi, Uncle Tio (yes, I know that's redundant), Auntie Bubba (what my own nieces and nephews call me) ... if you can spell it, I can put it on the card for you.
There are so many ways to say thank you.
"Congratulations" - (r) - Can be themed with graduation cap and school colors.
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Please do not use any of these images without written permission from the owner(s).


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James Sullivan has been chatting with Australian sprinter Mitchell Williams-Swain, winner of the 2011 Stawell Gift, the richest event on the athletics calendar in Australia.
Mitchell Williams-Swain is an elite sprinter from Queensland, Australia. He is most known for his exploits on the Australian professional running circuit and his most notable achievement is winning the prestigious Stawell Gift in 2011. In 2013 he narrowly missed out on regaining his title, finishing a close second. His current PBs are 10.25 for 100m and 20.93 for 200m.
Mitchell: Growing up I was involved in surfing and life-saving. About two years ago I made the transition to track and I have now fallen in love with it because of the individual element. You have no team to rely on. It's all up to you and what you do.
Mitchell: Growing up my two idols were Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell. Not the best choices in hindsight!
James: What do you believe to be your greatest strength and weakness with regards athletics?
Mitchell: My greatest strengths are my explosive power and ability to perform under pressure. I would say my weaknesses with regards to athletics are my drive phase and not having that many years under my belt with track.
James: Over the last few years you have had great success on the Australian professional running circuit. For those not in the know, can you give a brief explanation on how pro running in general, and the Stawell Gift in particular, works?
Mitchell: Pro running involves races in which athletes are handicapped to the runners PBs and potential. The fastest in the field starts from the back, and every other runner in the race gets varying head starts measured in metres. The races take place on grass and the Stawell Gift is the most prestigious of all pro running events, over a distance of 120m, with $40,000 at stake for the winner.
James: It's well known that gaining a good handicap is an integral part of succeeding in the Stawell Gift. What way do you approach the circuit to ensure you receive the most advantageous handicap possible for the Gift?
Mitchell: In 2011 I did not worry about my handicap at all. I knew I had to be in good shape coming into the race so I was not worried what mark I got. You have got to be in sub 12.00 shape to win. In 2013 I had to plan my training out a little more.
James: In 2011 you claimed victory in the Stawell Gift. Can you put that experience into words?
Mitchell: 2011 was one of the best experiences of my life. I had some of the biggest highs and lows that year.
James: At the 2013 Stawell Gift you were the overwhelming favourite for victory, before being penalised one metre in the final due to a false start, which ultimately denied you a second triumph. How would you describe that experience?
Mitchell: It still haunts me to this day but the experience has made me hungrier to be faster next year and to achieve bigger and better things.
James: The Stawell Gift is an event which prides itself on history and tradition. To this day false starts are judged by the naked eye. Should the event move forward and make use of the technology available in Athletics Australia track meets?
Mitchell: Stawell Gift is my favourite event in the sport but yes I feel it would be good to have sufficient technology available. There is normally a lot of money at stake and I lost out on a significant amount this year.
James: In addition to your exploits in the pro running circuit, you are also very prominent on the Athletics Australia track scene. What moments from your career to date are you most proud of?
Mitchell: The moments that I am most proud of would be my 10.25 at the IAAF Melbourne World Challenge meet and knowing that my best years are still ahead of me.
James: What are your goals for the remainder of 2013?
Mitchell: For the remainder of 2013 I will go back into base and next year come out faster and stronger.
James: For a 100/200 runner what do you believe to be the key speed endurance sessions? What are the longest reps that you incorporate into your training?
Mitchell: The longest speed endurance rep I do in training is a 300m and a muck around 400m here and there.
James: In what way does training for track events and pro running differ? How much time do you spend training on grass?
Mitchell: Grass and track are a bit different. The grass does not give you that spring which the track provides. Most of my base work is on grass and for the two weeks leading into a big pro race I train on the grass in preparation.
Mitchell: I believe that diet is massive for recovery and keeping lean coming up to a big event. My typical diet leading up to a race would be lots of regular meals incorporating meat and vegetables, keeping my body fat low and having lots of carbs around training for recovery and fueling.
James: Australia has one of the highest obesity rates in the world. What needs to be done to combat this issue and how should sport, fitness and exercise be marketed towards the average person?
Mitchell: People need to be more educated on what foods are good and bad and not be scared of change. Lots of people are restricted by the thought of change such as with their diet, their exercise program, the way they think etc.
James: Athletics remains a minority sport in Australia with low spectator attendances and almost non-existent TV coverage. What needs to be done to raise the profile of the sport? How can track and field and pro running work together towards achieving this?
Mitchell: I think there is a lot that could be done to improve the attendances and TV coverage of the sport. Getting kids involved in muck around races with some of their stars like Sally Pearson and Josh Ross would help. Also bringing in alcohol and gambling, like in every other big code such as AFL and NRL, would attract some big sponsors and help out our athletes that struggle for money and it would make the sport very entertaining. Finally, let our athletes show off their sponsors when they are racing. These are just my own personal views and not everyone will agree but there is a lot to be done within athletics here.
Mitchell: My view with regards doping is that everyone should be clean. It's definitely frustrating when your idols have been caught taking drugs.
James: That's great Mitchell. Thank you for your time and the very best of luck for the rest of 2013 and beyond.