A new pattern from tangler Cyndee Pelley! Enjoy this repost frm her blog!
Thank you for sharing, Cyndee!
Did I mention that I got a job? It's half-time, on contract, and tons of fun! I get to work with students, teaching them better ways to study, or tweaking their current study skills. A few weeks ago, I even gave a Zentangle workshop for students at the American medical school here (my employer) and a few were young people I helped (hopefully) and encouraged to attend.
The purpose of the workshop was to provide students with one more way to relieve stress and general anxiety. Some students were so tense that 4 Microns had to be replaced. Medical students are probably the most tense group of students under the sun.
As I ran the workshop, I tangled along with them, using a really fancy overhead projector that broadcast to several monitors. Here are my versions.
We had started a third tile, but ran out of time.
We ran short of time because, close to the time of the workshop, the sponsoring department decided to push through a protocol that made the workshop part of a research project. A "before" survey, which was supposed to take two minutes, took up a quarter of an hour. Then time needed to be left at the end for the "after" survey, cutting ten minutes off the end. Still, the students left with supplies and enough information to do some tangling on their own in a very Zen-oriented way.
I really wish there had been time for a photo of the participants' work. I saw a few tiles that were outstanding. But we go with the flow and do what we can. More workshops are going to be scheduled for the next semester that starts next month with over 200 new students.
Next post, I will share some experimenting I've been doing with different pens and colored pencils. You will be left with little doubt that spending just a bit more for better tools can increase your enjoyment and the satisfaction with results many times over.
To my followers: Check out these beautiful tanglesb from Bhagyashri's Creative World on WordPress!
Thank you so much, Bhagyashri, for sharing your lovely work!
It's been a long time I shared Doodle. Now sharing what I did a few weeks back. Unfortunately I forgot from whom I learned this. I tried to search over WordPress, but I failed. If someone have already new this design, do help me with the original link. It would be helpful for me to thank that guider.
It was awesome trying new things. It was cool to go on drawing over the page..
This may not be Zentangle, but it is darned close.
Thank you, Bhagyashiri, for sharing your marvelous work!
Thank you so much Swarna, for the wonderful opportunity! Thanks for baring with me for this full hand henna design.
Sharing full hand mehedni design applied for beautiful girl, who calls ne "Akka" all the time and I say, "Oh Noooo…!", knowing she will not stop!
By the way, that's even wonderful feeling. I hope to try new designs and I am very much happy to grab my PG mates time for my selfish hunger! Unfortunately they will always be happy..
Hope everybody like this Colorful Mehedni Design!
Tripoli may be a place and a fantastic vacation destination, but tripoli is also a Zentangle pattern. If you have the Zentangle® Mosaic app, you probably saw this week's Kitchen Tabe Tangling (KTT) video on how to draw tripoli and embellish the elements. Although i have been tangling with tripoli for quite a while, the video added some new information about tripoli that I didn't think about before. The KTT inspired me to both blog about this versatile pattern as well as to try my hand at something more creative than the mundane way in which I've been drawing it.
Tripoli is not a single triangle element, but a bunch of elements connecting to form free-flowing paths and groupings of triangular shapes. Typically, the triangles are filled with "fragments," which are patterns used in part to fill elements of a grid pattern. Below are a few example of simple grid patterns.
Fragments can be used all sorts of ways, including to fill a shape or to embellish a string.
Usually, when tripoli is tangled, each triangle is filled with a fragment. In the examples shown below, you can see how the tripoli elements build from each other. The next triangle builds from a line that auras one side of the previous triangle.
In these tangles, grouped triangles are about the same size and contain the same fragment pattern. However, there is no hard and fast rule; consecutive triangles can grow or shrink, and fragments can change from one element to the next.
The wonderful thing about tripoli is that the elements don't need to be filled at all. The individual triangles can be filled with anything that seems to fit the path or grouping as well. In the example below, the paths and groupings reminded me of a bunch of flowers in a garden. So I filled the triangle elements to reflect that. Shading and color smoothed the edges and points to look more like something Nature would do.
Each "petal" and "leaf" is a pointed triangle, and most of the sides of the triangles are slightly curved–mostly because I prefer a bit of curve over straight lines. Each triangle began with an aura of one side of the previous triangle. The aura became the first side of the next triangle. It is even OK to slightly "hook" the aura if you are going for a rounded grouping–or just because. In this example, although some triangles were later filled with a pattern that resembles the veins found on a leaf, the rest were simply filled with color and texture to resemble petals. Even the butterfly body started out as a triangle which was subsequently filled with color.
Tripoli is one of the most versatile Zentangle patterns. It can become a lizzard or a flower and many things in between. The flow of the path or the grouping your pen creates as you tangle suggests an object or design. You fill the triangles with patterns or color or texture to produce beautiful effects.


Lucy Mangan: "Suarez has got me bitten by the football bug"
But it appears they're not allowed to do it, and FIFA has given Suarez a four month ban for possession of offensive dentistry or something. He has been found guilty of biting opponents twice before and pictures have emerged that appear to show him trying to take a toothsome chunk out of Chiellini during a Confederations Cup match last year.
Allegations of being 'a bit of a crybaby' (Uruguay's captain Diego Lugano about Chiellini), conspiracy theories (Uruguay's manager reckons it's all been orchestrated by the English media) and counter-accusations (of Chiellini diving/ overreacting/ showing a scar he already had, and Suarez's insistence that Chiellini 'bumped into me with his shoulder') started flying around all over the place.
For the first time for me, football is fun and I feel I can join in. There is something to get my teeth into, as it were. Ahem.
First of all, psychologists need to get back in their boxes. No, this does not mean that Suarez is working through issues that first arose when he was three or four, when the id is roused and at its most vulnerable, and needs long-term therapeutic help. It means he needs to be fed a couple of pounds of raw meat, possibly with an Ambien or two crushed in, just before he goes on the pitch. He's probably just peckish.
Also, psychology is not a thing. It's common sense dressed up in fancy clothes and accessorised with polysyllabic word jewellery. If anyone tries to tell you you need psychoanything, you bite them until they go away. Unless they're talking about the Psycho DVD. You should get that. It's a brilliant film.
Where was I? Yes, second of all: has anyone thought that Chiellini might have a uniquely delicious smell? Just something worth considering before we all rush to condemn Suarez and insist the ban should have been longer. If he smells of rump steak or chips and gravy, that's surely a mitigating factor.
Thirdly, research by the FBI has identified three types of biter (excluding the consensual kind people become in the privacy of their own homes). They are the experimental biter (for whom gnashing on an unwilling fellow fleshbag is a form of sexual deviance), the frustrated biter (for whom it is an act born of criminal intent) and the threatened biter (when it's paranoid and retaliatory).
I thought this was of purely academic interest until the Suarez thing broke and so many people I had hitherto regarded not just as friends but as fine, upstanding members of the community started using it as an opportunity to come out as biters themselves. I've lost count of the number of people who have of the number of people who have now told me they used to bite their siblings, passers-by, schoolmates and, in one case, their cat as children and it is deeply unsettling.
I am thinking in particular of the 33-year-old female friend who 'explained' her youthful career as a chompy savage by saying, 'It's just so satisfying that it's really hard to stop,' and the mother of my son's three-year-old friend who looked up from the story on her iPhone and said, 'Don't you ever feel so angry with people that you could bite their faces off?' No. No, I don't. Please step away, deviant, criminal paranoiac, whatever you are. Keep stepping away and don't come back.
Finally, could I just say that this absolutely proves my mantra for life? That nothing good ever comes of caring about something too much. Goals, sports, jobs, people… it only leads to madness and pain. Do what I do. Try not to get involved. Dial down those emotions, lower your expectations, put as little into everything as you can. No blood, no sweat, no tears, no bite marks. Not much of a life either, but you can't have everything, now can you?"


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Medicare Set-Asides and Workers Compensation: 2018 Update
Medicare Set-Asides
By Gregory Broccoli -
Some claimants in the workers compensation (WC) system are either eligible for Medicare or will become eligible in the near future. Under federal law, Medicare is a secondary payer for work-related injuries—workers compensation insurance usually pays for medical expenses related to such injuries. Workers compensation carriers must protect Medicare's interests when settling claims, and often establish Medicare Set-Asides (MSAs)—funds that help pay for future work-related injury costs that Medicare might otherwise pay.
Workers compensation insurers have the option of submitting their proposed MSAs to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for review. While there is no formal requirement to do so, there is an important "safe harbor" aspect to having CMS review a submitted MSA. Once the CMS-approved set-aside amount is spent and properly accounted for to CMS, Medicare will pay for future Medicare-covered expenses related to the WC claim that exceed the approved set-aside amount.
Specifically, analyzing trends in the submission of MSAs—and in CMS's review process—is key to understanding both the cost drivers and the medical care of workers injured on the job who are, or who are likely to become, eligible for Medicare. This 2018 research update builds on a September 2014 study that NCCI conducted on MSAs and is based on data from approximately 11,500 MSAs submitted to CMS between September 2009 and December 2015.
Some key findings include:
CMS's processing times have declined since 2012 and more recently hit their lowest level since 2010.
In 2015, the average MSA processing time was about 70 days, which is the lowest average processing time between 2010 and 2015. This is in sharp contrast to 2011 and 2012, when average processing times were much longer. Median processing times appear to be longer for the largest MSA submissions than for smaller MSA submissions.
Estimated future drug costs are the main reason for CMS requiring increases of MSA amounts.
CMS generally requires larger percentage increases to MSAs when the submission amounts are smaller. For example, CMS has requested an average 51% increase when the submitted MSA is under $25,000, while it has only requested an average 6% increase when the submitted MSA exceeds $200,000. Across all sizes of submitted MSAs, estimates of future prescription drug costs for injured workers are the main reason that CMS requires increases.
The gap between approved and submitted MSAs appears steady between 2013 and 2015, largely due to future drug costs.
The gap between approved and submitted MSAs appears steady between 2013 and 2015 mainly because of the decrease between approved and submitted prescription drug amounts. While the gap between approved and submitted amounts for Medicare Parts A and B amounts (covering hospital stays, office visits, and related services) appears stable between 2010 and 2015, the same could not be said for Part D amounts (covering prescription drug services). The gap between prescription drugs approved and submitted MSA amounts was rather large between 2010 and 2012, but has significantly decreased since then and appears to be stable since 2013. This stabilization is the main contributor to the steadiness in the overall MSA amounts between 2013 and 2015.
The larger the MSA, the larger the share of drug costs.
Prescription drug shares typically increase as the MSA gets larger. MSA settlements above $100,000 are typically associated with more serious injuries, such as back injuries, limb or finger amputations, burns, or head trauma. Many of these claimants are experiencing chronic pain or depression, so it is not surprising that the majority of MSA settlement costs are for prescription drugs.
Most MSAs are for claimants who are Medicare-eligible at time of settlement.
About 64% of claimants are eligible for Medicare, not because of age but because they have been on Social Security Disability for at least two years. Another 29% of claimants are eligible due to age, and about 7% are likely to become eligible within 30 months.
The largest percentage of MSA submissions occur four years after the work-related accident.
Carriers typically submit MSAs about four years after the work-related accident. Submissions gradually decrease after that, but it is not uncommon to have a submission 20 or 25 years after an accident. Very few MSAs are submitted in the same year as the accident.
MSAs account for more than 40% of submitted total settlement costs.
Overall, MSAs represent more than 40% of total submitted workers compensation settlement costs. On average, 22% of the total settlement is for the portion of the MSA covering Medicare Part D (prescription drugs) and 20% is for the portion of the MSA covering Medicare Parts A and B (hospital stays, office visits, and related services). About 58% of the submitted total workers compensation settlement is for costs other than MSAs, typically including indemnity coverage, medical costs not covered by Medicare, and other expenses such as attorney fees.
More than half of MSA submissions involve an attorney.
About 54% of the time, MSA claimants seek assistance from an outside attorney when establishing their MSA arrangements. About 46% do not. The involvement of outside legal counsel does not vary much based on whether the total submitted settlement amount is large or small.
So why is it important to understand Medicare Set-Aside trends?
Understanding MSA trends—and the CMS review process—can assist workers compensation carriers, employers, workers, and other system stakeholders as they identify cost drivers. This can also provide insights that help enhance the future medical care of workers who are injured on the job and who are, or are likely to become, eligible for Medicare. In addition, it assists carriers, employers, and workers in understanding typical MSA filing time frames and how CMS is likely to proceed in reviewing each submission.
Gregory Broccoli
Gregory Broccoli has 25 years of ambulatory care and multi-specialty physician operations; his background includes both clinic procedures and administrative. Over the years he has had the ability to examine and re-engineer operations and workflows and report operational metrics to staff and providers. The main principle of a patients office visit is the patient experience. It's the foundation and fundamental step toward quality healthcare.
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August 2017 Ruetz river, Stubai Alps, Austria Ruetz is the main river of Stubai Alps and its main Stubaital valley. This is the river in Grawa Alm meadow just before the confluence with Sulzenaubach under the Grawa Waterfall. The river takes its water from the many glaciers in tge area and its water is very cold and very rapid. Ruetz flows to the Sill, Inn and Danube and finally to the Black sea.


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Rita Wilson at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, CA
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Singer/Actress/Producer and wife of actor Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson stopped by the Grammy Museum on Monday night (June 3) to discuss her new album Halfway To Home with the Museum's executive director Scott Goldman. Just two months ago Wilson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Wilson has released four studio albums total. Her latest album was mostly recorded in Nashville, TN and included an all-star production team of Nathan Chapman (Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Shania Twain), with Ron Aniello (Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa), and John Shanks (Bon Jovi, Stevie Nicks, Sheryl Crow). In addition to having some of today's top producers, some of the biggest songwriters contributed to the album such as Liz Rose, Sugarland's Kristian Bush, Mozella (Madonna, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus), Mitch Allan (Demi Lovato), Kara DioGuardi (Pink, Kelly Clarkson) and Emily Schackleton. Wilson performed at Stagecoach this year, CMA Fest just three days after this event, and will perform at Lake Shack on June 21. Wilson also performed on The Late Late Show With James Corden and NBC's Today.
Following the Q&A Wilson performed a set of five songs with her band including The Who keyboardist, Loren Gold, and Don Henley bassist, Lance Morrison. Rita Wilson has East Coast dates through June 19 with Kristian Bush.
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Do you have any of these 'cannots'? "I cannot increase my salary." "I cannot make more sales for my business." "I cannot sell more products." "I cannot change the way I think about wealth." "I cannot make more money in my life." I cannot this, I cannot that. If you are stuck with "cannot", it's because you don't have a crystal clear understanding of how to have breakthroughs and how to take action towards attaining success. Good news is, my good friend, Patric Chan has a proven system to solve this and he is literally giving the system for free at: http://www.ycdisuccessoutcome.com/bm/?recommends=1608 Warm regards, Jim


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The Mullit chair was inspired by the idea of a "cushion with legs". Designed by Yonoh, this original chair has well balanced proportions due to the large volume of the seat and back cushions in juxtaposition to its slender legs.
Available in a fast range of textiles as well as a variety of bases adds to the versatility of the chair. Legs are available in wood, minimalist metal or electrolytic plating and the latest addition is a rotating base with five arms in any colour per Sancal's colour chart.


Until the publication of this annotated edition, Thomas Paine's third part of "The Age Of Reason" was extremely rare and almost unknown. Titled "Examination of the Prophecies," the book examines all the supposed prophecies of Jesus in the Old Testament alleged by the evangelists of the New Testament. With great wit and penetrating logic, Paine showed that not one of the Old Testament passages cited had anything to do with the Christian's would-be Messiah. Paine appears to have been the first writer in English to suggest that Jesus was not a historical figure.
Frank R. Zindler's marginal notes and commentary examine the Greek and Hebrew texts of the verses being discussed. They show that Paine, who knew no ancient languages and knew of none of the important biblical manuscripts that would be discovered after his death, was astonishingly correct in his critique.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was born to a Norfolkshire Quaker family, where he learned his father?s trade of stay-making, but wandered into a wider world. He went to America in 1774 where, two years later, he wrote Common Sense. After returning to London in defense of the French Revolution, he fled to Paris where he completed the Age of Reason while imprisoned after protesting the violence of the Terror. He was no scholar, but his vigorous intelligence and forcible style gave his criticism of the Bible and Christianity an immense value that is not yet exhausted.


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Q: C++ convert fixed-size file of integers to 2d array of integers I am working on a simple grid-based console game, and I want to read from a saved file full of IDs. The file looks somewhat like this (the actual file is wider and taller):
0101
4057
5432
5145

Each int is one digit, this would be read as an array of size [4][4] for example. In this case, the size is defined by const int dimX and dimY. The actual files are 48x24. When the grid is drawn, it already uses a 2D array of IDs to do so, so a workaround of that nature is not possible.
I currently have this code (please forgive my namespace std):
void loadBoard(string filename, boardType board)
{
    filename.append("." + board.extension);
    ifstream ifs(filename);
}

It will be read into int tileIDArray[dimY][dimX] but is later converted to tile g.board.board[dimY][dimX].
Thanks!

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With the latest update to the Fire Island mTickets app, customers will be able to pay for their ferries and water taxi tickets via credit card all from within the same app!
Simply download the app from the google play store or itunes app store, or update it, if you already have it.
Open it up, select the tickets you'd like to purchase by choosing your starting point and destination.
And activate your ticket(s) from within your ticket wallet just prior to boarding your ferry or water taxi.
With the fire island mTickets app, you can purchase tickets any time of day. No more waiting in lines, or stopping at ATMs. Just open the app, buy your tickets, and you're ready for a fun filled day at the beach!


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Q: vscode - Display find flag (Match case/Whole word/Regex) in the status bar Is there a way to get the active find flag (Match case/Whole word/Regex) in the status bar?
Sometimes I use Shift+L to edit at several places but I get the wrong matches because I forget which one is the active find flag.
Any directions about settings or extensions is appreciated.

A: It looks like you are referring to this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/106570 (Highlight similar text depends on search settings)
It looks like the solution, it is in the Insiders' Build now, is to display the find options bar (with Match Case, etc.) briefly in the upper right corner when you do Ctrl+Shift+L or double-click on a word AND the find widget is not visible.
It is brief, like it is shown for 2 seconds, but at least it will remind you of the current selected options.  You may want to chime in on the issue to register whether you like the "solution".


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Image does not show discarded ballots cast for Trump
A tweet shared thousands of times claims an image of mail dumped on the side of the road shows ballots cast for US President Trump, feeding into concerns that mail-in ballots are not a safe way to vote in the 2020 presidential election. This is false; the image is from 2018, when Trump was not up for re-election, and the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General said the mail pictured was safely delivered.
Trump's COVID-19 Misinformation Since Testing Positive
Even after contracting the coronavirus and being hospitalized, President Donald Trump has continued to downplay the risks of COVID-19 and exaggerate the progress the U.S. has made in fighting the pandemic.
Trump told Americans to not let the coronavirus "dominate you," saying, "You're going to beat it." Of course, not everyone has or will survive, and some survivors will have lasting effects.
The president made a flawed comparison between COVID-19 and seasonal flu, incorrectly saying that "sometimes over 100,000" people die from flu each year. The highest estimated death toll from flu in the past decade was in 2017-2018, with 61,000 deaths.
The president talked up the effectiveness of COVID-19 therapeutics and inaccurately attributed some of those successes to his administration. Few options exist for most patients.
After his release from the hospital, Trump claimed to be feeling "better than 20 years ago," but his own physician cautioned that he might not be "out of the woods" yet.
Saying COVID-19 vaccines "are coming momentarily," the president once again exaggerated when the public can expect to get a coronavirus shot.
Clip shows Biden criticizing discrimination, not support of Trump
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Roof drain
A flat roof structure having a recess with a surrounding area in which is mounted a drain for evacuating standing water on the flat roof. The drain including a housing extending upwardly and outwardly from the flat roof, a sump extending downwardly and inside the flat roof, a liquid pump for draining the water collected from the flat roof, a discharge line connected to the liquid pump and being located in the sump of the drain. The discharge line passing through one of the four walls of the sump, thus allowing it to extend under the flat roof and inside the building. The drain also including a heating element for keeping the standing water collected in the sump in a substantially liquid state within the drain so as to allow continuous discharging of the collected standing water even in sub-zero weather conditions.
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1. A flat roof structure having a recess with a surrounding area in which is mounted a drain to evacuate water, said drain comprising a quadrilateral housing having four walls and a top, each of the wall comprising a top portion and a lower portion, the lower portion being perforated, said housing protruding upwardly and outwardly from the flat roof, a sump beneath the perforated portion of the housing, the sump having four walls coplanar with each corresponding wall of the housing, said sump being extending downwardly inside the recess of the flat roof, attaching means for securing the housing to the sump, an outwardly projecting collar means mounted above the sump for securing the housing in sealing arrangement within the surrounding area of the recess whereby water on the flat roof enters the sump through the perforated lower portion of the housing, a liquid pump located in the drain for evacuating water collected from the flat roof, said liquid pump having an inlet positioned to admit the water accumulated in the bottom of the sump and an outlet located in the sump of the drain, and a heating element for keeping the standing water collected in the sump in a substantially liquid state within the drain so to allow continuous discharging of the collected standing water even in sub-zero weather conditions, and a discharge line having one end connected to the outlet of a liquid pump for evacuating the standing water collected in the sump, the improvement wherein the discharge line connected to the outlet of the pump located in the sump passes through one of the four walls of said sump and extends inside building under the flat roof.
2. A flat roof structure according to claim 1, wherein the heating means is a heating wire.
3. A flat roof structure according to claim 1, comprising activation means to switch on the heating element in sub-zero temperatures.
4. A flat roof structure according to claim 1, wherein the attaching means comprises four threaded rods and nuts respectively mounted on the four corners of the housing.
5. A flat roof structure according to claim 1, further comprising an electric plug on one of the walls of the housing for providing electric power to the liquid pump and the heating element.
6. A flat roof structure having a recess with a surrounding area in which is mounted a drain to evacuate water, said drain comprising a quadrilateral housing having four walls and a top, each of the wall comprising a top portion and a lower portion, the lower portion being perforated, said housing protruding upwardly and outwardly from the flat roof, a sump beneath the perforated portion of the housing, the sump having four walls coplanar with each corresponding wall of the housing, said sump being extending downwardly inside the recess of the flat roof, attaching means for securing the housing to the sump, the attaching means comprising four threaded rods and nuts respectively mounted on the four corners of the housing, an outwardly projecting collar means mounted above the sump for securing the housing in sealing arrangement within the surrounding area of the recess whereby water on the flat roof enters the sump through the perforated lower portion of the housing, a liquid pump located in the drain for evacuating water collected from the flat roof, said liquid pump having an inlet positioned to admit the water accumulated in the bottom of the sump and an outlet located in the sump of the drain, activation means to switch on the heating element in sub-zero degree celsius temperature, a heating element for keeping the standing water collected in the sump in a substantially liquid state within the drain so to allow continuous discharging of the collected standing water even in sub-zero weather conditions, the heating element comprising a heating wire, an electric plug on one of the walls of the housing for providing electric power to the liquid pump and the heating element, and a discharge line having one end connected to the outlet of a liquid pump for evacuating the standing water collected in the sump, the improvement wherein the discharge line connected to the outlet of the pump located in the sump passes through one of the four walls of said sump and extends inside building under the flat roof.
[0001] The present invention generally relates to a flat roof structure comprising a drain having a discharge line extending under the flat roof.
[0002] There are numerous buildings having a flat roof. Such a structure present some inconvenience since it is predisposed to hold and accumulate rain, snow and various other things like fallen leaves and debris thereon. The so accumulated rain, snow or debris may contribute and even speed up the formation of low spots. Indeed snow or rain may easily accumulate on the surface of the roof, which may settle after a short period. As a result, the natural processes of deterioration of the roof may be speeded up, thereby significantly shortening the lifetime of the roof.
[0003] To overcome the above-identified problem, several types of drains have been devised to operate on a flat roof.
[0004] By way of example, U.S. Pat. No. 3,757,812 (DUNCAN) is concerned with a flat roof drain. The drain is adapted to sit on a roof so as to exhaust water from the roof through a main discharge line leading from the outside surface of the roof. The drain basically comprises a housing having a perforated low area to allow the accumulated water to seep in. The drain further comprises inside the housing, a pump for evacuating the water, a float for sensing the level of the water accumulated within the housing. The float is electrically connected to the pump so to activate or deactivate the pump in accordance with the water level inside the housing. A discharge line is fitted through one side of the housing and extends over the side of a building. A potential problem with such a drain is that since they are exposed on the outside of the roof. When the temperature reaches freezing point, it may cause the water trapped in the discharge lines to solidify thereby causing the lines to jam and/or swell and burst. Further more, being exposed to the outside environment, the discharge lines are more susceptible to be damaged by bad weather, fallen debris or the like.
[0005] U.S. Pat. No. 4,248,258 (DEVITT) is concerned with a flat roof auxiliary drain system. This drain system is solar powered. This system was designed basically to provide a drain that does not require electrical connection to the electrical circuit of the building on which it is installed and to supplement an existing drain system.
[0006] U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,063,959; 5,179,969; and 5,394,657 are concerned with a siphon head for use on a flat roof. Several piping may extend from the siphon head and lead downward through an exterior wall inside the building ultimately to the outlet or drain.
[0007] A first object of the present invention is to provide a flat roof structure having a drain that may efficiently exhaust water in sub-zero conditions.
[0008] A second object of the present invention is to provide a flat roof structure having an automated flat roof drain for eliminating accumulated water thereon.
[0009] A third object of the present invention is to provide a flat roof structure having a drain that is easy to maintain.
[0010] In accordance with the invention these objects are achieved with an improved flat roof structure having a recess with a surrounding area in which is mounted a drain to evacuate water, said drain comprising:
[0011] a quadrilateral housing having four walls and a top, each of the wall comprising a top portion and a lower portion, the lower portion being perforated, said housing protruding upwardly and outwardly from the flat roof,
[0012] a sump beneath the perforated portion of the housing, the sump having four walls coplanar with each corresponding wall of the housing, said sump being extending downwardly inside the recess of the flat roof,
[0013] attaching means for securing the housing to the sump,
[0014] an outwardly projecting collar means mounted above the sump for securing the housing in sealing arrangement within the surrounding area of the recess whereby water on the flat roof enters the sump through the perforated lower portion of the housing,
[0015] a liquid pump located in the drain for evacuating water collected from the flat roof, said liquid pump having an inlet positioned to admit the water accumulated in the bottom of the sump and an outlet located in the sump of the drain, and
[0016] a heating element for keeping the standing water collected in the sump in a substantially liquid state within the drain so to allow continuous discharging of the collected standing water even in sub-zero weather conditions, and
[0017] a discharge line having one end connected to the outlet of a liquid pump for evacuating the standing water collected in the sump.
[0018] The improvement lies in that the discharge line connected to the outlet of the pump located in the sump passes through one of the four walls of said sump and extends inside building under the flat roof.
[0019] A first advantage of the flat roof structure according to the invention is that it allows drainage of standing water on a roof in sub-zero degree Celsius climatic conditions.
[0020] A second advantage of the flat roof structure is that it is provided with a discharge line that is under the roof, thus sheltered from bad weather, debris or any external factors that may damage it.
[0021] A third advantage of the drain according to the invention is that it is adapted to be mounted on an existing roof. Thus, the installation of the drain of the present invention does not require modification of the structure and thereby reducing the overall cost of installation.
[0022] The present invention and its advantages will be more easily understood after reading the following non-restrictive description of preferred embodiments thereof, made with reference to the hereinbelow drawings.
[0023] FIG. 1 is a side view of a flat roof structure having a drain according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
[0024] FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the drain of FIG. 1.
[0025] FIG. 3 is an exploded view of the drain of FIG. 2.
[0026] FIG. 4 is a cross sectional view of the drain of FIG. 1 along line A-A.
[0027] As can be seen in FIG. 1, the flat roof structure according to the illustrated embodiment of the invention has a drain that is adapted to be installed on the flat roof 2 of a building 1. Preferably, the drain may be installed on a low area of the flat roof where water tends to accumulate.
[0028] As best seen in FIGS. 2 and 3, the drain 3 basically comprises a housing 11, a collar means 17 and a sump 19. The housing 11 extends upwardly and outwardly from the flat roof surface. The housing 11 forms the top portion of the drain and has four walls and a top 12. Each of the walls comprises a top portion 13 and a lower portion 15. The lower portion is perforated so as to allow water to seep in the sump 19.
[0029] The collar means 17 projects outwardly and is mounted between the housing 11 and the sump 19. It is designed to secure the housing 11 in sealing arrangement within the surrounding roof area, where water on the flat roof 2 enters the sump 19 through the perforated lower portion 15 of the housing 11. The collar 17 may be attached to the sides of the housing 11 and is arranged to project outwardly therefrom.
[0030] The sump 19 extends downwardly and inside the flat roof surface. The sump 19 is located beneath the perforated portion 15 of the housing 11 and beneath the outwardly projecting collar means 17. The sump 19 also has four walls, which are coplanar with each corresponding wall of the housing 11.
[0031] Referring now to FIG. 4, it can be seen that the drain 3 also comprises a liquid pump 29 located within the drain 3 for evacuating the water collected from the flat roof 2. The liquid pump 29 has an inlet arranged to admit the water accumulated in the bottom of the sump and an outlet 23 located in the sump 19 of the drain 3. The outlet 23 is designed to receive a corresponding end of the discharge line 25 for evacuating the standing water collected in the sump 19. It should be noted that the discharge line 25 is located in the sump 19 and passes through one of the four walls 27 of the sump 19.
[0032] As can be further seen in FIG. 4, the drain 3 also comprises a heating element 35 for keeping the standing water collected in the sump 19 in a substantially liquid state within the drain 3. This allows continuous discharging of collected water even in sub-zero degree Celsius weather conditions.
[0033] In the illustrated embodiment, the heating means is a heating cable 37. Preferably, the drain 3 also comprises an activation means to switch on the heating element in sub-zero temperatures.
[0034] Electric power is supplied to the liquid pump 29 and the heating element through an electric plug 35, which may be mounted on one of the walls of the housing 11.
[0035] The housing 11 may be fixed to the sump 19 by attaching means, which preferably are four threaded rods 31 and nuts 33 mounted on each of the four corners of the housing.
[0036] As mentioned hereinabove, the drain system in the flat roof structure of the present invention is characterized in that the discharge line 25 as well as any duck or pipe for evacuating water is arranged to be connected to the drain 3 through the sump thereby allowing such arrangement to extend under the flat roof 2 and inside the building 1. This arrangement maximises the drainage efficiency especially in cold weather, since it allows the drain system to be constantly maintained in above freezing point.
[0037] Another advantage of having such a system is that the piping is protected from the external environment.
[0038] Although the present invention has been explained hereinabove by way of a preferred embodiment thereof, it should be pointed out that any modifications to this preferred embodiment within the scope of the present invention is not deem to alter or change the nature and scope of the present invention.
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Video transcript of an interview between Dr Joseph S. Tulchin and Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera, President of Costa Rica, on the seventh Summit of the Americas
Dr Tulchin:
We are talking today to His Excellency Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera, the President of Costa Rica. Luis Guillermo, in his earlier life, had many roles. He was an ambassador, he was a member of the foreign ministry, and when he was a very young man he was a student in a seminar that I taught - so we know he is well prepared for the presidency. Your Excellency good morning it is a pleasure talking with you. How are you?
Guillermo Solis:
Hello, thank you very much Dr Tulchin I am very happy to see you again. It is always great to partake with you in these issues.
Thank you. I want to talk with you today about your experience at the recent Summit of the Americas. You have just returned from that. What is your impression, particularly at least of the United States, the news where the visit between Mr Raul Castro and President Obama? What is your impression of the summit and its effects?
Well as you know Joe for several years now I have been talking about something called new regionalism in the Americas.
This means not only dealing with the traditional historical spaces that were framed within the logic of inter-American relations that had its most important organisation in the OAS (the Organisation of American States), but also new spaces for multi-lateral relations to develop.
This includes not only the sub-regional structures in Central America, the Caribbean, the Indian region, the Southern Cone, but also new structures such as CELAC the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, which in recent months was presided over by Costa Rica.
And therefore, I would like to frame the Summit of the Americas as one of those so called new regionalism spaces, in which Latin American, Caribbean, North American policies and politicians meet to build up confidence and to try to cooperate in new ways.
And clearly the Panama meeting was momentous and also historical because of the fact that it was there that the United States and Cuba made visible the first, for the first time in more than half a century, their willingness to normalise their relations. That would be my balance. It is a very positive balance. I think there is no contradiction what so ever between the OAS, the Summit of the Americas, the CELAC and sub-regional spaces and in what refers to Costa Rica we will continue to participate in all these initiatives and we will continue to promote all of them.
Very good. So you see these as positive sort of associates in the new movement of regionionalism in Latin America rather than as a conflict between Latin America and the United States?
Yes, I do think that they are complimentary. They are very important because they join the different kinds of actors. They turn Latin America into an important interlocutor to the international community who can speak - with not one voice - but in an articulated way.
And this will happen in the next few months as we meet in the CELAC forum, with the European Union in the OAS forum, through the agenda - which the secretary general has - so there are no contradictions, complementary policies and actions and a harmonised voice vis-a-vis the global world.
Excellent. You know our friend Heraldo Munoz who is the foreign minister in Chile referred to it as 'an effort to create convergence within diversity'. I thought that was an excellent phrase. It looks as if you are as enthusiastic as our friend Munoz. Thank you for your time.
Thank you so much Dr Tulchin.
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The previous Summit was held in Colombia in April 2012.
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Jim Halterman at September 14, 2012 3:51 pm .
Welcome to Jim's Notebook.
In this new feature, I will be concluding my week of chatting up actors, actresses and showrunners by sharing various scoops and tidbits from these interviews with my fellow TV Fanatics.
On tap in this opening edition? Intel on Covert Affairs, Dexter, Drop Dead Diva, Bones and Hell on Wheels...
COVERT AFFAIRS: If you're like me, Tuesday's Covert Affairs had you on the edge of your seat. How can it possibly be topped? I went to Auggie himself, Chris Gorham, with that question. His response:
This Tuesday's BIG Covert Affairs episode is all about justice. Annie's back on the job and hot on Lena's trail. Let's just say, we're heading into our three week break with a bang!
Does Gorham like to give good tease or what? Sadly, he's correct in that Covert Affairs is going away for a bit: it will return October 16 with the first of six all-new episodes. Can we live a few weeks without Auggie and Annie (Piper Perabo)? It'll be tough, for sure!
DEXTER: Anyone else dying to see what happens in the season premiere of Dexter? As you diehards know, last season ended with sister cop Deb (Jennifer Carpenter) finally witnessing her brother (Michael C. Hall) performing his ritural.
After the direct pickup in the September 30th opener, just how much of these season will be focusing on how the siblings work together... or apart? According to Executive Producer Scott Buck, a lot!
"It's a huge story for the season that will carry us all the way throughout this season," Buck told me. "It's not just the same story, it continues to change and take turns and twists because it's not exactly going to go the way everyone would think it's going to go. It's a very complex issue."
DROP DEAD DIVA creator Josh Berman, meanwhile, was justifiably thrilled about the showing of last Sunday's Season 4 finale. But was it enough to get a fifth season order from Lifetime? Berman, also the creator of The Mob Doctor - which bows Monday on Fox - showed off his understanding of the complex ratings game with this quote:
I'm thrilled that the Drop Dead Diva fans turned out in record numbers for our season finale. We hit season highs in total viewers, HH, W25-54, A25-54, A18-49 and men demos, despite being on against the big football game! The finale was also up 29% from last season's finale. As a fourth year show, I'm thrilled to see that we continue to attract new viewers, and I'm so pleased with all the buzz on Twitter and other social media websites.
The cliffhanger was really well received by both viewers and critics. At this point in time, I have big plans for season 5, but I'm waiting for Lifetime to pull the trigger on us pick us up officially. I believe the cliffhanger reinvigorated the show and the best story lines are yet to come.
What do YOU think? Should Diva get another season? You can tell me here or go to Diva's Facebook page and tell Lifetime what you think. (And check back on Monday for my Q&A with Josh about The Mob Doctor.)
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Hanson settled it all once and for all by telling me: "I think it's safe to say, and this is not a spoiler, that Sweets is not going to be upstaging David Boreanaz as the FBI."
But you gotta adore a guy who loves the level of fandom his show has: "I can't tell you how torn we are," Hanson said, "between saying 'what the hell?' and then being delighted that people care that much that they really want the show back. So bless their hearts. Bless them."
The Bones season premiere is Monday at 8 p.m. on Fox.
Sometimes there's nothing better than seeing two guys in a movie or TV show duke it out. No guns, no fancy flips and over-the-top surprises. Just mano-to-mano aggression.
Look no further than AMC's addictive HELL ON WHEELS. Set in 1865 and making the building of the transcontinental railroad exciting, the show also loves a good fight, as Executive Producer John Shiban (who also worked on kick ass shows like The X Files, Vampire Diaries, Supernatural and Breaking Bad) told me during our recent chat. Safe to assume there are some pretty smart fight coordinators in the mix, right?
We have a great stunt team and we spend a lot of time choreographing and storyboarding…Catherine Hardwicke (yep, the same one who directed the first Twilight film) was the one who directed the 'Scabs' episode and I think she did a fabulous job of just marshalling those people and getting the pieces make sense. That's one of the things we take pride in. And we want to be that cinematic show and we want to give people that action that rivals movie action. I think we've been doing some good stuff.
Shiban also told me a little spoiler about the fate of one of our favorite character... and while I'm sworn to secrecy, I will tell you one of our regular characters just may meet a dismal end soon. Hell On Wheels airs Sundays at 10 p.m. on AMC.
That's a wrap! Time to close my Notebook for now. Anything else you're dying to know about your favorite show? Leave a comment here or you email me directly at jim@jimhalterman.com. And remember: get all your TV scoop by following @TVFanatic.
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For decades, North Korea's provocative behavior and pursuit of nuclear weapons have threatened peace and stability in Northeast Asia. Various strategies to address the problem have delayed, but not ended, North Korea's nuclear program. In the face of international condemnation, North Korea's insistence on keeping its nuclear weapons has led to a diplomatic stalemate and the need for creative solutions to prevent a crisis. The U.S. Institute of Peace has supported efforts to strengthen peace and stability and prevent crisis on the Korean Peninsula. USIP collaborates with U.S. and regional experts, government officials, and diplomats to lead dialogues and conduct research exploring strategies for enhancing diplomacy, avoiding conflict, and managing crises related to North Korea.
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Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea: What's Ahead for the Biden Administration?
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The Biden administration faces a situation with North Korea similar to what President Obama faced in 2009, with U.S.-DPRK engagement on its last legs. Obama appeared interested in reviving the Six Party Talks, but slow outreach to North Korea allowed Pyongyang to seize the narrative by conducting a satellite launch in April and a nuclear test in May, which doomed engagement for an extended period. Biden will face a similar decision about how to engage North Korea, including whether to move forward with joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises in March, and whether to reaffirm the outcomes of the 2018 joint U.S.-DPRK Singapore Statement, which Pyongyang has yet to renounce but is on life support.
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Q: Remove single line from journalctl file I have an Ubuntu 18.04 server that is running a service I'm developing. The output is being sent to the system journal for logging.
I accidentally failed to sanitize some logging and a plaintext password (for my own user) was accidentally leaked in the logs.
I have fixed the service's logging behavior. Now I simply want to edit the journal files to remove the lines with the plaintext password.
How do I edit a journalctl file?

A: systemd's journal is designed to prevent this kind of tampering.
The journal file format is documented here and it describes its support for in-line Forward Secure Sealing:

Tag objects are used to seal off the journal for alteration. In regular intervals a tag object is appended to the file. The tag object consists of a SHA-256 HMAC tag that is calculated from the objects stored in the file since the last tag was written, or from the beginning if no tag was written yet. The key for the HMAC is calculated via the externally maintained FSPRG logic for the epoch that is written into epoch. The sequence number seqnum is increased with each tag. [..]

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What you can do is clear the journal with the log entries from the time before you fixed the service (e.g. you fixed it two days ago):
journalctl --rotate --vacuum-time=2d

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A: strings "$file" | grep "xxxxx"

will show your additions. However, that are binary files, I am not sure when manually editing, what consequences this might have.
I use them only for reading.


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In the Clouds Over Our Bolles Girl
After the years I've spent hunting down the work of Enoch Bolles, "new" finds are few and far between, so this cover was a real joy to have come across. And what a nice image it is. I love the perspective and the nightscape of the city far below. Typical of most of Bolles' covers for Snappy Stories that depict a couple, it is the heroine who is in control of the situation. In fact, it's a good thing her beau is safely seated; he's so giddy with the sight of her, one false grope and he'd be careening over the precipice. Though from the looks of her it would be no great loss. Or perhaps I'm misreading the story line.
The Style Behind the Cover: Abril Lamarque
If a newsstand was a speakeasy and magazines drinks, Film Fun would be the publishing equivalent of soda water. Pop the cork and you're blasted with an attention grabbing spray of bubbles and gas, which just as quickly hisses away into the ether without a hint of aftertaste, leaving you thirsty for another. It was the ultimate publishing ephemera during a time when an iss ue of Esquire could run over 200 pages and a half million words with works by literary luminaries such as Dos Passos and Hemingway. But Film Fun had some heavyweights in its bullpen. And foremost among them was its first art editor, who went on to become one of the most important magazine designers of the first half of the 20th century. He was also a master caricaturist during the time when that art form was at its zenith.
Abril Lamarque joined Film Fun soon after it was acquired in the mid 1920s by Dellacorte publishing from the financially tipsy Leslie-Judge, a unwise sale because Film Fun was the only solvent periodical out of their lineup. At the ripe young age of 20 one might presume Lamarque a bit too big for his britches to shape the magazine, but you'd have bet wrong. Despite his youth Lamarque had large ambitions and sophisticated ideas about design and he applied them in Film Fun, and later other Dellacorte publications. Aside from his editorial duties, Lamarque also produced spot illustrations, caricatures of film stars and for many years a one page cartoon, some examples of which I've included here. While with Delacorte, Lamarque contributed to a number of other ventures including a short lived prototype of the comic book entitled what else, The Funnies that debuted (and folded) in 1929, and the wildly successful Ballyhoo, which influenced later generations of humor magazines ranging from Mad to National Lampoon. Among his other creative inventions were imaginative variations of crossword puzzles, one which was intended to be read over the airwaves and another based on caricatures of what else, film stars.
Lamarque hired and nurtured staff who themselves would become influential designers such as the late Otto Storch, who credited Lamarque for sticking with him while he was learning the ropes and ruining assignment after assignment. His eye for talent took him to unusual places, including a back shed in New York where he found the folk artist Karol Kozlowski, whom he championed and brought to wide attention in the academic art world. Not surprisingly for a man of such manifold talents, Lamarque eventually moved on and took a step up from Film Fun to where else, The New York Times, where he oversaw a major design of the Sunday magazine that still bears some of his touches.
His career grew over the years to include consulting for many major corporations and design work that graced the covers of leading magazines with his unique skills and vision. Lamarque died in 1999. A noted amateur magician who created many original tricks, his passing was honored by a broken wand ceremony led by the Society of American Magicians.
Labels: Abril Lamarque, Film Fun
Bidding Adieu to Intimate Apparel
We end our week of appreciation for intimate apparel as interpreted by Enoch Bolles with this lovely painting from Snappy Stories. I believe the year is 1926 but am not certain. In this case I actually do have a physical copy of this in my collection, but only the cover. For reasons evident to Bolles fans, a lot of Snappy subscribers would carefully clip the covers and then toss the contents, presumably after at least giving them the once over. The covers however, got the over and over but yet when I find them they are nearly always still in pristine condition.
The covers Bolles did for Snappy Stories were a departure as they had more involved compositions and narrative themes absent in most all his other magazine work. Typically the painting would depict a key event from one of the featured stories within the pages of the magazine, or perhaps it was the other way around. It was often the case that pulp writers were shown the cover selected by the art editor and instructed to craft a story after it. It gives a whole new meaning to the "tale" wagging the dog.
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Labels: Snappy Stories
Intimate Apparel Week: Sheer Delight!
We can't do justice to the theme of intimate apparel without including this image, which appeared on the October 1937 issue of Film Fun. It's among of the most sought after of all his magazine work and I still don't have a copy of it, so I was forced to post a photo of the original painting. Alas, it's not in my collection either. This image, along with the one posted yesterday provide ample evidence of Bolles' mastery in depicting the texture of clothing, be it velvety, silky or sheer. And of course we mustn't forget the shoes. Manolo Blahniks' got nothing on Bolles.
Intimate Apparel Market Week: A celebration made for Enoch Bolles
Yet again, we invoke yet another arcane holiday as a pretense for celebrating the art of Enoch Bolles. And even the most casual fan of his knows that intimate apparel and Enoch Bolles go hand in silk glove. In fact much of Bolles early work as a fashion illustrator included ads for ladies unmentionables, and he used this experience to good effect throughout his career as a cover artist.
To start things off off we turn to one of most well known of all Bolles covers, from the November 1936 issue of Film Fun. I've stripped out the text so we can focus our attention fully on Polly. The bird is pretty cute too.
Labels: Film Fun
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Canadian Folk Music Award Winners Announced
The winners of the Canadian Folk Music Awards (CFMA) were announced this evening at the 10th anniversary gala event in Ottawa, Ontario. Hosted by Shelagh Rogers (CBC Radio) and musician Benoit Bourque (La Bottine Souriante), Canada's folk community came together after a bustling weekend of public events, which included two evenings of nominee showcases and various workshops.
Twenty awards were presented at the gala. British Columbia's The Fretless, known for their high energy fiddle tunes, won the Ensemble of the Year award for their self-titled album. PEI's Lennie Gallant, an Order of Canada recipient and much loved musical storyteller, won the Solo Artist of the Year award for Live Acoustic at The Carleton, recorded at the destination Halifax music venue. The New/Emerging Artist of the Year goes to Manitoba's The Bros. Landreth (featuring band namesakes and siblings Joey & David Landreth alongside Alex Campbell and Ryan Voth) for their alt-country oeuvre Let It Lie. Manitoba's exquisite and innovative Tanya Tagaq wins thePushing the Boundaries award for her captivating album Animism. Saskatchewan second cousins Kacy and Clayton bring home the Young Performer of the Year award for their stunning album The Day Is Past & Gone.
Women dominated the songwriting categories this year. The English Songwriter of the Year was awarded to British Columbia's Shari Ulrich for her finely crafted album Everywhere I Go. The French Songwriter of the Year was awarded to New Brunswick-via-Quebec's Les Hay Babies (Julie Aubé, Vivianne Roy and Katrine Noël) for their heartwarming album Mon Homesick Heart. Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year was awarded to Ontario's Amanda Rheaume and John Macdonald for Amanda's album Keep a Fire.
In the contemporary and traditional categories, Ontario's The Strumbellas wonContemporary Album of the Year for We Still Move On Dance Floors and New Brunswick-via-Nova Scotia's Matt Andersen won Contemporary Singer of the Year for his powerfully sung recording Weightless. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia fiddle supergroup Còig (which is pronounced Ko-ig and means five in Gaelic) formed of Chrissy Crowley, Rachel Davis, Colin Grant, Darren McMullen and Jason Roach won Traditional Album of the Year for Five. Quebec's Mélisande was honoured with The Sue Goldberg Award for Traditional Singer of the Year for Mélisande [électrotrad] – Les métamorphoses.
The instrumental categories honoured Ontario banjoist Jayme Stone as Instrumental Solo Artist of the Year for his world travel inspired album The Other Side of the Air. Ontario acoustic string band The Andrew Collins Trio was named Instrumental Group of the Year for their album A Play On Words. (This was band member Joey Landreth's second 2014 Canadian Folk Music Award of the evening as he is also a member of The Bros. Landreth.)
Children's Album of the Year was awarded to the effervescent Manitoba-based Fred Penner for his album Where In The World. British Columbia supergroup The High Bar Gang, who boasts membership by Barney Bentall, Rob Becker, Wendy Bird, Angela Harris, Colin Nairne, Eric Reed and Shari Ulrich, won Vocal Group of the Year for Lost and Undone: A Gospel Bluegrass Companion. (This was Shari Ulrich's second 2014 Canadian Folk Music Award of the evening.)
The world music categories honoured Ontario multi-instrumentalist Quique Escamillaas World Music Artist of the Year whose album 500 Years of Night was influenced by his Mexican birthplace. Quebec-based group Moustafa Kouyaté & Romain Malagnoux won World Group of the Year. Led by bandleader Romain, of French heritage, the album is a collaboration with Malian artist Moustafa Kouyaté (son of Grammy nominated artist Bassékou Kouyaté.)
The Producer of the Year was awarded to Nova Scotia's Tom Terrell and Karl Falkenham for their work on City Ghosts by The Modern Grass.
Ottawa's own Harvey Glatt was honoured by his folk community peers as this year's Unsung Hero, a special award that highlights the exceptional contributions of an individual, group, or organization to the Canadian folk music scene.
Established by Canada's burgeoning and internationally recognized folk music community, the Canadian Folk Music Awards is currently its 10th year. The 2015 edition will take place in Edmonton, Canada. For more information, visit folkawards.ca.
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