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package com.hyphenate.chatuidemo.ui;

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;
import android.widget.ListView;

import com.hyphenate.chatuidemo.Constant;
import com.hyphenate.chatuidemo.DemoHelper;
import com.hyphenate.chatuidemo.R;
import com.hyphenate.easeui.adapter.EaseContactAdapter;
import com.hyphenate.easeui.domain.EaseUser;
import com.hyphenate.easeui.widget.EaseSidebar;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

@SuppressLint("Registered")
public class PickContactNoCheckboxActivity extends BaseActivity {

	protected EaseContactAdapter contactAdapter;
	private List<EaseUser> contactList;

	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(R.layout.em_activity_pick_contact_no_checkbox);
		ListView listView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.list);
		EaseSidebar sidebar = (EaseSidebar) findViewById(R.id.sidebar);
		sidebar.setListView(listView);
		contactList = new ArrayList<EaseUser>();
		// get contactlist
		getContactList();
		// set adapter
		contactAdapter = new EaseContactAdapter(this, R.layout.ease_row_contact, contactList);
		listView.setAdapter(contactAdapter);
		listView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

			@Override
			public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
				onListItemClick(position);
			}
		});

	}

	protected void onListItemClick(int position) {
		setResult(RESULT_OK, new Intent().putExtra("username", contactAdapter.getItem(position)
				.getUsername()));
		finish();
	}

	public void back(View view) {
		finish();
	}

	private void getContactList() {
		contactList.clear();
		Map<String, EaseUser> users = DemoHelper.getInstance().getContactList();
		for (Entry<String, EaseUser> entry : users.entrySet()) {
			if (!entry.getKey().equals(Constant.NEW_FRIENDS_USERNAME) && !entry.getKey().equals(Constant.GROUP_USERNAME) && !entry.getKey().equals(Constant.CHAT_ROOM) && !entry.getKey().equals(Constant.CHAT_ROBOT))
				contactList.add(entry.getValue());
		}
		// sort
        Collections.sort(contactList, new Comparator<EaseUser>() {

            @Override
            public int compare(EaseUser lhs, EaseUser rhs) {
                if(lhs.getInitialLetter().equals(rhs.getInitialLetter())){
                    return lhs.getNick().compareTo(rhs.getNick());
                }else{
                    if("#".equals(lhs.getInitialLetter())){
                        return 1;
                    }else if("#".equals(rhs.getInitialLetter())){
                        return -1;
                    }
                    return lhs.getInitialLetter().compareTo(rhs.getInitialLetter());
                }

            }
        });
	}

}


This is a ContentBox module to automatically and asynchronously ping blog aggregators after you post new entries. After activating the module, there will be a new menu item called Modules > Blog Ping. On that page, supply a list of ping URLs on separate lines. An HTTP GET will be run against each of them in order any time a blog post is saved.
Drop the contents of the repo into a folder in your modules directory, or better yet-- install it via ForgeBox in the ContentBox admin.


Sweet Mrs. Brown is a local lunchroom, offering breakfasts, lunch, coffee & cake, in one of Amsterdam's residential areas. The aim was to create a warm and inviting atmosphere, combining the homely with a certain elegance added with a bit of fun. This mood is expressed by the name "Sweet Mrs. Brown", the logo design and graphics. Wallpaper, fun lighting, wood textures and playful accessories were introduced to complete the scheme and create a delightful location to enjoy a nice lunch or coffee.


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John Balaban is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including four volumes which together have won The Academy of American Poets' Lamont prize, a National Poetry Series Selection, and two nominations for the National Book Award. His Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems won the 1998 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He was a 2003 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the 2001-2004 Phi Kappa Phi "National Artist."
During the Vietnam War, on a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 1971-72, he traveled the countryside collecting on tape the oral poetry known as ca dao. His memoir, Remembering Heaven's Face, was re-published by the University of Georgia Press after being out-of-print for many years. His translations of Vietnamese oral poetry were published in 2003 as Ca Dao Vietnam: A Bilingual Anthology of Vietnamese Folk Poetry (Copper Canyon Press). In 2000, Copper Canyon Press brought out his tri-glyphic Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong in which the old Nom script was printed for the first time. His most recent book of poetry is Path, Crooked Path (Copper Canyon, 2006).
In 1999, Balaban founded the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit, to preserve writing in the 1000-year heritage in the ancient Vietnamese script. He has been President of the Foundation since its inception. For further information, see http://nomfoundation.org
Balaban is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. For more information see: www.johnbalaban.com
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Like Family, poetry chapbook (Red Dragonfy Press, 2009).
Path, Crooked Path (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2006). 77 pp. Editor's Choice, Booklist. Best of Poetry 2006, Library Journal.
Ca Dao Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry, (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2003). Revised edition. 74 pages.
Remembering Heaven's Face, (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2002). Revised edition. 334 pp.
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong, editor and translator, (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2000). Trilingual. 135 pp.
Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems, (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1997), 155 pp. (Nomination, National Book Award, 1997). (Wm.Carlos Williams Award, Poetry Society of America).
[with Nguyen Qui Duc], co-editors, Vietnam: A Traveler's Literary Companion, (San Francisco: Whereabouts Press, February, 1996), 236 pp.short stories.
Words For My Daughter, (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1991), 73 pp. poetry. (Natl. Poetry Series Selection).
[with Geoffrey Clifford, photographer], Vietnam: The Land We Never Knew (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1989), 144pp. [50 pp text].
[with Jerrold Maddox, illustrator], Three Poems (Penna. Furnace, Pa.: Painted Cave Editions, 1989), 20 pp. [portfolio, limited edts].
The Hawk's Tale (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich-Gulliver Books, 1988), 148 pp. fiction for children.
Coming Down Again (New York: Simon & Schuster/Fireside, 1989), 240 pp.revised ed. novel.
Coming Down Again (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985), 256 pp.
Blue Mountain (Greensboro: Unicorn Press, l982), 88 pp. poetry.
Ca Dao Vietnam: A Bilingual Anthology of Vietnamese Folk Poetry (Greensboro: Unicorn Press, l980), 87 pp. Editor and translator.
"Walking Down Into Cebolla Canyon" (broadside poem), (Greensboro, N.C.: Unicorn Press, October, l980).
Letters From Across The Sea/Scrisori De Peste Mare (Cluj, Romania: Dacia Press, l978), l33 pp. poetry, bilingual ed.
After Our War (Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh Press, l974), 84 pp. poetry. (Lamont Selection, Academy of American Poets; Nomination, National Book Award, 1975).
Vietnamese Folk Poetry (Greensboro: Unicorn Press, l974), 48 pp. ed. and translator.
Vietnam Poems (Oxford, England: Carcanet Press, l970), 16 pp. poetry chapbook.
For Full List, please go to the cv.
Bucknell University (l97l); University of Hawaii (l97l);Gettysburg College (l973); University of Pittsburgh (l974); Carnegie-Mellon University (l974); Bloomsburg State College (l975); Reading University, England (l974); Oxford University, England (l974); BBC Radio Three, England (l975, l977); Kutztown College (l975); WBAI Radio, New York (l975); Gotham Book Mart, New York (l975); Delaware Valley Community College (l975); Amherst College (l975); Donnell Library (l975); Franklin and Marshall College (l975); Boulder Public Library (l975); Bowling Green University (l976); Babes-Bolyai University, Romania (l976, l979); University of Bucharest, Romania (l977, l979); American Library, Bucharest (l977); Pedagogical Institute, Constanta, Romania (l977, l979); Charles University, Prague (l977); University of Sofia (l977); Folger Shakespeare Library (l978); Book Basement, Charleston, South Carolina (l978); University of New Mexico (l978); National Theatre, Cluj, Romania (l979); Writers Union, Timisoara, Romania (l979); Witter Bynner Foundation (l980); Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard Library (l980); Varna, Bulgaria (l980); New York Public Theater (l98l); McGlinchey's Bar, Philadelphia (l98l); Harwood Library, Taos, New Mexico (l982); University of New Mexico (l982); St. John's College, Santa Fe (l982); and San Francisco State University (l982); Bulgarian Palace of Culture (l982); Friends of Scranton Public Library (l982); Bloomsburg College (l983); Valparaiso University (l983); Harbourfront (Toronto, l983); Millersville College (l983); Caffe Tazza (Taos, New Mexico, l983); Loyola University (l983); Colonnade Theatre (New York, l983); Robin's Book Store (Philadelphia, l983); Colorado State University (l983); Lincoln University (l984); Grand Valley College (l984); Fountain Street Church (Grand Rapids, l984); University of Alabama (Birmingham, l984); Wilkes-Barre Community College (l984); Meusser Public Library (Easton, l984); Caffee Tazza (Taos, New Mexico, l984); UC-Santa Barbara (l985); UC-Irvine (l985); San Diego State University (l985); Laguna Poets (l985); Saddleback College (CA, l985); La Jolla Seacoast Poets (l985); Caffe Tazza (Taos, New Mexico, l985); Swarthmore College (l985); St. Mary's College (Maryland, l985); Georgetown University (l985); Allentown College (PA, l986); University of Pennsylvania (l986); St. Mary's College (Maryland, l986); Bradley University (l986); Asia Society (New York City, l986); YM/YWHA (Philadelphia, l987); NY Public Library (New York, l987); PSU Capital Campus (Middletown, PA, l987) Museum of Art (PSU, University Park, PA, l987), Washington Project for the Arts (l987); SOMOS (Taos, 1988); Wm.Joiner Center, U.Mass (1988); St.Bonaventure University (1989); Folger Shakespeare Library (1990): SUNY-Farmingdale (1990); Library of Congress [with Blaga Dimitrova] (1990); Univ. of Athens (Greece, 1991); Hellenic-American Union (Greece, 1991); Tally Richards Gallery (Taos, 1991); Black Oaks Books (Berkeley, 1991); Waldenpond Books (Oakland, Ca., 1991); Printer's Ink Books (Palo Alto, 1991); Dutton Books (L.A., 1991); Univ. of Pittsburgh-Bradford (1991); Jamestown Community College (NY, 1991); Southern Connecticut University (1992); Indochina Non-Governmental Organization Meeting, SUNY-Stonybrook (1992); NE Association Depts. of English, Penn State (1992); American Literary Translators Meeting, U. of Pittsburgh (1992); International Poetry Forum, Pittsburgh (1992); U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1993); Chapters Bookstore, Washington, D.C. (1993); Books & Books, Coral Gables (1993); Florida Internatl. Univ., Miami (1993); Border's Bookstore, Miami (1993), Notre Dame (1993), Middlebury College (1994), San Francisco Poetry Center (1994), State University of New York-Plattsburgh (1994), Humboldt State University (1994), Tulane U. (1994), U-Mass-Boston (1994), Miami Book Fair (1994), Tobacco Road (Miami, 1995), Small Press Book Fair, NY 1995, Univ. Texas-El Paso (1996), Miami International Book Fair (1996), Broward County Library (1996), Boas Poetry Group (Miami, 1997), Books & Books (Miami, 1997), Elliot Bay Books (Seattle, 1997), Powell's Books (Portland, 1997), Port Townsend Writers Conference (1997), Village Books (Bellingham, WA, 1997), Border's (Atlanta, 1997), Valparaiso University (Indiana, 1997), Romanian Consulate Cultural Center (NYC, 1997), Barnes & Noble (NYC, 1997), National Arts Club (NYC, 1997 National Book Award Annual Ceremonies), Miami International Bookfair (1997), American Literary Translators Association (Dallas, 1997), The Writer's Center (Bethesda, 1998), United States Air Force Academy, 1998, Seattle Center for the Book, 1998, Associated Writing Programs (Portland, 1998), The Liquid Poetry Series (Orlando, 1998), Florida Center for the Book (Ft. Lauderdale, 1998), Eastern Illinois University, 1998, Lenox Hill Settlement House, NYC (one-week residency sponsored by the National Book Foundation, 1998), Francis Martin Regional (Bronx) Library, 1998, Books and Books (Coral Gables, 1998), Open Books (Seattle, 1998), University of Nevada (Reno, 1998), Port Townsend Writers' Conference (WA, 1998), Tally Richards Gallery (Taos, 1998), University of Indianapolis (1998), Miami Art Museum (1998), Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations (poem recitation to open New Year's celebration, Tet, 1999), Popular Culture Convention (San Diego, 1999), Rose Cafe (Venice, CA, 1999) Costa Mesa High School (Huntingdon Beach, 1999), Readers'Books (Sonoma, 1999), Cody's (Berkeley, 1999), Lucian Blaga International Poetry Festival (Romania, 1999), Muzeul Literaturii (Romania, 1999), Florida International University (1999), North Carolina State University (1999), St. Thomas Aquinas College (NY, 1999), St. Lawrence and Clarkson universities (NY, 2000), Chapters Bookstore (Washington, 2000), Borders (Athens, GA, 2000), Freer Gallery of Art/Smithsonian Institution (Washington, 2000), Miami BookFair International (2000), Ohio University (2000), University Authors Days (NC State, 2001), Barton College (NC, 2001), Barnes&Noble (Durham, 2001), Raleigh Professional Women's Forum (2001), Kalamazoo Public Library (2001), 57th Street Books (Chicago, 2001), Seattle Asian Art Museum (2001),Barnes&Noble (Santa Monica, 2001), San Francisco Public Library (2001), San Jose Public Library (2001), Winston-Salem Public Library (2001), New Hampshire Humanities Council (2001), Mimi Gallery (Westminster, CA, 2001), Harvard University/Grolier Bookstore (2001), Taos Poetry Circus (Caffe Tazza, 2001), Phi Kappa Phi National Artist Presentation (Indianapolis, 2001), University of Pittsburgh-Bradford (2001), the Chicago Field Museum (2001), St. Olaf's College (2001), MacAlester College(2001), Quail Ridge Books (2001) The American Literary Translators Association (Raleigh, 2001), Friends of the Library, Meredith College (2002), The Baltimore Public Library (2002, The Phi Kappa Phi Induction (NC State, 2002), Main Street Books (Warner, NH, 2002), The Midwest Poetry Series (Kansas City, 2002), The Associated Writing Programs annual meeting (New Orleans, 2002), The Popular Culture Association (Toronto, 2002), Johnson College (Vermont, 2002), The North Carolina School of Sciences and Mathematics (2002), Penn State University (2002), Vassar College (2002), The University of Nevada (Las Vegas, 2002), The University of Nevada (Reno, 2002), Between A & B (NYC, 2002), the Vietnamese Mission to the United Nations (Tet, 2002), Taos Poetry Circus (2002), The Marfa Book Company (Texas, 2002), Mira Mesa Public Library (CA, 2002), Pacific Asia Museum (Pasadena, 2002), San Francisco Public Library (2002), The Ruminator Bookshop (Raleigh, 2002), International Festival of Authors (Toronto, 2002), Lannan Foundation Readings & Conversations (Santa Fe, 2002), Encore lecture (NC State, 2002), DeKalb Public Library (Decatur, GA, 2002), National Humanities Center (2002), American Ambassador's Residence (Hanoi, Vietnam, 2002), Raleigh Area Tet Celebration (NC State Fairgrounds, 2003), Yale University (2003),UNC-Greensboro (2003), Cooper Union (Peoples Poetry Gathering, NYC, 2003), American Museum of Natural History (NYC, 2003), Phi Kappa Phi, Elon University (Elon, NC. 2003), Brown University, (2003), "Friends of the Library" Annual Luncheon, Univ. of North Carolina (2003), "A Novel Affair" (Dekalb Library Foundation & Center for the Book, Atlanta, GA, 2004), Hollins University (Roanoke, 2004), San Francisco Public Library (2004), Bookstore Santa Cruz (CA, 2004), Whittier College (CA, 2004), Barnes & Noble (Santa Monica, CA, 2004), and Pacific Asia Museum (Pasadena, 2004), Carrboro Poetry Festival (NC. 2004), George Mason University, 2004), Kluge Center, Library of Congress (2004), East Carolina University (2005), Vassar College (2005), Lotus Leaf Café, Cary (2005), Branch's Chapel Hill Bookstore (2005), Davidson College (2005), Vassar ("Eyes Wide Open," 2005), San Jose Poetry Center (2006), Haverford School (2006), Smith College Poetry Center (2006), Kalamazoo Air Museum (2006), Valparaiso University (2006), Quail Ridge Books (Raleigh, 2006), Elon University (Elon, NC), University of New Hampshire-Manchester (2006), Copper Canyon Poets Reading (AWP, Atlanta, 2007), Nimrod Magazine Reading (AWP, Atlanta, 2007), Long View Gallery (Raleigh, 2007), Center for Art in Translation (San Francisco, 2007), University of Tulsa (2007), Utah State University (2007), BookShop Santa Cruz (2008), Univ. of California-Santa Cruz (2008), Washington University of St. Louis, (2008).
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We are pleased to invite you to our stall at AutoServe 2016 – scheduled from 18-20 November 2016 at Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai.
We wish to further strengthen our cooperation with you by sharing our latest products, technological advancement and innovations.
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•White roses, lavender stock and waxflower in clear glass vase with purple satin ribbon.
Pink roses, white asiatic lilies, white alstroemeria and white cushion spray are mixed with white statice and variegated pittosporum in a clear vase.
white daisies and hot pink roses in a glass cube vase with a polka dot print ribbon.
Whether you're under the weather or down in the dumps, FLOWERS 'N THINGS FLOWER & GIFT SHOP has just the cure! Flowers never fail to lift spirits, and who needs it more than someone who is feeling sick? Let us hand deliver your special get well gift to any local hospital or home. Get well soon gift baskets are also available and can be filled with great snack items for those who need their bed rest. Need to send flowers to a sick loved one out of the area? Give us a call, we can do that too!


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This is a consignment kit. All consignment kits supplied from Hobbies and Beyond have been thoroughly inspected to ensure that they are 100% complete, everything in this original kit issues still in the box. We do not grade the boxes for the collector.We welcome any comments and questions you may have.
The Dodge LCF (for "Low Cab Forward") was a series of medium- and heavy-duty trucks built by Dodge from 1960 to 1976. They replaced the Dodge "Forward Look" range of cabover trucks built in the fifties. The 500 through 700 series were medium duty only, while 800 through 1000 series were reserved for heavy-duty versions.
Lindberg first issued this kit on 1965. This issue was produced in 2009.


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Join Floor It for three consecutive outdoor shows!
"Two-Wheel Thursdays" will run from 5 to 9 p.m. at the New Berlin Legion Post on 17980 W. Beloit Road (about a mile or two west of Moorland).
It's a biker night, but of course cars (and the public) are welcome. Bike parking will be separate.
The evenings include a 50/50 raffle, slot machine raffle and food and beverages available for purchase. And of course, dance the night away.
If you come by car, put a lawn chair in the trunk, just in case!
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Phil, Chrissy and Carlyle are back in action! Hope to see you at one of these summer shows! Be sure to check the calendar tab, as more may be added. Get ready to rock on:
6/15 - Great Lakes Dragaway, Union Grove. 9:30-11 p.m. in the pole barn. Show caps off the "Out-A-Sight Vintage Drags & Car Show" and celebrates Chrissy's birthday.
6/29 - HolzFest, Holz Chevrolet, Hwy 100 & Janesville Rd., Hales Corners (PUBLIC WELCOME) Noon to 4 p.m. in the tent. Free food on the grill, bring beverages and your own lawn chair (there are no seats on the lot).
(We're off in July, unless you have a great party we should play at!)
8/10 - Symco Hotrod & Kustom Weekender. 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Saturday) in the dance hall. See you as we kick off on Saturday morning one of the largest rockabilly festivals in the Midwest!
8/17 - Private Party - Wisconsin Corvette Club. VFW Post, New Berlin.
8/29 - Summer Concert Series for Heritage Senior Living, New Berlin (PUBLIC WELCOME) 6 - 8 p.m. (Thursday) on the patio (or community room in case of rain). 3585 S. 147th St., New Berlin. Bring a lawn chair. Refreshments available for purchase.
9/7 - South Milwaukee Yacht Club Car Show (PUBLIC WELCOME), 101 Marshall Ave., South Milwaukee. 5-9 p.m. Saturday, outdoors (or indoors in case of rain). The Yacht Club is adjacent Grant Park Beach and Ferch's Malt Shop, south of Cudahy. (Do not confuse with South Shore Yacht Club!) Visit the Yacht Club site for a map on the homepage or to get details/phone to register your car for the car show. https://www.smyc.net
Check the calendar for additional dates that may be added.
We've taken a year off to address some health and family issues, but Floor It is back in 2019!
We've added two dates to the calendar, starting January 11 in New Berlin, with another show June 15 in Union Grove.
Our first show January 11, from 7 to 11 at the New Berlin Hills Country Club, reunites Phil, Chrissy and Carlyle for a rocking 60s surf party showcasing the best in 60s surf music, plus other 50s/60s classics. The show, sponsored by the Sitzmark Ski Club, is open to the public ($7 cover).
The event will also feature James Diedrich - drummer for the original Beanstalks band from the 1960s - who'll sit in for a few tunes to kick off the night.
Like us on Facebook for alerts about shows in 2019, or submit your email address on our "Join Email List" feature on our homepage to get our news sent to your in-box.
If you have a favorite event, please pass our name along to the organizers - we'd love to rock your favorite venue! Or, just pass a name and contact info along to us and we'll follow up!
Just click the "Contact us" tab to send us a message.
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If you don't have yours yet, contact us and let us know your size.
Our T-s are black cotton and include the band logo on the front.
They come in sizes:
In the picture at right, Chrissy is wearing the M, and Phil is wearning the XL.
We don't ship, but we'll have them with us at our next show. Just ask!
There's a good chance you'll appear on our Facebook page when you wear your Floor It gear!
Get ready to rock it, just like these three fans below, from Lomira, Wisconsin!
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Floor It is available for hire - get on our schedule now to ensure we save the date!
You name it, we've played it.
Corporate functions: reunions, luncheons, etc.
The cost is based on the distance we travel. Hotels can get us at a good rate by providing rooms. We're usually always more affordable than a DJ, and ALWAYS more fun.
We'll provide you with our band logo, photos, a poster and even social media pictures and text to help you promote your event. It's a great way to get your guests excited to attend!
We can always add special touches to your event, like a theme, contests, announcements, etc. We can help facilitate!
So are YOU ready to be remembered as the one who threw that AWESOME party?!?!?
Click the "Contact Us" tab to send us a message.
Include your name, date and type of event, what time you're looking to have us play. Standard gigs are 3-4 hours and include a couple 10-15 minute breaks. But we can structure our playing time around whatever it is you have going on. Let's talk!
Want to get outside? We do, too! See us outside this summer! June 11 we're in Thiensville at the Lions Club Car Show, July 9 we're at the Lions Legend Park Band Shell in Franklin, and July 29 we're at St. John the Baptist Parish Festival. Bring a lawn chair or blanket to each and don't forget your shades & sunscreen! We're adding dates all the time, so check our calendar tab for the full schedule. Remember, if you're having a party this summer, live music makes it better! Contact Phil at 414-759-7222 for details.
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It's open to all but registration is required. Only 100 tickets available!
If you're attending the League's state Government Affairs Conference this is a great way to kick it off, mingling and dancing with your credit union friends.
If you're not attending the conference, come anyway to support credit union advocacy; this event is a fundraiser whose proceeds support and protect the credit union movement!
Heavy hors d'oeuvres
Signature drink, Co-opertini
$50 in Advance, $40 YP Network Member, $60 at the Door.
Top of the Park, Best Western Premier Park Hotel
22 S. Carroll St., Madison 53703
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You get in for just $5, kids 11 and younger get in free the day we're at State Fair, Monday, Aug. 8, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Kohl's Family Value Day offers you this 60% savings! Thank you, Kohl's! You can find us at the Double K Ranch Stage from 1 to 5 p.m. Be sure you get there early for a good seat.
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The Hong Kong International Bowls Classic is an international lawn bowls competition. It is one of the most prestigious events on the lawn bowls calendar. It started out as a pairs competition for men in 1981, with a singles event added for men in 1983 and later singles and pairs competition for women added to the programme in 2008.

The event was cancelled in 2019 due to the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests and the 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Men's Finalists

Women's Finalists

See also
 World Bowls Events

References

External links
 Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association

Bowls competitions
Bowls in Hong Kong
International sports competitions hosted by Hong Kong
Annual sporting events in Hong Kong
Recurring sporting events established in 1981
1981 establishments in Hong Kong

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Wilhelminia es un género monotípico perteneciente a la familia Malvaceae cuya única especie es Wilhelminia sciadiolepida.

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ipni.org

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Relationships outside the workplace can affect our experiences in the workplace. A difficult time in a relationship with a significant other can make the work day longer and harder. Likewise, a great experience with a significant other can make everything just seem better. Researchers have studied these short-term crossover effects between work and home. Until now, no studies have looked in depth and across years at how the choice of spouse, specifically the personality of your spouse, might affect your success on the job.
Brittany Solomon and Joshua Jackson (both at Washington University in St. Louis) reported the results of such a study in the December 2014 issue of Psychological Science. They used an Australian sample of nearly 4000 participants with data collected over a 5-year period. All were heterosexual couples. About 22% were single income households; the rest, dual-income. The surveys measured the Big Five personality traits, job satisfaction, income, and whether the participant had received a promotion in the past year. Solomon and Jackson considered numerous other survey variables and how they might affect the results their conclusions.
1. A very interesting study, useful for reflection. My guess would be there are cultural and individual differences. But all things being equal, these findings seem to make sense. Partners who are supportive of each other in meaningful ways probably do have a higher likelihood of success on the job.
2. This is yet another study demonstrating the importance of conscientiousness. As discussed in a previous blog, conscientious people tend to be healthier and more successful at work and marriage.
2. As leaders we may or may not know a person's domestic situation, whether a partner is supportive or not. And my guess is that for those not in committed relationships, we probably are not going to be administering the Big Five Personality Inventory for mate selection anytime soon.
Solomon, B. C., & Jackson, J. J. (2014). The long reach of one's spouse: spouse's personality influences occupational success. Psychological Science, 25 (12), 2189-2198.
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Maintenance is always professional and responsive to requests. The Front office: Jennifer and Charis, are always helpful and accommodating when needed. My children and I feel comfortable in our home here.
Thank you for the feedback! We are glad that your time here has been accommodating and comfortable. We hope you continue to stay with us in the future.
We moved in to these apartments last August, and we are THRILLED! We live in one of the two bedroom, 2.5 bath, two level models with the detached garage. Collectively, we have lived in four or five different complexes over our lives, and nothing compares to this community. When we walked in for the first time, we were greeted by Charis, who knows us by name and always says hi (she even stayed in the office for three days during a blizzard!). When Charis told us that she would be out of the office, so Danny would be handling our lease, we were wary (because we had grown so fond of her). BUT, Danny is just as great as Charis is! In addition, we have had the pleasure of getting to know Dante and Sam (maintenance crew) who fix any and everything as soon as you notify them (I hear they stayed up 24 hours straight during the same aforementioned blizzard trying to clear snow from our community for us). In addition to the great staff, the residents here are the best! Everyone is quiet and respectful, and it is a very safe community. We have gotten to know some of our neighbors, which you don't always get in apartments, so that's really nice. Overall, this is the place to live. Unlimited free parking, great staff, awesome neighbors...what more could you want?! (Also, our utilities are always super cheap!) Do yourself a favor and MOVE IN HERE!


First Trailer for Atlas Shrugged Movie Released!
The Strike Productions have just released the first trailer for Part 1 of their cinematic treatment of Ayn Rand's magnum opus. It does not disappoint. See it, below.
I have to say, I've been following the development of this project with a bit of a jaundiced eye, but this trailer has me giddy as a schoolboy. Of course, only time will tell if the movie lives up to trailer and, more importantly, to the book, but hey, I can dream can't I?


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Q: SharePoint 2013 On Premises fires multiple emails for one trigger I am absolutely sure our custom workflows fires only one time but sends multiple duplicate emails every 1 minute (exactly every 60 seconds, i saw it from exchange logs).
Which is the timer job that trigger this mechanism?
I suspect is running multiple times, one for each farm servers.
The closest thing i found to my problem is: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/besidethepoint/2011/11/13/sharepoint-timer-job-locks-and-scope/
thanks

A: Could it be the Sharepoint Timer Service?  This post might help.
The Windows Task Scheduler can also be used to configure the start conditions to run powershell scripts - for instance I've used this to trigger a Designer workflow that sends out an email reminder if the Reminder Date = Today's Date.  If you have something like this set up, but mis-configured then it could trigger multiple emails...(I'm just trying to suggest another avenue of investigation).
Further Info on Timer Jobs
Link 1
Link 2
Or do an internet search on "sharepoint 2013 configure timer job in central administration" and you should find something useful.

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Alright, I got a quick question I am not exactly sure what the idea behind a 64 bit personal computer and needing a 64 bit OS, would someone here be able to better shed some light on this topic for me. Sorry if this is confusing I don't understand why one needs the other.
Normal Processor thread 32 bits of data per clock cycle! 64 bits mean they can thread 64 bits of data per clock cycle so normally double processor power.
unlike windows, the 32 bit patch for a 16 bit kludge for the 8 bit operating system by a 2 bit company that doesn't care 1 bit for the end user.
Imagine playing a version of Tomb Raider where you can't tell the difference between the appearance of Lara Croft and Angelina Jolie. A version where the background looks as real as the world outside your window. The 64 bit address space will make that much of a difference when fully utilized by the gaming companies. Bear in mind that this is but one example...EVERY application stands to benefit from doubling the address space. Read up on the new AMD Opteron processor line for more specific info...Opteron ROCKS due to its ability to run both 32 and 64 bit apps....Intel has really missed the boat on this one.
A 32-bit patch for a 16-bit GUI shell running on top of an 8-bit operating system written for a 4-bit processor by a 2-bit company who cannot stand 1 bit of competition.
fourdc, you could have edited your post.


On March 14th Nerdist.com, Her Universe and Hot Topic announced a contest to win a trip for two to San Diego Comic Con. The idea was to make a 15 seconds or less video of ANYTHING you wanted, as long as it included something about pi/pie. I created two videos for the contest and I am posting the extended versions of both videos on my site because, well, 15 seconds isn't quite long enough! I came up with the idea for this video on the second to last day of the contest, and then filmed and edited it the final day. I figured I could put my special effects skills to use somehow, and clawing my way through the backyard to shove some cherry pie (and dirt) into my mouth was clearly irresistible! I spent a couple hours on the makeup, then made my way into my backyard with a pie, some fake blood and my trusty iPad to film with. Not too shabby for a one-man job with zero filmmaking skills!


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import com.google.security.zynamics.binnavi.debug.connection.packets.arguments.DebugMessageArgument;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Base class of all command classes that represent the commands that BinNavi can send to the debug
 * client.
 *
 *  Every message contains a command type identifier, a packet ID, and an optional list of arguments
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public class DebugCommand {
  /**
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  private final int type;

  /**
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  private final int packetId;

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    argchars.add((byte) ((arguments.size() >> 24) & 0xFF));
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How could you resist a mash-up like spare ribs vindaloo, recently in Food & Wine?
And then, spare ribs were on sale.
This made a lot of ribs and the Accidental Locavore only bought a single rack. It may look like a lot of ingredients, but you probably have most of them.
Season the spare ribs with salt and pepper and let stand for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a spice grinder, grind the dried chiles with the cumin seeds, cloves and cinnamon stick until finely ground.
Transfer the mixture to a small bowl and stir in the chile powder, turmeric, cayenne, 2 tablespoons of the vinegar and 1/2 tablespoon of pepper until a paste forms.
In a large enameled cast-iron casserole, heat the oil. Add the red onion and cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, 8 minutes.
Add the garlic, ginger and the spice mixture and cook over moderate heat, stirring frequently, until deep red in color, 8 to 10 minutes.
Stir in the stock, tequila, jaggery, the remaining vinegar, add the ribs and bring to a simmer.
Cover and cook over moderately low heat until the ribs are very tender, about 1 hour.
Transfer the ribs to a work surface and let cool slightly; cut into individual ribs.
Simmer the sauce until thickened and reduced by half, about 10 minutes; season with salt.
Return the ribs to the sauce and stir to coat. Serve with steamed basmati rice and enjoy!
My verdict: I think we were a little underwhelmed by these the first time around. However, like a lot of slow cooked food, they were much better the second night and Frank gave his "you can make these any time" seal of approval.
We both thought they could be hotter and the next time, I'll add some minced serrano, or jalapeno.
There was a lot of sauce because I didn't halve the sauce recipe (too lazy to do math) just the ribs, but it just meant more sauce for the rice.
I didn't have any jaggery (do you?) so just used some brown sugar. If I get some, I'll let you know if I think it makes a difference. However, this seems to be one of those stealth trendy foods for 2017, so you might want to be one of the cool kids and find some.


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Cabot Corp. to raise prices
BOSTON—Cabot Corp. said it will increases prices up to 5 percent for black masterbatches and conductive compounds and concentrates, effective Nov. 1.
The firm said the increase is caused by escalating costs of operations and regulatory compliance, in addition to the increased costs of carbon black and other key raw materials.
Cabot said the increase is necessary to ensure it remains a reliable, long-term supplier of high-quality black masterbatches and specialty compounds.
Cabot Corp. is a global specialty chemicals and performance materials company, headquartered in Boston. The firm provides rubber and specialty carbons, activated carbon, inkjet colorants, cesium formate drilling fluids, fumed silica, aerogel and elastomer composites.
Cabot reports increased net sales, lower net income
Cabot realigns global business segments
Chinese JV to break ground on carbon black facility
Cabot upgrades set stage for further growth


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Q: An equivalent condition for separability of $X^*$ Let $X$ be a Banach space. By the weak operator topology on $B(X)$, we mean the locally convex topology implemented by the following semi-norms:
$$B(X)\to[0,\infty) : T\to|\langle Tx,x^*\rangle|$$
where $x\in X$ and $x^*\in X^*$.
Q. True or false: Assume that with respect to the weak operator topology, the unit ball of $B(X)$ is second countable. Then the Banach space $X^*$ is separable.
I had two abortive attempts:
1st. Yes it is true: The wot-separability of $B(X)_{\|.\|\leq1}$ guarantees existence two sequences $\{x_n\}\subseteq X$ and $\{x^*_m\}\subseteq X^*$  such that $N_{n,m}$ forms a sub-basic nbhds (at 0) for the weak operator topology where
$$N_{n,m}=\{T\in B(X)_{\|.\|\leq1}: |\langle Tx_n,x^*_m\rangle|<1\}$$
Let us consider $A$=conv$_r(\{x^*_m\})$, the rational convex hull of $\{x^*_m\}$, which is a countable set. If $A$ is not dense in $X^*$ then one may find $\phi\in X^{**}$ with $\phi(x^*_m)=0$ for all $m\geq1$. It implies that all bounded linear maps of the form of  $f\otimes\phi\in B(X,X^{**})$, given by $x\to f(x)\phi$, are contained in the intersection $\bigcap N_{n,m}$. Note that there is no nonzero bounded linear map $T\in B(X)$ contained in the intersection $\bigcap N_{n,m}$but likely there are some operators in $B(X,X^{**})$ contained in the intersection $\bigcap N_{n,m}$!
2ed. To find a counterexample, let us put $X=\ell^1$. We have in general $B(X,Y^{*})\simeq (X\hat{\otimes}Y)^*$. Therefore $B(\ell^1)=(\ell^1\hat{\otimes}c_0)^*$.  One may check easily that the inclusion $\iota: B(\ell^1)\to(\ell^1\hat{\otimes}c_0)^*$ is wot-weak star continues but not homeomorphism (to see this, it is enough to consider shifts $T_n(e_k)=e_{n+k}$).  Note that the unit ball of $(\ell^1\hat{\otimes}c_0)^*$ is $w^*$-compact and metrizable. Since the inclusion is not hoemorphism, one may not conclude  the unit ball of $B(\ell^1)$ is wot-compact and metrizable but probably it remains  second countable  at least!
Finally note if $X^*$ is separable then the unit ball of $B(X)$ is wot-second countable metrizable space. To see this assertion, note that the projective  tensor product $X\hat{\otimes}X^*$ is also separable. Therefore the unit bal of dual space  $(X\hat{\otimes}X^*)^*$ is weak-star compact and metrizable. Since the inclusion from ($B(X)_{\|.\|\leq1}$,wot) into the unit ball of $(X\hat{\otimes}X^*)^*$ is a homeomorphism, one may conclude that  the unit ball of $B(X)$ is wot-second countable metrizable space.

A: I think this works.  Suppose $B(X)$ with WOT is second countable, so there is a countable base to the topology $(U_n)$.  This means that if $(T_i)$ is a net in $B(X)$, then $T_i\rightarrow 0$ WOT if and only if, for each $n$ with $0\in U_n$, there is $i_n$ so that $i\geq i_n \implies T_i\in U_n$.
Each WOT open set is of the form
$$ \mathcal U(T_0,(x_j),(x_j^*)) := \{ T\in B(X) : |\langle (T-T_0)(x_j), x_j^* \rangle|\leq 1 \ (j=1,\cdots,n)\} $$
where $T_0\in B(X), (x_j)_{j=1}^n\subseteq X, (x_j^*)_{j=1}^n\subseteq X^*$.
Let $Q\subseteq X^*$ be the collection of all $x_j^*$ which occur for some $U_n$.  Thus $Q$ is countable, and so the rational linear combinations of $Q$ is also a countable set.
Towards a contradiction, suppose that $X^*$ is not separable.  Hence the closed linear span on $Q$ is not all of $X^*$.  Thus there is $f_0\in X^*$ and a (bounded) net $(x_i)$ in $X$ such that $f_0(x_i)=1$ for each $i$ but $x^*(x_i)\rightarrow 0$ for each $x^*\in Q$.
Choose some $f_1\in X^*$ and let $T_i$ be the rank-one operator $x\mapsto f_1(x) x_i$.  Let $U_n$ have the form $\mathcal U(T_0,(x_j),(x_j^*))$.  As each $x_j^*\in Q$ we have that
$$ \langle T_i(x_j), x_j^* \rangle = f_1(x_j) x_j^*(x_i) \rightarrow 0 $$
and so as $0\in U_n$, if $i$ is sufficiently large also $T_i\in U_n$.
This is a contradiction, as if $f_1(x_1)=1$ say, then $\langle T_i(x_1), f_0 \rangle = f_0(x_i) = 1$ for all $i$, and so $T_i\not\rightarrow 0$ WOT.
Thus $X^*$ is separable.


BRIGHTON'S Weily Park Rockers finished their season in style last month winning the fourth grade grand final.
The team took on the Hobart Lions in the SCA fourth grade grand final at Risdon Vale Oval.
The jubilant Weily Park Rockers grand final winners proudly display the winning shield.
After a successful T20 tournament winning the premiership, the Weily Park Rockers finished top of the ladder in the fourth grade one-day series meeting the Hobart Lions (placed second on the ladder) in the semi-final. The Rockers just fell short and Hobart went straight through to the grand final.
Fortunately, the Weily Park Rockers were given a second chance against the Montagu Bay Sharks to earn their spot in the grand final.The Weily Park Rockers won the toss and elected to bowl, sending Hobart into bat. Hobart was off to a good start with Jamie Latham and Nathan Price building a good opening partnership until Price was out lbw at the hands of Saianoop Yadama. Latham went on to make 31, Hobart's highest score, before he was out caught and bowled by Anuj Shah. From there the wickets collapsed relatively quickly with some outstanding bowling from Shah, Prabu Selvaraj and Bhargav Patel seeing Hobart all out for 115 after 36 overs.
The Weily Park Rockers had a shaky start coming in to bat, with the first wicket falling in the first over to Paul Buttge. The next wicket came only a few balls later with a run out and the Rockers were sitting at 2/4. After a small partnership between Kiran and Shah started to build, two more wickets fell in quick succession. Hobart was building momentum and could feel they were well and truly back in the game. With Yadama coming into bat at number 6 the Rockers were in trouble. Yadama has been known in the past for his ability to hit big shots and score runs quickly, however that day was the day he needed to play a different role with the Rockers sitting at 4/31. Shah and Yadama steadied the ship and started to tick away at the total until Shah was out caught bowled Jake Everard.
With the score now 5/67 it was difficult to see where the game was going and Hobart knew if they could get the wicket of Yadama then they could win the match. Balaji Sivakumar came in to join Yadama and for a number of overs it was slow with only singles scored and both players having to stay steady and show patience. With only around 20 runs needed for victory, the tension was starting to ease a little for the Rockers and some boundaries were scored. With two runs needed, Yadama finished off in style with a four, finished with 55 not out. The Rockers were victorious against a formidable Hobart side and will join third grade next season.
Damien Triffit 2/12. Best on Ground Weily Park Rockers: Saianoop Yadama 55runs (no) Anuj Shah 3/30, Prabu Selvaraj 2/21, Bhargav Patel 2/9.
Well done to The Rockers.


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or simply Yunogō is a hot spring town located in Mimasaka city of Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The waters of the Yunogo hot springs (onsen in Japanese) are a mixture of sodium chloride and calcium chloride, with the amount of discharge at 540 L/min. The waters are said to have healing effects on those suffering from chronic digestive disorders, nerve pain, rheumatism, arthralgia, chronic feminine problems, and skin problems.

History

Yunogo Onsen is known as "Sagi no-yu," or hot water of the heron (sagi is the Japanese word for egret or heron) because 1,200 years ago a Buddhist high priest named En-nin-houshi discovered an injured heron bathing its wounded leg in the waters of a hot spring in Yunogo.  This is how the special healing powers of these waters were discovered, and they now have evolved into a spot where people come to relax and enjoy the waters. There is a statue of En-nin with a heron outside of the "Yunogo Sagi Onsen-kan," the public bathhouse created in the exact spot where the heron's hot spring was discovered.

Events
 Night Time Cherry Blossom Watching - Early April - The night time cherry blossom watching bus tour to Tsuyama Castle (Kakuzan Park.) This is one of the best cherry blossom viewing spots in western Japan. (bus: 30 min. one way)
 Koinobori (carp streamer) - Early April to early May - 30 koinobori are flown from the "You-ragi Bridge" on the Yoshino River.
 Mimasaka Furusato Summer Festival, Firework Show - Early July - Many night vendor stalls open at the time of festival, alongside a firework show.
 Yu-jinja Shrine Autumn Festival - Middle of October - Hoping for fertility, people carrying miniature shrines (mikoshi) and danjiri walk around the area in Yunogo.
 Decorative Illumination - Early December to early January - Decorations illuminate the spring resort area in the winter night.

Points of Interest
 You-ragi Bridge Fountain - A  fountain in the image of a white heron stands as a symbol of Yunogo Onsen. The fountain illuminates during nighttime.
 Japan Museum of Contemporary Toy & Hall of Music Box - More than 100-year-old music boxes and wind-up dolls, as well as the toys made after 1950 are exhibited.
 Yunogo Onsen Train Model & Retro Toy House - Diorama of train models and classic toys are collected here.
 Ohyama Observatory - A vast and panoramic view of Yunogo Onsen and the Chūgoku Mountains can be seen from this observatory.
 Roadside station, Saisai-jaya - The delicacies of Sakushu, black soybeans and other processed foods, as well as local foods and flowers of the season can be purchased here.

Access
By Bus: 1 hour and 40 min. from JR Okayama St. by bus headed to "Yunogo Onsen". Get off the bus at "Yunogo."  40 min. from Tsuyama St. of the JR Tsuyama Line by bus headed to "Yunogo Onsen." Get off the bus at "Yunogo."
By Car: 10 min. from Mimasaka IC of Chugoku Express Way

References

External links

 Official Yunogo Onsen Town Homepage (Japanese)
 Official Okayama Prefecture Tourism Information Homepage

Hot springs of Okayama Prefecture
Spa towns in Japan
Tourist attractions in Okayama Prefecture
Mimasaka, Okayama


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Mission Bio Adds Published Single-Cell DNA Sequencing Panels to Sample Prep Platform
Oct 15, 2021 | Andrew P. Han
NEW YORK – Single-cell DNA sequencing firm Mission Bio has launched new capabilities for its Tapestri sample preparation platform, including three cancer-related panels — validated by customers' peer-reviewed studies — and the ability to run fewer total cells on the instrument.
The published panels include a T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia assay designed by researchers at Belgium's VIB and KU Leuven, a myeloid malignancy clonal evolution panel designed by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and a combination panel designed by researchers at Australia's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac).
"Now, they're available on our website as catalog products," said Anjali Pradhan, VP of product management at Mission Bio. "As we penetrate hematology and oncology, this really accelerates researchers who are getting started."
The VIB/KU Leuven panel includes more than 300 regions across 110 genes related to ALL. But some published panels may be too specific to a particular lab's interests to be widely useful. "I think the idea is good, but maybe our panel is a bit of an outlier. It's a bit miscellaneous in its content," said Ella Thompson, a molecular hematology researcher at Peter Mac who used that panel in two different studies.
The Tapestri platform can also run as few as 20,000 cells now, whereas previously it ran about 100,000. "This really helps customers save their precious samples, and run more translational and clinical samples," Pradhan said.
The new capabilities follow the addition of single-cell surface protein measurements using conjugated antibodies from BioLegend, announced late last year. More generally, the company continues to push into markets outside the US and for more engagement with pharmaceutical companies.
The panels have led to an "increase in opportunity to engage with pharma," Pradhan said. Mission Bio also launched pharma assay development services in April and has partnered with Sequanta to provide single-cell DNA sequencing services in China.
Reducing the number of cells per run required work over many months to retain the same level of sensitivity with higher numbers of cells. "Researchers could always do it in the lab and try it out, but we wanted to assure them that you get that level of sensitivity when detecting rare variants." The change is helping customers do studies around therapy resistance, lineage tracing, and screening based on multiomics, Pradhan said.
At least one of the published panels came out of an early-access project begun in 2018, according to Llucia Albertí-Servera, first author of a paper on clonal heterogeneity in ALL published in February in Blood with colleagues from VIB and KU Leuven, where she was a postdoc.
"To use Mission Bio, you need to know what you're looking for," she said. "In our case it was 300 regions from 110 different genes." The panel was designed specifically for the published study of patient samples but was intended for use in subsequent studies.
"We were not only able to detect mutations but also their co-occurrence at a single-cell level," she said. Following clones at different time points in treatment revealed residual clones in remission. "You can immediately answer the question of whether it's a preexisting clone or if it's a new one. If there's relapse you can see what the relapse mechanism is, whether it's an existing mutation or a de novo one."
The data from the panel were "really good," she said. "We really targeted those regions most mutated."
She said she would be "glad to see it used by the broader community." Her only concern was over the manufacturing and delivery time. She called the manufacturing process "laborious" and said it took five months to receive the kit from the moment she sent in her target list.
"Mission Bio's manufacturing process has improved dramatically since 2018, with a streamlined intake process and a dedicated person to assist with every custom panel order," a company spokesperson said in an email. "Catalog panels are usually shipped within one week, and custom panels take 2-3 weeks from a completed design."
Each kit cost at least €1,000 ($1,159), Albertí-Servera said, and total sample prep costs — not including sequencing — were about €1,500 to €2,000 per sample.
The Peter Mac panel, in contrast, targeted 70 regions across 18 genes, related to several different studies Thompson was involved with. The first looked at the clonal relationship between myeloproliferative neoplasm driver mutations in two cases of co-mutated MPN, and the second used the same panel in a study of clonal architecture of nine patients with either chronic lymphocytic leukemia or mantle cell lymphoma.
The team published results from the first study in August 2020 in Haematologica and presented data from the second at the 2020 virtual meeting of the American Society of Hematology.
In the first study, getting similar results by other methods would require growing up more than 10,000 clones, individually. "Numerically, that's too many to do practically," Thompson said. The Tapestri data helped expand on results previously obtained from colony-based assays.
In the second study, Tapestri provided the ability to look at very rare mutations, on the order of four or five cells out of 10,000. "If we sampled a smaller number, we wouldn't have been able to see those low-level events," she said.
Though she was skeptical that another lab would be interested in ordering her panel, she still thought the offering was potentially valuable. "It's always a good idea to see content from other people's panels," she said.
She noted that cell-surface makers weren't available at the time she designed her panel, "but would have been a great addition," she said.
Pradhan said Mission Bio would continue to add capabilities to Tapestri, including higher cell throughput and cell multiplexing, and would develop more applications around solid tumor analysis and cancer therapy.
Mission Bio
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Local Rally Denounces Right-Wing Extremists in Wake of Charlottesville
August 15, 2017 by Sam Haut 1 Comment
Rally held at Linwood Park. Photo: Sam Haut.
Over the weekend at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of a Confederate statue, neo-Nazis and white supremacists skirmished with counter protesters. The rally left three people dead and many more injured, causing shock among people across the country.
Blessing Osazuwa, a sophomore at Drexel University, was one of the many horrified by what was happening in Virginia and felt she had to do something. Her need to act turned into a rally called Stand Up for Love that was held at Linwood Park in Ardmore on Sunday evening, with about 300 people in attendance. [Read more…]
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American Vision – Prologue
January 9, 2012 by Bruce Ticker Leave a Comment
Prologue of American Vision by Bruce Ticker
Bruce Ticker has written a new book American Vision. He has given us permission to publish this work as a weekly series. Here is the prologue.
Even on a day when almost nothing happens, the course of American history can be set for more than two centuries.
One such day was July 17, 1787. The birth of the Connecticut Compromise is customarily dated to July 16, 1787, when the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia approved a fresh but flawed legislative system, as part of a broader package of provisions for the budding Constitution.
Prior to 10 a.m. on the 17th, delegates from the most populous states to the Convention gathered at what is now Philadelphia's Independence Hall to assess the convention's vote from the day before.
The Connecticut Compromise created a split form of government: Each member of the House of Representatives would represent the same number of Americans, on a proportionate basis, and each state would be represented by the same number of senators regardless of population.
More after the jump.
The compromise split the difference between the Virginia Plan for proportionate representation in both chambers and the response to the Virginia delegates, the New Jersey Plan. New Jersey's delegates, afraid that the large states would overwhelm smaller states like New Jersey, demanded equal representation in all chambers.
Under Convention rules, each delegate had the right to raise any issue whenever they wanted, even after a decisive vote was taken. That means the issue could be reopened on any given day, and that day was July 17.
The main players of this caucus – Virginians James Madison and Edmund Randolph, Pennsylvanians James Wilson and Gouverneur Morris, and Rufus King of Massachusetts – reopened the issue, however briefly. They met to discuss how to react to the July 16 vote on the basis of their insistence that both the House and Senate should represent the people on a proportionate basis.
As constitutional scholar Richard Beeman writes, Madison reported that "the time was wasted in vague conversation on the subject, without any specific proposition or agreement."
In his book "Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution," Beeman characterizes the outcome this way: "He discovered much to his chagrin that only a handful of delegates felt as strongly about the issue as he did, and no one was willing to risk the outcome of the Convention on it."
So on March 4, 1789, the newly-revamped Congress convened in New York City for the first time at Wall and Nassau streets, eight blocks southeast of the future site of the demolished World Trade Center. Actually, it took roughly a month before either chamber had a quorum. Come April 30, George Washington was inaugurated at the same site as the first president of the United States.
Madison and the other four were apprehensive about a Senate where each state is authorized to send the same number of senators to Congress. As Beeman puts it, "They held the principled view that it was wrong to give any state government, be it a large state or a small one, too much weight and authority within the national government. The only way to avoid that injustice was to represent the people according to their numbers."
History would repeatedly prove Madison and associates to be right. For example, the senators from New Jersey, Frank R. Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, and Maryland, Barbara A. Mikulski and Benjamin L. Cardin, discovered in 2010 that the wealthy would retain their tax cuts and health-care reform would be watered down. Delaware Sens. Thomas R. Carper and Christopher A. Coons advocate for most of the same concerns affecting the three states.
Such lapses are mainly rooted in how the Senate is composed in combination with its much-abused filibuster rule.
More than two centuries earlier, the chief opponents of proportionate representation in the Senate represented Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. Though Delaware ranks 45th in population with 844,000 residents, New Jersey now ranks 11th with 8.7 million people and Maryland is 19th, population 5.6 million, according to Census Bureau figures. With 19.5 million people, New York is now the third most populous state.
Many of the 37.5 million Americans from these states are paying today in large part because of the Connecticut Compromise.
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One of the most important facts about the history of the Space Shuttle is that they were the most complex machines ever built. The Space Shuttle Program designed the first reusable spacecraft.
The mission of the Shuttle Program was to conduct scientific experiments, to launch and repair satellites, and to provide shuttle service for the Space Station. The Shuttle transported cargo to altitudes of 115-250 miles above the Earth.
In Space Shuttle History, the spacecraft changed little in 30 years, other than major technological advancements in computers and avionics (instrumentation). The Program ended after 2010, having flown over 130 missions.
The Space Shuttle Program featured spacecraft that were mostly made out of aluminum and consist of three major sections: the orbiter spacecraft, with a maximum occupancy of eight astronauts; two Solid-Fuel Rocket Boosters, which are the largest ever flown; an external tank with fuel (liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen) for the three main engines.
The launch of a Space Shuttle was an awesome sight to behold. It literally lights up the heavens and spectators can feel the raw power. The Solid-Fuel Rocket Boosters only burn for two minutes before they separate and fall approximately 160 miles from Cape Kennedy off the coast of Florida. They are retrieved from the Atlantic Ocean and reused. The main engines continue to burn for eight additional minutes, up to orbital altitude. The external tank then separates and falls into a remote part of the Indian Ocean. Where it remains.
A typical mission for a Space Shuttle lasts one week. It re-enters the atmosphere of Earth 75 miles high, at a velocity of 18,000 miles per hour. The orbiter is designed to glide in, similar to an airplane, to a safe landing. It hits the runway at about 220 miles per hour. The orbiter creates quite a sonic boom right over my house.
The first Space Shuttle made was the Enterprise, though it was only used as a test prototype and never flew a mission. The Columbia was next and in 1981 it became the first to fly into space, with Orlando native John Young as Commander. (We have a major parkway and planetarium named in his honor here in Orlando.) The third machine was the Challenger; the fourth the Discovery; the fifth the Atlantis; the sixth and final Space Shuttle is the Endeavor—produced to replace the ill-fated Challenger.
It is widely known that there have been two Space Shuttle disasters—each accident resulting in the loss of seven lives. The Challenger Space Shuttle exploded only 73 seconds into flight in 1986. An O-Ring failed because the unusually cold weather made it too stiff to function properly.
In the 2003 Columbia Space Shuttle Tragedy, the spacecraft disintegrated over Texas only 16 minutes before it would have landed. Heat shield tiles, designed to protect the leading edge of the wing, had been damaged during the launch and could not withstand the estimated 2880 degree (Fahrenheit) temperatures caused by the friction created by traveling at that speed in our atmosphere. Everything built by man is subject to failure.
The next manned space vehicle for America has been christened the Orion. It is scheduled to fly in 2014 and unlike the Space Shuttle Program, which features Earth orbiters, the Orion is being designed and constructed as a deep space vehicle—for missions to the Moon and Mars.
stessily— You are quite welcome, my dear. As you said so well, "The earth and everything in space are so photogenic . . ." Indeed they are.
I love photography. I hadn't really stopped to consider "the grandeur, beauty, and mystery of the spheres." What an interesting observation!
The blastoff of these powerful rockets is truly a spectacle to behold.
Thank you for your continued support of my work here on HubPages. I very much appreciate you.
James, The earth and everything in space are so photogenic that I lose myself in their depictions. Nothing seems to surpass a photograph in capturing and presenting the grandeur, beauty, and mystery of the spheres. Vincent Van Gogh's starry night pulls viewers irresistibly into the magic of night skies, but the scale of grandeur is difficult to maintain in paintings.
This sentence which you wrote really caught my attention: "Everything built by man is subject to failure." So true! Part of the process, but it's sad when loss of life occurs.
In your comment above you mention that, living in Florida for 18 years, you've seen many shuttles blast off. That has to be an incomparable experience!
Thank you for another spacious journey.
Dolores Monet— Hello! Thank you for the compliments. I am glad you appreciated the pictures. I did not hear that Orion had been scrubbed. I will have to check into that.
As I lived in Florida for 18 years, I was privileged to see many shuttles blast off. It is a truly awesome sight.
Hi, James - oh I would loved to have seen one of those space shuttles blast off - what an incredible sight, and what a testament to man's progress. So you said that Orion will be sent up in 2014 - I thought the whole operation was kaput. Will it be privately funded? I have so many question, I really need to read up. Great hub and gorgeous pix.
Fullerman5000— It is great to hear from you again, my friend. I haven't been very active on HubPages lately as I am working on publishing my first book. But I plan to return with a big batch of Hubs in the fall. Thank you for the kind compliments!
Love the pics and love astronomy. Great work again my friend. It has been a while, but i am glad to finally be reading you work again. I promise not to disappear to long again. Keep it up.
It's a definite deal brother.
I made plans to go for November, but time and money conspired against me. Good thing I had not bought tickets yet!
Don't they have a launch planned for February? Maybe I'll be there and if there's time I'll swing by.
stars439— Thank you very much, my friend. You know, this is one of my favorite Hubs but it didn't get many veiwers, relatively. Maybe the shuttle is ho-hum these days. But not to me! I appreciate your wonderful laudations! You have made me feel really good this morning with your kind words.
Fantastic hub. The photos are astounding. Your work and research reaps so much knowledge. What a beautiful quest to seek the knowledge of the stars. God Bless you in your educational work. We are a lot more educated because of your expertise in excellence as you journey our world's many fascinating topics and subjects on our behalf.
Kebennett1— Thank you. Orion has not been publicized much. Your Brother-In-Law certainly has a birds-eye view. I have seen many blast off, but it never gets old. I think we take the Shuttle for granted because there have been so many launches. But it is an awesome machine and a great achievement for America.
Awesome photos James. A lot of good info. I did not know anything about Orion! My Brother-In-Law was stationed at Edwards Air Force base and is now retired military and still works on base there in the Mohave Desert where the Endeavor just landed. He always gets an up front viewing when they land there. It seems like something always happens to prevent us from being there when one lands or takes off! Thanks for the information!
quicksand— You are welcome. Thank you for the visit. I am glad you let me know that you enjoyed it.
sumon6— It is good indeed. Thanks for saying so. Welcome to the Hub Pages Community!
success79— Well, I thank you so much for your nice compliments. I appreciate you taking the time to come by and take a look.
cosette— There is a lot to love there. Thanks for your kind remarks. I do appreciate it.
advisor4qb— I'm sure you have seen a lot of launches. My company—now defunct—provided weather surveillance in a Learjet for NASA for all rocket launches (except the shuttle) for years.
Thanks for the visit and your remarks.
BrianS— Thank you for coming. I believe there were some engineers who warned about the O-Rings in cold weather. These warnings were ignored, tragically. I'll never forget the sick feeling I had that day.
LOVE the ISS, the Space Shuttle and the Hubble, etc. etc.
Cool hub. I have spent most of my life on the Space Coast, so I have seen a lot about this. I like the pictures!
I come from a technological background and found this hub really interesting, the failed O ring on the Challenger was a real lesson that unfortunately cost people their lives. Hard to believe that particular design flaw got past all the scrutiny but does prove as you said any design and manufacture produced by man can potentially fail and often the extent of the testing done is ruled by economics.
Waren E— I'm only relieved because I worry just a bit about the machines aging, for safety reasons. I actually get a kick out of the sonic booms. That is why private jets will never go faster than they have since they were invented in the 1960s: can't have sonic booms all over the place now can we.
DeBorrah K. Ogans— I agree with you. People are blessed with incredible creativity by our Creator. And it can be used for great purposes. I think this is one.
Your comments are always so sweet and interesting. I love it when you visit. Thank you and you are welcome.
Tina Irene— Thank you for that link. Now when I get my sound fixed . . .
vanderhaven— I used to have a telescope and loved using it. I appreciate you taking the time to come and see my Hub. Thank you for your remarks, too.
Hello Duchess! It's always a pleasure when you come to call. You are welcome and I thank you very much.
Thank you for dropping by and you are always most welcome.
R Burow— I surely agree with you. A shuttle launch is as unique an experience as any I can think of. I'm not sure where you live, but I can see the shuttle from 50 miles away. That's how awesome it is! Thank you for your kind comments.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with all of us.
What a wonderful informative hub!
Really makes on think and wonder. What intriguing ingenuous collective minds it takes to build such an amazing aircraft.
I am fascinated by the complexity of it all! Traveling to the Moon what a rare privilege and Mars and of course Heaven!
That melody goes back to 1962 (long before space shuttles) and it brings back lots of motivating "what's out there" memories.
The Catholic Eucharist has been in Space too.
I would love to see a space shuttle launch. Recently I took our telescope out on the deck and looked at the moon. I was thinking I had probably did something wrong when setting it up because when we looked in it the very first time without any adjustments, etc. there was a huge bright white thing there- really big and clear and bright. It looked like what you would think the moon would look like up close but I was so skeptical about a cheap little telescope working that well. But- sure enough- it WAS the moon - craters and all!! The kids loved it and we plan on learning more about space together. I'll show them these pictures and tell them about the space shuttles. Thanks James!
I see your love affair with space continues.
Great pictures and a very informative hub. Thanks for putting these all together.
Great hub and photos. Thanks James.
There is nothing comparable to viewing the launch and takeoff of the Space Shuttle. It was my honor to witness both from the Cape a few years back. Nearly as stunning is to view the takeoff from my own front yard. I will never get beyond the thrill of watching it arc from our atmosphere. James you brought the same thrill to this hub with the great pictures and information.
Well done, James...care to be a TV writer? A few other interesting facts: former astronaut (and Air & Space TV board member) Story Musgrave is the only astronaut to have flown on all six shuttle orbiters. Also, because as you mention the shuttle is a glider upon de-orbit and landing, pilots train in a specially modified business jet that actually uses reverse thrust to simulate the steep glide profile!
"quill"— What a pleasure to hear from my friend in Yukon. The Space Program is incredible, as you say. We are learning much about the Universe God made for us to live in and observe—so we might know Him better.
I'll bet your family friend is having the time of his life. Thank you for leaving your interesting insights.
satomko— Thanks! I think the Orion will be very successful—and safer. The Shuttle is somewhat dangerous due to its design. Its purpose made for quite the engineering problem, and despite the two tragedies, it is extremely well made with the knowledge we had at the time.
dutchman1951— I love Nashville. I have spent a fair amount of time there as I have relatives residing in your wonderful community. Thank you very much, Jon, for your visit and remarks.
bayareagreatthing— Thank you so much for your complimentary comments. The shuttles have become not such a big deal to some, but here in Florida, where we can see them from miles away—and hear them—I am still awed by this incredible feat of engineering and construction.
divinemercy1— Thank you. I owe credit for the photos to NASA, of course. I didn't know you worked in aerospace for the DOD. That is very interesting. I so appreciate your kind words. And you are my first visitor!
Good hub. When I lived in Melborn, Florida we used to watch the shuttle launches from our backyards. And James, where do you think the future of space-flying craft will go now that the shuttles are supposed to be phased out? Do you think these future-crafts be as successful?
Brilliant photos James...having been in the Aerospace industry for 8 years with DOD, I had the distinct privilege of seeing this baby being "piggy backed" as they called it right over my apartment and office several times. It landed over in Texas all the time. Wonderful sight to see. Really a great article. Keep cranking this good stuff out James. Peace.


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How Much Money Will I Make As an Engineering Technician?
By Chron Contributor Updated February 16, 2021
What Can You Expect To Make With An Associate Degree in Engineering?
The Average Salary of a Geology Tech
How Much Does a Computer Engineer Get Paid Per Hour?
Electronic System Technician Salary
Well-Paying Mechanical Engineering Jobs
Engineering technicians work under the direction and supervision of engineers and other scientists, and are responsible for drawing up designs, and testing, calibrating, and modifying machinery, electrical components, and computer systems. A job as an engineering technician typically requires an associate degree. The average engineering technician salary depends on the field of engineering in which a technician specializes.
Engineering technicians often earn between $26 and $33 per hour, depending on their specialty.
Aerospace Engineering Technician Salary
Engineering technicians who specialize in aerospace engineering are some of the most highly-paid engineering techs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average aerospace engineering technician salary was $32.86 per hour, or $68,340 a year as of 2019. Half of aerospace engineering technicians made between $52,130 and $80,520 per year, while the highest-paid 10 percent made $99,970 or more a year. Average salaries for this occupation by state ranged from a low of $48,750 in Iowa to a high of $97,130 in Washington.
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technician Salary
Technicians specializing in electrical and electronics engineering also report high pay rates. As of 2019, techs in this specialty averaged $31.84 per hour, or $66,240 per year according to the BLS. Half of all electrical and electronics engineering technicians in the United States made between $50,790 and $78,910 per year. Those employed by the natural gas distribution industry made the most, averaging $87,300 per year. Average salaries by state ranged from a low of $56,080 in Wisconsin to a high of $85,600 in Vermont.
Mechanical Engineering Technician Salary
According to the BLS, mechanical engineering technicians earned an average of $28.44 an hour in 2019, and reported an average annual salary of $59,160. The annual pay range for half of mechanical engineering techs in the country was between $44,170 and $72,140, and the highest-paid 10 percent made $88,640 or more per year. Those employed in the "professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers" industry earned the most, at an average of $89,680 per year. Average salaries by state ranged from a low of $42,330 in Utah to a high of $77,780 in New Mexico.
Industrial Engineering Technician Salary
Industrial engineering technicians reported an average wage of $28.56 an hour and an average salary of $59,400 per year as of 2019 according to the BLS. Half of all industrial engineering technicians working in the U.S. made between $44,440 and $71,220 per year, with the highest-paid 10 percent reporting salaries of $87,790 or more. The highest-paying industry for this occupation was semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing, which paid industrial engineering technicians an average of $64,260 per year. Alaska was the highest-paying state, at an average of $89,780, while South Dakota was the lowest, at $41,930.
Civil Engineering Technician Salary
Civil engineering technicians reported one of the lowest rates of pay among engineering techs in 2019. According to the BLS, the average civil engineering tech salary was $26.67 an hour and $55,480 a year. Pay for the median 50 percent of civil engineering techs ranged from $40,590 per year to $67,070 per year. By state, the average salary of civil engineering technicians ranged from a low of $38,060 in Mississippi to a high of $85,830 in the District of Columbia.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2019 17-3021 Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians
BLS: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2019 17-3026 Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
BLS: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2019 17-3023 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
BLS: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2019 17-3022 Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
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2 What Is the Pay for an Associate's Degree in Industrial Technology?
3 What Do Aeronautical Engineers Get Paid?
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Bryan RichardsonSeptember 4, 2022
New Viewership Report Shows Fox News Absolutely Dominating the Competition
Fox News is outpacing the competition according to their most recent viewership report.
The report finds:
"FOX News Channel (FNC) finished August 2022 as the third most-watched network in all of television during weekday primetime, outpacing ABC and trailing only CBS and NBC."
Fox News is also the top channel in cable, notching 96 of the top 100 cable telecasts for the month.
As the DC Enquirer reported earlier this week, Greg Gutfeld now has the top late-night comedy show in all of television. "Stephen Colbert, the liberal talk show host of CBS's 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,' has averaged 2.15 million viewers for the month of August and has held its position as the top spot since January 2017. Colbert embraced an anti-Trump persona that that many on the left loved.
In the last month, however, 'Gutfeld!' successfully usurped Cobert and averaged 2.19 million viewers which was the most it had seen since the program's launch in April 2021"
Gutfeld is also on 'The Five', which is destroying all competitors:
FOX HOST GREG GUTFELD DETHRONES LEFTIST STEPHEN COLBERT FOR TOP LATE SHOW PROGRAM
" The Five continued as the top-rated show in viewers for the fifth consecutive month and finishing first in cable news for the last eight out of nine months. The roundtable program averaged 3.4 million viewers, 427,000 with 25-54 demo and 270,000 in the 18-49 demo, outpacing every show on CNN and MSNBC across the board."
Fox News also has four of the top five shows in cable news — and five of the top five among 25-54 year olds:
"Total Viewers: The Five (3,389,000), Tucker Carlson Tonight (3,316,000), Hannity (2,915,000), Jesse Watters Primetime (2,856,000), The Rachel Maddow Show (2,726,000)
Adults 25-54: Tucker Carlson Tonight (486,000), The Five (427,000), Hannity (397,000), Gutfeld! (358,000), The Ingraham Angle (358,000)"
These numbers are indicative of the MAGA movement taking place in America today. People are done with woke politics. They want an American media who respects our constitution and the men and women who uphold it — largely MAGA Republicans. Until the media learns to appreciate the greatness of America First patriots like Donald Trump, they will continue to lose out on the outstanding numbers Fox News collects.
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New Biden Polling Data Has Democrats Increasingly Anxious
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The beauty and delicacy of a humming bird never fails to make me smile.
"I want humming birds to come to my gardens." But that would not result in accomplishing my goal.
Humming birds visit when they are extended an invitation. This is a picture of my Heuchera garden. These flowers are also known by the common name of Coral Bells and humming birds love to hover over them and collect nectar. I plant these flowers and others to invite those delightful little creatures to visit.
Thinking about the words 'by invitation'. How honored we feel when someone extends an invitation to us. How we plan and try to make it special when we invite someone to our home.
Last week a new friend invited me to come to her house some afternoon to see her quilts, sit on her deck and enjoy her gardens over a cup of coffee. When an invitation comes it is extended with the idea of we will share some time together.
Is the Lord extending an invitation to you to spend time with him? Are you sharing his invitation with others in your life? I know everyday is busy, but have you ever regretted the moments you paused to watch a humming bird?
Love it gma! Jelly side up!


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Let's begin with the first sample of these three Radcliffe poems.
This one is called To the Charms of [FOREIGN].
Actually, [FOREIGN], in Chinese, is the tune pattern of a specific sound form.
In other words, this poem is the lyric to a song.
of course we have lost track of that song, nobody knows how to sing it.
But luckily we still have the lyric by [FOREIGN].
The subtitle of this poem is called Thinking About a Past added Ratcliffe.
So literally it is really a historical poem, so to speak.
A reflective poem about that historical incident.
the balance in the episode of the Three Kingdoms.
of hundreds of thousands, that invaded the south.
joined their armies in a defense.
was this young soldier who is a very dashing figure.
which was played by a very famous star, in fact, in the movie version.
Now, what's so special about this poem?
It really has a kind of heroic cadence.
you should sing it in major not minor keys.
which I think is a very good translation.
This is in describing the waves on the rocks.
swirling up a thousand mounds of snow.
Of course, the striking part of this whole series is the thousand mounds of snow.
Referring to the waves of course.
In the second part of the poem, it becomes somewhat historical.
and a whole of how these heroes are no longer with him.
makes him think that life is but a dream and he is dreaming.
So the last line says, with one goblet I pour offering to the River moon.
In classical Chinese poetry there are a lot of references to wine and drinking.
[FOREIGN] in particular loved to drink.
and have a sip after I have done this before I go into some other poems.
Radcliffe one and Radcliffe two.
[FOREIGN] saw it as a pair.
you must read the second one in order to make them symmetrical.
Now why is two poems so important?
For one thing, [FOREIGN] himself loves it.
In fact, as a calligrapher, he wrote out the Radcliffe one.
And that calligraphy, that sample of calligraphy, has been passed to posterity.
We still have a copy of it.
You can see that there was all the seals with all this kind of black ink.
You can sense kind of a heroic streak in [FOREIGN] calligraphy.
Some would argue that his strokes are rather fat, not thin.
They are certainly heroic not feminine.
who manage to convey his thought in a very carefree fashion, etc, etc.
But not a kind of a subtle feminine tuberculosis stricken point.
So, now what do these two poems say?
This, of course, is a subject of countless scholarly articles and books.
Everybody has his own version to it.
add a few, perhaps, points of my own.
especially in the first part.
The lyrical scene is typically a moonlit night.
then, probably, they are drinking wine.
begins to sing a quotation from the book of songs.
let's just say a kind of a philosophical dialogue.
of course like the previous poem, thinks back on historical heroes.
He voices the similar sentiment.
sense of finality, of mortality of the human being.
So you might consider this to be a kind of lyrical Confucianist point of view.
we better do something with your life.
this hustle and bustle of official life, of corruption, of political chicanery.
enjoy our life in communing with nature to the full.
Precisely because we have such a short life.
if you like, to the overall poem.
the previous one, the more heroic one we have just talked about.
the first reflection by the guest is answered by Su Dungpo's own reflection.
different philosophies, or two different outlooks on life.
the answer, the response, that really is the crux of the whole poem.
the Confucian prose writer, he also likes to use the dialogue form.
Two friends, or between a master and a student, people are talking.
Even the Grand Historian used to use the dialogue form.
But this dialogue is a metaphorical dialogue.
In other words, in reality it may or may not have taken place.
a responsive answer, sums up his philosophy?
our life is limited, and yet something else is long lasting.
the kind of beauty that now we witness, we feel at this particular moment.
intuitively you can feel the eternity of nature, change and end change.
inner dialectics, Chinese art or the Chinese philosophy of art is born.
the sense of longing for eternity.
adequate but not really, in my judgment, perfect.
so the fu, this poem is written in the fu form.
Fu can be loosely translated as poetic prose.
In other words, he's not writing a philosophical essay.
He's writing a descriptive piece of prose using poetry.
having in mind the famous 19th-century French modern poet Baudelaire.
is the inventor of the French prose poetry in his famous Flowers of Evil.
with the same format, but of course, in classical Chinese.
which comes together with poetic imagery?
This is the challenge for all readers, especially bilingual readers.
So let me try my hand at a rather idiomatic translation.
I can only capture the cadence in the number of English characters.
envying the infinitude of the Yangtze River.
Roaming the skies with the immortals, and bracing the moon till the end of time.
We know this cannot be done, and cast echoes to the sad wind.
hopefully it captures the kind of flow and rhythm of the original.
And the whole poem is full of that.
the final few lines, seven or eight or nine characters.
So that's how a Chinese prose poem is composed.
which is a kind of a poetic philosophy.
I try to draw some inspiration from the famous Taoist philosopher Zhuang Zhou.
perhaps one of the most famous, argues that nature and human beings are one.
are all ephemeral members of this same universe.
centered on the human life, on the human being.
Confucian self with the enormity of nature.
in scenery, to accentuate that sense of unity.
I can talk about the eternity of nature.
you want to take a historical point of view, that of change.
Then, of course, all human lives are just sparks in a ephemeral stream.
then, of course, we are as long lasting as the moon and the river and the mountain.
This is basically what he says.
says that there are two things you can take without limit.
Namely, the breeze on a river and moonlight on the mountain.
These are mine and yours, as sounds to my ears and as colors to my eyes.
Take them as free, use them without limit.
aside by the sense of unity with nature.
that sooner will succeed only in voice and in philosophy.
that reference takes place in a wintry scenery.
The first one is Autumnal Scene With Bright Moonlight.
The second is in A Wintery Scene.
And then it begins, typically also was a evocation of scenery.
two of his friends go to the river and enjoy the scenery.
And one of the friends happened to have captured a big fish.
So they all say though, "Where are the drinks?
SunDu Puo say, all right let's go home and ask my wife.
I just happen to have a jug of wine that I've been hiding for quite some time.
So it's a perfect location.
So the free men go out to the river, to the boat, and start drinking.
Thereby unleashing another sense of lyricism.
into a kind of a woody area where he tries to literally be one with nature.
and he suddenly becomes scared.
The sins of solitude captures him.
rejoins his friends and continues drinking.
But just as he descends the hill he sees a lone crane flying over the horizon.
then of course in the dream A Taoist priest comes to him.
Did you enjoy the evening?
And he suddenly realized that of course, the crane.
He is the Taoist immortal personified.
Or turned in to a crane.
Of course all our Chinese readers know that the crane is a symbol of Taoism.
If you [INAUDIBLE] the symbols of Taoism.
But the lone crane, not two cranes, that you might have mistakenly took them to be.
The lone crane also represents something of another facet of solitude.
tumbling serenity of mother nature.
it is out of that sense of aloneness that he does not want to linger.
some of the other poems written by earlier poets, for instance.
the connection between the self and the other friends.
So that the self is never truly alone.
Same as SunDu Puo except in my argument in this particular poem.
For that magic moment he hears and fears and feels and fears mother nature.
It is a very mysterious kind of feeling.
In Chinese it's called a kind of trembling fear, but it's really more than that.
It is not that there are ghosts and all that.
of poetic feature in 18th or 19th century German Romanticism.
the same kind of a mysterious feeling would pervade his heart.
Now, that mystery, in German Romanticism, can be linked up with religion.
in my judgment, only with what I will call transcendence.
That is to say that at that magic moment, the poet wants to become and be immortal.
yet he cannot attain it.
The one person who really attains it is that lone crane that flies by.
And that, of course, is a dreaming figure.
contradiction of SuoDu Puo poetry, in my view.
So the two poems together capture two sides of SunDu Puo persona.
There's this worldly side, and the other worldly side.
actually, they do not really constitute a whole.
What they give you is a sense of artistic expression.
a philosophy of Nietzsche and others, or even a religious kind of a revelation.
No, we're talking about art.
that sense of solitude, that contradiction between brevity and infinitude.
as the central most important tradition of Chinese art literature?
That takes a little time and effort.
I would like to invite my friend to have a drink.
So let's have some wine and maybe if not fish, a little beef.
last part of the lecture.