"Mr. President, Stop killing people!"
That is because America and Americans have become the most hated people in the world. Even Europeans dislike your arrogance. Yet you were once admired and liked because you freed a lot of countries from conquest and subjugation. It is the custom on New Year's day for people to make resolutions. You must have listed your good resolutions already. But may I politely suggest that you also resolve to do the following in pursuit of Change.
1) Stop killing people. The United States is too fond of killing people in order to achieve its objectives. You call it war, but today's wars are not about professional soldiers fighting and killing each other. It is about killing people, ordinary innocent people by the hundreds of thousands. Whole countries will be devastated. War is primitive, the cavemen's way of dealing with a problem. Stop your arms build up and your planning for future wars.
3) Stop applying sanctions against countries which cannot do the same against you. In Iraq your sanctions killed 500,000 children through depriving them of medicine and food. Others were born deformed. What have you achieved with this cruelty? Nothing except the hatred of the victims and right-thinking people.
6) Stop trying to democratize all the countries of the world. Democracy may work for the United States but it does not always work for other countries. Don't kill people because they are not democratic. Your crusade to democratize countries has killed more people than the authoritarian Governments which you overthrew. And you have not succeeded anyway.
7) Stop the casinos which you call financial institutions. Stop hedge funds, derivatives and currency trading. Stop banks from lending non-existent money by the billions. Regulate and supervise your banks. Jail the miscreants who made profits from abusing the system.
But I think you have enough on your plate for this 2012th year of the Christian Era.
If you can do only a few of what I suggest, you will be remembered by the world as a great leader. Then the United States will again be the most admired nation.
Your embassies will be able to take down the high fences and razor-wire coils that surround them.


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NK Varbonj je hrvatski nogometni klub iz Vrbanja na otoku Hvaru. Klub nosi ime po domaćem nazivu za mjesto Vrbanj.

Natječe se u Hvarskoj nogometnoj ligi, u sklopu koje je odigrao sve svoje službene ligaške utakmice.

Klupski dresovi su prugasta majica (prugasti rukavi po dužini) u uzorku uže bijele pruge, šire ljubičaste pruge (boja vinskog kamena) obrubljene plavom, plave hlačice koje na rubovima imaju isti uzorak kao i majica, te crvene čarape.

Rezultati po sezonama
2011./12. – 6.
2015./16. – 3.
2014./15. – 1.
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2009./10. – 7.
2008./09. – 10. (od 12)
2007./08. – 8. (od 12)
2006./07. – 11. (od 12)
2005./06. – 8. (od 12)
2004./05. - ?. (od 13)
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2001./02. – 10. (od 11)
2000./01. – 8. (od 10)
1999./00. – 5. (od 10)
1998./99. – 6. (od 12)
1997./98. – 11. (od 12)
1996./97. – 11. (od 12)
1995./96. - ?
1994./95. - nije se igralo zbog Domovinskog rata
1993./94. - nije se igralo zbog Domovinskog rata
1992./93. - nije se igralo zbog Domovinskog rata
1991./92. - nije se igralo zbog Domovinskog rata
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1972./73. - nisu igrali
1971./72. - nisu igrali
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Directed by: William Brent Bell
Starring: Katie Holmes, Ralph Ineson, Owain Yeoman, Christopher Convery, Oliver Rice
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Tags: Christopher Convery, Horror, July 2019, Katie Holmes, Oliver Rice, Owain Yeoman, Ralph Ineson, The Boy 2, William Brent Bell
Genre: Action/Horror
Directed by: Greg McLean
Starring: John Gallagher Jr, Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley, Melonie Diaz, Owain Yeoman, Sean Gunn, Brent Sexton, Josh Brener, David Dastmalchian, David Del Rio, Gregg Henry, Michael Rooker, Rusty Schwimmer, Gail Bean, James Earl, Abraham Benrubi
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"It at first seems to be an ordinary morning on the job for a group of Americans working for a not-for-profit in a modern office building in Colombia. After noticing that their Colombian colleagues have not arrived for work, office worker Mike (John Gallagher, Jr.) spots some unfamiliar security guards entering a large hangar nearby. Moments later, an icy voice comes over the building's PA system and calmly explains that the employees must kill a certain number of their co-workers — if not, they will be killed themselves. While the boss (Tony Goldwyn) tries to calm the troops, Mike belatedly realizes that something truly sinister is going on — and when metal doors come sliding down on all the building's exits and windows, it becomes clear that friends and colleagues are now suddenly enemies in a bloody and brutal battle to the death."
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Smart cities to benefit cunning oligarchs?
Tracy Venkatesh — November 10, 2014
Was Minority Report a glimpse of the future?
When browsing for today's hot topics one can easily find talk of smart cities tossed about with other buzz words like "urbanization" or "climate," and most of the reading public are surely able to grasp the concept enough to know that digital technology and enhanced communications play a major role in the functioning of such cities. But is there more to the story? Are we talking about merely improving overall quality of life, as the elite of the tech community claim, or have the well-heeled geeks at MIT failed to mention something equally important? Why are goonda governments with history sheets full of discrimination and human rights atrocities so keen to hop on the smart city bandwagon? And who exactly stands to benefit the most from smart cities?
There seems to be no proper definition of a smart city, but a general consensus of sorts. To sum it up, every aspect of municipal management becomes computerized and everything in town from utilities to traffic is monitored and/or controlled electronically. Personal data and other information will be constantly collected and analyzed, and many private aspects of human life are monitored, such as a person's movements and consumption habits. The ubiquitous presence of CCTV is just one aspect of a smart city. The Smart Cities Council, which appears to be little more than an international corporate cartel with vested interests, defines a smart city as, "…one that has digital technology embedded across all city functions." Just to be clear, the Smart Cities Council is a for-profit entity, as is stated on their website's "Our Partners" page: "The Smart Cities Council is a for-profit, Partner-led association for the advancement of the smart city business sector. It promotes smart cities in general and our Partners in particular." (emphasis added) Mastercard, Microsoft, Cisco and GE are only a few of the Smart Cities Council's many "partners."
Smart city enthusiasts have explained the concept in such a way that it sounds like a futuristic utopian dream. Take the Venus Project for instance, where Roxanne Meadows and Jacque Fresco have envisioned not only smart cities, but a smart planet and a resource based economy where people are no longer enslaved by capitalism and its trappings. On a more grounded note, renowned urban and climate strategist, Boyd Cohen, drew up a diagram called the "Smart Cities Wheel" which he describes on his website, "It was designed to resemble a bicycle wheel and contains six key components and three drivers for each component. The components include: Smart Economy, Smart Environment, Smart Governance, Smart Living, Smart Mobility, and Smart People." On Cohen's wheel diagram are nice words like "inclusive," "culturally vibrant," and "happy."
These ideas sound good, but how realistic are they? Could it be that some of these ideas are rooted in the assumption that the world's governments are run by sane and fair individuals? What happens when this technology falls into the hands of tyrannical oligarchs?
Far from the afore mentioned utopian dream, some well informed individuals, like the authors at Truthstream Media, perceive it to be an Orwellian nightmare, as do other people who pay attention to the actions of their elected officials. While those immersed in the mainstream dismiss such ideas as conspiracy theories, similar concerns are being voiced by credible individuals.
In 2009 the Dutch Senate rejected a Smart Metering Bill requiring all Dutch citizens to have smart meters installed in their homes. Refusing to comply would result in a huge fine or six months imprisonment. The First Chamber found mandatory smart meters to be an unacceptable violation of personal privacy and security, based on a report by the Dutch Consumer Organization and from Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society scholars Bert-Jaap Koops and Colette Cuijpers, who argued that mandatory smart meters violate the right to privacy, which is enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights.
Nick Sinai, director of energy and environment at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission was quoted saying, "Privacy and cybersecurity are among the greatest challenges in implementing the smart grid."
Sharon Peker, a concerned U.S. citizen affiliated with the Chattanooga Tea Party, has written a critical opinion piece in The Chattanoogan about smart meters, "Smart meters may be "smart" but they are not private." Peker also mentioned that smart meters are, "…A tool of Agenda 21 and not to be tolerated."
For a sober and balanced contribution to the smart city debate, perhaps we should examine the book, Smart Cities, by Anthony Townsend. The author, a civic hacker turned advisor, takes an honest look at both sides of the smart city coin, highlighting both the obviously good and potentially bad aspects of smart cities. Townsend states, "The promise is that we'll build the hardware of smart cities just like we built the web, by empowered users one little piece at a time." However, he also points to the very real possibility of human rights violations, particularly that a technocrat elite might use smart city technology to further subjugate the poor. In addition to the potential for social injustice, Townsend expresses concerns that the increased demand for electricity could cripple older power grids.
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Encana Announces Commencement of US$213 Million Substantial Issuer Bid
Encana Corporation-Encana Announces Commencement of US-213 Milli
CALGARY, July 8, 2019 /CNW/ - Encana Corporation (NYSE, TSX: ECA) today is commencing its previously announced substantial issuer bid ("the Offer") to purchase for cancellation up to US$213 million of its common shares ("Shares"). The Offer will expire at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on August 14, 2019, unless extended or withdrawn.
The Offer by Encana is being made by way of a "modified Dutch Auction," allowing shareholders who choose to participate in the Offer to individually select the price, within a price range of not less than US$4.70 and not more than US$5.40 per Share (in increments of US$0.05 per Share), at which they will tender their Shares to the Offer. Upon expiry of the Offer, Encana will determine the lowest purchase price (which will not be more than US$5.40 per Share and not less than US$4.70 per Share) that will allow it to purchase the maximum number of Shares properly tendered to the Offer, and not properly withdrawn, having an aggregate purchase price not exceeding US$213 million.
Shareholders who wish to participate in the Offer will be able to do so through: (i) an auction tender, in which they will specify the number of Shares being tendered at a specific price per Share; or (ii) a purchase price tender, in which they will agree to have a specified number of Shares purchased at the purchase price to be determined pursuant to the auction and have their Shares considered as having been tendered at the minimum price of US$4.70 for the purposes of determining the purchase price. Shareholders who validly deposit Shares without specifying the method in which they are tendering their Shares will be deemed to have made a purchase price tender, understanding that those Shares will be considered to have been tendered at the minimum price of US$4.70 per Share. All Shares tendered at or below the finally determined purchase price will be purchased, subject to proration and "odd lot" priority, at the same purchase price determined pursuant to the terms of the Offer. Shares that are not purchased, including Shares tendered pursuant to auction tenders at prices above the purchase price, will be returned to shareholders.
The Offer is not conditional on receipt of financing or on any minimum number of Shares being tendered to the Offer, but is subject to other conditions, which are described in the offer to purchase. Encana intends to fund any purchases of Shares pursuant to the Offer from cash on hand, drawing on existing credit facilities or through the issuance of commercial paper.
On July 8, 2019, a tender offer statement on Schedule TO, including an offer to purchase, a letter of transmittal for registered shareholders and related documents, will be filed by Encana with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), and a separate issuer bid circular, letter of transmittal for registered shareholders and related documents will be filed by Encana with Canadian securities regulatory authorities.
Encana has engaged BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and BMO Capital Markets Corp. to act as financial advisors and dealer managers for the Offer and AST Trust Company (Canada) to act as depositary. Any questions or requests for information regarding the Offer may also be directed to the dealer managers or the depositary.
This news release is for informational purposes only and is not intended to and does not constitute an offer to purchase or the solicitation of an offer to sell Shares. The solicitation and the Offer will only be made pursuant to the Offer documents filed with securities regulatory authorities, including the offer to purchase, issuer bid circular, letter of transmittal and related documents. The Offer will not be made to, nor will tenders be accepted from or on behalf of, holders of Shares in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance of offers to sell Shares would not be in compliance with the laws of that jurisdiction. None of Encana, its Board of Directors, the dealer managers or the depositary makes any recommendation to shareholders as to whether to tender or refrain from tendering any or all of their Shares pursuant to the Offer, whether shareholders should elect an auction tender or a purchase price tender or the purchase price or prices at which shareholders may choose to tender Shares. SHAREHOLDERS ARE STRONGLY URGED TO CAREFULLY READ THE OFFER TO PURCHASE, ISSUER BID CIRCULAR, THE LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL AND RELATED DOCUMENTS FILED WITH SECURITIES REGULATORY AUTHORITIES, AS THEY MAY BE AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Shareholders may obtain free copies of the offer to purchase, issuer bid circular, the letter of transmittal and related documents filed with the SEC at the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov or with Canadian securities regulatory authorities at the website maintained by the Canadian Securities Administrators at www.sedar.com (in each case, when available). Shareholders may also obtain those materials from AST Trust Company (Canada), the depositary for the Offer. Shareholders are urged to read those materials carefully and consult with their financial, tax and legal advisors prior to making a decision to tender into the Offer.
ADVISORY REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS - This news release contains forward-looking statements or information (collectively, "FLS") within the meaning of applicable securities legislation, including Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. FLS include: terms of the Offer, including price range and number of the Shares Encana may purchase under the Offer; timing for launch and completion of the Offer; and sources and availability of funding for the Offer. FLS involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties that may cause such statements not to occur or results to differ materially. These assumptions include: future commodity prices and differentials; Share prices prior to completion of the Offer; and expectations and projections made in light of Encana's historical experience and its perception of historical trends. Risks and uncertainties include: receipt of regulatory approvals for the Offer documents; satisfaction of conditions associated with the Offer, including the impact of Share price volatility on completing the Offer; commodity price volatility; impact of changes in credit rating and access to liquidity; changes in or interpretation of laws or regulations; and other risks and uncertainties as described in Encana's Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and as described from time to time in Encana's other periodic filings as filed on SEDAR and EDGAR.
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CEO Randy Stearns teases System Integrator 2018 and says D-Tools Systems Integrator business software can even playing field for small- and mid-sized integration firms competing against larger companies.
D-Tools CEO Randy Stearns teases System Integrator 2018 and more in a CI 3 Questions interview.
At this point, most AV integration firms are familiar with integration business-specific software provider D-Tools.
Known for D-Tools System Integrator business software (SI 2018), it offers a platform that allows companies to stay within a single software environment though a project life-cycle — from sales, through design, installation and even service, says CEO Randy Stearns.
It narrows the perception gap, Stearns says. "Large, enterprise-level commercial integrators often develop highly detailed proposals and an impressive set of project documentation, which can often be a visual differentiator.
It's not just perceptual, of course. Stearns says better software can improve small firms' confidence to focus on large projects. "Under-bidding a large project could bankrupt a small company, or at least deliver a painful blow.
Stearns focuses on D-Tool's Mobile Quote 2.0 app, which he calls a process improvement tool. The companion iOS app is designed to quickly and accurately develop a project scope and budget estimate for client approval in the initial meeting, he says.
Tom has been covering electronics integration since 2003. Prior to being named editorial director of CI, he was senior writer and managing editor of CE Pro. Before that, he wrote for the sports department of the Boston Herald. Migrating to magazines, he was a staff editor for a golf publication and an outdoor sports publication.


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Co-Opera Co – Singers Helping Singers
This summer, Co-Opera Co. will present two much-loved operas, Mozart's Don Giovanni and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, at the John McIntosh Theatre of the London Oratory School. On tour later in the year, the company will also revive its successful production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. All three operas will be sung in English.
Founded by soprano Kate Flowers and lighting designer Paul Need, Co-Opera Co is an innovative opera company, striving to help singers earn while they learn, and promote the welfare of professional opera singers. I asked Kate to tell me how the company started and how it has progressed since its small beginnings.
"After our first discussions about the lack of an apprenticeship stage in a singers' training – over far too many glasses of red wine one night in Dublin! – Paul and I decided that we should do something about it. I suggested one to one sessions – he suggested starting our own training opera company! So it is Paul we have to thank for being the driving force behind Co-Opera Co, from its inception. I set about calling all my friends and colleagues in the business – over 50 of today's eminent artists who became our members – and Co-Opera Co was formed on June 13th 2008."
We first opened our doors in January 2009 with a series of weekend workshops run by our members, one of whom was the legendary Philip Langridge, sadly no longer with us. In August that year we ran our first summer season, with two performances each of Albert Herring and La Boheme – produced in just three weeks (we must have been mad!), with the wonderful Chroma Ensemble as our orchestra."
To give the singers the chance to see what it would be like to perform in a different space, the company also took both shows for one performance each to The New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth.
2010 was the year the Co-Opera Co Orchestra was formed, and the company toured 7 performances of La Boheme and the Marriage of Figaro to 7 UK venues in four weeks. 2011 saw the tour grow to 25 performances in 12 weeks, with two new productions, The Magic Flute and Carmen.
Leading up to their summer season and UK tour in the autumn the company runs a comprehensive training programme, Connections, where participants work on every aspect of opera. I asked Kate Flowers to give me a flavour of how it works.
"Connections has grown out of those weekend workshops back in 2009 and has again developed in a very organic way, taking into consideration what singers have told us that they want – this year we held a series of one day workshops in the spring. Each workshop was run by one of our members working with up to 12 singers. Each workshop had a theme suggested by the member running the workshop – Sir Thomas Allen for instance wanted to work with the singers on Listening and Reacting; Janis Kelly on Body, Soul and Voice; and David Parry wanted to work on singing True Bel Canto. With everything that we have learned about what singers need, Janis Kelly is developing a fully integrated 3 month course – Professional Connections – which will cover every aspect of being an opera singer, and we are also working on a new course – Opera Matters – for opera enthusiasts and those singers who perhaps do not wish to follow a professional career but who nevertheless would like to explore the genre and work on their personal progress."
"Because we work with so many levels of ability – and we have no age limit – in the various training programmes we run – to be honest, we will accept applications from anyone who has a real desire (and ability) to be involved in opera. Obviously for the touring operas we need to be able to present a truly professional standard of performance (and therefore performers) to the audiences – and to the theatres."
We have had singers as young as 15 – our Harry in Albert Herring for instance – Marina Lawrence-Marrha – and this year we have a singer aged over 60 in The Midsummer Night's Dream – neither of them have any qualifications – other than a true ability and a longing to sing/perform. (Marina by the way is just about to start a foundation year at the Urdang Studios and we like to think that her experience of performing with Co-Opera Co. went a long way to developing her aptitude and enthusiasm for performing – she is simply wonderful.)"
This year the company is rehearsing four operas over four weeks – Hansel and Gretel, Don Giovanni and a revival of The Magic Flute for a tour to 12 venues – at the moment (still more in the pipeline), preceded by a new venture: the Summer Opera, which is a four week course in which 30 singers work on their own opera ( A Midsummer Night's Dream) with the Director Peter Watson, Conductor David Gostick and Choreographer Jenny Weston, performed at the John McIntosh Theatre on 17th and 18th August.
James Bonas, Director of Hansel and Gretel, believes the work of Co-opera is very important, because "There is a real shortage of programmes and performance possibilities for younger singers to gain experience once they've left formal training. The opportunity for near enough a hundred people to spend a summer together doing coaching, master classes, and rehearsals in one place is remarkable. It's the chance for everyone to make contacts, get experience and take hold of some big roles that they wouldn't yet get their hands on in the larger companies."
James also told me about the people involved and the rehearsals for Hansel and Gretel. "The cast is small actually – just five singers. Then we'll have the Co-Opera orchestra and backstage there are the stage manager, deputy stage manager and assistant stage manager. Rehearsals have been swift. We've had a couple of weeks working in a rehearsal room and now we'll have a couple of weeks onstage doing technical work, lighting and then bringing in the orchestra. With those time frames there's no mucking about – we started with a day of music and then were up on our feet staging the scenes the next morning."
They did spend one Saturday morning playing games and dancing with the singers playing Hansel and Gretel. "It's always so important as an adult acting a child that you remember that the child is not childish – they don't walk strangely, they don't pull faces constantly and they don't whine. I think we have a tendency to do an impression of a kid rather than simply being very direct and straightforward in the world – which is what young children actually are."
Talking about opening night (Thursday 23 August) James says, "I think it's a bit like having a baby – a mixture of excitement and terror. You're kind of looking forward to it but you know it's going to take a heck of a push to get there."
David-Milner Pearce, who is playing the title role in Don Giovanni, told me that this production is anything but traditional. "It is set in a Contemporary Art Gallery and the Don himself is based around a Damien Hirst. To keep thing current we have made slight tweaks to the libretto, but the translation by David Parry works very well."
Kate and Paul's vision for the future of the company is to eventually create a Centre of Excellence: "a theatre of our own with rehearsals studios, technical workshops, etc – based around a main touring company and with a training arm for professionals and non-professionals of all ages. A lottery win would certainly help with that!! But in the absence of that, we are aiming to build a commercial side of the business to provide year long employment to our associates – and our beloved Co-Opera Co. Orchestra – by moving our rehearsals for the touring productions to Easter next year, in order to prolong the touring season to include the festival market, and developing the Summer Opera Course so that August becomes the focus of the training element – and of course Janis Kelly's Connections Programme- and Opera Matters – which we hope to launch next spring.
Lastly, I asked Kate Flowers what Co-Opera Co means to her. "Everything – well after my three sons and my mum that is."
"Since Paul Need and I first started talking about the possibility of helping singers as they enter the profession, I have found that my time – and Paul's – has become almost entirely devoted to running the company, coaching and training the singers and generally making sure that Co-Opera Co. achieves what we set out to achieve four years ago. I would like to emphasize that everything we are doing here at Co-Opera Co. is done with no outside funding whatsoever – we rely on box office sales – especially in our London shows during August which have the potential to raise enough money to significantly reduce the unfortunately inevitable deficit we will face at the end of the season, and that whilst we pay all our members for the work they do with our singers, musicians and technicians, and we pay our associates for their performances and pay for and organise travel and accommodation on tour, neither Paul nor I have paid ourselves a penny during the past four years – and we will not even consider doing so until we have reached the point where no-one has to be asked for a contribution. I say this because there might be a perception that there is something other than altruistic about the way we run Co-Opera Co. To be honest, I would never have imagined that I could ever be so enthused about something that had no personal financial gain – and I think I can speak for Paul too here – but we really are doing this, we believe, for the greater good."
Don Giovanni is on 22 and 24 August 2012, Hansel and Gretel on 23 and 25 2012, all shows at 7.30pm at John McIntosh Theatre, Seagrove Road, London SW6 1RX. Tickets are priced between £10-25 and can be purchased online at http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=xxx&query=schedule&promoter=co-opera. The theatre is wheelchair accessible, and free parking is available next to the John McIntosh Arts Centre.
The tour covers Croydon, Yeovil, Wolverhampton, Darlington, Epsom, Manchester, Bury St Edmunds, Wellingborough, Buxton, Camberley, Blackpool, Hertford, and Southport, with further dates to be announced. For more information please visit www.co-opera-co.org.
Mary Tynan
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Burlexe – Interview with Cast Member Dympna Messenger
Tell us a little bit about yourself as a performer
I was a "late starter" and came into the business after bringing up my 3 children and a stint of teaching drama in a Dagenham comprehensive. Because I hadn't waited this long and trained this hard in order to be unemployed, on graduating I formed my own company "Time of Our Lives Music Theatre" with Keith Myers who had directed me at Drama School, sadly we lost our funding in 2008 so I am now relying on other producers to employ me and have the headaches.
How did you get involved with Burlexe?
I got involved with Burlexe by responding to an ad in Casting Call Pro, I never dreamed I get the job but so glad I did, it is so totally different to anything else I've ever done.
What was your impression of Burlesque prior to this?
Before this job I had no idea the Burlesque world existed! I was vaguely aware of things like Gypsy Rose Lee and Strip Tease.
What is it now?
Working with the Burlesque ladies has totally opened up my eyes to a whole style of entertainment that is the descendant of old fashioned Variety and Music Hall of which I am a big fan.
Has doing Burlexe changed you in any way?
Doing this job has been a revelation. I would love to have a discussion/debate with "women's libbers" who disapprove of this type of thing, but my Burlesque friends tell me that they find what they do to be liberating and who am I to argue with them!
When and where is the next show?
The next show is in The Shadow Lounge, Brewer St, Soho on Wednesday 21st March at 8pm.
Read our review of Burlexe here.
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Melvern "Larry" Itter, 89, of Chicago, July 14, 2009, beloved husband of Dorothy; loving father of Marie (Tom) Lamb, John Itter, Janet Rustman, Judy (Steve) Stewart, Larry (Grace) Itter and Chris Montalbano; grandpa of 11; great-grandpa of nine; loved by many.
Veteran of WWII, retired C.P.D. Visitation Friday 4 to 9 p.m. atDrake & Son Funeral Home, 5303 N. Western Ave., Chicago, where services will be held Saturday 10:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to American Lung Association, 150 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60606.


MUSIKUR PROVIDES DRESSAGE MUSIC AT LOW COST FOR EVERY LEVEL, EVERY RIDER.
The MusiKur catalog covers every style you can imagine for riders at all levels. Your dressage music theme is professionally engineered and ready for the show ring when purchased. You can add a number of services to make a catalog freestyle your own. Choreography can be designed to match.
Riders around the world trust MusiKur to help them produce top results in their musical freestyle. MusiKur has been the choice of World Cup competitors, NAYC medalists, and USDF regional and national champions.
If you're looking for something more custom, choose pieces for each gait from the freestyles in the catalog and music will be edited to fit your choreography video. Send me video of your choreography or I'll design it for you.
I bring a diverse background in music and dressage to the art of freestyle music editing and choreography design. I've designed freestyles for riders at all levels for twenty years. My advanced degree in music gives me the skill to edit music which is second to none.
I hold a BS in music from the University of Vermont and MM from UMass Amherst where I acted as Assistant Director of Bands on a full fellowship. I taught flute at the University of Mobile for a number of years. I've performed as soloist with many ensembles, including the Magnolia Chamber Orchestra and Baldwin Pops. I play flute with the Eastbay Quintet.
I studied dressage with Susan Blinks and Sarah Geikie during their tenures as Director of Riding at UMass. Other important trainers include "S" dressage judge, Arlene Rigdon, and Dutch trainer, Jos Sevriens. I'm a graduate of the USDF "L" judge education program and judged dressage shows for many years. At my Woodwind Farm, I bred and trained Swedish Warmblood horses. I taught dressage lessons, took horses in training, and hosted competitions.
Click the play button on individual audio players below to listen to complete freestyles. All lower level freestyles are 4:30-5:00 in length, not including entry; Grand Prix freestyles are 5:30-6:00. Fades you hear in samples will not be in the competition version you buy. Use a "Buy Now" button under each price to purchase music. Ask me for a customized PayPal invoice if you want to add services to your purchase such as gait tempo video analysis, music tempo adjustment, gait segment length adjustment, change gait segment order, or have made-to-order choreography designed for you; see "Add-Ons" for description and prices.
You can customize your catalog freestyle with any of the following services. Ask me for a PayPal invoice to cover music plus additional services. You'll find music only prices with every freestyle sample in "Music 1-4." For a more custom process with music edited to fit choreography video, see "Custom."
Send me a link to video of your horse and I'll determine gait tempos for you. I'll provide you with a list of catalog freestyles which can be successfully tempo-adjusted.
You can provide me with your horse's gait tempos or I can determine tempos for you (see cost). I'll adjust music tempos to precisely fit your horse's gaits. The catalog freestyle you select must have tempos within adjustable range for the horse.
Individual gait segments can be lengthened or shortened to your specifications or you can mix and match segments from different freestyles. The order of gait segments can be changed. Training-First Level riders should consider having the canter segment shortened.
Choreography can be designed to match any catalog freestyle. I'll send you a questionnaire to tell me exactly how your horse needs to be presented in the program. I'll record a narration of your choreography with the music for you to use in practice and send you hand-drawn diagrams. Choreography will be designed once only! See cost below for revisions to the design.
I can email several choreography plans to you at no charge. First-Intermediare levels are available. Plan does not fit any particular freestyle, but gives you ideas for patterns. Diagrams are hand-drawn. You are responsible to know current requirements and make sure your final design is legal.
Use my catalog music as a basis for custom designed freestyle. Make your selections from a list of catalog freestyles I provide after determining your horse's gait tempos. I'll edit each piece to perfectly match your choreography video. You can design and film your own choreography or I'll design it for you. If you want to hold down the cost, you can use one of my First-Intermediare stock choreography plans at no additional charge.
If you want me to design choreography, I'll send you a questionnaire to tell me how your horse needs to be presented. Patterns will be designed to fit your specifications. Hand-drawn diagrams are sent to you for approval. I make any requested changes, finalize the diagrams, and you film the choreography.
At no extra charge, you'll be provided music video of your freestyle. Use this video to learn the freestyle. You'll receive 2 CDs plus thumb drive with digital music files, video file, and choreography PDF if applicable.
See prices below. 50% deposit is required at time of booking. Ask me for a customized PayPal invoice.
I only use music from this catalog to edit your freestyle. If you want music researched for your freestyle, go to my full custom freestyle website at Woodwind Studios.
Watch a sample below of one of my MusiKur custom freestyles. "The Greatest Showman" music is not currently edited for the catalog. Watch more custom freestyles at "Video."
Heidi Basler scored 71.475% at the Heidelburg Cup in Orlando, Florida. This music is one of many Spanish and Latin choices in the MusiKur catalog.
Valerie Pervo asked me to custom edit one of my popular music freestyles to fit her First Level choreography video. She scores over 70% with the freestyle.
I designed choreography and custom edited a popular music freestyle to fit this video. Event rider, Alston Kerr, received a score of 72.5% in her first performance in Florida with two scores of "8" and a "9" on choreography, music, and interpretation.
Use the form below to contact me with inquiries. If you prefer, call Beth Hall at 251-550-1952.
Please provide a detailed message and I'll respond promptly.
I can be reached Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm central time, except on major holidays.


In the previous post we looked at methods to visualize and interpret the decisions made by deep learning models using perturbation based techniques. To summarize the previous post, perturbation based methods do a good job of explaining decisions but they suffer from expensive computations and instability to surprise artifacts. In this post, we'll give a brief overview and drawbacks of the various gradient-based algorithms for deep learning based classification models.
In gradient-based algorithms, the gradient of the output with respect to the input is used for constructing the saliency maps. The algorithms in this class differ in the way the gradients are modified during backpropagation. Relevance score based algorithms try to attribute the relevance of each input pixel by backpropagating the probability score instead of the gradient. However, all of these methods involve a single forward and backward pass through the net to generate heatmaps as opposed to multiple forward passes for the perturbation based methods. Evidently, all of these methods are computationally cheaper as well as free of artifacts originating from perturbation techniques.
To illustrate each algorithm, we would be considering a Chest X-Ray (image below) of a patient diagnosed with pulmonary consolidation. Pulmonary consolidation is simply a "solidification" of the lung tissue due to the accumulation of solid and liquid material in the air spaces that would have normally been filled by gas . The dense material deposition in the airways could have been affected by infection or pneumonia (deposition of pus) or lung cancer (deposition of malignant cells) or pulmonary hemorrhage (airways filled with blood) etc. An easy way to diagnose consolidation is to look out for dense abnormal regions with ill-defined borders in the X-ray image.
We would be considering this X-ray and one of our models trained for detecting consolidation for demonstration purposes. For this patient, our consolidation model predicts a possible consolidation with 98.2% confidence.
Explanation: Measure the relative importance of input features by calculating the gradient of the output decision with respect to those input features.
There were 2 very similar papers that pioneered the idea in 2013. In these papers — Saliency features  by Simonyan et al. and DeconvNet  by Zeiler et al. — authors used directly the gradient of the majority class prediction with respect to input to observe saliency features. The main difference between the above papers was how the authors handle the backpropagation of gradients through non-linear layers like ReLU. In Saliency features paper, the gradients of neurons with negative input were suppressed while propagating through ReLU layers. In the DeconvNet paper, the gradients of neurons with incoming negative gradients were suppressed.
Heatmap by GradInput against original annotation.
Shortcomings: The problem with such a simple algorithm arises from non-linear activation functions like ReLU, ELU etc. Such non-linear functions being inherently non-differentiable at certain locations have discontinuous gradients. Now as the methods measured partial derivatives with respect to each pixel, the gradient heatmap is inherently discontinuous over the entire image and produces artifacts if viewed as it is. Some of it can be overcome by convolving with a Gaussian kernel. Also, the gradient flow suffers in case of renormalization layers like BatchNorm or max pooling.
Explanation: The next paper , by Springenberg et. al, released in 2014 introduces GuidedBackprop, suppressed the flow of gradients through neurons wherein either of input or incoming gradients were negative. Springenberg et al. showed the difference amongst their methods through a beautiful illustration given below. As we discussed, this paper combined the gradient handling of both the Simonyan et al. and Zeiler et al.
Schematic of visualizing the activations of high layer neurons. a) Given an input image, we perform the forward pass to the layer we are interested in, then set to zero all activations except one and propagate back to the image to get a reconstruction. b) Different methods of propagating back through a ReLU nonlinearity. c) Formal definition of different methods for propagating a output activation out back through a ReLU unit in layer l; note that the 'deconvnet' approach and guided backpropagation do not compute a true gradient but rather an imputed version. Source.
Heatmap by GuidedBackprop against original annotation.
Shortcomings: The problem of gradient flow through ReLU layers still remained a problem at large. Tackling renormalization layers were still an unresolved problem as most of the above papers (including this paper) proposed mostly fully convolutional architectures (without max pool layers) and batch normalization was yet to 'alchemised' in 2014. Another such fully-convolutional architecture paper was CAM .
Explanation: An effective way to circumnavigate the backpropagation problems were explored in the GradCAM  by Selvaraju et al. This paper was a generalization of CAM  algorithm given by Zhou et al., that tried to describe attribution scores using fully connected layers. The idea is, instead of trying to propagate back the gradients, can the activation maps of the final convolutional layer be directly used to infer downsampled relevance map of the input pixels. The downsampled heatmap is upsampled to obtain a coarse relevance heatmap.
Let the feature maps in the final convolutional layers be F1, F2 … ,Fn. Like before assume image I0, a class c, and a classification ConvNet with the class score function Sc(I).
[Optional] The authors suggest multiplying the final coarse heatmap with the heatmap obtained from GuidedBackprop to obtain a finer heatmap.
Steps 1-4 makes up the GradCAM method. Including step 5 constitutes the Guided Grad CAM method. Here's how a heat map generated from Grad CAM method looks like. The best contribution from the paper was the generalization of the CAM paper in the presence of fully-connected layers.
Heatmap by GradCAM against original annotation.
Shortcomings: The algorithm managed to steer clear of backpropagating the gradients all the way up to inputs - it only propagates the gradients only till the final convolutional layer. The major problem with GradCAM was its limitation to specific architectures which use the AveragePooling layer to connect convolutional layers to fully connected layers. The other major drawback of GradCAM was the upsampling to coarse heatmap results in artifacts and loss in signal.
Discontinuous gradients for some non-linear activations : As explained in the figure below (taken from DeepLIFT paper) the discontinuities in gradients cause undesirable artifacts. Also, the attribution doesn't propagate back smoothly due to such non-linearities resulting in distortion of attribution scores.
Saturation problems of gradient based methods Source.
Saturation of gradients: As explained through this simplistic network, the gradients when either of i1 or i2 is greater than 1 the gradient of the output w.r.t either of them won't change as long as i1 + i2 > 1.
Explanation: To counter these issues, relevance score based attribution technique was discussed for the first time by Bach et al. in 2015 in this  paper. The authors suggested a simple yet strong technique of propagating relevance scores and redistributing as per the proportion of the activation of previous layers. The redistribution based on activation scores means we steer clear of the difficulties that arise with non-linear activation layers.
This implementation is according to epsilon-LRP where small epsilon is added in denominator to propagate relevance with numerical stability. Like before assume image I0, a class c, and a classification ConvNet with the class score function Sc(I).
Heatmap by Epsilon LRP against original annotation.
Explanation: The last paper we cover in this series, is based on layer-wise relevance. However, herein instead of directly explaining the output prediction in previous models, the authors explain the difference in the output prediction and prediction on a baseline reference image.The concept is similar to Integrated Gradients which we discussed in the previous post. The authors bring out a valid concern with the gradient-based methods described above - gradients don't use a reference which limits the inference. This is because gradient-based methods only describe the local behavior of the output at the specific input value, without considering how the output behaves over a range of inputs.
Algorithm: The reference image (IR) is chosen as the neutral image, suitable for the problem at hand. For class c, and a classification ConvNet with the class score function Sc(I), SRc be the probability for image IR. The relevance score to be propagated is not Sc but Sc - SRc.
We have so far understood both perturbation based algorithms as well as gradient-based methods. Computationally and practically, perturbation based methods are not much of a win although their performance is relatively uniform and consistent with an underlying concept of interpretability. The gradient-based methods are computationally cheaper and measure the contribution of the pixels in the neighborhood of the original image. But these papers are plagued by the difficulties in propagating gradients back through non-linear and renormalization layers. The layer relevance techniques go a step ahead and directly redistribute relevance in the proportion of activations, thereby steering clear of the problems in propagating through non-linear layers. In order to understand the relative importance of pixels, not only in the local neighborhood of pixel intensities, DeepLIFT redistributes difference of activation of an image and a baseline image.
We'll be following up with a final post on the performance of all the methods discussed in the current and previous post and detailed analysis of their performance.
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Zeiler, M. D., & Fergus, R. (2014, September). Visualizing and understanding convolutional networks. In European conference on computer vision (pp. 818-833). Springer, Cham.
Springenberg, J. T., Dosovitskiy, A., Brox, T., & Riedmiller, M. (2014). Striving for simplicity: The all convolutional net. arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.6806.
Selvaraju, R. R., Cogswell, M., Das, A., Vedantam, R., Parikh, D., & Batra, D. (2016). Grad-CAM: Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Gradient-based Localization.
Zhou, B., Khosla, A., Lapedriza, A., Oliva, A., & Torralba, A. (2016). Learning deep features for discriminative localization. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 2921-2929).
Bach, S., Binder, A., Montavon, G., Klauschen, F., Müller, K. R., & Samek, W. (2015). On pixel-wise explanations for non-linear classifier decisions by layer-wise relevance propagation. PloS one, 10(7), e0130140.
Samek, W., Binder, A., Montavon, G., Lapuschkin, S., & Müller, K. R. (2017). Evaluating the visualization of what a deep neural network has learned. IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems.
Shrikumar, A., Greenside, P., & Kundaje, A. (2017). Learning important features through propagating activation differences. arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02685.


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Q: Synchronous single file download - is it the right approach in a GUI Qt application? I'm developing an updater for my application in Qt, primarily to get to know the framework (I realize there are multiple ready-made solutions available, that's not relevant here). It is a basic GUI application using a QMainWindow subclass for its main window and an MyAppUpdater class to perform the actual program logic.
The update information (version, changelog, files to be downloaded) is stored on my server as an XML file. The first thing the updater should do after it sets up the UI is query that server, get the XML file, parse it and display info to the user. Here's where I have a problem though; coming from a procedural/C background, I'd initiate a synchronous download, set a timeout of maybe 3 seconds, then see what happens - if I manage to download the file correctly, I'll parse it and carry on, otherwise display an error.
However, seeing how inconvenient something like that is to implement in Qt, I've come to believe that its network classes are designed in a different way, with a different approach in mind.
I was thinking about initiating an asynchronous download in, say, InitVersionInfoDownload, and then connecting QNetworkReply's finished signal to a slot called VersionInfoDownloadComplete, or something along these lines. I'd also need a timer somewhere to implement timeout checks - if the slot is not invoked after say 3 seconds, the update should be aborted. However, this approach seems overly complicated and in general inadequate to the situation; I cannot proceed without retrieving this file from the server, or indeed do anything while waiting for it to be downloaded, so an asynchronous approach seems inappropriate in general.
Am I mistaken about that, or is there a better way?

A: TL;DR: It's the wrong approach in any GUI application.

how inconvenient something like that is to implement in Qt

It's not meant to be convenient, since whenever I see a shipping product that behaves that way, I have an urge to have a stern talk with the developers. Blocking the GUI is a usability nightmare. You never want to code that way.

coming from a procedural/C background, I'd initiate a synchronous download, set a timeout of maybe 3 seconds, then see what happens

If you write any sort of machine or interface control code in C, you probably don't want it to be synchronous either. You'd set up a state machine and process everything asynchronously. When coding embedded C applications, state machines make hard things downright trivial. There are several solutions out there, QP/C would be a first class example.

was thinking about initiating an asynchronous download in, say, InitVersionInfoDownload, and then connecting QNetworkReply's finished signal to a slot called VersionInfoDownloadComplete, or something along these lines. I'd also need a timer somewhere to implement timeout checks - if the slot is not invoked after say 3 seconds, the update should be aborted. However, this approach seems overly complicated

It is trivial. You can't discuss such things without showing your code: perhaps you've implemented it in some horribly verbose manner. When done correctly, it's supposed to look lean and sweet. For some inspiration, see this answer.

I cannot proceed without retrieving this file from the server, or indeed do anything while waiting for it to be downloaded

That's patently false. Your user might wish to cancel the update and exit your application, or resize its window, or minimize/maximize it, or check the existing version, or the OS might require a window repaint, or ...
Remember: Your user and the environment are in control. An application unresponsive by design is not only horrible user experience, but also makes your code harder to comprehend and test. Pseudo-synchronous spaghetti gets out of hand real quick. With async design, it's trivial to use signal spy or other products to introspect what the application is doing, where it's stuck, etc.

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We assist families avoid impoverishment from long term care and nursing home expense by qualifying their loved ones for Medicaid and VA benefits. We prepare Wills, Trusts and Durable Powers of Attorney and settle Estates and Trusts. We seek maximum recovery when loved ones are abused or neglected in a Nursing Home or ALF. Ted moved to Florida in 1960 from Michigan and began his firm in 1990. Over the 32 years that he has been in practice, Ted has helped many hundreds of families qualify for Medicaid and protect the assets that they have worked a lifetime to...
Zachary D. Herman
(727) 584-8161	200 Clearwater Largo Rd S
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Bankruptcy, Maritime and Personal Injury
Florida State University College of Law
Attorney Zachary D. Herman is passionate about defending the rights of his client. Call or email today to schedule a consultation.
Susan Charles
Largo, FL Estate Planning Lawyer with 16 years of experience
(727) 683-1483	801 West Bay Drive
Free ConsultationEstate Planning and Elder
Stetson University College of Law and Stetson University College of Law
Susan M. Charles, J.D., LL.M. (Elder Law) Attorney Susan Marie Charles is a Martindale-Hubbell "AV Preeminent" peer review rated elder law attorney practicing in Clearwater, Largo, St. Petersburg, and Tampa, Florida. She provides comprehensive legal services to people in the Tampa Bay area who need assistance with estate planning, Medicaid planning, guardianship, and trust and estate administration. A native of Rockville, Maryland, Susan enjoyed a 10-year career as an international travel consultant in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Tampa. A King-O'Neal Scholar, she graduated first in her undergraduate class, receiving her Bachelor's Degree Summa Cum Laude from the University of South...
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Catherine Day Hult
Largo, FL Estate Planning Lawyer
(727) 586-3306	10225 Ulmerton Road
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Marital and Family Law Attorney serving Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties. Free consultation. Saturday morning appointments by request.
Jonathan James Damonte
Free ConsultationEstate Planning and Real Estate
Travis Dean Finchum
Clearwater, FL Estate Planning Attorney with 26 years of experience
(727) 443-7898	901 Chestnut St
Estate Planning and Elder
Managing Partner for Karol, Hausman, Sosnik & Finchum, LLP. Board Certified in Elder Law and Co-Chair of the Special Needs Trust Committee of the Florida Bar Elder Law Section.
Jeffrey Peters Coleman
(727) 461-7474	581 S Duncan Ave
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Personal Injury, Probate and Securities
William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law
I grew up in a large NAVY family. My father flew out of Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base in the sixties and I fell in love with the Tampa Bay community. After law school I came back to Florida to pursue my legal career with a passion for helping out individuals and families. I really enjoy the waterfront lifestyle here (when I can find the time to do so). I have a strong and long serving staff that makes client communication a top priority. My greatest joy is to work alongside my clients to help...
William George Mayhew
St. Petersburg, FL Estate Planning Attorney with 46 years of experience
(727) 341-1872	5651 - 10th Avenue North
St. Petersburg,	FL 33710
Estate Planning, Business and Juvenile
I have maintained a private law practice for 35 years in the areas of criminal defense, juvenile, dependency, bankruptcy, real estate, corporate, contracts, estate planning, and probate administration. I served the public sector as Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Coumbus, Ohio; Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Juvenile Division for Jefferson County, Ohio; Special Agent and Assistant Ohio Attorney General, Medicaid Fraud Division; and Service/Safety Director for Reynoldsburg, Ohio. I was also a registered lobbyist and in-house legal counsel for the Ohio Municipal League. I am focusing my practice now on estate planning, business, and probate administration.
Walter B Shurden Jr.
Clearwater, FL Estate Planning Lawyer with 23 years of experience
611 Druid Road East
Walt Shurden is a Florida Board Certifed Elder Law Attorney and a former Georgia CPA who used to audit nursing homes and hopitals for a Medicare contractor. Now he represents families who seek Medicaid and VA eligibility because they need help paying for the high cost of long term care. He devises estate plans and asset protection plans for his clients. He also serves as fiduciary, and represents other fiduciaries in probate and trust administration proceedings. All four staff members are experienced and have been with the firm for over 10 years.
Rachel Drude-Tomori
(727) 381-2300	5858 Central Ave suite d
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Elder and Probate
University of Miami School of Law
Rachel Drude-Tomori is a named partner with the firm specializing in the areas of Estate Planning, Probate & Elder Law. She consistently has been named as a Super Lawyers Rising Star in Estate Planning by Super Lawyers Magazine, a distinction received by only 2.5% of attorneys in Florida. Among numerous honors, Rachel has served as Chair for the Probate Section for the St. Petersburg Bar Association and was awarded the 2019 Rockin' Chair award for her leadership and fundraising achievements. Recently, she was appointed to the Executive Committee for the St. Petersburg Bar Association.
Rachel frequently assists individuals and business owners...
John K. Carter
(727) 456-8970	9455 Koger Blvd, Ste 102
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Business, DUI and Probate
John Carter has more that 25 years in the financial services industry. He runs a law office in St. Petersburg. Until recently, John served as Chairman, President, and CEO of a $50 billion asset management company consisting of approximately 120 funds and 35 investment sub-advisers. He has a vast amount of experience, which includes working for a law firm (Skadden Arps), a federal regulator (SEC), and leading companies (Franklin Templeton, Citigroup, and Transamerica). He is licensed as an attorney in Florida, the District of Columbia, and Virginia. John currently is obtaining a Master of Theology from Saint Leo University, Dade...
Jason Knott
St Petersburg, FL Estate Planning Lawyer with 11 years of experience
(941) 405-3496	7901 4th St N
St Petersburg,	FL 33702
Estate Planning, Business, Securities and Tax
Jason devotes his legal career to helping individuals and businesses navigate the complexities of U.S. and international tax laws and regulations. His commitment is to provide the most sophisticated and highest quality tax services which has enabled him to build meaningful and lasting relationships with clients.
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Patrick D. Quarles
Clearwater, FL Estate Planning Attorney with 8 years of experience
(727) 235-6461	13575 58th St. N
Patrick D. Quarles is a shareholder attorney at Richert Quarles P.A.. Patrick was admitted to the bar in 2013. He received his Juris Doctor from Stetson University College of law in Gulfport, Florida. While at Stetson he participated in the Family Law Internship Program and interned for the City Attorney's office in St. Petersburg, as well as the pro bono program. Before attending Stetson, Patrick worked for the Transportation Security Administration as a Supervisor and attended George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and received a Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology. Prior to moving to Washington, D.C., Patrick...
Jennifer Kerkhoff
(727) 300-6701	P. O. Box 47371
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Ms. Kerkhoff is a general civil attorney who also handles probate an trust administrations throughout the State of Florida. She prepares estate planning documents, such as wills, trusts, powers of attorney, various types of deeds, contracts and business entity formation to provide peace of mind to families. Ms. Kerkhoff is a dispositive motion writer in both state and federal courts in Florida and accepts cases from individuals, firms and corporate clients to narrow issues and prepare cases for trial. Call today for a free consultation. (727) 300-6701
Michael T. Heider
Estate Planning, Elder, Probate and Tax
(727) 796-5600	3000 Gulf to Bay Boulevard #313
Estate Planning, Bankruptcy, Family and Foreclosure Defense
David Thorpe is originally from the Detroit Michigan area, but since 1988 he has been a resident of Tampa, Florida. Mr. Thorpe has been practicing in the Tampa Bay area since 1997. Upon being admitted to the Florida Bar in 1997, Mr. Thorpe served as a federal law clerk to the judges in the Middle District of Florida. Afterwards he worked as assistance legal counsel for the Hillsborough County Sheriffâs Office. He is a member of the Florida Bar and is licensed and authorized to practice in all state courts in Florida, the United States District Court for the Middle District...
J. Corey Silverman
(727) 498-5207	1455 Court Street
Estate Planning, Business, Probate and Tax
Christopher Steven Cervellera
St. Petersburg, FL Estate Planning Lawyer with 3 years of experience
(727) 619-4234	4230 1st Ave South
Estate Planning, Business, IP and International
Joshua E Adams
(321) 314-2828	235 N Garden Avenue
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Criminal, DUI and Probate
The Adams Law Firm, P.A. was founded by husband and wife attorneys, Josh and Amy Adams. Josh is an experienced trial attorney. He started his career as a criminal prosecutor, where he prosecutor crimes from minor traffic crimes, including DUI, to felonies punishable by life in prison. After leaving the prosecutors office, Josh worked at a small firm in Orlando practicing criminal defense, civil litigation, and probate. In 2013, along with his wife, he started the Adams Law Firm, P.A. with a goal or bringing excellent representation and communication to Central Florida. Amy Adams...
Michael Paul Brundage
Safety Harbor, FL Estate Planning Attorney with 35 years of experience
(727) 250-2488	100 Main St
Safety Harbor,	FL 34695
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Michael P. Brundage Profile Biography Mike has been a member of the Florida Bar since 1986. During the first 31 years as a lawyer, Mike practiced law in large law firms and flourished as a business litigator and creditor's rights and bankruptcy specialist. Mike was the practice group leader of the bankruptcy and creditors rights practice area of one of the most prestigious law firms in the State of Florida for many years and also led the Bankruptcy Practice group at a large southeast regional law firm located in Tampa. Over the years, Mike's practice has been concentrated in the...
Neil R. Covert
(727) 449-8200	311 Park Place Blvd, Ste. 180
Free ConsultationEstate Planning and Probate
The John Marshall Law School
Estate Planning, Probate, Trust Administration, Business Planning and Corporate Legal Counsel
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Anthonia Imudia
Clearwater, FL Estate Planning Attorney
(813) 499-9993	13575 58th Street North
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfEstate Planning, Health Care, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Anthonia "Toni" Imudia graduated from Stetson University College of Law with a JD/MBA degree. She obtained a Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Science degree from Columbia University in the City of New York. She also attended the University of Miami and graduated with a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree.
Toni has been an advocate for the most vulnerable in her community. She has years of experience in practice management, including providing visionary leadership and performance improvement strategies for organizations. Understanding the challenges of the medical field and their pursuit of finding qualified talent from around the world...
Mark Hanks
Saint Petersburg, FL Estate Planning Lawyer with 34 years of experience
(727) 578-8529	9600 Koger Blvd North
Saint Petersburg,	FL 33702
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Criminal, Divorce and Probate
Prompt and personal legal representation in the areas you need most: Family/Divorce, Criminal Defense, and Auto Accident/Injury, throughout the Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg/Clearwater/Tampa area. Attorney Hanks, P.A. is Justice Served.
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(727) 381-2300	5858 Central Ave
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Indian Oscar entry 'Chhelo Show' reminisces childhood days
New Delhi – Gujarati film 'Chhelo Show' will represent India in the Best International Feature Film category at the 2023 Oscars. The film has won the hearts of the people in the past several international film festivals as well.Film was also nominated for the Tiantan Awards at the 66th Valladolid Film Festival in Spain in 2021 and the 11th Beijing International Film Festival 2021. This Gujarati coming-of-age drama, produced by Pan Nalin, has been selected by the committee of the Film Federation of India. . Chhelo show also has something for those who used to watch long reel movies reminiscing their childhood days. The film takes us back to the childhood days. Fantastic film, 'Chhelo Show' brings back the childhood times when the world of cinema seemed like a dream.


Some of the longest-studied molecules still hold mysteries! Research into oxylipids,- historically targeted by NSAIDs for pain management,-continues to reveal hidden roles in heart health, both good and bad. Fortunately, our diet holds the power to select for either good or bad impacts- the choice, is up to you.


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An interview with the Journal of Child Language Special Issue Editors
By admin, on May 15th, 2014
Q & A with Johanne Paradis and Elma Blom, Guest Editors of a forthcoming special issue of Journal of Child Language.
Thank you both for agreeing to answer a few questions for Cambridge Extra.
Firstly, can you explain to us why you chose to focus on the topic of 'Age of Acquisition Effects in Child Language?'
The popular wisdom about success in language learning is: "the earlier the better". What the impact is of the age when people start to learn a language on their ultimate success in learning that language has also been a major focus for researchers. When it comes to adults, research and the popular wisdom are largely in sync; most of the time, adults never learn to speak a second language exactly like native-speakers of that language. However, little is known about age of language learning effects during childhood. In other words: it is clear that children are better language learners than adults, but are infants also better than toddlers, and toddlers better than older children? Does starting to learn a language at a later age impact all dimensions of linguistic ability equally, e.g., pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary? Older children are often faster language learners than younger children, but does this mean they achieve better success in the long run or not?
Also important to consider is that some children learn a language later under different circumstances. For example, deaf children of hearing parents often experience a delay in exposure to any language because their parents do not know sign language and the children cannot access oral language input. For these children, learning their first language might not begin at birth like it does for other children. Internationally adopted children often abruptly stop learning their first language and then begin to learn their 'second first language' as infants or toddlers. Children in migrant families often learn their heritage language exclusively at first, and thus, do not begin to learn the societal language until they are older. There has been some research on these different populations of children who start to learn either their first or their second language after birth, but we need more research in order to fully understand the language acquisition outcomes of children in these different circumstances.
Age of acquisition effects in child language are not only interesting from a theoretical point of view – understanding how maturational changes affect language development – but they are also relevant from a societal point of view. In many societies there is an increasing number of children who are exposed to a new language sometime during childhood because of adoption or migration, and it is important to know what special educational support these children might need, because often they not only have to learn a new language but also have to achieve academically in this new language. The popular notion of the "earlier the better" can work against these children in the sense that it is often assumed that they will learn a new language effortlessly and perfectly over a short period of time. However, we actually need more research to know more about what we can expect of children's language acquisition when it begins later than birth.
What contribution do you hope the special issue will make?
There are existing studies on age of acquisition effects in child language, but so far, the findings are rather scattered and the number of studies is small in comparison to the studies on adult language learners. What we hope is that, through this special issue, we will be able to bring together a collection of studies on this topic that will provide not only an up-to-date overview, but also enhance our insight by enabling comparison of the findings across studies. One aspect we particularly like about this special issue is that we can include a large number of different studies – our target is 15 – much more than in many other journal special issues.
In bringing together research on age effects in child language in one place, we hope to bring together research that has a theoretical focus with research that has an educational and clinical focus. We hope to bring together research that focuses on different dimensions of language, and with different populations of children. We hope this breadth will move the field forward on this topic by revealing important conclusions and new questions for future research.
How do you see the topic developing in the future?
Age effects in child language is typically a topic that crosses disciplinary borders, and is of interest to researchers in communication disorders, education, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, and more. Because research is becoming increasingly multidisciplinary, we believe that age effects in acquisition will be an important topic in future research simply because of its inherent multidisciplinary character. Future research on this topic could involve more inter-twining of language development with the development of other perceptual, cognitive and motor skills. Future research on this topic will also likely include mapping the neurodevelopmental with the behavioural development patterns, and more attention will be given to the interaction between genetic and environmental factors in development. Finally, we hope that by bringing together research on different populations of children in this special issue, this might spur more cross-population approaches to this topic where children from different populations are compared directly.
Journal of Child Language celebrated its 40th volume in 2013, how do you perceive its reputation?
The Journal of Child Language seems to be widely regarded as the première journal in the field because it is an established journal and, importantly, represents the inherent multi-disciplinarity of the field. As mentioned above, child language researchers come from a variety of disciplines and this diversity is reflected in the articles in JCL.
There are other journals that publish child language research, but they tend to be focused on child development more broadly, or bilingualism in both children and adults, or on populations of children and adults with developmental disorders, etc. One thing we like about looking at issues of JCL is that all the articles are on language and on children. There is certainly breadth in every other aspect of the research represented, but the particular focus of the journal means that there is usually something of interest to us in every article.
You can read the full call for papers here
Journal of Child Language, Journals


The hunky bush pilot with the concussion has an old family property to unload. Making this sale could be Maddie's professional salvation. But when Mick turns on the charm, she's in danger of forgetting all her best intentions... on chocolate... on meddling... and especially on men.
The Chocolate Cure by Roxanne Snopek is book number four in the Love at the Chocolate Shop series. This is Maddie Cash and bush pilot Mick Meyer's story. I thoroughly enjoyed Maddie and Mick's story! Their romance was a fun romance to read. I loved the humor, emotional aspects, and the sweet romance. A great read that left me still thinking about their story. Loved it! I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
Gotta love a good writer.
I absolutely lived what I read..will look forward to readg the rest of the story. Not everyone gets how a single lonely person feels on holidays and the author definitly understands. Love the fact that Roxanne is a BC writer.
I loved being taken back to Marietta, Montana in The Chocolate Cure by Roxanne Snopek! Maddie is still struggling into adulthood and independence, but she is determined to get there. A bar, some drinks and a public declaration of her New Years resolutions brings her both embarrassment and motivation. When her volunteer work at the hospital brings her to Mick, a bush pilot, despite his injuries, and attraction and connection is felt from the very start. Unable to return to his work in the near future, Maddie sees more and more of Mick... As she pushes him towards recovery, she is not only worried about her heart, but her job as a realtor. Mick might be the answer to both, but he's not staying, is he? I enjoyed the honest characters Roxanne Snopek gives us in The Chocolate Cure. There are no hidden agendas, everything is out in the open. Whether due to small town life or because that's how Mick and Maddie are, it made me really like their characters. Maddie is a bit immature at times, but she loyal, honest, determined, and has a heart of gold which really shines through. Mick is anxious to get back to flying and work, but this won't happen for a while. As the attraction between them intensified I liked watching the bond between them grow. Maybe Maddie can make it all work out this time, her life and her job...but will Mick still be around? I couldn't wait to see how things ended up for them, because they both seemed set in where they are in life right now. The Chocolate Cure is part of a series, but can be read as a stand alone. I really liked how characters from previous books are drawn into the plot at various times, but it is done in a way that if you haven't read the other books you won't feel like you're missing anything. The Chocolate Cure is well paced with a great flow to it that kept me interested. I'd recommend The Chocolate Cure to any romance reader!
Love continues to bloom at Marietta's chocolate shop. On a drunken whim Maddie Cash makes a New Year's resolution that is sure to fail as soon as she utters it! Giving up men, meddling, and chocolate? What was she thinking! Since she made this resolution in such a public way, she has no choice but to try her best to get through it. Then she meets Mick Meyer and things really get interesting. This is a wonderfully fun read and one I would highly recommend.


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Cerys Elizabeth Philip Matthews, MBE (nacida el 11 de abril de 1969 en Cardiff, Gales, Reino Unido) es una solista y cantautora galesa.

Fue (junto con Mark Roberts) uno de los miembros fundadores del grupo Catatonia a principios de los noventa. El grupo cosechó algunos éxitos importantes, como las canciones Mulder y Scully o Londinium. Sin embargo, el éxito y la presión afectaron física y emocionalmente a la cantante, que en 1999 sufrió un colapso nervioso. En el 2000 tuvo que ser tratada de asma por la bebida y el tabaco. Poco tiempo después el grupo se disolvió. Ya separada de los antiguos compañeros se estableció en Nashville, desde donde lanzó su primer disco en solitario, Cockahoop, en el 2003.

Sobre la experiencia, Cerys dijo que "fue un alejamiento de cualquier cosa que hubiese hecho con Catatonia, porque podíamos tratar cada canción de forma individual, e implicar a la gente. No había presión, y todo era muy natural. Estaba harta del modo moderno de grabar desde hacía tiempo, [...] Quería volver a hacer música en su forma más pura".

El disco fue producido por Bucky Baxter, guitarrista de Bob Dylan y Ryan Adams. La idea original de Cerys era hacer un disco de canciones Folk tradicionales, y de hecho buena parte de esa intención está presente en el resultado final. Afirma que el proceso de escritura de las canciones fue bastante sencillo, gracias al bucólico entorno del estudio y el entusiasmo del productor. Para la grabación contaron con reputados músicos de Nashville, algunos de los cuales colaboraron con Dolly Parton, Johny Cash o Tammy Wynette.

En agosto del 2006 salió a la venta su segundo disco, Never Said Goodbye. El primer sencillo editado fue Open Roads. Fue presentado en la Virgin Megastore de Cardiff. Su tercer álbum, Don't Look Down, fue puesto a la venta el 5 de octubre de 2009.

Discografía

Álbumes
2003: Cockahoop (Blanco y Negro).
"Chardonnay".
"Caught in the Middle".
"Louisiana".
"Weightless Again".
"Only a Fool".
"La Bague".
"...Interlude...".
"Ocean".
"Arglwydd Dyma Fi".
"If You're Lookin' for Love".
"The Good in Goodbye".
"Gypsy Song".
"All My Trials".

2006: Never Said Goodbye (Rough Trade).
"Streets of New York".
"A Bird in Hand".
"Oxygen".
"Open Roads".
"This Endless Rain".
"Blue Light Alarm".
"Morning Sunshine".
"Seed Song".
"What Kind of Man".
"Ruby".
"Elen".

2009: Don't look down (Rainbow City Records).
"Arlington Way".
"Into the Blue".
"Aeroplanes".
"Spider and the Fly".
"It's What's Left, That Makes It Right".
"Smash the Glass".
"Salutations".
"A Captain Needs a Ship".
"Evelyn".
"Oranges to Florida".
"Heron".
"Through a Glass".

Sencillos
 1999 "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (con Tom Jones).
 2003 "Caught in the Middle".
 2006 "Open Roads".

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página oficial
 Karaoke queen Página no oficial en castellano

Matthews, Cerys
Nacidos en Cardiff


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La tumba tracia de Svechtari se encuentra a 2,5 km al sudoeste del pueblo de Svechtari, provincia de Razgrad, que se sitúa a 42 km al noreste de Razgrad, en la región noreste de Bulgaria.

Descripción

Esta tumba tracia descubierta en 1982 pertenece al  y refleja los principios estructurales básicos correspondientes a las construcciones religiosas tracias. La decoración arquitectónica de la tumba se considera única debido a sus cariátides policromadas mitad humanas, mitad plantas y sus murales pintados. El altorrelieve de las diez figuras femeninas esculpidas en las paredes de la recámara central y los decorados de la luneta en la bóveda son los únicos ejemplos de este tipo que se hayan encontrado por el momento en territorio tracio. La tumba es un recordatorio excepcional de la cultura de los getas, un pueblo de origen tracio que estuvo en contacto con las civilizaciones helenística y romana.

En 1985, la Unesco designó a la tumba tracia de Svechtari Patrimonio de la Humanidad.

Véase también

 Tumba tracia de Aleksandrovo
 Tumba tracia de Kazanlak

Referencias

Bibliografía

 Alexander Fol, M. Čičikova, T. Ivanov, T. Teofilov: The Thracian Tomb near the Village of Sveshtari, Sofía 1986.
 Alexander Fol: Die thrakische Orphik oder Zwei Wege zur Unsterblichkeit, in: Die Thraker. Das goldene Reich des Orpheus'', 2004, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Zabern, Mainz 2004, p. 177-186.

Enlaces externos

 Sitio oficial de la tumba tracia de Svechtari

Patrimonio de la Humanidad en Bulgaria
Yacimientos arqueológicos de Bulgaria
Antigua Tracia
Tumbas
Edificios y estructuras terminadas en el siglo III a. C.


Behind the scenes photos from Lena Corwins new book: Made by Hand. The book is a collection of vibrant projects based on the classes held in Lena Corwin's studio. In this book Lena invites artist friends to teach classes on her favorite techniques – inlcuding dyeing, sewing, weaving, crochet, and jewelry making. Made by hand is photographed by Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Barnes, designed by Brooke Hellewell Reaynolds and edited by Liana Allday. Coming 10/1/13.


For my freshwater aquariums I tend to use the JBL Easytest 6 in 1 which offer a very fast way of check Aquarium stats.
JBL has released their Testing Strips in combination with a color card and app which allows you to scan an track your Aquarium stats so i decided to give it a try.
The App is quite simple – you create an account and register your aquariums. Once you scan your measurements you can track them online a see a history of your stats.
In the case above you can visually see the impact of a 30% water change on the stats.
So I am currently at the Arube Atmosphere EMEA 2018 conference in Croatia.
Everytime I pack my bags I have to wage on wether to bring my camera and gear or to just take pictures with my phone which is not nearly as satisfying because the lack of manual control and framing due to the lack of lenses.
I have already downgraded to a mirrorless camera (EOS M5) to make travel with a camera easier, however – the size of my lenses remains the same and takes up most of the space.
Once factor is not really that much of a deal, Image composure and using your creative mind – you can still play around alot but camputring the exact moment without a good shutter button can be an issue here.
What about international flight? – Well depends on the situation but If I travel for business purposes the awnser will amost always be no due to the amount of equiptment I already bring with me.
Am I satisfied with the resultas? – Sort of but I would really to have High Resolution RAW files but sometimes its just the memory that count that you can bring back alive with a snapshot.