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Biografia
Laureato all'Università di Tartu in Storia Medievale. Ha lavorato come diplomatico a Parigi e Bruxelles. Nel 2009 vince il premio letterario della rivista Looming grazie al suo primo racconto, Tartu rahu. Il suo primo romanzo, Valge kuningriik, un thriller ambientato a Parigi e retrospettivamente nell'Afghanistan degli anni ottanta, è stato premiato con il Premio Betti Alver del 2006 come miglior opera prima. Nel 2010 vince il Premio letterario dell'Unione europea con Palveränd dopo aver raccolto materiale per dieci anni ed aver visitato i principali campi di battaglia della Terra Santa; quest'ultimo è stato pubblicato in Italia nel 2013 da Atmosphere Edizioni con il titolo Il pellegrinaggio.

Opere
 Valge kuningriik (2006)
 Il pellegrinaggio (Palveränd. Lugu esimesest ristisõjast, 2008), Roma, Atmosphere, 2013 traduzione di Daniele Monticelli ISBN 978-88-6564-076-0.
 Leegionärid (2010)
 Kindel linn (2011')
 Kuningad. Näidend aastast 1343 (2014)

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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James Skidmore, the newly elected Greater Patchogue Chamber of Commerce president, has big plans for the community through millennial involvement.
The year 2017 looks promising for the thriving Greater Patchogue Chamber of Commerce. Back in October, James Skidmore, general manager of Toast Coffeehouse, was elected as president of the chamber with big plans in tow.
Nothing about Skidmore's vision is business as usual. Instead, he hopes to bridge the gap between old thinking and new by encouraging millennial involvement. The chamber also has plans to announce a new logo in the New Year to pair with Skidmore's new slogan, Building a community through commerce.
Skidmore, 50, grew up on Silver Street in Patchogue with his parents and siblings, graduated from Patchogue-Medford High School in 1984, spent a brief time overseas, moved to the Bayport-Blue Point area and then finally settled back in Patchogue about 13 years ago.
"The community just called me back," he said of his love for the village.
At that time, he scheduled an interview with the BrickHouse Brewery & Restaurant, where he was then selected as entertainment manager, who wore many hats.
He enjoyed his time at the BrickHouse, but after many years of hiring entertainers, managing the front of the house and bar and helping with catering, it was time to move on.
Last year, Skidmore moved on and took the general manager position at Toast, where he currently works. He enjoys music, the arts and the newly revitalized village, where he lives with his dog, Marcy.
At the chamber, he has been a member for over 10 years, most recently serving as secretary and has now become president, a desired position but more of a natural steppingstone in his progression of serving the community.
Over the years, Skidmore has also served on the St. Liberata committee, but is mostly known for being the chairman of the Alive After Five® committee, which requires about six months worth of work out of the year.
"The recent revival is based around our millennials, and all the excitement on Main Street has a great focus on the younger generation. James is tapped into that and just a perfect fit to connect the chamber to new, young energy in our downtown," said chamber executive director David Kennedy of why the board elected Skidmore.
As the new president, Skidmore will serve a term of two years.
So far, he has already created his first new committee in conjunction with his new way of thought, called the Millennial Think Tank. A session of meditation, spiritual thinking and ideas took place for the first time this past Monday and will occur every month on a selected Monday hereafter. His hope is to encourage young people to become community leaders.
To do so, he is attracting the young crowd through social media. He said he already has a large, young following from his years in the entertainment business and hopes they will be inspired by his way of thought.
Village resident Jacqueline Routh, friend and business partner of Skidmore's, is young blood who has become part of his movement and is a leader of Think Tank. She said they hope the new event will empower young people in the community and make them feel that their ideas are worthy.
He, too, is excited to be not only president, but in this unique position as sort of the bridge between the young and the aging. In the future, he has plans to bring in more community engagement including sessions with Legis. Rob Calarco (D-Patchogue) and Patchogue-Medford Superintendent Michael Hynes. He also has plans to create aspects unique to Patchogue such as local commerce, where good deeds receive "commerce" to purchase goods or services at local businesses.


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could be coming to an end.
relegation fears giving way to dreams of FA Cup glory.
progress is being made both on and off the pitch.
stay here and be looked after here.
defender David Wheater now the man in the frame.
family, and that's a credit to the upbringing they have given him.
in any player's development are his parents at the beginning.
wrapped up, it will be an important one for us as a club."
refusing to take anything for granted.
is an opportunity of getting a Premier League scalp."


I ran my first 5 km race of the season yesterday. Much later than I had originally planned. And, I have to say, I didn't really enjoy it.
A grade 1 calf strain (so nothing too serious) in March and again in April set me back from running 10-15 km pretty easily to struggling to complete 3 km. Suddenly, it's June, and I haven't run much at all for two months; now running 2.5 km is an accomplishment – never mind that it's super slow.
For the next 6 weeks, I slowly built up time and distance to the point where I could run 10 km again without pain or worry about retweaking things. But I wasn't moving very quickly – the word glacial comes to mind. Earlier this week was the first time I actually tried a tempo run – if glaciers can do that sort of thing.
Just to be clear – I'm not suggesting that I was a particularly fast 5 km runner prior to this injury. It's just that, prior to last year (with a few fun run exceptions), 100 and 200 metre races were more my thing. So, 5 km was – and still is – a long way for me. So, not surprising, I'm probably a better 5 km runner than a 10 km runner. And marathons? Well, they just seem out of the question to me. And 100 km races leave me exhausted just thinking about them.
Yesterday, prior to the race, I found myself feeling somewhat nervous. Not that that in itself is unusual for me or lots of other people, but this race – at Hardwood Ski and Bike – is a pretty relaxed, fun and social event. And, as a participant in the oldest age category, the stakes weren't exactly high. What with the 30 degree temperatures, objectively I figured if we old guys just managed to finish without suffering some kind of cardiac distress, that was probably success. However, having won a number of the races for my age category in this same series last year, I was anxious, wondering just how well I would do and whether another year, a physical setback and unknown competition would leave me embarrassingly way behind.
During the race, I found my anxiety increasing – "Wow; I shouldn't' be so winded after that incline," "Have I only gone 2 km?" "That person ahead is just widening the gap", and so on.
In short, I was not enjoying the experience as much as I would have liked, and not as much as I should have. At the end of the race, in addition to feeling really hot, I was frustrated because my time was not as fast as I would have liked – even though I didn't have the right to have any preconceived expectations given that I haven't really done any race training.
After the race, I was speaking with a woman who did well in her category but who was saying her best race performance recently was one in which she had zero expectations because she was so busy helping get other people ready for the race (in this case, students under her charge).
Earlier that day, I had been listening to the fascinating story of Desiree Linden's 2018 Boston Marathon win as she recounted her mental – and ultimately physical – progression during the race from thinking she was going to drop out (and therefore offering to help fellow American runners in the race) to being in the lead and ultimately winning.
Linden's experience, like that of the woman yesterday telling me how she has done better when she's been too busy getting everyone else ready to worry about herself, really got me thinking about how our own expectations can mess with our heads. How, by focusing too much on the desired result, we can lose sight of the moment, particularly the enjoyment of being in that moment.
In Sue's yoga class, she often reminds her students that, "When one of us moves forward (with a particular posture, for example), we all move forward." So, I wondered, if we purposefully apply this mantra, can it help make us better runners? If we worry less about our own success and focus more on the improvement or enjoyment of others (as well as our own enjoyment), does this alter our actual physical performance?
A question possibly worthy of more time and consideration. On the trails, of course.


MI Petro Services is approved by Weights and Measures Canada to perform the Certification work on your Gas Pumps. In the picture to the left you'll see one of our Calibration / Certification units. Once your pumps pass the certification testing a Weights and Measures Canada approved seal will be placed on your gas pumps.
If you are unsure of your responsibility as a fuel retailer you may want to check out the Inspection of Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Dispensers Bulletin. Find out more about the Weights and Measures Act and how it may apply to you as a retailer.
If you would like some more information on getting your gas pumps certified call MI Petro at 403-266-5558. MI Petro will be doing certifications and calibrations in the majority of Western Canada; please call for more information. If MI Petro is not able to help you out with the certification of the gas pumps on your site, we can recommend another Weights and Measures certified ASP in your area.
What do you need to know about getting your pumps certified? Please read on for more important information about the certification of your gas pumps.
You will find an attached form below that has a small part in it for trucks that do not pull a trailer.


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International Programs Set-up and Management
Energy / Construction
Technological Risks – Cyber
Credit / Bonds
Directors' & Officers' / D&O
Agricultural Risks
Professional Risks
Environmental Risks
Institutes of Credit
Cars / Fleets
Historic cases
Our horizons
Opening markets to a global outlook
Faithful to its own values but able to look towards new horizons, Bazzi & Partners therefore gradually expanded its range of action, or perhaps, it would be better to say, of protection, not "only" to Europe – where it had been, with Salvatore Bazzi the founding member of Eubronet, the European network which links the best brokers of the old continent – and in the United States, but to all Countries of the roaring economy.
This was the context in which Bazzi & Partners joined WING in 2009. A network of professionals who together intermediate 1.35 billion euros of premiums, through 120 offices all over the world.
The ideal solution for those international industrial realities who do not wish to be in the hands of a monolithic broker, but who want to have their own risks under control, wherever they are located, with certainty that they are handled with the same principles as those adopted by the Parent Company. Since joining WING, Bazzi & Partners has developed by winning new clients, followed step by step in their decisions by the international partners of the network with great success.
On the other hand, this trust is the "secret" of good partnerships. The certainty that its own clients are followed with the same care. In just a few years the company has gained increasing success in the circuit so that it now sits on the decision-making board of WING with which it has taken part in training programs for brokers. Because internationality also means this: far-sightedness and training.
The founder of Bazzi & Partners, Salvatore Bazzi, who on returning from a trip to the United States at the end of the Seventies had a flash of inspiration about what the future would be for insurance companies in Italy and therefore, Europe, between 2012 and 2015 sat on the board of CIAB, the largest US broker association – the broker, which the company from Casale, soon to be founded, would in fact raise to an operational level that would make a name for itself internationally.
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Wing Insurance
The Worldwide Insurance Network Group (WING) is a select panel of independent insurance brokers providing a co-ordinated, integrated insurance and risk management solution for businesses who operate on the global stage.
Businesses with operations in more than one country are exposed to a variety of different risks and regulatory environments and it's crucial for their insurance and risk management programme to reflect accordingly and be provided by advisors who understand the regional marketplace.
WING represents a real alternative to the sometimes overly corporate approach adopted by large multi-national brokers. One of the main benefits of choosing WING is the consistency of cover and support in addressing local compliance and regulatory issues.
The network benefits from a significant global reach and places a substantial amount of premium into the insurance market on behalf of its members.
Eubronet
Eubronet – European Brokers Network – is a partnership between insurance brokers based in several European countries, including a collaboration with a USA-based broker.
The purpose of the network is for insurance brokers to offer their clients the highest quality service in relation to international business and international risks.
Eubronet enables customers to connect to insurance experts who have a specific knowledge of the legal requirements and needs within their own market.
Eubronet offers an international, personal service in all countries in which Eubronet partners are located.
Eubronet brokerage services are also available in other markets in which customers conduct business or have conducted business in the past, or for professional reasons, such as Africa, the Middle East, South America, Australia and the Far East.
Eubronet exists 25 years! A wonderful milestone, 25 years the Eubronet insurancebrokers are serving customers who do business and have risks beyond its own borders.
CIAB
The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers is the premier association for the top regional, national and international commercial insurance and employee benefits intermediaries worldwide.
Council members are market leaders who annually place 85 percent of U.S. commercial property/casualty insurance premiums and administer billions of dollars in employee benefits accounts.
With expansive international reach, The Council fosters industry wide relationships around the globe by engaging lawmakers, regulators and stakeholders to promote the interests of its members and the valuable role they play in the mitigation of risk for their clients.
Founded in 1913, The Council is based in Washington, D.C.
Bazzi ensures the safety of its own companies by working alongside them in their own headquarters and foreign branches. A founder member of Eubronet, the European network which links brokers who focus on excellence in assisting their own clients, Bazzi sits on the international board of the WING circuit and is the only Italian name on the Board of Directors of the CIAB, the largest US association in the sector.
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Blue, brown and cream-colored Icelandic mittens and design made of Icelandic wool. Designed by Ágústa Jónsdóttir. This design is called "Halaklettur" and is inspired by Icelandic nature.


Lava is a non-renewable liquid block that emits light and sets surrounding blocks on fire if they are flammable. It harms the player by four hearts ( ) every second while touching it, and causes drowning damage of half of a heart ( ) while submerged in it. Lava also has a high viscosity, meaning the player can only move very slowly while in it. In minetest players can swim in lava, in comparison to real lava. Falling into lava is often a death sentence, so be careful! Players can place lava by using a lava bucket, which can't be stacked, or with a Lava Source if playing in Creative Mode. On a flat surface, it can flow up to a distance of eight blocks.
Lava can be "cooled" into obsidian or stone by various lava-cooling blocks: If water, river water, ice or snow block is touching a lava source (even diagonally or at a corner), the lava source changes into obsidian. Flowing lava changes into stone instead.
Every 10 seconds, flammable items inside lava are destroyed.
Lava usually appears in lava lakes of varying size deep in the underground. By default, lava appears at the height Y=-256 and below for all map generators except v6. The lava height for these can be changed in the settings. In v6, the lava height is fixed at Y=-32 or lower.
Lava first appeared in version 0.2.20110922.
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JOUR 4274W: Advertising in Society
Advertising & PR library guide
Cody Hennesy
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Search for journal articles on topics such as communication, mass media, film, television, marketing, business communication, health communication, and more.
Taylor & Francis: Communication Studies
Find scholarly articles from over fifty top journalism and communication studies journals.
View more disciplinary databases for mass communication »
Cast a wider net:
Academic Search Premier
A great place to start your research on any topic, search multidisciplinary, scholarly research articles. This database provides access to scholarly and peer reviewed journals, popular magazines and other resources.
Libraries Search
Search the University of Minnesota Libraries to find books, scholarly journal articles, news, magazines, media, and other items in the University's collection.
Researching ad campaigns
AdAge Datacenter and Digital Edition
Search for articles or consult the Datacenter to find rankings and statistics about media companies and advertising agencies and the archives for past issues and access to the AdAge Datacenter.
You need to access this resource via VPN off campus. Please see more information on VPN at Virtual Private Network (VPN).
Use this database to research advertisements by agencies, advertiser, brands, campaigns, or creative staff. It contains video and images for advertisements produced for television, cinema, magazines, outdoor, and digital, along with audio recordings of radio advertisement and covers the work of agencies worldwide with interviews for case studies, packaging, branding and design for major brands.
Ad Week
Trade magazine and website for the advertising industry.
WARC (advertising)
Campaign research source includes case studies, market reports, statistics, and articles from the trade magazines Admap and Market Leader as well research from the International Journal of Market Research, the Journal of Advertising Research, the International Journal of Advertising, and the Journal of Advertising History.
Ad Archives
Ad Access Project
Duke University digital archive of advertisements from newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Early ads from major companies in the United States are featured in a presentation called the Emergence of Advertising in America (1850-1920).
AdFlip
Archive of classic print advertisements from 1940 to 2001. Search by publication, advertisement category, or year.
Ads of the World
Contemporary ads from around the world, including award winners.
The Advertising Archives: Historical & Current Print Ads
Historical print and TV advertisements, magazine covers, cinema posters, comics, postcards, cigarette cards, and more. Sign in for access to larger images.
Advertolog
Contemporary print and TV ads, browsable by categories, including cars, savoury foods, and men's magazines.
AdViews
AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s from Duke University.
AIGA Design Archives
Over 16,000 images of past winners of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) annual competitions in the areas of Book, Brand and Corporate Identity, Promotional, Information, Package and Typographical design from 1950's to the present.
The American Package Museum
Historical American packaging and print advertising from the early 20th century. Browse by product name. Some 3-D images available.
Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918
This collection from the University of washington Libraries consists of over 450 print advertisements published in local magazines, city directories, and theater pamphlets from 1867 to 1918.
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
An important, collaborative effort between the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History and Duke University's Digital Scriptorium provides images of over 9,000 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920. The site is designed to chronicle the rise of consumer culture in America in the late nineteenth century as well as the development of a professionalized advertising industry.
The Gender Ads Project
Advertising images focusing on gender content and analysis. Browse by female and male advertisements, body parts, gender roles, and more.
GLAAD Advertising Media Program
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) archive of current and historical advertising with diverse gender content. Image collection and analysis.
Medicine and Madison Avenue
Over 600 historical and health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines from 1910-1959; categories include cigarettes, vitamins and tonics, diet, and more From Duke University Libraries digital collections.
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IHS Markit Acquires Cappitech
Deal further expands IHS Markit's global regulatory reporting capabilities, providing a single unified platform for global transaction reporting
IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that it has acquired compliance technology provider Cappitech to expand its suite of global, multi-asset class transaction regulatory reporting offerings to the financial industry.
Cappitech, a privately held Israeli company, provides robust regulatory reporting, best execution analysis and business intelligence solutions, allowing customers to efficiently comply with transaction reporting regulations across multiple jurisdictions in one place. The firm's scalable cloud-based platform is relied on by over 200 global banks, brokers, asset managers, hedge funds and corporations and its innovative products and technology have received numerous industry awards.
.@IHSMarkit has acquired compliance technology provider @Cappitech to expand its suite of global, multi-asset class transaction regulatory reporting offerings to the financial industry. Read more here: https://t.co/RyNVes8Kvf
— IHS Markit (@IHSMarkit) January 11, 2021
In 2019, IHS Markit selected Cappitech's platform as a key component of its SFTR (Securities Financing Transactions Regulation) solution, which is now relied upon by some of the largest financial institutions in the world. Capitalizing on the established relationship and existing integration, this latest move will deliver unified solutions to the market and solidify IHS Markit's continued commitment to providing industry leading regulatory reporting solutions.
"Regulatory reporting demands will continue to grow rapidly around the globe and customers are looking for a reliable, frictionless and cost-effective way to comply with requirements across jurisdictions," said Pierre Khemdoudi, Managing Director, Global Equities at IHS Markit. "Cappitech's platform complements our existing offering, enabling us to provide the most comprehensive and scalable integrated financial regulatory service to customers."
"We are excited to join a company that shares our passion for providing best-of-breed regulatory reporting solutions and looking forward to expanding our existing commitment to the industry," commented Ronen Kertis, CEO & Founder at Cappitech. "Based on our extensive engagement with IHS Markit over the past two years, we are confident that combining our mutual successes and sector expertise will enable us to accelerate our product enhancement and services for the benefit of our global clients."
The financial terms were not disclosed.
Source: IHS Markit
ICE Expands Climate Change and Alternative Data
The exchange group has acquired risQ and Level 11 Analytics.
LSEG to Buy Quantile Group
The exchange will expand post-trade risk management through trade compression; capital & margin optimisation.
S&P Gets Conditional Approval for $44bn IHS Markit Merger
The US Department of Justice requires S&P Global to divest three IHS Markit price reporting agencies.
Columbia Threadneedle Completes BMO GAM EMEA Acquisition
The deal adds $131bn in assets under management to bring Columbia Threadneedle's total AUM to $714bn.
Cboe Invests in Acquisition of Trading Technologies
TT is being acquired by 7RIDGE, a specialized growth equity firm invested in transformative technologies.


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If you would like more information or to discuss your eco roofing requirements then please feel free to contact us today.


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Janki Publication installs Epson SureColor SC-S40670
Growing commercial print and signage in Siliguri
Debangshi Mukherjee
Dipak Gupta and Dhananjay Gupta with newly installed Epson SureColor SC-S40670
Siliguri-based Janki Publication was established in January 1997. Like many print businesses in India, it started with just a screen printing frame, a computer for designing, a couple of employees and a total investment of Rs. 1 lakh. After 22 years, the company has grown to two plants, one for commercial printing and the other for wide format signage. It now has staff strength of 35, with customers across the Northern Bengal and parts of Assam.
The owner of Janki Publication, Dhananjay Gupta along with his younger brother, Dipak Gupta, who heads the company's wide format unit, have played a crucial role in the company's growth. Recollecting his early days Dhananjay says, "Soon after completing college, I enrolled myself in a local newspaper company where I gained thorough knowledge of designing on a desktop computer for two years. Soon after, I was determined to open my own company."
Printed signage on display at Sukna, Siliguri
During its early days, Janki supplied screen printed stationery and then took up offset printing, subsequently adding wide format signage. The company has three Autoprint small offset presses and a cutting machine from an Amritsar-based manufacturer. For wide format signage, Janki bought a Caldron CJ 4000 inkjet printer that prints 5000 square feet per day. The company recently purchased an eco-solvent Epson SureColor SC-S40670 machine as it experienced a rise in local demand. Gupta explains, "We change our business style according to the demands by our customers. Our direct involvement with brand owners helps us understand their demands better."
Janki is involved in designing and printing of various administrative paperwork, stickers and logbooks. Initially, the company supplied to the local market and with the rise in demand, it spread out to different corporate agencies across the neighboring states. It currently outsources 4-color offset print work jobs while the single or double color printing is done in-house.
Dhananjay says that the company is a significant print supplier to the pharmaceutical segment. It takes up advertising projects from these companies and prints various signage and display works, both outdoor and indoor. It also prints leaflets and other manuals in single and double color for its pharma customers such as Zydus Healthcare, IPCA Laboratories, Aristo Pharmaceutical, SUN Pharma, and Torrent Pharma.Janki also caters to other big names in the region, such as Indian Oil and Coca-Cola. Dhananjay says that his business has improved after the implementation of GST and made the entire process easier.
Talking about migrating to packaging, he shares, "If the demand for packaging is convincing enough, we would like to try our hands in that area too but for now we'll stick to the design, commercial print and signage market only. We design leaflets, pouches, labels and other stationery products for smaller players in the market. On the other hand, well-established MNCs use their own in-house designs for all their print work."
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The 7th Annual Women Arts Festival is approaching. We are ready. Are you?
Who can believe it's almost been a year since our last festival? It didn't seem that far ago since we were dancing to the rhythm of steel drums from the Rainbow Girls, gazing in awe at the visual works of art from influences such as Aramis Hamer, and stopping ourselves from accompanying Mari Soul and Animals of Grace on stage. Well, if you missed out, it's okay. We're back again for the 7th Annual Isis Women Arts Festival on Saturday, May 14th. This time we are setting up the stage at the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle. Join us for an evening of dance, music,poetry, breathtaking art, and more. Doors open at 7:30pm. See you there! Oh and how could we forget: Admission is free.
Isis Women Arts invites you to join us for an afternoon of delectable treats and artistic goal setting. We'll be at Beacon Library Meeting Room on Saturday, September 26, 2015 from 3:30-5:30 pm. Isis Women Arts goddess Miranda Veenhuysen will serve as the facilitator. Come on out, bring a dish, enjoy discussions, and develop goals and strategies for a prosperous year. FREE admission. Click here to RSVP.
Seattle community-building collective for woman-identified artists. We are "artistic goddesses shattering the mold."


For your consideration is this beautiful 2001 Gibson SJ-200 Blonde jumbo.
One of the most enduring of all the Gibson Acoustics is the SJ-200, made since 1937 and still one of the most popular acoustics guitars of all time.
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After 40 years of successful operation The Kerryman Pub is being offered For Sale. This highly visible site is located directly on Rte 1 with 25,000 to 30,000 cars daily. Three floors are configured as follows - 3rd floor Office and Storage, 2nd floor Bar and Function Room, 1st floor Restaurant and Kitchen. Included in the sale are all the business assets, all real estate which includes a single family house 5 Horton Ave (behind the Pub) that is zoned commercially, Deeded easement for the extra overflow parking lot directly behind corner of Horton and Woodland S which allows for an additional 50 + vehicles. This property can continue as The Kerryman Pub or bring your own concept. Redevelopment is also a option.


Cassini's first dramatic pass through the rings of Saturn on April 26 involved some acrobatics. Step one: Get a gravity boost from the moon Titan. In fact, that's how Cassini has been moving around the system since its arrival in 2004—rather than burn precious propellant, the craft tucks into Titan's orbit and then slingshots back out again. This most recent boost was a delicate one, just 609 miles above Titan's surface and not even ten miles above the moon's wan atmosphere. Space, as we keep telling you, is hard.
"Any gravity assist that we do is never going to be perfect, because we can't model everything perfectly," says Sonia Hernandez, a mission design engineer for Cassini at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Two days after the last Titan flyby we did, we performed a maneuver to put Cassini on its trajectory again. It was very tiny."
How tiny? First, the spacecraft team put Cassini's three reaction wheels to work. They're spinning discs that, when their rotation slows, cause the entire spacecraft to move around the flywheel's axis. They're a way to change the probe's orientation without burning fuel. That's how the spacecraft team points the Reaction Control System thrusters—smaller than the main engine and powered by hydrazine—in the right direction.
Then Hernandez's navigation team sent the signal to fire the RCS thrusters for just 177 seconds, at 155 millimeters per second. In other words, the burn moved the craft in a different direction by about 80 feet.
Here's a complicated bit: Even though that first maneuver, carefully calculated weeks in advance, happened before the first ring crossing, the team did it to correct the orbit on the third crossing—the one happening Wednesday. That's how these loop-the-loops work: Small problems turn into big ones unless you deal with them early.
And on Wednesday they're going to do it again—to make sure dive number 13 is perfect. "We're going so close to the atmosphere and the rings, there's all these perturbations," Hernandez says. So this one will be even more delicate.
Cassini's high-gain antenna starts out pointed directly at Earth—good for receiving all these commands. Using the reaction wheels again, they'll make two careful turns over the course of about 45 minutes. It can take upwards of an hour and a half for commands to reach Cassini, depending on where it is in orbit, so these sequences are all pre-set. By the end, the antenna will be turned about 120 degrees away from Earth.
Cassini'll keep circling Saturn until September 15—NASA's "Grand Finale"—when the little probe will dive into the planet. "On the last route that we do around Saturn, we actually encounter Titan one last time," says Hernandez. "It'll give us a tiny push, a goodbye kiss, and that's going give us our final push into the atmosphere." Cassini will collect data all the way down, of course.


Those who truly love sports need little motivation to play hard all the time.
To watch players scrape knees diving for a loose ball on the court, pick themselves off the ground after being pancaked to hustle downfield and make a tackle, or accumulate a myriad of bruises while hitting the floor to chase down a volleyball is to watch true heart and grit.
That is why I love high school and college sports more than professional. Sure, the pros have a talent level second to none, but the passion and effort is never higher than right in our own backyards and nearby college gymnasiums.
I have written before about just how lucky I am to cover Millbury, Sutton, and Blackstone Valley Tech sports. Their exploits over the past few years have made their towns, peers, schools, and sports lovers proud. Clearly, the most difficult part of the District playoffs is trying to figure out which game or games to cover – a problem I am glad to take on every season.
Last week, I was front row for a 3-1 win for the Sutton boys' soccer team as they advanced to the District semifinals. For unity's sake, they dyed their hair electric blond. Speaking to a few of the players afterwards, they expressed a great level of excitement coming together and trying to complete a task as monumentally difficult as winning a District title.
It put a thought in my own blond head.
I have a challenge for all Millbury, Sutton, and Blackstone Valley Tech teams for the upcoming winter and spring seasons. If any varsity team wins a District title in the upcoming academic year – beginning with winter – I will dye my hair maroon, green or purple (or a combination of all three) and shave either an MHS, SHS, or BVT initials in the back of my head.
I got part of the idea after reading how a Chicago columnist recently made good on a promise to eat his article about the drafting of a Bulls player. He said that Joakim Noah would not be a good player, but if he turned out to be "useful," he would chew up his column with salsa.
Guess who just dined on a tomato and onion-covered sports section?
While eating my own writing sounds delicious – with the appropriate topping – I believe public humiliation by reshaping how my head looks would be much more fun for my readers. Besides, newsprint is not great for the digestive tract.
• It has to be a team title. Any indoor/outdoor track or tennis singles or doubles titles, and I can perhaps work something out, but this is meant more for a team accomplishment.
• In the event multiple squads win varsity titles, my head will be dyed proportionally and initials may be shortened or omitted for space purposes (hey, my head is only so big).
• If multiple teams from the same school win titles, I will instead shave the teams (i.e. "boys' track") into said scalp. If all teams win districts, I may have to rent a second head of hair.
• With the timing of this challenge set forth, fall sports are not eligible, but I am sure I can be convinced to do so next autumn.
• The hair alteration process will take place once all seasonal games are completed to ensure I do not leave anyone out. I will wear the new look for at least two weeks following the date of hair removal/ coloring.
however, reserve the right to point and laugh as I attempt to ask serious questions with a giant purple BVT on my head.
An outsider to sports in these towns might suggest the task is a longshot. However, I consider this a fair wager. Last year, we had two District titles in basketball, perennial contenders in indoor and outdoor track, and a softball team that reached a District title game.
I know these young athletes do not need me to drive up their interest and/or competitive level, but maybe this gives them one extra piece of public humiliation (mine) to shoot for. All coaches should let me know if they accept this challenge. Good luck with the upcoming seasons and let your success go to my head.


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How to Give Pedicures to Seniors
Written by Kimberly Caines • Updated August 24, 2022
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Because many seniors can't reach their feet, giving them a regular pedicure is often much appreciated. If you have an elderly parent, knowing how to treat their feet is essential. As you age, your skin changes. This includes the skin on your feet. The skin on elderly feet is often thin and the nails tend to be thicker. Elderly people are known to have poor circulation and a decreased nerve feeling in their feet.
Provide the elderly person with a sturdy, comfortable chair to sit in. Avoid swivel and rolling chairs, because these may be hard for some seniors to get up from.
Soak the senior's feet for 10 minutes, in a basin filled with lukewarm water and mild liquid soap. Aim for a water temperature that is no more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Don't use water that's any hotter, because this slows down circulation and may even cause burns.
Pat the feet dry with a towel, including the areas between the toes.
Trim the toenails with a clipper. Clip the nails straight across, from one end to the other. Avoid rounding the nails at the corners, because this may cause ingrown toenails.
File any rough or sharp edges of the toenails. Don't move the nail file in a sawing motion. Instead, move it in one direction only, then lift it up and bring it back to the starting point.
Rub a sloughing lotion on the bottom of the feet. A sloughing lotion exfoliates the feet -- removing dry skin. Avoid using a callus file or pumice stone, because these may be too rough and damage the skin.
Apply cuticle softener to the toenail cuticles. Avoid pushing back the cuticles, because this can lead to infections at the base of the nails.
Massage a foot or body lotion into the feet. Lightly massage in an upward motion, working toward the heart. Massaging the feet regularly helps improve circulation.
Apply nail polish remover to a cotton ball. Swipe the cotton ball over the toenails to remove lotion and other product residue.
Enhance the toenails, if giving a pedicure to a female senior. Apply a single layer of a clear base coat to the toenails. Then swipe two layers of nail polish onto the nails. Finish with a single layer of a clear top coat. Allow each coat to dry before applying the next.
Get clearance before giving regular pedicures; have a podiatrist examine the senior's feet first.
Examine the senior's feet each time you give a pedicure. If you notice any redness, swelling or ingrown toenails, recommend a visit to the doctor.
Always soak elderly feet before trimming the nails. Soaking them softens thick nails and makes it easier to trim them.
MedicineNet: Aging & Foot Care
Nails Magazine: Pedicures for the Older Set
Nails Magazine: Caring for the Elderly
Kimberly Caines is a well traveled model, writer and licensed physical fitness trainer who was first published in 1997. Her work has appeared in the Dutch newspaper "De Overschiese Krant" and on various websites. Caines holds a degree in journalism from Mercurius College in Holland and is writing her first novel.
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While you were out . . . .
While Anja was in town this afternoon, shopping with her Mother, I was
having a little play in the kitchen.
The fun thing about sushi (for me) is that the presentation is just as
important as the taste, but it tasted good too!
A lot of work for one meal but well worth it, if only for the
photo-opportunity while making it. I put the dishes on the worktop for the
pictures, then quickly back in the fridge, only the sun coming through the
window as lighting, I was thinking of setting up a flash (or two) but I
don't needed it.
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Something altogether more cheerful & spring-like.
There are 10 ducklings in our local pond, we counted ten a couple of weeks ago too when they first appeared so they're all doing well so far, despite the Herons, giant Carp & a pretty fearsome red-cheeked Turtle that someone let free in there.
I risked giving my D80 a dunking with these shots, holding it as low to the water as I could to get the "duck's eye view".
Attack on Dutch Royal Family
(shocking images, beware)
On "Queen's Day" in Apeldoorn this afternoon a man (38 year old white, male from Huissen, Gelderland, NL) drove a black Suzuki Swift, registration number FZ-VL-03, at great speed straight through the crowds of people who were stood watching the open-top bus pass by carrying the Dutch Royal family.
Reports at this time state that four people were killed outright, thirteen were injured (five critically), as many as 23 people were hit by the speeding car as it headed straight for the the royal bus. It would seem that the car was so badly damaged as it rammed through the crowds lining the street that the driver, who was trapped behind the wheel, was unable to keep the vehicle under control, which then veered off to the left, missing the bus and smashing to a halt against the "Naald" monument.
Fire crews had to cut the driver from the wreckage. He is now under police guard in hospital after undergoing an operation.
The festivities planned for today on "Koninginnedag" have been cancelled, flags are flying at half-mast throughout the country.
(Film is from the NOS, Dutch TV)
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Happy Birthday Trix!
It's "Queen's Day" here in the land of Holl today.
Queen (mother's) birthday and a national holiday.
Weather's looking promising for a good day out in town, all dressed-up in orange.
Tomorrow off too, then the weekend, and Monday's a bank holiday in the UK too, so Mega-long-weekend!!
Come to Australia!
If only just for the flora & fauna, so pretty, so friendly, so welcoming!
Just rediscovered this album, tucked away in the attic. Had it since I was a kid.
Jeeze, I was a weird kid.
Aussie Aussie Aussie!
Today at 6pm local time my Mum & Dad, Maureen & Michael, became Australian citizens!
"Poms" no more; proper beer-chugging, Chardonay-quaffing, snagger-grilling, fly-swatting, passport holding Aussies!
Congrats to you both, hope to get over there again as soon as we can manage it.
An old poster from last year on a lamp post in town yesterday.
"Social Outcast" (my son Nick's band) is no more, gone with the wind, as they do.
They're now called "Hotosukyaki" (or something like that, a Japanese word for something truly shocking that he wouldn't tell me the translation of) but he's being poached by a (bigger) band at the moment, away up the road from here.
He's to study their mp3 material, write some lyrics and come "vocalise" for them this week.
They don't "sing", they "vocalise", which is fair enough.


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Polygamous teen bride: Jeffs warned it was spousal surrender - or loss of heaven
The Salt Lake Tribune/September 14, 2007
By Brooke Adams
St. George -- As a young girl, Jane Doe was taught there was a high price for disobeying her religious leaders: Loss of heavenly salvation.
The consequences of disobedience were driven home by polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs in school lessons, church sermons and personal interviews, Doe said.
"The prophet was a God to us, God on Earth," she said, and his counselors were the same.
"We were to follow them obediently as though we were led by a hair," she said, a hair that if snapped would cause them to "forfeit our chance at an afterlife."
Doe took the stand for about an hour Thursday afternoon as the state's first witness in its case against Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He is charged with two counts of rape as an accomplice.
With Doe and audio excerpts from Jeffs' teachings, prosecutors began building their argument that the sect leader enticed Doe, then 14, into an unwanted marriage with her 19-year-old cousin six years ago.
Doe, who is now 21 and remarried, will resume her testimony today.
Attorneys selected seven women and five men to hear the case. Five are in their 20s or 30s, while seven are middle age or older. There are several retirees and a couple of homemakers. Others have careers in education, government, finance, construction, retail and engineering.
Also in the courtroom were 15 FLDS members, including Rodney Holm. Holm is the only other FLDS member prosecuted by Utah authorities in recent years; he was convicted in 2003 of bigamy for taking a 16-year-old as his third wife.
Jeffs' supporters and jurors alike listened intently as Doe talked about attending Alta Academy, the private school once operated by the FLDS church. Jeffs was the principal and taught classes there, she said.
In many lessons he instructed girls about their proper roles and duties as wives.
Young people were taught that dating and intimacy before marriage were inappropriate. Girls and boys were to treat each other "as though they were snakes," she said. "There was nothing permitted romantically."
She said she received no instruction on maturation or sexual intimacy.
"That would be taught to us by our husbands," she said.
Craig Barlow, an assistant attorney general assisting Washington County, played recorded excerpts from Jeffs' lessons. In one, Jeffs describes the FLDS marriage covenant and how marriages are arranged through revelation received by the prophet.
This "frees you completely from all the terrible mistakes girls can make," Jeffs said in one clip.
In another, Jeffs tells listeners that the FLDS marriage covenant requires "full obedience" to their husbands. "You are to obey him as he obeys the Lord," Jeffs says.
Washington County Attorney Brock Belnap previewed Doe's testimony in his 15-minute opening statement. He emphasized Jeffs' position of authority and constant teachings on the dutiful and obedient behavior expected from women.
He made repeated references to Doe's age and to her "adult husband." Belnap also focused on Doe's numerous objections to marrying her cousin, a man she despised.
When Doe learned who she was to marry, she went to then-FLDS leader Rulon T. Jeffs, got on her knees and begged that it not happen, Belnap said.
But Jeffs, then a first counselor in the FLDS church, told Doe "her heart was in the wrong place and she had a duty to go forward," Belnap said.
Doe was told that "entering the Celestial Law of Marriage was the most important thing she could do with her life," Belnap said. And being married to a "righteous priesthood man" was the only way for her to get to heaven.
"She also learned that she was to keep sweet," Belnap said.
He showed jurors two pictures: one of Doe being fitted in her wedding dress the night before her marriage and one of decorations left on a new queen-size bed placed in her room the day the ceremony took place.
"A 14-year-old girl left home that morning . . . and was expected to climb into that bed with her adult husband," Belnap said.
Tara Isaacson, one of three attorneys representing Jeffs, countered with a 35-minute statement that quickly got to the defense's main theory.
"Was she really raped?" Isaacson asked. "That's the core question. What did Warren Jeffs have to do with what was going on in her bedroom? Did he even know she was being forced to have sex against her will?"
Isaacson cast doubt on Doe's motives, noting she sued Jeffs in 2005, seeking a monetary award before taking her claims to law enforcement. That suit is pending.
With a portrait of a smiling Doe and her former husband as a backdrop, Isaacson said the couple were at the center of the case - not polygamy, arranged marriage or her age, since under Utah law she was old enough to consent to sex under some circumstances.
"You may personally believe it's too young," Isaacson said. "For me, it's too young. But that's not the issue."
While Doe's testimony has changed over time, she has never said her husband forced her to have sex, Isaacson said.
"She didn't tell anyone she was being raped," Isaacson said. "She was saying . . . she was unhappy, but being unhappy is different from being raped."
She showed jurors a portion of a lesson Jeffs gave on Feb. 14, 1999, on marital relations, in which he said that "A man should only have those marital relations with a wife if she invites it."
That, Isaacson said, is "the exact contrary to the concept of rape."
Jeffs counseled the couple to make their marriage work and never suggested to Doe or her husband that they should engage in nonconsensual sex.
"Pressure to marry is different from pressure to submit to rape," Isaacson said.
And there were other people in Doe's life who "encouraged her to marry and encouraged her to stay in her marriage" besides Jeffs, she said, among them her mother and sisters.
FLDS couples will testify during the trial about their own marriages and counsel they received from Jeffs, Isaacson said. Their stories "vary greatly" from that of Doe and other state witnesses. So does that of her former husband, who also will testify, she said.
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How Carnegie Mellon is helping build its own startups and keeping them in Pittsburgh – TechCrunch
The math is simple: Big research universities produce great startups. Pittsburgh certainly has little shortage of the former, with two world-class research schools – Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh – in the city.
The latter has posed a challenge to Pittsburgh in the past as local startups often headed to the greener (in dollar terms) pastures of vibrant ecosystems like New York and San Francisco.
After talking to current Mayor Bill Peduto about how Pittsburgh is working on building its own startup community, I called Dave Mawhinney, executive director of the CMU's Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship. The center – named after Accel founder Jim Swartz – has the task of promoting the entrepreneurial ambitions of the student body.
This interview is part of TechCrunch's City Spotlight on Pittsburgh. Join the free online event on Tuesday June 29th, which will be attended by Mayor Peduto, Karin Tsai, director of engineering at Duolingo, and Carnegie Mellon University president Farnam Jahanian. Register here for the free event.
TechCrunch: Can you give me a quick look at how the CMU has developed startups over the years?
Dave Mawhinney: First of all, I'm a CMU alum – and I'm not your typical academic. I had a 30-year entrepreneurship and venture capital career before returning to Carnegie Mellon a decade ago to catch up with Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, and other major corporate universities[…] When I came back to CMU in 2011 and 2012, there were several different activities going on on campus that were pretty isolated.
There was an effort in the computer science department, there was an effort in the engineering department, there was an effort in the business school, and they were all doing their own things and not necessarily getting the economies of scale of working together. When the university asked me to come back and run the Don Jones Center at the business school, I said I would only do so if you gave me the opportunity to get all of our business activities under one roof.
You can develop a truly breakthrough technology, but that doesn't necessarily mean you will be able to market it yourself to create an effective business plan. How firmly anchored in the CMU curriculum? And how much cross-pollination is there between the different departments?
There is a sign on our front door that reads "The ideal startup team is hackers, hustlers, designers". The hackers are the technical people, the hustlers are the people willing to do business, talk to partners. And I think designers are absolutely crucial because they are the glue that holds everything together. They make the products and services usable. It's really in our DNA and how we conduct our training in the four-credit classes or how we conduct our workshops outside of the classroom, this concept of Design Thinking, really getting to know your customers and solving real problems that make them your willingness to pay is critical to getting the company off to the right start.
We also believe very much in the mentoring model so that all of our startups are assigned mentors who come from the general background of the business they are entering. And then we have a list of several hundred experts, from legal experts, accounting experts, marketing experts, manufacturing experts – every kind of expertise you can think of that our teams can reach and use to answer questions and get you in the right direction put.
What kind of review is there on the university side? Does a startup have to cross a certain threshold to gain access to all of these opportunities?
Everyone is welcome. Our doors are open to everyone, but there are a few steps. When you sign up to work at the Swartz Center, you can go to a first come, first served table. Typically 20 of these tables are available at any one time. The teams that show commitment, participate in our programs, show up daily and weekly and make progress, they get their own table where they can put their branding on the table and keep their equipment there. And the teams that make the most progress in the end have customers and may have raised a pre-seed or seed round, they get their own office. We have ten of them, called "startup garages". We've built in a bit of meritocracy, but it's open to everyone. The truth is the founding teams, the entrepreneurs, they have to make it. We won't spoon feed you.
As with many other schools that are outside of the major metropolitan areas, I assume there is a lot of migration to different markets.
That was historically correct, but it has changed. The groundbreaking event really was when Google opened an office in Pittsburgh in 2006. You have over 1,000 employees. Every big tech company – Amazon, Facebook, Apple – has hundreds of engineers embedded in our community, so we're growing really fast. Artificial intelligence was invented at Carnegie Mellon – and it triggered the robot revolution […] We are now the center of the automated vehicle community. Aurora is here, Argo is here, Aptiv is here. We have a very lively community and would like to expand it further.
But one of the challenges is getting that capital into the community. If you look at how much Uber brought in ATG, how much Argo AI and Aurora – put together, these three companies, all of which have licensed CMU technologies, all have over $ 7 billion in joint capital. Not all of it is posted here, but a large part of it is posted here. But that doesn't necessarily boil down to the next AI startup raising its first $ 3 million. So we need to keep this connection with the money centers in the Bay Area and New York to make sure our startups get funded.
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The Index-Pickett Historical Museum is in the former home of nationally known photographer Lee Pickett whose collection of glass and film negatives is held at the University of Washington's Allen Library, Special Collections. The museum documents Index area history using his photos as well as hundreds of images and artifacts contributed by the community since Pickett's death.
Check out the stories we've recently added to our Local Voices page!
The Pickett Museum is open seasonally from 1:00 to 4:00 pm on Fridays and Saturdays from Memorial Day weekend through the end of September and offers special mid-week tours by appointment. You will find not only exhibits but videos, a computer photo catalog, and a computer mapping system for comparing town property ownership decade by decade.
Museum Tours are available year-round for your family or group. Please contact us for availability. You can also arrange an Index Historical Walking Tour for a group of between 5-12 people throughout the year! Please call 360-793-1534 to request a date. Suggested donation is $5 per person and each participant receives a commemorative map of the town with thumbnail images.
Hello. I am searching for photos and information about the following surnames: Redick, Cleveland, Mowbray. My dad and his parents and grandparents lived in Index. He was born in 1919 and name was Arthur Redick. His sister was Dorothy.
Any help or direction would be appreciated.


Let's apply that scale to a simple melody. Even as I'm playing it if you start introducing a bit of rhythm- this is an idea I've borrowed from Martin Simpson, great English guitar player. It's a tune called Garryowen- a military marching tune and it's basically that scale and the rest is trying to play the melody on different strings so that you are jumping from string to string and in doing so letting the previous note sustain.
In the second part you're at a crossroads and when you come to a fork in the road- take it! There's lots of different ways to go and of course I chose the wrong one which was to stick on one string. There are lots of choices in this tuning and on the guitar in general that are not available to, say, a piano player. If you ask a piano player- play the D above middle C they open the lid, middle C is next to the keyhole and there's D. They'd never answer 'which one" On the guitar the same note can be in five places. The guitar is not "linear" though we are playing a linear scale. Because the guitar is not linear we can play it in lots of different ways. So in arranging these tunes there will be lots of choices and what determines what path you take is hopefully going to be the tune itself. Often you want to harmonise it in a certain way. Often you want certain strings to ring for a certain length. Sometimes you don't- sometimes a ringing string will alter the chord in a way you don't want. So, you to be able sometimes to damp or kill a note but the "nonlinear" aspect of the guitar in this tuning really comes to the fore. There's lots of ways of playing the same thing, Be aware of the choices and the reasons for making the choices we do.


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Varun is the founder and director of Taal Inc.
The visionary behind the motto
Come. Drum. Be One.
Inspired in part by his father, who played drums and guitar in college, and mother, who worked as a radio jockey in Kolkata, Varun took the drum kit at a young age and never looked back. Growing up, Varun dabbled with thoughts of becoming a doctor, chef and joining the army.
But in the end, valuable guidance (and good sense!) prevailed and Varun pursued clinical psychology along with drumming. He is now a published psychologist, master neuro-linguistic programming practitioner, a drum kit player, percussionist (specializing in traditional djembe) and drum circle facilitator. His aim is to marry his two loves: rhythm and psychology – It is 'GENESIS'.
TEDX TALK BY VARUN ON THE RHYTHM OF MUSIC AND LIFE
Circle Facilitator
Varun is a Taal Inc. certified drum circle facilitator and member of the Drum Circle Facilitator's Guild; an association based in the USA that recognizes facilitators of rhythm based events. He has been facilitating group drumming activities for a wide range of populations since 2003. He has studied with various teachers nationally and internationally. With over 2000 drum circles as a facilitator under his belt, the highlight of his career has been when he facilitated a drum circle at the Mumbai University for 30 underprivileged children where the special guest was none other than the ex-first lady of the USA, Michelle Obama. Apart from this he has also drummed for the prime minister of India Sri. Narendra Modi and drummed with the ex-Chief Minister of Gujarat Smt. Anandiben Patel. He has been tirelessly working towards correlating drum circle concepts with that of psychology and has published (co-authored) academic papers exploring the potential of group drumming and the arts vis a vis health and well-being.
VARUN FROM TAAL INC FACILITATES A DRUM CIRCLE FOR 30 UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN WITH MICHELLE OBAMA AS THE SPECIAL GUEST.
The Djembe
Varun, the head of Taal Inc.'s School of Rhythm has been playing the djembe for over 10 years and is an advanced level student of djembe grandmaster Mamady Keita (president of the Tam Tam Mandingue Djembe Academy) He was christened as 'certified teacher' of the djembe by the grandmaster himself in Tulum, Mexico in 2014 and as 'senior certified teacher' in Monterrey in 2017. He is the first (and currently, only) Indian to be bestowed this honour. You can learn the djembe at Taal Inc.'s Traditional West African Djembe classes or Jr. Djembe classes and study with India's only certified TTM professor and team of teachers.
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Varun has been performing since the age of 15 and is among the most sought-after drummers in India. He has played with veterans such as Sivamani, Amit Kilam (Indian Ocean), Taufiq Qureshi, Fazal Qureshi, Raghu Dixit, Dhruv Ghanekar, Jayant Sankrityayana, Derek Julien, Roger Dragonette, Sanjay Joseph, Shri Rajeev Devasthali, Kaustubh Dhavale, K Mohan, Rushad Mistry and more. Varun is also a part of Agnee, India's biggest folk-rock band, for three years. He has performed nationally and internationally; TTMDA 25th Anniversary concert, Monterrey, Mexico in 2017, TTMDA concert, Beijing 2016 and Tokyo 2016, Abene Festival 2013, Senegal, Bali Cultural Festival 2011, Singapore Drumming Festival 2010, Dumru – the drum festival of India 2012, MTV Unplugged, MTV Coke Studio, to name a few. A grade 8 drum kit player as certified by the Trinity College of Music, London, Varun has learned from many teachers. Mamady Keita and Joshua Banks from Brisbane, Australia (ex Berklee College of Music, Boston) are his most recent and influential djembe and drum kit teachers respectively. He is a mridangam student of Shri Chandrashekar since 2007. Varun also plays the dhol, conga, bongo, darbuka, tar, dafli, daff and other percussion instruments. His latest musical creation is the collaborative concept of Taal Inc. and Friends.
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He is a published clinical psychologist (M.A Pune University) and a master neuro-linguistic programming practitioner certified by the National Federation of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, USA. In the pursuit of excellence, he has undertaken research studies to go to the core of understanding the physiological and psychological benefits of drumming and arts on health and well-being. His work has been published in the Journal of Arts And Health, Canterbury and in a textbook of Arts and Health by Oxford University Press. Varun has always been interested in using drumming as a form of therapy. He has shared his passion for music and healing by presenting in national and international conferences some of which are 'The Arts & Health Conference, Folkstone, UK 2013, 'The Asian Rhythm Facilitator's Conference, Malaysia 2016 and The Drum Circle Facilitator's Guild Conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA 2017. Encouraged by positive feedback on the uplifting effects of drum circles from people from all walks of life, he aims to continue using rhythm to soothe, heal and motivate. He currently leads a course that teaches people how to work with groups using rhythm to facilitate positive change. To know more about this, click here
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by James Deal | Apr 6, 2013 | animal cruelty | 0 comments
A River Of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms
There's a good chance you've never personally seen a factory farm or CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operations) — and there's a reason for this.
CAFOs are traditionally hidden from public view. Certain states (like Iowa, where big agriculture rules the roost economically and politically) are even considering making undercover videos taken on such farms — which often show shocking scenes of animal cruelty and filth — illegal.
Quite simply, they don't want you to see what's really going on, because if you did, you would probably turn away in disgust at the mere thought of eating the foods produced there.
Yet, the vast majority of the food produced in the United States comes from these industrial-sized CAFOs.
In the documentary film above, A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms, you can see first-hand the toll that the modern industrial system of meat and poultry production has on human health and the environment, and realize why a prompt call to action is urgently needed.
Waste From CAFOs Compared to 'Mini Chernobyls'
When you raise tens of thousands of animals (and in the case of chickens, 100,000) under one roof, you're left with a load of waste. That manure, which traditionally was regarded as a valuable fertilizing byproduct when produced on a much smaller scale, has become one of the most polluting substances in the United States (even though federal legislature forbids animal waste from being defined as "hazardous").
The problem is, when it's produced in massive quantities, it certainly is hazardous. In a report of the Pew Commission on industrial farm animal production (IFAP),1it's explained:
"Animal waste in such volumes may exceed the capacity of the land to absorb the nutrients and attenuate pathogens. Thus, what could be a valuable byproduct becomes a waste that must be disposed of in an appropriate manner.
The annual production of manure produced by animal confinement facilities exceeds that produced by humans by at least three times. Manure in such large quantities carries excess nutrients, chemicals, and microorganisms that find their way into waterways, lakes, groundwater, soils, and airways.
Excess and inappropriate land application of untreated animal waste on cropland contributes to excessive nutrient loading and, ultimately, eutrophication of surface waters.
IFAP runoff also carries antibiotics and hormones, pesticides, and heavy metals. Pesticides are used to control insect infestations and fungal growth.
Heavy metals, especially zinc and copper, are added as micronutrients to the animal diet. Tylosin, a widely used antibiotic (macrolide) for disease treatment and growth promotion in swine, beef cattle, and poultry production, is an example of a veterinary pharmaceutical that decays rapidly in the environment, but can still be found in surface waters of agricultural watersheds."
The waste, which is typically stored in massive "lagoons," often leads to rivers of waste that flow from factory farms into the surrounding environment. As the film described, just one environmental consequence of this is the quick spread of Pfiesteria, a microscopic organism that feeds off the phosphorus and nitrogen found in manure.
Pfiesteria, Harmful Gasses Linked to Toxic Storage Lagoons
Pfiesteria is a lethal toxin harmful to both humans and fish. In states with CAFOs, it's not unusual for the bacteria to overwhelm waterways, killing fish and causing human health problems ranging from nausea and fatigue to open sores, memory loss and disorientation. The manure also leads to the production of at least 160 different gasses, including ammonia, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane and hydrogen sulfide. According to the Pew Commission:2
"Possibly the most dangerous gas common to IFAP facilities is hydrogen sulfide. It can be released rapidly when the liquid manure slurry is agitated, an operation commonly performed to suspend solids so that pits can be emptied by pumping. During agitation, hydrogen sulfide levels can soar within seconds from the usual ambient levels of less than 5 ppm to lethal levels of over 500 ppm. Animals and workers have died or become seriously ill in swine IFAP facilities when hydrogen sulfide has risen from agitated manure in pits under the building."
There are also problems with ammonia release, which, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), "can be carried more than 300 miles through the air before being dumped back onto the ground or into the water, where it causes algal blooms and fish kills."3
Corporations primarily use the CAFO system because efficiency and profits are valued above all else, even though this frequently violates natural laws and increase the risk to people eating the food they produce. The environmental assaults that follow are considered a cost of doing business, but as River of Waste poignantly shared, we should perhaps be heeding this Native American Cree prophecy before it is too late …
"Only after the last tree is cut down, the last of the water poisoned, the last animal destroyed … only then will you realize you cannot eat money."
CAFOs Contribute to the Spread of Human Disease
The film also sheds some concerning light on how easily CAFOs serve as breeding grounds for disease — not only amongst the animals housed there and the farm workers, but also to those of us in the general population. River of Waste mentions H5N1, aka the bird flu, specifically. Although it doesn't spread easily among humans, its capability to mutate has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. CAFOs serve as the ideal place for this to happen, as there are millions, if not billions, of host birds among which the virus can flourish.
Aside from various strains of influenza or other viruses, feeding livestock continuous, low-dose antibiotics — a common practice on CAFOs — creates a perfect storm for widespread disease proliferation — and, worse yet, antibiotic-resistant disease. Justone of several now-resistant pathogens, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), is responsible for more than 94,000 infections and 18,000 deaths in the United States each year!
CAFO animals do require more drugs, as disease is rampant due to cramped and unsanitary living conditions. It's a natural consequence of raising tens or hundreds of thousands of animals on one farm. For the sake of efficiency, CAFO animals are crammed into tiny spaces and treated in ways that are truly shocking to most people who are just learning about how CAFO's are run. Due to these living conditions, a variety of drugs, including antibiotics, are routinely administered to all animals, whether they're sick or well, in order to keep as many of them as possible alive until it's time for slaughter.
Low-Dose Antibiotics Commonly Used to Boost Animal Growth… and Profits
Low-dose antibiotics are also routinely used to boost growth of the animal, and this is purely a financial concern. Larger, fatter animals equate to greater profits. The ultimate price, of course, is that you end up getting a dose of antibiotics and other drugs in each and every steak and chicken wing. An even lesser known issue is the problem with antibiotic-laden manure from CAFOs further contaminating the rest of your food supply. That's right — even your lettuce may contain antibiotics! These are all powerful reasons for choosing organically raised, drug-free, grass-fed or pastured animal products instead.
Agribusiness Industry Wields its Power to Control Government and Public Perceptions
Like many other industries, agribusiness uses intensive lobbying, strong-arm tactics and other abuses of power to keep regulations well in their favor. As reported by Occupy for Animals:4
"Federal legislature currently forbids animal waste from being categorized as hazardous. In addition, on the economic level, many corporations are multi-state and can simply move to another state if local laws become too restrictive for their tastes.
Other strong-arm tactics include abuse of power at the highest levels, industry lobby money poured into political campaigns in exchange for less restrictive laws, control of academic resources, and delaying tactics. Perhaps the most damning example of political abuse is the ability of certain corporations to claim immunity to the federal Clean Air Act."
Not surprisingly, the U.S. government has a history of supporting these industrial CAFO operations, both by looking the other way when abuse or contamination occurs, and by directly subsidizing cheaply produced beef, and corn and soy used for feed. As it stands, 2 percent of U.S. livestock facilities produce 40 percent of farm animals,5 and these large, corporate-owned CAFOs have been highly promoted as the best way to produce food for the masses. The only reason CAFOs are able to remain so "efficient," bringing in massive profits while selling their food for bottom-barrel prices, is because they substitute subsidized crops for pasture grazing.
Factory farms use massive quantities of corn, soy and grain in their animal feed, all crops that they are often able to purchase at below cost because of government subsidies. Because of these subsidies, U.S. farmers produce massive amounts of soy, corn, wheat, etc. — rather than vegetables — leading to a monoculture of foods that create a fast food diet.
FDA Refuses to Impose Stricter Regulations on CAFOs
Even the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has continually made it clear that its loyalties lie with industry, not public health. Instead of enforcing stricter regulations, the agency has simply asked food producers to voluntarily limit their use of certain antibiotics. In fact, on December 22, 2011, the agency quietly posted a notice in the Federal Register6 that it was effectively reneging on its plan to reduce the use of antibiotics in agricultural animal feed — a plan it had been touting since 1977!
It's a vicious cycle, and both you and the animals bear the brunt of the consequences. In the film, a report card is given for the U.S. regulations for CAFOs, and wouldn't you know it, they received failing grades in every category, from ammonia levels and antibiotics use to disease, sewage and waste …
There is a Better Way: Buck the System to Get REAL Food That Doesn't Destroy the Environment, Animal Welfare or Your Health
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Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms is a pioneer in sustainable agriculture and has mastered the art of raising healthy, happy chickens, pigs and cattle. I recently visited Joel Salatin at his farm in Virginia. He practices the local, sustainable model of food production, which is in stark contrast to the more prevalent model of large-scale mass food production that's seen today. The "bigger is better" food system has reached a point where its fundamental weaknesses are becoming apparent, and it's time for each of us to answer a very important question: what kind of food system do YOU want?
As Joel discusses in the interview above, there are basically two different models of food production today, and there's growing conflict between them. The first, and most prevalent, is the CAFO model that takes a very mechanistic view toward life, whereas the other—the local, sustainable farm model—has a biological and holistic view.
I encourage you to support the small family farms in your area, particularly organic farms that respect the laws of nature and use the relationships between animals, plants, insects, soil, water and habitat to create synergistic, self-supporting, non-polluting, GMO-free ecosystems.
Whether you do so for ethical, environmental or health reasons — or all of the above — the closer you can get to the "backyard barnyard," the better. You'll want to get your meat, chickens and eggs from smaller community farms with free-ranging animals, organically fed and locally marketed. This is the way food has been raised and distributed for centuries … before it was corrupted by politics, corporate greed and the blaring arrogance of the food industry.
You can do this not only by visiting the farm directly, if you have one nearby, but also by taking part in farmer's markets and community-supported agriculture programs. The following organizations can also help you locate farm-fresh foods in your local area, raised in a humane, sustainable manner:
Local Harvest — This Web site will help you find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.
Farmers' Markets — A national listing of farmers' markets.
Eat Well Guide: Wholesome Food from Healthy Animals — The Eat Well Guide is a free online directory of sustainably raised meat, poultry, dairy, and eggs from farms, stores, restaurants, inns, and hotels, and online outlets in the United States and Canada.
Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) — CISA is dedicated to sustaining agriculture and promoting the products of small farms.
FoodRoutes — The FoodRoutes "Find Good Food" map can help you connect with local farmers to find the freshest, tastiest food possible. On their interactive map, you can find a listing for local farmers, CSA's, and markets near you.
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First time feature director John Krokidas brings the Beat Generation to the screen with Kill Your Darlings, an energetic period piece following Allen Ginsberg's first year at Columbia as he befriends famous writers Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs through Lucien Carr, a peer he meets in college. Krokidas brings with him a veritable who's who in young and upcoming Hollywood to bring the Beats to life, tapping Daniel Radcliffe to carry the proceedings as Ginsberg, with Jack Huston's Kerouac and Ben Foster's Burroughs providing support. Rounding out the cast are Dane DeHaan's Carr, and Elizabeth Olsen as Edie Parker, as well as Michael C. Hall, David Cross and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The anchor of the story (also forming a minor framing device) is the true life killing of David Kammerer (Hall), who had a tumultuous relationship with the Beats and Carr in particular, but the actual focus of the vast majority of the film's 105 minutes is a coming-of-age sexual awakening tale as Ginsberg's blossoming is framed by the foundation of the Beats.
Radcliffe's Ginsberg is a decent center for the film; there are times that he comes off a little overly stereotypical in his Brooklyn Jewish upbringing (the opening scenes prior to his move to Columbia are a bit on the cliche end of the spectrum). His strained relationship with his parents (Cross and Leigh) provide the context of the pressures he faces from a mentally ill mother and distant father. Ginsberg wants to live the life of a boy in his late teens striving to do more with his life, but is continually hamstrung by his home life. Both Radcliffe and the film open wide as the setting shifts to Columbia University and other young actors begin to populate the screen. Jack Huston brings a natural charisma to the Kerouac role, neatly inhabiting a man with a past who does what he can to contribute to this emerging new worldview while keeping that aloof air of cool. Elizabeth Olsen unfortunately has much less to work with; the Edie Parker role is generally reduced to appearing as a nag. Her motivations and perspectives may be logical, but the film is clearly planted in the corner of the Beats, making her attempts to corral Kerouac into a more traditional marriage come off unfairly as a negative influence.
Ben Foster's Burroughs is deliciously on the other side of the spectrum, and has quite the memorable reveal, lounging in a bathtub with a nitrous oxide mask that looks like some sort of medieval torture device. He spends much of the film in a severe suit, drugged out and raving in a convincing gravelly drawl. Burroughs factors least into the story both from a plotting and screen time perspective, but he makes the most of his meager time. It's a gimmicky performance, but remains memorable as Fosters knows enough not to cross the line over to parody. Somewhere in the middle of all of this madness is Dane DeHaan, whose Lucien Carr is the catalyst for essentially all of the actions once he arrives on the scene. Carr is also easily the most complex character on screen; his past with Kammerer is not fully revealed until late in the game, but the way DeHaan plays the scenes gives you everything you need to know. DeHaan continues to prove himself as one of the most exciting young forces on the screen today. His work is of a piece with what we've already seen from him in films like Chronicle and The Place Beyond the Pines, but piles on the emotion and internal strife in what should continue to build his career as the future of Hollywood.
Even though it is the focus of much of the Kill Your Darlings' marketing, the actual murder plot that serves as the climax of the film (and one of the many meanings behind the appropriation of the Faulkner quote for the film's title) is a bit of a letdown. It works mostly because DeHaan makes it work, but its affect on Ginsberg doesn't work as well as other aspects of the movie. Indeed, as the core four of the group begin to drift apart in the latter third, the film loses quite a bit of its energy. The script also has some difficulty selling the foundation of the Beats, as much of the focus on their literary revolution does not particularly involve writing much (though this does become a plot point later in the film), and we never see the Beats fully blossom, as their major works we know today are all written after the movie ends (as a side note, we don't really need end title cards to explain that Ginsberg, Burroughs and Kerouac went on to write Howl, Naked Lunch and On the Road. That felt off). But luckily, the majority of the film is just as much focused on Ginsberg's coming-of-age, especially as he tries to come to terms with the sexual politics of the time and his own confused and muddled understanding of just who he loves and how he expresses that. The strength of the acting, especially DeHaan, as well as the fascinating portrayal of sexual awakening, wins out in the end, making Kill Your Darlings a rewarding, if a tad uneven, film experience.


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Working with ROMs and PROMs can be a wasteful business. Even though they are inexpensive per chip, the cost can add up over time. Erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM) addresses this issue. EPROM chips can be rewritten many times. Erasing an EPROM requires a special tool that emits a certain frequency of ultraviolet (UV) light. EPROMs are configured using an EPROM programmer that provides voltage at specified levels depending on the type of EPROM used.
Once again we have a grid of columns and rows. In an EPROM, the cell at each intersection has two transistors. The two transistors are separated from each other by a thin oxide layer. One of the transistors is known as the floating gate and the other as the control gate. The floating gate's only link to the row (wordline) is through the control gate. As long as this link is in place, the cell has a value of 1. To change the value to 0 requires a curious process called Fowler-Nordheim tunneling. Tunneling is used to alter the placement of electrons in the floating gate. An electrical charge, usually 10 to 13 volts, is applied to the floating gate. The charge comes from the column (bitline), enters the floating gate and drains to a ground.
This charge causes the floating-gate transistor to act like an electron gun. The excited electrons are pushed through and trapped on the other side of the thin oxide layer, giving it a negative charge. These negatively charged electrons act as a barrier between the control gate and the floating gate. A device called a cell sensor monitors the level of the charge passing through the floating gate. If the flow through the gate is greater than 50 percent of the charge, it has a value of 1. When the charge passing through drops below the 50-percent threshold, the value changes to 0. A blank EPROM has all of the gates fully open, giving each cell a value of 1.
To rewrite an EPROM, you must erase it first. To erase it, you must supply a level of energy strong enough to break through the negative electrons blocking the floating gate. In a standard EPROM, this is best accomplished with UV light at a frequency of 253.7. Because this particular frequency will not penetrate most plastics or glasses, each EPROM chip has a quartz window on top of it. The EPROM must be very close to the eraser's light source, within an inch or two, to work properly.
An EPROM eraser is not selective, it will erase the entire EPROM. The EPROM must be removed from the device it is in and placed under the UV light of the EPROM eraser for several minutes. An EPROM that is left under too long can become over-erased. In such a case, the EPROM's floating gates are charged to the point that they are unable to hold the electrons at all.