I live in Ann Arbor and will definitely check it out. Thanks for the info.
Congratulations Robert. Could you post an address and or hours for ths show? I am withing striking distance but don't know about the timing.
http://www.dcacarts.org/Gallery/Exhibit.asp should take you to all the information needed to find the gallery and their hours of operation.
http://www.detroitfocus.org/Issues/0504/DearbornShow/Photos/Photo_02.html will take you to a slide show of the winners.
I finally made it to the Padzieski Gallery yesterday, and it was a great educational occasion for me. I liked both your images very much, and the first-place winner certainly deserves the honor. My personal preference is your other image, Intersection I. Although the first-place image may be geometrically cleaner, I found the tilted composition very dynamic and captivating (can't explain well). Congratulations.


The Kenyan rally Crew of Manvir Baryan and Drew Sturrock has secured aback to back win of the Pearl of Africa rally after winning this year's edition that ended today Saturday in Kayunga.
The crew in Skoda Fabia R5 posted a total time lost 2 hours,26.03 minutes ahead of second positioned crew of Jas Mangat and Joseph in Mitsubishi Evo10.
He beat second placed Ssebuguzi Ronald by four minutes while Jas Mangat finished third, International University of East Africa (IUEA) driver Hassan Alwi finished fourth while female driver Suzan Muwonge finished fifth.
Twenty-two drivers out of the 47 crews finished the two day event that doubles as the fifth round of the national rally championship (NRC) and the Africa Rally Championship (ARC).
Kephar Walubi, Arthur Blick jr, Rauf Adam, Piero Canobbio dropped out of the event.


I've written a quick test of key presses and mouse clicks in flash -- does your computer lose any?
We were doing some final (?) testing of my tempo-detection flash game on my mother's computer, but discovered that the computer was failing to detect some key presses. After a bit more testing, I decided it was unlikely that it was a hardware problem. So either my Mom's version of flash can lose some keypresses, or there's something wrong with my program.
The object: tap a key a set number of times. Check if the computer has detected the right number. You could do this by picking a number like 20 and just start tapping... or you could pick a rhythm-saying (like "shave and a haircut, two bits" -- that's 7 taps) and repeating that a few times.
If you discover that the computer's count of the taps doesn't match what you think you did, I'd really like to hear about this. It's possible that something's just wonky on my mom's computer, and that I don't need to scrap this whole research project. However, it's also possible that a typical flash installation doesn't reliably detect key presses. This would cause great problems for me, of course, but knowing about the problem would be better than not knowing about it.
If you discover some missing key presses, please try it with the mouse -- if the mouse is more reliable than the keyboard, I can still go ahead with this (albeit with a few changes).
PS: I'm not finding any blog or forum posts complaining about the reliability of key events in flash, so it might be something weird in my game after all. The real test is to find out if this simple test works on a computer that couldn't handle the actual game, of course.
Later edit: Apparently the keys are reliable when I compile my project for flash 10 instead of flash 9. Maybe the additional optimizations in 10 help? Anyway, things seem to be working now.


text:
Viswanathan-gate
Let me get this straight. Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan plagiarizes a series of passages from Megan McCafferty's teen novels "Sloppy Seconds" and "Second Helpings" for her debut novel: "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life." After the story breaks, McCafferty's publisher starts huffing and puffing and threatening legal action, Viswanathan apologizes and goes on the Today show, her publisher Little Brown (which is incidentally my publisher too) withdraws her book from the market, Harvard launches an "investigation" and Viswanathan gets pummeled by a hundred angry columnists, pundits and bloggers.
Can someone tell me why? This is teen-literature. It's genre fiction. These are novels based on novels based on novels, in which every convention of character and plot has been trotted out a thousand times before. If I wrote a detective story, set in 1930's Los Angeles, about a cynical, hard-bitten private eye, with a drop dead gorgeous secretary and a series of lonely housewife clients, would anyone bat an eye? Of course not. It may be a stolen premise. But we accept that within the category of genre fiction a certain amount of borrowing of themes and plots and ideas is acceptable—even laudable. I buy lots of spy novels, not because they diverge from the spy novel model, but because they conform to it. I want my spy to have a troubled home life, and an inpenetrable gaze and to be handy with a revolver. But once we have conceded that in genre fiction its okay to borrow themes, why do we get so upset when genre novelists borrow something a good deal less substantial—namely phrases and sentences? Surely an idea is more consequential than a sentence.
I wrote about some of these issue in my New Yorker piece on plagiarism a year and a half ago. gladwell.com/2004/2004_11_25_a_borrowed.html. I was plagiarized, and, after thinking about it, decided that I wasn't particularly upset.
Here's the relevant passage:
. . . this is the second problem with plagiarism. It is not merely extremist. It has also become disconnected from the broader question of what does and does not inhibit creativity. We accept the right of one writer to engage in a full-scale knockoff of another—think how many serial-killer novels have been cloned from "The Silence of the Lambs." Yet, when Kathy Acker incorporated parts of a Harold Robbins sex scene verbatim in a satiric novel, she was denounced as a plagiarist (and threatened with a lawsuit). When I worked at a newspaper, we were routinely dispatched to "match" a story from the Times: to do a new version of someone else's idea. But had we "matched" any of the Times' words—even the most banal of phrases—it could have been a firing offense. The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.
When Doris Kearns Goodwin borrowed, without attribution, from a history of the Kennedys for her history of the Kennedys, that's serious. She's a scholar. And we have an expection of scholarship that it is supposed to reflect original thought. We have no such expection for genre novels, Harlequin romances, slasher films, pornos, or, say, the diaries of teenagers.
It is worth reading, I think, the actual passages that Viswanathan is supposed to have taken from McCafferty. Let's just say this isn't the first twenty lines of Paradise Lost. My question is whether it is possible to write a teen-lit novel without these sentences:
From page 7 of McCafferty's first novel: "Bridget is my age and lives across the street. For the first twelve years of my life, these qualifications were all I needed in a best friend. But that was before Bridget's braces came off and her boyfriend Burke got on, before Hope and I met in our seventh-grade honors classes.
From page 14 of Viswanathan's novel: "Priscilla was my age and lived two blocks away. For the first fifteen years of my life, those were the only qualifications I needed in a best friend. We had first bonded over our mutual fascination with the abacus in a playgroup for gifted kids. But that was before freshman year, when Priscilla's glasses came off, and the first in a long string of boyfriends got on."
Calling this plagiarism is the equivalent of crying "copy" in a crowded Kinkos.
April 30, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (96)
The Duke Case
I don't have any opinion on the guilt or innocence of Duke lacrosse players charged with raping a exotic dancer. But I do think the incident affords a small opportunity to think about the value of eyewitness testimony. The accuser, who is black, identified two players alleged to have assaulted her after looking over photographs of all of the white players on the lacrosse squad. On the basis of that identification, the players were indicted by a grand jury. So far, the accuser's testimony is the most powerful fact in the prosecution's arsenal. The question is: how much credence should we give that identification?
Psychologists don't particularly like eye witness testimony. Elizabeth Loftus has done a lot of really interesting work exposing its various frailties. Juries and laypeople (and prosecution attorneys) tend to have a great deal more faith in someone's ability to pick a suspect out of a lineup than they should. In Blink, I mentioned the research of Jonathan Schooler on lineups: he's showed that merely requiring people to write down a physical description of the suspect before viewing the lineup radical impairs their ability to pick out the correct person.
But the Duke case is an example of another, even more problematic aspect of eyewitness identifications, and that is that we aren't particular good at making them across races. There is a huge amount of psychological research in their area, pioneered by Roy Malpass at the University of Texas at El Paso. A few years ago, John Brigham and Christian Meissner did a big meta-analysis of all of the cross-racial identification studies and concluded that given the task of picking someone out of a lineup, the average person is something like 1.4 times more likely to correctly identify an own-race face than a different-race face, and 1.6 times more likely to incorrectly identify a different race face. These are not trivial error rates. Clearly we need to treat cross-racial identifications with a special level of caution. (Here's the link to the UTEP eyewitness laboratory: eyewitness.utep.edu/race.html)
The problem seems to be that when we encounter someone from a different group we process them at the group level. We code the face in our memory under the category black or white, and not under the category of someone with, say, an oval face and brown eyes and a prominent chin. Race, in other words, trumps other visual features that would be more helpful in distinguishing one person from another. Why do we do this? One idea is simply that it's a result of lack of familiarity: that the more we "know" a racial type, the more sophisticated our encoding becomes. Another idea is that it's a manifestation of in-group/out-group bias. The thing about coding by group and not by facial feature is that it's a lot faster. And from an evolutionary standpoint, you'd want to use quicker processing methodologies in dealing with those who come from unfamiliar—and potentially unfriendly—groups. The bottom line is that the adage that "all blacks look the same" to whites (and all whites look the same blacks) has some real foundation.
This has been a huge issue for years in white identifications of black suspects. I would venture to guess that there are thousands of African Americans in prison right now for crimes they didn't commit, largely because whites have far too much faith in their ability to tell one black face from another. Now, in the Duke case, we have a black identification of white suspects. The shoe is on the other foot. It will be interesting to see whether the legal system is any more willing to acknowledge the real limitations of eye-witness identifications when it is suspects from the racial majority who are on the receiving end of the bias, not the other way around.
Forensic analysis redux
I take it, from many of the comments on my last post, that virtually no one bought my idea for loosing the forensic economists on sports records. So let's try again. Hopefully round two will be a bit more convincing.
It seems to me that there are two problems here. First, from everything we know it is very difficult for the drug police to catch cheaters. Bonds and Tim Montgomery and Marion Jones got caught because Trevor Graham ratted on them, not because the steriod police were on top of the problem. We have no idea how many other people out there are using chemicals that we simply don't yet have a test to detect. Second--and here I strongly disagree with some readers--peformance enhancing drugs work. They confer an enormous advantage. They allow an athlete to train so much harder than he or she otherwise could that they can turn mediocre athletes into very good athletes, and very good athletes into legends. "Game of Shadows" makes, I think, an overwhelming case that drugs allowed Bonds to essentially double his annual home run output, and turned Tim Montomgery from an also-ran into a world record holder.
Given these two facts, what do you do? That's why I think you have to bring in the forensic economists. Is this a perfect solution? Of course not. It does introduce a subjective element. It is also possible that we will occasionally see real genius and mistakenly call it cheating. But no administrative system is flawless. Juries send innocent people to jail all the time. But we put up with that because the alternative--no legal system--is a lot worse. What if--in sports like baseball and track and field and swimming--we had a record-review board. We assembled a panel of experts who reviewed the circumstances under which the record was set, physiological evidence from the athlete himself or herself, and statistical evidence about the plausibility of the performance. Beamon would pass. FloJo would not. Bonds would not--and nor, I would wager, would McGwire or Sosa. The point is that we have to do something, otherwise records will cease to mean anything at all.
Incidentally, in "Baseball Between The Numbers," by the Baseball Prospectus team, there is a very nice essay by Nate Silver doing exactly this: using forensic tools to try and gauge the extent of steriod cheating in major league baseball. It's worth a read. Silver concludes, interestingly, that the overall amount of cheating seems to be quite small, and confined largely (at this point) to mediocre players trying to get a little edge, not superstars trying to become mega-superstars. I find that very reassuring, not just because it says that Bonds is an anomaly, but because it reminds us of just how useful statistical analysis can be.
Game of Shadows
I've been reading (like everyone else) "Game of Shadows," the book about Barry Bonds and steroids and the BALCO scandal. It's quite a remarkable feat of reporting. What striking about it is something that you might not notice unless you've journalist—which is the absence of obvious lawyering. If you ever write something even remotely critical of someone, the lawyers invariably go through it, and before you know it your prose is strewn with "apparently" and "allegedly," and "according to" and so-so "denies. . ." There's almost none of that in "Game of Shadows," which is amazing considering the book accuses, in devastating detail, several of the biggest names in sports—Barry Bonds, Gary Sheffield, Tim Montgomery and Marion Jones, among others—of being serious steroid users. The two writers—Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams—must have had really impeccable sourcing. When the book first came out, and several baseball writers predicted that Bonds' reputation was destroyed and his chances are getting in the Hall of Fame seriously damaged, I thought they were overstating things. Now I'm not so sure. "Game of Shadows" is a death sentence for Bonds. More to the point, it's impossible to read the book and accept that Bonds has a right either to the single season home-run record or, assuming he keeps playing, the career home run mark.
So what should we do? I think we need to set the bar a little higher for record-setters. Justin Wolfers, an economist at Penn, just did a study analyzing college basketball scores, concluding that there is ample statistical evidence for point-shaving in about five percent of college games. Steven Levitt (I know, I know. I'm obsessed with him) has done the same kind of work on student test scores. Forensic economics look at large data sets and draw surprisingly sophisticated inferences about behavior and intention. I think we should loose the forensic economists on all record-setters, and require that athletes pass a statistical plausibility test in the wake of their achievements.
Obvious example:
Florence Griffiths Joyner, in 1988. Before that year, her best times in the hundred meters and the two hundred meters were, respectively, 10.96 and 21.96. In 1988, at the advanced (for a sprinter) age of 28, a suddenly huskier FloJo ran 10.49 and 21.34, times that no runner since has even come close to equaling. At the time, people in the track world just rolled their eyes. But since FloJo never failed a drug test, there was nothing they could do. Well, there is something we can do. We can bring in the forensic economists—and any statistical analysis of the career marks of world class sprinters would have told us that marginally world-class 28 year old do not, in the absence of some kind of help, suddenly turn into the greatest runners the world has ever seen.
Bonds falls into the same category. From the moment he started his late career surge, everyone who knew anything about baseball suspected mischief. "Game of Shadows" points out that Bonds had the second, ninth and tenth greatest offensive season in baseball history at the ages of 36, 37, and 39 respectively—and the average age of everyone else on that list (Gehrig, Foxx, Ruth and Hornsby) is 27. No one—no one—turns himself into one of the greatest hitters of all time in his late 30's. His home run record should have been denied as statistically implausible.
Will raising the bar this way mean we occasionally deny a genuine record? It's certainly possible. Bob Beamon jumped 29 ft, 2.5 inches at the Mexico City Olympics, and had never jumped more than 27 ft, 3 inches before that, and never again jumped more than 27 feet. No one has ever doubted that Beamon was clean. But it's a totally weird performance. On the other hand, it was at altitude. Because of the difficulty in hitting the board, long jump performances are highly variable. And the effect of drug enhancement is sufficiently long-lived, that a single anomalous performance in an otherwise quiet career is more statistically plausible than a string of closely-linked anomalous performances in an otherwise quiet career. FloJo had a fantastic year in 1988, which is why she raised so many eyebrows. She wasn't Beamon. She was Bonds. I think if we're smart about it, we can learn to distinguish the fluke performances from the phony performances.
One obvious objection to this idea is that we have a tradition of presuming people innocent until proven guilty, and prima facia statistical tests violate that. But the presumption of innocence is a legal principle. We're dealing with sports records here, and it seems reasonable, particularly in this day and age of advanced athletic chemistry, to ask a bit more of record holders.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA
ELIZA BROWN
Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135
ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR & SIGURDUR GUDJONSSON
Enigma (world premiere; Washington Performing Arts co-commission)
Contact the Kennedy Center Box Office at (202) 467-4600 for last minute availability.
"The Spektral Quartet likes to put on performances that are not so much concerts as high-energy thrill rides for musically inquisitive listeners." – Chicago Tribune
Experience multi-sensory immersion with the world premiere of Enigma, a collaboration between the incandescent minds of two eminent Icelandic creatives: composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir and video artist Sigurdur Gudjonsson. Through enchanting sounds and opulent visuals, Enigma uncovers the dualities of friction and flow, expansion and contraction, and tenderness and tension to unmask the universality of these vital alliances. The 2019 Grammy-nominated Spektral Quartet is one of America's most innovative chamber ensembles, having commissioned more than 85 composers, including George Lewis, Marcos Balter, and Augusta Read Thomas. Spektral's approach provokes discovery in beloved classics and animates curiosity in works of living composers.
This performance is made possible in part through the generous support of Jenny Bilfield and Joel Phillip Friedman.
Enigma is a work for string quartet and video art by Anna Thorvaldsdottir (composer) and Sigurdur Gudjónsson (video artist), commissioned by Spektral Quartet and Washington Performing Arts.
The Spektral Quartet and Washington Performing Arts' Mars Arts D.C. project collaborate to present special residency events throughout the city, in conjunction with the premiere of Enigma. Details to be announced.


Kelly Tolhurst Member of Parliament for Rochester & Strood visited the IPS Workshop at Northbank House on Friday the 20th April and congratulated apprentices on their recent apprenticeship achievements.
Engineering Apprentice Dan Eydman with employer Jon Marks – Z-Tech and Kelly Tolhurst MP.
Firstly, Kelly met Dan Eydman who has recently completed his Advanced level 3 Apprenticeship in Engineering Maintenance / Construction Plant and Systems – Instrument and Controls. Kelly presented Dan with his certificate alongside his employer Z-Tech Control Systems and Dan's IPS assessor, Richard Thompson who were there in support of Dan's achievements.
Next to meet Kelly was Lewis Rigden who has recently completed his Intermediate L2 Business Administration Apprenticeship with IPS, Lewis was also presented with his functional skills ICT certificate that he passed with IPS. Lewis told Kelly how he started his Apprenticeship because he felt it would be the quickest way for him to learn a trade while earning a wage and it gave him a good understanding and insight into a working environment.
Apprentice Lewis Rigden with his employer, Brian Simpson Service and Operations Director at Windows for Construction Ltd and Kelly Tolhurst MP.
Lewis was in attendance with his Employer Windows for Construction where he is now in full-time employment and he told Kelly how he is hoping to progress and develop with them further.
Finally, Kelly congratulated Kayleigh Proctor; who recently completed a L3 Business Administration apprenticeship. Kayleigh is now a Business Administrator working for IPS International Ltd.
Kayleigh Proctor, IPS Business Admin Apprentice, being presented her certificate by Kelly Tolhurst MP.
While visiting Northbank House, Kelly also took a tour of the IPS workshop with Director Don MacDonald. Kelly has an extensive engineering background and was very impressed with the workshop, and the different variety of sectors it caters for; Electrical, Milling, Welding, Benchwork, Motor Vehicles, Hydraulics to name just a few. Kelly especially enjoyed the Hydraulics section as she has trained in this field and even mentioned she wished she had known about IPS when she was in training as she couldn't find anywhere more local to her other than Greenwich at the time.
Kelly Tolhurst MP and IPS Director Don MacDonald in the IPS Workshop.
To celebrate and encourage more local skilled young people to take up an Apprenticeship, Kelly Tolhurst MP, will be hosting an Apprenticeship Fair on Friday 4th May 2018, 10 am to 2 pm at the Medway University Technical College. IPS will be attending and supporting, giving you information and guidance on Apprenticeships.
We would like to thank Kelly for taking the time to visit us, and we look forward to seeing you again at the UTC event next week.
Kick start your career with an Apprenticeship today?


If you think that Tokidoki sounds like a Japanese word, you are perfectly right. This word means "sometimes", and it is a Japanese lifestyle brand. The figures characteristic of the lifestyle will be present as symbols in the Slot machine themed on Tokidoki. What is interesting is that the creator behind that lifestyle is Italian. You can see Tokidoki figures on clothes, on accessories, and on other products. It turns out that you can become a fan of that style by playing this game. You will be surrounded by its typical symbols, too. You will be curious to learn that you can even go to a Tokidoki figures exhibition, so you can imagine yourself attending such an exhibition now, in free play. In fact, that is a whole online town called Tokidoki Lucky, with 5 reels and 40 paylines, with a plethora of Tokidoki style inhabitants welcoming you into the gaming. There are surprises in store, in that town, like bonuses and wins. Go on to find out what the Reel Reveal has for you, and enjoy free spins, plus wins, as you get to know Tokidoki Town characters. You will see that even the poker symbols will be in Tokidoki style.
The bouquet of perks you can expect in this Slot is impressive, to put it mildly. There will be random Wilds, random Multipliers, expanding Wilds, and some more features which will up the excitement in your Vegas free Slots experience. You will also be provided with a Symbol Upgrade and a Moofia Blind Box Picker.
The Reel Reveal sounds exciting, and you will find out it really is. It will shift the reels, in order to yield an extra spin, with something more that you are not used to finding in Slot games. That will be an additional feature, and the opportunity with the Reel Reveal sounds truly amazing. You must note the Reel Reveal will only come up on reel 5, and with the shifting a new reel will come up. Each new reel which appears as a result of the shifting will surprise you with a different feature. Revealed Reel 1 will feature Caramella, who will become Wild and will activate the Random Wild, so that up to 3 positions on the reel will become Wild too. With Revealed Reel 2, Truffle will appear, to yield a multiplier of between 2x and 15x, for all the wins on the spin. With Revealed Reel 3, Pogo will appear, becoming Wild, and will activate the Expanding Wild, so that the 2 adjacent positions on the left will become Wild too. With Revealed Reel 4, there will be cartons for you to pick from, and these picked cartons can award 1x to 10x. With Revealed Reel 5, there will be Character Wild symbols, to activate the Symbol Upgrade, and then all the matching symbols will become Wild.
there will be a plethora of surprises by all the characters and the other symbols, down to the poker symbols, too.


Joseph will be providing seminars on different types of underwater photography techniques and will provide each participant with the one-on-one time necessary to help you improve. This trip is designed for photographers of all levels. Whether you are just starting out or have years of experience and simply want to hone your skills, he will help you improve. The colorful reefs of Fiji will provide enough wide-angle reefscapes, fish life, and macro subjects for even the most discerning photographer.
Due to the nutrient rich currents, the soft corals proliferate here, and visibility is up to 150 feet! Additionally we can expect large schools of barracudas and jacks, and should also see sharks and mantas on several dives. Although there can be decent currents, these are the perfect conditions for wide-angle photography.
Joseph will be providing advice and assistance in and out of the water, both one and one and in groups. This is simply the best way to improve your underwater photography!
The expedition will chart the most colorful and prolific sites in central Fiji aboard the luxurious Fiji Siren. Part of the Worldwide Dive and Sail fleet of liveaboards, the Fiji Siren combines great service, knowledge of the area, and the highest form of luxury.
If you're interested in joining this once in a lifetime workshop, please contact us at Joe@DivePhotoGuide.com.


The Nashville Chamber of Commerce will host a Dislocated Worker Workshop on Thursday, May 26 at 6:30 at the NCC office on Main Street.
The event is being sponsored by the Southwest Arkansas Planning and Development District and will be for people who have lost their jobs. SWAPDD will present information for affected workers about possibly returning to school or finding other employment.


text:
Home » TV & Movies » Who is The Weakest Link host Romesh Ranganathan? – The Sun
Who is The Weakest Link host Romesh Ranganathan? – The Sun
ROMESH Ranganathan has seen his star soar over the years.
The comedian is now showing off his talent as the host of the rebooted BBC quiz show, Weakest Link.
Who is Romesh Ranganathan?
Romesh is a 43-year-old comedian from Crawley, West Sussex.
He originally worked as a maths teacher before pursuing a career as a performer.
Despite eventually finding status as a comedian, he was relatively successful as a freestyle rapper, and once succeeded in reaching the finals of freestyle competition.
The star is a vegan and revealed as such during an appearance on The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice when he cooked vegan chocolate brownies.
Romesh is married to wife Leesa, is a father to three children and an avid supporter of Arsenal football club.
When did Romesh start hosting Weakest Link?
Romesh beganhosting The Weakest Link on December 18, 2021.
The Weakest Link Christmas Special featuring panto stars will air on December 23, 2021 at 6.30pm on BBC1.
more on tv
Who is Johnny English star Ben Miller?
Minimalist mayhem
Find out if the house in The Girl Before is real or not
The FULL lowdown on Top Gear's presenting trio
Merry Quizmas
The Chase Christmas Special: Full cast of celebrities in the 2021 quiz
Speaking about joining the show, Romesh told the BBC: "It's an honour to be asked to bring what is basically a TV institution back to our screens.
"Anne Robinson was an amazing host and to step into her shoes is an anxiety-inducing privilege.
"I'm hoping we've found a way to make both the fans of the show happy as well as bringing a new audience to it. If not, accept this as my apology."
Where other TV shows has Romesh Ranganathan been on?
Romesh has appeared on a host of comedy panel shows in the UK.
These include Mock the Week, Sweat the Small Stuff, Have I Got News for You,Would I Lie To You? and Play To The Whistle.
He has also performed his stand-up routine on Live at the Apollo several times and appeared as a guest on The Last Leg and QI.
In 2015, he was given a presenting role on Asian Provocateur – a BBC Three documentary series that saw him explore his Sri Lankan heritage.
It was followed up in 2016 with a second series where he took his mum to meet their American family members.
He is also known for The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan and BBC comedy King Gary.
Coronation Street bosses reveal fun storyline set to add sparkle to Christmas on the cobbles
'German Love Island' contestants romp in hot tub and strip naked in shock scenes from dating show


text:
Charles Joseph Scarborough
Categories: Florida Republicans | Media figures | Republicans a/o Conservatives a/or rightwingers who think Bush screwed up the Iraq War
Charles Joseph Scarborough (born April 9, 1963), better known as Joe Scarborough, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from [[1995 to 2001, and currently hosts a nightly program on the MSNBC cable network called Scarborough Country.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Alabama and his law degree from the University of Florida. After practicing law at a major firm in Pensacola, Florida for four years, he was elected to Congress in 1994.
Scarborough and his first wife, the former Melanie Hinton, were divorced April 5, 1999.
On May 25, 2001, he announced his resignation from Congress, saying he wanted to spend more time with his children. Shortly after announcing his resignation, on July 10, 2001, the body of one of Scarborough's aides, Lori Klausutis, was found dead in the congressman's office in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. The official cause of death was a heart failure, although her initial autopsy suggested severe fractures in the skull. The investigation was never pursued further, and Scarborough was never implicated in Klausutis' death.
He cast his last vote as a memebr of Congress on September 5th of 2001.
In October of that year, he married his second wife, Susan. Scarborough was appointed a member of the President's Council on the 21st Century Workforce. He left that post in 2003 to work on television.
He has two sons by his first marriage, and a daughter by the second.
A Republican
List of Notable Right-Wingers
Death in a Congressman's Office
Retrieved from "http://localhost../../../c/h/a/Charles_Joseph_Scarborough_8b4f.html"
This page was last modified 20:26, 28 March 2007 by dKosopedia user Roger. Based on work by dKosopedia user(s) Allamakee Democrat, Chris schaeperkoetter, Lestatdelc and Jumbo. Content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.


Home > Blog > Sound > What is Sonic Art?
What do the United States, France, Germany and China all have in common? They're hosts to sound art shows. Sonic art, or the creation of visual art using sound waves and vibrations, is a growing area of interest for artists and viewers. If you're asking, "What is sound art?" keep reading to learn more about it and some of its notable artists.
Sound wave art has been around for more than 40 years but was far from mainstream at its start. During the 1970s, only 21 sound art shows were held worldwide, compared to during the early 2000s when 128 exhibits were available to see between 2000 and 2009.
One of the reasons sonic art isn't as popular as traditional art forms is because it's a challenging, non-visual medium. Many sound artists, however, use visual elements in their artwork. Carsten Nicolai, for example, used neon lights and water to show sound, as the sound waves altered the lights' reflection in the water.
What's the reason for sound art's growth though? Technology.
Sound absorption material is another invention that's made it easier for artists to practice their craft. It allows them to prepare recordings in their home, as sound absorption materials prevent echoes and improve room acoustics.
Some artists feel sonic and vibration art is a phase, yet its growth in exhibits, as well as the advancement of technology, indicate that it may become a part of the art world — after all, it's been around for nearly 50 years, and college art programs are now teaching it.
Carsten Nicolai: Mentioned earlier, this Berlin-based artist has been involved with sonic art since the 1980s. Nicolai's artwork focuses on audiovisual perception, as demonstrated in his work with lights, water and sound waves.
Camille Norment: Sound art shows from this Oslo-based artist mix visual and sound art. Large-scale exhibits, such as the 160-speaker installation of "Toll," are a notable feature of Norment's work, which is aimed at creating a psychological response from visitors.
Jacob Kirkegaard: This sound artist demonstrates the interest of audiences in sonic art. Kirkegaard has sold several recordings, images and installations of his sound wave art. Kirkegaard has also created underwater sound installations.
Christine Sun Kim: Visitors receive a unique experience when seeing Sun Kim's interactive work, as the sound artist was born deaf. Her work also includes performances and abstract musical notation drawings, which show her unique perspective as someone who can't experience sound.
Janet Cardiff: Canadian artist Cardiff uses past artwork to create her sonic art displays. Cardiff typically uses paintings and compositions from the medieval period. One of her installations, for example, featured 40 speakers playing different recordings of the "Spem in Alium" to create a virtual choir.
With more sound art exhibits sprouting up across the country, it's likely the number of practicing sonic artists will expand and develop more installations that catapult sound wave art into the forefront of the art world.
Sound art is an evolving area of the art world. If you want to hear the latest news on sonic art, subscribing to the Bull Bulletin wouldn't be a bad idea. We're all about sound and acoustics — you could say we're udderly obsessed with it — which is why you can rely on us for your noise news.


Our First Friday Forum for April 2018 focused on the Black financial institutions located in Atlanta. We were very happy to have Cynthia Day, President Citizens Trust Bank and Sharon Odom, President 1st Choice Credit Union as featured guest. Jay Bailey, President of the Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship moderated the discussion. April is Financial Literacy month and this was an ideal time to have the presidents of two Black financial institutions at our meeting.


20 years ago web navigation was a huge mess. Most opted for the long list and few got creative with dropdowns. What's the standard today?
"A pattern never exists in isolation. It is always defined by, and shaped by, its environment."
How the Yelp design team created an automated consistency process design hand off.
"We shouldn't animate for the sake of animation. Motion should provide guidance by making the experience more reliable, consistent and understandable. It should be applied deliberately and with care."
We've all used blanket statements before like 'this needs to be clearer'. Ryan Singer from Basecamp calls this foggy thinking and provides a handy list of questions to combat it.
An in depth guide complete with downloadable assets to help you get started with VR interface design.
How to design for a future without choice.


It is a fact that in today's world, every person is so busy in pursuing his work and attaining maximum work output that he does not have time to take care of the financial aspects related to his profession. This factor is all the more applicable to the medical profession therefore professionals have emerged who provide medical billing services so that people engaged in the medical profession can divert their total attention towards their noble work. Medical billing services are the link between the medical service providers and the insurance from where the medical service providers take the insurance to safeguard their payroll. People engaged in the medical billing services company have the basic duty to sort out all the financial aspects related to a medical service provider.
The duties or the facilities that medical billing services undertake mostly relate to the collection of the payment from the patients, preparation of medical claim, and constant reminders to the payers about their dues. Not only this, medical billing services also help to reduce the headache of the medical service providers as they do not have to bother about appointing separate staff for medical billing services or take the burden of maintaining their pay sheet. Therefore, nowadays most of the doctors take the help of medical billing services. Medical billing services also takes care of all the insurance related matters and deal with the insurance companies regarding the settlements. Medical billing services also provide the facility of settling all the dispute cases between the doctor and the patient related to bill payment.
This does not mean that medical billing services are the collectors of money as they also provide services related to scheduling and dealing with administrative matters related to medical profession. If you are a doctor, hiring medical billing services is the best option for increasing your income, as your collection will always remain high in comparison to the nominal fees that you have to pay to the company that you have hired for medical billing services. Moreover, medical billing services will help you to divert your full attention towards you work, which will help you to gain more efficiency in your work and your staff members will also have the freedom to dedicate themselves towards the duties that they are entrusted with, which will help you to establish your business as a private medical practitioner. Therefore, availing the services of billing professionals is the best option for all the medical service providers.


text:
Geneva Forum on Women's Rights in Middle East and North Africa
Geneva Hosting Forum on Women's Rights in Middle East and North Africa
institute for human rights and humanitarian studies
Webster University Geneva will host a virtual forum on women's rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region on Thursday, Dec. 3.
This all-day event on Zoom will seek to shed light and analyze the on-going struggles, challenges and threats to women's status and rights. It will critically assess these issues in the context of the long and enduring struggle of the Arab Spring that commenced a decade ago.
The forum aims to create new opportunities for peace and development by assessing the achievements and setbacks to women's rights in the past decade and addressing the challenging implications of COVID-19 for the lives and empowerment of women of the MENA region today and tomorrow.
The event will also study the emerging feminist activism in this vital part of the world. It will examine the new social movements and how they differ from those of the Arab Spring of 2010-2011. Topics to cover include women in the media, social movements in the digital age, women and nonviolence, and political activism during the current pandemic. Organizaers intend for the forum to create synergies between women activists in the field, academia, and international organizations in Geneva.
The Forum Will Consist of Four Panels:
Panel One: The Role of Education on Women's Empowerment and Mobilization
Panel Two: Feminism and Identity Politics: The Rise of New Social Movements
Panel Three: Women's Rights Movements, Technology and Digitalization: Opportunities and Obstacles
Panel Four: Feminism and International Organizations in the Age of Covid-19: Reimagining the Future
Information and Registration
Click HERE for the full program.
Click HERE to pre-register for access via Zoom (mandatory)
This event is organized with the generous support of the Swiss government and Webster University Geneva alumni. English-Arabic interpretation will be provided.
For further information and queries, please contact the MENA Center for Peace and Development at mena@webster.ch.
Fund Recipient Spotlight: Home care nurses apply critical skills in pandemic
Judith Ballew, an MSN student and recipient of a Front-Line Responders Fund award, describes how home care nurses have "quietly been on the front...


text:
ENP GAMES, Mobile Game 'Wall-Breaking Master: Ballvader 2' Featured in Google Play
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource GamesPress.]
The Wall-Breaking Master that even Google recognized!
ENP GAMES, Mobile Game, 'Wall-Breaking Master: Ballvader 2' has been selected globally in the featured corner of Google Play
Recognized by Google Play for its high degree of completion and originality
A wall-breaking game that everyone can enjoy due to its simple controls which allow users to feel no pressure
[2019-03-26] The freedom found in games! The kind of fun that is out of this world!
ENP GAMES(CEO Lee Seung Jae) has announced that the mobile arcade game, 'Wall-Breaking Master: Ballvader 2(Ballvader 2 from here on)' has been selected by Google in the featured corner.
Games and applications that have a high degree of completion and originality are selected by Google Play to be introduced to users. 'Ballvader 2' has been recognized by Google and has been selected in many countries in North America, Europe, and Asia for its unique interpretation of wall-breaking games and playability.
'Ballvader 2' is an arcade game with simple controls which makes it easy and fun for everyone. Players select the trajectory of the ball and destroy walls and flying objects to earn points as they slowly move towards the user. The score of the user can be shared and compared with other users within the game.
'Ballvader 2', with a story where the player fights Vader in the middle of the city covered in darkness. The first among wall-breaking games to add moving objects. Play by avoiding attacks and using a variety of items. The infinite mode provides gameplay without a time limit, allowing users to immerse in the special wall-breaking game, 'Ballvader 2'.
The team leader of the casual game business team, Mr. Kim Kyeong Mok said, "The upgraded wall-breaking game, 'Ballvader 2' has been selected in the featured corner." he continued, "We are delighted that this game has been featured, allowing more players to try the game. We promise to give it our best to improve the game by applying the suggestions of our users."
Categories: [View All]


text:
Interactive Brokers hires Michael McClain for Client Operations, NA
April 27, 2021 10:45 am UTC, Rick Steves
Michael McClain joins Interactive Brokers from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), where he was the Managing Director and General Manager of Equities Clearing Business, specializing in post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry.
Michael McClain has joined as Director of Client Operations, North America, at Interactive Brokers Group, reporting directly to CEO Milan Galik.
Based in IBKR's Chicago office, Mr. McClain will focus on the end-to-end strategy for scaling client services as he replaces Andy Naughton, who is retiring.
At the DTCC, he managed equity clearing activities for trades executed on the major U.S. exchanges and other equity trading venues. Mr. McClain's career also includes 15 years at the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, where he held multiple positions.
Milan Galik, Interactive Brokers CEO, commented: "We are very fortunate to have someone as capable as Mike assume Andy's vast range of responsibilities. Mike is eager to take on the challenge of enhancing our service during a period of explosive growth in a client base ranging from active and professional traders to the casual investors who understand the importance of high quality trade execution and low margin rates."
Andy leaves after 15 years at Interactive Brokers. He was instrumental in building Client Operations capabilities. "We are grateful for his important contributions to the business, for his tireless devotion to our mission, and for his friendship. We wish Andy well in his retirement", the firm said in a statement.
The automated global electronic broker has recently reported net revenues of $893 million and income before income taxes at $639 million for Q1 2021, compared to net revenues of $532 million and income before income taxes of $308 million for the same period in 2020.
Adjusted net revenues were $796 million and adjusted income before income taxes was $542 million for this quarter, compared to
adjusted net revenues of $581 million and adjusted income before income taxes of $357 million for the same period in
Interactive Brokers reported 53% growth in commission revenue, increasing $143 million as customer trading volumes skyrocketed. Net interest income increased $49 million, or 19%, from the year-ago quarter on strong securities lending activity, tempered by a decrease in the average Federal Funds effective rate to 0.08% from 1.25% in the year-ago quarter, which reduced earnings on segregated customer cash and margin lending.
Brookfield-based financial services technology provider Fiserv Inc has obtained nod for a Major Payment Institution license in Singapore.


text:
More Than 1,000 Died Today From Coronavirus In The US
The U.S. topped 1,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day for the first time Wednesday, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The staggering death toll more than double that of two of America's most deadly illnesses – lung cancer and the flu.
Death counts from the virus are difficult to keep up to date in the daily chaos from the virus, but the Johns Hopkins coronavirus database shows that the U.S. hit 1,040 cases Wednesday at 10:25 p.m. ET.
Since the virus' first appearance in the U.S. in late January, more than 5,000 people have died and more than 215,000 have been infected.
The previous high mark for a single day in the U.S. was Tuesday, with 504 deaths.
As many as 240,000 Americans may die from the new coronavirus according to estimates released by the White House on Tuesday.
Health experts say the future of the coronavirus depends on such factors as whether humans develop increasing immunity to it and whether an effective vaccine is developed. If neither occurs, the virus will likely continue to circulate and establish itself as a common respiratory virus, killing thousands every year.
In this article:Coronavirus, featured


Deal or no deal, many GOP lawmakers say they support the president.
Save the initial Twitter bluster from some conservative commentators and Republicans with the strongest views against immigrants, GOP lawmakers were mostly downplaying the tentative deal and standing behind Trump, with the president and his allies casting doubt there was any deal at all.
"There's no agreement," Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters Thursday, adding that he had spoken with Trump and the White House chief of staff just hours before.
That didn't appear to be the takeaway for Democrats, however, with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) reporting that while the president and Democratic leaders didn't have a firm agreement on a bill, they did have "an agreement to move forward," even asserting that Trump may have agreed to an eventual pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.
On Wednesday night, Trump invited "Chuck and Nancy, as he's taken to calling them, to a dinner meeting at the White House. The invitation came a week after Trump bypassed GOP congressional leaders to reach a deal with Democrats to keep the government funded and increase its borrowing limit for another three months.
Following Wednesday's dinner, Democratic leaders announced that the president had agreed in principle to legislation that would shield the country's 800,000 so-called Dreamers ― young undocumented immigrants ― from deportation. In exchange, they said, Democrats would agree to beef up border security, but they did not agree to fund a new wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
By Thursday morning, Trump was downplaying any suggestion that an arrangement had been made with Democrats. But, at the same time, he appeared to confirm Schumer and Pelosi's account of the meeting ― and contradict his spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
"The wall will come later," Trump said before boarding Air Force One.
But whichever way this game of "deal or no deal" shakes out, it appears Trump will maintain the support of rank-and-file Republicans in Congress.
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), normally a staunch opponent of legislation that would let undocumented immigrants stay in the United States, said it is perfectly fine for the president to be negotiating with Democrats on DACA.
Trump's overtures to Democrats on immigration ― as well as the flurry of contradictory statements from the president and White House officials throughout the day ― confounded lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Still, the president's top allies, such as Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), applauded him for advancing his agenda in a bipartisan fashion.
"I call this 'Phase two' of Trump's presidency. He is taking control. Phase two is getting things done," said Collins, who was the first member of Congress to endorse Trump's presidential campaign.
Immigration hardliners, such as Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), did warn that Trump supporters would be "disillusioned beyond repair" if he struck a deal with Democrats to protect Dreamers from deportation. "Trump leads with DACA Amnesty 2017," he tweeted.
But King, perhaps the most aggressive opponent of immigration in Congress, was the exception Thursday, not the rule.
Trump announced earlier this month he would be rescinding DACA, the 5-year-old Obama-era executive action that allowed undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to remain in the country. It is up to Congress, he said, to find a legislative solution that purports with the Constitution within the next six months, after which DACA recipients will begin to lose protections in larger numbers.
Democrats are pushing for the Dream Act, a bill that would allow certain undocumented immigrants who came to the United States before they turned 18 to gain legal status. It has bipartisan support in both chambers, but only in small numbers: Four Republicans are backing it in the Senate and four in the House.
"The Dream Act has major hurdles to overcome to be enacted both in the House and in the Senate," Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said Thursday.
House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters Thursday that "no deal was made" regarding immigration during a Wednesday night dinner with Democratic leaders and President Donald Trump.
In the Senate, reaction has been a bit more mixed, with some Republicans claiming Trump is undermining the GOP position in negotiations, some offering praise for the president, and others wondering why Trump is pushing deals at all.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who supports giving Dreamers legal status, urged Trump to focus on repealing and replacing Obamacare first because of a looming deadline this month.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who leads the committee that handles immigration matters, tweeted at Trump that he "undercut" bipartisan efforts to come to an agreement on a legislative solution on DACA.
But the reluctance of Republicans to criticize Trump and their willingness to find new ways to somehow defend his empty promises and contrary actions was best on display with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). Johnson told HuffPost Thursday that he always viewed "the wall" as a "metaphor" for border security.
"When you're in campaign mode, you're using rhetoric, you're using shorthand," Johnson explained.
Outside Congress, immigration hardliners did accuse Trump of betraying his voters. Right-wing news outlet Breitbart News lashed out at the president with a banner headline that read "Amnesty Don," and Fox News host Sean Hannity warned Trump it would be "over" for the president if he abandoned his immigration promises, though he also bizarrely found ways to blame McConnell.
In general, the responses from Republicans seemed to follow this general rule: The more anti-immigrant you are, the harsher your reaction ― even if that meant you were once one of Trump's biggest fans. For right-wing author Mickey Kaus, the apparent deal led him to encourage one-time Trump supporters to burn their Make America Great Again hats. And conservative provocateur Ann Coulter ― the 2016 author of a book titled In Trump We Trust ― seemed to be rethinking her once-ironclad support. "Who DOESN'T want Trump impeached?" Coulter wondered.
The answer still seems to be the Republican Congress.


text:
Traffic Alert: 24-Hour Closure for Front and Bevier Intersection
Bob Joseph Published: July 28, 2021
Photo: Bob Joseph/WNBF News
A busy intersection in the town of Dickinson near Otsiningo Park will be closed for 24 hours due to construction work.
According to the New York State Department of Transportation, the intersection at Front and Bevier streets was shut down early Wednesday morning. It is scheduled to be out of service until 6 a.m. Thursday.
The closure will affect access to Broome County's Otsiningo Park. People will not be able to enter the park from Front Street. The only access will be via Bevier Street from Chenango Street to the east.
Crushed stone will be used to fill this area near the intersection of Front and Bevier streets. (Photo: Bob Joseph/WNBF News)
Construction crews will be shoring up the intersection by adding crushed stone. They then will pave the northeast corner of the intersection.
Traffic on Front Street - Route 11 - will not be affected by the work.
Filed Under: Binghamton, NYSDOT, Otsiningo Park, Town of Dickinson, traffic alerts


By Saturday, we'd been through the work segment of the trip and the vacation segment of the trip and we had just transitioned into the running segment. With the true arrival of the first Rock 'n' Roll Marathon event that evening, it was time to lace up our shoes and get moving!
Last year, we didn't know anybody else who was racing. This year, we had four friends also taking part in not just one, but TWO races this weekend! All flew into town over a span of 24 hours beginning on Friday late afternoon.
We were thankful that we didn't have to brave the expo on the morning of the first event, also the last day (we went on Thursday), but by all accounts it was smooth sailing over there and not too busy at all.
We had a late breakfast in the cafe and wandered around for an hour or two. Eventually we ended up back in our room and decided to rest up so that Kevin wouldn't exhaust his body before our 6pm race.
Just after 4pm, Lesley stopped by our hotel and we all hopped into a cab to head up The Strip to the Las Vegas Fairgrounds, the start and finish of the 5k. We got there with about 75 minutes to spare so we explored the minimalist surroundings while the sun went down.
While we've been here in Vegas, the temperature has been hovering around 21° (that's around 70° for you Fahrenheiters.) As the weekend approached, however, the temperature dropped down to about 16° or so. Everyone had been concerned about the race on Sunday when it's forecasted to be windy. The coolness in the air became pretty evident in the moments before the Saturday race when it got dark and the cold came with it. I wouldn't go as far as to change my outfit for the long race, but I, for one, am happy it won't be hot.
The start line situation was well organized and it all went smoothly. There were 24 corrals and we were at about the middle point, but they stuck to the schedule pretty well and got everyone moving quickly.
There wasn't much to see on this race last year and the course hasn't changed at all. Runners leave the fairground and then run along a wide road that was been closed down. It's a straight shot out and then a left leading to a turnaround at its end. Coming back you rejoin the racers running in the opposite direction and follow the same route back. Once the course returns to the fairgrounds, it's a little deceiving. One may think that they are nearing the finish line, but the path through the fairgrounds twists and turns several times before eventually turning towards the end.
This race is entirely flat – there isn't even a hint of an incline. You don't get the view of The Strip that you do at the 10k, half or full marathon, but the RnR spirit is there.
This is the medal we received for the 5k and here is the review I posted on Bibrave.


Acer TouchPortal Express is a software product developed by Acer Incorporated. We know of version 2.0. Version 2.0.3003.274 is available for download at our site. Acer TouchPortal Express package has a size of 113,760,989 bytes. Acer Incorporated also publishes Clear.fi Photo and Acer Upgrade Assistant Tool.


To view a map of Africa with the name of countries, click here.
Find an example of two separate countries that have people who speak the same language in both countries.
Go through the list and write down any names of languages you have heard of before.
Count how many different countries have Arabic listed as a language that its people speak. What about Fulfulde?


Wrap 'n' Tap Pliers offer the user greater versatility. With the 5 7 and 10mm barrel you can shape rings as well as make loops in many sizes. Pliers are especially good for looping stock that has a pattern or hollow stock. 6-½ -165mm- in length the Multi-size Wrap 'n' Tap pliers feature cushion grips and are made of stainless steel.


Planning to have a Super Bowl Party at your home but have no time to clean and prepare? Well, no problem, just leave the cleaning to the professionals; it is that simple. Cleaning services are plentiful and finding a house cleaning service can be easy, but still you need to choose one that will satisfy all your cleaning needs.
Before the big event you need to do some home cleaning tasks and make appropriate preparations. Doing that would take a lot of your time and you may not have the strength and capacity to do all that. A solution would be to find a reliable cleaning services company that can do all the cleaning and preparations for you so all you have to do is enjoy, relax, and have fun watching the game. Your main goal is to watch the Super Bowl with your invited guests and cheer for your chosen team.
Just such a company is Cassie's Meticulous Touch. Their professional workers can do the house cleaning for you without you having to worry about anything. Cassie's has been in the professional cleaning services industry for more than a decade and has long established its presence in the areas of Ocala, FL, Orlando FL, The Villages FL, Gainesville FL, and its surrounding areas.
Cassie's provide meticulous cleaning services to fully satisfy their clients and go beyond what is expected of them. Their cleaning teams are comprised of highly skilled and trained individuals, fully aware of what the client needs in any given situation. These individuals are equipped with the latest cleaning technology the industry offers and are very professional in doing their jobs. In addition to the basic house cleaning service, Cassie's professionals also do carpet cleaning services, window cleaning, and floor stripping and waxing. For your convenience you can choose from a daily, weekly, monthly, or bi-weekly cleaning schedule.
After the party is over, your home will surely be in a mess because of all the excitement that went with the game and you may have no strength to clean it. Again, it would be best to get the services of a cleaning company to do the clean up for you. Cassie's Meticulous Touch does the job impeccably and you will be assured of 100% customer satisfaction guaranteed. A family owned company, Cassie's is licensed, fully bonded, and insured. You will surely get your money's worth by getting the cleaning services of Cassie's Meticulous Touch both before and after the Super Bowl or other special event you may be planning.
Next Article Valentine's Day is Almost Here!


Looking for an experienced Automotive Technician.
A&B Import Auto is the ONLY place to take a European automobile. Mark is an awesome, honest guy and he has a crew that REALLY knows what they're doing. I wouldn't take my BMW anywhere else.
His prices are reasonable and the work is nothing but top notch.
Mark and his team have been taking care of my Audi A3 for 5 years. They have done an excellent job, both with the routine maintenance and the occasional repairs. The service is quick and the prices are reasonable. I am not a "car guy" so I appreciate the fact that they take the time to explain what they are doing to my car and to discuss service/repair options with me. I definitely recommend them for any Audi servicing in Fort Collins!


The Killers and Imagine Dragons will headline a benefit concert next month to help the victims of the shootings that took place at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, which left 58 people dead and more than 500 injured. The December 1st concert at the city's T-Mobile Arena will also include appearances from pop trio Boyz II Men, magician David Copperfield, magic duo Penn and Teller, and performers from Cirque du Soleil.
Tickets go on sale Wednesday (November 8th), with prices ranging from $75 to $125. Proceeds will benefit the Las Vegas Victims Fund.
A 64-year-old man named Stephen Paddock shattered the windows of his hotel suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel on October 1st and unleashed hundreds of rounds of bullets at the crowd of 21,000 watching the country music festival in a nearby parking lot before killing himself. Police have yet to determine a motive for the massacre.


text:
H.R. 4419 (100th): A bill to authorize appropriations for activities under the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974.
Inspired by George Santos, SANTOS Act would punish lying congressional candidates with up to one…
The bill would be much harder to enforce since last September, when the daytime talk show Maury ended, including its famed "lie detector… Feb 1, 2023
Enacted — Signed by the President on Oct 6, 1988
This bill was enacted after being signed by the President on October 6, 1988.
Pub.L. 100-476
Douglas Walgren
Representative for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district
Last Updated: Oct 6, 1988
Ordered Reported
A committee has voted to issue a report to the full chamber recommending that the bill be considered further. Only about 1 in 4 bills are reported out of committee.
Passed House (Senate next)
The bill was passed in a vote in the House. It goes to the Senate next. The vote was by Voice Vote so no record of individual votes was made.
Passed Senate with Changes (back to House)
The Senate passed the bill with changes not in the House version and sent it back to the House to approve the changes. The vote was by Voice Vote so no record of individual votes was made.
Enacted — Signed by the President
The President signed the bill and it became law.
Text Published
Updated bill text was published as of Passed Congress.
This bill was introduced in the 100th Congress, which met from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 22, 1988. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
GovTrack.us. (2023). H.R. 4419 — 100th Congress: A bill to authorize appropriations for activities under the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act …. Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/100/hr4419
"H.R. 4419 — 100th Congress: A bill to authorize appropriations for activities under the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act …." www.GovTrack.us. 1988. February 1, 2023 <https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/100/hr4419>
A bill to authorize appropriations for activities under the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974, Pub. L. No. 100-476, H.R. 4419, 100th Cong. (1988).
|date=April 20, 1988
|quote=A bill to authorize appropriations for activities under the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act …


With pride and honor, JYIS would like to highlight the successful celebration of Arabic Language Day which was conducted on the 18th of December. The aim of this celebration was to show the importance of the Arabic language and its history as one of the most used languages amongst the nations, to promote the use of Classical Arabic in the community and to develop our student's skills in the language through linguistic activities.
The program was conducted by the Arabic Teachers along with the help of other staff members involving all school community, students and teachers. This has included Arabic poetry declamation, short scene about the importance of Arabic language and the use of classical Arabic/MSA vs the slang Arabic, the Hakwati (story telling in Fusha), Arabic calligraphy club and many other linguistic games and Arabic contests.
The whole event was a success where all students and teachers have enjoyed and contributed effectively to the program.
Best wishes for a wonderful start to the new academic year.
PIRLS 2016 is the fourth cycle of the IEA Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), an assessment of reading comprehension that has been monitoring trends in student achievement at five-year intervals in countries around the world since 2001.
The PIRLS 2016 assessment will provide internationally comparative data about how well children read after four years of primary schooling. Like the previous PIRLS cycles (conducted in 2001, 2006, and 2011), the study will also collect extensive information about home supports for literacy, curriculum and curriculum implementation, instructional practices, and school resources in each participating country.
Initiated in 2011, PIRLS Literacy (earlier known as prePIRLS) is based on the same view of reading comprehension as PIRLS but is designed to test basic reading skills that are prerequisites for success on PIRLS, for countries where most children are still developing fundamental reading skills. PIRLS Literacy can be administered at the fourth, fifth, or sixth grade.
As a new extension to PIRLS in 2016, ePIRLS is an innovative assessment of online reading, making it possible for countries to assess how successful they are in preparing fourth grade students to read, comprehend, and interpret online information. ePIRLS uses an engaging, simulated internet environment with authentic school-like assignments about science and social studies topics to measure achievement in reading for informational purposes.
The international PIRLS target population consists of students enrolled in the grade that represents four years of schooling (provided that the mean age at the time of testing is at least 9.5 years). To better match the assessment to the achievement level of students, countries have the option of administering PIRLS or PIRLS Literacy at the fifth or sixth grade.
Argentina (Buenos Aires), Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belgium (Flemish), Belgium (French), Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada (with Ontario and Quebec as benchmarking systems), Chile, Chinese Taipei, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lithuania, Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain (with Andalusia as a benchmarking system), Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates (with Abu Dhabi and Dubai as benchmarking systems), and United States.
The schedule of activities for PIRLS 2016 began with the first national research coordinators meeting in February 2013. Framework and instrument development were carried out in 2013–2014. The field test will be conducted in March–April 2015. The data collection for the main survey will take place in October–December 2015 (southern hemisphere countries) and March–June 2016 (northern hemisphere countries). The international reports will be released in December 2017, followed by the international database and user guide in February 2018.
Led by the TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center at Boston College, United States, the management consortium also includes the IEA Secretariat, the IEA Data Processing and Research Center, Statistics Canada, and the Educational Testing Service. The study's co-directors are Dr Michael Martin and Dr Ina Mullis. The international coordination of the study is carried out in cooperation with the national research coordinators of participating countries.
2. Define the types of data analysis.
3. Use suitable data analysis.
4. Apply the data analysis which matching school's objectives.
6. Design school improvement plan.
And my dear dear students.
We all gathered here today to show the hidden potentials of our students, our future.
All of them are praise worthy… Winning or loosing. It's not a big issue…, the biggest thing is to stand here to thrive to get the best and after all this… Celebrate the trump and acknowledge your defeat with a big smile on your face.
Last but not least following prophet Mohammad's Hadith he said " whom never thank people he never thanks Allah" let's all appreciate and give thanks to the organizers and the backstage soldiers lead by mrs. Fatima and mrs. Nadia thank you all for making this dream come true.


When you visit Drummoyne Optometry, we won't rush you. We allow 30-45 minutes for your eye test and take a detailed history from you, with time to discuss any symptoms that concern you.
We measure your visual acuity – how well you can see – and assess your eyes for new visual acuity and optical correction. We also check your eye muscle balance and your eye health, looking for signs of cataract, macular degeneration, diabetes-related eye changes, glaucoma and other eye conditions.
We may also conduct some additional tests such as digital retinal photography to monitor your eye health, a visual field test for your peripheral vision and a colour vision assessment to check for colour vision deficiency.
At Drummoyne Optometry, we work closely with ophthalmologists and other medical professionals throughout inner west Sydney and beyond. If we have any concerns following your eye test with us, we will refer you for further examination and opinion.
Does an eye test hurt?
It's a common question and we're happy to say no, generally there is no discomfort experienced during an eye test. We may have to put drops in your eyes to check your eye pressure or dilate your pupils but any blurred vision you may have as a result normally resolves in a couple of hours.
At Drummoyne Optometry, our fees are affordable and we offer on the spot Medicare claiming directly into your EFTPOS cheque or savings account. We also have HICAPS electronic private health fund claiming. Please bring your Medicare card and your private health fund card to your appointment.


text:
Estonia Honors Chess Master on New €2 Commemorative Coin
January 11, 2016 By Michael Alexander 1 Comment
The Bank of Estonia has issued (January 7) a new €2 commemorative coin honoring the country's only grand champion chess master, Paul Keres (1916 – 1975), on the centennial anniversary of his birth.
Keres, often remembered as the "Crown Prince of Chess," distinguished himself as a top-class grandmaster and is also remembered as being the strongest player to have never played for the world championship title, a distinction that is attributed to world political tensions and the outbreak of the Second World War.
Born in the city of Narva, Estonia (then a part of the Russian Empire), Keres was first introduced to chess by his father and his older brother, Harald, and evinced a natural affinity for the game of strategy almost from the start. Keres became a three-time Estonian schoolboy champion, in 1930, 1932, and 1933. His playing matured whilst playing correspondence chess extensively while in high school. He probably played about 500 correspondence games, and during one period had 150 correspondence games going simultaneously. Keres achieved an impressive result at the age of 17 in the master tournament of Tallinn 1933, going on to become champion of a now independent Estonia for the first time in 1935.
At the AVRO tournament in the Netherlands in 1938, Paul Keres was the only undefeated player, finishing in first place, ahead of three world champions. Over the course of his career, Keres beat nine world champions, some of them several times. In fact, after placing first in the 1938 AVRO tournament, he was regarded as the natural successor to the reigning world champion, Alexander Alekhine. In 1939, Keres participated in the VIII Chess Olympiad, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which coincided with the commencement of the Second World War in September. Keres returned to Europe in time to take part in a 14-game match with former World Champion Max Euwe in the Netherlands, which took place from December 1939 to January 1940.
With the Nazi-Soviet Pact having been concluded on August 23, 1939, Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union on August 6, 1940, a development which led to Keres playing in his first Soviet Championship at Moscow. The Nazis invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, and Estonia fell under German control soon afterwards. During 1942 and 1943, Keres and his former opponent Alexander Alekhine played in four tournaments organized by the Grossdeutscher Schachbund.
The close of World War II placed Keres in precarious circumstances. During the war, his native Estonia was successively occupied by the Soviet Union, Germany, and again by the Soviet Union. Keres participated in several tournaments in European regions under German occupation, and when the Soviets occupied Estonia in 1944 he unsuccessfully attempted to escape to Western Europe. Suspected of anti-Soviet sentiment, Keres managed to avoid deportation; however, it is thought he was held in detention at one time. He did return to international play in 1946 in the Soviet radio match against Great Britain, and continued his excellent playing form that year and the next year.
Though he resumed a relatively normal life and chess career, his play at the highest level appeared to have been affected by living under the occupation of the Soviet Union. After being forced to become a Soviet citizen, Keres represented the Soviet Union in seven Olympiads, winning seven consecutive team gold medals, five board gold medals, and one bronze board medal. He was the most consistently successful player of his day and won more international tournaments than any of his contemporaries. He also won the USSR championship three times and played in ten Olympiads, achieving an amazing overall score of 80%.
Keres' last major tournament win was in Tallinn in 1975, just a few months before his death. He died of a heart attack in Helsinki, Finland, at the age of 59, though it is commonly reported that he died on the same date in Vancouver, Canada. His death occurred while returning to his native Estonia from a tournament in Vancouver. Keres was buried in Tallinn with over 100,000 people in attendance at his state funeral, including World Chess Federation President Max Euwe, his old friend and rival. The Paul Keres Memorial Tournaments have been held annually ever since, mainly in Vancouver and Tallinn.
Keres did not live to see the re-establishment of Estonian independence in 1991, but he was honored on the country's new currency. His portrait was included on the 5 Krooni bank note, introduced into circulation in 1992 and used until the adoption of the euro single currency in 2011.
The coin is designed by Estonian artist Riho Luuse and struck by the Mint of Lithuania on behalf of the Bank of Estonia. The obverse includes a profile portrait of Keres in later life, with representative chess pieces below the portrait and the text PAUL KERES placed along the edge of the central disc of this bi-metallic coin. The year of issue and the text EESTI are also included on the obverse. The reverse includes the current and standard design for all two-euro coins as introduced in 2002.
Denomination Metal Weight Diameter Quality Mintage
2 €URO Bi-metallic 8.5 Grams 25.7 mm BU 5000 pieces
2 €URO Bi-metallic 8.5 Grams 25.7 mm circulation 500,000 pieces
The coin is struck in circulation quality and BU, and presented in a folder for collectors. A commemorative stamp, also designed by Riho Luuse, is available. This coin is Estonia's first commemorative €2 coin issued by the Bank to honor a national event or anniversary since the EU member state adopted the euro single currency in 2011. Each euro zone member state is entitled to issue a total of two commemorative coins subject to the approval of the European commission.
For more information on this and other coins offered by the Bank of Estonia, please visit the Web site of Estonian Post, official authorized Bank of Estonia distributers and retailers. International orders will be dispatched where applicable. To purchase in person, the Bank of Estonia's Museum shop is open Tuesday to Friday, 12 to 5 PM, on Saturday from 11 AM to 4 PM, and is located at Estonia Puiestee (boulevard) 11, Tallinn.
Filed Under: Estonian Coins, World Coins
M Alexander says
I have been told by the department of sales at the Estonian Post that the €5 Keres coin card product has been massively over-subscribed with the issue selling out in just two hours – at the Bank of Estonia's Museum shop..!
As a result, they have none of these items for sale which they apologise for if any orders have been placed for this item as it cannot be fulfilled.


The tragic events of the earthquake meant there was a huge upsurge in storage requirements in many areas including, of course, Christchurch.
Now storage is a strange thing and it isn't always something that should be taken too lightly. For storage in Christchurch. it has a number of opportunities but it's important to make sure that you are selecting the right one for your needs.
At Total Care Removals storage, Christchurch and the best in local associated facilities all go together but if you are looking elsewhere there are a number of things to take into consideration.
We make no apologies for stating that we have made some of these recommendations previously but unfortunately we do still see cases where they are ignored.
Security. This should be a no-brainer but surprisingly not all storage sites necessarily offer state of the art security systems. There may be little point in putting your precious possessions into storage if is comparatively easy for thieves and vandals to get in and help themselves.
Insurance. Even the best designed and best-protected storage units can be unlucky and suffer natural disasters. So, make sure that you are covered fully by an appropriate policy – whether it is the storage provider's or one you yourself have taken out.
Watch out for do-it-on-the-cheap locations for storage. Christchurch is perfectly capable of throwing up some pretty bad weather from time to time and what you won't want is to find that your possessions are sitting unprotected in a warehouse somewhere under a big hole in the roof.
Flexible access. Many people assume they won't need to access their goods once they are put into storage and then immediately discover shortly afterwards that they are completely wrong. Make sure you know you can access your possessions quickly, easily and at a time that will suit you rather than the storage provider.Warranted staff. We take exceptional care over who we employ and use, to make sure that they are entirely trustworthy individuals and companies. Make certain you do likewise with your storage provider, unless you like the thought of undesirables having a good rummage around through your property.
However, we have one top recommendation if you are looking for a solution to your requirements for storage. Christchurch is one of our home locations – so why not speak to us first?


Pergola on its own is a beautiful addition to your outdoor area. Whether it's a standalone structure or a patio cover, there is still room to improve your pergola and maximize the benefits you get out it. Achieve this by adding any or all of these pergola accessories.
Yes, you can attach solar panels on top of your pergola. It may block some sunlight from filtering in but you'll also get more shade in this setup. What's more, you'll lessen your energy costs and carbon footprints with a panel or two installed.
If you prefer to use your patio after dark, then outdoor lighting is a must. Picking the right spots for the lighting fixtures can add to the nighttime ambiance. These lighting fixtures can also be decorative pieces like lanterns or mini chandeliers. If you want a budget-friendly festive look, you can use string lights, rope lights, or Christmas lights running through your pergola. Who said Christmas lights can only be used during the holidays, right?
Installing outdoor fans can help combat outdoor heat and humidity. While you might think a pergola might be too flimsy to hold a ceiling fan, as long as it's attached to a strong beam, you can be sure it won't be any danger.
While fans cool you down, fire pits make your outdoor area as warm as an indoor one. Fire pits conveniently placed close to your pergola-covered patio can give you enough warm on chilly evenings despite the lack of walls protecting you from the evening breeze. It can be as small or large as you prefer, with or without a built-in seating area.
These two accessories can make your outdoor area more welcoming all year round.
Call and talk to us today to learn more about these accessories.


text:
setopt beep extendedglob nomatch notify

# For Home, End, and Delete
bindkey "\e[1~" beginning-of-line
bindkey "\e[3~" delete-char
bindkey "\e[4~" end-of-line
bindkey "\e[7~" beginning-of-line
bindkey "\e[8~" end-of-line
bindkey "\eOH" beginning-of-line
bindkey "\eOF" end-of-line
bindkey "\e[H" beginning-of-line
bindkey "\e[F" end-of-line

autoload -U colors
colors

# Named directories
# 'dir=/path/to/mydir' allows '~dir' to be used in place of '/path/to/mydir'
setopt AUTO_NAME_DIRS

# 'bar' becomes 'cd bar' if bar is not a command
setopt AUTO_CD

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Thank you! Its... a long list of reasons, and in the end it all comes down: to entertain, to emotionally involve, to share an important message, to make you think.
There is a big chance that this film is about you. In ways it is about nearly everyone. It touches upon the choices one makes everyday and sometimes under such radical circumstances as in the film.
"It's not the years in life that count. It's the life in your years." A famous quote by Abraham Lincoln which still resonates today as much, as it will tomorrow. Waking up every day, having that thought in mind makes one's life better. Reminding ourselves about that I find important.
The script is not a precise scientific blueprint and a story is a living organism. There is this old saying that you write the movie three times: on paper, on set and in the editing room. However in the end of the day the film turned out to be very close to the original script, surpassing it in places. Aleksander Ristic (Jesse), John C. Colton (George), Suzy Stokey (Nurse McTaggart) and all the cast members brought a lot to their characters, making them truly alive.
The feedback was positive, mostly touching on the "movie flies by", "the characters touched me", "it made me think and feel". That feedback left producers, actors, key creatives and myself very happy.
The feedback we received was what were hoping to receive. Although we weren't expecting - "Oh my god, I can't believe it's been 22 minutes, the time passed so fast. Feels more like 10."
On top of the entertainment aspect, I really hope that the film would make audience members feel and think. And I hope the theme would find its way into their hearts.
Do I have dreams? If I knew I'd die today, would it change something about how I spend my day?
With the majority of the key creatives of Dying to Live, we worked together on the previous film I directed called Sabre Dance. Now, we are working on something very new, exciting and different from the films we've made before.
Ilya Rozhkov -DIRECTOR - is a New York Film Academy graduate and an award-winning director, known for his festival hit Sabre Dance, a 'Wes-anderson-esque' short starring Greg Louganis as Dali and is currently developing several new projects.
Radhika Womack - PRODUCER - is a New York Film Academy graduate in Producing for Film and has a large number of short films, documentaries, music videos and a feature films; Sabre Dance, Call of the Wolf, Back to Fort Russell and Tell Me a Memory.
Jainardhan Sathyan - PRODUCER - is a filmmaker, producer and a content technologist. Sathyan has over fifteen years experience lies in creative development and content production for advertisers with networks and studios.


text:
DailyPress.com
* I'd like to know why you haven't reported on the president issuing Executive Order 13438, which blocks the property of certain persons who threaten stabilization efforts in Iraq. Free speech is being undermined, and no one is reporting it. Why?
Editor: This executive order is getting attention on the Internet, where some people are characterizing it as you do -- as an instrument to punish dissent on the argument that dissent undermines the reconstruction and stabilization of Iraq. The administration says it's an anti-terrorism order that targets people who conduct or provide material support for violence that obstructs the efforts in Iraq.
We'll look for a balanced news account or analysis. One clear effect of the growth of the Internet is that people rely on mainstream newspapers as a credible source of information in a world where rumor, fear and conjecture sound online alarms 24 hours a day. We try hard to live up to that expectation. Please see the next item for an alarm from another point of view.
* Ruthanne W.: Could we have a little less coverage on Michael Vick and more coverage from the Daily Press on the North American Union, which is a creation of Bush, Fox and Martin in March of 2005 that goes into effect in 2010 of open borders between the countries?
Editor: We'll stay with the Vick dogfighting story as it develops, but we'll also provide coverage of this idea of a North American Union. It's getting a lot of attention on the Internet, where it's characterized as a plot to undermine U.S. sovereignty. Its advocates, of course, see it differently -- not as a political union of formerly independent nations but as a means of economic cooperation among Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.
* Don McM., Surry County: As a retired motorcyclist, I found the article on the new Triumph interesting. How do you determine something newsworthy enough to grant such great free advertisement? Just curious.
Editor: We choose reviews based on whether we think readers would like to learn about the products. So we don't regard car reviews, motorcycle reviews or other product reviews as free advertising. The reviewer certainly liked that Triumph Rocket III, but that's not always the case.
* Laura, Williamsburg: In the Sunday advertisements, a local store advertises a preowned semiautomatic pistol for $499.88. That does not sound like a hunting gun to me. They also advertise a semi-automatic shotgun for $388. Why are you advertising this store?
Editor: Those are legal weapons, and the store follows the laws regarding how they're sold and to whom. Semiautomatic means that the chamber is reloaded automatically after each shot.
* Kay P.: I am calling with regard to the Personal Trainer exercises in Wednesday's Life section. I am attempting the heels-up plie.
In the written instructions, we are instructed to stand with heels together rising onto the balls of the feet. However, the figure clearly shows the heels apart. Which is it?
Editor: Heels together is harder, but if they part, you'll still benefit from the exercise. Just don't ask me to demonstrate. *
Today's Feedback responses were written by Ernie Gates, editor.