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Over 2.5 million units sold worldwide! Celebrating the 2nd anniversary of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
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To celebrate the 2nd anniversary of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown on 17 January 2021, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Asia announced the Ace Combat 7:...
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Publisher Noodlecake and indie developer behind the visually striking, single-player adventure NUTS are excited to announce that it will be releasing on Nintendo Switch...
Introvert haven in Don't Stare, comical survival coming to Steam
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Cyberpunk 2077 Review – I Wish It Was Better.
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It goes without saying that by now many of you are already aware of the challenges faced by CD Projekt Red's (CDPR) latest launch,...
Review – Lenovo's IdeaPad Gaming 3 Laptop
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Demon's Souls Review
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Developed By: Bluepoint Games Published By: Sony Interactive Entertainment Platforms: PlayStation 5 Reviewed On: PS5 Demon's Souls came out for the PS3 in 2009 and From Software's classic...
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Razer Naga Pro Review – A Reliable Multi-Purpose Companion If You Can Afford It
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LG Smart TVs to have Stadia Cloud Gaming Later This Year
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Experience bleeding edge gaming tech with the all new Razer Blade line up
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Samsung setting new standards in the flagship mobile processor world with the new Exynos 2100
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Malaysian Esports Championship 2020 sees increase in participants
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T1 and Red Bull announce a multi-year global partnership spanning across the organization's entire Esports portfolio
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ByPUN TART
Prima Games shutting down: An end of an era
Founded in 1990, after 28 years of publishing gaming guides, veteran publisher Prima Games is finally closing its doors by spring 2019.
Due to a significant decline in the video game guide sector, Prima publisher DK's CEO Ian Hudson sends out internal memo mentioning it was an "extremely difficult decision".
Multiple factors come into play
With constant game updates, multiple DLC's and changes, printed gaming guides may be outdated. Although Prima Games tried to offer more artworks, graphical contents, maps and updating its guide online via the website. It wasn't good enough to overcome the current flow of traffic from other competitive online sources such as Gamefaqs or Youtube accessibility.
The decision was made by Dorling Kindersley division of Penguin Random House, with all 3 of Prima Games Offices at Indianapolis, New York and Roseville will be closing its doors. Roseville office shutting down in mid-November while the Indianapolis office will remain publishing till March 2019.
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August Luncheon: Social Media Best Practices in Times of Crisis
by River Marquez | Jan 15, 2020 | 1 comment
August 27, 2020 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm America/Denver Timezone
Social Media Best Practices in Times of Crisis
There is no question that social media plays a vital role in effective communications—particularly when your business or brand is managing a crisis. When an emergency strikes, your social channels should assist in mitigating the situation, serve as a way to stay in touch with your audiences and help create a feeling of consistency.
Social media has been known to constantly evolve, but the current COVID-19 pandemic has many rethinking their social media strategies more than ever before. Join the New Mexico Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America on Thursday, August 27 for a lunchtime panel discussion on social media best practices during this time and during other times of uncertainty or crisis.
We'll be joined by representatives from Sandia National Laboratories, Simply Social Media, the University of New Mexico (UNM) and New Mexico State University (NMSU) for a moderated discussion that will address the ever-changing landscape of social media and best practices for how to best utilize your social media channels during current and upcoming times of crisis.
You will be provided with the meeting link and calendar invite upon registering.
Deadline to register: Wednesday, August 26 at 5 PM. Register here.
River Marquez
Account Executive, Siarza Social Digital
River is the current secretary to the board of the New Mexico Chapter of PRSA. At 21 years old, he is the chapter's youngest board member. Since graduating from the University of New Mexico's Communication & Journalism Department with a bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communication, he has worked at Siarza Social Digital, where he is currently an account executive.
During his time at UNM, River was a Presidential Scholar and a National Hispanic Merit Scholar honoree. He had the opportunity to intern for the Anderson-Abruzzo International Balloon Museum Foundation and the Waite Company prior to interning at SiarzaSD.
Justin Bannister
Associate Vice President, Marketing and Communications
New Mexico State University (NMSU)
Justin Bannister is New Mexico State University's associate vice president for marketing and communications. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communications and a master's degree in communication studies, both from NMSU. He spent more than three years in El Paso television as a reporter, producer and anchor. He has worked for NMSU since 2006 in various roles within the marketing and communications unit. NMSU's Marketing and Communications unit includes internal and external communications; news and media relations; social media and digital engagement; marketing; web communications; university broadcasting and AggieVision.
John D. Benavidez
Principal Lecturer, UNM Anderson School of Management
The University of New Mexico
John Benavidez is a Principal Lecturer at The University of New Mexico (UNM) Anderson School of Management. He holds an MBA and a BBA, both with a concentration in marketing, from UNM. John teaches undergraduate courses in marketing management, advertising campaigns, and social media and content marketing. Benavidez was presented with the 2010 Distinguished Professor Award by The Wall Street Journal, and he is a recipient of the 2004 UNM Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award.
Benavidez is currently director of the Rick and Debbie Johnson Marketing Lab and mentors undergraduate students on experiential learning projects run out of the lab, many of which are conducted as part of national collegiate marketing competitions. In recent years, project clients have included Acura, Cadillac, Credit Karma, U.S. Department of State, and Subaru of America. Under his direction, the Anderson marketing program has enjoyed great success when competing on the national stage, winning eight first-place honors, five second-place honors and two honorable mentions since 2005.
He is past president of the New Mexico Chapter of the American Marketing Association, and he has served on the American Advertising Federation New Mexico Board of Directors. In 2013, he was named as one of the "Top 100 Marketing Professors on Twitter" by Social Media Marketing Magazine.
Benavidez has worked as a marketing analyst for Bueno Foods in Albuquerque and started several businesses including ABQ Direct Marketing. For his accomplishments in business, he was honored in 2006 by the Albuquerque Business First as one of New Mexico's "40 Under Forty" young business leaders.
A native New Mexican, John is very proud of his long affiliation with UNM as a student and faculty member.
Darrick Hurst
Team Lead, Digital Communications Department
Darrick Hurst is Team Lead of Sandia National Labs' Digital Communications Department and has worked as the strategist for the Labs' corporate social media presence since 2009. He also coordinates external corporate web communications and internal communications. Prior to working in social media and web, he worked in traditional Public Relations and Communications at Sandia. He has degrees in English and Mass Communications and Journalism from the University of New Mexico.
Amy Tischler
Co-Founder, Simply Social Media
Amy Tischler is the co-founder of Simply Social Media, an award-winning social media and influencer marketing agency based in Santa Fe, NM. She is passionate about creating community and personal connection and works closely with her business partner, Caitlin E. Jenkins to manage a wide range of projects and clients who continually push her to think creatively, find solutions outside of the box and most importantly dream big.
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Look forward to hearing from this esteemed panel of experts.

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Ryu Seong-hie won the Vulcain Prize For An Artist Technician, for the magnificent work he did as a set decorator on Park Chan-wook's latest film, "The Handmaiden".
The award rewards the work of a technician for his collaboration in the creation of a film from the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival. It is awarded by a special jury, appointed by the Superior Technical Commission of Image and Sound (French: Commission Supérieure Technique de l'Image et du Son or CST). The actual trophy is awarded to the winner in Paris, during a special evening following the festival.


In order to eliminate discrimination and promote inclusion, we need to start with our children. They are the future of this world and if they can learn to love and accept each other regardless of what they look like or act like, then the world will be richer for it. Deborah Hunt takes this idea and uses it in her children's book Same Inside Different Outside. It's a lovely short story accompanied by equally wonderful pictures to help bring the message home. The colors are bright and the lines are soft. The story takes place in a school setting which readers should be able to connect with. This makes the message more relevant and easy to understand. It's a clever way to deliver a sometimes difficult message to such a young audience.
The representation of a medical professional as a woman and the teacher as a man is a nice and subtle way of breaking down gendered stereotypes when it comes to careers. In traditional books teachers are women and any medical or science-related job is played by a man. In a book about acceptance, this is a key idea to get across. The children in the book are aware of their differences from each other, which is a normal discovery at their age. The doctor who is presenting to the children in the book is kind and patient with them as she goes over the parts of our bodies under our skin. As they move through the lesson the children voice their concerns and are answered honestly. This is key for the story because it also teaches readers that it is okay to ask questions and you will receive an appropriate response.
I felt like the children had a vocabulary and an understanding of body parts that were a little beyond kindergarten. But this is a minor concern that does not impact the integrity of the message.
Deborah Hunt is able to deliver a sometimes difficult message with ease in Same Inside Different Outside. The illustrations are very nice and pleasing to look at. The content isn't difficult to understand and the message is clear and easy to digest without being muddled. Children and adults alike will find that the message this book sends is one we have been trying to share for a long time.


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Russian Box Office Proves Weak in September
Hollywood fare and Luc Besson's 'Lucy' are among the top-grossing releases
By Vladimir Kozlov
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Russia's September box office was weaker than that in any of the year's previous months, with Hollywood releases and Luc Besson's Lucy being among the top-grossing movies.
Last month, the Russian box office amounted to 2.5 billion rubles ($61.4 million), the lowest monthly figure this year to date and 27.3 percent lower than the average monthly figure for June through August, according to a report by the analytical group Movie Research.
According to the report, September is a traditionally low period in Russia, and this year's figure still came in at 20 percent higher than September 2013.
With Russian producers unwilling to release their movies during this season, foreign releases accounted for the lion's share of the box office.
Lucy, which grossed $18.4 million, was September's top-grossing pic, followed by The Maze Runner with $9.9 million and Deliver Us from Evil with $4.5 million. The best local release, Corporate Party, grossed $4 million and became the only Russian movie to crack the top 10.
The successful performance of Lucy allowed it to make the list of Russia's 10 highest-grossing movies of the year to date, currently sitting in 10th place. Transformers: Age of Extinction is the year's box-office champion to date.


This is a basic guide for the non-botanist. All plants are grouped by colors, and those which are rather similar in appearance are generally placed close together for easy comparison. Each species listed is illustrated in color with brief notes.
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4K/Blu-Ray Review: "Morbius"
Sharing the same Universe as the recent "Venom" films, "Morbius" (known to Marvel Comics fans as Morbius: The Living Vampire) didn't exactly light the world on fire commercially when it was released in early 2022. Criticized for its screenplay, performances, visual effects, and everything in between, it managed to eke out a tiny profit, but was nowhere near as successful as properties produced entirely by Marvel Studios. The film is meant to possibly set up a possible Sinister Six films (as evidenced by the awkward mid-credit scenes), but also lead into the world of Blade, with the possible inclusion of Spider-Man at some point. Nevertheless, Sony seems to have gotten off to an unfortunate start, releasing a series of films (Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage included) that don't exactly match the quality of their Disney-owned counterparts. Even so, it's good to see a franchise expand into different factions, much like the original comics, which went into a myriad of directions with multiple characters from varying storylines and universes. But at this juncture, Morbius is the least-accepted among the Sony-produced Marvel films.
Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is a brilliant doctor and scientist afflicted with a blood illness that leaves him weak and unable to walk without assistance. He grows up in a hospital environment under the care of Dr. Nicholas (Jared Harris) alongside his friend and surrogate brother Milo (Matt Smith), who is also afflicted with the same disorder. He spends his life searching for a cure, revolutionizing medicine with the invention of synthetic blood, but it's not enough. He eventually begins conducting secret, illegal experiments with vampire bats, making himself a guinea pig for testing. His experiments are a success, but the results transform him into a living vampire, equipped with superhuman abilities and a thirst for blood. Martine (Adria Arjona), a fellow scientist and close friend, discovers what Michael is doing and attempts to help him, but not before someone else steps in and helps themselves to the cure, performing the same feats and killing people in their wake. Hot on the trail are a pair of FBI agents, Rodriguez (Al Madrigal) and Stroud (Tyrese Gibson), and Michael must now focus all of his energies on undoing the effects of the cure while stopping whomever is framing him for murder.
The question at hand: Is "Morbius" as bad as the internet would lead one to believe? Of course not. It's not the worst thing ever, but it's not a home run either. It's mediocre to poor for most of its running time, though it has some interesting ideas. But was this a case of a studio tinkering with their product to the point of nearly killing it prior to its release? Maybe. Judging by the multiple rounds of reshoots before it hit theaters, something certainly seems to have been amiss. It's also not clear how much Sony knew about the outcome of Spider-Man: No Way Home since Morbius was originally meant to take place in the same universe. As evidenced by the end result, it doesn't. Spider-Man is only mentioned once and Adrian Toomes' character apparently had more interaction with Michael Morbius in the film's first trailer. So was Marvel Studios up front with their Sony partners about the direction that the Spider-Man series would take? You be the judge.
In any case, "Morbius"is a terrible film for many people, so much so that internet trolls have inadvertently given the film a new life as a possible cult item. But whether it will reach the same plateau as the recent Cats film—similarly released, re-released, and adjusted by the studio before being laughed off of movie screens—remains to be seen. I personally found sections of the film to be mildly entertaining and others not so much, but it's definitely not up to par.
"Morbius" was captured digitally in a variety of formats by cinematographer Oliver Wood (Die Hard 2, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, The Bourne Identity) The film was finished as a native 4K Digital Intermediate at the 2.39:1 aspect ratio (which means it's a digital film). The Blu Ray release isn't quite as robust as its 4K Ultra HD counterpart, but it's still strong. Because the film was shot in such high quality, the same excellent depth is on display. The CGI mostly blends with the live action elements, although a few sequences certainly stood out, including the opening moments of Michael standing outside of a cave filled with bats. Blu Ray detail is lessened in comparison to its 4K counterpart, but it's still a great high definition presentation of the film.
The main audio option is English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. The Dolby Atmos track included on the 4K Ultra HD release is a knockout and more powerful than this standard DTS-HD option, but it's still a muscular track in its own right. Dialogue exchanges are clear and precise while the surrounding speakers are given plenty to work with, from quiet ambient moments to LFE-powered explosions and gun fire. Sound effects whiz by all around the sound stage while the score is offered an abundance of aural authority. In short, both soundtracks will give your system a great workout.
My conclusion, MORBIUS may be a good outing for die hard fans only, but for anyone else, it's a sub-par film that truly has plenty of potential but fails to explore it.
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4K/Blu-Ray Review: "Ambulance"
Michael Bay is a name you either love or hate. And many times, whether you love him or hate him depends on what movie of his you're watching at the time. I personally love Bay. Back in the 90s and early 2000s he was the KING of "stupid"action movies. The Rock, Armageddon, Bad Boys, Bad Boys II: the list goes on and on and on. Heck, even the Transformers movies of his were mega blockbusters and good dumb fun until they got so repetitive that even this reviewer started to get weary of them. Well, after Transformers: The Last Knight in 2017 Michael Bay pretty much went radio silent as a director (outside of doing that Netflix exclusive 6 Underground back in 2020) and I thought he had pretty much run his course. Then I started hearing rumors this year of Bay coming back to what he does best, dumb comedy, and I was intrigued. At this point I was just a BIT worn out from his last several Transformers movies, but then I started hearing reports of how Ambulance was actually a fun movie, a huge hit, AND a return to form the master of explosions himself.
Now, I'm not exactly one to shy away from dumb action. I love Jake Gyllenhaal, I love explosions, and the trailer looked like a lot of fun, so when the disc came to review from my friend, I strapped in and just let the joyride begin. Our story starts out with a hardened EMT named Cam Thompson. She's become jaded after having spent years saving people's lives and letting them off at the hospital, but today she's about to learn just why she does what she does. Segue over to our other main hero, Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), an ex-Marine who is up to his eyeballs in debt and no way to save his wife from dying of cancer without a big influx of cash. Luckily (or not so luckily maybe) for him, his adopted brother Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a prolific bank robber who Will has been staying away from for quite some time. Well, Danny boy has a job for Will and it's enough to net them MILLIONS. It's a simple bank robbery where they go in, get out, and get filthy stinking rich. Danny just needs a driver for his crew, and this is Will's lucky day. Yeah, we already know that things don't exactly go as planned. A teach of special SIS agents from the L.A.P.D. SWAT department have been keeping tabs of Danny's crew for weeks, and upon exiting the building Danny's men are mowed down in a hail of gunfire. However, Danny and Will make their escape by hopping on Cam Thompson's Ambulance and using it to make a daring escape with $16 million worth of cash, lots of guns, and a wounded cop on board. The best way to describe Ambulance is that it's part Bad Boys, part heist movie, and 3 parts Speed. 90% of the movie takes place withing the Ambulance as Will and Danny outrun cops, blow things sky high, and figure out a way to get the heck out of dodge and away with their money.
On the surface the movie is ridiculously dump and simple. It's Speed with an Ambulance. Except there's no Dennis Hopper maniacally keeping everyone on track, and Jake Gyllenhaal is absolutely hamming it up to level 11 as the loveable/hateable/psychotic/brilliant Danny Sharp. But Michael Bay is a skilled surgeon when it comes to doing pure action, and he's right at home in his element here. Things blow up with such reckless abandon that I was laughing myself silly with this huge grin over my face the entire time. And Jake Gyllenhaal is such an insane villain/hero that you want him to die, but you want him to actually get away at the same time.
The charm is just delicious, with Michael Bay winking and nodding at his own films (they actually make jokes about The Rock and Bad Boys throughout the runtime) and while Danny is main attractant, Garret Dillahunnt almost matches Jake blow for blow with his over the top commando routine.
I'm gonna come out and say it. This is Michael Bay doing what Michael Bay does best. When they asked him "what kind of movie do you want Michael? Do you want to do Bad Boys? Do you want to do Speed? And how many explosions do you want", his response had to have been "yes, all of it". The movie is stupid, the movie is shallow, but it's kept alive with sheer adrenaline and the charisma of everyone involved. I'm not wild about Yahya Abdul-Mateen the II, but he does well as Will, but it's really Jake and Garret who just eat the scenery up like only Peter Stormaire can do in a Michael Bay film. Yeah, it's not perfect, it gets a little hokey near the end, but Bay keeps the adrenaline pumping so hard and so fast that you don't have time to slow down and analyze things to death. This is Bayhem with Baysplosions everywhere, and if you've seen his previous big name works, you know what the man is capable of. So buckle in and prepare for unlimited ammo, unlimited wise cracks, and a LOT of explosions.
Using a variety of RED cameras and finished in a native 4K master, Ambulance ROCKS onto 2160p with a stellar encode that blows the already great 1080p Blu-ray straight out of the water. The disc is just about perfect, with razor sharp details, incredible background shots, and nonstop kinetic movement that never gets blurry or artifacts. Quite literally this is one of the best looking encodes that I've seen in a long time, with only minor elements of softness when in Papi's lair, or some of the CGI looking a little bit wonky in 4K. I didn't notice banding or other major elements at play with the encode. HDR is silky deep, as the color tones tend to be cool blue or slightly amber, and bright red blood just splashes everywhere. The green of the spray paint over the vehicle stands out sharply and with deep saturation, and as I said, except for some mild haziness inside Papi's lair, this is just about PERFECT.
Did I mention this was a Michael Bay movie? It goes without saying that this is a reference level Atmos mix that just tears the walls down with abject fury. The score pulsates with deep bass energy from the first few moments of the movie, and the sound stage is just awash with chaos, Bayhem and carnage from every angle. Bullets bounce off the car at the rear, ricochet to the front of the sound stage, all the while tires screech, the score throbs, and cars blow up upon impact at just about every facet of the run time. Yeah, this is pure Bay awesome sauce, and if you like them big, like them loud, and like the bass to just punish you brutally, then this is the mix for you.
Ambulance is silly, but it's silly fun. I love it! High octane energy with Jake Gyllenhaal absolutely LOVING every second of his hammy role. It's dumb fun, and dumb fun in a way that I haven't seen for YEARS in cinema. Action movies have become so stale recently, that I really feel like this and Top Gun:Maverick pretty much saved cinemas. The 4K UHD disc is also nothing short of superb, with good extras, a killer video encode and a Michael Bay approved audio mix that will tear the walls down. Recommended as good sloppy Michael Bay fun. The Blu-ray is no slouch either, which tends to shine brighter than 4K but obviously less defined. Sound is great on Blu-ray but you only get the Atmos track on the 4K disc. ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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4K/Blu-ray Review: "Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV"
KINGSGLAIVE: FINAL FANTASY XV
Starring the voices of: Aaron Paul, Lena Heady and Sean Bean
Directed by: Takeshi Nozue
Rated: PG 13
I'm not much of a fan of films derived from video games, however I do appreciate "Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV" for its stunning digital art.
Shot in full motion-capture CGI, the film is a visual work of art with some fun voice acting. However, if you're not familiar with the game or story, you may find it a bit overwhelming. I was not at all familiar with "Final Fantasy" but it was still cool to look at and marvel at its artistry.
Watching on a 4K UHD disc certainly makes the presentation even more amazing and the sound quality is pretty amazing. The beauty of the film is that when you first glance at the characters, they look amazingly real! The full motion capture is astounding.
As for the plot, to break it down lightly, the story takes place on a planet called EOS, which is like a futuristic Earth. There is a Kingdom called Lucis, which houses a magical crystal that was given to the Lucians by gods. The power is used to protect the people and give power to the ruling king and his soldiers, who are known as the Kingsglaive. With these powers, the Kingsglaive can ward off enemies.
Anything that is magical and promises powers will surely arouse jealousy and create wars and the crystal is no exception. Friends are stabbed in the back, characters are not whom they say they are and mega monsters, demons and spaceships riddle the landscape. Everything climaxes into one big, epic final battle, which leads up to "Final Fantasy XV," the video game.
Once again, the visuals are quite stunning. In fact, this film has some of the best motion capture and CGI work I've seen on the big screen with room shaking LFE activity that'll give the subwoofers a workout. The level of detail is staggering. Hair stubble and skin pores are clearly visible and come to breathtaking life!
Even for the novice, a viewing of "Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV" will give you a glimpse of the technical achievements of current film technology. It is certainly the next step in motion capture animation.
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To Capture The Kingsglaive – The Process
Fit For A Kingsglaive – Building The World
Emotive Music – Scoring The Kingsglaive
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The North East of India is one of the most rich and diverse
cultural-linguistic regions of Asia. However, awareness of this is not
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of India and the world are now making efforts to turn around this scenario.
North East Indian Linguistics is a result of such concerted attempts. This
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The Roving is the second planet of its star, which is not visible from Earth but which lies over 1000 lightyears away in the direction of the southern constellation of Pavo. It has three natural satellites — two recogniseable planetoids like Earth's moon, and a captured asteroid.
The world is roughly the size of Earth: slightly larger, with a slightly heavier gravity. There are two main continents: one mega-continent, which on Earth would stretch from Greece to Antarctica, Senegal to the Philippines; and a smaller one to its west with a long, thin strait half the width of the Atlantic between them. To the west of the latter are the eroded remains of a third continent, now an archipelago of islands the size of Australia.
Of most interest to the humans are these facts: it is habitable; it has abundant resources; and it is almost empty.


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If you are looking for the best and easiest dessert, this is the one for you. Start with the best dark chocolate you can find. I use Belgium dark chocolate from Trader Joe's or Lindt 85% cocoa dark chocolate. This recipe is always best when you use fresh berries or cherries. But, in the winter in Kansas City sometimes I have to use the dried fruits. There are great choices at Costco. Of course, beware, they will have added sugar.
Read the ingredient list on the chocolate. Choose chocolate with no added fats except cocoa butter. Also try to find chocolate with sugar as an ingredient instead of other sweeteners. This is the most natural chocolate and the most healthful.
Break chocolate into pieces into microwave safe bowl. Heat in microwave for 1 minute. Remove and stir well. Return to microwave for 15-20 more seconds until chocolate is barely melted. Do not overheat.
Add fresh or dried fruit. Stir well.
Add fresh berries if possible. If using fresh berries stir gently. Do not break berries. Dried berries are easier to work with but not as healthful. Drop by spoonfuls on cookie sheet lined with wax paper or parchment paper.
Refrigerate until hardened, about 30 minutes. You can also use frozen berries. Work quickly to keep berries from thawing while coating with chocolate. Frozen and fresh berries will weep a bit but still taste great. If you want to have an even easier dessert, just pour rinsed fresh berries in a small serving bowl. Put a small chunk of dark chocolate in a small microwave safe bowl. Place in microwave for about 20 seconds. Drizzle melted chocolate over fresh berries. This makes a beautiful and healthful dessert in no time at all. Try this instead of a bowl of ice cream when you are watching TV tonight Low in calories and tastes great.
This is my first try at blogging recipes and including pictures. I promise I will improve with practice. I hope. Be sure to add your comments. Enjoy a great dessert loaded with antioxidants.


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A Short History of Hastings Week
Following the celebrations for the 900th centenary of the Battle of Hastings 1066 in 1966, it was agreed within Council, that the 14th October should be marked each year as 'HASTINGS DAY'. A battle lost maybe, but a day which changed the future life of England. Regretfully the request for a National Day has yet to be achieved, but one still being made.
However, Hastings was about to make more of that famous date known world wide. Nineteen towns bear our name around the globe and in 1983 several sent literature and small artefacts to an exhibition within the Festival of Hastings organised by the Hastings & St. Leonards first association. Back in 1968 the Order of 1066 was initiated. This was to be presented each year to a Resident who had contributed exceptional service to the Borough. At a Reception in the Town Hall, at the invitation of the Mayor, the recipient is kept a secret until the actual presentation. The Order is always proudly received and with great public acclaim.
Each year the Gonfalon, William's flag would be flown from a pole on West Hill and raised on command of the Mayor attended by three cadets and a bugler thus proclaiming the start of THE WEEK. A Hastings Day Committee was formed to organise the Celebrations, at first for just one day but lengthening to four in 1976. Included was William's walk from Pevensey to Battle (Rotoract), Marching Bands, a torchlight procession and a medieval banquet. By 1980 it had become a full week and now included the normandy archery tournament, the Stamco open table tennis tournament, a 1066 dance competition, boxing and water polo tournaments, all bringing visitors from afar.
Throughout the 80s and 90s the celebrations continued with the increasingly spectacular Torchlight Procession, mammoth Bonfire topped by a special effigy and Firework Display over the sea. But remained at around twenty-five events. It was now felt that the week should contain more community based events and involve a wider age range. We done just that. Both the young and senior citizens have events of their own, bringing winners aged between four and ninety eight! There are Exhibitions of local Societies' work, Cadets give excellent displays at the Opening, Closing and Gonfalon Ceremonies, the latter now taking place in the grounds of Hastings Castle and involving a Drumhead -Service, various forms of entertainment, and finally the Sunset Ceremony. There is a Festival of Jazz throughout the week, an Operatic Concert, Art Exhibitions, Our 'Green areas' are open to all and how beautiful they look. The Award Ceremony now includes the Civic Pride Awards following nominations from the public for unsung heroes and heroines who give selfless service over many years and quite rightly acknowledged. Sport and Music play an important part. In 1997 the National Town Criers' Championship joined our Celebrations. The latter had been run independently for many years but was now taken over by Hastings Borough Council.
In the year 2000 (Millennium Year) the programme contained seventy plus entries. The programme itself is produced free to the public with the grateful support of local advertisers and very valuable support from the local Press and Radio. The printed programme, which contains exciting new events every year will be available in mid August. Don't miss it!
The Hastings Week Committee is comprised of three councillors, the marketing & communications manager, five elected officers from the voluntary sector and approximately fifteen members of societies/associations/services, plus a valuable Secretary supplied by Council.
While you're here, be sure to visit Hastings Country Park, Alexandra Park, St. Helens Wood Nature Reserve and our many smaller gardens. Explore our wonderful buildings in the Old Town and Burtons St Leonards. Give your ears a treat at our jazz festival and opera South East events then cover them up at the National Town Criers Championship and our climactic bonfire and fireworks display!
Life President Dorothy Clements 2006


#MeMade Monday: This week's #Crafty project will be a purse for #dolls!
I'm back from my spring break vacation, and I've returned with a bunch of wonderful projects to work on! This week's project is a purse that has a pocket on one side.
On Wednesday I'll post my free, printable pattern. On Thursday I'll post a tutorial video showing you just how to make this cute little addition to your doll's wardrobe!
Yes, I stayed busy during my vacation, and I sewed my little heart out! All outfits shown above have been designed and photographed for tutorial videos and patterns. They should fit Wellie Wishers, Hearts4Hearts Girls, and possibly some additional dolls like BFC Ink dolls, Crissy dolls, and maybe some others.
I'm going to try them on various 13- to 17-inch dolls to see which ones these clothes will fit. Then I still need to put together all the different tutorial videos to post on my YouTube channel.
So I have a few projects ahead of me, but I'm looking forward to sharing my sewing adventures with everyone! Watch for these free patterns and tutorials in the weeks and months to come in 2019!


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Seaford, DE – At least three roads will remain closed for at least a week, due to flood damage. Many other roads throughout Delaware remain closed due to high water, report officials from the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT).
Three roads near Seaford will remain closed for at least a week, due to damaged bridges. Bridge inspectors and bridge designers made preliminary inspections of the bridges and determined that there is enough damage to keep them closed until a more exhaustive inspection can be conducted.
· Woodpecker Road, near the intersection of Route 542.
· Ellis Mill Road, between Woodland Ferry Road and Lonesome Road.
In addition to those three roads, many others are closed throughout Delaware, as flood waters remain over the roadways. DelDOT crews are inspecting roads and bridges, while they also clear storm drains and set up barricades.
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Flight Or Fight? Air India Grounds Pilots After Reported Cockpit Brawl
By Krishnadev Calamur
Published April 6, 2015 at 12:21 PM CDT
Two Air India pilots have been grounded by the airline after getting into an apparent physical altercation in the cockpit.
The Times of India, which first reported the story on Sunday's incident, quoted an unnamed source saying:
"The commander told his co-pilot to take down critical take off figures for the flight. This involves writing critical facts like number of passengers on board, takeoff weight and fuel uptake on a small paper card [trim sheet] that is displayed in front of the pilots for the entire duration of the flight. The co-pilot took offence at this and reportedly beat up the captain."
An Air India spokesman told the newspaper that the two men had "an argument ... nothing more." But the paper quoted several airline sources saying the "co-pilot abused and beat up the commander."
The newspaper reported that the airline's director of operations will conduct an investigation into the incident, which occurred just before Flight 611 took off from Jaipur en route to New Delhi. A parallel investigation will be carried out by the national Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the newspaper reported.
The flight proceeded to New Delhi in order not to inconvenience passengers, the newspaper reported. There, the pilot logged the incident and returned to Mumbai, where he lives. The Times of India also reported the co-pilot has been involved in similar incidents in the past.
Air India, India's national carrier, has had a difficult run. Agence France-Presse noted it hasn't reported an annual profit since 2007 and has been "hit by a string of technical glitches and other embarrassing incidents, including staff turning up late for flights." But The Wall Street Journal adds that the airline is trying to improve its image.
"Air India in June joined the Star Alliance, the world's largest grouping of carriers, as part of its effort to cut costs and raise revenue," the Journal reported. "Last week, Air India added a 20 th Boeing Dreamliner jet to its fleet. The 787 planes are considered more fuel-efficient than similarly-sized jets."
Krishnadev Calamur
Krishnadev Calamur is NPR's deputy Washington editor. In this role, he helps oversee planning of the Washington desk's news coverage. He also edits NPR's Supreme Court coverage. Previously, Calamur was an editor and staff writer at The Atlantic. This is his second stint at NPR, having previously worked on NPR's website from 2008-15. Calamur received an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri.
See stories by Krishnadev Calamur


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New Nordic Films is an annual Nordic film market and includes Nordic Co-Production and Finance Forum arranged within the frames of the long-established Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund.
From its start in 1995 we have expanded and cultivated the event year by year, and New Nordic Films, with over three hundred participants and twenty five new films, works in progress and seminars in the program, is established as an important meeting place for everyone with a professional interest in Nordic films.
An international market place for Nordic feature films.
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See HERE for previous editions of New Nordic Films (catalogues from 2010 to 2018).


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The Reiksport Bezirk, which lies just outside the northeast walls of Altdorf, is the newest part of the city. It has grown from being a humble gathering of sheds and jetties, to become one of the capitals most important defenses against invaders, smugglers and Marien-burgers. The district has benefited greatly from the military prescence of the Imperial Navy, and the fact that the Emperor raised funds to extend the walls of the city to encompass most of Reiksport.
It is a rough and tumble area, and one has to keep a sharp eye out for thugs and cutthroats. The district is made up mostly of docks, warehouses, barracks and living quarters for the navy and those civilians who make their living off servicing the large merchant and army vessels that moor there.
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Norwegian school installs tunable LED lighting to enhance learning (MAGAZINE)
A human-centric lighting project is intended to improve learning performance and sleep patterns for students, explains Maury Wright, and the lighting design also optimizes cylindrical illuminance.
Norwegian school installs tunable LED lighting to enhance learning in human-centric lighting application
The new Holla comprehensive school near Telemark, Norway opened for the 2016 school year with LED-based lighting inside and out, including tunable-white lighting in class and group rooms. The tunable lighting is considered human-centric lighting (HCL) or what is sometimes referred to as lighting for health and wellbeing. The spectrum can be set to boost alertness at times, for instance, during an exam, or for a relaxed environment at other times. The school hopes the system will improve learning and also help students sleep better at night. The solid-state lighting (SSL) project further included other standard LED fixtures with fixed spectrum indoors and out.
Interested in articles & announcements on tunable LED lighting in human-centric lighting applications?
Glamox Luxo Lighting supplied the lighting products for the school. The company specializes in lighting products for schools, healthcare facilities, retail, hospitality, and commercial and industrial buildings. HCL capabilities are offered in a number of Glamox luminaires. The company relies on the DALI (digital addressable lighting interface) platform for control and supports control components and systems from a number of third parties such as Tridonic and Helvar.
Tunable luminaires
The C90-R family of luminaires used in the Holla teaching rooms have the HCL capability (Fig. 1). The recessed 2×2-ft, troffer-style fixtures have a planar optic that delivers uniform light across the surface. The HCL version of the fixture can produce light across the spectrum of 2500K CCT to 7000K CCT - from warmer than incandescent lamps to a very cool color temperature. The luminaire design closely tracks the black-body locus across that range. The luminaires also deliver excellent color rendering with CRI above 90. And the school feels that such high CRI will further enhance the learning experience.
Given the control system involved, a teacher or school administrator could potentially set the CCT and dim level of the installed lighting to any desired configuration. Lumen output ranges to 4616 lm. But the installation has been customized to enable simple adjustments of the lighting for the typical modes that might come into play on a daily basis.
FIG. 1. Classrooms are primarily lit by Glamox
C90-R troffers with tunable-white capabilities.
The Standard setting for most activities configures the lighting to 3500K. Teachers have a DALI panel in each room to turn lights on or off and to adjust the dim level. The Standard setting is designed to deliver horizontal illuminance of 300 lx on a plane 0.75m above the floor - desk level.
Energy and focus
The system also includes Energy and Focus settings. First, let's discuss the photometric characteristics, which are the same for both settings, and then we will consider the different ways in which the two settings are applied.
The lighting design took into account the concept called cylindrical illuminance and often abbreviated Ez. The Ez metric is a value in lux that represents the mean value of vertical illuminance on a cylinder. Requirements for cylindrical illuminance have been defined in the European standard EN 12464-1:2011 for indoor workplace lighting, and for sitting workers that calculation is based on a height of 1.2m from the floor - typical head height. The school system delivers Ez of 350 lx at 1.2m and a CCT of 6500K in the Energy or Focus modes.
The Energy setting is managed by the building management systems (BMS) to which all of the SSL products are linked. The BMS enables the Energy setting automatically for the first lesson of the day in each classroom. The intent is to adjust the circadian rhythm of the students first thing in the morning.
The installation of the system was in part based on work done at the Norwegian Competence Center for Sleep Disorders at Haukeland University Hospital. University researcher Ingvild West Saxvig said, "During puberty, the sleep pattern often shifts towards later bedtime and awakening. This may reduce the performance among adolescents and adults."
The HCL implementation is intended to help prevent delayed sleep-wake cycles among the students. The cool to cold lighting presumably pushes the circadian rhythm forward to improve alertness and also makes the students sleepy at the appropriate time at night.
CCT transitions
At the first break of the learning day, the BMS automatically transitions the lighting to the Standard setting. The change is not accomplished immediately. Instead, the system is programmed to gradually change over a 10-minute period so that students and teachers don't even notice the transition.
Still, the teacher can take advantage of the cooler light by selecting the Focus setting from the control panel on an ad hoc basis. That setting would typically be applied during tests or for other lessons where acute focus is required. When the Focus setting is deselected, the lighting gradually transitions back to Standard.
Meanwhile, the Calm setting is warmer than Standard. The CCT is a warm 2700K with horizontal illuminance maintained at 300 lx on desks. Teachers select the Calm setting for periods of relaxation or calm activities. The BMS is also programmed to deactivate both Focus and Calm settings after 30 minutes in case teachers forget to do so. After such a period, the lighting returns to a standard setting.
The concept behind the HCL implementation is simplicity for teachers that may not understand the deep science behind tunable lighting. In fact, we have seen similar implementations from other lighting manufacturers. Acuity Brands, for instance, has preconfigured modes in its Mainstream Dynamic product lines intended specifically for educational environments.
Other SSL for the school
The Holla project, as mentioned at the start, was a comprehensive LED project. The specifiers also used the CR15-R square troffer in some areas where tunable capabilities were not required (Fig. 2). Other indoor areas are lit with Reed LED linear pendant-style fixtures such as to light the presentation boards in classrooms, as you can see in Fig. 1.
FIG. 2. Recreational areas and hallways are lit with fixed-CCT troffer products.
Outdoors, O50 LED floodlights in a cobra-head style illuminate parking and pedestrian areas. In addition, decorative O46 post-top luminaires are used in some outdoor recreational areas (Fig. 3).
FIG. 3. The outdoor lighting includes both decorative post-top luminaires
and parking-area fixtures in the cobra-head format.
HCL remains a hot and somewhat controversial topic around the globe. Some scientists believe that we don't understand enough about the non-visual impact of light to deploy HCL concepts, while others think we should move forward with what is known. We published an editorial on that topic last year that also links to a number of other HCL articles that we have published.
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Q: document.getElementsByTagName('img') , how to only get png images? I am trying to only get images with the png attribute from the dom, does anyone know how to this?

A: There is no safe way of doing this. The browser does not expose anywhere what type of image has been loaded. Moreover, you can't even guarantee that the image URL will have the correct file extension, because http://example.com/some/image is a quite valid URL.
You can get an approximation using the "attribute contains" CSS selector with querySelectorAll with browsers that support it:
var pngs = document.querySelectorAll('img[src*=".png"]');

That finds all img elements with .png somewhere in their src attribute. Note that this is vulnerable both to false positives and to false negatives.
This method will not work in IE 7 or below.

A: To iterate over the images and return those with a src property ending in .png:
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pngs is an array of images whose src ends in .png and will work in nearly every browser that ever supported scripting.
If you want something that uses querySelectorAll if available and a simple loop over images if not, then the following should suit (per lonesomeday's ansewr):
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You might get back a NodeList or an array, but if all you want to do is iterate over it then that's ok. Otherwise you'll need to convert the result of the qSA fork to an array, which is a couple more lines of code.

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If you want hummingbirds to flock to your garden the Madame Galen Trumpet Vine is a plant that should be on your list. It is a fast-growing vine that produces an abundance of deep-orange to salmon-red trumpet-shaped flowers from mid-summer into fall.
The Madame Galen Trumpet Vine produces an abundance of deep orange to salmon-red trumpet-shaped flowers that must have been specifically designed for hummingbirds. The flowers are borne in clusters at the tips of the branches starting in early to mid-summer and continuing until late summer or early fall. What's really neat is watching how the hummingbirds will disappear inside the flowers when feeding.
Madame Galen is a very vigorous climber that can grow 20 feet in height or length in a single season, so it's not a plant for the mailbox. You'll need to provide a larger structure that can support the length of the vine such as an arbor, pergola, tall pole, fence or deck rails, or even a a tall tree.
Madame Galen Trumpet Vine is exceptionally easy to grow in a wide range of well-drained soils in full sun to part shade, flowering heavier with more sun. After quickly establishing itself, it is exceptionally drought and heat tolerant and has few if any insect or disease problems.
This variety of trumpet vine (Campis) is more restrained and flowers much longer than the species: Campsis radicans.


ective, not only in regards to the colonoscopy but for other conditions as well," Dr. Yee said.
Dr. Yee's research represents the longest follow-up (3.6 years) of patients after CTC and is one of the first to include average-risk patients among the study cohort. There was no significant difference between the numbers of clinically important findings in average- and high-risk patients.
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The Ardrishaig Bothy hosts successful launch day
Locals and tourists visiting The Ardrishaig Bothy
By Claire Hutchison
The Ardrishaig Bothy had a successful launch on Friday 2 August, with a range of events taking place throughout the day in glorious sunshine.
The project is a collaboration between Cycling UK and Scottish Canals, which engages with local organisations to enhance and develop opportunities for walking and cycling in Mid-Argyll. It builds on the successful model of the Cycling UK-led Inverclyde Bothy based in Gourock, which opened in summer 2018.
The Ardrishaig Bothy, which is funded by Smarter Choices, Smarter Places, is located on Pier Square in Ardrishaig and opened on the same day as the Egg Shed - a new centre that tells the story of the Crinan Canal and the communities on its banks.
Joshua Wood, Development Officer at Cycling UK, said: "The Ardrishaig Bothy brings together the existing walking and cycling groups, and gives people the opportunity to find out about those groups.
"Activities will involve health walks, led rides, cycling confidence sessions and family cycling."
Staff and volunteers from Cycling UK and other projects hosted the launch day and interacted with more than 100 members of the public in Pier Square.
"The Bothy will be absolutely brilliant, the community needs something like this."
Jenny Richmond
The day kicked off at 11am with a Play Together on Pedals taster session; bikes and helmets were provided for kids aged two to five, to help them learn how to ride a bike.
One of the nine children who took part was three-year-old Mille, whose cycling ability came on leaps and bounds during the activity.
Her mother, Jenny Richmond, 26, a dental nurse from Lochgilphead, said: "When she got here, she couldn't start and go herself, and now she can, it's brilliant.
"The other night Millie came off her balance bike and onto her bike with pedals, so I just wanted to get her a bit more confident - and she has done.
Throughout the day, The Ardrishaig Bothy also held a 'bike tweak and tune', which was carried out by bike mechanics from Billy Bilsland Cycles and Community Tracks Inverclyde.
The mechanics fixed ten bikes, with some just needing a quick tweak and others needed more attention.
Davie Duncan, bike mechanic for Community Tracks Inverclyde, said: "We fixed up a wee boy's bike that had both the wheels going in opposite directions.
"People come along with bikes that are rubbing and making noises and you get a chance to fix them up, give them a quick spray and oil. Sometimes it's like a brand-new bike."
Between 11am and 1pm, people had the opportunity to try-out e-bikes and cycle them along the Crinan Canal.
Local bed and breakfast owner, Sara MacLeod, was one of those who had a shot of the e-bikes; she hadn't ridden a bike for 17 years.
Sara, 54, from Lochgilphead, said: "I absolutely loved the e-bike, it was so easy to ride, and I felt very stable and safe.
"E-bikes make cycling accessible for everyone; I have a back problem and I've had knee surgery, but I found cycling very easy and enjoyable with no impact on my joints."
Sara also thinks that the opening of The Bothy will boost tourism in the area and act as a community hub for Ardrishaig.
"It will be a real bonus for the area by promoting walking and cycling for everyone. There are so many beautiful cycle rides in the vicinity," she added.
Throughout the day, there was also a canal treasure hunt for children and many chats were had with local people about what the bothy has to offer.
The launch of The Ardrishaig Bothy and The Egg Shed brought the community together in celebration of a new lease of life for Pier Square.
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Meet 'The Derbyshires'
Meet the Derbyshire's
Our fictional family, the Derbyshire's live in Doveholes. They are a close knit family, with farming roots and work hard to do the best for each other.
Farming Support and Oil Buying
The family is headed up by Don a retired farmer who is still coming to terms with the loss of his wife two years ago and who is visited regularly by the Agricultural Chaplain. Don's bungalow is off the gas grid and he relies on kerosene to heat his home, the cost of which was taking up an increasing proportion of his retirement income. Don joined the RAD Oil buying scheme and saved £200 last year. Now he tells everyone about the scheme.
Village Halls and Community Buildings Advice
His son Derek has taken over the farm and is also the chair of his village Hall committee. Derek recently discovered that the hall was in breach of licensing laws and was in danger of being prevented from holding wedding receptions, which is the main source of income for the hall. He contacted the RAD Village Halls and Community Buildings Adviser who advised him about the halls responsibilities and helped him get the hall properly licensed.
Donald's other son Dave is married to Dee and they have three children. Daisy is seventeen and is an apprentice hair and beauty therapist, she was struggling to get to her college and work placement until she joined RAD's Wheels to Work project and got a moped. Now she uses the moped to keep in touch with friends and visit her grandad as well as get to work and college.
Daniel is 15 and recently attended the national citizenship course at Derby college, part of that course was a session about money management delivered by FAAD. This course opened his eyes to the fact that the level of income he is likely to achieve after leaving school means it will be difficult to make ends meet if he wants to move into a flat. He became quite desponent as a result and caused his Mother, Dee, to be very worried about him.
Dave and Dee recently had a new baby called Dakota – this put an unexpected pressure on their family finances and Daniel's advice about budgeting came in very useful.
Suicide Awareness Training
Dee undertook some suicide awareness training delivered by RAD in order to be better informed to help Daniel. She has become a big advocate of the suicide awareness training and is trying to persuade the local school where she is a governor that they should take part in the RAD pilot self harm and suicide awareness training aimed at parents, teacher and pupils.
Neighbourhood Development Planning
Dave and Dee are both concerned that Doveholes has very little to offer young people and they are worried that quarrying nearby is destroying ancient Neolithic sites. A group of people got together to develop a neighbourhood development plan and Dave got involved and contacted RAD for help with the process.
Where would the Derbyshires be without RAD?
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See how many colour spirits you can grab before the time runs out!
The game is great for encouraging group interaction and building partnerships. It teaches children to take turns, improve their mathematical ability as they count the scores and is a great means of improving hand, eye coordination as the user tries to catch the falling spirits.
It also encourages users to take control of the space and make decisions as they think about what action to take next. It also encourages sustained concentration and engagement.
Challenge your friends to see who can get the highest score before the time is up, with this incredibly addictive game of football.
He shoots, he scores. Use slam dunk to fire the imagination and direct further exploration beyond the app.
Users will be mesmerised for hours with this vivid and engaging app.
Looking to be the next David Beckham? Want to energise and excite a group? Then football is the game for you!
See how many happy heads you can grab before the time runs out!
Want to energise and excite a group? Or get people moving? Then ice hockey is the game for you!
Catch the fruit and vegetables as they fall from the sky – but watch out for the rotten ones that will bring down your score!
Movement means music with this magical app! Interact with the colourful dots to make sounds.
Guide Esmeralda through the winding forest, collecting pumpkins along the way - but watch out for the wizards who want to steal the pumpkins for themselves!
Help Billy Bob catch the apples falling from his tree. How many can you catch before the times runs out?


Neutron Collisions, Stanislaw Ulam , Solitares and my Pgplot practice.
The year was 1946. Physicists at Los Alamos Scientific Lab were investigating radiation shielding and distance neutrons would travel in various materials. Despite having the data, the problem could not be solved with analytical calculations.
At the very same time, Stanislaw Ulam was convalescing from an illness and playing solitaires and thinking. His thoughts meandered around what are the chances that a Canfield solitaire laid out with 52 cards will come out successfully?
Thus the Monte Carlo Method was born.
If you read through the above Wikipedia article, it explains a method to estimate the value of Pi approximately using Monte Carlo Method. So here's the Fortran program just doing that.
It uses PGPLOT as the graphics engine and you can see graphically see how the program estimates the value of Pi.
Really cool!! But not as cool as neutron collisions!
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The spare soulfulness and inventive sound of Billy Novick's (clarinet) and Bob Nieske (acoustic bass) is captured perfectly in this duo recording. Bob and Billy have performed as a duo for the past five years at the Franklin Cafe in Gloucester, MA and this recording is a testament to their highly-developed musical communication. You can purchase it as either a digital download or as a real CD.
Paul Lenart and I just finished recording another project for Sonoton, the world's largest music production library. We're calling this one "Vintage Jazz" and it builds upon or award-winning "Cool Jazz" CD we recorded twenty years ago. We were thrilled with how the the amazing musicians we worked with captured the sound, vitality and spirit of the music we wrote. Heartfelt thanks to Mark Soskin (piano), Dave Clark (bass), Bill Reynolds (drums), Mike Peipman (trumpet), Dave Harris (trombone) and John Wilkins (guitar). I played all the saxes we needed and I was truly inspired to record with such great musicians.
but, nontheless, as a winner of the Marks Award (yeah- I never heard of it either) I still get a statuette for the BEST JAZZ TRACK from the PMA (Production Music Association)!
The song is "Bopology," and I wrote it with my good friend and co-conspirator, Paul Lenart about 15 years ago.
and this was the best they could come up with?
The statuette will go right next to the trophy I got twenty years ago when I coached my then ten year- old daughter's soccer team. We were undefeated....like 4-0 in the lowest tier of a small town soccer league...but hey, a trophy is a trophy!
I just finished both arranging and playing on a recording produced by renowned guitarist Duke Robillard. The CD will feature a wide array of female vocalists- including Maria Muldaur, Elizabeth McGovern (of Downton Abbey) and Catherine Russell- performing songs of the '20's and '30's.
recorded by Billy Novick's Blue Syncopators!
2013 "The Sun Also Rises" Ballet is a huge success!
Billy's second full-length ballet was commissioned by The Washington (DC) Ballet to create a period score for their original production of Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises. His collaboration with choreographer and company artistic director Septime Webre was a huge success, selling out 6 of 7 shows at the Eishower Theater at the Kennedy Center.
"Before the curtain rises on the Washington Ballet's "Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises," you get a taste of the ruin, decay and vague comfort that the war-scarred writer etched into his book. This atmosphere is evoked in Billy Novick's gorgeous piano overture, which guides the audience through deep, slow waters into a Hemingwayish world. One of the pearls of this ballet... is Novick's music, his arrangements and original compositions, which are performed live by his band and local musicians. Novick also collaborated with Webre on "The Great Gatsby," but here his velvety jazz is even more artfully woven into an emotional landscape. This ballet gives us ample time to enjoy it."
"The original music by Billy Novick — who is also the music director and plays the saxophone and clarinet here — effectively conjures both the 1920s jazz age and the more traditional music genres of Spain."
2010 "The Great Gatsby" Ballet is a huge success!
Billy was commissioned by The Washington (DC) Ballet to create a period score for their original production of The Great Gatsby. His collaboration with choreographer and company artistic director Septime Webre was a huge success, selling out 6 of 7 shows at the Eishower Theater at the Kennedy Center and it was the best-selling show in the history of the Washington Ballet.
" Bringing in Boston-based jazz expert Billy Novick and his band ... was a brilliant move.
The result is that for its musical splendors alone "Gatsby" is a remarkable event, an evening of explosive, ticklish and swooning live jazz (songs of the era, filled out with Novick's compositions), played with a verve to spark your thirst for hooch. Especially wonderful are the dark and cinematic early Ellington tunes ("East St. Louis Toodle-oo," "Saturday Night Function"), percolating jammers such as Tommy Dorsey's sly "It's Tight Like That," and Irving Berlin's ruminative "What'll I Do?" -- which echoes through the ballet as the theme for Jay Gatsby's romantic longings."
"The first bit of action in Septime ?Webre's "The Great Gatsby" is the emergence of the jazz band, rising on a lift from the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater's orchestra pit, the tuba and string bass glowing under the lights like oil lamps.
It's fitting that vocalist E. Faye Butler and the six musicians of Billy Novick's Blue Syncopators receive such a prominent introduction, because they are the starring attraction of this production, which the Washington Ballet reprised Thursday after its February 2010 premiere. It is the music — vintage selections by Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin and more — that not only sets the mood for each scene but contributes to the emotional and dramatic tension, helps define the characters and distinguishes one episode from another. "
And now there's a soundtrack CD!
"Tillie's Punctured Romance"to be released on DVD!


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The Elemental Dance
The four elements has been a paradigm that has spanned civilisations as a fundamental cosmological picture of the universe. It has been used to describe phenomena and to understand and predict the changes to which phenomenon is subject. It remained the paradigm which provided the basis of natural sciences for thousands of years. Since it is a phenomenological approach, when the analytic scientific approach became dominant and positivist science became the standard, the four element and phenomenological approaches in general were rejected.
The Elemental Dance re-explores the four element paradigm from the perspective of sufic cosmology, deviating from the later Greco-Arab approach by examining the four element paradigm as an energetic phenomena. It is written from the perspective of traditional sufism and so expresses its scientific language in sufic terms. It presents the implications of Qur'anic statements and the Hadith literature which form the basis of Islamic belief in cosmological terms which are then translated into a scientific paradigm.
The Elemental Dance provided the foundations for the Know Yourself Method.
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Alex Carberry has written a concentrated and powerful book which breaks fresh ground by drawing on ancient Sufic traditions...


The initiatives unveiled by Mayor Jim Kenney take a public health approach to gun violence and aim to tackle poverty, invest in community groups and fund innovative policing tactics.
As shooting numbers rise in Philadelphia, top officials are now combatting the crisis with a new plan. Neighbors say something has to change.
Months after declaring Philadelphia's gun violence a public health emergency, the mayor presented a roadmap Thursday of broad goals to address the problem.
The initiatives unveiled by Mayor Jim Kenney take a public health approach to gun violence and aim to tackle poverty, invest in community groups and fund innovative policing tactics. He said his administration will commit $4.4 million to launching the initiatives over the next six months and will consider more funding in his budget proposal.
"We need a new approach," he said to the packed audience of officials, including the police commissioner, members of city council and community groups. "We must get away from the mindset that police can be the only answer to this problem."
Police data show there were 351 homicides in Philadelphia in 2018 -- the most homicides in the city in over a decade.
Overwhelmingly, the victims tend to be young, black men in neighborhoods struggling with poverty. Philadelphia is the poorest big city in the country. Part of the plan looks at how to build a sense of connection, community and safety for young black men in those neighborhoods.
"The opposite of gun violence is opportunity," said Theron Pride, who helped craft the plan with Vanessa Garrett Harley, who heads up the city's criminal justice and public safety agency.
City Councilman Curtis Jones lauded the set of initiatives, saying it might not be perfect but "for the first time in a long time, we have a game plan."
Chantay Love, who has been working on reducing gun violence and helping families suffering its after-effects, said she was heartened by the city's approach. City officials have met with a host of community groups, including Love's, to get input on their plan.
"There is more communication, they're taking more of a community approach, and they're throwing out some of the stuff that just isn't working," said Love, whose family started the support group Every Murder is Real after her brother Emir Greene was shot and killed in 1997. "I'm not marching again, I'm not holding up another sign to fight for something that is the moral, right thing to do."
For Brandon Jones, who works as a mentor to young people at risk of gun violence, said he has concerns about how the money will be spent, and how the city will allocate it. But overall he sees the initiatives as a sign that the city is moving forward on promises.
"I see political figures here who ran on these platforms of reducing violence, and they are standing behind their words, and that's a pleasure," he said.


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As a young man, after graduating a year and a half early from high school, Ken chartered his first corporation and began warehousing and distributing steel cable/wire rope supplier to dragline and barge operators throughout the mid-south. After getting a bachelor's degree in chemistry and attending two years of medical school, Ken started his second company, building $250,000 single-family "spec" homes in Nashville, Tennessee.
After serving as not one but two law review editors and earning his JD, Ken practiced with one of the premier legal firms in Memphis before starting his own law firm and eventually taking his family to Columbus, Ohio; Modi'in, Israel; and then Baltimore, Maryland.
In addition to practicing law, Ken has worked in several industries. He has owned and run an Apple software development and publishing company he purchased from a group of owners led by Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari. In addition, Ken served as the founding medical practice administrator at a new medical clinic in Columbus.
After drafting patents in Israel, Ken was hired as the founding head of a new Jerusalem-based debt collection subsidiary of an international telephone conglomerate, which he started from scratch and developed to full operation within 24 days after being tasked with the project by the majority shareholder and CEO of the publicly traded corporation. He wrote a textbook for debt collectors, "Debt Collection 101," the copyright of which was purchased by American Collectors Association International. Ken has also served as a debt collection consultant for a Tennessee bank and several debt collection participants.
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