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(I wanted to make a weekly post on snippets of my kids' life in a week, as some sort of souvenir.)
Land Forms in Clay
Migi and Meg had projects that asked them to bring clay to school. They'll be making clay models of different land forms.
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Migi's New Schoolbag
We let him choose what he would want to receive as a birthday gift, a new school bag or rubber shoes. I was hoping he'd go for a rubber shoes, but he chose a new school bag. So Wednesday, we went to SM City Consolacion so he can pick his new bag. He specifically asked me that he should be the one to choose his new bag.
His choice was a confirmation that's Migi has somewhat the same taste with Mark when it comes to choosing their stuff.
His first choice was a spiderman bag. But after more looking around, he went for this more plain-looking school bag but has all the features in the world, which might take him until grade 6 to use all of them. And, best of all he can sit on it. So it's actually a chair sidelining as a bag.
And, the thing that confirmed him most that he's Mark's son is that the bag is expensive (compared to the other available bags). We agreed that it will be his bag until grade 6.
Clay Craze
Since their clay project, they'd been asking me to get them more clays. With their everyday nagging, I just had to give in.
meg's penguin
Mati's "tawo"
None from migi as he did not want me to take pic of his as it's not perfect.
Last week was an exam week for them. In between studying, Migi had these doodles. There were actually more of these.
Looonggg weekend
Someone had his holiday earlier. Friday, Mati went to school but only to drop his siblings. He did not like school that day.

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Implants are enhancers that can be plugged into characters. They can enhance attributes, thereby boosting skill training speed or they can help enhance piloting skills, increase your industry prowess or improve your ability in whatever task awaits.
Implants are a great way of improving a characters abilities, they are, however, frail and will be destroyed alongside the capsule of the character or if they are unplugged.
Each character has 10 slots for implants. Each implant slot fills a specific role and each implant is assigned a specific slot it can be plugged into. Slots 1 through 5 take Attribute Enhancer Implants that increase skill training speed, while slots 6 through 10 take Skill Hardwiring implants that can improve certain piloting skills further.
Some Implants are part of an implant set, providing a set bonus with each additional implant of the same set plugged in. In addition to the attribute bonus, set implants have a specific bonus that enhances piloting skills and as well as a tertiary effect that improves the secondary effects of other plugged in implants in the set.
Implants that are no longer required can be removed from a character. However, as mentioned above, removing or unplugging an implant will destroy the implant.


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Even though pulses have been used in traditional meals throughout the world for centuries, only now are they gaining the popularity that they deserve. Unknowingly including pulses as a staple of traditional meals provided and still provides essential nutrients for health and longevity.
In the award winning documentary and book The Blue Zones, Dan Buttener describes areas across the world where its inhabitants live for over 100 years. Besides a range of habits and daily rituals, diet plays a key role in their longevity and most of these diets are primarily plant based, with pulses being a key ingredient.
Popular chefs and restaurants have re-discovered pulses and are including them more frequently into menus. In Jamie Oliver's new recipe book he describes his secret to weight loss and regained health. Two to three times a week he swapped meat meals for more beans and pulses. A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has also shown eating just one portion of pulses a day helps weight loss by making you feel fuller and also reduces bad cholesterol.
Looking at the nutritional value and composition of pulses it is clear why they contribute to health. Pulses are a nutrient dense food, which means that per gram, they have a high concentration of nutrients while low in energy. They are low GI, high in fibre and contain protein, vitamins and minerals. Adding to this, they are also gluten free.
The United Nations wants the world to know all of this and has declared 2016 as the International Year of Pulses.


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I primi passi nel mondo dell'hip hop sono già nel 1993, quando Chief registra un brano con il cantante R&B Joe, per la colonna sonora del film Don' Be A Menace. Ma la spinta decisiva arriva con l'adesione al gruppo Army of the Pharaohs, fondato da Vinne Paz, MC dei Jedi Mind Tricks e composto anche da Bahamadia, Stoupe (DJ e produttore dei Jedi Mind Tricks), 7L & Esoteric e Virtuoso. Il loro lavoro gli fa guadagnare forti apprezzamenti da parte dell'underground, grazie a singoli come Five Perfect Exertions, uscito sotto Superegular Recordings nel 1998.

Chief, oltre ai lavori del collettivo, svolge una parallela attività solista che nello stesso 1998 lo porta alla pubblicazione del singolo Unusual Styles e successivamente a collaborare con gli artisti della Babygrande Records, etichetta dei Jedi Mind Tricks. Tra i featuring spicca quello in The Deer Hunter, brano inserito nell'LP Violent By Design di Vinnie e Stoupe.  Nel 2004 infine Chief pubblica Cult Status, suo lavoro solista di debutto, dal flow deciso e dalle produzioni semplici, contenente una collaborazione di rilievo quale The Best, con Guru dei Gang Starr (nell'occasione ribattezzatosi Baldhead Slick).

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A tennis racket head size for intermediate players is directly proportional to how well you strike the ball. As a beginner player you most likely used an oversize racket because striking the ball in the center of the racket was your primary concern. However, as you got better, your concern shifted to consistency, power and accuracy. For those items, an over sized racket may not be right for you.
So what's the best head size?
There is no best racket for every intermediate player, but the best one for you will probably have a head sized be between 100 and 105. This type of racket provides a larger sweet spot for clean crisp shots but also is forgiving enough for off center shots. As you get better, you will want the feel of a smaller racket head size.
Weight is a huge factor when determining the tennis racket head size for intermediate players. You will want a racket that is light enough to be nimble at the net but heavy enough to pound a baseline winner. A strung weight of 290-310g should do the trick. This weight allows the racket to maneuver well and be powerful enough for intermediate rallies.
Yes, string gauge is very important. It is common for an intermediate player to buy a 16 gauge string. 16 gauge strings are durable, but lack feel. Conversely, an 18 gauge string will break a lot but the feel is phenomenal. I personally like the 17 gauge string. It provides plenty of feel and enough durability to last a few matches before breaking.
What's the deal with the string pattern?
String patterns may or may not play an important role for you. An open string pattern (sometimes referred to as a 16 main and 20 cross) has more space between the strings and adds more spin to the ball as opposed to the dense or closed string pattern. A dense string pattern (sometimes referred to as an 18 main and 20 cross) has less space between the strings and adds more control to your strokes. I would suggest playtesting a racket with both. You may not even notice a difference. If and when you get to the club pro level, you will notice a difference.


I think it is safe to say that this is my favorite album of all time, or at the very least, of twenty sixteen. Twin Peaks is my favorite band and I would wager that this is their strongest album. In albums past their sound is very low-fi and garage rock esque, fitting seeing as their first album Sunken was recorded in a basement with very little in the way of high tech recording software. This new album retains the garage rock sound that Twin Peaks was known for, but with much more depth to it. The Keyboard adds a very classic feel to many of the songs with a stand out example being track six "Cold Lips". The keyboard creates a strong opening and thus a completely different feel from the purely garage rock sound of most anything on Wild Onion. This coupled with the increase in acoustic guitar create a much more relaxed and slowed down pace throughout the album, not to say that the album doesn't have it's own energy. Songs like "My Boys" and "Butterfly" are upbeat and energetic while containing some great acoustic guitar.
The Album has an overarching theme of relationships. The album itself tells the story of a young man falling in and out of love with a girl and some of the tribulations along the way. From the roaring start of the relationship in "Walk to the One You Love" all the way to the acceptance of the end in "Have You Ever". But it's about more than just relationships with "Holding Roses" being about accepting loss in general through a nice Beatles' inspired tune. The dramatic highs of of the beginning of the album to the more quiet and thoughtful middle all the way to an ending just as energetic as the beginning help to cement the themes and create a cohesive story throughout the album. Between great music and a great story of love and loss Down in Heaven is easily the best Twin Peaks album, and just a great album overall. I highly recommend that everyone who reads this review gives it a listen if they haven't already.


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The network will air Capital One's , presented by Autotrader leading up to the event.
The broadcast team will include host Brian Anderson, analysts Trevor Immelman and Andre Iguodala and reporters Cheyenne Woods and Gary McCord.
Now, EA Sports has teamed with the NHL to do the same thing for its release.
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Join James Tiberius Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Bones and the rest of the crew of the USS Enterprise for an epic adventure filled with edge-of-your-seat action and ground-breaking special effects.
Turns out they are in everyday situations: At an airport, at a concert, hosting a backyard BBQ, on the subway and in a laundromat.
There are coins out there, but we didn't see anything that spoke to Upper Deck's quality commitment and value.
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Chongqing Fairy Lady Cave
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Name Origin of Chongqing Fairy Lady Cave
Chongqing Fairy Lady Cave is located at Wenquan Town of Kaixian County. It covers an area of about 0.4 – 0.5 million square meters. It is characterized by grand, deep and mysterious. It is cool in summer and warm in winter. It was named Thunder Cave since there is a legend goes that Fairy Lady Cave was split by the thunder. It is also named Ling Cave since its internal landscape is really mysterious and amazing. From Emperor Qianlong Period to Emperor Xianfeng Period of Qing Dynasty, local people said that there was a Fairy Lady made shoes for the poverty-stricken salt workers and boatmen; hence the cave was called Fairy Lady Cave.
Landscape of Chongqing Fairy Lady Cave
The existing palaces and corridors were renovated in the third year of Xuantong Period. The theatrical stage inside the second gate is not very big but it is wooden-bracket structured. The mouth of Chongqing Fairy Lady Cave is behind a courtyard. There is a two-floor palace above the mouth of the cave. There exists a stone gate for appreciating.
Landscape of Chongqing Fairy Lady Cave – Outer Cave
The outer cave of Chongqing Fairy Lady Cave is about 10 meters high and 25 meters wide, grand and spacious. There are two phoebe bourneis standing in the mouth of the cave just like two pillars. Vines hanging on the top of the cave looked like curtains. There is a big stone like a wall divided the cave into two parts. The front part is pretty bright. There are statue of Fairy Lady, stone bed, stone couch, stone desks and stools. The Fairy Lady statue is more than 3 meters high. There was a stone bell hang on the top of the cave which dropped down in February 1962.
Landscape of Chongqing Fairy Lady Cave – Inner Cave
The inner cave of Chongqing Fairy Lady Cave is rather dark. The giant stones here looked like lions and horses. There is a hole on the left part through which one could get to the outer cave. One can only step further with the light of candle or torch when you entered the cave. But you will find it is wide and bright if you get deeper into the cave. There are holes in the top of the cave; some of them are as big as moon while the others as small as star. The sunshine came in from the holes and the cave was named Moon cave. The front part of the cave is pretty flat and there is a pool with a big stone in it named Bathing Lion. There is a slope with grotesque rocks in the back cave. There is a path through which visitors could climb up. Stand on the top of the slop, people would be surprised by various shapes of stalactites.


I have seeds for this beautiful corn. NOT, genetically modified organism (GMO) or genetically engineered (GE). I will be planting the seeds in a special safe area. I hope to harvest enough to share with my CSA sharers and to plant again next year.
"This corn Glass Gem is a flint corn used for making flour or as a popping corn. Unlike sweet corn, it is not edible right off the cob. However, it was likely bred as an ornamental variety—for obvious reasons. Many of these exquisite ears are simply too beautiful to eat."
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At Nokia we have been using the following simple model for our Digital Media Planning for about a year now.
Like all good models, it is designed to be very, very simple.
Obviously one of the things available to you is your own web site. With Nokia it gets a bit more complex, since we have so many media that we "own": http://www.nokia.mobi (perhaps the most visited mobile site in the world?), MyNokia (Nokia's CRM program), all of our service sites (ovi.com, ngage.com, nokia music), as well as more niche sites like beta labs etc. Quite a few options, before any media has even been bought: my team is currently planning to pull together a kind of internal media bank to keep track of all the options in terms of Nokia's own media.
This clearly has a role, although often it is overemphasized by agencies who make money out of percentages of media spend. Banners have a role in terms of awareness, but I'm not a fan of buying media in general, except when the creative proposition is great. Mostly, I see it as a necessary evil, except with search marketing, which is more interesting to me as it is less interuptive.
IMO, this is where the action is. This is where you have done something so cool or interesting that people want to use their own media to tell others about it, and hence you earn media. I am currently reading this brilliant analysis of why things spread from the guys at MIT. They claim that content is shared (and therefore Media is Earned) because of three main factors relating to the dynamics of groups.
Some people think that Earning Media is about getting free space when budgets are tight. In my experience, Earning Media is a not necessarily a cheap option, and is certainly more time-consuming than buying media with big networks. More importantly, Earning Media is about engaging with consumers on their terms and gaining trust based on genuine understanding. Consumers don't trust advertising, but they do trust peer recommendation. As long as brands don't abuse this situation, then this leads to better quality, more authentic and more relevant marketing.
You can of course go into much more detail with each of these. And there are interesting overlaps. But in general, it is a simple model that has been useful in our digital planning.
Your point about earned media not being cheap is an important one that not enough people seem to get – the number of marketers that think they can 'buy' a few bloggers before sitting back and letting the revenue roll in still scares me. As you say, it's about engagement and becoming part of a community.
the other thing, of course, is that there's no guarantee you'll earn yourself that media space. that goes back to your point about investing time as much as cash. so there's calculated risk that you take on…which when done right, pays off.
i guess it helps to have a certain brand history (and experience you get from learning along the way), and (maybe) to keep having the guts to keep going out and earning it.
I think the age old add-value-marketing-thinking is extremely spot on when it comes to earned media. Offering something that adds value in certain communities is nicely explained in MIT's split.
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For a concept that suppose to be so simple, I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it and figuring out the advantage of using it.
Is this more of a strategic way of referencing various aspects of the online/digital/interactive marketer or can it be used to draw up detailed plans?
I think a lot of my confusion stems from the large overlaps- so much overlap that I'd argue simplicity is thrown out the window and I'm not seeing how this model helps bring order to the jungle.
Social media efforts exist on owned properties but generate earned visits? Who gets the credit? Is it not about credit?
The diagram above implies that the activities are distinct, with some overlap. Actually I would say now that by doing own and bought media activities well (plus, having a good product of course!) a company earns media. Especially if it exceeds expectations.
When we originally drew this diagram at Nokia in 2008, not many people in digital marketing were really talking about Social Media or Earned Media. Most digital campaigns were bought (banners and SEM) driving to a desitnation web-site. Earned media was more about talking to bloggers and getting third parties to review your product etc; even corporate Facebook presences were in their infancy The diagram was merely trying to express what now basically everyone knows: digital marketing is most effective when people around the web discuss it and share your message because it is interesting or useful (propagation planning).
It's not really about credit, and I would say the diagram itself cannot be used to draw up detailed plans. But it can be a decent way to structure your thinking and make sure that you are covering the three main aspects of a successful campaign.
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Pralidoxim (kurz 2-PAM) ist ein Antidot, das bei Vergiftung mit Organophosphaten angewendet werden kann und in verschiedenen chemischen Abwandlungen vorkommt. Eigentlich bezeichnet der Name Pralidoxim lediglich das zugrundeliegende Pyridiniumkation. Prominente Gegenionen sind Chlorid, Iodid und Methylsulfat. Eine bessere Wirkung weist jedoch Trimedoxim auf.

Mögliche Formen

Isomerie
Pralidoxim kann in der E- oder in der Z-Konfiguration vorliegen. Kristallstrukturanalysen zeigten, dass die E-Konfiguration mit linear-ausgestreckter Aldoxim-Gruppe vorherrscht. Allerdings gibt es Hinweise darauf, dass unter physiologischen Bedingungen eine s-cis-Konfiguration der Bindung zwischen dem Ring-Kohlenstoffatom und dem Aldoxim-Kohlenstoffatom entscheidend ist. Auch fand man, dass die Struktur sich durch Deprotonierung stark verändert. Der Pyridinring ist in der protonierten Form deutlich flexibler, als in der deprotonierten Form.

Salze
Drei beispielhafte neutrale Verbindungen des Pralidoxims sind in folgender Tabelle aufgeführt:

Gewinnung und Darstellung
Die erste Synthese von neutralen Formen des Pralidoxims stammt von Ginsburg und Wilson und wurde 1957 veröffentlicht. Dabei wird das Edukt Picolinaldehyd zuerst mit Hydroxylaminhydrochlorid in einer neutralen, wässrigen Lösung zum Oxim umgesetzt und dann eine Additionsreaktion zum Beispiel mit Methyliodid in Aceton durchgeführt. Das Produkt (hier das Pralidoximiodid) kann aus Wasser rekristallisiert werden.
Ginsburg beschrieb ebenfalls die Synthese des Pralidoximchlorids. Dazu bediente er sich des Pralidoximiodids welches er bereits hergestellt hatte und schüttelte es in einer wässrigen Silberchlorid-Lösung. Silberiodid fiel aus und das Pralidoximchlorid blieb in der Lösung.

Das Pralidoximmethylsulfat wird synthetisiert, indem statt Methyliodid im zweiten Schritt das Methylierungsreagenz Dimethylsulfat verwendet wird.

Pharmakologie
Pralidoxim-Salze reaktivieren die durch Organophosphate reversibel inaktivierte Acetylcholinesterase, indem sie den gebildeten Phosphatester zwischen dem Organophosphat und dem Enzym wieder spalten. Somit wird einer Akkumulation des Acetylcholins entgegengewirkt. Die langsame Umwandlung des Enzyms durch das Organophosphat in eine nicht wieder aktivierbare Form wird zudem ebenfalls verhindert. Die Paralyse der Atemwege wird allerdings von Pralidoxim verhältnismäßig schlecht gehindert, weswegen es meist zusammen mit Atropin angewendet wird. Die Anwendung von Pralidoxim muss innerhalb von 24 Stunden nach der Vergiftung erfolgen und ist bei unterschiedlichen Organophosphaten auch unterschiedlich stark wirksam.

Wechselwirkungen
Es sind Wechselwirkungen mit mehreren hundert Arzneimitteln bekannt. Die meisten davon sorgen für eine verlangsamte Exkretion des Pralidoxims und dadurch für eine höhere Konzentration im Blut.

Handelsnamen
Kombination von Pralidoximchlorid mit Atropin: Atnaa, DuoDote

Siehe auch

 Obidoximchlorid

Einzelnachweise

Ion
Antidot
Pyridiniumverbindung
Oxim


Image with expressions like that of a human photo is creative enough to be art by itself. Manipulating these photos using vector or raster photo editing software enhances these photos and they become more creative and appealing.
These human photo manipulations are more expressive and dynamic thus gives a different mood and feel. With retouching, adding vectors or distorting these images they become an artwork.
We have collected 50 of the best human photo manipulation images on the web and take a look how these photos give a different kind of impression compared to its raw unedited counterpart. Which one is the most creative?
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OWO!! Fantastic Human Photo Manipulation. Thanks for sharing….
i like fire photo but most of them are too revealing or sexest!!!!
So much creative and innovative idea.Like the manipulation.
Awesome post. I am utterly surprised and can't believe that it is also possible to a man to design these type of photos. Brilliant jobs and very helpful and easy to learn from you guy.


Toddler storytime is very rambunctious at my library. We originally had two toddler storytimes a week when I first started, but have since bumped it up to four. We currently hold two on Tuesday and two on Thrursday at 9:30 & 10:00. Each session is 15-20 minutes long.
We usually have a full room with anywhere up to 26 people. Once we reach the 26 mark, we encourage parents to come to the next storytime at 10:00. Our current storytime numbers are at a record high!
I try to include a small definition of an early literacy tip each week. This week we talked about talking! I said, "Today all of our books are going to involve talking! Talking is one of the easiest and most important things you can do with your child. Talking to your child helps increase their vocabulary, conversation skills, and increases their knowledge of the world around them."
This has been the storytime opening song since I started and it works lovely with toddlers!
This is a perfect toddler storytime book. There are opportunities to count, make animal noises, and make predictions about what is happening!
This is a wonderful lift-the-flap book. You can get the little ones up and moving and recognizing body parts with you.
This is a perfect rhyme to do after my last book. Since it is difficult for my toddlers to process what each body part is and then find it on their body, we sing this really really slow. However, as the storytime session goes along, I begin singing this song a little bit faster each time. By the end of the session, I am usually singing the song at normal speed and all of my little ones are following right along!
Parents feel free to talk to your little one about what is occurring in the books. Talking is a fun and interactive way to help your child think about the story and understand what is happening!
At this point the children were a little restless, but asked for more books. I always keep one really short book with me for instances like this. This is a very quick board book with only about 7 pages and has lots of opportunity for interaction. I kept them guessing, moving, and making noise the entire time for this book.
My little ones were very wiggly at this point, so we did this rhyme 3 times sitting down. By the end they were quiet little angels!
This is a sweet book where each animal needs to be tucked in by turning the page/blanket. I think having children take turns, while chaotic, is great for this age group. It helps them learn patience, sharing, and sequences. I started the book by describing that our baby animals were very sleepy and they needed to be tucked in. Only children who were sitting nicely would be able to help tuck the baby in. This works for usually about 75% of them. Some are too excited to sit, and they always get a turn regardless. This is a great book because after each child everyone waves goodnight to the baby animal and says shhhhhhh. Its a very soothing end to storytime.
In the closing tip, I always praise the group for being such good talkers/singers/readers, etc. I then try to say at least one thing they can do at home to continue building early literacy skills at home.
"Taking a walk, grocery shopping, or driving are all great times to talk about the things around you and what is occurring. This helps build you child's vocabulary and general knowledge. Talk to your little one as much as you can! Your voice is a soothing and wonderful thing for them to hear."
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I am all over the Instant Pot recipes lately, right? And, these chicken fajitas are another one of those awesome pressure cooker recipes that you'll want to add to your list!
These Instant Pot chicken fajitas are so simple, and so, so good! Check out the ingredient list, you might even have everything in your pantry right now!
I have been on a serious Instant Pot kick! And, that's not all bad, but it's not for good reason, if I'm honest. My mom is undergoing treatment for stage 4 cancer, and my grandma just fell and broke her hip. So, in a necessity to get easy dinners and healthy dinner options on the table in record time, I've resorted to using our electric pressure cooker more often than ever.
It's been a living nightmare to be honest, but the upside, is that we live in a world where I can make a hearty chicken dinner in 15 minutes. That is amazing, wouldn't you agree?
So, I want to share with you this pressure cooker dinner that has saved the dinner time struggle for me several times.
What Size Instant Pot Should I Purchase?
First things first, one of the questions I get asked often is which Instant Pot do I need for my family. There are really three sizes of Instant Pots. There is the 3 Quart Instant Pot, the 6 quart Instant Pot and the 8 quart Instant Pot.
For 1-3 people, a great Instant Pot option for your family is the 3 Quart Instant Pot. This fits just enough for a few people.
If you have 4-5 people, I would suggest moving up to the 6 Quart Instant Pot. Or, if you have 3 people in your family, but let's say you like to take leftovers for lunch. Then, then 6 Quart pressure cooker is the best option for you.
If you are feeding 6-8 people, definitely go with the 8 Quart size of Instant Pot, as that's going to feed the most people.
If you're cooking for more people than that, I would recommend that you stick with oven baking, or the crock pot. If you try to stuff too much or substance into the Instant Pot, you may not see great results and could have quite the mess to clean up.
This is probably also a good time to mention that you don't necessarily need the Instant Pot brand of pressure cooker. Cuisinart makes a great pressure cooker, and there are also off brands of pressure cookers like the ones here that are good as well.
The Instant Pot just has buttons that are pretty universal when you're looking for pressure cooker recipes, so you'll find that a lot of the recipes are Instant Pot specific dinner recipes.
Anyhow, on to the Instant Pot chicken fajita recipe that my family just loves!
If I'm honest, I could totally do with vegetarian fajitas. The veggies are by far my favorite part – but the toppings – the toppings are the best part, aren't they?!
Guys, this is literally a chop, dump and go recipe. And, if you buy your chicken strips in the tenders size where they're already cut into strips, that will make things even easier for you.
Before you close the lid, look at what you'll see … these are going to be so good, I can guarantee that!
And, don't these chicken fajitas look amazing?!
Well, I hope that your family loves this recipe as much as mine does – we are HUGE fans of this recipe and it's a go to Instant Pot Chicken recipe for our busiest nights!
These Instant Pot Chicken Fajitas are one of my favorite pressure cooker recipes! This is an easy Instant Pot recipe that can even be prepared ahead of time, and set into the pressure cooker to prepare when you're ready. Kids love these too!
Slice bell peppers and onion. Place chicken in the instant pot or pressure cooker. Add bell peppers and onion, and toss.
Top with half of the spices and toss again. Set pressure to high pressure.
Release pressure using the quick release method but flipping the switch to the "venting" position until the metal "pin" sinks down into the lid. (If you don't want to do a quick release pressure cook for 10 minutes, you can decide to do the pressure release naturally and then do a quick release) Drain most of the juice to make the fajitas a bit thicker. It will give quite a bit of juice. Then sprinkle with the other half of the spices.
Plate your chicken fajitas onto tortillas and top with cheese, onion, and a squeeze the lime over top.


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En droit pénal canadien, l'insouciance est un degré de  subjective qui implique d'agir consciemment malgré l'existence du risque injustifié que l'infraction soit commise.

Dans la mens rea subjective, l'insouciance se distingue de l'intention en raison de l'ampleur du risque qui est pris. De plus, le degré de culpabilité morale de la personne insouciante n'atteint pas le niveau où la personne aurait le désir des conséquences (ce qui serait bien sûr plus coupable).

Par ailleurs, contrairement à la mens rea de connaissance où les mots-clés « sachant, croyant, sciemment » sont utilisés dans la disposition législative du Code criminel, la personne insouciante ne commet pas la faute en toute connaissance de cause. Et contrairement à l'aveuglement volontaire, il ne s'agit pas d'une personne qui aurait « fermé les yeux » sur les conséquences des gestes commis.

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World America 18 Jun 2019 Amid tensions with I ...
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Amid tensions with Iran, US to deploy 1000 additional troops to Middle East
Published Jun 18, 2019, 6:01 pm IST
Updated Jun 18, 2019, 6:01 pm IST
Tensions between Iran and the US have simmered since June 13 when two oil tankers were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz.
US' stance was echoed by Saudi Arabia and Britain. Russia, on the other hand, came to Iran's support and warned against "hasty conclusions" over the incident. (Photo: ANI)
Washington: Citing the alleged attack by Iran on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week, United States Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan on Monday announced the deployment of about 1000 additional troops to the middle east for "defensive purposes".
"I have authorised approximately 1,000 additional troops for defensive purposes to address air, naval, and ground-based threats in the Middle East," CNN quoted Shanahan as saying.
"The recent Iranian attacks validate the reliable, credible intelligence we have received on hostile behaviour by Iranian forces and their proxy groups that threaten United States personnel and interests across the region," he said.
Shanahan added that the US does not seek war with Iran and the measure is being taken to "ensure the safety and welfare of our military personnel working throughout the region and to protect our national interests."
Tensions between Iran and the US have simmered since June 13 when two oil tankers -- Marshall Islands-flagged Front Altair and the Panama-flagged Kokuka Courageous-- were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz. Shortly after the incident, Washington claimed that Tehran was responsible for the attack, a statement that was immediately denounced by the latter.
To back its claim, the US released a blurry video which, the country believed, showed the boat crew of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) removing an unexploded mine from one of the tankers shortly after the attack.
US' stance was echoed by Saudi Arabia and Britain. Russia, on the other hand, came to Iran's support and warned against "hasty conclusions" over the incident.
US military is increasing its presence in the Middle East. Recently, country's Secretary of State Michael Pompeo confirmed the approval of USD 8.1 billion in arms transfers to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates amid hostilities with Iran. In addition, carrier strike warships and B-52 bombers were also recently deployed off the coast of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates.
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Barro Colorado (BCI) é uma ilha criada pela formação do Lago Gatún no meio do Canal do Panamá.  A ilha foi formada quando as águas do rio Chagres foram represadas, surgindo um lago. Com o aumento do nível das águas, significante parte das florestas foram submersas, e os topos dos morros permaneceram como ilhas no lago. Essa ilha possui uma área de cerca de 15,6 km².

O governo dos Estados Unidos demarcou a ilha como reserva em 17 de abril de 1923. Inicialmente administrada pela Panama Canal Company, sob a direção de James Zetek, a partir de 1946, Barro Colorado passou a ser administrada pelo Instituto Smithsoniano, junto com as cinco penínsulas adjacentes, como o Monumento Natural de Barro Colorado (BCNM). O BCNM tem uma área de 54 km². Esta entre as áreas tropicais mais bem estudadas do planeta. O Instituto de Pesquisas Tropicais do Smithsonian (STRI) tem um centro de pesquisas permanente na ilha, dedicado ao estudo dos ecossistemas tropicais. Visto que os diversos ecossistemas da ilha foram pouco alterados pelo homem, Barro Colorado tem sido estudo nos últimos 80 anos por várias disciplinas biológicas. Somente a fauna de grande porte se extinguiu de Barro Colorado, após a formação do lago, em 1914. Muitos estudos científicos foram conduzidos para documentar as mudanças da composição de espécies da ilha.

Em 1978, Thomas Croat publicou o trabalho, Flora of Barro Colorado Island, documentando as espécies de plantas da ilha. Em 1999, Egbert Leigh, que visitou a ilha pela primeira vez em 1966, e agora passa grande parte do tempo lá, publicou o livro Tropical Forest Ecology : A View from Barro Colorado Island. Em 2002, The Tapir's Morning Bath, publicado por Elizabeth Royte, retrata a vida e trabalho dos cientistas dentro da ilha.

A National Geographic produziu um documentário caracterizando Barro Colorado Island, intitulado "World's Last Great Places: Rain Forests", lançado em 2007. A primeira seleção foi intitulada "Panama Wild: Rain Forest of Life" mostra cientistas do Centro de Pequisas e também destaca a batalha pela sobrevivência e associações entre as espécies neste ecossistema diverso.

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Amazon is all about controlling the supply chain.
Quote from Stephen Joyce, CEO of Rezgo, in an article on PhocusWire this week.
The mid-2000s was an interesting period in online travel, coming little more than ten years after the first travel websites appeared on the scene.
Hotels and airlines had finally started getting their houses in order when it came to providing a decent online presence, at the same time as online travel agencies had begun to figure out how to play the web advertising game.
Ian McCaig, then CEO of Lastminute.com (owned at the time by Sabre), used to often say that the market would eventually settle into one where a handful of powerful OTA players would dominate and others would be forced into providing more specalized services or products.
Brands that found themselves stuck in the middle would struggle.
At the same time, commentators would often speculate on whether the next threat to the status quo would emerge from the outside the industry.
A typical analysis would mention Google (we all know what happened there), Apple (it now co-owns the app ecosystem) and Microsoft (well...).
The braver analysts would sometimes mention a fledgling social network known as Facebook as having the ability to exert some kind of influence over the industry - something that came to bear but mainly in the realm of inspiration, branding and community.
Amazon in 2018 is a very different organisation, in many ways, but not least in terms of its product spread, influence in the wider ecommerce landscape and, most importantly, its capacity to disrupt sectors in which it currently does not operate.
McCaig's analysis that those in the middle will face a squeeze on their business as a result of large players having the technology, funds and ability to get even bigger comes into sharper focus if, as most now believe, Amazon does the obvious thing and finally puts the travel industry in its cross-hairs.
The ill-fated Amazon Local project (hotel deals) of a few years ago, whilst giving the rest of the industry an opportunity to say "more difficult that you thought, eh?", probably was enough for Amazon to realise that to seriously tackle the industry it needed to rethink its strategy.
Funnily enough, there is still no sign at all of anything coming out of the company's sprawling Washington state headquarters that indicates its next move.
But yet it has everything required to make one, not least its ability - as Joyce noted above - to secure partnerships and exert its influence over the supply chain and, if it goes down that route, marketplace-type platform that it uses so successfully with other goods.
When (rather than if) this happens, those that currently cling to what business they can get after the existing powerhouses of the industry, will find themselves squeezed even further.
This is a time of massive opportunity for some (product owners, who get a fresh and powerful channel to play in) and, sadly, worrying signs of weakness ahead on the horizon for others.


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'Far Cry 5' Might Include Bonus Content For PlayStation Players
By Alessia Amherst , May 26, 2017 07:08 AM EDT
The Far Cry 5 official key artwork has finally been revealed featuring some of the characters that will make it into the game. Similarly, there seems to be a hint that PlayStation players might be getting some bonus content.
Far Cry 5 Key Art Revealed
According to DualShockers, Ubisoft has released the official key art for its upcoming game which officially confirmed its theme. Previously, the company confirmed that the series was in Hope County, Montana and it released four teasers showcasing the various landscapes in the locality.
The new key art features what seems to be the villain in the depiction of The Last Supper of Jesus Christ. There is a church visible in the background with a prisoner kneeling on the ground with the word "sinner" tattooed on his back. Judging by the other religious elements like the bread and "holy grail," it seems like there will be a religious cult theme going on.
Game To Include Exclusive PlayStation Content?
Incidentally, the game might be getting some bonus content on the PlayStation platform. The previous teaser showcasing Hope County, Montana was only available through Ubisoft's US YouTube account or PlayStation's European account. Each teaser also came with an explicit PlayStation branding.
While the game's official site listed PC, Xbox One and PS4 as the platforms, there is a chance that Ubisoft might have struck a deal with Sony, as per Comicbook.com. There have been other games lately that have been releasing specific content on the said platform like Call of Duty, Red Dead Redemption, and Destiny. With this it mind, it might seem likely that the game is following their example.
However, Ubisoft has yet to confirm this nor share any further details about its upcoming game. Fans will just have to wait for more news regarding Far Cry 5 and its content.
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China, Japan Should Seek Stronger Trade Ties
By Shi Guangsheng
The relationship between China and Japan exercises a profound influence on the present and future of Asia and has worldwide impact as well, apart from being vitally important to the two countries themselves.
Geographically, the two nations are close neighbours.
Thanks to this geographic closeness, the Shanghai-Osaka marine transportation cost, for example, is merely one-fifth that of a Shanghai-Hamburg run and one-10th that of a Shanghai-New York shipment. A flight from Tokyo to Beijing takes only three and a half hours, almost the same as air travel from Beijing to Guangzhou.
Both countries are big players in Asia, with a combined population making up nearly 40 percent of the Asian total and combined GDP accounting for 80 percent of Asia's total. In addition, the two countries' trade volume has a 60 percent share in Asia.
The figures provided by the International Monetary Fund show that the two countries contributed enormously to the economic growth in East Asia in, for instance, 2003 and 2004.
Conversely, the stability and prosperity of Asia, which provides China and Japan with a vast stage, is vital to the two countries. The geographic closeness places China and Japan in an "intergrowth of interests" in the Asian arena.
Economically, the two countries complement each other, due to different patterns of resources and the different stages of development in which China and Japan find themselves. This demands we advance cooperation. As a matter of fact, this economic complementariness has translated into strong momentum for co-operation over the last three decades.
The market best epitomizes the complementary nature of the two economies.
Economic development of both countries relies on vast markets. At the same time, however, China and Japan are big markets in themselves. For example, China has imported US$2,200 billion worth of commodities over the past five years. In 2005 alone, goods with a total value of US$660 billion were imported. This vast market, still growing at fast pace, is vitally important to Japan.
On the other hand, Japan is a big market, too. While turning out huge quantities of manufactured goods and high-tech products, Japan absorbs daily utensils and farm produce in large amounts, a significant portion of which comes from China.
The two complementary markets are bringing beneficial results to both peoples.
The two countries are also complementary to each other in science and technology and in human resources.
China has an abundant supply of labour, which is of high quality, while enjoying a complete set of basic-science disciplines and large ranks of scientists. Japan boasts contingents of top-notch researchers and managerial personnel and an advanced scientific set-up, which combine to churn out scientific and technological outcomes that lead the world.
In addition, the prospects of economic growth in the two countries compensate for each other. This is because both Chinese and Japanese economies are in a period of ascendancy, which offers much room for cooperation.
According to China's 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-10), for example, the Chinese economy is set to grow by 7.5 percent annually over the coming five years. At the same time, Japan's economy, having stepped out from the shadows of stagnation over the last decade, has registered growth for the last four years in a row.
With economic growth picking up speed, bilateral trade is expected to grow by large margins.
In addition, industrial structure realignment, resource exploration, environmental protection and energy saving are all important fields for co-operation.
Historically, the two countries experienced centuries of friendly exchanges and also suffered woes brought by wars in the more recent past. In view of this, we must develop friendship and avoid woes.
The late Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai often said that Sino-Japanese ties were marked by 2,000 years of friendship and 50 years of misfortunes.
As early as in the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907), Monk Jianzhen (Ganjin) made six voyages to Japan to spread Buddhism there and 19 batches of Japanese students were sent to China for studies during the period, who later brought back to Japan knowledge of Chinese culture, medicine and so on.
In addition, China and Japan were important trade partners in ancient times. The two sides, for instance, signed a trade pact during China's Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the first ever between the two sides.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, especially since the Sino-Japanese rapprochement in 1972, the bilateral trade has made advances by leaps and bounds. For example, China has become Japan's No 1 trade partner since 2004 and Japan China's third largest. Twenty percent of Japan's overseas companies in terms of numbers are resident in China; 11 percent of Japan's total output and 10 percent of total profits are attributed to China.
Since 1979, Japanese investment and technology have helped considerably speed up the course of industrialization in China.
Good state-to-state relations help create a favourable climate for bilateral economic co-operation.
Both parties, therefore, should strive to bring about this favourable climate.
First, the two countries ought to bring into play their own advantages, which are complementary to each other, and make progress side by side in a win-win context.
At present, three things need to be taken care of in this respect.
To begin with, environmental and energy-saving cooperation needs to be strengthened. China's 11th Five-Year Plan mandates that energy consumed in turning out a given amount of GDP be brought down by 20 percent by 2010. This offers a good opportunity for Japan, which has first-class technologies for environmental protection and energy conservation.
Then comes the issue of Japan's getting involved in some of China's local development programmes, such as developing the western regions, reviving the old industrial base in Northeast China and promoting economic progress in the central areas.
Finally, mechanisms for mutual investment promotion ought to be improved. On this platform, investment in small and medium-sized enterprises on both sides will be facilitated and a new framework of mutual investment introduced.
Second, both parties should work together to help deepen regional economic cooperation in Asia.
Upon entering the new century, the pace of regional cooperation has quickened and the level of economic integration has been steadily enhanced. The integration rate in Asia has reached 60 percent, according to the estimate by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Conditions are maturing for forging an Asian regional economic community. China and Japan can help accelerate the progress of the bilateral, China-Japan-South Korea and 10-plus-three (10 countries grouped in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on the one hand and China, Japan and South Korea on the other) cooperation.
Third, the two countries can work together to push for the introduction of a new international economic order based on fairness and justice.
With the acceleration of economic globalization, problems keep cropping up: runaway petrol price hikes, murky prospects for the Doha Round of world trade negotiations and challenges and predicaments confronting many nations.
As big trade players and important members of the World Trade Organisation, China and Japan have unshirkable obligations to help reopen the Doha Round negotiations, improve the multilateral trade regime, tear down tariff barriers and safeguard the international economic order based on fair competition.
Note: the author is the vice-chairman of the Financial and Economic Committee of the National People's Congress.
(China Daily August 10, 2006)
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Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy
Keith Gallasch
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, The Cordial Home Project
While business pundits prophesied the end of the current housing boom, the judges for the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship 2003 (Aug 14) awarded the $40,000 prize to Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy for The Cordial Home Project, which originally appeared at Sydney's Artspace (Feb 6-28). The judges commented on the work as "topical and extremely relevant to the current concerns about the affordability of housing in Australia" and described it as "a demanding and ambitious project that is provocative and conceptually informed." In their note accompanying the work, Cordeiro and Healy wrote, "The exhibition documents the transformation of a house from family home to unwanted scrap to art object. In deconstructing meanings of the home, there is a misguided yearning to discover its real essence as suggested once in its title…[W]e also wish to highlight the absurd delusion of 2 young artists owning a home in Sydney." There is something at once sobering and exhilarating about the project in the rawness and neatness of the layered components of the original house in its new form (not a little reminiscent of compacted automobiles), a carefully stacked and packed block from which all inhabitable space and the spirit of domesticity seem to have been sucked away. This is compression, artistic and actual, at its most powerful. It was reported that the scholarship will take Cordeiro and Healy to India to work on the collaborative building of a "500 foot materialisation of the Maitreya Buddha, out of a sand cast bronze aluminium alloy."
RealTime issue #57 Oct-Nov 2003 pg. 8
© Keith Gallasch; for permission to reproduce apply to realtime@realtimearts.net


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Lady Dudley est un personnage de La Comédie humaine d'Honoré de Balzac. Née en 1788 en Angleterre dans le Lancashire, elle est issue d'une noblesse qui remonterait aux Croisades. C'est l'archétype de l'amante enflammée et destructrice.

Son plaisir : « déniaiser » le jeune Félix de Vandenesse alors que le garçon voue un amour platonique éperdu à madame de Mortsauf et qu'il lui a juré fidélité. Lady Dudley ne s'intéresse d'ailleurs à Félix que pour l'arracher à madame de Mortsauf. Lorsque cette dernière sera morte et que la concurrence aura disparu, elle ne s'intéressera plus du tout à Félix. Ce n'est que lorsque, de nouveau, elle pourra lui nuire, en poussant sa jeune femme, Marie-Angélique de Vandenesse, à le tromper, qu'elle manifestera un peu d'intérêt pour lui.

Les origines de sa naissance ne sont jamais mentionnés. On sait seulement qu'elle est cruelle, et qu'elle a épousé un lord qui n'est pas très à cheval sur les questions morales, lui-même ayant eu un fils adultérin (Henri de Marsay), plusieurs maîtresses, et peut-être (mais ce n'est pas clair), des « mignons », en fin de vie.

Chronologie de lady Dudley dans La Comédie humaine
1818 dans Le Lys dans la vallée (1836), elle apparaît pour la première fois et poursuit Félix de Vandenesse (auquel elle a appris l'art de la volupté), jusqu'à Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, là où elle vient affronter sa rivale, madame de Mortsauf, se réfugiant par ailleurs à La Grenadière, maison où elle a fait mourir de chagrin lady Brandon dans Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées.
1825 dans  Le Bal de Sceaux (1830), elle apparaît dans toute sa splendeur. Émilie de Fontaine la croit parente à Clara de Longueville, sœur du mystérieux Maximilien de Longueville dont Émilie apprend qu'il est marchand drapier.
1832 dans Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan (1839), elle assiste à un dîner chez la marquise d'Espard où Diane de Maufrigneuse est égratignée alors qu'elle est absente, en présence de Daniel d'Arthez, qui prend ouvertement la défense de Diane, selon une promesse qu'il lui a faite. Très intéressée par ce nouveau « gibier » (d'Arthez), lady Dudley est vite découragée par la froideur de l'écrivain et renonce.
1834 dans Une fille d'Ève, de connivence avec la marquise de Listomère, elle complote pour pousser Marie-Angélique de Vandenesse dans les bras de Raoul Nathan — complot qui échoue finalement, Marie-Angélique étant sauvée in extremis grâce aux bons soins de son mari et de Delphine de Nucingen.

Lady Dudley est également présente dans :
La Peau de chagrin
Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées

Notes et références

Articles connexes
 Liste alphabétique des personnages d'Honoré de Balzac
 Personnages de la Comédie humaine

Références
 Pierre Barbéris, Le Monde de Balzac, Artaud, 1973 ; réédition Kimé, 1999 .
Pierre Abraham, Créatures chez Balzac, Paris, Gallimard, Paris, 1931.
Arthur-Graves Canfield, « Les personnages reparaissants de La Comédie humaine », Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France, janvier-mars et avril- ; réédité sous le titre The Reappearing characters in Balzac's Comédie humaine, Chapell Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1961 ; réimpression Greenwood Press, 1977.
Anatole Cerfberr et Jules Christophe, Répertoire de « La Comédie humaine » de Balzac, introduction de Paul Bourget, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1893.
Charles Lecour, Les Personnages de la Comédie humaine, Paris, Vrin, 1967.
Félix Longaud, Dictionnaire de Balzac, Paris, Larousse, 1969.
Fernand Lotte, Dictionnaire biographique des personnages fictifs de « La Comédie humaine », avant-propos de Marcel Bouteron, Paris, José Corti, 1952.
Félicien Marceau, Les Personnages de « La Comédie humaine », Paris, Gallimard, 1977, 375 p.
Félicien Marceau, Balzac et son monde, Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Tel », 1970 ; édition revue et augmentée, 1986, 684 p. .
Anne-Marie Meininger et Pierre Citron, Index des personnages fictifs de « La Comédie humaine », Paris, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1981, t. XXII, 1521-1524 .
Anatole Cerfberr et Jules Christophe, Répertoire de « La Comédie humaine » de Balzac, introduction de Boris Lyon-Caen, Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2008  .

Personnage d'Honoré de Balzac
Personnage de fiction anglais
Le Lys dans la vallée
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Q: unique pair of cells where order is not important I have a cell array of pairs of strings:
str={'A','BB','A','A'}
pairs=str(nchoosek(1:numel(str),2));

pairs =
6×2 cell array

{'A' }    {'BB'}
{'A' }    {'A' }
{'A' }    {'A' }
{'BB'}    {'A' }
{'BB'}    {'A' }
{'A' }    {'A' }

and I want to be able to have an index for the unique pairs regardless of order, in the sense that A-BB and BB-A are the same pair. the function unique only gives the unique labels A,BB.
when I try unique(cell2mat(pairs),'rows') I get an error because "Dimensions of arrays being concatenated are not consistent".
when I tried table2cell(unique(cell2table(pairs))) the order matters and I get
3×2 cell array
{'A' }    {'A' }
{'A' }    {'BB'}
{'BB'}    {'A' }

I would like to be able to find \ ismember such that  only
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are unique and that the index for the A-BB contains also the BB-A case.
help please?

A: You could use sort(..., 2) to sort within each row of pairs and then apply unique(... 'rows') with two outputs. However, that use of sort does not work for cell arrays of char vectors. The solution is to convert to a string array:
[result, index_unique, index_repeated] = unique(sort(string(pairs), 2), 'rows');

If you need the result as a cell array of char vectors you can convert back:
result = arrayfun(@char, result, 'UniformOutput', false);

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A very interesting and fun mechanic - uses positioning as a mechanic rather than simple brute bump-to-attack. There is quite a curve to learn the tactics, but they make for a fun experience once you figure things out. The art is really well integrated into the game and story. I didn't notice too much of a difference between easy and normal, but it's nice to have options. The upgrades also are surprisingly fleshed out for a 7DRL - nicely done.
Definitely recommend setting some time aside to dig into this one - it's a mechanic that would be a lot of fun baked into a full game.
An impressive, complete experience. I was particularly pleased with the movement-centric momentum?-centric combat, and with the intelligence of the enemies. It strongly punished just going full assault.
There were a few small bugs here and there, but nothing of great significance.
The 1.1 release provided significant improvement. Being able to see the swords and modifiers was super helpful, and provided me the feedback I needed to get a standard win.
Scope was good for a 7DRL - tough, enough to explore, enough to require multiple plays to win, but not long enough that I got bored.
I'm glad that I played it.
Very nice game! I can't say I really dig the combat system, but probably it's a good game design when even without understanding of all niceties you still can win. There is even a secret ending! Unfortunately there are a few bugs in the game. Sometimes first level have no exit at all. And HP of your characters are only displayed under the character and hard to track when there are several enemies around. Inventory might randomly stop working. But other than that it's a very nice experience.


"The Voice" winner Jordan Smith and his fiancée attended the Barnstable Brown Gala at the Kentuck Derby 2016. Such a cute couple!
The Kentucky-native sang the national anthem at the Kentucky Oaks on Friday.
Jordan and Kristen have announced that they will be married "soon" but no date has been set. This we know: Kristen has been killing it with her dresses this weekend! I bet the wedding is going to be amazing.
It isn't really the Derby without #BarnstableBrown.


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Foo Fighters joined by Krist for secret show
From Rolling Stone:
Fans got the next best thing to a Nirvana reunion Tuesday night when the band's three surviving members performed together for the first time since Kurt Cobain passed away. The occasion was the encore for a barely announced, impromptu Foo Fighters concert at Paladinos, a Tarzana, California dive bar better known for "Live Band Karaoke Every Tuesday" than historic rock events.
The only thing more unlikely than seeing the Foo Fighters play outside an arena was the sight of Krist Novoselic joining former Nirvana tour guitarist/current Foo Fighter Pat Smear and head Foo Dave Grohl onstage. The trio played one song "Marigold," the non-album b-side of Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box," with Grohl both singing lead and reverting to his Nirvana role behind the drums to an audience which included Amanda Seyfried, Juliette Lewis, Ryan Phillippe and No Doubt's Tony Kanal alongside hardcore fans pulled in from the band's Facebook page.
Read the full story here. Courtesy of Rolling Stone.
Posted in NFC news section at www.nirvanaclub.com on 12-23-2010 @ 5:21 PM (GMT).


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Southeast Asian arts
The cultural setting of Southeast Asian arts
External influences
Indigenous traditions
The role of royal patronage and religious institutions
Predominant artistic themes
The unique aesthetic of the region
Regional distinctions
Prestige of the writer
Pre-European colonial period
Golden age of literature
First golden age: King Narai (1657–88)
Second golden age: King Rama II (1809–24)
Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam
Malaysia and Indonesia
European colonial and modern periods
Society and music
Rural and urban music
Relation to social institutions
The relation of music to dance and theatre
Musical traditions and practice
Tonal systems
Musical time and improvisation
Historical developments
Early bamboo instruments
Early bronze instruments
Musical traditions
Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia
Indonesia and Malaysia
Other parts of Indonesia
The performing arts
Diverse traditions in the performing arts
The folk tradition
The court tradition
The popular and Western traditions
Characteristics of dance
Dramatic and nondramatic forms
Styles and conventions of movement and costuming
Characteristics of drama
Thematic origins and materials
Dramatic materials
Costumes, makeup, and settings
Origins and development of the performing arts
Prehistory and links to the present
Spreading of styles
Popular theatre and Western rule
Diverse national forms and traditions
Court styles
Folk performance
Female court dance-dramas
Masked mime
Popular plays and puppets
Shadow-puppet theatre
Wayang topeng
Wayang orang
Ketoprak and ludruk
Sundanese performing arts
Balinese dance-drama
The multiform wayang
Chinese and popular entertainments
Satirical drama
The popular stage
The comedia
Styles from Europe
Religious-aesthetic traditions
Indigenous magical and animist tradition
Indian tradition
Relations between the two traditions
Artistic styles
General development of Southeast Asian art
Neolithic Period
Bronze Age: Dong Son culture (c. 4th–1st centuries bc)
1st to 10th century
10th century to the present
Thailand and Laos
Dvaravati Mon kingdom: 6th to 11th century
Khmer conquest and Tai immigration: 11th to 13th century
The Thai kingdom: 13th to 17th century
Architecture and painting
Cambodia and Vietnam
Cambodian kingdoms of Funan and Chenla: 1st to 9th century
Kingdom of Khmer: 9th to 13th century
Vietnam kingdom of Champa: c. 2nd to 15th century
Art of the northern capital: 4th to 11th century
Art of the southern capital: 11th to 15th century
Vietnam: 2nd–19th century
Central Javanese period: 7th to 13th century
Hindu and Buddhist candis
Post-Borobudur candis
East Javanese period: 927–16th century
Java: 20th century
The ornamental-fantastic style
At least three principal cultural influences—Indonesian, Hindu, and Islamic—left their musical marks in Malaysia. The Indonesian influence is seen principally in musical forms, participants, and paraphernalia of the Malaysian shadow play (wayang kulit). It is said that the Indian epics and, especially, the Panji tales of Java came to Malaysia via Indonesia, but there are songs in certain plays and musical instruments (e.g., the double-headed drum and oboe) that could have reached Malaysia from India through other routes. Islamic traces are evident in melismatic songs among the Malay groups in songs connected with religious rituals and in choral singing in the mak yong plays. Chinese music, a more recent development, is largely practiced among the Chinese communities, principally in Singapore.
Before Malaysian independence, the nobat, an old royal instrumental ensemble dating back to about the 16th century, played exclusively for important court ceremonies in the palaces of the sultans of Perak, Kedah, Selangor, and Trengganu. Today, in Kedah, the ensemble consists of five instruments: one big goblet drum (negara), two double-headed drums (gendang), one long oboe (nafiri), one small oboe (nafiri), and one gong. The music, which consists of 10 surviving pieces, is broadcast today and performed live.
Three shadow plays exist, principally in the state of Kelantan. The wayang gedek is the Thai form; wayang Jawa, a Malay form, is almost extinct; and the wayang Siam, which is a combination of Thai and Malay influences, is the most popular form of puppet shadow play. The operator of the performance is the narrator (dalang), who manipulates the leather figures, introduces important characters, and describes different scenes with the accompaniment of the orchestra. The music is led by a two-stringed lute (rehab) in the Ramayana, or an oboe (serunai) in the Mahabharata and Panji cycles. The melodic instruments are supported by a percussion group consisting of pairs of goblet-shaped drums (gedombak), cylindrical drums (gendang), barrel drums (geduk), gongs lying on a support (canang), suspended gongs (gong) or, sometimes, a row of gongs played by two or three men, and one pair of cymbals (kesi). The music usually begins with a prelude followed by a list of pieces the sequences of which are dictated by the narrator.
The mak yong, a dance drama that probably dates back more than 1,000 years, was introduced in Kelantan under the patronage of the royal courts. In the 20th century it existed as a folk theatre with an all-female cast. The music that accompanies 12 surviving stories is played by an orchestra of one bowed lute (rebab), two suspended gongs, and a pair of double-headed drums (gendang). A heterophony (simultaneous variation of the same melody) between a solo voice, a chorus, and the rebab creates a music with a Middle Eastern flavour.
A rich musical heritage in the rural sections of Malaysia is shown in musical instruments used by Malay, Thai, Semang, and Senoi groups. Idiophones include shell and coconut rattles, the jew's harp (mostly pulled by a string, rather than plucked), bull-roarers, bamboo clappers, and the bamboo slit drum. Aerophones include the buffalo horn, wooden and clay whistles, nose flutes, end-blown flutes, and the oboe. Chordophones are two- and three-stringed fiddles with coconut resonators, monochords, and tube zithers. One membranophone is a double-headed cylindrical drum.
In Borneo among the Malay, Kadazan, and Iban groups, the principal instruments are gongs in a row (gulintangan) played with suspended gongs of different types (canang, gong, tawak-tawak). Among the Murut, Kenyah, and Iban the mouth organ with a calabash resonator (sompoton) plays a melody with a drone accompaniment. The jew's harp (ruding), bamboo zither (tongkungon), nose flute (tuali), hourglass drum (ketubong), and vertical flute (suling) may be heard among different ethnic groups. Iban ceremonial songs are sung in connection with rice festivals and rituals to prevent sickness, while mourning songs make up a rich repertoire of solo and leader–chorus singing. The Kenyah are particularly adept at blending low voices of men singing a melody supported by a drone.
Two musical cultures—Western and Southeast Asian—prevail in the Philippines. Western music is practiced by some 90 percent of the population, while Southeast Asian examples are heard only in mountain and inland regions, among about 10 percent of the people.
The Western tradition dates back to the 17th century, when the first Spanish friars taught plainchant and musical theory and introduced such European musical instruments as the flute, oboe, guitar, and harp. There subsequently arose a new music related to Christian practices but not connected with the liturgy. Processional songs, hymns in honour of the Blessed Virgin, Easter songs, and songs for May (Mary's month) are still sung in different sections of the country. A secular music tradition also developed. Guitars, string ensembles (rondalla), flute, drum, harps, and brass bands flourished in the provinces among the principal linguistic groups and still appear during town fiestas and important gatherings. Competing bands played overtures of Italian operas, marches, and light music. Young men, like their counterparts throughout the Hispanic world, sang love songs (kundiman) in nightly serenades beneath the windows of their beloved. It was not uncommon in family gatherings for someone to be asked to sing an aria, play the harp, or declaim a poem. Orchestral music accompanied operas and operettas (zarzuelas), while solo recitals and concerts were organized in clubs or music associations. With the advent of formal music instruction in schools, performance and composition rose to professional levels. Beginning in the 20th century, several symphony orchestras, choral groups, ballet companies, and instrumental ensembles performed with varying regularity.
A Southeast Asian musical tradition exists completely apart from the Western tradition. In the north, flat gongs are played in different instrumental combinations (six gongs; two gongs, two drums and a pair of sticks; three gongs). In the ensemble with six gongs, four are treated as "melody" instruments, one as ostinato, and another as a freer layer of improvisation. The melody consists of scattered tones produced by strokes, slaps, and slides of the hands against the flat side of the gong. Other musical instruments in the northern Philippines are bamboo. These are the nose flute (kalleleng), lip-valley or notched flute (paldong), whistle flute (olimong), panpipes (diwdiwas), buzzer (balingbing), half-tube percussion (palangug), stamping tube (tongatong), tube zither (kolitong), and jew's harp (giwong). Leader–chorus singing among the Ibaloi is smooth and sung freely without a metric beat, while the same form among the Bontoc is emphatic, loud, and metric. Scales in songs and musical instruments use from two to several tones within and beyond an octave and are arranged as gapped, diatonic, and pentatonic varieties.
In the southern Philippines (particularly the Sulu archipelago and the western portion of the island of Mindanao), the more-developed ensemble is the kulintang, which, in its most common form, consists of seven or eight gongs in a row as melody instruments accompanied by three other gong types (a wide-rimmed pair; two narrow-rimmed pairs; one with turned-in rim) and a cylindrical drum. The kulintang scale is made up of flexible tones with combinations of wide and narrow gaps sometimes approaching a Chinese pentatonic variety and oftentimes not. Its melody is built on nuclear tones consisting of two, three, or more tones to form a phrase. Several phrases may be built, repeated, and elongated to complete one rendition lasting two to three minutes. Pieces of music are played continuously for a long period during the night.
In the central west Philippines on the island of Mindoro, love songs are sung that are based on reciting tones with interludes played by a miniature copy of the Western guitar or a small violin with three strings played like a cello.
José Maceda
In variety of dance and theatrical forms and in the number of performing groups, no area in the world except India and Pakistan compares to Southeast Asia. Some form of the performing arts is a normal part of life throughout the several nations. Sophisticated performing groups cluster in and around the present and former court cities—Yogyakarta and Surakarta in Java, Ubud and Gianyar in Bali, Bangkok in Thailand, Mandalay in Myanmar, Siĕmréab near Angkor and Phnom Penh in Cambodia, Hue in Vietnam—where drama, puppetry, dance, and music have been cultivated for 10 centuries or more. Hundreds of commercial theatrical and dance groups perform in such newer centres as Yangon, Saigon, and Jakarta and in scores of provincial cities and towns. Wandering troupes of actors, puppeteers, singers, and dancers travel from village to village in areas adjacent to these population centres. There are few communities in which some form of folk dance is not performed by local people.
In the West, music, dance, and drama are usually separate arts, whereas in all areas of Southeast Asia, drama, dance, mime, music, song, and narrative are integrated into composite forms, often with masks or in the form of puppetry. The spectator's senses, emotions, and intellect are bombarded simultaneously with colour, movement, and sound. The result is a richness and a vividness in the theatre that is absent in most Western drama, so much of which rests on a literary basis.
More than 100 distinct forms or genres of performing arts can be distinguished in Southeast Asia. These can be grouped, according to which of the various stage arts is emphasized, into (1) masked dance and masked dance-mime, (2) unmasked dance and dance-drama, (3) drama with music and dance, (4) opera, (5) shadow-puppet plays, and (6) doll- or stick-puppet plays.
Four relatively distinct traditions exist in the performing arts: folk, court, popular, and Western.
Nigaah - Arts & Culture from Pakistan and South Asia


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Well, it has taken the best part of the year, but the full series of Mr Biffo's Found Footage begins this weekend. You'll be getting at least six episodes - maybe one or two more - plus a 20-minute sci-fi epic which concludes the series, and explains the unexplainable.
I'm incredibly proud of it. It has been a lot of work for me personally, but I've had an enormous amount of help from people who - for the most part - have given their time and expertise free of charge. I couldn't have done it without them. Well, I probably could've, but it would've been rubbish.
Extra special thanks go to Sanya, Steve, Sam, Louise and Jake, AJ Jeffries, Chris Jerden-Cooke, Violet, Yiannis, Tom Webster, Chris Coltrane, Paul Gannon, Stuart Ashen, Larry Bundy Jr, Asperger's Are Us, Dave Culley, Jesse Ross, Matt Casey, Karl, Chris Bullock, Mandala Studios, Andy Wear, Harrison Majithia, Gaia, Steve and Tori Baker, John Bugg, Isaac, Jason at the Centre For Computing History, Iain Lee, Anthony, Tom and Emily, David Walford, Dean Boni for his patience, Nick Jackson for giving us "mate's rates" on the studio hire, plus Sid at Drakelow Tunnels, Chris Hood, Ash, Mark Paling, Gameplay Jenny and else everyone who came to the Finale filming - especially Joe and Oliver - for displaying incredible spirit over a couple of exhausting days in difficult conditions... and my parents for letting us do unspeakable things in their back garden.
And, of course, massive, massive thanks to everyone who backed it with their money - in some cases a lot of money - or other offers of help. I feel enormously blessed. I've tried to make myself happy with it, but it's because of your encouragement, support and faith that I've gone all-out to give you the best thing I could make on the time and budget. I hope you love it.
Anyhow. See you here next Friday for a special Found Footage letters page maybe? I'd love to know what you think of episode one. Just wait until you get a load of the rest of the series, though... And the finale might just blow your minds.
DO YOU REMEMBER THESE: VIDEOTAPE BOARD GAMES?
Do you know what I miss? Wandering around Blockbuster on a Friday evening, trying to find a film to rent. Thanks to Netflix, we're all drowning in an ocean of content, and yet... somehow I've become more discerning in my movie choices.
Back in the Blockbuster days I'd rent any old rubbish if it had an alien or a robot on the cover. Now I won't look at anything that has less than 85% on Rotten Tomatoes. Sad.
True story: the Blockbuster I used to go to was the one that often featured in the BBC2 sketch show Goodness Gracious Me.
But anyway. The video age brought us other nostalgic treats: Simon Bates telling us about "sexual swear words", terrifying anti-piracy messages, the man who used to drive down our road in his little van filled with pirated video nasties who I once saw delivering bread to a corner shop during the day thus dispelling all of his mystique... and the brief, glorious, reign of the interactive VCR board game.
Here are ten examples of the latter.
Holidays are funny things aren't they? You go and spend a while pretending to live somewhere else, and sleep on mattresses and pillows where strangers have made sweet love, and done blow-offs, and disgorged other bodily nonsense, and we all pretend that isn't disgusting.
But please... what is best type: holiday? It is this: free holiday!
You see, my parents had paid for a caravan weekend in Kessingland via The Sun newspaper, because they are ordinary working class people - so don't have a go okay? - for them and my nephew's family, but then my nephew couldn't go, so they asked me instead, and - well - that's all a lot of unnecessary detail to explain that this is how I ended up in Suffolk, or somewhere, at the weekend, in a caravan, next to a bunch of terrible people who spoke to their small children thusly: "If you wander off, I will f@ck your life up".
Remember this when you watch the finale of Mr Biffo's Found Footage; that sort of grim child abuse was my backdrop while editing the episode's sound in the bedroom of the caravan.
But anyway. That's not what I want to talk about, much as I'd like to. What I want to talk about is this: the weirdest seaside arcade in the world.
It's a little over a week until Mr Biffo's Found Footage appears on YouTube. Please watch it. Please tell your friends and family to watch it, even if you believe they'll hate it, and will think you're weird for recommending it. I mean, what's the worst that'll happen? So what if they distance themselves from you? If they won't accept you for who they are then find some friends and family members who will.
Anyway. Mr Biffo's Found Footage. Sunday September 10th. Around 8pm. With a new episode every week thereafter until they're done, climaxing in a cinematic epic of a finale which explains everything.
And now, dear? And now for your letters.