The last week of September brought the beginning stages of fall here in New England. It's such an exciting time of year. The windows start opening, the squirrels are busy, fresh apple cider pops up in the markets, and of course, the leaves start falling. Well this particular leaf somehow found its way into my home and was lying on my living room floor. I became really attached to this first autumn leaf, so I saved it, photographed it, and put it on a scrapbook page (what else would I do with it?).
The Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World pushed me to finally make this page. So now I don't have a single dried leaf hanging out on my desk anymore.
There are a lot of little elements going on here, but the pattern paper and white paper really hold it all together. The great pattern paper is from DCWV "Modern Meadow" stack and there is also a strip of DCWV "Burlap" paper along the photo. The white piece was distressed around the edges with Distress Ink "Scattered Straw" and then splattered with spray inks from Dylusions. All other elements just build around those main pieces.
I don't usually journal on my scrapbook pages, but I thought this one needed a bit of an explanation :) To help preserve the leaf, I covered it in decoupage glue and it dried clear and firm.
There are a lot of different materials going on here, so click on the icons below for product details. The entire page is based on the colors of the leaf: gold, brown, red, and a touch of grey.
Gorgeous page! Decoupage glue, eh? TFS!
Super fun for Fall! Love those leaves!
Absolutely stunning! What a gorgeous layout!
LOVE your layout, Rachel - congrats on the shout out for this Trigger!!
Yay on hitting the Tuesday Trigger with this gorgeous layout! Way to go, Rachel!!!!
Such a gorgeous layout--your leaves are beautiful! Congrats on your Trigger shout out!
Yeah TT! Love all the thought that went into this great ode to a leaf.
What a gorgeous scrapbook page ~ Congrats on your TT win!
Congrats! This was by far my favorite entry - gorgeous!
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PUBLISHED: 00:00 31 August 2015
Beatrix Potter, Leonora Carrington, Richard Ansdell, LS Lowry, Percy Kelly
Lancashire and the Lake District has an abundance of artistic talent. Sue Riley selects her top 20 but do you agree with her choice?
George Romney - The Gower Children
THE industrial north and the grandeur of the Lake District have attracted artists for centuries.
From home grown artists like LS Lowry and Sheila Fell to JMW Turner who regularly visited the area and others who decided to make it their home, it's been a magnet for creative folk. Assembling a definitive list of the Top 20 artists associated with the area is a near impossibility – should John Harden who captured the everyday life of 18th century Brathay be included? What about maritime painter Philip Gilchrist or Thomas Moran who may have only spent the early part of his childhood in Bolton but went on to create such tremendous images of the Yellowstone National Park? Then there's the artists currently living and working in the area: personal favourites include Silverdale's Tracy Levine and Liam Spencer in Burnley but everyone will have their own, very different views.
Galleries across the North West have a fine collection of the area's finest. Abbot Hall Gallery in Kendal has work by Romney, Ruskin and Harden. 'The gallery held a major show of Sheila Fell in 2011 and she remains one of Cumbria's favourite artists. Another artist who, like Ruskin, worked most of her long life in Cumbria but not strictly a Cumbrian is Winifred Nicholson. She is a popular artist among Cumbrian gallery goers,' said an Abbot Hall spokeswoman.
Gallerist and former director of the Peter Scott Gallery at Lancaster University, Mary Gavagan, added: 'The range of art produced in the county is as varied as the county itself. From the elegant portrait conversation paintings of Preston's Arthur Devis to the work of painters labelled 'northern artists' which conjure up images of industrial street scenes and humanity dominated by towering grim dark industrial buildings.'
Seagulls Over a Ploughed Field -Sheila Fell (with kind permission of Anna Fell and Castlegate House Gallery)
'There are many not on the shortlist with a significant national profile. John Virtue, born in Accrington, was a professor of painting in Plymouth and an Associate Artist at the National Gallery. Then there's Geoffrey Clarke RA, one of the artists commissioned to work on artworks for Coventry Cathedral and represented Britain in the 1952 Venice Biennale with seven other British sculptors. He was originally from Preston.'
Then there's the contemporary artists who have a national profile. Two who instantly come to mind are Charles Hadcock from Preston and Blackburn's Halima Cassell. But where to stop?'
This is our list of our Top 20 in alphabeical order. Let us know what you think by emailing us at letters@lancashirelife.co.uk.
William Heaton Cooper - Clear Evening at Wastwater
1. RICHARD ANSDELL
Richard Ansdell RA was an English oil painter of animals and genre scenes. Born in Liverpool in 1815 his father died young and he was educated at The Liverpool Blue Coat school for orphans. He had a natural talent for art from an early age, and after leaving school worked for a portrait painter in Kent, before spending time as a sign painter in the Netherlands and then became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. He died in 1885.
2. LAMORNA BIRCH
Samuel John Birch RA was born in Egremont, Merseyside, and apart from a brief period of study in Paris in 1895, he was largely self-taught. He fell in love with Cornwall in the 1880s and settled in the Lamorna Valley in 1892, adopting the name Lamorna. He is regarded as the father figure of the later group of Newlyn artists who immortalised the West County on canvas, He exhibited more than 200 works at the Royal Academy before his death in 1955
3. HELEN BRADLEY
Helen Bradley only began to paint her distinctive scenes of an Edwardian girlhood at the age of 65. Born in Lees near Oldham in 1900, she wanted to show her grandchildren how different a place the world used to be when she was a child. From 1965 until her death in 1979, she went on to achieve international celebrity. In 1971 Jonathan Cape published the first of four books 'And Miss Carter Wore Pink' which was an instant success.
4. LEONORA CARRINGTON
spent her early life in Lancashire, born to a wealthy family in Clayton-le-Woods, followed by a short spell in Silverdale. She's known for her exotic life with fellow painter Max Ernst and the surrealist paintings she created in Mexico where they chose to live. She is acknowledged as one of the key surrealist painters of the 1930s. She died in Mexico City in 2011.
5. MARGARET CHAPMAN
This Darwen artist born in 1940 was fascinated by the Edwardian period, much in evidence in her pictures. She was trained at the Liverpool School of Art alongside John Lennon. She was 'discovered' by a Manchester agent in the 1970s following an exhibition at Darwen Library. Her work went on to sell in 50 countries with collectors impressed not just by her painting skills but also her extensive historic research. She died in 2000.
6. THE HEATON COOPERS
This artistic dynasty is inextricably linked to the Lake District and particularly Grasmere where the family still have a gallery. Alfred Heaton Cooper, his son William, the sculptor Ophelia Gordon Bell and her son Julian Cooper (born in 1947) have all been depicting Cumbria and further afield in significantly different artistic styles for three generations.
7. SHEILA FELL
Landscape painter Sheila Fell RA was born at Aspatria, Cumberland in 1931 and although she lived in London for the greater part of her life she devoted her career to painting and drawing places close to her place of birth. The Cumberland landscape remained her chief influence and inspiration in her pictures, often presided over by dark looming clouds and brooding mountains. She died in 1979.
8. ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
Although environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy OBE was born in Cheshire in 1956 and now lives in Scotland, he received most of his art education in Lancashire. This artist who specialises in creating and photographing his ephemeral art and site-specific sculptures using natural objects was trained at the former Storey art school in Lancaster and got his first degree in Preston.
9. PERCY KELLY
Percy Kelly was born into a poor Workington family in 1918. He could draw as soon as he learned to hold a pencil and this ability gained the attention of many notable people although he was reluctant to exhibit throughout his life. When he died in 1993 his cottage was crammed full of his works which quickly sold. Described as a 'troubled soul' he was a prolific letter writer and many of these included drawings and paintings of his native county on the envelopes.
10. GEOFFREY KEY
Salford's Geoffrey Key was born in 1941 and continues to live in the city. His early education was at Manchester's High School of Art before going on to get a degree and a postgraduate scholarship in sculpture. His large, colourful oil paintings are themed – harlequins and clowns are just two - and displayed and collected across the world.
11. ALAN LOWNDES
Heaton Norris-born Alan Lowndes left school at the age of 14 to work as a decorator. After serving in World War II he studied art at night school but was largely self-taught. He began to achieve success in the late 1950s and early 1960s and had one man exhibitions in Manchester, London and New York and is represented in many public collections. He died in Gloucestershire in 1978 although he is remembered for his scenes of northern life.
12. LS LOWRY
LS Lowry is famously known for his paintings of the industrial landscapes of the north of England. His stylised pictures of coalmines, factories and terraced houses were mostly painted around Pendlebury and Salford, near Manchester. He was born in Stretford in 1887 and lived in the area for the majority of his life. He died in 1976.
13. THEODORE MAJOR
Theodore Major was considered a great individualist in the British art world. Born to a mill working family in Wigan he always insisted that he was essentially self-taught as an artist. However he studied at Wigan Art School between 1927–1932, and taught there between 1930-1935. He didn't sell his paintings – mainly industrial scenes and vibrant flowers - to rich collectors and when he died in 1999 he had 3000 pictures in his home. He was president of Wigan Arts Club which he founded in 1952.
14. THOMAS MORAN
Thomas Moran was born in 1837 in Bolton to two handloom weavers who, when they lost their jobs during the Industrial Revolution, emigrated to Philadelphia in the US with their young son. At the age of 16 he was employed as a wood engraver and soon learnt to paint and draw. In 1871 he was part of a geological survey to the Yellowstone National Park where he painted his two most famous works, The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and The Chasm of the Colorado, both of which were purchased for a previously unheard-of sum of $10,000 each by Congress and displayed in Washington.
15. JAMES MORTON
James Morton has been described as Darwen's greatest artist of the 20th Century. But he never realised his full potential. He was killed by German machine guns on 6 November 1918 - just five days before the end of the war and two days after – and not far from – the poet Wilfred Owen.
On James' headstone, near where he fell, an inscription simply reads: "Artist, Darwen, Lancashire."
16. BEATRIX POTTER
Beatrix Potter is best known as a children's author and the saviour of Herdwick sheep. But take a look at her detailed illustrations which are both in her books and in the Armitt Museum in Ambleside and you can see what a talented artist she was. Born in the south she spent most of her life in the Lake District, near Hawkshead, and is credited with 'saving' the Lake District from developers.
17. GEORGE ROMNEY
Society painter George Romney is sometimes ranked third in the hierarchy of 18th-century society portrait painters, after Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. Partly perhaps because in the latter years of his life the artist, who was born in Dalton in Furness in 1734, fell under the spell of his muse Emma Hart, who went on to become Lady Hamilton. He died in 1802 in Ulverston.
18. JOHN RUSKIN
Ruskin was not only the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, but also a talented draughtsman and watercolourist.. He made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation, many of which are at his former home of Brantwood, Conistion, where he lived for the last 28 years of his life. He died in the Lake District in 1900.
19. ADOLPHE VALETTE
(1876-1942) was born in the industrial town of St Etienne, France, and came to England in 1904. He settled in Manchester and studied at the Manchester School of Art where he later taught from 1906-1920. Amongst his students was LS Lowry. When he returned to France in 1928 Manchester Art Gallery bought nine of his atmospheric, impressionistic paintings of the city, many bathed in fog, which are still on display.
20. WILLIAM WOODHOUSE
William Arnold Woodhouse was born in the seaside town of Morecambe and specialised in animal portraits in the tradition of Landseer. However, because he rarely travelled outside Lancashire, he did not achieve the full success or fame he deserved and is now mostly forgotten. He died in 1939; some of his paintings are on display in Lancaster City Museum.
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COL (Ret.) Frank L. Harman III
COL Harman entered the Army in 1978 and served 16 months on active duty as an enlisted soldier with a tour in the Panama Canal Zone. He was commissioned a United States Army Infantry Officer upon graduation from the Officers Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia in 1979. Upon completing the Infantry Officer Basic Course, Airborne Course, and Infantry Mortar Platoon Officer Course he was assigned to Fort Riley where he served consecutively as Rifle Platoon Leader, Weapons Platoon Leader, Company Executive Officer, and finally Company Commander in A Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry followed by a second company command in B Company, 5th Battalion, 16th Infantry. After attending the Infantry Officer Advanced Course in 1985, COL Harman was assigned as Commander, Joplin Recruiting Company, Kansas City Recruiting Battalion, United States Army Recruiting Command. After Graduating from the Combined Arms Services and Staff School at Fort Leavenworth in 1987, he was assigned as the Adjutant to the Commander of Camp Ames, Korea. After returning to the United States, he was assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia from 1988 to 1991 serving in the U S Army Infantry School as an instructor/ training developer and doctrine writer, S3 Operations Officer for the 11th Infantry Regiment (The School Brigade), and as Commander, E Company, 2nd Battalion 11th Infantry responsible for training new Lieutenants in the Infantry Officer Basic Course. After graduating from the US Army Command and General Staff College and completing a Masters Degree in Public Administration, COL Harman was assigned to Fort Irwin, California serving there as Brigade Operations and Training Officer, 177th Armor Brigade; Battalion Executive Officer, 1st Battalion 52nd Infantry; and Squadron Executive Officer 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, the National Training Center's Mechanized "Opposing Force". His next assignment was as Commander, 1st Infantry Battalion, 2nd Regional Training BrigadeFort Lewis, Washington, an Active Component to Reserve Component assignment and the pilot program for the AC/RC Training Support Brigades. Next, he was assigned as the Commander of the 1st Battalion 16th Infantry, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, the Big Red One, Fort Riley, Kansas. Upon leaving command he was assigned as the Operations Officer, United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks Pennsylvania. Next he attended the United States Army War College graduating with a Masters of Arts Degree in Strategic Studies. COL Harman was next assigned to United States Forces Korea where he served as Chief of Training, Assistant Chief of Staff G3, Eighth United States Army, and Chief of Staff, Joint Task Force Non Combatant Operations, US Forces Korea, Yongsan Korea. He assumed command of the 29th Infantry Regiment, (The Infantry School Training Support Brigade) August 2003 to July 2005, Fort Benning, Georgia. COL Harman's final assignment was as the Director of Infantry Futures and Capability Development and Integration, US Army Infantry Center, Fort Benning, Georgia.
COL Harman retired in OCT 2006 with over 28 years of service. His most significant accomplishments and honors included
Troop Command (four Companies, two Battalions, for which he was awarded five Meritorious Service Medals and a Brigade for which he was awarded the Legion of Merit)
Colonel level service in Korea where he (1) organized and led the NEO Joint Task Force in eight separate theatre wide exercises, (2) negotiated the allied training portion of the joint ROK-US land partnership plan, (3) managed the USFK and Eighth Army training and exercise program, for which he was awarded the joint service commendation, the defense meritorious service Medal and the Legion of Merit.
Induction into the Officer Candidate School (OCS) Hall of Fame in 2004.
After retirement COL (R) Harman initially worked as a Senior Project Manager with the defense contractor Science Applications International Corporation. He is currently the President and Executive Consultant with Harman Group LLC a consulting firm which specializes in research & analysis, site representation, marketing and project management for defense industry and government clients.
COL (R) Harman's Advanced Education includes:
Bachelor of Science Degree in Physical Education and Coaching with a minor in History from Baker University at Baldwin City Kansas, Where he played Varsity Football, Intramural Basketball, and was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
US Army Command and General Staff College.
Master of Public Administration from the Bloch School of Business/Cookingham Center for Public Administration, University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Master of Arts in Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.
COL (R) Harman's military awards include the Legion of Merit (2), Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (5th Oak Leaf Cluster), Army Commendation Medal (4th Oak Leaf Cluster), Joint Service Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) Service Medal, Korean Defense Service Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Overseas Service Ribbon and the Army Service Ribbon.
COL (R) Harman is married to the former Lisa Ann Rader of Ottawa, Kansas. She is a graduate of Baker University-BS Elementary Education and Pacific Lutheran University- MA Education and is a teacher for the Department of Defense School System at FT Benning GA. They have four children and three grandchildren.


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uplifting lyrics
Once again, this underrated alternative band creates a song with tons of raw energy and magnetism. The second verse is rapped by Beau Young Prince and it's dope. There a unique nature to his voice.
The members of American Authors met each other in Boston while attending Berklee College of Music in 2006. The quartet spent their first years in Boston recording and performing under the name the Blue Pages. In 2012, the group changed their name to American Authors and the following year the band signed with Mercury Records. Their debut single, "Believer," garnered attention through alternative rock radio followed by "Best Day of My Life," which they performed on the NBC's Today Show. Source: Billboard.com, Weareamericanauthors.com
This alternative pop band from Toronto rocks. This song of off their new EP changes course just when you think you've figured it out.
Break Every Rule (The Remix)
You've gotta hear this soulful growl. You'll be hooked within 10 seconds.
If you love New York City, you'll love this song. It also has one of the most unique bridges we've heard all year.
Alright (frick it!)
This is the funniest song we've heard in a while. It will change your mood in less than 60-seconds.
This guy has an unbelievable voice. Crank it up and enjoy!
Please Don't Go
This lead singer has a must-hear raspy, soulful voice.
Once you hear this song, you'll want to hear the rest of the album from this indie rock band from St. Paul, Minnesota.


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'Golfing Heaven' in Scotland's Outer Hebrides
The northerly latitude of the islands are a boon in summer, he added, with games viable until 11 p.m. or so in July; it's also the reason Askernish hosts its Open every August. (It was canceled in 2020, but returned this summer.)
Demand for property in the Outer Hebrides has surged during the pandemic, as have prices. Mr. Gillies noted that another agency in the islands typically had a roster of about 40 homes available at any time, but its inventory had dwindled to four by midsummer this year. "At some point, with the demand there is, we're just going to run out of properties," he said.
Homes here tend to fall into two broad categories, he noted: older, historic cottages and eco-friendly, contemporary architecture with an emphasis on sustainability.
Conventionally, he said, houses here would sell for the price suggested on a surveyor's home report; in the last six months, successful offers have usually hovered 20 to 30 percent above that number.
Tenancies for crofts, or local farms, used to sell for £15,000 to £20,000 (about $21,000 to $28,000), but one that overlooks the picturesque Luskentyre Bay in Harris was seeking bids of £200,000 or more.
Of course, there are no homes for sale overlooking Askernish, nestled in the dunes. But it's worth the drive, or ferry ride, to South Uist from any home in the islands, said Mr. McStravick, the golf historian.
"Golf is so much more than a stick and ball game — it's about escapism," he said. "And I don't think there's anywhere better in Scotland to lose yourself either in the golf, or the scenery."
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Group decries alleged PVC collection access refusal
On Tuesday, an ecumenical organization expressed concern about the apparent intentional denial of access to voters to acquire their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, based on triball or political reasons.
According to the group, such intentional behavior is a sign that those who registered for the exercise were intended to be disenfranchised.
In a press conference with journalists in Abuja, the group "Community Life Project/ReclaimNaija," working with religious authorities, noted that there are numerous shortcomings in the general election's preparations. They urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, to make an effort "to get it right at the various stages and processes from pre-election to Election Day."
It also gave INEC advice on how to calm the growing concern that many of the more than six million voters who do not have PVCs will lose their right to vote.
The warning was raised less than 24 hours after the electoral umpire expressed fresh concerns that there are strong threats to cancel and postpone the upcoming general elections if security problems in various parts of the country do not get better.
The President of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, Rev. Israel Akanji, noted an avalanche of stories of frustration from many Nigerians about the long process building up to the exercise in a prepared text read at the interfaith conference in Abuja.
The All African Baptist Fellowship's President, Dr. Akanji, expressed with concern that"there are still stories reflecting the old politics of PVC distribution where in some state and LG offices it is said that people are deliberately denied access to their PVCs based on ethnic or partisan considerations, which indicate manipulations to disenfranchise citizens."
He said, INEC's reported clean-bill process notwithstanding, "in some places, citizens have had to make several visits or wait for long hours before collecting their PVC. Many new registrants or those who transferred to new polling units are being told to return in mid-January.
Rev Akanji, joined by Rev. Ini Ukpuho, Chairman, Christian Council of Nigeria, North Central Zone, Gidado Muhammad Yolde, representing a Community-based organisation in Adamawa state and Zainab Abdurasheed, Programme Officer, Women's Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) urged INEC to improve on the observed lapses and "urgently consider extending the deadline for PVC collection at the ward level beyond the January 15 deadline."
Akanji who was also joined by Rev (Mrs) Uzoaku Williams, Assistant General Secretary, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) further expressed concern over the heightened insecurity in the land.
Decrying the development, he lamented that violence and civil strife have continued unabatedly and seem to have spiked in the lead-up to the 2023 general elections.
According to him, "The spread of these acts of violence to other parts of the country has added to the tension as regards the elections," adding "the implications of these unfortunate acts of violence are grave for our country."
He also called on religious as well as opinion leaders to use their amplified voices to push for issues that are important and relevant to the overall well-being of the country, saying "this period affords them the opportunity to inform the people of the importance of responsibly exercising their civic duties. They must lend their voices to the cause of getting citizens to collect their PVC and vote peacefully and participate in all aspects of our civic life with a true patriotic spirit.
"We except that they would use their enormous influence over their followers to encourage participation in the electoral process while admonishing them to shun all forms of violence.
"We must remind ourselves that we have a moral obligation to protect poor and vulnerable citizens, especially people at the grassroots and in our rural communities. We should not look the other way as the poverty and ignorance of our vulnerable population are being exploited by unscrupulous forces who are buying their PVC and votes.
"The onus is on us to rigorously educate our faith communities on the adverse consequences of selling their PVCs and their votes. We should have the courage to call on all politicians and those vying for public office to act ethically and play to the rules."
Continuing, the cleric said" We also expect that hateful and divisive rhetoric which sometimes finds its way to the pulpit will be a thing of the past. Our land needs healing and cleansing. Hateful speeches and fiery rhetorics are poisons that destabilise the nation. Much more is expected of the people of faith."
Also in his remarks, Ach Bishop John Praise urged Nigerians to ensure that only persons with impeccable character emerge victorious to lead the citizens and move the country forward.
He appealed to INEC to ensure that their logistics are in order so that the electorate will not be frustrated and leave the polling units.
Rev. Ukpuho said that the forthcoming elections can make or mar the country, advising that Nigerians should be cautious and ensure that voting of candidates should not be based on religion or ethnicity rather on competence and character.
"If we don't vote people of impeccable character, the election will be an exercise in futility."


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Q: Polynomialy equidistributed sets
A set $S$ is called polynomialy equidistributed if there exists a $p$ such that for any injective polynomial $p:\mathbb N\to\mathbb N$
$$\lim_{n\to \infty}\frac{|\{s|s\in \mathbb N,s\leq n,f(s)\in S\}| }{n}=\lim_{n\to \infty}\frac{|S\cap f(\{0,1,...,n\})| }{n}=p$$

For example, $\mathbb N$ is PE with $p=1$ as the set's image is always in $\mathbb N$,$\{2^n|n\in\mathbb N\}$ is PE with $p=0$ as the exponential grows faster than any polynomial.
The set $\{2n|n\in\mathbb N\}$ isn't PE as the limit for the polynomial $2n$ is $1$ and for $2n+1$ is $0$.
Questions:
1.is $\{[\sqrt2n]|n\in\mathbb N\}$ PE?($[~~]$ is rounding)
2.does there exist a set PE  with $0<p<1$?
Partial answers:

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*I've found that $p(n)=(1+\sqrt 2)^n + (1-\sqrt 2)^n$ is always in the set, but isn't a polynomial.
I've managed to prove that for linear functions that the limit converges to $\frac{1}{\sqrt2}$.

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The Thue–Morse sequence
I've thought about this sequence, as it seems "random", so it might be PE with $p=0.5$.
using code, I have found something interesting, for $f(n)=3n$ I get $p=0.5$, while, for $f(n)=n^2$ I got $p=0.25$.

A: For the first question, the answer is yes. This can also lead to a proof of the second question explicitly. The key is the following lemma, sourced from this post.

Lemma. Let $p(n)= \chi n^d + a_{d-1} n^{d-1} + \cdots + a_1 n + a_0$ be any polynomial of positive degree, with $\chi$ irrational. Then $\{p(n)\colon n\in\mathbb N\}$ is equidistributed modulo $1$; that is, for any union $I\subset [0,1)$ of intervals,
$$\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{|\{1\leq k\leq n\mid \{p(k)\}\in I\}|}n=|I|,$$
where $\{x\}=x-\lfloor x\rfloor$ is the fractional part of $x$ and $|I|$ denotes the total length of $I$.

This allows us to prove the following more general proposition.
Proposition. For any irrational $\alpha>1$, the set $S=\{[\alpha n]\colon n\in\mathbb N\}$ is polynomially equidistributed with density $p=1/\alpha$.
Proof. First, define
$$I=\left[0,\frac1{2\alpha}\right]\cup\left[1-\frac1{2\alpha},1\right)\subset [0,1)$$
with $|I|=1/\alpha$. We see that $n\in S$ if and only if there exists some $m$ with
$$\alpha m-\frac12\leq n\leq \alpha m+\frac12,$$
which is equivalent to
$$\left\{\frac n\alpha\right\}\in I.$$
Now, pick any polynomial $f\colon \mathbb N\to\mathbb N$, and let $p(n)=f(n)/\alpha$. This is a polynomial of positive degree with irrational leading coefficient, and so our lemma implies that
$$\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{|\{1\leq k\leq n\mid f(k)\in S\}|}n=|I|=\frac1\alpha,$$
as desired.

This proposition is enough to answer the second question for all irrational $p$. For rational $p$ (as far as I can tell) a new approach is needed.

For the second question, we first prove the following lemma.
Lemma. Let $X_1,X_2,\dots$ be independent random $0$-$1$ variables, let $0<p<1$, and let $\epsilon>0$. Then, there exists some positive integer $N=N(p,\epsilon)$ depending only on $p$ and $\epsilon$ such that
$$\Pr\big[\text{there exists }n>N\text{ with }\big|(X_1+\cdots+X_n)-pn\big|>pn^{3/4}\big]<\epsilon.$$
Proof. We'll first bound
$$\Pr\big[\big|(X_1+\cdots+X_n)-pn\big|>pn^{3/4}\big]$$
given $n$. Recall the Chernoff bound, which states that if $X$ is a random variable which is the sum of independent $0$-$1$ random variables with $\mathbb E[X]=\mu$, and $\delta>0$, then
$$\Pr\big[|X-\mu|>\delta\mu\big]\leq 2e^{-\frac{\delta^2\mu}3}.$$
Applying this to our case with $X=X_1+\cdots+X_n$, $\mu=pn$, and $\delta=n^{-1/4}$ gives
$$\Pr\big[\big|(X_1+\cdots+X_n)-pn\big|>pn^{3/4}\big]\leq 2e^{-\frac{p^{-1}n^{1/2}}3}.$$
Note that
$$\sum_{n=1}^\infty 2e^{-\frac{pn^{1/2}}3}$$
converges, by limit comparison with, e.g., $1/n^2$. This means that there exist some $N$ for which
$$\sum_{n=N+1}^\infty 2e^{-\frac{pn^{1/2}}3}<\epsilon.$$
Taking this $N$ implies the desired result, by the union bound.

Fix some $0<p<1$. We claim that, if each integer $n$ is placed into $S$ with probability $p$ and excluded with probability $1-p$, independently, then $S$ is polynomially equidistributed with probability $1$. We'll show that $S$ is polynomially equidistributed with probability at least $1-\eta$ for any $\eta>0$.
Enumerate the injective polynomials $f:\mathbb N\to\mathbb N$ as $f_1,f_2,\dots$ (there are countably many of them, so this can be done). Let $\epsilon_i=\eta 2^{-i}$ for each $i\geq 1$, so that
$$\sum_{i=1}^\infty \epsilon_i=\eta.$$
We'll show that the probability that $S$ fails to be equidistributed with respect to $f_i$ is at most $\epsilon_i$, which will imply the desired result by the union bound.
For each $i,n\geq 1$, let $\mathcal F_i(n)=\{f_i(1),\dots,f_i(n)\}$. Then $S$ is equidistributed with respect to $f_i$ if and only if
$$\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{|S\cap \mathcal F_i(n)|}{n}=p.$$
Now, for $j\geq 1$, let $X_j$ be the event that $f_i(j)\in S$; this happens with probability $p$, and (since $f_i$ is injective) the $X_j$ are all independent from each other. Letting $N_i=N(p,\epsilon_i)$, our lemma implies
$$\Pr\big[\text{there exists }n>N_i\text{ with }\big||S\cap \mathcal F_i(n)|-pn|>pn^{3/4}\big]<\epsilon_i.$$
So, with probability at least $1-\epsilon_i$,
$$\left|\frac{|S\cap \mathcal F_i(n)|}{n}-p\right|<pn^{-1/4}\text{ for every }n>N_i,$$
and so, since $pn^{-1/4}\to 0$ as $n\to\infty$,
$$\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{|S\cap \mathcal F_i(n)|}{n}=p,$$
as desired. This means that $S$ is equidistributed with respect to $f_i$ with probability at least $1-\epsilon_i$.
So, the probability that there exists some $i\geq 1$ for which $S$ is not equidistributed with respect to $f_i$ is at most $\epsilon_1+\epsilon_2+\cdots=\eta$. This means that $S$ is polynomially equidistributed with probability at least $1-\eta$, as desired.

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Q: Fluentmigrator Firebird migration rolls back automatically I am just experimenting with fluentmigrator and after creating the first migration, it is automatically rolled back. The VersionInfo table is created. Here is the output I get after executing the command:
migrate.exe -a "Migrations.dll" --db Firebird -c " ... " -o --of="D:\log.sql" -t=migrate:up

the output I get in the console is:
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=============================== FluentMigrator ================================
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source Code:
    http://github.com/schambers/fluentmigrator
Ask For Help:
    http://groups.google.com/group/fluentmigrator-google-group
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201312020001: CreateUsersTable migrating
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[+] CreateTable Users
[+] Committing and Retaining Transaction
[+] Committing and Retaining Transaction
[+] Committing and Retaining Transaction
[+] 201312020001: CreateUsersTable migrated
[+] Undoing 3 transaction(s)
[+] Undoing transaction 3
[+] Undoing transaction 2
[+] Undoing transaction 1
[+] Task completed.

Here is the log file:
/* 201312020001: CreateUsersTable migrating ================================== */

/* CreateTable Users*/
CREATE TABLE "Users" ("UserId" INTEGER NOT NULL, "Name" VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL, "PhoneNumber" VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL)
/* Committing and Retaining Transaction */
/* Committing and Retaining Transaction */

INSERT INTO "VersionInfo" ("Version", "AppliedOn") VALUES (201312020001, '2013-12-02 11:28:14')
/* Committing and Retaining Transaction */
/* 201312020001: CreateUsersTable migrated */

/* Undoing 3 transaction(s) */
/* Undoing transaction 3 */
DELETE FROM "VersionInfo" WHERE "Version" = 201312020001 AND "AppliedOn" = '2013-12-02 11:28:14'
/* Undoing transaction 2 */
/* Undoing transaction 1 */
DROP TABLE "Users"
/* Task completed. */

I have no ideea why is acting like this. Can anyone help me?
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Q: How to store subclass-specific information? I have an abstract class A and I want it to enforce its subclasses to have String Title and String Description properties. So if B extends A, B is guaranteed to have property Title with a value that's the same across all the instances of B.
If Java permitted static abstract methods (that is, static methods that have to be in every subclass), I'd just write
public abstract class A {
    public static abstract String getTitle();
    public static abstract String getDescription();
}

The best idea I've come up with so far is to use separate enumeration which stores Title and Description for each subclass. That way I can look through all the Titles with a single loop and instantiate a subclass with the title I need (this is the desired behavior). Unfortunately, that way I'll have to change the enum every time I add a subclass. Is there a better way?

A: Forget about mixing static stuff and inheritance. Just calls for trouble.
Instead, you turn to OCP
abstract class A {
   public final String getTitle () { return getTitleInternal(); }
   abstract String getTitleInternal();

class B extends A {
   @Override
   String getTitleInternal { maybe return some static value of B }

Please note that this is "better" than putting protected fields on class A. The essence of OO and inheritance is about behavior (so, you were correct in saying that you want certain methods on your subclass).
EDIT: after reading your comments again; I am tempted to remind you on
a) using interfaces
b) focusing on composition over inheritance

A: Did you think of using protected fields?
public abstract class A {
    protected String title;
    protected String description;
}

This way the two fields are visible in any class that extends A.
public abstract class B extends A {
        public B(){
            title = ...
            description = ....
        }

    }


12/31/2012 · Culture is a system of shared beliefs that are used by a society in order to interact with the world, as well as with each other. Often, we think of the food, music, clothing, and holidays that are shared by a group as their culture, but these are only some of the elements. Other elements include customs, values, behaviors, and artifacts.
3/1/2009 · Even easier, you can simply invite people from other cultures over for dinner. The best way to understand and admire cultural differences is over food and friendship, so extend an olive branch. Try a cultural potluck, where everyone must bring food representative of their culture.
Learning about different cultures can be a great way of developing an understanding of cultural diversity. Do a spot of research online or through books, and study some of the history and traditions of other cultures. Talk to someone from a different cultural background. Try and get to know them a bit better.
1. Other Cultures are Interesting. First of all, it's interesting to learn about those who are different from you. There's nothing wrong with doing something just because it's interesting.A little extra knowledge ever hurt anyone, and it's probably more useful and edifying than watching another mindless TV show.
Learn about each country's marketplace through pictures and articles. Search YouTube for videos of street markets in other countries. You'll be surprised at how much your child can learn about world cultures from thousands of miles away from many resources you can find online.
12/6/2016 · It is important to learn about different cultures to increase our global awareness, firstly. Then it is important to develop an understanding with the people of different cultures throughout the world. It is interesting to read about other cultures and you learn about different approaches to life.
TheCoffey. In my first year of graduate school, my Intercultural Communications professor told a story about traditional coupling practices that historically took place in some Native American cultures.
12/2/2016 · Why Learning About International Cultures is Important This November 14– 18, Cultural Vistas participated in International Education Week (IEW) by bringing international exchange visitors to elementary, middle and high schools in both New York and Washington, D.C to give presentations on their home countries.
12/13/2018 · sarahrosesummers @MissUniverse is an opportunity for women from around the world to learn about each other's cultures, life experiences, and views. We all come from different backgrounds and can grow alongside one another. In a moment where I intended to admire the courage of a few of my sisters, I said something that I now realize can be perceived as not respectful, and I apologize.
6/1/2009 · As we interact with others of different cultures, there is no good substitute for receptiveness to interpersonal feedback, good observation skills, effective questions, and some horse sense. There is much to be gained by observing how people of the same culture interact with each other.
At its core, cross-cultural communication involves understanding the ways in which culturally distinct individuals communicate with each other. Its charge is to also produce some guidelines with which people from different cultures can better communicate with each other. Cross-cultural communication requires an interdisciplinary approach.
7/29/2013 · .In my personal opinion I should be interested in other cultures because we live in a globalize world where people interact between each other as different products, services and technologies are created,letting them specialize becoming the best on that and supporting the rest of the world.
Colors Magazine (www.colorsmagazine.com). Colors magazine presents in-depth looks at cultures, communities, and issues that rarely are in the media spotlight and need to be told. Each edition focuses on one issue or topic, from drugs to shopping to wealth and war and provides an in-depth analysis of the topic and how it surfaces in cultures around the world.
9/6/2018 · They can mean different things in different cultures. Here are six hand gestures and what they mean in different countries and cultures: Thumbs up. This widely recognised sign of approval or agreement is actually used as an insult in Bangladesh. In certain parts of the Middle East, thumbs-up is definitely a highly offensive thumbs-down.
7/24/2009 · Different national cultures may view the same thing in very different ways thus communication can engender or distance you from potential clients or partners. Here are 10 ways that will help you create strong sustainable relationships with peers, partners, team members or clients from other cultures or nationalities.
Allow your kids to use techniques from other cultures to create pieces of art. You can also read stories from different cultures, learn cultural dances or play games from other countries to expand your families' understanding of people from different cultures. Include personal reflection sessions.
3.Why is it important to learn about other people's cultures? 4.How can you learn more about other cultures? Four-of-a-Kind • The group is divided into groups of four people. Each small group is given a white poster board with the outline of a smaller black frame placed about an inch in from the outside edges of the poster board.
Sponsored Feature: Fundraisers can learn from the different ways that countries give to charity.
How we view families from cultures different from our own deeply affects how we work with them. All families have had different sets of experiences. We can best help students learn if we believe their family experiences are neither better nor worse than our own, but simply different.
5/2/2017 · What Americans Can Learn from Other Food Cultures Amy S. Choi is a freelance journalist, writer, and editor based in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is the co-founder and editorial director of The Mash-Up Americans, a media and consulting company that examines multidimensional modern life in the U.S.
What Older Workers and Younger Workers Can Learn from Each Other Dan Woog, Monster Contributing Writer For the first time ever, four distinct generations share the workplace: the Silents (who are in their mid-60s on up), Baby Boomers (mid-40s to mid-60s), X-ers (mid-20s to mid-40s) and Millennials (the newest workers).
3/10/2017 · Learning About Other Cultures. When we just say "learn about cultures" it might sound a bit boring and make you think about the time you spent reading about different types of ancient Greek columns or different countries around the world, but the truth is that learning about other peoples and their way of life can be extremely fun and engaging.


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Q: Ubuntu One sync notifications not showing when using Encfs I have followed How can I encrypt data in Ubuntu One or Dropbox? to set up Ubuntu One with Encfs. It's working well and I can save files on one device and instantly read them on the other. I have verified that the files are truly encrypted by trying to download them from the Ubuntu One web interface.
The only problem is that I am not getting notification messages from Ubuntu One when I add new files or when new files are synced. Also, there are no helpful "Syncing" and "Checked" indicators superimposed over my file's icons so I have no way of knowing when a file has finished syncing.
Have I don't something wrong or missed something in the setup, or is this just a trade-off I have to accept if I want to use Encfs with Ubuntu One?
If it's the latter, are there any alternative ways of encryping on a per-file basis on Ubuntu One?

A: Make sure you are looking at the encrypted folder path to see the emblems. Ubuntu One doesn't know anything about the decrypted mount, so viewing it won't show any emblems. I don't know if there's any good way to go about making that work, technically, either. It may be something that the gnome-encfs package might need to provide via a Nautilus extension, showing the same emblems on the decrypted files, that are set on the encrypted files, updating automatically.
As for the notifications, you should be getting them, but they will have the names/paths of the encrypted files, which may also be confusing you if you're expecting the decrypted file names. This is also because Ubuntu One doesn't know anything about the decrypted mount point. I don't think there is any way to work around this technically.


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Selat is een bestuurslaag in het regentschap Karangasem van de provincie Bali, Indonesië. Selat telt 2388 inwoners (volkstelling 2010).

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Affirming Our Prime Directive
Early signs are not good when it comes to the latest Obama-led Ameriprise.
William Astore
Introduction by Tom Engelhardt
Okay, the new Star Trek film—you know, the prequel with space sex—is premiering in Australia. Go figure. All I know is I'm not beaming there. On the other hand, I've already been in close communication with a Trekkie pal, and she and I have chosen our night here in New York. May 14th. See you then. (I'll be the one wearing the TomDispatch hat.)
In the meantime, retired Lieutenant Colonel William Astore, TomDispatch regular and another Trek fan—okay, it's not exactly War and Peace, but give us a break—was thinking recently about the strange history of Star Trek, the show that took John F. Kennedy's "new frontier" deep into TV space, even as Lyndon Johnson's U.S. was moving ever deeper into its disastrous war in Vietnam. Now here we are again, a new Star Trek forty-three years later, and this time, two "counterinsurgency" wars already growing desperately old, and one, in Afghanistan, heating up to a boil. If only we could stick to the movies. But since we can't, pop that bowl of popcorn, butter and salt it well, and let Astore take you through some wormhole into alternate American universes on that spaceship we're all riding, the USS Ameriprise. Tom
Aboard the Imperial Star Ship Ameriprise
Heading for the Final Frontier
By William Astore
I grew up in the 1970s on reruns of the original Star Trek with Captain James Tiberius Kirk at the helm, backed by that ever logical Vulcan, Mr. Spock, Dr. "Bones" McCoy, and the rest of the intrepid, space-faring crew of the USS Enterprise. During the tumultuous 1960s, that sci-fi series—before being canceled—had pointed to a more promising future in which humanity would be united. Star Trek, after all, offered a vision of a post-racial society in which blacks and Asian-Americans would serve alongside whites as equals, and a post-nationalistic society in which Russian-accented Ensign Chekov could loyally follow a WASPy captain from Iowa.
Even as the Enterprise cruised the distant reaches of our galaxy, the show was distinctly a creature of its moment, of the tensions released by the rise of the civil rights movement and by the Cold War superpower standoff. Minorities were still struggling for equal rights when the first Star Trek aired in 1966, while the U.S. government was just putting the finishing touches on a nuclear command center buried under 2,000 feet of granite that was meant to ride out a possible apocalyptic Russian sneak attack. So, having a black female officer like Lieutenant Uhura and a Russian one like Chekov on the starship's bridge certainly seemed like one small leap for mankind.
In a way, the Enterprise and its multi-national, alien-inclusive crew was the ultimate American melting pot (and, if you happened to be an aficionado of war films, the ultimate "lost patrol" as well). It was also "a wagon train to the stars." At least that was how its creator here on Earth, Gene Roddenberry, pitched the series concept to TV network executives at the time. In the early 1960s, remember, such execs were accustomed to green-lighting Westerns like Gunsmoke or Bonanza with lily-white casts, not a sci-fi series set elsewhere in the galaxy with a multi-racial line-up.
Not surprisingly then, Roddenberry re-imagined space as the "final frontier" and sent Kirk and crew off each week, like so many American pioneers of earlier centuries, to "boldly go where no man has gone before." They were to ride their high-tech wagon into the unknown in search of "new life and new civilizations." Of course, exploring that final frontier could be dangerous, whether in the American West of the 1800s or hundreds of years later among the stars and planets of the Milky Way.
Accordingly, the Enterprise space wagon was heavily armed with phasers and photon torpedoes: precision weapons that, on rare occasions, may have missed their targets, but in the emptiness of space never left behind embarrassing collateral damage. Besides, wherever our heroic crew journeyed, the Prime Directive of the United Federation of Planets went with them. Peaceful exploration was the singular goal of the Federation, and General Order No. 1 precluded interference, even for humanitarian reasons, in the lives of any developing alien cultures that might be discovered.
Not that that stopped Captain Kirk and crew. They often found themselves in situations where, Prime Directive or not, they were forced to meddle in an alien society's development. In the Star Trek universe, these attempts at social engineering—in our time they would be termed "humanitarian interventions" or "nation building"—usually yielded promising results. They certainly didn't lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands or the displacement of millions. Indeed, we rarely saw such dire results on the show precisely because, unlike American ground troops stationed on other "frontiers," whether in the 1960s in Vietnam or today in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Enterprise and its crew could always head off at warp speed from ill-judged experiments in social and cultural engineering.
And this being an American vision of the future, even in space the Enterprise never lacked conflict with evildoers. The ship was almost constantly confronted by aggressively hostile aliens, most commonly the militaristic Romulans and Klingons. (In later versions of the series, created on Earth as the Cold War wound down and ended, the Klingons would eventually ally with the Federation and come on board the Enterprise.)
On Board the USS Ameriprise
Looking back at Star Trek, more than four decades after Roddenberry's vision entered our homes, what's remarkable is how much it captured a still extant American optimism and an American cultural smugness. The optimism today has been muted, but the smugness—not so much. After all, official American "expeditionary forces" continue to travel the "final frontiers" of our own planet, if not the galaxy, armed to the teeth with our own versions of phasers and photon torpedoes. At the same time, most of us continue to see ourselves as a peace-loving, Federation-like crew, a force for progress, for international cooperation, and above all for good.
Yes, our acts may—these days, more than occasionally—misfire (or quagmire), but our intentions are benevolent, motivated primarily by a desire to serve a higher purpose, even as we seek to enlarge our peaceful federation of allied nations. Unfortunately, like the Star Trek crew, Americans are meddlers. We want to help others even when they don't want our help, even when our "help" is counterproductive to the normal development of other cultures and countries.
Worse yet: Despite our aspirations, the American spaceship of state—let's call it the USS Ameriprise—not only resembles the USS Enterprise of the (mostly well-meaning but distinctly meddlesome) Federation, but also, on too many occasions, the Enterprise from a barbarous parallel universe pictured in "Mirror, Mirror," an episode from the show's second season.
In it, thanks to a "transporter" accident, four members of the Star Trek crew, including Captain Kirk, switch places with their evil twins and find themselves aboard the Imperial Star Ship (ISS) Enterprise. Among the ISS crew, might makes right. Alien cultures that refuse to provide scarce energy sources (the dilithium crystals that power the starship, not mundane oil as on this planet) are massacred and their resources stolen. Perceived mistakes by crewmembers are punished with "agonizers," Taser-like miniature zappers applied to the chest just above the heart. Disloyal crewmembers are tortured to extract confessions, or simply slowly tortured to death, by being placed in "the agony booth." The booth is the ultimate "stress position," without all the inconvenience of shackles or the messiness of waterboarding. Officers advance in rank by assassination, with Kirk possessing the choicest precision weapon: a device in his quarters capable of killing any person on board with just the touch of a button.
Let's recap: Alien cultures shocked, awed, and bludgeoned into submission in order to gain control over scarce energy resources; torture used liberally to extract information; precision weapons capable of decapitating the enemy and controlled from a distance via the push of a button.
It's disturbing how closely the recent journeys of our Ameriprise have come to resemble those of that imperial Enterprise. Yet we've hardly seemed to notice, convinced as we were that our ship of state is still the good Enterprise, spreading democracy and freedom, even if meddling in other cultures as well. Perhaps we've forgotten that another way to express the wisdom contained in the Prime Directive is: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
But let's rejoin Kirk on the ISS Enterprise. Aghast to find himself surrounded by such barbarity, he adapts just enough to survive until he is able to rejoin the "good" universe. The question is: Can we, like Kirk, recognize and reject the barbarity around us, even as we resist the temptation to interfere in the lives of others, unless they well and truly ask for, and really need, our help?
Early signs are not good when it comes to the latest Obama-led Ameriprise. Our spaceship of state still seems remarkably addicted to phasers and photon torpedoes, an addiction we refuse to own up to, even as we send one variety of our own spaceships, which we call unmanned aerial drones, over the tribal lands of Pakistan and Afghanistan armed with Hellfire missiles. We also refuse to admit that we're an imperial power, even as we build new military bases along the final frontiers of our planet, while our military seeks "full spectrum dominance" from the deepest oceans to "the shining stars and beyond" (as one U.S. Air Force advertisement recently put it). We demonize our enemies, turning them into so many Romulans, aliens who are incapable of understanding anything but the blunt, unsparing use of force.
When we look in the mirror, we want to see a peace-loving Federation member staring back at us, not a barbarian from the ISS Enterprise. I certainly do. But even the far friendlier visage of the benevolent Kirk and the logical Spock needs to be considered seriously and critically. For if the Captain and the Vulcan no more saw themselves as imperial meddlers than we normally do, they often found themselves fighting to expand the boundaries of their friendly Federation—and so do we.
In the long run, we may well be able to reject naked barbarity and lust for power. But can we resist the power of our own illusions, of the notion that, despite missteps, mishaps, and mistakes, we're always a force for good in the world? Can we affirm our own Prime Directive—a reversal of our Monroe Doctrine that defined our boundaries in a different age and time—and vow not to meddle in the affairs of others? For our Ameriprise has its limits, as well as its own pressing problems to solve.
William J. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF), taught for six years at the Air Force Academy. A TomDispatch regular, he currently teaches at the Pennsylvania College of Technology and is the author of Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism (Potomac Press, 2005), among other works. He may be reached at wastore@pct.edu.
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Social media: do it with purpose or don't bother
Events, Social Media
Social media has always been the bridge for connecting people to each other and immediate information. But when it comes to using it for marketing purposes, how do you explain to a client, or even to your own management, its value? The answer is the strategy – at least that's the key takeaway that came out of PRSA Detroit's Social Media Strategies event.
The big picture: strategy trumps quantity of content
Your content will always be important, but the strategy behind it is everything. The event's panelists – three social media thought leaders, led by Amanda Farley, SSDM partner, and accounts director – discussed how you shouldn't even think about creating the content until you have laid out the strategy.
You might be asking, then, how do I figure out my social strategy?
As suggested by the panelists you need to be thinking about all the critical questions like:
Who are you talking to? And why?
What do they want to know?
How much content do you have? How much do you need?
How often should you post?
Once you begin to build the strategy foundation, you can think about putting the content together.
Which social platforms should I use?
One audience member asked which social platform a company or client should be using and why? The answer – your social presence must follow and support the strategy. But even if there's no planned engagement, you should still make an account for every platform. Things change so fast in the social media realm, you never know when a previously irrelevant channel might become appropriate to the strategy.
You should also consider your resources. If your strategy calls for multiple channels, remember that they all need to be "fed." Ask yourself: How much can my team manage? Is there content that can serve multiple purposes? If yes, great, but make sure it varies from other channels.
When it comes to cross-channel content, you need to make sure you're thinking about the voice of the platform. The world of LinkedIn has a totally different voice and tone than Instagram or Twitter. All have the power to reach large audiences, but each platform has different strengths to support different goals.
How to get executive management engaged
Another audience member asked how others have convinced their executive management to participate in social media when, until recently, some business owners considered it to be only used by younger demographics and celebrities vying for the "most followers." It may be hard for them to consider it to be a thought leadership platform, but that exactly describes LinkedIn. Many executives claim they are "too busy" to write social-media posts. But the panel provided many tips to help you encourage them:
Help the executive(s) find interesting things about themselves that others might not know.
Draft an outline for them to further develop the post, along with a deadline.
Provide parameters for the writing assignment. Let them know it's OK to start with something short and sweet.
Encourage them to talk about things they do outside of work – volunteer work, Little League, over-50 hockey etc.
Engage their assistant(s) to take good notes at speaking engagements to provide the seeds for more content, recapping the executive's keynote presentation, for instance.
Final thoughts: connecting a foundation for success
Social media has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to connecting people together. The power of social media is in its ability to amplify the voice of the people. But in order for you to succeed in your social media objectives, you need to build a solid strategic foundation while continuing to optimize and monitor results. Otherwise, as Amanda said during the event, "If you're just putting out content to see if it sticks, you've already failed."
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Land Use and Spatial Distribution of Two Gum And Incense Producing Tree Species In The Blue-nile Valley of Wogidi District, Ethiopia
School of Agriculture, Environment, Water and Natural Resources Management (JA)
Musimba, Nashon K. R.; Ekaya, Wellington N.; Farah, Kassim O.
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The study was conducted in the Blue-Nile valley of Wogidi district in Ethiopia, where woody vegetation degradation associated with intensive land use activities has become a national concern. It was undertaken with an overall objective of documenting the impacts of land use and topography on the spatial distribution of two gum and incense producing tree species, Boswellia papyrifera (Del.) Hochst and Commiphora africana (A. Rich.) Engl.. Five land use units, each with two slope categories (25% and > 25%) were subjected to a 5x2 factorial arrangement and a total of 50 sample points were employed to measure density, crown cover, and age ratio of trees. Analysis of vegetation attributes revealed that, except for density of C. africana, all the vegetation attributes did show lower status in the heavily populated land use units than the control site reflecting the differential impact of intensive land use pressure against protection. In the heavily populated land use unit (Luu-3) for example, density, cover and age ratio of B. papyrifera trees were as low as 8.3 trees/ha, 7.7% and 0.21 respectively. In contrast to this, i.e. in the site of low population pressure (the control) the same attributes appeared to be measured as 77 trees/ha, 7.7% and 0.51 respectively. However, attached to the proximity ecological position, density and crown cover of B. papyrifera showed no significant difference (P. > 0.05) between Luu-1 and Luu-2. Density of C. africana, most likely due to its affinity to a specific microhabitat, it did not differ among all land use units (P > 0.05). Between the slope aspects of the area, B. papyrifera and C. africana were found to dominate the steep (>25%) and gentle (25%) slopes respectively. Regarding density of B. papyrifera, while it was 196 trees/ha in the steep slope, 146 trees/ha were documented from the lower slope aspect. Inversely related to this, C. africana had 68 and 102 trees/ha on >25% and 25% slopes respectively. Age ratio analysis of B. papyrifera trees, however, did not show significant difference (P > 0.05) between these two slope categories. In the study area therefore, land use and slope were identified as determinant factors to the spatial distribution of woody vegetation and policy frameworks to account these factors are suggested to be substantial in the management of such resources
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/ Person - Josephine Butler
(1828-1906), Social reformer
Josephine Elizabeth Butler (née Grey)
Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 2 portraits
Living in Liverpool from 1866, Butler helped to establish refuges for friendless women, housing large numbers of them in her own home. The Contagious Disease Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869 effectively established government brothels for soldiers and sailors. They placed prostitutes under police supervision while making it hard for them to leave their line of work. Butler led the campaign for the repeal of these Acts, which succeeded in 1886. Her writings include a Life of St Catherine of Siena (1898), a Life of Pastor Oberlin (1882), The Hour Before The Dawn (a tract on the campaign to repeal the Contagious Disease Acts; 1876) and Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade (1896).
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"Lapiro de Mbanga Ndinga Man e mandat don bolè today for Etaz! Erreur or no erreur die na ndos! Waka nayo Ndinga man. We go di follow ya 4 chapters di listen ya mutumbu until we own mandat bolè. We go di mimba you tara! All man must go one day ... RIP." Sarli Sardou Nana.
Singer and musician Lapiro de Mbanga from Cameroon – the "unceremonial sheriff of the backyards" – has died, 56 years old.
Lapiro de Mbanga was a musical "freedom fighter" who articulated the daily injustices he witnessed in his songs – and was punished hard for his right to express them.
On 16 March 2014, Lapiro de Mbanga died of cancer in USA, the country which gave him asylum in 2012 at a time when he had to leave Cameroon under dramatic circumstances.
"Authorities in Cameroon continued to harass and threaten Lapiro even after he was released. He needed to get out of the country, and we needed to find an urgent solution," told Freemuse Director Ole Reitov. With the help of Freedom Now, Lapiro was given refugee asylum in the United States.
Freemuse in collaboration with International Pen started campaigning for the release of Lapiro in 2008, but on 9 September 2009, Lapiro was sentenced three years imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of 280 million CFA francs (640,000 US dollars) as compensation for damage caused during riots where protesters had taken to the streets, angered by high living costs and a constitutional change that would allow the country's president to stay in power indefinitely.
Lapiro's crime allegedly was that the amid nationwide strikes and mass demonstrations in 2008, he had composed and recorded the song 'Constitution Constipée', (Constipated Constitution), in which he describes the country's president, Paul Biya, as "caught in the trap of networks that oblige him to stay in power even though he is tired." The song became an unofficial anthem of the protests, and Lapiro was arrested and charged of inciting youth unrest.
"My struggle has always been to denounce inequalities, and danger is part of that mission," said Lapiro de Mbanga when he was interviewed in 2010 during his unfair imprisonment where he shared a cell with 50 other prisoners.
The news was conveyed to Lapiro in his prison cell in Cameroon a few hours before the prize ceremony took place Wednesday evening at London's Victoria and Albert Museum in attendance of international luminaries such as the celebrated Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Time Out founder Tony Elliot and Human rights activist Bianca Jagger.
A month later, Lapiro contracted typhoid fever and nearly died of that disorder and respiratory complications. In addition to Freemuse's world-wide campaign for his release, Mondomix compiled a CD in support of Lapiro and campaigned actively in France for his release, the U.S.-based lawyers' organization Freedom Now monitored Mbanga's case throughout his incarceration, and in April 2010, the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN also launched a campaign to help win Mbanga's freedom.
In 2011, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared that Mbanga's arrest was an infringement of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. He was released from prison on 8 April 2011, one day before the official end of his sentence.
Already one year leater, Lapiro surprised the Cameroon government with the release of yet another anti-Biya music album calling on the president to resign, 'Demissionnez'.
In September 2012, Mbanga, his wife, and five of their six children left Cameroon for the United States, where they had been granted asylum after receiving threats on this life. His exile was described by one newspaper as a major loss for the Cameroonian music scene.
His hit songs during the 1980s and 1990s were regularly censored by the Cameroonian government, and he was seen as a spokesman for the youth of his country, using the power of popular music to campaign for social reforms in his native Cameroon during three decades.
Since 2010, a book detailing Mbanga's trial and the reasons for his exile (Cabale Politico-Judiciaire Ou La Mort Programmée D'Un Combatant De La Liberté) has been said to be "due for release soon".
Cameroon has still not paid compensation to Lapiro and his family.
Question: «Comment Lapiro de Mbanga s'occupe-t-il aux États-Unis d'Amérique?
Question: How does Lapiro keep busy in the United States?
Answer: For the first time in my life, I have ample time to take care of my kids, and I am very happy. Also, I take care of my health because I came out of prison completely messed up. Remember that the Medical Doctor of the Douala central prison, Amougou Elo Benjamin, was given the mission to kill me slowly, and he prevented me from going for treatment at the Laquintinie Hospital. My illness has worsened. I would like to state here that if I had remained in Cameroon, I am sure that my funeral would have already taken place.
So sad indeed. In 2009, I did a lot of probono work at the New bell prison both legal and social wise. l was privileged to be trusted enough to be let into the famous celule 18 for the VIPs who included Ndinga Man now of blessed memory. He in particular was keeping his cheer and the moral of the other VIPs and even their 'bodyguards' (other fortunate prisoners who got those jobs) cool. He took some liking to me and facilitated for me to interview some of the VIPs and to get a better insight into that world. l also knew one of his core lawyers and did some research work for the latter too.
Goodbye my bro, you have the guarantee that all those dreaded masons who orchestrated your demise will see you soon. The good thing is you get to help the almighty judge point them out for their judgement to netted out. Till we all the oppressed meet again keep heaven smiling and dancing with rhythmic tunes. Enjoy your eternal peace and intervene for all the oppressed.
Ndinga Man Mola, we di miss you so much tara, make yu waka fine greet Pa Bob Marley, Peter Toush, Miriam Makeba, Tom Yoms, charlotte Mbango and the rest fo we don whey dem done waka. Make Etudi know say he Mbiya too no go sleep fine becaus say chakara he chakara sick di come whey i own complice them go finish he. Fever dey at hand fo he better all thing them mbole for this pays because Massa John for Ntarikon with all people for UN People organisation them go tell he say No Make Erreur because we to Savoir say Savoir yu know go use we again We di go too for we own place for secteur fo form we own Union Government or better say we complice tooo for UN go gi we waitti we don suffer for all years.
Bro. yur spirit no go die he di live for we memory Constitution for Cameroon na constiper time don ripe weh we too go say Ninja them too go follow we for waitti them do for waka with he and he complice them weh them di chop a chop and suveuter them di cry for get small gari whissa we di go for new generation make we siyam. Rest yu fine Grand tarra we too go mash fire for follow your talk.
We may also wish to remember that...to be lapiroed is a neologism invented by Prof Bole Butake in memoriam of Lapiro.


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Every Day 3-4 Litres Of Liquid Is Removed From Pooja's Bloated Stomach, A Liver Transplant Will Save Her
Pooja Sri is a 11-year-old fighting liver-failure. She has fought off grave illnesses from when she was 6-months-old. But now, she is in great pain and every day about 3-4 litres of liquid has to be removed from her stomach. She desperately needs a liver transplant to survive. Without it, she will not make it. Her time, her hope is running out.
Pooja's muscle mass has deteriorated and she is very weak now
Just 6 months after she was born, the doctors told her parents Srinivas and Maheshwari that their baby had cysts in her kidneys and would eventually need a transplant. Since then, she has regularly suffered from infection, pains, and weakness but she never let it get her down.
Pooja is in the hospital because she is very weak and needs to be constantly monitored
"She couldn't go out and play with other children because she is very weak. But she stayed home and made up fun games and other children would come home to play with her. Small, indoor competitions or make-believe playing," says Srinivas.
Srinivas is a constable with the police department in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh and has recently started earning Rs 20,000 per month. With his limited income, every month, he would take Pooja to different doctors for 'treatment' that would make her kidney condition better.
Pooja takes it in her stride and makes up for it with her spirit and optimism. "Pooja is the talkative one at home. She loves to dress up and conduct play-fashion shows with her friends. She is the one who always finds a way to make us feel better if we are sad. Without her I can only imagine emptiness," says Srinivas.
The recent illness has left Pooja unable to bear meeting any one
This April, when Pooja had just started class 7, she became very sick with jaundice. The doctors had warned her parents of a day like this – when one illness is all it took to make her critically ill. Pooja did not get better and now she needs an urgent transplant to live.
Pooja is in great pain and every day her about 3-4 litres of liquid has to be removed from her stomach
She is in the last stage and about 4 litres of fluid needs to be removed from her stomach every day. The procedure leaves her exhausted because she is also unable to eat or drink normally. All her muscle mass has been consumed and she has become very bony.
Maheshwari's voice shakes when she talks of what has happened to her daughter. "She loved meeting people. But now, because of all the water and swelling in her stomach – she refuses to meet any one. Sitting by herself, crying over the smallest things. This disease has robbed me of my happy child. This thin, scared girl in her place is shutting every one out."
Pooja doesn't want to see any one now because of her condition
Maheshwari and Srinivas have been in Hyderabad the last 3 months for treatment. Pooja's older brother Chaitanya is back home and has not been told about the extent of her illness. The two are very close and it will upset him to hear that his sister is fighting for her life.
Here's how you can help Pooja
Even with Maheshwari donating a part of her liver, Srinivas needs to arrange for Rs 10 lakhs to save his Pooja. Even if he sells off everything they own, he will not be able to arrange the amount. Our support in the form of contributions will free this girl of the pain she is going through. We cannot let her die- she has her whole life ahead of her.
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Epidemiologi & medicinsk statistik
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Theorell, Tres
5 Illustrations, color; 4 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 241 p. 9 illus., 5 illus. in color.
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From the Nordic countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland) comes an exciting source of theoretical approaches, epidemiological findings, and real-life examples regarding the therapeutic and health-enhancing effects of music. Experts across fields including psychology, neurology, music therapy, medicine, and public health review research on the benefits of music in relieving physiological, psychological, and socioemotional dysfunction. Chapters link musical experiences (listening and performing, as well as involvement in movement, dance, and theatre) to a wide range of clinical and non-clinical objectives such as preventing isolation, regulating mood, reducing stress and its symptoms, and treating dementia. And the book's section on innovative music-based interventions illustrates opportunities for incorporating musical activities into public health programs. Among the topics covered are: * Associations between the use of music, cultural participation and health-related outcomes in adult Scandinavian populations * Music practice and emotion handling * How music translates itself biologically in the body * Music as a forum for social-emotional health * Participation and partnership as core concepts in music and public health * Music therapy as health promotion for mothers and children at a public health clinic Music and Public Health will gain interested readers among researchers, teachers, students, and clinicians in the fields of music education and therapy, as well as researchers and students of public health who are interested in the influence of culture and the arts. The book also will be relevant to administrators in public health services.
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Lars Ole Bonde, PhD, is professor of Music Therapy at Aalborg University in Denmark. He also is professor of Music and Health at the Center for Research in Music and Health at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway. Toeres Theorell, MD, PhD, is a physician with specialty in internal medicine, cardiology, and social medicine. Dr. Theorell was professor of Psychosocial Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden from 1995 to 2006. After retirement, he has been working as scientific consultant at the Stress Research Institute at the University of Stockholm in Sweden. He also is an amateur musician.
PART ONE: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN MUSIC AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES Ola Ekholm & Lars Ole Bonde (DK): A Danish Music and Public Health Study: Some conclusions and consequences for preventive projects Abstract: A summary of the first Danish study on music and Public Health with 14.000 respondents will include selected results from the study and a discussion of how this new knowledge may inform future preventive projects. Toeres Theorell (maybe with coauthors) (S): Musicality and creativity: The role of musical abilities as predictors. Abstract: There is a well-established statistical relationship between musical ability (rhythm, pitch, and melody) and general intelligence. In our group we have also examined the relationship between amount (total hours) of life-long musical practice on one hand and poor capacity to handle emotions (alexithymia) on the other hand. Our studies have been based upon 27-54-year-old twins in the Swedish Twin Registry. We have shown that both in men and women there is a significant negative relationship between numbers of music practice hours and poor ability to handle emotions - alexithymia. In other words, music practice statistically protects individuals in the population from alexithymia. As a measure of alexithymia, we have used the total score (TAS 20) of three aspects of alexithymia, namely ability to differentiate emotions, ability to put words on emotions, and ability to externalize feelings. However, according to twin modeling analyses, the relationship between amount of music practice and alexithymia is determined mainly by genetic factors influencing both alexithymia and amount of practice (via motivational processes). Our results similarly show that a high level of musical achievement (ranging from inactivity in music to being an amateur and to being an advanced professional) is associated with good emotional ability and that high writing achievement also independently contributes to good emotional ability. Independently of writing and musical ability, for men high achievement in visual arts and for women high achievement in theatre performing contribute to good emotional ability. We have recently extended these studies to the examination of the association between musicality (objective tests of rhythm, melody, and pitch ability) and likelihood of working in a creative occupation. It is hypothesized that musicality is an important aspect of creative thinking and that both emotional capacity (the opposite of alexithymia) and general intelligence contribute to this likelihood. Using a job exposure matrix (O*Net), we find - as expected - that high age, high educational level, and high general intelligence level all contribute to the likelihood of working in a creative occupation. However, adding to these expected findings, we also find for men that a high score for musical pitch contributes to likelihood of working in a creative occupation. For women, a low score for alexithymia contributes to this likelihood as well. These associations were not affected when all musician participants were excluded from the analyses. In other words, there is, for instance, an independent relationship in men between a high score for pitch and likelihood of working in a creative occupation regardless of musician identity. Our research results point at a complex web of musical (and, in general, artistic) experiences as well as emotional skills as being of importance for recruiting and maintaining workers in creative occupations. The findings are partly gender specific. In the chapter, we are going to discuss possible causal and non-causal pathways explaining these associations as well as possible societal implications. Fredrik Ullen (with members of his team) (S): Topic to be decided(Abstract to follow) Steinar Krokstad (with co-author(s) to be identified) (N): HUNT data on music and health revisited (Abstract to follow) PART TWO: THEORY Suvi Saarikallio & Margarida B


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Q: How do I divide a cell into multiple cells depending on the quantity? I don't understand Excel formulas at all. I think that I have all other columns figured out for what is needed, except I cannot figure out the formulas in Columns N, O, P, Q. When the column L amount is more than 250, I need to split the column L amount in an equal amount in N, O, P, & Q if needed.
i.e., Row 4 would split into N & O, Row 5 would split into N, O & P, Row 6 wouldn't split, Row 7 would split into N, O, P, & Q.
The numbers in Columns I have manually added the amounts that I want it to split into in Columns N, O, P, Q up to the 250 per cell.

A: In N4, formula copied across right to Q4 and all copied down :
=IF(($L4>250)*(COLUMN(A$1)<=ROUNDUP($L4/250,0)),ROUND($L4/ROUNDUP($L4/250,0),0),0)


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CARLSBAD, Calif., August 05, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MaxLinear, Inc. (NYSE: MXL), a leading provider of radio frequency (RF), analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits, today announced that it will attend the following financial conferences in August and September 2021.
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Open Studio 22 January 2014 Showcasing Portraits of Family House
Fine artist Seamus Berkeley will host an Open Studio on 22 January 2014, 4pm-7pm, showcasing Portraits of Family House: a non-profit collaboration with Family House Inc. San Francisco. All portraits will benefit Family House Inc. which provides temporary housing for families with a child seeking treatment for a life threatening illness at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.
Robyn Comfort
Assistant to Seamus Berkeley
BAY AREA ARTIST CELEBRATES CHANGE OF COURSE WITH OPEN STUDIO FEATURING PORTRAITS OF FAMILY HOUSE
Berkeley, California – Fine artist Seamus Berkeley surges forth into 2014 with more portraits in the works to add to his Portraits of Family House collection in honor of families with sick children staying at Family House Inc., San Francisco.
Berkeley will host an Open Studio on Wednesday, January 22 from 4pm-7pm (see address below) to introduce the in-progress paintings and to talk about his experiences working with the people at Family House.
All oil portraits will be gifted to Family House, where two properties with apartment style rooms with communal living areas offer a temporary refuge for families with a child facing a life threatening illness seeking treatment at UCSF Benioff Children's hospital.
"What you've got here is intense chaos, and amidst intense chaos is significant joy; at least significant caring, that's what it is" said Berkeley of his many visits to Family House, after getting to know the children, parents and employees who bring the homes to life. "The thing of doing the paintings is not just to preserve, but to bring this whole topic to more people."
With four finished portraits, and nine studies next in line – not to mention three grown children of his own – his willingness to generate more art for Family House lies in the project's poignancy: working with and for children facing life threatening illnesses at such a crucially vulnerable, young age.
"If we would only take this thing that goes on here, because it's crisis, and live with it on a daily basis, we might have a little bit more caring for one another on a regular basis" Berkeley explained. "This is worth reflecting upon, taking a look at, because it…changes a little bit of what it means to be alive, I think."
This portrait series celebrates the spirit of Family House: the people who make it a comfortable home away from home during desperate times. During his visits to the houses, Seamus invites any employees, parents or children to meet with him; he listens to their stories, then gets to work creating their portrait.
The series will end up in the hands of Family House Inc., whether as symbols of support adorning the walls, as advertising materials to garner support, or at auction to raise money, the paintings will be reminders of the children who were brought to UCSF to fight for their lives, and the people who made that journey just a little bit more bearable.
The Open Studio will be hosted at Berkeley Fine Art Studio, 933 Parker Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
http://seamusberkeley.com
Art and Deb Ablin, oil on canvas, 72″ x 36″
Infant, oil on canvas, 24″ x 16″
Kelly and Devon, oil on canvas, 36″ x 24″
Karen Banks, 13″ x 40″, Oil on canvas


Tell Me You Love Me by Nimmu is the poignant story of true love between two people wanting completely different things in life and how their life changes with their decisions. Do they get their happily-ever-after or do they lose the battle of love due to their decisions in life?
This is the first book by Nimmu that I have read so when I picked up the book, I had no preconceived expectations from the book. The beautiful cover caught my eye and had me stopping to go back and check out the blurb which then sealed the deal.
A story that started simply and even started looking like the stereotype bubbly girl and serious boy falling in love saga, it went conventionally for the first half but then picked up speed and twisted into a story that had me sitting up and furiously wiping my eyes while my glazed eyes stayed glued to each page.
The first half of the book sets the base of the story but is slow and had many grammatical errors like error in tenses and repetitive phrases which sometimes had me getting bored but I am so glad I didn't stop reading because the second half is absolutely soulful and so engaging that it made this book a memorable one for me.
The author's writing style is simple without frills but she needs to work on flow which was hampered by incorrect usage of tenses in this book. The settings, scenarios and emotions are admirably brought out by her and I loved how she got me completely engrossed in what happened next with the protagonists. In the later part of the book, I felt like everything was happening to me and while I feared I had guessed the climax, still I prayed that my guess be wrong.
I loved Rishab. The only thing I kept wanting to shout out and shake the heroine into listening was to grab him because guys like him came once in a lifetime. He is mature, sincere, a good friend and most of all that selfless and devoted lover, found so rarely in life. He loves Trisha and is willing to give up anything just to see her happy and he does exactly this. He stays true to his promise of waiting for her to come to him when she is successful. I laughed, cried, felt that intense pain of longing and then that deep rooted grief with Rishab. His love for Trisha had me wanting to hug him. He is a good son too and his love for his mother had me wishing for a son just like him.
Trisha has seen her father beat her mother each day and she is determined to leave everything behind and make a happy life with her mother away from her abusive father. Bubbly, happy and determined to make big money, she looks childish but is very sure that she never wants to fall in love. Sometimes I liked Trisha while the other times I just didn't understand her actions. How can someone ignore a love like the one Rishab had for her? She taught me some valuable lessons in this story. It is always better to choose love and affection over inanimate things that give happiness only for a short while.
I was impressed by Rishab's mother who is strong, devoted to her son and independent. Despite getting abused by her husband, she has not lost her confidence and is determined to leave that unhappiness behind, now that her husband is dead. Her affection towards Trisha and her open welcome to Trisha's, battered and barely hanging there, mother had me feeling proud of her.
Trisha's mother stands for the typical Indian woman. She is beaten by her husband whom she loves despite all his abuse and has never even dreamed of standing up to the torture or thought of leaving him. She plays peacemaker and turns a blind eye to facts that are right in front of her because she knows that she has no support from her own family and will not be supported by the society if she leaves her husband. So she is depressed and tries her best to play the dutiful wife, all the while hopeful that her drunkard husband will finally leave his abusive ways and all will be well.
I despised Trisha's father and just didn't understand his motivations for his actions. His remorse is not played out in detail so he is forgotten soon.
The poem in the book is so beautiful and heartfelt that it wets our eyes leaving a yearning for love in our hearts. I could feel the emotions and tears of the writer who had written it like they were my own.
Tell me you need me too for I am unable to stay strong.
All in all, this is an engaging story of love, devotion and sacrifice not only between a boy and girl but between a mother and her children. Tell Me You Love Me is a book I absolutely loved because of its strong second half which made it a memorable book for me. I recommend it to all romance lovers. 4 out of 5 to it and had the first part been given more pace and made crisper with elimination of the grammar errors, this would have been a 5 star rated book from me.
I received the book from the author and I am very thankful to her. This review was done as a part ofhttp://theindiareadathon.weebly.com/. The above review is my honest and unbiased opinion and in no way influenced.