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How to Attach a Clay Pigeon Thrower to a Tire
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Portable clay target throwers aren't ready to use right out of the box. They need to be attached to something substantial before they can be used. The heavy spring that powers the throwing arm requires a lot of force to cock the thrower; and once the arm is released, throwing the target, the recoil or backlash can overturn the machine. Attaching the thrower to a used tire solves both problems while allowing the thrower to be easily repositioned to change the flight path of the clays and add variety to the targets.
Used tire
2x6 board, 30 inches long
drill bit, 3/8-inch
4 bolts, ½x3-inch
4 nuts, ½-inch
8 flat washers, ½-inch
3 or 4 carriage bolts, 3/8x2-inch, with nuts
carriage bolt, 3/8x3½-inch
flat washer, 3/8-inch
nut, 3/8-inch
wrench, 9/16-inch
wrench, 3/4-inch
Drill a hole in the center of the 2x4, 15 inches from the end of the board.
Lay the 2x6 across the 2x4 so the holes drilled in steps 1 and 2 are aligned and the boards form a cross.
Insert the 3/8x3 1/2-inch carriage bolt through the hole in the 2x6, then down through the hole in the 2x4, put a flat washer on the threaded end of the carriage bolt, then tighten the nut using a 9/16-inch wrench.
Drill a 1/2-inch hole centered in each board and 2 inches from each end of the boards forming the cross.
Lay the cross on the used tire, hold in place securely and drill down through each of the 1/2-inch holes drilled in step 4 through the sidewalls of the tire.
Fasten the cross to the tire using the 1/2x3-inch bolts using a flat washer on the head end of the bolt and on the threaded end of the bolt.
Tighten securely using a 3/4-inch wrench.
Position the base of the target thrower on the 2x6 board of the cross, just ahead of where it crosses the 2x4.
Use a pencil through each of the mounting holes on the thrower's base to transfer their location to the 2x6. Depending on the model of thrower, there will be three or four mounting holes.
Drill each of the marks on the 2x6 with the 3/8 drill bit.
Fasten the base of the target to the 2x6 using the 3/8x2-inch bolts, putting a flat washer on the bolt before attaching the nut.
Tighten the nuts and bolts in step 12 using a 9/16-inch wrench.
Do not cock the thrower until it's firmly anchored to the tire.
Some target throwers come with a base ready to bolt to a tire. Bolt the thrower to the tire using this if so equipped.
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Mike Schoonveld has been writing since 1989 with magazine credits including "Outdoor Life," "Fur-Fish-Game," "The Rotarian" and numerous regional publications. Schoonveld earned a Master Captain License from the Coast Guard. He holds a Bachelor of Science in wildlife science from Purdue University.
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Q: Protobuf.net and serialization of DateTimeOffset I've been using Protobuf-net as the serializer for a thick client application that's using Service Stack to communicate over HTTP. Our first customer with a lot of volume has started seeing errors when deserializing. We are sending DateTimeOffset types in some of our models, and so we created a surrogate that serializes the value as a string. From our logs, I can see when the error occurs this is the date value it's attempting to deserialize has an extra six characters at the end where the timezone offset is repeated:
8/9/2016 12:02:37 AM-7:00 -7:00
Here's the code for our surrogate.
[ProtoContract]
public class DateTimeOffsetSurrogate
{
    [ProtoMember(1)]
    public string DateTimeString { get; set; }

    public static implicit operator DateTimeOffsetSurrogate(DateTimeOffset value)
    {
        return new DateTimeOffsetSurrogate { DateTimeString = value.ToString() };
    }

    public static implicit operator DateTimeOffset(DateTimeOffsetSurrogate value)
    {
        try
        {
            return DateTimeOffset.Parse(value.DateTimeString);
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            throw new Exception("Unable to parse date time value: " + value.DateTimeString, ex);
        }
    }
}

Once this date error has occurred, it won't correctly serialize/deserialize until the PC has rebooted. We have not been able to reproduce this error in a way that would allow us to debug and look at the rest of the message. Is this a situation that someone is familiar with? We were using version 2.0.0.640, and because of this issue I updated to 2.0.0.668 but the issue remains.

A: It looks as though the CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.LongTimePattern is somehow getting messed up on the client's machine.  I can reproduce the problem by adding the "K" format to the LongTimePattern:
var dateTime = DateTimeOffset.Parse(@"8/9/2016 12:02:37 AM-7:00");

var myCI = new CultureInfo("en-US");
myCI.DateTimeFormat.LongTimePattern = myCI.DateTimeFormat.LongTimePattern + " K";
Console.WriteLine(dateTime.ToString(myCI)); // Prints 8/9/2016 12:02:37 AM -07:00 -07:00

The string written is 8/9/2016 12:02:37 AM -07:00 -07:00 which is exactly what you are seeing.
It may be that there is a bug in your application which is setting the LongTimePattern somewhere.  I can also reproduce the problem by doing:
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = myCI;
Console.WriteLine(dateTime.ToString());     // Prints 8/9/2016 12:02:37 AM -07:00 -07:00

Or it may be that the client is somehow modifying the "Long time:" string in "Region and Language" -> "Additional settings..." dialog, which looks like (Windows 7):

If the client is doing this somehow, and the machine is on a domain, the format may get reset back on reboot which is exactly what you are seeing.
The client may be doing this manually (although, from experimentation, trying to append K manually on Windows 7 in the UI generates an error popup and then fails), or there may be some buggy 3rd party application doing it unbeknownst to you or them via a call to SetLocaleInfo.
You could log the value of LongTimePattern to try to trace the problem, but regardless you should modify your DateTimeOffsetSurrogate so that it serializes the DateTimeOffset in a culture-invariant format, preferably as specified by How to: Round-trip Date and Time Values: To round-trip a DateTimeOffset value:
[ProtoContract]
public class DateTimeOffsetSurrogate
{
    [ProtoMember(1)]
    public string DateTimeString { get; set; }

    public static implicit operator DateTimeOffsetSurrogate(DateTimeOffset value)
    {
        return new DateTimeOffsetSurrogate { DateTimeString = value.ToString("o") };
    }

    public static implicit operator DateTimeOffset(DateTimeOffsetSurrogate value)
    {
        try
        {
            return DateTimeOffset.Parse(value.DateTimeString, null, DateTimeStyles.RoundtripKind);
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            throw new Exception("Unable to parse date time value: " + value.DateTimeString, ex);
        }
    }
}

Not only should this fix the bug you are seeing, it will also ensure that protocol buffers generated by your app in one region (say, the UK) can be parsed elsewhere (say, the US) with different cultural formatting for dates and times.

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I was initially drawn to Charlotte Pence's Code by its title. I was not sure what type of code she was referring to, but I was intrigued. When I read the description of the book on her website, I was interested in its description: "At its center, Code features a narrative sequence with three characters: a new father, a mother dying young from an inherited disease, and that mother's own DNA…Ultimately, Code is a book about grief—specifically, how to accept it."
While I had read plenty of poetry about grief, this would be my first time reading poetry that centered on a scientific concept, specifically that of genetic code. As a person who spent most of my life torn between STEM and the humanities, I was excited to see how Pence would entangle the two.
I found myself enamored by her style and her use of metaphor as I delved into this intricate tale about grief, illness, art, and interpersonal relationships. Throughout the text, Pence uses compelling imagery imbued with metaphor to illustrate the complexities of living and loving in the face of illness, creating an emotional yet hopeful look at the way that our DNA affects our lives.
Code is told in five parts, two of which are highly narrative. Part III tells the story of A and T, a pair who fall in love and have a child together called U. After A gives birth to U, she is diagnosed with a genetic disorder. The rest of the section is dedicated to how A and T navigate their relationship with one another and their child as A's health rapidly deteriorates. Cleverly using A and T to represent adenine and thymine, a nucleotide pair that is part of the DNA sequence, this section of the text most heavily deals with the theme of genetics. Pence's skill with stylized narration shows through in the poems from A's perspective, which become increasingly freeform and more incoherent as A grows more ill. Witnessing A's decline through these stylized poems is extremely compelling, and it is quite well-executed. T also narrates several poems, which highlights the way that he and his child are processing his wife's illness. This section provides an interesting look at how illness affects a family while smartly exploring issues surrounding genetic illness including the genetic modifying technology known as CRISPR.
The other largely narrative section of the work is Part V, which tells the story of a husband and wife exploring intimacy and grief after the birth of their child. This narrative is very interesting when read against A and T's story, because, while the mother in this story does not have a disease, she also has a deeply complicated relationship with her child and her husband. I particularly enjoyed "How to Measure Distance," which highlights the fear involved in mothering. Read together, the stories of A and the unnamed mother create a compelling look inside the grief and sacrifice inherent to motherhood.
There are a few interesting aspects of this work that make it a bit atypical for a poetry manuscript. First, Pence includes two essays in the text, the first about her friend and fellow poet Shira Shaiman, whose work she includes in the text, and the second about a trip to view cave paintings which reflects on the relationship between art, grief, and history. These essays provide an interesting change in pace for the text, yet they still read with the same poetic artistry as the rest of Pence's work. These essays are a welcome addition to the text as they provide context for the other pieces in the work while remaining artfully executed in their own right. Additionally, Pence intertwines quotes from various texts about genetics and history such as the work of Richard Dawkins and Siddhartha Mukherjee which provide further insight into the role of genetics in human life and history.
Finally, I want to highlight Pence's decision to include poems by the aforementioned Shira Shaiman in the work. Shaiman's work again emphasizes the theme of motherhood as she reflects on her mother's cancer and how losing her mother impacted her. The inclusion of Shaiman's work adds another layer of meaning onto the narratives of illness, motherhood, and grief that sits at the center of the text. While I am not a mother myself, I have always been fascinated by literary explorations of the complex emotions involved in motherhood. The interplay of narratives in this text, including that provided by Shaiman's work, provides a unique perspective on motherhood that stood out to me as I read.
Charlotte Pence's Code cleverly intertwines narrative poetry, essays, extracts from other texts, and the work of her dear friend to tell a compelling story about the way we process illness and grief through art and our relationships with one another. In a time wrecked by illness and grief, this book is a touching and hopeful look at the ways we can work to heal our bodies and minds through love and relationships.
Code can be purchased through Black Lawrence Press, here.
Sydney Peay is a senior studying sociology and English literature at the University of Tennessee. In addition to interning at Sundress Publications, they serve as the social media coordinator for the Voices Out Loud Project, an LGBTQ+ archive of East Tennessee. They are also a student library assistant at Hodges Library, and they hope to pursue a master's of library science after they graduate.
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My last provocation was to write about the atrocities Indonesia had committed during its occupation of East Timor from 1975 to 1999.
This is very disappointing news.
On the issue of conspiracy theories, you just have to look at the magazine website of Aljazeera to notice the prominent position even this 'independent' Arab news service places on conspiracy theories and the like.
I am sorry to hear you have lost your job, but you sound savvy enough to realise that being a "journalist" doesn't give you any special priviledges no accorded to any other citizen (although I assume you were working from Washington).
A Saudi newspaper must abide by Saudi laws. Saudi Arabia is not a democracy, it is classified as an Absolute Monarchy/Theocracy (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia#Politics).
You must of known after 9 years the beast you were dealing with.
I hope this has given you some exposure and assisted you with finding other employment, your job must have not meant alot to you for you to risk loosing it.
Good luck, at least you can see it from your side of the fence, as we see it over here in the west.
No need to give up writing baseless propaganda; just get a job at News Corporation. At least the western sheiks have nukes.
From a group which has tried for years to do a deep study of the Middle East problems virtually since the end of WW1, an overhead unbiased view might show that as regards the old adage of pot calling the kettle black, worse might be said of our side because we are so much involved in patting ourselves on the back as regards superior honest to goodness insight.
Indeed, it is about time we began to remind ourselves that as far as political and diplomatic hypocrisy is concerned, bin Laden might be somewhat in front in declaring we are the evil ones and not the Islamics.
Examples do not have to be shown from the Sermon on the Mount and the expressions of Jesus in the Temple to the Pharisees, that much of our yearning for the Middle East is about contraband and hegemon.
Right now it has surely become oil for the power lamps of China in a frightening way, especially as Iranian oil is the the best oil, and it might be better for China to stay friendly with Iran just so China might do a deal with Iran and gain the bigger slice of the pie.
Surely this is far less evil than the big Bush webspin that America is trying to save the Middle East for democracy. Dyarky democracy we might say, or double-rule, the term for British colonial democracy in India, and used by the British in Iraq after WW1, with British commissars or commissioner watchkeepers, discreetly tagging along. For what is the Baghdad GreenZone fortress all about - surely there for a permanent stay.


There is a really big crisis coming.
After 8 years and a 230% stock market advance the pension funds of Dallas, Chicago, and Houston are in severe trouble. But it isn't just these municipalities that are in trouble, but also most of the public and private pensions that still operate in the country today.
Currently, many pension funds, like the one in Houston, are scrambling to slightly lower return rates, issue debt, raise taxes or increase contribution limits to fill some of the gaping holes of underfunded liabilities in their plans. The hope is such measures combined with an ongoing bull market, and increased participant contributions, will heal the plans in the future.
This problem is not something born of the last "financial crisis," but rather the culmination of 20-plus years of financial mismanagement.
With employee contribution requirements extremely low, averaging about 15% of payroll, the need to stretch for higher rates of return have put pensions in a precarious position and increases the underfunded status of pensions.
With pension funds already wrestling with largely underfunded liabilities, the shifting demographics are further complicating funding problems.
One of the primary problems continues to be the decline in the ratio of workers per retiree as retirees are living longer (increasing the relative number of retirees), and lower birth rates (decreasing the relative number of workers.) However, this "support ratio" is not only declining in the U.S. but also in much of the developed world. This is due to two demographic factors: increased life expectancy coupled with a fixed retirement age, and a decrease in the fertility rate.
Of course, as I have discussed previously, the problem is that while the "baby boom" generation may be heading towards retirement years, there is little indication a large majority of them will be actually retiring. With a large majority of individuals being dependent on the pension systems in retirement, the burden will fall on those next in line.
However, let's discuss the elephant in the room.
Pension computations are performed by actuaries using assumptions regarding current and future demographics, life expectancy, investment returns, levels of contributions or taxation, and payouts to beneficiaries, among other variables. The biggest problem, following two major bear markets and sub-par annualized returns since the turn of the century, is the expected investment return rate.
Using faulty assumptions is the lynchpin to the inability to meet future obligations. By over-estimating returns, it has artificially inflated future pension values and reduced the required contribution amounts by individuals and governments paying into the pension system.
It is the same problem for the average American who plans on getting 6-8% return a year on their 401k plan, so why save money. Which explains why 8-out-of-10 American's are woefully underfunded for retirement.
As shown in the long-term, total return, inflation adjusted chart of the S&P 5oo below, the difference between actual and compounded (7% average annual rate) returns are two very different things. The market does NOT return an AVERAGE rate each year and one negative return compounds the future shortfall.
This is the problem that pension funds have run into and refuse to understand.
Pensions STILL have annual investment return assumptions ranging between 7–8% even after years of underperformance.
However, the reason assumptions remain high is simple. If these rates were lowered 1–2 percentage points, the required pension contributions from salaries, or via taxation, would increase dramatically. For each point reduction in the assumed rate of return would require roughly a 10% increase in contributions.
For example, if a pension program reduced its investment return rate assumption from 8% to 7%, a person contributing $100 per month to their pension would be required to contribute $110. Since, for many plan participants, particularly unionized workers, increases in contributions are a hard thing to obtain. Therefore, pension managers are pushed to sustain better-than-market return assumptions which requires them to take on more risk.
Given real world return assumptions going forward pension funds SHOULD lower their return estimates to roughly 3-4% in order to potentially meet future obligations and regain some solvency.
But we won't get there.
This would require a 40% increase in contributions by plan participants which they simply can not afford.
The next bear market, as shown, will devastate the plans abilities to meet future obligations without massive reforms immediately.
In a recent note by my friend John Mauldin, he discussed an email Rob Arnott, of Research Affiliates, sent regarding this specific issue.
40% Bonds. Yield is 2% for the US aggregate bond market.
60% Stocks. Our base case is 5.4% for US stocks, but we think valuations are too high, so we trim this to 3.3% for the coming decade.
Earnings growth over the past century has been 4.5%, of which 3.1% was inflation (real growth of 1.4% … far less than most people realize).
Inflation expectations are about 2%, so perhaps we should trim this forecast by 1.1%.
This gives us a base-case of 5.4%.
Valuation multiples are stretched, with the stock market priced at 25 times the 10-year average earnings, against a historical norm of 16.8x. If we're back to historical norms in 10 years, that costs us another 4.2%. Since valuation multiples could (a) return to historical norms, or (b) remain at today's lofty multiples, let's split the difference, and trim our return expectations another 2.1%.
This gives us a likely outcome of 3.3% from stocks.
If our logic is sound, we earn 0.8% from our bonds (40% allocation x 2% return) and 2% to 3.2% from our stocks (60% x 3.3%, or 60% x 5.4%). Add up the return from stocks and the return from bonds, and we get 2.8% to 4% from our balanced portfolio.
The public services that are on offer to our citizenry, net of sunk costs from servicing past generations.
Exactly right, and the chart above of projected stock market returns agrees with that assumption.
But, we are running out of time.
Currently, 75.4 million Baby Boomers in America—about 26% of the U.S. population—have reached or will reach retirement age between 2011 and 2030. And many of them are public-sector employees. In a 2015 study of public-sector organizations, nearly half of the responding organizations stated that they could lose 20% or more of their employees to retirement within the next five years. Local governments are particularly vulnerable: a full 37% of local-government employees were at least 50 years of age in 2015.
It is no surprise that public pension funds are completely overwhelmed, but they still have not come to the realization that markets do not compound at an annual return of 8% annually. This has led to a continued degradation of funding levels as liabilities continue to pile up.
If the numbers above are right, the unfunded obligations of approximately $4-$5.6 trillion, depending on the estimates, would have to be set aside today such that the principal and interest would cover the program's shortfall between tax revenues and payouts over the next 75 years.
Again, that ain't gonna happen.
Which means that when the next major bear market comes growling, the real crisis won't be secluded to just subprime auto loans, student loans, and commercial real estate. The real crisis comes when there is a "run on pensions" when "fear" prevails benefits will be lost entirely.
It's an unsolvable problem. It will happen. And it will devastate many Americans.
It is just a function of time.
Whatever amount you are saving for retirement is probably not enough.


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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310 / 300d, was written in 1778. The sonata is the first of only two Mozart piano sonatas in a minor key (the other being No. 14 in C minor, K. 457). It was composed in the summer of 1778 around the time of his mother's death, one of the most tragic times of his life.

Background
Little is known about the precise circumstances surrounding the composition of the sonata; unlike the earlier Sonata in C major, K. 309/284b, it was little mentioned in his correspondence. The surviving manuscript was written using the same type of paper used for the Symphony No. 31 in D major, K. 297/300a, which Mozart purchased while in Paris.

The sonata is a rare minor key composition in Mozart's catalogue. Composed alongside the Violin Sonata No. 21 in E minor, K. 304/300c, it has been suggested that the sudden death of Mozart's mother may have led to the more sombre mood found in these pieces.

Structure

The composition, which typically takes around 22 minutes to perform, is in three movements:

References

Bibliography

Further reading

External links

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Piano Sonata 08
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BROADWAY MOMMA MIA
Highlights from "Mamma Mia!" on Broadway
http://www.playbill.com/video Highlights from "Mamma Mia!," based on the hit songs of ABBA.
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Check out scenes and songs from the long-running Broadway hit Mamma Mia!
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Mamma Mia! It's Showtime! - On Broadway with Kids - Episode 1
On this first episode of On Broadway with Kids, meet three moms (and one dad!) who work in the cast and crew of the hit Broadway musical, Mamma Mia!
Dad's Arrival from MAMMA MIA BROADWAY NATIONAL TOUR
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Show Clip: "Lay All Your Love" from "Mamma Mia!" on Broadway
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A week of cold-cold-cold, with not much extra cash lying around to take the cooped-up girls to indoor play places (remember summertime? and parks? Sigh). I feel pretty maxed-out on my indoor play and activity ideas. Did you know my coffee table doubles as a six-way tunnel system jungle gym? It does!
We've had visits with friends, baked up a storm (bread, brownies and make-ahead meals in the freezer, yay!), done some Valentine's Day prep, watched lots of TV and movies, and gone to bed early as needed, going with this hibernation motif.
No mid-winter vacation for us, but lucky me- I do get to fly away for a week! By myself! A change of scenery for Rich, from work to home with his crazy girls, playing mama bear (but Daddy-style, of course). I will be flying to a colder place entirely, to tackle my biggest freelancing assignment to date. I'll be covering this totally insane race called the Yukon Arctic Ultra for Explore magazine's winter issue. I'm bringing my beaver mitts, coyote-fur trimmed goose down parka, and some wool, hoping that if I layer myself in as many animals as possible, I may keep warm as I take notes on some amazing athletes. Bonus-- Johanna is along for the ride too, as the photographer for the piece! Stay tuned for some trail adventure stories!
Oooh! A box! Let's paint it!
Meanwhile, another snowfall is making my neighbourhood a picturesque snow globe, and the temperatures are easing up a bit. We can get outside again, yay! I don't know if we'll make it to Winterlude this year, because frankly, keeping the younger three from running off in different directions in large crowds, downtown, during winter, is a feat I don't think I'm equipped to handle.
We'll have to make our own winter fun! Beavertails? Pssht. My girls prefer to eat snow.
and yes to Beavertails! We used to make them at home ... you can totally make fried dough!
that first picture is adorable!


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Whitewater Music Hall prepares to open as new Wausau hub for local artists, coffee shop
The music and art venue at the former Masonic Lodge is set for a soft open within the week. The first show will be June 22.
Whitewater Music Hall prepares to open as new Wausau hub for local artists, coffee shop The music and art venue at the former Masonic Lodge is set for a soft open within the week. The first show will be June 22. Check out this story on marshfieldnewsherald.com: https://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/news/2019/05/28/wausau-whitewater-music-hall-live-music-craft-beer-local-coffee-art/1207157001/
Megan Stringer, Wausau Daily Herald Published 6:27 a.m. CT May 28, 2019
Kelly Ballard and Leslie Patterson are sisters and co-owners of Whitewater Music Hall in Wausau. The venue will offer live music, locally roasted coffee, microbrews, visual artwork and more when they hold a soft opening in late May 2019. (Photo: Megan Stringer/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
WAUSAU - Kelly Ballard and Leslie Patterson looked all around central Wisconsin to find the building blocks of their new live music hall — including in Ballard's own backyard, where the lumber for tables came from an old silver maple tree.
The owners of Whitewater Music Hall, who are also sisters, are planning a soft opening within the week at the former Masonic Lodge in downtown Wausau, after receiving a liquor license.
There will be a grand opening on June 22, when the music hall has its first big show planned. The High 48's and The Steam Machine, two bluegrass bands from Minneapolis, will play that ticketed event. Tickets are available for purchase online.
The music hall also has shows lined up for July 5, July 11, July 17 and Aug. 8. You can view event details on Facebook.
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At 130 First St. between downtown and the Wisconsin River, Whitewater Music Hall will offer live music and visual works from local artists, as well as a coffee shop and microbrewery.
Ballard's husband, Brad, will brew about three new beers to start. While that won't be ready for the soft opening, the family hopes to have its own beer ready for the June 22 grand opening.
The wooden table tops in the coffee shop and bar area of Whitewater Music Hall were made from a silver maple tree that came from owner Kelly Ballard's backyard. The colorful, striped wall was painted by Ballard. (Photo: Megan Stringer/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
The bar's 24 taps will serve Wisconsin and Midwest regional brews and a nitro cold brew coffee. There will be no table service so drinks must be ordered at the bar.
The coffee bar will serve coffee and espresso drinks from Ruby Coffee Roasters, a roaster based in Nelsonville that recently opened a cafe in downtown Stevens Point. Whitewater will be one of the first venues for late evening coffee and to serve Ruby Coffee Roasters in the Wausau area.
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Coffee will be served all day and evening, as well as pastries from Green Apron Bakery (based in Athens) and a cheese plate option.
Cha Cha Tea from Madison and basic liquor options will be available for those looking for something other than beer and coffee. However, Whitewater will not offer craft cocktails.
The bar at Whitewater Music Hall will serve Ruby Coffee Roasters and beer from Wisconsin and regional Midwestern brewers. There will also be tea and limited liquor options. (Photo: Megan Stringer/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Although all bands playing ticketed shows will perform in the separate music hall room, the sisters would like to host the occasional pop-up show in the coffee shop area. Those shows could be anything from musicians playing on short notice to poetry performances to anything else the community might want, they said.
Paintings from multiple local artists are showcased on the wall near the entryway from River Drive and in the lounge area by the coat check, when you enter from First Street. They hope to have one local artist begin work soon on an indoor mural. Margaret Pagoria, Jackie Imhoff and Mary Robinson will all have visual artwork on display for the soft open.
Ballard and Patterson are also working with RISE UP Central Wisconsin, a community-based mural arts organization, to complete a large exterior mural on the building's north-facing wall over Washington Street, which could start next summer.
A lounge area at Whitewater Music Hall near the coat rack, by the upstairs entrance on First Street, displays visual work from a local artist. (Photo: Megan Stringer/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Food trucks might make a permanent home at Whitewater Music Hall, as the owners won't offer full menus themselves. Customers can also bring in outside food.
The sisters, originally from Austin, Texas, looked to Wisconsin makers to help build nearly all aspects of the music hall and coffee bar.
One local artist from Merrill, Jon Malm, created a mirror with wood detailing on display behind the bar, and a pottery artist also from Merrill, Ann Jaroski, made the coffee mugs.
The south-facing wall of the coffee and bar area overlooks Rib Mountain and River Drive with windows to the floor, where couches and chairs provide seating for the view. Stacked in place like a coffee table are suitcases left behind from when the building was Wausau's Masonic Lodge. The suitcases have old lettering on them that brand them in central Wisconsin, showcasing Wausau and Antigo.
Suitcases provide a touch of history and decor at Whitewater Music Hall. They were left behind from when the building was formerly the city's Masonic Lodge. (Photo: Megan Stringer/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Adding color and light to the space was important to Ballard and Patterson as they renovated the old Masonic Lodge. That's why Ballard painted one whole wall in colorful stripes of orange, gold, peach and other color variations. The ceiling is painted blue with funky star light fixtures, to make it look like a sky in the evening, they said.
Ballard and Patterson would eventually like to open a beer garden area outside, potentially by the late summer or early fall.
Both sisters agree that there's still growing potential for the music hall as a local arts hub for the community — they want it to be everybody's space, not just their own project.
"It's so much bigger than I ever thought it would be," Patterson said.
Whitewater Music Hall will be open on Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. until midnight and weekdays from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. It will be closed on Mondays.
Got a question or tip? Contact reporter Megan Stringer at (715) 207-1571 or mstringer@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @megstringers.
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The First Superman
In 1966, a tall, dark and handsome man named Bob Holiday brought new dimension to the Superman mythos. In previous incarnations, when played by Kirk Alyn and George Reeves, Superman had proven to be strong and solid. Bob Holiday maintained this tradition and added a few new touches in his portrayal of of Superman in "It's a Bird It's a Plane It's Superman©".
First, and most obvious, Superman flew in real time. There was no chance for a second take, so Bob had to be physically powerful, flexing his muscles on cue and maintaining a Super-posture as he soared on and off the stage.
Second, Bob Holiday was the first singing Superman. The original cast album by Sony Broadway, still available today, proves to a new generation that Superman could sing, sounding every bit as masculine as Superman must.
Finally, musical comedy required a Superman who could strike precisely the right balance, bringing humor to the role, yet maintaining the dignity of Superman. Bob Holiday was exactly the right man to hit that balance, creating a strong, serious Superman who still managed to bring hundreds of smiles to theatre goers.
After leaving show business, Bob Holiday became a successful home builder in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. His beautiful custom homes grace the Lake Wallenpaupack area, standing as tributes to the man who always lived up to the role he once had the privilege to play: Superman.
Bob left this world for the next on January 27, 2017. Family and friends continue to mourn his loss. RIP, Bob Holiday. We'll never forget you.
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Upper School students create a Haunted House for Fall Festival
Kiara Baxter, Staff Writer - Class of 2020|October 22, 2018
Grace Fluharty ('19) preparing for the big production of this year's haunted house.
The Fall Festival is an annual Cape Henry event that brings the entire community together. And most annual attendees know about the drama club's haunted house. Each year the club produces a chilling performance, transforming Mrs. Fluharty's room into an out-of-body experience. But none of this could ever happen without Grace Fluharty ('19).
Grace continues to do an amazing job creating the haunted house. This year, her last year, was one of her best performances. She shared that "the experience has been incredibly liberating." From getting the costumes ready to creating the individual parts for everyone, she was able to put together something magical and chilling. The best was creating original characters that showed each of person's personality in a different way. She also "loved the costumes and the lighting and creating a scary story for everyone to enjoy."
Grace was not the only senior participating in the haunted house this year for their final time. Brett Dudley ('19) had a part in the haunted house; hers was no doubt the most horrifying. Brett described her experience as something she "had never done before, but it was an experience that [she] would never forget, and to be able to play a character with such a diverse backstory and persona was amazing."
Overall the experience of walking through this year's haunted house, the insane asylum, was something out of a movie. Sam Stanton ('20), another character in the haunted house, shared that "scaring the kids, even some of the older ones is so much fun, but connecting with the other character to create a larger more intimidating story was what I loved the most."
Next year the haunted house will continue, but the upcoming drama club member has some big shoes to fill and better be prepared to create a hair-raising experience.
Kiara Baxter, Staff Writer
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Lucy Briggs-Owen's theatre credits include Maryna in Boris Godunuv, Princess in The Orphan of Zhao, Helena in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Luscinda in Cardenio and Anne in...
Lucy Briggs-Owen's theatre credits include Maryna in Boris Godunuv, Princess in The Orphan of Zhao, Helena in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Luscinda in Cardenio and Anne in The City Madam all for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Brooke Ashton in Noises Off in the West End; Mrs Fainall in The Way of the World at Sheffield Crucible; Cressida in Troilus and Cressida at the Barbican and on International Tour; Vivie Warren in Mrs Warren's Profession in the West End and on Tour; Blanche Satorius in Widowers Houses at Manchester's Royal Exchange; Sybil Chase in Private Lives at The Hampstead Theatre; Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest; and most recently as Olga in Fortune's Fool at The Old Vic.


Quentin Tarantino has always been an artist that thumbs his nose at convention. Just as critics accused his last film, Death Proof, as wallowing in exploitation muck, here comes Inglourious Basterds, very loosely based on the correctly spelled 1978 Italian movie. War movies seem like a natural fit for the QT mold with their staunch violence, tough guy bravado, and vengeance-filled storylines. Tarantino has been working on the script for this film for over ten years, taking a break to produce the Kill Bill features. The finished product is a bloody alternative history wish-fulfillment fantasy with little conscience. This isn't any sentimental, well-meaning, reflective war movie. This is war Tarantino-style and a celebration of war movies in general. Cinema becomes the weapon we win the war with.
In 1944, Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) is given a unique mission. He is to assemble and lead a crew of Jewish-American soldiers for one purpose — to kill Nazis. They will be dropped into German-occupied France and will use guerilla tactics to dismember Nazis and strike fear into the higher ranks. Aldo personally assigns each soldier with the task of collecting 100 Nazi scalps. "And I want my scalps," he commands. The "basterds," as they're called, face steep opposition. S.S. Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) has earned the nickname "Jew hunter" for his terrifying precision at sniffing out Jews hiding along the French countryside. In the film?s terrific opening sequence, he systematically interrogates a French farmer into giving up the Jews he is hiding. Shoshanna (Melanie Laurent) is a Jewish teenager who manages to miraculously escape this bloodbath.
Years later, she owns and operates a movie theater in Paris. The German high command wants to screen their newest propaganda masterpiece, Nation's Pride about the exploits of sniper Fredrick Zoller (Daniel Brühl), in Shoshanna's theater. Finally she can plot her vengeance, except that Landa will be providing security for the special screening. Meanwhile, Aldo and the basterds scheme to meet up with German actress Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger), who is secretly working with the British as a spy for Operation Kino. The top-secret mission involves attending the movie premier at Shoshanna's theater and then killing all the high-ranking brass in attendance, thus ending the war.
Those looking for a rip-roaring good time of watching Pitt prance through the countryside dispatching evil Nazis will be disappointed to learn that Inglourious Basterds is, after all, a Tarantino movie. That means there is talking. Lots of talking, but it's great, glourious talking with deep undercurrents of menace. The movie boils down to about six set pieces and most of that time involves long, drawn out conversations where the tension percolates underneath the surface. The characters play a cat-and-mouse game of deception, and the conversation transforms into a slow fuse waiting to go off. The characters engage in an "I know, and you know I know" bout of play acting, going about their business as if all is calm, when each is waiting for the next move. Tarantino turns dialogue scenes into slow-burning combat, and eventually those lit fuses do finally go off and the scene will erupt in a great splash of violence. Then we are left to assess the situation and collect our bearings, much like the characters if they are fortunate enough to be alive. This is a talky war movie, and Tarantino does fall in love with his dialogue rhythms and allow his characters to overindulge and circle the same plot points more than is needed, like the sequence with von Hammersmark in the bar, but the naysayers looking for an action romp that complain nothing goes on are missing the point. A tremendous amount is going on, you just have to look beneath the surface, lie in wait, and luxuriate in the simmering tension that Tarantino plays like a pro.
Tarantino has an encyclopedic knowledge of film that allows him to blend and deconstruct genres, and Inglourious Basterds feels like an homage not to World War II but war movies in general, with a dash of spaghetti westerns. When the French farmer watches Landa drive up to his home, linked with the great Enrico Morricone's score, you definitely feel like you're in a western transported into mid-twentieth century Europe. The conversations feel like high-noon showdowns. Tarantino's direction feels less stylized and idiosyncratic this time. He still plays around with time and back-story, even recruiting Samuel L. Jackson to be a God-like narrator, but Ingloruious Basterds is mostly a literal and linear pop deconstruction of war movies. When Tarantino deviates sharply from the known historical timeline, it feels within reason given the cracked mirror world he?s created. Tarantino can turn World War II into a campy Warner Brothers cartoon, replete with goofy over-the-top caricatures of Hitler and Goebbles. He can also takes digressions and hard right turns with his story, allowing characters to chew over the finer intricacies of German silent cinema. It's bloody, messy, but boy is it entertaining as hell.
Any conversation over Inglourious Basterds is inevitably going to gravitate to its fascinating central villain, Hans Landa. German actor Waltz plays the infamous "Jew Hunter" and he is astounding to watch; he enlivens every moment onscreen and won a Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. Landa is an extremely intelligent and polite inquisitor. He comes across almost like a diabolical S.S. version of Colombo: he's three steps ahead, feigns ignorance, circles his prey, and finally strikes after mentally tearing down the suspect. Waltz is practically giddy in some sequences, enthusiastic for such sick endeavors. He likes to screw with people and make them nervous. And yet, thanks to the wily brilliance and magnetism of Waltz, you develop a perverse appreciation for the man. Despite the horrors he is responsible for, you may actually find yourself liking Landa. He has moments of great cunning, like his deliberate reasons for switching to English with the French farmer or his off-the-cuff destruction of von Hammersmark's alibi. When he suddenly and fluently launches into his fourth language, it is one of the film's finest "oh crap" moments. This is a truly memorable character that dominates every scene, and Waltz gives an astounding star-making performance destined to be remembered when it comes time to draw Oscar nominees.
The rest of the actors do well but no one approaches the planet that Waltz resides on. Pitt seems to knowingly be shooting for parody with his performance. His accent is twangy and coats every word in a honeyed glaze; you almost expect him to wink at the camera after each line. He's still amusing to behold in the rather few instances that Aldo graces the movie. Laurent (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) and Kruger (National Treasure) both have intriguing albeit underwritten roles, and both actresses give the best performances in the film after Waltz. Eli Roth (writer/director of Cabin Fever, one of my favorite movie indulgences) looks the part as the commanding "Bear Jew" with his lean physique and Louisville slugger, but I couldn't tell what he was doing with his accent. Is he supposed to be from New York or Boston? In war movies, there was usually a colorful collection of characters but Inglourious Basterds doesn't really do much to accentuate its second tier players. The only basterd that leaves an impression is Til Schweiger (Driven, Far Cry), all humorless resolve and flinty stares. And what happened to the basterds in the final act? Where did everybody go? Yes, that really is Mike Myers doing one of his Austin Powers-esque British impressions.
What is truly surprising is that Basterds unflinchingly looks at all the ugly aspects of war. The movie doesn't neatly categorize the villains and the heroes. Zoller is a German sniper that killed 300 Allied troops and yet he is portrayed as grounded and romantic, a film lover able to chip away at Shoshanna?s steely reserve. To the basterds, they refuse to see past the uniform and armband; there is no difference between a Nazi and a German soldier. They will mutilate both on principal. Tarantino also gives time to examining the collateral damage of war, watching innocents gunned down in the name of duty. Shoshanna's plot for vengeance involves the horrific deaths of scads of people whose only sin may have been being German in Paris. Operation Kino is described by Landa as a "terrorist plot" and isn't it, really? But then Aldo disputes that a "Nazi ain't got no humanity" and that collaborators and bystanders are just as culpable. Aldo and his basterds march through France committing what could sensibly be described as war crimes, and these are the good guys! Even with all the camp and stylized violence, there may be moments where you want to cringe and ask yourself, "Am I supposed to be enjoying this??
There are those that bemoan that Tarantino is wasting away his remarkable talents on such low-rent enterprises. He is too caught up in genre filmmaking, they claim. He needs to go back to his earlier audacious works, like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, films of startling intelligence and playfulness. He needs to stop making collages of movies and go back to making real movies, they cry. Ingloruious Basterds will not please these critics. This is a verbose deconstruction of war movies that runs over 150 minutes and mostly involves characters seated and chatting. It will clearly not be for everyone, especially those sold into thinking Basterds was going to be a more graphic version of The Dirty Dozen. This movie is more Cinema Paradiso than The Dirty Dozen. If Tarantino wants to keep making high-gloss genre goofs, that's fine with me as long as the end results are as creative and entertaining as this movie. Who else is going to make a World War II fantasy with excellent use of David Bowie's song "Cat People"? No one makes movies like Tarantino. I rest my case.
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Q: Install a chain of embedded MSI packages each using an embedded UI - display common progress bar I'm using Windows Installer 4.5 new features and WiX to generate MSI packages.
I have created an MSI chain installation in order to install a collection of other MSI packages as a transaction. Each package is using the new Embedded UI option so the UI can be WPF. Everything works OK this far.
Except one of the goals would be to display a common progress bar for all installs. At this moment, I have a progress bar in the chain installer, but this one reaches 100% before the other packages start to run.
I have read a post, Fun with MsiEmbeddedChainer, that states that what I want can be achieved. But I can't get it to work. I would like a bit more detailed explanations and maybe some code samples.

A: You can manually control the status of the progress bar by issuing INSTALLMESSAGE_PROGRESS messages to the installer.  Details can be found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370354.aspx
In particular, you'll need a custom action to manage the status bar (it is what will be responsible for making the appropriate calls to MsiProcessMessage.  I recommend that you also use it to spawn the sub-installers.  Here is some pseudocode to illustrate what I have in mind:
LONG LaunchSubinstallersCA(MSIHANDLE current_installer)
{
    // Initialize the progress bar range and position
    MsiProcessMessage(current_installer, reset_message); // see MSDN for details

    for each (subinstaller in list_of_installers)
    {
        launch subinstaller;  // see MSDN for details

        // Update the progress bar to reflect most recent changes
        MsiProcessMessage(current_installer, increment_message); // see MSDN for details
    }

    return (result);
}

The main down-side is that the progress bar will progress in a somewhat choppy fashion.  If you really wanted to get fancy and make it smoother, you could launch a separate "listener" thread that would wait for updates from the sub-installer to make finer-grained increments to the progress bar.  Something like:
LONG LaunchSubinstallersCA(MSIHANDLE current_installer)
{
    // Initialize the progress bar range and position
    MsiProcessMessage(current_installer, reset_message); // see MSDN for details

    launch_listener_thread();  // launches listener_thread_proc (see below)

    for each (subinstaller in list_of_installers)
    {
        launch subinstaller;  // see MSDN for details
    }

    tell_listener_thread_to_stop();
    optionally_wait_for_listener_thread_to_die();

    return (result);
}

void listener_thread_proc()
{
    // Loop until told to stop
    while (!time_for_me_to_stop)
    {
        // Listen for update from sub-installer
        timed_wait_for_update();  // probably required IPC, perhaps a named event?

        // Only update the progress bar if an update message was actually received
        if (!timeout)
        {
            // Update the progress bar to reflect most recent changes
            MsiProcessMessage(current_installer, increment_message); // see MSDN for details
        }
    }
}

Obviously each sub-installer would have to be able to signal the main installer that progress has been made, so this will potentially require more extensive changes across your product.  Whether or not that is worth the effort is up to you.


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Wow....you use a really small reel!
Nice way to finish the year!


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THE GUARDIAN ONLINE
Official publication of CUPE Local 3902
Our Bargaining Priorities: Benefits
by organizer · October 11, 2017
Bargaining for Better Benefits
The University of Toronto prides itself on its reputation as a top employer, devoting an entire page on its Human Resources website to various accolades. As part of its "positive work environment…and unique organizational culture," the University offers a lengthy list of benefits that may attract prospective employees, including "excellent health and dental benefits," professional development on-site, flexible work arrangements, childcare subsidies and tuition waivers for employee families, a pension plan, athletic centre memberships, counselling and Employee and Family Assistance services and discounted TTC Metropasses.
Members of Unit 3, however, enjoy a very meagre selection from this buffet of attractive benefits. Our Union has bargained, in the past, for the leaves included in our Collective Agreement, for Health Care Spending Accounts and for an optional Group RRSP.
However, access to these limited benefits is not equal across the unit and the value of the healthcare benefits falls short of meeting the needs of our members and their families. Therefore, when it comes to benefits, we aspire to significant gains in this round of bargaining, in terms of how healthcare is accessed, our HCSA allocations, and equality of benefits throughout position types. Below we will explore the benefits we have now and the gains we wants to see.
If you are a Unit 3 member and haven't accessed your benefits, please go here: http://www.cupe3902.org/unit-3/benefits/
Have questions about how to best use your benefits? Don't hesitate to reach out to us at the union. Direct those question to: info@cupe3902.org.
Health Care Spending Account
During our bargaining survey, Unit 3 repeatedly let the Bargaining Team know that our members need better healthcare benefits. As we've moved through the bargaining process, this has remained a primary concern for our members, who often also support their families. The current Health Care Spending Account (HCSA) is insufficient.
Right now, Sessional Lecturers are entitled to a Health Care Spending Account (HCSA) of $325 for every 0.5 FCE contract they teach to a yearly maximum of $1625. Hourly employees, including Writing Instructors, Sessional Instructional Assistants and Music Professionals are entitled to only $162 for their first 99 hours, $325 for contracts of between 100-299 hours, $487 for 300-449 hours, and $650 for anything above 450 hours.
The Bargaining Team is bringing proposals for improvements on two fronts. First, the value of the HCSA must increase. A single physiotherapy appointment for an occupational health concern like carpal tunnel syndrome costs an average of $90. The average fee for a psychotherapy session in Toronto is $110. A month's supply of Truvada, a drug that virtually eliminates the risk of contracting HIV, costs about $870. What about members who need major dental work or a new pair of glasses? The current value of HCSA is not nearly enough to meet the needs of many of our members or their families. We've heard you: this can be a huge financial burden.
Many members therefore need to purchase defined benefits plans. About two-thirds of Unit 3 members are able to buy into spousal insurance plans or into the plans offered by other employers while others have to buy individual insurance coverage. Unit 3 members are currently able to apply their HCSA allotments to cover the premiums for spousal, individual or other employer's insurance plans. This means that eliminating the HCSA is not the best option for much of our membership. Instead, we need more options to reflect the many health needs of our members.
To that end, the second proposal that the Bargaining Team will bring is simply that the Employer make it possible for Unit 3 members to buy into the University's "excellent" Employee Benefits Plan.
Allowing our members the opportunity to buy into the plan offered by our Employer, the University of Toronto, is a logical and necessary step.
While we work at a university that should promote equality, we currently experience inequality in our benefits within our own unit. Hourly employees are unable to access some Sessional Lecturer-specific benefits, such as the Group RRSP. The current Health Care Spending Account (HCSA) has the same problem in terms of inequality of access. It is also completely insufficient considering that most of our membership considers their work at The University of Toronto their primary source of employment.
The Group RRSP allows Sessional Lecturers to contribute 5% of their pay to a Group RRSP, which the employer matches with 5% of their own. This amount increases for SL 3, giving them an additional perk. This is an important benefit for Unit 3 employees, as it allows our employees to contribute to their retirement even though our employment is precarious. But Sessional Lecturer positions are not the only positions that a Unit 3 employee may hold; we have Writing Instructors, Music Professionals, and Sessional Instructional Assistants. Many of these members work in these ranks for many years, if not for a career. Why should they not have access to a plan that helps them save for retirement?
As with the Group RRSP, the current HCSA model disadvantages Writing Instructors, Music Professionals, and Sessional Instructional Assistants. While Sessional Lecturers are granted $325 per half course, up to a maximum of $1625 per year, hourly employees are granted only $162 for their first 99 hours, $325 for hours between 100-299 hours, $487 for 300-449 hours, and $650 for anything above 450 hours. The maximum allowed for hourly employees is 40% that of which is allowed for Sessional Lecturers. Because of the way hourly contracts are structured, it would take an hourly employee many contracts—possibly working within multiple courses, teaching music lessons, working in various centres—to reach the 450 hour allotment.
Although Unit 3 members do a large amount of teaching at the University of Toronto, we also do not have access to some benefits and funds offered to other units, such as a childcare fund or benefit. We would also like to bring the benefits of our membership more in line with our faculty colleagues.
This round, we are committed to:
Granting all members of Unit 3 equal access to all of the benefits the Union wins through collective bargaining
Ensuring that Unit 3 members have access to benefits equal to those that we have won for the other units within our Local
Bringing our benefits up to the level of other employees of the University.
This bargaining priority is among our most ambitious and we are determined to earn these gains for our Unit. Please support us in this mission. We need membership support for it to succeed.
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Making of the Bangladesh State: Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta, Bengali Language Movement and Birth of a Nation
Aroma Dutta
Any history of the Bengalis' fight for their linguistic heritage and cultural rights cannot be told without a reference to Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta, who played a pioneering role in the formative phase of the Bengali Language Movement. On 25 February 1948 for the first time he demanded recognition of Bengali as one of the state languages of the new nation of Pakistan. He had remained an ardent defender of the Bengali language, both in the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan (CAP) and in the East Bengal Legislative Assembly (EBLA).


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Ureteroceles are a congenital abnormality that causes a ureter to swell, which prevents the normal flow of urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
Each kidney has a single ureter that allows urine to pass into the bladder. Ureteroceles are a swelling or "ballooning" that occurs at the end of one or both of the ureters, which obstructs the flow of urine.
Ureteroceles happen during embryonic development, which means a person is born with one. Most are diagnosed at birth and typically a person who has a ureterocele doesn't experience symptoms. It's possible that a person who was born with a ureterocele may be more prone to getting urinary tract infections (UTI) or kidney infections.
Typically, a person will only have a ureterocele on one side (unilateral) but they can occur in both ureters (bilateral). Some research indicates the abnormality happens more often on the left side.
Ureteroceles form during embryonic development. The condition is present at birth and is usually diagnosed shortly after a baby is born. In fact, the condition is sometimes even diagnosed while a fetus is still in utero, as "ballooning" of the ureter can be seen on ultrasound during prenatal exams.
About one in every 1,000 newborns will be diagnosed with a ureterocele. The condition is more common in females.
Ninety percent of people who are born with ureteroceles are also found to have two ureters in a single kidney; a condition known as duplex kidney. When a person has both a duplex kidney and a ureterocele, it's sometimes referred to as a "duplex collecting system."
Most ureteroceles are diagnosed in infancy and at the latest by the age of 2. When the condition is diagnosed in an older child or adult, it's often discovered during a routine test or scan that's looking for something else. Children or adults who have frequent urinary tract or kidney infections may also ultimately be diagnosed with a ureterocele.
When a ureterocele causes the flow of urine from the kidney to the bladder to become obstructed, the blockage causes the kidney to swell (hydronephrosis). The obstruction and swelling can also cause a backflow of urine into the kidneys; a condition called vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). The blockage and swelling can usually be seen on an ultrasound, making the imaging technology a reliable way to diagnose the condition.
they are inside (intravesical or orthotopic) or outside (extravesical or ectopic) the bladder.
While most ureteroceles can be diagnosed with an ultrasound a doctor might order several other kinds of tests as well. A series of X-rays of the bladder (voiding cystourethrogram) can help a doctor see how well a person's bladder is emptying. A nuclear renal scan will show a doctor if a person's kidneys have been damaged. If surgery is needed, an MRI or CT scan can help evaluate the urinary tract before a patient has a procedure.
If a person goes to the doctor with symptoms of a UTI or kidney infection, a doctor usually orders lab tests to examine a sample of their urine (urinalysis) and blood to confirm an infection. If these infections are severe or go untreated, they can lead to a serious blood infection. While it isn't common, the potentially life-threatening complication, called sepsis, can happen to infants, children, or adults.
If a ureterocele is diagnosed during a prenatal exam, antibiotics may be started before birth to help reduce the risk of infection. When a newborn is found to have a ureterocele, a simple puncture procedure can often be performed shortly after birth that resolves the "ballooning" of the ureter by "popping" it.
For children and adults who are found to have ureteroceles, the puncture procedure may be performed in an emergency situation, such as if the person has developed sepsis. Otherwise, the treatment a doctor recommends will usually depend on how severe the condition is and whether or not the person is having any symptoms.
If a ureterocele is mild and not causing a person symptoms, their doctor might suggest a "watch and wait" approach. If a person's kidney function is affected, the kidney has been damaged, a person is experiencing urinary symptoms, getting recurrent UTIs, or having intractable pain, the options for treatment range from taking a small dose of antibiotics daily to having reconstructive surgery.
Whether managed conservatively or surgically, most ureteroceles do not cause long-term problems. With proper diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring, a person who was born with a ureterocele can live a healthy life and rarely experiences any longterm problems with their urinary system.
Ureteroceles are a highly treatable congenital abnormality that causes a ureter to swell and prevent the normal flow of urine from the kidneys to the bladder. Most ureteroceles are diagnosed in infancy, sometimes even prenatally, and are more common in females. Depending on the severity of the birth defect and whether or not a person is having symptoms, treatment ranges from the conservative "watch and wait" approach to reconstructive surgery. Children born with a ureterocele rarely experience have any longterm health problems associated with the condition.
What is a ureterocele? The Urology Care Foundation/The American Urological Association.
Holcomb G. Suggested terminology for duplex systems, ectopic ureters, and ureteroceles. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 1985;20(4):468. DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3468(85)80269-4.
Ureterocele. Cleveland Clinic. Published August 8, 2016. Accessed September 19, 2018.
Ureteroceles. UCSF Department of Urology. Accessed September 19, 2018.


On July 7, activists of the Kiev branch of the Association organized an active holiday on catamarans. Particular attention was paid to new girls, who have converted to Islam recently and started to observe the Shari'ah rules, in order to strengthen them in the path of Islam. Such a collective holiday has become a good tradition for the organization. It strengthens sister relationship and unites Muslim women. This is important in a non-Muslim society when every day is a struggle with stereotypes.


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Intel Debuts New XMM 7560 Modem to Bridge the Gap from LTE to 5G
By Diana Goovaerts | February 21, 2017
Intel on Tuesday unveiled its XMM 7560 Modem, the latest in a steady march of new releases on the road to 5G.
Capable of delivering gigabit speeds and supporting 5-channel carrier aggregation, the new modem is set to bridge the gap from LTE-Advanced to 5G.
According to Intel's specs, the XMM 7560 is the first LTE modem to be manufactured using the company's 14 nm process. The modem itself supports LTE Advanced Pro with downlink speeds surpassing 1 Gbps and uplink speeds of up to 225 Mbps. Link level integration of LTE and WiFi also enabled power improvements and in-device coexistence capabilities, the company said.
The modem also features 5-carrier aggregation for up to 100 MHz of combined downlink bandwidth and three-carrier uplink for up to 60 MHz. The XMM 7560 supports 4×4 MIMO and 256-QAM as well, Intel indicated.
Additionally, the modem's SMARTi 7 transceiver supports up to 35 LTE bands in a single SKU and Six-mode operation (including LTE-FDD, LTE-TDD, TD-SCDMA, GSM/EDGE, UMTS/WCDMA and CDMA/EVDO), allowing vendors to create devices with global coverage compatibility.
Asha Keddy, VP and General Manager of Intel's Communications and Devices Group told Wireless Week the modem is important in bridging the gap to 5G with a strengthened LTE profile.
"The way I would look at this is 5G is a new technology, it's a new generation, so it has fallback to LTE," Keddy observed. "The reason (the new modem) is pretty significant is in two dimensions from a user perspective. The significance is on the speeds – we can have up to gigabit speeds. Also the previous (modem) was (based on 3GPP) Release 12, whereas Release 13 has added a lot of advanced concepts to the specifications. So in addition to the speeds and the 5CA and the 35 bands, the other thing is the CDMA support."
The company said the modem is expected to go out to sample in the first half of this year and move into production soon after.
Intel SVP and General Manager of the Communications and Devices Group Aicha Evans said in a blog post the modem is part of an industry-wide overhaul to meet the coming requirements of 5G.
"The move to 5G marks a historic inflection point for our industry," Evans said. "A fundamental change and network transformation needs to take place starting now to meet the diverse speed, response times, energy and scale requirements of 5G. The 5G revolution is no technology evolution. It is a total overhaul."
And indeed, Intel is hard at work on other 5G tech.
The company on Tuesday also announced a suite of network products for 5G, including a refreshed Intel Atom processor C3000 product family, Xeon processor D-1500, QuickAssist Adapter, and Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710. The former three will be available in the middle of 2017, while the latter Ethernet Adapter will be available later on this quarter.
Intel also said it's working on the third generation of its mobile trial platform to provide twice the processing power in half the size to allow for up to 10 Gbps throughput. The platform will also include support for advanced 5G features, including band support for 600-900 MHz, 4.4-4.9 GHz, 5.1-5.9 GHz, 28 GHz, and 39 GHz, and 3GPP NR early interoperability. The platform is expected to be operational in the second half of 2017, Keddy said.
Intel is also partnering with Nokia to open two 5G solutions labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey and Espoo, Finland to test and develop next-generation wireless solutions. The company also announced it is pairing up with AT&T to collaborate on connected devices as part of Intel's LTE IOT Quick Deployment (LIQD) program. The latter will see Intel to help deploy IoT devices more quickly – in a matter of weeks instead of months – with AT&T as its first carrier partner.
More on the 5G solutions lab can be found here, and details on the LIQD program can be accessed here.
Intel, of course, will be showcasing its technology at Mobile World Congress next week, including a demonstration of its pre-5G over-the-air wireless interoperability achievement with Ericsson.
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Having a blog on the home page/Transfering files via FTP client (Filezilla)??
Is it possible to have a blog post on the home page (i.e. existing landing page of created site), or would there have to be a link button to go to that section within the site? I am asking due to a need to INCREASE on page SEO factors. Waiting weeks for Google to index is not cutting it with a .mobi I created within your platform.
I don't have the option to install the code for a re-direct via mobile device into my client's main site. Therefore , it seems as though the mobile site I created has no notice or indexing via Google. It is a .mobi You don't really offer (from what I can tell) any options to expound on 'On Page SEO' capabilities via your platform, other than kw's & description etc..
Also, I am trying to find out if files can be transferred via an FTP client (Filezilla) to a created mobile site within your platform? KML file to be exact.
I am a bit disappointed in what you offer , with hardly any sort of SEO training, or design for SEO training info in the back office area (it's practically all has to do with appearance). There seems to be more interest (on YOUR part) to want to motivate us,your members, to sell your product vs giving us enough design videos, SEO instruction (pertaining to your , what seems, LIMITED option platform). Are these things being discussed? Will they be implemented? When will they be implemented?
You can tie in a Blog using our RSS feed module, however this cannot be used on the home page.
Please keep in mind we are a Mobile Marketing company not an SEO or Design company, we do offer these as seperate stand alone services.
You cannot upload files to the server via FTP client.
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Runaway Bay (TV series)
Runaway Bay is a children's adventure television series, which originally aired from 1992 to 1993. The series followed a group of friends having adventures while living on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean. The show was principally produced by Lifetime Productions International Ltd with Ellipse Productions for the television networks Antenne 2, CBS Television, and Yorkshire Television. In the UK, the show was screened on ITV.
1.1 Season 1
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Into the Night (9 January 1992)
Rotten Fish (16 January 1992)
Lonely Is the Brave (23 January 1992)
Taking the Rap (30 January 1992)
Fool's Gold (6 February 1992)
You Only Live Twice (13 February 1992)
Treasure Hunt (20 February 1992)
Curse of the Monkey's Skull (27 February 1992)
All That Glitters (5 March 1992)
Fast Forward (12 March 1992)
The Venture (19 March 1992)
History Revisited (26 March 1992)
All in the Mine (2 April 1992)
Going for Gold (15 February 1993)
Race Like the Wind (22 February 1993)
Sink or Swim (1 March 1993)
The Escape (8 March 1993)
Heartbreak Hotel (15 March 1993)
The Secret Garden (22 March 1993)
The Robbery (29 March 1993)
Turtles Rule (5 April 1993)
Music to My Ears (19 April 1993)
Bombs Away (26 April 1993)
Deadline (10 May 1993)
Masquerade (17 May 1993)
Radio Daze (24 May 1993)
Runaway Bay on IMDb
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French children's television series


The planned Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine is undoubtedly driving much of the interest at the former Roche campus. But it's certainly not the only attraction.
Look no further than the five-story, 176,000-square-foot R&D building at the northern edge of the campus known as Building 102. The space has never been used, given that Roche completed a rebuild of the facility in 2012 only months before announcing it would shutter the complex.
It's essentially turnkey space that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build from scratch. Not to mention the value for a company coming across the Hudson River: Diaz said the firm is speaking to biomedical research firms about the lab space, including one currently located in New York City that would stand to triple its space while paying 75 percent less in rent.
"Quite simply, it's the old story," Diaz said. "We're providing a super high-quality real estate product that you haven't had access to because it was all Roche. It was all built by leading pharmaceutical companies, so they overbuild, they overspend and they left us with incredible product.
Among the other buildings left behind by the Swiss drug maker is an on-site central utility plant with 10-megawatt cogeneration capacity. What that means is that Prism can offer the campus as a having "multi-redundant" heat, cooling and electricity, with the ability to generate and create power on the property.
It would be the equivalent of each user building two HVAC systems and two electrical systems, Diaz said, noting that the costs would be prohibitive.


Decker Construction, Inc. is a Kansas corporation incorporated February 21, 1973 by Paul Decker. In January of 1992 Ronald McVey purchased the company and operates offices in Coffeyville, Kansas. The company performs primarily non-residential general building construction services in Kansas and Oklahoma.
Decker Construction, Inc. is committed to a Safety and Health program designed to meet the needs of the ever-changing conditions, which are common to our industry.  Recognizing that engineering techniques alone are not enough to ensure that exposure to hazards are controlled, the program includes coordination, monitoring and educating the personnel involved in constructing the project.  These components will be implemented through the same principles of management control applied to all phases of the project.


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The L.A. Times Reviews Fine Arts Alumnus Gajin Fujita's paintings at L.A. Louver
Brands, symbols and emblems in Gajin Fujita's paintings at L.A. Louver
By David Pagel
Ten years ago, billboards across Southern California proclaimed that the baseball team then known as the Anaheim Angels had become the Los Angeles Angels. Fans got mad.
Long-standing lovers of the Anaheim Angels felt betrayed. Die-hard Dodgers supporters felt that their turf had been violated. Less passionate observers saw the name change as a corporate maneuver to grab a larger market share.
After a four-year legal battle, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim came into being. The geographically illogical moniker seems to have pleased no one but the lawyers.
Similar issues — about power and loyalty, identity and history, money and love — unfold in Gajin Fujita's 13 magnificent paintings at L.A. Louver. Made over the past four years, often with a little help from his friends, Fujita's stunning stews of graffiti and gold leaf bring impressive complexity to the heroic quest to find meaning in a world otherwise inhospitable to individuals, strong-willed and otherwise.
All of Fujita's paintings in "Warriors, Ghosts and Ancient Gods of the Pacific" make a hash of brands, mixing and mashing symbols and emblems as the 42-year-old artist plays fast and loose — and very purposefully — with history, geography and authority. Read more here.
Source: L.A. Times
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Implications of Brexit for consumer finance
Written on 13 Aug 2018
Is any new EU legislation expected to come into force and effect before the end of the transition period?
The consumer finance industry as a whole has experienced a great deal of change over the last 10 years, particularly as a result of the implementation of new EU legislation. This includes the Consumer Credit Directive (CCD) in 2011, the Consumer Rights Directive, which was implemented over a number of years between 2013 and 2015, the Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD) in 2016 and, most recently, the second Payment Services Directive from 13 January 2018.
When it comes to lending to consumers, we now have equivalent regimes across the EU Member States in terms of the requirement to provide consumers with certain information before entering into a loan agreement or mortgage.
As a result, we are not currently envisaging any new EU legislation being implemented before the end of the proposed transition period that specifically impacts the consumer finance industry.
Is a new regulator needed, or do additional powers to be given to an existing regulator?
No. The FCA will continue to regulate firms that provide loans and mortgages to individuals for non-business purposes post-Brexit.
Is there an existing "equivalence" or "recognition" regime for recognising Third Country regulatory regimes?
As we say above, the regulatory regimes for consumer credit and mortgage lending have been harmonised across the EU, with all member states being required to implement the CCD and MCD, as maximum harmonisation directives, into their own jurisdiction.
At present, there is no existing regime for recognising other countries' regulatory regimes.
Does current UK government policy mean that (subject to the terms of a future trade agreement between the UK and the EU) material changes to regulation or enforcement are likely post-Brexit?
We do not anticipate the UK government making any material changes to the existing consumer credit or regulated mortgage regime immediately following Brexit, given the number of recent changes to legislation in this area.
However, given that a great deal of existing UK consumer finance law is based on the implementation of EU Directives such as the CCD and MCD, Brexit presents the opportunity for the industry to lobby the government and the FCA with its suggestions for simplifying the current consumer credit and mortgages regime in certain areas.
The government is more likely to be receptive to moving away from a single market approach in these areas, given that, ordinarily, borrowers look to obtain a loan or a mortgage in their home country, rather than shopping around abroad.
We anticipate that the FCA is likely to take a "wait and see" approach in relation to suggesting any changes to the existing rules and legislation in view of Brexit, to avoid requiring firms to make multiple changes to their systems, processes and documentation which could not only be costly, but could create confusion for borrowers.
What should businesses be doing now to prepare for Brexit?
From a UK law perspective, firms that are established in the UK and who only lend to UK-based customers, will not need to take any specific action to prepare for Brexit.
However, firms that currently rely on passporting rights under the Banking Consolidation Directive or the MCD to offer consumer finance from another Member State into the UK, or vice versa; will need to consider whether they wish to continue to provide these products in the relevant jurisdiction(s) post-Brexit.
If so, and in the absence of any agreement being reached between the UK and the EU in relation to an equivalence regime, firms will need to decide whether they should set up a branch or a subsidiary in the relevant jurisdiction, and what that might involve in terms of obtaining necessary regulatory permissions or licenses.
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Q: Why isn't my COM class a Singleton? For some reason, 2 objects are being created when they should be a Singleton.
I have a class Bridge whose purpose is to communicate from one application to another. The first app, App1, creates the bridge via COM and immediately calls the bridge's initialize method:
bool IBridge.Initialize(ref App1 theApp)
{
       if (theApp != null)
       {
            this.refToApp = theApp;
            log("Got bridge from App1");
            //spin up App2
            Process.Start([path to App2]);
       }
       else
       {
           log("theApp was null");
       }
       return true;
}

The Bridge class uses a singleton pattern but has a public default constructor so that COM will work properly with it but users of this class have to respect the fact that it's a singleton by only accessing it using the instance property.
[ComVisibleAttribute(true)]
[ProgId("[id that App1 uses to instantiate class]")]
public class Bridge : IBridge
{
    private static readonly _instance;

    public static COMBridge Instance
    {
        get
        {
            if(_instance == null){
                _instance = new Bridge();
            }
            return _instance
        }
    }

  public Bridge()
  {
       log("Called default constructor");
       if (_instance == null)
       {
            _instance = this;
       }
  }

 ...

However when App2 starts, it calls the getter for Instance and the constructor is called again. This is troublesome because the Bridge is a communication component and I need these two apps to talk to each other using the bridge.
Any tips?

A: Assuming that the com object is configured to be an Out of Process com object (I am assuming this because it looks like it used to work that way from VB) then you have to jump through some hoops to get it to activate as an out of process object. by default .Net will load the object as an In Process com object, which means that every process will have its own copy of the object. Per the artical here

If you try using your COM object now, you might discover that it's still loaded into the client's process. The reason is that you have to tell COM you're interested in out-of-process activation. If you're using C/C++, pass CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER as the dwClsContext argument of the CoCreateInstance function. If you're using C#/VB.NET, you'll have to P/Invoke into CoCreateInstance for this.


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Chris Gibson
IPMS Number
A26B Invader Pacific Theater
Company: ICM
The Douglas A-26 Invader (designated B-26 between 1948 and 1965) is an American twin-engined light bomber and ground attack aircraft. Built by Douglas Aircaft Company during World War II, the Invader also saw service during several major Cold War conflicts. A limited number of highly modified United Sates Air Force aircraft served in Southeast Aisa until 1969. It was a… more
Fokker Dr1 Triplane
Company: Meng Model
It has been 102 years since the end of WW1 and we still have a fascination with the daring young men and their flying machines. It is amazing that 11 years after the Wright brothers first flew, we had airplanes dogfighting over the battle-scarred fields in Europe. Some of those aircraft were simple single wing models that resembled kites, others were single seat bi-planes and 2 seat cockpits… more
Lancaster B Mk.III Dambuster – Part 3 of 3
Company: H-K Models Co.
Welcome back to the final installment of the 1/32 HK models Lancaster B Mk.III Dambuster review.
Last time we finished the bomb bay area, wings, tail feathers and did some initial assembly.
This time we will be masking, painting, decals and final assembly.
First off this is a big model and requires a bit more paint than other kits. I happened to request… more
Lancaster B Mk.III Dambusters - Part 2 of 3
Company: HK Models Co
Welcome back to the second installment of the HK 1/32 Lancaster B MkIII Dambusters review.
Last time was cockpit and interior assembly and painting and fuselage assembly, also turret assembly and painting.
Part 2 will cover the bombay changes, engine assembly and painting and installation on the wings, wing and tail plane assembly and installation on the fuselage.
Bomb… more
In 2012 Hong Kong models entered their first 1/32 scale model the B25J Mitchell and since that time modelers have been seeing a long line of 1/32 scale kits, multiple B25s, B17E, F and Gs, the Dornier Do 335A and B and the De Havilland Mosquito B Mk. IX/ Mk. XVI and Mk. IV Series II. Now we have the Avro Lancaster B Mk.I which has been reviewed by IPMS member Eric Christianson this year, and… more
Do335 A-0 Pfeil - The Big Finish, Part 3
Company: Zoukei-Mura
So we are finally to the point of paint, decals and final assembly. I started out with applying the paint masks for the canopies. The paint masks seem to fit very well and are applied easily. I started the painting by covering the entire fuselage with Model Master Metallics non buffing Aluminum. I do this for two reasons, 1) to find any defects in the fuselage and take… more
Do335 A-0 Pfeil - Fuselage and Wing Build, Part 2
The Build Part 2: Continuing with the build is the 2 Daimler-Benz DB603 inverted V-12 liquid cooled engines. It starts with the two halves of the block with molded in pistons and rods. There are two halves of each bank of pistons that all get put together, then the upper sections are glued to that and the top cap of the whole assembly to finish it off. The valve covers are next along with the… more
Do335 A-0 Pfeil - First Look and Cockpit Build, Part 1
The Dornier Do335 was a German WWII heavy fighter that had a unique twin engine inline push pull setup that made it the fastest propeller driven German fighter of WWII. The Luftwaffe was desperate to get the fighter into production as soon as possible, but with engine availability problems by the time they got it into the fight there was only a handful of planes available… more
Academy B17E "Pacific Theater"
Company: Academy Models
I won't go into too much detail on the B17E because its been covered extensively with all the other B17 kits out there. It started the war headed right into the middle of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The B17s were not armed so they had no way to fight back. They had to land because they were low on fuel. Some were destroyed some damaged and a couple escaped… more
F9F-8 & F9F-8P Cougar
Company: Kitty Hawk
The F9F-8 Cougar was a carrier based early swept wing jet that was light, fast and had good range and load carrying capacity. It was developed from the F9F Panther which was a straight wing jet. The operational career for the F9F was 1951 to 1974. It was also used as a photo recon and two seat trainer.
Kitty Hawks 1/48 scale F9F Cougar is the first… more