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Galaxy Note9 will be available in 128GB and 512GB variants and will be priced at Rs. 67,900 and Rs. 84,900, respectively.
By Rohit Arora
| Updated: Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 18:16 [IST]
Samsung is all set to unveil the latest Galaxy Note device in the Indian market. The company called media for a hands-on event yesterday in New Delhi and showed us the latest phablet. The new Samsung Galaxy Note 9 was launched in New York on August 9, 2018. From a design point of view, it might look like the previous generation Note phablet, but there are some notable improvements to boost up productivity and multimedia performance. The newest member in the Galaxy Note family brings a bigger battery, extra storage and the smartest stylus ever bundled with a Note device.
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 also features the biggest Super AMOLED display ever used by any Samsung Galaxy device. Besides, Samsung has improved the camera, Bixby and audio performance on the new Note 9 phablet. Importantly, the company has ensured that the pricing remains the same. The Galaxy Note 9 will launch at the same price at which Galaxy Note 8 made its debut in the Indian market last year. It will be available in 128GB and 512GB variants and will be priced at Rs. 67,900 and Rs. 84,900, respectively.
ALSO READ: Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2018: Key takeaways from Samsung's grand event
I couldn't wait to use the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 as my daily driver and here's what I found out in my short stint with the new Galaxy Note 9. Have a look.
Design and Audio
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is the company's biggest smartphone to date. It's even bigger than the last year's note and sports gigantic 6.4-inches screen. If you prefer a compact mobile device that perfectly fits in your palm, this is not a phone for you. The design hasn't changed much over the last generation. The rear panel features a horizontally stacked dual-lens camera setup along with LED flash-light, fingerprint sensor, and some other important sensors.
ALSO READ: Samsung Galaxy Note9 pre-order in India to debut on August 19
The new Note feels slightly thicker and heavier as it is powered by a bigger battery unit. Samsung has also added new stereo speakers on the new Note to enhance your multimedia performance. The company says that the new Note 9 features the Loudest AKG tuned stereo speakers ever fitted on a Samsung Galaxy device. These speakers can render Dolby Atmos immersive audio for a life-like experience. We played some audio files and found that the new stereo speakers produce clear and loud audio. You can watch a movie or an episode of your favorite series even if you are not carrying a pair of headphones with you.
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 comes with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 at both front and back. The smartphone is also IP68 dust-water resistant. Samsung Galaxy Note 9 will be available in four different colors- Midnight Black, Metallic Copper, Ocean Blue, and Lavender Purple colour variants.
Display: Largest Super AMOLED screen on a Samsung Note device
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is a display beast. It sports a massive 6.4-inch Quad HD+ (1440x2960 pixels) Super AMOLED Infinity Display. The Quad HD+ screen comes in 18.5:9 aspect ratio format and offers a pixel density of 516 pixels per inch. It's a brilliant display for gaming and video playback. Like previous Galaxy devices, the AMOLED display on Note 9 offers deeper blacks and impressive viewing angles for daylight content consumption. The big display will beautifully serve for multimedia and productivity tasks.
New smarter S Pen
Samsung is known for adding new features and improving the overall performance of S Pen stylus with every new Galaxy Note device. This year, the S Pen pushes the limits and come out as the smartest accessory for the Galaxy Note 9. The phablet ships with a smarter stylus that has some new tricks under its sleeves. It works on Bluetooth low energy module and can perform a number of tasks. You can use it as a remote control to play-pause videos, flip through slides in PPTs, lead presentations and even show the content on a big screen with in-hand control movements. Moreover, the new smarter S Pen can also control Note 9's camera. Long press the pen button to fire up the camera, single press to take a shot and double to switch the cameras. You can also press and hold the pen button to open any app or S pen feature depending upon your usage. To simply put, S Pen is customizable. Interestingly, you don't need to enable the Bluetooth mode all the time to execute all of these mentioned tasks as the S Pen works on low energy module. However, S Pen ships with a battery of its own that gets charged automatically in the Note 9's stylus holder.
Dual-Pixel AI enabled Camera
The camera on Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is a dual-lens affair featuring two 12MP sensors. It is technically the same camera setup that was previously seen on the Galaxy S9+. One of the two 12MP sensors is a wide angle lens with 2x optical zoom. The camera setup uses dual-aperture technology enabling the camera lens to expand and contract just like the iris of a human eye. The 'Dual Aperture' works in the range of 'F1.5 / F2.4' and automatically lets in more light when it's dark and less light when it's too bright. Samsung has also modified the camera software on the new Note 9 and promises to deliver better images than the Galaxy S9+. The camera on Galaxy Note 9 comes with intelligent scene recognition and can identify up to 20 different scenes. The camera module then adjusts the basic settings to improve the end results. During my brief usage, I found that the camera can recognize architecture, food, humans for portrait shots, flowers, trees, etc. It was not able to recognize the watch on my wrist. Samsung has also added Super-slow motion on Galaxy Note 9. I will put the camera to a detailed analysis for an in-depth review. For the selfies, Galaxy Note 9 sports an 8MP sensor with autofocus.
Bigger battery and seamless DEX connectivity
One of the most appreciated changes in the new Note device is the big battery unit. Samsung has provided the first-ever 4,000 mAH battery unit on a Note device. The battery unit on Galaxy Note 9 seems promising and also supports both fast-charging and wireless charging. As far as connectivity is concerned, the smartphone comes with NFC, Samsung Pay, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, Type-C port, Hybrid SIM card and wireless charging.
Samsung DeX also gets new improvement for seamless connectivity. It is built-in in the new Galaxy Note 9 and you would just need a Type-C to HDMI adapter to project your smartphone's display on a big monitor.
Snapdragon 845 CPU, 6GB RAM, and Android 8.1 Oreo
The Indian version of Galaxy Note 9 will be powered by Exynos 9810 processor, the Snapdragon 845 equivalent SoC. The smartphone will be available in two storage/RAM variants; 6GB RAM+ 128GB storage and 8GB RAM+ 512GB of onboard storage, first ever in the Galaxy Note line-up. You will be happy to know that the 512GB internal memory can be expanded to up to 1TB via a 512GB microSD card. So technically, you can have a total of 1TB storage on the Galaxy Note 9, which is simply amazing.
Galaxy Note 9 is also a very capable gaming handset. The smartphone also initiates the arrival of the Fortnite game for Android platform. If you have a previous Samsung device (Galaxy S9 / S9 Plus, Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy S8 / S8 Plus, Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge, and even on Tab S3), you can install the game and experience some console-level graphics on brilliant Super AMOLED screens. I tried Fortnite game on the new Note 9 and the performance is completely lag-free. I also played 'The Amazing Spiderman 2' on the new Galaxy Note device and experienced lag-free gameplay. Samsung Galaxy Note 9 runs on Samsung's Experience UI 9.5 deployed on Android 8.1.0.
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is not an entirely new product; however, it improves a lot on some basic feature sets. There's a bigger battery unit, smarter S Pen and double the storage as compared to last year's Note. I wanted to see a new camera setup on the new Note 9 but sadly it's the same camera that I have tested on Galaxy S9+ with some software improvements. Samsung Galaxy Note 9 will face a tough fight from Google in the next few months as the Search Engine Giant is also set to introduce the new Pixel 3 XL with a massive screen and new camera hardware. But if your use case involves a stylus, Note 9 seems like the best handset out there in the market. Things are going to get interesting in the premium smartphone segment and I recommend you keep a close watch on Gizbot.com for all the exciting technology news and our comprehensive review of Galaxy Note 9.
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Question: How would you judge, for example, a physical theory if 80% of the air planes built according to it fell?
But then why do millions of promoters so faithfully follow all "theories" of management taught in all MBA courses and schools?
If 80% of new businesses end in bankruptcy?
Faced with this, these theories cannot explain the reasons for this state of affairs, nor predict even the path to reduce the likelihood of going under.
If old businesses, totally headed by pathetically matriculated MBA professionals, with time, only work worse and worse?
See the model history of General Motors; from the most profitable corporation in the world to shameful bankruptcy and funerals for half the brands.
Even so, it is difficult to blame GM's constantly-replacing-each-other-over-decades general directors of poorly carrying out the shamanic ritual of "management".
Completely the opposite, they dried frog by the ton and prepared black cats strictly according to the fashionable recipes from authors in the Harvard Business Review.
If all outstanding business success stories have happened contrary to these "theories"?
And all of the brilliant entrepreneurs have succeeded without spending heaps of time and money on empty-worded studies about the number of angles a the head of a pin.
So, not one of the aforementioned theories can explain anything or predict anything.
Not to mention the majority of these "theories" (more exactly, a collection of divination techniques on the model of 14th-century "medicine") are clearly anti scientific.
If you look deeper, than all bureaucratic management approaches, — without exception, — do not work.
And this is by no means for effect or polemic zeal.
All of this does not work and can not work.
If someone claims the opposite (like, "I myself did"), they li... exaggerate.
If "I myself saw", it means they saw, but did not understand. Or they too... exaggerate.
Or little time has passed.
A common property of all bureaucratic initiatives is to have an almost instantaneous impact. Just as quickly, however, decreasing with time to deeply negative effects.
In such cases, check with your titan of bureaucratic management in six months.
A few useful things from the flitting public discourse refer to the process (that is the anti-bureaucratic) approach: value network, Toyota Production System, Goldratt's Theory of Constraints, and similar things.
But not one of these is an all-encompassing theory of the enterprise in a competitive market: working fragments from experiments, local insights, and guesses.
Let's get back to bureaucratic management.
Is it possible to show courage and directly call an MBA — "theory of management" — pure verbal diarrhea?
And all sorts of "business schools", and their promoters, are the modern analogy of medieval medical and theological universities.
I mean: expensive (which the educated understand alludes to.
Any real science can be studied by anyone with the desire individually and for free; lots of money are made from "personal growth trainings" and courses for rapid weight loss) institutions for damaging the brains of the listener with dogmatic trash.
If the theology was by itself not very harmful (ignoring the mass burnings), then the popular medical cures until the mid-19th century buried more people than the actual illnesses.
Moreover, it is very profitable.
The root, worldview mistake of the MBA quacks is that they give subjectivity to invented abstractions that do not exist in reality ("essentialism" in the terminology of Popper).
"Companies", "departments", "management", "structures" as if they really exist and have their own wills and goals.
None of these exist in reality; they are nothing more than intellectual abstractions. By their material they are no different than "God", "Homeland", or the world Communist revolution.
There are collections of individual people.
Managed (on average in a mass) through rational motivations ("people respond to incentives").
If, during a bureaucratic reform, the incentives for individual people do not change, then the result will be the same or worse.
No matter what "structures" and "subordinates" the geniuses of bureaucracy invent.
And, the opposite. If the motivating factors changed, the result is guaranteed to change.
Given this, the bureaucratic form of changes does not matter.
There is a separate text for those who want to build incentives for workers across a company.
P.S. It is said that Galileo took several years to gather the courage to present the heliocentric view of the world.
But he didn't fear the wrath of the dusty churchmen, who, in the Roman Curia (then and now), were intelligent, studied, and fairly free-thinking people. And some were even Galileo's personal friends, including the then Pope.
Galileo feared the mockery of the uneducated masses more than the anger of the Roman Catholic Church.


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Car Explosion Kills 19 at Cancer Institute in Central Cairo
People extinguish a fire from a blast outside the National Cancer Institute, Cairo, Egypt August 4, 2019. | Photo: Reuters
A powerful explosion rocked central Cairo this morning as a result of a car crash near the Cancer Institute.
At least nineteen people were killed and 30 more were wounded in an explosion resulting from a car crash in central Cairo, Egypt's health ministry said early on Monday.
'The Saudi Way': Egypt Expatriates Minister Vows to 'Slice up' Critics Living Abroad
According to Egyptian-based media, the powerful explosion near the medical facility was caused by the detonation of an oxygen cylinder that was inside of a car that collided with another vehicle in the centre of the city.
The explosion reportedly caused a blaze and dozens of fire trucks were sent to the scene to extinguish the flames. Emergency services are reportedly still working at the scene of the accident.
The vehicle reportedly belonged to one of the staffers at the institute.The blast happened when a car driving against traffic on Cairo's Nile corniche road collided with three other cars, the interior ministry said in a separate statement.
It triggered a blaze that forced the partial evacuation of the nearby National Cancer Institute, the health ministry said.
Local media reported earlier on Monday that at least 8 people had been killed due to the explosion.
There was no official statement indicating that the explosion was an attack.
Egypt's public prosecutor is investigating the cause of the incident, sources told Reuters, but there was reportedly no official statement issued indicating that the explosion was an alleged attack.
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Reverend Bennett accepted his call into the ministry in 1979. His initial sermon was given Sunday, May 13, of that same year at the Union Missionary Baptist Church of Rembert, South Carolina with Reverend Dr. Willie D. Dennis, pastor. Ordained February 8, 1981 by the Wateree Missionary Baptist Association Lower Division, Reverend Dr. L. W. Walker, Sr., moderator.
Since his call into the ministry he received religious educational training through Morris College School of Religion, Sumter, S.C. Additional education received through Central Carolina Technical College and Mt. Moriah Baptist Association Ecumenical and Faith Studies. He attends numerous personal development sessions through workshops, seminars and conferences.
Reverend Bennett is married to the lovely Mrs. Vermell Stoney formerly of Lugoff, South Carolina. They are the proud parents of two children Alison & Todd, daughter in law Adrienne Hinton and granddaughter Raven.
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April 2006 saw a bad case of "2 foot itis" with the purchase of a 1992 Mac classic (26C) and the subsequent sale of the Matilda.
May 2014 and Kota Bharu came to us about five years ahead of schedule. We had planned to purchase a larger boat closer to retirement and preferably an Aloha 32. But, the right boat in the right condition and things changed. We looked her over close to Mothers Day 2014 and purchased her the following week on our 36th wedding anniversary.


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Hannah Harper, née le  dans le Devon, est une actrice pornographique, mannequin, et réalisatrice britannique.

Biographie

En 2000, Hannah commença le mannequinat à Londres. Les années suivantes, Elle alla à Los Angeles pour faire des séances photos puis déménagea pour cette ville.

Elle est apparue plusieurs fois dans les magazines pour adulte High Society et Club International. En outre, elle a été désignée Pet of the Month par le magazine Penthouse en avril 2002.

Hannah est apparue dans quelques vidéos pornographiques muettes et amateurs avant de travailler avec Ben Dover pour son premier film professionnel. Elle signa alors des contrats d'exclusivité avec les studios Legend Entertainment et Sin City.

Depuis 2008, elle a mis un terme à sa carrière pornographique et n'a plus joué que dans la série , entre 2007 et 2009, et deux téléfilms érotiques.

Filmographie sélective
Films et séries érotiques
 2009 : Busty Cops: Protect and Serve! : Chloe
 2007-2009 :  : Ophelia
 2009 : Crustacean : Brittany Jones
Films pornographiques
 2001 : The 4 Finger Club 16
 2002 : Les Campeuses de Saint-Tropez
 2003 : Pussy Foot'n 7
 2004 : Anal Delinquents 1
 2005 : Anal Beauties
 2006 : Pink Paradise 1
 2007 : Pussy Treasure
 2008 : Fantasy All Stars 9
 2010 : I Love Anal (compilation)
 2011 : Pink Zone (compilation)
 2012 : Me and My BFF Threeway (compilation)
 2013 : Wild Sex Orgies (compilation)
 2014 : Randy Lesbian Teens (compilation)
 2015 : Hot Sluts In Heat Looking For Meat (compilation)

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Darryl Hanah
Hannah West
Liza Harper

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Naissance dans le Devon
Naissance en juillet 1982
Réalisatrice de films pornographiques
Mannequin de charme britannique

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It's not exactly Breakfast at Wimbledon.
But it is another game on a futbol pitch.
So the Chargers should feel right at home.
Los Angeles' American Football Conference representative does its part for pigskin diplomacy when it takes on the Tennessee Titans Sunday morning in Wembley Stadium in London.
Wembley Stadium, at 84,000 seats, is about 3.36 times the size of StubHub Center, the broom closet in Carson where the Chargers fled after stabbing 1.42 million people in the back simultaneously in San Diego.
The Chargers are enjoying a deliciously promising season.
Quarterback Philip Rivers is off to the best start of his career.
He's completing nearly 69 percent of his passes, with 15 touchdown passes and only three interceptions thus far. His passer rating is second overall in the NFL.
But that wasn't what the NFL owners were talking about at their autumn meeting last week.
The club released its first progress report on personal seat license (PSL) sales at their future home in Los Angeles Stadium at Holywood Park, and it was abysmal.
PSL and seat sales have been so glacially slow, the Chargers were forced to lower their revenue estimate from $410 to $150 million.
Money gets NFL owners' attention.
The Chargers don't have a fan base in Los Angeles County.
Never did, which is why they left L.A. after their inaugural season to move to San Diego in 1961.
Never will, if fans aren't getting excited about this entertaining set of Lightning Bolts under the leadership of Anthony Lynn and his two head-coach coordinators, Gus Bradley and Ken Whisenhunt.
Rookie safety Derwin James is emerging as an NFL superstar right before everyone's eyes, and running back Melvin Ingram seems determined to match Rams' NFL MVP frontrunner Todd Gurley II touchdown for touchdown.
The Chargers situation has managed to make itself unfair to everyone.
The players know they basically play 16 road games since the move north.
And they're starting to grumble aloud about it.
Which they have every right to.
They beat the snot out of the Oakland Raiders at StubHub Center two weeks ago, and most of the crowd was upset about it.
Fans will buy single-game tickets to see their beloved Raiders, Broncos, Chiefs, Eagles, Saints, (fill in the blank).
But they want no part of a season-long or PSL-long commitment.
Factor in the return of defensive end Joey Bosa from his foot injury in two weeks, and the Chargers only figure to be even stronger in the second half of the season.
They could be bound for a long playoff run.
That Sept. 23 meeting with the Rams could turn out to be a pregame show for February.
Were this happening 90 miles to the south,the response would be seismic.
The Chargers were a metaphor for the San Diego that grew from a sleepy Navy town hopelessly lost in Los Angeles' shadow to one of the nation's 10 biggest, bustling, most prosperous cities.
Owner Dean Spanos ought to take the hint and go back to San Diego, hat and lightning bolts in hand, and beg to go home again.
Oh sure, he'd have to swallow his pride and wear his humiliation like a hair shirt.
But the Chargers would be back where they are loved and appreciated.
Doing such an uncomfortable thing might be the best way to honor the memory of his late father, Alex, who was always a community-first guy.
The NFL went back to Cleveland.
The Raiders went back to Oakland.
Hillary went back to Bill.
The Chargers and their fans deserve better than having to go halfway around the world to be cheered, as they will be Sunday.
There's a lesson in these soccer stadia for Dean Spanos.
Unless they're pulling that knife out of San Diego's back.
I disagree, although I hate Spanos if we get the team back on our terms what the voters decide is fair including the san diego county voters this time than he is allowed back to SanDiego.


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Local estate agents are reporting a busy market with both lots of willing buyers and sellers and there is no let up with new conveyancing instructions for Dutton Gregory.
The media will have you believe that the house prices and housing market are in a downward spiral as a result of political influences but according to the statistics, quoted prices are actually up on this time last year.
House prices are in any event relative, if a house increases or decreases in value then so shall any onward property purchase.
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Avera Health and DAKOTACARE have signed a letter of intent through which Avera Health will purchase DAKOTACARE.
With its ownership of Avera Health Plans and DAKOTACARE, Avera will become the second largest health insurer in South Dakota, serving nearly 200,000 members.
Avera has been in the health insurance industry since 1999 with Avera Health Plans. As a mission-based organization, Avera supports all South Dakotans having access to affordable high quality health care coverage.
Avera will operate Avera Health plans and DAKOTACARE as two separate organizations. "We are concerned first and foremost for the people we serve," said Bates. "Avera is committed to maintaining the DAKOTACARE brand, the broad network of providers and the positive relationships with the more than 400 insurance agents across the state." DAKOTACARE's provider network includes 100 percent of South Dakota's hospitals and more than 98 percent of the state's physicians and pharmacies.
Avera now has the unique opportunity to serve the needs of South Dakotans with both a choice provider network through DAKOTACARE and a value network plan through Avera Health Plans. This announcement comes at a time when Avera Health Plans leads the individual health insurance Marketplace and looks forward to further growth in 2016 and beyond. In addition, Avera is building modern facilities and enhancing specialized care offerings, and increasing its telehealth footprint.


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This Penguin Classic is performed by Colin Salmon known for his starring roles in Resident Evil and Alien Vs Predator. He is also known for his role as Charles Robinson alongside Pierce Brosnan's James Bond. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Maurice Hindle, read by Peter Noble.
A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein leads the reader on an unsettling journey from the sublime beauty of the Swiss alps to the desolate waste of the arctic circle.
Obsessed with the idea of creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material with which to fashion a new being, shocking his creation to life with electricity. But this botched creature, rejected by its creator and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy Frankenstein and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Lord Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of Gothic horror, and Frankenstein's monster an instantly-recognisable symbol of the limits of human creativity.
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Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the daughter of pioneering thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, eloped with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen. Three years later, during a wet summer on Lake Geneva, Shelley famously wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein. The years of her marriage were blighted by the deaths of three of her four children, and further tragedy followed in 1822, when Percy Shelley drowned in Italy. Following his death, Mary Shelley returned to England and continued to travel and write until her own death at the age of fifty-three.
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To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein, we asked film critic and broadcaster, Rhianna Dhillon to find the most authentic retelling of the classic novel.


"A 1995 poll by Health Canada said that 70 per cent of Canadianswant marijuana either legalized or decriminalized – which means that someone caught smoking wouldn't get a criminal record, and would only have to pay something resembling a parking fine.
The 1995 poll, titled "Canada's Alcohol and Other Drug Survey," shows that 27 per cent of Canadians over the age of 15 actually want marijuana made legal, to be regulated in the same manner as tobacco and alcohol.
According to Dutch government statistics, after 20 years of marijuana decriminalization, "violent crime is far lower than in the US… There were 1.9 homicides in Holland per 100,000 people in 1993. The US rate was 9.5.
The journal of Clinical Oncology (US) reported in 1989 that 48 per cent of respondents to a survey of cancer specialists recommended marijuana as a medicine.
THE ROAD TO HELL: "DRUG" PROHIBITION AND THE U.S.
The rate of incarceration in the Unitied States has nearly doubled in the last decade, with 1.6 million prisoners last year.
The United States now has the highest incarceration rate of its own citizens in the entire world, surpassing even the former Soviet Union.
There were more than twice as many inmates in custody in the US last year than there were ten years ago.
"The number of people incarcerated for drug crimes has grown far more rapidly than criminals locked up for any other reason, with drug offenders jumping from 8 per cent of all [California] state inmates in 1980, to more than a quarter of all inmates today. At the same time, violent criminals occupy a decreasing share of state prison cells, dropping from 57 per cent in 1980 to about 45 per cent today.


We had a chance to catch the Blood of the Young and Tron Theatre presentation of Daphne Oram's Wonderful World of Sound at Dundee Rep. This show is touring Scotland, so if you can do be sure to see it. If you don't know anything about Oram, there's a good primer at her official website. You may recall that her book on sound theory An Individual Note was kickstarted last year, a project spearheaded by the fabulous Sarah Angliss.
Co-written by star Isobel McArthur (pictured above) and director Paul Brotherston, the play gives an overview of key moments in Oram's life from her childhood interests in music in archeology, to the 1942 séance where the 17 year old was encouraged to pursue music instead of a more traditional 'girl's path' to safety and suffocation. Sheer determination and unflagging confidence in the power of sound eventually brings her to co-founding and becoming director of the famed BBC Radiophonic Workshop. McArthur embodies Oram with an enthusiasm and a dogged primness that allows the passionate creative force to burst out to great effect when it's been denied too long.
The ensemble cast Robin Hellier, David James Kirkwood, Dylan Read and Matthew Seager move adroitly between parts, shifting accents and body language to make transitions clear. Ana Inés Jabares-Pita has designed a set that supports that nimbleness of the cast. The true magic of theatre is creating places and people in an instant that you completely believe. A small ensemble can sometimes feel like Tommy Cooper changing hats. With a minimum of props, this group portrayed a succession of situations with vivid clarity.
The live sound score by Anneke Kampman was simply amazing. She created ambience, soaring melodies, a wide variety of sound effects and really brought the whole philosophy of Oram to aural life. You can follow her on SoundCloud to hear more, but if you can catch her live do. The frisson between the music and the players energised the whole audience.
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Trump lies his way through a visit to the border with Mexico as he escalates his 'emergency' threat
By Daniel DaleWashington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump lied his way through a visit to the Mexican border on Thursday, returning again and again to false claims as he attempted to promote his proposed wall project.
He unleashed the dishonesty barrage, which included at least 10 false or misleading claims, as he escalated his threat to declare a "national emergency" if he cannot convince Democrats to agree to spend $5.7 billion on the border wall.
He said he would "probably" declare an emergency, if there was no deal to end the 20-day-long government shutdown he initiated because of the wall dispute, and he added, "I would almost say definitely."
Declaring an emergency would possibly allow Trump to build and fund a wall without Congress's approval.
But it would be certain to be challenged in court and prompt abuse-of-power accusations, and several senior congressional Republicans have already said they would not support such a drastic measure.
NBC and The New York Times reported Thursday that the White House was looking at the idea of funding part of the wall using billions in unspent money that was allocated to the Army Corps of Engineers budget. NBC and the Times said the funding pool includes money intended for projects in areas hit by natural disasters, including Puerto Rico and California.
After a (relatively) less dishonest December, Trump made 78 false claims in first week of 2019
Trump backs himself into a corner on wall shutdown after TV address
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Trump has previously threatened to deny federal assistance to hurricane-damaged Puerto Rico and to fire-damaged California, whose officials have criticized him.
The shutdown will be the longest in U.S. history if it continues until Saturday, as appears likely.
Pressure has mounted on Trump as it has dragged on.
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are scheduled to miss their first paychecks on Friday. The organization representing FBI agents issued a Thursday letter demanding an end to the shutdown, arguing that "financial security is a matter of national security."
Trump's Thursday dishonesty began even before he left Washington. He told reporters that, when he had promised during his campaign that Mexico would pay for the wall, he had never said this would be a direct payment.
"Obviously, I never said this, and I never meant, 'they're going to write out a cheque,' " he said, adding: "When I said 'Mexico will pay for the wall,' in front of thousands and thousands of people, obviously they're not going to write a cheque. They are paying for the wall indirectly."
He had not promised a "cheque" during the campaign, although he explicitly said "they may even write us a cheque," but he had, in fact, made clear he was talking about a direct payment; a document still on his campaign website promised he would threaten Mexico with financial harm until it made an "easy" decision: "make a one-time payment of $5-10 billion."
Trump claimed that the indirect payment he is now talking about would effectively be made by Mexico through the new North American trade agreement he has negotiated with Canada and Mexico.
But even if the agreement is eventually approved — Congress might take years before voting on it — it will never create a funding stream that can be allocated to an infrastructure project.
When he arrived in McAllen, Texas for an immigration roundtable at a Border Patrol station, Trump derided critics who dismiss walls as outdated and ineffective.
He said some old technology, such as the wheel, is timeless.
"A wheel is older than a wall," he said.
He repeated it a few seconds later: "The wheel is older than the wall.
Defensive walls predate wheels by thousands of years. (Jericho's famous wall existed around 8,000 BC; the wheel is thought to have been invented around 3,500 BC.)
Seeking to portray Democrats as divided on the shutdown, Trump described a "big article" in which he said newly elected Democrats broke with party leadership and described the party's "no wall" position as "indefensible."
That did not happen.
An article in Politico merely included two Democrats expressing mild concern about how voters would respond to the extended shutdown.
Both of them continue to oppose the wall.
Trump again sought to use past presidents to bolster his case for the wall, suggesting that they, too, had wanted to build a wall: "They were going to build this wall in 2003, in 2006. They were going to build it 20 years ago. They were going to build it forever."
While George W. Bush approved 700 miles of border fencing in 2006 — not the kind of giant concrete wall Trump campaigned on. Democrat Bill Clinton was president 20 years ago, and he made no effort to build a wall. Nor did Republican predecessors George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan; indeed, Reagan explicitly opposed the idea.
As he did in his Tuesday prime-time address, Trump offered a misleading description of Democrats' position on the wall: This time, he said, "They said, 'We don't want a concrete wall.' I said, 'That's OK, we'll call it a steel barrier.' "
Democrats have objected to the project on the whole, not to Trump's choice of material.
Trump left the Border Patrol station and went to the border, itself, at the Rio Grande. There, he told reporters, "The nice part about the wall or the barrier is I can have that worked out in 15 minutes. We can start construction."
The construction process, which involves planning, study, contracting, and contentious property acquisition, would not begin nearly that fast.
Trying to exaggerate the problem of illegal immigration, Trump said of the Border Patrol: "They have done a fantastic job. Never so many apprehensions, ever, in our history."
In reality, the number of apprehensions on the Mexican border in 2018, about 400,000, was not even a quarter of the total in 2000.
Daniel Dale is the Star's Washington bureau chief. He covers U.S. politics and current affairs. Follow him on Twitter: @ddale8


Byrne, D. 2018. Enhancing Information Retention of Forensic Science Students: Incorporating a Simulated Crime Scene Practicum in the College Classroom. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH. 13, (Dec. 2018), 2935-2945. DOI:https://doi.org/10.24297/jssr.v13i0.8001.


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United Officials Watching Summer Usage as
Models Predict Above-Average Temperatures
by JOHN DAVIS
Officials at United again will closely watch how consumers use electricity after the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) announced it expected record electric use this summer and grid conditions similar to summer 2019.
The results were published in its final Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy for the upcoming spring season (March–May) and its preliminary assessment for the summer season (June–September).
"ERCOT has added new electric supply resources, and strong economic growth continues to push up demand in ERCOT," said ERCOT President and CEO Bill Magness. "We expect grid operations to be very similar to last summer."
As in 2019, the need to declare an energy emergency will depend on a combination of factors, including demand, wind energy output and the number of generators on outage on any given day. ERCOT and its market participants are taking steps to ensure system reliability can be maintained during tight conditions.
Declaring an energy emergency allows the grid operator to take advantage of additional resources that are only available under these types of conditions. Additionally, the ERCOT wholesale market is designed to send appropriate price signals to encourage generators to be available when needed, and for customers to lower their energy use.
Total resource capacity for the upcoming summer season is expected to be 82,417 MW. The preliminary summer SARA report includes a 76,696 MW summer peak load forecast based on normal summer peak weather conditions from 2004 – 2018.
Based on the spring SARA report, ERCOT anticipates there will be sufficient generation to meet system-wide demand under a range of extreme system conditions. The spring SARA includes a 64,233 MW spring peak load forecast and is unchanged from the preliminary spring SARA.
Weather will play a large role in just how much energy Texas consumes, especially during the hottest parts of this summer, said Blake Beavers, vice president of power supply for United.
"United has been preparing for summer 2020 since last summer," he said. "We have a hedging strategy in place to reduce our exposure to the market during the periods we typically see price volatility. We will keep monitoring our position during the summer months and will be prepared to make adjustments if needed. With the potential for higher-than-normal temperatures this summer, we could expect to see a new peak demand record for ERCOT. The good news is the projected reserves for summer 2020 are higher than they were in the summer of 2019."
Beavers said United will continue warning members on peak usage days through several different programs including Beat the Peak, a voluntary energy usage notification program that warns members to reduce usage during peak periods through text and social media.
If this summer's forecast were a Magic 8-ball, it may ask to try asking the question later, said Patricia Sanchez, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.
Overall, between June, July and August, and then again in July, August and September, the models are showing likelihood of above-average temperatures. And while that doesn't mean hot temperatures won't break now and then, the entire state and the North Texas area will stay above normal in terms of temperature, she said.
The big variable that hasn't come clear to meteorologists is what kind of moisture can the area expect, she said. The Pacific Ocean has yet to decide whether it will grant a La Niña year, giving Texas hot, dry conditions, or an El Niño year, giving Texas cooler, wetter conditions.
From Jan. 1 to March 22, Texas experienced its wettest start of a year on record with more than 15 inches of rain. That may bode well for keeping the ground moist and temperatures down as time passes.
"As of now, the trends are not favoring more precipitation, and in fact there are equal chances for one or the other," Sanchez said. "We know right now as far as spring, we've had a lot of rains recently here. So far up to March 25, DFW airport has seen over 15 inches of rain, which is about 7.5 inches above normal for the year. But we're seeing neutral conditions for precipitation throughout summer. It really could break either way, which is either 50 percent chance of more rain or 50 percent chance of less rain."


Laura Wallace and her husband Allen came to Powell River for the lifestyle and are perfect examples of location not being a big factor when it comes to work. Laura is a Luthier who repairs and builds violins which she sells in Victoria and the Lower Mainland. Allen is an IT specialist that is able to work from anywhere. So they've been able to build a life for their family in Powell River that they enjoy immensely.


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package annis.visualizers.iframe.dependency;

import static annis.model.AnnisConstants.ANNIS_NS;
import static annis.model.AnnisConstants.FEAT_RELANNIS_NODE;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.TreeMap;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.corpus_tools.salt.SALT_TYPE;
import org.corpus_tools.salt.common.SDocumentGraph;
import org.corpus_tools.salt.common.SPointingRelation;
import org.corpus_tools.salt.common.STextualDS;
import org.corpus_tools.salt.common.SToken;
import org.corpus_tools.salt.core.SAnnotation;
import org.corpus_tools.salt.core.SLayer;
import org.corpus_tools.salt.core.SNode;
import org.corpus_tools.salt.core.SRelation;
import org.corpus_tools.salt.util.DataSourceSequence;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import annis.libgui.MatchedNodeColors;
import annis.libgui.visualizers.VisualizerInput;
import annis.model.RelannisNodeFeature;
import annis.visualizers.iframe.WriterVisualizer;
import net.xeoh.plugins.base.annotations.PluginImplementation;

/**
 * Provides a dependence visualization based on vakyartha visualization,
 * which was developed by Kim Gerdes.
 *
 * Requires SVG enabled browser.

 *
 * Originally this visualization was token based. Now Vakyartha extended to
 * visualize dependence between any nodes. This must be configured in the
 * resolver_vis_map table.

 *
 * Mappings:

 * If a annotation key is specified with node_key:key, all
 * nodes which carry this annotation are searched for pointing relations and
 * instead of the token span the annotation value is used.
 *
 * @author Thomas Krause <krauseto@hu-berlin.de>
 * @author Benjamin Weißenfels
 * @author Kim Gerdes
 */
@PluginImplementation
public class VakyarthaDependencyTree extends WriterVisualizer
{

  private static final org.slf4j.Logger log = LoggerFactory.
    getLogger(VakyarthaDependencyTree.class);

  /**
   * If this mapping is not set in the resolver_vis_map table this visualization
   * is only based on the token level.
   */
  private final String MAPPING_NODE_KEY = "node_key";

  private Properties mappings;

  @Override
  public String getShortName()
  {
    return "arch_dependency";
  }

  @Override
  public void writeOutput(VisualizerInput input, Writer writer)
  {
    this.mappings = input.getMappings();

    /**
     * Try to create a sorted map of nodes. The left annis feature token index
     * is used for sorting the nodes. It is possible the different nodes has the
     * same left token index, but the probability of this is small and it seem's
     * not to make much sense to visualize this. Mabye we should use the node
     * id.
     *
     * Contains only token, if mappings does not contain "node_key".
     */
    Map<SNode, Integer> selectedNodes = new TreeMap<SNode, Integer>(
      new Comparator<SNode>()
      {
        private int getIdx(SNode snode)
        {

          RelannisNodeFeature feat =
            (RelannisNodeFeature) snode.getFeature(ANNIS_NS, FEAT_RELANNIS_NODE).getValue();

          if (snode instanceof SToken)
          {
            return feat != null ? (int) feat.getTokenIndex(): -1;
          }
          else
          {
            return feat != null ? (int) feat.getLeftToken() : -1;
          }
        }

        @Override
        public int compare(SNode o1, SNode o2)
        {
          int tok1 = getIdx(o1);
          int tok2 = getIdx(o2);

          if (tok1 < tok2)
          {
            return -1;
          }

          if (tok1 == tok2)
          {
            return 0;
          }
          else
          {
            return 1;
          }

        }
      });

    printHTMLOutput(input, writer, selectedNodes);
  }

  public void printHTMLOutput(VisualizerInput input, Writer writer,
    Map<SNode, Integer> selectedNodes)
  {
    SDocumentGraph sDocumentGraph = input.getSResult().getDocumentGraph();

    for (SNode n : sDocumentGraph.getNodes())
    {
      if (selectNode(n))
      {
        RelannisNodeFeature feat =
          (RelannisNodeFeature) n.getFeature(ANNIS_NS, FEAT_RELANNIS_NODE).getValue();

        int tokenIdx = feat != null ? (int) feat.getTokenIndex() : -1;
        selectedNodes.put(n, tokenIdx);
      }
    }

    Map<SNode, Integer> node2Int = new HashMap<SNode, Integer>();
    int count = 0;
    for (SNode tok : selectedNodes.keySet())
    {
      node2Int.put(tok, count++);
    }

    try
    {
      println("", writer);
      println("", writer);

      LinkedList<String> fontsText = new LinkedList<String>();
      LinkedList<String> fontsDep = new LinkedList<String>();
      if (input.getFont() != null)
      {
        fontsText.add(input.getFont().getName());
        fontsDep.add(input.getFont().getName());
        println("<link href=\""
          + input.getFont().getUrl()
          + "\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" >", writer);
      }
      fontsText.add("sans-serif");
      fontsDep.add("serif");

      println(
        "",
        writer);
      println("", writer);
      println(
        "",
        writer);

      // output the data for the javascript
      println("", writer);

      println("", writer);
      println("", writer);

      // the div to render the javascript to
//      println(
//        "

",
//        writer);

      println("", writer);
      println("", writer);
    }
    catch (JSONException ex)
    {
      log.error(null, ex);
    }
    catch (IOException ex)
    {
      log.error(null, ex);
    }
  }

  private void println(String s, Writer writer) throws IOException
  {
    println(s, 0, writer);
  }

  private void println(String s, int indent, Writer writer) throws IOException
  {
    for (int i = 0; i < indent; i++)
    {
      writer.append("\t");
    }
    writer.append(s);
    writer.append("\n");
  }

  /**
   * Provid the whole annotation ((String)
   * <namespace>::<key>=<value>) value with namespace and
   * annotation key, which was defined in the mappings with the Key
   * {@link VakyarthaDependencyTree#MAPPING_NODE_KEY}.
   *
   * @return Empty string, if the mapping is not defined.
   */
  private String getAnnotation(SNode node)
  {

    if (mappings.containsKey(MAPPING_NODE_KEY)
      && mappings.getProperty(MAPPING_NODE_KEY) != null)
    {

      Set<SAnnotation> annos = node.getAnnotations();
      SAnnotation anno = null;

      for (SAnnotation a : annos)
      {
        if (mappings.getProperty(MAPPING_NODE_KEY).equals(a.getName()))
        {
          anno = a;
          break;
        }
      }

      return anno != null ? anno.getQName() + "=" + anno.getValue_STEXT(): "";
    }

    return "";
  }

  /**
   * Get the text which is overlapped by the SNode.
   *
   * @return Empty string, if there are no token overlapped by the node.
   */
  private String getText(SNode node, VisualizerInput input)
  {
    SDocumentGraph sDocumentGraph = input.getSResult().getDocumentGraph();

    List<DataSourceSequence> sequences = sDocumentGraph.
      getOverlappedDataSourceSequence(node, SALT_TYPE.STEXT_OVERLAPPING_RELATION);

    if (sequences != null && sequences.size() > 0)
    {
      return ((STextualDS) sequences.get(0).getDataSource()).getText().
        substring(sequences.get(0).getStart().intValue(), sequences.get(0).getEnd().intValue());
    }

    return "";
  }

  /**
   * If the {@link VakyarthaDependencyTree#MAPPING_NODE_KEY} is set, then the
   * value of this mapping is used for selecting the SNode. If the mapping is
   * not set, it falls back to the default behaviour and only SToken are are
   * selected.
   */
  private boolean selectNode(SNode n)
  {
    String annoKey = null;

    if (mappings.containsKey(MAPPING_NODE_KEY))
    {
      annoKey = mappings.getProperty(MAPPING_NODE_KEY);
    }

    /**
     * Default behaviour, when mapping is not set correctly or is not set at
     * all.
     */
    if (annoKey == null)
    {
      if (n instanceof SToken)
      {
        return true;
      }
      else
      {
        return false;
      }
    }

    // if mapping is set, we check, if the node carries the mapped annotation key
    Set<SAnnotation> annos = n.getAnnotations();
    for (SAnnotation a : annos)
    {
      if (annoKey.equals(a.getName()))
      {
        return true;
      }
    }

    return false;
  }
}


General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, will change how companies handle and process customer data. But what does it mean to you and your website data policy?
From May 2018 any business in Europe will have to stick to new laws on the information that we create, capture and store. Review your current website data policy and make sure your online security is on point ahead of the change that will affect us all..
The new law will give more rights to people and the data that we hold on them.
Will it affect my company?
Yes. If your company deals with customers (every company does) and you retain any data then you will have to adhere to the new ruling. If you hold any information that is used to identify a person such as name, location, IP address, age, telephone number etc then it will apply to you. In short, it will affect every business and every business website. Even simple contact forms on websites asking for name and email will be subject to this law. Make sure your website data policy is up to date.
So, what does it mean to my business website?
If you have any data on a person then they will have the right to know exactly what that is. If you retain any type of information, then you must clearly seek and get permission to hold this information. Your website data policy will have to have clearly show why, how and when the data will be used.
When anyone asks a company about their data, they must be given this information within one month. If a request is made to delete information that you hold then you must do this, especially if the information you hold is no longer relevant or not being used for the purpose it was originally collected for. Again this must be made clear in your website data policy. There are exceptions however, such as for tax reasons.
Should information that you hold on a person gets leaked or misused then you could be issued with a fine.
If you're currently adhering to data protection laws and you have a good website data policy already in place, then you'll most likely have many of the new GDPR requirements already in place.
Here is a great guide on GDPR and the steps business need to take.
In a nutshell, data that your company holds will become more regulated and you are more responsible for it, how it's used and how safe it is. Find out more about on GDPR.


With rising labor costs, attrition and bottled-up infrastructure in the traditional outsourcing countries in Asia, companies here are realising the importance of nearshoring to keep their costs down.
Based in the US, it is our endeavour to understand the local environment to the best of our ability and work out customised but cost-effective solutions to our clients. With countries in the US's proximity providing a huge labor pool of talented and culturally well attuned professionals, we are in the right position to explore it to our clients' advantage.
With almost uniform intellectual property laws, immigration advantages to work in the countries of the region and time zone proximity thereby eliminating the hourly rate differentials that could accrue because of outsourcing, more and more people understand the importance of nearshoring.
Our core competence is delivering quality and if cost effectiveness is the only reason why some companies offshore their services despite such risks as remote location, lack of personal touch and dearth of understanding of the local technological environment, you need not look beyond the shores. Fortira is here.
Our focus is especially on small and medium enterprises who may not be in a position to offshore due to various constraints.


Tayekyun (Tayekyun) is a populated place (class P - Populated Place) in (Shan State), Burma (Asia) with the region font code of Asia/Pacific.
Its coordinates are 21°10'60" N and 96°43'0" E in DMS (Degrees Minutes Seconds) or 21.1833 and 96.7167 (in decimal degrees). Its UTM position is KD64 and its Joint Operation Graphics reference is NF47-09.


Some of you know all too well that one of my interests is nutrition. My academic background is molecular biology, and I have put this knowledge to good use as I recently have been doing more reading on the topic of nutrition. Why the interest? Simply put, God has given us a body and we are to be faithful stewards of this magnificent creation. Are we to abuse it or to take good care of it? I think the answer is clear. The same applies to nutrition; are we to abuse our bodies by giving it garbage or real food? One would not fill a Ferrari with sugar water, yet this is what we're doing to our bodies today, especially with our Western diet– one that is dominated by processed foods; too many calories from animal products and hydrogenated vegetable oils; not nearly enough greens; and so forth.
But believe it or not, my entry is not on nutrition per se. A friend of mine, who happens to be a medical doctor, shared a very interesting observation with me recently by connecting our Western diets to our spiritual lives. She started by saying that It is no secret that faith has declined in the West this last half a century. She further noted that a boatload of health problems have sky-rocketed through the roof during this time. Can there be a connection between these two changing phenomena? She thinks that there is, and a strong one at that.
Her keen observation touched on the fact that living out one's faith in an authentic manner requires a great deal of self-discipline and willpower. She also added that to eat healthy foods we also require a lot of self-discipline and will power. In fact, she went further and said that since our faith lives have a much deeper psychological root than most other spheres of our psyche – since we embrace and start practicing the faith at such a young age and our social sphere is utterly permeated by it – what happens to that root has an effect on other parts of our lives. If that root is strong and unwavering, it usually follows that the other aspects of our lives also benefit because of this stability and firmness.
Another observation that she shared with me: she knows a number of fellow doctors who do not eat a healthy diet. How can this be? Aren't doctors supposed to be eating healthily because they know what's best for our bodies? Aren't they the ones giving us "healthy nutrition advice"? She was brave and asked a number of them these very questions. The answer was the same for all cases: I know it's bad food, but I just cannot help myself! Or, another favourite (St. Augustine would have liked this one): I'll get around to changing my bad diet some day, but I still have lots of time before problems may arise! They simply did not have the willpower to stop themselves. We people of faith often forget that such simple "ancient" Catholic practices of fasting from meat – or from all foods, for that matter – on Fridays not only served to unite our sufferings with those of Christ, who died on a Friday, but also to help us master our weak wills. If you have ever tried fasting from all food once a week, you will know what I mean when I say that this takes a lot of willpower. Suddenly even the horseradish looks appetizing! Not to mention that science is discovering amazing benefits of fasting, one of them being the regeneration and creation of new brain cells!
These are all interesting observations. One may deduce a number of things from them and I do not think that we ought to make a well-defined statement based on them. Otherwise, does this mean that all junk food eaters are non-believers or are not living out their faith well? Or, are all healthy eaters saints? I doubt this. It seems that there are many more questions than answers to these observations. It gets even trickier because most of us get very defensive about our weight and so conversations on this matter become heated and perhaps they are altogether avoided. Finally, many of us are simply ignorant of what "healthy" eating is. We eat what we're told or what is available in the stores.
Speaking from my own experience, however, I can attest to the fact that it does take great willpower to resist eating badly. After all, our bodies love taking short cuts, so if only one Double Big Mac will give us our recommended daily caloric intake, why not go for it? No need to waste energy preparing food – or hunting for it in the bush – when so many calories are given to us on a platter. All the better for us, we think. And, just like in the spiritual life, once we start eating healthily and putting in the effort, things all of a sudden become easier and it does not take so much effort after all.
Let us assume that there is some connection between the faith and nutrition. It would be interesting to hear about your own experience. Our faith is an incarnational one, and so it truly does touch all aspects of our being, including the food we eat. Perhaps it is that both sides help each other: eating a healthy diet may aid our faith life, and vice versa.


HELP IS GODLY APPRECIATED I WANT TO PLAY MY LEGACY PS2 GAMES IT MEANS ALOT TO ME !!!!!
Is that CPU an i5? If so, the STR on that is 1300 some, which is below what is the "typically recommended minimum" of 1500. It may be rough for heavier games. The Geforce 315m, I'm going to be brutally honest, is a toaster. My CPU's iGPU (Intel HD Graphics 4600) scores more than triple on videocardbenchmark.net, and that even is dwarfed by my GTX 860m, which isn't the world's most robust GPU either.
Not all games run equally. Some work better with a speedhack added here and there, some absolutely run like crap with them. There is no one configuration to run them all. If you name some titles we might be able to give pointers, but if the hardware is struggling to start it may just be rough all around.
If you're trying to play 2D games or simpler RPGs, you probably will be fine. but a lot of sports games are known to be more demanding, and the infamous series trio of Sly Cooper, Ratchet and Clank, and Jak and Daxter are among some of the absolute most demanding games.
(12-27-2017, 07:34 PM)pandubz Wrote: Is that CPU an i5? If so, the STR on that is 1300 some, which is below what is the "typically recommended minimum" of 1500. It may be rough for heavier games. The Geforce 315m, I'm going to be brutally honest, is a toaster. My CPU's iGPU (Intel HD Graphics 4600) scores more than triple on videocardbenchmark.net, and that even is dwarfed by my GTX 860m, which isn't the world's most robust GPU either.
but really I'm not asking about nice compliments about my pc I'm asking for some help, their is always options for improvement, and I'm asking for some....but anyway thank you for your time but still....help would be really appreciated!
Well I guess that's my point. I can't really explain the drop off, but I think the slowness is simply your computer not being up to the task. That said, what games in particular are you trying to run when it runs at 60, and when it drops off? Is this behavior consistent for every single game, regardless of the order you run them? For example, does the same behavior occur if you run Game A then Game B, and Game B then Game A, and even the same game twice in a row? Specific game titles would help, because as I mentioned, some are inherently more demanding.
(12-27-2017, 08:07 PM)pandubz Wrote: Well I guess that's my point. I can't really explain the drop off, but I think the slowness is simply your computer not being up to the task. That said, what games in particular are you trying to run when it runs at 60, and when it drops off? Is this behavior consistent for every single game, regardless of the order you run them? For example, does the same behavior occur if you run Game A then Game B, and Game B then Game A, and even the same game twice in a row? Specific game titles would help, because as I mentioned, some are inherently more demanding.


The review into the safe schools initiative is staggering. Backed by groups such as Beyond Blue and the Australian Education Union, the anti-bullying program faces criticism that it is a form of indoctrination from the same government that spends 30 times that figure on a school chaplains program. This review is so farcical I don't think there is anything else to write about it.
In the same week we also had the announcement of a hundred million dollars for research into coal power (an industry that is dying globally) juxtaposed against slashing of climate scientist jobs from our world renowned CSIRO. Once again, there is nothing I need to write to describe just how backwards this is.
A recent newspaper headline read that Malcolm Turnbull is losing the chance to be a great PM. I thought that summed it up pretty well, but I would substitute the word great for good. Rhonda Roussey might have previously described him as a 'Do-nothing PM,' but if the two examples above are symptomatic of what we can expect from his government in the future, I would rather he goes back to his previous dithering.


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Q: SAML 2 (Ping Federate) Should the AssertionConsumerServiceURL be accessible by the IdP? We are building a website using SSO, we are on the SP side and don't have control over the IdP. We will have multiple environment including local  development servers.
The thing is the AssertionConsumerServiceURL will not be accessible by the outside world (it would be something like 127.0.0.1/xyz) and I was told that it was a problem because the IdP needed to make a POST request to that server.
However for what I understood of the "double post" method, only the user needs to be able to access the SP and there is no direct communication between the SP and IdP (since the user is the relay).
Could you please indicate if the IdP needs to access the SP "AssertionConsumerServiceURL" directly ?
If so, how should local development environment be handled ?

A: The ACS URL will need to be accessible to the user of the SP for browser based SSO (for both Redirect and POST bindings). As long as you have credentials for the IdP (unlikely in many situations, unless you control both sides), and can test end-to-end on your own (e.g., your company's "test harness"), then you will need to make the ACS URL/SP Application available to the user.

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I've been so looking forward to sharing Ashlee Newman's story with you all here as part of our ongoing Caravan Stories series, as this lovely lady has had an important role in our story and means a great deal to both Ellen and myself, though we've never met her in person. Nearly three and a half years ago, after deciding to travel, we began researching and seeking out other folks who'd gone before us and were sharing their stories online. Even just a few short years ago, these folks weren't so readily found as we all are today, as this movement and community has grown considerably and quickly! While we reached out to some individuals who were reluctant to help us out, Ashlee was the exact opposite. Her open heart made us feel so welcome. She immediately rooted for us, not against us, which is just what we needed at the time: we had enough opposition to our plan in our real lives that we needed our new community to rally around us.
I found Ashlee by way of her old blog, which chronicled her school bus renovation and life in it. Early on in our planning, we thought we might go the Skoolie route, and I was ecstatic to come across Ashlee's website. She seemed like someone we'd want to hang out with: down-to-earth, outdoorsy, strong, and kind. Taking a deep breath and shaking out the nerves, I tapped out an email to this stranger online and hit send, hoping we could pick her brain about tiny living, renovating, and nomadism via written correspondence.
I love being able to see the kindness of a human in their eyes, even through the stillness of a photo.
She responded and did me one better - she gave me her phone number.
One rainy spring evening, I mustered up some courage (again) and dialed her up. At the time, she was no longer living in her school bus and was traveling for her job in the outdoors industry as a sales rep. Through a spotty, crackling connection, she answered my questions and gave us the encouragement and confidence to take on turning our entire lives upside down to live small, downsize, build our own travelin' home, and hit the road.
To this day, Ashlee is still encouraging other interested individuals to live tiny and pursue the life of a nomad while calling her own 1955 "whale-tail" Airstream Overlander home. Ashlee, a 34 year old freelance lifestyle photographer, spends the majority of the year in Austin, Texas, while taking smaller weekend trips and camping out of her 4Runner, or escaping the Texas summer heat for longer trips up north with Dottie, her Airstream, in tow.
Ashlee tells us that around six months ago, she began to be approached by several folks in the Austin area who were curious about tiny and nomadic living. With her hands-on knowledge and experience under her belt, she decided to host a meet up for these curious seekers. The first meeting, eight people came. In just half a year, the group has grown into a regular, monthly meet up of over forty individuals.
"We're Airstreamers, Vanlifers, Wannabes, Nomads, and those that are just identify with what tiny/nomadic culture stands for," Ashlee says. "It's blown me away how fast this little community has grown - and I continue to meet people who are doing the same exact thing but haven't found the community, locally, to support them. I'm excited to watch this grow and evolve as we connect in-person through pot-luck dinners, happy hours, work days for those currently renovating, and tours of local tiny home villages."
Ashlee's lovely heart towards her community is a reflection of the way she lives her life. She is deliberate in her actions and choices, and we see this in the patience she had when searching for the perfect Airstream - a three year search! The wait paid off, for Dottie is mostly all-original and in fantastic shape: a rarity for a sixty-two year old trailer. Ashlee chose a vintage Airstream for the timelessness, the aesthetic, and the solid build. For Ashlee, the ambiance of her living space is incredibly important. She noted that the feel of a trailer was more important to her than the modern conveniences that come with buying new.
The interior of Dottie is fairly intact, though Ashlee has upgraded a few necessary things, such as the flooring (she opted for peel and stick vinyl), a new fridge, and a Nature's Head Composting Toilet. In the future, there are a few customizations she'd like to make, but she also let on that this is something she's always debating.
The original stove, which is in perfect condition. Ashlee loves cooking with it! A view of Ashlee's desk space and Lucy looking awfully cute under that chair.
"This is a constant source of internal struggle for me. I appreciate that the trailer is still intact, in it's original condition. There's a part of me that wants to preserve that. But I also live in this trailer, and plan on continuing this lifestyle for awhile. There are a few projects, such as converting twin beds to a full and the sofa to a dinette, that would make life in this tiny home more comfortable."
Visit any Airstream forum and see this very debate happening: the Airstream restorers vs. the Airstream renovators. To us, the debate seems moot. Restoration isn't for everyone, especially considering these old trailers were built to be campers, not homes. For us, it's about salvaging something in disrepair and making it work for the current purpose, instead of building something entirely new, we're saving something once lost. Making a home is a very different thing than making something fit for a museum, and converting the original sofa to a dinette would allow Ashlee the opportunity to more easily host her friends and spread out her work during the day.
The gorgeous sofa space that Ashlee would convert into a dinette. We have no doubt that whatever she does, she'll do it beautifully and intentionally.
Making a home is exactly what Ashlee has done. Her morning routine in Dottie is her favorite, a ritual of rising and lighting candles, burning sage, and settling in a patch of early sun on her front sofa with her coffee and journal. This is what many of us imagine when we set out to minimize our lives: time spent reflecting, taking a slower pace, and being intentional with our actions, even down to things we buy and bring into our lives.
When describing her home and the things inside, it is clear that Ashlee has allowed the space to organically and simply become.
"I love that every single purchase or acquisition is well thought through," she shares. "My consumption is much more conscious now than it has ever been."
One of the most beautiful things about living in a tiny space is that it allows us to do what Ashlee has done: have possessions that speak to our souls, that bring beauty, joy, and purpose, and add value to our lives. When Ashlee was first considering a tiny lifestyle, she moved into a miniature apartment (a converted one-car garage!), and put her things into a storage unit. The items sat for a year before Ashlee went and sold them all.
"Looking back," she begins, "paying for a storage unit, which I overall believe is a waste, is a great way to test the waters to see if tiny living is for you. I realized after that year that I didn't miss living in a standard sized American home and sold it all...dressers, beds, et cetera."
Ashlee continues to purge her belongings, and we can attest that it is a continual process. What might serve you now may not serve you in a year. Minimalism is ever-evolving and is fine-tuned to the individual or family. Ashlee regularly gifts what she can, donates what makes sense to donate, and sells bigger ticket items, such as furniture. The items she keeps are ones that she truly loves and have found a home in her little trailer, such as handmade wooden utensils bought in Gruene, Texas, a Tibetan singing bowl found at a secondhand shop in New Braunfels, handmade kitchen towels from Hico, and dishes made by a local potter.
Ashlee is a girl after our own hearts, sharing with us that she loves natural textures: wood, metal, cotton/linen/wool, wood-fired clay, and greenery, and that you won't find a lot of plastic in her home. Her style continues to evolve, and her home is a sweet mix of her own desert/southwestern style and the retro vibe that comes with having an all-original vintage Airstream! Her friends describe her space as cozy, warm, mellow, earthy, and inviting, and so do we.
Love the heart patch on Dottie and Ashlee's overall look (could be because we have the same shirt, ha!).
We asked Ashlee about what her friends and family think of her lifestyle, and though she said that initially some folks thought it might be a phase, eight years later, she's still at it and embracing it wholeheartedly. She feels that the people in her life respect what she's doing, and she has continued to build up the community around her, the very community that keeps her grounded in Austin. Dottie is even parked in a friend's backyard, which lends itself to gathering...a patio between her home and theirs is the site of many a pot luck "family" dinner.
"I think we're a rare breed - the ones that actually thrive in small spaces."
While there are always downsides to any lifestyle choice, Ashlee maintains a positive spirit about them all. She misses her large, framed art pieces, which are currently housed with a friend. There are holes and the trailer isn't perfectly sealed, and when hauling, the single-axle makes her nervous. "One blown tire," she says, "and that entire side of Dottie is on the pavement. I don't take her above 55 miles per hour." One other thing? "Dating," she candidly states. "Tiny and nomadic living isn't for everyone, and it's been funny to navigate the dating world having to explain to people why I choose to live this way. However, when someone gets it, they're automatically vetted. I think we're a rare breed - the ones that actually thrive in small spaces."
She goes on, "I've found my happy place in this simpler way of living. I love the idea of being able to move my home wherever I choose, whenever I choose. At some point, there's a strong possibility I will choose to have a piece of land, build a home, have a family, learn to keep both little people and plants alive, and keep the trailer as a guest house. But for now and the next few years, this lifestyle is serving me."
We are so inspired by Ashlee's life and story, but what makes us truly grateful for Ashlee is the real-life work she's doing to grow this diverse community of tiny-living nomads. The stories we share here at The Modern Caravan are shared in hopes that we can all unite and lift one another up selflessly, whether we are living in an iconic Airstream, a vintage VW bus, a traditional RV, a fifth-wheel, a car, a sticks-and-bricks tiny home, or just have a tent, bike, and backpack. Bridging the gap and divide, what's deemed cool or uncool, put to rest the judgment of what some of us prefer and need compared to what others prefer and need, and recognize that we're all striving for similar things, and most importantly, a life well lived, just like Ashlee.
Image credits: Ashlee Newman Photography and Sara K. Blanco Photography.
The Archive of Creative Culture is a collection of books identified as being significant to the contributor's creative practice. The books come from the personal libraries of revered artists and cultural figures including visual, literary and performance artists, designers, architects, curators, museum executives and cultural leaders. Each book has an Ex Libris - a handwritten note outlining the book's role in their life. Many of the contributors came across this book at a pivotal moment and it changed their perspective in approaching their creative practice.
This archive uses the book as not only a source of knowledge and object of guidance but is a gateway to documenting the lives of the contributors through memories imbued on the book. The contributor's use is reflected in the underlinings, notations and dog eared pages, offering a new insight into their life and history.
The Archive Argosy was created by Lacey Haslam, Director of Archive of Creative Culture and adjunct professor at Kennesaw State University, College of Art and Design. Lacey lives in Woodstock, Georgia, with her husband JC and cat, Nico (love that name!). The renovation of her 1973 Airstream Argosy to serve as a traveling museum for the Archive of Creative Culture began in December of 2015, and recently, Lacey did a TEDx talk on the project, which is yet to be released. We will be adding the link here as soon as possible.
"I had high hopes that I could do it, singlehandedly, in six months," laughs Lacey.
Fast forward to this past February, when Lacey finished up her Argosy (check out that two-tone, white and polished aluminum combo she's got going on - we love it!), and debuted her completed project at the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco. The Argosy was on display while the Archive team installed their collection inside the museum, although the Argosy itself is just as much a work of art and a sight to behold.
Image courtesy of the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco.
In planning for her renovation, Lacey set an initial budget of $5,000, post the initial cost of the Argosy ($2500) and travel costs to pick it up several states over. A friend, Karen McKay, encouraged Lacey to fund the project through a $5000 Kiva Zip Loan – a crowdfunded, zero percent interest small business loan.
"For two months after a successful two week campaign," shares Lacey, "I searched for the right vessel and began renovating right away."
"This project has been highly self-reflective for me. At times it has been a real challenge both mentally and physically. Mentally, I would go in circles trying to figure out the electrical problems when something wasn't working. Physically, I am 5'4" and those damn subfloors are heavy and hard to fit into place. My mallet became my best friend."
Lacey admits to losing sleep, waking up in the middle of the night with her to-do list running through her mind (we can totally identify with this!). Mostly though, she would wake and contemplate the community her project might generate through connecting various subcultures, marveling at the way an object, this Airstream, could unite so many different kinds of people. There is so much truth to that statement, and having been part of the growing Airstream community for the past three and some years, I have seen so many different types of folks uniting over our shared love for these iconic aluminum trailers.
"I stood on the exposed frame, belly pan on the ground, knowing welding needed to happen, it was then that I fully understood why people quit at this point and sell it off as a shell."
Yet Lacey forged on, not allowing fear of difficulty to take over. For certain parts of the project, due to deadlines, Lacey hired out certain services: she brought in a welder to repair the rusted-out frame underneath the old bathroom and an electrician to get the AC up and running for an event during the summer. The highlight of the space, however, is the work done by Eamonn O'Brien to build the custom countertops and cabinetry, which are an absolute work of art, and these same folks put Lacey in touch with a paint shop for the exterior white paint and a contact for new brakes, tail light housing, and axles.
"Each of these things were monumental in the transformation," she says, "I also have incredible support from my friends and family and find myself reflecting on my gratitude for them each day."
And support her they did. Lacey's community knew where to find her throughout her renovation project, coming over to chat with her and understanding when she wouldn't say much back as she worked. Some friends gave time and their hands for whatever Lacey needed that day.
"As an estimate, I was spending 20-30 hrs per week on renovations, not counting the hours searching for items, materials, researching how-to's, sitting and dreaming. It has completely consumed my life for the better and I hope this feeling is embedded into the space."
Lacey's Archive Argosy will likely continue to shift and grow as her work does, and aside from some minor repairs and some bookshelves left to be installed, she's happily in the decorating stage and planning for pop-up events, exhibitions, workshops, and talks. She is currently researching artisan-made goods to outfit the Argosy, building up inventory to sell.
Lacey kept the interior minimal, allowing for the space to shift and progress as need be. The space will be used for multiple event types, including workshops, dinners, exhibitions, and discussions. The interior angles were based on a flag made by artist and vexillologist Cristina Victor. Lacey added a bio-ethanol fireplace and smoky plexiglass walls to divide the main space from the library collection. Underneath the custom countertops are drawers for the gallery collection and merchandise to be stored while in transit.
"Moving from place to place is part of my history. As a child, my family moved all over the country so it is only natural that I was attracted to this iconic vessel not only for its function but also design. The front windows offer a lot of light in the space and double as a projection screen for displaying video and new media works (see image below of the Argosy at Wave Pool in Cincinnati where artist Marc Governanti created and projected a new work using the books in the Archive). The term Argosy means a merchant vessel or rich store with synonyms including mother load, treasure trove, and gold mine. This concept plays directly into the spirit of what I envisioned for the moving museum space–a traveling vessel working to acknowledge creative minds, create new connections and tap into undiscovered ideas. The Archive Argosy is also designed to offer a shop with artisan made goods. We are currently building our roster of artists." Lacey goes on to describe another key piece of literature that has made it's way into the space.
Argosy at Wave Pool in Cincinnati.
"Incredibly, the Argosy came with a 4" 3 ringed binder put together by the previous owner who passed away. This binder contains the history of the caravan, from the original manual to repair documents to printouts from Airstream Forums, to the original advertisement for when they purchased it. I will be adding "after" images to the many "before" images now that it is finishing up. It is a key book/document that connects the Archive with the vessel."
Many thanks to Lacey for sharing her incredible Argosy transformation with us all, it really is a work of art.
Cynthia Tuan and Shane Beers began renovating their 1958 Airstream Overlander not too long after finding one another and settling into their relationship. The pair, both single parents, were attracted to the idea of creating something together, creating a self-imposed design challenge: honoring the Airstream's original intent, yet streamlining a plan for efficient tiny living and creating a vacation rental for folks to explore their home city of Portland, Oregon.
When interviewing Cynthia and Shane (we share mutual friends, the ever-lovely Peter and Kate Schweitzer, who renovated and lived in a vintage Airstream for years), I loved their down-to-earth, cool responses to our questions. Their take on the work they've done and will continue to do was wise and rather pragmatic, starting with their expectations from the get-go. Knowing their responsibilities ultimately were to their jobs and parenting, they understood that their Airstream renovation project would have to be something they'd slowly chip away at. They honestly admitted to, at times, feeling that the work itself was insurmountable, yet they continue to plug away at it, pulling late-night work sessions after the kiddos are in bed.
Shane and Cynthia began work on their Silver Sequoia, named for the 75-foot tree she lies underneath, in April of last year. In the last eleven months, they have gutted the entire space, with the exception of the rare and lucky sound subfloor and frame. They've spent the near-year sourcing materials, running new electrical, planning the design, and begun what they called 'the seemingly never-ending build and fabrication phase'. They've done the majority of the work themselves, outside of a few minor tasks, such as moving and rebuilding their property's fence for the trailer's parking space under their sequoia tree, it's namesake. They also hired an electrician to install an exterior circuit breaker to power the Airstream, jokingly calling it the 'Umbilical Cord', and had a local laser company custom cut aluminum patches with pre-drilled rivet holes (so smart!).
The design goal for the Silver Sequoia was simple: they were seeking function, as well as a modern approach to the aesthetic. In trading out the original twin beds, they are creating a space well suited for couples who'll stay in their Airstream. Cynthia elaborated on wanting to maximize the feeling of expanse despite the actual square footage using clean lines and a neutral and light color palette. Later on down the line, they will layer in textures and elements with the hope that their guests will feel they are unwinding in their favorite homey nook. While the pair's immediate goal is to create a short-term rental for out-of-town explorers, they've also considered the weight and type of materials that will deem the Airstream road-worthy as well, hoping to one day take a road trip or two.
They've leaned into the Instagram community quite a bit. They've shared their own story and have found knowledge and inspiration in those of us going through similar trials and tribulations. Seeing that others don't have it all figured out has helped them through moments of being stuck, and have likewise contributed their own lessons and ideas, such as their gorgeous hardwood floors and their aluminum framework they are using for the build out (side note: we almost used this same system and likely will sometime in the future!).
One of the challenges Shane and Cynthia have faced in the last eleven months of renovation are location, yet also noted that their location is also a great thing as well! Living and renovating in the often wet and cold climate of the Pacific Northwest, much of the build has to be completed inside the Airstream trailer, requiring a bit of acrobatics and shuffling to complete tasks. However, the plus side of living in progressive, often-walkable Portland has given the couple access to the tool library just down the street, the Benjamin Moore paint store up the street, and a local neighborhood hardware store for the countless last-minute runs us renovators all know so well (too well). Managing the renovation around their children's schedules has also kept the two juggling. They sagely noted that at times, external life really does play into the renovation's clip. Weather, job loss, political climate, kids - all of these things can hinder and spill over onto progress, but these things always inevitably shift and everything begins to move along again.
"Even though we're still in it; the process of creating, and journey that comes from stretching when you're learning something new has been sweet and enduring. Often it means being pushed outside our comfort zone, but the small celebrations that come from completion has allowed us learn so much about each other."


A trip home to Maine under the most dire of circumstances.
Two days of shooting, and three completely separate contexts: Eastern Prom of Portland, Maine, the Royal River, and a bridge over it, in Falmouth, Maine. A hiking path to Morse Mountain, and then Popham Beach State Park in Popham, Maine. Three different landscapes, and three different experiences.
Shot on a mixture of Portra 160, 400, on medium format film on a Pentax 6x7.