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"Forevermore" From Australia & Atlanta Based Worship Movement, Influencers, Hits Today
Freeing Tracks Follows Release Of "I'm Yours"
Nashville, Tenn. (Aug. 24, 2018) – Adding to a string of summer singles, Influencers are unveiling "Forevermore" today through Syntax Creative to all digital outlets. The compelling ballad builds to the anchoring chorus of "I am Yours forevermore" harkening back to Ephesians 1:18. The lyrics paired with the soaring instrumental were written by Sawyer Stromwall, Mark Evans and Chloe Evans.
"'Forevermore' embodies a story of surrender, redemption and hope," shares Influencers Worship Executive Producer Mark Evans. "The best part about this song is it didn't come out of a session with seasoned writers, but rather from the raw and personal moments of a 20 year-old girl crying out to God."
Influencers' debut EP garnered over a million streams around its debut last year, led by the No. 1 single "Imagination." The worship movement was born out Influencers Church which is a part of the Hillsong family. With roots in Australia, Influencers Church now has 10 Church campuses worldwide led by Global Senior Pastors Ashley and Jane Evans.
To listen to "Forevermore," click here. To hear Influencers go to www.influencers.life. To learn more about Influencers Church, visit www.influencers.church.
About Influencers:
Influencers debut single titled "Imaginations" released in early September 2017 and was followed by unprecedented success on the Christian charts worldwide. "Imaginations" held the No. 1 spot on the iTunes Australian Inspirational Charts for 5 consecutive days, broke the top 10 of the U.S/ Charts and topped the Nielsen Christian Singles Chart on opening week in early September. In just six weeks, "Imaginations" had been streamed over 200,000 times and received placements on some of the biggest Spotify worship playlists in the world with over 1.2 million subscribers. "Forevermore" is their latest.
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About Syntax Creative:
Syntax Creative is one of the top independent digital distributors, design firms and marketing agencies, representing more than 130 record labels. Their impressive list of clientele includes Elevation Church, Saddleback Church, Crossroads Label Group, Central South, Daywind Records and Jamie Grace Music among others. To learn more, visit www.syntaxcreative.com.
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As 1940 approached, New Zealand Government Officials were considering ways in which The Dominion could celebrate its first centenary. A great exhibition was planned in Wellington.
I remember my father telling us that as a boy most of his small country school travelled by train from their little community in Northland, all the way to Wellington. They slept in the classrooms of a local school while visiting the Great Centennial Exhibition and taking in the sights of the capital before returning to Northland on another special train.
Word spread ahead that this special train was passing through the various town and cities on route and my mother told us that as a young girl she stood at the trackside in Avondale, Auckland, watching it go by. Little did she know that one day she would marry one of those 'country kids' hanging out the windows waving madly.
I remember their surprise that day as they realised that they could have looked at each other, all those years before they would eventually meet and get married when my father moved to Auckland.
Now back to the point of this blog post. One of the ways the authorities decided to celebrate this centenary was by issuing a special Centennial Pictorial Stamp Issue. This thirteen value stamp set, known as one of the better ones New Zealand has issued, depicted a wide range of subjects concerning the development of this young nation.
At the same time an eleven piece "official" set was also released, to be followed in 1944 with a provisional overprint. All of these stamps are featured in this post. I have also thrown in a few printing errors and extra items of interest.
Each of these stamps tell an interesting story. It would be a shame to publish this post without including some of these stories here, so at the bottom I have included each of the thirteen stamps again with more detailed notes on its design and subjects depicted. A number of these designs show Maori people of Maori history.
Landing of First Maori - ½d. Captain Cook and the Endeavour - 1d.
A Giant Kauri - "Tane Mahuta"
God of the Forest - 1/-.
A Second Day Cover of the 1940 Centennial Issue.
a Second Day Cover. See the date cancel says 3rd January, 1940 It appears this must have been a mistake of some kind and the cover was intended to have been cancelled on the first day of issue. But for me a Second Day Cover is far more interesting.
A cover from the 1940 Centennial Exhibition in Wellington, with a cancellation from the Exhibition Post Office, a special office set up for the exhibition. The blue hand stamp states it was posted at the top of the Centennial Tower.
Airmail cover to USA via New Caledonia, Reg. Auckland 19th July, 1940.
1/- "Tane Mahuta" God of the Forest.
This is known as a plate strip since it shows both the plate number and printer.
which has off-set onto the back of the stamp above.
gap against the frame, while on the right the blue overlaps the frame. There is another example of this side shift in the stamp below. The black line across this stamp from top to bottom is a post mark, not a printing error.
the right block all four stamps show a downward shift of the green.
Below are the stamps known as the 'Officials' where 11 of the 1940 Centennials were overprinted with the word "Official" for use by Government Departments.
To view all the 'Official stamps produced by New Zealand visit An Official Post.
Transport - Land, Sea and Air - 4d. First shipment of frozen mutton - 6d.
Apart from the 5d, 7d and 10d values, the stamps were overprinted Official. With the ½d, 1d, 2d, 3d, 4d, 6d and 8d values, a variety occurs at row 1/10 in which the ff is joined where normally there should be a gap between. This variety was quickly noticed and became a collector item while still available from the Post Office. Finally, on 12th March, 1941 the Philatelic Bulletin stated: - Stocks of the double "f" variety on the 1d., 2d., 4d., and 6d., denominations of the Centennial Official stamps are exhausted.
FF Joined - Variety. FF Gap - Normal.
Three examples of the FF Variety paired with a normal. When compared with a normal example the spacing between the "f"s is quite noticeable.
Two further examples of the joined FF which seems to have appeared on many of this issue.
A cover showing the full set of 1940 Centennial Officials.
Two covers with "official" stamps form the 1940 Centennials.
Due to a change in postal rates the 1½d Sovereigns was over printed with the word "Tenpence" while the corner values were blacked out.
Below is a First Day Cover of the overprint.
The Designs in More Detail.
Each stamp in the 1940 Centennial Issue has an interesting story to tell so I decided to include the entire set of thirteen stamps with more details on their design and subjects.
For an index to all our posts on New Zealand Maori.
At school I was taught that the Maoris arrived in a fleet of canoes and then dispersed to settle in various parts of New Zealand. This has since been proved as a myth with the Maoris arriving over a period beginning around 1000AD. It is also believed that some canoes returned to the Pacific islands, for a while keeping in contact people who stayed behind. For some reason the Maoris stopped building double hulled, ocean going vessels in favour of large single hulled vessels. The people living in New Zealand had lost contact with other parts of the Pacific, so by the time the Europeans arrived their old homelands were just oral traditions.
The scene depicted on the stamp is an original conception by an artist of the arrival of one of the canoes The Maoris have been pictured here as arriving in a state of physical exhaustion, the inevitable consequence, despite their magnificent seafaring skills, of weeks spent in open canoes.
Captain Cook and the Endeavour - 1d.
See our collection of Capt. Cook stamps - Captain Cook Stamps of New Zealand.
Every child in New Zealand schools is taught that Abel Tasman discovered New Zealand in 1642, but after only briefly exploring parts of the west coast he sailed away again and the country lay unexplored until 1769 when Captain James Cook arrived.
Cook's first voyage was based on the idea that the major land masses of the northern hemisphere must be balanced with a major land mass in the southern hemisphere. He explored around New Zealand in the hope it was connected to this Southern Continent but as we know today this hidden continent never existed.
The 1d. stamp shows Captain James Cook on the right hand side, with his ship the Endeavour on the left. In the middle is one of the first maps he made of New Zealand. This map has proven to be surprisingly accurate in most of its details. Noticeable errors are making Stewart Island part of the mainland and Banks Peninsular an island.
This stamp showing King George VI first appeared in the 1940 Centennials as the 1 1/2d then it was overprinted with the word 'Official' for use by Government Departments. Later it was overprinted with the word 'Tenpence' and re-issued in 1944.
The design is very interesting in that it also shows four other royal heads of state as well. In the top left corner is Queen Victoria. In the top right side is her son King Edward VII. In the lower left is Edward's son King George V. George V had two sons, King Edward VIII in the bottom right corner and of course King George VI in the centre. On the left is the flag of Britain and on the right the flag of New Zealand.
Happy Birthday! Penny Black! A post marking the history of postage stamps.
Abel Tasman, a Dutch captain employed by the Dutch East India Company to search for new and profitable lands for trade, first discovered New Zealand on 13 December 1642. The coast line he approached was an open coast where he was unable to land, due to the rough surf, so he turned north looking for a more favourable location. He found what we now know as Golden Bay and landed with some of his crew. A skirmish with the local Maoris cost him some of his men and so he never landed again. Abel Tasman named this new land after the Netherlands province, Zeeland.
The stamp shows Abel Tasman on the left, his ship the Heemskercq in the centre and the map of the part of New Zealand he explored on the right. The large bay on the map actually turned out to be Cooks Strait between the North and South Islands of New Zealand.
On 5 February 1840 a mass meeting was held on the north bank of the Waitangi River mouth, where the aims and purpose of this new Treaty was explained to the Maori. The next day the chiefs signified their willingness to accept the conditions, and 46 paramount chiefs either signed the Treaty or affixed their mark. The Treaty was then taken around New Zealand so other chiefs could also sign. The original signing in Waitangi is depicted on the stamp.
The Treaty of Waitangi was an agreement between the British representing Queen Victoria and the Maoris of New Zealand. It is a basis of harmony between the people of New Zealand today. It may surprise many people to learn that the Treaty is no longer a legally binding document in New Zealand but it is still considered by the Government when settling the land claims made by many different Maori tribes.
In 1837 the New Zealand Association was formed in London with a purpose to buy land from the Maori and establish settlements of emigrants from England. The picture shows the settlers landing at Petone Beach in what was to become the city of Lower Hutt, across the harbour from our capital city Wellington.
This is an interesting stamp in that it features a number of pictures in its design. The theme is the development of transport and its importance to open up New Zealand for future growth.
On the left is a bullock team pulling a load over an almost impassable road. Railways proved better at opening up inland areas and a steam hauled passenger train can be seen on the right. In the centre we can see New Zealand's connection to other international countries, first by ship and then later by aircraft.
In 1840 concern was growing over the French settlement at Akaroa on the Banks Peninsular of the South Island. It was thought that the French might use this settlement as a basis for an attempt at annexation of the South Island from the rest of New Zealand. The British warship HMS Britomart was hastily dispatched from the Bay of Islands to perform a flag raising at Akaroa to show the South Island as being under British Sovereignty.
The ship on the stamp above is the Dunedin. She was outfitted with refrigeration equipment so she could transport frozen mutton and beef from New Zealand to England. The first voyage, in 1882, was not entirely successful with a small loss of product being discovered upon unloading but it proved it was possible store and transport frozen meat.
This was a major advancement for this young colony as it gave the opportunity to open new markets for pastoral production. Today the export of lamb, beef and dairy products are still very important industries for New Zealand.
Maori Council - 7d. Maori Council - 8d.
The Maori meeting house is an important part of Maori culture and most important meetings take place either in or in front of the house as shown on these two stamps. The meeting house with the most important building in the village and so featured carvings inside and out telling the history and stories of the tribe.
With the out break of war postal rates changed and 7d stamps were found to be no longer required. Since 8d was used on parcels it was decided to re-issue the meeting house stamp with this new value.
When the Centennial stamps were being prepared, the selected denominations were considered to be the most suitable to prepay the postage rates then in force, but on the 1st October last the rates were increased, and to meet the convenience of the general public, arrangements were made immediately for the printing of an 8d. value. The 8d. stamp, which is the same design and colours as the 7d. value, will be placed on sale on the 8th March, and the 7d. denomination will be withdrawn from sale at the close of business on the 7th March.
Philatelic Bulletin No 1 (1940) 8th February, 1940.
Gold was first discovered in New Zealand in 1852 but it wasn't until 1861 that the first major gold rush took place in the Otago alluvial gold fields. Later gold was also discovered in Westland and the Coromandel of the North Island.
The stamps shows how the gold was originally found by gold panning as depicted on the left while later dredges were used in large scale mining operations.
"Tane Mahuta" God of the Forest - 1/-.
This giant kauri tree is found in the Waipoua Forest Reserve in Northland. It is one of the largest trees in New Zealand and one of the easiest to view. The kauri tree is noted for the way it drops its lower branches as it matures to take on the appearance shown in the stamp above.
"Tane Mahuta", which means God of the Forest, is said to be over 2000 years old. Trees such as this have become hollow in their inside and over time will die by rotting from the inside out. Tane Mahuta is now showing signs of this with many dead branches in it crowning head.
I remember the first time I saw this tree. We had travelling in darkness to be there at dawn. Walking through the forest as the sun touched the tree tops was an experience caped only by walking around a corner to see this giant before us.
The total numbers printed are given below with the numbers subsequently overprinted Official given in brackets. The 5d and 7d were not overprinted.
I am not really into stamps but the way you display them make it interesting.
A agree with you. Each of these stamps has so much to say.


Streets are to make their debut album available online before its release.
This week's NME cover star, Mike Skinner, releases his debut album 'Original Pirate Material' on March 25. From next Wednesday (March 20) people will be able to listen to the full album at www.the-streets.co.uk .
Fans who can't wait that long can listen to eight tracks on NME.COM now. To listen to the tracks, click here.
A new single, 'Let's Push Things Forward', is released on April 14.


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In the well-ventilated places, paint stripping residues from lead products are toxic.
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Lock in a great price for Orchard Canyon on Oak Creek – rated 9.1 by recent guests!
Scenic, quiet, secluded. Electronics free (except for Wifi in the office and restaurant). Easy drive to Sedona. Restaurant is top notch, service unequalled.
Our cabin was very comfortable with lots of pillows on the comfortable bed, soap and plenty of towels in the bathroom and comfortable chairs outside. The food was fabulous and we enjoyed the "family" dining experience. The only thing we will change when we book again is to ask for a cabin on the lower level. We, at ages 80 and 73, found the steep driveways difficult to come and go from our cabin. The grounds are gorgeous and well-kept. We will definitely return and bring friends and family with us!
Wonderful place to relax, eat great food and get away from the everyday madness! The staff was excellent, the grounds are beautiful, the room was very comfortable the setting is spectacular especially the rooms next to the creek.
Food was great! Staff was fantastic! It was great meeting other people. We learned a lot from them about sites to visit which helped us make the most of our stay.
Beautiful location. The food and chefs as well as the service are amazing.
Absolutely excellent meals, both dinner and breakfast were outstanding. Specialty cocktails and great wine. Service was warm and professional, very prompt.
Staff was great! - Attracted a good cliental and the meals was over the top. Best vacation ever and can't wait to go back Cabin was authentic & charming, setting was unbelievable!
Love the rustic atmosphere, everything is delightful from the food served to the accommodation especially thank you to Henry for the being a gracious host. I will go back to this place anytime.
Orchard Canyon on Oak Creek This rating is a reflection of how the property compares to the industry standard when it comes to price, facilities and services available. It's based on a self-evaluation by the property. Use this rating to help choose your stay!
Located in Sedona, Orchard Canyon on Oak Creek provides accommodations with free WiFi and a garden.
Chapel of the Holy Cross is 12 miles from the lodge. The nearest airport is Flagstaff Pulliam Airport, 18 miles from Orchard Canyon on Oak Creek.
When would you like to stay at Orchard Canyon on Oak Creek?
Also known as Nora, this cottage has a private entrance, seating area and patio.
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Also known as Cabin 8, this cottage features a private entrance, view and seating area.
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Also known as Cabin 10, this cottage features a fireplace, a seating area and a patio.
Also known as Cabin 11, this cottage has a fireplace, air conditioning and patio.
Also known as Georgiana, this cottage has a sofa, air conditioning and a fireplace.
Also known as Cabin 4, this cottage has a fireplace, patio and seating area.
Also known as Cabin 9, this cottage features a private entrance, view and seating area.
Also known as Cabin 1, this cottage features a private entrance, seating area and patio.
Also known as Cabin 2, this cottage features a patio, private entrance and seating area.
Also known as Cabin 5, this cottage features a seating area, private entrance and patio.
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House Rules Orchard Canyon on Oak Creek takes special requests – add in the next step!
Orchard Canyon on Oak Creek accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
Please that guests expecting a late check-in are required to contact the property prior to arrival to arrange a check-in time.
This property has a no tipping policy, the resort fee covers all tipping for the resort and restaurant.
Please note that meals are not included with Sunday stays.
The hospitality is second to none. The 4-course meal was amazing, the conversations before dinner with the other guests, the cocktails, everything!
I do believe if the guests had internet in their cabins, they would have been a little more sociable at breakfast and not staring at their phones where they WiFi access.
Amazing location, great views, friendly staff.
I would have preferred better communication about the dinner. I was going to have our kids not have the full dinner but something less formal in the cabin. Prices of drinks should have been mentioned or included in the package price.
The cabin we stayed in was comfortable, clean and cozy. Beds and linens were great. Staff was very friendly.
It's not a big deal, but no WiFi in the room was a surprise to me. Puls some of the cell networks are not available in that part of the canyon. In the end, I enjoyed enpluging from the world for a day or two.
Enjoyed every part of my stay. From all the amazing views to the respectful and professional staff in every way.
The bison at dinner was a little tough.
I would consider Orchard Canyon one of those hidden treasures that everyone talks about. From the drive into the property with its hidden location that opens up to beautiful lush trees and the canyon walls in the background. Our experience began with the manager and his very friendly demeanor. He explained the evenings activities and showed me where our cabin was located, the grounds were exceptional and very "magical". Our cabin was incredible and clean and in a perfection location over-looking the creek. There was a cocktail hour followed by dinner. The cocktails were handmade an delicious! Dinner was served as a five course meal and very well thought out, all locally grown food and it was ALL delicious. It was all such a spectacular evening that far exceeded our expectations, I wished that our trip lasted the whole weekend. We can't wait to get back there again.
As stated above...……...the steep driveways to return to our cabin were difficult for people our age. Perhaps a question could be added to booking that indicates age and then cabin choice done accordingly.
The food was a bit rich and spicy. Smaller portions would be better for me and separation of sauces etc. from the meat and vegetables. My sister tells me I could have gotten half servings, so I'll do that next time.
The cabin had mice and we were woken up multiple times during the night because they were chewing into things.


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Il monte Rossomanno è una montagna degli Erei, alta , situata nelle vicinanze di Valguarnera Caropepe, nel territoro comunale di Enna, nella Sicilia centrale.

Geografia
Si trova nei pressi di Valguarnera Caropepe da cui dista 3 chilomenti. Dalla sua sommità è possibile dominare con lo sguardo il mare che bagna le coste della Piana di Catania. Da esso nasce inoltre il Vallone Rossomanno affluente del fiume Gornalunga. Il territorio di Rossomanno è un vasto complesso di vegetazione boschiva, con maggioranza di pini ed eucalipti. Dal 2000 i 2200 ettari sono sottoposti a vincolo da parte dell'Azienda Regionale Foreste Demaniali che ha la gestione dell'area.

Archeologia
Costituito da alture di origine arenaria e fluviale, il Monte Rossomanno è stato luogo molto frequentato dalle genti autoctone e poi dominio di alcune popolazioni. Numerose testimonianze del periodo pre-arcaico ci sono pervenute grazie ai ritrovamenti di piccole tombe a nicchia scavate nella roccia arenaria; ma è già nella protostoria siciliana intorno al VII secolo a.C. che si registrano i primi insediamenti rurali. Antropologicamente importanti le diverse tipologie funerarie: la più indigena, detta enchitrismos, ovvero l'inumazione dei cadaveri...e quella dei campi di crani con l'incineratorio dei defunti (molto più rara in Sicilia).

Nei luoghi che si affacciano sulla cosiddetta Valle dell'Infermo e quindi di fronte a Valguarnera, si attestano le fondamenta di spesse mura (fino a 2 metri di larghezza) che cingevano a difesa l'intera zona abitativa. Da queste mura si ergevano numerose torrette sporgenti, oggi perdute. I tanti "profanatori" e "tombaroli" hanno però devastato numerosissimi reperti e distrutto per sempre alcune testimonianze importanti. Sparse per tutta la sommità di Rossomanno tanti cocci di vasellame rosse e nere prive di figura, tipiche del primo periodo greco e punte di lance e frecce.

La cittadella, da molti esperti ritenuta la perduta Magella, fu più volte conquistata dai Romani che quasi certamente la depredarono. A fronte di tali barbarie gli abitanti furono costretti ad abbandonare le proprie abitazioni. Soltanto in epoca bizantina il Monte Rossomanno scoprì un nuovo ripopolamento degli antichi siti abitativi e di questo si hanno diverse testimonianze certe. Cocci e soprattutto le mura di una chiesetta a pianta basilicale ad occidente. Nel periodo svevo, ovvero nel XIV secolo, la zona fu trasformata in feudo di Rossomanno dalla famiglia degli Uberti residenti a Enna, allora Castrogiovanni. Durante una spedizione armata, capeggiata dal Re aragonese Martino I di Sicilia, il feudo venne raso al suolo.

Oggi il Monte Rossomanno è una riserva naturale

Bibliografia
 Nino Savarese, Rossomanno, Ceschina, Milano, 1935 e Il Palindromo, Palermo, 2018 (romanzo storico).
 Pierluigi Bonanno, Carlo Bellone, Liborio Bellone, Angelo Bruno, Paolo Totò Bellone, Archeologia e Storia di Valguarnera Caropepe e Rossomanno, Assoro, 2006

Rossomanno
Enna
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Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Eliminate. Stop. End. Fight against. What is the problem with this language and our current approach to ending violence against women? The issue is that this is a deficit, problem-focused model of action. It focuses on the negative and is reactionary. I believe that to create a world beyond violence, we need a fundamental paradigm shift in the way we understand and respond to violence against women. Access the full article.


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Sky invests in You.i TV
The investment is part of the larger You.i TV Series C funding announced in November 2018, and Sky will use it to improve the multi-platform user experience going forward.
Comcast-owned Sky has invested in You.i TV, a Canada-based developer of software tools that address cross-platform app development. The Canadian company has developed a video experience platform, You.i Engine One, that helps others build and manage personalised video apps for connected devices, including phones, tablets, game consoles, Smart TVs and streaming devices from a quick and easy-to-deploy single code base. Because it is a single code-base solution, company executives argue that customers don't have to maintain multiple platform designs, code bases or vendors.
The investment (the amount was not disclosed) is part of the larger You.i TV Series C funding announced in November 2018.
With this investment, David Beazley, Director of Software Engineering at NOW TV, Sky's online streaming service, will join the You.i TV board alongside representatives from AT+T, Causeway Media Partners, and Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors.
Other companies backed by Sky include Roku, iflix, Jaunt VR, Drone Racing League and SDVI among many others.
You.i customers include A+E Networks, AT+T, Fox, NBA, NFL, DirecTV, WarnerMedia, Twitch, and the Canaina company is also a UX partner of Comcast Technology Solution, a subsidiary of Sky owner Comcast.

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Dal 2011 al 2018 ha interpretato il ruolo della Fata Madrina/Madre Superiora nella serie televisiva C'era una volta.

Ha ottenuto una laurea in psicologia sociale alla Wilfrid Laurer University di Waterloo, nell'Ontario canadese.

Filmografia parziale

Cinema
 Colpevole d'innocenza (Double Jeopardy), regia di Bruce Beresford (1999)
 Duets, regia di Bruce Paltrow (2000)
 40 giorni & 40 notti (40 Days and 40 Nights), regia di Michael Lehmann (2002)
 Final Destination 2, regia di David R. Ellis (2003)
 White Noise - Non ascoltate (White Noise), regia di Geoffrey Sax (2005)
 Caos (Chaos), regia di Tony Giglio (2005)
 La regola del silenzio - The Company You Keep (The Company You Keep), regia di Robert Redford (2012)
 Words and Pictures, regia di Fred Schepisi (2013)
 Embrace of the Vampire, regia di Carl Bessai – direct-to-video (2013)
 Dead Rising: Watchtower, regia di Zach Lipovsky – direct-to-video (2015)
 Z: vuole giocare (Z), regia di Brandon Christensen (2019)

Televisione
 Beggars and Choosers – serie TV, 17 episodi (1999-2000)
 Jake 2.0 – serie TV, 16 episodi (2003-2004)
 Dark Storm, regia di Jason Bourque – film TV (2006)
 Stargate SG-1 – serie TV, episodio 10x05 (2006)
 Omicidio perfetto (The Perfect Suspect), regia di David Winkler – film TV (2006)
 Supernatural – serie TV, episodi 2x07-4x18-15x06 (2006, 2009, 2019)
 Psych – serie TV, episodio 1x12 (2007)
 Battlestar Galactica – serie TV, 9 episodi (2007-2009)
 C'era una volta (Once Upon a Time) – serie TV, 35 episodi (2011-2018)
 I Murphy (Jinxed), regia di Stephen Herek – film TV (2013)
 Bates Motel – serie TV, 8 episodi (2013-2015)
 Heartland – serie TV, episodi 8x08-8x10 (2014-2015)
 Una nuova vita (My Life as a Dead Girl), regia di Penelope Buitenhuis – film TV (2015)
 Descendants, regia di Kenny Ortega – film TV (2015)
 The Magicians – serie TV, 19 episodi (2016-2020)
 Garage Sale Mystery – serie TV, episodio 1x07 (2017)
 Descendants 2, regia di Kenny Ortega – film TV (2017)
 Una serie di sfortunati eventi (A Series of Unfortunate Events) – serie TV, episodi 3x01-3x02 (2019)
 Descendants 3, regia di Kenny Ortega – film TV (2019)
 Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace, regia di Menhaj Huda – film TV (2021)
 Blockbuster – serie TV, 4 episodi (2022)

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Nelle versioni in italiano dei suoi film, Keegan Connor Tracy è stata doppiata da:
Claudia Catani in C'era una volta, Descendants, Descendants 2, Descendants 3
Domitilla D'Amico in Final Destination 2, Bates Motel
Daniela Calò in Dead Rising: Watchtower
Francesca Manicone in Omicidio perfetto
Emanuela D'Amico in Chaos
Alessandra Karpoff in Jake 2.0

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Midterm election: Blue wave or red tide? Americans are casting votes to decide
CLAIRE GALOFARO and MARTHA IRVINE, AP National Writers
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — Clara Swallows pulled herself out of bed. Her aching back made her want to stay put, but the 74-year-old in Indiana had somewhere she needed to be: the polls.
Seven hundred miles away in Florida, Stephanie Kent suspended repairs to her home — flooded during Hurricane Michael — and drove 20 miles out of the way to circumvent a still-closed bridge just to cast her ballot, too.
Like Swallows and Kent, more than 30 million Americans already have voted in a midterm election expected to draw unprecedented numbers by the time polls close Tuesday night. In casting their ballots for House and Senate races, voters will render a verdict on President Donald Trump's tumultuous tenure, deciding whether his 2016 election was a one-off or if his divisive style of governing will define the future of American politics.
Swallows and Kent voted from opposite ends of the political schism. Swallows was determined to help put Democrats in office to curtail Trump's agenda, while 54-year-old Kent committed to Republicans as a show of support for him. But both agreed this election was among the most important of their lifetimes.
"I woke up in pain, but I said I'm going to get out and do this," said Swallows, a former Republican who has never before voted in a midterm. She cast her ballot for all Democrats, citing Trump's stirring of racial and political tension. "I'm here to say that hatred is not going to win. We are not going to stand for it."
Trump has sought to counter some of that rage toward his administration by stoking even more anger among his base. In recent weeks, he's put the spotlight on a caravan of Central American migrants fleeing poverty and violence that he calls "an invasion" of criminals and terrorists. He ran an advertisement about immigration so racially incendiary that all three major cable news networks, including Fox News, either refused to air it or eventually decided to stop showing it.
Among some Republican voters, that message resonated.
"This whole thing with this caravan is pretty scary," said Jennifer Rager, 55, of Bozeman, Montana, who approves of Trump's plans to crack down on immigration. She cast her ballot to keep Republicans in power so the president doesn't become a lame duck. "It just feels like he's really trying to do a good job of protecting our country, you know? I can't wrap my head around why the other side is so unhappy and so terrified."
In St. Louis, Susan Riebold, 53, posed for a photo with a cardboard cutout of Trump at a pre-Election Day rally for her Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. She said she fully supports Trump's decision to send military troops to the Mexican border to intercept the caravan — a move critics say is unnecessary and a political stunt, given the migrants are traveling mostly on foot and remain hundreds of miles away.
The country, she said, "is more strong, confident and unified than it's ever been, and most of the confidence and people feeling unified and patriotic again has come right before Trump got in and since he's been in." And she dismissed any criticism of the president as fake news. "We hate the media," she said, "because they're the Democratic arm."
Others expressed a heightened sense of unease and sadness about the state of America's political climate. The election comes just days after a series of hate crimes and political attacks, including the arrest of a man who mailed pipe bombs to Trump critics whom the president often derides as "evil," ''un-American," and "the enemy."
Many voters said they saw the election as an opportunity to reject that kind of bombast.
"We've forgotten our decency. We've forgotten the truth," said Morris Lee Williams, 67, an Army veteran and member of Zion Travelers Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis. "We're supposed to be a group of people, Americans, who are supposed to be that light in the world. Instead of a light, it's turned into a nightmare."
In suburban Chicago, Lea Grover agreed. "It seems to me a referendum on empathy, and whether or not we as a nation have any," said the 34-year-old mother of three daughters.
Grover, a survivor of sexual assault who works for a nonprofit that helps other victims, was angered by the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. He was accused by a high school classmate of sexually assaulting her decades ago. Republicans voted to confirm Kavanaugh, and Trump at one point mocked the accuser during a rally.
Voters on the other side were also galvanized by the Kavanaugh hearings.
Judy Jenkins, a 60-year-old Republican who works in accounting, cast her ballot Tuesday at a suburban church down the street from her home in Westerville, Ohio, and said she voted for only GOP candidates. She said she used to vote for people from both major parties but was so upset by how Kavanaugh was treated that she vowed not to vote for a Democrat again.
"I'm not even going to consider it because of the hell they put his family through," she said. "No one should have to go through that, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican."
She said Republicans are moving in the right direction when it comes to health care, and she feels good about the economy.
"They may not be perfect, but who is?" she said.
Civil engineer Pritesh Mehta also cast his vote for Republicans who would support the president. Mehta, who lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, emigrated from India in 2000 and believes Trump is steering the country in the right direction, including with his immigration policies. Mehta came legally, he said, and he doesn't see anything wrong with vetting others who want to live in the United States.
Uroosa Jawed is an immigrant, too. She relocated from Pakistan with her family when she was 5. Now 42 and a naturalized citizen living in Omaha, Nebraska, she has always considered herself an American. But over the last two years, as Trump has made sowing fear about immigrants the centerpiece of his presidency, she's wondered whether her neighbors see her that way, too.
Jawed, who works for a nonprofit aimed at cultivating interfaith cooperation among Jewish, Muslim and Christian groups, said this election offers an opportunity to turn back that tide.
"I don't feel despair," she said. "I feel we're on the precipice of change."
Also contributing were AP reporters Jocelyn Noveck in New York, Margery Beck in Nebraska, Summer Ballentine and Jim Salter in Missouri, Matt Volz in Montana and Hannah Grabenstein in Arkansas.


Thermography isn't all electrical connections and slipping drive belts. Every now and again we come across something out of the ordinary.
Much of the equipment installed in TV and radio relay stations is very shiny stainless steel or polished copper from which it's practically impossible to get a reliable temperature reading with an IR camera.
This device is a U-tube waveguide carrying the signal between two sections of a transmitter. The bright spot in the image was on a hose clamp, fitted tightly around the lower entry. After confirming that this was definitely not a reflection and that, somehow, it actually was hot at that point, the in-house technician was informed and asked for an opinion.
His test method was to touch it with his fingertip. Once he'd stopped screaming and hopping around the room he inspected the tip of his index finger to find a tiny, dark hole punched into it where he'd been zapped! An RF burn. That must have really hurt.


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Q: Getting 408 API request has timed out while accessing Watson discovery
For the past few days i have been trying to access my discovery profile but it is showing -- 408 API request has timed out, I don't understand what it is i tried on different browsers and different systems.

A: A 408 HTTP response code is admittedly confusing in this case as 400-level errors typically indicate the client (browser) took too long to send the necessary information so the server timed out the connection when a preconfigured duration has been exceeded.
In this particular case, however, a 502 Gateway Timeout HTTP response would be more appropriate. There are multiple complex interactions happening with some of the pages in Watson Discovery Tooling and sometimes the service experiences slowness. In general, I would investigate the status page for the affected IBM Cloud services to determine whether or not there are any customer impacting events.
To check the status of Watson Discovery and any IBM provided service, I would check https://console.bluemix.net/status to see if any of the slowness or errors line up with your experiences.

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Reminded by brad's recent lj_biz post and because I had already started this sort of deal for the code section, I'll be continuing to try to manage the development section of LJ.
It's not like I actually code all that much, eh? Eheheh. Oh that makes me sad.
So, here's the thing - just as with the last group I was with, there will need to be managers for each major area on LJ. There already are some people like that. The development area seems to get hit the hardest, but if I can get more people actually working, my time investment would be worthwhile.
The managers will have to talk often (IRC meetings? A mailing list? Oooh! I manage mailing lists! Although IRC meetings would be nice, they get stuff done quickish) in order to keep everything up to date. I have found out firsthand what happens if the managers don't talk to each other enough, and it isn't pretty at all.
I'll end up writing tools on my end to make this easier, but eh. Development management is probably too big for my attention span, too. So I would appreciate it if someone else would give me a hand in collecting new projects and code requests. Mainly by watching the suggestions community, which I have stopped watching recently.
THIS POST needs to have the associated docs read and commented on. I have written sections of it purposefully very poorly in an attempt to see if someone would correct me. So far, no one has. Even people who do know how to code say they don't know the internals so well, and that's the purpose of this doc. It will get an awful lot larger through each draft. Which I hope to make one of per week.
I have lots of other docs to write and update. I'm also working on getting more competent programmers working on the LJ codebase. Since a lot of people have said they just don't have the time, or just don't have the knowledge, at all, to help out.


With its 14th edition, the National Congress of the Recovery and Recycling sector organized by FER (Spanish Federation of Recovery and Recycling) has been recognized as the most important encounter of the recycling sector in Spain. This Congress is a unique opportunity to meet representatives of Spanish recycling companies and other experts and professionals directly involved in the recovery and recycling sector.
This year, the 14th National Congress of the Recovery and Recycling will be held together with the 5th edition of SRR - the International Fair for Recovery and Recycling. SRR, providing an area for exhibitors and sponsors, will bring together an entire range of machinery and technological services for the recovery, shredding, recycling and reuse of wide spectrum of waste. Various environmental consultants will be introduced as well as other activities relating to this business sector.


It is important for building owners and purchasers to know the actual rebuilding cost when advising their insurers of the total sum required on their building's insurance policy – and this is where Lea Hough can help.
Our specialist RICS Registered Valuers can assess properties and provide Insurance Reinstatement Valuations (Re-building Cost Assessments) for owners of all residential and commercial properties.
Our expert team of Chartered Valuation Surveyors can inspect, assess and undertake calculations to advise regarding an adequate rebuild cost. This is typically achieved by taking detailed measurements and analysis of the property and using rebuilding cost information provided by BCIS and RICS.
Why Have an Insurance Reinstatement Valuation?
As the market value of your property has no direct relationship to the reinstatement cost of your building, many people have no idea as to an accurate re-build sum.
However, as the property owner, it is your responsibility to insure for the right rebuilding cost value and ensure that you are not under-insured to prevent penalties in the event of claims (for fire damage, an floods etc). It is particularly relevant to commercial insurance policies where, in a number of cases, clauses such as "Average" can be implemented by insurers if sums insured are low.
To instruct Lea Hough to conduct an Insurance Reinstatement Valuation, please contact us here. Our Chartered Surveyors work throughout Lancashire, Cumbria, Manchester and across the wider North West.


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French Dictionaries
This is where you can find a French dictionary suited precisely to your language learning needs. Whether you are looking for an online dictionary from French to English, and English to French, a monolingual paperbound French dictionary on sale from Amazon, an advanced French dictionary software program, French dictionary CDs or DVDs at clearance prices, or a free dictionary software app that is adaptable to the iPhone or to a smart phone that runs on Google's Android platform, such as any of the insanely popular French flashcard apps, or apps featuring a "French Word of the Day", this is the most comprehensive resource on the Internet to find the French dictionary tool that is best suited to your needs. And check out our French slang dictionary guide here.
Indeed, we've literally sifted through hundreds of online resources, and tried out the best French dictionaries out there. We've read the reviews, and talked to people who have used these programs, and we've looked up thousands of words. We've had to. We've written and graded dozens of term papers in French, not to mention book reports, short stories and even more advanced texts such as senior theses, grad school applications and doctoral dissertations, and through and through we've constantly had to turn to our French-English dictionaries, and English-French dictionaries, which were faithfully standing by either in paper form, on our hard drives, online or, lately more than ever, on our blackberries and iphones.
We've even included a select list of French-French dictionaries, which are ideal for a deeper understanding of the nuanced meanings of French words, although do note that we only recommend this version of a French dictionary to people who already have some knowledge of French, enough to understand and decipher a short dictionary entry, written in French, explaining the meaning of the French word that they are looking up in French.
Yes, we've devoted much time and effort to researching French dictionaries in large part because we wanted to make a quality Web site to help our fellow Francophiles. But mostly, this guide is the product of knowledge we've acquired while learning French. Knowing the best French dictionaries, and having strong opinions about them, is just the nature of being a French student, or a French teacher. French students and teachers need to access French words all the time. And really, that's one of the most fun aspects of learning French, and especially about knowing French, is that there will always be new words to discover. And not only new words, but new nuances to the meaning of words in French. The etymology, the roots and origins, the history behind the words - it's all fascinating. And then there is modern French. As in, the French words that are actually spoken today, by real French speakers. That's why we've included a whole guide to French slang dictionaries: Urban French Dictionary section.
Of course there are many times when we simply want quick and reliable access to words. We've all been there, on a deadline, a big paper or project due tomorrow, you need to quickly define French words online. A few keystrokes and you're done, you've got the word, you understand it, and you can move on and create a real document in French. But at the same time, especially when deadlines permit, we hate to sacrifice quality for speed. It's the classic dilemma that we've come to describe as the French pocket dictionary problem, or "pocket problem". It goes something like this: if you buy a French pocket dictionary, or use the equivalent online, you will get your homework done sooner. But you also might not be accessing the full breadth of this beautiful language. So, we recommend that in addition to quick reference pocket dictionaries that translate French words into English, and define English words in French, we also recommend that serious students purchase a bigger dictionary for home use, and a smaller dictionary in order to define French words on the go. Each French dictionary complements the other. So, with all that said, here is a comprehensive collection of French dictionaries and reference books. Click on the links to browse and buy discount French dictionaries online:
French dictionary iPhone apps
Free Pocket French - Beginner by Innovative Language Learning, LLC
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"Drawing the Seine, Quonochontaug, R. I." by O. C. Barrows, Quonochontaug, R.I.
Drawing the Seine, Quonochontaug, R. I.
O. C. Barrows, Quonochontaug, R.I.
Used. Postmark: August 31, 1911.
O. C. Barrows, Quonochontaug, R.I., "Drawing the Seine, Quonochontaug, R. I." (1911). Rhode Island Postcards. 392.


As the Program Coordinator, in the School of Global Access at Bow Valley College, I have been directly engaged with CRIEC prior to 2010. It has been an exciting and rewarding experience being involved in the creation of the mentorship program and seeing it grow, change lives and open up opportunities. I have been working specifically with internationally trained professionals since launching the Corporate Readiness Training Program (formerly known as the Work Experience for Immigrants Program) in 1999. My career began in Education, teaching high school social studies and science but moved to working with adult learners at Bow Valley College (known as Alberta Vocational College back then) in 1996.
There is excitement and challenges when moving to a new place and having to re-establish yourself. Although I am originally from Saskatchewan, I have lived in 3 countries, 4 provinces and 10 different cities during my life time. Finding a mentor is a real gift in helping this process move forward in a meaningful, expeditious way.
I really enjoy living and working in Calgary, with all the opportunities for outdoor fun such as; running, hiking, skiing, biking and just walking my dog.


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Q: Hora em Java que conta os segundos em tempo real Quero mostrar a hora do sistema e com os segundos a contar em tempo real em Java.

A: Segundo essa resposta no SO dá para fazer assim:
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Thread th = new Thread(new Runnable() { //cria uma thread
            public void run() {
                while(true) { //roda indefinidamente
                    Date date = Calendar.getInstance().getTime(); //pega a hora do sistema
                    DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
                    String today = formatter.format(date);
                    System.out.println(today);
                    try {
                        Thread.sleep(1000); //espera 1 segundo para fazer a nova evolução
                    } catch(InterruptedException ex){
                        //é algo terrível a se fazer mas pelo jeito a API medonha do Java exige
                    }
                }
            }
        });
        th.start();
    }
}

Veja funcionando no ideone. E no repl.it. Também coloquei no GitHub para referência futura.
Pode não dar o melhor resultado mas é isto. Não há garantias que todas as atualizações de tela ocorrerão a cada 1 segundo exato.
Tem como posicionar o cursor sempre na mesma posição mas como não tenho como testar vou só deixar o código para você tentar:
System.out.print(String.format("%c[%d;%df", 0x1B, 0, 0));

A: Penso que é isto que pretende
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import javax.swing.JLabel;

public class relogio {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            while (true) {
                Date d = new Date();
                StringBuffer data = new StringBuffer();

                    SimpleDateFormat sdfData = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy");
                    data.append(sdfData.format(d));
                    data.append(" - ");

                SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
                System.out.println(""+data.toString() + sdf.format(d));

                Thread.sleep(1000);
            }
        } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
            System.out.println("Problema na atualização da data/hora");
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

A: Você pode usar o agendador de serviços do Java para exibir as horas a cada um segundo.
import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.concurrent.*;

public class Relogio {

    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {

        ScheduledExecutorService scheduler = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(1);

        scheduler.scheduleAtFixedRate(
          new Runnable() {
              public void run() {
                  System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss").format(new Date()));
              }
        }, 1, 1, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    }
}

Não há necessidade de usar a classe Thread, nem usar o método sleep e nem fazer tratamento incorreto de exceção.


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The CES Files: The Shift Drone
Fergus Halliday (PC World)
While our coverage of this year's CES in Las Vegas was pretty comprehensive when it came to the big name announcements like LG's rollable OLED R TV, there was plenty of smaller, more-niche gadgets and gizmos that we didn't have time to spotlight during the show itself and got a little buried in the noise of the world's biggest consumer electronics tradeshow.
We're taking a moment to appreciate and highlight each of these products up in a new recurring feature called The CES Files, which we'll be running over the next month or so. Without any further hustle, here's the first installment.
Though plenty of drone-makers have tried their best, drone controller schemes haven't really advanced beyond the usual realm of joysticks and apps. Until now. The Shift is a quad-copter drone with an unique and intuitive one-handed controller.
Based around a technology called Near-Field Micro Sensing, users hold the Shift's stick-like controller in one hand and wearing a connected ring on their thumb. Move your thumb in a direction, and the drone will match the movement.
Credit: Shift
It's a really neat hook that sets the Shift Drone apart from the competition in a meaningful way, even if the camera or flight time here isn't nearly as powerful as something like the DJI Mavic 2 Pro.
More info about the Shift Red drone can be found here. No word yet on pricing and availability.
You can read our The CES Files articles here.


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using System.Threading.Tasks;
using MarketData.Query.Contracts;

namespace MarketData.Query.Services
{
    public interface ICompanyService
    {
        Task<GetCompaniesResponse> GetCompanies();
    }
}

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Attention fine dining lovers: Noma 2.0 is accepting reservations this week
The new version of chef René Redzepi's ground-breaking restaurant will open for business in February 2018
Laura Brehaut
Nov 13, 2017 • Last Updated November 14, 2017 • 1 minute read
Reservations for chef René Redzepi's hotly-anticipated Noma 2.0 will open on November 16 at 4 p.m. CET. Photo by Robin van Lonkhuijsen /AFP/Getty Images
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Earlier this month, Noma auctioned off its décor, furnishings and tableware – all in preparation for its hotly anticipated fresh start. Now, chef René Redzepi's ground-breaking Copenhagen restaurant has announced that reservations for Noma 2.0 will open on November 16 at 4 p.m. CET.
The booking window for the new 40-seat restaurant runs from February 15 to April 29, 2018. As Noma reports on its website, the menu will be based on three different seasons, "during which the menu will change dramatically to match the type of ingredients that are at their peak at any given time of the year."
Nordic seafood is at its peak in the wintertime, the restaurant says, and its initial February-April menu will highlight a maritime element in each dish. Seafood season will be followed by vegetable season (early summer to early fall), which will showcase plants grown in Noma's urban garden as well as foraged edibles. Finally, game and forest season (early fall to January) "is the only period of the year when meat will play a starring role."
Noma 2.0 will serve dinner and lunch four days a week, with the menu running DKK 2,250 (CAD 449) per person, not including drinks. In the same vein as Noma Mexico's "scholarship fund" earlier this year, 10 per cent of seats will be reserved for students each night. The restaurant will select students at random from a waiting list; the chosen few will pay a special price of DKK 1,000 (CAD 199), including wine or juice pairings.
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Watch This Twin-Engined, 1,600-Horsepower VW Golf GTI Destroy the Quarter-Mile in 9 Seconds
Since when was one turbocharged, 700-horsepower VR6 engine enough?
By Chris TeagueJuly 5, 2019
1320video
We've seen our share of monstrously tuned Volkswagens and Audis over time. From HPA's 740-horsepower VW Mk6 Golf R to the APR Audi RS3 that runs nine-second quarter-miles, there's no doubt what can be done with heaps of determination and a stack of cash. However, few if any can match the prowess of this homebuilt, 1,600-horsepower, twin-engine, all-wheel drive Mk3 Golf GTI.
The owner of this monster GTI has dubbed it the VR12 for its twin VR6 engines—one powering each axle. And if that wasn't enough to make news, each one has been turbocharged and modified to produce over 720 horsepower. Combined, they are said to reach nearly 1,600 total system horsepower. There is a separate ECU and gearbox for each engine, and each has its own gearshift and handbrake inside the cockpit. The shifters are linked by a homemade rig, which isn't surprising given the bootleg-but-beastly nature of this whole build.
As you'd imagine, this purpose built machine is turning out some serious drag times to go with all of that power. In a YouTube video captured by 1320Video, it makes several runs, the best of which reaches a 9.06-second quarter mile time, but not before doing both front- and rear-wheel burnouts to warm all four tires. At one point, the owner mentions the car being twitchy in fourth gear and that he actually needs to tone down the power to make a solid run.
All of this insanity appears to be taking place in a mostly stock-bodied Golf, with fender flares being one of the only exterior modification along with the super-wide drag slicks. The Golf's owner says he installed heavier wheels for the runs in the video, and that his car is a work in progress. That means there's a good chance we'll be seeing an eight-second Volkswagen Golf at some point in the future.
Transforming a Volkswagen Into a 740 Horsepower Guided Missile
Driving An HPA-Tuned Volkswagen Golf R That Thinks It's Godzilla
Watch This 600 WHP Audi RS3 Run Consistent 9-Second Quarter-Miles
This tuned five-cylinder sports sedan is nearly fast enough to make the Dodge Demon hightail it back to the underworld.
Schaeffler Group Builds a 1,180-HP Audi RS3 With Formula E Power Plant
ABT Schaeffler is using this electric Audi race car as a test bed to further develop high-performance electric technology.


Growing a business is difficult enough without adding the burden of the back-office admin.
How can an ecommerce organization ensure that tasks such as chargebacks, customer service, and taxes are handled in an efficient manner without adding those tasks to their to-do list? These tasks are vital to a business's daily operation, but it's not necessarily something that needs to be handled internally. Read on for tips to avoid the time-consuming administrative jobs required to keep a digital commerce organization on track.
Managing the sales tax for purchases made in a variety of states (or countries) is a daunting project. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, or SBA, if your business has any kind of physical presence in a state, you're required to collect any applicable state and local sales tax upon purchase. This physical presence, or nexus, is applicable if the business is operated from a laptop in a home or a rented corporate office space. If there are employees consistently working in a state, this sufficient to establish that state as the business's nexus.
With the United States' 7,500 tax jurisdictions (give or take), it's incredibly difficult (if not impossible) to keep track of each state's evolving tax regulations. Factor in the European Union's Value Added Tax (VAT) regulations and things get even more complicated. There have been efforts to create a bill to regulate sales tax from internet transactions, making it easier for vendors to determine what they need to charge customers regardless of their location, but the bill has yet to pass.
An ecommerce platform automatically handles tax collection with every purchase made, regardless of where it's made. When a business implements a full-service ecommerce platform, they will know that the process for collecting taxes and tax payments is completely automated and compliant with the most up-to-date regulations.
Chargebacks are a form of protection that banks offer to protect customers from fraudulent activity. There are a number of issues that could result in a payment being investigated. For example, a cardholder might discover activity on their card that they didn't authorize, or perhaps they didn't receive a product that they purchased— there are many issues that can result in chargebacks.
The chargeback process that ensues is tedious and time-consuming, requiring the business that processed the payment to confer with their merchant account provider to determine if the charge was, in fact, fraudulent. The back-and-forth between the business, the merchant account provider, the cardholder's bank, and the cardholder can take weeks, if not months.
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Bolton Commuter Rail Feasibility Study
Metrolinx completed the Bolton Commuter Rail Feasibility Study in 2010.
The study is a comprehensive review of the technical requirements to implement a commuter rail service between Bolton (in the Town of Caledon) and the City of Toronto. The study determined that implementing rail service between Caledon, Vaughan, and Toronto was feasible, but that ridership would be modest and capital cost would be high, and did not recommended moving forward with the expansion in the short term. On February 12, 2013, the Metrolinx Board of Directors approved a technical update to The Big Move which included moving commuter rail service to Bolton from The Big Move's 0-15 year plan to its 16-25 year plan, incorporating the findings of Bolton Commuter Rail Service Feasibility Study.
Commuter rail service to Bolton remains in Metrolinx's long-term plans.
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the taste of escaped slaves, our blood sweet with freedom's fleeting breath.
see Christ in every jangling harlot and rotting, leprous face.
I will make you a slave to God's bidding.
Image above is an icon of St. Onesimus, used by permission with a Creative Commons license.


BOISE – A new national survey ranks Washington fourth in the nation for governmental integrity, openness and accountability – and Idaho 44th.
Idaho scored particularly poorly for its open meeting and conflict of interest laws. As one of just four states with no requirement for state legislators to disclose their personal finances, Idaho tied for last place with a zero score in the conflict-of-interest category, while Washington was ranked first in the nation.
Washington has set up a Sunshine Committee to review the numerous exemptions in its public records law; Mercier said that committee just decided this week to recommend reversing two state Supreme Court decisions limiting public access to documents due to attorney-client privilege and work product rules.
The Washington Legislature will receive the committee's first report of recommendations this year.
The survey ranked Idaho 44th in the nation for its open meeting law, and tied for last on conflict-of-interest laws in the form of legislative financial disclosure requirements.
Wasden investigated the State Board of Education in February for possible violation of the state's open meeting law but concluded that while the board may have violated the law, he couldn't prove, under a recent state Supreme Court decision, that they'd "knowingly" done so.
Jorgenson said he's also interested in legislation to improve Idaho's law. "I think there is too much gray area in open meetings," he said.
Though Idaho was ranked low in the survey for its open meeting law, the state ranked highly for its whistleblower laws – 9th in the nation – and was in the middle of the pack for open records laws, at 24th, and campaign finance rules, at 29th.
Washington ranked 16th for its open records law, 15th for its whistleblower laws, 28th for campaign finance requirements, 15th for its open meeting law, and first for conflict-of-interest laws.
The top-ranked state was New Jersey; the worst was South Dakota.


Mrs. Miller's Miles: I worked out! A #Nike #NTC Event!
NTC shut down Nike Town early to set up the store for a late night event.
We went to the roof, where we normally do NTC on Monday nights, for a workout under the city lights!
The DJ was mixing some great songs. We got to dance and hang out as people arrived.
Some fierce ladies from the Monday night NTC fearless crew!
I L-O-V-E the trainers that led this NTC workout! Will Arrufat and Holly Rilinger were THE. BEST. We did a series of moves, 45 seconds each, with a running holding pattern in between. We went through 12 exercises, and did two rounds of them. Because I'm still "healing" and, well, was TECHNICALLY told not to work out, I took it easy and made adjustments. Basically, if anything involved toe usage, I reverted back to squats. My legs are crying this morning. I. LOVED. IT.
A big thank you to Holly and Will for pushing us with incredible energy!
Blogger fail: No photos from the workout. Well, I was working too hard!
The after party was awesome! We immediately got to take advantage of a photo booth. Nadia, Jessica and I hammed it up for the photo booth. Best part? You could email, tweet, or text the photos to yourself!
Another DJ was spinning next to my favorite quote by Bill Bowerman.
The food was so creative! Mini margaritas and tacos, pear martinis and sushi...basically dream food and drinks!
Nadia and I got one last photo opp at the exit photo wall! We loved the bag and shirt Nike gave us, and were exhausted after dancing, sweating, and lots of smiling!
Thank you, @NikeWomen, for a memorable event. We had a great time. As always, everything was spectacular! Can't wait to continue training with NTC, Count Me In!
How about you? Have you checked out any new fitness classes lately? Are you a Nike Training Club app user? Do you have a favorite trainer? TELL ME ABOUT IT!


A newly released report said Gillette was allegedly found passed out drunk in his car.
The Cedar City Council candidate arrested for allegedly drinking and driving has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Richard Gillette's attorney, Jim Park, submitted the not guilty plea electronically to the Iron County Justice Court on behalf of his client Wednesday.
The 52-year-old city council candidate was charged with two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence and open container. He's also facing an infraction for failing to yield.
Park was not available for comment Thursday. A firm representative said he is out of town.
According to the probable cause statement obtained by The Spectrum & Daily News Thursday, a Utah Highway Patrol trooper was dispatched to a a bike shop on the 400 block of South Main Street after a caller reported a man was passed out in the store at approximately 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Gillette was gone by the time the trooper arrived.
Another officer located Gillette passed out in the driver's seat of his vehicle at the Diamond Z Arena, the report said. He then attempted to leave the area nearly colliding with another vehicle as he attempted to exit the parking lot.
The trooper initiated a traffic stop outside of the arena, the statement detailed.
"Upon approaching the vehicle, I found the overwhelming odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from the driver," UHP Trooper Adam Gibbs detailed. "He was very lethargic and had very slurred speech."
Gillette allegedly refused to perform a field sobriety test, but he struggled with his balance after exiting the car.
A silver tumbler full of an "alcoholic beverage" and a three-quarters full whiskey bottle were located during the impound of the vehicle, according to court documents.
The report indicates Gillette blew a .298 on a breathalyzer test — nearly four times the legal limit.
He was booked into the Iron County Jail before being released on bail shortly before 9 p.m.
The day after the arrest, Gillette admitted to The Spectrum & Daily that he had been drinking with friends at the Great American Stampede Rodeo at the Diamond Z Arena.
The member of the city planning committee also said he was still planning to run for the Cedar City Council at this time. The general election is scheduled for Nov. 7.


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A Child Again
Living awake feels like being in a child's story, a simple story about a simple thing. The restoration to innocence, to the time before time, with no possibility of harm. Once-upon-a-time. The garden of Eden.
That's what it feels like. A person who has awakened feels like a little kid. Everything is fresh and new, every ordinary thing. How good it feels to brush your hair! How the trees look moving in the wind. The sensation of urine releasing.
You tilt your head at people's complaints and worries, trying to understand. The effort to wring meaning out of every life episode, to pronounce it good or bad. Your heart breaks (but not for long).
There's absolutely nothing going on, and how can nothing feel so substantial?
You do remember what it feels like to be caught up in problems (your own, your wife's, your child's, the country's), to have it all matter so much, everything riding on one outcome or another. What it's like to be convinced time is a real thing, to be tormented by its apparent brevity, haunted by aging and death. But now, you could just sit the livelong day, never read another newspaper, work on another project. Things smell good. You move from one savoring to another. The way light plays on a stranger's face. It's like when you were a kid, enthralled with the feel of warm sand falling through your spread fingers.
The pleasure of awareness is exquisite like that sand. There's absolutely nothing going on, and how can nothing feel so substantial? What could be more delicious than this, just feeling this moment? How did you ever imagine any of that other stuff mattered so much?
Like a little child, you care nothing for time, nothing for people's expectations. The world, the physical world, is the entire miracle. And here you are, in it.
Look! See, smell, touch! Oh, taste! Tuna! Garlic! Ice cream! Wine! Coffee! Lips!
Before a child has been outfitted with the adult-made lenses we all learn to look through, before becoming entrenched in the ideas of things, of right and wrong; before categories arrive on the scene, before expectations, somebody's idea of self-esteem, dignity – before, even, the name for a thing – there is direct apprehension. Encounter. There is feeling. No intervening mental filter. No urgency for an inner narrative.
This is what you are restored to at awakening, when the self you thought you were ceases to enthrall. Names for things are still there, retrievable. It's still possible for thinking to occur. But only when you want it to. Thinking no longer runs the show, the constant noise of it. Thought serves at the pleasure of what you have discovered yourself to be: consciousness itself.
Anything mental is secondary, if it's there at all. You have entered an existence made of primary experience – felt, sensory life, this moment. There's no distance between you and what you're aware of. You are what you experience. You and the moment are the same thing. This is the all-that-is.
The norm is awareness of what-is. This living consciousness is here for each episode of reality but does not mutter to itself about what it means. There is no spawning of opinion, fear, desire.
Often you are bewildered, the way a child is, at how people seem to be. No longer playing by their rules, you have to work a bit to remember what it feels like to be that way.
(Who is the grown-up here?)
But the almost universal way of being a person, which you can't help noticing, has trouble holding your attention. You keep getting absorbed in the way the fabric feels against your arm. The airiness in your mouth when you sing. The world, you keep discovering, is constantly here. It's what you find when life has finally stopped being about you. Even with all its apparent problems, existence is entirely miraculous.
- Jan Frazier
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package com.hazelcast.simulator.tests.syntheticmap;

import com.hazelcast.core.DistributedObject;
import com.hazelcast.nio.serialization.Data;
import com.hazelcast.spi.ManagedService;
import com.hazelcast.spi.NodeEngine;
import com.hazelcast.spi.RemoteService;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Properties;

public class SyntheticMapService implements ManagedService, RemoteService {

    public static final String SERVICE_NAME = "hz:impl:syntheticMapService";

    private NodeEngine nodeEngine;
    private Partition[] partitions;

    @Override
    public DistributedObject createDistributedObject(String objectName) {
        return new SyntheticMapProxy(objectName, nodeEngine, this);
    }

    @Override
    public void destroyDistributedObject(String objectName) {
    }

    @Override
    public void init(NodeEngine nodeEngine, Properties properties) {
        this.nodeEngine = nodeEngine;
        int partitionCount = nodeEngine.getPartitionService().getPartitionCount();
        partitions = new Partition[partitionCount];
        for (int i = 0; i < partitionCount; i++) {
            partitions[i] = new Partition();
        }
    }

    public Data get(int partitionId, String mapName, Data key) {
        Partition partition = partitions[partitionId];
        RecordStore recordStore = partition.get(mapName);
        return recordStore.get(key);
    }

    public void put(int partitionId, String mapName, Data key, Data value) {
        Partition partition = partitions[partitionId];
        RecordStore recordStore = partition.get(mapName);
        recordStore.put(key, value);
    }

    @Override
    public void reset() {
        // no-op
    }

    @Override
    public void shutdown(boolean terminate) {
        // no-op
    }

    private static class Partition {
        private Map<String, RecordStore> stores = new HashMap<String, RecordStore>();

        public RecordStore get(String name) {
            RecordStore store = stores.get(name);
            if (store == null) {
                store = new RecordStore();
                stores.put(name, store);
            }
            return store;
        }
    }

    private static class RecordStore {
        private final Map<Data, Data> map = new HashMap<Data, Data>();

        public Data get(Data key) {
            return map.get(key);
        }

        public void put(Data key, Data value) {
            map.put(key, value);
        }
    }
}


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/**
 * Created by PhpStorm.
 * User: tzepart
 * Date: 04.04.17
 * Time: 19:17
 */

namespace AppBundle\Entity;

use AppBundle\Model\MatrixModel;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Model\Timestampable\Timestampable;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="AppBundle\Repository\CriteriaRepository")
 * @ORM\Table(name="criteria")
 */

class Criteria
{
    use Timestampable;

    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     */
    private $id;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="string")
     */
    private $name;

    /**
     * @var \AppBundle\Entity\Task
     *
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="AppBundle\Entity\Task")
     * @ORM\JoinColumns({
     * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="task_id", referencedColumnName="id")
     * })
     */
    private $task;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(name="matrix", type="array", nullable=true)
     * */
    private $matrix;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(name="significance", type="float", nullable=true)
     * */
    private $significance;

    /**
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function getId()
    {
        return $this->id;
    }

    /**
     * @param mixed $id
     */
    public function setId($id)
    {
        $this->id = $id;
    }

    /**
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function getSignificance()
    {
        return $this->significance;
    }

    /**
     * @param mixed $significance
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setSignificance($significance)
    {
        $this->significance = $significance;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function getName()
    {
        return $this->name;
    }

    /**
     * @param mixed $name
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setName($name)
    {
        $this->name = $name;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * @return Task
     */
    public function getTask(): Task
    {
        return $this->task;
    }

    /**
     * @param Task $task
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setTask(Task $task)
    {
        $this->task = $task;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * @return MatrixModel
     */
    public function getMatrix(): MatrixModel
    {
        $matrix = new MatrixModel($this->matrix);
        return $matrix;
    }

    /**
     * @param MatrixModel $matrix
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setMatrix(MatrixModel $matrix)
    {
        $this->matrix = $matrix->toArray();
        return $this;
    }

}


Al Bandak Trading EST LLC, will be celebrating 31 years since it's presence 1987, as a leading distributor of commercial kitchen Equipment.
Through the years the company has been the first to bring some of the world known restaurant equipment that have grown and flourished in the market. Just to name some Nuovo Simonelli, Bunn, ISA refrigeration, Beverage Air, Helkama, Victoria Arduino coffee machines and many more.
Currently Al Bandak Trading EST LLC, holds the largest stock in Hotel kitchens, restaurant, bars, bakery, ice cream machines, coffee shop and franchise equipment of well-known brands in the Industry.
Saying this, our company is able to provide and supply other distributors in the market.
Our brands include, Blendtec, True, Moffat, Turbofan, Primo, Fiamma, Sirman, Anvil, Sunkist, Oceanpower, Cunill, Roller Grill, Sofinor, Gamco, ICEL, Spar Mixers, Hatco, Alfa dishwasher Nemco and many more.
Full turnkey solutions, in addition to modular equipment we also provide customization and stainless steel fabrication fittings according to our clients needs. Portraying 3D design and consultation.
With our in-house professional team as a value added service, we provide delivery, installation as well as after sales maintenance required, around the U.A.E. Our clients include the Gulf region, MENA, and Africa.
This year too Bugatti participates in GULFHOST 2018, the highly anticipated fair held in DUBAI from 30th October to 1st of November he operators of Ho.Re.Ca, foodservice, big organized distribution, and hotellerie, where they present new generation products and technological innovations in the industry.
Under the spotlight at the Bugatti stand are the new household appliances dedicated to professionals: Vento Professional and Vento, Bugatti's power blenders.
The Bugatti stand offers a unique multisensory experience to all visitors, inspired by the combination of contemporary and natural cuisine show-cooking led by the Chefs and the imaginative mixology creations of irresistible cocktails.
Bugatti was founded in 1923 and for more than 90 years it has been producing small and big jewels for the house with a strong innovative charge and an original and sophisticated design, that interpret changing desires and enrich habits and lifestyles. The brand's success stems from the unique style of its products, where high technology blends with the Italian taste for shapes and details, and the values of its way of doing business. In 2005, Bugatti entered the small home appliances market and in 2015 developed a new line of highly innovative smart tools that blend performance-related aspects with health and beauty and give life to a new way to cook: healthy, perfect, and amazing, with emotions to live and share.
In collaboration with Al Bandak Trading EST LLC, participation in GulfHost Bugatti wants to make the strength of its products with innovative technology and unique design available for the horeca channel.


Extractions: The government has succeeded in reducing budget deficits and inflation, two key factors that allowed Greece to join the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on January 1, 2001. Greece, along with 11 out of its 14 EU partners, adopted the euro as its new common currency in January 2002. The euro is expected to boost trade, help dismantle the last remaining market barriers within the EU, and stimulate production. The Greek economy was expected to grow by 4% in 2003 and is expected to grow by 4.2% in 2004, the year that Athens will host the 2004 Olympics. Years of austerity and reform programs, however, have kept unemployment steady in some sectors. Foreign investment also has dropped, and efforts to revive it have been only partially successful. Greece's large general government debt is estimated to drop to 98.5% of GDP (162 billion euros) in 2004, a slower progress than projected in the past. Services make up the largest and fastest-growing sector of the Greek economy. About 12 million tourists visited Greece in 2002 with net revenues at about 7.7 five billion euros. Industrial activity continues to post dramatic increases while Greece's food industry and high-tech/telecommunications remain fast-growing sectors. Agriculture employs about 12% of the work force and is still characterized by small farms and low capital investment, despite significant support from the EU in structural funds and subsidies. Traditionally a seafaring nation, the Greek-owned merchant fleet totaled 3,355 ships in May 2003, 9.3% of world merchant fleet and 18.3% of gross tonnage.
Extractions: ECONOMY The government has succeeded in reducing budget deficits and inflation, two key factors that allowed Greece to join the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on January 1, 2001. On January 1, 2002, Greece, along with 11 out of its 14 EU partners, adopted the euro as its new common currency. The euro is expected to boost trade, help dismantle the last remaining market barriers within the EU, and stimulate production. The Greek economy is expected to grow 3.5% in 2002 and continue at robust rates above projected EU averages. Years of austerity and reform programs, however, have increased unemployment in some sectors. Foreign investment also has dropped, and efforts to revive it have been only partially successful. Greece's large general government debt is projected to drop to 99% of GDP ($135 billion euros) in 2002. Many structural problems persist, and privatization of the telecommunications, banking, aerospace, and energy sectors has not moved at the pace originally proposed. European Union (EU) Membership Greece has realigned its economy as part of an extended transition to full EU membership that began in 1981. Greece will assume the rotating EU presidency in the first half of 2003. Greek businesses continue to adjust to competition from EU firms, and the government has had to liberalize its economic and commercial regulations and practices. Greece has been granted waivers from certain aspects of the EU's 1992 single-market program.
Embassy of the Czech Republic in greece. trade and economy. http//www.cma.cz.Automotive industry Association. Brno trade Fairs and Exhibitions (BVV).
greece. General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Hungary. Ministry of economy,trade and industry. Korea, Republic. National Statistical Office.
on ACCI including computer applications, industry, international and domestic trade. Web,the main node of Financial Information for greece.
Extractions: Global Money Consultants - Global Money Consultants Global Money Consultants is an international law and investment consulting firm, specializing in international law, immigration and tax law. They can do so many things in so many countries that it would be impossible to list them all. Global is a full service multi-national company based in Greece.
and the Japanese Ministry of economy, trade and industry These managerial trainingprograms (HRTP Japan industry Insight) are Kolonaki, Athens 106 73, greece.
Extractions: Home Page JETRO's Activities in Greece JETRO's Region to Region Initiatives for Industrial Development Program supports efforts by regional governments in Japan and other countries to develop their local economies through joint activities. Under this program, JETRO uses its extensive domestic and overseas network to establish bridges with other countries, acting as the liaison institution in identifying mutual needs and goals and in offering support by dispatching and receiving missions, carrying out surveys, as well as organizing seminars and symposiums. Balneologist, Dr. Tatiana Morozova, visits Japan and explores cooperation opportunities between Evia and Yoron Island in the area of Thalassotherapy Within the framework of supporting the promotion of "ThalassotherapyE an area of activities with high interest for both Greece and Japan and following the already established cooperation with Yoron Island in Japan, JETRO Athens arranged for one more visit to the island in the early part of 2003. This time it was Dr. Tatiana Morozova, who is a Balneologist, member of the Medical Association of Evia and Project Manager at the Balneological Center of the Greek National Tourist Organization, in Loutra Aidipsou. The visit to Yoron Island and Kagoshima took place from February 22 nd to March 1 st , 2003, and included meetings with officials from the Japanese Medical and Tourist Industries, interested in promoting Thalassotherapy activities in the island and using the know-how and experience of their Greek counterparts.


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Entry "Logical Laws" The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge, 1998.
This is an introductory essay on the notion of a "Logical Law." In it, I show that there are three important different questions one can ask about logical laws. Firstly, what it means to be a logical law. Secondly, what makes something a logical law, and thirdly, what are the logical laws. Each of these questions are answered differently by different people. I sketch the important differences in views, and point the way ahead for logical research.


May 20, 2016 – After being granted a federal stay in her case, David Singleton appeared on Judge Hunter's behalf. Here is what transpired. In short, the court questioned the stay, but ultimately followed the order.


Are you a one-God man/woman? Do you restrict yourself to praying to your One and no other?
I pray on an everyday basis to a number of Hindu deities. I do have my own One, the One who always listens with a sympathetic ear to whatever I happen to go on about. I also have a Second-to-the-One for days when I am not on speaking terms with my One. What, you don't have 'I'm-SO-annoyed-with-you' moments with your One? You must be much better tempered than I am!! Of course I also pray to different deities for their expertise in specific matters. I am most certainly not a one-God woman!
My meanderings arise from something I heard recently. I had mentioned a few weeks earlier that I have taken to listening to upanyasams (lectures on spiritual matters), mainly by Velukkudi Krishnan, Dushyant Sridhar and Visaka Hari. Velukkudi Krishnan is especially erudite; his depth of knowledge is quite astounding! Is it possible to learn this much in a lifetime? I am all admiration! Much as I admire his knowledge, I confess that at times I am confounded by some of his pronouncements!! For example, he says in one of his lectures that people should sleep in what they wear 'normally' and not change into night-clothes! Really??!! Leaving pronouncements such as this aside, there was one repeated advice which caught my attention. He says that if you serve Lord Vishnu, then you should pray to none other as otherwise He would be offended! Again – Really???? Surely these kind of feelings are human, not Divine? Velukkudi Krishnan does add that it is the same for whichever religion/deity you adhere to; 'stick to your One' he says.
I personally do not know even one single Hindu who prays to only one deity! When the Hindu pantheon offers a veritable smorgasbord of deities, each with their own domain expertise, is it not human nature to pray to as many of them as you can relate to? Leave alone Hindus, even in a strictly monotheistic religion like Christianity, prayers are offered to not just their God, but also to His messenger Jesus Christ and to his mother Mary as well as any number of Saints. Many of the Saints have their own speciality 'domains' too! I have visited many Catholic places of worship; there are as many candles in front of the Saints as there are in front of Jesus! Listening often to Sufi music, I see that even Muslims sing in praise of and in prayer to their many Saints. Many of us, it seems, spread our prayers wide!
Coming to Carnatic Music, our great composers wrote in praise of many different deities though they were known for their devotion to particular ones. For example, Tyagaraja was a devotee of Lord Rama, Dikshithar was a worshipper of Goddess Shakti, and Oothukkadu Venkata Subbaiyer was entranced by the young Lord Krishna. Yet in my song choice of today, Tyagaraja says 'I am the one who chants only your name, I shall not beseech others!'. Set to Raga Natta, it is a lovely composition which appeals to me greatly. I always enjoy Natta with its vigorous and rousing feel. But today the first rendition I have chosen for you has a more contemplative mood. M.D. Ramanathan has a unique sound, one I enjoy immensely, especially in songs such as this. For your ease of listening, I have chosen the rendition loaded in YouTube. The sound quality is poor, but the music is anything but. Listen to my 'Alternative' for slightly better sound and a longer rendition.
Alternative : Click here and play song 2. Free membership needed to Sangeethapriya.
The second rendition I would like you to listen to is by Jayanthi Kumaresh on the Veena. I find that the resonance of the instrument is particularly suited for Natta, don't you? This talented artist has gifted us with a hypnotic rendition. Don't miss this!
Alternate link : Click here and play song 1. You need free membership to Sangeethapriya.
And for a third, listen to this energetic and vibrant performance by Sikkil Gurucharan here. I really enjoyed the kalpana swarams. Again, the recording quality is not the best.
Please note that I do not speak Telugu; the lyrics and translations are credit to various online resources.
I am a worshipper (bhajana sEyu vADanu) only of you (ninnE).
O One recumbent (shAyi) on a snake (pannaga)! I shall not (lEnu) plead (vEDa) to anyone else (paralu).
You are the provider (prada) of happiness and well-being (sukha) which come from (implied) bathing in holy waters (snAna), repeated prayers (japa), penance (tapa), Yoga, meditation (dhyAna), deep concentration leading to identification with the object of meditation (samAdhi) etc (Adi). O Consort (nAtha) of Sita! O Guardian (pAlaka) of the entire (sakala) world (lOka)! O One praised (sannuta) by Tyagaraja!