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package com.maddhacker.ol.hibernate.joda.time;

import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.sql.Types;

import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionImplementor;
import org.hibernate.type.StandardBasicTypes;
import org.hibernate.type.Type;
import org.hibernate.usertype.CompositeUserType;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.Interval;

import com.maddhacker.ol.hibernate.AbstractCompositeUserType;

/**
 * Map a {@link PersistentInterval} to two {@link Types#TIMESTAMP}s for
 * Hibernate.
 *
 * @see CompositeUserType
 * @see AbstractCompositeUserType
 *
 */
public class PersistentInterval extends AbstractCompositeUserType<Interval> {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

	private static final String[] PROPERTY_NAMES = new String[] { "start", "end" };

	private static final Type[] TYPES = new Type[] { StandardBasicTypes.TIMESTAMP, StandardBasicTypes.TIMESTAMP };

	@Override
	public String[] getPropertyNames() {
		return PROPERTY_NAMES;
	}

	@Override
	public Type[] getPropertyTypes() {
		return TYPES;
	}

	@Override
	protected Class<Interval> typeClass() {
		return Interval.class;
	}

	@Override
	public Object getPropertyValue(Object component, int property) throws HibernateException {
		Interval interval = (Interval) component;
		return (property == 0) ? interval.getStart().toDate() : interval.getEnd().toDate();
	}

	@Override
	public void setPropertyValue(Object component, int property, Object value) throws HibernateException {
		throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Intervals are immutable");
	}

	@Override
	public Object nullSafeGet(ResultSet rs, String[] names, SessionImplementor session, Object owner)
			throws HibernateException, SQLException {
		return ((rs == null || names[0] == null || names[1] == null) ? null : (new Interval(new DateTime(names[0]),
				new DateTime(names[1]))));
	}

	@Override
	public void nullSafeSet(PreparedStatement st, Object value, int index, SessionImplementor session)
			throws HibernateException, SQLException {
		if (value == null) {
			st.setNull(index, StandardBasicTypes.TIMESTAMP.sqlType());
			st.setNull(index + 1, StandardBasicTypes.TIMESTAMP.sqlType());
		} else {
			Interval interval = (Interval) value;
			st.setTimestamp(index, getIndexTimestamp(interval, 0));
			st.setTimestamp(index + 1, getIndexTimestamp(interval, 1));
		}

	}

	private Timestamp getIndexTimestamp(Interval time, int index) {
		return new Timestamp((index == 0 ? time.getStart() : time.getEnd()).getMillis());
	}

}

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Rest after fight. Oil on canvas. 1960s. Painting by Soviet Ukrainian artist Igor Reznik (April 15, 1918 – 1978)
Soviet Ukrainian artist Igor Reznik
Born April 15, 1918 in the city of Yekaterinoslav, Igor Alexandrovich Reznik graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Art College in 1939. And then, in 1948 he graduated from the Kiev Art Institute, where his teachers were Soviet artists AA Shovkunenko and TN Yablonskaya.
The artist began participating in exhibitions of Soviet art (since 1949) and soon became a member of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR. In addition, for a long time he worked in the creative workshop of his teacher AA Shovkunenko, including the monumental canvas "Hymn of People's Love" commissioned by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The author of thematic paintings, Reznik also taught at the Kiev Art Institute.
Ukrainian painter and teacher Igor Aleksandrovich Reznik died in 1978 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR. His works are in art museums of Ukraine and Russia.
Hymn of People's Love, 1950. Oil on canvas. Painting by Igor Reznik (in co-authorship with Platon Beletsky)
Central part of painting 'Rest after fight'. 1960s
Lenin at work. 1970s
Portrait of People's artist of the USSR A.A. Shovkunenko. 1970
Carpathians. Summer landscape
Flooding. Oil on cardboard
Kanev. Oil on canvas
Left part – Hymn of people's love. 1950
Lenin in October
My black horse
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Portrait of Sergei Kirov
Right part – Hymn of people's love. 1950
Soldiers. 1970s
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Soviet artist Igor Rubinsky
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The Cloud Ate My Network
During VMworld® 2016, some of the brightest minds in networking gathered for FUTURE:NET, a vendor-neutral networking conference convened to look at new trends and technologies shaping the industry.
Networking is undergoing a rapid change from hardware-centric architectures to software-defined models. The cloud market is maturing rapidly, and network virtualization is creating higher levels of networking abstraction. Networking is no longer all about physical components.
Today's networking teams are responsible for connecting both the switches and servers in the racks, and also the virtual components inside those servers. With this burst of connectivity, new ideas and challenges are coming into focus.
As VMware Chief Technology Strategy Officer Guido Appenzeller noted at the event, "You have to suddenly create networks where the hardware is no longer owned by you."
Verizon's Barry Larish emphasized the need to "prepare the runway" to get people acclimated to the new, software-defined way of doing things. "That skill-set shift is not going to happen overnight—and I think that's OK," he said.
Onsite or Offsite?
Increasingly, many companies utilize a hybrid cloud environment, preferring to keep some data on-site and some in the cloud. For these companies, IT professionals must focus on which services to offer on-premises or off-premises.
One illustrative example is Verizon. At FUTURE:NET, Verizon's Bryan Larish described the company's dual approach to IT infrastructure: new microservice-based applications live in the cloud, and traditional applications remain in private data centers. The company continually re-evaluates where applications are best hosted.
Verizon's journey to the cloud is representative. Enterprise data center managers need to focus on services, rather than hardware, and where those services should be hosted to best serve the business.
Many Paths to the Cloud
John Spiegel, who manages IT for Columbia Sportswear, told the audience at FUTURE:NET that, until recently, the company had yet to grasp the significance of software-defined data centers (SDDC) and still thought of networking in terms of hardware. "If there's money to spare, you might get a faster router this year," he said, by way of example.
Spiegel sought to change that. He wanted a cloud-like architecture, and when he couldn't convince the company to purchase a cloud service, he decided to build it himself using tools such as VMware NSXⓇ.
"I've had to fight tooth and nail to keep this project alive," he said, despite the fact that his solution lowers capital and operational expenditures by 30 to 50 percent.
As Spiegel's story shows, IT staff should understand that, even among IT professionals, the shift to SDDC and cloud is not widely understood.
Is Big Data Enough?
The scale of public clouds is enormous, but for a company like Thomson Reuters, which continually maintains an enormous data footprint, it's far too small.
"The kick in the head for me is, 'Yeah, our databases only go up to a terabyte.' I throw up a terabyte database every day," said Mark Bluhm, Thomson Reuters senior vice president of global technology operations.
Bluhm's remarks at FUTURE:NET underlined the idea that the cloud is not a panacea. For companies dealing in big data and heavily regulated markets, the current state of cloud technology may not meet everyone's needs. As cloud technologies continue to spread across the enterprise, and as companies continue to leverage big data for competitive advantage, cloud solutions will need to mature to meet changing business needs. What is considered big data today may not be in the future.
What is needed is more, not less, abstraction, in order to control and modify networks without changing routers, switches, patch panels, and protocols. There is currently no way to do this, but a nascent, open-source language called P4 has been developed to address this specific need.
Networking professionals should look for training opportunities concerning technologies that include SDDC, cloud, P4, containers, and new management tools enabled by abstraction. Networking is in the midst of a sea change. Learning about new networking technologies will help IT professionals explain, build out, and customize solutions to meet changing enterprise needs.
To learn more, download the paper by MIT Technology Review Custom, in partnership with VMware, "Pioneers and Giants: Insights on the Future of Networking."
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Our agency is greater than we've been led to believe. While we expect our leaders to do right and take charge, we each have the ability to lead and affect the world. Each of us has the ability to change another's thinking through action and passion, making it possible for just one of us to be the tipping point for a better and brighter tomorrow. History is full of peasants, working-class, and middle-class folks who believed so fervently about a cause that they changed the course of events forever. Sometimes all it takes is a teenage Kansas farmboy to read a newspaper article wrapped around his lunch to be the first pebble cast into a large cause.
This is the story of William Gladstone Steel. A man who ceaselessly dedicated himself to one cause for decades, became friends with a President, and safe-guarded Oregon's crown jewel: Crater Lake National Park.
Born of fire and fury, Crater Lake is all that remains of a massive volcano. Mount Mazama exploded over 7000 years ago and collapsed into a caldera five miles across and nearly four thousand feet deep. Over the next 2000 years, rain and snowmelt filled the caldera until the surface came to rest, leaving the world with a pure lake of sapphire blue surrounded by majestic cliffs.
"It's up to you and me to save the lake." -W.G. Steel
It was this place on which William Steel first set eyes at the age of 31, fifteen years after he first read about it. From the plains of Kansas, Steel's family migrated to Portland, OR in 1872. Over the next decade, Steel would earn his high school degree (at the age of 20), fail at establishing a small town paper, and ultimately settle in as a delivery man for the Post Office. Despite living just a few hundred miles from his obsession, Steel's first opportunity to visit Oregon's azul jewel wasn't until 1885, when a chance meeting gave Steel the opportunity of a lifetime.
Together with a friend, Steel traveled from Portland down to Fort Klamath. There, he met US Army Captain Clarence E. Dutton, who was simultaneously leading a survey team to Crater Lake. Unable (or unwilling) to wait for the survey party, Steel and his friend raced to the rim to see the magnificent spectacle he had read about 15 years earlier. When his eyes first set upon the crystal blue waters 2000 feet beneath his feet, Steel was stunned into silence. Finally, he turned to his comrade and said, "Johnny, there isn't a claim around or near the lake. It all belongs to the government and it's up to you and me to save the lake."
William Gladstone Steel taking some travelers out on the water in 1903.
And here's the most wondrous part of our story: Without connections, without riches, without any prototypical influence, Steel would do just that. His effort would furnish his relationships with businessmen and politicians that help tell the rest of our tale. His dedication would keep Crater Lake legislation alive. His persistence would catch the eyes of an iconic President.
When he returned home that fall, Steel set out to work. He wrote to newspapers across the country, asking them to print editorials in favor of the lake's protection. He wrote to Oregon's editorial writers. He wrote to every postmaster in his state. But, ultimately, it was his chance meeting with Captain Dutton that started moving the stone. Dutton's endorsement paid off in the form of the signatures of 120 prominent business and civil leaders on petitions circulated with Steel's mailings, including none other than Oregon's only at-large congressman and the governor himself.
Steel had self-financed an array of pebbles and their ripples were starting to take hold. Within a year of his campaign, both Oregon's senators and its congressman had introduced bills in their respective chambers to preserve and protect Crater Lake and significant portions of the land around it. Every sign pointed towards a quick conclusion of Steel's hope of a Crater Lake National Park.
Then, suddenly, the whole process came to a crashing halt.
Timber, ranching, and mining interests cried foul. Supposedly, setting aside any of Oregon's vast resources would threaten their businesses—Portland didn't earn the nickname of Stumptown simply by looking at pristine old growth forests. Dedicating a portion of our great country to perpetual wilderness, they argued, would send them to ruin. Steel's dream was burned at the hands of the same (demonstrably false) arguments we still hear today: Wilderness kills our economy.
It would be another 16 tenacious years before legislation establishing Crater Lake National Park would get so close to making its way to the President's Desk.
"It is a curious fact that the home of Liberty has always been in the mountains." -W.G. Steel
Despite initial disappointment, Steel continued to labor. In 1890, he wrote, published, and sent copies of his first and only book, "The Mountains of Oregon," to not only members of Congress, but also President Benjamin Harrison and his cabinet! Still, subsequent bills continued to die in committee due to opposition from lumber, sheeping, and ranching lobbyists. From 1886 to 1893, every piece of legislation in every new Congress failed. Steel was making no tangible progress. Even efforts for Crater Lake to become an Oregon State Park couldn't make its way out of committee.
National events then took a turn for the worse in 1892. The country re-elected Grover Cleveland for his 2nd non-consecutive presidential term. If Steel couldn't get enough support for his park under a Republican president, prospects with the Democrats of 1893 were dimmer than ever (Note: In the late 1800s, positions of the respective parties on the environment and conservation were generally reverse of what they are today).
But Cleveland surprised everyone and lent a sympathetic ear to forest conservation advocates. In 1891, Republicans had passed the Forest Reserve Act, allowing the US government to better regulate how and where timber companies could log. Thanks to the efforts of Steel, who at this point was well known for his Oregon conservation cause, four-million acres of forest in the Cascade Range were placed into a forest reserve and gave Crater Lake its first form of protection. Earlier Steel efforts had requested an area of 12 miles by 30 miles, a total of just over 230,000 acres. While not necessarily preserving this area for posterity, the legislation ensured that the land would remain in federal hands. In an era where the United States government was still giving away free land as fast as it could, it was a heroic achievement.
The timber companies fought back ferociously. Politicians introduced bill after bill on their behalf attempting to rescind the federal protection, but Steel would not be out-dueled. He spent three months in Washington at the start of the 1895 meeting and speaking with senators and congressmen. Time and again, Steel's lobbying prevented the timber bills from making any headway. The Cascade Forest Reserve would remain intact for the foreseeable future, but the idea of a Crater Lake National Park remained out of reach.
1896, however, would prove to be the year when opportunity finally caught up with Steel's decade of dedication. Famed-conservationist John Muir had been following his Oregonian counterpart's work since Steel published his one and only book six years previous. While Muir would never champion Crater Lake like he did with Yosemite, Rainier, and Grand Canyon, he was the lynchpin in bringing another renowned and wealthy conservationist to Oregon: Future Director of the US Forest Service, Gifford Pinchot. Steel led his two counterparts to Crater Lake, and while Muir somewhat balked at its grandeur, Pinchot was immediately transfixed. "Crater Lake seemed to me like a wonder of the world," he would later write.
Steel had found the ally he would need to finally make his dream a reality, but still needed the support of a President to facilitate National Park legislation across the finish line.
An anarchist's bullet in Buffalo, NY would change everything.
"Here all the ingenuity of nature seems to have been exerted to the fullest capacity." - W.G. Steel
William McKinley's assassination made Theodore Roosevelt president just six months into his predecessor's 2nd Term. Roosevelt's Boone & Crockett Club had heretofore been the nation's leading conservation organization and one Gifford Pinchot was among its most prominent members. Steel, a one-time USPS delivery man, now had direct access to the President of the United States. With Pinchot's endorsement, Roosevelt's clout, and oft-forgotten Congressman John Lacy's legislative maneuvering, Steel finally had more power and influence than the timber and mining interests that had for so long beaten him at every turn.
On May 15, 1902, the bill establishing Crater Lake National Park passed the Senate. Exactly one week later, Roosevelt signed it. Seventeen years after seeing its sapphire blue waters and towering cliffs, the collapsed volcano at the center of Steel's life would, forever and always, be protected as the United States' sixth National Park.
Roosevelt sent the signing pen to Steel's home in Portland.
"A beautiful dream exists that [National Parks] were created to maintain forever, nature in its wildest, most primitive state." -W.G. Steel
For the rest of his life, Steel would be known as the Father of Crater Lake. He would go on to become the park's superintendent, secure financing for the rustic lodge that rests on the precipice of its majestic cliffs, and continue to fight for funding improvements to park access. In 1917, Stephen Mather, the first Director of the National Park Service (and namesake of this site), proclaimed during a special recognition ceremony, "Seventeen years; think of the man so devoted to a cause that he will give the best years of his life and all the money that he could earn and borrow to create a national park."
Unlike John Muir, whose conservation efforts remain famous to this day, Steel is hardly heralded much past a small room at Crater Lake National Park's visitor center. His photo rests just above a fireplace mantle in the theater room. But one must imagine that the man who dedicated his life to a quiet corner in Oregon is resting quite contentedly. Upon his death in 1932, the true impact of Steel's life was summed up in a perfect remark from his eulogy, "He left no perishable fortune, but he did leave an imperishable monument in Crater Lake National Park"
Without fame or riches during life, Steel's legacy endures. His life is a lesson that no matter where we come from or how much money we have, we have the ability to facilitate change. Dedication and persistence are effective weapons. They do matter. Steel's torch has now passed to us.
It's up to you and me to save the lake. Let's get to it.


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On a warm, late-June day, Skywalker Ranch, in the rustic wilds of West Marin County, Calif., is buzzing with activity. Seventh Moon, the latest film from
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Skywalker's director of scoring and music recording, Leslie Ann Jones
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On a warm, late-June day, Skywalker Ranch, in the rustic wilds of West Marin County, Calif., is buzzing with activity. Seventh Moon, the latest film from director Eduardo Sanchez (of Blair Witch Project fame), has just wrapped post-production in the Technology Building and there is celebration in the air. Meanwhile at Skywalker Sound, the ranch's impressive recording studio in that same building, the Cypress String Quartet is busy cutting a new CD of early Beethoven music. On the beautiful, cavernous Scoring Stage, the San Francisco-based foursome is comfortably ensconced in the same custom, German-made diffusers shown in our cover photo, which depicts an earlier session there with the Kronos Quartet, also regulars at Skywalker for many years.
With recent album work by Steve Miller, Warped Tour faves All-American Rejects and legendary Bay Area punk group Rancid in the studio's rearview mirror, and scoring sessions for the next installment of the mega-popular videogame Gears of War on the near horizon, Skywalker Sound appears to be thriving during a period that has seen steep downturns for many recording studios. Over lunch on the back porch of the ranch's white-clapboard Victorian mansion-style Main House, the studio's director of scoring and music recording (not to mention record producer and Grammy-winning engineer), Leslie Ann Jones, notes that it is exactly that sort of diversification that has kept her studio busy: film and game scores, major- and indie-label work, classical and rock music, local and national talent.
"With the way budgets have changed and with more people recording at home, there are some projects we've gotten in the past that we're not getting now," she acknowledges, "but we've been very fortunate to have other projects taking their place, whether it's bands that haven't worked here before or the videogame [scoring] work, which we're getting more and more of. What I've spent a lot of the past 11 years doing is getting people to understand that Skywalker is a place that anyone can come to and afford. I still get people saying, 'Oh, I thought only George Lucas [founder of Skywalker] did his projects there.' Those questions never end, so part of my job is to be the ambassador to the studio. It helps that we get Grammy nominations and awards and there's a lot of visibility, but it's always going to be a challenge to get people to come up here, and I have to look for new ways — with my studio director hat on — to fill this space."
Certainly, the studio's reputation precedes it. Since it opened in 1987, Skywalker Sound has been one of the true jewels of the Bay Area recording community — a breathtakingly beautiful and serene getaway less than an hour from San Francisco, with a stunning main room perfect for everything from huge orchestras to chamber ensembles to rock bands, four iso rooms and a large, comfortable control room equipped with state-of-the-art gear: Neve 88R console; Pro Tools HD, two Studer 827 analog machines, and other analog and digital recording systems; a custom Allen Sides/Ocean Way main monitoring system; near-fields by B&W, Tannoy, M&K, Meyer Sound, ATC, Genelec and Yamaha; M&K surrounds; and a great selection of new and vintage mics and outboard gear.
Jones — whose storied career includes production stints at ABC and Capitol Studios in her native Los Angeles, The Automatt in San Francisco and Skywalker for the past 11 years — keeps up to date technologically by being a working engineer and producer herself, staying heavily involved with NARAS (she's a past chair of its Board of Trustees) and listening to the needs of her studio's diverse client list. "On the Scoring Stage, we were relatively late adopters of Pro Tools," she admits. "We opted for the [Euphonix] R1 instead because it was 48 channels at 96k, and at that time Pro Tools was not. So we were able to do some stellar projects on the R1. If you're in this business long enough, you tend to work on the newest and the best, but somehow some of them never quite make it to the second generation, whether it's the 3M digital multitrack or the Mitsubishi X-800 Series or the R1. All were great and sounded fantastic; all not available now. When Pro Tools came out with HD and we could get 48 channels at 96k and, the most important thing, we could back up very easily, we finally went in that direction."
Keeping up has also meant having the latest generation of plug-ins available: "Absolutely! There are a lot of younger engineers who come in who are more comfortable using plug-ins [rather than analog outboard gear], so we have to have those available. Also, we get a lot of engineers who come in with our scoring clients where they're mixing things at the composer's house, and maybe [Audio Ease] Altiverb is all they've got there and they love it, so it doesn't matter that we have a [Lexicon] 960 and three 480s and the original 224. [Laughs] So that end of it is always changing, but getting people in the door still involves networking, repeat customers, word-of-mouth, publicity and good service."
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Posts Tagged 'Easybeats'
Some Friday Songs
When I sort the 72,000 tracks in the RealPlayer for "Friday," the returns are not encouraging: I get twenty-two tracks. Two of them are set aside immediately: They're performances of "Remedy" and "Willie McTell" by The Band during 1994 on the NBC show Friday Night Videos.
The other twenty tracks, however, provide an interesting mix, though I think we'll pass by the theme from the television show Friday Night Lights by W.G. "Snuffy" Walden. So what we'll do is sort the other nineteen tracks by their running time, set the cursor in the middle of the stack and find four tracks.
And we start with a churning, loping and somewhat dissonant boogie decorated by one of those odd lyrical excursions typical of Steely Dan: "Black Friday" from the 1975 album Katy Lied:
When Black Friday comes
I fly down to Muswellbrook
Gonna strike all the big red words
From my little black book
Gonna do just what I please
Gonna wear no socks and shoes
With nothing to do but feed
All the kangaroos
When Black Friday comes I'll be on that hill
You know I will
I'm not an expert on Steely Dan, though I enjoy the group's music almost any time I hear it and recognize the skill and talent on display. But the artistic visions of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen almost always leave me a little off-kilter, as if – to use an idea I think I've expressed at other times describing other artists – I'm suddenly living in a world of eighty-nine degree angles.
The first moments of the next track are oddly similar to "Black Friday," but then the tune slides into the familiar jangly sound of "Friday On My Mind" by the Easybeats, a 1967 hit that peaked at No. 16 in the Billboard Hot 100. The tune has its own moments of dissonance as it tell the tale of a fellow enduring another week of work or school, looking for the weekend so he can get to the city and spend time with his gal: "She's so pretty!"
So were the Easybeats a one-hit wonder? It depends on how you define the term. I've seen some chartheads define a one-hit wonder as a group that had only one record reach the Hot 100. I tend to think that's a bit stringent, and use the qualifier of only one hit in the Top 40. Why discuss that here? Because the Easybeats had one other record in the Hot 100: a 1969 release titled "St. Louis" that spent one week at No. 100 and then dropped off the chart.
By my terms, then, the Easybeats – who hailed from Sydney, Australia – are definitely a one-hit wonder. Their hit is a record I'm not particularly fond of, but there it was at No. 16 during the spring of 1967.
Larry Jon Wilson, who died in 2010, was a Southern storyteller whose songs never seemed to hurry, even when they clipped right along. "Friday Night Fight At Al's" fits into that style very well. I found it on an album titled Testifying: The Country Soul Revue, a 2004 sampler put out in the United Kingdom by the Casual Records label. (Among the other artists on the album were Tony Joe White, Bonnie Bramlett and Dan Penn.)
The track starts with Wilson's laconic explanation that Al's Beer Depot was a bar out near the bomb factory, a place where he went for a banquet one Friday when things went as they normally did at Al's:
The Friday night fights at Al's place: The situation was grim and I was forced to face
The extreme possibility of no one ever seein' me alive again
When the night was over, chairs are busted, tables are flyin'
Get me out of here, Jesus, I'm afraid of dyin'
It's the Friday night fights at Al's place . . . We didn't have no referee
Wilson's body of work is a little thin: Four albums between 1975 and 1979, another in 2008, and a few other things here and there, two of which are included on Testifying. I like his stuff a lot.
Our fourth stop today brings us the Tulsa sound of the late J.J. Cale, a shuffling tune titled simply "Friday," a track from a 1979 album titled, with equal simplicity, 5. I've loved Cale's work since I came across his first album, Naturally, back in 1972, a year after it came out. There is a sameness to his work, yes, but it's a comfortable sameness, if that makes any sense.
In any case, just lean back and listen to "Friday."
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Very nice, Lee! It really does matter what you say to, and believe about yourself! Right belief leads to right thinking. Few of us view our past as an asset (particularly if we have an unsavory past), but we need to remember that you love much when you have been forgiven much. We just need to have a "right belief" about it, and about Jesus, and agree with Him that He can, will and is making all things new. And having faith in your spirit that you can and will be healed is the first step!


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OXON HILL – Community leaders updated residents on the next phase of the 210 Interchange Construction Project during a local meeting on Sept. 5.
Hosted by Prince George's County Councilmember Monique Anderson-Walker (District 8), representatives from the Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA), the Department of Public Works and Transportation (DPW&T) and Metro gave residents new information on the transportation project.
"We are very excited about this overpass coming in because we do recognize that this overpass will, in time, alleviate traffic for us and we recognize that it will make travel more efficient on 210," Anderson-Walker said. "Safety, of course, is one of our main priorities, so we want to focus on safety. Engineering is a good piece of that safety, and I think the design will make a safer area for all of us."
The 210 Interchange Construction Project began two years ago to alleviate traffic congestion on the busy highway. It serves as the main thoroughfare connecting Washington, D.C. to suburban communities, said MDOT SHA District Engineer Andre Futrell. A total of 80,000 cars drive on 210 every day.
The project will add an overpass at the intersection of Kirby Hill Road and Livingston Road and remove the signal at Wilson Bridge Drive.
Representatives from the Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA), the Department of Public Works and Transportation (DPW&T) and Metro gave residents new information on the 210 Interchange Construction Project on Sept. 5. Photo by Jessica Ricks/The Prince George's Sentinel.
Construction on the road is expected to be completed in 2021; however, this phase of the project will require road closures, detours and rerouted buses.
The major construction project will require the intersection at Kirby Hill and Livingston Road to be closed on Oct. 1. Commuters will be required to take detours through the residential side roads. Intermittent lane closures on 210 will also be possible between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Additionally, effective Sept. 15, Metrobus routes D13 and D14 will be on a long-term detour for the duration of the two-year project.
Improved safety is also a reason for road improvements as 210 has been notorious for horrific car crashes and excessive speeding.
According to Futrell, over 1,800 speeding violations were recorded at the Kirby Hill Road intersection in 2018. With the recent addition of speed cameras there, violations have reduced to 235. The hope is that the completion of this construction project will remove additional conflicts at the Kirby Hill Road and Wilson Bridge Drive intersections.
"We really need to be much more thoughtful about the road that we are on, the roads that we share and the safety of those," said Anderson-Walker, who started a safe driving initiative earlier this year called #DrivingItHome.
According to MDOT SHA Project Engineer David Jackson, the 210 construction project was supposed to be completed in November 2018 but utility delays caused the timeline to increase.
"It's going to be a long process. Hopefully, we'll have a nice, mild winter to be able to do a fair amount of construction for this second and critical phase of construction," Jackson said.
Residents came to the meeting with mixed reactions and a lot of questions for the officials. One of the major concerns was the use of the detours on residential roads such as Murray Hill Drive, Tucker Road and Palmer Road. People were concerned about the high volume of traffic on these roads that were not built for highway traffic. Some of the areas include small two-lane roads and others are already in need of repairs.
Some people recommended preparing the roads before the detours began. Others wondered if there will be any funding provided to fix the streets as they get underway. The officials at the meeting pointed out that as 210 is a state road and the side roads are county roads. The county and state will work together to assess what needs to be done and provide funding as needed.
"As the project continues to go forward, it's a state project but we are in sort of a constant dance, for lack of a better word, with them as the project unfolds," said DPW&T Deputy Director Martin Harris. "So we are constantly going to be examining the impacts of what's happening as we move forward as a result of not just the traffic, but road impacts as well.
"So, I can't say at the moment that there is a plan for something specific like that right now, but we are making adjustments to keep things moving as it goes forward."
Some residents remained skeptical of the project like Cynthia Proctor, a 14-year resident of Oxon Hill. She wondered why the problem with 210 is just now being addressed and why state and county officials were not better prepared to accommodate the people who live along the detour routes.
Others, such as resident David Owens, thanked those working on the project for their leadership and commented on how the project will not only be positive for not only relieving traffic but for the region as a whole.
"I think the reason that there is such a dearth of restaurants and economic development around this area now is because Indian Head Highway as it looks now is awful," he said.
Cain Saimbre, who recently moved to Fort Washington, said she had been curious about the project because she had heard about the traffic chokepoints on 210. While she was one of many residents who found the map of the detours confusing, she said she has hopes that the finished project will enhance the area.
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Franklin County är ett administrativt område i västra delen av delstaten Massachusetts i USA. Franklin är ett av fjorton counties i delstaten. Den administrativa huvudorten (county seat) är Greenfield. År 2010 hade Franklin County 71 372 invånare.

1997 överfördes den sekundärkommunala verksamheten i countyt till delstatsmyndigheterna. Vissa gemensamma uppgifter sköts av det kommunala samarbetsorganet Franklin Regional Council of Governments.

Geografi
Enligt United States Census Bureau har Franklin County en total area på 1 877 km². 1 818 km² av den arean är land och 59 km² är vatten.

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Whirlpool Corporation Receives WorldatWork 2017 Seal of Distinction
Award recognizes outstanding commitment to employee engagement and Total Rewards effectiveness
BENTON HARBOR, Mich., January 23, 2017 /3BL Media/ -- Whirlpool Corporation has earned WorldatWork's Seal of Distinction for 2017. The seal is a unique mark of excellence designed to identify organizational success in Total Rewards effectiveness and is given by WorldatWork, a nonprofit HR association and compensation authority. Whirlpool Corporation is one of 160 U.S. organizations to be honored, sharing the distinction with companies such as Herman Miller, MasterCard and KPMG.
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It has been almost a month since the Liberal government tabled its new criminal justice bill on March 29th. There was a flurry of activity on Twitter over that weekend as defence lawyers, including myself, decried the changes that Bill C-75 proposes. There have been a wide range of reactions to the bill, which seeks to reform a number of different areas of criminal justice. But the reactions are largely from those who work in the criminal justice system, and may not yet have permeated the public consciousness in a meaningful way.
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A journey into the afterlife and the proof brought back
Eldon and Ravinder Taylor welcome David Ditchfield to share his story of afterlife and the proof of it he has brought back.
Provocative Enlightenment presents: Shine on, the remarkable story of how I fell under a speeding train, journeyed to the afterlife, and the astonishing proof I brought back with me!
Tune in Monday at 12 p.m. for this fascinating show!
David Ditchfield is a near-death experience (NDE)-inspired artist, composer, and author. He wants to use his NDE to make a positive difference to people's lives. In 2006, he was dragged under a speeding train in a freak accident. As the surgeons fought to save him, he had a profound NDE. When he woke up in hospital, he had acquired astonishing new abilities. He found he could paint
dramatic paintings of what he had seen in the Afterlife, far beyond any artistic ability he had before. He then discovered he could compose classical music, having never received any training.
For his part Eldon Taylor is an award winning New York Times best-selling author of over 300 books and audio/video programs, and is the host of the popular syndicated radio show, Provocative Enlightenment. His most recent works include Gotcha: The Subordination of Free Will, Choices and Illusions, I Believe, Mind Programming, What Does That Mean?, What If?, and Self-Hypnosis and Subliminal Technology. Eldon has earned doctoral degrees in both clinical and pastoral psychology and is a Fellow in the American Psychotherapy Association as well as a certified Master Chaplain.
Assisting on all levels of the show is Ravinder Taylor, co-host who also holds a B.Sc. degree in microbiology from Aberystwyth University in Wales, a Bachelors degree in Metaphysics from the University of Metaphysics in Sedona, Arizona, has studied hypnosis and psychotherapy at the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy in London, England, and is an ordained interdenominational minister. She is Vice President of Progressive Awareness Research, and co-host of, Provocative Enlightenment.
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Red Arbor present in 26 countries after going digital
David González Castro is a stalwart of the online classifieds industry. He began his career trajectory in 1987 when he co-founded the print classifieds business Anuntis, which evolved into a leading digital classifieds company.
Although Anuntis' print business was very successful, González Castro, a speaker at the Global Online Classifieds Summit, felt change was in the air and became more involved in the internet, founding the real estate site fotocasa.es in 1999.
After surviving the dot com crash, González Castro took a leap of faith and shut down Anuntis' paper based production in 2008 in order to take the business into the digital age. The business model had been completely transformed to adapt to the new digital model and Anuntis became the leader in the online classified sector in Spain which included leading websites fotocasa.es segundamano.es (Miscellaneous), coches.net (cars) and Infojobs.net(Jobs).
"I am proud to say that this is one of the few cases of a successful business transformation from paper to online," González Castro says of Anuntis' transition from print to digital.
After watching the company transform over 30 years, González Castro sold his Anuntis shares in 2013 and founded Red Arbor – a company that invests in online businesses who specialise in jobs and real estate.
"After selling Anuntis, I focused more on jobs boards and real estate, with the specific goal to lead these two sectors, because it's where I see classified businesses can evolve more in the future," he says.
David Gonzalez Castro is the CEO of Red Arbor.
Red Arbor now has a presence in 26 countries and employs 265 people across eleven countries in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa.
"After almost four years, Red Arbor has become the leader in job websites in Latin America with over 1 billion page views, more than 100 million visits and more than 38 million CVs," González Castro says.
The company's current project portfolio includes job sites: CompuTrabajo in Latin America; European site InfoJobs; BestJobs in South Africa and Philippines, and the Moroccan real estate portal, Mubawab.
So, what are the current trends shaping the job classifieds sector right now? González Castro says four spring to mind.
The big online players
Big online players such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft have entered the jobs classifieds business as pure "App Players" he says.
"They want to know all possible information of the users. Job boards have a lot of users and that's very interesting for them. Time will tell if they will become important in the job board sector, but one thing is certain; they have to be taken into consideration.
The transition from Desktop, to mobile, to app
González Castro says Red Abor is currently witnessing a technology evolution which has seen some of the company's sites: Computrabajo, Infojobs and Bestjobs, almost exclusively being used on apps only. He says this is a clear trend in the market
"Our traffic through the apps is very high," González Castro says. "Nevertheless, it's interesting to highlight that we have observed that the time users spend is less then on the desktop. The future is apps. In some of the countries where we have websites, app traffic is higher than desktop or mobile Browser.
González Castro says Big Data has a lot of possible developments and is an area that his company is looking at right now.
"We are focusing now on Programmatic Advertising, Data Matching and People Analytic, among many other opportunities," he says.
Moving through the Chain of Values
"Every sector has possible business diversifications," González Castro says. "A trend in job boards is to sell to potential clients, tools for recruitment and for Human Resources development in the company. It's a way to cover the needs of every actor involved in the recruitment and work process."
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SFC Robert Jones. Competitors are asked How event affects Individual and Unit Readiness and Something interesting about themselves....
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The Kentucky Army National Guard's Soldier, NCO and Senior NCO of 2015, along with their guests, listen to Sgt. Maj. Gary Smith's, 4th Marine Logistics command senior enlisted leader, remarks about leadership during the 2015 Outstanding Airman and Soldier of the Year Banquet March 14, 2015 at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky. The annual awards dinner honors......
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Aviation Boatswain's Mate (fuel) 3rd Class Jordan Gilliam, a native of Somerset, Ky., participates in a Morale, Welfare and Recreation hosted ping-pong tournament aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).TR is underway participating in composite training unit exercise (COMPTUEX), which tests the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group's ability to effectively react to......
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HOW I SWINDLED MANY WOMEN BY PROPOSING MARRIAGE TO THEM- ISLAMIC CLERIC
THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Muritala Oladipupo calls himself an itinerant Islamic preacher who also attends to people who come to him for consultations on spiritual matters.
But going by the revelation of one Mutiat Azeez, who said that the self-acclaimed preacher swindled her on the pretext of praying for her, Oladipupo would have a lot of explanations to make to detectives at the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of the Oyo State Police Command where he is currently undergoing interrogations.
Crime Reports learnt that the suspect was arrested in a mosque in Ibadan on August 28 after Azeez told the police that he defrauded her of N700,000 when she was deceived into believing that he was an Islamic preacher who could help her with prayers to solve spiritual problems.
According to information gathered, Oladipupo adopted a method of proposing love to a potential victim so that it would be easy for him to penetrate her. He reportedly used this method with the victim and collected some money from her before his arrest.
When interviewed by Crime Reports, the suspect confirmed the allegation, disclosing that he learnt the method from two men, Abdulwaheed and Ola Shehu, whom he met at a mechanic workshop.
Speaking with Crime Reports, he said: "I was a Quranic teacher but later became an itinerant Islamic preacher delivering sermons. I fell into trouble when my former girlfriend asked me to carry out some rites for her to attack someone who swindled her. She became angry when she did not get the expected result.
"I knew her about seven years ago and I expressed interest in her. I collected N360,000 from her but I also borrowed her N100,000. It is not true that I took N700,000 from her. The money she gave me was to buy the ingredients that would be needed for the prayers and the rites to be performed.
"It was Waheed who introduced the idea of deceiving women by proposing marriage to them so that they could be easily swindled. The victim would be disclosing her problems which I would capitalise on to obtain money from her. Waheed said he gave the advice because most clients are not usually appreciative after getting solutions to their problems. I used to share the money given to me with the two men."
Oladipupo confessed to being a fraudster and spoke on how the lady was taken to a river in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, to bathe in a river. The suspect also said he invited two female syndicate members, Seun and Abibat, who dressed like white witches and prayed for the victim at the river side.
"It is true I took her to Ekiti to have a spiritual bath to cure her of bad dreams. I asked Seun and Abibat to join her at the river side because they were women. They prayed for her and I paid them N10,000 each. They were introduced to me by one Ahmad who is also a fraudster based in Ado Ekiti. I knew Ahmad through Waheed and Ola Shehu," he stated.
The victim was also reportedly taken to a shrine at Moniya area of Ibadan where a pipe was laid underground and someone at one end spoke into it, the sound of which echoed like that of a spirit at the other end of the pipe in a room.
Narrating how she met the suspect, the victim said he was in his vehicle at Olorunsogo area of Ibadan when he saw her and called her. This was confirmed by the suspect who said "I proposed love to her and she accepted. In the course of our relationship, she revealed her problems to me and asked me to pray for her and do other rites that would make her overcome them. I told her that I would help her solve her problems and started getting money from her through this."
The suspect, who is said to be one of the assistants working with a popular Islamic preacher in Ibadan, disclosed that his boss did not know he was into fraud.
Confirming the arrest, the Police Public Relations Officer in Oyo State, SP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said he would be arraigned in court after the completion of investigation.
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Our Fit Snoga is a knee length skirt that is a pencil cut but still allows for movement, The ¾ attached leggings make for a modest and functional feature. A deep pocket on the skirt fits a phone or a few tennis or golf balls. This design is great for all sports and doubles as weekend hang-out gear! The fabric is chlorine safe so you are set for water activities that may await you. This is the perfect Travel Skirt!
This midi-length Skirt with attached above the knee leggings was requested by many of our tall customers as well as those gals that just want more coverage. The skirt is a straight design that has room to stretch for all activities. Its quick dry light-weight fabric makes it a great choice for water sports or just the splash zone!
Our Swing Snoga features a 4" fold over waistband. This is a girlie A-line style with cut out tie detail on the calf. This style was designed for those gals that want a comfortable fit around their waist and for those that want a maternity fit. The fabric is light weight high performance activewear material that is quick drying and extremely long lasting. Its an adorable style with flats or sandals when you are not exercising and perfect for traveling as it can be worn from day to evening.
This midi-length Snoga was designed for those gals that are either tall or just want more coverage. This skirt is a soft pencil shape that is not hugging and has ¾ length attached leggings to ensure that you are covered while either doing the sport of your choice, traveling, or just running around doing errands. The material is a high performance quick drying fabric that is chlorine safe so it is suitable for water sports. You can add a t-shirt or sweater and this style can take you anywhere.
The Color Block Snoga has a cutesy short soft pencil skirt with ¾ attached leggings. This style is the perfect option for those gals that may want more coverage than a stand alone legging. The Color Block Mini is designed with both solid and heathered high performance fabric that is chlorine safe and quick drying. This style can take you from the gym, to the beach, and out for the afternoon. Features like a deep pocket and reflective strips add both practical and fashionable elements to the design.
The Basic Pocket Snoga is a knee length straight fitting skirt that is not too hugging. It has full length attached leggings that ensure both comfort and coverage. This is great for all sports and doubles as week end hang out gear. It's the kind of bottom you want to live in. There's a deep pocket on the skirt that is the perfect fit for a phone, or a few tennis balls. The fabric is high performance chlorine safe material that is both quick drying and highly durable. This is a great all purpose traveling skirt when you want to pack light.
HOLDS A STRETCH SO YOU CAN TOO This new style was designed for the many devoted Faux Wrap Snoga customers. Adding an Ankle-Length attached legging allows for even more coverage and warmth but at the same time keeping the mobility and total range of motion making it perfect for all sports and activities. This style is offered in both solid light weight high performance material and a medium weight heathered version. You can get a lot of use from this basic bottom by simply pairing it with a casual top or sweater.
COMFORT & STYLE FOR EVERY DAY This twirly style offers incredible comfort and is so feminine and flattering. This skirt is perfect for any type of activity, or weekend casual wear. Made out of medium weight poly spandex it allows for tremendous wide range of motion. Whether you are exercising or wanting to throw this skirt on with sweater and boots, you will feel comfortable and look great.
HOLDS A STRETCH SO YOU CAN TOO Our Shirt Tail design with ½" side slits give this pencil skirt design a bit more give and mobility. The fabric is a heather medium weight high performance material that offers a slight compression effect. Its extremely durable and long lasting. This style works well for all sports and is stylish and versatile to be paired with any top for casual wear.
Our new sport skirt with color contrasting wave is in a wonderful light weight moisture wicking fabric. The attached bike shorts make this style so comfortable for sports of any kind. Built in side pockets make this skirt so practical for playing golf or tennis. This style is so versatile it can be paired with any top as casualwear.
Our new sport skirt with color contrasting wave is in a wonderful light weight moisture wicking fabric. The attached bike shorts make this style so comfortable for sports of any kind. Built in side pockets make this skirt so practical for playing golf or tennis. This longer length option is perfect for tall gals or those that just prefer this midi length. Paired with a t-shirt or sweater, this style can take you most anywhere.
This midi-length Snoga was designed for those gals that are either tall or just want more coverage. This skirt is a soft pencil shape that is not hugging and has ankle length attached leggings to ensure that you are covered while either doing the sport of your choice, traveling, or just running around doing errands. The material is a high performance quick drying fabric that is chlorine safe so it is suitable for water sports. You can add a t-shirt or sweater and this style can take you anywhere.
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This wonderful basic pull on skirt is designed as a fit and flare. The material lays flat on the stomach and then softly flares in order that it is flattering. The material is a poly-jersey that can be worn in the day with a t-shirt as well as by night with a blouse or sweater. It's the perfect skirt to pack for a get-away as it is truly multi-purpose. It makes a wonderful bathing suit cover up as well. There are no attached leggings, but many ladies tell us they throw this on over their own leggings.
Our City Snoga is our most fashion forward skirt to date. With deep side pockets, it's perfect for sports like golf or tennis as well as walking or hanging out. We have seen it paired with dressy tops and sandals, and we loved the look. The fabric is light weight poly with a bit of sheen.


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The 2012 edition of transmediale explores the theme of in/compatible. tm.12 postulates that incompatible beings drive the logic of contemporary cultural production. We understand in/compatible beings as aesthetic things and processes that do not necessarily connect on the terms we are used to. The festival wants to raise the question of what happens when such incompatible beings are brought to the fore rather than hidden away in the dark underbelly of digital culture?
tm.12 will mark the 25 year anniversary of the festival, to be reflected in a program that both looks back at the festival's role in the past and at the same time redefines what it could be in the future. Born as VideoFilmFest in 1988, the festival was from the beginning an outlet for the kind of hybrid artistic and activist practices that did not fit in at the regular film festivals. In this sense the in/compatible theme is also a reflection on the festival as such, always searching for new questions and formats.
transmediale Award RIP! For the 2012 festival there will be no general transmediale Award. This change reflects our new ways of producing the festival: adopting the thematic approach early on we aim at curatorial coherence across the different programme sections and at the same time we wish to engage more directly in our community.
Consequently, the call for tm.12 is tied to a thematic rather than an Award competition resulting in an Open Call for Works and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award now takes the form of a residency programme for artistic research. For 2012 there will be no Open Web Award, but the critical discussion of the politics of open and closed systems will continue in new formats.
The decisions to cancel the transmediale and the Open Web Award are also connected to the development of a new project, "resource", an all-year project working as a form of distributed project residency for transmediale's local, regional and international community. As a combination of networking, research and curating, the resource is a new framework for festival related projects that happens throughout the year. The launch of the resource will take place in 2012 and will in itself be an important feature of the 25th anniversary, looking into the future while acknowledging the importance of the festival as an accessible and dynamic forum for the translocal media art scene as well as for interdisciplinary cultural producers and researchers.
tm.12 in/compatible is brought to you by a team comprising of fresh and veteran transmediale forces: Kristoffer Gansing is our new artistic director as of April this year, Tatiana Bazzichelli steps in to command the resource project, Jacob Lillemose will be helming the exhibition all the while Marcel Schwierin for the third time presents the film and video programme. Markus Huber continues as programme manager, Filippo Gianetta as marketing whiz, Christine Bernauer as budget mastermind with assistance from Susanne Bernstein who also coordinates our new tm archive project. TBC as our team expands in the coming months.
In Summer 2010 the Advisory Board of transmediale reformed itself and since then the following members support the development of transmediale with words and deeds: Prof. Dr. Dieter Daniels (chair), Dr. Marie Cathleen Haff, Prof. Dr. Marie-Luise Angerer, Alex Adriaansens, Jan Edler, Hortensia Völckers.
tm.12 – Call for Works!
The selected works will form part of our extensive exhibition, screening, performance and conference programme. Projects may also be entered for the Vilém Flusser Residency Programme (formerly Award), taking the form of a 2 month artistic research residency jointly run by tm and Universität der Künste in Berlin.
With the conceptual framework of in/compatible we are looking for artistic works in any genre and format that either explicitly or in more subtle ways engage the incompatible nature of contemporary technological cultures. We imagine that these works rather than anticipating resolution, address, accentuate and invest in the unresolved tensions across translocal media practices and systems. In particular we are calling for works take us by surprise by not quite "fitting in".
For Vilém Flusser theory and praxis are intrinsically tied to each other. His nomadic thinking was shaped by a philosophy of positions, the experimental testing of different ways of thinking and the linking of different disciplines and methodologies played a significant role for him.
The newly organised Vilém Flusser Residency Programme supports projects and activities which are simultaneously conceptual and practice-based. The programme is geared towards the initiation of new research or to the further development of existing projects. This is not a production grant and while a public presentation/event will be expected, there is no pressure to present finished works. Where applicable, the support of publications, exhibitions, interventions and other results of the residency may be negotiated on a project to project basis. Special priority will be given to young and/or emerging artist-researchers.
We are calling upon artistic research to actively explore the capabilities and limitations of transdisciplinary and transmedial situations in contemporary culture and thus to understand artistic research as exploring the links between aesthetics, materiality and politics.
The thirteenth edition of CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts takes place parallel to and in cooperation with transmediale between 30th January and 5th February 2012, at various venues in Berlin. CTM is dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music and sound art, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities and social practices that develop within and connect to those audio cultures. The festival reflects on the agency of contemporary sound creation within the cultural fabric of society and its technological and social transformations. It explores these intersections with other art forms and cultural fields.
With the theme Spectral, CTM.12 dedicates itself to the musical and medial visitations of rejected past aesthetics and their unredeemed utopias or dystopias, the uncanniness of media's hallucinatory effects as well as the quest for experiences of transcendence. DIY-media-archaeology, the exploration of the deep material structures of sounds, media and archives, the offensive recourse on past aesthetics to the point of the archaic, a visible superimposition of different temporalities, psychotropy, occult media, private mysticism, deception, mundane alchemy or specific forms of negativity as an at times bitter, at times euphoric rejection of the presence – these all provide points of entry into current constructions of reality, to respectively adjure or exorcise the inherent ghosts.
Projects and works can be submitted as proposals by 31st August for CTM's music, performance, discourse, workshop or exhibition programme.


•	The Pacific Anthropology at the Field Museum webpage (www.pacificanthropology.org) which digitally presents its collections, researchers, projects, findings, and stories.
The presentation will also highlight the Dorsey Collection displayed in the Anthropology Museum's current exhibition Musical Landscapes of Lihir and will conclude by discussing why museum anthropology is important to both researchers and the public.
Dale F. Simpson Jr. was awarded the 2008 Regenstein Pacific Collection Internship at the Field Museum of Natural History. He is a current Centennial Scholar and Ph.D. candidate in archaeology at the University of Queensland, an anthropology instructor at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA, and an instructor for Terevaka.net Archaeological Outreach on Easter Island.


Our institution completed 150 years of service to the community and to celebrate this milestone, a musical extravaganza was organized on the 7th & 8th of December.
For the function on the 7th December, the Chief Guest was Sr. Pushpa Purathur F.C. (General Councilor, Daughters of the Cross).
On this evening the Sesquicentennial Souvenir was released.
Our school website was launched at the end of the evening's festivities.


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All couples in the Diocese of Tyler who are celebrating their 5th, 15th, 25th, 40th, or 50th+ anniversaries in the year 2022 are cordially invited to attend the Diocesan Wedding Anniversary Mass celebrated by Bishop Joseph Strickland on Saturday, February 12, 2022.
The Mass will begin at 2:00 pm at The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (423 S Broadway Ave, Tyler, TX 75702) and will be followed by a reception at The Cathedral Center. Certificates will be mailed to couples celebrating 50 years or more of marriage.
Please complete the online registration form or contact Yulisa Peña in our office (903-630-5055 Ext 110) to RSVP by February 4, 2022.
Mass in Reparation of Roe vs. Wade, Jan. 22, 2022
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In the past two years small business owners reported job-specific technical skills (52 per cent) was their primary source of training followed closely by company specific knowledge/skills (49 per cent) and sales (34 per cent). Of these, 67 per cent of ownersreported company specific knowledge/skills training as providing the highest return on investment.
Thirty-eight per cent of small business owners say they are willing to take above average or significant risks in business over the next six months, up 16 points since April 2011 (22 per cent).
Canada's small businesses also are increasingly hopeful about future revenue growth, profitability and their overall financial state; more than half (60 per cent) report their current financial position is improving – up 27 points since April 2011. And the vast majority (90 per cent) remain confident their business will grow over the next six months.


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WCS Care boss 'makes a difference'
Best PracticeBusinessCare home groupsLeadersOperatorsPeopleTraining by Lee Peart	on December 16, 2016
WCS Care chief executive Christine Asbury has been recognised for 'making a difference' at the 3rd Sector Care Awards.
The award honours 'an outstanding chief executive who has demonstrated effective leadership which has significantly influenced outcomes for people who use their services, their families and the staff''.
Christine said: "We're delighted that our approach to leadership in care is really making a difference to the lives of the people who live in a WCS Care home, so that every day is a day well lived.
"Everyone has a responsibility for the culture and reputation of our homes, so the award is recognition for the whole team, who have embraced and helped develop many of the innovations we've brought in – after all, you can't be a leader if no one's prepared to follow."
Under Christine's leadership, WCS Care has become the first care home group in England to have five homes recognised as 'outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, and has begun a significant investment, redevelopment, and new build programme across its homes.
Christine introduced four key values at the charity – 'play', 'be there', 'make someone's day' and 'choose your attitude', training every one of the 700-plus team members in these fundamental principles herself.
In addition, she's introduced the Oomph! exercise programme and MyChoicePad communication tool, which opened new ways of communicating for a number of residents who needed a voice.
Judges were particularly impressed with Christine's 'bedside to boardroom' approach to leadership – it's not unusual to find her working a shift as a carer, housekeeper, or laundry assistant, which helps her understand what needs to change and develop from the ground up.
Ed Russell, director of innovation and delivery, came runner-up in the 'leadership' category, which celebrates someone that has 'demonstrated outstanding leadership which has significantly contributed to care and service excellence within a culture that puts people and quality first'.
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The last picture is indeed spectacular. I know what you mean by traveling at your own speed... when I was on my trip with Gary down to St. Tropez I also had to adjust to the group's speed and rhythm. There was not as much opportunity to stop for photo ops. On the other hand... it might have taken me double time to get there had I stopped each time I wanted.
I agree with Sonja, spectacular is the perfect word for that last photo.
What a great hike. And it really sounds as though you ate well too. Maybe Eddie knew to feed you well so your hike was better.