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Former federal prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst Cynthia Alksne on Monday said Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) wasn't telling the truth when he claimed that special counsel Robert Mueller gave his report to Attorney General Bill Barr to decide if President Trump was in the clear. In fact, she said, Barr had "injected himself" into the process — and now Republicans were trying to keep the full report hidden.
Alksne said that the American people would eventually see the Mueller report, but predicted it would be like pulling teeth.


This Anahu Flower of Hawaii soprano ukulele was made in the 1920's in Hawaii out of golden Hawaiian Koa wood, This is actually quite a rare ukulele in the past 30 years I have only seen a handful of these ukuleles they must have not made many of them. As can be seen in the photos this vintage ukulele is in excellent original condition and it is a good player!
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Vanguard's just-announced ethically-scrubbed global shares fund has arrived too late to retain one of its largest NZ institutional clients.
In a statement, ASB said as at October 11 this year it would "no longer hold securities in companies that manufacture cluster munitions, landmines or nuclear weapons".
ASB manages about $10 billion of retail money including more than $6 billion in its KiwiSaver scheme, the country's single largest. According to the latest ASB documents, the KiwiSaver scheme had about $1.1 billion invested in global equities while the bank's range of 'Easy Funds' contributed a further $300 million or so to the international shares fund.
Despite the loss of ASB, at least two of Vanguard's NZ clients – Booster (formerly Grosvenor) and start-up KiwiSaver firm Simplicity, have committed to switching to the new cleansed Vanguard product announced last week.
According to the product release information, the planned 'Vanguard International Shares Select Exclusions Index Fund' would fall 23 companies short of the previous benchmark, holding 1,541 stocks compared to the 1,564 securities in the comparable fund currently managed to the MSCI World ex Australia index.
As well as stripping out the handful of companies caught in the cluster munitions KiwiSaver furore this August, the new Vanguard global equities product – to be released by early December at the latest – would also exclude nuclear weapons-associated firms and tobacco manufacturers.
The new fund would be managed to a benchmark specified by Vanguard, the MSCI World ex Australia ex Tobacco ex Controversial Weapons ex Nuclear Weapons Index.
Robin Bowerman, Vanguard Australia head of market strategy and communications, said the fund had been designed to appeal to both Australian and New Zealand investors.
He said the NZ dollar hedged version of the new fund would cost 26 basis points, compared to the current 0.31 per cent management fee for the existing Vanguard fund (charged at 18 basis points to Australian investors).
"We're also going to lower the fee for the existing [$NZ-hedged] fund down to 24 basis points," Bowerman said.
In the wake of media coverage highlighting a potential breach of NZ cluster munitions law in several KiwiSaver funds exposed to passive global equities investments, a number of providers petitioned Vanguard to offer a screened product.
Bowerman, in NZ last week for discussions with clients, said the push from KiwiSaver funds hastened a process that was already underway at Vanguard.
According to Bowerman, most of Vanguard's NZ clients have been upbeat about the new screened fund.
Bowerman said Vanguard would work with providers to ensure a smooth transition process.
Vanguard was the passive global shares provider of choice for four of the default funds – Kiwi Wealth, Westpac, Booster (formerly Grosvenor) and previously, ASB – with the latter have the biggest exposure by far. The largest KiwiSaver provider, ANZ, uses a BlackRock passive fund for international equities in its $1 billion default product.
Both Booster and Simplicity have committed to using the new Vanguard product, to the tune of $400 million in the case of the former.
In a statement last week, Booster chief investment officer, David Beattie, said: "There are a few administrative things to get lined up, but we are aiming to do this switch near the end of November or early December".
The Vanguard International Shares Select Exclusions Index Fund – currently going through legal sign-off procedures – would overlap the standard ex Australia product by just over 97 per cent with a slightly higher P/E ratio (up 0.12) while trimming almost US$1 trillion off the market cap.
Collectively, tobacco firms represent the most significant exclusion from the new product with the largest of these, Phillip Morris, constituting 0.48 per cent of the MSCI ex Australia index.
As well as the cluster-implicated firms – General Dynamics and Textron – aircraft manufacturers Boeing (0.25 per cent of the index) and Airbus (0.11 per cent) would also be excluded from the new Vanguard fund.
Bowerman said despite the exclusions, the new product still offer NZ investors exposure to a broadly-diversified, low-cost portfolio of international shares.
According to the Vanguard release, the International Shares Select Exclusions Index Fund would have an expected tracking error of about 0.2 per cent from the MSCI World ex Australia index.
Vanguard Australia manages more than $100 billion on behalf of trans-Tasman investors across 27 wholesale funds, 11 retail products and 11 exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
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 Orthogonalsystem in der Mathematik
 in der DDR: VEB Großhandel Obst, Gemüse, Speisekartoffeln, abgekürzt: OGS
 OGS-Genehmigung (Genehmigung, Flächen zur Produktion von Obst, Gemüse oder Speisekartoffeln zu nutzen; Begriff aus der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik)
 Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, deutsch Geophysikalisches Institut Triest
 Oxford German Studies, britische wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift
 Ogdensburg International Airport (IATA-Code), Flughafen von Ogdensburg (New York), St. Lawrence County im US-Bundesstaat New York

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The Underrated Places to Discover in New Zealand: 5 Travel Ideas
by Budget Wayfarers | Australia & NZ, New Zealand | 0 comments
Underrated places in New Zealand should be known to a first time visitor. This becomes even more important if the visitor happens to be an explorer and wants to connect with a place in all its solitude. If you want to explore all of the wonders that New Zealand has to offer but don't want to be surrounded by a mad rush of tourists – Don't worry, you're not alone.
New Zealand is home to a lot of hidden gems. The underrated places in New Zealand are far too many. As a traveler, you should be aware of the lesser-known places of the land down under. New Zealand as a travel destination is the ultimate dream of every nature lover.
Heading to the off beaten track is the ideal way to experience the country of New Zealand, especially if you want to keep costs low. While the big cities and tourist attractions may be expensive, there are plenty of underrated places in New Zealand that one can enjoy.
Here are just five of them –
Top 5 Underrated Places in New Zealand
1. Hobbiton
2. Queenstown
3. Kapiti Coast
4. Little Kaiteriteri
5. Tiritiri Matangi Island
Get your Tolkien on in Hobbiton
If you're a big fan of the books of J.R.R Tolkien or even just the movies they were adapted into, then you simply must head to Hobbiton in Matamata.
Sir Peter Jackson, the director of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, noticed this stunning piece of land from his helicopter when scouting for locations. Initially, the area was a 12-acre sheep farm, but it was so transformed into a magical movie set that people can still visit today.
Most people rent a car from Auckland to get here as the journey to Hobbiton is almost as incredible as the destination. You can also opt for the two-hour-long guided tour, to learn more about the set, the Hobbit homes, and get a drink at the Green Dragon Inn. It's the perfect place to geek out when in New Zealand.
Hobbiton is J.R.R Tolkien's fantasy world re-created
The Hidden Gems in Queenstown
While Queenstown isn't exactly off the beaten path, there are plenty of places in this town that are less tourist orientated. The majority of activities in this town are based on adventure sports and partying. In fact, 1Cover crowned Queenstown as one of the best party towns in the world.
However, if you're not a fan of clubbing or bungee jumping, there are still plenty of things for you to do here. Catch a game of Frisbee in the Queenstown Gardens, do a Tiki Trail to Bob's Peak, check out the stunning underwater observatory, and then finish the day off with a dollar jet boat ride.
The best thing about Queenstown is that the majority of attractions are cheap or free – meaning you can keep costs as low as possible.
Stroll Across the Kapiti Coast
If you're staying in Wellington, then a 45-minute drive will get you to the jaw-dropping Kapiti Coast – also known as the Golden Coast. The entire district seems to stretch on forever and is punctuated by little towns such as Paraparaumu, Te Horo, and Waikanae.
Kapiti Coast is one of New Zealand's oldest nature reserve. Whether you want to enjoy fish and chips on the beach or bird watch on an island, there will be something for everyone in Kapiti Coast. The region is home to a number of beautiful birds who find it safe to habitat here.
Here you will find a mainly unspoiled landscape, with dramatic hills and beautiful sea vistas. You'll also find Kapiti Island here, which is one of the best nature reserves in the whole of New Zealand.
Sunset view at Kapiti Coast
Make an Escape in Little Kaiteriteri
A Google search for Little Kaiteriteri brings up barely any information – which means you know it's going to be a real hidden gem. While the island town of Kaiteriteri is quite well-known by tourists, particularly those who want to visit Abel Tasman National Park, Little Kaiteriteri is pretty much unspoiled by visitors.
Make your way down the coastline to find this sheltered beach that is about as secluded as you can get on the island. The sands are golden, the water is calm, and you very rarely have to worry about bumping into anyone else. This underrated slice of paradise is a must-visit for those looking for some solitude.
The coastal region of Abel Tasman National Park
Ferry Over to Tiritiri Matangi Island
Tiritiri Matangi Island is a truly special place that has to be seen to be believed. Head to downtown Auckland where you can get on a ferry to the magical wildlife sanctuary and conservation project.
Thanks to 120 years of farming, Tiritiri Matangi Island had around 94% of its dense bush stripped away. However, between 1984-1994, approximately 250,000 trees were planted by volunteers. The island has truly begun to flourish, with around 60% of it now covered in trees. It has become home to some spectacular wildlife and rare birds, so this is one hidden gem you don't want to miss out on.
New Zealand is packed with things to see and do, but sometimes it can feel a bit tourist-heavy. These underrated places to discover will have you wishing you visited much sooner. Do you have any others to add to the list? Let us know in the comments below.
The current blog has been contributed by Mr. James Tolson in partnership with 1 Cover – New Zealand's travel insurance you can count on. James is the King of Hidden Gems. Travelling around the world, he aims to avoid as many tourist traps as possible and find the places that even locals don't know about.
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We believe that science should be a hands on, engaging and practical experience for the children, an experience that feeds their natural enthusiasm and curiosity and where children can see that all of their ideas, opinions and questions are valued. Science draws upon other areas of the curriculum and allows links to be made with prior learning, e.g. measuring the distance that a toy car travels down a ramp or writing questions for others to answer using the correct punctuation.
The science curriculum at Woodfield has been planned to ensure that all children are given the opportunity to develop a broad understanding of the world around them, it aims to give them a broad basis from which they can develop their understanding further as they progress through the key stages.
The KS1 science curriculum builds upon the experiences gained in EYFS through the areas of Understanding the World and Health and Self-care.
Although we follow the National Curriculum for science, when it is relevant to do so, the children are exposed to areas of science beyond those set out within the KS1 curriculum. Where we have chosen to do this, it is because we feel that doing so will enrich the curriculum experience on offer. For example, we have added learning about electricity and light and dark into our Fantastic Ideas topic and have added in learning about the safe use of medicines into our Food, Glorious Food and It's Good To Be Me topics. We have done this in order to provide an enriched curriculum that relates to the everyday world.
The Woodfield science curriculum aims to develop enquiring minds in all children and, while engaging in the broad science curriculum on offer, the children acquire specific skills and knowledge to help them to think scientifically, to gain an understanding of scientific processes and also an understanding of the uses and implications of scientific developments, today and for the future. The children also become familiar with the different types of scientific enquiry that are used to explore the world around them in a scientific way. These include pattern seeking, fair test and identifying and classifying investigations. While thinking scientifically, all children are encouraged to develop and use a range of skills including questioning scientifically, making observations, planning and carrying out investigations, as well as being encouraged to question the world around them.
Throughout all of the science curriculum, children are expected to use the 7Rs of learning. For example, in problem solving investigations the children will need to be resilient and be willing to take risks, while in all investigations the children will need to learn to be ready with the equipment that they need, be resourceful if things don't quite go as planned and be reflective and think about how carefully they have worked as a scientist. By employing our 7Rs of learning in science, as we do throughout the curriculum, we aim for the children to become independent learners and to be able to explore the possible answers for their scientific based questions.
We endeavour to ensure that the science curriculum we provide will give children the confidence, enthusiasm and motivation to continue to further develop their scientific skills into the next stage of their education.
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It's the northern Midwest's turn in the spotlight for potential harvest delays from heavy rainfall. Moderate to heavy rain is forecast during most of Monday through Saturday, September 17-22, with amounts exceeding 2 inches, and reaching to more than five inches.
The main area for this heavy rain encompasses portions of the Corn Belt that have seen many wet days during the 2018 growing season -- central and southern Minnesota; most of Wisconsin; northern Iowa; eastern South Dakota; and northeastern Nebraska.
"The pattern next week features: a trough over southwest Canada and the northwest U.S. and subtropical high pressure dominating the southern U.S. and the western Atlantic Ocean," Palmerino said. "This will be a more active rainfall pattern for the central U.S. due to a boundary zone over the Midwest separating colder weather to the north and west from milder weather to the south and east."
Palmerino noted that Gulf of Mexico moisture, which had been partially taken away by the formation of Hurricane Florence along with a tropical disturbance in southern Texas, will be more available over the next week. "We will see Gulf moisture getting pumped northward into parts of the central U.S.," Palmerino said.
The pattern continues to look wet for the central U.S. during this week of Sept 17-22.


A new WebVR experience launched this month is teaching users about air pollution around the planet.
There's Something in the Air is a VR data visualization experience created by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Brookline Interactive Group (BIG), The Public VR Lab, and Datavized Technologies. It uses VR to present viewers with a globe that they can spin to see different pollution statistics for different countries and a slider so they can cycle through data from 1990 – 2015.
As narration at the start of the experience suggests, the piece is best viewed in the HTC Vive, though also works well with smartphone-based devices (or even just your normal browser). Poles extend from each country's landscape, their height and color indicating the amount of pollution they produced in the given year. Furter narration and explanations also accompany certain countries. It's a pretty accessible means of getting a glimpse of how the world if coping with cutting down on pollution.


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Podcasts stats: what we know (a follow-up) | radioinfo
Podcasts stats: what we know (a follow-up)
Sunday 28 August, 2016
Photo credit: Dan Taylor-Watt via Flickr
Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland
In July, I posted a piece about how much we don't know about podcast stats. Today I wanted to write about the iTunes podcast chart: because it isn't a chart, and not nearly enough people know that. But before I do, a few points from the last time I wrote about this.
As a result of my earlier piece, Blubrry outlined to me how they get some data: by watching the servers for partial requests, which means that a listener is streaming a podcast rather than downloading it (something they call an 'active play'). This gives them quite a bit of data about how much of a podcast people listen to - and where they skip - and is a useful sample of the full audience behaviour.
Omny have since announced that they have magic that somehow gets data from 30% of plays within Apple's podcast app. It offers "approximate understanding of verified plays, skip and drop-off points from a previously untrackable sample of Apple Podcast listeners". I suspect there's some relationship between what Blubrry do and what Omny are doing.
And so to the iTunes Podcast Chart. Please can we stop calling it a chart? Because it isn't a chart. Let's call it the iTunes Podcast Number Thing.
Nick Quah from podcast newsletter Hot Pod asked a bunch of his readers how the iTunes Podcast Number Thing was calculated earlier this year. Here are the opinions he got back.
The fundamental thing is: it doesn't measure downloads. That's what I mean when I say that it isn't a chart. The podcast that's #1 is not the podcast that has the most amount of downloads.
The iTunes Podcast Number Thing is there to help people discover new podcasts. So it doesn't measure downloads (since it would be really hard to change the chart). Instead, it measures the number of new, unique, subscribers that a podcast has had, averaged out over a few days.
That's why it's constantly changing - because it's designed to. And why, if you find your position in the iTunes Podcast Number Thing going down, as it inevitably will, it's nothing to do with the amount of downloads your podcast has or your popularity as a podcaster - it's merely that the amount of new, unique, subscribers for your podcast that week has decreased. So, promote it more.
Radio talent, especially, thrives on numbers: because we want to be liked, and how better to know you're liked than numbers of followers on Twitter (11,500, since you asked), or an appearance on another kind of chart: like the iTunes Podcast Number Thing. But this one is nothing to do with consumption or audience or anything.
The iTunes Podcast Number Thing is only an indication on how good you are at driving new subscribers to iTunes. If it is a chart, it just lists the best marketers in the business: which is why we in radio have an unfair advantage in that we have a recognised brand, and hundreds of thousands of listeners every day who we can market a new podcast to.
The real numbers you should be pushing for are total podcast downloads. Go hunt those down. And ignore the iTunes Podcast Chart. Because it's not a chart.
James Cridland is a radio futurologist: a writer, speaker and consultant on the effect that new platforms and technology are having on the radio business across the world.
A former radio presenter, James has worked for stations and companies across the world, including the original Virgin Radio in London, the BBC, Futuri Media, Imagination Technologies and Seven Network. He has judged many industry awards, including the CBAA, ABC Local Radio, RAIN and the UK's ARIAS.
He writes for publications across the world, and runs media.info the worldwide media information website. He also runs a free weekly newsletter with news of radio's future.
British by birth, James lives in Brisbane, QLD and is a fan of craft beer.
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Dodge City, KS (DDG)
The former El Vaquero Harvey House and depot was built in 1898. Today the rehabilitated structure houses a passenger waiting area, meeting space, a repertory company and a variety of offices.
Central Avenue & Wyatt Earp Street
Facility Ownership: City of Dodge City
Parking Lot Ownership: City of Dodge City
Platform Ownership: BNSF Railway
Track Ownership: BNSF Railway
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The Amtrak stop in Dodge City is located at the former El Vaquero Harvey House and depot, a two-story red brick Richardsonian Romanesque style structure that was built in 1898 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) and subsequently enlarged and altered. Occupying almost two blocks, the building included a passenger depot and railroad offices, as well as a hotel and eating house run by Fred Harvey. The "Harvey Houses," as they were known, dotted the ATSF tracks across the West. In the days before dining cars became common, passengers had to detrain in order to eat a meal at a trackside restaurant. The food was generally of poor quality until Fred Harvey revolutionized the offerings starting in the 1870s.
By the turn of the 20th century, the ATSF and Fred Harvey had begun to build a series of trackside hotels in the Southwest that were meant to attract tourists and help generate money for both companies. The buildings often adhered to fanciful designs that looked to the region's American Indian and Spanish past. Drawing on these traditions, the railroad and Fred Harvey created resorts replete with a bit of exoticism that drew tourists from across the United States and even abroad.
Faced with a decline in passenger rail traffic, many Harvey Houses were shuttered in the 1940s and 1950s–including El Vaquero, which closed in 1948. Portions of the hotel structure were used thereafter as railroad offices, while other areas were boarded up with all the furnishings and fixtures left in place. In 1996, BNSF Railway donated the depot to the city, and it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The Santa Fe Depot, the largest depot still standing in the state of Kansas, has been completely rehabilitated to its early appearance and is today 100 percent occupied. From 2000 to 2003, the depot and the El Vaquero/Harvey House restaurant were renovated with funding through grants from the Kansas Department of Transportation, U. S. Department of Transportation via the TEA-21 reimbursement program and the Kansas State Historical Society, as well as private donations gathered by the Boot Hill Repertory Company (now the Depot Theater Company) and funding from Dodge City.
The Depot Theater Company is a major tenant in the building and the crown jewel of the Southwest Kansas theater scene. Visitors to the theater can enjoy state-of-the-art dinner theater, cabarets, murder mystery dinners and a variety of other events and activities. The theater boasts a youth division program and Final Fridays (on the last Friday of the month) with live performances.
In 2015, the city assumed management of the historic Santa Fe Depot Complex. Ongoing restoration efforts have included repointing the brick, stone and mortar of the exterior, which was paid for by city funds committed to the building through the "Why Not Dodge" sales tax as well as historic rehabilitation tax credits. A $90,000 Heritage Trust Fund grant awarded by the Kansas State Historical Society was combined with funds from the city and tax credits to restore the windows, doors and soffits on the south and west side of the building. The city was then awarded $258,000 through the Federal Highway Administration's Transportation Enhancement (TE) program to support further station rehabilitation work. Under the TE program, funds can be used for activities related to the preservation of historic transportation facilities, including depots. The grant allowed for rehabilitation and replacement of the doors, windows and soffits on the north and east sides of the building.
The city rehabilitated the second and third floors of the depot for office space in 2016. These areas, which formerly housed the hotel, had been demolished in the previous remodel. They now accommodate the offices of the Dodge City Convention and Visitor's Bureau, Dodge City Ford County Development Corporation and the Dodge City Area Chamber of Commerce. The build out cost $774,000 and was paid for through the city's transient guest tax along with historic rehabilitation tax credits. The finishes, including woodwork throughout, mimic the appearance of the original Fred Harvey hotel rooms. Visitors can step back in time in a hotel room and bathroom refurbished by the Depot Theater Guild to reflect the Fred Harvey era.
The former hotel lobby is the main gathering room and features many of the original fixtures, flooring, counter, woodwork and leaded glass windows. The Harvey House dining room has been restored for use as a meeting and special event space. City staff open the waiting room for Amtrak customers one hour prior to the arrival of the Southwest Chief and offer hot beverage service and restrooms. The Amtrak area also houses the offices of Dodge City Public Transit, whose bus routes all serve the depot.
Dodge City is the seat of Ford County, and the community sits near the Arkansas River and the 100th meridian, in an area of complete prairie. From 1847 until 1882, a sequence of forts was built in the Dodge City area to protect travelers along the Santa Fe Trail, ending with the U.S. Army's Fort Dodge. Cattle ranching, travel along the Santa Fe Trail and the approach of the ATSF all encouraged people to settle and found Dodge City in 1872, just five miles west of Fort Dodge. The ATSF arrived in September 1872 to find a town ready and waiting for business.
In 1883 and 1884, Dodge City experienced a boom as a Cow Town, due to it being the best place for cattle herds to meet the railroad. Cattle were driven up from Texas to the railheads in Kansas; however it was thought that the Texas longhorns were spreading splenic fever via ticks to other cattle. In 1885, the Kansas state legislature extended a quarantine across the state, and within a year the cowboys, saloon keepers, gamblers and brothel owners had moved west. Dodge City became a town like other agricultural communities in the area.
Later, it was learned the Texas cattle did not have the ticks on them, but rather the eggs were imbedded in the mud in their feet. The mud needed to be cleaned out and the threat of ticks would be eliminated. Dodge City successfully lobbied to repeal the quarantine years later, but the Texas cattle industry had already made other arrangements by routing the cattle to Missouri. This city never regained the cattle trade it once had.
As an archetypal town of the American Old West, Dodge City is also famous as the setting for the long-running radio and television western drama, Gunsmoke.
Image: Amtrak/Marc Glucksman.
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Prickly Pam: Isn't it ironic?
After I have been well for several years, I am so optimistic that I won't ever get sick again.
Then I start writing posts like Put Me On The Crazy List, saying I should never be able to purchase a gun. I tell my friend that he should never give me the guns he keeps safe for me.
Ah, but then I get sick again.
I yearn for a gun; it would be so quick that way. But I don't even have the energy to go buy one. And my friend certainly won't give me one. I don't want to talk to anyone anyway, so I wouldn't even call him.
And I yearn for multiple bottles of pills. To just go to sleep forever. Why was I so certain I'd never want them? And my doctor sure as hell won't prescribe a bunch of them for me now.
Yes, Alanis, it is ironic.


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One of the most exciting events in a new school year is yearbook pictures. Kids from kindergarten through high school want pictures to share with their friends and family members. Your child's perfect smile starts with oral health.
The ideal time for a pediatric dentistry appointment is before picture day. Your child needs an exam and cleaning even if they doesn't have any existing dental problems. This is especially important if they has not seen the dentist in more than six months. He or she can have the healthiest start to a new school year.
While your child's oral health is your main priority, you know he or she wants to look his or her best on picture day. A professional cleaning will result in bright, white teeth and a perfect smile. They can also learn good oral care habits to keep their teeth clean and healthy at home.
With regular dental appointments, your child can have a picture-perfect smile on this special day and throughout the entire school year. Mark dental appointments on your calendar at least every six months, or as often as the dentist recommends.
When kids look great in their school pictures it's a source of pride. They will be happy to give his picture to everyone he knows. As a parent, you can be proud, too. You know you are taking the right steps to make oral health a part of your child's life.
Years into the future, you and your child can look back on their school pictures with a memories to reflect with. It's a joyful time in their life that you will always remember. Regardless of grade level, pictures will help them recall his school days as the happiest time of his life. For a perfect smile, make an appointment with Dr. Walters today.


"Play your music." – Three simple words spoken by a beloved grandmother in the waning moments of her life. To some it may sound like a line from a Hallmark movie, almost too moving to be true. To Chris Carroll, it was that sentence that cemented her conviction to follow a passion that had been moving her since grade school.
Dylan Stewart will open the show.


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Ping An Wins Three Championships at ISBI with its AI Image Technologies
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd.
SHANGHAI and HONG KONG, April 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) released its 2019 international competition results. Ping An Technology, a subsidiary of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. (hereafter "Ping An" or the "Group", HKEX: 2318, SSE: 601318), won three competitions: Automatic Cancer Detection and Classification in Whole-slide Lung Histopathology (ACDC), Endoscopic Artefact Detection (EAD) and Pathologic Myopia Challenge (PALM). The Company also claimed world firsts in six sub-tasks.
The three competitions won by Ping An Technology at this year's ISBI conference have significant clinical application value in the medical field. The improvement of image quality addressed by EAD can help doctors improve the accuracy of disease diagnosis and significantly boost the efficiency of image reading, which is of great significance for the development of better clinical man-machine assisted diagnosis and treatment tools and early screening tools.
ISBI is a top international academic conference dedicated to biomedical imaging, co-sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). Every year, ISBI holds an international competition for medical imaging technology worldwide, attracting the participation of world-renowned universities and research institutions (https://grand-challenge.org/).
By virtue of the technical accumulation of millions of medical concepts and medical knowledge maps, professional medical image knowledge, and a powerful platform of AI algorithms, Ping An Technology eventually surpassed its opponents to be crowned the international competition champion.
In the Automatic Cancer Detection and Classification in Whole-slide Lung Histopathology (ACDC) competition, Ping An Technology won the championship with a total score of 0.8373, beating 391 participants.
The competition content of Endoscopic Artefact Detection (EAD) involved the AI automatic detection of endoscopic artefacts. Ping An Technology won with a total score of 0.3610, and also won three sub-tasks of Multi-class artefact detection, Region segmentation and Detection generalisation, beating 478 participants.
The Pathologic Myopia Challenge (PALM) focuses on the detection of AI algorithms associated with the Pathological Myopia in fundus photos. Ping An Technology won the overall championship with the absolute advantage of three core indicators, and won the two sub-tasks of optic disc/cup segmentation and lesion segmentation, beating 345 participants.
Xiao Jing, chief scientist of Ping An Group, said that lung cancer is the most common malignant cancer in the world, and the pathological segmentation of lung cancer has high clinic correlation. The automatic segmentation of lung cancer regions from pathological sections by an AI auxiliary system is helpful in reducing the workload of pathologists and the subjective bias in diagnosis, which is of great significance to the auxiliary diagnosis and analysis of lung cancer.
Xie Guotong, chief medical scientist of Ping An Group, said that endoscopy is widely used in early pathological examinations of stomach, colon and other tissues in clinical practice, and endoscopic artefact detection is of great significance for image quality control and clinical diagnosis. Pathological myopia is a retinal degenerative disease, and the incidence rate is increasing year by year in high myopia populations. Early diagnosis and regular follow-ups are very important.
In recent years, Ping An Group has continued to promote the "financial + ecological" and "financial + technology" strategies, relying on leading AI technology to build a powerful repository of medical knowledge and a medical health ecosystem. Based on its technological advantages, Ping An Technology has integrated a complete process solution matrix for end-to-end diseases in the fields of intelligent medical quality control, intelligent disease prediction, intelligent triage and guidance, intelligent medical image screening, intelligent auxiliary diagnosis and treatment. Starting from the pre-diagnosis, diagnosis and treatment of three medical links, Ping An Technology helps solve the medical pain points faced by patients, doctors and users of medical institutions. At present, Ping An Group's medical AI model covers over 1,000 common diseases, and about 800 million potential patients benefit from it.
For enquiries, please contact:
Gareth Hewett @ +852 68822027 or gareth.john@pingan.com.hk
SOURCE Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd.
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There are 3 groups meeting on Sunday mornings: the Racing Groups at 8.45am and 9:00am in Asda Car Park and the Touring Group at 9.30am at Oldtown.
The Touring Group run is being led by Nigel Lindsay and will meet at the Oldtown at 9.30am. This group is aimed at cyclists who want to improve their fitness levels and also as an entry point for leisure cyclists who want to join a cycling club. These runs are around 30 – 40 miles in length with an average speed of 14 – 15mph.
The Racing Group currently is split into two groups - A and B. Group A is led by Jason Glasgow and meets at Asda at 8.45am. This group is aimed at improving the racing fitness level of cyclists who are competing in club and open racing. Group B is led by Jason Bowman and leaves Asda at 9:00. These runs are around 50 – 60 miles in length, with an average speed of 17mph to 20+.
Anyone wanting to have a go at one of these groups is more than welcome to come along on a Sunday morning and try it out. Please contact us first to check as some weeks there are changes due to race fixtures/weather etc.
During the winter season there are a couple of safety and courtesy measures that East Tyrone riders should make. Riders going out on Club runs should plan to have a good working tail light to ensure they are visible in the darker mornings. As the roads are now also wet through the winter months, riders going out on Club runs should fit full rear mud guards as a courtesy to their fellow riders.


I walk on bare red earth, inhale the dewy hot air, and take in the majesty of these wonderful peoples, moment by moment. In my time here, in Uganda and Tanzania, I discover so many unique memories where my world view is clashing with someone I have never met, and may never meet again. It is as if a memory pearl has been offered to me in these exchanges. I record these memories so I will never forget. I add each one to my string, tie a small knot, and add the next. I will never lose these pearls. This strand of pearls comforts me and reminds me of the majesty of each individual — of Mother Nature and the unique experiences she creates for us to cherish. These pearls celebrate victory, dignity, and splendor of the people and places I encountered on my travels.


Ken Davidoff of the New York Post has reported that Travis Hafner's salary with the Yankees is worth $2 million guaranteed.
Travis Hafner's salary with the #Yankees is in the neighborhood of $2 million guaranteed.
It's more than the $1.1 million that was originally reported, but it's still a very affordable contract for the Yankees.
Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports confirmed that Travis Hafner's deal with the Yankees is all but done. It will be a one-year deal with a low-base salary, but will include incentives.
Previous topic: Would Felix Hernandez, Clayton Kershaw or Justin Verlander Be Best Yankees Fit?


This is a story that somebody's great-great-grandmother told a little girl ever so many years ago:There was once a little old man and a little old woman, who lived in a little old house at the edge of a woods. They'd have been a very happy old couple but for one thing — they had no small child and they yearned-for one very much. One day, when the little old woman was baking hot gingerbread, she cut a cake in the shape of a little boy, and put it into the oven.
Before long she went to the oven to see if it was baked. As soon as the oven door was opened up, the little ingerbread boy leapt out, and began to run away as fast as he could go.
You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man.
In a medium bowl, cream together the dry butterscotch pudding mix, butter, and brown sugar until smooth. Stir in the egg. Combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, and cinnamon; stir into the pudding mixture. Cover and chill dough until firm, about 1 hour.


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Book reviews, short stories, and all things science fiction.
About RVP
The Schultzmev Scale
The Schultzmev Scale is the rating system employed by this blog for book reviews. It takes its name from the Solmev Scale, a fictional scale from the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons, which was a scale used for how earthlike a planet was during the initial human exploration and terraforming period. It is intended to provide quantitative insight into the quality of various critical elements of a science fiction novel.
The Schultzmev Scale is composed of an out-of-ten score on 5 criteria and an overall rating based on the average of the criteria scores.
Criteria and Descriptions
How enjoyable was this book to read? Was it like pulling toenails (1/10), or did I fly through it like a katana through gently microwaved butter (10/10)? This criterion is based on ease of language and the ability to guide the reader through the story. It also accounts for the frequency of typos, mistakes, and errors. (Oh my!)
Character Depth
How believable, relatable, and credible are the characters? What kind of development do they go through during the book? Do static characters make sense being static? Should they have been dynamic? Do human characters seem human, and alien characters alien (or, where appropriate, also human)? Does every character seem to have all the depth of a wet napkin (1/10), or do their stories and transformations serve as a monument to the human experience (10/10)?
How intriguing and creative was the plot? Did it take me on a rollercoaster of missed guesses, suspense, emotion, and graceful resolution? Have I read this story a thousand times before, or was it beautifully and singularly unique? Was it predictable, full of loose ends and unnecessary story lines, and/or lacking in areas of climax or denouement (1/10), or was it a cohesive, epic journey through time and space (10/10)? This criterion includes the author's use of circle-back references to people, places, documents, etc.
How original and interesting is the universe the book is set in? Are the various elements (planets, names, technologies, species, etc.) tropey and unrealistic, or custom crafted, using concepts from other stories where appropriate, and with a unique twist? Is the world well-described and easy to imagine, left vague and difficult to interpret, or drastically overexposed to the point of detracting from the story? Do I have to constantly flip back through the pages to get my bearings on who's who and where we are (1/10), or can I easily imagine myself in this world, observing and participating in the story as it unfolds (10/10)? There are bonus points for well-constructed languages.
How effectively does the author employ style, prose, and format in their writing? Is the story one massive blob of incoherent text (1/10), or is it gorgeously formatted in a way that breaks up the story into easily memorable segments, employing masterful style that makes for quotes that you want to hang on your reading room wall (10/10)? Are meta-elements used effectively in the story, or are they left unresolved, never to be mentioned again in the actual text?
This is a true average of the scores of the criteria. If any adjustments are made up or down, they will be clearly noted.


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The documentaries selected for the Bishan Harvestival this year include Li Yifan's film about religious organizations and village governance and its impact on villagers' daily lives in Sichuan, Mao Chenyu's trilogy on family planning, death, and mysticism, Guo Xizhi's two films on small towns' political reforms and relocation projects, Lu Xinyu's focused study on the daily events in a small village in Huizhou, and two other films made by two villagers under the supervision of Wu Wenguang. The aforementioned first four filmmakers perceive reality from an outsider's perspective whereas the latter two belong to the rural world of their subject – therefore, their films are self-portraits.
During the making of these documentaries about Chinese village life, the filmmakers have consciously minimized their elitism. They went down to the grassroots level and created a leveled field of vision to use for their documentaries. They let reality speak for itself and let images forge their own objectivity. In the villagers' documentaries, the comments and suggestions given by professionals were treated as advice; during the production stage, the professionals all "exit stage left" and let villagers take the central roles. This method harbingers a kind of imagistic democracy in the age of affordable digital filmmaking for the common people; it stands out against the rampant elitism in today's culture as a big step forward; and it corresponds to the principles behind rural development since the time of the Republic of China (1912-1949).
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Founded in 1998, GDS has developed a reputation both within Australia and overseas of a company that strives to deliver excellence in all areas.
As a wholly Australian owned company based in Nowra, New South Wales, GDS offers true sovereign sustainment capability for the ADF, and Security Sectors as well as providing equipment and support services to other Regional Defence Forces.


Sleep is an essential part of well-being. However, many of us do not realize how greatly our sleep patterns impact our overall health and healing. This workshop will help you analyze your sleep habits and discover the immediate changes you can make to improve your sleep, no matter where you are in your health journey.
Why sleep is a CRITICAL part of health.
Why children AND adults require sleep.
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Practical tips you can use immediately to IMPROVE your sleep patterns.
Dr. Parm Rai graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor's in Biology (BSc.) and attained his Doctor of Chiropractic (DC), with honours at Southern California University of Health Sciences. He is an advocate for functional health and actively speaks on the importance of the human potential and how our health can impact not only the individual but our community.
Cancellation Policy: Event payment is due upon registration. An event registration is considered a commitment to pay. No cancellations, refunds or credits after 12:00 pm on Monday, May 27, 2019.
The boardroom will be open at 11:30 am. Please feel free to come early and network.


more being a plain Jane once you hit the Diesel™ terrain. Hop in the fashionably fast lane and have speedy style that will sustain the cuteness campaign.
Button down collar. Button up front. Long sleeves with button cuffs. ; Patch pocket on the left chest. Slightly gathered at the shoulders. 70% viscose, 30% cotton. Hand wash cold, hang dry. Free shipping in the USA.


Nothing major has changed (AFAIK) but it now supports 4 USB ports.
This obviously has additional power requirements. However, looking at the details, each port can now supply 300ma rather than 100ma.
Even though the RPi+ has lower power requirements ~600ma rather than 750ma, this of course requires an upgraded PSU - Now 2amp.
So when looking at issues - check if it is a Model B+ and it's PSU, as anyone who "upgrades" to the new model may not have the right PSU for the job.
I had a quick play with one this weekend, and the power control seems to be a lot better - power jitters don't crash the RPi now.
However I was unable to get a USB powered HDD to work - mouse and KB showed signs of panic, but no crash.
So it seems that it is a lot more reliable, but alas it is still not USB compliant, so 500ma devices will not work - eg HDD.
But, most other USB plugins should work as long as a suitable PSU is used.
If in doubt - use at least 2amp + and you'll be fine.


Wooded 3.7acre lot in desirable subdivision of log homes or log sided homes. Great location to build that log home of your dreams. Easy access to route 16 and only 10 minutes to Rochester.
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Kartachi is a constraction firm. They heard from our previous customer кърти-чисти-извозва how good we are and with our fast schedules. They needed a website design for their haul and contruction services. The problem was for our website designers uk how to present the business as good as possible. This design is slim and clean. We use the favorite colors of the customers as well as their logo design which was created by our graphic design team before the project was in the phase website design.
With our previous experience with кърти-чисти-извозва our seo team managed to bring this website to top positions in no time. The overall time for completion the project was a 2 weeks but the seo campain continued for 3 months and now every few months the customers are calling us to run new campains.


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Book Blitz: Winging It by @LisaGailGreen
I bet you'll never look at your tooth fairy the same way after reading this story!
Check out all the goodies, which include an excerpt and a giveaway. It's gonna be a lot of fun today!
(Destiny Rules, #1)
Lisa Gail Green
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
Sixteen-year-old Zach discovers his mom is a fairy godmother. But what's really freaking him out is the fact that he's a fairy too. Now that his mom's been injured, he must finish her assignments before the next full moon or they're both grounded, meaning no wings, no wands, and no position in the Organization of Destiny Fulfillment (ODF). Sure it would suck to lose his newfound powers, but Zach quickly learns there's far more at stake. Failure also means messing up the lives of the people he's supposed to help.
Between a fairy-trainee who happens to be the girl he's been in love with since fifth grade, a boss he doesn't trust, and a gremlin physics teacher that wants to eat him, Zach's pretty sure even a magic wand can't bail him out.
Winging It has been a featured book on WATTPAD and here are just a few of the comments from readers:
"ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! BRAVO BRAVO! I sincerely, really loved this book. What was funny is I went out on a wing from werewolf and tried out fantasy and I love it. Your book inspires me to read more fantasy. Excellent story telling."
"Amazing, absolutely amazing. What a beautiful ending."
"I love this ending! It leaves just enough loose ends that imagination can fill in the gaps. Whatever happens next, I'm glad I somehow found this amazing book!"
"This was one of the best books I've ever read please make a sequel!!"
"I really enjoyed the book! And i spent like two whole days reading it.. i couldnt put it down at all XD
And like everyone else if like to read a sequel… soo….SEQUEL!!"
Excerpt from Winging It :
Slipping in a puddle under the broken water fountain should teach me to stop gawking at Jenna Macintyre, but I know it won't. I fell for her when we were ten, and in the six years since, I've continued to fall. And stutter. And make an ass out of myself in general.
"Good one, Zachy," she says, leaning down so that her golden hair swings in my face. She flicks my shoulder, sending shivers down all my nerve endings, straightens up, and heads off toward whatever her next class is. If I had any guts at all I'd call her on all the humiliating things she's ever said to me, but I don't. Instead, I wonder if she moves that way on purpose.
Her gaggle of wannabes follow in her wake, blocking the view. Their laughter bounces back down the hall even after I hear the door close behind them.
It's only after the final bell rings that I realize I should probably breathe if I want to avoid passing out and drowning in an inch of water. So, I shake myself and stand up, leaning on Emmet. I almost forgot he was there. I groan when I feel the heavy material of my soaked jeans clinging to my legs. Nice.
"Loitering now I see, Mr. Slater." My sixth period Physics teacher's voice nearly makes me slip again.
"But-" I start.
"Save it for someone who cares. Get to your next class or I'll be happy to send you to detention." Mr. Crown slides his Coke bottle glasses up the bridge of his nose and curls his thin upper lip in distaste.
"I had an accident," I say in a rush.
He raises his eyebrows, taking in my pants, and heat floods my face.
"Not that kind of accident. I slipped in the hall because of the broken fountain." I ought to threaten to sue.
"That's what happens when you run in the hallways."
Is he serious? I draw my hands down over my face, trying to collect myself. "Fine. I'm going," I say, slinging my backpack over my shoulder.
"Watch that attitude." He slams the door to his room, and I flip him off before turning back to Emmet, the only other person left in the now deserted hall.
"Take good notes," I say. "I'm out of here."
"Thank God," Emmet says. "I thought you were going to actually go to class like that for a minute."
Lisa Gail Green writes paranormal and fantasy because she loves to bring life to the stories in her head. WINGING IT, Book 1 of her new YA fantasy series, Destiny Rules, is NOW available. Sign up for her newsletter for more deals and info at LisaGailGreen.com. Oh — and she would most definitely have a werewolf for a pet if she weren't allergic.
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A Town Called Panic (2009)
September 24, 2016 September 24, 2016 / swampflix
I have a bad track record with modern CG animation as filtered through companies like Disney & Pixar and a traditional 2D, hand-drawn animation feature is increasingly difficult to come by, so stop motion might very well be my final refuge in animation as a cinematic medium. This might help explain why (besides them being lovingly crafted & emotionally devastating) titles like Mary and Max & Kubo and the Two Strings have stood out to me as some of the more memorable animated features of the last decade. The 2009 stop motion madcap comedy A Town Called Panic, adapted from a cult Belgian TV show of the same name, doesn't aim for the same awe-inspiring depth & beauty of titles like Kubo. All things considered, it's probably a lot more in line with the slapstick antics of something like Shaun the Sheep. However, its tactile visuals, which go out of their way to call attention to its stop motion format, and its manic comedy style make for a much more memorable, enjoyable experience than most of your standard talking CG animal features could. I'm not saying that A Town Called Panic is automatically "better" than all CG animation features because of its virtue as a stop motion work (at the very least, it's highly likely that Zootopia will make my Top Films of 2016 list at the end of the year and it easily falls under that umbrella). I just find it remarkably easy to tap into the film's headspace because I am in love with its methods, however crudely executed.
Stop motion studios like Laika pride themselves in pushing their medium to a technical extreme, smoothing out the movement of their figurines through CGI doctoring and striving to achieve grander, larger scale accomplishments in their films' action sequences. A Town Called Panic is refreshing in the way it casually approaches the medium, intentionally drawing attention to the crudeness of its visual style. Its characters are simple figurines anyone could pick up out of a dollar store toy bag: a cowboy, an Indian, a horse. Their character names are just as simplistic: Cowboy, Indian, Horse. When they run from danger they have to hobble violently because of the limited movement of the plastic bases attached to their feet. There's a world built around their overly simplistic shapes; pianos, cars, houses, and computers are designed so that they can be operated by horses. It's not the intricately mapped out, multiscale world of Zootopia, however. It's more like a children's playset. I haven't seen stop motion employed so casually & so conspicuously since KaBlam! in the 90s. The approach doesn't necessarily read as lazy, though. It merely works as a reminder of how effective stop motion can be as a visual medium even when stripped down to its bare parts. The animation in A Town Called Panic is just complicated enough to deliver the physical comedy & whimsical absurdity of its story. It's function over fashion, but in its kids' playset simplicity the film does achieve its own aesthetic.
The plot is similarly bare bones. As with a lot of television series, especially comedies, A Town Called Panic plays like several TV episodes strung together instead of a traditional feature-length movie plot. Cowboy, Horse, and Indian are three roommates who've formed a strange, symbiotic domesticity within their household. Horse is the responsible adult of the house, while Cowboy & Indian are his goofball foils. They kick the plot into action when they forget Horse's birthday & build him a barbecue as a last minute present. Through a mistake anyone could make, really, Cowboy & Indian order 50 million bricks instead of the mere 50 required to build the barbecue and decide to hide the bricks from the much put-upon birthday boy. For all of its manic energy & physics-bending absurdity, the best attribute of A Town Called Panic is its comedic patience. There's a great payoff to the absurd visual gag of "hiding" 50 million bricks, but it's a very slow, methodical reveal that relies on the strength of comedic timing even more than it does on situational humor. I don't know if I've ever seen a stop motion feature more confident with showing absolutely nothing happening onscreen in lingering shots so the impact of its long-game gags can pay off with greater comedic confidence. The setup of the bricks leads to many ingenious punchlines and episodic adventures, including an Atlantis-esque underwater colony, scientist kidnappers, and farm animal ammo in a territorial war. The absurdity is gradually, incrementally escalated, though. It's a payoff that doesn't arrive immediately, which is both surprising for a feature with such manic energy and impressive in terms of comedic confidence.
Overall, it's difficult for me to pinpoint the exact tone of A Town Called Panic from the outside looking in. Is the franchise intended for children or stoned-out-of-their-mind college students? Both? It commands neither the cutesiness of Wallace & Gromit nor the dramatic ennui of Anomalisa, leaving it in some kind of stop-motion libido. Outside of a few details like alcohol consumption, marital infidelity, and the occasional potty language of words like "bastard" & "dumbass" it's hard to say for sure that kids wouldn't be able to watch it over parental concerns, but the humor isn't exactly "adult" either. Its irreverence & whimsy recalls the stop motion comedy of Michel Gondry's Mood Indigo or Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, but it traffics in the crude simplicity of something like KaBlam!. Maybe if I were Belgian I'd have better context for A Town Called Panic's target audience, but as an American Doofus & a stop motion fanatic all I can say is it's very funny and I'm glad it exists. It's rare to see a comedy in an medium brimming with so much minute-to-minute energy, yet patient enough to let longterm gags reach their full potential before payoff. This is a confident work of a very particular, unique mode of stop motion comedy & entirely deserves the traction it's gaining as a cult curiosity on an international scale.
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import java.io.IOException;
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import java.util.Properties;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

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{
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	public static Properties loadProperties(
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		if (is != null) {
			try {
				props.load(is);
			}
			catch (final IOException e) {
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		}
		return props;
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	public static String getProperty(
			final Properties props,
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			return System.getProperty(name);
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		else if (props.containsKey(name)) {
			return props.getProperty(name);
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Violin/Bass/Cello
Banjo/Dobro
Brass/Reeds
Ear Training/Chords
Music/CDs
About Musix
About Dix Bruce
Look at it Rain
Dix Bruce and Julie Cline sing and play a wonderful mixture of Americana and original music on guitar and mandolin. Their beautiful vocal harmonies make everything they perform, from bluegrass to blues, folk to country, rockabilly to originals, a pleasure to listen to.
Look at it Rain (Musix CD 110)
includes a mixture of traditional and original songs arranged to showcase their duet singing and instrumental sound.
Click the links below to hear audio samples.
Little Birdie, Making Believe, Take This Hammer, I Get Blue, There's More Pretty Girls Than One, Fair and Tender Ladies, Shady Groves, Darling, Will You Ever Think of Me?, Look at it Rain, The Banks of the Ohio, Just Someone I Used to Know, Pretty Polly, Frogs for Snakes, I Am a Pilgrim, Where the Soul Never Dies.
Click these links to see videos of Dix and Julie performing the following songs:
Railroad Bill
Another Night
Just Someone I Used to Know
Little Birdie. Julie sings lead, Dix sings harmony, on this up-tempo traditional song, punctuated with hot guitar and mandolin solos. "Little Birdie" has been played by folk, old time, and bluegrass musicians for many generations.
Making Believe. This moving ballad of love lost from the mid-1950s was one of country music queen Kitty Wells' greatest hits. Dix and Julie turn Making Believe into a country duet in the classic style, with Julie singing lead.
Take this Hammer, with lead singing by Dix, features close instrumental interplay between Dix on guitar and Julie on mandolin.
I Get Blue was written by Dix and it's a fun, up-tempo romp, a tongue-in-cheek mediation on wasted love. It has an acoustic rockabilly feel with Dix's muted guitar solo and the flat out rock 'n' roll of Julie's hot mandolin lead.
There's More Pretty Girls Than One is a waltz with duet singing throughout, Dix on lead. The title speaks for itself.
Fair and Tender Ladies offers heart felt warnings about love. Julie sings lead on this beautiful melody.
Shady Groves combines a modal sounding version of the traditional folk song "Shady Grove" with an energetic, up-tempo bluegrass version of the same song. Hence the title "Shady Groves," plural. Dix sings lead on the modal version, Julie sings lead on the major key version with harmony throughout.
Darling, Will You Ever Think of Me? was composed by Dix as an homage to the Carter Family. It's a duet with Dix singing lead. In the chorus of the song Julie sings a descant or counter-melody to Dix's lead.
Look at it Rain, another original by Dix, is an up-tempo, bluegrass-style, song about… well…rain. But rain in the metaphorical sense. "Look at it Rain" is the title song of the CD.
The Banks of the Ohio is a beautiful instrumental arrangement of the popular traditional song. Both Julie, on mandolin, and Dix, on guitar, explore various ways of playing the melody using flatpicking and crosspicking.
Just Someone I Used to Know is one of the best country songs ever written about the pain of breaking up. Jack Clement's moving song has been recorded by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, Emmy Lou Harris, Rhonda Vincent, and others.
Pretty Polly, which PBS described as an "eternal song" originated hundreds of years ago in the British Isles. This American version tells the gripping story of a romantic liaison that ends in murder. Dix and Julie's hard-edged vocal duet and unique two-mandolin performance captures the stark drama of this brutal tale.
Frogs for Snakes. Dix and Julie both love the sound of traditional blues played on mandolin and guitar. "Frogs for Snakes" was written by Dix and he and Julie give it a grooving, old time/bluesy acoustic string treatment.
I am a Pilgrim, with Julie singing lead, is a well-loved song that's been performed by countless musicians in a variety of styles.
Where the Soul Never Dies is another vintage song with a hopeful message. Dix sings lead with Julie on harmony throughout. As with "Darling, Will You Ever Think of Me?" Julie sings a descant or counter-melody to Dix's.
Look at it Rain by Dix Bruce & Julie Cline. Wonderful duet singing and playing, great new songs and arrangements, beautiful guitar and mandolin playing.
Look at it Rain Review (Brenda Hough–Bluegrass by the Bay)
Dix Bruce and Julie Cline have assembled a fine selection of original and well-loved Americana songs. Their smooth vocal harmonies soar above a guitar and mandolin backdrop.
"Shady Grove" is given a makeover with both a modal folk-style section and an uptempo bluegrass version. "Fair and Tender Ladies" features Julie's lead vocal and the warnings mentioned in the song are still worth heeding. "I Get Blue" is a Dix Bruce original and the bouncy rhythm underscores the singer's frustration with his lover. "Look At It Rain" is another Dix original and the duo's bouncy harmony is matched by a rolling guitar rhythm and mandolin punctuation.
Dix's smooth guitar playing and Julie's seamless flow from solo to rhythmmandolin are showcased in a crosspicked version of "Banks of the Ohio." Dix and Julie perform a energizing two-mandolin accompaniment in their version of the classic murder ballad "Pretty Polly." Dix's instrumental "Frogs for Snakes" is given a bluesy, rough-edged treatment that just sets a perfect groove.
The album ends all-too-soon with a rendition of "Where The Soul of Man Never Dies" graced by their counter melody harmonies.
Some singers have a perfect symmetry in their voices and a gentle balance in their instrumental skins; Dix and Julie have a magical blend that will invite repeated listenings and joyous sing-aIongs from their listeners.
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Junk Literature
January 1, 2003 by marcusboon
A review of The Road of Excess by Richard Broderick for Fifth Column that was originally published in 2003.
by Marcus Boon
339 pages, $29.95
High Anxiety: Cultural Studies In Addiction
edited by Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield
Pity the poor tobacco companies.
For decades they exemplified every virtue of consumer capitalism. They produce an item that's cheap to make, literally "hooks" consumers, returns correspondingly high profits and not only receives federal subsides, but has even benefited from free government promotion in the form of millions of cigarettes distributed to members of the Armed Forces.
No wonder Big Tobacco was the darling of Wall Street!
But, alas, (at least for Big Tobacco) the morbidity and mortality rates associated with cigarette smoking, coupled with nicotine's highly addictive nature, have transformed tobacco executives from Model Corporate Citizens into Evil Drug Pushers. No wonder they seem a little nonplussed, having discovering – too late – that it's no longer acceptable to lie under oath about the lethal affects of smoking.
Cigarettes have only a walk on appearance in The Road Of Excess, and a single chapter devoted to smoking's allure in High Anxiety, but both books attempt to shed light on different dimensions of our dynamic and often irrational attitudes toward drugs and addiction.
In Excess, Marcus Boon sets forth a fascinating and frequently surprising account of the foundational relationship between drugs and the highest peaks of Western literature in the past 200 years, from the use of opiates as a path to transcendental subjectivity by German romantic poets like Novalis to the better known impact of stimulants and psychedelics on the works of Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs to the much less known impact of drugs on, say, the philosophical writings of Sartre.
His exploration of writers and thinkers who used drugs to stimulate their imagination or drew upon drug experience for inspiration comprises a who's-who of luminaries – Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Cocteau, William James, Charles Dickens, Aldous Huxley, Freud, Artaud, Ernst Junger, Paul Bowles, Arthur Conan Doyle, Foucault, Heidegger, almost everyone associated with the English fin de siecl? – and hapless wannabes like Ren? Daumal, a young Frenchmen who in the 1920s sought the mystic's extinction of self through the reckless use of a wide selection of anesthetics including nitrous oxide, ether, and carbon tetrachloride (not surprisingly, Daumal died before his time).
Organized into five main sections, Boon's book studies each category of drugs in chronological order. An unstated, though deeply suggestive, thesis of his work is that as we have moved forward in time, the psychoactive substances we ingest have evolved from drugs that are essentially agricultural in origin, like opium and hashish, to drugs that are increasingly the products of industrialization. As our scientific/industrial society led to the wholesale production of increasingly addictive (and often lethal) drugs – refining opium, coca, and ephedra, for example, into morphine, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine – something similar, Boon implies, has happened in literature, evolving from a kind of traditional, cottage industry to something that might be better described as a form of "cultural production." If cigarettes are inescapably products of the assembly line, so, equally, is Being and Nothingness.
Boone details the link between each drug and the kind of literature produced by this meeting of the muse and the pharmacy. But the book really takes off in the sections dealing with cannabis and psychedelics, possibly because of all the drugs discussed in Excess, cannabis and psychedelics inspire the most compulsive flights of verbal expression – the pothead's logorrhea, the acidheads ecstatic attempt to describe visionary states. In "Imaginal Realms: Psychedelics and Literature," for example, he zooms in on the fundamental difficulty of trying to assign some objective or absolute quality to the interplay between drugs – in this case, LSD – and the imagination.
[Timothy] Leary repeatedly manipulated the imaginal space constructed around psychedelics. While he was a clinical psychologist at Harvard, LSD was an amazing therapeutic tool; for artists, it enhanced creativity; in his interview with Playboy in 1965, it was the ultimate sex drugs; for divinity students, it became the gateway to mystical experience; for radical students, it was revolution. On the one hand, this profusion of perspectives reflects the difficulty (or flexibility) in constructing cultural context for the psychedelic experience and the accompanying tantric insight that all contexts are "constructed" anyway. On the other hand, it suggests again the danger of what Baudelaire called theomania; the belief that "realities" can be reimagined and reconstructed at will through drugs, without such acts of "creation" entailing any responsibilities. The idea that reality is nothing but a set of recordings or imprints waiting to be tweaked lends itself to instant self-aggrandizement, particularly when authors such as Leary, and later Carlos Castenada, appeared to revise their stories about drugs according to the prevailing mood of the marketplace. The ego is a most potent configurer of imaginal spaces and, if not confronted directly, will turn even the most potent psychedelic experience into a self-serving and deceiving charade. (264)
Small wonder that Burroughs, who saw in narcotics an avenue of relief from the multiplicity of imaginal spaces, denounced psychedelics as "terminal sewage," going on the say, "Their Immortality Cosmic Consciousness and Love is second-run grade B-shit…learn to make it without any chemical corn."
Of the writers mentioned in Excess, only Burroughs and De Quincy make joint appearances in High Anxiety, a collection of essays about addiction's shifting image in Western culture; Burroughs because his fictional Interzone, like all paranoid fantasies, is a projection of a distilled and reified state of anxiety; De Quincy because, as two very fine essays in High Anxiety argue, his Gothic treatment of opium addiction employed tropes of victimization and sexual ravishment by an Oriental Other that reflected similar tropes used by the British Empire to justify, in a general way, its subjugation of the East, and, in a particular way, its deeply compromised involvement in the first and second Opium Wars. In 19th century England – as in 21st century America – addiction, with its prerequisite loss of will, was entwined with the prerequisite will-to-power that fuels imperial ambitions.
Officially, the [Opium] war was fought against the kowtow; fought, as Marx phrased it, for "an alleged infringement of the fanciful code of diplomatic etiquette." The demand that the free-born Englishmen prostate themselves to the Emperor of China as a condition of doing trade with him was declared insupportable, a dire violation of the national character. De Quincy declared that if Lord Amherst had made the kowtow, "the next thing would have been a requisition from the English Factory of beautiful English women, according to a fixed description, as annual presents to the Emperor." "Victorian Highs," by Marty Roth
High Anxiety is not without its dry stretches. The essay "The Rhetoric of Addiction: From Victorian Novels To AA" seems intent on replicating the interminable tedium of the average Victorian novel with an overlong and unrevealing exercise in "compare and contrast" between representations of drunkenness and addiction in 19th century fiction and the recovery stories related by alcoholics and addicts at 12 Step meetings. It's a little hard to determine what the point is here, other than the opportunity to employ off-putting jargon like "narrativity." Meanwhile, "An Intoxicated Screen: Reflections on Film and Drugs," is an over-the-top, unintentionally hilarious attempt to argue an overdetermined thesis about movies not only reflecting but ultimately governing our changing perceptions of addiction.
Although bristling with ideas and observations, neither Road of Excess nor High Anxiety touch upon perhaps the central mystery of addiction and drugs, which is why in the Western world, and in particular America, we are so fixated, not to say obsessed, with addiction that the term has taken on an endlessly proliferating life of its own as a catchall word covering forms of compulsive behavior completely unrelated to substance abuse, from shopping to eating to gambling to promiscuity. Is it because the center of gravity for individual identity in the Western world lies in the will – the very attribute of which addiction makes a mockery? Or because psychoactive substances in general call into question our culture's assumption of the unitary nature of reality?
Certainly the link between addiction and morality seems peculiar to the West. And here both books err slightly in claiming that the overt perception of such a link is recent. It is not. In the 17th century, religious reformers were already denouncing Man's "addiction" to sin. And surely the following passage from St. Paul's epistle to the Romans could well have come from the pen of a present day heroin addict, lapsed smoker, or serial dieter.
"The good thing I want to do, I never do; the evil thing which I do not want – that is what I do. But every time I do what I do not want to, then it is not myself acting, but the sin that lives in me…What a wretched man I am!"
— Richard Broderick, a poet, essayist, and fiction writer, is an ex-smoker who feels morally superior to those still in the clutches of the evil weed
Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Fifth Column, Reviews, Richard Broderick, The Road of Excess


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Q: Discrepancy between total CONNAME values on DIS QSTATUS Vs DIS CHSTATUS I was executing two mqsc commands on IBM MQ v8 to find out the number of connections made by App1 on queue manager QMGR and found a discrepancy between the output values on one of the attribute called CONNAME
echo 'dis chs('APP1.SVRCONN.CHL')'| runmqsc QMGR | grep CONNAME

This time I got 14 IP's as CONNAME
echo 'dis qs(APP1.QUEUE) type(handle) All where(CHANNEL eq 'APP1.SVRCONN.CHL')'| runmqsc QMGR | grep CONNAME

When I checked the number of handles on the only App1 queue connected by App1 channel I got only 7 IP's as CONNAME
So there are 7 handles on the App1 queue but there are 14 connections by the App1 channel on queue manager. How can I relate these two values? Is this multi-threaded connections on each queue handles and if so how can I find a relationship between them?

A: The DIS CHS command will show you how many channel instances are running which is really how many TCP sessions there are established between your client and the queue manager.
MQ v7.0.1 and higher supports shared conversations within each channel.  Each time the app makes a connection to the queue manager this can be another conversation in the same channel instance.  The client and the server can set a maximum number of shared connections.  On the queue manager's SVRCONN the attribute is SHARECNV, on the client it could be in a CCDT or programatically.  When the channel starts up the client and server will negotiate to the lowest value between them.  On a DIS CHS you can add MAXSHCNV to see what the running channel instances negotiated the maximum to and CURSHCNV to see how many conversations are running in each channel instance.
The DIS QS command with TYPE(HANDLE) will only show you connections where the application has a handle open to that queue at the point in time you ran the command.
An application can connect to the queue manager without having a queue open, or it may open and close the queue, if you don't catch it with the queue open you won't see a handle.
A more accurate command to show what the channel is doing is DIS CONN which will show all connections, each connection represents a conversation, so the number of connections should match the number total of CURSHCNV from all channel instances.
The following command will show you all connections running through a channel with the name specified.
echo "DIS CONN(*) TYPE(ALL) WHERE(CHANNEL EQ APP1.SVRCONN.CHL)"|runmqsc QMGR

The output may look like this:
AMQ8276: Display Connection details.
   CONN(ABABABABABABABAB)
   EXTCONN(ABABABABABABABABABABABABABABABAB)
   TYPE(*)
   PID(99998)                              TID(998)
   APPLDESC(WebSphere MQ Channel)          APPLTAG(App1)
   APPLTYPE(USER)                          ASTATE(NONE)
   CHANNEL(APP1.SVRCONN.CHL)               CLIENTID( )
   CONNAME(10.10.10.10)
   CONNOPTS(MQCNO_HANDLE_SHARE_BLOCK,MQCNO_SHARED_BINDING)
   USERID(appuser)                         UOWLOG( )
   UOWSTDA( )                              UOWSTTI( )
   UOWLOGDA( )                             UOWLOGTI( )
   URTYPE(QMGR)
   EXTURID(XA_FORMATID[] XA_GTRID[] XA_BQUAL[])
   QMURID(0.0)                             UOWSTATE(NONE)
AMQ8276: Display Connection details.
   CONN(BABABABABABABABA)
   EXTCONN(BABABABABABABABABABABABABABABABA)
   TYPE(*)
   PID(99999)                              TID(999)
   APPLDESC(WebSphere MQ Channel)          APPLTAG(App1)
   APPLTYPE(USER)                          ASTATE(STARTED)
   CHANNEL(APP1.SVRCONN.CHL)               CLIENTID( )
   CONNAME(10.10.10.10)
   CONNOPTS(MQCNO_HANDLE_SHARE_BLOCK,MQCNO_SHARED_BINDING)
   USERID(appuser)                         UOWLOG( )
   UOWSTDA(2018-05-21)                     UOWSTTI(10.11.27)
   UOWLOGDA( )                             UOWLOGTI( )
   URTYPE(QMGR)
   EXTURID(XA_FORMATID[] XA_GTRID[] XA_BQUAL[])
   QMURID(0.99999)                         UOWSTATE(ACTIVE)

   OBJNAME(APP1.QUEUE)                     OBJTYPE(QUEUE)
   ASTATE(ACTIVE)                          HSTATE(INACTIVE)
   OPENOPTS(MQOO_INPUT_SHARED,MQOO_BROWSE,MQOO_INQUIRE,MQOO_SAVE_ALL_CONTEXT,MQOO_FAIL_IF_QUIESCING)
   READA(NO)

In the above output CONN(ABABABABABABABAB) only has a connection to the queue manager and no objects open while CONN(BABABABABABABABA) had a connection to the queue manager and has the queue APP1.QUEUE open.
If you were to add to the above command |grep 'APP1.QUEUE' the count should match the number of handles from the DIS QS command.
You may have a app that browses the queue on one connection to look for messages and then dispatches to other threads to actually process the messages.  In your case 7 channel instances may have the queue open for BROWSE and the other 7 would be waiting to open the queue for INPUT to read a message off.

Below is a command I use on Linux that will spit out a CSV format of the DIS CONN command along with each object that is open.
echo "DIS CONN(*) TYPE(ALL) WHERE(CHANNEL EQ CHL_NAME)"|runmqsc QMGR|grep -o '^\w\+:\|\w\+[(][^)]\+[)]' | awk -F '[()]' -v OFS='","' 'function printValues() { if ("CONN" in p) { print p["CONN"], p["CHANNEL"], p["APPLTAG"], p["USERID"], p["CONNAME"], p["OBJNAME"], p["OBJTYPE"], p["OPENOPTS"] } } /^\w+:/ { if (x !~ /YES/) {printValues()}; x = "NO"; delete p; next } { p[$1] = $2 } { if ("OPENOPTS" in p) { printValues() ; delete p["OPENOPTS"]; x = "YES"} } END { if (x !~ /YES/) {printValues()} }'|sed -e 's/^/"/g' -e 's/$/"/g'

The fields in the CSV output are:
"CONN","CHANNEL","APPLTAG","USERID","CONNAME","OBJNAME","OBJTYPE","OPENOPTS"

Objects can be the QMGR itself, a QUEUE, TOPIC, etc.  The CONN id will be repeated in lines of the output if the same CONN has multiple objects open.  If the CONN has no objects open you will see a single entry with no objects listed at the end of the line, if at least one object is open there will not be a line representing no objects:

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