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By Scorpie in Business March 21, 2016, 12:34 PM 21-03-16
I was doing some spring cleaning (of my email box) and ran across some mail related to this place. Firstly the site can keep my coins as that money does not matter to me.
The "another one bites the dust" scenario is all too familiar to me. I can still recall getting online with Compuserve in the DOS days.
I met my wife online playing backgammon on Compuserve a long time ago.
Playing Doom in the game connection was a lot of fun and you really got to know people.
Card games on CRIS.COM playing NetSpades.
INN (The ImagiNation Network) was a real community.
Lunatix online is a spot where I made some very good friends.
Epeople, webanswers, bubble-ooze, were all fun and profitable for a time.
Things come and go and there is both joy and sadness enough to spare.
One thread that winds through all flash in the pan operations is failure to adapt. As soon as your business plan is written in stone is when it's time to scrap it. Enterprises both large and small must continuously adapt to meet the ever-changing needs of a society with a short attention span.
I have been in business for 33 years in the same location and one thing I know for sure is you have to keep fresh talent with new ideas flowing in your door to stay alive.
My father preached "make a plan and stick to it" and that worked in his day but will not cut it in the future.
I wish you all joy in your lives. If anyone cares to drop me a line use ccmonstr at gmail
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National Deaf Therapy Wants to Make Mental Health Treatment More Accessible
Finding mental health therapy is already hard, but when you add in a disability, trying to find someone who really understands what you're going through just gets more difficult. For those in the deaf community, there's another major barrier — hearing therapists rarely know American Sign Language (ASL). One company has a plan, however, to make therapy more accessible to the deaf community.
Friends, licensed therapists and business partners Amanda Sortwell Crane and Megan Erasmus are deaf, and saw a need in the deaf community for better access to mental health services. Not seeing an adequate solution, they launched National Deaf Therapy (NDT) in March 2018, which pairs licensed deaf therapists fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) with deaf and hard-of-hearing clients across the country.
NDT offers online-based individual, family and couples therapy to deaf clients. So far NDT has eight therapists on staff licensed to practice in several states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon and Texas. The company's online video therapy sessions allow deaf clients to connect with therapists who speak their language and understand what it means to navigate a world designed for hearing people. According to Sortwell Crane, when clients find NDT for the first time, it's clear the support is needed.
"All different clients that have come to me, their stories are all very similar, and they're always like, 'Finally, I found a therapist,'" Sortwell Crane told The Mighty through an interpreter. "And I'm like, 'How did you manage all of the things that you were doing?' And, 'How did you continue with all the challenges that you are having in your life over all of this time period?' That's something that really needs to change."
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According to the National Center for Health Statistics, approximately 20% of the U.S. population is deaf or hard-of-hearing. However, studies suggest 80 to 90% of those in the deaf community with mental illness don't have access to mental health services, compared to about 64% of the general population. The American Psychological Association (APA) highlighted those in the deaf community have a higher risk of experiencing depression or anxiety, despite myths that deaf people don't experience mental illness.
Like the wider disability community, many medical and mental health professionals are not equipped or trained to work with the deaf community. According to the APA, many mental health treatment providers don't provide qualified interpreters, despite a mandate to do so from the Americans with Disabilities Act. Mental health professionals who are not part of the deaf community will also likely miss cultural and language differences as well as minimize barriers the deaf community faces to get adequate care.
"The deaf community, in general, encounter so many systemic barriers, barriers to education, employment, or other opportunities to participate in the community," Christopher Soukup, CEO of Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD), told The Mighty. "Access to mental health supports the health of individuals, supports the health of families and supports the health of our community. We work to overcome other challenges and barriers to education, to employment, to other opportunities [as] really an integral part of accomplishing the kind of change we want to see."
One barrier for those in the deaf community is insurance — Sortwell Crane said Medicare doesn't pay for virtual mental health services. For many in the deaf community who rely on Medicare, this makes treatment unaffordable. Soukup highlighted people in the deaf community are unemployed and underemployed at higher rates than the hearing population. Employment is a major way people gain access to private health insurance plans that would cover therapy.
There's another unique challenge in trying to find a deaf therapist or one proficient in ASL, and it's one that's often overlooked. The deaf community is small — you may know just about every deaf person within driving distance of where you live. Even if there is a deaf therapist in your community, you may already know their family, some of their personal life and run into them at social functions. That's not ideal for therapy. NDT's model of online therapy can connect you with a licensed therapist in your state who is outside of your community.
NDT not only provides a valuable service for deaf clients, they also play an important role in supporting deaf therapists, who are in short supply nationwide. Though more recent statistics are hard to find, as of 1990, there were only 20 deaf psychologists licensed in the United States. Sortwell Crane said there are not enough opportunities for deaf therapists.
"The opportunities for therapists to earn hours and to work as a therapist before they even get licensed is very difficult," Sortwell Crane said, adding:
We lose a lot of good therapists because they haven't been able to get to the point of learning what they're going to do in order to become licensed to take the exam. And so many people stop before they get there and they find other jobs. We want to stop that. … That's what we're providing our online platform for, is that flexibility so they can earn their hours toward licensure.
Because NDT also provides deaf therapists with opportunities to practice in the mental health field that largely aren't available, NDT became the fourth business partner with the CSD Social Venture Fund. The CSD Social Venture Fund supports deaf-owned businesses that make a positive impact on the deaf community. CSD Chief Innovation Officer Dominic Lacy explained why the Social Venture Fund invested in NDT.
"It's not just providing an economic investment to a business, but it's also making sure that that economic investment is tied to … opportunities for jobs," Lacy told The Mighty through an interpreter. "It addresses a gap. And so this company is providing something that isn't already there." He added, "Then of course, CSD cares a lot about just mental health in general."
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Sortwell Crane said she plans to continue to grow NDT and find new ways to provide mental health services to clients. And, to better serve the estimated 5 million people in the deaf community in need of mental health services each year, NDT's mission also requires providing more opportunities for deaf therapists.
"We want to be able to serve all 50 states and be able to do outreach to all different therapists to say that, 'Look, there's a career here for deaf people in the mental health field,'" Sortwell Crane said. "What NDT is doing is not just creating opportunities for therapy and … for the deaf community who are looking for mental health services, but it's creating opportunities for future therapists."
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Otto König (* 13. Januar 1882 in Wien; † 10. November 1932 ebenda) war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller, Lyriker und Redakteur.

Leben und Werk
Otto König, geboren 1882 in Wien, arbeitete zuerst als einfacher Arbeiter in einer Fabrik, bevor er sich bei den Verlagen S. Fischer und Ullstein in Berlin zum Verlagslektor hocharbeiten konnte. Während des Ersten Weltkrieges war er als Kriegsberichterstatter in deutschen Diensten tätig. Im Jahr 1919 erwarb er in Innsbruck schließlich die Zeitschrift Widerhall und fungierte bis zum Jahre 1924 auch als deren Herausgeber. Von 1925 bis zu seinem Tod im Jahr 1932 arbeitete er bei der österreichischen Tageszeitung Neues Wiener Journal als Redakteur und Theaterkritiker.

Erste Schriften Königs wurden bereits 1905 im Tiroler Blatt Der Scherer veröffentlicht. Sein erstes eigenes Werk als Schriftsteller erschien dann im Jahr 1915 unter dem Titel Glocken im Sturm beim Cotta-Verlag in Stuttgart. Diese Lyrik-Publikation zog weitere Gedichtbände nach sich. Ein Jahr später publizierte der Georg Müller Verlag in München den Band Stimme der Seele und im Jahr 1918 veröffentlichte der Innsbrucker K. K. Österr. Militär-Witwen- und Waisen-Fond unter dem Titel Heimat in Not einen weiteren Gedichtband unterlegt mit Bildern des bekannten österreichischen Militärmalers Hugo von Bouvard. Im Jahr 1916 war bereits der Erlebnisbericht Kameraden vom Isonzo beim August-Scherl-Verlag in Berlin erschienen. Im Jahr 1920 schloss sich ein weiterer Erlebnisbericht-Band Otto Königs mit dem Namen Die Deutschen Palästinas in englischer Gefangenschaft: Erinnerungen beim Strom-Verlag in Dresden an. Königs Gedichte wurden darüber hinaus auch in Anthologien und Zeitschriften veröffentlicht, unter anderem 1921 in der Anthologie Weihnachtsgrüße – Eine Sammlung der schönsten Weihnachtsgedichte aus alter und neuer Zeit, neben Beiträgen von anderen Dichtern wie Ludwig Thoma, Georg Busse-Palma, Theodor Storm oder Martin Greif.

Otto König schrieb auch unter dem Pseudonym André Flisseau.

Schriften (Auswahl)

Einzelbände
 "Glocken im Sturm", (Lyrik), Cotta-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1915
 "Stimme der Seele", (Lyrik), Georg Müller Verlag, München, 1916
 "Kameraden vom Isonzo", (Erlebnisbericht), August Scherl, Berlin, 1916
 "Heimat in Not", (Lyrik), K. K. Österr. Militär-Witwen- und Waisen-Fond, Innsbruck, 1918
 "Die Deutschen Palästinas in englischer Gefangenschaft: Erinnerungen", (Erlebnisbericht), Strom-Verlag, Dresden, 1920

Beiträge in Anthologien
 "Weihnachtsgrüße – Eine Sammlung der schönsten Weihnachtsgedichte aus alter und neuer Zeit", (Anthologie), Hermann Beyer & Söhne, Langensalza, 1921 herausgegeben von August Lomberg

Literatur
 Otto König. In: Nicolas Detering, Michael Fischer, Aibe-Marlene Gerdes (Hrsg.): Populäre Kriegslyrik im Ersten Weltkrieg., Waxmann Verlag, 2013, S. 59

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A "gene responsible for chronic pain has been identified", reports the BBC. It said that this could lead to drugs for treating long-lasting back pain.
This story is based on research carried out in mice. Researchers found that deleting a gene called HCN2 from the pain-sensing nerves in mice stopped them from having the chronic hypersensitivity to pain caused by nerve damage. However, their ability to sense short-term (acute) pain, for example from heat or pressure, was not affected.
This research has highlighted a potential role for HCN2 in one type of chronic pain, called neuropathic pain, produced by damage to nerves themselves. However, it's important to note that this study was in mice and looked at the effect of removing the HCN2 gene rather than using chemicals to block its function. Therefore, it cannot tell us whether this strategy will be successful in treating human forms of chronic pain. This knowledge may help scientists to develop drugs to target this kind of pain in the future, but much more research will be needed to determine whether this will be the case.
The study was carried out by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Cadiz. Funding was provided by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the European Union, Organon Inc. and a Cambridge Gates Foundation studentship. The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Science .
The BBC provides a good description of this study, clearly stating that it was carried out in mice.
This was animal research looking at whether an ion channel protein called HCN2 might play a role in the sensing of pain. Ion channels are protein "pores" in the cell membrane that control the flow of electrically charged atoms into or out of the cell. In nerves this flow of ions is essential for allowing them to transmit signals.
The researchers say that the frequency with which the nerves involved in sensing pain send signals to the brain (called their rate of firing) affects how intense a pain is felt to be. This rate could be influenced by ion channels, including the HCN ion channel family.
The HCN1 and HCN2 members of the HCN ion channel family are present at high levels in nerves involved in sensations such as pain and touch. Previous experiments have suggested that HCN1 does not play a large role in sensing pain, so the researchers wanted to investigate whether HCN2 might be important in sensing pain.
Animal and laboratory research is often the best way to investigate the role of individual proteins in biological processes, as researchers can remove individual genes and see what effect this has. This type of research could not be carried out in humans.
The researchers looked at the role of the HCN2 ion channel in mice by genetically engineering them to lack the gene that produces this protein in their pain-sensing nerves. They then looked at what effect this had on the ability of the pain-sensing nerves to send signals, and on how the mice sensed pain.
The researchers initially tried genetically engineering mice to lack the HCN2 gene throughout their bodies, but this led to the mice having serious movement problems and dying before they reached six weeks of age. They then decided to remove the HCN2 gene in the pain-sensing nerves only, so that these widespread adverse effects would not occur.
The researchers tested the mice's responses to pain using standard tests. For example, they tested how quickly they withdrew their feet in response to touching a hot or cold surface or to the application of pressure (called painful 'stimuli'). They also tested these responses after injecting the mice with chemicals that cause inflammation and make normal mice hypersensitive to these painful stimuli.
Finally, they looked at the effect of exposing these mice to long-lasting pain caused by damage to their nerves. This type of pain is called neuropathic pain. They used a standard way of replicating this type of pain, by placing pressure on the mice's sciatic nerve. This usually makes mice more sensitive to painful stimuli.
The researchers found that mice that were genetically engineered to lack the gene for HCN2 in their pain-sensing nerves had disruptions to the normal electrical processes that led to firing of these nerves.
The HCN2-lacking mice did not show any change to their pain threshold on short-term exposure to heat or pressure. However, when injected with chemicals that cause inflammation and make normal mice hypersensitive to heat- and pressure-induced pain, the HCN2-lacking mice did not show hypersensitivity to heat-induced pain.
The HCN2-lacking mice also displayed the usual hypersensitivity to pressure-induced pain after the injection also seen in normal mice.
If the genetically engineered mice received a nerve injury, they did not show the increase in sensitivity to heat, cold or pressure that normal mice with this injury showed.
The researchers concluded that the presence of HCN2 is necessary for the sensing of pain caused by nerve injury, called neuropathic pain. They say that HCN2 also appears to have a role in sensing inflammation-associated pain. They say that chemicals that can selectively block HCN2 may be useful as pain medication to block the effects of neuropathic and inflammatory pain.
This research has highlighted a potential role for HCN2 in one type of chronic pain, called neuropathic pain. This knowledge may help scientists to develop drugs to target this kind of pain.
Neuropathic pain is pain that arises from damage to or disorders of the nervous system. For example, the pain associated with spinal cord injury, shingles or from tumours pressing on nerves is neuropathic. This type of pain is reportedly difficult to treat with drugs.
Scientists will now be interested in finding chemicals that can block the action of HCN2, and testing the effect that such chemicals have on pain-sensing in animals. As removing HCN2 completely in mice had serious adverse effects, scientists would have to ensure that they could block the protein in such a way that reduced pain but did not have these adverse effects. Any chemicals that show promise and appear to be safe would then need to be tested in humans.
It is important to point out that this process of drug development takes a long time and is not always successful, with some chemicals that seem to have an effect in animals not working in humans.
Gene find could lead to drug for chronic back pain.
Blocking pain gene could provide relief for patients with diabetes, cancer and arthritis.


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Public Records (Scotland) Act 1937
Previous: Introduction
Part ICourt Records
1High Court and Court of Session records
(1)The records of the High Court of Justiciary and of the Court of Session shall be transmitted to the Keeper of the Registers and Records of Scotland (hereinafter referred to as the Keeper) at such times, and subject to such conditions, as may respectively be prescribed by Act of Adjournal or Act of Sederunt.
(2)An Act of Adjournal or an Act of Sederunt under the foregoing subsection may fix different times and conditions of transmission for different classes of records and may make provision for re-transmission of records to the Court when such re-transmission is necessary for the purpose of any proceedings before the Court, and for the return to the Keeper of records so re-transmitted as soon as may be after they have ceased to be required for such purpose.
2Sheriff court records
(1)It shall be lawful for the Lord President of the Court of Session (hereinafter referred to as the Lord President) on the application of the Keeper and after consultation with the sheriff of any sheriffdom, to make an order directing that such of the sheriff court records of that sheriffdom as may be specified in the order shall be transmitted to the Keeper on or before a date specified therein not being earlier than three months from the date of the order :
Provided that no such order shall apply to any record which is of more recent date than twenty-five years before the date of the order, unless the Lord President is satisfied that adequate provision as regards care, indexing, and availability for consultation cannot otherwise be made.
(2)Where any record transmitted in pursuance of the foregoing subsection to the Keeper is required for the purpose of any proceedings in the High Court of Justiciary, the Court of Session or any sheriff court, the Keeper shall re-transmit such record to the clerk of such court on any order of a judge of the said High Court or Court of Session or of the sheriff as the case may be, and any record so re-transmitted shall be returned by such clerk to the Keeper as soon as may be after it has ceased to be required for the said purpose.
(3)The sheriff of each sheriffdom shall be responsible for the proper care and preservation of the sheriff court records of that sheriffdom which have not been transmitted under subsection (1) of this section to the Keeper and shall, in compliance with any request which the Keeper, with the consent of the Lord President, may from time to time make, cause a report to be prepared and sent by the sheriff clerk to the Keeper, giving such information as may be specified in the request, regarding—
(a)the nature, situation and condition of all buildings in which any such records are kept;
(b)the age and condition of such records;
(c)the arrangements made for their care and pre servation, and for indexing them and rendering them available for inspection by the public; and
(d)any other matters connected with the care and preservation of such records.
(4)In subsections (1) and (3) of this section, the expression " sheriff " does not include " sheriff substitute."
3Justice of the peace records
(1)It shall be lawful for the Lord President, on the application of the Keeper, to make an order directing that such of the justice of the peace records of any county as may be specified in the order shall be transmitted to the Keeper on or before a date specified therein not being earlier than three months from the date of the order ;
(2)The clerk of the peace for any county shall have the custody, and be responsible for the proper care and preservation, of the justice of the peace records of that county which have not been transmitted under subsection (1) of this section to the Keeper, and shall in compliance with any request which the Keeper, with the consent of the Lord President, may, from time to time, make, prepare and send to the Keeper a report giving such information as may be specified in the request regarding—
(a)the nature, situation, and condition of all buildings in which any such records are kept;
(c)the arrangements made for their care and preservation, and for indexing them and rendering them available for inspection by the public; and


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Q: Nuxt.js: message: 'This page could not be found' (nuxt-i18n) In my Nuxt.js application, I installed the nuxt-i18n according to how the documentation suggests:
{
  modules: [
    ['nuxt-i18n', {
      // Options
    }]
  ]
}

But when I run npm run dev, I get this error message:
 DONE  Compiled successfully in -4519ms                                12:53:52

 OPEN  http://localhost:3000

  nuxt:render Rendering url / +0ms
{ statusCode: 404,
  path: '/',
  message: 'This page could not be found' }

How to fix this?

A: For the sake of completion to @Nicolas Pennec -great- answer, and in order to avoid warning messages as this one: Locale ISO code is required to generate alternate link, we should declare the locales as described in the documentation:
// nuxt.config.js

['nuxt-i18n', {
  locales: [
    {
      code: 'en',
      iso: 'en-US'
    },
    {
      code: 'es',
      iso: 'es-ES'
    },
    {
      code: 'fr',
      iso: 'fr-FR'
    }
  ]
}]

A: it works fine if you set a default locale :)
  modules: [
    ['nuxt-i18n', {
      locales: ['en', 'fr', 'es'],
      defaultLocale: 'en',
      seo: false // workaround to fix the current issue on module https://github.com/nuxt-community/nuxt-i18n/issues/127
    }]
  ],

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Depeche Mode: where are they now?
Who are Depeche Mode?
Depeche Mode are an electronic music band; with hit singles all around the world and over 48 songs in the UK single charts they are widely renowned as being the 'most popular electronic band' ever. Formed in 1980, the group consisted of Dave Gahan (vocals), Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar), Andy Fletcher (keyboards) and for a short time Vince Clarke (keyboards) – Clarke was replaced by Alan wilder (keyboards, drums) after their first album.
Depeche Mode formed part of the 80s 'revolution' in modern music with bands like Duran Duran, Howard Jones, Yazoo, Bananarama and the Pet Shop Boys. Their style incorporated modern technologies such as synthesizers and drum machines and could be associated with modern Techno styles. Their strong vocals made them stand out from the hundreds of mediocre electronic bands of the era and helped them forge a huge fan base and ultimately led to over 100 million album sales.
Depeche Mode @ Ericsson Globe in Stockholm Sweden 31 January 2010 (PD-self)
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Depeche Mode Band Members
Current Members:
Dave Gahan - lead vocals (1980–)
Martin Gore - keyboards, guitars, percussion, vocals (1980–)
Andy Fletcher - keyboards, bass, percussion, vocals (1980–)
Past members:
Vince Clarke - keyboards, guitars, vocals (1980–1981)
Alan Wilder - keyboards, piano, drums, percussion, vocals (1982–1995)
Depeche Mode Discography
Speak & Spell (1981)
A Broken Frame (1982)
Construction Time Again (1983)
Some Great Reward (1984)
Black Celebration (1986)
Music for the Masses (1987)
Violator (1990)
Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993)
Ultra (1997)
Exciter (2001)
Playing the Angel (2005)
Sounds of the Universe (2009)
A brief History of Depeche Mode
While the origins of the band date back to 1977 when Clarke and Fletcher formed a band inspired by The Cure, Depeche Mode didn't formally come into existence until the arrival of Gahan in March 1980, with their first outing being at a school in May 1980.
They broke through after being approached by an upcoming label owner Daniel Miller at a live gig in Canning Town. Initially they were contracted to record a single, 'Dreaming of Me' – released in February 1981, this song hit 57 in the charts and led to them producing two top 20 hits with 'New Life' and 'Just Can't Get Enough'. Their first album was subsequently released in November 1981 and peaked at number ten in the UK album charts.
Clarke left the band in November 1981 and formed Yazoo with Alison Moyet, and would later join the highly successful Erasure. Wilder was then hired in 1982; with a successful single 'See You' the band emarked on a tour of North America.
Depeche mode produced several albums and toured during their most successful period in the early to mid eighties. Their world-wide break through hit was "People are People" in 1984 which became an international hit and finally hit the US charts at 13 in 1985.
In 1986 Depeche Mode their style became far more ominous and atmospheric – while still retaining sampling, they moved away from the 'pop' sound to become darker.
Their popularity began to grow in the late 80s in the US and they began to fill stadiums, with sellout crowds.
Depeche Mode entered the 90s and continued to produce hit songs such as 'Enjoy the Silence' and their US success continued to grow. They continued to adapt their sound and became heavily influenced by Grunge Rock - their ability to constantly change with the times has perhaps helped them stay relevant for so long.
During the mid nineties, turmoil hit the band; Gahan became introverted and erratic as a heroin addiction began to take hold, while Gore and Fletcher both had medical problems. Wilder left the band in 1995.
The band nearly ended at this point with Gahan's addiction spiraling out of control. The band did release another album after Gahan had attended rehab and it was successful despite the lack of a full tour.
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In 2001 Depeche mode toured 24 countries and performed 84 times; they still managed to pack in an average of over 17,000 per gig and continued to prove they had the energy and talent to continue to be successful.
Depeche Mode continued to release albums and tour in the 2000s even though Gahan produced several solo albums during this period.
Depeche Mode Live
What ever happened to Depeche Mode?
In 2008 Depeche Mode returned to the studio and produced their 12th studio album – Sounds of the Universe. The album was released in January 2009 and was a commercial success and was generally received positively by the critics.
The band toured in May 2009 to support the album but due to illness 16 shows were cancelled and rescheduled for 2010.
Today Depeche Mode continues to tour and release albums – in June 2011 they released a remix compilation album. The band seem to be quiet, however recently that have revealed that they have recorded covers that are associated with U2s 20th anniversary re-release of Achtung Baby.
Jasmine on September 23, 2011:
Interesting hub :) I'm not much of a fan, but there are a few songs by Depeche Mode that I do like. Duran Duran is also cool and I love their "Come Undone" song - I could listen to it for hours :)
prasetio30 from malang-indonesia on September 23, 2011:
I love music very much. But, I had knew about this music band before. Thanks for share with us and you open my eyes about another beautiful music. Music make the world wo colorful. Very informative hub. Vote up!
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Martin Allan from Sunny Scotland on September 23, 2011:
I went to see them live at the end of 2009 at the SECC in Glasgow. They are still utterly awesome live - it is one of the best gig's I've ever been to.
Depeche Mode are my favourite band of all time who have showed their class by having constant success for around thirty years.
You don't last that long in the music business if you ain't any good!
My favourite albums from them are Black Celebration, Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion.
A nod must go to long time visual collaborator Anton Corbijn too for creating some legendary videos to go with their legendary songs.
FloraBreenRobison on September 22, 2011:
I listened to Depeche mode growing up. My favourite song is "Enjoy the Silence"
Marian L from UK on September 22, 2011:
Depeche mode were the first band that I ever saw in concert in 1983 and I absolutely loved their first 5 albums - all of which I still have on vinyl. I must get myself cd or mp3 versions to remind myself of the good old days of the 80's!
Susan Keeping from Kitchener, Ontario on September 22, 2011:
Great hub. Love this band.
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An opportunity to stitch the very popular Acanthus design as a smaller rug, printed here on 10 to the inch canvas to be worked in tent stitch.
The first picture shows the new printed canvas with the larger completed rug on 7/8 gauge canvas sitting behind, along with their matching cushion (which is on 12 gauge canvas).
The background and the outside border are not printed on the new canvas as they are on the larger version. The simple border needs to be worked from the chart which is supplied with the kit.
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The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world
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"There's been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have. There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. At least until now. . . . The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom." —David Roberts, Vox
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In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth's warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being—giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world.
Paul Hawken is an author and activist. He has founded successful, ecologically-conscious businesses, and consulted with heads of state and CEOs on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. He has written seven books including four national bestsellers: The Next Economy, Growing a Business, and The Ecology of Commerce, and Blessed Unrest. The Ecology of Commerce was voted as the #1 college text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, co-authored with Amory Lovins, has been referred to by several heads of state including President Bill Clinton who called it one of the most important books in the world at that time. He has served on the board of many environmental organizations including Center for Plant Conservation, Shelburne Farms, Trust for Public Land, Conservation International, and National Audubon Society.
"At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded hope."
—Per Espen Stoknes, Author, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming
"There's been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have. There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. At least until now. . . . The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom."
—David Roberts, Vox
"This is the ideal environmental sciences textbook—only it is too interesting and inspiring to be called a textbook."
—Peter Kareiva, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
"Drawdown is not just a project—it is an adventure. It is a promising story that has the potential to engage every person on the planet with at least one solution to climate change, whether it is educating girls, improved rice cultivation, creating walkable cities, eating a plant-rich diet, household recycling, or any of the other solutions."
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"With a climate-denying party controlling the government, it can seem that there's no hope. . . . But a new book might change that—and serve as a blueprint for what comes next if the U.S. government (and the global community) begins to aggressively focus on altering the climate future. Drawdown is likely the most comprehensive model of climate solutions ever made."
"Drawdown is a magnificent achievement."
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"This is one of the most powerful, hopeful, world-changing documents. A deeply peer reviewed, fully win-win, nearly no-regrets pathway . . . with a surprising ranking of the most important and impactful solutions. Paul Hawken's simple, elegant genius in leading this approach, can inspire rapid, catalytic action. "
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railroad workers who were never properly buried.
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horse-knowing Cree Nation, George Littlechild.
protagonist genders and literary genres.
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symbols, history, people and culture.
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terrorism can keep the Owls away.
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adulthood, embarking on the game of real life.
stop Goth from creating eternal night.
poems that are fun to chant.
traditional. Each describes something Canadian.
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information about the First World War.
in the Language Arts curriculum.
understood by intelligent young readers.
the land, to an imaginative sense of place.
were engaged in finding the human place in it.
illustrators and Canadian childrens literature.
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First-year students in the Hunger Games Learning Community concluded a semester of research and service around issues of hunger, homelessness and poverty in the Atlanta area by sharing their knowledge creatively at the Academic Extravaganza: Learning Communities Showcase & Celebration.
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County GOP Chair Not Running For Reelection
Posted by John Hammer | Jan 3, 2019 | News
Chairman of the Guilford County Republican Party Troy Lawson has announced that he will not be running for reelection at the Republican County Convention in March.
Much of the time even Republicans don't now who the county chairman is, but Lawson was in the news more than most party chairman because he was the first black chairman of the Guilford County Republican Party and while chairman he ran for office. Lawson had to be given a waiver to run for office without stepping down as chairman, but the North Carolina Republican Party emphatically recommended that Lawson be given such a waiver to run for the District 57 House seat and he was.
So along with being chairman during the 2018 election, Lawson was running his own campaign for the state House which was an unusual race. District 57 is a minority majority district drawn to increase minority representation in the House and it pitted a black Republican, Lawson against a white Democrat now state Rep. Ashton Clemmons. She defeated Lawson pretty handily with 67.5 percent of the vote to 32.5 percent for Lawson, who did about the same as white Republicans running in minority majority districts indicating that in 2018 political party was paramount in the minds of voters.
Lawson was also an unusual chairman in that he had lived in Greensboro and been a member of the Guilford County Republican Party for less than two years when he was elected chairman. He may not be long time member of the Guilford County Republican Party, but Lawson is a long time Republican. Lawson said that when he was 15 he worked for Republican Senator Edward Brooke from Massachusetts and he's been working for Republican candidates ever since.
From the time he arrived in Greensboro Lawson was extremely active in the party and served as executive director. When he announced he was running for chairman no one ran against him, so he was elected by acclamation.
Lawson said he has enjoyed being chairman but it was time for him to get back to a paying job. During his time as chairman, Lawson completed his MBA, but did not have an outside job.
Being county chairman can take as much time as a person is willing to give it as can being a candidate for public office. So in effect Lawson had two full time jobs and neither one of them paid a salary.
Lawson said that he looked forward to getting back in the workforce and that he hopes some of the contacts he has made as chairman will help.
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Is Spotify Ultimately the Death of Music?
Spotify Made Liam Gallagher Make His Own Coffee. That's Bad.
It's 2018 and that means that, unless side-tracked by $1.6b litigation, Spotify's "direct listing" is imminent, marking the company's latest foray screwing over (read: disrupting) professionals who endeavor to make money. No, we don't have much sympathy for the bankers who will lose out on rich underwriting fees. If anything, the blown IPOs for Snapchat ($SNAP) and Blue Apron ($APRN) kinda made the direct listing alternative a fait accompli. Now the market will be watching with great interest to see how the stock does without the various IPO-related safeguards in place.
The real professionals on the short end of Spotify's stick, however, aren't the bankers but may just be the artists themselves. Recall this video from Liam Gallagher. Recall this chart highlighting the juxtaposition between digital and physical sales. But that's not all, there's this piece: it stands for the proposition that Spotify really ought to go f*ck itself. Indeed, "To understand the danger Spotify poses to the music industry—and to music itself—you first have to dig beneath the "user experience" and examine its algorithmic schemes. Spotify's front page "Browse" screen presents a classic illusion of choice, a stream of genre and mood playlists, charts, new releases, and now podcasts and video. It all appears limitless, a function of the platform's infinite supply, but in reality it is tightly controlled by Spotify's staff and dictated by the interests of major labels, brands, and other cash-rich businesses who have gamed the system." To point, Spotify has perfected "the automation of selling out. Only it subtracts the part where artists get paid." There is so much to this piece.
Given these disturbing downward trends, it's no wonder that Jefferies is working with the company to address the company's balance sheet and that Alvarez & Marsal LLC is helping streamline costs on the operational side. Indeed, last quarter the company negotiated some amendments (EBITDA, for one) with its lender, GSO, and even more recently negotiated, per reports, an extension of time to report financials to GSO. We can't wait to get our hands on those.
Guitar Center Inc., meanwhile, reported pre-holiday YOY increases in top and bottom line numbers, including a 1.3% increase in same store sales. Which surprised basically everyone. They have yet to release holiday numbers. They did, however, get a nice downgrade leading into Christmas. And there are debt exchanges to come in '18 for the company to manage an over-levered balance sheet unsustained by recent revenues.
Remember, Spotify did all of this with the help of $1b in venture debt (and NYC taxpayer subsidies, but we digress). Which, unless something has changed, is a ticking timebomb getting more expensive with each quarter the company fails to go public.
Lest anyone fail to appreciate the growth trajectory of Spotify, there's the chart below to put it in perspective.
One last note here. A few weeks ago Josh Brown wrote a piece entitled, "Just own the damn robots." If you haven't read it, we recommend that you do. The upshot of it is that the massive stock moves of the FANG stocks and other tech stocks are rooted in people's fear of being automated out of relevance.
In that vein, maybe Spotify's imminent listing is the BEST thing that could possibly happen to creatives. Get a significant part of the company out of Daniel Ek's hands, out of the hands of the venture debt holders (assuming they have an equity kicker), and the venture capitalists. Get it in the hands of the artists themselves. Perhaps that way they can have SOME manner of control over their own commoditization.


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Red Bull Mobile – międzynarodowa marka usług telefonii komórkowej.

Oferta obejmuje zarówno telefony na kartę (prepaid), jak i abonament (postpaid). Telefonia jest ściśle związana z produktem spożywczym, do startera prepaid dołączona jest puszka napoju Red Bull.

Twarzą kampanii reklamowej Red Bull Mobile w Polsce został niemiecki kierowca Formuły 1 Sebastian Vettel.
Play nie będzie już korzystać z marki RedBullMobile

Marka obecna jest w Austrii, Belgii i Polsce. Dawniej istniała również w Australii, Szwajcarii, Południowej Afryce i na Węgrzech.

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Murrans [Maasai warriors] are tasked with defending all those in their community, and Guardians embody this role – they protect people, livestock, lions, and more. Our office and data manager Merishi sent us an update on one recent event where a Guardian went above and beyond to keep his community safe and intact.
On the morning of Tuesday 10th April, 2018; Guardian Lenku received disturbing news of three rams (sheep) that were stolen by unknown culprit. The incident happened very early in the morning at his zone in Inkoisuk. The animals stolen belong to Mpapa. The Guardian joined the rest of the community members and Big Life scouts in the search for the stolen livestock. They picked up the footprints of the suspect as well as the livestock tracks near Inkoisuk bomas. Luckily, after walking tens of kilometers, they found the thief in the evening at Norkiushin. The entire team was happy since all the three rams were found safe and alive. The animals however looked exhausted after they were driven from a far distance. What surprised the team is that the culprit happened to be from the same family with the livestock owner. He was handed over to the police for the law to take its course.
Guardian Lenku explained that the search was challenging since it was raining. The area also had dense vegetation. This made it difficult to track both the suspect and the livestock. Thus, it took them a whole day to get hold of the thief. He however termed the rain as a blessing since it is the reason why the livestock slowed down and this enabled them to catch up with the thief. He is happy that they managed to soldier on to a fruitful end.
Thanks to Lenku and all the Guardians for everything they do to defend and protect their communities!


A Step Ahead Academic Center > Blog > Reading > The Great Gatsby. The great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby about America in the 1920s, when the fabulously wealthy flaunted their funds with lavish parties and opulent lifestyles. Many people, not fabulously wealthy, hitched their trains to these 'stars' and showed up, night after night, for parties with music and gin and late hours.
Our older son was assigned this novel in his American Literature class. Cynthia likes to read novels alongside our sons, and enjoyed picking up this classic after reading it so many years ago.
It happened that Cynthia and Bill attended class with our son and saw a clever exercise his creative teacher used with students in their work. Perhaps your family is similar to ours – it is tough to help your children connect to characters in novels set in another time.
Billy's teacher has found a way. She has students review the book's four principal characters – narrator Nick Carraway, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, and the great Gatsby himself. In addition to the usual summary of character traits, she challenged students to connect with the characters in a modern way relevant to today's students. She assigned to students the tasks of imagining a Twitter handle, Spotify playlist, or descriptive song for each character.
Cynthia decided to go with choosing songs for each character.
She views Nick Carraway as a narrator similar to singer-songwriter Jack Johnson. Both men have the ability to weave penetrating observations about life into compelling stories. Upside Down by Jack Johnson represents Nick Carraway.
Tom Buchanan was tougher. Tom is certainly a party guy, focused on good times and managing both his wife and girlfriend on the side. But he is also shrewd and knows how to manage Daisy for keeps. In the end, I decided on Drink too Much by the Lacs.
Daisy was easier. Daisy floats along, never wanting to speak up and announce a decision, especially one that hurts someone's feelings. She just wants to lie around, appearing beautiful and waiting for the next fun thing. Life without a brain? Well, that's Mental Floss by Jimmy Buffett.
And for the great Gatsby himself? He is stuck in time, fixated forever on the one shining moment of his life when Daisy chose him. Alas, that moment is gone. But the great Gatsby will be there forever, in the 21st night of September of his life, by Earth Wind and Fire.
Cynthia had just read Kevin Kwan's adult novel Crazy Rich Asians when she was inspired to pick up The Great Gatsby. The juxtaposition of the two novels was so interesting. In both cases, she had to look up definitions for specific references to luxury items and luxury locations. In the end, she was tired of reading about material excess.
Cynthia's song for herself, after reading these two novels last month, is Homegrown by Zac Brown Band.


I am not sure how many of you are aware, but I am currently visiting Dubai. My sister moved here in January, so I took the first opportunity I could to come and visit.
I have just finished my first full day, and what a day it was! We started off heading to Dubai Mall; the largest mall in the world! This includes an full size ice hockey pitch, an aquarium and even a taxi service running inside! After the mall we made our way outside to see the largest building in the world, "The Burj Khalifa". Just as we got outside, the fountain show started which was a great experience.
We then visited Dubai Marina, The Palm including a drive past the world famous Atlantis hotel. It's such a different world out here, and money really is no object!
After a short break back at home, we then spent the evening at the Global Village. It is only open until 8th April 2017 so I managed to get there just in time! There are buildings and landmarks from all around the world, including the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, Leaning Tower of Pisa and even Dubai's own Burj Khalifa.
Below you can find a few of my holiday snaps that I have taken tonight. I could have spent hours wandering around there taking more photos, however we needed to get back home to get my 16 month old Niece off to bed. It was a long day for us all, but especially her!
I will be sharing more images from my trip very now, but for now here are a few from the Global Village.


Cultural and Environmental Preservation Division, Student Development Affair, College of Industrial Technology and Management, Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya, held "The Khao Coral Pagoda Thart Worship" on the of 1st June 2015 at Chan Tharttaram Temple, Tongnien, Khanom, Nakhon Si Thammarat.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Kwanhatai Jaipiem, Director of College of Industrial Technology and Management with her accompanies, lecturers, staff and undergraduate students participated in the Sky-High Fabric Parade to worship the Coral Pagoda in 2015. The parade began with the floral float decorated by College of Industrial Technology and Management. Staff and the students also wore traditional Thai dresses. Over 20 Public and civil organizations participated grandiosely in the parade. The parade length was more than a kilometer. The traditional Buddha fabric was started from the front of the temple to the top of Khaothart Hill.


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Vivii – Summer of 99 (single)
I've had the pleasure of reviewing Vivii's recordings several times though I'm still smarting from walking into their Reeperbahn Festival show two years ago just as they walked off stage. My watch was still on UK time. Doh.
The Gothenburg born but now Stockholm based trio is made up of husband and wife Emil and Caroline Jonsson and their enigmatic work partner Anders Eckeborn, who shuns the limelight but is responsible for generating most of the odd sounds that appear on their songs, as well as acting as producer. And there's a really odd one on this track, as you will see.
They released their first and eponymous album in March 2019, following the earlier EP 'Savant' which established them and I was instantly impressed by their consistently high standard of melodic dream-pop. And any vocalist who can remind me of Alela Diane in her Headless Heroes incarnation, as Caroline Jonsson does, is always going to win me over.
They've made quite a name for themselves since, with millions of streams and an extensive U.S. tour last autumn.
Now they return to the studio with the first single from their follow-up album which is scheduled for a spring 2021 release. I don't know if they deliberately set out to confuse us with their song titles but the first track of theirs that I reviewed was called 'Suckerpunch' and was released at the same time as Sigrid's effort of the same title.
This time it is 'Summer of 99' which inevitably invites comparisons with the classic, immortal 'Summer of '69' by Bryan Adams. It's a different kind of song; a ballad, possibly about a surprise pregnancy if I read the obscure lyrics correctly, played out to a gently picked acoustic guitar and with Emil taking the lead until Caroline arrives from heaven with her gorgeous backing vocals supporting a beautiful soft synth passage.
Then something quite remarkable happens at the 2:25 mark. Someone tries to start up a tractor or a JCB, but just can't get the bloody thing going through half a dozen attempts that last the remainder of the song. Eventually it splutters out and expires, and is probably towed away to the scrap yard.
I don't know what they were thinking of with this interlude, it's bizarre but fortunately it doesn't do enough to spoil an otherwise lovely closing instrumental section with Caroline's angelic vocal overlaid.
Malfunctioning industrial vehicles apart, basing my opinion solely on this track, the forthcoming album, which will be released, like this single, on the Dumont Dumont label, should project Vivii to another level.
The single was released today 26th August.
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Prominent Japanese e-commerce site Rakuten has purchased intellectual property (IP) assets from Belfast-based bitcoin payment processor Bitnet and announced the opening of a blockchain lab, reports TechCrunch.
The news comes after a Wall Street Journal article in July said a deal could possibly be in the works. The amount paid for the assets is undisclosed.
Rakuten was among the investors in a $14.5 million Bitnet investment round that took place about two years ago. The online commerce heavyweight integrated the payment processor's system into some of its e-commerce sites in March last year.
Bitnet, according to the TechCrunch article, was supposed to compete with bitcoin payment giants Coinbase and BitPay, but following resignations of a spate of executives and the startup laying off half of its staff to cut costs, it just could not grow its business. That led to this strategic asset-stripping move from Rakuten, says the article.
According to a Rakuten press release, the lab, which will be located in Belfast, will open on August 22 and will be a dedicated research and development organization within Rakuten. It will be focused on blockchain technology and its potential applications in the fintech and e-commerce sectors, said the release.
Rakuten is also among the world's largest e-commerce sites by sales.
Joining the Rakuten Blockchain Lab will be Bitnet CTO Stephen McNamara and Bitnet engineering VP Fergal Downey.


Home Defence Is America's national security Facebook and Google's problem?
Close to a billion Chinese people use Tencent's instant communication and cashless platforms. In October 2017, Alibaba announced a three-year investment of $15 billion for developing and integrating AI and cloud-computing technologies that will power the smart cities and smart hospitals of the future. Beijing is investing $9.2 billion in the golden combination of AI and genomics to lead personalized health research to new heights. More ominously, Alibaba is prototyping a new form of ubiquitous surveillance that deploys millions of cameras equipped with facial recognition within test bed cities and another Chinese company, Cloud Walk, is using facial recognition to track individuals' behaviors and assess their predisposition to commit a crime.


What perspectives are there for oil market?
I believe, previous week high (1244,64) is the best downward entry point. Gold showed increase by 7% since the beginning of the year, so I expect quotations decrease for two reasons. First of all, stock market world is experiencing big appetite for risk, that has traditional negative impact on precious metal quotes. American stock indices renew their historical highs, European and Asian stock markets show stable increase and copper shot up by 4,6% previous week. It is worth to mention, that Volatility index VIX decreased. Second of all, US dollar index USDX is growing. That is also bad for gold because of strong negative correlation between these two instruments. Trading recommendation: Sell 1244/1250 and take profit 1213.
Over the last month oil trades in 53,83 - 57,5 range and quotes are close to upper border of the corridor. May we expect downward rollback? I think so. The first reason for price is intensive increase in US inventories. Since the beginning of the year oil inventories increased by 103,9% compared to the same period in 2016. US oil output renewed its high since the spring 2016 reaching the level of 8.978 millions barrels per day. Increased supply has also negative impact on quotes. Second reason is continuing rise of manufacturing capacity in North America. Oil drilling platforms number in US has reached highest since October 30, 2015, in Canada platforms number has reached its highest since January 30, 2015. Steadily high oil prices (compared to the beginning of 2016) allow oil producers to increase oil output. I believe that in the first half of the year quotes may increase up to $61/$62 per barrel. However, before such an intensive growth the price may shift to $54/$52 per barrel. Trading recommendation: Sell 57,40/58,5 and take profit 55,48.
Broad market index trades with P/E of 31,8, that suggests the yield of 3,14% per annum. 10-year treasury bonds are trading now with yield of 2,41%, so shares still have growth potential. In my opinion, S&P500 index might grow to 2337/2350 region because now we have high appetite for risk. Previous week investors got rid of municipal sector companies' shares and actively invested in internet companies' and banks' shares. Such positioning indicates large number of buyers on market. Janet Yellen's speech in Congress is scheduled on Tuesday and Wednesday. Fed chair will confirm positive trend on labor market but may insist on new rate hike after possible strong macroeconomic data release. To put it simply, Fed won't increase interest rate on March meeting, which is a positive factor for stock market. Trading recommendation: Buy 2310/2295 and take profit 2337.