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Hunt, The (percussion ensemble)
Taylor, Noah D. (b. 1982)
Genre: Solo Marimba with Percussion Ensemble
# of Players: 8 + Solo Marimba
Level: Medium Difficult | Duration: 13:20
A Fantasy for Marimba and Percussion Orchestra. The work contains a number of common percussion instruments such as the mallet instruments, drums, and cymbals, but also a number of atypical instruments including: log drum, thunder sheets, octobans, rain stick, and many other metal and wood sounds. Two main themes emphasize the awesomeness of nature and the drama of the hunt.
Genre: Solo Marimba with Percussion Ensemble | # of Players: 8 + Solo Marimba
Solo Marimba (5-octave)
Percussion 1 (marimba 5 octaves, bass drum)
Percussion 2 (marimba 4.3 octaves, congas, suspended cymbal)
Percussion 3 (vibes, thunder sheet, tam-tam, suspended cymbal)
Percussion 4 (bells, crotales, chimes, bass drum, marimba 5 octaves, thunder sheet, rain stick)
Percussion 5 (wind chimes, suspended cymbal, octo-bans (x8), splash cymbal, kick bass, bongos, snare drum)
Percussion 6 (bass drum, tam-tam, suspended cymbal, splash cymbal, snare drum, 4 tom-toms, congas, log drum, thunder sheet, talking drum, China cymbal)
Percussion 7 (tam-tam, suspended cymbal, China cymbal, bass drum, snare drum, 4 tom-toms, rain stick)
Timpani (5 drums)
The Hunt, composed for marimbist Brenton Dunnington, was completed in July 2004. The work is a Fantasy for Marimba and Percussion Orchestra. The 'percussion orchestra' consists of a percussion ensemble with 8 performers. The instrumentation of the ensemble is rather large, encapsulating the many sounds of nature. The work contains a number of common percussion instruments such as the mallet instruments, drums, and cymbals, but also a number of atypical instruments including: log drum, thunder sheets, octobans, rain stick, and many other metal and wood sounds.
Taylor captures two main themes throughout the free formed, rhapsodizing work. The Fantasy opens with a chorale in B flat minor played by the solo marimbist and several of the other mallet players. This chorale expresses Taylor's awe of nature. As the chorale hymn fades away into the distance, an ominous foreshadowing of the hunt ensues.
The second theme is the actual hunt that occurs in the wild. This fast, intense music based around the octatonic scale in many tonalities reflects the danger and carnage that exists, not just among animals, but the elements as well. Throughout this virtuoso section, there are film-like visualization of the 'hunter' pursuing the unknowing 'hunted'. After a vivid interplay and final battle into a dramatic climax, an extensive fortissimo gong hit signals an end to the hunt.
After a brief ensemble and virtuoso marimba cadenza depicting the hunt's afterthoughts, the opening hymn is brought back, this time in E flat minor, which again restates an emotional response to the hunt. The final coda, while similar in tempo to the hunting music, has no violent tendencies. It is a noble and majestic conclusion with a feeling of hope ending in an exciting flourish in E flat major. This creates a musical rebirth that allows the listener to leave the piece with a similar feeling of respect and admiration of nature that Taylor possesses. It also leaves the actual result of the hunt open-ended. Did the 'hunter' triumph or did the 'hunted' escape?
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Will the U.S. meltdown at Medinah carry over to Hazeltine?
CHASKA, Minnesota – The last Ryder Cup played on American soil came four years ago at Medinah. The next one is here this week at Hazeltine National. Though Medinah and Hazeltine aren't rivals, there's bound to be comparisons on and off the course as the 41st Ryder Cup unfolds.
In a meltdown of epic proportions the U.S. blew a 10-6 lead on the last day of singles matches at Medinah and lost to the Europeans – something that's happened eight times in the last 10 meetings.
The Medinah Ryder Cup also represented a breakthrough in terms of magnitude. Never had the event been such a bonanza in terms of corporate involvement.
Whether the U.S. team – with the same captain, Davis Love III, returning – learned from the meltdown at Medinah won't be determined until the matches begin on Friday. On the preparation side, however, the lessons from Medinah have been utilized already. Hazeltine has sold even more corporate chalets than Medinah did and has the biggest merchandise tent..
"On the big picture side, the best thing Medinah did for us was setting a high bar,'' said Patrick Hunt, Hazeltine's Ryder Cup chairman. "We're competitive. We always want to beat previous records, and they set all the records at Medinah.''
Hazeltine set its own goals and that turned the Medinah success into healthy motivation. Hunt and his Hazeltine crew had one challenge that Medinah didn't have. Golf was added to the Summer Olympics program for the first time since 1904, and that meant a 72-hole tournament for top players in Brazil a month before the Ryder Cup came to Hazeltine. One of Europe's stars, Justin Rose, won the gold medal and another, Henrik Stenson, took the silver in Brazil.
That might not bode well for the U.S. chances in this week's matches but the Olympics but weren't a problem in Hazeltine's preparatory effort.
"I never thought the Olympics would be a distraction or a negative,'' said Hunt. "It created a more compacted schedule, but at the end of the day the competition was a good thing.''
Crowds will be about the same as Medinah, with 250,000 expected for the week.
"We learned from (previous host clubs) Valhalla, Medinah and Oakland Hills, but Hazeltine is an ideal venue to host a Ryder Cup because of the resources available,'' said Jeff Hinz, in his first stint as a Ryder Cup tournament director at Hazeltine. "The club had experience hosting events and, with the land that they have and the vision of the club to host championships, that was critical.''
The Hazeltine Ryder Cup will be the first to have on-site signage for its main corporate partners. It also conducted a national trophy tour and will have the largest merchandise tent in golf history. New twists in marketing were also evident, most notably the use of the 1980 U.S. Olympic gold medal-winning hockey team as ambassadors
Hazeltine is even better qualified historically to host this Ryder Cup than Medinah was four years ago. Hazeltine didn't even open until 1962, roughly 40 years after Medinah, but it has already hosted two U.S. Opens (1970, 1991), two U.S. Women's Opens (1966, 1977), two PGA Championships (2002, 2009), the U.S. Senior Open (1983) and the U.S. Amateur (2006).
The Ryder Cup is all that's missing from the club's resume, and that will soon be corrected. Only one club has hosted all those big events plus the Ryder Cup. That would be North Carolina's Pinehurst No. 2, which opened in 1907 – 55 years before Hazeltine.
Hazeltine looks much different than Hazeltine. Medinah has the bigger clubhouse but Hazeltine has the newer one. It was built in 2010.
Medinah has three courses on its premises. It also offers a variety of other activities for its members – like tennis, swimming and skeet and trap shooting. Hazeltine is all about golf. Though it has only one, very respected, course there is plenty of open space around the club and that makes it a most desirable tournament venue.
Robert Trent Jones designed the Hazeltine course, but it won't play as he envisioned it for the Ryder Cup. The hole rotation has been altered since the 2009 PGA was played there to accommodate the construction of chalets for corporate hospitality. The last four holes of each nine were switched to make for a better spectator experience.
At Medinah overall course conditioning was a major problem leading right up to the start of play, but all went well in the end. At Hazeltine there wasn't as much tension. What there was came in the installation of a new bunker system. Work on that was completed in the dead of winter, two months before the course even opened for play.
Bunkers are a key part of the Hazeltine playing experience, and the course has 108 of them. They account for the same square footage as the putting surfaces – about three acres each. That's an eye-catching statistic, because bunkers typically are about one-third the size of the putting surfaces.

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Looks great! Now I'm even more impatient to order mine!
Also got a stubby rear bumper also. Way nicer then the full width imo.
Did LOD address the mounting holes on the bumper for the JL fogs? Watching Eddie's video he wasn't able to retain the LED fogs and used his old JK fogs instead.
I haven't tried to stick our stock lights in. I was trying to find some Aftermarket LED's.
Yes. For detailed information contact LOD or check out the install instructions located on their website. Depending on which bumper you are starting with, and which fogs are in the bumper, you may or may not need additional brackets.
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Cool! Looks like you'll have to purchase the JLB1811 bracket for it to work.
Another option I was looking into if I wasn't able to score a Rubicon with the steel bumper option.
Noted on my build notes.
The led's in the none steel fit just fine. The bracket is to convert the steel bumper fogs to fit. And I have a set of brackets I'll send if someone need them, free of charge. They came with my bumper.
Your bumper came with these brackets?
Yep ...least 2 of the squarish one. Not sure I saw the flat? Looks like a flush round mount for the rear.
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FRANKFORT, Ky.) -- The Council on Postsecondary Education's new leadership institute for underrepresented minority faculty graduated its inaugural cohort last week during a Council meeting at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College. Madisonville Community College faculty member, Dr. Aseem Talukdar, was among those who completed the program.
The purpose of the Academic Leadership Development Institute (ALDI) is to develop more campus leaders among early career, underrepresented minority faculty who aspire to leadership positions. The cohort consisted of 19 faculty representing all eight of the state universities and seven colleges of Kentucky Community and Technical College System.
Dr. Talukdar, originally from India, completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from Delhi University in New Delhi. He relocated to the United States for advanced study and earned another master's degree and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cincinnati. He joined MCC in the fall of 2009 as a physics and astronomy instructor. Dr. Talukdar research interests include condensed matter physics, astronomy and physics education.
"We are building a cadre of great higher education leaders who can take us well in the 21st century," said Aaron Thompson, Council executive vice president and chief academic officer. Thompson said that institutions benefit from developing their own leaders because of their familiarity with the campus climate and knowledge of the institutional mission and strategic plan.


So proud of you Rachelle!!
Rachelle, you are amazing!! We are so proud of you!!
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Proud of your hard work and dedication Rachelle to a great cause!
You're doing a great thing! We're cheering you on from Cleveland!


I tried and tried, but could not find a link between the following two new exhibitions. Their tone alone is completely different, but I felt that they were both worth a mention nonetheless.
Harry Patch's medals went on display at the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Regimental Museum in Bodmin this week. Patch, who died on July 25th, aged 111, was a machine-gunner with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. His eight medals include the British War Medal, the Allied Victory Medal and two French Legion d'Honneur awards. They were brought to the museum by the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall, Lady Mary Holborow, after Patch's funeral last Thursday, August 6th, and will form the centrepiece of a display until October. The medals will thereafter be displayed alongside other awards belonging the veterans of the same regiment.
On a lighter note, a new museum devoted to the currywurst is due to open in Berlin tomorrow, August 15th, to mark the 60th birthday of the German speciality. Currywurst is a chopped up fried sausage which is then covered in tomato ketchup and sprinkled with curry powder. A section of the new exhibition notably describes the history and cultural significance of the snack and addresses some of the legends and controversies surrounding it, including the place of its birth. The exhibition thus refutes the claim that the currywurst originated in Hamburg and presents Berlin as the sausage's true home. The snack was allegedly first created in the western Berlin district of Charlottenburg in 1949 by a woman called Herta Heuwer.


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Q: Given linear transformation $T$ and bases $B_v, B_w$, write down the matrix $T(B_v, B_w)$ Let $V = W = M_{2\text{x}2}$ and let
$$B_v = B_w = \bigg \{ \left[\begin{array}{l}1&0\\0&0\end{array}\right],\left[\begin{array}{l}0&1\\0&0\end{array}\right],\left[\begin{array}{l}0&0\\1&0\end{array}\right],\left[\begin{array}{l}0&0\\0&1\end{array}\right] \bigg \}$$
be their respective bases.
Let the linear operator $T$ be defined as:
$$T(A) = \frac{1}{2}(A+A^T)$$
Write down the matrix $T(B_v,B_w)$
Apologies for the lack of attempt. I seem to fail to understand what the question is asking. I'm just not sure what $T(B_v,B_w)$ is. I know $T$ is an operator for matrices, but I'm not sure how to proceed when the input is two bases.

A: As a function, $T: \mathbb{R}^{2\times2}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}^{2\times2}$. You can check that $T$ is linear, so that makes it a linear transformation.

In general, consider the following. Let $U,V$ be finite dimensional vector spaces and $F:U\longrightarrow V$ be a linear map. Given an ordered basis $\alpha$ of $U$ and an ordered basis $\beta$ of $V$, we may write down a matrix $M=M_F(\alpha,\beta)$ that represents the map $F$ in the following sense:
Each $u\in U$ can be written as a linear combination of the elements of $\alpha$ in a unique way;  the coefficients of this linear combination are the coordinates of $u$ in base $\alpha$, and we call these $[u]_\alpha$. Analagously, we may do the same for $v \in V$ with $\beta$, and call these coordinates $[v]_\beta$.

Example: Consider the canonical basis of $\mathbb{R}^2$ and let $u=(2,6)$ in this basis. Now, let $\alpha=\{(1,1),(1-1)\}$  be another basis for $\mathbb{R}^2$. Notice the basis is ordered, with $\alpha_1=(1,1)$ and $\alpha_2=(1,-1)$. We have that $u=4\alpha_1-2\alpha_2$, so $[u]_\alpha={(4,-2)}$.

The matrix $M$ is such that $M\cdot{[u]}_\alpha={[Fu]}_\beta$, meaning that when you multiply a vector $u$ written in base $\alpha$ by $M$, you get $Fu$ written in base $\beta$. We will construct $M$ one column at a time.
Indeed, let $e_i=(0,\dots,0,1,0,\dots,0)$, where the $1$ appears at position $i$. You can check that for any matrix $A$, $Ae_i$ is simply the $i$-th column of $A$. Now, how does $M$ act on $e_i$? Observe that $e_i={[\alpha_i]}_\alpha$, hence
$$Me_i=M{[\alpha_i]}_\alpha=[F\alpha_i]_\beta$$
In words, this means that the $i$-th column of $M$ is obtained by taking the $i$-th element of base $\alpha$, applying $F$ to it, then writing it down in base $\beta$.

Now, with all of this out of the way, let's tackle the problem at hand.
Since $\mathbb{R}^{2\times2}$ is four-dimensional, the matrix $T(B_v,B_w)$ will be $4\times4$. We name the matrices of $B_v=B_w\,$,
\begin{align}
&b_1=\left[\begin{array}{l}1&0\\0&0\end{array}\right]&&b_2=\left[\begin{array}{l}0&1\\0&0\end{array}\right]\\
&b_3=\left[\begin{array}{l}0&0\\1&0\end{array}\right]&&b_4=\left[\begin{array}{l}0&0\\0&1\end{array}\right]
\end{align}
so that $B_v=B_w=\{b_1,b_2,b_3,b_4\}$, in this order. Now, remember, the $i$-th column of $T(B_v,B_w)$ will be the $i$-th element of $B_v$, transformed by $T$, and then written in base $B_w$, that is

The $i$-th column of $T(B_v,B_w)$ is $Tb_i$ written in base $B_w$

Calculating the $Tb_i$'s:
\begin{align}
&Tb_1=\left[\begin{array}{l}1&0\\0&0\end{array}\right]&&Tb_2=\left[\begin{array}{l}0&\frac12\\\frac12&0\end{array}\right]\\
&Tb_3=\left[\begin{array}{l}0&\frac12\\\frac12&0\end{array}\right]&&Tb_4=\left[\begin{array}{l}0&0\\0&1\end{array}\right]
\end{align}
Now, writing them in base $B_w$:
\begin{align}
&[Tb_1]_{B_w}=(1,0,0,0)&&[Tb_2]_{B_w}=\left(0,\frac12,\frac12,0\right)\\
&[Tb_3]_{B_w}=\left(0,\frac12,\frac12,0\right)&&[Tb_4]_{B_w}=(0,0,0,1)
\end{align}
Finally:
$$T(B_v,B_w)=\pmatrix{1&0&0&0\\0&\frac12&\frac12&0\\0&\frac12&\frac12&0\\0&0&0&1}$$

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It's time to change the clocks again.
What was wrong with the old time?
It's a pretty big task to change them all.
How many clocks do you have to change?
I have to change plenty of them.
…I have to spin the dials on her pretty face.
When you change the clocks, you have to keep checking the time.
It's difficult to get them all just perfect.
There's usually some incident along the way, too.
Well, at least there is over here, anyway.
There's one thing I really love about clocks this time of the year.
And I really love that one thing.
We get to sleep one more hour!
Any time I get to sleep one more hour I'm happy.
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opportunities to advance women's rights in Africa.
In Francophone West Africa, a law in most penal codes in the region, which related to identity theft, is used against trans individuals, particularly trans women. A simple trip in the daytime as a trans woman can have severe repercussion on their safety and security; and if stopped for any reason by the police, a person risks an arrest.Also, the psychological, sexual and reproductive health needs of trans individuals are misunderstood and in West Africa, especially in Francophone countries, there is no safe place for trans individuals to access care as trans individuals.
Lydia Mukami is one of the women human rights defenders in Kenya. She was threatened and assaulted for her activism to improve the economic wellbeing of women farmers in Mwea agricultural scheme. Farmers have long decried the policies and management of the National Irrigation Board (NIB).
This is a blog written by a participant of the 13th International AWID Forum, supported by UAF-Africa, through a grant from the Foundation for a Just Society. A little bit about me: I always find it difficult to talk about myself – I prefer to listen to others.


This commission came via the client loving one of my previous creations, or one aspect of it in particular. Having completed a number of property renovations at various locations globally for their family there was a number of boxes of tiles which the client could simply not bare to throw away and so these had been stored. When the client viewed one of my art creations which incorporated tile art amongst other substrates the challenge was on! So, upon the arrival of several removal boxes full of tiles and bits of tile and stone I set about creating a bespoke piece of art for the family. Again incorporating memories and elements close to their hearts I first painstakingly cut and created a mosaic which forms the outline of a photo of the Blue Ridge Mountains where the family currently have a residence. Each layer of tile has natural tones or textures which either leant themselves to the various elements, rocks, trees and lake for example. Once the tiles were all cut and shaped to form the mosaic I began to apply a combination of art and photo ghosting to each before finally affixing to the bespoke frame which completes the piece. You will notice on the final piece the sun in the amber sky has metallic tones and shines when it catches the light. Its one of those creations that has many levels and it has appeal to capture the viewers attention for some time.


The Toyota Mobility Foundation has launched a $4 million dollar global challenge to change the lives of people with lower-limb paralysis, culminating in the unveiling of the winners in Tokyo in 2020.
The competition is is looking for teams around the world - including startups - to create game-changing technology that will help radically improve the mobility and independence of people with paralysis. The mobility solutions of the future could include anything from exoskeletons to artificial intelligence and machine learning, from cloud computing to batteries.
Artist Yinka Shonibare MBE, photographed at his studio in Dalston. He is perhaps best known for his 1:30 scale model, Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, which occupied Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth for two years in 2010.
To raise awareness of the competition, volunteers from around the world (including athletes, presenters, scientists and artists) with lower-limb paralysis acted as spokespeople.
I was commissioned to source, commission and liaise with photographers from various countries and create a brief in order to produce a stylistically consistent set of portraits. I was also to photograph the two London representatives, Yinka Shonibare and Sophie Morgan.
Finding the photographers began with asking for recommendations and referrals, googling, searching agencies and skimming databases, and browsing scores of websites to find people with a roughly similar approach and portfolio. Narrowing them down based on their availability at short notice and, of course, budget, I presented these to the client for the final decision.
Dealing with my own, separate commissions alongside dealing with correspondence from various time zones meant late nights and early mornings, as well as lengthy, rather chaotic spreadsheets - something I've never had to deal with. And lots of coffee.
Preethi Srinivasan (founder of Soulfree) photographed near Bangalore, India by Boban James (www.bobanjames.com).
In a nutshell, the brief was to provide two portraits of each person: one full-length, wide shot to show their environment, locating them within their country or region, otherwise at a place which might suggest their profession or background; the other was to be a closer crop, with the emphasis on them and their expression (positive, challenging etc.) at, ideally, a different location. Lighting was to be simple, minimal to none where possible.
To maintain consistency, I did the basic retouch work on the selected RAW files myself which was extremely generous of the photographers to allow.
Dr Rory Cooper Ph.D, photographed by Angelo Merendino (www.angelomerendino.com). Dr Cooper is FISA & Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) Chair and Distinguished Professor of the Department of Rehabilitation Science & Technology, and professor of Bioengineering, Physical Med & Rehab, and Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh.
In the end, and despite best intentions and plans - as is often the case - some of it came down to what the photographers could do on the ground, what they could use to tell the story in the (usually short) time available from whatever relevant/photogenic locations they had in the vicinity. Mostly the time and location were dictated by the busy schedules of the volunteers and photographers, rather than by the best light or ideal spot. But you wouldn't know! - I think they did a superb job, and the launch was a great success.
Paralympian rower Sandra Khumalo at Victoria Lake Rowing Club in Germiston, Johannesburg. Photographed by Ilan Godfrey (www.ilangodfrey.com).
Presenter, reporter, artist and model Sophie Morgan, photographed near Tower Bridge, London.


Horchata is a creamy, smooth sweet summer drink popular in Spain and Latin America. It is traditionally served cold in a tall glass without ice. Unlike Americans, Europeans are not fond of ice in their drinks. Horchata is usually paired with a pastry. The origin of the name horchata derives from Latin, hordeum meaning barley….


As the time comes to search for home protection, you may be surprised to find so many options for security. Providers offer a vast amount of systems, features, and products for you to choose from today with one of many window alarms. And how they work is a true testament to how far technology has come.
It is amazing to think that home security companies have the ability to tell you exactly when someone has broken into your home without you even being there. The system and alarm can react faster and alert the proper authorities quicker than the intruder has to enter and exit the home. Doors are the common way to enter, but windows are becoming just as frequent of an entrance.
Window alarms are just one of the many extensions of electrical home security systems today. They are made up of a series of wires, switches, brain centers and the primary power system within the home.
The alarm system's brain is the control box in the home. This is often connected to your home's power and has its own backup power system as well. Within this box you will find a wire that runs through the home and into the control pad of the alarm system so you can enable or disable it whenever you choose to.
Within the control box is also a set of wires that runs to each entry point of your home. All entry points of the home have there one sensor so that the alarm system's control box knows whether it has been opened or closed. Each system can vary from magnetic strips to push switches or proximity sensors.
When it comes to the proximity sensor of window alarms, most are made up of two components: the magnetic sensor or the window and the metal strip on the window. A relay switch that is attached to the wire running into the control box rests within the sensor. The switch is then held down to display a closed circuit when the magnetic strip on the window is within a particular proximity of the sensor.
As soon as the strip moves out of the particular area, the switch in the sensor pushes up into the signaling wire. As the wire alerts the control box that the window is open, a sound will alarm you that the window has been opened.
It seems like a lot just to inform you that a window has been opened, but it is exactly what you are going to want when it comes to a burglar or intruder sneaking through a window in the middle of a day or breaking in at 3 in the morning. And that is how window alarms work in a nutshell.


The appellate court found that certain sections of the mother's speech had been restricted in too broad and vague a manner to be enforced and overturned the part that restricted her from posting about the father on social media and overturned the part that restricted mother from discussing "any adult-issues" with her child.
Consequently, we modify the juvenile court's injunction to remove the prohibitions against 1) any reference by Mother to "Father at all on social media" or 2) discussions of "adult–only issues" beyond those topics specifically referenced in the injunction. Our ruling, however, does not preclude the juvenile court from expanding its injunction in the future to cover additional topics provided the restraints on Mother are supported by adequate factual findings and are narrowly tailored to limit the prohibited speech.
Interestingly, and not surprisingly, this Attorney calls this mother's result a loss. It seems to be difficult for attorneys to accept that pro se are getting better results than they are now. That's simply because attorneys have refused to raise these constitutional protections. Where parents are willing to fight with everything they have. Parents, like this mother, are learning that most of the time their rights are the only thing they may have going for them.
This case proves that you do not have to be an expert to fight for your rights. You do not have to be an expert for your rights to protect you. You do have to learn about your rights and how they protect you. Our book, NOT in the Child's Best Interest," summarizes these principles for you and provides you with over 90 supreme court cases.
Note that this mother prevailed on the vague and overly broad portions of the gag order but did not prevail on the more narrowly tailored portions of the gag order. Those, we believe, could be argued as prior restraints successfully in many cases however. This is where it takes quite a bit more understanding about how these rights need to be argued. Our book covers the basic foundations. Our materials constantly evolve and you see this in newer materials that build upon the foundation of the books that we have, in the form of sample motions, online classes, and other developing books and materials.
*Tennessee Attorney summarized the case here.
Want to learn more about this issue listen to the interview with Ron Palmer with Ted Fogg and Johnny Panko with Restoring Freedom Internet Radio and Million Parent March 2017 here.
There are certain types of speech that are not protected, defamatory speech is one of them. Speech that causes harm. That harm needs to be proven. The appellate court in this particular case declares that the mother's speech in some of the areas proved to be harmful. This is an area however that can be argued. There are some types of harm that a court is not allowed to prohibit or protect from. This means that a child getting upset over something you spoke to them is not necessarily grounds to protect the child from that speech. For instance, if a parent tells a child "no" they cannot go to that concert and the child gets upset. A parent can make decisions and say things to children that make them upset.
What a parent cannot do is defame someone or create the kind of harm that yelling fire in a crowded public place can cause if there is indeed no fire.
Comment below about your experience or thoughts about gag orders.
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Located in Vienna, West Virginia, Ohio Valley University is a small four year private college offering both undergrad and graduate programs. The school has a religious affiliation with the Churches of Christ faith. In the most recent statistical year 892 prospective students applied, and 255 were granted admission. Of those admitted 129 enrolled in the school. 452 students are enrolled on a full time basis, and 108 attend part time. In-state tuition for 2017/2018, excluding room and board, is $21,100 plus fees of $150. Ohio Valley University is ranked 729 nationally in the CollegeSimply.com 2019 U.S. Colleges Ranking.
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Barclays acquires stake in Ziggo after failing to find buyers for shares
25th March 2013 @ 12:00
Barclays Bank has acquired a 14.2% stake in Dutch cable operator Ziggo after failing to find enough buyers for a block of shares for which it agreed to underwrite the sale.
Private equity owners Cinven and Warburg Pincus moved last week to sell 40 million shares in the operator, the equivalent of a 20% stake, leaving them with a 17.1% holding in the company.
The shares were made available via a private placement to investors outside the US on a Reg S basis, and to US qualified institutional buyers under an available exemption in a move described as an "accelerated bookbuild".
However, the share sale, which was completed on March 19, left Barclays as Ziggo's biggest shareholder after it failed to find enough buyers. Barclays guaranteed the sale at €25.05 a share.
Barclays disclosed the stake to the Dutch market regulator AFM on Friday under a rule that all shareholders must disclose stakes of above 5%. The bank had not previously been involved in sell-downs by the cable operator's private equity owners or in Ziggo's IPO.
At the end of last week, Ziggo announced the successful pricing of its €750 million bond offering. The proceeds of the offering will be used to repay existing debt.
Tags: Barclays, Netherlands, Ziggo
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Chris is the Director of the Institute for Translational Research in Children's Mental Health, and Co-Director of Ambit Network both at the University of Minnesota.
Her work at Ambit Network focuses on the implementation and dissemination of trauma-informed practices across child serving systems e.g., juvenile justice, child welfare, education. She has an extensive background working in juvenile and criminal justice. Her juvenile justice work includes: clinical work with incarcerated youth; Principle Investigator on a national survey designed to understand the extent of trauma-informed practices within probation agencies across the US; and Consultant to the University of Oklahoma and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention on youth with problematic sexual behavior. Chris has expertise in program evaluation and is currently evaluating several new mental health initiatives implemented at the county level.
Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota, Chris retired as a Commissioner for the Minnesota Department of Corrections. She has two daughters and has been a part resident in the Wood River Valley for 15 years.


Bench bedroom, it is furniture that can be used in many different places in the home. But many do not overlook. The bench can serve as an exhibition platform for plants, books and other nips. But there are also beats available for storage at home. Besides this, the bench can of course be used to sit on. And is for use in the entrance, at the dining table or at the end of the bed. There is no reason to leave the hallways empty and boring. You can easily adjust once so that it will be nice and in keeping with the rest of the accommodation.
Here a bench is a very good means, as it is a narrow and oblong piece of furniture that does not fill too much. You can use the bench bedroom as a seat or to show your nips. Just like a plant on or next to the bench and decorate it with a pillow or blanket like the dot over it. A seat in the entrance is almost indispensable. It's so nice to have a place to settle down when you want to shoe. Or help children get their shoes on. You can decorate the bench with a little bit of plants or curves for storage.
A bench bedroom with integrated storage space, where you can store hats and habits, is also a smart solution for the entrance. It gives a very nice and vibrant expression when you mix different chairs at a dining table. The same expression can be achieved by combining chairs and a bench at the table. As you can look at the pictures, it actually goes both for rectangular and round tables. A bench for the interior home is also smart if there is room for more to sit together, where there is nevertheless room for so many chairs.


Travel can be anything you want it to be. From a staycation, a day trip, to an overnight, to full immersion there is no one best choice. Travel can be very expensive, but it can also be a bargain depending on how you structure it. There are so many benefits to traveling that it is worth building a budget and stretching the value of it as far as possible.
Day Trips – You have to determine your driving stamina, but in general you should keep this to 1.5 hours a direction, under 1 hour if possible.
Home exchange – This can save a ton of money, but there are risks allowing people you do not know to live in your home. I am sure they are similar to the risk many people face running an airbnb.
Camping – There are some incredible campsites at state parks and other organizations. There is a special feeling being disconnected from society. This is also very affordable. You can simply pitch a tent, sleep in the back of a pickup / SUV, or an RV. The site fees are pretty similar, but the purchase price of and RV and poor gas mileage makes it one of the costlier choices.
Hotels – If you search specials on hotwire / priceline, or go off season you can stay at some very comfortable hotels for a reasonable amount of money. Thanks to tripadvisor you can get a good idea of just what you are booking to limit surprises.
The cheaper the acceptable accommodations are to you, the longer you will be able to travel for and the more you can see.
I think it is first important to distinguish between traveling and vacationing. I see traveling as an adventure where you will learn something new, and maybe are outside your comfort zone. Vacation's usually involve going to a plush resort with minimal physical activity. I don't want to knock vacations as they can be very satisfying, but I see them more as a luxory expense. Whereas traveling, while also cutting into monthly retirement savings, is an invaluable experience.
It is hard to determine what a responsible amount of money to put towards traveling is. Is it an arbitrary number such as $1,000 a year, or a percentage of income say 5%? I don't think there is a one size fits all. Just as setting up a monthly budget including housing, utilities, food, and transportation you have to make trade offs. You make these trade offs based on what is important to you. Just because there are metrics spouted by experts such as housing should not exceed 35% of your income, you are free to spend much less, or more if it is extra important to you.
We can extrapolate further if we use the 35% figure. For instance say you wish you could spend 10% of your income traveling but do not believe it is responsible. If you were currently spending 35% of your income renting a 2 bedroom apartment, but could be as or close to as happy in a one bedroom apartment spending 25% of your income. With the 10% savings in housing costs you can now travel. It is very possible that the satisfaction and growth you get out of traveling on that 10% would outweigh the added value of that second bedroom.
The idea of owning a vacation home tends to appeal strongly with some people. There are many benefits to this such as being able to leave all your stuff there between visits, know who was sleeping in the bed before you, and pride of ownership. If it is a place you really enjoy visiting and want to spend a lot of time there you can get great value. Some of the concerns are that you will have to do a lot of extra work such as cleaning, which we take for granted when staying at a hotel. Further, the home needs to be maintained and a lot of vacation time will end being spent working on the house. You also will have to pay double utilities. Now people will justify the negatives by planning to rent the home out when they are not there, but by doing that they are losing out on the original two benefits.
Another concern is that someone might purchase a vacation home for the false feeling that they are still on vacation even when they are not there. I think it is easy to buy a vacation home thinking you will go there every weekend and other extended stays when possible. A cabin in the mountains or by the lake may make you feel like you are more connected to nature when you are living in a big city. It may be a false sense that one can purchase the feeling of nature similar to how many feel good about buying exercise equipment. Yet the equipment won't make you fit just by having it, and the vacation home won't make you feel like you're on vacation when you are not there.
Despite the cons for some this can still be something they greatly enjoy and may actually be money well spent. I just want to caution that the time and money put into it is an opportunity cost. The same money could be put into stocks and bonds, and the time put into maintaining the house could be put into side venture work to earn more money. The investment return on this money could easily pay for hotel stays in any place you want to go in the world. I believe there is less risk in this approach and more variety available. Yet again I understand wanting to own the vacation home as mentioned earlier for the emotional happiness that may bring. This is not much different from people who buy a corvette and drive around in car clubs. If this is an activity that you really enjoy, then it is not purely a financial decision. It is absolutely fine to spend your money how you like and if the vacation home makes you happy it is money well spent. I just don't want people to fool themselves thinking that it is a wonderful investment as well. It can be a fine investment, but only if you forgo the use.
I brought up the distinction of traveling vs vacationing earlier. If you are not interested in traveling and prefer to vacation that is absolutely okay and I can see how purchasing the vacation home can fulfill your desires. However, if you do wish to be a traveler I think a 2nd home would actually be an extra obstacle in your way as you will have less time to go anywhere else if you want to justify the home.
It is common knowledge to most that timeshares are a terrible investment. There are rare occasions when a timeshare may appreciate with the general real estate market, but these are generally very high end properties in extremely desirable areas. The main problem with a timeshare is that you are locked into a specific week of use each year. This can actually make a vacation more stressful, or even worse missing out on something else, since you can't bear to miss the week you already paid for. Now I know there are point systems and exchanges, but generally there is an extra cleaning fee or service charge assessed. Many people do not think of these extra fees. The major problem is that you have to pay maintenance fees every year and they generally go up every year, while the property tends to decline in condition.
There are many brand new timeshares that look incredible and seem to be a fair price for the amenities you get compared to a hotel. but you cannot only compare the yearly dues. The upfront purchase of desirable timeshare can be quite high. The problem is that as the property declines in condition, so generally does the market value of the timeshare ownership. Some people end up paying to get rid of the timeshare in the end. This is because the fees become very high and the owners are either not able or want to visit it anymore.
Interestingly there are situations where you can rent the timeshare for less than the owners pay in dues, and who have made an upfront initial payment. From here we can see there should always be plenty of supply of timeshare rentals available to you if you desire. I believe it is much better to rent a timeshare than own one, since as an owner what you really own is the obligation to continue to pay yearly dues.
Does an investment in a vacation home or timeshare justify travel cost?
I believe many people buy the timeshare or vacation home with the justification that they can travel / vacation more for less money than hotels. It is a very understandable line of thinking. If they are willing to rent out their home, or ignore their upfront timeshare purchase price this can be true. However, as stated earlier I believe simply taking that same pot of money and investing in stocks and bonds will yield a better return allowing you to stay in equally as nice of rentals, while having the flexibility to go wherever you like, and not have anything to worry about manging.
It is amazing how much diversity there is within our own country. Cities can be so different and similar at the same time. There is so much natural beauty to admire whether it be oceans, lakes, mountains, great plains, or desert. The varying climates can only be experienced to understand. Each place is unique in so many ways. You can visit a few cities at a time, or do as many others have and drive across the entire Nation.
There is something special about seeing the land the way it was originally created uninterrupted by modern society. I think the preservation of the National Parks is one of the greatest achievements of the US government and humankind. Sometimes being there you feel small and insignificant, other times you feel larger than life, while all the mundane day to day worries just seep away. There must be something to this as the visitors at these park seems to treat one another better than what we have come accustomed to in our cities.
Depending on where you live some of the parks are more accessible than others. Those living in the western region have a lot to choose from. Most of the National Park campsites are top notch, and while difficult to secure a reservation, if you can it is a wonderful trip at a reasonable price.
International Travel gives a whole new dynamic to enrichment than anything you can do within your country. Especially when visiting a country that English is not the primary language. It is a challenge when basic things you take for granted such as grocery shopping, going to dinner, riding the bus, and doing laundry are suddenly a big event. However, there is great satisfaction in learning how to do these same things all over again in a foreign country.
It is also amazing just how similar some foreign countries are to the US. Granted the languages, climate, and culture are different, but in general people still have to hold down a job, pay their bills, and decide what they want to do for leisure. This is actually the most amazing benefit of international travel in that we all have to accomplish more of less the same daily tasks, but we can see a variety of ways how they are done and the priorities and values people place on them.


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Q: Getting RAM Usage of screen process I want to get the ram usage of a process.
I tried to do it with cat /proc/PID/status, but the VMSize memory usage isnt correct.
So i search for the process(ps aux | grep 25565) and got this result:
scmain    4754  0.0  0.0  28708  2860 ?        Ss   17:24   0:00 SCREEN -dmS sc_gs_2 java -Xms6144M -Xmx6144M -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -jar server.jar --host 94.23.61.133 --port 25565
scmain    4755  3.7  2.1 10020484 707760 pts/41 Ssl+ 17:24   1:11 java -Xms6144M -Xmx6144M -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -jar server.jar --host 94.23.61.133 --port 25565
scmain   16570  0.0  0.0  15748  1012 pts/40   S+   17:56   0:00 grep --color=auto 25565

scmain    4755  3.7  2.1 10020484 707760
This is the correct Ram and Cpu usage, but want to get the information on a easier/clean way, so that i can easier parse the output in php.

A: You can get the individual columns from a row using awk:
ps aux | grep server.jar | head -1 | awk '{ print $5 }'


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Mistaken For Strangers will open the 2013 edition of Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center, to spur the economic and cultural revitalisation of the lower Manhattan district through an annual celebration of film, music and culture, the Festival brings the industry and community together around storytelling.
The 12th edition of festival will open on April 17 with Mistaken For Strangers, directed by Tom Berninger, who chronicles his experience on tour with his brother, The National's frontman Matt Berninger.
The festival will screen 89 feature-length films between April 17 and 28.
Storyscapes
Dancing In Jaffa
A documentary about a man trying to bring Israeli and Palestinian children together through ballroom dancing.
A teenager gets sucked into a turf war.
G.B.F.
After being accidentally outed, a shy teenager finds he has become the ultimate fashion accessory - the Gay Best Friend.
A cybernetics expert tries to create an android super-soldier.
Two fiercely creative artists continue to spar after 40 years spent head over heels in love.
A social history of the teenager.
Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors
A boy with Asperger's syndrome goes riding on the New York subway for days as his distraught mother searches for him.
A youngster and his family try to forge a new life after being displaced by a dam.
A documentary about a young man whose life is turned upside down when his partner dies
Big Bad Wolves
Two vigilantes kidnap a suspected child-killer.
Matt Wolf and Jon Savage talk about their documentary on the emergence of youth culture.
Nature of man
David Gordon Green on Prince Avalanche, the environment and listening to the silence.
Vidal statistics
Director Nicholas Wrathall on his Gore documentary.
Fishing for truth
Eric Steel talks about Megan Boyd documentary Kiss The Water
Bruno Barreto on his poetic tale of love.
Forest of ideas
Michelangelo Frammartino talks about his installation Alberi.
Red Obsession puts a spell on you
Conversations with David Roach and Warwick Ross.
Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais on Whitewash
Cold comfort in Quebec.
Watching Haneke
A conversation with Yves Montmayeur about Michael H Profession: Director.
Dreaming with Frédéric Boyer
Part two of our interview with the Artistic Director of the Tribeca Film Festival.
It's a Whitewash
Thomas Haden Church and Marc Labrèche on muscles, the wilderness, strongly hideous clothes, and what eats at them.
An audience with Stritch
Broadway legend Elaine talks about her life
Crazy talk with Mariel Hemingway and Barbara Kopple
A revealing portrait of an American family in the public eye is exposed in Running From Crazy.
The Nature of Frédéric Boyer
Part one of our interview with the Artistic Director of the Tribeca Film Festival.
Tribeca Film Festival Diary - Passionate Portraits
Documentaries on Gore Vidal, Elaine Stritch and teen origins.
Tribeca Film Festival - Parental problems
Responsibility, relationships and failure are explored in Almost Christmas, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Bluebird, Dark Touch and Before Midnight
Lil Bub on The Tribeca Film Festival Red Carpet
Our correspondent meets the feline star of Lil Bub & Friendz.
An étoile graces the Tribeca Film Festival red carpet
Jérôme Bonnell and Emmanuelle Devos discuss Just A Sigh.
Tribeca Film Festival preview
10 films to look out for in Manhattan this spring.
Cat's entertainment
Andy Capper and Juliette Eisner on internet cats and Lil Bub & Friendz
The Rocket, The Kill Team, Whitewash and Oxyana win top gongs
Tribeca Film Festival announces main slate
Phil Morrison, Neil LaBute and Clark Gregg films among world premieres.


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Thresholds Homes and Supports cares about and has respect for each individual's experience within the programs and services offered by our organization.
As a person receiving services from Thresholds, you have the right to:
Receive high-quality service
Be treated with respect and courtesy.
Have your information kept private and confidential, except as described in the Thresholds Privacy Policy.
Be listened to and have staff work with you to make a plan to address your concerns and needs.
Get information and support to help you make decisions to improve your situation.
Be served without discrimination.
Discuss your service with staff to identify if it is working for you and express any questions or complaints that you may have.
Request to change your primary staff member will be considered if your request is reasonable. Discriminatory requests will not be considered.
What We Ask from You
Thresholds is committed to the safety and security of its employees, people supported, volunteers, and visitors. All individuals, including people receiving support and/or housing services from Thresholds Homes and Supports are expected to treat our employees with respect and dignity. Thresholds Homes and Supports strictly forbids discrimination or harassment of any kind. Individuals who demonstrate violence or harassment may be discharged from services.
The following is a list of behaviors that will not be tolerated:
Physical violence
Any form of harassment
Intimidation tactics and/or making threats
Malicious or harmful statements about others
Sharing of another's private health or personal information
Possession of dangerous or unauthorized material
Solicitation, purchase, or selling of illegal substances on Thresholds property
Privacy Officer Contact
For further information about Thresholds' compliance with the Health Privacy Policy and related procedures, please contact the Privacy Officer at 519-742-3191 or by email at privacy [at] thresholdssupports.ca.


Your silk painting, an Ikea frame (RIBBA 50x50cm) ,craft knife, masking tape, flat screw driver, scissors, metal ruler,cutting mat or board, white mounting board cut to 50x50cm. Using the screw driver carefully pull back the metal tabs on the back of the frame. Take out the card mount. Using a sharp craft knife and metal ruler cut a piece of mounting card 50x50cm sq. I had to trim my silk to make it fit within the card, leaving enough space to apply the masking tape. This is the tricky bit so a tip is to apply a full length of tape on the first side of the silk ,then use smaller pieces and apply tension on the opposite side .Repeat this on sides 3 and 4 .the finished result should be flat without wrinkles. I estimated a 4cm mount was needed to fit with the design and so measured 4cm from the outer edge of the Ikea frame. Cut out the required mount size. Place silk under mount and place upside down in the frame. Finish by popping back the Ikea hardboard backing and close the metal tapes. These frames come in different colours , natural,black,white and silver .They cost under £10.00 and present the work in a simple contemporay style.Ikea include all the wire and hooks for hanging.


A Mission Statement describes the desired future reality a person, organization or church seeks to achieve. For a Christian church, we already have a Mission Statement given to us by Jesus in verses of the Bible such as Matthew 28:19-20. Our Mission Statement at Passion is simply a restatement of His Mission Statement. This is why we exist, this is what we hope to acccomplish, this is what keeps us up at night, this is how we know we are winning!
First, we exist to see those people farthest from Christ, and everyone in between, REACHED with His love, grace and forgiveness. Then, once they are His, we exist to REVIVE their hearts from devotion to the passions of this world, to those of the world to come.
As Passion comes to life we will accomplish this mission not only through our weekend services and age-specific programming, but through an intentional, passionate focus at all levels on REVIVE, our discipleship pathway. Our job isn't finished until each of us and all of us attain the unity and fullness offered to us in Christ.
This is active. This is our job, to reach out with the light of the Gospel into the darkness of the world. We aren't waiting for people to come to us. We are going to them. (2 Cor 4:4; Matthew 5:13-16).
These are the people who NO ONE would ever vote, "Most Likely to Follow Jesus". Whether it's the down and out, the disillusioned affluent, or the heartbroken and abandoned, that's how far the love and grace and forgiveness of Christ extends, to the very farthest. This is a prayerful, purposeful, continual engagement of those people in our lives who, most likely, are the most inconvenient and uncomfortable to our own schedules.(1 Tim 1:15; Eph 2:13; Luke 15:1-32).


Medela conducts basic research in partnership with leading scientists, medical professionals and universities, and uses the research results in the development of it breastfeeding products and solutions. Medela has 18 subsidiaries in Europe, North America and Asia, and together with independent partners distributes its products in more than 100 countries. The company employs more than 1.800 staff worldwide, 440 of whom are located in the Canon of Zug, Switzerland.


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Jaclyn Watterson and Michael Shou-Yung Shum: Debut Author Tour
Thursday, October 19, 2017 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Jaclyn Watterson, Ventriloquisms
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T.J. Tranchell, author of Asleep in the Nightmare Room
Friday, October 20, 2017 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
T.J. Tranchell holds a Master of Arts in literature and bachelor's in English from Central Washington University. Tranchell grew up in small towns in Utah, which serve as the framework for many of his stories. He has worked as a journalist in Seattle, Las Vegas and Sturgis, South Dakota. He is currently the student media adviser at the University of Idaho.
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Santana's Book Drive
Submitted by emily.inklings on Thu, 08/17/2017 - 12:32pm
Santana's 1st Grade Book Drive was organized by the family of Santana Mora, who unexpectedly passed away from a medical condition in 2012 at just 4 1/2 months old. The Drive is in honor and celebration of Santana's 6th birthday, which is on August 26th, 2017.
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Meet Taco Dragon!
Saturday, September 16, 2017 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Our favorite dragon from Adam Rubin's bestselling picture book, Dragons Love Tacos, is coming to Inklings! Please join us for a special storytime, crafts, and pictures with Taco Dragon. And there might even b e... TACOS!
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Rare book alert!
We, at Inklings, have recently come across a rare book, called Hell, I Was There! by Elmer Keith. Did you know that it was the 21st-most searched-for out-of-print book in the world in 2015? And only available for outrageous prices online? Well, one of our booksellers came across a copy in great condition and now we're selling it at Inkings for $29.95!
Here's a brief review: "This is one of the greatest "look back" books ever written -- it's a glimpse into the old West before it was fully civilized. His hunting adventures and his heroic true tale of surviving and recovering from a traumatic wound in a fire are both awe-inspiring. A fantastic book."
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Hey book lovers, are you looking for the perfect job? Inklings is hiring for a new full-time employee. Though we absolutely love the enthusiasm and creativity of students, those who do apply would need to be available year-round. We will be accepting resumes through June 28th, 2017. You must love people, be a hard worker, fast learner, and love books. A flexible schedule, with full weekend and evening availability, is a must. Please bring or mail your resume to Inklings at 5629 Summitview Ave. Yakima, WA 98908, or email emily@inklingsbookshop.com and attach a list of 6-10 books you have read this year.
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Interview with an Employee, featuring Mimi
1. What are you reading? Auntie Mame! She's the greatest aunt ever!
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A Handmaid's Tale (tv series review)
Submitted by renee.inklings on Thu, 05/18/2017 - 12:13pm
Did y'all read the The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood? Did anyone watch the tv series? What did you think so far?! If you're wondering whether or not to watch it, here's a review from the New York Times, by James Poniewozik.
"A decade ago, Elisabeth Moss began co-starring in "Mad Men," which among other things was about how women were objectified and subjugated — in the past, the 1960s, the bad old days.
In Hulu's spectacular "The Handmaid's Tale," Ms. Moss is Offred, a baby-making slave in the Republic of Gilead, which is what part of the United States (New England, roughly) has become after a fertility crisis and a theocratic coup. It's set in a near future that looks like the 1600s.
"Mad Men" may have resonated with today, but it gave viewers the comfortable vantage of history, the reassurance that we had come a long way, baby. "The Handmaid's Tale" argues — with an assist from current events — that progress is neither automatic nor irreversible.
"The Handmaid's Tale," based on the 1985 Margaret Atwood novel, is a cautionary tale, a story of resistance and a work of impeccable world-building. It is unflinching, vital and scary as hell.
Offred had another name, before she was seized as breeding stock, her husband killed and her daughter taken by the state. Now she's identified as the property of her "commander," Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes). The name is a loaner. If Offred disappoints, she'll be exiled to clean up radioactive waste with other "unwomen" until she dies, and another woman will be "of Fred."
Her days are spent running errands in a commissary where the goods are labeled with pictures (because women should not read), or sitting quietly in a bedroom with shatterproof windows (so she can't slash her wrists with a shard of glass). On "ceremony" nights, she mechanically copulates with the Commander while lying in the lap of his infertile wife, Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski).
The ritual, borrowed from the biblical story of Bilhah and Rachel, emphasizes that Offred is nothing more than a womb. So does her uniform: her face hidden by a bonnet, her form draped in a dress the red of menstrual blood and childbirth. (The costume design, by Ane Crabtree, is almost a character in itself.)
This is a dark story. That it's not oppressive is a testament to the deft adaptation and, especially, Ms. Moss's layered performance.
Offred is a captive. Nevertheless, she persists. She keeps a spark of self cupped in her hands. The series relies heavily on her narration, but not just for exposition. It's how we hear her true voice, defiant, spirited, even mordantly funny. Passing the hooded bodies of three men hanged by the government — a priest, a doctor and a gay man — she comments: "I think I heard that joke once. This wasn't the punch line."
In the first three episodes — which debut on Wednesday, with new ones weekly thereafter — the showrunner, Bruce Miller, is faithful to the novel while expanding on it. (Hulu plans this as a continuing series, so it will presumably stray further eventually. Ms. Atwood is a consulting producer.)"
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AMAZING Online Writing Course
Who else wants to do this?! I (Susan R.) signed up for a six-week, online course on Writing with Flannery O'Connor. I've long been a fan on O'Connor's earthy, slightly creepy but fascinating prose and I'm excited to learn more about her writing philosophy and style. I'd love to have someone else from the Yakima valley join me in this endeavor. You can read more about it and sign up here. I hope you will. More about it below:
"Besides being a brilliant writer, Flannery O'Connor wrote quite a bit about the craft of writing. In this six-week online course, we will look at O'Connor's essays about writing in Mystery and Manners, examine ways that she implemented her principles in her short stories, and implemented her principles in her short stories, and implement those principles ourselves in short writing exercises.
My goal as instructor will not be to get you to mimic O'Connor, but to help you find your own voice—to help you write in your native tongue, just as O'Connor wrote in hers. Though O'Connor wrote more or less exclusively about fiction, most of her principles are equally applicable to non-fiction narratives.
Below is a look at the introductory lecture of the course. Click here for full details. Class begins May 15."
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The Bear and The Nightingale
.The Bear and The Nighingale by By Katherine Arden
"I've always had a love of old Russian folktales and of the Vasilisa the Beautiful stories. She was a kind of a Russian Cinderella character. Vasilisa's father remarried after his first wife dies, his second wife is a cruel stepmother to Vasilisa. The Bear and the Nightingale is the Vasilisa story told so well. Arden specialized in French and Russian literature and lived in Moscow studying. The book is so atmospheric and magical. Lovers of old Russian literature will enjoy reading this book while they learn more about Vasilisa and the dangerous and magical life she lead."
— Reviewed by Inklings employee, Sue D
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The inspiration for Shaill Jhaveri's new silver and vermeil line? Plain old H2O. Research from the United Nations and CIA reveals that the life-sustaining element of water "will become increasingly hard to come by in many parts of the world (the Middle East, Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa) and will be a leading cause of conflict," he tells JCK.
Another troubling fact the designer discovered: By 2025, two billion people will live in countries where it will be difficult or nearly impossible to mobilize water. The water dilemma is particularly concerning for Jhaveri because he is a native of Mumbai, where population growth has placed even greater pressure on water supplies; his parents still live in India.
His new jewelry designs feature stylized drops of water evoking a splash, a shower, or a downpour, with and without precious stones. "I can see this collection go on and on," says Jhaveri. The line is so new—he brought only a few pieces to JCK Las Vegas in June—that retail prices haven't quite been finalized; he expects most items to fall within the $100 to $2,000 range.
Trendy and often unisex accessories designer Chan Luu has officially launched a collection for men. The pieces debuted at the Fall II/Holiday 2010 Los Angeles Fashion Market in June and are still on the unisex side—line bracelets in leather can suit a man or woman—but semiprecious stones like labradorite and zebra jasper help take the looks to a more sophisticated level. "Chan saw a need in the market, so this line was the next logical step," says a Luu spokesperson. Styles are crafted in sterling silver, vermeil, gunmetal, and leather cord and start at $195 retail.


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May Critique Giveaway Winners!
Random.org says the winners of this month's critique giveaway are: morgan and PatEsden!
Here's the procedure. Email me at marcia at marciahoehne dot com:
The first 1000 words of your magazine story, chapter book, mid-grade novel, or YA novel pasted into the body of the email.
Be sure to tell me the genre of the material (one of the above four).
Put "(Month) critique winner" in the subject line.
Deadline to submit is June 15.
When I receive your email, I'll acknowledge receipt and let you know when you can expect my response.
Congratulations to Morgan and Pat, thank you all so much for stopping by and entering, and by all means enter again next month! Wishing you all a great day in the world of books...
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May Book Pick -- Okay for Now, by Gary D. Schmidt.
Read this! It's fantastic!
I almost don't know how to start talking about this book, but I'll try. Newbery buzz there is, and plenty, and if anything else comes out in 2011 that's going to top this book -- well, then it'll be an amazing year.
If you've read The Wednesday Wars, you'll remember the protagonist of that book, Holling Hoodhood. (With a name like that, how could you forget him?) Holling makes a cameo appearance in this book, just as Doug Swieteck, the main character in Okay for Now, does in WW.
Doug's life in 1968-69 is darker than Holling's. After his belligerent, abusive father loses yet another job, his family moves to a small town in New York and rents a house Doug calls The Dump. Doug's mom is loving but powerless, his older brother a bully, and his eldest brother, also a bully, gone to Vietnam. It doesn't take you long to realize that the boys are becoming like the father. Your heart goes out to them, but you feel like the mother: powerless to stop it. And yet, by this book's end, almost all of it stops, and you believe it. This is a book is about redemption.
There are plenty of villains: a librarian, Principal Peattie (who refers to himself in third person so that you'd like to sock him), Dad's best friend, Doug's gym teacher. Yet, almost without exception, you get glimpses into what each of them is going through, and, slowly, Doug comes to an understanding with them. There are also lots of people who aren't villains: a few of the guys at school; a teacher or two; a special girl; Mr. Powell, the other librarian, who teaches Doug to draw; Mr. Ballard, Dad's new boss, who understands everything better than Doug realizes; and more. Almost too many to believe, yet we want to believe it, and love them all.
And there are so many plot threads, involving John James Audobon and his Birds of America book of drawings, the eldest brother's anticipated return from Vietnam, Doug's relationship with the girl Lil, a series of burglaries for which Doug's middle brother is blamed--and, by association, Doug. Other issues include illiteracy, serious illness, baseball, and Broadway. Yes, this is a BIG book (though only 360 pages). And it's a book that flirts with trouble when it draws so heavily on something like Audobon and his bird portraits (oh, and did I mention Jane Eyre, too?) in a book for a MG audience. There may be a couple of points where one could quibble about plausibility, but overall, the ambition, the emotional impact, the voice -- it all works. That alone makes this book great.
It's not an easy book. Parts of it are excruciating, while not beyond a MG audience. In Doug's world, there are decent and not-so-decent people, and we learn that if we look into the not-so-decent, they have reasons for the way they are. Hurt people hurt people, as the saying goes. Yet they can have redemption if only they will.
Read this. It's fantastic.
May Critique Giveaway
It's critique time. Enter to win! Here are the rules and caveats:
I will critique TWO manuscripts each month. By "manuscript" I mean the first 1000 words of a children's magazine story, chapter book, mid-grade novel, or YA novel. Please, fiction only. No picture books or easy readers. No poetry.
Enter the drawing by commenting on this post AND stating that you wish to enter.
For an additional entry, become a follower, and tell me so (or that you already are one).
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No one person can win both critiques in a single month.
Include your email in the comment. But if not, be sure to check back to see if you've won!
Enter now through Sunday, May 29.
Any story that you plan to enter in an ICL contest is ineligible. Since I am an ICL instructor, I cannot edit stories that you intend to enter in an Institute contest.
Winners will be announced Monday, May 30.
So if the above sounds good to you, let the entering begin!
Quoth the Writer
I thought it might be a good day for a quote collection. Here's what a couple of writers have to say--about (mostly) writing, naturally.
Richard Peck:
Writing is the art of listening.
All fiction is a search for family.
All American stories are about journey and change.
When adult authority fails, kids will set up a peer over themselves.
The only way you can write is in the light of the burning bridges behind you.
You learn the most from the experience you would have avoided if you could.
Nobody ever grows up in a group.
Every character you create has a lesson to teach you.
I am a writer because I did not come from a child-centered home.
Anybody who thinks a small town is friendly lives in a big city.
The first chapter is the last chapter in disguise.
John Gardner:
All writing requires at least some measure of trancelike state.
Good grades in English may or may not go with verbal sensitivity, that is, with the writer's gift for, and interest in, understanding how language works.
...every good writer knows that getting down one's exact meaning helps one to discover what one means.
The unpromising writer sees derivatively.
The beginning novelist who has the gift for inhabiting other lives has perhaps the best chance for success.
If he takes enough English literature courses, the young would-be writer can learn to block every true instinct he has.
The true novelist must be at once driven and indifferent.
Born writers [are] people who value other human activities but have no wish to do anything but write.
The true young novelist has the stamina, patience, and single-mindedness of a draft horse.
What keeps the young writer with the potential for success from turning aside to some more generally approved, perhaps easier path is the writing community.
What do you think? Agree? Disagree?
Compassion and the Writer
It was something I sensed when I first started writing at age eight or nine, but wasn't sure how to put into words. Something I knew when I read Nancy Drew, The Happy Hollisters, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Anne of Green Gables, Caddie Woodlawn, Little Women, and on and on. Something I got cranky about as a teenager, going on inner rants like: "How can these people [my classmates] raise their hands and tell an English teacher all about the motives and feelings of characters in books, and not understand or care a thing about kids right next to them?" When I began to take writing seriously, I studied the aspects of craft -- character, plotting, POV, structure, setting, dialogue, revision, how to cut, how to market. But what writing program teaches you to grow the compassion you need to understand many types of people, the compassion you need to be a really good, even great, writer?
We have to be able to imagine where our characters are coming from and what they're going through. How they think and what they feel. Instead of just dismissing someone as snotty, dim-witted, wacko, evil, or whatever, we have to understand who they are on the inside and why they appear as they do on the outside. We need to develop compassion, which is to say that to be good fiction writers we have to become better people. Think of it : better people writing better fiction in better service to readers. Give me plot, absolutely. But please, please, give me compassion for characters. Walk in their shoes. Sit in their chairs. Don't just entertain me, but encourage me that there are compassionate people in the world like you who love and know their creations deeply. And I won't soon forget the world you've created.
Brenda Ueland, in If You Want to Write, speaks of the Third Dimension in writing, which is the writer's character. "It will shine through the writing," she says, "and make it noble or great, or touching or cold or niggardly or supercilious or whatever the writer is." And she adds, "I have come to think that the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person....now we are apt to say of a man, 'Oh, you must not pay any attention to his personality; it is his ideas that are the important thing.' But I think -- and so did Socrates and Michelangelo and many others -- that the ideas of a meager and dishonest personality are no good."
April Critique Giveaway Winners!
Random.org says the winners of this month's critique giveaway are: Christine Sarmel and Amy C!
Deadline to submit is May 18.
Congratulations to Christine and Amy, thank you all so much for stopping by and entering, and by all means enter again next month! Wishing you all a great day in the world of books...


New ePSXe version released after 4 years!
1.8.0 is amongst us so take a break from Dolphin for a while and play some PSX games!
YAY, back to FF9, i'm still on disc 4, been playing for almost a year and a half.
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Enjoy FF9 Zee. You'll only have one more good Final Fantasy game coming after that.
(11-11-2012, 02:11 AM)Garteal Wrote: Enjoy FF9 Zee. You'll only have one more good Final Fantasy game coming after that.
I remember when I first got into PSX emulation since it was so easy to get the games (just stick it in your CD Drive, rip it or play directly). ePSXe was the first one I tried with Valkyrie Profile (had the game for years, just beat last December). Haven't tried the shaders yet with the OGL2 plugin. I've still never gotten this emulator to work correctly for Star Ocean 2, it has a ton of sound problems. Hopefully this gets fixed soon, and a native Linux application gets released as well (they stopped at 1.6.0).
I have about 20 PS1 games that I've never looked at as a friend-of-my-mother's child was replacing his PS2 with an XBox 360, so it was decided that I'd be more likely to play them than they would. All I know is that only about 1/3 of the games have the correct cases, as it looks like they lost several over the years.
CPU: Intel i5 4670K @3.4GHz... for now @4.6GHz with a quick and dirty (yet stable) OC. May get faster in a bit before the end of time.
Yeah PSX emulation have been so easy over the years. Just insert the game disc and either play straight off the disc or rip it directly with a good program.
In a very few cases there have been some problematic games to rip but that's easily circumvented as time goes on.


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Charley Hull of England plays a shot on the 6th hole during the second round of The Ascendant LPGA benefiting Volunteers of America at Old American Golf Club
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THE COLONY, Texas (AP) - Charley Hull has forced herself to work a little harder on the putting and she saw it pay off Friday with eight birdies in her round of 7-under 64 to take the 36-hole lead in The Ascendant LPGA.
Hull seized control with four birdies in a six-hole stretch around the turn and led by two shots over Xiyu "Janet" Lin (68) and Atthaya Thitikul of Thailand, whose eagle-birdie finish gave her a 67.
Thitikul can go to No. 1 in the women's world ranking by winning for the second straight week on the LPGA Tour.
They played in the morning and caught the better side of the wave at Old American Golf Club with moderate wind. The course remained bouncy, however, making it difficult to take on the pins.
Hull, a 26-year-old from England, managed just fine and relied on her putting. That's what she least likes to practice at home, instead preferring to improve through playing as many as 36 holes a day.
"I just feel like the putter was very strong today," Hull said. "When I was home I was working quite hard on my putting because I felt like that's the boringest part of the game to practice. I don't practice it as much as I should, so I've been doing like two hours each day and just trying to fix it."
She started on the back nine and with a birdie on the par-5 17th, that sent her on her way to three birdies on the opening four holes of the front nine. Hull finished with two birdies and was at 11-under 131.
"I actually can't really remember much of my round because I was so focused. I didn't know what my score was when I was coming in," Hull said.
A five-time Solheim Cup player, Hull is nearly six years removed from her lone LPGA Tour win at the CME Group Championship. She also has three Ladies European Tour wins, the most recent last fall in the Aramco Team Series in New York.
Thitikul won last week in Arkansas, and at age 19 can replace Jin Young Ko at No. 1 in the world by winning. She will be no worse than No. 2 after this week after Nelly Korda shot 75-72 and missed the cut.
Thitikul has made no secret that Old American doesn't suit her game. She told her team around her at the start of the week she didn't have many expectations.
That could be what's helping the Thai teen, who is trying to think less and react to shots. She overcame a double bogey on the par-4 ninth hole and put herself in great position for the weekend with a 40-foot eagle putt on the 17th and a closing birdie.
"When I started, like before first round, I just told myself and my manager, my caddie, that make the cut is good enough for me here on this course," Thitikul said. "It's challenging for me. I think's it's so different from last week. It's dry and it's run-out pretty much, and it's so many bunkers.
"I don't think too much on the course. That's why I can play well these two days."
Lin led by one after the first round and birdied two of the par 5s.
Lindy Duncan had a 65 and was three shots behind. Jessica Korda had a 66 and was four behind, while Lydia Ko also had 66 and was a further stroke back. Lexi Thompson also played in the morning and could only manage a 70, leaving her six shots behind as the American tries to end more than three years without winning on the LPGA.
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Siem Reap in Cambodia is home to world famous ancient sites such as Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom and Bayonne. Tourists from all over the world flock to photograph the jungle temples.
But a rather less majestic site is also drawing tourists - a landfill.
Anlong Pi is a huge rubbish dump that is home and work for hundreds of men, women and children. More than 150 families currently live at the site. Children as young as nine scavenge scraps for a living, most making less than £1.35 ($2) per day.
The dump has become a tourist attraction, with sightseers posing for pictures with people working at the dump.
Reuters photographer Athit Perawongmetha documented the daily lives of the people scraping out a living at the eight-acre landfill.


Located on John Ruskin Street, in the vibrant London Borough of Southwark, architects David Stanley and Romy Grabosch have recently transformed their ground floor flat in South London into an outward looking garden-centric dream home by adding a striking timber-clad extension, fit for the modern day. Charred Kebony cladding by Shou Sugi Ban was chosen to provide a long-lasting and attractive timber finish for both the rear and side extension.
The vision for the project was to create a light and open living space for the family by improving the accessibility of the garden and utilising the space as an additional room. This carefully planned extension caters for the needs of a growing family, when the continued rise of London house prices makes moving less appealing.
Sustainability and environmental conservation was an essential element of the design and Kebony Clear "Minami No" by Shou Sugi Ban was selected by the architect for its sustainable qualities and charred aesthetic – the timber cladding was particularly well suited to the realisation of the extension's unique geometry. The Kebony technology is an environmentally friendly-patented process, which modifies sustainably sourced softwoods by heating the wood with furfuryl alcohol – an agricultural by-product. By polymerising the wood's cell walls, the wood gains greatly improved durability and dimensional stability, giving it characteristics similar to those of the best tropical hardwood.
Historically Japanese carpenters sourced driftwood from the coastlines of Japan, both for its impressive durability and distressed appearance, after being subjected to salt water and harsh weather conditions. Over time it became increasingly difficult to source this driftwood due to high demand for such a hardwearing product. As a result, Japanese carpenters chose to create the desired effect by burning or weathering timber to give the original wood a charred and fragile finish. Shou Sugi Ban, a Japanese term which translates to 'burnt cedar board', is a UK based company that manufactures wood using this ancient technique of burning, brushing or pre-weathering timber and has recently added Kebony to its list of products to deliver a product of unique and intriguing appearance.