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Alexandra Daddario Biography
Biography by Saburo Published on 24 Mar, 2017 Updated on 17 Jan, 2020
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1986 , March-16
Alexandra Anna Daddario
Richard Daddario
Christina Daddario
Birth Place/City
Working For
Televisions movies
Face Color
Bicep Size
8 (US)
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Jason Fuchs
Logan Lerman,Trey Songz
Catharine Daddario
Matthew Daddario
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Alexandra Anna Daddario is an American actress, known best for her role Annabeth Chase in the Percy Jackson series and Blake Gaines in San Andreas.
Other of her notable work includes True Detective, American Horror Story: former-head Hotel and Texas chainsaw.
Alexandra Daddario was born as the eldest child of her parents, Christina Daddario, a lawyer, and Richard Daddario, former head of NYPD counterterrorism on March 16, 1986, in New York City. She has a brother, Matthew Daddario, an actor and a sister Catherine Daddario.
Alexandra has an American nationality and is of mixed ethnicity with the Italian, Czech, English and Irish ancestry. She has been blessed with a pair of striking blue eyes.
Alexandra was raised in Manhattan and went to Brearley School and Professional Children�s School. When she was 11, she was certain to pursue her career in acting. She is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College and claims to have studied Meisner acting technique for years.
Alexandra stepped into acting at the age of 16 with a role of victimized teen Laura Lewis on the soap opera All My Children. Her major breakthrough came as Annabeth Chase in 2010 for the fantasy-adventure film, Percy Jackson & the Olympians.
She has also appeared in music videos and has done several of the guest appearances on different television shows and movies.
Alexandra gained a massive applause and attention for her role in True Detective that opened the doors to several of the big projects including the hit movie San Andreas alongside Dwayne Johnson, the supporting role in Nicholas Sparks� film, The Choice, and many others.
In 2010, he appeared in the film, Chris Columbus' Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, alongside Logan Lerman, Zane Holtz and Jake Abel.
Alexandra can be seen in a lead role in the film adaptation of Baywatch alongside Dwayne Johnson as her upcoming new release.
Alexandra Daddario loves omelet, grilled salmon, and M&M. She loves music and Taylor Swift, John Mayer, Lady Gaga, Phoenix, Edward Sharpe, the Magnetic Zeros and Rascal Flatts are some of her favorite singers.
Alexandra is reported to have dated number of her co-stars. Words go around that she was in a long-term relationship with Jason Fuchs from 2006 till 2009.
She then fell in love with her co-star of Percy Jackson, Logan Lerman. He is currently 25 years of age. They started dating since 2009 and got engaged on 16th December 2016. Rumor has it that, she is in having a secret affair with Zac Efron, her co-star from Baywatch, but none of them has spoken on it.
Also, the rumor made an impact on her engagement causing another rumor that her fiance turned boyfriend Logan called off their engagement. However, nothing has been confirmed yet.
Alexandra Daddario is not married yet and lives in Los Angeles with her dog named Levon.
Alexandra Daddario has made her recognizable image in Hollywood and for her work and popularity; she is paid a good amount. She is reported to have an estimated net worth of $4 million dollars and is sure to incline in days to come.
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The Secret Life of Pets 2 continues the story of Max (Patton Oswalt), Gidget (Jenny Slate), Snowball (Kevin Hart) and the rest of the gang as they take on new adventures and are pushed to find the courage to become their own heroes. Explore the emotional lives of our pets – the deep bond between them, the families that love them – and find out what your pets are really doing when you 're not at home.
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Beginning on the 1st of January 2015, Tanweer Alliances undertook the distribution of Warner Bros. Pictures for the Greek market. The partnership includes a significant part of the Home Entertainment sector.
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Little Red Riding Hood can sing? Fairy tale theater in 'Into the Woods'
Avi Small, Writer
While many of us are finally done with exams this week, the quarter system means yet another midterm season is just around the corner. For a student looking for a weekly theatrical fix, it can be hard to find time to travel to Chicago or even Shanley Pavilion to see a show. Netflix, with dozens of movie musicals and recorded theatrical performances, can therefore be a surprisingly helpful resource for the busy — or the sickly — theater lover.
"Into the Woods" is one such Netflix theatrical performance. The original cast of this classic Sondheim musical shines, even on a laptop screen. "Into the Woods" is the unconventional telling of fairy tales we thought we knew well. We encounter Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack of beanstalk fame, along with three wonderful original Sondheim creations: a down-on-his-luck childless Baker, his clever and acerbic wife and a not-so-evil Witch. The show has two distinct acts: Act I tells each fairy tale in a fresh way while Act II explores what happens after "happily ever after."
Watch this Netflix version of the musical, if only for the wonderful performances. Bernadette Peters as the Witch is spellbinding, even when she is unrecognizable as an ugly crone. Chip Zien impresses as the Baker, the musical's main character, who has some of the heaviest emotional work to do in the show. The standout, however, is Joanna Gleason as the Baker's Wife. Witty and droll, Gleason turns the Baker's Wife into the show's most compelling character and steals the spotlight from Peters' star turn.
As always, Stephen Sondheim's music and lyrics are brilliant (even if James Lapine's book is less so). This musical is a refreshing turn from the full-cast numbers that are prevalent in most shows. Sondheim gives each of his main characters a solo song which helps us fully understand their characters, such as Cinderella's "On The Steps of the Palace" and Little Red Riding Hood's "I Know Things Now." Gleason, though not the showiest vocalist in the cast, still shines in the musical numbers. "Maybe They're Magic" is one such example, an exercise in self-delusion and ethical rationalization. While "Into the Woods" slows down significantly in Act II, Sondheim's music remains the highlight there as well.
Now, I have a special fondness for "Into the Woods" — it was the first musical I ever saw and later was the first in which I ever performed (in the exceedingly minor role of the Prince's Steward). That's why I was all the more disappointed this third time I encountered the show. Yes, the cast is talented. Yes, Sondheim has yet again created mind-bending lyrical feats. But "Into the Woods" is just too preachy for its own good. Songs that seemed profound in high school now sound trite. The great moralizing ending, in which Sondheim and Lapine extol the values of family, now feels overwrought. While "Into the Woods" merrily skips along in the fairy-tale Act I, it gets bogged down in the heavy-handed symbolism of Act II.
Watching a musical on Netflix, rather than in a theater, changes the experience, and "Into the Woods" is by no means a perfectly written show. But as a chance to see Bernadette Peters in her prime and Joanna Gleason's wonderful portrayal of the Baker's Wife, this Netflix production is well worth a watch.
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The Diamond Axe is a magical weapon found in the Kishin Douji Zenki series. It is a golden axe, featuring a dragon-like ornament clutching a green orb.
In the original, Japanese version of the anime and the games, it is known as the "Kongou Kin" (金剛斧), which is pronounced "Kongo Kin". The Kongo or Diamond in its name is related to the Diamond Axe being a source of the holy light, also known as Vajura or Vajra in Buddhism and in the Kishin Douji Zenki series.
Chiaki uses the Bracelet of Protection to call the Diamond Dragon, which then transforms into the Diamond Axe for Zenki. Zenki mainly uses this weapon while in his Demon God and Great Demon God forms.
When Zenki uses Rudra, he is badly injured, but the Diamond Axe is said to yield the same strengh without the drawbacks. It is actually a controlled form of Rudra, which otherwise would hurt Zenki as he can't control it normally.
In Episode 17 of the anime, Zenki gets badly wounded because of using Rudra. He returns to his Chibi form, stumbles at Chiaki and falls over, loosing his consciousness, Chiaki gets very worried. She never wants Zenki to use Rudra again, because she is afraid that he might die, so Chiaki and the other try to find a way to make that possible. While Chiaki and her grandmother Saki are reading old books, they stumble across the legend of the Diamond Axe.
The Diamond Axe itself doesn't make a proper appearance until Episode 18, though, when grandmother Saki finds an old pot and uses a candle with it. The pot turns out to be an antique projector and shows a map of Shikigami-chou, as it appeared back in Ozunu Enno's days.
At first, only Saki and Miki Souma are watching the projection, but then Chiaki, wearing pyjamas, comes along and sees it, too. She cites something.
"You must find the one who transcends time and survives three generations.
If you do so, the great power shall be yours."
When Saki asks her, where she heard it, she says, that she heard it in a dream. Then Chibi Zenki join them and tells them about, how he already knew about the Diamond Axe's existence.
...it wasn't the time yet, and hid it somewhere."
Saki states, that Chiaki might soon possess a weapon of an equal strength to Rudra, which Zenki is going to need to cope with the evils of this world.
The Diamond Axe first appears in a panel of Volume 1 where Chiaki tells her customers about Zenki's legend. It shows Zenki's sepulcher with Zenki holding the axe.
It later makes its first proper entrance when Great Demon God Zenki splits Chimaru into two by making the Diamond Axe appear from his bare hands and swinging it with both in Volume 5. The same volume also has him countering the Inugami Roh's pentagram seal attack by summoning the Diamond Axe and blocking with it.
The pentageram seal attack consists of Roh flinging his surfboard at Zenki, which catches Zenki in space and has him fight against a meteor. Zenki breaks the meteor and exits the seal, returning to his friends and earning a frown from the Inugami Roh, who didn't expect this.
In Volume 6 it is also used, when Zenki faces Kimon after his transformation into a helicopter. Zenki manages to destroy the helicopter with his axe, but Kimon himself ends up mostly unharmed.
A sepulcher is some kind of tomb or grave. In Zenki's case it looks like some kind of statue depicting him.
The Diamond Axe is an item exclusive to three of the five Kishin Douji Zenki games.
While the Diamond Axe seen in Kishin Douji Zenki 2 - Den Ei Rai Bu and Kishin Douji Zenki 3 - Tenchi Meidou is the one from the anime, Kishin Douji Zenki (Game Gear) features the Diamond Axe's simpler design from the manga instead.
While Den Ei Rai Bu has the Diamond Axe first appear after Zenki defeats Hiruda, it is exclusive to that one cutscene and never gets used in the actual game. This leads to odd things like Zenki defeating Karuma by using Rudra instead of the Diamond Axe, despite the fact that Den Ei Rai Bu is actually heavily based on the Karuma ark of the anime. There's also no explanation why the axe can't be use and after it's introduction it's just simply never mentioned again.
While Tenchi Meidou is actually the first and only game in the series that has the Diamond Axe as an actual usable weapon, it can also only be used by Demon God Zenki.
Yet, things get even weirder, as Demon God Zenki is now always able to use the Diamond Axe. This means that eventhough this game is based both on the anime and the manga, Zenki can use the axe from the very beginning of the game, which is as early as Zenki's and Chiaki's first meeting with Miki Souma, where Zenki shouldn't even have the axe, yet.
It is very likely that while Zenki's Diamond Axe has its anime appearance, it uses the same mechanics as in the manga, allowing Zenki to always summon it in his true form as it's the manifested form of Rudra (Thunder), which is equavalent of Zenki's light(ning) element.
If Zenki charges up enough light(ning) in his body, he is able to unleash Rudra or form the Diamond Axe. As Rudra would cause him to gamble his life, but the manifested form, the Diamond Axe comes without drawbacks, Zenki obviously prefers the Diamond Axe.
So why doesn't Zenki always use the axe, if he can just readily summon it? It is very likely that Zenki has this limitation as he has been covered by a multi-layered seal by Ozunu and needs Chiaki to unleash his true powers. This is only possible by Chiaki gaining experience and developing her abilities though and she needs to be recognized by Ozunu by passing his trials. As long as Ozunu doesn't recognize her as his successor, Chiaki can't unleash Zenki which prevents him from using the Diamond Axe and his later forms.
Great Demon God Zenki with the manga's version of the Diamond Axe.
The anime's and game's version of the Diamond Axe can be seen in the page's infobox image.
Interestingly the Diamond Axe from the manga looks vastly different from the one seen in the anime and the games.
The Diamond Axe from the manga is still golden, but instead of taking its design from the Diamond Dragon's appearance, it seems more generic and seems to have spikes on its handle. It also has a chain which isn't seen on its manga and ingame counterparts.
Also instead of Chiaki gaining the Diamond Axe for Zenki by proving herself to the Diamond Dragon like in the anime, the Diamond Axe from the manga seems just readily available to Zenki.
In the manga, Great Demon God Zenki just summons the Diamond Axe. The Diamond Dragon is completely absent in the manga, implying that the manga's Diamond Axe just has an enterily different origin alltogether, being likely linked to Zenki's very existence instead.
It has been stated that the Diamond Axe in the manga is actually made from Zenki's Diamond Horn and infused with Rudra, explaining why Demon God Zenki can always summon it while Chibi Zenki can't. The Diamond Horn has been given to Zenki by Ozunu and Chibi Zenki can't use the Diamond Horn as he's in an even more sealed state than his true form. Anyways, the Rudra (Thunder) is the base of Zenki's very being as seen in the first intro of the anime.
While the Diamond Axe appears in two games, they have it appear with its design from the anime instead of the one from the manga. While this makes sense for Den Ei Rai Bu, which is based on the anime's Karuma Ark, it doesn't make sense for Tenchi Meidou which is heavily based on the series' manga.
The anime dubs and subs commonly mistranslate the Diamond Axe as the Golden Axe. More information on this topic can be found by visiting the the Kongo article, as this issue also affects the Diamond Dragon and Zenki's Diamond Horn.
Some versions of the anime dubs and subs also falsely call the Diamond Axe the Axe of Diva.
When Great Demon God Zenki throws the Diamond Axe at Kagetora to make him shut up, it is blocked by Kabura.
At first, it gets stuck in his chest, but he effortlessly tears it out and is mostly unharmed.
Kabura just laughs at Zenki's puny attempt to silence his master and throws the Diamond Axe away, as if it were a mere toy. Shortly afterwards, the Diamond Axe gets stuck in a fence.
Zenki and his friends have proved themselves to the Diamond Dragon. Zenki can now use the Diamond Axe to beat up the bad guys.
Demon God Zenki wielding the Diamond Axe in a cutscene. He never uses it in the anime sequence battles.
Demon God Zenki attacking his foe with the Diamond Axe in Tenchi Meidou's Battle Mode. This is the first (and sadly only) time the Diamond Axe is actually usable in a Kishin Douji Zenki game instead of being just there for show.
The Diamond Axe as it appears in Demon God Zenki's wheel menu from Kishin Douji Zenki. Interestingly the Diamond Axe from this game looks more like the Diamond Axe from the manga, as it doesn't sport the fancy design from the anime's Diamond Axe.


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Which game will be the best?
On Tuesday, the Electronic Arts, publisher of the popular massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) Battleborn, announced that it would not be releasing a sequel to the title until 2018.
The announcement came just weeks after EA made a series of moves to try and stave off cancellation rumors.
"We are committed to delivering a truly innovative and exciting Battleborn experience," the company said at the time.
"We are excited to share more details on Battleborn 2."EA is not the first major game publisher to announce a delay for a sequel, as other major studios have done the same.
Activision and Ubisoft recently delayed the release of their next big-name shooter, Titanfall, until 2017.
EA is not alone in being cautious about delaying a sequel.
"If EA wants to continue the momentum of the first game and the momentum from the original game, we need to know what we're doing in the first place," Chris Taylor, co-founder of Respawn Entertainment, told Bloomberg News last week.
"It's going to be hard for us to tell them what to do.
We don't want to put any pressure on them to do something."
EA also announced a delay of its next big game, Star Wars Battlefront II, for the third time, and is reportedly aiming to release the game on November 1, 2018.EA has had a tough year in the gaming industry.
On the heels of the financial crisis, the publisher has faced numerous controversies, including the release and subsequent closure of several of its most popular franchises.


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Chukat 5771-2011
"The Well of Miriam"
In this week's parasha, parashat Chukat, we learn of the passing of one of the great Jewish matriarchs, Miriam, the sister of Aaron and Moses.
After 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, all the men who were above the age of 20 at the time of exodus, with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, had passed on. A new generation, born in freedom, was poised to enter the Promised Land. The people had arrived in the wilderness of Tzin in the first month (Nissan) and were now settled in a location known as Kadesh.
The Torah informs us of the sad news (Numbers 20:1): "Va'tah'maht shahm Miriam, va'tee'kaver shahm," and Miriam died there and was buried there. However, instead of focusing, even briefly, on the great woman's passing, Scripture immediately states (Numbers 20:2): "V'lo ha'yah mayim lah'ay'dah," and there was no water for the people.
Despite the fact that this was a new, young generation born in freedom, the people responded to this most recent crisis in the same manner as their ancestors. Numbers 20:3 states: "Va'ya'rev ha'ahm eem Moshe," the people quarreled with Moses and called out: "If only we had perished as our brethren perished before G-d! Why have you brought the congregation of G-d to this wilderness to die, we and our animals? And why did you have to have us ascend from Egypt to bring us to this evil place? Not a place of seed or fig or grape, or pomegranate, and there is no water to drink!"
From the juxtaposition of the death of Miriam and the lack of water, our rabbis assert that in Miriam's merit, a well of water traveled with the people of Israel for 40 years in the wilderness, and, with her demise, the well vanished.
The extraordinary nature of the well is highlighted by the Mishnah in Avot 5:6, which states that the mouth of the well that supplied Israel with water in the wilderness was one of ten miraculous things created at twilight on the eve of the first Shabbat at the time of creation.
The Midrash (Tosefta Sukkah 3:11-13; Numbers Rabbah 1:2) further underscores the unusual properties of the well of Miriam:
It [the well] resembled a rock the size of a beehive, from which, as out of a narrow-necked jug, water coming out in a trickle shot high up in the air like a geyser. The well rolled up mountains with [the people of] Israel and went down into valleys with them. Indeed, whenever Israel encamped, the well rested close by on an elevated spot opposite the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The princes of [the tribes of] Israel would come and walk around the well with their staves as they chanted the song (Numbers 21:17), "Spring up, O well, sing ye unto it." At that, the waters welled up, rising high like a lofty pillar; each of the princes digging [into the ground] with his staff channeled water toward the [prince's] tribe and toward his family, as it is said (Numbers 21:18):
"The well, which the princes dug,
Which the nobles of the people excavated,
Through a lawgiver, with their own staffs."
Thus, the well flowed in all directions throughout Israel's camp, watering all the surrounding wasteland. It branched out into streams so large that Israelites would seat themselves in small boats and go visiting one another. [There was no need to row], for a man who went upstream on the camp's right side would [as the current reversed itself] return downstream on the right side; and so it was for the man who set out on the camp's left side. Even the overflow of drinking water that spilled on the ground became a wide river, which coursed toward the Great Sea and, upon its return, brought back from there all the things in the world that were desirable.
The rabbis state that three special gifts were given to the Jewish people in the wilderness. The manna was given in the merit of Moses. The Divine clouds that surrounded the people of Israel were given in the merit of Aaron, and the well of water was given in the merit of Miriam. They explain that Miriam merited the well because of her extraordinary devotion to the infant Moses when he was placed in a basket in the Nile river, and Miriam waited, watching over the child until he was taken by Pharaoh's daughter.
Miriam's unstinting devotion to the Jewish people caused her to be seen as the nation's mother-figure. Consequently, the visceral reaction of the people to the lack of water is best understood not as a community crying out for liquid to quench their thirst, but as a profound reaction to the loss of this most nurturing matriarch. Without their mother-figure Miriam, the starkness of the wilderness became almost too palpable. It was now an "evil place," a place where the congregation of G-d was under the impression that they had been taken to die.
This sense of abandonment was not easily overcome. No wonder G-d was so understanding of the people's predicament and saw their stridency in this situation as a mere overreaction, rather than as a rebellion.
Losing a mother is always painful.
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Leading up to the 2012 International CES, Mooly Eden, General Manager of Intel's PC Client Group, revealed both current designs and future concepts for Ultrabooks. In particular, he touted touch screens and voice interfaces as part of the future Ultrabooks and indicated plans for a huge Ultrabook marketing campaign.
Although Eden mentioned upfront that he didn't want to talk about product details, he did discuss how the "brilliant" graphics in Ivy Bridge—the next generation of Intel's CPUs—were completely rewritten and would deliver more than 80 percent better graphics than the current chips. (Aside from that, I was surprised to hear fairly little at the talk about Ivy Bridge. Perhaps Intel is saving that for CEO Paul Otellini's keynote tomorrow.) Intel has sold 150 million Sandy Bridge processors, Eden said, and a Turbo mode allows an Ultrabook processor to run at a standard voltage but still speed up to full performance when needed.
It is important that Ultrabooks not only allow consumption of mediation, but also have enough power for media creation. "Consumption is good for cows," Eden said, but "we are humans." To demonstrate this, he showed a Lenovo U310 Sandy Bridge-based Ultrabook running a new application called ArcSoft Album. The demo displayed Turbo mode capabilities by raking 67 full size pictures and compressing the images very quickly to create an album.
Customers don't want to wait for their machines, Eden said, and they also don't want to worry about it, so performance and security are important. He showed graphics performance, including a gaming physics demo using Havok, as well as character building and Direct X 11 graphics on Ivy Bridge. For "peace of mind," a demo explained how Intel Prevention Technology (IPT) combined with Near Field Communications (NFC) allows a credit card to work only when it is tied to a specific computer, so a lost card can't make a transaction.
The Ultrabook concept involves lots of work by Intel and its partners as well, Eden explained. In reducing the maximum thickness to 17.8 mm, the display panel had to shrink from 5mm to 3 mm, batteries from 18mm to 7.65 mm, and the hard drive from 9.5 mm to 7 mm. The processor had to go from a separate socket to one put directly on the motherboard and shrink from 30 watts of power draw to 17 watts, so it could use a thinner heat sync.
Eden noted that Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, and Toshiba are already shipping Ultrabooks and that there are more than 75 Ultrabook designs, many of which are hybrid or touch-based. He was surprised that 50 percent of the Ultrabooks would have 14- or 15-inch displays.
Going forward, Eden believes it is time for the industry to focus on changes to the user experience. The number of transistors in a processor grew by one million percent in the past 30 years, but the user interface hasn't changed as much because there hasn't been enough compute power.
Now computers are fast enough for "natural interfaces," he said. Intel was surprised that in its studies, users were particularly comfortable with notebooks with touch screens plus a traditional keyboard and mouse.
Most interestingly, Eden showed off a working model of the company's "Nikiski" concept machine, a laptop that has a transparent touchpad that converts to an exterior display. This is quite neat because you can use the touchpad traditionally, but when you put your palms down as if to type, it lets you type normally. It turns into a display when you fold the machine. The demo unit was running Windows 7 but looking a lot like Windows 8 when the lid was closed, with a touch screen used for quick access to things such as your calendar.
Intel announced a strategic partnership with Nuance to bring voice recognition to the Ultrabook. Peter Mahoney of Nuance took the stage, who explained that people will be able to give voice commands without a headset, and with better responsiveness, since information will not need to be transferred to the cloud first. Mahoney said it will support nine languages and will be customizable for each user's speech patterns.
He also showed off gestures, like using the camera within the notebook to play games with Microsoft Kinect.
Intel also will be changing its marketing around Ultrabooks, according to Kevin Sellars, vice president of Advertising and Digital Marketing. The marketing will focus on more than just performance. "People don't buy processors," he said, "they buy experiences." Sellars previewed an advertisement from Toshiba and one from Intel itself.
The marketing campaign for Ultrabook will really be starting in April, and will be Intel's largest campaign since the Centrino launch.


Mulkey strikes a unity pose with cutouts of Korean leaders. Mulkey is in South Korea right now exploring how religion impacts the Olympic Games.
One South Carolina United Methodist college senior is in South Korea this week exploring how Christian outreach is impacting the Olympic Games.
Thanks to a Magellan Scholar grant from her college, Madeline Mulkey, a senior at the University of South Carolina, is spending 10 days (Feb. 7-17) at the Games to research the religious atmosphere of the Olympics and the various Christian groups that travel from around the world to be in ministry there.
"People a lot of times perceive the Olympics as a secular event, but God is definitely working within the Games and the athletes and the people there; it's just not a story that often gets told," Mulkey said.
Mulkey—who has a theater background, has never been to the Olympics and says she's "not very sportsy"—said the opportunity was "clearly a call." She became intrigued when she found out a group of Georgia Baptists was planning to travel to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games to do evangelism. Soon she learned the Georgia team was not the only group of missionaries. Christians of various denominations—from Texas, Virginia, and elsewhere in the United States—are partnering with churches in Korea to do whatever possible to foster a welcoming environment at the games, such as volunteering at water stations or using Olympic pin-trading as a Gospel opportunity (if asked, they explain how the "More Than Gold" pin represents the gift of Jesus Christ's saving grace).
Mulkey's project is her senior thesis, conducted under the guidance of Dr. Cecile Holmes at the USC School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
This is not the first time Mulkey, a member of Buncombe Street United Methodist Church, Greenville, has been to Korea. She was part of the "Parallels of Peace, Pathways to Justice" college delegation from the South Carolina and Mississippi conferences of the UMC that traveled to Korea in 2015 for the 60th anniversary of the armistice. Mulkey made some good friends in South Korea during that trip, and when the opportunity for the research grant came up, she asked friends there if they could help her find a place to stay. She is staying on the floor of a church with a bunch of Korean college students also doing Olympic ministry.
In addition to her research, the trip is also taking a journalistic turn; while there, she will cover the Games for the Religion News Service.
"My real hope is I'll be able to speak to these people who've come from all over to be missionaries at the Olympics and the people being impacted by it," Mulkey said.
The Rev. Jeri Katherine Sipes, associate pastor at Union UMC, Irmo, was the clergy leader for the 2015 Korea trip.
To learn more about Mulkey's research project and keep in touch with her during her trip, visit her website https://www.madelinemulkey.com/.
Besides the grant money, Madeline is covering a lot of the expenses herself because she believes so deeply in the cause. The Olympics symbolize unity… as does God's word.
Best wishes Madeline for a successful journey! May God watch over you all.
Madeline, you are in my thoughts and prayers! I am sure our Good Lord Above is so pleased with and and watching over you!
I am so proud of Madeline and wish her God's speed as she shares His love. I watched her grow up at Buncombe Street UMC and love all her family.
Madeline- The B-Street young Adults class lifts you up in prayer. Praying God's blessing on your efforts and safe travels!
I thought Dekeiya battled and was consistent in there," Mulkey said.


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Could arts centres hold the key to UK culture's future?
7-Apr-14
A woman views an installation at Camden Arts Centre
Arts centres are not only havens for artists developing work, they also deliver cost-effective social impact and creative education
Camden Arts Centre provides an environment for artists to develop work. Photograph: Graeme Robertson
The role the arts plays in our society is changing. Increasing pressure on public subsidy means the industry has to work harder than ever to prove its value in a variety of frameworks, and the arts venue of the future is going to look very different to what it does today.
The ivory tower model of elite artists and arts organisations being funded to cater for a narrow segment of society has crumbled. Forward-looking arts organisations now focus on the coalescence of artistic excellence and social impact, the broader health of their communities and offering public spaces that truly enrich the high streets they inhabit.
The inherent features of arts centres – their multidisciplinary context and the community, civic and artistic role they play – can make it difficult to pin down their identities, and often lead to them being underrepresented in the media and public dialogue around the arts. But this challenge is also their greatest strength. Arts centres are the unsung heroes of the creative sector, and they might hold the key to the future of UK arts.
Arts centres are often busy from early morning to late at night, offering an extensive range of services and platforms for engagement, attracting audiences the sector usually finds hard to reach. Not producers in the classical sense, they provide fertile ground for artists to produce new work and find new meeting points with audiences.
Visit the Albany on a Tuesday and you'll encounter an artist-led day club for the over-60s, where you're likely to see participants suspended from silks in a circus workshop or developing their spoken word skills. The club not only increases the richness of audiences for the programme as a whole, it also challenges artists to find new ways of creating work that speaks to a diverse audience.
Crucially for the council, we are also working to deliver a public health agenda, combating issues around the isolated elderly, more efficiently and cost-effective than many of the other options available. As a Lewisham councillor said recently: "We spend 40% of our budget on adult social care. Perhaps if more of them had experienced the arts that figure wouldn't be so high."
Arts centres have for years worked closely with councils, who are often their principal funders. As the demands on council resources increase, these building and venues are playing a central role in finding creative solutions to fulfilling social remits.
At Stratford Circus, a priority is engaging those who would otherwise have no opportunity to engage with the arts. Its home borough of Newham is one of 20 districts in Britain where the financial loss from the welfare reforms is greatest.
However, over the past year, we've seen a 159% increase in audiences for children's work – a direct result of a strong partnership with the local authority that means, among other things, every child in Year 5 from Newham could see Michael Rosen's Centrally Heated Knickers for free. With the arts in the curriculum increasingly under threat, arts centres can play a lead role in creative arts education, providing access to artists, consultancy, networks and training.
Artists also recognise that arts centres provide a more vibrant environment in which to develop work – places where they can connect with potential audiences during the creative process. So when Hannah Nicklin wanted to collect stories about breaking Britain; when Unlimited Theatre wanted to ask children about their approach to money; and when Andy Field wanted to find out about different kinds of love, they went to ARC in Stockton, an arts centre that was able to connect them to their local community. It's this kind of engaged, socially driven activity that could help provide a framework for the future of UK arts.
Clare Connor is director of Stratford Circus, and Gavin Barlow is CEO of the Albany – both are co-chairs of the National Partnership of Arts Centres
http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2014/apr/03/art-centres-uk-culture-future?CMP=new_1194


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HomeChristine Schyvinck President and CEO at Shure Incorporated
Chris Schyvinck is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Shure Incorporated, the world's leading manufacturer of microphones and audio electronics. As the highest-ranking officer at the Company, she is one of a few women to hold an executive position in the pro audio industry. Her leadership has been integral to the steady growth and profitability of Shure.
During her tenure, Chris has led critical initiatives for the Company, including reducing material costs without sacrificing product quality, dramatically improving on-time delivery and globalizing manufacturing operations. She joined Shure in 1989 as Quality Control Engineer. After several promotions, she moved into Process Engineering, becoming manager in 1997. In 1998, she was made Vice President of Corporate Quality.
Two years later, Chris was named Vice President of Operations, responsible for Corporate Quality, Procurement, Supply Chain, and the Company's manufacturing facilities in Mexico and China. She was promoted to Executive Vice President in 2004 and directed the opening of Shure's first manufacturing facility in China one year later.
In 2006, Chris was tapped to head the Global Marketing and Sales Division, assuming management of the Company's Business Units in the Americas, Europe, Middle East/Africa, and Asia/Pacific regions as well as the strategic integration, marketing, sales, artist and public relations, technical support, and customer service functions. Sales increased by more than 78 percent during her ten-year period as Executive Vice President of GMS.
In 2015, she was designated Chief Operating Officer, and, in 2016, was appointed Shure President and CEO, becoming only the fourth such officer in the Company's 90-year history.
Currently, Chris leads the Company's eight divisions: Administration, Finance, Global Legal Services, Global Marketing and Sales, Human Resources, Information Technology, Operations, and Product Development.
She has a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the former Chairman of the Industrial Advisory Board for the School of Mechanical Engineering at UW-Madison. Chris recognized Shure as the perfect blend of her two passions (music and engineering) and rejected employment offers from larger manufacturers. While working at Shure, she completed her Master's degree in Engineering Management from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University and is currently seated on the Board of Industrial Advisors for that program.


Help your youth or scout group share unique discoveries in the great outdoors at The Morton Arboretum. Search for hidden geocaches, spy on nighttime critters, or uncover easy ways to recycle and save trees during guided or self-guided group outings.
Programs are offered for groups of 5-12 year olds during weekday afternoons, nights, or weekends at a reasonable cost. Activity patches are available for purchase with all youth group programs. Self-guided expeditions for groups are available year-round. Guided adventures available Spring (April-early June), and Fall (September-mid November).


Las Vegas, NV – Microsoft Inspire 2018, July 16, 2018: Avocor, the fastest-growing collaboration display solution company in the world, today debuted its new Windows collaboration displays (WCD), featuring the world's most advanced touchscreen technologies to enhance collaboration and accelerate teamwork. The new collaboration displays are fully compatible with Windows 10 and deliver the power and productivity of Microsoft 365 at room scale. Ideal for today's teamwork environments, the new Windows Collaboration Displays by Avocor offer teams new ways to connect, collaborate and get more done. Windows collaboration displays by Avocor will be publicly launched later this summer.
Windows collaboration displays built by Avocor deliver a new level of empowerment for people to work together in real-time and collaborate in efficient and intuitive ways. The only Windows collaboration displays at Inspire that will show 4K at 60 Hertz through USB-C, the 20-point touch displays offer exceptionally responsive and pixel-perfect touch. Precise pen and inking capabilities enable people to easily use all Microsoft 365 collaboration tools – from Windows and Office to Microsoft Whiteboard and Microsoft Teams – at room scale, all backed by the intelligent cloud.
Windows collaboration displays by Avocor feature integrated cameras, stereo speakers, far-field microphones and a pen. They easily connect to any Windows 10 PC via a single USB-C. In addition to being teamwork devices, Windows collaboration displays from Avocor also include built-in sensors that connect to Azure IoT Smart Spaces, so facility managers can utilize the environmental data they collect to make real-time decisions.
The Windows collaboration displays by Avocor are on display at Microsoft Inspire in the Microsoft Pavilion in The Commons at Mandalay Bay and at Microsoft Ready this week.


Ideally, Elasticsearch should run alone on a server and use all of the resources available to it.
The more heap available to Elasticsearch, the more memory it can use for caching.
But note that too much heap can subject you to long garbage collection pauses.
Swapping is very bad for performance and for node stability and should be avoided at all costs.
and can cause nodes to respond slowly or even to disconnect from the cluster.
edit the /etc/fstab file and comment out any lines that contain the word swap.
Make sure to increase the limit on the number of open files descriptors for the user running Elasticsearch to 65,536 or higher.
or set nofile to 65536 in /etc/security/limits.conf.
Elasticsearch uses a hybrid mmapfs / niofs directory by default to store its indices.
The default operating system limits on mmap counts is likely to be too low, which may result in out of memory exceptions.
Elasticsearch uses a number of thread pools for different types of operations.
Make sure that the number of threads that the Elasticsearch user can create is at least 2048.


Water heaters are an essential part of modern life. We rely upon them many times throughout the day. When they break down, you quickly realize just how much you use them. No one wants to wake up and take a cold shower before work, or wash dishes in cold water, so getting a new water heater up and running is top priority.
It is important to not only have the water heater replacement in Apache Junction, AZ performed quickly, but also know your options for that replacement. For instance, do you want an electric water heater, or gas? Or perhaps an on-demand tank-less water heater is more your style. And what capacity do you need? Perhaps you want to upgrade to a larger one than you originally had, or maybe it's time to down-size.
The price tag on water heater itself isn't the only thing to consider. The cost of running the water heater is also something you must think of for the long term. Water heaters require a good bit of energy to run, and depending on how often and how much hot water you require, it can create a lot of dollar signs.
When your water heater is no longer functioning, you need one installed and running fast. The time it takes to research your options is a luxury you may not have. Consulting with a reliable company for water heater replacement in Apache Junction, AZ who is familiar with all the options can help speed up the process. They can explain your best options for the needs you have. They can show you cost comparisons of both the unit themselves, and the average costs to run them based on certain usages. They can help alleviate any confusions or questions of even the most novice home-owner. All the information you need without hours of researching it yourself.