rockets were placed up bottoms and the survery was done yesterday. My seller goes on holiday next thursday for 2 weeks but is going to be available all holiday so we can exchange and hopefully move the day after he comes home.
Bless him, he is taking all his contacts for removals, redirection of post etc with him on holiday.
Well it all fell through again. The guy at the bottom of the chain pulled out of buying the house below me in the chain.
He was a landlord and had already knocked off £5k and was trying to knock a further £17K off the house claiming an asbestos problem.
This is the second time he has lost a buyer so I told my buyer he can no longer buy my house until he has a buyer in place who has completed a survey and puts in writing to me that they are happy with the survey results, assuming I haven't sold it to someone else by then.
My man I am buying off is happy to wait for me as I sold my house so quickly last time it fell through.
Oh no, what a nightmare Bel Bel!!!
I feel your pain (to some extent anyway!).. buying/selling a home is so stressful and frustrating.
It is supposedly happening as we speak.
You still all set to move on Friday Bel Bel?
Sorry to hijack your thread, but I just wanted to say that we have changed estate agents, and we're having a lot more luck with them! They are much more professional and pro-active. We've only been with them just over a week, but we've already had a viewing, an offer (albeit a very low one, but it's hopefully just a starting point) and got another 2 viewings arranged tomorrow. Fingers crossed we sell with this estate agents!
Yes Ragdoll I'm all set for tomorrow and already packed to go on holiday Saturday.
However hubby is not. As usual he leaves everything to the last minute then I have to help I told him he must pack for holiday before we move or he isn't going to be able to find anything. He has also been out watching football etc this week and then has the cheek to "JOKE" that I haven't got much packing done. I never mind him watching footbal or going out but this week was not really appropriate.
Glad things are better with your new estate agent. Best of luck with selling.
Glad to hear your moving date hasn't changed, though not so much about your hubby!
I know I shouldn't generalise, but it sounds typical of men the way he is behaving! I don't know how they're always so laid back about everything. Do you think it's because they know we will just sort it out?!


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OPINION: A lack of diversity in research and analytics is not just unethical — it is dangerous
We must create better school pipelines for people of color in STEM fields
by Wayne A. I. Frederick and Paul Decker July 20, 2021 July 14, 2021
People of color are underrepresented in all aspects of STEM, including academia, business, research and technology. Credit: Luis Alvarez/ Getty Images
Technology keeps advancing exponentially, making this an inspiring and high-stakes era. The STEM disciplines and social sciences significantly influence the trajectory of American society and the global community in ways that other sectors and fields of exploration cannot match.
Today, people of color are underrepresented in all aspects of STEM, including academia, business, research, technology and more.
This matters, and not merely because of basic questions of equity, fairness and opportunity. Diversity has practical, real-life implications for how our society functions, and it impacts our long-term sustainability.
Consider the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI), whose influence in our lives will exceed what many of us can even imagine. Harnessing AI has countless applications, from helping to map diseases to improving adaptive online learning platforms to supporting the work of law enforcement officers.
But without experts and policymakers at the table with diverse lived experiences, the use of those technologies is more likely to reinforce the unconscious biases already rampant in society than to address them.
For example, the galvanizing images of the appalling police killing of George Floyd triggered a long-overdue national focus on the intersection of law enforcement, race and justice. AI can absolutely help identify and find suspects more quickly and accurately, but when it is misused and irresponsibly employed, based on already biased data, it does more harm than good. As we reimagine policing, we must create better data systems and technology to inform our new policies.
While our institutions draw strength from our objectivity, we also have a collective responsibility to ensure that our advances lead to a safer, more just society. It begins with a more representative bench of social engineers.
Sources of data about the depths of America's systemic racism, and the lack of progress in addressing it, have multiplied, giving everyone a clearer sense of what's really happening in our world.
Now the question is: How do we use more compelling evidence to spur action toward needed solutions?
AI can and should be a force for furthering equity and inclusion — but it needs to be employed thoughtfully and responsibly to avoid putting countless human lives in danger.
Recognizing this risk, Howard University and Mathematica are among the institutions working to bring more people of color into the STEM fields. Together, we sponsored this year's Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at Howard University, a historically Black research university in Washington, D.C.
Related: Even as colleges pledge to improve, share of engineering and math graduates who are Black declines
The Summer Institute is a global program that focuses on the critical intersection of data science and social science and helps train the next generation of top scientists, engineers, mathematicians and technology innovators.
A key theme of this year's virtually held Summer Institute, open to graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and junior faculty from anywhere in the world, was making sure we're training a new generation of computational social scientists to use emerging technologies and tools to combat systemic racism instead of reinforcing it; to use AI to fight inequity instead of perpetuating it.
It's an exciting time for this pursuit. Whereas we once were forced to limit the scope of policy and program evaluations to one or two key research questions, we now can harness new data sources and technology to broaden the quest.
This moves us closer to more fully answering the key questions of policy evaluation: Does it work? Is it worth it? How do we make it more effective?
Answering these questions will require problem-solvers as adept at traditional social science methods as they are at writing machine-learning algorithms and using other data science techniques.
We need social scientists who appreciate the value of newly democratized datasets and think creatively about how they can be applied in new ways to solve persistent problems.
We need data scientists who understand that even the most valuable data carry real-world limitations and implications, and that one's perspective can just as easily be the key to unlocking innovative solutions as one's analysis.
And most importantly, we need those same people to bring their diverse backgrounds, their lived experiences and their passion to better inform evidence and analysis for the future.
Innovation is not inherently good. As we often discuss with our colleagues and students, remaining objective in the face of injustice does not mean remaining silent. While our institutions draw strength from our objectivity, we also have a collective responsibility to ensure that our advances lead to a safer, more just society.
It begins with a more representative bench of social engineers.
Wayne A. I. Frederick is the president of Howard University and a professor of surgery at Howard University College of Medicine.
Paul Decker is the president and CEO of Mathematica, an independent policy research and analytics firm.
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Furniture made in France before 1800
See also : Furniture Chairs and seats 18th century furniture Louis XV and XVI Revolution and Empire Terracotta to porcelain
Chronology : 1660-1679 1770-1779 1780-1789 1790-1799
1665-1675 The Italian Influence at the Gobelins
2009 SOLD 4.5 M£ including premium
The creation of the Gobelins in Paris is included in a highly political context in which art is important.
The minister of Louis XIV was Mazarin, the Italian, a great lover of art. The Superintendent of Finance was Fouquet, patron of artists including Le Brun. In 1661, Mazarin dies. His close associate, the very active Colbert, excites the rage of the king against the luxurious château de Vaux, Fouquet's personal property.
Now, Colbert's hands are free. In 1662 he creates the Manufacture des Meubles de la Couronne in the then suburbs of the Gobelins. The idea is to provide the king with luxurious furniture by protecting the best cabinetmakers and tapestry makers so that their art is reserved for royal commissions. The management of the Manufacture is entrusted to Le Brun.
Having come from Italy, Domenico Cucci made several luxury furniture at the Gobelins, including a pair of large cabinets for Versailles in 1664. The similarity of design allows Christie's to date between 1665 and 1675 another cabinet, for sale in London on December 10, which was probably done on an order of the Queen of Sweden.
This high furniture of Flemish style is perched on a stand of stone caryatids, and adorned with gilded bronze and with Pietre Dure from Florence. The caryatids may be the work of another Italian, Philippe Caffieri, husband of the sister of Le Brun and cousin of Cucci. A family business that would have pleased Mazarin!
Christie's estimates the piece of furniture around 4 million pounds.
The result meets the expectations and expertise of the auction house: £ 4.5 million including premium.
Here is the image of this lot shared post sale by AuctionPublicity.
1720 Bureau Plat by Boulle
2005 SOLD for £ 2.9M including premium by Christie's
narrated in 2012 before the auction of another bureau by Europ Auction (see below)
André-Charles Boulle was appointed Ebéniste, Ciseleur, Doreur et Sculpteur du Roi in 1672. At the end of the reign of Louis XIV, his prestige is unprecedented, and his capacity for innovation is breathtaking. He is the pioneer of the various forms of French furniture of the eighteenth century including from 1713 the most elegant of them, the bureau plat.
A bureau plat (flat desk) is a table equipped with a belt of drawers whose center can hide secret drawers. If the space for storage is insufficient, you can fit a cartonnier at the end of the table. This highly functional furniture has first been produced for luxury furnishing. Boulle also innovated by his gilded bronze decorations anticipating Cressent.
Boulle was using the most precious materials with a subtle sophistication. High end furniture was made in pairs, with similar or even identical decorations but with a reversed distribution of materials : the première partie and the contre-partie.
On December 15, 2005, Christie's sold for £ 2.9M including premium over a lower estimate a bureau plat in première partie made by Boulle, without cartonnier, lot 15. With its 204 x 105 cm top, it is in the largest format ever made by Boulle.
Another piece passed at Europ Auction on September 26, 2012. It was probably the contre-partie of the above, of similar size. Slight differences between both bureaux suggest that it was in the Boulle workshop during the 1720 fire and then had to be repaired.
1750 Lacquer Commodes by Bernard
2011 SOLD 3.45 M$ including premium
Charles Cressent had a mysterious rival as the best cabinetmaker in the early reign of Louis XV, after the Régence. Both were suppliers of the king and of the aristocracy.
Most of the Parisian furniture remained anonymous until 1743,the year when the stamp was made mandatory. The rival master therefore signed his works with the letters BVRB.
It was the time when the marchands-merciers dictated the law of taste in furnishings. They had started the fashion of decorating furniture with those lavish black lacquer panels decorated with scenes from the Far East that they imported from China and Japan. The luxurious decoration of gilded bronzes kept up the lacquered panel.
BVRB was one of the first to bend the lacquer panels to fit the curved shape of Louis XV commodes. The sumptuous commode illustrated in the press release shared by Artdaily is attributed to him. Estimated $ 3M, it is one of the star lots in the Safra collection, for sale by Sotheby's in New York from October 18 to 21.
Its design is similar as for the specimen stamped BVRB sold 15.4 MF by Christie's in Monaco on June 19, 1999, made in the 1750s for Machault d'Arnouville. It is certainly later than the royal commode, also signed, delivered to Fontainebleau in 1737.
Feeling the need to give a name to BVRB, furniture connoisseurs named him Bernard until his full identity is demonstrated in 1957 : Bernard (II) Van Riesen Burgh, received master circa 1735.
Note that the presence of a mark is not enough to date a piece of furniture after 1743, because some earlier pieces were returned to the shop to be repaired or modified. On the opposite, the lack of a stamp mark is suggesting a date before 1743.
The date suggested by the catalogue for this piece of furniture is circa 1750.
It was one of the top lots in the sale of the Safra collection. It was sold $ 3.45 million including premium.
1757 The Pompadour Style
What is most luxurious and most exquisite is for the king. At the time of Qianlong, Louis XV is reigning in France.
Louis XV likes to have fun, especially if it contradicts the étiquette. In 1745, his new mistress is young and pretty. She was not born in the aristocracy, and the king once again shocked the courtiers in naming her Marquise de Pompadour.
Irregular husband and lover, the king had gone to further female conquests, but the vast cultural intelligence of Pompadour still makes her the best referee of the great French style. The hôtel d'Evreux, offered by Louis to the Marquise in 1754 and which was to become much later the palais de l'Elysée, is furnished in a splendour that can well compete with Versailles.
The Parisian craft is fabulously encouraged. After a tumultuous career, Cressent closes his business in 1756. His best successor to the court, who signs BVRB, is a discreet man whose biographical details are largely unknown.
On December 6 in London, Christie's sells a secrétaire à abattant stamped by BVRB. This piece 1.30 m high is not a single model, but only two examples are known with Japanese lacquer, the supreme refinement of the time, and only this one is complete.
Christie's states that it is almost certainly the piece of furniture sold to Pompadour on February 19, 1757 by the important marchand-mercier Lazare Duvaux, and the catalog tells that it would be the most expensive supply made by Duvaux to the Marquise.
This secrétaire has all the qualities of a masterpiece and formerly belonged to the prestigious Riahi collection. It is estimated £ 3M. Here is the link to the catalog.
This very elegant piece of furniture did not exceed its lower estimate. It was sold £ 3.2M including premium.
1763 Table à Ecrire with Sèvres Porcelain
2005 SOLD for € 6.9M including premium by Artcurial
Under the reign of Louis XV, the craft industry was managed by corporations whose perimeters were very strictly defined. The marchands-merciers are the only ones who may design furniture calling for several specialties. The cabinetmaker Cressent, who wanted his bronzes to be prepared in his workshop, was repudiated. The decoration of furniture with Sèvres porcelain is a specialty of the marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier.
The cabinetmaker Joseph Baumhauer, whose stamp is limited to his first name, creates furniture with simple shapes, embellished with metal, hard stones, finely chiseled bronzes and lacquer panels. He is a specialist of the top luxury and court-empowered, and his production is scarce.
The best Sèvres porcelains are marked with a code corresponding to the year, which today helps dating the furniture they adorn.
A bureau plat was assembled by Joseph using porcelain dated H for 1760. Three other examples of this model are known. One of them was sold for € 6.9M including premium by Artcurial on December 13, 2005 from lower estimate of € 800K.
This desk 76 x 114 x 58 cm is stamped by Joseph. It is in rosewood and amaranth veneer and opens with three drawers on the front. It is decorated all around with 24 plaques in Sèvres porcelain decorated with polychrome flowers. A third of the plaques bear the letter K for 1763. The decoration is completed by gilded bronzes.
The Graf von Cobenzl, diplomat and trusted man of the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, was a client of Poirier. The desk sold by Artcurial is probably the "table à écrire incrustée de porcelaine de Sèvres" which is listed in his inventory after death.
1778 Commode Royale by Riesener
1999 SOLD for £ 7M including premium by Christie's
narrated in 2019 before the sale of another commode by Christie's (see below)
The luxury of the furniture is a major element for the prestige of the kings of France. King Henri IV creates a charge of Intendant général des meubles de la Couronne. This administration manages new commissions of furniture and objects for the royal residences and is responsible for inventories and maintenance.
Premises are dedicated to these operations. In 1757 King Louis XV decides to build a hotel specially conceived for storing the furniture. Operational in 1772 and completed in 1774, this masterpiece by Ange-Jacques Gabriel is today the Hôtel de la Marine, on Place Louis XV completed by the same architect in 1772 and later Place de la Concorde.
Successor to Oeben whose widow he married, Jean-Henri Riesener specializes in luxury furniture. In 1774 he is appointed Ebéniste ordinaire du mobilier de la couronne.
The top luxury is obviously reserved for the king. Two commodes are made respectively in 1776 and 1778 by Riesener for the cabinet of King Louis XVI in Fontainebleau. The price paid by the king for the earlier commode had been 6,870 livres. The total amount of sales by Riesener for the court from 1774 to 1784 exceeded one million livres.
The 1778 Fontainebleau commode was sold for £ 7M including premium by Christie's on July 8, 1999 over a lower estimate of £ 1.5M, lot 201. This à ressaut shaped piece 95 cm high, 165 cm wide, 63 cm deep is in ormolu-mounted amaranth, sycamore, mahogany, parquetry and marquetry.
On April 30, 2019, Christie's sold for $ 1.16M including premium a commode of similar size, shape and materials made in 1774 by Riesener for the chief officer of the Garde-Meuble. This piece had possibly been a prototype for the commodes royales.
1784 Marquises by Tilliard
Bergères and marquises are the comfortable chairs of the Louis XV style. A fauteuil is a chair with armrests. A bergère is a fauteuil with full armrests. It has a low seat and an additional cushion. A marquise is a larger bergère that could in theory accommodate two persons. Royal seats are exquisitely carved in rococo style and gilded. In a later phase the decoration was made of garlands of flowers in a repetitive rhythm.
Four legitimate daughters of the late king survived him. The château de Bellevue in Meudon was then transferred to three of them as a private residence. They had redesigned the interior and created a jardin anglais in the style of Chantilly and Trianon.
For the use of their Salon d'Eté, Mesdames commissioned in 1784 a sumptuous set of eight marquises and a canapé for an extravagant price which was paid by their nephew King Louis XVI. The marquises were referred in period as fauteuils en tête à tête.
The detailed bill survives in the royal archives. The furniture was ordered to Blanchard who subcontracted the menuiserie to Jean-Baptiste II Tilliard. The carving was made by Rascalon, the gilding by Dutemp and the silk upholstery and cushions was supplied by Nau. The execution was supervised by the Garde Meubles Royal and the whole was delivered to Mesdames in 1785. They are stamped by Tilliard.
The canapé survives dressed in a Gobelins tapestry at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. A pair of marquises 107 cm high, 104 cm wide and 90 cm deep was sold for € 3.7M from a lower estimate of € 800K by Sotheby's on October 11, 2022, lot 53 in the auction of the furnishings of the Hôtel Lambert.
#AuctionUpdate An extraordinary discovery and ranking among the most important examples of Louis XVI seat furniture to have survived, a pair of royal giltwood marquises by Jean-Baptiste II Tilliard (c. 1784) sold for €3,665,000 (est. €800,000-1,200,000). #HôtelLambert pic.twitter.com/nmCHbmXINW
1786 Commode by Carlin and Weisweiler
1999 SOLD for FF 46M including premium by Christie's
On December 11, 1999, Christie's sold for FF 46M including premium, which would later correspond to € 7M, a Louis XVI commode à encoignures stamped by both Carlin and Weisweiler, from a lower estimate of FF 15M.
This 91 x 135 x 51 cm piece of furniture responds to the fashion for inlays of luxurious materials launched under Louis XV by the marchand-mercier Poirier. It is in ebony veneer, blackened wood, copper and pewter marquetry, relief inlays of pietra dura from the Gobelins, Florentine pictures in pietra dura marquetry, and adorned with gilded bronzes.
Daguerre succeeded Poirier in 1777. The cabinetmaker Carlin, who was one of the major suppliers of Poirier and Daguerre, died in 1785. Weisweiler took over de facto from Carlin for supplies to Daguerre.
The Florentine plaques constitute the major element of the decoration of that commode. They had been recovered from some cabinet made around 1700 in the Grand Ducal workshops. Out of fashion, the monumental Florentine cabinets in the French royal collections had been sold by the Garde Meuble from 1741.
The commode is not listed in the inventory after Carlin's death and its mark is undoubtedly posthumous, before his widow remarried with another cabinetmaker in 1786.
Daguerre settles permanently in 1789 in London where the Prince of Wales, future George IV, is furnishing in the greatest luxury his new residence of Carlton House.
The inventory of the Carlton House Council Salon, carried out in 1793, lists two pietra dura commodes, similar to each other. One of them, still in the British Royal Collection and stamped by Weisweiler, is probably the commode sold by James Christie in March 1791 directly from the stock transferred to London by Daguerre. The other, which no longer appears in 1806 in the collection of the Prince of Wales, is probably the Carlin-Weisweiler commode.
1795 A Triumph for Louis XVI ... in 1882 !
2011 SOLD 6.9 M$ including premium
Keep quiet, my archives do not go back to 1882! The results below had been published in an old newspaper article (The Illustrated London News, No.2254-Vol. LXXXI, Saturday, July 15, 1882) available as an external link in English country house contents auctions in the Wikipedia.
The 12th Duke of Hamilton was not an art lover, and he had a urgent need for money. The sale of his collection in 2213 lots at Christie's in London was an event that experts still quote.
The portrait of Philip IV by Velazquez, acquired by the British government for 6000 guineas, was however not the highest result of the sale.
Indeed, a Louis XVI commode and secretaire had been sold separately, and to two different clients, for a price quoted as "enormous, never before given for a piece of furniture" in the article, of 9450 pounds each. Mounted in gilt bronze by Gouthière, these two ebony furniture lacquered in black and gold are bearing the monogram of Marie-Antoinette.
The sale of the Safra collection by Sotheby's lasted four days, from October 18 to 21, 2011. A pair of furniture was sold for $ 6.9M from a lower estimate of $ 5M, lot 749. This commode and its secrétaire en suite had been included in the Hamilton sale. Like the two royal furniture discussed above, they are from Louis XVI time, mounted in bronze and lacquered. They are attributed to Adam Weisweiler.
French furniture has become difficult to sell, except, of course, those of the highest quality. This set of two pieces was sold $ 6.9 million including premium.
The estimated date given in the catalog is circa 1795, after the death of Louis XVI. It is possible that this set was intended to Tsar Paul I, but it has not been been delivered to him.
Karl Lagerfeld sagte einmal: "Im 18. Jahrhundert, wenn Sie da Geld hatten, konnten Sie noch was Schönes kaufen. Heute, wenn Sie viel Geld haben, können Sie vor allem etwas Grauenhaftes kaufen". Wie gut, dass man Antiquitäten aus dem 18. Jahrhundert auch heute noch kaufen kann.
— Barnebys.de (@Barnebysde) August 1, 2021
1790s Girandoles by Thomire
2022 SOLD for € 5M by Christie's
At the time of the corporations in the French ancien régime, Pierre-Philippe Thomire was the leading ciseleur-doreur in Paris. A successor to Gouthière and protected by Houdon, he made much business as a supplier of ornamental bronzes for the porcelaines de Sèvres.
The Révolution did not stop his business. He started a co-operation with the marchand mercier Lignereux who was a former partner to Daguerre and increased his supply to foreign courts including Russia. Taking the advantage of the possibility to diversify his offer after the suppression of the corporations, Thomire succeeded also to Lignereux in 1804 and was ahead during the Empire of a workshop of 700 workers. He retired in 1823 at 72 years old and lived a further 20 years.
A monumental pair of twelve light girandoles 2.7 m high in the style of the 1790s is attributed to Dugourc for the design and to Thomire for the ormolu and patinated bronzes. Girandole designates a candélabre of the top luxury.
They surfaced at auction in Paris in 1825 with a note in the catalogue that "Cet article de la plus grande richesse fut commandé pour l'empereur de Russie". There is no doubt that this emperor was Paul I who was endeavoring throughout the 1790s to furnish his new St. Michael's castle. The French note "pour l'empereur" confirms that they had not been actually supplied. The commission was certainly canceled when Paul was murdered in 1801.
Coming from the personal collection of Hubert de Givenchy, that pair was sold for € 5M from a lower estimate of € 700K by Christie's on June 14, 2022, lot 18.
A design could of course be used in various sizes. A pair of 113 cm high six light girandoles with the same design of draped maidens standing beside a griffin-supported altar plinth that issues a columnar stem with the candelabra branches was sold for £ 254K by Christie's on December 15, 2005, lot 24. Its monumental counterpart narrated above additionally displays a winged putto facing the maiden.


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Turnout was massive Wednesday across all regions of Tennessee for the first day of early voting, including Nashville, shattering the state's past two midterm numbers.
Turnout was massive Wednesday across Tennessee for the first day of early voting with open races for U.S. Senate and governor both on the line.
Voting numbers shattered the state's past two midterm numbers and were not far behind Tennessee's pace set during the 2016 presidential election.
In all, 120,893 people voted Wednesday in Tennessee in the midterm general election. The tally also includes absentee-by-mail votes collected that day and votes made at nursing homes.
The total is only around 22,000 less than the 143,141 people who voted early during the 2016 presidential election, which typically far outpaces midterms.
The state's first-day total was nearly four times the 32,565 people who voted on the first day of early voting for the 2014 midterm election.
In 2010, 43,580 people voted on the first day of early voting for the November midterms.
"Turnout has been extremely high for a midterm election," Tennessee Coordinator of Elections Mark Goins said. "Early voters voted en mass yesterday. East, Middle and West Tennessee have experienced high voter interest and turnout.
"The interest in this year's election is similar to the interest we see in a presidential election."
Early voting runs through Nov. 1 ahead of the Nov. 6 election.
Goins estimated early voting could account for 55 percent to 60 percent of all voting, which would be slightly more than the historic ratio.
In Tennessee's U.S. Senate race, Republican Marsha Blackburn, a congressman from Williamson County, is taking on Democrat Phil Bredesen, a former two-term governor. The winner will replace retiring Republican Sen. Bob Corker.
In the race to replace term-limited Gov. Bill Haslam, the election is between Democrat Karl Dean, former Nashville mayor, and Republican businessman Bill Lee.
Tennessee is historically among the lowest in voter turnout in the nation. A Pew Charitable Trust analysis of the 2014 midterm elections found Tennessee ranked 50th.
But this year the ballot includes two open seats in which Tennessee Democrats are fielding viable contenders for the first time in multiple election cycles.
Nashville had the highest turnout with 10,249 people voting Wednesday in Davidson County. When adding in absentee ballots and votes cast at nursing homes, the tally was 14,616.
That's compared to 12,300 people who voted on the first day of early voting in Nashville during the 2016 presidential election.
"It was a very good turnout, a little short of the 2016 presidential," Davidson County elections administrator Jeff Roberts said.
Knox County broke what is believed to be that county's all-time record for first-day early voting with 9,265 people voting. When including absentee votes, the tally was 11,061 votes.
Shelby County, which was the last county to report figures Thursday to the state, had 10,480 voters and 11,421 when including absentee ballots.
The county, the state's largest in population and home to Memphis, experienced some hiccups on the first day of voting, including four sites losing connectivity with electronic polling books. But Shelby County election officials said the issues were resolved by the afternoon.
First day of early voting in Knox County: 9265 votes cast. It is the best first day of early voting in at least 10 years, including 3 presidential elections (2008, 2012, 2016) and is believed to be a first-day Early Voting record for any election in Knox County history.
It was a similar story in Wilson County, where 2,862 people went to the polls to vote, compared to 3,459 on the first day of early voting in 2016 and 811 on the first day of early voting in 2014.
Nashville, along with Memphis, are the state's two biggest Democratic hotbeds. Both Bredesen and Dean are from Nashville, perhaps another explanation for the spike there.
Only 557 people voted on the first day of early voting in Nashville during the the 2014 midterm election. But that's a poor comparison because early voting was limited to only one location on the first day that year.
This year early voting opened Wednesday at 11 locations in Nashville.
Locally, Nashvillians are voting on a referendum to amend the Metro Charter by creating a new community oversight panel that would review actions of police.


MICHAEL BISPING believes February 27 opponent Anderson Silva is not the fighter he was in his prime. But in assessing the aura that Silva projected at his peak – one Bisping no longer perceives – he drew an intriguing comparison with Ireland's UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor. Michael Bisping says Conor McGregor has an advantage Silva once possessed.
Following the Diaz fight, Silva was suspended for a year due to multiple positive tests and his win was altered to a No Contest. But Bisping feels the performance against Diaz was just the latest example of a once imperious fighter losing his composure and confidence.


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Jerry Reynolds, né le , à French Lick, en Indiana, est un entraîneur et dirigeant américain de basket-ball. Il a été manager général des Kings de Sacramento et des Monarchs de Sacramento.

Biographie

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Notes et références

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Entraîneur américain de basket-ball
Entraîneur des Kings de Sacramento
Dirigeant américain de basket-ball
Naissance en janvier 1944

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Government Competition
Report Unfair Competition Issue
BCFC in Action & Events
BCFC Resources
Competition Watch
Opinions/Media
OMB Circular A-76/ Fair Act of 1998
Inherently Governmental/ Insourcing
Federal Prison Industries (FPI) Reform
Privatization/ Public Private Partnerships (P3s)/ Contracting Out
Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT)
Postal Service (USPS) Reform
Government Owned Property & Assets
Promoting the private sector
BCFC Policy Roundtable with Congressman Kevin Hern (OK)
1:30pm on Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Business Coalition for Fair Competition
The Business Coalition for Fair Competition (BCFC), a coalition of trade associations, businesses, and organizations dedicated to free enterprise, relief from unfair government sponsored competition, and smaller, more efficient government, was relaunched in 2009. Active in the 1980s and 1990s, BCFC will once again elevate the public's awareness and work proactively with legislators and executive branch officials to assure that private, for-profit firms continue to constitute the strength of the United States economic system and that competitive private enterprises remain the most productive, efficient, and effective sources of goods and services. Unfair government-sponsored competition has been a top issue at every White House Conference on Small Business.
In 1980, the first White House Conference on Small Business made unfair competition one of its highest-ranked issues. It said, "The Federal Government shall be required by statute to contract out to small business those supplies and services that the private sector can provide. The government should not compete with the private sector by accomplishing these efforts with its own or non-profit personnel and facilities."
In 1986, the second White House Conference made this one of its top three issues. It said, "Government at all levels has failed to protect small business from damaging levels of unfair competition. At the federal, state and local levels, therefore, laws, regulations and policies should … prohibit direct, government created competition in which government organizations perform commercial services … New laws at all levels, particularly at the federal level, should require strict government reliance on the private sector for performance of commercial-type functions. When cost comparisons are necessary to accomplish conversion to private sector performance, laws must include provision for fair and equal cost comparisons. Funds controlled by a government entity must not be used to establish or conduct a commercial activity on U.S. property."
And the 1995 White House Conference again made this a priority issue when its plank read, "Congress should enact legislation that would prohibit government agencies and tax exempt and anti-trust exempt organizations from engaging in commercial activities in direct competition with small businesses." That was among the top 15 vote getters at the 1995 Conference and was number one among all the procurement-related issues in the final balloting.
However, the unfair government-sponsored competition issue has not been a top priority for Congress, the Administration or small business and private sector organizations for several years.
Since the enactment of the Federal Activities Inventory Reform (FAIR) Act in 1998, and the implementation of "competitive sourcing" by the Bush Administration, (OMB Circular A-76, revised May 29, 2003), the focus on a broader, philosophical issue of government not competing with its citizens has been lost in favor of the narrower attention to A-76.
Similarly, the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy is designed to be the in-house advocate for small business within the Federal Government. It is an independent office within SBA that has the statutory authority to go to other agencies and advocate policies, changes in regulations, and other remedies when an agency is doing something that is harmful to small business. The Office of Advocacy has not had government competition as an issue on its agenda for many years. The office conducted a series of hearings and issued a report, "Government Competition: A Threat to Small Business", (March 1980) and "Unfair Competition by Nonprofit Organizations With Small Business: An Issue for the 1980s" (June, 1984). It offered testimony, when requested by the House and Senate Small Business Committees in 1988 and 1996 and conducted some research on non-profit competition in 1999.
BCFC is working to elevate the issue of unfair government competition, promoting legislation and policies to eliminate unfair competition, and opposing efforts to mandate government monopoly performance of commercially available goods and services.
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For the Icelandic football division, see 1. deild karla (football).
1. deild is the second tier league of football in the Faroe Islands. It was founded in 1943. The league is organised by the Faroe Islands Football Association. It was originally the top level of Faroe Islands football but was replaced by the Faroe Islands Premier League in 2005.
It currently has 10 participating clubs. At the end of each season, two teams are relegated and two promoted from the 2. deild, pending the fact that the promoted team does not already have a team in 1. deild. In such cases, the team that finished third will be promoted instead. If a team is relegated to 1. deild and already have a side playing there, their reserve team will move one division down, thereby saving another team from relegation.
Founded in 1943 as Meðaldeildin, it acts in a system of promotion and relegation with the top division since 1976, when the Faroe Islands football league system was reorganized. Back then, 1. deild was the name given to the top division, replacing the Meistaradeildin. The first club to be promoted was Fram Tórshavn after winning the division for the first time in their history. The first team relegated to the league was NSÍ Runavík.
In bold the clubs currently playing in 1. deild.
In italics the clubs that no longer exist or are no longer active in adult football.
^ 07 Vestur won two times as FS Vágar.
^ FC Suðuroy won once as VB/Sumba.
^ Dinant Abbink. "Faroe Islands - List of Second Level Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
^ "1. deild menn - Vinnarar" (in Faroese). Faroe Soccer.
This page was last edited on 11 March 2019, at 04:49 (UTC).


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An approximately $1 scooter ride turned into thousands in medical bills for one woman.
Before falling, Michelle Inskeep's ride on an electric scooter lasted less than a minute and cost her about $1.
The aftermath: $6,500 in medical bills and three months of recovery -- and counting.
On November 14, Inskeep was riding a scooter in downtown Scottsdale when she fell as she tried to avoid hitting a curb.
The fall caused her to break several bones in her right foot and her thumb, in addition to multiple scrapes and bruises. She's still rehabbing after a complicated surgery that placed four temporary screws in her foot to separate the bones as they healed.
Electric scooters are flooding the Valley at an increasing rate.
A handful of companies, with clever names like Lime, Bird, and Jump, have dropped thousands of the rentable devices at major intersections and densely populated areas in the past six months.
The scooters quickly accelerate and hit speeds that routinely exceed 15 mph.
As the number of scooters increase, so does the number of people seriously injured on them, according to Valley first responders and hospital officials.
Tempe began receiving so many calls for scooter injuries, that the fire department set up a special tab in its record-keeping system to specifically track scooter calls.
On average, Glass said the department is averaging 29 calls for service a month.
ABC15 spoke to several other departments, including Mesa and Scottsdale, which are working to implement better ways to track scooter-related calls as well.
Hospitals have also seen a steady stream of patients -- often multiple a day -- and not just routine emergency room visits for stitches or broken bones.
At Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center, the trauma center said it had nearly 20 trauma cases from October to mid-January.
In other words, brain bleeds.
Other area hospitals also said that they are seeing an influx of scooter-related injuries.
Several of the scooter companies are also facing a class-action lawsuit about their safety that originated in Los Angeles.
The attorney behind the case, Catherine Lerer, said she's been contacted by hundreds of people injured on scooters.
A national investigation into electric scooter injuries found 1,500 incidents across the country and issues with agencies tracking the crashes.
In recent weeks, ABC15 has spoken to two women who suffered brain injuries and many other people who have suffered serious injuries on scooters.
Michelle Inskeep said almost everyone who asks her about her injury knows someone else who's been injured recently on a scooter.
"I answer this question every day, five times a day - about what happened to me - and almost always, someone has their own story," Inskeep said.
Then, sure enough, during ABC15's interview with Inskeep, a security guard at her work building overheard our conversation and interrupted.
"Are you just interviewing her? Because I know two other people who got injured," the guard said.
Minutes later, he came walking over with another man, whose right arm was in a sling.
His name was Terrance, and just three days earlier, he dislocated his elbow and broke his arm after he tumbled off a scooter in Mesa.
He also told us his adult son was hit by a car as he rode a scooter days earlier. Thankfully, he said his son wasn't badly hurt.
When Terrance went to get treatment at a local ER, he said nurses and doctors joked about how many scooter patients they've been seeing.


(2 John 4-6) 4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
The new "commandment of Christ" mentioned in this passage is one of divine love. This divine love is brought to the heart of the believer through the Holy Spirit.
(Romans 5:5) "And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us."
Christ, Himself, gave us this "new commandment" from His very mouth, (John 13:34) "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."
Christ also spoke of love being the greatest commandment above all others!
(Matt. 22:36-39) "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
In this we can clearly see the difference of the "law of Moses" and the "law of Christ." The Old Testament Law demands love, oh but the New Testament Law, the words spoken by Christ Himself is LOVE, and therefore take the place of external law by fulfilling it! (Romans 8:8, 10) 8 "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law." 10 "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."
So when Christ spoke the words in John 14:15 "If ye love me, keep my commandments.", He not only told us how, but showed us how!
How do we keep His commandments?! It can be summarized in one word, LOVE! (Galatians 5:14) "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
Love is the most important word in our vocabulary for love is how we have a relationship with our Father through His Son. (Romans 5:8) "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
Below is one of my favorite hymns. I hope you too will enjoy!


Preview: The Soccer match between Girona vs Huesca will take place on 09.02.2019 in LaLiga Spain. The tipster hovi makes the betting prediction a Double Chance X2 in the Full Time and stakes 26 at the odds 1.89 from Unibet. From this Double Chance Soccer prediction the tipster hovi can make a possible profit of 23.14.
Well direct opponent for avoiding relegation here for Huesca who are alive and kicking here at this moment after last round's 4-0 demolition at home of Valladolid as well as winning recently 2-1 at home as well against Betis, while poor results from Girona made them a relegation candidate, the team has 5 losses in a row and is playing poorly so double chance on the guests.


Hello everyone!! Today we have a new big event for 2019. Beautiful island in korea !! It will be good news for couples looking for jeju Island.
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Q: What is the best way to clear or reset Laravel cached views? Sometimes my changes are not reflected in the output even after i have modified the view that generates the output. What is the best way to clear the view cache or particular cached view?

A: use artisan command
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to clear the cache

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Q: conda python 3.8 ffmpeg【ffprobe: symbol lookup error: /anaconda3/envs/bin/../lib/./libgnutls.so.30: undefined symbol: mpn_add_1, version HOGWEED_4】 Dependencies:

*

*Ubuntu: 20.04

*conda: 4.12.0

*Python: 3.8

*Pytorch: 1.7.1

*ffmpjpe: 4.2.3 (conda-forge)

I am facing a problem after installing FFmpeg from the conda-forge channel as follows command:
$ conda config --add channels conda-forge```
$ conda install ffmpeg

$ ffmpeg -version error message:
ffprobe: symbol lookup error: /home/user/anaconda3/envs/myenv/bin/../lib/./libgnutls.so.30: undefined symbol: mpn_add_1, version HOGWEED_4

I have also try
$ pip install ffmpeg

or

$ pip install ffprobe

or

$ conda install ffmpeg-python

But they do not work for me.
Could anyone point me out how to solve this issue??
Thanks in advance!!

A: This is likely due to channel mixing. If you need to use Conda Forge, then use just Conda Forge (it's a standalone channel).
conda create -n foo -c conda-forge python=3 ffmpeg ...

While Anaconda documentation might imply that one can simply use packages from other channels, the fact is that they don't test for such compatibility.

A: The anaconda site suggests to try all of the below. Do you get a problem with all of the channels:
conda install -c conda-forge ffmpeg
conda install -c "conda-forge/label/broken" ffmpeg
conda install -c "conda-forge/label/cf201901" ffmpeg
conda install -c "conda-forge/label/cf202003" ffmpeg
conda install -c "conda-forge/label/gcc7" ffmpeg

A: I finally solved this problem by
Step1. Install ffmpeg on your OS {e.g. in my case, Ubuntu}
from Download FFmpeg website
or
for my ubuntu case, just use the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Step2. Verify the Installation
$ ffmpeg -version

ffmpeg version 4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 9 (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=0ubuntu0.1 --toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --incdir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu --arch=amd64 --enable-gpl --disable-stripping --enable-avresample --disable-filter=resample --enable-avisynth --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libaom --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libcodec2 --enable-libflite --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libjack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libmysofa --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librsvg --enable-librubberband --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzmq --enable-libzvbi --enable-lv2 --enable-omx --enable-openal --enable-opencl --enable-opengl --enable-sdl2 --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libdrm --enable-libiec61883 --enable-nvenc --enable-chromaprint --enable-frei0r --enable-libx264 --enable-shared
libavutil      56. 31.100 / 56. 31.100
libavcodec     58. 54.100 / 58. 54.100
libavformat    58. 29.100 / 58. 29.100
libavdevice    58.  8.100 / 58.  8.100
libavfilter     7. 57.100 /  7. 57.100
libavresample   4.  0.  0 /  4.  0.  0
libswscale      5.  5.100 /  5.  5.100
libswresample   3.  5.100 /  3.  5.100
libpostproc    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100

I can confirm that FFmpeg has been installed successfully at this time. But when I run my python script, it shows different error message like
ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libx264.so.138: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

When I retry $ ffmpeg -version it shows this error again. (I guess it was caused by a version mismatch issue??)
So I go on the Step 3
Step3. Re-open the terminate、Uninstall and Re-install ffmpeg from following command
$ conda uninstall ffmpeg
$ conda install -c conda-forge ffmpeg

Re-try:
$ ffmpeg -version

ffmpeg version 4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 9 (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1)...

Then my issue has been solved!! I can successfully run my python script now!!
For those who stumbled upon this issue as I did.
I hope this response could help and work for you too.


Sunday February 5th, breakfast sponsored by St. Vincent de Paul Ministry.
Today Jesus reminds us that following the letter of the law may give us a false sense of holiness. Jesus drills down to the root of the Law in several examples. While we may have not murdered anyone, Jesus asks if we have acted in anger toward others. Do we perceive others as objects of gratification rather than dignified persons created in the image of God? Are others treated as commodities or servants rather than one to whom I am pledged or called to serve? What are the motives behind our actions? Are they good and holy? We are not called to simply observe the letter of the Law but the spirit too.
Mantengan a su familia segura, oh Señor, con un cuidado infalible, que, confiando únicamente en la esperanza de la gracia celestial, puedan ser defendidos siempre por su protección. Por nuestro Señor Jesucristo, tu Hijo, que vive y reina contigo en la unidad del Espíritu Santo, un solo Dios, por los siglos de los siglos.
Let us pray for and thank all military who are Deployed and who serve our country so bravely. We especially salute and pray for those of our own parish family: Major Brian L. Ramirez-US Army, Corporal Xavier T. Espinoza-USMC, Sargent JC Winkler-USMC, Senior Airmen-Jessica Estrada Nowotny, Corporal Tyler Dane Nowotny, US Army Special Forces Group E-4-Jeremy Estrada & Major-Kurt French-USAR.


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REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m. tomorrow morning, March 19; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, and the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day; that following any leader remarks, the Senate resume consideration of H.R. 933, the continuing appropriations bill; further, the time during adjournment, recess, and morning business count postcloture on the substitute amendment to H.R. 933; finally, the Senate recess from 12:30 to 2:15 p.m. tomorrow to allow for our weekly caucus meetings.


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The Diocese of Salto is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Uruguay. The diocese was erected in 1897. The Diocese of Salto covers four departments: Artigas, Salto, Paysandú, and Río Negro. Its see is at the Cathedral of Salto.

The Diocese of Salto is a suffragan diocese of the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Montevideo. The current bishop is Arturo Eduardo Fajardo Bustamante, who was appointed in 15 June 2020, transferring him from the Diocese of San José de Mayo.

Bishops
Ordinaries
 Tomás Gregorio Camacho † (3 Jul 1919 Appointed – 20 May 1940 Died)
 Alfredo Viola † (20 May 1940 Succeeded – 1 Jan 1968 Resigned)
 Marcelo Mendiharat Pommies † (1 Jan 1968 Succeeded – 8 Mar 1989 Retired)
 Daniel Gil Zorrilla, S.J. † (8 Mar 1989 Appointed – 16 May 2006 Retired)
 Pablo Jaime Galimberti di Vietri (16 May 2006 Appointed –  24 Jul 2018 Retired)
 Fernando Miguel Gil Eisner † (24 Jul 2018 Appointed – 17 Jan 2020 Died)
 Arturo Eduardo Fajardo Bustamante (15 June 2020 Appointed – )

Auxiliary and co-adjutor bishops
 Alfredo Viola † (co-adjutor, 25 July 1936 – 20 May 1940)
 José María Cavallero † (auxiliary, 16 July 1952 – 20 December 1955), appointed Bishop of Melo
 Marcelo Mendiharat Pommies † (co-adjutor, 3 February 1959 – 1 January 1968)
 Carlos Alberto Nicolini † (auxiliary, since 28 October 1977; co-adjutor, 29 December 1984 – 19 June 1988), died without succeeding to see
 Heriberto Bodeant (auxiliary, 28 June 2003 – 13 June 2009), appointed Bishop of Melo

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
Francisco Domingo Barbosa Da Silveira † , appointed Bishop of Minas in 2004

See also
List of churches in the Diocese of Salto
List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Uruguay

External links

Religion in Salto Department
Religion in Artigas Department
Religion in Río Negro Department
Religion in Paysandú Department
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Despite decades between them, alumna June Sekera (B.A. '71, Sociology) and Cal State East Bay junior Sohail Alamkhel still have something in common: Neither thought they'd ever go to college.
Sekera, who graduated with a degree in sociology and went on to obtain her MPA at Harvard, says if it hadn't been for the construction of then-Cal State Hayward right in her hometown, a university degree would have been an unheard of prospect.
Sohail Alamkhel is one of four students to benefit from alumna June Sekera's gift this fall.
Today, Sekera is not only founder of the Public Goods Institute, a nonprofit that provides education about public goods and the public economy, but she is also a fellow at Tufts University and the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London — opportunities she says she wouldn't have achieved without the affordability and access of public higher education.
Alumna June Sekera's gift is in honor of her brother, Donald, who never had the opportunity to go to college.
Alamkhel is one such student. A refugee from Afghanistan, he pushed his way through community college with jobs at Round Table Pizza and Starbucks, and was recently hired at a behavioral therapy center called Emerging Milestones, where he works with children with autism while pursuing his degree in psychology.
Alamkhel is one of four students this quarter to begin receiving support from the Donald Sekera Scholarship in History, which Sekera named in honor of her brother — a great lover of history who never had the opportunity to attend college.
And in that vein, there's just one catch to the funding. Each applicant for the scholarship must be enrolled in a history class, but not a declared history major — a stipulation Sekera believes makes for well-rounded graduates and will enhance their contributions to any field of study or career they pursue.
For his part, Alamkhel sees a direct connection between his studies and the two history courses he'll be taking in the 2017-18 academic year.


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This blog is for open-minded people looking to expand their music palette.
Q&A: Psychic Bloom
September 6, 2019 · by Black Psychedelic Sun	· in Artist Spotlight, Q & A.	·
Let's say Psychic Bloom was literally born when Hashill opened his eyes upon the light and the dark of this world; an embryo in the inflated belly of Tehran-city mother; a city with narrow-alley neighborhoods of thoughts and jam-packed highways of distance. A belly laced with the poison of manipulation to smother the rising spirits searching for their insides and ultimate truth of existence.
Perhaps he was destined to be named Aref to indulge his strong passion for music and set off for a battle to fight, far away on his island of salvation. With the dreams that swirl around in his afro head, he pours his last drop of inspiration to feed the baby Psychic Bloom which has just given us the second album, The Mysterious Temple.
How did you get into music and how was your experience playing your first instrument?
When I was a kid, my older brother was a metalhead and I always followed the music sound coming out from his bedroom. After a while, he realized that I was a music freak too and then we listened to music and headbanged together! I can clearly remember that when I played electric guitar for the first time, I felt like I'd been wasting all my time before and I said "Yeah! I can follow my dream now".
How did Psychic Bloom start? And who plays in the band?
When I bought my first guitar, I started to cover different styles of music and after a few months I recorded some of my riffs and melodies. That's when I realized I was good at making music and it was just the beginning. After a while, I decided to band up with my old friend from school and Psychic Bloom started just like that! Keivan used to play bass and organ with me and I did the songwriting, vocals and played the guitar. We tried to work with different musicians in Iran but finding a band member who knows our genre and fits in the band is always a big problem here! Now, I'm working alone and handling all the stuff by myself, from songwriting, writing lyrics, playing instruments, recording process and whatnot. I would also like to mention that I feel so lucky that Michael Villiers, who has the experience of working with several musicians like Curtis Harding, collaborated with me in recording the drums for the second album. That was so generous!
You have released two studio albums from Iran. Honestly, this seems not to be very easy to me! How did all this come about?
This is the only thing that I can do to make me feel alive and the only thing that I love to do in my life. As you know living in Iran is getting so tough, let alone for musicians who have no support and with all the difficulties and obstacles in their way! But I don't want to give up. I'll keep on working to find my way to artistic freedom which I can say that it'll finally happen. I want to share my feelings with the people around the world and that's my only mission.
Your music covers an array of sound. I put it like a psychedelic rock flesh with surf rock vessels and thick skin of soul. How would you describe your sound and why do you make such a music?
The shape of my music, which you just described perfectly, consists of my musical taste, passion, influences and a lot of things that inspired me since childhood! In other words, that's a great way to express my feelings. I also think the genre fulfills me emotionally.
What are some of your biggest influences, whether it's life or other artists, music, people, movies and so on.
I've been influenced by so many musicians like R.L. Burnside, Bo Diddley, Link Wray, Roky Erickson, Syd Barrett, … but mainly I am inspired by everything happening around me. I mean everything that makes me think more about myself and the place we live in.
How did you start the first album and what are your favorite tracks?
When I realized that I could make my own music, we tried to find a place to rehearse and record the songs. After a long search, we rented a tiny room in the basement of a house which looked like an auto repair garage. With all of its difficulties, we started making the self-titled album which was finally released on Wiener Records. Honestly, I like em all…because every one of them reminds me of a particular story. My favorite tracks are Sacred Sun, Dead Valley Star, Mystic Shadow and Drifter.
Your second album is currently available digitally and about to come soon by Burger Records on cassette. Tell me about your musical experience when you were creating the album.
Actually, I supposed to make the second album outside of Iran because I knew that it was too hard to get back to songwriting and work on it. Because of the experiences that I had during the first album songwriting and recording process, I couldn't focus on music and even play instruments anymore! But as I mentioned it before, I can't live without working on my job and I was like "Man…that's the way it is! And I've been hearing the basement calling me again!". This made me think about how I could turn around all the bad situation with the dreams I have in my heart and the feelings I got for what I can create. I just applied my soul and expressed myself in the shape of sound by my instruments!
"Mysterious Temple" is your second album! Where does this name come from? Is there anything behind it?
I think there's a temple in my mind with its doorway that could take me to the infinite origin of beauty, love, salvation and beyond. I call it "The Mysterious Temple".
When you start making music, do you start with something in mind, or you just follow what creates itself?
I guess at first I have some ideas in my mind and when I start working, they all find their way to one another very quickly. I wrote the second album in like two weeks.
What are some of your gears and how did you record your albums?
I had to sell most of the equipment I used for the first album recording. So I had no other option but recording my second album with cheaper ones! For example, I used to have a 69 twin reverb and 71 quad reverb amplifiers for recording the guitar lines in the debut album and I had to sell them for financial issues. So my friend lent me his Vox AC4TV which was cool too but still not the sound that I was looking for! I also had a lot of pedals and I sold them as well! I tried my best and recorded the album with so many tricks. However, the drum lines were recorded in a studio professionally and played by Michael who did an amazing job.
We have never watched you performing live. Do you have any plans to play some gigs?
Yeah! I really love to perform live and I'm dreaming about it much. Unfortunately, I haven't had the experience till now. I'm working so hard to make that happen! I'm trying to play at SXSW 2020 and I hope it all comes together while I'm trying to get out of the country asap.
Where do you most like to play? Any dream gigs or festivals?
There are a lot of them but I really like to play at Desert Daze and Levitation festivals someday!
So what is up next with Psychic Bloom?
Just seeking for live shows, tours, and another next album! I want to follow it as my career, which I can't do at the present time for the restrictions that musicians like me have.
Are there any artists out there in Iran that you would recommend we check out?
I know an incredible visual artist, Arash Zarifian, who works with international artists like The Black Lips and Pond. I love his artworks.
Any last words for the readers?
Hey! thanks for reading my interview! Here's what I say from Iran: "Keep your stupid dreams alive!"
Support Psychic Bloom by purchasing and streaming their music via Bandcamp, Spotify, and iTunes.
Stay up to date with Psychic Bloom through the following social links:
Facebook || Instagram
This interview was conducted and written by Armin Enayat.
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Home » Everything you need to know about Lab Coat Android 21 before her impending release in Dragon Ball FighterZ
Everything you need to know about Lab Coat Android 21 before her impending release in Dragon Ball FighterZ
Dragon Ball fans were pretty much immediately on board with Android 21's design for Dragon Ball FighterZ when she was first unveiled, but they never officially got to play her non-Majin form — until now that is.
We're now just mere hours away from the launch of Lab Coat Android 21, and here's everything you need to know about DBFZ's next (and potentially last DLC) character.
Although she has some moves that appear similar to the Android 21 we're all familiar with, Lab Coat 21 is very much her own unique character with a different gameplan.
The most interesting aspect of Lab Coat 21 is probably her command grabs, which not only damage the opponent but also give her a nice boost.
Her special version of the command grab deals 1,000 damage to the enemy and actually heals herself by 500 though that's not the true scary sauce.
It can also be used in the air and the draining throw can be followed up with by 21's stomp special too.
What's really going to make this new character tick is her command grab Super that is not only unblockable and does a fitting 2,121 damage but it also drains the opponent's damage output.
Landing the Super permanently debuffs her opponent by reducing their damage 21%. Meanwhile, Lab Coat 21 adds that 21% damage buff to her own stats, so it's likely going to be the crux of her gameplan.
For PC players, Lab Coat Android 21 is now available to purchase in the United States (and likely everywhere else) for $5 USD though it was previously unconfirmed whether she'd be free or paid DLC.
Of course, DBFZ will presumably require an update to add the new fighter to the game, but Bandai Namco hasn't said whether the new patch is going to impact anything else about the game.
During the Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour last week, FighterZ Producer Tomoko Hiroki stated they were looking into running more events for the massively successful fighting game though there was no mention of anymore DLC characters or major updates.
So we're kinda left in the same situation we found ourselves in following Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta's release last year.
You can check out Lab Coat Android 21's official trailer up above as well as her full breakdown to help get you prepared for her impending launch.
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Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, are set to discover what lives at unexplored volcanic vents, mud volcanoes and beds of methane ice on the ocean floor around Antarctica.
A national team of researchers, led by Professor Paul Tyler, has been awarded £3.2 million by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) for a programme of exploration using the UK's new ocean-going research ship, RRS James Cook. The team will also use the UK's remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Isis, which can dive to 6500 metres to reveal the inhabitants of the polar ocean depths.
"This is a fabulous opportunity to discover and analyse vents and seeps close to Antarctica," says Professor Tyler, a deep-sea biologist at the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science. "These are chemosynthetic habitats where animals live off the chemicals generated by these sites rather than sunlight. The research will also give us a chance to find out how these sites are populated from one to the other. What lives at these ecosystems around Antarctica is unknown. There is only one way to find out - and the first expedition is scheduled for 2009."
Deep-sea chemosynthetic habitats form islands of life on the ocean floor that are linked by the flow of their inhabitants' offspring between them. However, exactly how this web of life works, and how it has worked in the past, is not known. Communities around Antarctica could be related to those known in the Pacific, thanks to deep-water currents that run from west to east through the Drake Passage between Antarctica and South America. Alternatively, chemosynthetic communities around Antarctica could be related to the volcanic vents on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge via 'stepping stones' that existed in the geological past. A third possibility is that life in these habitats around Antarctica could be completely different, having evolved in isolation.
More than 600 new animal species have been described in the 30 years since such habitats were discovered in the Pacific. The International Census of Marine Life's ChEss (Biogeography of Chemosynthetic Ecosystems) programme has identified volcanic vents, mud volcanoes and gas hydrates around Antarctica as a priority for ocean exploration, as these sites may hold the key to understanding the patterns of life in such habitats across the globe.
"Now the UK marine science community has the Isis ROV we are able to examine the deep-sea floor at the metre scale, whereas in the past we have relied on trawls and cores lowered from surface ships," says Tyler. The team will visit and study volcanic vents in the East Scotia Sea, which have never been visited by scientists with deep-diving submersibles. They will compare these with newly-discovered volcanic vents in the Bransfield Strait on the other side of the Antarctic Peninsula. The team will also study mud volcanoes on the ocean floor near the South Sandwich Islands and gas hydrates north of King George Island.
In addition to exploring what lives in these remote corners of the polar ocean, the researchers will examine the links between communities at different sites and investigate how energy flows through the food webs of chemosynthetic ecosystems. The Southampton researchers include Drs Jon Copley, Rachel Mills and Alberto Naveiro Garabato of the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science, and Doug Connelly, Darryl Green, Katja Heeschen from the NERC Strategic Research Divisions. They will be working on the project with colleagues at the Universities of Bristol and Newcastle, the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, and the Institute of Zoology in London.
ChEss is a global study of the distribution, abundance and diversity of species in deep-water hydrothermal vents, cold seeps and other chemosynthetic ecosystems for the Census of Marine Life initiative. Directed from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, in the United Kingdom, ChEss aims to improve our knowledge of the biogeography of chemosynthetic ecosystems and the processes driving them.
The National Oceanography Centre, Southampton is a joint partnership between the University of Southampton and the Natural Environment Research Council.
The University of Southampton is one of the country's top institutions for engineering, computer science and medicine, and has a strong enterprise agenda. It is home to a range of world-leading research centres, including the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, the Optoelectronics Research Centre, the Centre for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, and the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies.


Ari has just turned five and this is his third birthday interview.
Driving a garbage truck (turns pretend steering wheel with his hands).
(Whispers) Can it be treats? Candy and quesadillas.
Gavin and Edward. My class.
Play with him. Fox and chicken. Remember that one game where you run around with a fox trying to get you? Can we play that later today?
Play with her. Fox and chicken!
Star Wars. The Bucket Book. And Spiderman.
Do things. Working at an office.
Play. Sometimes outside, sometimes inside, sometimes in my bedroom, sometimes in mama's room, sometimes in Riker's. Sometimes I watch screens. I go to different houses too, that I know. I do go hunting for things that I might like.
What do you want to learn or do before you turn six?
Make things. Everything. And when I'm six, I'm doing the same.


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Amazon adds Senate aide to public-policy team
Keturah Hetrick	December 4, 2018
Amazon is continuing its hiring sweep of Congress, adding its third Democratic aide in a month.
Tina Tower joins the tech giant as a program manager for U.S. public policy. She was most recently Sen. Ed Markey's (D-Mass.) deputy scheduler and assistant to the chief of staff.
Last month, Politico reported that Amazon had hired House chiefs of staff LaDavia Drane and Tony Clair "to work on diversity issues, including Amazon's relationship with the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus." Drane and Clair were chiefs to Democratic Reps. Yvette Clarke (N.Y.) and G.K. Butterfield (N.C.), respectively.
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Teen totally freaks when he realises he's talking to the voice of Bart Simpson: Watch!
By Julia Naughton| 4 years ago
Ay Caramba!
Why you little...!
A teen totally freaked out and gave a hilarious reaction when he realised he was speaking to the voice of Bart Simpson while selling charity cookies on the street.
Nancy Cartwright, who voices multiple characters on The Simpsons, including Bart Simpson, approached the teenager and introduced herself as the delinquent eldest Simpson kid.
"I'm 10, and I go to Springfield Elementary -- put it there man," Nancy, 59, said while gesturing a fist bump.
The student, a little confused over the animated cookie customer, responded saying, "That's a really good impression".
Naturally, Nancy erupted with laughter. "You think it's pretty good?" she asked, adding, "Do you know who does the voice on that show?"
"No, not really," the teen responded, before obliging to shake "Bart's" hand.
With that, the penny dropped.
"Ohhhhhh," the teen said, his jaw dropping in disbelief. Priceless.
The actress then bought 10 cookies from the student, calling him "sweet" as he thanked her profusely. Later she returned and gave the boy her autograph.
Nancy, who is best-known for voicing Bart on the show, also lends her vocal skills to the roles of Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum and Todd Flanders, plus a few more.
She originally planned to audition for the role of Lisa Simpson back in 1987, but at the last minute decided to go for Bart instead. And man, we're so glad she did.
NFL stars get The Simpsons makeover


AT&T signs an exclusive deal to bring WWE wrestling action to cell phones with video, ringtones, and wallpapers.
Get ready for 24-inch pythons and Texas Death Matches on your 3G phone. AT&T/Cingular has signed an exclusive deal with World Wrestling Entertainment to bring wrestling video clips, ringtones, and wallpapers to your cell phone. If you already have Cingular's Media Max 200 Bundle, you can view video clips such as the Slam of the Week and WWE News for free. Otherwise ringtones are $2.49 each and wallpapers are $1.99 each.
If you're dying to hear Hulk Hogan ask, "What you gonna do?" when your phone rings, then you're in luck. Other ringtones include wrestlers' entrance themes and signature catchphrases.
For those who can't get enough rasslin', there's the WWE Premium Video service, which costs $4.99 a month. This gives hard-core fans exclusive video and interviews of their favorite greased-up superstars.
If you can't get enough of the people's elbow, then that $5 a month is a bargain.


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Marvel's The Avengers:
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Marvel's The Avengers: Synopsis
"Marvel's The Avengers"-the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action throughout, and a mild drug reference
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Marvel's The Avengers: Cast
Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
Thor Odinson, Thor
Tony Stark / Iron Man
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