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Hopefully, I don't get my head taken off here, but am I the only one who felt the commentary on Nehe Milner Skudder was completely over the top? It was bordering on embarrassing how much they went on about him.
He's a really good player, and he has had a lot of injuries and it IS good to see him back to playing Rugby, but holy moly, you'd think the guy cured cancer!
Speaking of commentary I thought I was going to have to mute the sound in the Crusaders game but she did tone it back down. She started talking too loud like she trying to shout over the top of everyone else but it did soften down.
Interesting. It took me about 5 minutes to realize she was the main commentator. I thought she did a pretty good job. I didn't notice the loudness myself.
I like Sumo Stevenson's commentary but sometimes, I guess like all the commentators, he can talk rubbish. He does have some priceless comments.
"he's tougher than the last kauri taken from ti takaoroa (I can't even remember it let alone spell it sorry)" About Jack Goodhue after taking 3 big hits and scoring a try anyways.
Here's the video of Moody.
2:30.
Disgraceful. 4 Weeks would have been my call on it.
Seta has been so good for the Crusaders. I was disappointed when he went to the Chiefs but was also a little surprised he came back. He is in the best form of his life I think, pity he is heading overseas.
Braydon Ennor looks like he could be something, but I don't see him having the same unstoppable force as Seta, or Nadolo.
Ennor only started playing wing last season with Canterbury ITM cup team. Before that he always played centre for school club NZ under 20s etc.
I think he is actually a centre not a winger. Modern wingers are much bigger than him.
I think is actually a centre not a winger. Modern wingers are much bigger than him.
Bridge isn't huge either, but has played well on the wing when asked to. Ennor was amazing in the Mitre10 Cup. It will be interesting to see what the wings look like for the 2019 season for the Crusaders.
Got to think Dagg has done his dash, reckon he should see if he can get a nice big pay day overseas.
Seta gone
They probably regret letting Solomon Alaimalo get away (St bedes boy)
The one that will be the superstar in the future is Leicester Faingaanuku but he is probably 2 to 3 years away yet.
It's an incredibly hard road back for Dagg now methinks. It's a damn shame that clueless tackle has him out again. It's going to make it very hard to include him in an EOY tour and harder still for RWC contention, if that was even an option. I am wondering if they are planning for Smith to be included? He is still class, but he isn't quick like he used to be. Not many 32 + year-olds go to the RWC's these days.
Giving Moody a ban is pretty weak considering the high shot in the Blues game was looked at by the TMO and there was no card at all. SANZAR needs to sort its stuff out.
So concussion has claimed another! Shane Christie has quit rugby effective immediately! It's a really sad outcome for him. Hopefully, his next chapter is fulfilling.
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They are different. Look at the way the arm is held.
I get that they are different. Let me clear, Moody should have been cited, that's 100% right.
It's just that on Friday in the Blues game, making contact with the head during a tackle wasn't a cardable offence, even though it was reviewed on field.
The point is the zeal with which these rules are enforced are in no ways consistent. The Blues have conceded some very soft yellows this year.
Wow, what a weekend of Rugby!
I am exceptionally unimpressed with Owen Franks. I am a *little* surprised it met the Red Card threshold, but no doubt in my mind it was yellow. Should have been dealt with on field. I am unsure what's going on at the Crusaders but they need to knock it off right now. There is no reason to behave like that, I'd quite frankly rather they lose than win like this.
How much better do the Blues look with SBW back? Anyone who doubts his Rugby credentials should really have been paying attention both weeks.
What on EARTH was Nabura thinking!? That was one of the worst things I've seen on a Football field ever. I think they are talking 8-12 weeks range of ban, and that is completely reasonable in my view. I am not entirely sure, however, that the Highlanders would have beaten the Waratahs even with 15 men.
The Hurricanes should have had at least one of their trys disallowed. There was one forward pass out of two consecutive passes by BB that were forward. Only one was picked up. The second led to a try. There was also a transfer at close quarters that I felt was exceptionally likely forward. Commentators made a comment about it, but quickly moved on. They didn't show any other angles of the pass.
Re AB's selection, I was super happy to see Jordan Taufua make the AB's. It's going to be a tight fight for those loosehead positions, I am glad I am not in contact sessions with Luke, Jordan and the rest of them, it's going to be brutal.
I was super happy to see Steve Hansen talking about the two props thuggery and that after a review of last season, he felt the AB's were undisciplined and it was something he wanted gone. Hopefully we can go back to the 2016 type of Rugby and flush 2017. It certainly wasn't in my opinion a good year for the AB's for many reasons.
BB's kicking is looking MUCH better, that's got to be good for us. I am not sure his running is quite as good this year. I suspect teams have worked out how to shut him down more effectively. Same with NMS and DM.
The fact it wasn't dealt with on the field had a material impact on the game.
Also it's now just 100% OK to head-high or take out Blues players in the air. You're not going to get sent off for it. Go nuts kids. Word is Matt Duffie doesn't even want to bother contesting high kicks anymore because he knows it's open season.
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It would be nice to hear such positive comments, in general, about the Hurricanes as you make about the Crusaders.
Beauden Barrett's running game has been very good this season like every other he's played in. Though if you only look at the last two or three matches then you might think that he was performing worse. And his running game is not just making breaks but often about making space for other players.
Word from who exactly? The competition in the air was reviewed and determined to be fair. Both players left the ground and were 100% focused on the ball. The collision was a consequence of the competition. The only way to mitigate the risk is to remove in the air taking of the ball, something we are unlikely to see. In your opinion how would you have resolved this situation? Why did Duffie have greater "rights" to the ball than Mataele?
I don't think it would be reasonable to assume that 100% chance of the Blues beating the Crusaders off 1 guy in the bin for 10 minutes. Possible of course, but many teams have still won despite a 1 man disadvantage for 10 minutes.


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It's hard to explain how much I am obsessed with Maine coast. From the easternmost shores to the beaches of York, I can spend a lifetime taking photographs of waves, rocks, boats, lobster traps, lighthouses or amazing sunrises over the water. Acadia has a very special place in my heart - it is our family tradition to vacation there, hike the mountains, watch the passion of Atlantic Ocean, gaze at the stars and Milky Way, have campfires and be so peaceful and content. I love MDI and its fishing harbors, Schoodic Peninsula and rugged coast line along the Ocean walk, popovers at Jordan Pond or strolling through the early morning on the streets of Bar Harbor.
The very sad day I dropped my D810 camera into water. But it did not happen here, where one would thing would be more dangerous of a place, as the storm was just rolling in at full force into Mount Desert Island. Several hours later my 3 year old son knocked it down into a lake where water was so peaceful and calm that could have been painted by a watercolor artist. Thanks to Amazon.com, I had a replacement overnighted in order to continue my week long shoot.
Much less visited because of the one hour drive from the tourist filled Bar Harbor, yet to me it quickly became my favorite because of much more pronounced sense of wilderness, beauty and adventure. There are no paths to this particular spot, so naturally I was there all by myself. When the rogue wave hit me from the side and covered my camera, tripod and the rest of my gear - the adrenaline levels went through the roof: the rush, which I'm obviously addicted to, reminded me yet one more time that life is truly beautiful and amazing.
My favorite time of the year is just around the corner. August nights get cooler and cooler and remind me that golden red fall is just a few weeks away. The air becomes crisper for landscape photography, clouds change shape, sun light is different and maybe I will have more time and motivation after a very busy summer. For those of you that love to shoot yourselves, this is the best time for photography in New England.
The scene behind me has been shot a million of times. It is one of my favorite lighthouses on a coast of Maine - Pemaquid Point. Yet sometimes the best light is not where you want it to be... so here I am shooting a sunset among ice covered rocks.
Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park 2 AM. I was just about to shoot some really amazing skies in Acadia when a text from my wife lit up my phone - "Baby won't eat and kids are awake. Great times". So this is the only shot I took, packed up and left.
Northern Lights Display in Acadia National Park, Maine. I usually shoot alone. Not because of the loner mentality but more of the solitude, relaxation and truly getting deeper understanding of things around - trees, ocean, rocks, grasses or simply sounds and the smell of air. This particular night I asked my wife to join me, since she never seen me shoot Milky Way before and I thought it would be fun to be in the park alone together ( all National Parks were closed due to The Government shutdown). She actually should get the credit for this photo. Here looking at the lights, we are facing North. Milky Way this time of year is in completely opposite direction - moving from south to the southwest as the night rolls on. Without her drinking wine from the plastic cup (romance!) and saying "hey what is that" I would probably never even looked behind to see this amazing miracle of nature. So get out there, experience everything the world has to offer and look in every direction, because the right side of the night could be behind you.
So this is Ravens Nest. It used to be somewhat secret, less known area of Acadia's Schoodic Peninsula - I had to really put quite an effort to find it a few years ago, as it is an hour drive north from Bar Harbor area. These are some of the highest cliffs in Acadia and the first time you are there it will guarantee to take your breath away - its very dramatic even if the tide is low. Chances are you will still be the only person there and that will only add to the incredible realization of being a tiny human among the wilderness of the park's nature, vastness of Atlantic ocean and immense beauty of the open sky.
I stumbled on this scene by accident. Walking through the trees and ferns late October afternoon just zoning out, no camera, no particular thoughts really. I could not believe my eyes. I have never seen anything like this in all years I have visited Acadia - the colors, contrasty and saturated were so bright, three-dimensional and truly grand. I stood there for several minutes. Looking up and all around. I needed this, I was looking for inspiration, to be motivated in my photographic journey as this year has been the hardest to find the time or desire. You judge for yourself - to me, it was an instant blush to my face, blood rushing to every fingertip and than... silence. A perfect moment with nature.
This is quickly becoming my go to spot for sunrise in Acadia - although lately I'm no longer alone there... This is also "my spot in the park" to get wet because of some rogue wave - thankfully this morning my camera returned home undamaged. This was one of the prettiest sunrises during my annual pilgrimage to witness the autumn grandeur of Acadia - as always I enjoy something just a bit dramatic and full of emotion. Hope you do as well.


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Wonderful imagination. Never would have thought of zombies looking at this photo.
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The Titanic disaster
109 years ago, today, on 15 April 1912 at 2:20 am, after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City, RMS Titanic broke apart and sank south of Newfoundland, in the North Atlantic Ocean. With its 46,300 gross tons, RMS Titanic was the world's largest passenger ship afloat at the time she entered service. It was thought that the huge ship with 16 watertight bulkheads simply could not sink. The disaster was met with worldwide shock and outrage at the huge loss of life, as well as the regulatory and operational failures that led to it.
Titanic´s passengers numbered approximately 1,339 people. It had around 885 crew members, of which only 23 were women. Only 710 survived out of a total of around 2,224 people onboard. The ship carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe. The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with a gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants, and opulent cabins.
Passengers for RMS Titanic 10 April 1912. National Archives of Norway, Private Archive White Star Line, Emigration Register no. 4 (1906-1915), image 169.
This document is held in the National Archives of Norway as part of the collection of the White Star Line shipping company. The White Star Line was British owned but had an office in Oslo for processing Norwegian passengers who wished to make a connection to the UK in order to secure passage on one of the vessels sailing for America. Recorded on the list are three of the 28 Norwegian passengers who sailed with the Titanic when she departed from Southampton on 10 April 1912. Two of those listed, Arne Johan Fahlstrøm and Carl Midtsjø, made the connecting trip from Christiania (later Kristiania, the old name for Oslo) on 3 April (their ship was named the 'Oslo'). The third, Olaf Pedersen, eventually travelled from Larvik on 5 April. Of these three men, only Midtsjø survived the Titanic disaster.
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RMS Titanic departing from Southampton 10 April 1912. Photo: F. G. O. Stuart / Wikimedia Commons.
The Norwegians on the Titanic also formed part of a wider historical story, that of the mass migration of many millions of Europeans to America. And it was first and foremost this emigration that made the traffic across the Atlantic Ocean profitable in the beginning of the 19th century. This movement of people had been ongoing since the 'discovery' of the New World in the late fifteenth century. However, by the mid-nineteenth century better connections and lower costs had helped facilitate the transportation of an ever-increasing number of individuals. Until World War I, around 100,000 persons from Northern Europe emigrated each year. A majority were attracted by the greater opportunities that expanding countries such as the USA could offer. In that sense they were motivated by what historians have referred to as 'pull' factors. But at certain points in time so-called 'push' factors came to predominate. During the late 1840s, for example, a large wave emigrated in desperation from Ireland and Germany following the onset of crop failure, famine and political unrest in their home country.
Midtsjø, Fahlstrøm and Pedersen had, each in their own way, all gone in search of opportunities available to them in America. Fahlstrøm had been gifted the price of passage by his parents so that he could study theatre in New York. Pedersen was already a citizen of the USA and was returning there after a sojourn back in Norway, where he had got married. The intention was that his new Norwegian wife would join him in America once he had made enough money to support a family. Midtsjø was the son of a farmer and was the first of several siblings who emigrated to the USA. Given that he travelled third class and was a healthy adult male he must have counted himself very lucky that he found a place on one of the Titanic's lifeboats on that fateful night.
Biographies of the three Norwegian passengers
Arne Johan Fahlstrøm, who according to the passenger list travelled on first class on the transport ship from Oslo, is on Titanic's passenger lists among those who travelled on second class. As a reward for a good exam, the parents gifted their 18-year-old son the price of passage to the United States where he should study film and theatre in New York. Both his parents were actors and had in 1897 established the Central Theatre in Oslo. They lost their only child and bequeathed their entire fortune to the Rescue Society to prevent new accidents at sea. A lifeboat came to bear the son's name.
Carl Midtsjø travelled on Titanic's third class. He was a farm boy from Ski outside Oslo and was the first of several siblings who emigrated to the USA. Carl was lucky and got a place in one of the lifeboats – no. 15 with passengers from all classes. In some of the lifeboats, there were in fact also blind passengers from the Titanic. In a letter to his brother shortly after the accident, he wrote that while people were desperately trying to save themselves on board the lifeboat, one of them was shot at. For Carl, life went on. On 4 August he turned 22 years old. He married the following month and remained in America for the rest of his life.
Olaf Pedersen came from Sandefjord, a small town an hour outside of Oslo, was 29 years old and travelled on third class. He was already a citizen of the USA and was returning there after a sojourn back to Norway where he had got married on 17 March. Now he wanted to cross the Atlantic again to earn money for his new family. It was intended that his Norwegian wife should follow later. Less than a month after the wedding, she became a widow instead. She made a living by sewing and never remarried.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic#Survivors_and_victims
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/
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Sarah Ramadan's Inspiring Journey From Anorexic to Fitness Competitor
A severe eating disorder left Sarah Ramadan hospitalized at just 68 pounds, but she found the strength to battle for her life and regain control.
by Kristin Mahoney
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Sarah Ramadan has always been a perfectionist. Whether it was pleasing her parents, teachers, or coaches, her motivation was to make others proud. "It's hard to say if I ever did things for myself," she says. By her early teens, her drive for perfectionism began to permeate her body image. "I associated weight loss with personal development. I thought I would be a better person if I lost weight, since that meant I cared for my body."
Ramadan gradually started to make small changes in her diet and to adjust her behavior, slowly cutting calories like opting for skim milk in her cereal and drinking extra water to feel fuller. She came up with excuses about why she had to skip meals. "Things began to spiral," says Ramadan, and by age 14, the Canadian had started to develop the eating disorder anorexia nervosa. "Week after week, I was having greater food fears and triggers. I associated food with weight gain, which was associated with shame. I avoided eating for fear that it would inflict worthlessness on my being," she says.
To hide her weight loss, Ramadan would wear extra layers of clothes that helped fill out her frame. At the peak of her disorder, her daily food intake amounted to just 60 to 70 calories a day, about the amount in a small fat-free yogurt and some broth. The 5'3″ teen dwindled to 78 pounds. The extreme weight loss took a serious toll on her body. She was always freezing, had dry skin and thinning hair, and developed an irregular heartbeat and low blood sugar. She would black out when she got up or walked too quickly, and she became anemic while her body's calcium and estrogen levels also drastically decreased. Her body was so frail she developed bruises from the protrusion of her bones.
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When Ramadan was 15, her mother walked in her room while she was wearing only a tank top and began to cry. Realizing their daughter was in trouble, her parents stepped in, placing her in a four-month inpatient treatment center. Ramadan's weight was restored, and she looked recovered, but mentally, she says, she was still battling the disorder. Not long after, she relapsed and spent a week in a hospital cardiac unit with an irregular heartbeat, placing her at risk for a heart attack. A second round of inpatient treatment was moderately successful, and she was discharged in time to start her senior year of high school.
While a year went by without any relapses, Ramadan says the same issues were still there. She started to slip back into old habits, and in her first semester in college, the disorder again gained traction. This time, without her parents to mandate care, she spiraled downward. By early 2014, she weighed just 68 pounds. She was in critical condition, and the school advised her to leave campus until she recovered. It was the wake-up call she needed. "I realized everything I looked forward to in life just dissipated, all at the hands of this eating disorder."
A childhood memory helped sharpen her desire to make a change. "I remembered on my fourth birthday I was eating cake without a care in the world," Ramadan says. "I hadn't remembered feeling that happy in the longest time. It woke up a part of me that wanted to fight for that little girl."
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While she had the desire to change, she needed a plan. She called on her brother, Aladdin, a personal trainer. He helped set up a meal plan that gradually increased her calorie intake. "I knew I needed to eat to gain weight, but eating is actually physically exhausting when you're not used to it. I had lost all my cravings and hunger cues. I had to learn how to enjoy food again," says Ramadan. She started to feel a difference and was motivated to continue.
A few months later, Ramadan decided to start working out. "I was an athlete prior to anorexia and was constantly playing soccer. I wanted to get back to that part of me that I'd lost," she explains. She started doing some low-intensity yoga, but her brother's passion for the gym also drew her to resistance training. "I never saw the gym as an empowering place until it transformed my idea of what my body could do."
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At the end of 2015, Ramadan decided to enter a bikini competition. She trained for a year and a half, but during this time, her brother was murdered. Undeterred, Ramadan dedicated her training to him. "The show allowed me to prove to myself I can diet again without it triggering a relapse. It was a big symbol to me that I was fully recovered." She placed second out of 22 women in her bikini division.
Today, Ramadan maintains a healthy weight of 120 pounds and continues to train regularly while following a balanced, plant-based diet, eating about five to six meals a day. Although she is hoping to compete again, she wants to give her body ample time to recover. Ramadan says she hasn't forgotten the trauma that she put her body through with the disorder and wants others to make sure they are exercising for the right reasons. "You need to have a goal that is going to keep you moving and inspired," she says. "Fitness shouldn't just be another mechanism to control your life or your self-worth. It should only empower the worth that is already within you."
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Well, for those of you who have been in touch regularly, it is no surprise that we are leaving Beijing soon (or, by the time you read this – have already left Beijing!). The study centre is an excellent project, and I would still recommend it to any groups wanting to visit China… but it was not for me, I need a school. Shanhong has been wonderfully accepting of my highly annoying desire to change jobs again, and we shall leave Beijing on the 27th June.
We will be going to teach at SJI International School in Singapore. SJI, St. Joseph's Institute, is a well known and very old Catholic Boys' school in Singapore. More recently, just three years ago, the International School opened for boys and girls, following a UK and IB curriculum. Shanhong will be the Primary Music specialist, and I will be teaching maths – no responsibilities this time – it's back to the classroom.
No doubt there will be plenty more about the new school once we are settled. We'll have apartment pics too once we've found somewhere to live!
c/o SJI International School, 490 Thomson Road, Singapore, 298191.
We are intending not to move quite so quickly next time, so hopefully this address can be written in ink in your address books!
Knowing that we do not have long left in Beijing, it was time to get out and see some of the places we have been 'putting off for another day'. So, last Saturday, we got an early Metro to the North West of the city, to 'Fragrant Hills', with the plan of getting the cable car to the top of the hill, and having a slow, leisurely walk down. Unfortunately, we were greeting by a 'cable car closed due to gales' sign … and so a difficult decision was to be made. Shanhong said 'up we go'! Needless to say, it was a long uphill walk, but the weather was great and the view, exceptional as the photos should show.
Teddy enjoyed it too… he found a nice place to live, but we couldn't let him stay there… he needs to come with us to Singapore!
As an indication of just how unfit we have become, the next day, I could hardly stand up, and 4 days later I could still feel the muscles of my leg complaining about the walk!!


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Dillet is a French surname, but of Old German origins pre 9th century origins. It derives from the Latin 'Diet' meaning 'people' although the German version was 'Dillo', a dialectal transposition. Quite when the name 'moved' to France is unclear, French records are at best erratic, and many early registers were lost in the chaos and confusion which followed the 1793 revolution. The French spelling form as 'Dillet ' is a diminutive meaning 'Little Dillo' or more likely 'the son of Dillo' and in this spelling it is recorded almost exclusively in the Department of Meurthe et Moselle, from the mid 18th century. Surviving early records suggest that it is even more localised than that, being almost entirely found in the town of Aboncourt en Vosges, as shown in the recordings below. Of course this cannot be right, the name must be earlier, and must have been found elsewhere. There is an unproven suggestion that the name may derive from the Irish 'Dillon', a surname associated with Eleanor of Aquataine' who, it is said, had a bodyguard raised from the clan Dillon. Certainly the Dillon name was well recorded in France, where they served the French kings over several centuries, so it is possible. Examples of the name recording include Georges Delete, who married Marie Ann Vautrim at Aboncourt, on September 12th 1789, and Victor Delete, the son of Dominique and Marie Claire Delete, christened at Aboncourt on July 28th 1845. One who got away was Marie Anne Delete, who married Joseph Soyer at Fecourt, on January 15th 1845. The Coat of Arms granted in Louvain has the blazon of a silver field, a red fesse charged with two horned rams heads in silver. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Nicholas Dillet, which was dated October 17th 1780, married Theresa Marchal at Aboncourt, during the reign of King Louis XV1 of France, 1774 - 1793. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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In writing, you can break the rules — but only if it works
By Gary Gilson
December 14, 2019 — 8:00am
'Tis the season … so here's some unashamed regifting: a year-end roundup, featuring an all-star team whose members have appeared in these columns.
First, my Uncle Ollie, who sent me his copy of the New Yorker every week after he read it. If you let the quality of that magazine's writing and editing wash over you and if you follow its example, your writing will grow stronger.
Second, my mother, who taught me to read when I was 4, sounding out letters and words on a ketchup label. You can give your kids and grandkids the same gift.
Third, my sixth-grade English teacher, Miss Moore, who taught us to diagram a sentence, giving us a keen sense of the structure of language. Back to her later.
Fourth, my college English professor, John Finch, who taught us to create an outline before starting to write. The benefit: All your thinking goes into the outline; when you start to write, just follow the outline.
Fifth, the playwright August Wilson, who gave us this advice: "The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is."
Sixth, William Zinsser, whose book "On Writing Well" is the bible for writers; he called curiosity the key to discovering what's worth writing about. He said, "I'm just trying to have an interesting life."
Seventh, and last for now, the wisdom of the master, Joseph Conrad: "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything."
Now, as promised, back to Miss Moore. Her allegiance to the rules of grammar preceded the evolution of a new consciousness about effective communication. Her dictum: Never start a sentence with the word "and" or the word "but."
But these days, if you follow her rule, you sacrifice opportunities for emphasis. Starting with "and" or "but" can prove as emphatic as italics or boldface. And that, Miss Moore, is my respectful rebuttal.
She had another rule: Never write a one-word sentence.
Hogwash.
Apologies to Miss Moore. She deserves better than that. But a one-word sentence, or a one-word paragraph — used sparingly — cannot fail to rivet a reader's attention.
Isn't that the goal writers strive to achieve? But it's important to know the rules of grammar, so that when you do break a rule your reader recognizes the effect you are creating.
In other words, break any rule … as long as it works.
Gary Gilson, a Twin Cities writing coach and five-time Emmy Award winner in public television, has taught writing-intensive journalism courses at Colorado College for 22 years. Contact him at www.writebetterwithgary.com.
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Puppy introduction - This includes a bath, brush out, ear cleaning, hygiene clip, nails and pads. A lot of breeds require regular grooming appointments, we want them to enjoy coming so it is best to introduce grooming as a positive experience from a young age.
A full groom - This includes a bath, fluff dry, nails, ears and pads. I aim to trim every dog to breed standards, this enhances the natural beauty and the good points of their breed, but this isn't always possible with the growing demand for 'designer dogs' since all coat types are different, because of this i will work with you to find the perfect groom for you and your dog.
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Randan – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Owernia-Rodan-Alpy, w departamencie Puy-de-Dôme.

Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 1429 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 91 osób/km² (wśród 1310 gmin Owernii Randan plasuje się na 149. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 607.). Znajduje się tu dawny zamek królewski Château de Randan.

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It's been forever since I've written anything of significance. Moving abroad is no joke, y'all. You have to be ready for anything, and I'm blessed to be able to say that I was and am. Everything moves at a much faster pace than I'm used to, and it is taking me some time to adjust.
One thing I am trying to do again is read, and I mean for pleasure. I spent a very long time reading nothing but articles, research, papers, technical books, manuals, and stuff of that nature as it related to my education. There was little time for pleasure reading, unless it was the latest SK novel. But in the last few years, I wasn't even able to do that because I was so consumed with my research. I brought a box of books with me and of course, my Kindle. But, as weird as it sounds, it is hard for me to start reading again. And I used to read a book a day. But this was before my life got complicated. So now, it is a struggle to actually sit and read. Maybe it's because of my new, fast-paced life, but who knows.


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STOP BREATHING: California Hardcore Punk Outfit To Release Second LP This Spring
Posted on February 3, 2015 Authoradmin
California hardcore punk bandits, STOP BREATHING — a tight knit union of friends hailing from such acts as Glass & Ashes, The Fucking Wrath, The Missing 23rd, Young Livers and more — have completed their second LP for release this Spring.
Straight out of the strawberry fields of Oxnard, California comes STOP BREATHING. Comprised of longtime friends with a desire to play fast tunes blending the fun of early 80s skate punk with the aggressiveness of late-80s hardcore, they blasted onto the scene with their 2009 demo CD followed by their self-titled 7″ in 2010 which was met with rave reviews, after which they landed some great shows opening for bands like Adolescents, Youth Brigade, Subhumans, Ceremony, Nails and more. Sure they have members of other well-known acts, but STOP BREATHING didn't want to rest on the laurels of past endeavors and set out to do something different than they had done in the past. Var at No Idea Records took notice and in mid-2012 the label released the band's self-titled debut LP. The release of the LP saw them playing at the Punk Rock Bowling Festival in Vegas, a run up the coast with Suicidal Tendencies and Strife, and landing gigs with bands like Municipal Waste, Dr. Know, Good Riddance and The Dwarves. Their punk energy and ethics mixed with their musical chops makes it easy for them to play on punk, hardcore and metal shows. While in Santa Cruz on a day off of the Suicidal run, they went into the studio with longtime friend Joe Clements (Fury 66) and recorded their Santa Cruz EP in only six hours, which was released by Rotten To The Core records in mid-2013. Once again they got rave reviews and played some amazing shows with legends like FLAG, Stalag 13, Ill Repute, SNFU and more. You even saw them heading south of the border to play in Tijuana and Tecate, Mexico.
STOP BREATHING's newly completed sophomore LP was recorded in two sessions, the first was back in 2013 right before bassist Mike Carter moved to Portland. The second session was recorded nine months later with everything but bass. They sent the songs up to Portland, where Carter would lay down sick bass lines and backing screams, then send it back home to mix everything, after which it was sent to longtime friend Paul Miner at Buzz Bomb Sound Labs (Death By Stereo, H20) for mastering. This being their fifth release, in their fifth year together as a band, and most likely the last time all five original members will be on a STOP BREATHING record, the record was more than aptly titled V. With the departure of Carter to Portland and Jesse to school commitments, the band enlisted some more players into the STOP BREATHING family, and after recruiting Chris Goodrich from Catholic Spit on bass and longtime friend Kile Garcia on second guitar, there's now no stopping their sonic assault! V will be unleashed to the world through a joint release between Burning Tree and Rotten To The Core Records in April 2015, with the album's final details and confirmed street date to be announced in the coming days.
In the meantime, get your fix with STOP BREATHING's previous tunes at their BandCamp page HERE and their earlier video for "What I Want" HERE.
With the members being in several others bands, including two of them touring with Youth Brigade for several years, it has been hard for STOP BREATHING to tour, but with the new lineup the band has begun to change the situation by booking new shows, including supporting legends 7 Seconds and Channel 3 in Thousand Oaks on March 2rd and a gig with La Vasa! in Santa Barbara March 14th. Watch for many other new live updated as additional tour actions are announced as Stop Breathing takes their aggressive and fun style of music as far as it will take them.
STOP BREATHING Live:
3/06/2015 Borderline – Thousand Oaks, CA. w/ 7 Seconds, Channel 3
3/14/2015 Velvet Jones – Santa Barbara, CA w/ La Vasa!
STOP BREATHING:
John Crerar – vocals
Chris Goodrich – bass
Justin Dempsey – drums
Ben Hament – guitar
Kile Garcia – guitar
More on STOP BREATHING and their upcoming V album will be released shortly.
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http://stopbreathing.bandcamp.com
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http://www.burningtreerecords.com
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From the rural Dunedin suburb of Outram comes Cam, our youngest member of the Cycle World Team. Cam started here as the "Shop Grom" working part-time after school, but has recently come on-board full-time as our Junior Shop Assistant. What he lacks in age, he makes up for with his no-fear mindset. If you don't see Cam playing on his Enduro up Signal, you will find him on his Crux covered head to toe in mud!.
I first jumped on a bike on my 2nd birthday with my family. Riding back and forth along the front of the house.
Well generally anywhere dry and dusty has the seal of approval from me, but it would have to be signal hill right here in Dunners, I just can't stay away. However I'm stoked to explore more of what the country has to offer as far as trails and bike parks go.
I love riding because it allows me to get outside, explore, challenge myself and mates as well as be totally in the moment and just focus on the present and riding my bike.
For me I think mountain will always take the cake but 'cross would have to be a close second, then road.
My favourite local ride would have to be "the classic" to kick off some shuttles or on a trail ride up signal. Riding the big easy on my 'cross bike is always a good time, as is riding from out on the Taieri over to Brighton and back.


I am an editor with over ten years' experience in the publishing industry, working at a senior level at two major houses. I have commissioned and edited fiction in a wide range of genres including crime and thriller, reading group, historical fiction, upmarket women's fiction and literary novels. Among the many authors I have worked with are award-winning crime writers Ray Celestin, Tom Franklin and Malcolm Mackay, bestsellers Kate Morton and C. J. Sansom and Orange/Baileys Women's prize shortlisted authors Charlotte Mendelson and Ann Weisgarber.
Providing manuscript assessments, structural edits, line and copyedits to writers, agents and major publishing houses.
Responsible for managing and developing the Scribner list.
•	Project managing the publication of titles from both the Scribner and Simon & Schuster lists, including rejacketing and reissuing the Elizabeth Strout backlist, which led to a Waterstones Book of the Month selection for Olive Kitteridge.
•	Liaising with agents and literary scouts to promote the current list and seek out the most exciting new projects.
•	Generating creative ideas to maximise the success of each publication.
•	Extensive communication with authors and teams in-house.
•	Editing manuscripts and creating eye-catching jacket copy.
•	Briefing covers and guiding jacket design on a broad range of titles.
•	Attending and participating in workshops, festivals and events – including teaching a Publishing Masterclass to Creative Writing MA students at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Working with Maria Rejt across Macmillan, Pan and Picador, and – from May 2010 – her Mantle imprint, publishing crime and thrillers, literary and reading group fiction, fiction in translation, upmarket women's fiction and narrative non-fiction.
•	Acquiring new authors and projects for the Mantle list, concentrating on crime and thrillers, reading group fiction and novels in translation.
•	Acquisitions included The Liar's Chair by Rebecca Whitney, chosen for the Loose Women Book Club and The Reader on the 6.27, a Waterstones Book Club selection.
•	Editing and working with Mantle authors including bestsellers Kate Morton and C. J. Sansom, acclaimed crime writers Ray Celestin, Tom Franklin and Malcolm Mackay and Orange prize shortlisted authors Charlotte Mendelson and Ann Weisgarber.
•	Championing authors in and out of house and generating strategies to publish each book on the list to its best advantage.
•	Attending and participating in author workshops, festivals and events including The Festival of Writing, Theakstons Crime Writing Festival and CrimeFest.
•	Developing a strong list of contacts from key agents to bestselling authors to influencers in social media and beyond.
•	Overseeing the work of the Mantle editorial assistant in the day to day running of the list and deputising in meetings for Publisher Maria Rejt.
•	Promoting the list through a well-followed Twitter account including sending out bound proofs to bloggers and influencers.
•	Promoted from Assistant Editor and then, Editor.
•	Organising author events and interviews, sending out review copies and working with colleagues in sister companies to deliver campaigns.
•	Communicating key publicity and marketing activity between UK and international teams.
•	Submitting titles to The Bookseller and Publishing News, including writing sell-in letters.
•	Marketing projects, including research into opportunities with reading groups.
•	Organising and attending bookseller trade trips, dinners and events.
•	Editorial work for Pan Macmillan Fiction and Picador teams in spare time.
Sophie provided exactly what I hoped she could: a clear indication of what she thought the project needs to raise it to a publishable level. She's given a map of the ground I need to cover. I've decided to convert the story back into a first-person narrative after her assessment. I'm grateful.


It''s only better if it''s better.
They can turn the buildings of Fleet Street over to squatters.
They can raze Wapping to the ground and, if they like, put up a parking lot.
They can tear down the paper columns, screw the rags into balls and hurl them.
They can pulp all the newsprint and smash down the presses.
They can scrape the news from the paper and empty the magazines.
They can put an immediate end to the four-colour process and allow the ink to drain away.
They can make CMYK lose its meaning.
They can crush the puppets underfoot, banish the dancers, and drive out the street players.
They can silence the singers of the hand-me-down songs and the makers of the lore-relating music.
They can put torches to the theatres and have no more of their social commenting and politicking.
They can wish to alter the way of the daily cryptic clue commute and discontinue the Sunday morning supplement.
They can consign the DPS to history, and the full page, and the 25 by 4.
They can give the old commercial broadcasts thirty seconds either to get out of here or switch to Channel Click.
They can cut off the heads of the moguls and stick them on top of the BT Tower.
They can make media social.
They can itty-bitty digital it.
But creatively, from what I can see, they can''t make it any good.


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The chair features a long seat depth between 52cm and 57cm, and an 'effective' back height of 70cm to 77cm (taken from the top of the seat to the top of the backrest). The chair is normally rated to 23 stone using that standard black plastic base - however, we have shown this product here with the additional polished aluminium base and the chair is rated to 30 stone.
The mechanism on the AM:PM chair has a synchronous movement, with an independently tilting seat that can be fixed, or left freely moving, allowing the user to open the pelvis and stretch out, constantly varying the postures and reducing static load in the spine.
The chair comes with or without armrests, and your choice will depend very much on your shape/style of desk. If you work at a deep curved desk we would suggest not having armrests, but it is a very personal decision, and we will leave that up to you!


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Alessi Splugen Brau Bierhaus 1960 Beer Bottle Opener. Alessi Splugen Bottle Opener; a functional design icon for the person that has it all. Crack open a cold brewski or an Italian Campari soda bottle with a classic industrial design icon; the Splugen Bottle Opener designed by the Italian grandmaster flash of design, Achille Castiglioni. Few objects capture the efficient beauty of the industrial-like Splugen Bottle Opener. Merely looking at it and you know that this sleek bottle-opening tool means serious business. True, you don't need this much solid stainless steel just to open a bottle, but it sure makes popping caps fast and fun. The clean minimalist lines of this bottle opener are subtle enough that it can be a paper weight by day and a party starter by night. This professional bottle opener is the preferred tool of the trade for any self-respecting bar tender in Italy. A timeless icon of design as featured in the Wall Street Journal. Stamped with Alessi logo; the Splugen Bottle Opener comes packaged in a nice cardboard box suitable for gift-giving.
Designed by Achille Castiglioni in 1960 for the Splugen Brau Bierhaus Bar in Milan and refigured in 18/10 stainless steel by Achille Castiglioni in 2001. The little tool is 6 inches long and easy to spot in any drawer. Safe to clean in the dishwasher; makes a great housewarming gift. An attractive and functional bottle opener for special occasions or every day use. A sheet of mirror-polished stainless steel is notched and folded for strength.


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Q: Size of a Conjugacy class Is this true that a group (not necessarily finite) that has a conjugacy class of size 4 or 5 is not simple?
I know from part of Burnside theorem (its proof actually) that a finite simple group does not have a conjugacy class of order that is a prime power. But I want to know if it is true in general or the size 4 is special. (If possible I appreciate an explanation not using character theory and representation since I have just started to study the subject and not very good at it).

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Automakers Should Expect Biodiesel Blends
Global Biofuels Outlook Forecasts Through 2035
Houston, TX (March 17, 2016) – Like government leaders around the world, candidates in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign have pandered to opposing constituencies surrounding the future of biofuels, agricultural versus petroleum, environmentalists versus industrialists. However, refiners, automakers, governments and investors want a realistic view of how biofuel consumption will evolve in the coming years. Stratas Advisors' Global Biofuels Outlook is a regional and country-level forecast through 2035 of policy, prices, supply and demand. This forecast has a globally-balanced assessment from Stratas Advisors' petroleum and alternative fuels services.
The Global Biofuels Outlook shows global ethanol usage expanding the gasoline pool by nearly 9 percent and biodiesel usage expanding the diesel pool to 3 percent by 2035.
"Automakers should ready themselves for higher biodiesel blends. Biodiesel use will increasingly displace diesel use in first-world nations," said Paul Niznik, Stratas Advisors, Biofuels Manager. "But despite high targets for biofuels use, developed nations will struggle to increase ethanol blending."
Stratas Advisors expects global ethanol demand to increase gradually between 2015 and 2035. Growth will be driven by strong demand in Latin America and Asia. Latin America will become the largest ethanol producing and consuming region by 2030. North America and Europe will see a decline in the same timeframe.
As for the global biodiesel demand – it is predicted to almost double between 2015 and 2035 on strong growth in all regions except Europe. Stratas Advisors forecasts that Asia-Pacific will become the largest biodiesel producing and consuming region by 2025. Biodiesel exports from Asia, with a small contribution from Latin America, will meet demand in Europe and North America.
"Biofuels prices in the short term will need to recover to help global producers stay solvent and meet demand in an increasingly challenging international market," said Maëlle Soares Pinto, Stratas Advisors Director, Global Biofuels.
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Stratas Advisors' experts are available to answer questions about the global biofuels market and can offer insight into how legislative decisions will affect the energy industry. For interview opportunities, please contact media@stratasadvisors.com.
Maëlle Soares Pinto, Director, Global Biofuels Assessment and Global Alternative Fuels - Based in Singapore
Maëlle Soares Pinto is an internationally recognized expert on alternative fuels and biofuel markets and policies. She directs global research and special projects for the Global Biofuels Assessment, Global Alternative Fuels and the Global Biofuels Outlook. She speaks five languages and has advised multi-national companies, NGOs and governments in Europe, Asia and the Americas on their biofuels strategies. She earned master's degrees in process integration and environmental technology from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, U.K., and her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries, Chimiques, France.
Paul Niznik, Biofuels Manager - Based in Houston, Texas
Paul Niznik offers his expertise of biofuels policy, markets and technology. He is among the industry's leading authorities on markets affected by the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard and Renewable Identification Numbers. He is the lead author of Stratas Advisors' quarterly Biofuels Market & Policy Report - North America and has been a contributing author to the U.S. & Brazil Ethanol Outlook to 2022 and the annual Global Biofuels Outlook. His clients represent a cross-section of the auto, petroleum and biofuels sectors and government agencies (USDA, DOE, NRCan). Niznik has been cited by The New York Times, Houston Chronicle and other mainstream and trade publications. Niznik has a bachelor's degree in astrophysics from Yale University.
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Bristol Bullet roadster tears down conventions
Resurrection. This is a word which could be used to describe the return of the British car manufacturer Bristol to the world of cars. Enthusiasts, advocating a combination of the classic and the modern. They are rejoicing and we are rejoicing with them. Retro is still in, so why not stray into other waters than those we are used to?
Construction of the "body" of the new Bullet
Not succumbing to the charm of this roadster with 370 bhp under the bonnet requires a good dose of self-denial. The design of the car really is first-class. A carbon fibre body is mounted on an aluminium box-section chassis. The car weighs only 1,250 kg despite use of a fairly sizeable drive unit – a 4.8 l V8 engine from the BMW X5. The power output of 272 kW is more than enough to help the car to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.8 seconds both with the manual six-speed gearbox and the ZF automatic gearbox. Another point of interest is that the Bullet is the last Bristol to be conventionally powered. Later models by the British company will allegedly be offers with a hybrid powertrain.
The good old days are not over
At first glance, it seems that this is a revived retro model of a car. Yes, this does hold true to a certain extent. The interior is reminiscent of "the good old days", in part due to its brown leather upholstery (although you can choose any colour you like). Then all of a sudden, on closer inspection, you realise that the car is packed full of modern functions such as a touch-screen display, Wi-Fi connection, satellite radio receiver or the option to pair the in-car system with your mobile phone.
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To Tábor in Brad Pitt's footsteps! Wanna try out some movie props?
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I'M A STAR: Get inspired by Julie Roberts' wardrobe. This summer belongs to polka dots!
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Pakistani supermodel and designer Vaneeza Ahmed just launches her super summer collection for 2011. Vaneeza V Lawn is inspired by the rich cultural heritage of several regions as well as other countries including our own. The versatility of the rich prints celebrate a refined sense of style. It is a combination of quality, authenticity & craftsmanship. Each piece has been made to perfection.


NSW Police shoot man with knife at Hornsby - shouted Allah uh-Akhbar - "Three ladies on the floor bleeding"
Thank you for attending the "Let's not involve the Defence Force in Public Controversy and Politics" course.
Before the Dux and winner of the David Morrison Memorial Prize is decided please complete the following final exam.
Can you pick that Exhibit?
Any doubts, concerns or issues will be referred to the powerful and wise Minister for Defence Marise Payne for immediate adjudication.
ENDS - now an update from someone who's been there, done that and has the medals to prove it.


This app has no ads and no in-app purchases but does contain external links to the developer website and social media.
In my other life away from Smart Apps For Kids, I work for a major university. The other day I was talking to my office mate, who happens to have a Ph.D. in history, about how I'm amazed by the obscure areas of study some of our faculty specialize in, especially when it comes to history. Need someone to lecture on Byzantine religious art featuring goats? I'm sure we can help you. Office Mate, being the wise soul that he is, said he prefers historical study that puts all those arcane fields into perspective and gives them context. Yes, I said. Exactly.
That very night, I was introduced to Back in Time by Lanka Apps. Wow. What a great way to get some perspective. The vastness of the universe is made approachable, and the blip that is human existence is put into context. The app includes an animated introduction to the biggest events in all of history, and it lets you skip around from one to another on a timeline that allows you to examine whatever era suits you. A 24-hour clock with movable hands also helps with navigation, and animated clips and interesting facts are interspersed throughout.
Just once, Emilie would like to narrate a PBS special on time and space in the voice of Leonard Nimoy. **Smart Apps for Kids was paid a fee to feature this app.


While we may have always been talking, practices of listening are undergoing a transformation. For this first issue of, Soapbox, a graduate journal for cultural analysis, we invited students and young researchers – alongside more established scholars – to offer their perspectives on practices, conditions and policies of listening. The resultant articles cover topics from political protest to video art, speech to text software, and audiovisual 'time crystals'.
Order a copy by emailing subscriptions[at]soapboxjournal[dot]com. Single issues are €10, while yearly subscriptions (of two copies) are €20 or €18 for students. Please also consider supporting Soapbox with a Friends Subscription, starting at €30/year.
Read the entire issue below, or scroll down to read and download individual articles.
We are also publishing articles written around the theme 'Practices of Listening', exclusively on the Soapbox website. Read more here.
This article argues that acousmatic listening may enkindle imaginative modes which gesture towards potentiality: what might be. Departing from Pierre Schaeffer's conceptualization of acousmatic sound as autonomous sound object or ideal objectivity, it emphasizes the cognitive and epistemological dimensions of this modality of listening. It follows sound scholar Brian Kane's theory of acousmaticity: the underdetermination of material source and causal event by sonic effect. One audio-visual artwork—Blue (Derek Jarman, 1993) — is analyzed as calling for a practice of acousmatic listening which includes the perception of unseen sounds and the imaginative production of sonic bodies. The article proposes that Blue has many different degrees of acousmaticity. Such richness of acousmaticity allows the piece to invoke a poetics of proximity: an(im) possible touch of incommensurable events, spaces, and temporalities, through and as sound. Blue's acousmatic sounds, voices, and noises make a suggestion that can go in many different directions, depending on the listener's imaginative capacities.
Andrea Avidad teaches Film Studies and Communication Studies at The Bronx Community College of The City University of New York.
an active determinant in the relation between listener and speaker, instead of a conception that merely infers the act of receiving and obeying. I observe that although the software is marketed as a technology that would obey by listening to the user's commands, my experience with the software points to another direction.
As a computer operating subject, I am dependent on Dragon's recognition of speech. Drawing on Hegel's master-slave dialectic, this paper argues that Dragon is an active participant in the relation between user and technology, rather than a mere tool. Following Karen Barad, I highlight the material-discursiveness of speech. Rather than focusing on meanings, Dragon attunes to—or listens for—the materiality of speech through its recognition of phonetic speech structures. As such, the article moves away from an anthropocentric understanding of listening.
Eeke van der Wal holds a master's degree in Organisation, Change and Management (UU). Currently, she is completing a research masters Cultural Analysis (UvA). Fascinated by the (e)mergence of material-discursive practices, her recent research revolves primarily around material encounters and the way in which they (re)configure, organise and resist (cultural and individual) understandings of self and other.
Niall Martin mediates on the noisily entangled relations of listening, writing and our perception of culture in the aftermath of nuclear events. Thinking through the material traces, containment and waste of the Chernobyl disaster, Alexievich's Chernobyl Prayer (1997) opens up a reconceptualization of the Chernobyl disaster as an event that alters the nature of testimony, challenging the lost sonic source of an event that is simultaneously in the past and yet to come. Chernobyl Prayer's more than human perspective explores the exclusion zone as a sonic space in which radiation becomes audible through the silence of other species. In this way, sound extends itself to that which is present as well as absent. This reading of Chernobyl Prayer rethinks our understanding of sound as species-specific and in doing so acknowledges the displaced position of the auditor.
Niall Martin is an Assistant Professor in the department of Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. His research engages with the different ways in which concepts of noise interact with and produce our ideas of globalisation. Recently, Niall has been working with the concept of il/literacies, exploring how the il/literate extends questions of decolonisation into discussions of semiosis and new materialism.
In this paper I look at 'Peace for Triple Piano', a video which represents a musical canon both in sound and image. I call this peculiar form, whose structure is endowed with symmetry in both time and space together, an audiovisual canon. Such a structure is what in physics is known as a time crystal. I argue that this time crystal creates a temporal interference because, in this video, objects relate simultaneously to each other beyond the boundaries of what we commonly perceive as presence. Through a reading of Michel Serres, I propose a model to integrate this multiplicity of time based on hearing as opposed to listening. Finally, through Serres's concept of quasi-object, I argue that this video, by making its audience integrate multiple networks, constructs a quasi-audience.
Emilio Aguilar is a singer specialized in the performance of music from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. He currently combines his professional work with an interdisciplinary project between the University of Amsterdam (Cultural Analysis) and the Conservatory of Amsterdam (Early Music Singing) in which he researches material-discursive practices to bridge the gap between the speaking-thinking and singing-performing body.
Text and image—understood separately—are the bread and butter of graphic design. However, typography, when well executed, can also turn text to image. Rejecting this distinction, therefore, paves the way to forms of listening without sound. With this in mind, for this first issue of Soapbox, we have prepared a collection of images with borrowed captions, the combination inspired by closed captioning (CC): the transcription of non-speech sounds in television for hearing impaired people. In our opinion, this phenomenon is interesting not only because of the image and text relation, but also because of how it transforms sound to text.
Sissel Vejby Møller (1994) and Stepan Lipatov (1989) are both graduating students at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. As graphic designers they experiment with the language between text and image.
This essay de-listens to the dominant voice of a politician addressing 2000 protesters through a comparison of depictions by two media channels. It positions the image of the politician's power in the loudness of his voice, so easily broadcasted on TV screens across the nation, as it upstages and speaks over the main subject of the story: the protesters' precarious position. By translating their voices—expressions of their precarity—into visible objects, the essay works to balance out the power play of the protest, equalizing the voices in the space and showing how they made themselves heard on a visual scale. It uses the concept of the frame to dive into the vulnerabilities of the singular politician and the plural alliance in the space of protest, playing with their depictions to restore power and voice to those whose voice the image corrupted.
Erica Moukarzel (1993) is a Lebanese writer and researcher based in Amsterdam. Her work centers on the intersection of cultural memory and urban space, aiming to weave gaps left by past spatial divisions using long forgotten memories and stories. She recently obtained a Research Master's in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam and currently works as Curatorial Assistant at the Oude Kerk.
How do practices of decolonial listening help us move towards a more ethical relation to the world and to others? In his work and teaching, Rolando Vázquez has been developing practices of decolonial thinking and listening that seek to form relational worlds beyond the hegemonic framework of Western modernity. In this interview —what better way of talking about practices of listening—we talk about the required humbling of modernity, about the (im)possiblities of listening to those who have been silenced and about the necessity of thinking in dialogue with others.
Rolando Vázquez is associate professor of Sociology at University College Roosevelt and Utrecht University. Together with Walter Mignolo, he has coordinated the Decolonial Summer School at UCR since 2010. Vázquez belongs to the movement of Decolonial Thought and Aesthesis and, in 2016, wrote with Gloria Wekker et. al. the report of the Diversity Commission of the University of Amsterdam.
This paper investigates practices seen and heard during the 2013 Gezi Park protests in Turkey, highlighting how an assembly constituted itself through the sonification of opposition. As an alternative to representationalist accounts of the poetics of these protests, this analysis models a practice of earwitnessing: attuning to the demonstrations' sonics and noise to hear the voice of the people. Consequently, it is argued that an assembly was formed performatively—one that exceeded the creative class milieu that has been the focus of much recent writing. Unlike analyses that focus on the visual, this earwitnessing approaches the memory of activism to articulate an under-theorized form of critical listening. Attentive to the cultural memory in activism, earwitnessing means listening to betweenness—that relational space where bodies enact interdependency.
Duygu Erbil is completing her RMA in Comparative Literary Studies at Utrecht University. Her research interests primarily focus on critical posthumanisms and new materialism. She is currently working on an analysis of autobiography in the context of prison activism and experience in the United States.
Reflecting back on the articulation of the methodological framework for the practice of cultural analysis and the founding of ASCA over twenty years ago, Mieke Bal explores a practice of listening through her own installation Nothing is Missing. The videos presented in the installation featured mothers of migrants being interviewed by a person close to them. This resulted in confronting dialogues that have the potential to offer the attentive viewer — and listener — new perspectives on familial relationships, migration and interculturalism. Ultimately, through her analysis, Bal demonstrates the enduring pertinence of the notion that 'the object speaks back'.
Read the extended version, exclusive to Soapbox online.
Mieke Bal is a cultural theorist, critic, video artist and occasional curator. She works in cultural analysis, focusing on gender, migratory culture, psychoanalysis and the critique of capitalism. Her books include a trilogy on political art. Her video Madame B, with Michelle Williams Gamaker, is widely exhibited. Her most recent film is Reasonable Doubt, on René Descartes and Queen Kristina (2016).


Welcome to Ward 5 Online: FY2013 Budget Features No Gap!
FY2013 Budget Features No Gap!
Twitter had some good news regarding the city's budget which was presented to the Board of Aldermen at their Special Meeting last night. Somerville Patch and the Somerville Journal both report that the FY2013 budget features no gap and will require no layoffs. In fact, the budget does have increases for certain departments.
During recent ResiStat meetings, there was a $3 Million gap, however, the Mayor informed attendees that the budget presentation was made up of Departments' "ideal" requests and that some cuts would be made before it would be presented to the Board of Aldermen.
Budget conversations are scheduled for each department, before the Board of Aldermen, all the way up until late June.


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Q: How can I find the file path of any function or what it contains in PHP? When I do frontend development with PHP, I encounter statements similar to the following.
For example;
$this->getTheme()->getConfig('text_top', true);

For example, I want to find in which folder the "getConfig()" function is defined? Because I'm curious about the content? ie how the funtion is defined, what parameters it takes.
Is there a way to find this in php? Or it would be useful to see how the function is defined instead of the file path.
Thanks in advance for your answers.


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upgrade it. And you have at least one and a half weeks before the release.
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worn twice, brand new condition.
Worn once True to size Shoe box has 2 paint marks on it Inside the left shoe the inside sole is marked COMFORTABLE!!!
Brand new and only worn once.


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Mayor Emanuel Announces Additional Blackhawks Parade and Rally Details to Celebrate The Team's Third Stanley Cup In Six Years
Fans Encouraged to Use Public Transportation; Free Tickets Now Available Online
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the City of Chicago will celebrate the 2015 Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks beginning at 10 a.m. on Thursday, June 18, with a parade followed by a rally at Soldier Field. Free tickets to the celebration rally with the Chicago Blackhawks team and the coveted Stanley Cup trophy at Soldier Field will be made available at 12 noon today at www.ticketmaster.com. There is a limit of four tickets per person.
"The City of Chicago is so proud of the Blackhawks, which is why we are going to throw them a celebration that only Chicago can throw – and a celebration worthy of a hockey dynasty," said Mayor Emanuel.
Double-decker buses featuring the team and front office personnel will ride to the rally beginning at approximately 10 a.m.
The official parade route will begin at Monroe and Jefferson Streets and proceed east until Michigan Avenue. Fans who want to catch the downtown parade are highly encouraged to see them along this route.
There will be zero tolerance for drinking on the public way.
At approximately 11 a.m., when the motorcade arrives at Soldier Field, the team will be joined by sponsors CME Group, AllState, The PrivateBank, Boeing, BMO Harris Bank and Bud Light, which are providing financial support for the day's activities, and the rally will begin.
Soldier Field gates will open to those holding their free advance tickets starting at 8 a.m. The parking lots at Soldier Field will open to the public at 5 a.m. Absolutely NO tailgating will be allowed.
Public safety officials encourage fans with free tickets to arrive early for the security check prior to entering the stadium.
Due to the large crowd anticipated at the festivities on Thursday, City officials strongly encourage attendees to use public transportation in lieu of driving. Additionally, the Chicago Police Department reminds attendees that anyone carrying a backpack or large bags must undergo additional screening. Coolers are not allowed into the rally and there will be zero tolerance for drinking alcohol on the public way.
IMPACTED STREET CLOSURES
Residents, motorists and fans should expect traffic delays throughout the Loop due to the parade. For those that drive to the events, please be advised that Monroe Street will be closed from Halsted to Lake Shore Drive at 8 a.m. and access to many parking garages could be restricted.
Additional street closures may be implemented as necessary due to crowd size to ensure the public safety of pedestrians and parade attendees.
Officials are encouraging fans to use public transportation.
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) will offer additional service to customers traveling into the Loop on Thursday. Riders are advised to allow plenty of travel time due to street closures, traffic congestion and reroutes. CTA's Red and Blue subway lines and Brown, Green, Pink and Orange elevated lines are the best option for Blackhawks fans heading downtown for the parade and rally.
Additional service will be provided on all eight rail lines following the morning rush period through midday. CTA buses will be detoured in the downtown area during the parade and as a result of street closures for the rally. Detailed service information is available at www.transitchicago.com.
To speed travel and reduce lines, customers are encouraged to buy farecards in advance with sufficient value or to add enough value to their existing Ventra cards for their return trips later in the day. People going to the rally in Soldier Field should use the Roosevelt station.
Metra will be adding service on most of its lines and offering a special one-day only $5 unlimited ride ticket to accommodate Chicago Blackhawks fans attending the downtown parade and rally.
Riders should be aware that morning and evening rush-hour trains, as well as trains immediately before and after the event, are likely to be very full. Trains may depart early if they reach capacity so riders are advised to allow adequate time to arrive at the station and board the train.
Due to the event, bikes and alcohol will be banned from all trains on Thursday and quiet car rules will be suspended during both rush hours. Metra also will be adding security and increasing its police presence on trains and stations Thursday.
WATER AT THE RALLY
Unopened water bottles will be allowed into the rally, water fountains will be onsite, and water will also be available from onsite vendors during the rally at Soldier Field.


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Point Reyes
National Seashore California
Fire Ecology - Research
The objectives of fire research at PRNS are two-fold. The primary research objective is to collect and analyze data on specific biological resources in a scientifically rigorous manner to determine positive or adverse effects of prescribed burning on targeted resources. The secondary objective is to improve the knowledge base about prescribed fire and wildfire such that fire research will contribute both to science and to fire management.
Research has been conducted by park staff and by outside researchers. It is the goal of the fire program at PRNS to continue in-park research efforts and to recruit high caliber research from outside organizations.
Harvey, Brian J., B. A. Holzman, and A. B. Forrestel, Forest Resilience Following Severe Wildfire in a Semi-Urban National Park, Fremontia, Volume 42, No. 3, pp. 14-18, 2014.
Forrestel, Alison B, M.A. Moritz, and S.L. Stephens, Landscape-Scale Vegetation Change following Fire in Point Reyes, California, USA, Fire Ecology, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 114-128, 2011 (1,217 KB PDF)
Ramage, B., A. Forrestel, M. Moritz, K. O'Hara, 2010. Long Term Monitoring of the Ecological Impacts of Sudden Oak Death in Point Reyes National Seashore: 2007-2009 (633 KB PDF)
Moritz, M., T. Moody, B. Ramage, A. Forrestel, 2008. Spatial distribution and impacts of Phytophthora ramorum and Sudden Oak Death in Point Reyes National Seashore (1,565 KB PDF)
U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 2005. Vision Fire: Lessons Learned from the October 1995 Fire. Point Reyes National Seashore, 98pp. (2.23 MB PDF)
R. Scott Anderson's Brown-bag Seminar Presentation "Contrasting Vegetation and Fire Histories on the Point Reyes Peninsula During the Pre-Settlement and Settlement Periods," February 2006 (5,198 KB PDF)
Anderson, R.S. 2005. Contrasting Vegetation and Fire Histories on the Point Reyes Peninsula During the Pre-Settlement and Settlement Periods: 15,000 Years of Change (1,155 KB PDF)
Anderson, R.S. 2001. Long-Term Fire History from Sedimentary Charcoal Analysis: the Wildcat Lake and Glenmire Sites (203 KB PDF)
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1 Bear Valley Road
Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
This number will initially be answered by an automated attendant, from which one can opt to access a name directory, listen to recorded information about the park (i.e., directions to the park; visitor center hours of operation; weather forecast; fire danger information; shuttle bus system status; wildlife updates; ranger-led programs; seasonal events; etc.), or speak with a ranger. Please note that if you are calling between 4:30 pm and 10 am, park staff may not be available to answer your call.


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package state

import (
	"testing"

	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common"
	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/ethdb"
)

var addr = common.BytesToAddress([]byte("test"))

func create() (*ManagedState, *account) {
	db, _ := ethdb.NewMemDatabase()
	statedb, _ := New(common.Hash{}, db)
	ms := ManageState(statedb)
	ms.StateDB.SetNonce(addr, 100)
	ms.accounts[addr] = newAccount(ms.StateDB.GetStateObject(addr))
	return ms, ms.accounts[addr]
}

func TestNewNonce(t *testing.T) {
	ms, _ := create()

	nonce := ms.NewNonce(addr)
	if nonce != 100 {
		t.Error("expected nonce 100. got", nonce)
	}

	nonce = ms.NewNonce(addr)
	if nonce != 101 {
		t.Error("expected nonce 101. got", nonce)
	}
}

func TestRemove(t *testing.T) {
	ms, account := create()

	nn := make([]bool, 10)
	for i, _ := range nn {
		nn[i] = true
	}
	account.nonces = append(account.nonces, nn...)

	i := uint64(5)
	ms.RemoveNonce(addr, account.nstart+i)
	if len(account.nonces) != 5 {
		t.Error("expected", i, "'th index to be false")
	}
}

func TestReuse(t *testing.T) {
	ms, account := create()

	nn := make([]bool, 10)
	for i, _ := range nn {
		nn[i] = true
	}
	account.nonces = append(account.nonces, nn...)

	i := uint64(5)
	ms.RemoveNonce(addr, account.nstart+i)
	nonce := ms.NewNonce(addr)
	if nonce != 105 {
		t.Error("expected nonce to be 105. got", nonce)
	}
}

func TestRemoteNonceChange(t *testing.T) {
	ms, account := create()
	nn := make([]bool, 10)
	for i, _ := range nn {
		nn[i] = true
	}
	account.nonces = append(account.nonces, nn...)
	nonce := ms.NewNonce(addr)

	ms.StateDB.stateObjects[addr].data.Nonce = 200
	nonce = ms.NewNonce(addr)
	if nonce != 200 {
		t.Error("expected nonce after remote update to be", 201, "got", nonce)
	}
	ms.NewNonce(addr)
	ms.NewNonce(addr)
	ms.NewNonce(addr)
	ms.StateDB.stateObjects[addr].data.Nonce = 200
	nonce = ms.NewNonce(addr)
	if nonce != 204 {
		t.Error("expected nonce after remote update to be", 201, "got", nonce)
	}
}

func TestSetNonce(t *testing.T) {
	ms, _ := create()

	var addr common.Address
	ms.SetNonce(addr, 10)

	if ms.GetNonce(addr) != 10 {
		t.Error("Expected nonce of 10, got", ms.GetNonce(addr))
	}

	addr[0] = 1
	ms.StateDB.SetNonce(addr, 1)

	if ms.GetNonce(addr) != 1 {
		t.Error("Expected nonce of 1, got", ms.GetNonce(addr))
	}
}


Find Me tells the story of newlyweds Emily and Tim as they settle into a small farm house in Emily's childhood hometown. Before the boxes can even be unpacked, the couple realizes that there are strange occurrences happening in the house that were not disclosed by the real estate agent. At first more curious than scared, Tim, Emily and Emily's childhood friend Claire, embark on finding out who or what is haunting their house. As clues to a dark history of not only the house, but to Emily's past begin to unfold, what began as a series unusual paranormal episodes, soon morphs into violent acts, and the couple find themselves at the mercy of a vengeful spirit.


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Other Voices: 'We're only just beginning'
Having risen from humble beginnings, the live music series is now firmly on the radar of international musicians, says Steve Cummins
Lisa Hannigan has been a vocal supporter of Other Voices since its inception in 2002
JAMES GOULDEN
Steve Cummins
Sunday November 21 2021, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
In late 2002 the producer and broadcaster Philip King met Glen Hansard, the Frames' frontman, in west Kerry to discuss the vibrant singer-songwriter scene at the time. Damien Dempsey, Damien Rice, Paddy Casey and Gemma Hayes were among those starting to make waves, and King wanted to document these new Irish voices on film. The pair hit upon a plan to record in west Kerry, and King took a proposal to RTE. He was given money that November, on the proviso it be spent by the year's end. A 200-year-old church in Dingle was booked and Hansard opened his contacts book. Other Voices was born.
This Thursday King will spend another winter in St James' Church for what will be the 20th recording of Other


Abstract: Climate change is modifying the Earth's ecosystems and processes at an unprecedented speed and scale, with direct implications for fisheries and aquaculture production. The global seafood industry has a unique ability to adapt to such changes, but it should also play an important role in supporting strong and effective global climate policies.
Citation: Österblom, H. and J.-B. Jouffray (eds) with support from W. Cheung and R. Rykaczewski. 2016. Climate Change.. Background Brief 5, the Soneva Dialogue.


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Side Diamonds: 2 tapered baguette Diamonds, near colorless G and H, VS clarity, total 0.24 carat.
Additional Diamonds: 54 round brilliant cut Diamonds, near colorless G and H, SI-1 and SI-2 clarity, total 0.46 carat.