Address: A. Smetonos al. 67B, LT-45309 Kaunas.
Categories: disinfestation; domestic services; emergency services.
Address: Draugystės g. 27-7, LT-68239 Marijampolė.
Address: Žalgirio g. 131-211, LT-08217 Vilnius.
Categories: chemical manufacturing; dishes and cutlery; disinfestation; food production and processing equipment.
Address: S. Žukausko g. 41, LT-09130 Vilnius.
Address: Konstitucijos pr. 6, III a, LT-09308 Vilnius.
Categories: disinfestation; examination and analysis; learning courses.
Categories: cleaning services; disinfestation; domestic services; emergency services.
Address: Kunkių g. 12-8, Kunkiai, LT-92384 Klaipėdos r.
Address: Vilniaus g. 72, LT-44291 Kaunas.
Categories: animal care, help; disinfestation; veterinary medicine; wholesale.
Address: Ukmergės g. 7, LT-35183 Panevėžys.
Address: Piliakalnio g. 68, Nemenčinė, LT-15175 Vilniaus r.
Categories: chemical manufacturing; disinfestation; environmental protection; pipework equipment, wastewater treatment; wholesale.
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Categories: cleaning services; disinfestation; domestic services; emergency services; health care institutions; ventilation and conditioning services.
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Categories: cleaning materials; cleaning services; disinfestation; domestic services.


Objectives: Determine if ipsilesional primary motor cortex (M1) in stroke patients processes online visuomotor discordance in gain between finger movement and observed feedback in virtual reality (VR). Materials and Methods: Chronic stroke patients flexed (N= 7) or extended (N= 1) their finger with real-time feedback of a virtual hand presented in VR. Virtual finger excursion was scaled by applying a low-gain (G(0.25) ), high-gain (G(1.75) ), or veridical (G(1.00) ) scaling factor to real-time data streaming from a sensor glove. Effects of visuomotor discordance were assessed through analysis of movement kinematics (joint excursion, movement smoothness, and angular velocity) and amplitude of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) elicited with transcranial magnetic stimulation applied to ipsilesional M1. Data were analyzed with a repeated-measures analysis of variance (significance set at 0.05). Results: G(0.25) discordance (relative to veridical) leads to significantly larger joint excursion, online visuomotor correction evidenced by decreased trajectory smoothness, and significantly facilitated agonist MEPs. This effect could not be explained by potential differences in motor drive (background electromyographic) or by possible differences related to joint angle or angular velocity, as these variables remained invariant across conditions at the time of MEP assessment. M1 was not significantly facilitated in the G(1.75) condition. MEPs recorded in an adjacent muscle that was not involved in the task were unaffected by visual feedback in either discordance condition. These data suggest that the neuromodulatory effects of visuomotor discordance on M1 were relatively selective. Conclusions: Visuomotor discordance may be used to alter movement performance and augment M1 excitability in patients following stroke. Our data illustrate that visual feedback may be a robust way to selectively modulate M1 activity. These data may have important clinical implications for the development of future VR training protocols.


For weddings, receptions and parties celebrating special events, the Saint-George Club is simply the only choice. Its harbor and pool-side locations make it an ideal venue for any occasion. Its kitchen produces banquets and buffets fit of a king… or a queen! Whilst at its waterfront bar the party never wants to stop.


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DHARMAPURI: M Manju, an Arunthathiyar girl, gave a stellar performance in the plus-two exams and aspires to become a doctor.
A resident of Verappannayakanpatti in Harur taluk, Manju had scored 1,128 marks in the plus-two exams, following which she got a seat in the Government Dharmapuri Medical College (GDMC). However, due to her family's financial background, she was unable to meet the cost of education.
On Monday, she approached the Collector seeking financial assistance to pursue medicine at a government college. Accompanied by her family members, Manju submitted a petition to Collector K Vivekanandan seeking financial assistance.
Speaking to Express, she said, "My parents are daily wage earners and I am a first generation student. They struggled a lot to educate me. I scored 448 in SSLC and 1,128 in plus-two. Though I managed to get a seat in the GDMC, I have to spend at least `50,000 for books and accommodation.
"Given the financial constraints, I don't think my parents would be able to manage it."
She urged the district administration to look into her petition and extend financial help to help her continue her education.
Meanwhile, Manju's mother Sarasu said she was proud that her daughter could make it thus far without any help.
"She is the first person from our entire family to enter a college. If she gets through, she would be a role model for other students from our community," she added.

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Synopsis: For the past century the South Dakota High School Activities Association has coordinated South Dakota high school athletic and fine arts events. The Association was organized initially to govern the first state high school track meet in 1906. This initial effort has expanded to the present the supervision of seven varsity boys' sports, seven varsity girls' sports, and four fine arts activities.
A Celebration of One Hundred Years of South Dakota High School Athletics and Activities showcases the one hundred years of organized high school athletics and fine arts activities in South Dakota high schools. This text is of immeasurable value as a reference tool that can be utilized for years to come. A Celebration contains essential documentation for each of the sports and activities.
Each activity and sport are featured in a chapter presented by writers and contributors who have spent their lives coaching, administering, and writing about sports and fine art activities. These texts vividly describe the broad scope of the Activities Association's organizational contributions and the long history of community service to the people of South Dakota. The text documents the Activities Association's contribution to the growth of culture and the active lifestyles found in South Dakota and highlights the efficient management of these activities.
A Celebration is an excellent one-hundredth anniversary benchmark that will be utilized in future efforts pursued by the Activities Association.


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One of the main reasons which explains why large-scale industrial tree plantations can be promoted at the global level while they are being strongly opposed at the local level, is the manipulation of concepts and information to feed the uninformed public. Trees -any trees- are presented as sinonimous to forests and forests are rightly perceived by most people as good and necessary to humanity. The fact that plantations have nothing in common with forests is not that easy to be understood by the general -particularly the urban- public.
On the contrary, local people can easily see the difference. Shortly after large-scale tree monocrops are planted, they begin to perceive -and suffer- that difference. Wildlife begins to become scarce in the area and almost inexistent within the boundaries of the plantations. Changes in the hydrologic cycle leads to water scarcity and in some cases also to over-flooding after heavy rains. Useful plants disappear. Water courses are damaged through increased siltation due to soil erosion originating in the plantations. Plantation management results in chemical pollution due to the widespread use of agrochemicals. Such changes have strong implications for local peoples' livelihoods. Wild animals, fish, mushrooms, fruit, honey, vegetables, form an important part of their diet. Water security is basic for their agricultural and animal husbandry activities. The forest provides fodder, firewood, medicines, wood for housing, grasses for thatching, fibres and many other products and services. Plantations do not provide any of those and, to make matters worse, deprive people from most of the available agricultural land, which is taken over by one large company.
However, plantations are being promoted throughout the world as "planted forests". As if a forest, in its complexity of interactions involving people, energy, climate, soil, water and biodiversity, could be planted. Sooner or later, people begin to perceive that plantations are not "forests" and plantation companies then resort to a different set of arguments, trying to convince people that plantations are good, even accepting they are not forests. One of the more widely used arguments is that which states that "plantations help to alleviate pressure on native forests", by providing goods that would otherwise be obtained from forests. This argument sounds appealing, particularly to the increasing number of people concerned about deforestation. . . only that it is not true.
All plantations in tropical countries have directly or indirectly resulted in increased destruction of native forests. Most plantation companies clear the existing forest to make way for their tree crops. On the other hand, fast-growth tree monocrops are mostly oriented to the pulp industry and therefore do not alleviate any pressure from the logging of tropical timber for the sawnwood and plywood industry. Additionally, many pulp and paper companies which implement plantations to feed their pulpmills also use wood from tropical forests, either prior to the moment when the plantations mature or simultaneously use wood from the forest and from plantations (see for instance article on Venezuela in this bulletin).
As each argument falls apart, the companies' hired "experts" invent another one, trying to make this unsustainable forestry model acceptable by different audiences. For example, that plantations create employment. The fact that plantations destroy more jobs than the ones they create and that the quality of employment they provide is dismal seems to be irrelevant to such "experts". Or that plantations are necessary to supply an increasing demand for paper in an increasingly literate world. This hides the fact that some 40% of the paper produced ends in packaging and wrapping, as well as the fact that pulp-exporting Southern countries with extensive plantations (such as Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa or Chile) consume 10 times less paper than industrial countries.
The inventive of these "experts" to prove the impossible seems to be inexhaustible. The truth is that plantations are simply tree crops aimed at ensuring the future supply of the pulp and paper industry once its traditional resource base -native forests- becomes depleted. As with any other industry, its purpose is to produce, and sell, and make a profit. The difference is that this industry -which is in fact one of the most destructive and polluting in the world- tries to portray its tree plantations, as a "greening the earth" operation. Trees are green . . . and so is the American dollar, which is the only colour they are interested in.


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The schools white paper later this month will put heads and teachers back in control, giving them a range of tough new powers to deal with bullies and the most disruptive pupils. Heads will be able to take a zero-tolerance approach and will have the final say, both in and outside of school.
Despite measures taken in the past and a succession of anti bullying campaigns, around half of all children say they've been bullied at school and had their lives blighted by fear. Young people also encounter bullying outside school.
The White Paper will present tougher measures to tackle victimisation whether it's in or out of school, or on their mobile phones, or on social networking sites like Facebook. It will set out clear principles to ensure that young people can go to school without dreading the treatment they will get. It will provide that when a bullied child is brave enough to speak out, they will be supported.
Teachers will be given the right to remove disruptive children from the classroom without fear of legal action. They will be able to search pupils for weapons, and items like iPods and mobile phones, and confiscate them. Schools will have revised guidance to make sure they know how to tackle bullying effectively.


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Turbo prop aircraft service smaller airports that jet aircraft may not be able to fly into.
They are more economical to run because they consume less fuel.
Turbo prop aircraft are able to maintain a broader service network.


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Thomas L. Hudson, Eric M. Fraser and Joseph N. Roth are attorneys at Osborn Maledon PA, where their practices focuses on civil appeals and appellate consulting with trial lawyers. They may be reached at thudson@omlaw.com, efraser@omlaw.com and jroth@omlaw.com, and are ably assisted with this column by Osborn Maledon PA's appellate group, which maintains azapp.com. AzAPP contributors include Nathan T. Arrowsmith, Hayleigh S. Crawford, Joshua M. Ernst, Randy McDonald, Brian K. Mosley, and Jana Sutton.
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A homeowners' association assessment lien grants its holder a right of redemption following a foreclosure sale. When there is a mortgage foreclosure sale, A.R.S. § 12-1283 provides that "creditors having liens upon the premises sold … subsequent to the lien so foreclosed may redeem" the property. Under A.R.S. § 33-1807, if a home-owner fails to pay homeowners' association assessments, the unpaid assessments are a continuing lien on the homeowner's property. Accordingly, when a borrower with unpaid assessments defaults on a home loan and the lender forecloses on the property, the holder of the homeowners' association assessment lien has a right to redeem the property after the foreclosure sale. The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Co. NA v. Arizona HOA Acceptance LLC, 1 CA-CV 14-0836, 3/17/16.


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Editorial: CALM Before the Calm
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Starting in December, in time to catch at least some of the holiday rush of toy commercials, cable operators and broadcasters will have to be in compliance with new rules under the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act. That is the law that prevents commercials from being delivered at greater volume than the programming that surrounds them.
We know it is an added compliance and monitoring burden for broadcasters and cable operators. But for viewers, broadcasters and cable operators, it is a public service to ringing ears everywhere.
The FCC's solution may not have been perfect, but the agency was under a congressional mandate to come up with an enforcement regime. And the FCC took industry input into account in modifying the final rules when it adopted them last December.
In addition, the bill was also modified from its original form to give the industry more time to implement—until December 2012— and to make an industry-backed engineering standard the new rule of the quieter road.
Under the rules, cable operators are responsible for the volume of both national and local commercials. TV stations will also be responsible for the national network and syndicated spots, as well as local ads, both on broadcast and on the signals they deliver to cable operators. That means if a cable operator delivers a TV station spot that violates the regs, it is the broadcaster, not the cable operator, that is responsible.
Both broadcasters and cable operators were concerned about having to monitor all those ads. The FCC's eventual order implementing the rules—which it passed unanimously in December 2011—includes some flexibility for operators and stations in complying with that responsibility for the embedded ads they pass along from program distributors up the chain. They are considered in compliance if they "install, utilize and maintain" the requisite equipment and software, or if they have a certification from the distributor of the ad that it complies with the recommended ATSC standard that the FCC is making mandatory.
That was needed flexibility for which the FCC deserves a shout-out—oops, make that praise of a reasonable volume no louder than the rest of this editorial.
Larger cable operators are required to do annual spot-checking of commercials for the first two years, after which the requirement sunsets. Smaller operators and stations will not have to spot check, but stations and operators of all sizes must test in response to a "pattern or trend" of complaints—rather than, say, a single complaint— involving their station or system.
Smaller operators also have the opportunity to seek hardship waivers and will not be required to purchase equipment, though they will still be responsible for any proven violations. The carveout for smaller operators was important, given the relatively greater burden that compliance is on ops without a lot of discretionary time or money.
And it was important to signal that a single nuisance complaint—sometimes it is not the volume of the spot that is annoying, but that is the subject of another editorial—is not able to trigger the substantial compliance burdens.
While cable operators have argued that promo spots were not meant to be covered by the rules, that argument appeared to fall on ears deafened by loud commercials. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), the driving force behind the bill, said recently that she absolutely meant the law to apply to network promos, and we don't expect the FCC to find differently.
With due deference to the added compliance burden of monitoring ad-free networks for their promos—something cable operators pointed out—viewers don't draw distinctions between commercial spots and promos. And if the CALM Act works as planned, it will be a net positive for viewers and for the TV brand. That said, the FCC should not be heavy-handed in its enforcement. It has the big stick of potential enforcement actions, so it should speak softly.
We support turning down the volume on commercials, and we hope this is the right way to do it. As is often the case, we would have preferred that the problem be solved without governmental intervention. But that is a moot, or should that be "mute," point. It is time to for the government and industry to make it work.
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ANGLESEY LEAGUE: Cefni's Top Five Stars of the 2018/19 Season
PICTURE by Wynne Evans shows
WITH the end of yet another thrilling Anglesey League season coming to its end, it's time to take a look at some of those clubs' star men who have really stood out during the 2018/19 season.
I thought I'd start off with one of the league's newcomers – Cefni – who have been in formidable form for most of the season and finished in fourth place in their debut Anglesey League campaign.
I truly believe that if the Llangefni-based club can keep this squad together next season (and add a new face or two), they can challenge for a lot of things – including the league title itself. Here's my top five Cefni stars of the season (all my own opinion of course!) …
Ben Wright (Central Midfielder)
PICTURE: Wynne Evans.
A tall figure is not the only thing that makes this 25-year-old stand out on the pitch. Wright is a dynamic midfielder who has ran the show in the middle of the park for Cefni this season, playing a key role in the club's debut campaign.
The former Llangoed man's height and power make him a handful to try and deal with. Add that to his determination, aggression and ability to score goals (8 this season) and it's fair to say that he's a quality player whose really underrated in my opinion.
For me (and many others too), he's been their Player of the Season purely for his work rate and efforts in midfield.
Nathan Lewis (Striker)
Into the history books as the club's first ever goalscorer and finished the season as their top scorer too with 13 goals to his name.
Lewis, who also bagged double figures whilst playing predominantly as a substitute for Bryngwran Bulls last season, is a pacy forward who really knows where the goal is and is not afraid to take defenders on.
He's also proved he's a big game player too – having bagged a cup final goal for The Bulls last season (2-1 Dargie Cup win over Mynydd Tigers), he ended up finishing this campaign by bagging a goal against them in in his side's shock 2-1 win at Isgraig last week.
Grahame Jones (Centre Back)
"Squeeze" as he's known has been a player-manager for Cefni (alongside Danny Taylor) this season and has been equally as influential on the pitch as he has been off of it.
Playing as a centre back, the 35-year-old has been one of the best defenders in the league at times. He's solid, very vocal at the back and is a born leader who would add quality to any team in this division.
Jones is also great in the air and has played well at the back, particularly when paired up with Henry Caldecott. Cefni have only conceded 38 goals this season and those two have been a big reason for that.
Henry Caldecott (Centre Back/Right Back)
As mentioned above, Caldecott has been superb this season. Cefni have often opted for a back three and he is usually the one who provides a bit of pace when playing as one of the three centre back's.
Having signed from Bryngwran Bulls in the summer, he's continued his form from last season (which eventually saw him named in my Team of the Season for his displays).
He is without a doubt one of the most consistent defenders in the league in my opinion and Bryngwran's loss has certainly been Cefni's gain as he's been quality throughout once again this season.
Gary Winnard (Wing Back)
My final choice is a player who's really impressed me whenever I have had the chance to watch Cefni play this season.
Winnard is a full back/winger who loves to get forward down the flank and is full of energy. He's hit four goals this season too – including a very memorable one in a 4-0 win at Pentraeth Reserves, where he ran through four players before smashing the ball home.
With an exceptional work rate and the ability to create and take chances well, it's not hard to see why the 25-year-old is one of the first names on the team sheet for Cefni.
I feel that although those are the five players I have picked out, a special mention should also go out to some of the others in the side who have performed very well.
Gwion Williams, who has captained the side on a number of occasions, has been a great player to watch in the middle of the park. Wing back Liam Griffiths (pictured above on the left) is another one who never stops working and Paul Jones had a great first half to the season with the club, scoring eight goals before eventually moving to Llandegfan. The likes of Lee Lewis and Macauley Lewis have also contributed well with three goals each.
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We have made a big transition from RockPOS 2.4 to RockPOS 3.0 with the aim to introduce a new version of New sale page, which will give your staffs and your customers new experience.
This article summarizes what's new in the most wanted version of RockPOS.
Layout changes
Leaving the old-fashion design behind, RockPOS 3.0 now comes with a totally new design, new look and feel and new experience. Clean and responsive.
Almost blocks are now grouped and converted to popups. It will let you concentrate on what's important to you and to your customers in queue, such as product list and total summary. Want to give a discount, to take note? Or just to accept payment and complete sale? All are ready there for you, just click on a right button, then take a right action.
RockPOS 3.0 is now more responsive on tablets. Selling on iPad is easier than ever. But it's just the beginning of a new story. Selling with RockPOS is like installing a game, which is tempting to all of us, to all RockPOS users like you.
Moreover, you can pick up combinations with ease and vision. You are looking for a T-shirt in different sizes and different colors? Or even when you want to change from one color to another color… everything is under your fingertips. Just tap or click, indeed!
Better performance
It was a pain for people, especially when working with a big database. But in 3.0, all most of transaction data is cached at browser, so that RockPOS just only sends and receives pieces of data from your server but still keeps the transaction synced in real time.
1+ for searching feature which is cached at browser as well. Let's say, you're looking for shirts, RockPOS will decide if it should request to your server or not. It happens for the first time only. Next time, maybe in the same transaction or another transaction, all matched items of shirts will be shown up immediately. Incremental caching is the concept you might haven't heard about, but now you know, it's an important technology of the software that you're working with.
Technologies behind
Last by not least, RockPOS 3.0 can't be done without a new technology named ReactJS. What's ReactJS anyway? Yes, it's challenging if you are not a tech guy, it seems.
ReactJS is a front-end framework introduced by Facebook. You know, Facebook nowadays is approved as the best social network which can handle tons of requests a second. ReactJS provides a "platform" for robust applications and makes them maintainable, scalable, more stable and especially it helps cutting off development time. We bring all of these into RockPOS 3.0. Now you can imagine what's next in RockPOS: faster development and less buggy.
Anyway, 3.0 is just the start of the new journey, the new era of RockPOS. There will be many things to come in the next 3 months and in the next year. Write the feature you're waiting for, in comments below.
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The ring-shaped object is called as the annulus (i.e.,) the area surrounded by two concentric circles. It can also be termed as annular. The given below is the annulus area calculator to calculate the annular area with ease. This tool performs annulus (annular) area calculation based on the inputs of the radius of the outer circle, the radius of the inner circle and area of the annulus. With this tool, you can input data and get outputs in different units.
Calculate the area of anulus in which the radius of outer and inner circles be 15 cm and 12 cm.


First, let's go over the stuff you will need to make a magnetic notepad. This will include the padding supplies as well as magnetic strips. I have separated them into required supplies and optional supplies that are helpful when making pads of paper in bulk, but not really necessary for lower volumes.
1. Paper -- Duh! The 1st thing you need is your paper. You can use any kind of paper or card stock you want, custom print it, or just use a pretty plain stock from a craft store.
2. Padding Glue -- Look, in all honesty, some individuals will use plain old Elmer's...but padding glue is specially formulated for the easy tear-off while still keeping every page bound strong and flexible, so I highly recommend it.
3. Clamp -- This can be as simple as several binder clips, two table clamps, or an actual padding press for higher volumes. You can also just place a heavy cast iron pan or thick books on top...anything to compress those pages tightly together.
4. Padding Brush -- You can use any padding or paint brush you can find. We recommend a 2" wide brush made of material that is easy to clean, since it will be used in glue.
6. Magnetic Strips -- I recommend at least a 1/2" wide strip (or wider). Craft adhesive also typically works great.
7. Pad Counter -- This allows you to easily measure out pads from stacks of paper without having to count pages.
8. Pad Knife -- This allows you to pad bind all of your pads together, and then easily separate them into individual pads by cutting the adhesive.
Now let me walk you through the steps! I know that I said it was simple, so I hope you won't take my over-explanation as complication...I am writing this in a way that will help people who have no experience with padding. So if you already know how, go ahead and skip to step 4.
1. Prepare Your Pad -- Stack your pages together with the chip board sheet at the bottom. Square the stack so the pages are all flush and place the stack on a table with the binding edge handing a bit over. Then clamp your pages tightly.
2. Bind your Pages -- Now paint on a coat of padding glue to the exposed edge. One solid coat should be enough, but some users like to allow it to dry and add a second coat.
3. Wait -- Wait for the glue to dry completely. Un-clamping or handling the pad before it dries can lead to pages falling out. Depending on the glue you use and the thickness of your coat, dry time varies from 20-40 minutes. So make yourself a snack or pour yourself a glass of wine and chill for a bit.
4. Make it a Magnet -- Un-clamp your pad and add the magnet! Cut the magnet to just under the width of your sheet, peel off the liner, and stick it horizontally on the chip board backing toward the top. Now pour yourself another glass to celebrate, because you're done!
Pretty simple, right?! Whether you want to make grocery lists, tear-away daily calendars, inspirational notepads, or anything else, a magnetic pad of paper is an easy and fun way to make it! Get creative with your pages by displaying a new quote on each page with a fancy script, or create letter head pads. Sell them in your Etsy shop or at your local market, give them away as gifts, or hoard them for yourself (that's my preference, muahaha)! Make reward cards for your students, or even tear-off business cards...literally anything you can think of!
Make your paper pads even more impressive by adding some shimmery metallic foil! Check out my previous post for how to make a foil notepad here.
Want to be featured in our next blog post? Send me an email with photos of the notepads you made to mallorym@binding101.com and I will feature you and your business!


Forgive my second redesign in a week. I felt that a re: re-shuffle was re, required, again, for my own contribution to the EvE Online community.
I humbly invite feedback…before I change it again, again.
Time to organise an OP? Getting the time correct can be tricky, especially when pilots occupy different time zones. For your convenience, here's a breakdown of how GMT is affected dependant on where you are in relation to EvE time.
EvE-time is based on Iceland's time zone.
In the Western European Standard Time Zone (WET); Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the Standard Time.
Iceland has NO Daylight-Saving Time (DST) so EVE-time is always Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Skills make a pilot deadly. This isn't exclusively the skills that one can train for boosting damage or power-grid, but those skills that are linked to experience too. Knowing when and how to attack a target can be vastly important, more so than the amount of pain one can deliver.
I'm at the current level where all my combat trainable skills are maxed and, through the use of boosters and implants, my combat effectiveness has peaked. It's an interesting situation to be in as I can't decide what I should be training next. Save for a couple of shield skills that could be maximised, there isn't much more I can do to improve my skill-set for combat. I will continue to learn through experience, but aquiring points is becoming a problem.
Perhaps it's time to broaden my horizons a little. Bounty hunting is something which has my current attention but again there isn't much in the way of skills that I can train to improve what I already know. I don't yet have sufficient standing with an intelligence agent so perhaps I should begin running missions.
I've also considered running for an NPC pirate corporation. I'm not yet sure whether one can join such an outfit, but it is a desire of mine to run with the Angel Cartel. My reasons for this I will keep private for now, but I'm beginning to feel restless with my current position in New Eden.
I don't care much for vessels beyond sub-capital class so furthering my expertise to these behemoths would be a waste. Perhaps I should embark on a journey toward surviving exclusively within w-space. This realm is my current favourite domain and grants me with almost unlimited freedom to do as I choose and there are yet a few skills to improve upon.
I'm not a born leader so corporation creation is not something I want to pursue. I like being behold to no-one except my conscience which just happens to be as twisted as I.
So with the road ahead of me forking again in several directions it's time for me to reflect on my experiences and decide where I should be heading next.
It's natural to be afraid of the unknown. If one ventures into low sec without the correct mentality then you shouldn't be surprised by the loss of your life. Loss is something that is a fact of this life and the next, and should be embraced to help limit the damage caused by defeat. If you can gain something positive in the face of losing, you would be performing the only logical duty to ones self.
Revenge is something that many consider. Many times I've been part of a posse of pilots roaming the void, seeking a perpetrator on behalf of a fellow pirate, or as part of my own vindication. This role is the responsibility of any professional pirate to maintain the assumptions surrounding our profession; that we all live to plunder and murder. This is true, but it doesn't define a pirate.
Fear is my greatest ally, that and a warp scrambler. For my own personal gratification, I maintain an appropriate styling by selecting vessels which are renowned for their fearsome appearance. This may not be the best way to conduct my duties, but it's an interpretation of my role within New Eden. The use of recon ships is preferable as they embody the fear all pilots share; that we are being watched by unseen predators, waiting for the right moment to smash and steal our lives.
Evolutionary speaking, fear assists decision making concerning perceivable danger according to observations, experience and history. It would be wise to harness fear and employ it to increase survivability through its nature to prevent harm, and the instigation of fear on your prey to render them defenceless.
Pause for a moment from the death and salvage, and witness the (old) beauty of the infinite void.
The music is from Ridley Scott's marvelous Tech-Noir; Bladerunner, which to this day remains as one of my all time greatest films. The soundtrack by Vangelis suits the movie perfectly, haunting the moods throughout the film to create something which stays with you permanently.
Truly a perfect example of great minds coming together to create something astoundingly original, despite Hollywoods expected inept medling of the final cut.


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Nu ännu drygare var den andra och sista skivan (EP) av den svenska hiphop-gruppen Mobbade barn med automatvapen och släpptes 2003.

Låtlista
"Förr eller senare" ft. Timbuktu & Chords - 5:20
"Kolla på dem" - 3:56
"Nu ännu drygare" - 4:10
"Småsaker" - 4:40

Musikalbum 2003
Album av Mobbade barn med automatvapen


The totem pole hive isnt yet complete and will be worked on throughout the day with a 6 foot chizel - WOW.
All undercover & toilets & facilites on site, full disabled access.
Sounds fantastic! Wish I lived closer.
I hope it is a great success for you.


Generally, our programmes are open to everyone. Our special focus lies on so-called socially disadvantaged groups – youths still looking for an apprenticeship, disabled persons, migrants or job seekers. Arbeit und Leben Hamburg e. V. is run under the auspices of the Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB) Hamburg) and the Volkshochschule (VHS) Hamburg). We are working successfully with both organisations – and many other co-operation partners – for many years.


The arrival and that of their descendant's have changed the face of Ealing and England forever.
If you look carefully, someone tried to erase the offensive apostrophe.
Someone caught in the act of adding an apostrophe earned himself the epithet of "punctuation hero". His neighbours weren't too pleased though. Read all about it in the Mail Online.
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It would be interesting to collect corrections like these and find out which types of usage people are more inclined to correct!
Thank you to Kate for the link to my blog. The photo above is too small for me to see the attempt at erasing the erroneous apostrophe, but the text suffices.
I once blogged about something very similar that I spotted in a comic: a rogue apostrophe that someone tried to remove, in this case more successfully. A mere smudge remains, to which I gave the name apostrophantom.
Is the apostrophe in "neighbour's" the deliberate mistake that no-one else has seen, or is it so obvious that I'm the only one who's bothered to point it out?


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Bankers to be held personally accountable for failings
Central Bank could levy fines and disqualify employees under proposed new laws
The senior executive accountability regime will make it easier for regulators to fine, reprimand or disqualify top bankers. Photograph: Alan Betson
The Central Bank will be able to fine and disqualify senior bankers for failings under their watch without first proving wrongdoing by their employers under planned new laws being drawn up in the wake of the tracker-mortgage scandal.
More than a decade after the financial crash and three years after Britain introduced a senior manager regime, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe received the go-ahead from Cabinet on Tuesday to push through similar measures in the Republic. It is expected to come into force from next year.
Failings
The senior executive accountability regime (Sear), to be introduced under the Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2019, will make it easier for regulators to fine, reprimand or disqualify top bankers as well as executives of insurance and asset management companies for failings.
Firms will have to outline clearly where senior individuals' responsibilities lie.
"We will be breaking the so-called participation link," said Mr Donohoe, referring to a current hurdle that the Central Bank must find that a financial company has breached rules before taking action against individuals suspected of participating in the contravention.
The Minister committed last November to setting up an accountability regime after the Central Bank published a report highlighting shortcomings in the culture of the State's banks in light of the tracker mortgage debacle. Almost 40,000 mortgage holders were denied their right to a cheap loan linked to the European Central Bank's main rate as far back as 2008, or put on wrong rates, according to the latest figures.
While the Central Bank has previously called for laws to make "egregious recklessness" by senior executives in financial firms that run into trouble, Mr Donohoe said that the regulator is "best placed" to deal with sanctioning wrongdoing on a civil basis.
The Minister said the current maximum fine of up to €1 million for individuals under the Central Bank's administrative sanctions procedure will also apply under the planned new legislation.
The planned legislation will also see the introduction of conduct standards for individuals and firms in the financial sector and enhance the Central Bank's existing fitness and probity regime that assesses the suitability and standing of senior staff in regulated firms.
The rules will require firms to set out clearly where responsibility and decision-making lie. They will impose a requirement that senior executives "take all reasonable steps to ensure the area of the business for which they are responsible is controlled effectively and complies with any regulatory requirements," Gerry Cross, director of financial regulation, policy and risk, told the Oireachtas finance committee in April.
The new rules will only come into force after the Central Bank holds a consultation process, which is expected to start later this year.
Meanwhile, Mr Donohoe confirmed that he has received of a report into remuneration across bailed-out banks, carried out by executive search firm Korn Ferry, and that he will be bringing the document to Cabinet in the coming weeks.
The report is said to advocate for a relaxing of pay restrictions and a bonus ban stretching the past decade.
Paschal Donohoe
MoneyGram surges 176% on news of Ripple deal
Private equity groups prepare to raise mega funds
Pay-as-you-go insurer Zego eyes Irish expansion after $42m fundraise
In focus: The credit unions that have imposed savings limits - and how much
Kim Jong Un's cyber army raises cash for North Korea
Deutsche Bank to set up €50bn 'bad bank' as part of overhaul
Banks accused of 'systematic' gouging of small customers on FX
KPMG to pay $50m fine for using stolen watchdog data
Little evidence that insurance price-gouging has returned
Banking lobby group highlights secure methods for paying online
4 Sterling could move to parity with euro 'and beyond' if Brexit turns 'messy'
10 WTO rules against US in tariff row with China


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Category: Menachem Begin
Netanyahu's reelection – I told you so!
On March 3, 2020 March 3, 2020 By Marc NadeauIn Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Olmert, Elections, Israel, Likud, Menachem Begin, Yitzhak RabinLeave a comment
The author photographed with Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu in 2007.
In light of yesterday's historic elections in Israel and the resounding victory of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a fourth consecutive term (his fifth) at the helm of the government, I find it pertinent to post here the content of an op-ed I have penned, 14 years ago this month, about this legendary statesman. Many people were then very skeptical about my prediction. But history and the leader of the Likud have proven me right.
Netanyahu is not finished
by Marc Nadeau
(originally published in the Record (Sherbrooke), Friday. March 31st, 2006, p. 7)
Conventional wisdom suggests that Benjamin Netanyahu was the great loser of this week's election in Israel. Finishing fifth, the Likud Party he has led since Ariel Sharon departed to create Kadima sustained its worst defeat since its creation in 1973.
Even before voters went to the polls, pundits and observers predicted that Netanyahu would be challenged for the leadership of his own party.
The Likud finished not only behind the ruling Kadima and the Labor Party, but was also eclipsed by the Shas, a party popular among Orthodox Jews and Beiteinu, an outfit that draws most of its support from Russian-born immigrants.
Consequently, some say that the traditional voice of conservatism in Israeli public life may has lost its pertinence. For many reasons, it's far too soon to conclude that.
If he decides to stay on, the man who led his country as prime minister from 1996 to 1999 is not finished.
In the past, Netanyahu has shown a legendary resilience. He not only came back from oblivion after his defeat in 1999, becoming minister of foreign affairs and minister of finance, but when Sharon left the Likud last November, it fell to him to pick up the shattered pieces of a party that lost an important number of members.
The result of this week's election was not a personal defeat, but rather a testimony that Israeli politics have dramatically changed in the past few months. Thus, he should not shoulder the exclusive blame for Tuesday's electoral outcome.
Analyzing the results further, one can also note that the Likud's agenda did not spur popular passion this time.
About security issues – Netanyahu's forte – the former Prime Minister was hardly a match for another leader – new Prime Minister Edud Olmert – who promoted the exchange of territory for peace. The withdrawal plan for the West Bank comes when many are tired with the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation.
From now on the new Prime Minister will have to deliver on this plan. The road may bring numerous pitfalls.
First, Olmert is ready to unilaterally implement a plan which would give a group that promotes terrorism and refuses to recognize the existence of Israel – Hamas – the opportunity to govern a new Palestinian state.
Second, Israelis have not directly encountered terrorism for some time. But if a resurgence of violence was to directly affect Israel again in the future, the Prime Minister may find it difficult to promote concessions toward Israel's tormentors.
Such a context, along with the failure of the upcoming government in its general policies may well pave the way for a Netanyahu comeback.
Last but not least, contemporary Israel history teaches its observers that it is sometimes premature to write up a political obituary.
Following his 1977 retirement from politics, who could have predicted that Itzhak Rabin would orchestrate the victory of the Labor party in 1992? In the aftermath of the controversy of his involvement in the Lebanese war, Sharon's career seemed to have come to an end. He came back and left his imprint of Israeli politics, notably by becoming Prime Minister in 2001.
These are two eloquent illustrations that public figures may have a long life in the land of the prophets. After all wasn't it Menachem Begin – another famous figure from the Likud – who was asked to form a government after 29 years in the opposition?
In politics, anything can happen. Netanyahu could decide to retire and attend to other challenges. He may alternatively be defeated in his bid to retain the leadership of his party. But if he decides to stay in the arena, he still has many good cards in his hand.
It may thus be too soon to confine him to the pages of history. Already, Netanyahu "shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat", to borrow an expression from former US President Theodore Roosevelt.
Exclusive interview with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
On February 19, 2020 January 12, 2022 By Marc NadeauIn Abu Mazen, Books, Donald Trump, Ehud Olmert, Israel, Lyndon B. Johnson, Macmillan, Menachem Begin, Middle East, Moshe Dayan, Palestinians, Peace, Robert A. Caro, Shadow Strike, St. Martin's Press, Yaakov KatzLeave a comment
Ehud Olmert, 12th Prime Minister of Israel (courtesy of the Office of Ehud Olmert)
After reading the excellent book Shadow Strike: Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power (St. Martin's) by Yaakov Kaatz, I was struck about the inestimable contribution of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to public life and international affairs. I therefore thought it might be an excellent idea to conduct an interview with this fascinating character. Mr. Olmert immediately agreed and you will discover a man who's an avid reader nourishing a serious interest in US political history. Here's the content of our exchange.
It is my opinion that you have been underestimated as Prime Minister. What accomplishment(s) are you the proudest of and why?
It seems to me that lately, the attitude to me as a former Prime Minister is different than it appeared to be when I left my position. Perhaps, in large part, because time has passed, and people can compare my activities as Prime Minister with the one who came after me. Many may think that my activity has been by far better than the impression they once had.
Many may think that my activity has been by far better than the impression they once had.
The actions I am most proud of in the field of welfare. The fact that I brought about the rehabilitation of hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors who for various reasons over many years the Israeli government ignored its duty to look after their needs. The Israeli government during my time invested billions of shekels for this important cause.
In the field of education, I was involved, as Prime Minister, in reforming Israel's education system, along with the then Minister of Education, Professor Yuli Tamir. We instituted a far-reaching reform called "New Horizon" which entailed adding billions of shekels to the Education Ministry's budget.
In the security field, I am proud of the achievements of the Second Lebanon War, which have resulted in a complete calm for over the past 13 years on the northern border. Kiryat Shmona has lived for decades under a constant threat of terrorist attacks and artillery fire no more. I am proud of my decision to destroy of the nuclear reactor in Syria, which posed a real danger to the State of Israel. I am also proud of the peace negotiations that I made with the Palestinian Authority and that were closer than any negotiations we have ever had to a permanent peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinian people.
I am also proud of the peace negotiations that I made with the Palestinian Authority and that were closer than any negotiations we have ever had to a permanent peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinian people.
Who's the historical figure / leader that inspires you the most?
Many characters have influenced my worldview and have been an inspiration, it is hard to think about one person.
Churchill – Who didn't grow up to admire him?!
Roosevelt – the man who rescued the US from economic immersion and brought America to save the entire world from the Nazis in Europe and Japanese fascists in the Far East.
The man I remember in international politics with great longing is Bobby Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy was a man with a huge heart, with a great sensitivity to the distressed populations who demanded someone to care about them. African Americans, Hispanics, Mexicans, Native Americans and many others, there was no one to care for them like him. I remember how much it hurt when he was murdered.
Bobby Kennedy was a man with a huge heart, with a great sensitivity to the distressed populations who demanded someone to care about them.
In Israel, two characters have always been my inspiration. Menachem Begin, who was the first Prime Minister of the National Camp and whom I was privileged to work with and for him as a Knesset member in the Likud. And Moshe Dayan who was a brave soldier and statesman who saw far more with one eye than many saw with two eyes. He was a poet and writer and archaeologist and a brilliant military leader. A man who did not like people's company but accorded me many hours of private conversations at the beginning of my career whose tastes have not disappeared to this day.
You have been through very difficult periods in your life (Mr. Olmert spent 16 months in prison in 2016-2017 in relation with a real-estate project). I could only imagine how hard it must have been on you and the members of your family. What gave you strength to surmount it?
What helped me deal with the difficulties I encountered was on top of the love of my family – my wife, my children and my grandchildren, also the knowledge that I had never done anything that justified my indictment. The sense of justice gives a lot of power.
What helped me deal with the difficulties I encountered was on top of the love of my family.
I know your wife is a very talented artist. I once saw one of her paintings at the office of what was then called the Canada-Israel Committee (now CIJA) in Jerusalem. It goes without saying that intellectual life must be important in your family. Are you an avid reader and what do you like to read?
My wife is a very talented painter and I am very happy that her paintings are in both the office and the home we share and are exhibited in many places in Israel and abroad.
I read many books, my tastes are very eclectic. I read fiction, thrillers, biographies of political people. I read all of Robert Caro's books in the past year about former President Lyndon B. Johnson. I read the biography of General MacArthur by William Manchester. I have read John Steinbeck's books – East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath and I now read William Faulkner's The sound and the Fury and many other books.
I read all of Robert Caro's books in the past year about former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Are you a fan of James Bond and books about special / secret operations? (that question came from reading the following in Shadow Strike: "During his term as prime minister, Olmert made a point of knowing every detail and approving every single Mossad operation that took place outside Israel's borders." (p. 46) Okay, okay, I should have known that Israeli Security Services undeniably can match any James Bond movie.)
I'm not a big fan of James Bond movies, I know a lot more fascinating realities than these movies but as an entertainment I sometimes watch them.
What do you appreciate the most about your new life?
I enjoy my life with my extended and beautiful family. I enjoy my business activities and especially the world of innovation and technology in which I invest money from a venture capital fund I run.
Do you miss political life?
I never liked political activity. I liked being in positions where I could make decisions on national affairs and I miss that. If I could, I would continue my work to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians. I believe that the Trump Peace Plan is not good enough and lacks many elements to be balanced, but even though, it has the basis that can prompt renewed negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which is what I recommended to Abu Mazen to do.
The Trump Peace Plan is not good enough and lacks many elements to be balanced, but even though, it has the basis that can prompt renewed negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
What do you think of the fact that Israelis have to return to the polls for the third time in about 6 months?
I think it is a pity that there will be a third round of elections in less than a year in Israel, but I believe that following the upcoming elections, the government will change and the political atmosphere in Israel will change as well as the nature of public discourse can be changed and the atmosphere will be more tolerant and more relaxed in Israeli politics.
I believe […] the government will change and the political atmosphere in Israel will change as well as the nature of public discourse can be changed and the atmosphere will be more tolerant and more relaxed in Israeli politics.
How do you feel generally about your country?
The State of Israel is a very successful state, there is none like it and will never be, and I am proud to be its citizen and its former Prime Minister.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to former Prime Minister Olmert for the generosity of his time. I surely hope his memoirs, which have already been published in Hebrew, will be available in English at some point in the future.


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Q: Text in button pushed down in FF I have a problem with "Check" button on http://www.myprivacyaudit.com/. In Firefox it is pushed down and partially hidden. Does anyone of you have an idea why is that? I've spent few hours on it already, and cant find solution. Btw. I am using twitter-bootstrap
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        <form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/confirm" class="form" method="post">
          @ <input class="" id="twitter_account" name="twitter_account" type="text" />

          <input id="twitter_account_submit" name="commit" type="submit" value="Check" />
        </form>

CSS:
  input#twitter_account_submit {
    border: 5px solid black;
    background-color: #ff5255;
    font-family: 'Anton', sans-serif;
    font-size: 30px;
    height: 40px;
    margin-left: 50px;
  }

A: Try to change this:
<input id="twitter_account_submit" name="commit" type="submit" value="Check">

to this:
<button id="twitter_account_submit" name="commit" type="submit">Check</button>

And in your CSS file, change this:
input#twitter_account_submit

to this:
#twitter_account_submit

A: the check button is an inline element. You've declared a height of 40px on it, but you cannot control height on an inline element.
Additionally, earlier in your stylesheet you declared a line-height of 18px that is being transferred down to the button.
Remove your height declaration entirely and apply a line-height (try line-height:120%), this worked for me.

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KARACHI, Mar 15, 2006: Telenor brings Pakistan an exciting new offer for the youth, Telenor's Chief Marketing Officer Bjorn Taale Sandberg proudly announced at the launch of djuice - a new value-packed mobile subscription for young people. Bjorn called djuice the prepaid connection to fun for the 15-30 year olds and said that djuice will give Pakistani youth the strongest reason yet to use and own a mobile phone. Addressing a large gathering of media people, top executives, and opinion makers from the fashion and music industries, Bjorn further added djuice is immensely popular internationally and has a following of over 8 million subscribers worldwide.
In her presentation to the audience, the djuice project manager Amina Sohail said that djuice comes in addition to Telenor Postpaid and Prepaid. Every djuice SIM has a powerful menu that gives subscribers access to the newest tones, video clips, animated pictures, games, anonymous chat, and all sorts of insights into what's happening on the social scene. Djuice also offers a unique WAP and Web Portal where you can access and download the newest ring tones, pictures, games, and video clips to your mobile. To top it off, djuice offers special discounts at partner stores, gives access to exclusive events, and will give you the best campaigns and promotions, Amina told a captivated audience.
Amina stressed that djuice pricing is also designed with the youth in mind. You can stay in touch with your favorite people at very good rates, and enjoy an unrivaled offer on messaging. With djuice you can MMS to all operators everywhere and SMS anyone, anywhere, at unbeatable rates.
Commenting on the need for djuice in the local market, Amina said: Pakistan today has one of the youngest populations in the world. We know our young customers have different needs, preferences, lifestyle and mobile behavior, all of which require a unique approach and offering. We have designed djuice to match that a 100%.
At the event, the audience were also offered hands-on experience of the djuice offering. Booths were set around the hall to form experience zones where the audience could come into direct contact with djuice content and functionality. The booths were manned by the djuice team and fashion models recognized from the popular djuice teaser advertising campaign and street promotions.
Telenor is one of the biggest GSM service providers in the world with over 82.7 million subscribers and operations in 17 different countries. Telenor Pakistan is 100% owned by Telenor and adds on to its operations in Asia together with Thailand, Malaysia and Bangladesh.


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Barry Flanagan and Performance
by Jonathan Watkins
Jonathan Watkins is an English curator, and the Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
[he] then saw the place I was in that I never saw
then heard the songs I sang that I never heard
then said the words I spoke that I never said
Whelan's is a pub in Dublin, world famous as a venue for live music. It was there on a Saturday night in the spring of 1998 that Barry Flanagan performed with Hugh Cornwell of the Stranglers. Cornwell's guitar style was nicely unmistakable while Flanagan read the 'Mantra of the Awoken Powers', a poem by the Irish writer John W. Sexton, otherwise known as Sex W. Johnston. Flanagan had just arrived from the US, making the trip especially to be there and, according to his daughter Flan, in the audience, the performance was a great success: "He held the whole audience, softly spoken and still, wearing a tweed suit and a thick scarf though it was sweltering. At the end everyone went wild, cheering and clapping. Guys at the front were offering up their pints for him in appreciation."[1]
Hole in the sea 2, 1967-70
Photo etching
Artist's proofs number 14 from an edition of 35
Still from 'sand girl' (1970) digital footage, 17 minutes
The Estate of Barry Flanagan courtesy Plubronze
The combination of Sexton, Cornwell and Flanagan – poet, musician and artist respectively – occurred through We Love You, a project devised by fine art publisher Booth-Clibborn Editions, comprising collaborations between musicians and artists that culminated in a "futique (collectible in the future) CD/book". Booth-Clibborn had sent Sexton's poem to Cornwell who "absolutely loved it" and proceeded to write a piece of music to accompany the recitation. Sexton, who, incidentally, is very good at reading his own work, was happy to oblige but, as he later explained, "Booth-Clibborn were keen to have an artist involved, so they came up with the idea of asking the Irish [sic.] sculptor Barry Flanagan to render the vocal on the track. Barry, being quite old at the time, was actually perfect for the vocal, because his voice had that unsettling hint of the ancient about it which thus gave an added resonance to the track."[2]
Mantra of the awoken powers (1998), in this exhibition, is a recording of the performance as soundtrack for a digitised sequence of diapositive images. Flanagan looks at ease, happy in his element, while reading Sexton's beautifully elliptical poem. It is not difficult to understand its appeal to Flanagan, someone with a strong literary (pataphysical) bent, who loved music. As he had written four years earlier: "… [being] a sculptor/artist it is my place to be poetic and largely instinctive … extramural activities have always tested or qualified the drive I have. Architecture, theatre, writing, education, music and dance."[3]
Grass 3, 1967
Black and white photoscreen print
From an edition of 10
Blue ink on paper
In the late-fifties Flanagan studied architecture before switching to sculpture. Shortly afterwards he started writing concrete poetry and whilst enrolled at St Martins School of Art during the mid-sixties, he taught himself to play the cello – and subsequently became well known for always having a cello close to hand wherever he lived. During the seventies he performed occasionally with the Portsmouth Sinfonia, an orchestra founded by a group of students from the Portsmouth School of Art, open to anyone, especially people without musical training or professional musicians who were prepared to play an instrument that was entirely new to them. Gavin Bryars was a founding member and others joining in included Michael Nyman, Tom Phillips and Brian Eno.
Flanagan's early practice was performative, either literally or through the embodiment of the processes by which works were realised. This is most evident in works like Grass 1, 2 and 3 (1967), and the fingerprint drawings (1970) – bearing the trace of his bodily presence – and his three surviving films from 1969-70: a hole in the sea, sand girl and bollards project. sand girl is, more or less, the documentation of a performance in which the artist pours sand over St Martins student Cheryll Potter, lying naked on his studio floor. The movement and accumulation of the sand is sexy, mesmerising and finally we see Potter slowly standing up and walking away to leave not only an imprint of her body, but also the trace of Flanagan's action. In both bollards project and hole in the sea we actually see the artist intervening on a London pavement and in the North Sea. Very deliberately he is making work that clearly conveys the idea that artistic production is performance, rather than obscuring a process in order to suggest a work of art as a hermetic phenomenon. This applies as much to the art object – and, significantly, Flanagan is well known for his rejection of Greenberg's formalism – as to the involvement of others as a kind of performance.
Large Troubador, 2004
Bronze Kg 480 / lbs 959
AC2 from an edition of 8 plus 3 ACs
He was quite clear about this in statements he made around 1980. In a note handwritten on the occasion of the unveiling of a public sculpture in Gent, he expressed the hope that it would "stand also for the cooperation between sculptor & engineer & the individual at work, together … an idea exploring a discipline of choreography in an industrial context at work."[4] He had just started to work in bronze at that time and was fascinated by the business of working with a foundry or, as he put it, "the alchemy of the theatre of the group with my particular input as author and with the communal skills of the foundry that I do not control or direct. It's a theatrical group."[5]
The hero of Flanagan's bronze sculptures is the hare, a quixotic creature loaded with symbolic meaning. Undoubtedly the artist was encouraging us to identify him with his hares. To begin with, we saw them either leaping or standing upright, but gradually they became more expressive through their movements and gestures, suggestive of allegory and/or a psychological state. They performed: they danced (wildly) and drummed, juggled and went to all kinds of athletic extremes. In counter distinction to such Dionysian activity, Flanagan developed the role of troubadour for the hare. A cross between Rodin's Thinker and the figure in Durer's Melancholia, he is a travelling poet reminding us of the transience of love in a medieval kind of way, ultimately of our mortality. We see him in this exhibition as The Port Pusher (1990), the quiet one in Monument (1996), Thinker on Torso (2006) and Troubador (2002, incidentally with cello). This was the role that Flanagan was playing in the Mantra of the awoken powers. "Quite old", according to Sexton – actually 57, not too old, but then not in denial about the inevitability of death – he was performing in the company of others, something that he loved to do, with a receptive audience. He was reciting lines that could not have been more appropriate:
[he] then thought the thoughts I thought that I never thought
then made the promises I made that I never made
then broke the hearts I broke that I never broke
then kissed the lips I kissed that I never kissed
and I was alive though he was dead
and I moved though he was still
and I remain though he remaineth not
Le Penseur in the Musée Rodin in Paris
Melancholia by Albrecht Dürer, 1514
Header image: Mantra of the Awoken Powers Performance at Whelan's Bar, Dublin on Saturday 2 May, 1998. The Estate of Barry Flanagan courtesy Plubronze.
Flan Flanagan, 'That's my dad: Barry Flanagan II', Tate etc, 1 September 2011
Bob Neilson, 'Sex and drugs and rock 'n roll – hold the drugs, side order of poetry: the John W. Sexton Interview', Mostly Fiction – Some Lies, blog, posted 21 March 2013
Letter to Leslie Waddington, October 1994, Barry Flanagan, Waddington Galleries, 2003
Barry Flanagan, Handwritten note, Kunst in Europa na'68, June 1980, p. 110
Interview with Adrian Dannatt, The Art Newspaper, no.145. March 2004
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AE 528 – My Country: Migrants Learn Aussie Slang Faster Than English-Speaking Migrants
Learn about Australian English, news, and current affairs in this episode of My Country on the Aussie English Podcast where I talk about a recent article that talks about migrants learning Aussie slang.
Good morning, guys! What's going on? I have an article here for you today, this is a good one. This is a pretty interesting one and I think you guys are going to be happy to hear this so, "Non-English-Speaking Migrants Catch On Quickly to Aussie Lingo". So, it was a really good article talking about how migrants who come to Australia and don't speak English as their first language, actually pick up slang terms and slang expressions in Australian English. The kind of Aussie lingo that Aussies use faster than English speaking migrants who come here. So, let's check it out.
"The unique Australian lexicon can be confusing for the uninitiated, but new research has actually found that non-English-speaking migrants pick up the local dialect quicker than their English speaking counterparts".
So, that's pretty interesting and I guess it shows that if you already speak English, you're less concerned with learning slang, learning, you know, local expressions, you can already communicate, you're less phase about it whereas obviously if you are a migrant from overseas who doesn't speak English as your first language and you're learning English as your second language, you're much more likely to dive in and try and learn some of these expressions and slang terms.
"Fair shake of the sauce bottle". "Blow the froth off a few". "Carry on like a pork chop". There are turns-of-phrase that can be baffling for many not least of all those who are freshly arrived in the country. The origins of such curious terms have been lost to most in the mists of time, but it appears those without an English-speaking background are not at all scared to jump into this linguistic melting pot".
So, I mean this is a really cool thing to see, right? Because as an English teacher and as someone who teaches Australian English, I'm always encouraging my students to learn Australian slang, to learn Australian expressions, to really dive in and absorb the culture and try and be like the native speakers.
Obviously, you're never going to be a native English Australian speaker, right? You weren't born here. You don't speak it since you were a baby, you haven't spoken it since you were a baby, but it means a lot when you try and dive into the culture, when you try and pick up these slang expressions, when you try and learn these slang words and vocabulary and you really try and take this culture on in your own, right?
It means a lot to us and I think, I think it's the same anywhere no matter the way you've migrated to, people can… they feel a lot more comfortable when you're speaking like they are, right? No matter what language it is, I'm sure if you're a foreigner going somewhere and learning that language, if you work your arse off to really pick up the nuances, the expression the locals used to speak like the locals, even though it's obvious you're not a local, it really means a lot to those people and it makes them feel more comfortable and obviously Australia is no different.
So, researchers at the Australian National University School of Literature Language and Linguistics have found that migrants learning English as their second language use these Aussie words and phrases at the same rate, at the same rate as Australian born people. Wow! That's really cool.
So, lead study author Dr. Ksenia Gnevsheva, hopefully I saw that correctly, although I doubt it, said that participants were shown 50 items that have distinctly Australian or American references. All of these objects have different names in Australia and Australian and English and American English. For instance, the ice cooler, you would call it 'esky' in Australia and Americans would probably call it 'a cooler' or 'lollies' and 'candy', 'flip-flops' versus 'thongs', and so on and so forth, she's told CBS News.
The study involved testing for groups of people in Australia, native Russian speakers who's first working exposure to the English language was here. American migrants who experience Australian English as their second English dialect, native Russian speakers who had lived in America before coming to Australia and native Australian speakers. That's an interesting, It's interesting that they just kept it to Russians, though I guess, you know, you want to control for everything like that.
While the American group adopted the Australian descriptor for the objects just 20 percent of the time, so only one in five Americans actually start using these slang terms, as many as eight out of ten Russian speakers, sorry, Russians speaking English as their second language opted for the Australianisms.
That's brilliant! So, almost 80 percent or 80 percent or more, right? Their language was actually more malleable than that of native speakers in English the American English speakers because they acquired and used more Australian English words. There is no such an emotional connection? Ah, there is no such emotional connection to words for the second language speakers so, they are obviously not too fazed with holding on to the original word or whatever, they'll let it go and they'll pick up the new one.
"It's all about communication. They use the words that first come to mind. In a second test, the same four groups listen to words spoken in Australian and American accents and were asked if they were real or not. And once again the group with English as a Second Language was best at identifying them correctly. More evidence of their ability to adapt well and what Dr. Gnevesheva's own linguistics preferences when it comes to the local dialect. My favourite Australianism I think is Lolli, she laughed, I like the word 'lollies' so like the way it sounds".
Anyway, really cool article, guy's, really cool article and this is obviously evidence, this scientific study is obviously evidence that you guys can learn slang, you can learn slang expressions and in fact you're more likely to learn these slang expressions and really absorb the culture that you dive into, that you, you know, you migrate into Australia you're more likely to pick it up than native speakers of English from other countries, you know, and that's a 20 percent to 80 percent difference so, that's pretty crazy, right? Four out of five of you are likely to pick up Australianisms, Australian slang, whereas if you're from America, Britain New Zealand only one in five people are likely to pick up Australianisms.
Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed this one, guys! It's an interesting article. Check it out. Have a read and I'll see you soon! Peace!
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AE 405 – Interview: Moving to France & Starting a Podcast on Paris with Oliver Gee
Learn Australian English in this Aussie English Podcast interview episode with Oliver Gee who talks about moving to France and starting a podcast on Paris.…
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