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Interview With Lycanthro (James Delbridge)
Q: Greetings from Metalheads Forever Magazine, I'm Keith the editorial head, how are you guys doing?
A: Hi Keith! We are doing alright all things considered. Here in Ontario, we are still in lockdown which sucks but we've been doing everything we can to stay productive.
Q: On June 4th, you have decided to release your first full-length album "Mark Of The Wolf" can you tell a bit about the album in terms of songwriting and production behind it?
A: Well, this album really encapsulates the sound and feel of the band from the early days when we 1st started up to now. In terms of songwriting, a lot of these songs were written as far back as when the band 1st started. Songs like the lead single "Crucible", "Into Oblivion", and "Ride the Dragon" were tracks that were on our original demo when we 1st started but we felt as though that these songs deserved a recording with much higher production value than they originally had. Production value is something we made a point to focus on with this release. One of the main criticisms we got on our previous releases is that the songwriting was good but the production value was lacking, so we really wanted to emphasize the improved production on this release by hiring some amazing names to mix and master this album (Jason Jaknunas & Jack Kosto) and we think they did this album a great justice. Overall, the main thing we want listeners to take away from this album is that it's very diverse. There are elements from this album that metalheads from all walks of life can enjoy and that's our main goal.
Q: Can you tell me a bit about the cover art for Mark Of The Wolf, what was the concept set behind it?
A: The art was done by a very talented Italian artist by the name of Velio Josto. I came across his work originally because he had done some really impressive art for some big underground metal bands like Riot V, Enforcer, and Iron Angel. I really loved his really "80s movie poster" style of art along with his extreme attention to detail. Usually when we come up with album art, ill do a rough sketch of what we want and give it to our chosen artist and tell him to make it look better and add their own flair to it and he did that in spades. He added so many details to the art that I never would've thought up myself like for example, the mountain path and waterfall on each side of the werewolf, as well as the marl of the wolf appearing in the sky behind the werewolf. Those little touches really made the cover for us and overall we would say he's a top-tier artist and would recommend him to anyone!
Q: The album's entirety is done amazingly well, Thrash metal with some elements of Power Metal and lots of melody added to it, makes it sound amazing with a signature sound of Lycanthro, how as a band do you feel about the outcome of the album?
A: It came out a lot better than we initially expected. The process of creating this album was definitely an effort that took lots of blood, sweat, and tears and had many obstacles. We had to cut 2 songs and there was lots of time invested into each remaining song to make them the best they could be, in some cases at the expense of our sanity. But with the end product, it ended up sounding a lot better than we could've ever anticipated and we are very humbled and grateful for the response it has garnered so far.
Q: Bringing the old school metal back on scene, how is the reception from the fans?
A: So far it was a lot better than we were expecting! We were kind of nervous because we haven't put out anything in 3 years but overall the response has been a very humbling experience. From what we've seen the fans have only great things to say about the album and it has been very reaffirming knowing how much work went into this release. Adding to that we have seen all varieties of metalheads liking the material, which was our goal from the start to create a very diverse-sounding album.
Q: Can you tell me how it all started for Lycanthro?
A: Lycanthro started from the ashes of my old high school band that was called Death Wish. When that band broke up and I formed the band that would eventually become Lycanthro, we kept the name Death Wish for the first few months of the band's existence. I was in college at the time and there was a record store that I used to frequent that was near my bus stop when I was going to college. One day I was flipping through the metal section and I found an album that was called "At the Edge of Damnation" and it was by a British band also called Death Wish. So, I called up the guys saying we had to change the name due to me finding that record in a local record store (even though that band hasn't been active since the early 90s). When coming up with a new name, I wanted something that had to do with Wolves or Werewolves and at the same time have a name that no other band in the world has. I stumbled upon the name Lycanthrope (which is the "scientific" term for a werewolf), but I found that there were a bunch of bands called that. So, I took the "PE" off and thought it had a nice ring to it, as well as looking into it and finding no band in the world called Lycanthro. So that is how Lycanthro came to be.
Q: What would be the next plans for the band?
A: Once we are able to, touring is a big priority for us. Before the pandemic, we were supposed to go on our very 1st tour across Canada to Vancouver to play the Hyperspace Metal Festival. As far as we know we are still booked on that festival so we plan on picking up where we left off. In terms of new music, we are currently demoing a new EP that we wrote during the lockdown and we plan on going into the studio for that before the end of the year. The new material is way different than what you will hear on "Mark of the Wolf" but it still sounds like Lycanthro. We are really excited to get these projects going once we are able to without any restrictions from covid.
Q: You have shared stage with some of the iconic bands around the world, can you share a few of those experiences with me?
A: It has been absolutely surreal to be able to share the stage with such legendary names in our genre. Hammerfall, Battle Beast, Unleash the Archers, and Diamond Head are just some of the names we have had the privilege to play with. Some of the most memorable experiences from those shows aside from playing were meeting those bands and getting to know them and pick their brains. The memorable one I can think of is when we opened with Battle Beast, I had gotten to the venue to help them load their gear in. when that was done next thing I knew I was in the green room talking to Noora from Battle Beast! We talked vocals for 2 hours and it was such a memorable experience to be able to get to know a musician you look up to on such a formal level.
Q: What would be some of the greatest moments for the band?
A: I would have to say one of our greatest moments would be when we opened for Unleash the Archers in Ottawa. They came and played our local metal venue which was a 300-person venue, not only did they sell it out, but it was the only time I had ever seen people lining up around the block to see them. When we actually played, it was so surreal to play to a venue at full capacity and with such a top-tier band in our genre. Adding to that it was easily the best crowd we've ever had, everyone loved the set and it was a really humbling and reaffirming experience. Another moment I can say is when we played the November Mayhem fest in St. Johns Newfoundland. It's the only show where we actually got flown in to play which was really cool. Also, as with the Unleash the Archers show, we got to play to a 400-person full house and the crowd once again was incredible! Overall, those 2 are the great moments that come to mind due to the overall importance of those shows and how they shaped as a band going forward from them.
Q: Music is ever evolving, has taken diverse when it comes to the genre of metal, everyday a new genre is coming out, but some fans still love the old school way, how as a band do you cater the needs for all the fans?
A: Well, we as a band firmly believe that you have to be diverse not only to stand out but also to keep your music from becoming stale. The band that we always look at as the perfect example of this was Queen. Queen never wrote the same song twice, but they always sounded like Queen. We in Lycanthro try to follow that same formula with our music. We never want to write the same song twice and even on our upcoming album, all the songs are completely different while still fitting under the power/melodic metal umbrella. We think that more bands should strive to achieve that as well. Overall, musical diversity is the key to cater to the needs of all of the fans, while at the same time staying true to yourself.
Q: Finally what is the message for the fans?
A: Thank you all so much for the support we have gotten for this album, all of your kind words mean more than you can ever know! If you haven't always please follow us on Spotify, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube etc and please DM us on any of our social media and let us know what you think of the album! Thanks for having us and stay metal my friends!
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Opinion|Will the Court Stand Up to Donald Trump?
Will the Court Stand Up to Donald Trump?
By The Editorial Board
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The first full term of the Supreme Court in the Trump era is wrapping up with a lawsuit that epitomizes the nature of the person occupying the Oval Office.
On Wednesday the justices will hear oral arguments in the final and perhaps biggest case of the term — Trump v. Hawaii, a challenge to the legality and constitutionality of President Trump's travel ban, which indefinitely bars 150 million people, a vast majority of them Muslim, from entering the United States.
The ban, now in its third iteration, is ostensibly about protecting national security, but it has been steeped from the start in the reactionary xenophobia at the heart of Mr. Trump's campaign and presidency. It was issued with a procedural sloppiness and lack of attention to detail that Americans have come to expect from an administration that can't issue even a news release mourning the death of a former first lady without getting the date wrong. And the limits continue to be hawked as a necessary defense against terrorist attacks despite the lack of any evidence that they would improve on the careful legal framework Congress adopted to handle national security issues related to immigration.
To its credit, the White House has learned from its early missteps. The original order, which landed one week after Mr. Trump took office and barred entry by all citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries, was marked by such haste and dubious reasoning that it ran into immediate trouble with federal judges across the country, not to mention intense public outcry. The White House retracted it and issued a slightly amended version in March 2017, but that one didn't fare much better. In September, Mr. Trump tried once again, issuing the proclamation that is now before the court.
It bars entry into the United States by most citizens of six countries with "inadequate" security protocols — Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, along with some groups from Venezuela. (Chad was originally on the list but was removed this month.) The administration says it came up with the list after a "worldwide review," but it has not shared the underlying evidence with any court.
Particularly in the absence of such evidence, it's worth noting that no citizen of any country on the list has carried out a fatal terrorist attack on American soil in the last two decades. In contrast, Saudi Arabia is not on the list, even though 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudi nationals.
Could the president be privy to information the rest of us are not? Of course he could. And yet somehow it's hard to have confidence that a man who appears to get his daily intelligence briefing from "Fox & Friends" is particularly concerned with the details of the global war on terrorism. Anyway, no matter how much he tries to finesse this order, the underlying question for the court remains the same: Does the president have the legal authority to issue this ban?
He clearly does not, according to the federal appeals court for the Ninth Circuit, which issued the December decision that the Supreme Court is now reviewing. A three-judge panel of the appeals court ruled that while federal immigration law gives the president the authority to temporarily bar certain classes of noncitizens from entering, a sweeping, indefinite ban like Mr. Trump's exceeds that authority. In addition, a civil-rights-era law prohibits discrimination based on nationality in the issuing of immigrant visas. Finally, the administration has not claimed there is any emergency and has given no rationale for why letting in people from these particular countries would harm the United States.
The government's response to the courts is, in short, butt out. Mr. Trump can exclude whomever he wants in order to protect the country from attack, and no judge may second-guess him. That's an astonishing claim of unchecked executive authority. It also contradicts the structure of federal immigration law, which is the province of Congress. No one is saying that the president is powerless to protect the nation from attack. What they are saying is that he must do so without violating the law or the Constitution.
Speaking of the Constitution, and especially of the First Amendment's establishment clause, anyone with a passing awareness of American politics knows what's at the root of the travel ban: Mr. Trump's special animus against Muslims, which he's been nursing at least since December 2015. That's when he called for a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the country until we "can figure out what is going on." Since then he has given his lawyers a constant headache by tweeting regularly about the ban, saying just days before the latest version that it should be "far larger, tougher and more specific," but that this would be "politically incorrect." In case anyone was still unclear about where he stands, last November the president retweeted inflammatory videos from a fringe ultranationalist group in Britain showing Muslims purportedly engaged in violence. (The videos were, as Mr. Trump likes to say, fake news.)
From this angle, the travel ban looks a lot like Mr. Trump's other attempts to weaponize the federal government in the service of his own personal vendettas. Remember the election integrity commission? An entire operation created solely to justify the president's false claims that millions of people voted illegally in 2016. The commission folded in January without making any findings of fraud. In the case of the travel ban, Mr. Trump is surrounded by anti-immigrant hard-liners, including his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who donated one of his favorite staffers, a zealot named Stephen Miller, to help draft the ban.
In truth, the latest proclamation functions as little more than legal backfill "to legitimize a presidential command that was born of animus, persists in animus, and seeks to make animus the law of the land," as a supporting brief says.
That brief is one of many the court has received arguing against the ban; more than four times as many briefs oppose the ban as support it. They come from immigrants'-rights groups and anti-discrimination advocates, naturally, but also from business and legal leaders, scholars of constitutional and international law, conservatives and liberals and libertarians, cities and states — and, notably, former national security and military officials, who warn that by encouraging the perception that the United States is anti-Muslim, it "jeopardizes the stability of the support that the United States receives from its allies, erodes essential good will, makes it more difficult for the United States to win hearts and minds abroad."
This leads the justices to a thornier question: What to do with a president like Mr. Trump? Should they simply ignore everything he's said? Are they holding him to a different standard than previous presidents? That's hard to answer, because no past president behaved like Mr. Trump. In its brief to the justices, the administration argues that the court must not engage in "judicial psychoanalysis of a drafter's heart of hearts." But there's no need to get Mr. Trump on a couch. He's said over and over exactly what he thinks.
The Supreme Court has been faced with situations like this before. In World War II, it bowed to claims of unfettered executive authority and allowed American citizens to be locked up for years simply because of their Japanese heritage. It was a shameful moment for the court and for the United States. Today, in the face of an executive order again based on racial animus and unfounded fears, the justices have the chance to deliver a very different message about executive power, and the meaning of America.
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One Couple's Journey to Complete Their Family with American Adoptions
By: Jay, adoptive father
Before our second biological child was born, my wife Tiffany told me, "I can't do this again." Her pregnancies caused her a lot of physical and mental anguish that were huge stressors on both of us. But, we both felt some disappointment; even before we were married, we had talked about wanting three children. We had purchased a home with a third child's bedroom, and I knew it would never feel complete until they were all filled with children.
It didn't take long for us to start discussing adoption. It felt like it only took minutes for us to get excited about it and to start investigating it further. Almost immediately after our son was born, we started the process of planning for our next baby. We read books and blogs and discussed our options among international or domestic adoption. We quickly settled on American Adoptions because of their scale and their insurance system.
We are both "planners" and like to have a lot of our lives organized well in advance. Adoption really challenged that part of us. We joked sometimes that we'd rather wait five years but know exactly when we would meet our baby than deal with the constant uncertainty of waiting for a match. The agency would occasionally contact us about a potential match — a match slightly outside our profile preferences, where they were trying to put together a sufficient portfolio to present the birth family. We were open to all of these but would go through a brief emotional rollercoaster: learning a little bit about a birth mother and her situation and struggles, spending a few days on pins and needles, but eventually hearing "not this time." We also had one match and got as far as wiring our adoption funds, but had the match get quickly disrupted before we even had a call with the birth mother.
During our 18-month wait, we would sometimes tell each other, "Our baby might be out there right now — we just haven't found out about her yet." And, indeed, that was the case: after a long wait, we got a sudden call one April day.
"There's a baby. She's two days old. The birth mother chose you. Get on a plane."
Meeting Our Ashley
In a whirlwind, we packed and booked flights and somehow got our family of four (with my mother-in-law in tow) onto a plane to Florida within four hours of receiving the call. I cancelled work commitments and our RSVP to a friend's wedding that weekend. Late that night, we checked into a hotel near the hospital.
The next few days held a lot of big developments. We met the birth parents, and soon after, met and held our precious baby daughter Ashley. The birth parents signed their adoption consents, and we received initial placement. The hospital started looking to us for decisions about her medical care. She was full-term but experiencing withdrawal symptoms from substance use by her birth mother. While her long-term prognosis was great, she was going to need a lengthy NICU stay to be slowly weaned off of medication.
I remember being fearful of how I'd instinctively react to an adopted child. Would I love them the same way as my biological children? Would it feel as real, as quickly?
For me, the bond was almost instant. As soon as we received placement and the hospital started treating us like parents, that's what we were. There was nobody else around to love this baby, to hold her, to care for her the way we could. Being her parent isn't about whose genes she has; it's about who cradles her when she's crying and needs comfort. Our parenting for her is every bit as real as for the children who share our DNA.
Her doctors reminded us that the best way to help her manage the withdrawal was to hold her and love her. We tried to keep an adult with her about 12 hours a day, while the other adults tried to keep our older kids entertained and out of trouble. After three weeks, the older kids were craving consistency and routine, so we opted to send Tiffany and Grammy back home with them. I moved into the Ronald McDonald House one block from the hospital and took on full-time care for Ashley. After a 40-day NICU stay she was released, and around a week later, the Florida courts cleared us to take her home.
Ashley has been thriving since then. She's very small, but healthy, energetic, and social. She overwhelms us with ready smiles and absolutely adores her siblings. Although she cried and struggled a lot in the hospital, she rarely cries now except when something is really wrong — when she's hungry, poopy, or tired. And at 7 months old, she consistently sleeps 12 hours through the night, which is a huge relief to her tired parents.
Our Open Adoption
Our daughter's birth parents wanted an open adoption. When we met at the hospital, it was clear that they loved her dearly. They both had older children, but Ashley was the first girl for either, and she obviously held a special place in their hearts. Although they weren't in a position to parent her, they obviously wanted the best for her. We gave her two middle names, after the names they had given her.
Before researching adoption, we, like many prospective adoptive families, were a little nervous at the prospect of an open adoption. But, as we learned more about it and the positive impact it has on both the birth parents and the adopted child, we were prepared and excited for an open adoption.
The birth parents were only able to manage one more hospital visit after the day when they signed their consent papers, but the birth mother will text us periodically and ask for pictures. We've been trying to find a balance between proactively sending her pictures of her beautiful baby and giving her space to deal with the emotions around adoption without our interference. We have a timeshare at Disney World and expect to have periodic opportunities for face-to-face visits in Florida. Although we're anxious about how this unique relationship will unfold over time, we're glad Ashley will have some access to her birth family and to the stories about how she came to be with us.
Although this journey has been full of ups and downs, we're so happy with where we ended up. We've finally completed our perfect family with a perfect baby girl. Although not every detail was exactly how our family of "planners" would have planned it, we're so content and overjoyed with where we ended up.


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John Duncan (in manchen Büchern fälschlicherweise als John McKirdy verzeichnet; * 19. Juli 1866 in Dundee; † 1945 in Edinburgh) war ein schottischer Maler, Illustrator, Glaskünstler und Designer des Symbolismus.

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Ausbildung und erste Italienreise
John Duncan war der Sohn des Lebensmittelhändlers William Gardiner Duncan und der Weberin Helen Thomson. Mit elf Jahren besuchte Duncan die Dundee School of Art. Später, vermutlich ab 1879, zeichnete er für die monatlich erscheinende sozialpolitische Comic-Zeitung The Wizard of the North. Gleichzeitig lieferte er Illustrationen für den Dundee Advertiser. Etwa 1885 siedelte er nach London um, wo er drei weitere Jahre als Buchillustrator tätig war. Duncan entschied sich für eine Karriere als Porträtmaler und besuchte kurzzeitig die Kunstschulen in Antwerpen und Düsseldorf, bevor er 1890 nach Dundee zurückkehrte. Im selben Jahr begann er seine erste Italienreise, die ihn über die Zwischenstationen London und Paris durch Rom, Florenz, Lucca, Bologna und Venedig führte. Vermutlich kehrte er im Frühjahr 1891 nach Schottland zurück.

1891 oder 1892 freundete sich Duncan mit dem Botaniker und Soziologen Patrick Geddes an. Zusammen mit William Gordon Burn-Murdoch lieferte er das künstlerische Material für dessen Seminare ("Summer Meetings"). Außerdem war er als Illustrator für die von Geddes gegründete Patrick Geddes Colleagues and Company tätig. Seine für die auf keltische Literatur und Kunst spezialisierte Zeitschrift The Evergreen (1895) angefertigten Arbeiten zeigen deutliche Einflüsse der japanischen Druckkunst. Außerdem beteiligte sich Duncan an Geddes' Old Edinburgh School of Art, die ab etwa 1893 aktiv war, und bildete dort vier Mitarbeiterinnen aus. Er fertigte vor allem dekorative Kunstwerke und einige Porträts an. Enttäuscht war Duncan, als Geddes 1895 allmählich das Interesse an diesem Projekt verlor. 1896 oder 1897 wurde die Schule mangels ausreichend Kunden geschlossen, und 1898 kehrte Duncan nach Dundee zurück.

Dundee und Chicago
Als Mitglied der Dundee Graphic Arts Association kam Duncan mit praktisch allen lokalen Künstlern in Kontakt. Er wurde zu einem der 20 Gründungsmitglieder einer neuen Arts and Crafts Society in Glasgow ernannt. 1898 gab er an der Young Men's Christian Association Unterricht über keltische Ornamentierung. Die Hoffnung Duncans, einen Platz an Robert Rowand Andersons School of Applied Art in Edinburgh zu erlangen, wurde durch den finanziellen Ruin der Schule 1899 zerstört. Im Frühling 1900 vermittelte Geddes ihm jedoch eine mit 3000 US-Dollar pro Jahr bezahlte Stelle als Kunstlehrer am Chicago Institute (später: University of Chicago School of Education) unter der Leitung von Francis Wayland Parker.

Nachdem er Geddes noch bei der Organisation eines Seminars in Paris geholfen hatte, fuhr Duncan Ende August 1900 nach Chicago. Von den unreifen Studenten enttäuscht und mangels ausreichend Freizeit kehrte er 1904 nach Edinburgh zurück, wo er ein Atelier im Westen der Stadt mietete.

Edinburgh und zweite Italienreise
In Edinburgh widmete sich Duncan vollständig der Malerei. Sein im Stil der Präraffaeliten gehaltenes Werk Hymn to the Rose (1907) wurde in der Society of Scottish Artists, das Ölgemälde Angus Og (1908) in der Royal Scottish Academy ausgestellt. Auf einer Reise nach London im Februar 1910 war er von der Natürlichkeit der Gemälde Gustave Moreaus angetan und versuchte nunmehr, einen ähnlichen Effekt in seinen Arbeiten zu erzielen. In Edinburgh wurde Duncan zum außerordentlichen Mitglied der Royal Scottish Academy gewählt, sodass er sich sicher sein konnte, dass seine Werke in Zukunft ausgestellt werden würden. 1911 stellte er sein erstes größeres Werk in Tempera, The Riders of the Sidhe, fertig (das erste malte er 1910 und stellte den Kopf der Venus dar).

Im April 1911 reiste Duncan zum zweiten Mal nach Italien und besuchte zuerst Florenz. Dort hatte er Gelegenheit, sich mit anderen Künstlern über Temperamalerei zu unterhalten und einige Tücken dieser Technik kennenzulernen. Von den Fresken in der Kirche San Marco war Duncan besonders beeindruckt.

Zu Duncans Schülern, die er in seinem Atelier empfing, gehörten Joyce Cary, Stanley Cursiter und Cecile Walton. Weitere Künstler, die sich in seinem Atelier trafen, waren unter anderem Stewart Carmichael, Alec Grieve und George Dutch Davidson. 1912 heiratete Duncan die damals 26-jährige Christine Allen und zog daraufhin in ein Haus in St Bernard's Crescent im Stadtteil Stockbridge um. Hier arbeitete und lebte er bis zu seinem Lebensende. Während des Ersten Weltkriegs geriet Duncan in Geldnot.

Späte Jahre
In den 1920er Jahren verbesserte sich Duncans finanzielle Situation. Von 1919 bis 1922 lehrte er an der Royal Scottish Academy School of Painting. Ein Jahr danach präsentierte er das Gemälde Ivory, Apes and Peacocks und wurde daraufhin zum vollständigen Mitglied der Royal Scottish Academy ernannt. Von 1925 bis zu seinem Tod arbeitete er dort auch als Bibliothekar. Er erhielt zunehmend Aufträge für Altargemälde und Glasfenster. Duncans Ehe verlief unglücklich. 1925 verließ ihn seine Frau und ging zusammen mit den zwei Kindern nach Südafrika, worauf Duncan die Scheidung einreichte.

Ende der 1920er Jahre begann Duncan eine anhaltende und platonische Freundschaft mit der Dichterin Bessie MacArthur. In den 1930er Jahren malte er einige Bilder mit nur subtilen Farbvariationen, von ihm auch "farbiges Monochrom" genannt. Zu Duncans Freude kehrte seine jüngere Tochter Vivian zurück, um in Edinburgh Medizin zu studieren, und wohnte fortan bei ihm. 1941 fand in der National Gallery of Scotland eine Ausstellung von Duncans Werken statt – damit war er der erste lebende Künstler, dem diese Ehre zuteilwurde. Ein Raum allein war seinen Entwürfen für Glasfenster vorbehalten.

Werk
Stilistisch ähneln Duncans Werke denen der Symbolisten Pierre Puvis de Chavannes und Gustave Moreau sowie des Präraffaeliten Edward Burne-Jones. Duncan war in der schottischen Kunst der wichtigste Förderer von Motiven aus der keltischen Mythologie, er widmete sich aber auch biblischen Szenen und Themen aus der griechischen Mythologie. Die dekorative Qualität eines Gemäldes hatte für ihn höchsten Stellenwert, auch wenn er dieses Ideal nicht immer so konsequent wie etwa bei St. Bride (1913) verfolgte. Stuchtey bezeichnet Duncans Gemälde als "in der Themenwahl, der dekorativen und zunehmend verfeinerten Darstellungsweise und der technischen Fertigkeit außergewöhnlich und einzigartig in der schottischen Kunst der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts". Duncans Werke befinden sich vor allem in schottischen Museen.

Duncan war mit der Ölmalerei und mit rauen Maluntergründen unzufrieden. Ab 1910 malte er in Tempera, was zeitaufwändig und mühsam war. Für die Emulsion verwendete er Eigelb, etwas Wasser und Mastix und variierte die Bestandteile, wobei er immer wieder von technischen Problemen geplagt war. Erst nach jahrelangem Experimentieren gelang es ihm, eine verlässliche und zufrieden stellende Zusammensetzung zu finden. Wasserfarben lehnte er für größere Bilder ab, da sie ihm zu substanzlos erschienen. Er verwendete sie aber wegen ihrer Einfachheit für Entwürfe oder wenn er unterwegs war. Zeitweilig lavierte er auch mit Wasserfarben auf einem Gessogrund.

Duncan schätzte unter anderem Gustave Doré, die byzantinische Kunst und die italienische Renaissance, vor allem Sandro Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Andrea Mantegna und Carlo Crivelli. Am Impressionismus beklagte er die schlechte technische Ausführung.

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Advocacy law firm, Public Counsel, filed a lawsuit against the state of California Tuesday for not doing enough for the many children who can't read.
According to recent English assessments, less than half of California students met the state's literacy standards for their grade. The lawsuit cites that 11 of the 26 lowest performing districts in the United States are in California.
"When it comes to literacy and the delivery of basic education, California is dragging down the nation," said Public Counsel lawyer Mark Rosenbaum, who sued along with the law firm Morrison & Foerster.
The law suit in particular accused state education officials of ignoring a 2012 report by experts they brought in to evaluate literacy in the schools.
The report said that California schools need to address the language and literacy development of California's underserved populations and create new approaches to reading instruction, early screening and remedial help.
Unfortunately, these recommendations weren't executed and California students still suffer from illiteracy.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit include former and current teachers and students at Van Buren Elementary School and La Salle Elementary School in Stockton and Children of Promise Preparatory Academy in Inglewood.
The lawsuit claims students in one charter school class had to listen to an audio version of a social studies lesson because they couldn't read the lesson themselves. Some of the students even burst out crying when they were asked to read out loud in class.
Eleven-year-old Katie T., a plaintiff in the case, only read at a third grade level when she finished the fifth grade at La Salle Elementary School. The lawsuit claims no one helped Katie with her reading.
David Moch, another plaintiff in the case, said that teachers weren't properly trained on how to help students with poor reading skills. He taught at La Salle Elementary School for 18 years and said that he sometimes used kindergarten reading tools to help third and fifth graders improve their reading skills.
The lawsuit asks for better teacher training and more resources for teachers. It also calls for the state to help schools implement proven methods of literacy instruction once students are found to have difficulty reading.
The state currently doesn't have a plan to evaluate every school's literacy instruction. Rosenbaum said that the state doesn't have an accountability system to assure literacy is being delivered.
Rosenbaum added that when the state has a system of literacy instruction in place, it won't be necessary to have kids repeat grades, suspensions and expulsions will go down and there will be a lower teacher turnover.
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Q: python3 - broken pipe error when using socket.send() I am programming a client-server instant message program. I created a similar program in Python 2, and am trying to program it in Python 3. The problem is when the server takes the message and tries to send it to the other client, it gives me "[Errno 32] Broken Pipe" and exits.
I have done some research, and found that this occurs when the client disconnects, so I did some more testing but could not find when the client disconnects. (I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and Python 3.4)
Here is the server code:
import socket, select, sys

def broadcast(sock, messaged):
    for socket in connection_list:
        if socket != s and socket != sock:
        # Here is where it gives me the broken pipe error
            try:
                s.send(messaged.encode("utf-8"))
            except BrokenPipeError as e:
                print(e)
                sys.exit()
connection_list = []
host = ''
port = 5558

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
s.bind((host,port))
s.listen(5)

connection_list.append(s)
read_sockets,write_sockets,error_sockets = select.select(connection_list,[],[])
while True:
    for sock in read_sockets:
        if sock == s:
            conn, addr = s.accept()
            connection_list.append(conn)
            client = "Client (%s,%s) connected" % addr
            print(client)
            broadcast(sock,client)

        else:
            try:
                data = sock.recv(2048)
                decodeddata = data.decode("utf-8")
                if data:
                    broadcast(sock, decodeddata)
            except:
                offline = "Client " + addr + "is offline"
                broadcast(sock, offline)
                print(offline)
                connection_list.remove(sock)
                sock.close()
                continue

And the client code:
import socket, select, string, sys, time

def prompt(data) :
     print("<You> " + data)
def Person(data) :
    print("<Receiver> " + data)

if __name__ == "__main__":

    host = "localhost"
    port = 5558

    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    s.settimeout(2)

    try:
        s.connect((host,port))
    except:
        print('Unable to connect')
        sys.exit()
    print('Connected.')
    socket_list = [s]
    read_sockets,write_sockets,error_sockets = select.select(socket_list,[],[])
    while 1:
        for sock in read_sockets:
            if sock == s:
                try:
                    time.sleep(1)
                    data = sock.recv(1024)
                    Person(data.decode("utf-8"))
                except:
                    msg = input("Send a message: ")
                    try:
                        s.send(str.encode(msg))
                    except:
                        print("Server is offline")
                        sys.exit()

            else:
                print("Server is offline")
                sys.exit()

A: There are two problems that you have to fix to make this work.
First, on both the client side and the server side, you have to put the select inside the loop, not outside. Otherwise, if there was something to read before you got to the loop, you'll recv over and over, and if there wasn't, you'll never recv. Once you fix this, you can get rid of the time.sleep(1). (You should never need a sleep to solve a problem like this; at best it masks the problem, and usually introduces new ones.)
Meanwhile, on the server side, inside broadcast, you're doing s.send. But s is your listener socket, not a connected client socket. You want socket.send here, because socket is each socket in connection_list.

There are a number of unrelated problems in your code as well. For example:

*

*I'm not sure what the except: in the client is supposed to be catching. What it mainly seems to catch is that, about 50% of the time, hitting ^C to end the program triggers the send prompt. But of course, like any bare except:, it also masks any other problems with your code.

*There's no way to send any data back and forth other than the "connected" message except for that except: clause.

*addr is a tuple of host and port, so when someone goes offline, the server raises a TypeError from trying to format the offline message.

*addr is always the last client who connected, not the one who's disconnecting.

*You're not setting your sockets to nonblocking mode.

*You're not checking for EOF on the recv. This means that you don't actually detect that a client has gone offline until you get an error. Which normally happens only after you try to send them a message (e.g., because someone else has connected or disconnected).

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Well, it looked like it was going to be a disaster, especially when the tin attacked my finger … Here is the basic stuff I used – not a recipe, just some ideas I had and I generally flew by the seat of my pants. I didn't measure anything and just played it by ear and it wasn't half bad. More of the sauces next time, though, I think. But it got the thumbs-up from my step-son who is a meativore and my husband who is also a vegetarian, so I was quite chuffed.
I went for the gluten-free fresh sheets of lasagne, which are soft and ready to cook, not the hard stuff in packets.
You can add any veggie you want. I sliced them all thinly and roasted them until they were browning and soft.
Melt margarine and then mix flour to make a paste. Then add coconut cream until thick but still runny – do all of this whilst still on the stove.
Basically this is a Bolognese sauce. I used garlic, olive oil, a jar of Dolmio (Garden Vegetables), lots of chopped-up olives and tinned lentils. I cooked it all for about 30 minutes until it was still runny but had boiled off.
I layered the veggies evenly between each layer of lasagne sheets, pouring a little white sauce and red sauce between each layer. I poured the remaining white sauce over the top of the top sheet followed by the remaining Bolognese, and topped it with slices of fresh Italian tomatoes and vegan cheese. I cooked it until the sheets looked sagging and it was bubbling – about 30 minutes.
This has to be one of the weirdest combinations my food-obsessed brain has come up with, but it works. The earthy sweetness of the beetroot is complemented by the dryness of the walnuts, the saltiness of the olives and then highlighted by the fragrant dill.
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Cook the pasta in plenty of boiling water.
Put all the ingredients except the dill into a food processor and whizz until smooth.
When the pasta is cooked, drain it and then return to the warm pan.
Stir in the sauce until all the pasta is coated.
Serve with the dill sprinkled over the top.


Caring for children after disaster strikes.
Age Appropriate: Individualize responses to each child according to age. An adolescent can cope by being involved with a peer group— scouts, candy stripers, etc.— but a younger child will need more individual attention. Avoid technical terms a young child would not understand, but talk more maturely with teenagers or they will feel they are being patronized.
Balance: "Everything in moderation" is a good rule. It's okay for an older child or adolescent to watch television news or programs about the disaster, but put a limit on the amount of time watched. Watch the news with your child and discuss it.
Care for Yourself: A child's distress level mirrors his or her parents'. By getting your stress under control, you serve as a model for your child's behavior.
Facilities: Adults have abilities that children may not have. Therefore, a major parenting role is to provide what is necessary for your child to cope. If your child wants to raise funds for disaster victims, make it a family project so you can guide it along.
Gifts: Even though parents regularly give to their children, this is an especially significant time to go on a special day trip or take your child to see a movie he or she has been begging to see.
Hugging and Holding: No explanation needed!
Normal Reactions: Most regressive reactions are natural and temporary. A toddler may return to thumb sucking or lose bladder and/or bowel control even after being toilet trained. A latency age child (6-11) may bedwet or cling excessively. An adolescent may withdraw or become irritable. Avoid overreacting to or punishing a child for these behaviors. Instead "normalize" the situation by reassuring your child that his or her behavior, thoughts and feelings are natural.
Observe: Watch a child's behavior to detect warning signs of difficulty. Intense and persistent reactions or drug and alcohol use should be professionally evaluated by a health or mental health professional.
Questions and Respect: Encourage children to ask questions. Do not bar questions or change the topic. Always be available and listen, listen, listen!
Routine and Ritual: Maintain regular routines and schedules as much as possible. Continue to observe birthday celebrations, annual barbecues or regular observances.
Talking and Truth: Talk to children truthfully. Use the opportunity of a disaster to teach about life's truths. When your child is older, there is no way to constantly guard or rescue him or her. You can only hope that your children will use what you have taught them to protect themselves.
Avoid automatically uttering statements that may not be true. For example, "There is nothing to worry about" is a lie if there is something to worry about. Children can often sense that there is something wrong or that their parents are upset. They just might not know what it is about. It will only distress a child to be falsely reassured. Children may also learn from another source what is being withheld from them at home. It is better to learn the truth from a parent who can be emotionally supportive and give proper guidance.
Exercise: Physical activity breaks the tension. Regular exercise promotes a sound mind in a sound body. A parent and child can also engage in exercise together by bike riding, walking, playing catch, etc.
Choose the most natural and comfortable responses when helping a child. Most of these suggestions are effective any time after a disaster and can be used in other stages of a child's life as well. Always remember that your unwavering support is necessary to a child's emotional well being.
About the author V. Alex Kehayan, Ed.D. and Joseph C. Napoli, M.D.
V. Alex Kehayan, Ed.D. and Joseph C. Napoli, M.D. are the authors of Resiliency in the Face of Disaster and Terrorism: 10 Things to Do to Survive, a practical and necessary guide that offers concrete strategies for surviving disaster, physically and mentally. Kehayan is an educator and practicing clinical psychologist. Napoli is a specialist in disaster psychiatry, traumatic stress and posttraumatic stress disorders. Both were volunteer crisis counselors in the aftermath of 9/11. Visit www.resiliency.us.


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There's a new way to treat your fear of the dentist and it has nothing to do with drugs
Her tooth throbbed painfully for months, as Sandy Abrahamson alternated between taking maximum doses of Tylenol, Motrin and aspirin.
When she finally got herself through the door of a dentist's office after avoiding an appointment for years, she was informed the molar had decayed to its roots and would have to be pulled. But she was so afraid of injections that she insisted the tooth be yanked out with nothing for the pain.
She withstood the attempt for three hours until she gave in and faced the terror of an injection, tears leaking onto her dental bib. At that point, Abrahamson, a nurse practitioner who lives in Edmonds, Wash., was in the fierce grip of her dental phobia.
"It is not easy to give over control to someone who is going to crawl inside your mouth and do some work, in your mouth, where you breathe and swallow," Abrahamson said.
Roughly five to 10 percent of the population suffers from dental phobia, but as many as 40 to 75 percent of people experience fear and anxiety related to dentistry that contributes to postponing and cancelling appointments, or avoiding the dentist altogether, according to extensive research on the subject.
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A typical response to phobia and fear is avoidance — unless, as in Abrahamson's case, there is help, which for her came at the intersection of dentistry and psychology. Her dentists work with psychologists at the Dental Fears Research Clinic in Seattle, where the first step of her treatment for several years was meeting with a counselor.
Last week researchers at King's College in London released the latest study in support of this approach to treating dental phobia and anxiety. They reported that cognitive behavioral therapy — a combination of behavioral modification and talk therapy that is designed to challenge negative or harmful beliefs, known as C.B.T. — offered a reliable long-term solution to dental phobia, anxiety and avoidance.
The British study looked at the experiences of 130 patients — though it did not include a control group with patients who had no C.B.T. treatment — who were considered to be anxious enough about going to the dentist to qualify as phobic. Fear of injections and drilling was the reason for the phobia in a majority of the patients, according to the study.
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In this blog entry – again – is Miss Universe Philippines 2018 Catriona Gray on the cover of the December 2018 digital issue of Mega Magazine with the photographs taken by Dookie Ducay.
Read the entire accomoanying article – written by Francesca Testa – HERE.
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Here are some of his pre-arrival photos as taken by Dookie Ducay.
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There are many series from CJ Fallon that have stood the test of time. Our first Busy at Maths book appeared in 1984, over three decades ago. Who doesn't remember learning Irish through the Soilse and Bun go Bar series? These titles have become an integral part of Primary school days in Ireland for generations. If you grew up in the 1980s, chances are you learned to read with the help of Ann and Barry from our Rainbow Reading Programme. Ann and Barry, their penchant for jam and cakes and the happy, simple life they led with Mammy and Daddy have become part of the collective memory of the first years of school for most Irish people. In recent times a wave of nostalgia towards Ann and Barry has emerged in the media and on social media. The comedian Neil Hickey has made short films about a grown-up Ann and Barry and a popular play at the Fringe festival in 2009 was based around Ann and Barry trying to navigate life in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. Articles have been written and a Facebook page for the characters has been set up.
So what is it about Ann and Barry that has made them so iconic? Was it their sheer longevity? The series ran from the beginning to the end of the 1980s, which meant that whole families went through Primary school with Ann and Barry. Or, is it that now, in our modern; digital and politically correct age, they remind us of a simpler time, when no-one raised an eyebrow at jam and cakes for tea everyday?


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The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has said the ongoing #EndSARS protest in Nigeria was pointed toward removing President Muhammadu Buhari from office.
Mr. Adamu made the case, Tuesday, in Port Harcourt, during a meeting between the leaders of the South-south district and an appointment from Nigeria's administration, as per a press statement from the Rivers State Government House.
"Adamu affirmed that knowledge has affirmed that the EndSARS protest was financed from the inside and outside the nation," said the statement gave by Governor Nyesom Wike's media assistant, Kelvin Ebiri.
"He further added that one of the essential destinations of the protest was to impact a system change," the statement said.
The police boss said counterfeit news offered "impulse" to the protests which went on for quite a long time.
In opposition to Mr. Adamu's case, the youngsters and ladies who partook in the notable protest basically requested a finish to police severity in Nigeria.
Nigeria's common liberties record has significantly weakened since President Buhari was reappointed in 2015.
In a meeting, prior in November, where the police boss, Mr. Adamu was in participation, governors from northern Nigeria had made a comparable case that the #EndSARS protesters needed a "system change".
The northern governors, whose report was perused by their administrator, Simon Lalong, the governor of Plateau State, said "uncontrolled web-based media" helped in getting out phony news and had filled the protest.
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They required the guideline of online media in Nigeria.
Notwithstanding, different districts in Nigeria, passing by the past comments made by their leaders, seemed restricted to the idea that the protesters needed to oust Mr. Buhari from office.
Among those present at the meeting were: Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State; Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State; Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State; Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State; and Godwin Obaseki of Edo State.
Others were Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta; Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum; Goddy Agba, Minister of State, Power; Festus Keyamo, Minister of State, for Labor and Employment; Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health; Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information.
The Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi was, nonetheless, missing at the meeting.
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AT&T Corp. (NYSE: T) said Monday its pro forma fourth quarter earnings and revenue were in line with already lowered expectations, but the company's long distance business continued to sag. AT&T also gave growth projections for its individual units.
AT&T, which is planning to split into four businesses, reported pro forma fourth quarter earnings of 26 cents a share on sales of $16.9 billion. Revenue was up 3 percent from a year ago, but earnings fell 51 percent from a year ago. The results matched First Call consensus estimates. AT&T said the decrease was due to the acquisition of MediaOne and losses at Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM). For the year, earnings were down 22 percent to $1.63 a share.
Including charges, AT&T reported a loss of 45 cents a share, or $1.7 billion. The loss was largely attributed to Excite@Home, which wrote down $4.6 billion of goodwill and other acquisition-related intangible assets. AT&T's also took a $1.6 billion charge to account for its investment in Excite@Home.
Despite the gloomy results, AT&T did have a few bright spots. AT&T Wireless (NYSE: AWE), which trades as a tracking stock and will be completely spun off in mid-2001, reported revenue growth of 39 percent in the fourth quarter to $3 billion. AT&T Broadband, the company's cable unit, showed revenue growth of 11.8 percent to $2.5 billion for the quarter. For the year AT&T's wireless and broadband units grew sales 37 percent and 10.4 percent respectively.
But AT&T's business unit posted sluggish revenue growth for the fourth quarter, up just 0.7 percent to $7.1 billion. And AT&T's consumer business was plagued by declining long distance revenue. AT&T's consumer business saw its sales decline 14.7 percent to $4.3 billion in the fourth quarter. The consumer business was also hurt by AT&T WorldNet. Revenue fell 4.4 percent for WorldNet amid tough competition among Internet service providers.
To separate its growth businesses from struggling units such as AT&T's long distance division, the company announced broad restructuring plan in October. "We came in below expectations on long distance, but our growth businesses did well," said Chairman and CEO C. Michael Armstrong on an analyst conference call.
Armstrong said long distance sales were down because of lower 800 number traffic due to the economic slowdown, migration to lower priced calling plans and a transition to new technologies such as wireless, said Armstrong.
Since it's planning to split up, AT&T was mum on its outlook for 2001. Revenue growth for the first quarter is expected to be similar to the fourth quarter results. First quarter earnings, excluding one-time items, will be in the range of 17 cents a share to 20 cents a share. Those projections are in line with previous projections.
AT&T Wireless is expected to grow sales at the high end of a 30 percent to 35 percent range in 2001. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) is expected to grow in the mid-60 percent range. AT&T also said it will begin a share exchange offer in March. Following that offer, AT&T will distribute AT&T Wireless to AT&T shareholders. AT&T Wireless will be spun off in mid-2001, "but the exact timing has not yet been determined," the company said.
AT&T Broadband's revenue growth will accelerate to the mid-teens for 2001, the company said. The company said it will continue to add new subscribers and services at a rapid clip and improve profit margins by 3 percent in 2001. "You can expect these improvements to start out slowly and build over the year," said Chief Financial Officer Chuck Noski. AT&T Broadband is planning for an initial public offering in the fall.
AT&T Consumer will continue to see revenue decline, the company said. Revenue will fall "mid- to high-teens for the full-year 2001." "We're managing the business for returns, but are investing in the future," said Armstrong, who noted the consumer business will incur costs to launch digital subscriber line (DSL) service and battle Baby Bells, which are entering the long distance market.
Profit margins before interest and taxes are expected to fall 6 and 8 percentage points in 2001 from the 37.5 percent in 2000. Most of the decline is expected to come in the first quarter. AT&T said a tracking stock will be distributed for AT&T Consumer in the third quarter of 2001.
AT&T Business sees a revenue dip in the first quarter largely because of long distance competition. Profit margins before interest and taxes are expected to fall 6 and 8 percentage points in 2001 from 23.3 percent in 2000.


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Join Sport Psychologist, Dan Abrahams, on The Sport Psych Show as he aims to demystify sport psychology for players, coaches and parents by speaking with some of the most influential people in sports performance today. Dan is on a mission to learn more about how sport psychology philosophies, tools and techniques positively impact participation, progression and performance in sport. He wants to learn more about how to drive participation – what motivational tools engage players and inspire people to play and stay in their sport. He wants to explore how players can progress quicker and more effectively – what is great practice and training? And how does learning in sport really happen? Finally, he wants to hear what his guests have to say about the psychology of performance – how do they think players can improve their ability to high perform consistently under pressure? Discover simple and practical tools and techniques by listening in to Dan's conversations with elite competitors, sports coaches, sport scientists, and psychologists.
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January 17, 2022 #174 Dr Bryan McCann – Perceived Influences on Player MotivationI speak to BPS Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist and HCPC Practitioner Psychologist, Dr Bryan McCann in this episode. Bryan is a lecturer in Psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is an active researcher interested in a range of sport and exercise psychology topics, in particular the social influences on motivation in sport and exe..
January 10, 2022 #173 Dr Matthew Schweickle – The Psychology of Clutch PerformancesI'm delighted to speak to Dr Matthew Schweickle in this week's episode. Matt is a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Wollongong. Matt's particular area of interest is clutch performances and the psychology of what is happening during clutch performances when people are performing well under pressure. We discuss in detail a fascin..
December 27, 2021 #172 Dr Scott Goldman – Flexible Thinking for a Competitive MindsetI'm delighted to welcome back licensed clinical psychologist and sport psychologist, Dr Scott Goldman in this episode. Scott started out at the University of Arizona where was one of the first embedded sport psychologists in an athletic department. He has since served as a clinical and performance psychologist for the University of Michigan and Sai..
December 20, 2021 #171 Dr Amy Whitehead & Jenny Coe – Myths of Sport CoachingI speak with Dr Amy Whitehead and Jenny Coe in this episode. Amy is a Reader in Sport Psychology and Coaching and teaches across the Sport Coaching, Physical Education and Sport Psychology programmes at Liverpool John Moores University. Amy is a BPS accredited sport and exercise psychologist and has worked for organisations such as St. Helen's RFC,..
December 13, 2021 #170 Dr Oliver Runswick – Motor Development and AnticipationI speak with Dr Oliver Runswick in this episode. Ollie is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Performance Psychology at King's College London. His research focuses on understanding and enhancing learning and performance in domains including sport, dance, education, and the military. Prior to joining King's Ollie worked as a Senior Lecturer in Sport..
December 6, 2021 #169 Dr Karen Howells & Holly Bradshaw - The Need for Better Support Systems in SportI'm delighted to speak with Dr Karen Howells and Holly Bradshaw in this episode. Karen is a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She is a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). K..
November 29, 2021 #168 Dr Jamie Taylor - Optimising Experiences in Talent Development EnvironmentsI'm delighted to speak with Dr Jamie Taylor in this episode. Jamie is a senior coach developer at Grey Matters, a company specialising in performance enhancement and coaching development for individuals, sporting/cultural organisations and systems. Jamie is also Assistant Professor at Dublin City University. He works at The University of Edinburgh,..
November 22, 2021 #167 Dr Mustafa Sarkar - How to Create a Psychologically Safe EnvironmentI'm delighted to welcome Dr Mustafa Sarkar back on the show. Mustafa is Associate Professor of Sport and Performance Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. His main area of research is on individual, team and organisational resilience in elite sport. Mustafa has a background in teaching and research with most of his research focusing on the psy..
November 15, 2021 #166 Prof Laurence Alison & Dr Neil Shortland – How to Become a Better Decision-MakerI'm delighted to speak with Professor Laurence Alison and Dr Neil Shortland in this episode. Laurence is Chair of Forensic and Investigative Psychology at Liverpool University. He is a leader in forensic psychology, and specialises in the most difficult interactions imaginable: criminal interrogations. He advises and trains the police, security age..
November 8, 2021 #165 Dr Gillian Cook - How Effective Leaders Create Optimal Conditions for Others to ThriveI speak to Dr Gillian Cook in this week's episode. Gillian is a Lecturer in Sport and Performance Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University. She is a British Psychological Society (BPS) Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist, and a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered Practitioner Psychologist. She is the club sport psychol..
November 1, 2021 #164 Prof Peter Clough, Doug Strycharczyk & Dr John Perry - Mental ToughnessIn this episode, I'm delighted to be joined by Prof Peter Clough, Doug Strycharczyk and Dr John Perry who have come on to talk about the newly released 3rd edition of the brilliant book Developing Mental Toughness: Strategies to Improve Performance, Resilience and Wellbeing in Individuals and Organizations. Prof Peter Clough needs little introducti..
October 25, 2021 #163 Craig Morris & Elliott Newell – Performance and Well-BeingIn this episode I welcome back sport and performance scientist Elliott Newell. This time Elliott is joined by Olympic Canoe Slalom Coach at British Canoeing, Craig Morris. Elliott is currently Senior Performance Pathway Scientist at the English Institute of Sport. Specialising in psychological support, Elliott works in high performance sport with a..
October 18, 2021 #162 Prof Adam Nicholls - Psychology in Sports CoachingI speak to Prof Adam Nicholls in this week's episode. Adam is a professor of sport psychology at the University of Hull. Adam's research is supported by more than £1.1 million as a principal investigator and £1.5 million including all projects. He has published more than 85 journal articles and written 3 books. Adam and I speak about the recently r..
September 27, 2021 #161 Niels Feddersen - A Holistic Ecological Approach to Talent DevelopmentI speak to Niels Feddersen in this week's episode. Niels is a postdoctoral researcher in sports science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Niels studies organisational culture and power relations in elite sports organisations in the UK, Norway, and Denmark. Niels obtained his PhD from Liverpool John Moores University. In the researc..
September 20, 2021 #160 Dr Suzanne Brown - Mental Health in SportI speak to Dr Suzanne Brown in this week's episode. Suzanne is a clinical psychologist specialising in mental health and performance. She works with individuals in one-to-one therapy and with elite organisations in sport, business and education. With over 14 years of experience, she has pioneered a new way of working that bridges clinical psycholog..
September 13, 2021 #159 Amy Williams MBE - Talent to TriumphI'm delighted to speak to Amy Williams MBE in this week's episode. Amy was a Gold Medal winner in the women's Skeleton 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. She won Great Britain's first gold medal in an individual event for 30 years, and the first by a woman for 58 years. Amy retired as an athlete in 2012 and has spent the years since doing television ..
September 6, 2021 #158 Dr Ed Cope & Prof Chris Cushion - Redefining Direct Instruction in Coaching Part 2In this episode, I'm joined by Dr Ed Cope & Prof Chris Cushion. Ed is a lecturer in Sport Coaching at Loughborough University. He completed his BSc in Sport Coaching from Leeds Beckett University, his MSc in Sports Coaching Science from the University of Worcester and his PhD at the University of Bedfordshire. Ed has also worked at the English Foot..
August 30, 2021 #157 Dr Camilla Knight - Creating a Parent-Positive EnvironmentI speak to Dr Camilla Knight in this week's episode. Camilla is a professor at Swansea University specialising in sport psychology, particularly in youth sport. Her particular area of interest is around parent involvement in sport. Camilla completed her BSc and MSc at Loughborough University, and her PhD at the University of Alberta in Canada. She ..
August 23, 2021 #156 Dr Alex Auerbach - Creating Healthy High-Performance EnvironmentsI'm delighted to speak to Dr Alex Auerbach in this week's episode. Alex is the Director of Wellness and Development for the Toronto Raptors, where he is responsible for all things mental health, mental performance and off-court development for players and staff. He joined the Raptors after serving as the Director of Clinical and Sport Psychology fo..
August 16, 2021 #155 Dr Marina Harris & Shameema Yousuf - Simone Biles: Redefining Mental ToughnessI'm delighted to speak with Dr Marina Harris and Shameema Yousuf in this episode. Marina recently graduated with her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Nevada. She also has a Master's degree in Kinesiology and Health with an emphasis in sport psychology from Miami University. She also spends part of her time in the University of No..


The tour will wrap up and return to World Dairy Expo by 3 PM with an exclusive presentation of the all-new VMS V300. Lunch and light refreshments will be provided. The tour is free, but attendees are responsible for their own admission into World Dairy Expo.


I honestly can't believe it's taken me over TWO years of blogging to finally write this post! I guess up until recently, I've never been 100% confident in my knowledge and ability to actually apply it. But after LOT'S of YouTube videos, tips from friends, and experimenting with different brands/products, I'm finally ready to share. My routine has actually changed a lot in the past 6 months and I'm feeling so good about it. Below I've linked my exact products, how & when I apply them. Let me know if you have any questions!
#1- PRIMER: Neutrogena Healthy Skin. I really don't know how I ever lived without it. Dramatic? Yes, but rightfully so! If you want your makeup to look flawless, you have to start with the right canvas. I just use my hands and rub it all over my face. I started using this primer over the summer and have loved it. The SPF makes me feel good about protecting my skin and the price really can't be beat!
#5- Eyeshadow: I only apply eyeshadow sometimes. Like maybe once a week haha but that's mostly because I'm still learning how to apply it! So far I am loving my Tarte Palette. These Amazon brushes are a super affordable option for people just starting out (like me). One of my beauty guru friends recommend them to me and they're awesome.
#12- Setting spray: Urban Decay All Nighter. Another product I don't know how I ever lived without. I can definitely tell the days I forget to set my makeup because it doesn't last as long, and I get greasy super fast. 10/10 would recommend!
And there you have it! I am in no way a professional, but I think playing with makeup is just so fun! I'm excited to keep learning and expanding me knowledge of all things makeup! Some of the best tutorials I've followed have been from Sephora, Jaclyn Hill, and Tanner Mann (@tannermmann on Insta). As always, let me know if you have any questions.


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Q: Mod rewrite htaccess worked on old server, not on new server I have the following .htaccess file, which worked fine on my old host. I moved over to an AWS instance (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS), and it's no longer completely working:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
    RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
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<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
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I know rewrite is installed, because this is partly working - it does send HTTP requests to HTTPS. Also, it does show up in the list of running modules. However, I can't use URLs without index.php anymore, as it all comes up as 404. Since this is an exact copy of a site that was already working, I figure I must have done something wrong when installing apache, but I can't imagine what.

A: In spite of cool kids voting the question down without explanation, I managed to figure it out. The problem was that since it's HTTPS, changing AllowOverride to All in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default wasn't working. You need to edit default-ssl in that case.


2. The Gear Shop opens back up tomorrow. The company that we used was bought out. The product is the same and so is the pricing. It just looks different. The shop will open until Thursday 5/12 at midnight. For varsity and sophomore they are required to purchase the BLUE t-shirt that says We Are One and the gray shorts next to it. We need that for competitions this summer. Freshmen have no required gear. Please see the attached flyer.
3. In order to be eligible for next season students must pass 5 classes at the end of this semester. If they go to summer school they will become eligible again but miss a lot of football, and rightfully so. So make sure you understand that this will affect them. It would be best if their grades get up now!
4. For the Spring athletes competing I congratulate them, for those consistently lifting with us I am proud of them, for those inconsistently making workouts I am looking for them to improve, and for those doing nothing I am concerned for them. This will be a very difficult summer.
This is going to be a special football season. Stay tuned for our next parent planning meeting at the beginning of the summer.
Lake Park Football Gear May 2016 was attached to this post.


Considering he trounced the Patriots' all-time record for all-purpose yards in a single game, LeGarrette Blount was an easy pick for AFC Offensive Player of the Week.
Blount ran for a career-high 189 yards and two touchdowns on the ground and added two kickoff returns for 145 yards. His 334 all-purpose yards crushed the old record of 272 held by Larry Garron since 1962.
It was the most all-purpose yards in a game since Adrian Peterson had 361 for the Vikings in a win over the Bears in October 2007.
Blount is the second Patriot to be named the Offensive Player of the Week this season. Tom Brady earned the award after New England's 34-31 win over the Broncos in Week 12.


This is a set of SIX PAIRS of HO scale nose and rear headlight clusters commonly used by Southern Pacific and seen on many modern locomotives with ex-SP lineage. Used for near end of SP era, when gyralights were welded over and beacons added to cab roofs. Prime PM Beacons are also available from my shop.
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To install clusters, soak in Bestine overnight to fully remove all wax support material. Cut hole into nose of locomotive adjust for a snug fit. Install either 1.8 mm (.070") fiber optics for a lighted cluster or MV lens (600-603) for a non-lighted installation.


There are only three British species of this family, the largest of which is the Goat Moth, so called on account of the characteristic odour of the larva, an odour said to resemble that emitted by the goat.
Fig. 119.-The Larva of Ligniperda Moth (less than half full size).
The fore wings of this fine moth are pale brown, clouded with white, and marked by numerous wavy transverse lines. The hind wings are somewhat similar, but of a duller tint, and the markings are less distinct. Its average breadth from tip to tip is over three inches, and it sometimes reaches nearly four inches.
The larva is a most interesting creature. It is dark reddish brown on the back, and flesh colour beneath; and its head is intensely black. It feeds on the solid wood of the willow, poplar, oak, elm, and other trees. The infected trees are often so riddled with the burrows of these larva that they are completely destroyed, and the presence of the intruders is frequently indicated by a heap of small chips of wood lying on the ground near the roots. The odour of the larva, too, is so powerful, that there is generally no difficulty in ascertaining their whereabouts by it alone.
It is not always in living trees, however, that we find these creatures, for they often feed on rotting wood, such as the remains of old palings and posts, that lie on the ground in damp places.
When fully grown they construct a strong cocoon of chips of wood, bound together by silk, and within this they change to the chrysalis.
The moth emerges in June or July, and is commonly found resting on the bark of willows and poplars during the daytime.


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The building data analytics revolution in three acts
Increased transparency of operational building data is impacting accountability.
DLR Group Insights Blog
| Ruairi Barnwell
More than any other technology, the fast-advancing field of semantic, or tag-based, building data analytics is changing how we design, construct, and operate high-performance buildings. Increased transparency of operational building data is impacting accountability. This in turn is fueling growth in smart building technologies and encouraging more building-industry professionals to hone expertise in wrangling insights from this data. It is a virtuous cycle encompassing three major activities:
Closing the design loop with operational building data;
Creating actionable intelligence from building performance data; and
Using the ROI from deeper energy savings as a platform to creating smarter buildings.
Act I: Closing the Design-Operations Loop
First, delivering a building's operational data to the right people at the right time has potential to bridge a major disconnect in building design, construction, and operation. Design teams rarely get enough feedback about how their solution is performing after it has been delivered, and operations teams rarely have opportunity to offer input when a building is being designed. In this scenario we are faced with the challenge of designing and operating ultra-low energy buildings, while balancing ultra-high expectations for enhanced occupant comfort and end-user experience.
The New Bund Enterprise Center in Shanghai by DLR Group. Rendering by DLR Group.
The design industry is evolving from a reliance on predicted EUI, or energy use intensity, to gauge successful projects for a greater emphasis on outcomes and actual post-occupancy building performance data. Optimizing building performance early in design, with an operations feedback loop for ongoing performance, is now a requirement, not an option.
As my DLR Group colleague Amarpreet Sethi explains in this video, our goal is always to analyze building performance data early in design to bring quantitative insight to the decision-making process. Design team members are typically first to forecast how occupants will use the building. These behavioral predictions factor into simulations that look at key high-performance building indicators relative to energy consumption, indoor air quality (IAQ), occupant thermal comfort, and overall user experience.
Data analytics is also used extensively in the commissioning of building systems prior to final handover to the operations team. Critical to ensuring that design strategies are executed as intended, connected-commissioning (CCx) approaches help us optimize design during construction as needed to deliver the building at peak performance on the first day of occupancy. A building performance data analytics platform makes it practical to evaluate 100 percent of the results streaming from controllable points during the functional test phase, such as every terminal unit, rather than a 10-to-20 percent sampling. Once a building is instrumented for analytics, the detailed operations of systems can be analyzed at will. Over the long-term, this feedback loop will help high-performance designers ensure that efficient design strategies are continually optimized based on the ongoing dynamic needs of the end user.
Baoshan Long Beach Winder Tower in Shanghai by DLR Group. Rendering by DLR Group.
When design teams have this inherent framework in place for validation of post-occupancy building performance, they can apply the same rigor of analytics to the building's operational data set. Extending the process that has traditionally occurred with the design data model can close the design- operations loop.
Act II: Turning Operational Data into Actionable Intelligence
Our buildings are overflowing with data points. We have utilities data, metered data, building automation systems trend data, IAQ data – and that is just the start.
With the vast quantities of a building's operational data available, the use of a semantic, or tag-based, data analytics framework has become an essential tool to leverage insights that can help us optimize the ongoing operations of our buildings.
Our industry tends to favor open protocols like BACnet and the use of semantic data modeling such as Project Haystack because these make the job of normalizing data for analysis easier to communicate.Early this year when ASHRAE announced semantic data modeling is galvanizing building performance, the announcement signaled that the various development communities and standards bodies working on semantic tagging are collaborating for a unified standard that will ultimately be adopted into BACnet. It is good news for the early adopters of open-protocol semantic tagging.
Algorithms, or tuned fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) rules, can now be created and customized to match a facility's equipment and identify equipment performance issues. These rules-based data analytics tools reveal the operational patterns of building systems, automatically crunching through vast amounts of data to find and report anomalies or issues that previously could not be uncovered cost-effectively through conventional analysis. This allows an experienced building performance analyst to use a monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) approach to monitor and verify building performance for the ability to visualize this data graphically, analyze it, and prioritize issues based on calculated impact to the building's energy use, IAQ, occupant comfort and operational efficiency. This process provides a curated, prioritized list of issues with quantified impacts on building performance to be presented to the building facilities team, on a weekly, monthly or quarterly basis, and facilitates a proactive, rather than reactive, approach to operations and maintenance.
Once a data gathering framework and analysis protocol is established, we can leverage actionable intelligence to achieve deeper energy savings, enhanced IAQ, increased occupant comfort, and a proactive approach to building maintenance – all of which impact a facility's operational financials and enhance the end-user experience.
From here the possibilities for improvement are endless. More sophisticated manipulation of a building's data set makes room for further innovations such as automated work-orders, four-dimensional plots of building sensor data, DVR's of whole-building energy-use down to the individual terminal unit level, and much more, for the continuous monitoring, visualization, and optimization of building performance.
Act III: Utilizing Energy Savings for Smarter Buildings
The third phase of the virtuous cycle is all about what can be built once you have laid the foundation for deeper energy savings by collecting, visualizing and analyzing operational building performance data. Adoption of new technology is often still justified by the ROI of energy savings, despite the well-documented benefits of enhanced occupant health, wellbeing, and productivity, in addition to operational efficiencies gained with smart building technologies. The good news is that operational data analytics are helping us find new layers of energy savings, with a very attractive ROI.
From the data gathering framework, it is a short path to deploying IAQ monitoring, thermal comfort optimization, occupancy awareness, personalized lighting controls, and real-time conference room occupancy tracking and scheduling. These types of smart building apps offer investment returns that can be challenging to quantify, but are likely to deliver much greater value to property owners and tenants over the life of use.
The Mob Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada by WRL|DLR Group. Photo by Kevin G Reeves.
More smart building features also mean more Internet connectivity and software in buildings. Standard metadata tagging helps simplify the resulting data and maintain compliance with cyber-security best practices. With a tagging-based framework, operational data models express more than a basic identifier and time-stamped measurement. They also carry contextual metadata describing a piece of equipment or device, as well as its relationships to other devices and systems in the building. Tagging can convey hardware make, model, and version numbers, as well as firmware and software updates. Open source tagging can also be consistently incorporated into BIM models, streamline the deployment of analytics, and make the feedback loop more accurate and efficient for design professionals.
The best news is that the technology to do all of this is already in place. Operational data analytics for deeper energy savings has become the gateway to more powerful smart building strategies. Of course, the virtuous cycle brought about by this revolution in operational data analytics is not something to watch from the sidelines. It is not a play in three acts. It is a call to action for our industry to be ready to harness the power of building data analytics.
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