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COVERS NIGHT OPEN MIC: INTERPRETING COVER SONGS - Next Show Friday 1/24/20*** (new date), 8pm
Note: The next "First Friday Covers Night" will be on Friday January 24, with host Luna-C!
The First Friday of each month is now Covers Night at The Songwriting School of Los Angeles! Come hear expert talks from featured vocal instructors the First Friday of each month and share your rendition of your favorite tune! Covers are vehicles for more than just your voice and emotion, they can express who we are in any given moment.
WHEN: The First Friday of Each month* (except when otherwise noted), 8pm, 1 song rounds.
WHERE: The Songwriting School, 4001 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505 - 818-848-7664
HOW: Sign-up in advance for a guaranteed slot, or arrive by 7:30 to sign the waitlist.
WHO: Free Event for students of The Songwriting School & the private students of each month's guest vocal instructor.
Non-Students: $10 donation required to perform (cash or PayPal only)
YouTube ready HD video recordings of each performance, mixed on our 4 camera system, are available for $30 donation for a YouTube ready version of your performance. Please inquire night of the show to request your video.
Hosted this Fall by Luna-C, songwriter/artist & student at The Songwriting School. Previously hosted by Barbara Jenice, singer/songwriter, healer, and student at The Songwriting School of Los Angeles.
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We're rushing around and getting ready to leave the house early this morning. The light is barely peeping through the windows. One of the kids is still missing and everyone needs breakfast still.
As I look around the house I can see several things that need attention today and am making a mental list of what I should do this afternoon. I should really be making a physical list because my brain is never going to remember all of the things that I need to do today.
Hang the ornaments and decorations in the dining room.
I want to rest. Relax. Enjoy. Soak it all in during the season. No rushing.


BUD is the IRIS DMC's acronym for the online data cache from which we distribute our near-real time miniSEED data holdings prior to formal archiving.
BUD Stat Users or network operators who are interested in seeing statistics of what data is available in the BUD might like to use this interface. BUD Stat also displays availability of meta data for data held in the BUD and statistics of data moved from the BUD into DMC's main archive. To archive data out of the BUD, the DMC requires meta data. To guarantee that data is archived, network operators who are contributing data to the BUD should periodically consult BUD Stat to make sure that the DMC has meta data for waveform data.
Those network operators (or users) who are interested in seeing the data and feed latency times might like to use this interface. Users can also request data by station (for most recent data only).
A TCP/IP based protocol designed to robustly deliver real-time, continuous data over the Internet. The robust nature of the protocol allows clients to disconnect and reconnect without losing data (reconnection must happen within a reasonable amount of time, i.e. a couple of hours). The requested data streams may be limited to specific stations, locations and/or channels. Very little data latency (seconds) is introduced relative to the real-time data streams coming in to the DMC, all latency variations are due to the DMC's upstream source. SeedLink is developed by GEOFON.
For emailed documentation on this service send an empty email with Subject: HELP to autodrm@iris.washington.edu.


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Q: ORA-12505, TNS:listener does not currently know of SID given in connect descriptor using oracle sql developer i have gone through the forum to look for a solution for hours on end, i haven't encountered anyone with the same predicament as i have. I have installed Oracle 12c 64 bit on windows 8.1 64 bit system. When i try to make a new connection to the database, using oracle sql developer,  run into this error, being a newbie to oracle database, i did try to run lsnrctl start i got
LSNRCTL for 64-bit Windows: Version 12.1.0.2.0 - Production on 18-OCT-2015 19:00
:45

Copyright (c) 1991, 2014, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1539)))
TNS-12541: TNS:no listener
 TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
  TNS-00511: No listener
   64-bit Windows Error: 61: Unknown error
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=EXTPROC1521_1)))
TNS-12541: TNS:no listener
 TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
  TNS-00511: No listener
   64-bit Windows Error: 2: No such file or directory

I tried to make sense of it but i coudn't.
Here is my listener.ora
# copyright (c) 1997 by the Oracle Corporation
#
# NAME
#   listener.ora
# FUNCTION
#   Network Listener startup parameter file example
# NOTES
#   This file contains all the parameters for listener.ora,
#   and could be used to configure the listener by uncommenting
#   and changing values.  Multiple listeners can be configured
#   in one listener.ora, so listener.ora parameters take the form
#   of SID_LIST_<lsnr>, where <lsnr> is the name of the listener
#   this parameter refers to.  All parameters and values are
#   case-insensitive.

# <lsnr>
#   This parameter specifies both the name of the listener, and
#   it listening address(es). Other parameters for this listener
#   us this name in place of <lsnr>.  When not specified,
#   the name for <lsnr> defaults to "LISTENER", with the default
#   address value as shown below.
#
# LISTENER =
# (ADDRESS_LIST=
#   (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost(PORT=1521))
#   (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(KEY=PNPKEY)))

# SID_LIST_<lsnr>
#   List of services the listener knows about and can connect
#   clients to.  There is no default.  See the Net8 Administrator's
#   Guide for more information.
#
# SID_LIST_LISTENER=
#   (SID_LIST=
#   (SID_DESC=
            #BEQUEATH CONFIG
#          (GLOBAL_DBNAME=salesdb.mycompany)
#          (SID_NAME=sid1)
#          (ORACLE_HOME=/private/app/oracle/product/8.0.3)
#           #PRESPAWN CONFIG
#         (PRESPAWN_MAX=20)
#     (PRESPAWN_LIST=
#           (PRESPAWN_DESC=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(POOL_SIZE=2)(TIMEOUT=1))
#         )
#        )
#       )

# PASSWORDS_<lsnr>
#   Specifies a password to authenticate stopping the listener.
#   Both encrypted and plain-text values can be set.  Encrypted passwords
#   can be set and stored using lsnrctl.
#     LSNRCTL> change_password
#       Will prompt for old and new passwords, and use encryption both
#       to match the old password and to set the new one.
#     LSNRCTL> set password
#   Will prompt for the new password, for authentication with
#       the listener. The password must be set before running the next
#       command.
#     LSNRCTL> save_config
#       Will save the changed password to listener.ora. These last two
#       steps are not necessary if SAVE_CONFIG_ON_STOP_<lsnr> is ON.
#       See below.
#
# Default: NONE
#
# PASSWORDS_LISTENER = 20A22647832FB454      # "foobar"

# SAVE_CONFIG_ON_STOP_<lsnr>
#   Tells the listener to save configuration changes to listener.ora when
#   it shuts down.  Changed parameter values will be written to the file,
#   while preserving formatting and comments.
# Default: OFF
# Values: ON/OFF
#
# SAVE_CONFIG_ON_STOP_LISTENER = ON

# USE_PLUG_AND_PLAY_<lsnr>
#   Tells the listener to contact an Onames server and register itself
#   and its services with Onames.
# Values: ON/OFF
# Default: OFF
#
# USE_PLUG_AND_PLAY_LISTENER = ON

# LOG_FILE_<lsnr>
#   Sets the name of the listener's log file.  The .log extension
#   is added automatically.
# Default=<lsnr>
#
# LOG_FILE_LISTENER = lsnr

# LOG_DIRECTORY_<lsnr>
#   Sets the directory for the listener's log file.
# Default: <oracle_home>/network/log
#
# LOG_DIRECTORY_LISTENER = /private/app/oracle/product/8.0.3/network/log

# TRACE_LEVEL_<lsnr>
#   Specifies desired tracing level.
# Default: OFF
# Values: OFF/USER/ADMIN/SUPPORT/0-16
#
# TRACE_LEVEL_LISTENER = SUPPORT

# TRACE_FILE_<lsnr>
#   Sets the name of the listener's trace file. The .trc extension
#   is added automatically.
# Default: <lsnr>
#
# TRACE_FILE_LISTENER = lsnr

# TRACE_DIRECTORY_<lsnr>
#   Sets the directory for the listener's trace file.
# Default: <oracle_home>/network/trace
#
# TRACE_DIRECTORY_LISTENER=/private/app/oracle/product/8.0.3/network/trace
# CONNECT_TIMEOUT_<lsnr>
#   Sets the number of seconds that the listener waits to get a
#   valid database query after it has been started.
# Default: 10
#
# CONNECT_TIMEOUT_LISTENER=10

and my tnsnames.ora
# This file contains the syntax information for
# the entries to be put in any tnsnames.ora file
# The entries in this file are need based.
# There are no defaults for entries in this file
# that Sqlnet/Net3 use that need to be overridden
#
# Typically you could have two tnsnames.ora files
# in the system, one that is set for the entire system
# and is called the system tnsnames.ora file, and a
# second file that is used by each user locally so that
# he can override the definitions dictated by the system
# tnsnames.ora file.

# The entries in tnsnames.ora are an alternative to using
# the names server with the onames adapter.
# They are a collection of aliases for the addresses that
# the listener(s) is(are) listening for a database or
# several databases.

# The following is the general syntax for any entry in
# a tnsnames.ora file. There could be several such entries
# tailored to the user's needs.

<alias>= [ (DESCRIPTION_LIST =  # Optional depending on whether u have
                # one or more descriptions
                # If there is just one description, unnecessary ]
      (DESCRIPTION=
        [ (SDU=2048) ]  # Optional, defaults to 2048
                # Can take values between 512 and 32K
        [ (ADDRESS_LIST=    # Optional depending on whether u have
                # one or more addresses
                # If there is just one address, unnecessary ]
          (ADDRESS=
        [ (COMMUNITY=<community_name>) ]
        (PROTOCOL=tcp)
        (HOST=<hostname>)
        (PORT=<portnumber (1521 is a standard port used)>)
          )
          [ (ADDRESS=
          (PROTOCOL=ipc)
          (KEY=<ipckey (PNPKEY is a standard key used)>)
        )
          ]
          [ (ADDRESS=
          [ (COMMUNITY=<community_name>) ]
          (PROTOCOL=decnet)
          (NODE=<nodename>)
          (OBJECT=<objectname>)
        )
          ]
              ... # More addresses
        [ ) ] # Optional depending on whether ADDRESS_LIST is used or not
        [ (CONNECT_DATA=
        (SID=<oracle_sid>)
        [ (GLOBAL_NAME=<global_database_name>) ]
          )
        ]
        [ (SOURCE_ROUTE=yes) ]
      )
      (DESCRIPTION=
        [ (SDU=2048) ]  # Optional, defaults to 2048
                # Can take values between 512 and 32K
        [ (ADDRESS_LIST= ]  # Optional depending on whether u have more
                # than one address or not
                # If there is just one address, unnecessary
          (ADDRESS
        [ (COMMUNITY=<community_name>) ]
        (PROTOCOL=tcp)
        (HOST=<hostname>)
        (PORT=<portnumber (1521 is a standard port used)>)
          )
          [ (ADDRESS=
          (PROTOCOL=ipc)
          (KEY=<ipckey (PNPKEY is a standard key used)>)
             )
          ]
          ...       # More addresses
        [ ) ]       # Optional depending on whether ADDRESS_LIST
                # is being used
        [ (CONNECT_DATA=
        (SID=<oracle_sid>)
        [ (GLOBAL_NAME=<global_database_name>) ]
          )
        ]
        [ (SOURCE_ROUTE=yes) ]
      )
      [ (CONNECT_DATA=
          (SID=<oracle_sid>)
          [ (GLOBAL_NAME=<global_database_name>) ]
        )
      ]
      ...   # More descriptions
    [ ) ]   # Optional depending on whether DESCRIPTION_LIST is used or not

am sorry for the long post, i just dint want to exclude anything out, is there a config that am missing?

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Q: Update system time to new value in python I had asked same question before but it was marked as duplicate. Opening a new question because only part of my question was answered.
The code in above link shows the time after adding 9 hours to current time. But I actually need to alter the system time in linux and solaris hosts.
Below is the code I used from above link, but I need to modify system time.
#!/usr/bin/python
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

nine_hours_from_now = datetime.now() + timedelta(hours=9)
print str(datetime.now())
print str(format(nine_hours_from_now, '%H:%M:%S'))

After obtaining the value nine_hours_from_now it needs to be set as system time.


I had lots of tomatoes I needed to use up. The avocado I had purchased for the weekend was not ripe on time. I love how tomato and avocado go together – both the colors and the taste. To use up my tomatoes, I tried brushing them and "roasting" them in the oven. They were delicious and we ended up snacking on them plain. I made another batch, as I thought it would be a great addition to this salad.
No, they are not a berry. Wheat berries refer to the whole, unprocessed version of wheat. They are very high in fiber and are a whole grain but are NOT gluten free. They take a while to cook – leave at least an hour – and lots of water. Soaking them in advance can help speed cooking time. Prepare them as instructed on the package – you need them to be cooked already for this recipe.
1 avocado cut into cubes.
Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees. Slice the tomatoes into 1/4 inch thick rounds. Spread them on a cookie sheet. Brush on olive oil. Sprinkle with salt, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning. Bake at 375 for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until starting to brown. Be careful not to burn it.
Cook wheat berries according to package directions – you need 2 cups after it's cooked, about 3/4 cup raw. Add avocado and onion. Add 2 teaspoons of the olive oil, the balsamic vinegar, more salt, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning. Top with roasted tomatoes. Serve at room temperature.
Hint: The softness of the avocado helps balance out the toughness of the wheat. It also helps make the salad creamy with the need for very little dressing.
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Looks like a great meal idea!


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I found the natural place to split chapter 6 and finished revising both halves. I've labeled it 6a for now, assuming I'll end up renumbering later anyhow.
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Animation World Animation World Super Giant Robot Brothers! First Netflix's series created with Unreal
Unreal Engine by Epic Games, but also other software such as Unity and Blender, are increasingly entering cinematographic and animated productions in particular.
This new series, Super Giant Robot Brothers!, produced at the Texan studios Reel FX (Rumble, The Book of Life) and entrusted to the director Oscar-winning Mark Andrews (Pixar's Brave), is created using the well-known video game rendering engine Unreal Engine.
In a nutshell, the program allows the production to film the the live-action (motion-capture) with the cameras and see it processed in real time on the screens of the authors, while the artists first elaborate the models of the characters and the settings.
Find a more in-depth special on these techniques in our column Cinematography in Animation Industry.
Director Andrews reports: "There's got to be a way to get that real-time flavor of making the movie in live action and the control that I have in animation, and put them together." Showrunner Tommy Blacha adds "When you're animating stuff [traditionally], you construct all that fake stuff: every hand gesture, every head movement - all this incredible tedious stuff".
"These innovations make animation production more accessible to the live-action filmmaker, allowing them to use their existing toolset and vocabulary to readily direct animated film and television content, and even hire a live action crew for production and editing," reads a press release.
Super Giant Robot Brothers! will be available on the popular streaming platform later this year.
Waiting for more information, here is a behind the scenes with an unedited scene at the end of the movie:
Fox renews The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob's Burgers for 2 more season
The triad of animated series prince of the Fox channels, or The Simpsons, Family Guy and Bob's Burger have been greenlit for new seasons.
Greenlights to Mighty Nein from The Legend of Vox Machina authors
Amazon Studios have signed a new multi-year agreement with Critical Role, the production company behind the animated series The Legend of Vox Machina. The video announcement below.
Road to Oscar 2023: Short list Animated Features and Short Films
There is still more than a month left for the delivery of the Academy Award, the Oscar statuette, but the candidate titles were announced yesterday. Let's take a look at the animation industry.
Preview of the 26th season of the animated series South Park
South Park, the irreverent and multi-award-winning animated series born from the minds of Trey Parker and Matt Stone returns with season n. 26 of which we see a promo immediately below.
Invincible season 2 - Amazon prepares the return of its superheroes
The animated series directed to an adult audience produced by Amazon starring a group of superheroes is ready to return. Below the first teaser who also reveals the release.
Trailer for Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
The Warner Bros. studios and DC present the trailer for the new animated chapter of the Dark Knight. It's titled Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham and find the video below.
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With a video, the well-known streaming platform Netflix has released the first information on the feature films and animated series that will enrich its catalog in 2023. All the info below.
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Q: What type should the method return? i try to use TypeScript, but i little bit confused.
i have interface:
interface INode {
  parent: INode | null;
  child: INode | null;

  value: any;

  insert(value: any): this; // (or INode or i don't know)
}

and class which implements this interface:
class Node implements INode {
  left: INode | null;
  right: INode | null;

  constructor(public value: any, public parent: INode | null = null) {}

  insert(value: any): this { // Type 'Node' is not assignable to type 'this'.
    if(value == this.value) {
      return this;
    }
    return new (<typeof Node>this.constructor)(value, this);// i've find this way in google
  }
}

What type should insert() return ?
i've tried made:
insert(value: any): this {
  if(value == this.value) {
    return this;
  }

  return new (<typeof Node>this.constructor)(value, this) as this;
}

but it's looks strange and little bit wrong;
class Node will be Extended and insert() method should return right type;

A: The insert(value: any) function should return the type INode. Specific implementations can then return Node or a new DerivedNode which are all assignable to INode.


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June 12, 2016 Features & Images » Feature Story
When soft meets hard
What happens when women meet the muscle of a gnarly mountain-biking trek? They ace it.
By Lisa Richardson
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Story by Lisa Richardson
When soft meets hard — What happens when women meet the muscle of a gnarly mountain-biking trek? They ace it.
Pemberton is a brutal place to learn to mountain bike.
The topography is mostly at fault. Straight up. Straight down. Lung-searing climbs. Skill-testing switchbacks. Shuddering descents. A narrow valley. Sky-licking mountains. Distractingly beautiful scenery.
Many of the foundational trails were scratched in by gnarly riders whose motivation and sole reward for all those grubby mosquito-feast-making hours of hard labour was something that would be fun to ride, for them.
There's not a lot of mercy to be found when you're starting out.
Some perverse part of me loves it here. Loves that having cut my teeth in Pemberton, I can ride anywhere. There's a pride-surge that comes from being able to ride the mountains a bike was built to ride, in the place where the technology is actually tested and applied, not superfluous in the way of the off-road upgrades of an all-wheel drive that is perennially stop-starting through downtown rush-hour traffic.
I also benefit from a flexible work schedule, a two-minute ride from my "office" to the trailhead, so I can ride/climb Happy Trail every day until I can do it clean, and from the fact that there are some awesome coaches living here — coaches who kick it on a bike — Casey Brown, Sarah Leishman, Syvlie Allen, Emily Slaco: coaches who can break down the progression into manageable bits, and who also understand that maybe, due to my biology, I learn a little bit differently than my XY-chromosomed brethren who, for the most part, learn by just givin' 'er.
When you can't get mercy, you'll take whatever grace is on offer.
Fight or flight
I celebrated hitting 40 by taking a bike clinic with Sylvie Allen's Sweet Skills, learning to "huck my pickle" with an evening jump clinic that would end with a couple of laps (ideally with controlled air time) down One Mile Lake's Pickle Surprise, and then beer and burgers at Mile One Eating House. (Good food is always the best reward.)
I had come to bunny-hopping late in the game. But better late than never.
Four of us in the baking sun of a Pemberton summer evening circle a dirt parking lot, jumping over ropes, as Allen and fellow coach Slaco cheer us on. There is something stupidly contagious about it. It is as addictive as my partner's previous insistence that I practice manuals up and down the driveway had been a turn-off. I don't know why. I don't know the other girls, so our camaraderie is loose. We check out each other's gear, fashion, with subtle once-overs. And then we are too focused on doing our drills in the parking lot to take much notice of each other. It's not like we are insta-friends.
Science posits that women adventure differently from men. When confronted with stress, instead of a "flight or fight" response, in the absence of testosterone, a sudden release of oxytocin is more likely to inspire a tend-and-befriend reaction in women. So, in challenging situations, women seek out social contact, especially with other women, and urge each other on.
During our drills, the coaches are the only ones cheering. The rest of us are awkward, focused, so self-absorbed that we are prone to collisions. But as soon as we hit the trail, dropping over little airs and roll-overs one at a time, we are watching each other, taking turns, pumping up each other, shooting videos, cheering wildly. Somehow in the space of 45 minutes we become a crew.
Performance-minded
"I'm always curious about learning environments," says Dr. Sean Richardson, a sports and performance psychologist who coaches athletes, elite coaches and corporate CEOs on optimizing performance.
His book, Dealing with the Tough Stuff, is about giving critical feedback and having tough conversations in order that they're actually constructive, as distinct from destructive. You'd think coaching is shorthand for giving constructive feedback that separates the person from the behaviour being critiqued, but in Richardson's experience in competitive and pro-sports environments, it's the opposite. Abuse is rampant. "In sports, I can abuse you and treat you like crap, like in no other group environment. It seems to be normalized. The way athletes are talked to by coaches, in general, is horrendous."
Richardson, who is originally from Vancouver, has been working within the Australian Football League and other national-level teams for the last decade. "Somehow in sports, because people are striving for performance and they've signed up for it, it's a licence for the coach to say anything."
But his key clients are having conversations about shifting that culture within their teams, organizations or personal careers — especially as the science supports the performance-enhancing results of treating people, even thick-headed professional Australian footballers, as emotional beings.
"How do you build a high-performance culture or team? How do you get people to be the best they can be?" says Richardson. "Understand the human behind it all. A lot of the time, in these high-performance realms, the underlying culture is put your head down, be tough, stoic, don't (show) pain or weakness. But the biggest issue I deal with, in athletes, is people who don't know how to cope with their own emotions." Their feelings inhibit their performance. So Richardson is turning around the "suck it up" mentality. "No, we're allowed to be human. We strive for excellence, but we've got to acknowledge the people and their emotions. If we're not, we're not going to get the best out of them."
That "feelings are welcome" space might go a long way to explain the success of women's-only programs, such as Sweet Skills, Women's Night at the Bike Park, or the Trek Dirt Series.
You can't improve someone's performance until you acknowledge their emotions and the feelings that might be holding them back.
Women generally have a good "coaching mindset" to boot. "A coaching mindset is one where you ask questions, do less telling. I think women are better at that. It's documented that women are more likely to listen — maybe because they've been socialized to be quiet and polite and listen while a man dominates the conversation — but listening and asking questions is something you're more likely to see... in all-female groups. That's a better way to help people learn. So if you're in a women's group, and they're going to be allowed to ask questions, not be interrupted by some guy dominating the conversation, and they're good listeners, you've created a fertile ground for learning, and for connection."
Style, substance, skill
Candace Shadley, the founder of the Trek Dirt Series of mountain-bike clinics, has been cultivating that fertile ground for 15 years and has seen the benefits from a women's-only environment play out, time and again.
"Men and women generally have different learning styles," she says. "Women like things to be broken down. We like to stop and session things so when you go riding, you don't have to think. The moves have become second nature."
Shadley founded women's technical clinics in 2001 as a program for Cycling BC to increase participation in racing. "There weren't enough women racing because they didn't think they had the technical skills. So we put on technical-skills camps in places where they had races. The camps filled up, but the races didn't. Women just wanted better technical skills, not to race, but to have more fun."
For two days, emboldened by our own numbers, 75 women took over Ross Rebagliati Park, the Air Dome and the Bike Park. The oxytocin was flowing, as was the stress, and sometimes the blood, (you're not trying if you're not bleeding, right?). The coaches and volunteer sweeps were working their magic. Feelings were validated. But it was also the presence of little girl gangs on bikes on trails up and down the mountain and the valley that gave us a sense of permission. We felt entitled to be there, on these too-hard trails and stunts, taking our turns, taking up space. When your skills aren't up to par, that is a rare feeling. It's also key to getting better. You don't just need a fertile learning space. You have to be willing to take it up.
Ladies who launch
There's plenty of space to go around when you ride into the wild Chilcotin backcountry. Or more precisely, when Tyax Adventures' float plane drops you onto Lorna Lake, and you and your all-girl posse — with Sylvie Allen at the helm — once more pedal out so far beyond the realm of cell-phone reception that your phones are just app-less cameras.
My own backcountry haplessness — grizzly smarts, bike-mechanic mastery — had kept me from taking up space in the southern Chilcotins despite its long-whispered Mecca status among Pemberton's mountain-biking keeners.
Allen and Slaco brain-trusted the idea of guiding Ladies Only groups on hut-to-hut mountain bike tours. This is their second year, and people are just starting to catch on to what Tyax's newly acquired huts meant for bike adventures.
We are riding just with our personal gear. A resupply bag is to be flown in on Day 2. At the huts, at the end of each day, fleece jackets, Crocs, hot showers, tents, beds, sleeping bags, and dinner await.
We are five girls strong, and we ride three days deep in the backcountry, overnight in old trapper's cabins, are cooked for by wrangler camp hosts, and pedal past guys packing their tents and sleeping bags in their giant backpacks.
We are glamping.
And it is awesome.
Wilderness meet women
Andrea Thomson isn't the glamping type.
She lived in a squat in Whistler in the '70s, and later in a cabin without electricity, with the permission of the owners. She was integral at the Outward Bound operation in Pemberton until it closed — a day she never wanted to happen. But the program was evolving, the demographic was shifting, and the timeless values of "discovering potential through shared wilderness experiences" seemed out of sync with a hyperkinetic world that was disconnecting from nature. It wasn't out of sync for Thomson, so for a while, she was just out of sync with the world.
And then, she had a chance to work at Tyax Adventures, as a wrangler and camphost, sleeping in her tiny little tent under a sky unaffected by light pollution, listening to the horses breathe, keeping alert for grizzlies, back in her happy place.
That's where I meet her. Long-haired and whippet-lean, she greets our crew of five tired mountain bikers with a plate of nacho chips, salsa and lemonade. I could have hugged her.
Twelve hours later when we pedal out, we are fuelled by a good night's rest in canvas tents as the rain beat down overhead, followed the next morning by coffee and the best oatmeal breakfast we'd ever eaten.
It was as rustic a place as I've ever been, with a deep pit latrine up the hill and 50-year-old graffiti etched into the log walls.
It felt like a spa.
Thomson welcomes us into the space in the graciously subtle way that veteran experiential educators do. Even when she was leading recovering addicts and survivors of abuse and trauma into the Pemberton wilderness on "Women of Courage" Outward Bound courses, Thomson was a believer in letting the experience speak for itself, in letting emotions happen, in letting people rise to the challenge of a big technical adventure, of letting them surprise themselves.
People just need to be given the chance to discover how hard, and how soft, they can be.
"Women are different," acknowledges Richardson. "But we are actually more similar than we are different. We are socialized to be more different than we naturally are. To me, if we were starting from zero and there was no backdrop of sexism and imbalanced treatment, I think we could ask what are the key principles for human learning and human development — and most of them would be the same, whether you're male or female."
Translation? Hut-to-hut mountain biking shouldn't be considered a Ladies Only experience.
"The only thing that would make this better," says Lindsey Bolivar, one of our riders who is freshly showered as she heads away from her tent at Bear Paw camp, "would be a rainbow."
We are watching as Thomson feeds the horses before she gets down to the business of putting dinner together, and someone, laughing, motions for Bolivar to turn around.
You guessed it. It's a rainbow. Right on cue.
Sylvie Allen and Emily Slaco team up again this year to present Ladies Only in the South Chilcotin mountain biking adventure camps, July 22-24, and August 4-8. More info at tyaxadventures.com.
The Trek Dirt Series schedule offers 5 Whistler camps, two of which are co-ed, as well as a host of other locations. Details at dirtseries.com. n
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Intelligent Transport System 2018 award nominees
admin, October 22, 2018 October 22, 2018 , communications and connectivity, News, Technology, Transport, 0
Nominees for the ninth annual ITS Australia National Awards have been announced, with innovation a key theme for each of the nominations.
The prestigious annual National ITS Awards recognise high-level individual and team achievement in the intelligent transport industry, and are an opportunity to celebrate innovation and reward excellence.
The Awards will be hosted by ITS Australia at Sofitel Brisbane on 22 November 2018, where the winners will be announced.
The nominees are:
Industry Award
EastLink – for the Freeway Tunnel Ventilation On-Demand System
GOFAR – for GOFAR telematics solution
Transurban – for LinktGO – Mobile Tolling Solution
Government Award
Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads – for iMaps – State-Wide Operations Map
Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads – for Successfully Integrating and Leveraging Off Multiple ITS Technologies to Perform Real-Time Performance Metrics and Analytics for the Commonwealth Games
Transport for NSW – for the On-Demand Transport Pilot Program
Automated Vehicle Award (sponsored by the Australian and New Zealand Driverless Vehicle Initiative – ADVI)
Centre for Technology Infusion, La Trobe University – for The Autonobus Pilot Project
National Transport Commission – for Changing Driving Laws to Support Automated Vehicles Project
Transport for NSW – for the Connected and Automated Vehicle Program
Advanced Data Analytics in Transport, Data61 CSIRO – for an Artificial Intelligence Engine for Traffic Congestion Management
Infrastructure Victoria – for Automated and Zero Emissions Vehicles Infrastructure – Evidence Base
Young Professional Award
Jonathan Coulson, VITRONIC Australia
Michael Cybulski, Retina Visions
Andrew Hooley, Transport for NSW
Mikaela Stewart, Cubic Transportation Systems
Neil Scales, Director-General, Department of Transport and Main Roads, Queensland, the keynote speaker for the event, said, "The ITS Australia National Awards are a valued part of the annual calendar for transport and technology alike.
"Integrated transport networks are an important responsibility to the community, and I know there is so much work going on in Queensland alone. I am looking forward to hearing about the best projects and programs Australia has on offer that contribute to ensuring all Australians have appropriate transport choices and fair access to the transport system."
Gino Dompietro, Chair of the Awards Committee, said, "The industry has again impressed us not only by submitting a record number of nominations, but also with the extremely high quality of the nominations for this year's awards."
ITS Australia Chief Executive, Susan Harris, said that the increased number of submissions for the Young Professional Award, in particular, demonstrates the continued interest in development of the ITS Industry.
"Our industry is fast paced and dynamic, and provides many exciting career paths. The increased competition for the Young Professional Award continues to signal industry investment in young people and that young professionals are making the most of their opportunities," said Ms Harris.
"ITS Australia sponsors the winner of the Young Professional Award to attend the next ITS World Congress, which will be held in Singapore October 2019, and we will look forward to the participation of 2018 Young Professional Award winner."
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Founded by Pavel Durov, creator of Russia's equivalent to Facebook, Telegram launched in 2013 as a lightweight messaging app to combine the speed of WhatsApp with the ephemerality of Snapchat along with claimed enhanced privacy and security through its use of the MTProto protocol (Telegram has offered a $200k prize to any developer who can crack MTProto's security). Telegram has 100M MAUs, putting it in the second tier of messaging apps in terms of popularity.
The process of building a chatbot can be divided into two main tasks: understanding the user's intent and producing the correct answer. The first task involves understanding the user input. In order to properly understand a user input in a free text form, a Natural Language Processing Engine can be used.[36] The second task may involve different approaches depending on the type of the response that the chatbot will generate.
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve (it's predicted that AI could double economic growth rates by 2035), conversational bots are becoming a powerful tool for businesses worldwide. By 2020, it's predicted that 85% of customers' relationship with businesses will be handled without engaging a human at all. Businesses are even abandoning their mobile apps to adopt conversational bots.
Chatfuel is one of the leading chatbot development platforms to develop chatbots for Facebook Messenger. One of the main reasons of Chatfuel's popularity is easy to use interface. No knowledge of programming is required to create basic chatbot. People with non-technical background too can create bots using the platform and launch on their Facebook page.…
There are various search engines for bots, such as Chatbottle, Botlist and Thereisabotforthat, for example, helping developers to inform users about the launch of new talkbots. These sites also provide a ranking of bots by various parameters: the number of votes, user statistics, platforms, categories (travel, productivity, social interaction, e-commerce, entertainment, news, etc.). They feature more than three and a half thousand bots for Facebook Messenger, Slack, Skype and Kik.
Foreseeing immense potential, businesses are starting to invest heavily in the burgeoning bot economy. A number of brands and publishers have already deployed bots on messaging and collaboration channels, including HP, 1-800-Flowers, and CNN. While the bot revolution is still in the early phase, many believe 2016 will be the year these conversational interactions take off.
Malicious chatbots are frequently used to fill chat rooms with spam and advertisements, by mimicking human behaviour and conversations or to entice people into revealing personal information, such as bank account numbers. They are commonly found on Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger and other instant messaging protocols. There has also been a published report of a chatbot used in a fake personal ad on a dating service's website.[44]
With competitor Venmo already established, peer-to-peer payments is not in and of itself a compelling feature for Snapchat. However, adding wallet functionality and payment methods to the app does lay the groundwork for Snapchat to delve directly into commerce. The messaging app's commerce strategy became more clear in April 2016 with its launch of shoppable stories with select partners in its Discover section. For the first time, while viewing video stories from Target and Lancome, users were able to "swipe up" to visit an e-commerce page embedded within the Snapchat app where they could purchase products from those partners.
Tay was built to learn the way millennials converse on Twitter, with the aim of being able to hold a conversation on the platform. In Microsoft's words: "Tay has been built by mining relevant public data and by using AI and editorial developed by a staff including improvisational comedians. Public data that's been anonymised is Tay's primary data source. That data has been modelled, cleaned and filtered by the team developing Tay."
Chatfuel is a platform that lets you build your own Chatbot for Messenger (and Telegram) for free. The only limit is if you pass more than 100,000 conversations per month, but for most businesses that won't be an issue. No understanding of code is required and it has a simple drag-and-drop interface. Think Wix/Squarespace for bots (side note: I have zero affiliation with Chatfuel).
As retrieved from Forbes, Salesforce's chief scientist, Richard Socher talked in a conference about his revelations of NLP and machine translation: "I can't speak for all chatbot deployments in the world – there are some that aren't done very well…but in our case we've heard very positive feedback because when a bot correctly answers questions or fills your requirements it does it very, very fast.
The NLP system has a wide and varied lexicon to better understand the complexities of natural language. Using an algorithmic process, it determines what has been asked and uses decision trees or slot-based algorithms that go through a predefined conversation path. After it understands the question, the computer then finds the best answer and provides it in the natural language of the user.
However, if you're trying to develop a sophisticated bot that can understand more than a couple of basic commands, you're heading down a potentially complicated path. More elaborately coded bots respond to various forms of user questions and responses. The bots have typically been "trained" on databases of thousands of words, queries, or sentences so that they can learn to detect lexical similarity. A good e-commerce bot "knows" that trousers are a kind of pants (if you are in the US), though this is beyond the comprehension of a simple, untrained bot.
Smooch acts as more of a chatbot connector that bridges your business apps, (ex: Slack and ZenDesk) with your everyday messenger apps (ex: Facebook Messenger, WeChat, etc.) It links these two together by sending all of your Messenger chat notifications straight to your business apps, which streamlines your conversations into just one application. In the end, this can result in smoother automated workflows and communications across teams. These same connectors also allow you to create chatbots which will respond to your customer chats…. boom!
As digital continues to rewrite the rules of engagement across industries and markets, a new competitive reality is emerging: "Being digital" soon won't be enough. Organizations will use artificial intelligence and other technologies to help them make faster, more informed decisions, become far more efficient, and craft more personalized and relevant experiences for both customers and employees.
What does the Echo have to do with conversational commerce? While the most common use of the device include playing music, making informational queries, and controlling home devices, Alexa (the device's default addressable name) can also tap into Amazon's full product catalog as well as your order history and intelligently carry out commands to buy stuff. You can re-order commonly ordered items, or even have Alexa walk you through some options in purchasing something you've never ordered before.
Automation will be central to the next phase of digital transformation, driving new levels of customer value such as faster delivery of products, higher quality and dependability, deeper personalization, and greater convenience. Last year, Forrester predicted that automation would reach a tipping point — altering the workforce, augmenting employees, and driving new levels of customer value. Since then, […]
Keep it conversational: Chatbots help make it easy for users to find the information they need. Users can ask questions in a conversational way, and the chatbots can help them refine their searches through their responses and follow-up questions. Having had substantial experience with personal assistants on their smartphones and elsewhere, users today expect this level of informal interaction. When chatbot users are happy, the organizations employing the chatbots benefit.
Since 2016 when Facebook allows businesses to deliver automated customer support, e-commerce guidance, content and interactive experiences through chatbots, a large variety of chatbots for Facebook Messenger platform were developed.[35] In 2016, Russia-based Tochka Bank launched the world's first Facebook bot for a range of financial services, in particularly including a possibility of making payments. [36] In July 2016, Barclays Africa also launched a Facebook chatbot, making it the first bank to do so in Africa. [37]


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PSN and SOE are back online (except in Japan) and Sony is looing to kiss and make up. What are they offering? A couple of free video games, 30 days to their subscription services, a handful of movie rentals, and some virtual crap for their Second Life clone, Playstation Home. Technically they are also offering one year of credit monitoring, yet that offer is strangely omitted from their announcement.
Sony is responsible for the second largest data breach in history. 77 million customers had their names, addresses, gender, birthdate, email, password, credit card number, and expiration date stolen from a service that couldn't be bothered to patch their web servers or install a basic firewall. Furthermore, Sony failed to take proactive measures in their other online divisions and the door was left open for ANOTHER 24 million customers to be victimized. Now, Sony plans to make it all go away for a couple of old, underperforming video games and a weekend on the couch watching movies. Really? This is a childish bribe to a very grown up problem.
Has the problem even been fixed? Sony has refused to disclose exactly how their network is any better than before. Even if we assume it is, can we be assured that Sony will continue to provide adequate security in the future? Online security is an ever escalating arms race. Are people expected to simply sit back and trust a company that got caught with security that would have been inadequate 10 years ago?
Then we have the possibility that this attack could have been motivated by Sony's brash actions against the private sector. Sony's long history of suing private innovators came to a head recently with the much publicized court cases against George Hotz (Geohot) and Alexander Egorenkov(graf_chokolo). Not content with attacking these private citizens, Sony even went so far as to petition the courts to gain access to the records of anyone who had viewed a video created by them on YouTube, visited their websites, or donated to their legal defense.
And what of the motivations of these two "hackers"? Sony removed the 'Other OS' feature from from the Playstation 3 system; A feature touted as a selling point for the device. The reason? "Security." Sony's security, not yours. Sony was concerned that, in an industry where sales are measured in the hundreds of thousands, a couple hundred people were going to play a video game without paying.
100 million Sony customers were subjected to identity theft because they couldn't be bothered to enable security measures that your grandmother's Windows laptop has by default and they want you to forgive them for the price a an old lollypop they found in the bottom of their coat pocket.


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Information technology offers unprecedented opportunities to individuals, businesses and the public sector but also creates new vulnerabilities to crime. Impressive cybercrimes have been reported in the media in recent years, demonstrating the grave harm that even a single cyberattack can cause. Yet no systematic assessment of the impact of cybercrime on Belgian society and economy had been conducted until the start of the research project Belgian Cost of Cybercrime (BCC) in 2013, which was funded by the Belgian Service Science Policy Office (BELSPO) and coordinated by the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP), in collaboration with the KU Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC).


Our concept of space travel has changed dramatically through our scientific history. Let's explore the design concepts and early views of rocket science, and how science fiction may have actually helped with science reality.
Astronauts first landed on the Moon in 1969. Let us dive into the timeline of what made the moon landing happen and what we still have to learn about our natural satellite neighbor.


In April a portfolio review is conducted for junior transfers to become art majors effective for the following fall quarter.
The portfolio review is a highly competitive review. It is advised that students complete all three of their lower division studios at the community college, in addition to studios in their area of interest, to be able to submit a high-level portfolio. Students who do not pass the portfolio review (even if accepted to UCSC) will not be eligible to take art classes at UCSC during the academic year and must pursue another major. Applicants will know the results of the portfolio review before they have to submit their Statement of Intent to Register to the Admissions Office.
APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR 2019/2020 ENTERING JUNIOR TRANSFER STUDENTS: monday, APRIL 1, 2019 (Applications must be received in the Art Department by that date-not just postmarked by that date. Best practice is to mail your application two weeks in advance of the deadline).
15 to 20 quality images on a web site or file share site (Flickr, Photobucket, etc.). Please have titles listed on each image.
Portfolio application form, which will be mailed to you in early January.
Hardcopy image inventory sheet listing all images with titles, media, sizes, and dates.
Copies of transcripts from all colleges you have attended (unofficial is fine). Include UCSC transcripts (if you have taken courses here).
NOTE: Application materials are to be submitted loose-leaf in a manila envelope. Please do not use sheet protectors on any paperwork, (transcripts, application form, etc.) nor submit in binders or metal brad folders. NO materials will be returned. DO NOT SEND SLIDES, CDS, OR ACTUAL WORK! ONLY YOUR WEB SITE WILL BE VIEWED.
The Art major at UCSC is a very popular major. This means that there are too few spaces to accommodate all the UCSC students who wish to study art. Because of this ongoing situation, the Art Department admits junior transfers to its major by way of a portfolio review. Acceptance into the Art Department is not an entitlement that automatically follows acceptance to UCSC, or completion of prerequisite lower division requirements. Many students who are accepted to UCSC will not be selected by the Art Department as art majors.
In order to select its students, the Art Department appoints a rotating Portfolio Review Committee. The objective of the committee is to admit students who demonstrate, as evidenced in their portfolio, statement and pre-art academic performance, that their intentions and achievements are most compatible with the mission, standards, goals, and specializations of the Art Department. In general, the presented visual materials are of primary interest to the committee. The Portfolio Review committee expects these materials to be adequately documented and to be carefully and clearly presented. The committee consists of a group of experts in their fields, and their expertise includes an understanding of how to interpret visual materials. They are skilled at "reading" the visual evidence presented in the portfolio and in detecting, for instance, the commitment and accomplishment of the applicant. They have an expertise in understanding how works of art come about both conceptually and in terms of skill, and they have an expertise in understanding where beginning artworks lead in terms of future developments. When disagreements and uncertainties arise in the visual materials, and the potential of the applicant in our program is uncertain, added weight is given to written materials (statement and transcripts/narratives). Thus a determination is made.
What Does the Portfolio Committee Look For?
Your portfolio website introduces your work to the Review Committee. It is in your interest to submit materials of high technical quality; images should be clear and well-presented so as to show your work accurately. Details or close-ups may be helpful when documenting detailed work, or work where the surface is important. Materials submitted on your web site should be organized to show your work in the most favorable way. It is useful to consult with someone else - an art professor, or an art student who has already passed the review - in order to develop the strongest application possible. The Portfolio Review Committee is looking for students who demonstrate skill, personal direction, ambition, and commitment.
Students who wish to improve their prospects for acceptance often ask the following: What does the committee wish to see? What presentations make a favorable impression on the committee? What things make an unfavorable impression? The committee is looking for vitality, commitment, and skill, or signs of potential for the development of these things.
VITALITY: By "vitality" the committee means they want to see evidence that the student is excited by the work. They want to see evidence of this quality in the work itself.
COMMITMENT: By "commitment" the committee means that they want to see that students have invested themselves in certain ideas, ways of doing things, or ways of conceptualizing their creative work, and evidence of a willingness to spend time on individual projects and/or on the body of work contained in the portfolio. They also want to sense that students can exert judgment about their own work--that they can tell good from bad in their own work.
SKILL: By "skill" the committee means that the student demonstrates a level of technical ability in one or more areas and that the student does not require remedial work that cannot be provided by the department.
* Focus on quality as opposed to quantity.
* Indicate time spent to achieve a strong resolution.
* Show thought given to the generation and execution of the work.
* Show attention to use of materials and processes.
* Provide evidence of exploration in form and technique.
* Show work of low quality along with work of high quality.
* Include high school work unless it is truly exceptional.
Your written statement is considered an important part of the portfolio. Evaluation is based upon signs of a student's potential for joining theory and practice in his or her creative activity.
* Include comments on your reasons for choosing to concentrate in art, some of the ideas in which you are currently interested, and indications of future areas you would like to explore.
* Discuss the work you've submitted in the written statement.
* Address your recent (college) art background (as opposed to your childhood experiences in art). While criteria for evaluation are difficult to measure in art practices, the written statement helps provide a basis for evaluation in each area.
* Does the documentation of your work communicate its quality?
* Is your statement clear? Does it touch on all the topics requested above?
* Does your application communicate skill and commitment?
The Art Department is also concerned about each student's professional expectations as they relate to our program. We want our departmental offerings to coincide with each student's expectations and skills in a productive and meaningful way. As we do not teach design, illustration, ceramics, or crafts, we are disinclined to accept students who are clearly committed to these areas. We believe that such students would best be served by entering another program in another college or university that is geared toward these art forms.


On September 28, Jody Hansen of Boulder, CO made the second female ascent of Bush Pilot (V11) in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. She sent the Dave Graham testpiece after working it "for one month, going once a week -- and a couple times over the summer in bad temps."
Bush Pilot climbs a 40-degree overhanging arete-like feature, involving strong body tension and compression climbing through 16 moves. "It's really back-intensive movement," says Hansen. "My back would get so tight from working it, that if I tried to go again the next day it would be in spasms." Her ascent of Bush Pilot follows Kind Traverse and Sunspot, to round off a trilogy of V11s completed this summer.
When asked about her plans for the future, Hansen says, "I'm going back to Hueco again this year ... I was close to sending Chbalanke [V11/12] last year, so I'm going to try and do that. Otherwise, I'm going to branch off on my own and try to do problems that haven't been done by another female."
The first female ascent of Bush Pilot was done by Angela Payne earlier in the summer.


Greg Davis is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums drawing from a wide variety of sources, including guitar, field recording, various world / ethnic / traditional instruments, percussion, and voice, all delicately processed through digital manipulation. After years of experience in hip-hop groups, jazz combos, free improvisation, and experimental composition, Greg moved toward the world of computer-based music in 1997. At Depaul University in Chicago, Greg studied classical & jazz guitar alongside composition and jazz studies. In 1997, he started his own label, Autumn Records, to release his own music and the music of others.
Greg moved to Boston in 1999 to pursue a master's degree in composition (which he received in June 2001) while independently immersing himself in the study of electronic music. Greg left the city of Chicago for Burlington, Vermont in December 2004, where he has been organizing experimental and creative music events.


As aggressive as Google has been about pushing updates to Google Maps for Android, large swaths of those additions have been unavailable to third-party app developers. They're now on a more level playing field now that a version 2.0 Maps API is rolling out the door. The revamp is more accommodating of tablets and other big-screen gear through support for Android Fragments; many of Maps' more advanced information layers, such as indoor maps, are likewise exposed to those who don't work at a Google campus. The additions are already finding their way into apps from Trulia and a handful of others, but every other mobile developer with a cartographic bent can hit the source to upgrade their handiwork.


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Iz and Pal (Bedouin Buddies)
Sitting Thirty-Five
Karin found it difficult to discover what to do with herself on the Wednesday before the rally. An uneasy sense of doom and gloom had settled in her soul and was gnawing at the corners of her mind.
She could not shake it.
She resorted to one of her favorite solutions. She purchased a pint of Mackie's Cherries Fairies ice cream and ate it in one sitting. It had been known to soothe many an aching need. But on this day, even the delicious confection couldn't aid her in dispelling the sensation that something very idiotic might happen on Thursday.
Karin was not given to depression, but optimism was certainly not one of her strong suits. Her faith in humanity had been shaken early and hard. She found it difficult to believe there were people who could muster either the mercy or the wisdom to bring about a happy ending to any tale, especially one involving two young men in the desert who were defying the structure of their rickety culture.
She actually considered praying for rain. But she always felt funny when she prayed—she could never figure out which parts of faith were childish dreams and what portions might be linked to some divine order. It was difficult for her to imagine why the God of the Universe would take time commiserating with bitching mortals.
But she decided to go ahead and pursue a prayer life one more time—just maybe for an earthquake to come along. A tiny one. Not to hurt anyone. Just strong enough to knock over some file cabinets at City Hall and overturn a few chairs in people's homes. A convenient earthquake—something to distract the hysterical masses.
The prayer actually made her feel better. For about an hour she grew content with the notion that things might just work out. But for Karin, praying was like Chinese food. It got inside, but an hour later she was fretting all over again.
Scouring her brain for anything resembling an idea that might contribute to sanity, she decided to go and meet the families of the two boys. After all, she had heard Iz and Pal's side of the story but had never given their fathers a chance to clarify their position or make their case.
Her mind was eased simply by pursuing the research which she so loved chasing down. Today it took her to the hall of records, where she discovered that Amir's (Pal) mother had died three years earlier from breast cancer. Amir had only one brother, older—Talsan, who attended the university with aspirations of becoming a doctor.
A fascinating piece of information turned up when she perused data on Iz's parents. There were two parents, but with separate addresses. Karin could find no evidence of a divorce decree or any other children.
It gave her a place to start. She set out into the city on a quest to uncover some truth. Yet a short two hours later, she returned to her apartment, deflated and even more perplexed. The plan, the visit and the result turned out to be a wasteland.
Amir's father refused to see her, speaking through the door, "I am in prayer. I cannot view a woman at this time."
Pada was not at home and Talsan was unavailable, attending class. The only person she was able to meet face-to-face was Shelah, Iz's mother, who lived in a small apartment just down the street and around the corner from where Iz and his father dwelled.
Shelah explained to Karin that although there was no divorce, she and Iz's father had separated over financial disagreements and contentious arguments concerning raising the boy. She didn't even know that Jubal was gone. Pada hadn't told her.
Karin did not know what to do with Shelah. She possessed that Middle Eastern woman surface submission, masking a dark cloud of rage. Karin invited the mother to the rally but Shelah declined, saying she feared a confrontation of great magnitude would occur if she made an appearance. At no time did Shelah ask about Jubal's well-being. She did not inquire as to his status, his health or his heart.
Karin was desolate. No one really cared for these two boys, just as people. They were viewed as either burdens or bedlam—bothersome or brats. But certainly forsaken and forgotten.
She was exhausted. Sitting down on her bed, slipping off her sandals and swinging her legs around, she lay down flat on her back—but her mind was actively trying to save the world.
She closed her eyes, hoping for relief. Rest was needed—for it would be necessary for her to be alive, sharp and prepared for tomorrow's foolishness.
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Everything We Know About Jessica Simpson's Love Life
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Jessica Simpson is happily married with three beloved children, how did she find the perfect man to settle down with?
The singer, actress and businesswoman began dating at age 18 before she married boy band member Nick Lachey. The couple went on to star on the reality show Newlyweds where their life was broadcast to the world. A lot went on behind the scenes before they broke up and went their separate ways.
Eventually, Simpson settled down again — this time with her sports beau Eric Johnson.
Check out everything we know about Jessica Simpson's past relationships and love life, below.
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Plato is credited with the statement that "necessity is the mother of invention." If it is the mother of invention, then it is also the parent of innovation. A reasonable question follows, what is a necessity?
Edison put it this way, "I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it." We may come up with what someone wants, but is that enough? Sometimes focusing on wants is enough, but often to have innovation success we need to reach the end user and determine their needs.
Needs in this sense does not mean the basic needs of life, but rather the things that we need to make our lives better. This can be in our work or personal life. Needs is getting past superficial wants and wishes and finding out what needs to happen to make improve lives. For example, I may want my smart phone to be purple, but I need the GPS directions to work. If the GPS doesn't work I could be late for an important meeting, or get lost and find myself in a difficult situation.
So as you look to your innovation, focus on needs. If your innovation eliminates someone's need, you are on the road to a successful innovation.


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BMW/MINI Engine Plant Ramps Up for Next Generation Engines
by Gabriel Bridger 6 years ago Leave a reply
Official Release: A large investment programme to develop the BMW Hams Hall engine plant near Birmingham is complete. The production of new three and four-cylinder engines is already being ramped up on brand-new production lines, and over one million components will be machined at the plant for the first time this year as supply extends to other plants in the Group.
The investment project, part of £750 million that has been spent across BMW Group's UK manufacturing sites, has ensured the Hams Hall site remains a state-of-the-art facility, capable of producing the next generation of engines and securing a long-term future for the plant.
Engines, as well as machined components manufactured at BMW Plant Hams Hall contribute to a range of cars across BMW Group's product portfolio. This includes MINI – the new Clubman model goes on sale in just a few weeks' time, as well as the new BMW 7 Series, also launched this month.
Plant Director, Markus Fallboehmer says: "The transformation in our plant has been huge. Over the last few years we have completely re-developed our two main production areas and installed over 600 brand-new pieces of equipment and machinery. While a high level of technology and automation ensures our plant remains a state-of-the-art facility, the ergonomics of the workstations where we have more manual input have been carefully thought through and adjusted to suit each individual member of the team.
"A large investment has also been made in our workforce via a number of training programmes and opportunities for people to upskill and take on new job roles. We have changed the make-up of our workforce as well with over 100 people securing BMW contracts, some of whom were previously working for us on a temporary basis. Looking further ahead to the future, we have trebled the number of apprentices training with us to ensure we have a strong, skilled workforce for many years to come."
Development of the site is another piece of the jigsaw in BMW Group's global strategy for engine production. The Hams Hall facility is now operating alongside other plants in Germany and Austria, all producing the same new family of next generation engines.
"Our new engine family of highly efficient three, four and six-cylinder engines have a standard design, a high number of similar parts and a uniform process for manufacture," explains Ilka Horstmeier, who heads up BMW Group's global production network for engines and electrified powertrain. "This gives us a large amount of flexibility and means we can optimise production between each of our manufacturing locations and respond quickly to changes in customer demand or market developments. The investment in Hams Hall has enabled the plant to grow and play an ever-increasingly important role in the production of these latest engines."
Production of a small number of new engines was first introduced at Hams Hall last year. Three-cylinder BMW TwinPower Turbo technology 1.5-litre petrol engines are hand-built exclusively at Hams Hall on a special production line for the BMW i8, the first purpose-built, plug-in hybrid sports car. This engine has already contributed to a series of award-wins for the revolutionary vehicle as well as two class and an overall win at the International Engine of the Year awards.
Overall, the new Efficient Dynamics high-tech engine family includes petrol and diesel engines, all employing TwinPower Turbo technology and ranging from 1.5 to 3.0 litres. With different power ratings, the engines can be adapted to a variety of vehicle concepts. Commonality across the engines makes it possible to be extremely flexible in achieving significant efficiences at high production volumes, as well as being able to produce additional special versions of the engines at relatively small volumes across the network of engine plants.
To get a glimpse inside the Hams Hall engine plant, tune in to the new BBC2 series 'Building Cars Live', presented by James May, Kate Humble and Ant Anstead. The Hams Hall plant is one of the key suppliers to MINI production at the Oxford-based vehicle manufacturing plant that will feature in the programme this autumn.
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An incredibly stylish four piece flush hinged tea and coffee set sitting on shaped cornered oblong tray.
An incredibly stylish four piece flush hinged tea and coffee set sitting on shaped cornered oblong tray. The teaset has elegant panelling with upper engraving for highlights. The handles are bone and are formed in a typical art deco style.
Condition: Excellent throughout. Tray Sheffield 1934. Teapot and coffee pot Sheffield 1935. Sugar and cream London 1934.


Portland, Ore.—This summer, the pioneers of Portland's Izakaya-style Japanese gastropubs will open their fourth restaurant at the Burnside Bridgehead. Named after the Japanese word for "sky," Kuu will be located in Slate, a new mixed-use building at the corner of NE Martin Luther King Boulevard and Burnside. While Kuu's daily menu will be rooted in traditional Japanese cuisine, the offerings will be uniquely Portland, drawing inspiration from local ingredients and tastes.
Kuu's Tokyo-based parent company, TKS Group, started in Tokyo in 1991 with a small Okonomiyaki-style restaurant. Emphasizing a high-quality dining experience for a reasonable price, the company has been able to grow rapidly; expanding to over 100 izakayas, ramen noodle shops, and sushi bars today. In 2010, Portland entrepreneur Tamio Nojima partnered with TKS Group to open Shigezo Izakaya on the SW Park Blocks, establishing Portland as the American beachhead for TKS. In partnership with TKS, Nojiri and Nojima also operate Yataimura Maru on Southeast Division and Kichinto Izakaya on North Russell.
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Discover The Real France And Germany With Shaftesbury Twinning Association
21st January 2019 Community
Fancy an affordable European short break, where you'll gain a unique insight into French or German life? Simon Pritchard is Chairman of Shaftesbury's Twinning Association and he's keen to encourage more residents to visit our twin towns.
Keri Jones of ThisIsAlfred talked to Simon about a forthcoming social evening where he'll share more information about twinning trips and correct some misunderstandings.
Whenever you turn on the TV or radio at the moment, people are talking about our relationship with Europe. But what happens at the end of March won't affect the firm friendships forged since Shaftesbury, Brionne and Lindlar became twin towns or, more accurately, a trinity of towns.
I met with Twinning Association Chairman, Simon Pritchard, for a chat. Simon showed me his phone messages. He's become good friends with Lindlar resident Sven, since Simon first visited our German twin town. "His English is good enough for me to be able to just text him, converse with him and see how him and his family are getting on," said Simon.
Twinning Association Chairman, Simon Pritchard
There are clearly culture differences between the Cologne area and North Dorset, but the two men have bonded over a mutual love of beer. "When I first started staying with him, on the first night there, we both discovered we had a love of beer. Beyond that, whatever cultural differences there were became null and void," Simon said.
As I chatted with Simon he shared more examples of how residents who have been on twinning trips have kept in contact with their French or German hosts. Social media messaging and Skype means it doesn't cost a penny – or a cent – to stay in touch.
It was very different in the days when the Association was formed. French teachers at Shaftesbury's schools decided to find a place where pupils could test their language skills. The first exploratory trip to Brionne was made in December 1971. Brionne was chosen because its Normandy location meant a weekend visit was possible and practical.
The Association was formed in 1974 and extended to Lindlar in 1981. The German link was inspired by Lindlar-born Alo Hoeller, who was detained in the Shaftesbury area during World War II. Herr Hoeller felt that he was well-treated during his time working at Harding's Farm and he wanted to establish a formal friendship link between Shaftesbury and his home town.
Simon says both of our twin towns share similarities with Shaftesbury. "The size is very similar. That's the reason why the twinning works." But there are also distinct difference which make visiting the two twins interesting. "Lindlar is a slightly industrial town, but it does have a nice historic centre. It's got huge amounts of open space that run all the way through the town. It has stunning, rolling, beautiful hills all around the town, which are not too high and within ten minutes, you can get up to the top," Simon said.
The pretty French town of Brionne sits on a tributary of the River Seine and is overlooked by the remains of its hilltop castle keep. "Brionne has the feel of a typical French town – that sort of café culture," said Simon.
He believes that the Twinning Association offers a special insight into how German and French residents live. You can stay with locals, in their own homes and experience everyday life, rather than seeing those countries as a tourist. "It's an absolutely extraordinary experience that is not easily available. The chance to go and live with somebody and be completely immersed in their culture. They will show you everything that they know about an area or a place."
Simon's made some discoveries. He's sampled some special brews that he would never have tried if his twin town host had not introduced him to them. "The Germans have a wonderful culture where they will actually brew the beer in the back of a restaurant. You could be going to a restaurant and drink beer that's unique and sold nowhere else. That really excited me," he said.
And Simon has also learned that, in Lindlar, it's best to mention that you follow a meat-free diet before your trip. "In Germany, they were particularly amused because I'm a vegetarian and vegetarianism in Germany is most definitely not widespread. I caused my host an awful lot of stress on the first day. He did a lot of driving around to try and find some vegetarian food because it's almost a concept they're not used to."
Simon says that the European visits can be as formal or informal as people wish. And many Shaftesbury residents now travel to Lindlar and Brionne under 'their own steam'. "The unofficial trips happen all the time. If you know a host family out there, they may well say to you 'come on over', at times outside the official trip."
But it seems that Twinning Association travellers enjoy the camaraderie of a coach trip, sharing their experience with fellow Shaftesbury residents. It offers the most cost effective way to visit. "Our Secretary, Roy Mitchell, spends an awful lot of his time looking around for the best deals and nailing down the best prices. Once we've got that in place we work out how much we need to charge each person. This year's trip will be £195 per person. I think for a long weekend away in Germany that's actually stunningly good value," said Simon.
The trips are offered at a cost price. "We don't make any money out of it. The Association is a registered charity. For the last couple of years, we've made a loss, so it's certainly not a business venture of ours. It's a community service that we provide," he said.
Many locals look forward to the coach ride because it's fun. There are often quizzes and activities on board. "The coach leaves from the Coppice Street car park, normally on a Thursday morning, nice and early," explained Simon. "We take a day to travel over there with plenty of stops on the way. We often go on the ferry but this time we're going by Eurotunnel, which will cut the journey time even more. There are favourite stops on the way – sometimes a chocolate shop in Belgium. It's quite a jolly time on the coach really with people moving around and chatting."
What happens when you get to Brionne or Lindlar is up to you and your hosts. "Once you arrive with your host family then, no doubt, they'll have a conversation with you as to what you want to do and what you want to get out of the trip. There will be official trips arranged for the weekend. On the Saturday there would be a trip that you would know about in advance, but your host family may well say to you, 'if you don't want to go on it, let's get in the car and go somewhere else'," Simon said.
Simon has enjoyed seeing the sights in and around Lindlar on an organised tour. "I certainly enjoyed the trip that they took to Cologne. The cathedral – that was absolutely stunning."
Simon wants Shaftesbury residents to attend a March meeting, to share ideas for places where we can take our French and German twin town visitors when they visit North Dorset. "We've been to Salisbury. We've been up to Bath. We recently took them down to Swanage and had a lovely day out down there, and jumped on a boat and went all around the Jurassic Coast."
Simon welcomes fresh thinking. "We're quite a small committee. There are about six or seven of us and so we probably keep on having the same set of ideas all the time. We want to extend it out and ask some of our members or residents of the town whether they've got any good ideas about what we could be doing."
Not everyone has great language skills and if you can't speak French or German, Simon's experience its that its is easier to make yourself understood when you stay with Lindlar locals. "You could go over to Germany and communicate with people absolutely fine. Most Germans will tell you that they do not speak English and then speak English to you absolutely perfectly for the whole weekend," he said. "The language barrier between us and the French can be an issue and I think that if you want to go to France, you would need to take your phrasebook and do a little bit of research before you arrive."
Simon is keen to tackle some misunderstandings about the Twinning Association and how it works. Firstly, you don't need to be a member to take one of the organised trips. If you pay the travel costs, you can go along. Secondly, you don't have to offer accommodation in return for the German and French visitors.
"When I talk to people, the first thing they will say is 'I couldn't possibly host anybody. My house is too small' and I find it disappointing that they feel as though they would be excluded from being able to take part in our trips. The Association is open to all residents of the town. The Town Council agreed that it wished to twin with Lindlar and it set up the Association to enable residents of the town to be able to visit."
And Simon says that, if you're a private person, you can choose to stay in a hotel instead of a host's home. "There's no problem there. And if you can't stand going on the coach, you can get on a plane and that does happen. We also have people that will drive across separately from the coach." If you'd like to see Lindlar with fellow Shaftesbury residents, the group's 2019 trip visits our German twin between 2nd and 6th of May.
There are 53 members of the Association and Simon would love to see more locals sign up. "We've had new membership from young families with children as well as older people. Absolutely anyone can become a member. You don't have to be a member to go on the trip. It's open to anyone," said Simon.
You can find out more at the group's cheese and wine event in the Royal British Legion Hall at 7.30pm on Friday 8th March. Tickets are £10. "At the same time we're going to be having a brainstorming session and hopefully we'll get some ideas about what we can do for future trips out. There is a small ticket fee to cover the cost of the cheese and the wine but, judging by previous events we've held of a similar nature, you'll definitely get your money's worth," said Simon.
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