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Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3
Rachmaninov with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Denis Kozhukhin begins a month of performances of Rachmaninov when he returns to the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra for three performances in Salzburg's Großes Festspielhaus on 18, 19 and 20 January 2017. Performing under the baton of conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Kozhukhin performs Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3 in the first two concerts, before moving on to Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.4 in the final one.
The following week, Kozhukhin joins Orozco-Estrada once more for three performances with the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall on 27, 28 and 29 January, where he again perform Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3.
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg return
Denis Kozhukhin returns to the Orchestre Philharmonie du Luxembourg on 16 December for a concert at the Philharmonie Luxembourg. He plays Haydn's Keyboard Concerto No.11 conducted by Andrew Manze.
Kozhukhin regularly performs the work of Haydn and in 2014 recorded his Piano Sonatas with Onyx Classics. Visit the audio page or Kozhukhin's Soundcloud to listen to excerpts from the release.
Debut with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Denis Kozhukhin makes his debut with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin this month in a concert at the Berliner Philharmonie on 30 November. Together with conductor Andris Poga, he will perform Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor.
Kozhukhin released Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 on Pentatone earlier this year, alongside the Grieg Piano Concerto. The recording has received outstanding reviews, and was selected as Gramophone Editor's Choice for May. Visit Pentatone's Soundcloud to hear the recording, and read an excerpt from Gramophone's review below:
"Listening to Kozhukhin, you're left with one thing: the music – incontestable, complete."
Return to Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Denis Kozhukhin returns to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for four performances of Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.2 on 17, 18, 19 and 22 November. The performances, at Chicago's Symphony Center, are conducted by Emmanuel Krivine.
One concert will be recorded for deferred radio broadcast and streamed subsequently on csosoundsandstories.org.
Kozhukhin previously performed with the CSO in June 2015, when his performance of Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand conducted by Ludovic Morlot was praised by the Chicago Tribune:
"His firm tone, incisive attacks and supple sense of line made light of the work's enormous technical difficulties. Especially in the formidable cadenza that closes the concerto, it was hard to believe he could deliver such commanding sound and spot-on accuracy using only five fingers. With Morlot's sympathetic partnering, this was another winning performance… Thursday's audience roared its approval."
Philadelphia Orchestra return as part of US tour
Denis Kozhukhin returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra for the three concerts with the orchestra and conductor Stéphane Denève on 20, 21 and 22 October 2016. Kozhukhin joins the orchestra to perform Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 at Verizon Hall.
The concerts in Philadelphia form part of Kozhukhin's tour of North America, which opens with two recitals at Portland's Lincoln Performance Hall on 8 and 9 October, when he performs two separate programmes: Handel, Franck, Brahms, Weber and Bartók on the first night, and Haydn, Prokofiev, Liszt, Ligeti and Rachmaninov on the second. He also gives recitals in Washington D.C. on 16 October and Miami on 17 October.
In addition to these recitals, Kozhukhin also joins the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Hugh Wolff for two performances of Gershwin Piano Concerto on 13 and 15 October.
Finally he rounds off his tour in Toronto, where he performs Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.4 and Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue in two concerts on 26 and 27 October with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Kristjan Järvi.
European concerts with the MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra Leipzig
Denis Kozhukhin joins the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kristjan Järvi for a series of concerts this month, beginning at Meran's Kurhaus on 9 September 2016.
Kozhukhin and the orchestra perform Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.4, part of a programme that also includes Steve Reich Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards and Schumann Symphony No.4. Later in the month, Kozhukhin and the orchestra perform at the Sala Radio in Bucharest on 27 September, the Suhl Congress Centrum on 1 October and the Leipzig Gewandhaus on 2 October.
Debut with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Kölner Philharmonie
Denis Kozhukhin returns to the Cologne on 2 September 2016 to make his debut with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Kölner Philharmonie.
Kozhukhin performs Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 under the baton of Rafael Payare, and the concert will be broadcast on WDR on 25 September.
Following this, Kozhukhin returns to Wigmore Hall on 11 September for a solo recital, performing Handel Suite No.7 in G minor, Brahms 3 Intermezzi, Bartók Out of Doors, Weber Piano Sonata No.3 and a selection of pieces from Albéniz Iberia.
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"In many ways the most appealingly energetic music of the evening came from Denis Kozhukhin, soloist in Mendelssohn's First PIano Concerto."
"Kozhukhin was the man for this. His technique is phenomenal, with a big tonal range and icily clear articulation, but in the Andante revealing another side to his playing altogether – gentle, full of feeling and aspiration, the cantabile bell-like and crystalline."
Read the full review on TheArtsDesk.com
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On March 17, 2018, lawyers from Taylor McCaffrey's labour department pulled out some good books and sharing stories, as part of the Law Society of Manitoba's 8th annual "Lawyers for Literacy" event, all in support of the West Broadway Youth Outreach (WBYO).
WBYO is a recreational life skills program for children who live in the West Broadway area of Winnipeg. All WBYO activities are free, and the programming services approximately 600 children in the area throughout the school year, who range in age from four to 12. WBYO deservedly receives the very generous support of junior volunteers, mentors and role models aged 13 to 17, all of whom help keep the operating budget low.
• The Dreams Program, through which kids are encouraged to think beyond the day-to-day and realize that their dreams really are possible.
Lawyers for Literacy is intended to promote literacy skills and raise money for WBYO's work in the community. Many kids don't have an adult at home who encourages them or shares the joy of reading which is why this programming, and events like this, are so impactful.
Lawyers for Literacy has raised over $86,000 in the past seven years and paired over 500 lawyers with children in the community. Taylor McCaffrey and its labour department particularly were both excited and proud to participate this year, provide some pledges and continue to help our community become a better place.
If you'd like to learn more about WBYO, please visit westbroadwayyouthoutreach.com.


Shenzhen made great leaps in energy efficiency and environmental quality in the past two years, as did Taizhou, Zhejiang province, but Beijing lost ground, according to a recent study.
Using an index developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Accenture Plc, a multinational management consulting company, 100 cities were examined for their "resource and environmental sustainability". Several indicators were used, such as water and energy consumed per GDP unit, the recycle rate for industrial waste, emissions of sulfides, the intensity of fine particulates in the air and carbon emissions per capita.
Beijing and Shanghai scored poorly in the index. Of the cities examined, Beijing dropped to 19th, from 15th two years ago, and Shanghai moved from 22nd to 18th. Beijing was dragged down because of its air quality.
The study found that China's major city cluster had not climbed the sustainability chart. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster, as well as the Chengdu-Chongqing cluster saw the deterioration of their environments over the past two years.
Shi Minjun, a research fellow at Chinese Academy of Sciences who participated in the study, said that when considering the integration of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area, Beijing and Tianjin should not only consider the relocation of their industrial facilities to Hebei, but consider how to help less prosperous Hebei improve its capacity, such as the introduction of technologies to lift resource efficiency and curb emissions.
The study called for a greater role for information technology to curb emissions. It estimated that digital technologies application could cut annual global carbon emission by 12.1 billion tons by 2030 (annual emission by that year is estimated at 35 billion tons).
Li Guanghai, managing director of Accenture Strategy in Greater China, noted that implementing carbon-reduction measures, such as replacing coal with gas, would result in losses for many industrial firms that burn cheaper coal, as they have thin profit margins. The solution is to reduce the cost of new technologies, Li said.
"Technology is evolving really fast," Li said. "What's great about technology is it helps to thaw boundaries of industries. For example, Uber is changing the roles of consumers, taxi drivers and regulators while making self-ownership of cars less necessary."
Many of Accenture's multinational clients are actively embracing technology to save energy and reduce costs, he said. For example, tire manufacturer Michelin installs sensors on its tires to monitor trucks' real-time fuel consumption. The data are used to optimize drivers' behaviors and reduce fuel. Michelin is also leasing, instead of selling, its tires to improve efficiency.
Major Chinese companies are exploring various technologies to reduce energy consumption, such as the "smart" electrical power grid, power plants, pipelines and mines, he said.


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I had my days, and I had my fun. Thinking about those days, and I can now see how things have changed. I did some wild things in those days. I wouldn't even know where to begin to tell you. Some things that I can tell you; some things I would take to the grave. Just know that the things that I did were just a little bit crazy.
There was a time when my name was all in the streets, no matter where I went. I had more girls than I could name, and it started to feel the same. I knew it was something when I realized that people used to hang around me because they knew that it was going to be a party; I'm not the partying type. I was just a little wild.
I'm writing this random post because I'm thinking about once upon a time. I'm not wishing for those days, because some of those days were doing the darkest and most twisted parts of my life. Like I said, it was fun, but the party had to stop eventually. You have to return back to reality; back to the real world.
This is not really a post about bipolar, even though being bipolar makes having meaningful relationships difficult. This isn't a post about what's considered the clichés of love, even though I do believe everyone deserves some type of love. This really isn't about me personally, although I'm using a lot of personal connections in this post.
This isn't JB Burrage going soft. After all, I'm known for not being the extremely emotional type. But I remember the times. I remember trying to find love, but when I couldn't I went back to what I knew. While I won't comment on my relationship status (form your opinions all you want; they are your opinions, not actual facts), I will tell you that I have several thoughts on the state of relationships today. Sit down with me at any bar or restaurant in Atlanta or Meridian and we will talk about some of them.
Love is such a subjective term. No matter how people try to define it or place it on other people, it's still subjective. While people are in search of "true love", I believe true love is also subjective, and I believe that it doesn't exist; at least not in the realm of our existence. The hopeless romantics always get pissed at me when I say this. All you have to do is go on social media and follow the trend to see my point, and that's just that the newest fad. In my opinion, true love doesn't exist until you transition, meaning when you die and you make it to Heaven. The mortals that we are spending so much time searching for that true love that we neglect what's really in front of us.
What I do believe in is the strong bond of love. I do believe that even though we interpret love in our own human minds, there is a connection somewhere. That's what I think we ignore in the search for that true love. We ignore the connection. We actually spend so much time trying to make something the true love event that we try to make something out of something that doesn't exist.
I'm just an ordinary man who doesn't have the best track record with love and relationships. But those experiences also forced me to learn a thing or two. Just enjoy the moment. Enjoy each other. Stop trying to force a situation. If you want marriage, that's fine. But don't try to force your mate into it. If you want to take walks on the beach and have romantic picnics, that's fine. But don't force your mate into it if it's not necessarily what they are into. Enjoy the moment, and let it build. It will be okay.
The featured picture is what a lot of y'all, especially women, want to happen. You might get a month or two of that before it gets old. Just celebrate what you have, and make it worth each other's while. Let your mate know that this is where they need to be. True love doesn't exist in our realm. But human love does.


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Q: Generalized Complex Geometry and Theoretical Physics I have been wondering about some of the different uses of Generalized Complex Geometry (GCG) in Physics. Without going into mathematical detail (see Gualtieri's thesis for reference), a Generalized Complex Geometry attempts to unify symplectic and complex geometry by considering the bundle $TM\oplus T^* M$ with its natural metric $\langle X+\xi, Y+\eta\rangle = \frac{1}{2} \left( \eta(X) + \xi(Y)\right)$ and the Courant Bracket.
The first hints of the necessity of GCGs in Physics came up in a famous paper by Gates, Hull and Roc̆ek, in which they found an 'extra' supersymmetry in the $(2,2)$ supersymmetric model. This extra symmetry turns out to be related to specifying two (integrable) complex structures $J_1, J_2$ which in turn are covariantly constant under torsionful connections. This means that the manifold need not be Kähler (which is Hermitian and Torsion-free) and led Nigel Hitchin (and his students) to propose more general geometries that could be useful in physics.
More recently, a connection between GCGs and AdS/CFT has been discovered. Recall that in AdS/CFT, we consider a spacetime that is a warped product of $AdS_4$ and a 6-manifold. It turns out that it is natural to consider a 5-manifold $Y^5$ whose cone has some special geometry. If this geometry is Calabi-Yau then such a manifold is known as a Sasaki-Einstein manifold. As such, we start out with a metric of the form,
$ g_{ij} = g_{AdS_5} + g_{Y^5} = e^{2\Delta + \phi/2}r^2 \left(g_{\mathbb{R}^{1,3}} + r^{-4} g_{C(Y^5)} \right) $
where $g_{C(Y^5)} = dr^2 + r^2 g_{Y^5}$ (the metric cone of $Y^5$). If we want to obey $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetry, we must enforce on the dilatino and gravitino which eventually leads to a condition on pure spinors. In Generalized Complex Geometry, $TM\oplus T^*M$ naturally acts as a Clifford Algebra on the Clifford Module $\wedge^{\bullet} T^*M$. It turns out that in this situation, we can represent the pure spinors over a Generalized Complex Manifold as the sum of differential forms of different degree (polyforms). As such GCGs can be good candidates for $C(Y^5)$.
Related to this is the result of Graña, et. al which can be poorly paraphrased as:

All $\mathcal{N}=1$ solutions of IIB string theory are described by a
  pair of pure spinors $\Omega_{\pm}$(up to $B$ transform) that satisfy
  a pair of differential constaints, $d \Omega_+ = 0$, $d\Omega_- = dA \wedge \Omega_+ + \frac{i}{8}e^{3A}e^{-B}\star (F_1 - F_3 + F_5)$, where $F_k$ is the $k$-form flux and $A = 2\Delta + \phi/2$

I was wondering if there were any other significant uses of GCGs in physics that I have not mentioned. I have seen a variety of papers that do mention GCGs, but outside of these examples, I have not been particularly compelled by their usage.
Thanks!

A: As you note, the algebraic structure on $T X \oplus T^* X$ studied in generalized complex geometry is that of the standard Courant Lie 2-algebroid. Courant Lie 2-algebroids (standard or non-standard) play a role in various guises in 2-dimensional QFT, thanks to the fact that they are in a precise sense the next higher analog of symplectic manifolds (see symplectic Lie n-algebroid) and thus the direct generalization of Hamiltonian mechanics from point particles to strings. This higher symplectic geometry aspect of Courant Lie 2-algebroids -- gence of GCG -- is recently receiving more attention.
Related to this is the Courant sigma-model, which is a 3d TFT generalizing Chern-Simons theory, being the direct higher dimensional analog of the Poisson sigma-model. It has a Courant Lie 2-algebroid as its target space. Hence in particular every generalized complex geometry forms the target space of such a 3d sigma-model.

A: One of my favourite (still) applications of generalised geometry is the derivation of the Buscher rules for T-duality, which you can read about in the relatively recent paper arXiv:1106.1747 [math.DG] by Gualtieri and Cavalcanti.  I first heard about it from a colloquium by Cavalcanti here in Edinburgh a few years ago and found it to be the most transparent derivation of the Buscher rules I had ever seen.

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How do you find increasing and decreasing returns to scale?
What is meant by the term increasing returns to scale quizlet?
What is increasing returns in economics?
What does the term decreasing returns to scale mean quizlet?
How do returns to scale affect long run average costs?
The easiest way to find out if a production function has increasing, decreasing, or constant returns to scale is to multiply each input in the function with a positive constant, (t > 0), and then see if the whole production function is multiplied with a number that is higher, lower, or equal to that constant.
What is an example of increasing returns to scale?
An increasing returns to scale occurs when the output increases by a larger proportion than the increase in inputs during the production process. For example, if input is increased by 3 times, but output increases by 3.75 times, then the firm or economy has experienced an increasing returns to scale.
What is an example of decreasing returns to scale?
Definition: Decreasing Returns to Scale For example, if a car firm increases its variable inputs (capital, raw materials and labour) by 50%, but the output of cars, increases by only 35%, then we say there are decreasing returns to scale from increasing the quantity of inputs.
Increasing returns to scale refers to a situation where an increase in a firm's scale of production leads to high costs per unit produced.
What are the causes of decreasing returns to scale?
Decreasing returns to scale occur if the production process becomes less efficient as production is expanded, as when a firm becomes too large to be managed effectively as a single unit.
Why might a firm experience increasing and decreasing returns to scale?
Such economies of scale may occur because greater efficiency is obtained as the firm moves from small- to large-scale operations. Decreasing returns to scale occur if the production process becomes less efficient as production is expanded, as when a firm becomes too large to be managed effectively as a single unit.
Increasing returns are the tendency for that which is ahead to get further ahead and for that which is losing advantage to lose further advantage. If a product gets ahead, increasing returns can magnify the advantage, and the product can go on to lock in the market.
What are increasing diminishing and negative returns?
To say a firm is experiencing diminishing marginal returns is not to say its output is falling. Diminishing marginal returns mean that the marginal product of a variable factor is declining. Output is still increasing as the variable factor is increased, but it is increasing by smaller and smaller amounts.
What is increasing returns to scale with diagram?
For example, to produce a particular product, if the quantity of inputs is doubled and the increase in output is more than double, it is said to be an increasing returns to scale. When there is an increase in the scale of production, the average cost per unit produced is lower.
Decreasing Returns to Scale. When the increase in all factors of production leads to a less than proportional increase in output.
What is an example of an increase in returns to scale?
For example, if input is increased by 3 times, but output increases by 3.75 times, then the firm or economy has experienced an increasing returns to scale. A decreasing returns to scale occurs when the proportion of output is less than the desired increased input during the production process.
What causes decrease in returns to scale?
Decreasing Returns to Scale. Decreasing returns to scale is closely associated with diseconomies of scale (the upward part of the long-run average total curve). Decreasing returns to scale happens when the firm's output rises proportionately less than its inputs rise.
When input prices remain constant, increasing returns to scale results in decreasing long-run average costs (economies of scale).
What are returns to scale?
Returns to scale tell us how production changes in response to an increase in all inputs in the long run. An industry can exhibit constant returns to scale, increasing returns to scale or decreasing returns to scale. Study of whether efficiency increases with increase in all factors of production is important for both businesses and policy-makers.
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Pinterest is one of best marketing tools for Food Bloggers and Food Photographers. And it is not an statement that I throw in without any investigation. According to the numbers shown by Pinterest in 2017 and 2018; food and drink is one of the top major groups of publications on Pinterest*. There are 200 Billion pins published and 250 Million active users per month on Pinterest, and around 15 Billion recipes, growing 21% year on year.
Those numbers could be overwhelming, but with careful planning you can use it to your advantage to grow!
You are probably already taking good care of your community on Instagram, building engagement on each post and comment. But, have you noticed that the numbers of clicks to your blog or site from Instagram don't match the popularity of your Instagram account? Only if you work hard on your Stories and have the Swipe Up option, can you get a significant traffic from Instagram (to be granted with a direct link in Stories you need to have more than 10K followers. If you already have the 10K, congratulations! Maybe one day I will get there ♥).
Both platforms are great marketing tools to grow your followers and drive traffic to your site. You can use Instagram to build your community and empower the engagement of your followers, whereas you can convert your Pinterest account into your food photography brand magazine or visual cookbook. Build your business store with your branding style and get sales and growth from there at any time!
As a Pinterest Manager, I want you to take the lead and control of your business, using Pinterest to further your own strategy, to get more visitors to your site, engage with new and existing customers and grow your email lists to reach your dream. Are you dreaming of writing a cookbook, working with companies as a food developer, teaching food photography, or running a culinary school? I hear you.
Pinterest is NOT another social network, it's a Visual Search Engine that, like Google, requires an optimised strategy.
And here's the greatest thing for food bloggers and food photographers, this complex marketing tool works with a visual lens engine that can discern between colours, faces and many other aspects of the picture, including the descriptions attached to the image. Google, also recently applied this visual lens engine to its search, because it knows the power of searching not only among text, but also recognising elements within the picture. I am writing a new post about how to use this feature, don't miss it!
How does this visual engine benefit food bloggers and food photographers?
There is nothing better that on-hands and visual examples, at least to me! Let's take the example of this peeled apple image above.
If your Autumnal or seasonal recipe contains red tones, (like these apples) it will mean that not only you will get the benefit of your seasonal ingredients in Pinterest search , but also the tone of the picture and even the accessories and angle of the photo! (these smart kids…). This image will show up as recommended pins when a user clicks on a similar photography or recipe. This is a wide opportunity to drive your audience to what you need, not only recipes, but also if you are selling services like food photography or cake styling courses.
Of course, as with Google, it is important to work on SEO ranking strategies, not only on imaginary, but also to know when your followers or target audience are searching for your content and how they search for it. Using it strategically will provide you with an unstoppable advantage.
I could spend all day writing about this topic, but I want to make sure that YOU, no matter which niche you're in, should give this platform a try. It is FREE (that helps a lot, right?) and you will show your passion to many other people that will find it useful for their lives.
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April | 2014 | DEBtastic Reads!
Welcome to the Spotlight Mariko Nagai and Dust of Eden!
I'm absolutely thrilled to be shining the spotlight on Mariko Nagai and her debut middle grade novel in verse, Dust of Eden. I first met Mariko in 2006, I believe. I was living in Shanghai at the time and made a trip to Tokyo and met up with some wonderful SCBWI members in Japan. Stay tuned below for a chance to win a copy of this powerful book!
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Mina Masako Tagawa and her family are forced to leave their home in Seattle and relocate to an internment camp in Idaho. This is the story of the Japanese-American internment during WWII. In poignant and powerful verse, Mariko Nagai tells the story through middle-schooler Mina. Mina who has to leave behind everything – including her cat and best friend. In the dusty barrack camps where the families are crammed together with no privacy and little amenities, Mina's family cracks under the strain. Mina's brother angry in camp, volunteers for the Japanese-American infantry to fight in the war. The beauty lies in the telling – Nagai's verse is filled with emotion. Grandpa's beloved roses survive in the harsh environment and serve as a reminder that under even the harshest conditions, beauty can be found.
How did this book come about? Please share with us the journey of Dust of Eden, from idea to research to drafting to sale.
The book story has been with me for a very long time – you can almost say that it's a lifetime's work. When I was eight, we moved to San Francisco, where there were many Japanese-Americans living there. That's the first time I heard about "the camp" that Japanese-Americans had to live in during World War II. As I grew older, I learned different aspects of the Japanese-American experience, both good and bad. It was maybe in 2002 or 2003 when Mina, the protagonist, came to me fully, and she told me that she lived in Seattle and that she had two names – Mina and Masako – and sometimes she wasn't sure which name was really her. It took several years to do research. The writing itself came rather quickly, but it took several years to revise, to sell it to the right publisher, and… well, it was a very long journey from idea to sale, but the journey was worth it.
I am not a poet. I am in awe of you – poetry and novels in verse. What are some of the special challenges when it comes to telling a story in verse?
I think one of the things I am still learning is how to write poems, which are like snapshots, while answering to the demand of the novelistic form – character development, action, etc. In many ways, in the perfect verse novel, you have poems that can stand on their own while having characters develop in a way that's demanded by the novel form. You also have to answer to the demand of poetry – rhythm, forms, rhyming, etc . Often times, when verse novelists write, they are more focused on the structure and they sacrifice poetic elements for the sake of the novelistic form. It's difficult, but there are wonderful poets who engage with verse-novels elegantly and wonderfully – Helen Frost, Margarita Engles, Marilyn Nelson, Nikki Grimes, Karen Hesse, etc.
Mina has to deal with huge change, not only from her comfortable home in Seattle to the barracks in Idaho, but in the demeanor and behavior of her beloved family. The emotions come through so strongly in your verse – how did you get to know Mina?
I'm not sure if I got to know Mina all that well – because poetic form demands that I focus on the moments, I could draw from my own experiences – anger, bewilderment, fear, hopelessness, love, closeness. As I wrote, the first draft took relatively a short time to write, but getting each emotion right in each poem, oh, that was a difficult part. Mina/Masako couldn't articulate her feelings, and I had a hard time sorting it out in each poem.
You were born in Japan, raised in the States and Belgium and now live in Tokyo. What do you love best about each place you've lived?
I love each place! Each place is so rich with history and stories, it's going to take me a lifetime to go through them! I love traveling, I love experiencing new places. There's so many stories, so many places, I would love to explore!
Mariko Nagai Bio: Born in Tokyo and raised in Europe and America, Mariko Nagai studied English/Creative Writing – Poetry at New York University. Her numerous honors include the Erich Maria Remarque Fellowship from New York University, fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Akademie Schloss Solitude, UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for the Arts, Yaddo, and Djerassi. She has received the Pushcart Prizes both in poetry and fiction. Nagai's collection of poems,Histories of Bodies, won the Benjamin Saltman Prize from Red Hen Press, and her first collection of stories, Georgic: Stories won the 2009 G.S. Sharat Chandra Fiction Prize from BkMk Press. Her other books includeInstructions for the Living (Word Palace Press 2012), Dust of Eden (Albert Whitman & Co, 2014) and The Promised Land: A Novel (forthcoming Aqueous Press, 2016). She is an Associate Professor of creative writing and Japanese literature at Temple University, Japan Campus in Tokyo, where she is also the Director of Research and Study Abroad Academic Coordinator. She also serves as Assistant Regional Advisor of SCBWI Japan.
For more about Mariko, check out her web site or follow her on Twitter.
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Welcome to the Spotlight Emily Jiang and Summoning the Phoenix!
Congratulations to Emily Jiang and her debut children's book, Summoning the Phoenix, now available for purchase! Stay tuned below for a chance to win a copy!
Emily's poetry about traditional Chinese instruments paired with April Chu's lively illustrations will enchant readers young and not so young. For every poem about an instrument is a sidebar describing the instrument and the history, and sometimes a delightful folktale. The poems follow present-day students practicing on their instruments through preparing for and finally performing in a concert. So many fascinating instruments – I think my favorite, though, is the bamboo xiao which is said to be able to summon a phoenix if played beautifully.
Tell me about the journey of your book – what was the inspiration, how many drafts did you write, and what was it like to get "The Call" (or email) that led to the publication of your book.
"The Call" for Summoning the Phoenix was unexpected and unusual. Ironically, I came up with the idea for this picture book while researching the music-based magic system for my YA fantasy novel that is All-Asian-All-the-Time. I wanted to share the love of traditional Chinese music with future generations, so I pitched the idea to my first editor, Renee Ting, who, coincidentally, had always wanted to publish a picture book about Chinese music. The original concept was a purely nonfiction book featuring photos of Chinese musical instruments. Then I discovered a book called Chinese Music and Musical Instruments by Xi Qiang, photographed by Niu Jiandang, and translated by Qiu Maoru. Written in English and published in Shanghai, China, this book was exactly what my editor and I had originally envisioned. So we had to rethink our concept. We considered, perhaps, that our book should be illustrated instead, yet we were unsure how to restructure the nonfiction content in a fresh manner.
"What's your opinion about poetry?" I asked.
A week or so later, my editor called me to tell me that she did not like Dark Emperor, she loved it! She gave me the green light to write poems along with prose about Chinese musical instruments. I wrote about six or seven revisions before she judged my manuscript as ready and gave me a contract. She was always available and open-minded to my ideas and even seriously considered my artist referrals, with my top pick being the amazingly talented April Chu, who eventually signed on as illustrator. When I could not decide on a title for my book, my editor was the one who came up with Summoning the Phoenix.
While Summoning the Phoenix has a fantastic new publisher Lee & Low and wonderful new editor Louise May, I will always remember the huge contributions of my first editor Renee Ting. The words are all my own, yet she greatly influenced the shape the book from the beginning, and for that, I'm forever grateful.
Do you play any instruments? Are you musical? What about music do you love?
Thanks to my parents' unwavering support of music education when I was a child, I can play the piano (10 years of classical training) and the guitar (6 months of classical training) and I've been singing in choirs and a cappella groups for over 20 years. I'm currently teaching myself how to play the xiao and the dizi, both Chinese bamboo flutes, which is a challenge because I've never played a wind instrument before, and the technique is completely different from piano or guitar.
Music has always been easier for me than words. When learning a song, I always remember the melody before I can recall the lyrics. If I know the words to a song, that means I've listened to it at least ten times, while a melody can stick with me after hearing it only once. What I love most about music is that it IS a universal language that can transcend age and gender and culture. Even if you are deaf, you can still feel rhythm, an essential component of music.
I'm revising a couple YA novels that are All-Asian-All-the-Time. But I also recently was ambushed by a picture book idea that won't let go. As long as I'm writing, I'm happy.
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"Lost in Translation" follows comedian Mike King as he charts the bittersweet but often dramatic journey of the nine separate Treaty of Waitangi sheets as they traveled around New Zealand in 1840 collecting signatures.
King discovers who signed and who didn't during this iconic period in New Zealand history. He talks to descendants - Maori and Pakeha -who shed new light on what was really going on in 1840.
Understanding the conflicting attitudes to the Treaty became a personal journey for the comedian. King has recently recovered from a stroke that almost killed him, and "Lost in Translation" became a way to re-connect with his Maori heritage.
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WASHINGTON — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) will host two workshops in Houston at the Houston Marriott South at Hobby Airport, September 25 and 26, for directors of national community banks and federal savings associations supervised by the OCC.
The Compliance Risk workshop on September 25 combines lectures, discussion, and exercises on the critical elements of an effective compliance risk management program. The workshop also focuses on major compliance risks and critical regulations. Topics of discussion include the Bank Secrecy Act, Flood Disaster Protection Act, Fair Lending, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, Community Reinvestment Act, and other compliance hot topics.
The Operational Risk workshop on September 26 focuses on the key components of operational risk—people, processes, and systems. The workshop also covers governance, third-party risk, vendor management, internal fraud, and cybersecurity.


Is your House Plan wasting the balcony space?
A home without a refreshing balcony is incomplete. Don't look at your balcony as a utility space which is just used for drying clothes, or an extra storage room maybe. Having a wonderfully decorated balcony can do wonders in lifting your spirit. Just imagine sipping a hot cup of tea, surrounded by beautiful flower pots, and observing people passing by. Or reading your favorite book in a relaxing chair in your comfort place, while a cool breeze flows through your hair. Refreshing, isn't it? But do you know what you need in order to turn this dream into a reality? A sound House Plan which defines your balcony.
Your balcony is the like the face of your house. The direction, orientation, and space allotment in floor plan is a crucial factor in deciding the ethics of your balcony. Not just from the interiors, if done right, a balcony can enhance the look of your house from outside as well.
A semi-covered balcony is the latest trend which many people are adopting. The rise of this trend of is because of the reason that it offers advantages of both a closed balcony, you can make a good sitting arrangement there without worrying about the rain, as it provides appropriate covering over the head, and the semi-open area gives the advantage of having a good view and proper ventilation. If you are not sure about how your balcony will look on completion, a 3D external view drawing can give you a good idea of the same.
Choosing the right furniture is also important while designing a balcony. You would obviously not want to use furniture that might easily get damaged due to humidity and dust. In such case you should choose plastic, metal, or bamboo furniture. All these furnitures are relatively less expensive and are highly durable. They also give a rad look to the balcony. If you are a fun loving person, you can also get a hammock installed in your balcony.
A balcony is a place to relax, rewind yourself about life, and taking a break from the routine. Make sure you hire the right architect before starting construction who can provide you with the perfect house plan and relish the awesome balcony experience.


There is no way to know if the story recounted above is true. There are no names, dates or places that we can pin to the narrative. However, just as Jesus taught the crowds and Disciples in parables, we also can learn from stories that teach us how to know God better. The actual events may or may not be true, but there is truth in the tale.
The truth lies in the privilege we have through Jesus Christ to come to God in prayer. The task that was once reserved for those set aside for holy work, is now available to all. In fact, it has always been available to everyone, but the human rules and laws restricted access to God by the common person, and reserved it for the priesthood.
Are you having trouble in your prayer life? Perhaps you feel that God doesn't hear your prayers. Maybe you feel this way, because you have fallen into the trap of believing you are not eloquent or sophisticated enough to approach God. Nothing could be further from the truth.
God hears you whether you use the language of the King James Bible, or the simple dialogue of a three-year-old. God has no use for our words anyway. He listens to our heart. Psalm 37:4 says "Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart." He does not give the desires of our minds or our bodies. He listens to our hearts and gives us what our heart desires. If our heart is His, then we will desire the things that God wants for us.
Praying is simply talking to our Father. Pull up a chair and tell Him the desires of your heart.


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The "viral" sensation of Coronavirus TikToks
By Olivia Montes
Elm Staff Writer
As the globe follows collective, massive protocol for the next eight weeks or so regarding the spread of COVID-19, also known as coronavirus, government officials and medical professionals alike are encouraging individuals to follow a particular set of rules to protect themselves from further contamination.
Now considered a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), those in power are seeking both a sustainable cure for the disease itself, as well as a series of tactics to prevent any more from getting infected — particularly spreading through the equally-infectious social media outlet of TikTok.
The app, used by users as a type of escapism through everything from lip-synching to creating the next catchy dance craze, is now being used to spread information as to how to avoid getting sick, all while still providing audiences means of distraction from their isolated situations.
"Typically set to one of the many unofficial COVID-19 theme songs, people are filming themselves stocking up on hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and canned goods at their local big-box stores with the same joviality as they would a Sephora haul," Rebecca Jennings of VOX Media said.
Originating in Asia, these coronavirus songs, which instruct viewers to wash their hands for twenty seconds, wear face masks only if infected, and stay at home regardless of current health status, have spread in a similar manner to regular Tik Tok posts.
From stocking up on supplies in massive cities to cute gerbils demonstrating the five steps to remain healthy during this pandemic, these videos are going viral with the initial message of how to stay safe during a time of medical uncertainty throughout the world.
"Thanks to Ho Chi Minh City dancer/choreographer Quang Đăng and his not-so-sick moves that demonstrate thorough hand-washing techniques, Vietnam is combating the coronavirus pandemic one TikTok dance video at a time," Heran Mamo of Billboard said.
But, though these videos provide both entertaining and informative content, they are also not without their faults. Because of a significant lack of time to properly address permanent audiences, as well as facing the short lifespan of the videos themselves, both federal and medical officials alike have expressed concern over just how effective these demonstrations are in getting the message out there.
While those within the medical field have previously gone viral in promoting health advice to a wide array of people online, many have expressed frustration in the limiting amount of space and time Tik Tok provides its users, as well as just how much of the original message will be heard or even understood.
"Although medical professionals have long taken to social media to share healthy messages or promote their work, TikTok poses a new set of challenges, even for the internet adept," Emma Goldberg of The New York Times said.
"Popular posts on the app tend to be short, musical and humorous, complicating the task of physicians hoping to share nuanced lessons on health issues like coronavirus; [but] some physicians worry that TikTok's brief, playful clips can blur the line between general education and patient-specific medical advice," she said.
While this still remains the case, at this point in time, TikTok, as well as other online apps and services, means to promote their original campaign of supplying a source of entertainment for all, especially in the event of complete quarantine from the rest of the natural world.
"Memes aside, TikTok is taking proactive measures to educate people about the spread of the virus, at a time when many major social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter, are pushing back against the spread of misinformation," Kari Paul of The Guardian said.
And while the outside world appears bleak and unsure, people are gaining a sense of momentum within these viral videos: they're both connecting over being enclosed in their homes, while also dancing to the infectious, synthetic beats of the music.
"Several of [TikTok's] users have been utilizing the video platform to provide comic relief during these uncertain and perplexing times," Jordyn Tilichen of MTV said.
"If you haven't explored the app since the novel coronavirus took over news headlines, prepare yourselves," he said.
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The One God is our father; we are the children of the One God. You are our Guru.
This track carries the message of our first Guru, Guru Nanak Dev Ji starting Langar at a young age with only Twenty Rupees. Guru Ji father gave him Twenty Rupees to buy goods to start a business. Guru Ji on his way to the Market came across some saints who looked very weak and with the Twenty Rupees brought and distributed Langar among the poor.
What better trade could there be than helping those in need and giving them food? Guru Ji tells us this is the real profit and khara sauda (good bargain).
Our third Guru, Guru Amar Das Ji ordered that all who came to see him must first eat Guru Ka Langar as equals in the Sangat – Pahley Pangat, Peechay Sangat. Even the Emperor Akbar and the Raja of Haripur had to sit on the floor with commoners to eat as equals to nurture humility.
The Langar – the Kitchen of the Guru's Shabad has been opened, and its supplies never run short.
Were the poor different in the times of our Gurus? No. Today Guru Ka Langar costs much more than Twenty Rupees but still exists today.
Guru continually associates Himself with the poor (the gareeb), for it is amongst the poor, Gareeb Kaa Mooh (the mouth of the poor) that is Guru Kaa Golak.
We are all irrespective of caste, creed and colour, the creation of the Divine One. There is no difference. Our Gurus have shown us how we should share our earnings with the poor (Wand Chhakna) and uphold the equal worth and oneness of all human beings and truly embrace Sarbat da Bhala (well-being of the entire humanity).
Let's all try free our mind from ego and use our tongue to recite Guru Shabad and Naam to continue Guru Ka Langar for all.
The sale proceeds from this track will be used to help support and provide food rations to poverty stricken families in Punjab.
Dharam Seva Records would like to thank our brother Sukshinder Shinda for their continued support and work involved in this Langar project.


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Natasha Leanne "Tash" Knapman (born 22 August 1991) is an English female footballer who plays for Plymouth Argyle.

Club career

Knapman was spotted by Totnes & Dartington SC reserve team manager Keith Hawkins when she was playing for Sainsbury's Torquay store in an in-house friendly against the Newton Abbot store's team. Whilst playing for the reserve team, she was scouted by Plymouth Argyle and Newquay, who gave seven-day notices of approach in October 2009. She had scored 49 goals for the reserves the previous season, and had already added a further 9 to her tally before the notices were given.
In September 2009, Knapman was called up to the Devon's Senior Women's squad.

Knapman joined Plymouth Argyle in October 2009, making her debut on 22 November 2009 in a 5–1 FA Women's Cup win over Swindon Supermarine. She scored twice on her debut.
During her stay at the club, Knapman was the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division top goalscorer in 2012 with 14 league goals.

Knapman joined Exeter City in 2012. She made her debut on 25 October 2012 against Oxford United, scoring a late equaliser.
Knapman scored City's third goal in a 4–3 win in the 2013 Devon County Cup final against her former club Plymouth Argyle.
Knapman's final game for the Grecians saw her score twice in a 4–2 win over Torquay United in the 2015 Devon County Cup final.

Knapman joined Yeovil Town ahead of the 2015 WSL 2 season. She made her debut in a 4–2 home defeat to Reading. Knapman had put Yeovil back on level terms at 1–1, but Fran Kirby went on to score all 4 of Reading's goals.

Personal life
While at primary school, she captained the boys' team, as well as playing for another local boys' team. However, after it became difficult to get a girls' team together in secondary school, she gave up football at 14 and became a black belt in Taekwondo, going on to become selected by Australia.

Knapman works as an activity instructor. She supports Tottenham Hotspur.

Honours
 Playing for Plymouth Argyle in the  FA Women's Premier League Southern Division: Top Goalscorer, 2012 (14 league goals)
 Playing for Exeter City in the Devon County Cup: 2013, 2015

References

External links
Natasha Knapman at the Yeovil Town Ladies website

1991 births
Living people
Women's association football forwards
English women's footballers
Yeovil Town L.F.C. players


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Columbine 20 years later: This map shows every school shooting since
A disturbing visual record of a uniquely American phenomenon.
[Photo: courtesy of Esri]
By Christopher Zara 1 minute Read
Twenty years ago on this day, two students opened fire at Columbine High School, killing 13 people and injuring 24 more. While the scourge of gun violence in U.S. schools didn't begin with Columbine, the massacre near Littleton, Colorado, reshaped debates on gun laws, school bullying, mental health, and the media's role in glorifying mass shooters.
We're still having those debates two decades later, and tragically, too little has changed. According to data from the Washington Post, more than 226,000 students have experienced gun violence in schools since the Columbine shooting. For perspective, that's more than the population of Salt Lake City or Rochester, New York.
The figures are not exact, but they're probably one of the best sources we have. Because the federal government doesn't track school shootings, the Post was forced to source its data from media reports, open-source databases, and law enforcement records.
Esri, a spatial analytics company, pulled the Post's database to create an interactive map of school shootings. The map makes for a disturbing visual record of a uniquely American phenomenon.
In the embed below (or via this link), you can click on each of the dots to get more information about where and when the attacks took place, and the number of casualties. The map is also color-coded based on specific attributes, such as whether the shooting incident was targeted or accidental.
The saddest part about this is that the effects of gun violence don't end when the shootings are over. They linger in the form of depression, PTSD, and physical injuries. As our Ruth Reader wrote yesterday, students who experience these traumas can spend a lifetime coming to terms with them.
Christopher Zara is a senior staff news editor for Fast Company and obsessed with media, technology, business, culture, and theater. Before coming to FastCo News, he was a deputy editor at International Business Times, a theater critic for Newsweek, and managing editor of Show Business magazine
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I get ya. I didn't know anyone at my school either and it was hard with DB being in Japan (even though we werent "dating" for my first year here). Join some clubs and take your time. You'll make friends.
Cool! How are you liking your freshman year? I'm already wishing I could go back.
Hey there! We should chat sometime! I'm off to bed, but you seem really cool. (Also it looks like we're both studying music! I'm a senior music/English double major). Good luck with class tomorrow morning!
Awe that's sweet. But then I got bad news today, so I'm pretty bummed out.
I'm so happy for you! That's great! oh I understand I cry with every letter. I got 2 letters one he wrote our song lyrics out, I'm gonna frame that one and in the second one he said "p.s. your name is Hannah my middle name then his last name"!!!!!!!
True. Glad to know I'm not the only one who writes everyday. Yeah DB said he got cake one day, I was jealous And DB is bragging about MCMAP and told me to "be on stand-by for when he gets back" That's cute that he drew a little picture.
So true. Maybe today, hopefully.
We met in high school and have been dating for over two years.
We started dating just before our junior year in high school, on June 17th. We've been through a lot of ups and downs, but that's how we got to where we are now in our relationship. We already have plans to get married after I finish my degree where I currently am. I just hope the letters start coming soon.


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New Year's Day has come again, and people from all over the world have celebrated. The year 3063 brings new hope to people across national borders. Fireworks were seen in almost all major cities, and drunkards are found in streets all over the land. The past year had its ups and downs, and the people hope the new year will bring joy for all.


Luo Feng and Savage Rong Jun both walked out of the scale armored giant's room together.
"Luo Feng." Rong Jun shouted.
Rong Jun turned to leave after, Luo Feng watched his back as he left, "This Rong Jun, seemed to be in disagreement with the scale armored giant's conclusion, he seems to have a guarantee of defeating me or something." Luo Feng didn't have any other feelings, only anticipation, one of which against a very powerful opponent, the stronger he was, the more it would shape and improve him!
That day, over a million eliminated geniuses were all teleported away, the entire skyscraper 0825 had only 6 people left…the undying leader and the 5 youths.
Including Luo feng and Rong Jun, 7300 geniuses had gathered in the center plaza, suddenly a formless energy engulfed the entire plaza, causing the 7300 human geniuses to uncontrollably submit, they all looked up and in mid air, a familiar silhouette appeared.
He, dressed in a seemingly normal but actually infused with mysterious energy green armor, he had purple scales on his head, his face carrying a smile, however no one dared to actually match his gaze as he looked about.
The 1,008 undyings all said in unison and bowed respectfully.
This caused the 7,300 geniuses to be shocked.
"The training space stage has ended, first I'd like to congratulate the ranks 1 to 100 participants, you've all gained the right to enter the core of the virtual universe company! Right now, anyone who's unwilling can speak out, our virtual universe company will never force anyone." The green armored purple scaled man's voice was light, resounding in their ears and minds.
7200 people, in 1v1 battles, eliminating half every battle, with 3 consecutive victories, only 900 would remain.
The moment the words left his mouth, a large portion of the geniuses below were suspicious.
"Consecutive 3 victories to get a slot? If 2 strong warriors met, wouldn't that eliminated 1?" Luo Feng thought, the same situation had happened in the Ganwu universe country selection, he and Rong Jung had met." Luo Feng thought…this was probably what many of the geniuses were thinking.
The plaza slight shook, the 7200 geniuses participating were suddenly teleported away, with only the 100 remaining.
They were all the top 100 in the training space stage, absolute geniuses set to enter the core of the virtual universe company.
These 100 all took note of the people around them, understanding that they would all become competitors.
"There are seats there, you can all go watch the broadcast." The green armored purple scaled man pointed in the distance, immediately 100 large chairs and several tables appeared in the corner of the plaza, on the tables were drinks and food, and the green armored man himself sat with the 1,008 undyings at another spot.
Death god Bolan, Luo Feng and the remaining 100 all sat, and Luo Feng and Rong Jun sat close together, no matter what, they were from the same universe country, naturally they felt closer, what's more the 2 felt good about each other.
"Howling god clan hypnotist Jia Lai Xi, on that screen." Some absolute geniuses who were well informed spoke, indeed 3,600 large screens appeared in the center of the plaza, every one displaying a different battle that was about to begin.
On the 3,600 screens, the battles began almost simultaneously! The battle for the remaining 900 slots had begun!
The victors progressed while the losers were eliminated, everything was very cruel!
Absolute geniuses falling one by one!
5 minutes had yet to pass, and 3600 had already been eliminated.
Naturally the eliminated people were unhappy, they had already reached this level, just a little more…being in the universe country compared to the core of the virtual universe company were 2 completely different things! The 5 great leviathans…were the true pinnacles of the humans of the universe, these absolute geniuses all considered themselves powerful, only the pinnacle of the universe was worthy of themselves.
If they wanted to enter, they'd want to enter the best!
After half an hour, the 2nd round began.
3,600 geniuses, once again half fell, the remaining half proceeded.
Another half an hour later, after resting and preparing, the 3rd round began.
These 1,800 absolute geniuses all wished with great anticipation, they were only 1 step away from victory…however there was only 1 out of 2 on every arena duel that could enter the virtual universe core, the other half were all eliminated.
Luo Feng and Rong Jun focused on tens of screens at a time, to these absolute geniuses with powerful willpower and consciousness, multi tasking was very easy, and the present 100 geniuses were all watching many screens at a time, however they all focused on 1 together.
The howling god clan hypnotist Jia Lai Xi's broadcast.
"He still won the same way." Luo Feng creased his eyebrows, Jia Lai Xi's 3 matches, the 1st and 2nd battle he didn't even move and just stood there, the opponent immediately crumbled. And in the 3rd match…his opponent managed to barely withstand the 1st soul attack, however he still fell after the 2nd.
3 consecutive victories! Hypnotist Jia Lai Xi, acquired one slot.
"This hypnotist is terrifying." Savage said softly.
"Hm." Savage Rong Jun nodded.
Like Luo Feng studying the soul imprint and void pagoda these 2 great techniques, his control of spirit energy had already reached an extremely high level, his defense was very strong too. He still had some confidence of defending against hypnotist Jia Lai Xi.
However the fighters, many had powerful willpowers and states, maybe against spirit attacks they could withstand it, however against hypnotism, many fighters wouldn't receive it too well.
Hypnotist Jia Lai Xi, against automaton puppets, metal life forms, Mosha clans etc, beings without a soul, his hypnotism had no effect.
However against others with souls, his power was huge.
Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua!
900 silhouettes suddenly appeared in the plaza, these 900 absolute geniuses mostly had excited expressions, right, they had passed the 3 rounds of elimination, among the 7,200, these final 900 had made it. However amongst this group of geniuses, some still had no expressions.
Just like the tall and skinny man covered in a black robe.
"No wonder the group of undyings concluded that Hypnotist Jia Lai Xi has the strength to make it to the top 10." Luo Feng and the others of the 100 stood up, walking over to gather, his gaze fixed on the black robed tall and skinny man.
"Hm." The black robed tall and skinny man suddenly looked over at Luo Feng.
The peculiar gaze seemed to bring with it some sort of formless suggestion, however Luo Feng's willpower was extremely strong, not getting affected at all, his cold eyes staring back, almost as though a golden horned beast was eyeing its opponent.
The 2 regarded by the undyings as top 10 material, at this time, they couldn't wish any more to get matched up against each other.
The 1,000 geniuses gathered together, many regarded as top 10, top 20, or regarded themselves as absolute geniuses, all looking at each other.
Silence, no one made a sound.
"Of the 1,000 of you, ranks 101 to 1,000, you can receive 10 mixed elements in cash, you can enter the beginning universe to study, you can enter the core of the virtual universe company's 'last phase secret area'.
"Ranks 11- 100, you are awarded 100 mixed elements in cash, you can enter the beginning universe to study and enter the core of the virtual universe company's 'Heaven and land secret area'.
"Ranks 3-10, you are awarded 1,000 mixed elements in cash, you can enter the beginning universe to study and enter the core of the virtual universe company's 'Absolute beginning secret area'.
"Ranks 1 and 2, you are awarded 10,000 mixed elements in cash, you can enter the beginning universe to study and enter the core of the virtual universe company's 'Primal secret area'.
Damn LF was so close to become nr 2, and the diffrence in rewards between 3 and 2 is huge.


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Yves Lefebvre () este un actor de film, teatru și regizor, francez. Printre cele mai cunoscute filme ale sale se numără Afurisitul de bunic, Clanul sicilienilor și Americanul.

Biografie
Licențiat în drept, Yves Lefebvre a lucrat mai întâi ca jurnalist radio, apoi ca producător. A avut apoi o scurtă carieră de actor, mai întâi în teatru, apoi în televiziune și film. A apărut în filmele Afurisitul de bunic (1968) și Clanul sicilienilor (1969), precum și în serialele de televiziune Le Miroir 2000 și Les Aventures du capitaine Lückner (1973).

Filmografie selectivă

Actor

Cinema
 1968 Afurisitul de bunic (Ce sacré grand-pèrede), regia Jacques Poitrenaud : Jacques
 1969 Mr. Freedom, regia William Klein : Jacques Occident
 1969 La Promesse, regia Paul Feyder et Robert Freeman : Alain
 1969 Clanul sicilienilor (Le Clan des Siciliens), regia Henri Verneuil : Aldo Manalese
 1969 Americanul (L'Américain), regia Marcel Bozzuffi : Tony Morvan
 1970 Le Feu sacré, regia Vladimir Forgency : David Menzinger
 1971 Raphaël ou le Débauché, regia Michel Deville :  Paul
 1978 Le Dernier Amant romantique, regia Just Jaeckin

Televiziune
 1966 Les Compagnons de Jéhu (mini-serie TV), regia Michel Drach : Roland de Montrevel
 1967 La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu  (film TV), regia Marcel Cravenne : Pâris
 1971 Le Miroir 2000, foileton TV, 13 episoade : Henri Sesterain
 1971 Schulmeister, espion de l'empereur (Schulmeister contre Schulmeister, serie TV), regia Jean-Pierre Decourt : Dietrich
 1971 La Mort des capucines, film TV de Agnès Delarive :  Sombernon
 1973 Les Aventures du capitaine Lückner, (episodul Docteur Wallace), regia Yannick Andréi (foileton TV) : Lieuville (26 episoade)
 1974 Au théâtre ce soir – Nick Carter détective, regia Jean Marcillac, mise en scène René Clermont , regia Georges Folgoas (Teatrul Marigny) :  Nick Carter
 1976 Nouvelles de Henry James  – film TV De Grey, regia Claude Chabrol : Grey
 1977 D'Artagnan amoureux (mini-serie TV), regia Yannick Andréi : Athos
 1978 La Nuit de l'été (film TV), regia Jean-Claude Brialy : silueta
1981 : Salut champion – episodul 8 La perle du Brésil, regia Pierre Lary : directorul de sport

Realizator
 1968 La naissance d'une chanson (13 min., cu Serge Gainsbourg)
 1994 De Serge Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre din 1958 - 1991 (segmentul "Initials B.B." 1968, "Serge Gainsbourg în studio" 1968)

Referințe

Vezi și
 Listă de filme străine până în 1989

Legături externe

Nașteri în 1937
Regizori francezi
Actori francezi din secolul al XX-lea
Francezi în viață


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Q: Why doesn't this code return the full document height? The following code should return the full height of the document, but it does not. It says the height is 1023 but (measuring by screenshots and scrolling and photoshop) the actual height is 1804. Why is it wrong? How do I get the full height?
var height = Math.max(
    document.body.scrollHeight,
    document.body.offsetHeight,
    document.documentElement.offsetHeight,
    document.body.clientHeight,
    document.documentElement.clientHeight
);

EDIT I was not clear. I want document height, not window height. By "screenshots and scrolling and photoshop", I meant I did the following:

*

*Took a screenshot and copied the window height and put in a new image

*Scrolled a full window height again and took a new screenshot and pasted that onto #1

*Continued until I couldn't scroll anymore and pasted in the remaining height

That gave me document height.

A: If you want your page to occupy the full height of the browser window, you can add this CSS rule:
body {
  min-height: 100vh;
}

That tells the browser that the body should be at least as big as the viewport. Things like that work best when you've imposed border-box box sizing on everything:
body {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

body *, body *:before, body *:after {
  box-sizing: inherit;
}

That way padding and borders won't cause unwanted unnecessary scroll bars.

A: What about window.innerHeight; ? That sounds like what you would be measuring in a screenshot of the browser window.

A: There is a difference between document and window height.
It looks like you are trying to get the window height.
Try using window.innerHeight instead or the document heights. :-)

A: I think you did a mistake while copy-pasting your screens.
I just made my own tests using following script to be sure I was scrolling one page height at a time :
window.onclick = function(){
        document.documentElement.scrollTop += window.innerHeight;
        }

Results show that your function give the same height as what copy-pasting each window does.
However, as goldfire pointed out, if you were zooming in your page, result might be different.

A: The document itself has no height. You can only get the height of the documentElement, which is the representation of the document. All following approaches gives the same result:
var h0 = document.documentElement.offsetHeight;
var h1 = document.documentElement.getBoundingClientRect().height;
var h2 = $(document).height();

See working Fiddle here.
I have tried your method with a screenshot in the following way: I opend a document much higher than the screen in Firefox, catched the whole page with FireShot (its possible without scrolling) and saved it as an image. Its pixel-height was exactly the same as what I got with h0, h1, h2 above.


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Boy killed in rollover crash on Ft. Bend Toll Road
HOUSTON Looking at the SUV is heartbreaking when you realize the depth of the devastation. Seven-year-old Grant Lee Briers was killed in the accident. Authorities say he was ejected from the Tahoe after it rolled over.
"It gives me goose bumps because you don't want to see anybody have to go through that," said neighbor Liz Miller.
Authorities identify the driver as Dayonaja Williams, 37, of Missouri City. Williams was driving along Fort Bend Parkway just north of Highway 6 at about 7:30am when the accident happened. Williams had her three children, ages 3, 5 and 9 and 7-year-old Grant in the SUV. Grant was seated behind Williams when she lost control.
Chief Deputy Chad Norvell Precinct 4, Fort Bend County, explained, "She advised that one of the kids she thought was choking. She turned around and was distracted by the child and when she did, she drifted off the road overcompensated when she came back and the vehicle rolled over."
Authorities say Williams told them all the children were wearing seatbelts when they left this morning. Neighbors near Williams' Missouri City home worry how children on the street will react to the deadly accident.
Miller said, "These kids will be devastated. The whole area, they're just one big happy family. They will be devastated, there's no doubt about it."
People inside Williams' home declined to speak to Eyewitness News.
Authorities say Williams' three children suffered minor injuries and she was unhurt. They also say while the investigation is continuing, they do not expect to file charges against Williams.


We weren't planning on adopting another dog. I had my hands full with Griffey, our then 8-month old puppy, when my phone rang on a beautiful Friday afternoon.
"Laura, I need your help."
It was a good friend who worked at our local animal shelter. She told me about a dog, also 8 months old, that had just come to the shelter after being rescued from a terrible situation where he had lived outdoors. He was covered in ticks and terrified.
"He really needs to spend the weekend in a foster home. I think Griffey would love him. Can you take him for the weekend?"
I picked him up from the shelter and had to carry him into our house. The poor guy had never been inside a home, had never gone up or down stairs, and had never walked on a leash. I took him out to our backyard, where I thought he'd be more comfortable, to meet Griffey.
Their eyes met. They sniffed each other cautiously. Then their bodies relaxed, tails started wagging, and they took off across the yard in a playful romp. The terrified dog came alive with his new friend, and when they fell asleep together in the same bed that night we knew we were adopting a second dog.
In no time, Grady blossomed into the most loving and gentle dog I'd ever known. He quickly learned what it was like to be part of a family, with a real home (and bed) of his own. And it didn't take long for us to realize what amazing things he could do for our family too.
Grady made an immediate difference in our family by giving Griffey a best friend and companion. He helped the very active Griffey become more calm and relaxed, taking the lead from his mellow new friend.
I soon realized that Grady's gentle temperament and sweet personality could do great things outside our home as well. He began volunteering with me to visit nursing home residents. Grady touched so many lives during his volunteer time just by being a calm, quiet friend to lonely seniors who could no longer have dogs of their own.
And all by just being himself. A calm presence when they are feeling overwhelmed by big emotions. An ear when they are learning to sound out words in books. A soft friend to snuggle when they need to rest. A pal who is always willing to play Robin to their Batman and Joker. A constant companion and friend.
I'm constantly in awe of the ways that our dogs make our family and our lives better every day. Dogs are more than just pets, they are members of our family who are there when we need them, who remind us we are not alone, and who take us on incredible journeys. They calm us and heal us, make us laugh and keep us active.
We like to treat Griffey and Grady with a Milk-Bone every morning, and this year Milk-Bone is marking a very special milestone.
Milk-Bone is celebrating its 20th Anniversary with Canine Assistants, a non-profit organization that provides and trains service dogs for children and adults with special needs and physical disabilities.
This work is incredible and truly inspiring. See for yourself with some of the amazing stories of dogs and pet parents that have been helped by the program over the years. (Grab a tissue, this is GOOD).
I would love to hear how your dog has transformed your family. Leave a comment with your story below or share with me on Facebook.
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