text:
'use strict';

/**
 * The module applies functions provided by pipeline stages to given song.
 */
define([
	'pipeline/user-input',
	'pipeline/local-cache',
	'pipeline/metadata',
	'pipeline/coverartarchive',
	'util'
], (UserInput, LocalCache, Metadata, CoverArtArchive, Util) => {
	/**
	 * List of processors.
	 * Each procesor is an object contains `process` function takes song object
	 * and returns Promise.
	 * @type {Array}
	 */
	const processors = [
		/**
		 * Load data submitted by user.
		 */
		UserInput,
		//
		/**
		 * Load data filled by user from storage.
		 */
		LocalCache,
		/**
		 * Load song metadata using ScrobbleService.
		 */
		Metadata,
		/**
		 * Looks for fallback cover art using Cover Art Archive service.
		 */
		CoverArtArchive,
	];

	return {
		/**
		 * Process song using pipeline processors.
		 * @param  {Object} song Song instance
		 * @return {Promise} Promise that will be resolved when all processors process song
		 */
		processSong(song) {
			// Reset possible flag, so we can detect changes
			// on repeated processing of the same song.
			song.flags.attr('isProcessed', false);

			let factories = processors.map((processor) => processor.process);
			return Util.queuePromises(factories, song).then(() => {
				song.flags.attr('isProcessed', true);
			});
		}
	};
});


May 14, 2013- William O'Neill, MD of Henry Ford discusses bioabsorbable coronary stents, and the U.S. Abbott trials.
William O'Neill, MD of Henry Ford Hospital discusses renal denervation devices used to treat refractory hypertension. He is involved with the Medtronic device trials.


The KTV Group has many years of experience offering surface treatments. We are your expert for surface treatment on everything from high-rise buildings to offshore installations.
Wet blasting developed out of sandblasting, but it has one obvious advantage in that it does not create dust. The method is very effective in removing old surface finishing on masonry and steel.
The KTV Group also uses vacuum blasting methods so we can recover any sand that we use. This makes it theoretically possible to sandblast indoors or in areas where dust or water could cause problems.
– Removal of mould lubricant on recently poured walls.
Here we use high-pressure washers at 300-500 bar with special nozzles for injecting soda. This method is used for cleaning special surfaces like mineralite stucco, copper and other surfaces that are sensitive to chemicals, or where sand washing/blasting would be too abrasive.
This method is used especially on older masonry facades where caution must be exercised.
We work closely with the market's most trusted paint manufacturers, so we can always offer our customers the best solutions.
Our property division has years of experience in the rehabilitation of apartment buildings, facades, townhouses, stairwells etc. In recent years we have completed major works at several housing cooperatives and joint ownership associations in Bergen. We are happy to assist our housing cooperative or joint ownership association customers with advice, and information for their residents.
The KTV Group also offers 10 to 20-year maintenance agreements for exterior facade care.
The KTV Group uses its collaborative partners to offer nano-based impregnation of surfaces like concrete. These products are unique and provide optimal protection against water seepage.
These products also help buildings stay clean over time. Our R&D department tests new products every year to find the best protection for buildings, which can keep them clean for 5 to 10 years.


I have said it to Nat and will say it again to you all, I love travelling to this little patch of the world. Spending time with these people truly makes my heart sing. I always travel home feeling so special, on cloud 9. There is something about you all, you are so kind to eachother and your kids. You have a wonderful community, which must attract like-minded people as you are all so generous of heart and spirit.
I met with the Cahills for their family/maternity/studio/location session last week. Little Georgina is such a delight, so patient, which puts her in good stead for the arrival of her new baby brother or sister.
Whilst their home is a building site, there are so many lovely places on their farm that we discovered – this is only one!
Thanks again for having me Nat, Erin and Georgie, I will be in touch soon when your monstrous gallery is ready!
Jo this family is absolutely beautiful! Love the last photo in particular – what a great beloved shoot.
Wow – love, love, love them 🙂 What an amazing set of locations. Especially love the last three!
WOW what a location, and with a beautiful family added in too! I adore the last 3 shots….WOW WOW WOW!
WOW WOW! I just adore the interaction and love you have captured in these!! Such beautiful images!
What a beautiful little family. Wonderful session.
Gorgeous!!! Absolutly love the feel of the last two, beautiful work Jo.
thankyou ladies, and thankyou Cahills, you made my job a joy.
Great photos Jo! They will love them.
Fantastic shots Jo – love the light – just gorgeous!
Lovely work, thanks for sharing this gorgeous session!
jo i think this is some of your best work ever.. i adore these….
What beautiful memories you have captured for this family Jo. They must be thrilled.
Jo, you have captured so much beauty and love in these images! It's a great pleasure to look through your work!
Oh wow Jo!!! These are just gorgeous.
Awesome work my love! I absolutely love the real emotion you have captured!
Oh man! These are stunning!


SKG booster overdrive by george drakakis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
SKG is the International Air Transport Association code for Thessaloniki International Airport.
When you start a journey into the amazing world of the waveform, what;s more important is the starting point.
So please welcome SKG booster-overdrive effect pedal suitable for bass/guitar.
It's a pre-amp that is capable to deliver either transparent or more aggressive overdrive tones using a 2SK30 n-channel JFet transistor.
A three way selector switch sculpts the output waveform and let you dial from tight to phat tones without volume loss.
Furthermore, the design is open to modifications; the most critical parts -including the transistor- can be easily swapped out, since the whole schematic is realized on an IC socket.
Watch Constantine Jajas introducing the SKG Booster Overdrive or read the full review here.
is an effect pedal suitable for bass/guitar.
transparent or more aggressive overdrive tones.
using a 2SK30 n-channel JFet transistor.
can be easily swapped out.
SKG is currently available at ZAXOS Music Store.
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Each year at Christmastime, my mom's side of the family would get together at my Aunt Oria and Uncle Ivan's house in Johnson City, Tennessee. Aunt Oria and Uncle Ivan lived in the historic Tree Streets neighborhood, on Maple Street, and they were gracious hosts. Their house was about a block from East Tennessee State University, near the Sigma Chi house. It had a lovely front porch that featured an amazing swing. At least half of the world's problems were solved on that front-porch swing during some of our family gatherings over the years.
Aunt Oria and Uncle Ivan were actually my great aunt and uncle, respectively. Uncle Ivan was my Grandmother Hale's brother—he was the oldest child in their family—but because my mom was an only child, her aunts and uncles were like our "first" aunts and uncles. Aunt Oria was a petite woman with beautiful porcelain skin, on which she used Oil of Olay products. (I remember asking her as a young woman.) For as long as I can remember, she walked with a limp, which my mother said was the result of a hip surgery. Uncle Ivan was a quiet, gentle, kind man. He loved to tell jokes and had quite a collection of them ready to share. He had an impressive library of National Geographic magazines, which was kept in the basement of the house. I remember seeing rows and rows of the bright yellow magazine spines, all neatly placed on shelves and in order. Another thing I remember was that by the door to the basement—right off of the kitchen—was the telephone and an area for taking messages, complete with a wall-mounted pencil sharpener. It was the kind a kid like me would see in a classroom, and I thought it was the coolest thing, to have a pencil sharpener like that on the wall of the house.
Aunt Oria and Uncle Ivan had two children, Carolyn and Gerald, mom's first cousins. Carolyn and Gerald both lived away, so we usually only saw them on holidays and other special occasions, and sometimes during the summer. I still keep in touch with Carolyn and her sweet family, though, sadly, Gerald passed away many years ago and is buried by Aunt Oria and Uncle Ivan in Sulphur Springs. Along with Aunt Oria and Uncle Ivan's family, other relatives who might be in attendance at the annual Christmas gatherings included my grandmother's other siblings, Aunt Edith and Aunt Frances, and Aunt Frances' family. Aunt Frances, her husband, Uncle C.T., and their family all lived away when I was younger, so it was a special time when they were in town as well. Mom's cousins Carolyn and Catherine had children—all girls, our second cousins—so when they were in town, it was fun to have other kids to play with.
The house on Maple Street was a large house, and being so close to the university, Aunt Oria and Uncle Ivan took in boarders when I was younger. This intrigued me as a child, to see strangers coming and going from a separate entrance in the back of the house. The boarders—ETSU students—used the back staircase and had their own kitchen and everything upstairs. Back downstairs, in the hallway, a spring of mistletoe would be hanging on the light fixture at Christmastime. We'd pass under it as we went to the downstairs bedroom, where we'd place our coats and bags. In the living room, a small- to medium-sized artificial tree would be decorated with white lights and ball ornaments to the side of the fireplace, by the entrance to the dining room. In front of the fireplace was one of Aunt Edith's beautiful white ceramic nativities. More Christmas ceramics of Aunt Edith's—including little white angels—were on display in the living room as well.
On the other side of the large room, past the entrance to the hallway, was the piano. It was a grand, and the lure of the piano was often too strong for little kids to resist. Oh, how patient Aunt Oria and Uncle Ivan must have been! And then, there was the cuckoo clock. It was on the wall, above the doorway as you entered the hall. As children, we would gather to watch in wonder as the little bird would come out to announce a new hour or even a half-hour. I remember hearing the very start of a cuckoo, and running with great speed to catch the tail end of an announcement. To this day, any cuckoo clock I see takes me right back to Aunt Oria and Uncle Ivan's house on Maple Street.
Of course, a big part of these holiday gatherings included dinner, which as a child was not my favorite part. Ha! The grown-ups would sit in the formal dining room, and us kids would sit at a small table in the kitchen area. I remember just trying to get through dinner so we could go to the dessert table, which was sometimes set up in a back room adjacent to the kitchen. After dinner, the ladies would clean up the dishes while we kids, who sometimes helped, waited in agony for the gift exchange, at times trying to snoop under the tree. A few times, we would put together a little Christmas play to perform for the adults before opening presents. Mom was known for bringing calendar towels (remember those?), thin mints and chocolate-covered cherries for everyone. Among my favorite gifts ever received at these family get-togethers were pencils with my name on them from Aunt Edith.
Aunt Oria and Uncle Ivan always did a wonderful job of getting the family together. They had a fantastic house for gatherings, and I sometimes drive by it when I'm in Johnson City, remembering our lovely family and the special times we shared there together. What I wouldn't give to run up on the front porch, share the swing with Aunt Oria and Uncle Ivan, see all the pretty Christmas decorations, bang out "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on the piano, and hear the cuckoo clock announce the passing of time—although I wish it would pass a little more slowly.


Search engine optimization is the process of affecting the online visibility of a website or a web page in a web search engine's unpaid results-often referred to as "natural", "organic",or "earned" results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a website appears in the search results list,the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users; these visitors can then be converted into customers.
The main fact about SEO is that,it tells the webmaster different methods of Gaining organic trafic to the website.
SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, video search, academic search, news search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. SEO differs from local search engine optimization in that the latter is focused on optimizing a business' online presence so that its web pages will be displayed by search engines when a user enters a local search for its products or services. The former instead is more focused on national or international searches.
SEO is the process of getting traffic from the "organic","natural","editorial" or "free" search results on different search engines.
SEO is the process of optimizing your online content so that a search engine likes to show it as a top result for searches of a certain keyword.
SEO is strategies,tactics and techniques to increase the number of visitors to a website by obtaining a high-ranking placement in search results.
As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work, the computer programmed algorithms which dictate search engine behavior, what people search for, the actual search terms or keywords typed into search engines, and which search engines are preferred by their targeted audience. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content, adding content, doing HTML, and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Promoting a site to increase the number of backlinks, or inbound links, is another SEO tactic. By May 2015, mobile search had surpassed desktop search.In 2015, it was reported that Google is developing and promoting mobile search as a key feature within future products.In response,many brands are beginning to take a different approach to their Internet marketing strategies.
Don't confuse or annoy a website visitor.
Don't block Google from crawling resources on your site or rendering specific elements on your page.
Have a responsive design that works on mobile and desktop.
Be situated local to your target customer.
Geotarget your site in Search Console AKA Google Webmaster Tools.
Put your keyword phrase at least once in the Page Title Element.
Avoid keyword stuffing main content.
Optimise your meta description to have a clickable useful SERP snippet.
Ensure the Main Content of the page is high-quality.
Keep important content on the site updated a few time.
Trim outdated content from your site.
Avoid publishing and indexing content-poor pages.
Aim for a good ratio of 'useful' user-centred text to affiliate links.
Disclose page modification dates in a visible format.
Do not push the main content down a page unnecessarily with ads etc.
Early versions of search algorithms relied on webmaster-provided information such as the keyword meta tag or index files in engines like ALIWEB. Meta tags provide a guide to each page's content. Using metadata to index pages was found to be less than reliable, however, because the webmaster's choice of keywords in the meta tag could potentially be an inaccurate representation of the site's actual content. Inaccurate, incomplete, and inconsistent data in meta tags could and did cause pages to rank for irrelevant searches. Web content providers also manipulated some attributes within the HTML source of a page in an attempt to rank well in search engines. By 1997, search engine designers recognized that webmasters were making efforts to rank well in their search engine, and that some webmasters were even manipulating their rankings in search results by stuffing pages with excessive or irrelevant keywords. Early search engines, such as Altavista and Infoseek, adjusted their algorithms to prevent webmasters from manipulating rankings.
Page and Brin founded Google in 1998. Google attracted a loyal following among the growing number of Internet users, who liked its simple design.Off-page factors (such as PageRank and hyperlink analysis) were considered as well as on-page factors (such as keyword frequency, meta tags, headings, links and site structure) to enable Google to avoid the kind of manipulation seen in search engines that only considered on-page factors for their rankings. Although PageRank was more difficult to game, webmasters had already developed link building tools and schemes to influence the Inktomi search engine, and these methods proved similarly applicable to gaming PageRank. Many sites focused on exchanging, buying, and selling links, often on a massive scale. Some of these schemes, or link farms, involved the creation of thousands of sites for the sole purpose of link spamming.
Search engines use complex mathematical algorithms to guess which websites a user seeks. If each bubble represents a website, programs sometimes called spiders examine which sites link to which other sites, with arrows representing these links. Websites getting more inbound links, or stronger links, are presumed to be more important and what the user is searching for. In this example, since website B is the recipient of numerous inbound links, it ranks more highly in a web search. And the links "carry through", such that website C, even though it only has one inbound link, has an inbound link from a highly popular site (B) while site E does not. Note: Percentages are rounded. The leading search engines, such as Google, Bing and Yahoo!, use crawlers to find pages for their algorithmic search results. Pages that are linked from other search engine indexed pages do not need to be submitted because they are found automatically. The Yahoo! Directory and DMOZ, two major directories which closed in 2014 and 2017 respectively, both required manual submission and human editorial review. Last July 25, 2018, Google's free URL submission console has been dropped due to misuse by many in order to game the system. Google now only offers Google Search Console as a way for website owners to crawl and index their pages, through an XML Sitemap feed or "Fetch as Google" function. Yahoo! formerly operated a paid submission service that guaranteed crawling for a cost per click; however, this practice was discontinued in 2009.
A variety of methods can increase the prominence of a webpage within the search results. Cross linking between pages of the same website to provide more links to important pages may improve its visibility. Writing content that includes frequently searched keyword phrase, so as to be relevant to a wide variety of search queries will tend to increase traffic. Updating content so as to keep search engines crawling back frequently can give additional weight to a site. Adding relevant keywords to a web page's meta data, including the title tag and meta description, will tend to improve the relevancy of a site's search listings, thus increasing traffic. URL normalization of web pages accessible via multiple urls, using the canonical link element or via 301 redirects can help make sure links to different versions of the url all count towards the page's link popularity score.
Search engines may penalize sites they discover using black hat methods, either by reducing their rankings or eliminating their listings from their databases altogether. Such penalties can be applied either automatically by the search engines' algorithms, or by a manual site review. One example was the February 2006 Google removal of both BMW Germany and Ricoh Germany for use of deceptive practices. Both companies, however, quickly apologized, fixed the offending pages, and were restored to Google's list.
SEO may generate an adequate return on investment. However, search engines are not paid for organic search traffic, their algorithms change, and there are no guarantees of continued referrals. Due to this lack of guarantees and certainty, a business that relies heavily on search engine traffic can suffer major losses if the search engines stop sending visitors. Search engines can change their algorithms, impacting a website's placement, possibly resulting in a serious loss of traffic. According to Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, in 2010, Google made over 500 algorithm changes – almost 1.5 per day. It is considered wise business practice for website operators to liberate themselves from dependence on search engine traffic. In addition to accessibility in terms of web crawlers (addressed above), user web accessibility has become increasingly important for SEO.
Optimization techniques are highly tuned to the dominant search engines in the target market. The search engines market shares vary from market to market, as does competition. In 2003, Danny Sullivan stated that Google represented about 75% of all searches. In markets outside the United States, Google's share is often larger, and Google remains the dominant search engine worldwide as of 2007. As of 2006, Google had an 85-90% market share in Germany. While there were hundreds of SEO firms in the US at that time, there were only about five in Germany. As of June 2008, the marketshare of Google in the UK was close to 90% according to Hitwise. That market share is achieved in a number of countries.


Following the broadcast of Persona 5 the Animation: Stars and Ours, Atlus revealed Persona 5 R as Persona 5: The Royal for PS4, and we got a teaser trailer showing a new female character.
Persona 5: The Royal is in development for PlayStation 4. Atlus will share more information on April 24, 2019, which is the same date as the Persona Super Live concert.
Read more stories about Atlus & PlayStation 4 on Siliconera.


You need to do two things to continue using it as usual: 1) Create a shortcut to it, and 2) Make it the default app. First: You need to find the shortcut to Internet Explorer, and put it somewhere convenient.
Do you want to make $$$ with your computer: I can show you how!
All you need is a strong desire and a personal computer. You can use a laptop or even an old typewriter.
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Want to learn how to switch from open apps quickly? Using this combination of keys will allow you to quickly go from say, Word read a value, switch to Excel type the value, and back again. All without using your mouse.


Hey, Remember How You Wanted To Travel More in 2012? Well, There's Still Time! Come With Me On A Little Excursion!
Well, it's New Year's Eve, and you know what that means – it means I recently looked at my pathetically incomplete list of resolutions for 2012 and got seriously depressed.
This is what comes up when you do a Google search for "shrinking violet flower." Seriously, Internet… you have problems.
But maybe that's because my resolutions were all wrong. For a look at how to do resolutions right, please head over to my guest post at A Clown On Fire, and have a read.
Now, you may not have heard of Le Clown and A Clown On Fire, because he's a shy, delicate flower of a man. Shrinking from the spotlight like a, uh, a different type of flower – one that shrinks from light. Is there such a thing? Shrinking Violet is a thing, isn't it?
But I kid, of course. If you, dear reader, are yourself a blogger it's unlikely you've missed Le Clown's scorched-earth campaign across the interwebs to dominate all things bloggy. In an impressively short period of time he has made his site known across the far reaches of Word Pressdom. In fact, if you are not a blogger, he may be coming to your house soon to draw you in to his world, so you might put a cheese plate together or something. Make that some poutine and Molson's, because he's Canadian.
Anyhoo, he's invited me to close out his year, and his December marathon of guest bloggers. I hope you'll head over there and check out the post.
Regardless: Happy New Year, everyone. Thanks for reading and helping make The Byronic Man what it is. I hope the new year is everything you want it to be.
…And what a wise and loving end of year guest post you did write on ACOF… My kids managed to bask into the afterglow of your read… it was THAT warm and fuzzy… Thank you for taking a short trip my way; happy New Year to you and your readers, handsome man, and speak in the new year.
Sorry – it's a requirement. If you're Australian, you have to eat vegemite; American – cheeseburger; Canadian – it's poutine until your heart gives out (so about 3 hours).
It's freaky, isn't it? That was the first thing I noticed. Well, second.
I also wondered if she's the world's first trans-gender superhero. I don't know how that would come in handy, but it's a big world.
Some possibilities are just waiting to happen when you least expect it.
Ha! Get the cheese plate ready. That killed me. And how have we never discussed poutine?
Happy New Year, B! The guest post was great. 2013 shall be the year. The year of amazing Google image searches.
3. If it's for a poutine, please make sure it is only the finest Québec cheese curds, mostly available in the farther regions of my province… but the trip is worth making, if Le Clown's one-ab you want to please.
Probably because "poutine" sounds like slang thought up by 12-year-olds for something sexual. It's just not a comfortable word to throw around.
Been there. Done that. Bought the coffee mug. Congrats, again!
Though I'm writing it down that you read his site before mine.
Well, I saw the link on Twitter before I did my WordPress reading for the day and…well, let's face it. I'm a shameless and dedicated carnie. There's no use lying about it.
Le Clown who? I feel as if I've been living in a cave, as I don't actually know who that is. In related news, I just picked up a fancy new 8 Track player to listen to all my BeeGees music on, if anyone wants to stop over tonight for some fondue and a key party.
Happy New Year to you, B-man!! Cheers to a happy and healthy new year.
Thanks, you too. And hang on to those 8-tracks. This "digital" thing is a fad.
My god! What IS that bulge in Violet's pants?
Happy New Year B-Man! I will head over to Le Clown's as soon as I warm the brie….
I've eaten an incredible amount of brie in the last few days. That has nothing to do with anything, but you mentioned brie, and I'm kind of in shock about it. Last night I asked my wife how she liked the brie and she said she hadn't had any. That meant I'd eaten… a lot.
That is scary and yet I have eaten my weight in brie. I love it even though it is French and I am from the dairy State!
Who's this clown guy? Never heard of him.
OK, fine! I'll go over and check him/you out. GOD!
I know; it's just work work work around here.
What I love about Labatts is it's impossible to say without sounding Canadian. They just needed to add the "eh" at the end.
Happy New Year B-man! I am on my way over to LeClown with wine & crackers for all that cheese.
You can just leave the wine, if you'd like. I'll look after it.
Happy New Year to you & your little family!
Must admit I have resisted checking out Le Clown for fear of being sucked into yet another blog that I must read. I don't want to. I don't WANT TO. Guess I'll check it out one of these days, if I must. Grumble, grumble.
A fitting end to Le Clown's marathon. All the best in 2013 to you from a loyal Byromaniac.


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Archive of Documentary Arts, Events, News and Features, Readings and Talks
Photographers Vincent Cianni & Mariette Pathy Allen, April 23-25th
April 15, 2014 Amy McDonald	1 Comment
The Archive of Documentary Arts has partnered with Daylight Books, the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, the Center for Documentary Studies, and SPECTRE Arts to bring documentary photographers Vincent Cianni and Mariette Pathy Allen to Durham for a series of events April 23-25.
Wednesday, April 23 at 12:00pm: A Conversation with Vincent Cianni and Mariette Pathy Allen, Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew Street, Durham, N.C. Lunch will be provided.
Thursday, April 24 at 6:00pm: Artist Talk and Presentation, SPECTRE Arts green space, 1004 Morning Glory Ave., Durham, N.C.
Friday, April 25 at 6:00pm: Book Signing and Opening Exhibit, Daylight Project Space, 121 West Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC
The series will culminate in a book signing and exhibition of work by the artists to celebrate the release of the artists' monographs TransCuba and Gays in the Military. The book signing and exhibit will take place at the Daylight Project Space on April 25 from 6 to 9pm. Refreshments will be served and the artists will be on hand to sign books and answer questions. More information at www.daylightbooks.org
Through compelling photographs and interviews made over three years on road trips across the US, Vincent Cianni (born 1952) has created an important historical record of the struggles of gay and lesbian veterans and service members in the US military. As the Human Rights Commission attests, the US military has a long history of civil rights abuses against homosexuals, with harassment and discrimination frequently resulting in lost careers. In many cases, these men and women—highly skilled, well educated, patriotic, courageous and productive—had attained high rank, received numerous medals and held top-level jobs essential to the military. With essays by Alison Nordstrom, Don Bramer and Alan Steinman shedding light on the cultural, personal and political consequences of the ban on homosexuality, this volume tells the stories of men and women who served in silence and oftentimes were penalized and prohibited from receiving the benefits accorded them for serving in the military.
For more than 30 years, New York based photographer and painter Mariette Pathy Allen has been documenting transgender culture worldwide; in 2004 she won the Lambda Literary Award for her monograph The Gender Frontier. In her new publication, TransCuba, Allen focuses on the transgender community of Cuba, especially its growing visibility and acceptance in a country whose government is transitioning into a more relaxed model of communism under Raúl Castro's presidency. This publication therefore records a cultural watershed within Cuba. In addition to color photographs and interviews by Allen, the book also includes a contribution from Raúl Castro's daughter, Mariela Castro, who is the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education in Havana. In 2005, Castro proposed a project, which became law three years later, to allow transgender individuals to receive sex reassignment surgery and change their legal gender.
Post contributed by Kirston Johnson, Curator of the Archive of Documentary Arts.
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The Four Stages of Appeasement
Daniel Greenfield August 10, 2008
For some nations and individuals, appeasement is a station at the end of the line that they reach right away, after some traumatic cultural or national event, for others it is a journey of stages along the line, stop after stop marking a point at which values and morals are surrendered for ephemeral things until they reach the end of this dark journey and the end of their national existence.
This is the express train of appeasement we now find ourselves riding, wherever we live, we are but another stop on the line, from dusk to darkest night.
The 4 Stages of Appeasement
Stage 1 - Washington D.C. - Washington D.C. is a relevant present day example, but London in the 30's is just as good of an example. At this stage the appeasement is being carried out by a nation fairly confident in its own power but believing itself overextended and seeking to safeguard its commercial interests is listening to those domestic diplomatic and business interests eager to avoid a fight.
While a world power and perhaps even an empire, at Stage 1 the nation's diplomatic and even business interests have gone native abroad and are no longer protecting its interests, but their own. These forces combined with the lassitude that has taken hold in the nation during its age of prosperity have convinced it that there is more to be gained by transforming its enemies into allies through appeasement. At the heart of this belief is the mistaken idea that these enemies are not genuinely hostile, but are pawns or simply misled. And the participation of these enemies is seemingly needed to maintain the nation's economic power.
This form of appeasement seemingly proceeds from strength, but is in truth a weakness that slowly eats away at the nation revealing the rot within.
Stage 2 - London - While the nation still holds to an illusion of strength and self-sufficiency, it is an illusion that few at home or abroad believe anymore. The nation still has some of its former renown, but less of its capability and virtually none of its former confidence. The international trade empire that once sustained it has become a dependency, a crutch and soon a drain. While its enemies immigrate, a slow trickle of its citizens are beginning to emigrate.
Appeasement here proceeds from the need to save face. While on the surface the nation practices appeasement from strength, in private it practices it from weakness. While the nation is far stronger than it appears, the rot has become so pervasive that this is buried and forgotten. Rule over foreigners has become foreign rule, and there is very little confidence to be had except among its newest immigrants. At this stage you will actually find immigrants more willing to battle for the country, than its native population.
Appeasement here has become a reflex, because its leadership no longer thinks of its strength, but only of maintaining an international trade empire by any means necessary. Strength at this stage is primarily used as a bluff and as a diplomatic counter behind which stands raw naked fear. It is a fear that its enemies can smell and with guile feed upon. At Stage 2 the nation is not quite willing to sacrifice itself yet, but is eager to throw any allies it has into the flames to protect itself for the loss of a nation's faith in itself is accompanied always by acts of faithlessness.
Stage 3 - Jerusalem - The formerly confident nation has had its confidence eroded to the point of engaging in increasingly erratic behavior. Appeasement began on the D.C. and the London track and by the time it reaches the Jerusalem station, it combines the foreign agenda of the business and political elites with a country that has lost the ability to depend on itself.
Appeasement rather than bringing peace, erodes the confidence of a nation, until at each stage it comes to feel helpless and is incapable of a consistent policy toward its enemies. Like a dog that has been promised a treat too often and yet is repeatedly beaten, it whines, begs, lashes out and then begs again. This is the process by which men are made into slaves and nations into ruins.
At this station on the appeasement track, the nation which began by defining terms for its enemies now obsessively watches its enemies for any signs of legitimacy, constantly bemoans their unfaithfulness and rather than acting against them, proceeds to another round of negotiations in the futile certainty that there is no other option.
At Stage 3 on the appeasement track the nation has lost what little self-worth it had in Stage 2 and is floundering and repeating the same insane pattern of appeasement it has become fixated on as the only solution. Meanwhile its business and diplomatic elites are in full fire sale mode as the nation's people cast adrift question their own right to exist.
Stage 4 - Stockholm - By Stage 3 the nation had lost faith in itself and is seriously questioning its right to exist. By Stage 4 the question has already been decided in the negative. The nation now feels that it has no right to exist. Its appeasement is no longer defensive, but a moral act of atonement for its own existence. While such sentiments have existed in the nation's culture even at Stage 1, they were part of the aforementioned rot, they are now the absolute dominant voice.
The nation has come to be convinced of its utter worthlessness and now identifies with its attackers. When it is attacked, it can do nothing but bow its head and ask for more. Its lack of confidence and faith in itself has instead lead it to project its identity on the one source of strength it beholds, its enemies. Taking on the identity of its enemies, the nation at Stage 4 is the city openly wishing to be conquered.
International trade may be good and prosperity may be sufficient, but the nation lives in shame of itself and is only waiting for someone to get around to officially asking it to surrender. This is the terminus of the Appeasement Express, the stop at the end of the line when the passengers get off in darkness. Beyond it lies only the moans of the conquered and the newly fortified walls of the conquerors. There is a reason why Stockholm Syndrome is another name of appeasement's endgame and this is it.
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Anonymous 11/8/08
Wow, that was a pretty powerful. Maybe some leaders can use this as a guide to not fall into the trap of appeasement and to reverse course.
Chana @ Lemon Lime Moon 11/8/08
Actually, Britains emigration is not a slow trickle. It is pretty stepped up and moving along quick nicely.
Kate 11/8/08
Erratic behavior is an understatement.
Yobeeone 11/8/08
Lemon: Britain should never have gotten involved with the EU. They've made the borders wide open and you're not allowed to control how many. It's against the EU rules.
No Apology 11/8/08
And all the while, the elitists serenely go about their lofty business of funding the ideas... ideas which are questioning and negating our strength and sovereignty. Meanwhile, John Q Public can only frown at the shrinking wealth available to him, caused by fiat money.
Our government is powerless to get out of the trap which they laid themselves.
Of course they want globalism. It's a Ponzi Scheme on the grandest stage. We are unwilling to hold ourselves accountable, so no one is ultimately accountable.
In America and even in Israel there is what is often called the silent majority. While they often have little influence when it comes to elections they still carry the moral high ground. When push comes to shove it is the silent majority that take up arms and go out to fight.
Falling into appeasement is what the elite does, but not the people. Eventually the people will stand up and demand that the country takes a stand.
In Israel we see this with the growing Zionist movement, especially seen in the settlers' movement. The problem is that they cannot turn their movement into a political party. But, eventually this could happen.
We end with a race between the anti-Zionist who want to destroy the "Jewish" State and the pro-Zionists who want to take their destiny into their own hands. So far it is a race that the left is ahead, but this could change. All the lovers of Zion need are a charismatic leader and a platform that the silent majority can vote for. However, the country is not going to support a strictly Heredi set of goals.
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I know, it's officially been forever since my last post. Life has been busy (lots of work, lots of riding, lots of concerts).
My friend Megan recommended the book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed.
This was a really good book and I highly recommend it. Cheryl Strayed has a way of writing that made me want to go out and hike the trail (well, for about 2 seconds, then I decided it was a bad idea). I can't even imagine how amazing, yet terrifying her journey must have been, and how wonderful it must have been to complete.
In reading through Cheryl's Wikipedia page, I discovered that a movie is being made about her journey, starring Reese Witherspoon. It looks like it's due out in December of this year… I can't wait to see it!


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Super Tuesday: Democrats still puzzled about democracy
The Super Tuesday narrative from the Clinton camp seems to have won fairly widespread acceptance in the American media, and thence in Australia as well, writes Charles Richardson.
The Super Tuesday narrative from the Clinton camp seems to have won fairly widespread acceptance in the American media, and thence in Australia as well. It goes something like this:
Clinton was the clear winner; she won the big, important states, and would have walked away with a big lead in delegates if it wasn't for the Democratic Party's weird practice of allocating them proportionately, which deprived her of the legitimate fruits of victory. That's all that's keeping Obama in the race.
It's true that Clinton's eight victories included the two biggest states and four of the big five. If they were all decided on a winner-take-all basis – as they will be in November, and as most of the Republican contests were yesterday – she would have won 1,216 delegates to Obama's 810. (I'm using the New York Times's figures; New Mexico, with 38 delegates, is still undecided.)
But if you look at how people actually voted, a different picture emerges. On my calculation, Clinton won 7,439,916 votes to Obama's 7,393,827 — a virtual dead heat. And that understates Obama's performance slightly, because he did better in states that had caucuses rather than primaries (Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota and North Dakota), where the turnout is lower.
For another measure of how close it was, if you assume the delegates were all allocated exactly in proportion to votes — that is, just multiplying the available delegates in each state by each candidate's percentage of its vote – Obama comes out very narrowly in the lead, 1,053 to 1,011. That makes Clinton's actual delegate result, which AP estimates as 845 to 765, look generous to her rather than the reverse.
What makes the difference is that although the states Obama won were generally smaller, he not only won more of them (13) but he won them by much larger margins. Only one of Clinton's wins, Arkansas, was with more than 58%, whereas Obama carried eight states with more than 60%.
But the United States is so deeply and unreflectively attached to first-past-the-post voting that this sort of argument barely registers.
The idea of proportional representation, which the Democrats' system half-heartedly implements, is quite alien, whereas in the rest of the world it's part of what we mean by democracy.
The American electoral system was state-of-the-art in the 1830s, but it's now urgently in need of an update.
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That's why we have a proportional upper house. Where the Greens *can* win seats. And influence outcomes.
Which seats in the lower house did the Greens have more votes in, after preferences were counted?
Frank Birchall
"In the rest of the world, it's part of what we mean by democracy." Really? Not in elections for our federal House of Reps where the Nationals get 12 seats and the Greens zero despite the Greens winning many more votes.


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Two swim days- 600 yds. I usually breathe on the left side so I am working on breathing to the right. It is really hard. I have to think about it every time or I get the rhythm wrong. Water also seems to fill my right ear more that the left which is a weird disorienting sensation.
Swimming continues to be a joy and easy even when trying to breathe.
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Yarra City ist ein lokales Verwaltungsgebiet (LGA) im australischen Bundesstaat Victoria. Yarra gehört zur Metropole Melbourne, der Hauptstadt Victorias. Das Gebiet ist 20 km² groß und hat etwa 86.000 Einwohner.

Yarra teilt im Westen seine Grenze mit dem Stadtzentrum Melbourne City und wird im Osten vom Yarra River begrenzt. Es enthält zwölf Stadtteile: Abbotsford, Burnley, Clifton Hill, Collingwood, Cremorne, Fitzroy, Fitzroy North, Princes Hill, Richmond und Teile von Alphington, Carlton North und Fairfield. Der Sitz des City Councils befindet sich in Richmond.

Yarra ist einer der ältesten Stadtteile Melbournes und Collingwood erhielt nach Melbourne und Geelong als dritte Siedlung Victorias den Status Municipality und war bereits 1876 eine City. Fitzroy, mit knapp 100 ha der kleinste Stadtteil Melbournes, ist eines der Zentren zeitgenössischer Kunst in Melbourne.

Um die Victoria Street in Abbotsford befindet sich Little Saigon, das vietnamesische Viertel von Melbourne.
Abbotsford ist auch der Sitz von dem zur Foster's Group gehörenden Brauereiunternehmen Carlton & United Beverages, das mit dem Victoria Bitter und dem Foster's Lager zwei der bekanntesten Biermarken produziert. Die Firmenzentrale des Medizintechnikherstellers Ansell befindet sich ebenfalls in Yarra.

Insgesamt verfügt Yarra neben viel Wohngebieten über viel Industrie, neben der Getränkeherstellung auch Mälzereien, Textilbetriebe und Maschinenbau.

Verwaltung
Der Yarra City Council hat neun Mitglieder, die von den Bewohnern der drei Wards gewählt werden (je drei Councillor pro Ward). Diese drei Bezirke (Nicholls, Langridge und Melba) sind unabhängig von den Stadtteilen festgelegt. Aus dem Kreis der Councillor rekrutiert sich auch der Mayor (Bürgermeister) des Councils.

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Tour de Romandie 2018: Prologue
stephenfarrand 2018-04-24T13:24:41Z
January 1 - April 29, Fribourg, Switzerland, Road - WorldTour
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Hello and welcome to a warm and sunny Switzerland for the Tour de Romandie prologue time trial.
As we fire up the Cyclingnews blimp, the first riders have already started the fast and intense 4km prologue. However all the big names are still to ride.
What is the 72nd edition of the Tour de Romandie has attracted an impressive field with defending champion Richie Porte lining up alongside a strong BMC Racing squad that includes Tejay van Garderen and Rohan Dennis.
However BMC Racing are not the only squad looking to win the overall. Team Sky arrive with Geraint Thomas and neo pros Egan Bernal and Pavel Sivakov on each of the Welshman's flanks.
Thomas De Gendt and Steve Cummings will surely feature in breakaways, while Dan Martin, Rui Cosa, Primoz Roglic, Pierre Latour, and Jakob Fulgsang are among the GC contenders.
Fernando Gavira and Elia Viviani will lead the line for Quick-Step Floors in the sprints, and should face opposition from Michael Matthews, Sonny Colbrelli, and Pascal Ackerman.
In a repeat of last year's race, the Tour de Romandie begins with a short individual test against the clock, this time in Fribourg.
There are few opportunities for the sprinters, with the route heavily stacked towards the GC contenders and strong all-rounders.
There may not be any true mountain summit finishes in the race but every stage, bar the time trials, has over 1,000m of climbing with the queen stage in Sion set to shape the fight for the leader's jersey. The individual uphill time trial to Villars will be just as important.
Cyclingnews will have complete live coverage from the race, as well as news, reactions, analysis and podcasts from Philippa York and editor-in-chief Daniel Benson.
Click here to listen to the special pre-race podcast, with Philippa York catching up with old friend and former pro Allan Peiper.
Simon Spilak of Katusha sent an early fast time of 5:54.
However he was soon beaten by Dan Martin (UAE), who handled the twisting, cobbled course well to set 5:52.
Martin is a GC contender this year bit is no TT specialist. Indeed his time was soon beaten by Will Clarke (EF), who set 5:39.
Clarke is fastest after 12 riders have finished.
The riders are off at one-minute intervals today as there's little risk of catching the rider in front.
The prologue takes place around the streets of the medieval city of Fribourg.
It is a fast, but technical course that features both sharp and sweeping bends that could catch some out.
Fabio Felline took a surprise victory in last year's prologue in Aigle, beating Alex Dowsett by two seconds on the similarly long course.
Here's Dowsett as he follows a Katusha teammate in the team car to see how they handle the technical course.
The British rider will have to take some risks later if he hopes to win the TT.
Dowsett starts his ride at 17:08 local time.
Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing) has opted to ride the Tour de Romandie as final preparation for the Giro d'Italia this year and should be in strong form with the Corsa Rosa less than two weeks away.
Dennis sets off at 15:50 and will be one of the favourites for the stage win. His teammate Porte, who sets off at 17:25 local time, could also come away with the stage win.
The start times are stacked in such a manner that Dennis could have a long wait to see if his time will be strong enough to take the victory, with most of the time trial specialists amongst the final 30 riders to start.
Other potential stage winners are Jonathan Castroviejo (16:38), Stef Clement (16:54), Paris-Roubaix runner-up Silvan Dillier (16:58), Tejay van Garderen (17:06), Alex Dowsett (17:08), Stephen Cummings (17:09), Primoz Roglic (17:13), Mathias Brandle (17:15, Geraint Thomas (17:16) and Ion Izagirre (17:20).
Roglic, Thomas and Izagirre will be particularly interesting to watch as they are likely to be up there in the fight for the overall classification at the end of the week, as is Gorka Izagirre (16:23) and Jakob Fuglsang (17:18).
For a full TT start list, click here.
New beat time! Swiss rider Tom Bolhi of BMC sets 5:34.
That's an average of 43.3km/h for the twisting course.
Unfortunately Trek's Matthias Brändle is already out of the race.
He crashed in the warm-up and is out of the race.
This is the current top ten for the prologue.
1 Tom Bohli (Swi) BMC Racing Team 05:34.1
2 William Clarke (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:00:05
3 Andrey Grivko (Ukr) Astana Pro Team 0:00:10
4 José Gonçalves (Por) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:13
5 Daniel Martin (Irl) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:18
6 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:19
7 Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:20
8 Jens Keukeleire (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:00:23
9 Nico Denz (Ger) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:24
10 Brendan Canty (Aus) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale 0:00:25
Rohan Dennis is off!
As national champion, Dennis is racing in his Australian green and gold today.
Dennis is fast but not fast enough. He sets 5:34 but is second to Bohli by a few hundredths.
Dennis crossed the line in 5:34.64 and sits second behind Bohli's time of 5:34.07.
That is close but no cigar for the BMC rider.
To see the top ten for the TT, check out our situation column on the right.
The sun is out in Fribourg with the temperatures pretty warm for a Swiss spring.
That should see some fast times later.
Bohli is a big rider and used his power and TT to blast around the technical course.
Euro TT champion Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Soudal) is coming in now.
He sets 5:38, suffering on the final steep cobbled climb up to the finish.
Riders are staying tucked over their aero bars to safe watts and keep their speed.
Some riders have opted to use a modified road race bike but the TT will probably be faster.
Danilo Wyss (BMC Racing) is giving it all on the climb.
Wyss sets a time of 6:07. He gets a special cheer as a local Swiss rider.
50 riders have finished the 4km TT but Bohli the fastest with a time of 5:34.
Pavel Sivakov (Sky) is off next. He's one of the most promising young riders of his generation.
Sky also have Bernal in their line up here at Romandie.
This is Bohli in the hot seat. He is pointing to the special armband the BMC riders are wearing to remember team owner Andy Rihs who died last week.
Britain's Pete Kennaugh stops the clock in 6:06 on his return to racing with Bora after an illness.
Sivakov sets 5:50. Some big-name power riders are still to ride.
Axel Domont (AG2R La Mondiale) stomps on his road bike up the climb but is off the pace.
Michael Morkov of Quick-Step is off. He could do a good time if he's keen to go for it and take risks.
De Gendt comes in and sets a time of 5:46.
De Gendt finished 8th fastest and so sneeked into our new top ten.
1 Tom Bohli (Swi) BMC Racing Team 05.34.07
2 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team
3 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:00:04
5 Diego Rosa (Ita) Team Sky 0:00:05
6 Gorka Izagirre (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:08
8 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:00:12
9 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:12
10 Davide Martinelli (Ita) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:13
No rider can go slow today because the 4km time trial is short and intense. Ride too easy and a rider could finish outside the time limit
Daniel Felipe Martínez sets 5:49. That's good considering he was in hospital just a few weeks ago after being attacked by a car driver.
GC contender Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL-Jumbo) is racing. He's targeting the Tour de France this season rather than the Giro d'Italia and so could be looking to end his spring campaign on a high here in Romandie.
Spanish national TT champion Jonathan Castroviejo (Team Sky) is out on the course. He could be a real contender on this hilly, technical circuit.
Castroviejo is 2.5 seconds at the time check. He is perhaps not going full gas.
Castroviejo sets 5:44 but that's only seventh fastest.
Britain's Geraint Thomas is warming up. He could be a threat today unless he wants to avoid risks.
Local hero Michael Albasini (Mitchelton-Scott) could be a threat today. He always performs well here.
Fernando Gaviria (Quick-Step) is off now. He's back racing after missing all the cobbled classics.
Gaviria is number 13 and so wears his number upside down to ward off any bad luck.
He rides steady and sets 6:21.
Tom Bohli is still in the hot seat and spoke about his ride.
"It's pretty unbelievable. It was my first chrono for the entire year. I was really nervous, I had stomach ache and so I can't explain why it went well. Perhaps the nervousness helped me to get into the flow," he told Eurosport.
This is a shot of Bohli during his TT today.
Stef Clement sets 5:57. The Lotto is a TT specialist but is more suited to a flat power rider's course.
Here comes Pierre Rolland. He is only ten seconds slower than Bohli.
Bernal is fast! He sets 5:44 and is 8th fastest. That's pretty good for a climber. Of course he is Colombian TT champion.
Dilier is also fast, setting 5:47 but he can't get close to Bohli.
Tejay van Garderen is off. Can he do a ride today?
The American is quickly into his aero tuck and up to speed.
Dowsett is iff too. He could threaten Bohli's time today. He's been training at altitude lately.
Here's Bernal after his ride.
Dowsett dives through a cobbled curve and is quickly in his tuck again.
Here comes Tejay. He sets 5:55. 28th fastest for him.
Could today be for the sprinters. Michael Matthews will soon show us.
We're at the sharp end of the start list now, with Roglic starting his ride.
He must be a real threat to Bohli's time.
Dowsett is only 20th fastest.
Roglic looks faster as he handles a nasty speed bump.
Boom! Matthews sets a new fastest time! 5:33!
He beats Bohli by less than a second but dips below the 5:34 mark.
Here comes Roglic but he's slower than Matthews in 5:34.
The hundredths of seconds count back but Bohli second and Roglic third behind Matthews.
This is the new top ten.
1 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb 05:33.1
2 Tom Bohli (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:00:01
3 Primoz Roglic (Slo) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:00:01
8 Pierre Latour (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:06
10 Egan Bernal (Col) Team Sky 0:00:11
Here comes Thomas. He suffers on the climb to the line but sets 5:38.
Thomas needed time to recover from his effort.
Viviani is off next. Can he emulate Matthews and set a fast time thanks to his speed?
Richie Porte is last rider off as 2017 winner of the Tour de Romandie.
Amador sets 5:52. That's not fast but keeps him in overall contention.
Viviani is using his track skills to keep his speed on the corners.
Viviani sets a time of 6:07 after fading on the climb up to the finish area.
Porte is more aggressive and faster on the climb. He sets 5:47. He is only 18th fastest.
With all riders in that means Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb) wins the 4km prologue TT.
Here's Matthews in TT action.
The 4km TT course meant time gaps were tight, with Tom Bohli (BMC Racing) second at one second.
Roglic was third also at one second.
Rohan Dennis was fourth, also at one second.
Matthews is naturally the first race leader and so will wear the leader's yellow jersey during Wednesday's road stage.
Matthews gets the cheers on the podium.
Matthews spoke about his ride before collecting almost all the jerseys on the podium.
"It's a little bit of a surprise to win. I didn't have a good day at Liege-Bastogne-Liege on Sunday. I had an easy day on Monday and back into today. I didn't know how legs would feel but I gave my best and it was enough to get the win," he said.
"It was a really beautiful course. For the TV it was probably as nice as it was for us on the bike. In the recon I thought it was maybe a little bit sketchy but at high speed it was fine. I actually had a lot fun out there."
Matthews rode Romandie in 2013 but soon fell ill. This is a far better start. It is also his first win of 2018, after an often frustrating spring.
"I've always watched this race. I think I did it in 2013. I started but got sick after first TT, so it's pretty much my first time here. I'm stoked to get the win in the first stage," he said.
"I'll enjoy this win now. It's my first win of season, so it takes the pressure off for the next days. Everything has been getting better and better since the start of the year and I'm happy just to get the win."
CN Editor in Chief Dan Benson spoke to Geraint Thomas briefly after his ride.
"There was a lot to think about and that was a hard last final 800m," he said.
"I think that I rode it okay, and got it all out, but looking back you always think that there were a few corners that you could have taken quicker."
"I needed Liege in my legs really because it's been a while since racing. It was a tough course. Explosive and bang once you're out there it's done. It was like a track effort really."
This shot of Dennis on the climb confirms it was the key to the stage. Matthews used his power to kick his way up the cobbled climb.
Every rider went deep on the climb, with lots, like Canadian champion Svein Tuft, pulling faces in pain.
Here is the shot of Matthews giving it all on the climb.
The best finishers all used TT bikes, while others opted for the comfort of their road race bike with aero extensions.
Wednesday's stage 1 at the Tour de Romandie is from Fribourg to Delémont over 166km.
It includes four categorised climbs and over 2000m of climbing. However it should suit the sprinters who are on form.
We could see Matthews win again or the likes of Elia Viviani emerge to win the sprint. Unless others in the peloton decide to explode the race in the hope of a stage win.
Here's Michael Matthews in the yellow leader's jersey.
To see our full photo gallery from the prologue time trial and to read our full stage report, click here.
Join us for coverage of stage 2 of the Tour de Romandie on Wednesday to see if Matthews can retain his race lead.
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Big Al's Daily Angle: MLB, CFL, WNBA and NFL Previews and Odds - 08/20/2021
The Friday sports card features action in the NFL preseason, MLB, the CFL, and the WNBA.
The second full week of the NFL preseason continues with two games. Kansas City visits Arizona on ESPN at 8 PM ET. The Chiefs upset the 49ers in San Francisco, 19-16, as a 2.5-point underdog last Saturday. The Cardinals beat Dallas, 19-16, as a 1.5-point favorite on Friday. Kansas City is a 3-point road favorite with the total set at 41 (all odds from DraftKings). Washington plays at home against Cincinnati on the NFL Network at 8 PM ET. The Football Team lost at New England, 22-13, as a 2-point underdog last Thursday. Washington is a 5-point favorite with an over/under of 35.
Fifteen games are on the MLB slate. Kansas City visits the Chicago Cubs at 2:20 PM ET. The Royals are a -115 money line road favorite.
Two games start at 7:05 PM ET. The New York Yankees host Minnesota as a -225 money line favorite with a total of 10.5. Atlanta visits Baltimore as a -250 money line road favorite with an over/under of 10. Toronto plays at home against Detroit at 7:07 PM ET. The Blue Jays are a -260 money line favorite with a total of 9.
Four games begin at 7:10 PM ET. Boston is at home against Texas as a -335 money line favorite with an over/under of 9. Cincinnati hosts Miami as a -195 money line favorite with a total of 9. Cleveland plays at home against the Los Angeles Angels as a -120 money line favorite with an over/under of 10. The Chicago White Sox travel to Tampa Bay as a -120 money line road favorite with a total of 9.
Two games start at 8:10 PM ET. Houston plays at home against Seattle as a -195 money line favorite with an over/under of 8.5. Milwaukee hosts Washington as a -210 money line favorite with a total of 9.5. St. Louis is at home against Pittsburgh at 8:15 PM ET. The Cardinals are a -195 money line favorite with an over/under of 8.5. Colorado plays at home against Arizona at 8:40 PM ET. The Rockies are a -180 money line favorite with a total of 11.5.
San Francisco travels to Oakland at 9:40 PM ET. The Giants are a -120 money line road favorite with an over/under of 8.5. Two games conclude the card at 10:10 PM ET. The Los Angeles Dodgers are at home against the New York Mets as a -255 money line favorite with a total of 8.5. San Diego hosts Philadelphia as a -195 money line favorite with an over/under of 9.
Week 3 of the Canadian Football League continues with Montreal playing at Calgary on ESPN+ at 9:30 PM ET. The Alouettes upset Edmonton on the road, 30-13, as a 5-point underdog on Saturday. The Stampeders got beat at home against British Columbia as a 7-point favorite last Thursday. Montreal is a 6-point road favorite with a total of 45.
Two games are on the WNBA schedule. Seattle plays at New York at 7 PM ET. Indiana travels to Dallas on the CBS Sports Network at 8 PM ET.


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New NTU Global Lounge to open at 23 Goldsmith Street
A centre incorporating a student lounge space, purpose built meeting rooms and open plan office space has opened at Nottingham Trent University's City Campus.
The University's Global Lounge, which offers international and UK students space to meet, host events and promote internationalism, is moving down the road from its current Goldsmith Street location into the new building at 23 Goldsmith Street. Staff from the International Development Office, who support students recruited from abroad to study at Nottingham Trent, will also be located in the office building.
Staff from the Global Office and International Development office started moving into the new building today (March 4) with further moves planned throughout the month.
Professor Cillian Ryan, Pro Vice-Chancellor International and Head of the College of Business, Law, and Social Sciences, said: "We are excited to see this fantastic building completed. We have worked closely with architects and contractors to ensure it will provide ample space for our Global Lounge to meet and host events whilst also providing modern office space for colleagues working to support international recruitment. We are delighted with the result."
The University bought the building – the site of the former Posh Spice restaurant which was left derelict following a fire in 2010 – and worked with CPMG Architects and Midlands contractor G F Tomlinson to transform it into a modern office and meeting space.
Director at CPMG Architects, Nick Gregory said: "We're pleased to have worked with Nottingham Trent University to transform this derelict brownfield site into a distinctive and attractive addition to the Nottingham skyline. The striking building has significantly improved the aesthetics of the street and will not only provide a modern working environment for university staff, but a spacious exhibition space for future events and initiatives. I hope the staff enjoy their new offices within the city."
Andy Sewards, managing director at G F Tomlinson, said: "It's been a pleasure to work with Nottingham Trent University and CPMG Architects on the new modern Global Lounge. We are proud to have helped transform the old derelict site into another incredible space for staff and students to enjoy, especially as the space will be used to celebrate cultures from all around the world by those who have come to the great city of Nottingham to further their education."
Press enquiries please contact Kirsty Green, Press and Public Affairs Manager, on telephone 0115 848 8799, or via email
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) was named University of the Year 2017 at the Times Higher Education Awards, and Modern University of the Year in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018. These awards recognise NTU for its high levels of student satisfaction, its quality of teaching, its engagement with employers, and its overall student experience.
NTU has been rated Gold in the Government's Teaching Excellence Framework – the highest ranking available.
NTU is one of the largest UK universities. With 30,000 students and more than 4,000 staff located across four campuses, the University contributes £900m to the UK economy every year. It is one of the UK's most environmentally friendly universities, containing some of the sector's most inspiring and efficient award-winning buildings. 96% of its graduates go on to employment or further education within six months of leaving.
Our student satisfaction is high: NTU achieved an 88% satisfaction score in the 2018 National Student Satisfaction Survey.
The University is passionate about creating opportunities and its extensive outreach programme is designed to enable Nottingham Trent to be a vehicle for social mobility. NTU is among the UK's top five recruiters of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
NTU is home to world-class research, and won The Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2015 – the highest national honour for a UK university. It recognised the University's pioneering projects to improve weapons and explosives detection in luggage; enable safer production of powdered infant formula; and combat food fraud.
With an international student population of over 3,000 from around 100 countries, the University prides itself on its global outlook
Published on 4 March 2019
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New facility to focus on production of medical devices and technologies
Work is well underway on Nottingham Trent University's new Medical Technologies Innovation Facility (MTIF) at the Boots site, which is part of the Nottingham Enterprise Zone.
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Molecule sheds light on autoimmune disease status
Scientists have for the first time identified a protein in the blood that can be used to accurately monitor the disease status of lupus and a range of other autoimmune diseases.
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It's well documented that if you want to install vCenter on an x64 Windows 2008 OS you need to create a 32-bit DSN rather than he normal x64 DSN, Jason has a post on this over at his site.
If you have a separate VC server from the SQL server you need to install the SQL native client on your VC server otherwise it won't work.
I am currently presenting a follow-up to my previous vTARDIS session for the London VMware Users Group where I demonstrated a 2-node ESX cluster on cheap PC-grade hardware (ML-115g5).
The goal of this build is to create a system you can use for VCP and VCDX type study without spending thousands on normal production type hardware (see the slides at the end of this page for more info on why this is useful..) – Techhead and I have a series of joint postings in the pipeline about how to configure the environment and the best hardware to use.
The main stumbling block I ran into with the previous build was the performance of the SATA hard disks I was using, SCSI was out of my budget and SATA soon gets bogged down with concurrent requests which makes it slow; so I started to investigate solid state storage (previous posts here).
So, I voted with my credit card and purchased one of these from Amazon – it wasn't "cheap" at c.£200 but it will let me scale my environment bigger than I could previously manage which means less power, cost, CO2 and all the other usual arguments you try to convince yourself that a gadget is REQUIRED.
This diagram shows the virtual network configuration within each virtualized ESXi VM with vSwitch and dvSwitch config side-side.
I then built an OpenFiler Virtual Machine and hooked it up to the internal vSwitch so that the virtualized ESXi VMs can access it via iSCSI, it has a virtual disk installed on the SSD presenting a 30Gb VMFS volume over iSCSI to the virtual cluster nodes (and all the iSCSI traffic is essentially in-memory as there is no physical networking for it to traverse.
Once this was done and all my ESXi nodes were running and settled down, I have a script to build out a whole bunch of nested virtual machines to execute on my 8-node cluster. the VM's aren't anything special – each has 512Mb allocated to it and won't actually boot past the BIOS because my goal here is just to simulate a large number of virtual machines and their configuration within vCenter, rather than meet an actual workload – remember this is a single server configuration and you can't override the laws of physics, there is only really 8Gb or RAM and 4 CPU cores available.
Each of the virtual machines was connected to a dvSwitch for VM traffic – which you can see here in action (the dvUplink is actually a virtual NIC on the ESXi host).
So, in conclusion – this shows that you can host a large number of virtual machines for a lab setup, this obviously isn't of much use in a production environment because as soon as those 60VM's actually start doing something they will consume real memory and CPU and you will run out of raw resources.
Whilst not a production solution, this sort of setup is ideal for VCP/VCDX study as it allows you to play with all the enterprise level features like dvSwitch and DRS/HA that really need more than just a couple of hosts and VMs to understand how they really work. for example; you can power-off one of the virtual ESXi nodes to simulate a host failure and invoke the HA response, similarly you can disconnect the virtual NIC from the ESXi VM to simulate the host isolation response.
Whilst this post has focused on non-production/lab scenarios it could be used to test VMware patch releases for production services if you are short on hardware and you can quite happily run Update manager in this solution.
Thin-provisioning also makes good use of an SSD in this situation as this screenshot from a 30Gb virtual VMFS volume shows.
If you are wondering how noisy it it at power-up/down TechHead has this video on YouTube showing the scary sounding start-up noise but how quiet it gets once the fan control kicks-in.
Having completed my VCP4 and 3 I'm on the path to my VCDX and next up is the enterprise exam so this lab is going to be key to my study when the vSphere exams are released.
The linked .PDF file is an automatically generated report from my test installation of the new vCenter Chargeback product.
If I try with the appliance version of the application it ignores the slash in the DOMAIN\USER syntax for the database permissions and puts in DOMAINUSER, which obviously doesn't work.
for now I have configured it using SQL authentication and that works ok isn't ideal from a management point of view, would be good to understand why this is, as the appliance issue looks like a bug to me.


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This spring, scientists began recording data on lightning in a volcanic eruption--right from the start of the eruption. They used an instrument called a Lightning Mapping Array to study electrical activity during a volcanic eruption. The arrays have been deployed at volcanoes only twice before. Thousands of individual segments of a single lightning stroke can be mapped with the Lightning Mapping Array; later on scientists can analyze the data to learn how lightning is started and how it spreads through a thunderstorm, or in a volcanic plume.
When Alaska's Redoubt Volcano started rumbling in January, a team of researchers hurried to set up a series of the arrays along the east side of Cook Inlet, across from the volcano. When the volcano erupted on March 22 and 23, 2009, the arrays collected dramatic information about the electricity created within volcanic plumes, and the lightning produced in these plumes.
"For the first time, we had the Lightning Mapping Array on site before the initial eruption," said scientist Sonja Behnke of New Mexico Tech.
"The data will allow us to better understand the electrical charge structure inside a volcanic plume," said scientist Ron Thomas of New Mexico Tech. "That should help us learn how the plume is becoming electrified, and how it evolves over time."
Bradley Smull, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Atmospheric Sciences, said the information will give scientists insights into the electrical mechanisms in both plumes above active volcanoes, and in lightning spawned in thunderstorms. Portable Lightning Mapping Arrays are being used by meteorologists to issue weather warnings.
Redoubt was "a perfect laboratory," said physicist Paul Krehbiel of New Mexico Tech. "It erupted on schedule--and gave us two months' notice." Because of this advance notice, scientists were able to set up the sensors prior to the eruptions, and because of this scientists are going to be able to learn a lot about electrical charges and lightning in volcanic plumes.
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Sangli, Apr 5 (UNI) Former deputy chief minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar has accused the BJP-led Central, as well as the state government, of making hollow promises to the people, saying the time has come to pull down both.
Addressing the "Hallabol" rally on late Wednesday night at Station Chowk of the city, Mr Pawar said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and State Chief Minister Devendra Phadnavis betrayed the people by showing them many false dreams.
Poor people are becoming poorer, while the rich are becoming richer in their regime, since the last four years, he alleged.
He said the state government has failed on all fronts, while corruption is increasing in all sectors.
Showing dreams to the poor farmers, they captured the power and now they are neglecting them, Mr Pawar alleged, adding that intervening in religion, the government was trying to create crookedness in different religious groups.
He further alleged that incidents of violence like Bhima-Koregain showed lack of political will power.
NCP state president Sunil Tatkare in his address said that party president Sharad Pawar had remitted Rs 71,000 crore farmers loan and the ryots were now feeling discontented about the government's loan wave scheme, and now there was a need a leadership for the country such as Mr Sharad Pawar, who could give proper direction to the country.
District leaders, including coporators and ZP members, attended the rally.


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Friend of the Court. The name often evokes feelings of discontent in the minds of many who have felt left behind by a state system designed to help single, custodial parents get the financial support they need.
Likewise, parents who owe money can often feel safe in thumbing their nose at a system that has difficulty tracking them across county lines.
In the new age of technology, computers finally will be allowed to do what they do so well - track information about deadbeat parents - thanks to a mandate from the federal government that states implement a central, automated management system.
€ automated initiation of a computer search when a nonpayer moves and that person's location becomes unknown.
It's difficult to see the downsides.
This isn't new from the standpoint that judgments were never enforced before. It's not a system that gathers new or previously protected information about people. Presuming that judgments against noncustodial parents are fair to begin with, this only provides a more efficient way to collect information and then money.
Ideally, this setup then leaves caseworkers to do better things - namely working more in-depth with those families.