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Shenseea x Rvssian "You're The One I Love" Video
Recovering from a brief illness, female Dancehall artiste Shenseea is back like she never left, linking up with the Jamaican hit factory Rvssian for the single "You're The One I Love". Watch below:
I give you peace of mind
My heart is always on your side
Our connection is rare to find
That's why, mi nuh gon' let you go
I feel that I'm so blessed to be yours
Right there when you need it, I mean it
Shenseea x Rvssian "You're The One I Love" Lyrics
You're The One I Love follows the widely successful singles Run Run and Be Good that are both scheduled to appear on her forthcoming album.
The Blessed singer has been putting in work for 2021, she is featured twice on Kanye West's tenth studio album, DONDA, which landed her Grammy nomination for Album Of The Year after she was named among the scores of featured artists, songwriters, producers, mixers, and engineers. She also collaborated with Canadian rapper Belly on the track How I'm Feelin' and appeared on EA Sports' Madden NFL 22 soundtrack.
Shenseea is set to release her debut album in 2022, under Rvssian's Rich Immigrants label (a joint venture with Interscope Records).
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Flushing's annual Lunar New Year parade will hit the streets this weekend in an event expected to see live performances, bright floats, and thousands of spectators.
The 2019 parade, which rings in the Year of the Pig that starts on Feb. 5, will begin at 11 a.m. on Feb. 9 at its usual Union Street and 37th Avenue location.
The parade stretches to Main Street, with hundreds of thousands from around the city and beyond partaking in the festivities, which include dragon dances, traditional music and dance from a variety of Asian cultures, martial arts demonstrations, and floats highlighting the variety of Asian-American groups in the Flushing area.
The colorful parade in Queen's largest Chinatown neighborhood is organized by the Flushing Chinese Business Association, the Korean American Association of Queens and the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce.
Leading up to the event, the GFCC will gather at St. George's Church for a reception beginning at 9:30 a.m. and featuring a lineup of demonstrations and live musical performances.
The Queens Fencing Club, for example, will do a live demonstration of the sport, while Epic 88, a K-pop cover group, will perform a medley at the hour-long reception. Attendees at the free pre-parade event, which requires registration, can also enjoy hot coffee and other refreshments before heading to other Lunar New Year festivities.
The parade and reception mark one of a handful of celebrations ringing in the new year through the month of February.
The Queens Botanical Garden will host a Year of the Pig celebration on the same day as the parade, where attendees can enjoy workshops, performances, and take a "lucky" plant home from a special Lunar New Year plant sale.
Flushing Town Hall, in a Feb. 17 event, will host a Chinese New Year Temple Bazaar, harkening back to the traditional ways people from Asian cultures have celebrated the new year. The event, split into two sessions, features art and lantern making, food, and live performances.
The Lunar New Year is an ancient holiday celebrated across many East Asian countries including China, North and South Korea, and Vietnam. The pig, which marks this year's festivities, is associated with wealth, good fortune and hard work.


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Angels With Tethered Wings è un film del 2014 diretto da Steven Vasquez.

Il film è stato presentato a livello mondiale l'8 novembre 2014 durante la 5ª edizione della BentCon a Burbank.

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Una coppia di giovani  torna dall'aldilà in cerca di vendetta contro la banda che li ha uccisi.

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Collegamenti esterni

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Winter Ceremony 2021
Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral Degree Ceremony
Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 10:00 a.m.
Kohl Center, 601 W. Dayton Street
Doors open at 8:00 a.m., graduates are asked to be seated by 9:40 a.m. Please note the ceremony typically lasts approximately 2.5 hours. A Livestream of the ceremony will be available here on YouTube. Learn more about the ceremony on our event page.
Manu Raju '02, CNN's chief congressional correspondent, will be this year's commencement speaker. Learn more about Raju here and watch the video announcement.
Guests, family members and friends are welcome to attend. There is no ticketing for attendance and seating is general admission, first come, first served. Anyone needing accommodations should meet with Guest Services at Gate A for assistance. If you are a graduate in need of accommodations please email commence@chancellor.wisc.edu
Shuttle service will be available along University Ave. and Johnson St. Please consult this parking map to view the route and our parking and shuttle page for more information.
The Winter 2021 Commencement Program is now available! Learn about our speakers, what to expect at the ceremony, and the graduate list.
GRADUATE SEATING INFORMATION
Graduates, looking for information about where you will be seated?
Graduates should enter the Kohl Center arena at Gate A (W. Dayton St. entrance).
Candidate seating is arranged by school, college or degree type. Please refer to this Candidate Seating Map for the location of the seating blocks, and corresponding sections of the Kohl Center.
Commencement Marshals wearing cardinal red academic attire will be available to assist you with seating.
If you are in need of accessibility accommodations, please contact our office at commence@chancellor.wisc.edu immediately for assistance.
Degree candidates with faculty escorts should ask their faculty escort to sit on their right.
No guests, including children (with the exception of nursing mothers) are permitted in the candidate seating area. No food or beverages of any kind are permitted. Please review the carry-in policy as well as the metal detector procedures to plan accordingly. Flowers are allowed inside the Kohl Center, however glass containers, balloons, backpacks and wrapped gifts are not allowed.
Will my name be read?
Yes, graduate names will be read as candidates cross the stage. A name card will be located on your chair when you arrive, and we ask that you print your name phonetically, how you would like it pronounced, so that our name readers are accurate.
Will I receive a diploma?
Each graduate will receive a diploma folder from their dean as they cross the stage. We request that you please refrain from giving handshakes at this time. Diplomas will be mailed out to graduates 6-8 weeks after grades are entered. Please be sure to update your home address in MyUW for where your diploma will be mailed to.
Will masks be required?
Yes, well fitting face coverings will be required for anyone attending winter commencement. This includes all graduates, family members, guests, faculty and staff. Both UW–Madison and Dane County have extended masking requirements into January. UW–Madison's mask order remains in effect on campus until at least January 15 and includes all campus buildings, including the Kohl Center. UW is a state entity and its orders are not affected by Dane County decisions.
RESERVE YOUR CAP AND GOWN
To ensure that your academic regalia is reflective of the new design, please place your reservation order through the University Book Store. View the University Book Store's timeline for picking up attire. All graduates should reserve their academic attire by December 18, 2021. Call (608) 257-3784, extension 5924, if you have questions. In Spring 2017, the gown designs were updated to include the University of Wisconsin–Madison colors and crest logo, providing both a pop of red among the traditional sea of black and an additional display of UW spirit that's recognizable to all. Read about the significance of the cap and gown.
Eligible undergraduate degree candidates can also order a stole from the University Book Store here. Honors candidates do not need to pre-order stoles; the University Book Store will receive a list of honors candidates in advance. Academic stoles, for the foreseeable future, will also now only be available as purchase only.
If interested, seniors can sign a sustainability pledge at the University Bookstore and receive a green ribbon to wear with their cap and gown. The Office of Sustainability will be at the University Bookstore everyday, through winter commencement, handing out ribbons to those who sign pledges.
Graduates show of the spirit through cap decorations during a Class of 2020 Graduate Celebration at Camp Randall Stadium at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Sept. 17, 2021. The event attracted nearly 2,700 Class of 2020 alumni who registered to attend some or all of a series of in-person events honoring the Class of 2020 the weekend of Sept. 17-19, 2021. UW-Madison's Spring 2020 in-person commencement ceremonies were cancelled due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. (Photo by Bryce Richter / UW-Madison)
FREE GRADUATION CAP DECORATING
Cappy Hour at Wheelhouse Studios
When: Dec. 16 & 17, noon-10 p.m.
Where: Wheelhouse Studios on the lower level of Memorial Union
Notes: Bring your graduation cap and give it your personal artistic touch with an assortment of gems, sparkles, stencils, paints, glue and more provided for free by Wheelhouse Studios, while supplies last. Cappy Hour is a great way to decompress after (your last!) finals, and get ready for your next adventure.
APPLY TO GRADUATE!
The deadline to Apply to Graduate is November 5, 2021. Applying to graduate by the deadline ensures that your name will be included in the official Commencement Program. Students who apply to graduate after the deadline will not see their name in the printed program.
Visit the student center's instruction page and the Office of the Registrar's webpage for detailed instructions on how to apply to graduate. Master's and PhD students can find additional information on the Graduate School's "completing your degree" webpage.
This event is subject to public health guidelines which are subject to change at any time. Campus event policies, Kohl Center policies and carry-in procedures will be enforced in alignment with Public Health Madison Dane County. Graduates, family, guests, faculty and staff are reminded that both UW–Madison and Dane County have extended masking requirements into January. A well-fitting face covering will be required for anyone attending winter commencement. This includes all graduates, family members, guests, faculty and staff. UW–Madison's mask order remains in effect on campus until January 15 and will be re-evaluated before that point. UW is a state entity and its orders are not affected by Dane County decisions. In regards to COVID-19, please consult PHMDC, the latest emergency order, CDC guidelines, and the Campus Event Guidelines under the COVID Campus Operations Response page. The Winter Commencement Ceremony will adapt to changing public health guidelines as necessary.
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Complimentary parking is available in almost all campus parking lots on Sunday, December 19. Shuttle service will be available along University Ave. and Johnson St. stopping at all blue Madison Metro Bus Stops. Shuttle service runs from 8a.m. - 10:30a.m. and again from noon to 3p.m. View a map of the shuttle route, and construction, in order to be prepared for the big day.
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Participants will have their photo taken as they cross the stage to receive their diploma cover, and a solo portrait after they exit the stage. Photo stations at Gates A and B will be available before and after the ceremony for graduate portraits with friends and family.
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British Climate Latest Local Opinion
Opinion: A Defence of Nimbyism
November 7, 2022 November 7, 2022 Daniel Bassett 0 Comments
At the Politics Society Question Time, held on the 24th of October of this year, comprising all of Exeter's different political societies, both in the crowd and on the panel of society representatives; the 'issue' of nimbyism (not in my back yard (ism)) came up. However this 'issue' was not raised by a typical source, indeed the source came from a conventionally surprising origin, that being the Exeter University Conservative Association (EUCA) representatives on the panel.
I say conventionally surprising because the image of the Conservative party as having no love for climate/green policy, though held by many frenzied journalists in the media, is not an accurate depiction, and the modern parliamentary Conservative party is more than happy to join the hunt for this 'new threat from within' known as nimbyism. A cynical person like myself thinks that this is primarily because the Tories receive a sufficiently large amount of funding from housing developers, who are also displeased with nimbyism, and wish, without a shadow of a doubt, to cover the rolling hills of England with tower blocks from which they can rack up an extortionate profit – but hey, what do I know? Nimbyists are accused of the greatest of all sins you see, for they are accused of valuing their aesthetic pleasure over the great march of progress into a green new age. Resisting a new dam or windfarm to be built near your authentic countryside village is just selfish, opposers say, for in the fight against climate change, your view outside your window is hardly even a speck in comparison to the foretold doom and destruction that will be brought about if we don't transition quickly.
I find this line of argument to not be very compelling, for indeed there is an obvious truth buried here: if there had been a much deeper nimbyistic attitude towards the construction of vast, ugly coal-powered power stations in areas up and down this country during the industrial revolution, perhaps the disastrous carbon emissions that have been emitted could have been diminished. Furthermore, nimbyism isn't just about protesting new green infrastructure projects but also any fracking rigs that go up. I think the current discourse promotes the ridiculous idea that nimbyists would be happy with a concrete monster and column of smog if it was coming from a coal power plant, but are just being picky when it comes to green projects. Fracking is a more contemporary example of this – I doubt if I asked any rural folk if they would like to have a natural gas rig next door to them that they would say yes, and then say that they wouldn't want a wind turbine; such a position is not held by anyone.
Additionally, why must the shires pay for the ravenous consumerist habits of the urban population when they, more than nearly anyone else in this country, live some of the most sustainable lives possible in modern Britain today. The urban population are typically those most against "nimbyism" because of a somewhat telling truth: these vast infrastructure projects aren't being built next to their home or tower block. Urbanised population centres act as a boundary, where within it, it is perfectly meaningless to oppose nimbyism because really they have no back garden in which things can be built. To oppose nimbyism as an urban-dwelling person is to be perfectly shielded from any pertinent realities of the thing that is being proposed, and to singularly benefit from some restored good feelings of backing some noble cause. To a Londoner it is perfectly plausible that it would be fine to them if every inch of countryside were covered in concrete and tar, because at least it will be done in the noble cause of fighting climate destruction while never disrupting their daily lives in the slightest.
This is not to say that combating climate change isn't a priority, but I do think the solutions lay less in forcing massive development projects on rural areas, and instead asking the city folk to actually participate in sustainable living. The imposing nature of climate change shouldn't be used as a pretext to destroy, uglify, and concretise the very environment that rural people feel is worth protecting – such a conservative motive is one of the strong forces in the fight against climate change. To transfer the penalties of the excessive Western market consumption onto these traditional historic villages and areas of Britain who have done little to deserve this disturbance, is to engage in the same kind of rampant disregard for the environment and communities that has led us to this point, where we thoughtlessly exploit the world's resources. The priorities advanced by the anti-nimbyist position are not those for the people, nor of the sustainable life supposedly advocated for, but for the mindless consumer culture which is using these projects to shield itself from the consequences of the climate change that it has caused.
In conclusion, we unfairly export the costs of our city-dwelling consumer decisions to the very traditional communities who have maintained the historic environment of this country for generations. And so, while the Tory party may be happy to join in on the destruction of our countryside, just like they destroyed the railways which could of been our sustainable alternative to personal vehicles, they will now seek to crush the nimbyists who hold no real power, but for whose defeat is called for, based on the increasing need within our elite to evade responsibility for the problems they cause.
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So this is my first attempt at writing on our blog! I am completely inspired by my new sister-in-laws, Drape and Brooke, for their adorable blogs and decided to be more like them even though I don't have any cute children! That can definitely wait but for now married life is so much fun! The wedding and reception were amazing, we couldn't ask for anything more. We had a beautiful brunch at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building where 2 of Andrew's fellow Prevaricators read their inspirational poems written just for us, Abby played the harp with Martsie accompanying on the piano and Andrew's Grandpa, who's a concert pianist, also played the piano. The food was amazing, they even had hot chocolate, my favorite! After the brunch everyone headed over to the Salt Lake Temple. Somewhere between the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and the Temple we lost Andrew's dad and my mom so we were a little late getting in to change, oops! Despite the tiny piece of chaos the ceremony was better than I ever imagined. President Walker, the Temple President, was our sealer and gave great advice about serving one another and that's about all I can remember. I was so nervous and excited that I can't remember a whole lot! I just remember being overwhelmed by the Spirit and gratitude. I am so grateful to be able to sealed to Andrew for eternity and I am grateful for the preisthood authority that can do that. We are so blessed to be part of the few that have the truths of the gospel in our life and the opportunities to utilize the blessings of the gospel. We went to the Jordan River Temple last week and the name that I had was from 1588! During the session I kept wondering what she was thinking. Was she excited? How would that feel to have to wait so long to have the fullness of the gospel? I am just so grateful that Andrew's and my parents taught us so well and built that foundation for us! We love you and are so grateful for all that you have given us!
The Temple was amazing, everything about it was just perfect! After the temple we took a million pictures, hit up Wendy's and then left for the Ranch and got stuck in 5:00 traffic, of course! The next day was the reception and I am soooo glad we did the temple and the reception in 2 days. It let us focus on the temple and I think it really helped me not get too stressed. My family showed up a couple hours early to set up, thank heavens because I could never do it all myself! I went and started getting ready and the next thing I knew there were caterers, the flower lady, the cake lady, Andrew's family and my family all asking me where I wanted things. It was pure chaos! Luckily, I trusted in everyone's judgement and left most of the decisions up to them and it totally worked! The flowers were beautiful, the food was delicious and the cake...oh, the cake was the best! It was so good and Andrew loved his surprise cowboy groom's cake! Tracie did my hair all beautiful and cinched me into my dress just in time to take family pictures! The photography turned out incredible so thank you everyone for standing around and posing for 2 hours in the hot sun! The pictures made it all worth it! After family pictures we stood in line for a bit then cut the cake, threw the bouquet and we were out of there! Andrew is amazing! He was my rock the entire time, when I would start to get stressed he would save the day and figure everything out. I am so grateful to be married to such a wonderful man and my bestest friend! He is so sweet and always puts a smile on my face! We have had so many wonderful adventures together and I am so excited for what is to come! I love you sweetie!
yay for blogging! I love the recap of your wedding! It was so beautiful!


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A Record Year for Rainfall, Chapter 2
A Record Year for Rainfall is my second book, originally published in 2011.
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Please note that the subject matter in this novel can be pretty graphic.
Bret imagined flashes, heard screams. His eyes stayed closed, his hands clasped shut, white-knuckle cold. The scream of militant orders. The commands barked by a tired, frustrated man filled with the most poison.
"I don't want to just put on the table that we're getting into face-raping territory," the man exclaimed. "But anyone not pulling their own on this one is getting it from me. It will not be voluntary, and it will be in the front part of the head where I thought your eyes were, and it will be a sovereign nation with a foreign policy and zoning bylaws. And it will be my cock."
Bret didn't know how he got himself into these situations, sometimes.
Bret imagined flashes. Bulbs. The old kind, that exploded over a camera, the kind that helped produce that sepia effect, that burn. The crack sound of a dozen of them going off in the face of a scandal. The crisp nightmare crackle of lightning on a forrest.
The voice continued firing orders at other soldiers. "Deaner! I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you're three seconds away from receiving my rifle up your ass. Strafe! Jump and shoot! Jump and shoot! And…you're dead. You're better off. You still there? Good. I want you to hear how little your carcass mattered."
Bret laid there pretending to sleep because he feared the decisions that came with the new day. Bret and Album had gotten themselves into a mess. Album had found a way to profit. Bret hadn't. Album had been celebrating a great victory. Bret hadn't.
Bret imagined flashes. He pictured sirens, cuffs, strong-armed silent brutes in the night, hauling him away.
Album's low-toned growls continued at a leopard's pace. He screamed, "Everyone move! Move move move! I don't want to shoot my own men but if y'all don't get over the barrier in time I will turn every last one of you into carpets!"
Bret breathed deep. He tried to fall back to sleep. But he knew it wasn't going to happen. Today was happening. Decisions had to be made. This vacation from real life, this glittering city he'd come to for escape, was entirely too over.
"That's it!" Album screamed. "You're all off my team. Fuck you, you're sorry. Sorry doesn't win flags, does it? The whole thing's tits up. To hell with this goddamn mission."
Bret saw only black, but he heard everything.
Album threw down his controller, hitting Bret's leg. He sat up, pretending to be startled.
"Shit, brother," Album said, picking it back up.
That was the last moment before he had to admit every rotten thing.
Eyes open, eyebrows up, head cocked, Bret said, "Don't worry about it. Sorry you didn't win."
"The hell you have to be sorry for?" Album said. "You Canadians, man. Apologizing for everything ever done."
"It's a tick," Bret sleepily replied, remembering for the first time in months he didn't really belong here.
Bret took a look around from his spot on Album's old, beat-up grey couch. The fabric felt coarse and used, like he brought it in from the street. He'd sat in this room dozens of times but never slept here, and the view in the morning was strikingly different. Sunlight actually penetrated through the blinds, coating everything in a dusty layer. It was never a temple, but for the first time it became obvious to Bret just how filthy Album's place was. Piles of burned DVDs stacked crooked up against a bookshelf full of computer manuals and get-rich-quick volumes. A couple cases of Diet Coke held up a pancake platter of dead laptops Album didn't have the heart to recycle. The TV was fogged in dust, but you'd never know it from the way Album played. The game was held in the main menu, waiting patiently for Album to pick up the discarded camouflage-green controller.
Bret had slept in his jeans, but not his shirt. It was sitting lazily folded on the coffee table beside him. There was a pile of porn magazines from 1998. Beside those were half-used candles, a ribbon, and an unraveled coat hanger. Bret sleepily thought, "what would MacGyver do?"
Bret tried to find positives.
Album ripped the headset microphone from his ear. "And how are we doing this morning?" He asked.
"I hate you," Bret replied. "I hate everything I've done for you."
"You don't hate me," Album replied. "Okay, you might hate me. But you can't hate everything I've made you do. I've got you into so many great parties."
Bret slipped in, "You've me tossed out of so many great parties."
"That's the gig, my friend. Nobody ever said you'd be popular. But you can't say there haven't been perks."
"The dames," Album poked Bret with his elbow.
"Don't say dames," Bret said. He put on his shirt. He stood up and stretched.
Album leaned down and grabbed his smokes off the cola-stained coffee table and headed towards his balcony. Bret followed him out. He was met with warm, dry air. The desert air made him feel like he was on another planet.
He looked down at the radioactive land.
Album lit a smoke and said, "I've got to find a new place. The view is shit and I think I'm beginning to get away with health code violations."
Bret asked, "How long has that pizza been in your recycling bin?"
"That's what I mean," Album said. "I'm obviously too much of a child to clean up after myself. I need the sort of place where they'll kick me out if I'm this awful."
"You could just hire a maid. They have those, you know. For money."
"This is a thought. Still, though. I've got some real cash burning. New apartment-sized cash. This has been a good quarter."
Bret said, "Lots of scumbags doing scumbag things."
"We're like Peter Parker, you know? Taking out the bad guys."
"Sure," Bret said. "You go ahead and pretend that what we do is good."
"I sure as fuck will," Album said.
Bret smoked in general, he wasn't smoking now. Instead he looked out, saw a highway, his eyed focused, trying to see something in the cars zooming away. He felt the concrete on his fingers of the balcony ledge, and dug in, making his fingernails sore with the pressure.
"I've got to get out of here," he said.
Album laughed. "Good. I've got a gig for you."
"No," Bret said.
"It's an easy one," Album said. "It'll get you out of the house. Get your mind off things."
Bret winced. "I mean, I need to get out of here." He pointed down, off the balcony, towards the restless city. "I've got to accept the fact that this was all one giant mistake. Pick up, go home, and get back to my regular life. It wasn't as bad as all this."
Album flicked his cigarette off the balcony. He went back inside. "tsst."
Bret followed, and thought about what he'd just said. It had been over a year since he'd packed up and drove south for a breather.
"I think you're making a big mistake thinking like that," Album said. "You're just a little spooked from all the drama. It's natural. Do a couple small jobs and you'll forget all about it."
Album sat down at his computer, opened up his email.
"Besides," he said. "You're fucking good at this. It would be such a waste to let some two-bit hack with an expensive dick around his neck replace you."
Bret shook his head. It had been over a year.
"Look," Bret said. "I get that I'm good. But haven't you ever been really good at something you can't stand? It kills me a little bit every day."
add in a further argument here. It needs to go another 400 words, and album needs to really convince Bret. Maybe take out the part where Bret agrees. Hang the scene on album convincing Bret. But it's too short right now.
"Here, I've got a fun one for you," Album said, ignoring Bret by pointing to a rumour website. "Dawson."
"I've shot her before," Bret sighed. "What's she up to now?"
Album clicked around his email and RSS feeds. "Preggers, apparently."
"No problem," Bret said. "I just need to do a few things first."
Album found a story refuting the rumour. "It's not a problem either way. Either we get the shot of her with a food baby and give people the photo op, or we get her with nothing and refute everyone. It's a win-win day for us. Now get out of here. I've got more idiots to kill."
Bret opened the door with keys he felt he probably shouldn't own anymore. This kind of drama? This was key-returning drama. The events of the last week would have, in any real relationship, required a public space and a box of mementos, leafing through with fingers, wondering why the other person ever thought enough to organize such a pile. Bret pictured such a box. It didn't have much he couldn't burn and leave on the side of the highway.
And yet not only had Jenny not called for such a meeting, she hadn't even kicked him out. She had needed a few days, and he'd made camp at Album's, but the key had never been summoned. He was never texted with the address of a neutral, empty bar.
Jenny was there. Bret heard the clinking of dishes in the kitchen. She was cleaning up, and hadn't heard the door. He shuffled along, hoping to get a glimpse of her before she saw him and the story moved forward. He hadn't a damn clue what was about to happen, and a single moment of calm would have been nice to hold onto. But she saw him the second he got close enough, through the opening between the island and the ceiling cupboard. The look on her face was not unsympathetic.
"Hey," Bret said, waving.
Jenny stopped the sink, dried her hands on a brown cloth towel. She rung it and slipped it through a ring hanging from a cupboard. Through all this, she kept her eyes on him. Jenny moved around the island and came inches from his face. Her upper two teeth bit the fat middle of her upper lip. One eyebrow raised, then another. Bret waited for a reply, studied her eyes for clues. They were iron, grey, and straightforward.
Jenny grabbed a handful of Bret's tshirt and pulled him forward. The kiss was violent. Jenny inhaled loudly, as she always did when she kissed first. Bret waited for the exhale to step back and open his eyes again.
"I…" He began to say, but she stopped him. She put her hands on his shoulders and kissed him again, as if to say, "shut the fuck up, idiot. I'm not okay with you and I'm not okay with this. But this is what I want to do right now and don't fucking question it."
At least, that's what he took it as. They moved to the couch. Shirts were thrown. Jenny's nailed dug into Bret's chest, leaving white marks where the blood recessed.
Jenny undressed on top of Bret. Her eyes stayed open, as if to say, "I'm conscious of this, motherfucker. This isn't a drunk girl with no idea. I am awake to what's happening, and what's happening is my decision. You have so little to do with this, but you need to be here."
Jenny held tight to Bret's neck. It hurt him. He should have said something. It would hurt the next day, but even then he wouldn't regret it. The pain warming his upper spine was no match for maintaining the filthy moment.
As Jenny uncorked Bret's jeans, he calculated the fucked-wrong math: The only reason Jenny was ever in his life was because she hated what he did. That he was effectively ruined her career was the death of all resistance. She shut that out with the expertise of a psychopath, and Bret never knew just how conflicted she was. As she removed the last of their clothes, she had only a small flicker of sadness- manifest only in the sweat on her forehead, tiny drips of regret, surrender, and loathing.
Jenny wasn't complicated. What Jenny was doing with Bret wasn't complicated. Sometimes you love what you're supposed to hate. Sometimes you love what you say you hate. Sometimes you don't get to decide who you love. Sometimes you don't get to decide what gets you off. Sometimes you'd just better wish it's out there, that you can get your hands on it, that they don't lock you away for enjoying it, and that there's still a little bit of you left after it's all over.
Jenny bit Bret's lip, came, bit harder, and finally let go. The wound would last a week. She collapsed on him, and they lay on the couch, still together, rabid heartbeat on rabid heartbeat. Breathing slowed. Bret held Jenny in a close embrace, his arms wrapping her whole, his fingers rubbing her back in slow, irregular circles.
Bret knew that Jenny compartmentalized him, placed him firmly in the gullies of her mind, away from the decisions to go to college, to work for Reggie, to give to charity and build houses in South America in the summer of 04. He was never sure what his neighbors were.
Jenny inhaled heavily, pushed herself up and off Bret. She found her clothes, and let him watch her put them all back on.
As if he'd only shown up, she said, "I'm going to need your key."
Bret squinted up at her. He felt heavy, and had to really push to roll off the couch. He zipped up. His shirt hung off the back of the couch. He slipped it on. Reaching inside back pocket, he took out his keychain. It only had two keys—the other started his car. He fumbled with the metal circle. Bret bit his nails, which made intricate things like jewelry and keychains difficult and somewhat painful. This one certainly hurt.
He dropped the key in her hand.
"Are we done?" He asked.
Jenny bit the inside edge of her mouth. She shrugged.
"What was that about?" He wanted to ask. He wanted to go into it right then. He wanted to fight the notion that she wanted him out because she was beginning to see how poisonous their relationship had been to the both of them. But he didn't, because he was beginning to see it too. But only beginning to.
Bret's car had desert stains on the bottom and sides. Every part of the bottom few inches of the white exterior shows rough, aged orange, as if it was dipped a quarter way into sulphur. It was an aught Civic with a few too many crumpled fast food bags under the seats from a few too many late night stakeouts.
Tess had called the day the photo hit the papers. She saw Album's name in the article and knew that Bret was responsible. She wanted to see if he was all right. They had talked for a few minutes, but both were shit on the phone. Tess told him to come over on the weekend. She promised him a Ceasar with actual Clammato juice, smuggled by a friend from Red Deer.
Other than the phone call, Bret hadn't talked to Tess since Christmas. Considering their circles, it was wild they hadn't run into one another. Considering their history, it was wilder neither buckled and booty called.
Bret didn't particularly want to talk about Album or Jenny or even the Governor. He just wanted to sit and listen to Tess talk about her week, which had few chances in any hell of being worse than his. He was happy they were talking again after so long.
As he drove across town, he didn't notice the city at all. He'd become so used to the sights that they ceased becoming sights. They were just surroundings. That overhanging camera that shoots over Las Vegas in every movie, the one that makes the city seem seductive and in permanent darkness, that's not at all what Bret saw. Mostly, he saw a half-assed attempt at a beat up town. Shack-style convenience stores. Dilapidated houses that, in a few years, would be bulldozed and replaced by more strip malls carrying cheap tshirts and phone cards. More and more, Las Vegas was turning into any other American city. Only the funny laws and shiny hotels gave it any semblance of distinction.
Bret stopped at a red light. Surrounded by late afternoon traffic, Bret lit up a cigarette, dragged slowly on it, and hung his arm out the window, the cigarette hanging from two fingers.
Beside him, an SUV with a ten year old in the passenger lane idled. The parent, an out of shape father, in the driver's side, he sees the cigarette smoke billowing up between the two cars. His windows are rolled down. Bret wasn't paying attention to anything but the light and the fact that the street sign has been cut in half, labelling the intersection "..den st." The father, he piped up.
"Hey, fucker, keep your cancer away from my kid!"
The light went green, and the idling SUV sped off ahead of Bret. He didn't get a chance to get a word in. It was a frustrating moment for Bret. Not because he hadn't done anything wrong per se, but because he was so quickly insulted and forgotten. It was an emotion he was in touch with, but never seemed to get used to. He sat there, mouth half-open, waiting for the chance to turn.
Tess' apartment building was next to brand new. It went up 30 floors and had a doorman and a gym and pool. As Bret waited for her to respond to the intercom, a woman in her thirties exited the door in her skin-tight workout clothes and a dog in her purse.
The scratchy, barely audible sound of Tess came through the speaker. "Hey?"
"It's me," Bret said. He heard the door unlock.
In the elevator, Bret sulked against the glass walls. He could see his reflection in every angle. His eyes were sunken. He looked older than he should have. The sun has been unkind to his skin, turned him leathery in his twenties.
Bret knocked on the door. It took a moment, but he heard rustling from the other end. The door opened, and there she was.
Tess was a shining spectacle of unfair standards. She was the kind of girl you crossed on the street and cursed. They shouldn't make girls as pretty as Tess. Her perfectly straight Korean black hair framed a face you couldn't beat with photoshop. Unlike Bret, who appeared crisped by the heat, Tess was still pearly white. Her black, reflective eyes beamed at him, both with nostalgia and a little suspicion. He had no idea how she did it.
"Hey," she said. "I have someone over right now. But I'll shoo her out."
Tess lived in a boutique apartment with two small levels. As she climbed the stairs to the living room, Bret slowly followed behind, noticing that her worst habit hadn't been helped. Tess was a promo girl, and constantly took home grab bags, and she had a problem with throwing any of it away. Bret took stock of the clutter as he climbed. Next to the overpopulated shoe rack were three stacks of fashion magazines—all the same issue. On top of the magazines were gift bags, full of unopened trinkets. A cheap ipod knockoff sat on top of one of them, still sealed in plastic. Further down the hall were piles of clear bags with tiny freebies. Signed copies of Rush Hour 3 on HD DVD. Sample sizes of the new Dior. Packets of mystery-scent candles and gum.
The living room was no better. Several blankets covered a leather couch. The coffee table was covered in magazines, plates, glasses, and cigarette packs. As far as Bret knew, Tess didn't smoke. Maybe she'd started.
In one of the corner chairs sat a brunette. Like most people, she was taller than Tess. Fake-tanned and bejeweled, she was more made up, too. She looked ready to go out on the town in her green summer dress and black heels. The girl stood and purposefully strode toward Tess and Bret.
Tess said, "This is Trice. Trice, this is Bret."
They shook hands. As their hands clasped, Trice squinted. Then, her hand squeezed Bret's and held tight. She smirked, and took a half-step back, still holding onto his hand. She made that face girls make when they can't believe what's been placed in front of them. Guys don't have this face, and don't have a name for it. Bret didn't see that Trice's other hand was clenching into a fist.
The first punch landed on the right side of Bret's nose. It wasn't the hardest Bret had ever been hit, but it stunned him through sheer surprise. He'd never been punched while off the job. The second punch landed harder, and drew blood from the nostril. Bret stepped back and stumbled. He dropped to a knee. That's when she began to kick.
"Bastard! You fucker!" Trice screamed, flailing her legs, her shins only somewhat blocked by his hands. Shots got through. Drops of blood were left on her boots.
Tess stood in shock, then did her best to pull Trice away. "The hell's the matter with you?" She yelled, trying to get through.
Tess grabbed the backs of Trice's arms and yanked her back, giving Bret a chance to breath. Tess turned Trice around and came between her and her blood friend.
"What the fuck, Trice?"
"Of all people," Trice said, beginning to tremble. "Of all people, you'd understand. You're friends with this asshole?"
Bret stood, wiped his nose with his hand, spreading blood on his skin and shirt. He coughed, and asked, "Is this about the campaign?"
Trice stood straight and cocked her head, her brow furrowed mean. "Fuck you, scumarazzi."
"Oh," Bret coughed. "This is about something else."
"Come on Trice," Tess said. "Let's leave him alone for now." She turned to Bret. She did her best to appear apologetic. "I'll be right back, okay? Go get cleaned up."
Trice backed into the stairs and backed down. She left without turning her back, without really blinking. Tess followed her, closing the door behind her, mouthing "I'm sorry" to Bret as she disappeared with her friend.
Bret blinked. He opened his mouth wide, trying to survey the damage without having to look at it. He could feel every artery in his body. His face pulsed with adrenaline.
He touched his nose. It wasn't broken. Through red-tinted eyes, he stumbled over to Tess' bathroom and turned on the light. The counter around the sink was so full of sample-sized perfumes, he didn't even know where to start looking for aid. He looked under the sink for some cotton swabs. He found a few in a ziplock bag, and began dabbing the blood from under his nose. He held his head up. He held the bridge of his nose, and watched himself in the mirror. He looked like a poor idiot, a sad punk. He'd just been beaten up by a girl he'd never met, without any explanation, in the middle of the day.
The worst part was, even though he hadn't a goddamn clue why it happened, he knew it was definitely his fault.
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On Tuesday, January 22, 2019, the San Jose City Council will consider the public purchase of lands in Coyote Valley at a special study session. The council will therefore have an opportunity to protect a significant cultural landscape in perpetuity. The Greenbelt Alliance and other advocacy groups will host a rally outside City Hall today, aimed at urging the City Council to purchase land in the valley's northern section. In the November 2018 election, voters passed 'Measure T', an infrastructure bond that approved up to $50 million to protect green infrastructure in the 7,400-acre Coyote Valley. The money can be used to invest in resiliency measures, public safety, and land acquisition for flood and water quality protection. One of the last significant pieces of open space in Northern California's San Francisco Bay Area, Coyote Valley has been continually threatened by urban sprawl since the 1980s when it was first designated for industrial development. The recently approved bond measure would potentially reverse the city's decades-old industrial policy, allowing it to embrace sustainability.
Urban and industrial sprawl has been the major concern in Coyote Valley for decades. According to the Greenbelt alliance, a San Francisco-based advocacy group founded in 1958, more than half the valley is at risk of being developed. The city's general plan has long considered the 1,400-acre North Coyote Valley (from Tulare Hill to just south of Bailey Avenue) ideal for industrial development, while the 2,000-acre Mid-Valley (from just south of Bailey Avenue to Palm Avenue) was designated an urban reserve and the 3,600-acre South Coyote Valley (from Palm Avenue to Morgan Hill) is protected greenbelt.
In 1999 the North Coyote Valley narrowly escaped being converted into the massive Coyote Valley Research Park, and in 2007 the Dahlin Group floated a master plan for a new town between San Jose and the bordering city of Morgan Hill. Facing unprecedented public criticism from myriad organizations and individuals and 28 public agencies, the plan has since been terminated. San Jose is the only city in Santa Clara County that allows developers to select the environmental consultants who evaluate the impacts of their proposed projects. Proactive environmental groups have, however, managed to protect the valley, purchasing large parcels of land in the area to prevent the critical wildlife corridor from being lost.
Historically characterized by five major habitat types and containing Laguna Seca (one of the largest wetlands in the Bay Area), the valley was part of the ancestral lands of the Amah Mutsun and Muwekma Ohlone people until Spanish colonization in the 1700s. Now forming the southern edge of the city, just below Silicon Valley, and comprising wetlands, wildflower meadows, ranches, and working farmlands, Coyote Valley provides some 2,500 acres of floodplain that mitigates flooding and is crucial to Silicon Valley's groundwater aquifer. Linking the Santa Cruz Mountains in the west and the Diablo Range to the east, the valley is also an essential wildlife corridor for mountain lions, bobcats, American badgers, gray fox, coyotes, the western burrowing owl, and other fauna, some of which are critically endangered.
In the wake of the 2017 storms, both Anderson Dam and Coyote Creek overflowed, causing the evacuation of 14,000 people and $100 million in property damage. With the onslaught of extreme weather due to climate change, the floodplains provide a critical line of defense for the city. TCLF added Coyote Valley to its Landslide program in 2017, including the landscape as one of a handful of sites featured in its Landslide 2017: Open Season on Open Space.


In the left navigation pane, go to Call Routing > Call Routing Table > Entry.
Select the check box next to the entry you wish to enable.
Click the Enable ( ) icon at the top of the table.
Select the check box next to the entry you wish to disable.
Click the Disable ( ) icon at the top of the table.
Click the Create Routing Entry ( ) icon.
Specifies the admin state of the Call Route. Valid entry: Enable (enables the call route entry for routing the call, displays in configuration header as ) or Disable (disables the call route entry from being used, displays in the configuration header as ).
Priority of the route from 1 (highest) to 10 (lowest).
Higher priority routes are matched against before lower priority routes regardless of the order of the routes in the table.
Call Priority is used for emergency (911) calls in the U.S. and other countries. This field is used if the Priority header is not received in the ingress SIP INVITE and for PSTN interfaces. The default value is Normal. When integrating with E911 providers, Priority may have to be set to Emergency.
Specifies the Transformation Table to be used for this routing entry. This drop down list is populated from the entries in the Transformation Table.
Select an optional time of day table to use with the call route. All Time of Day tables are included in this drop down list. For details on Time of Day, refer to Working with Time of Day.
Specifies the destination type for calls using this route. Valid selections: Normal, Registrar Table, Deny, or Trunk Group.
Normal. Call routes to normal types such as ISDN or SIP signaling groups. Specify a list of signaling groups through Destination Signaling Groups.
Registrar Table. Call routes to a signaling group that contains the registrar table.
Deny. Call routes to a specific Q.850 cause code are rejected. Through the Deny Q.850 Cause Code field, select the specific Q.850 Cause code. When Deny is selected, the Deny Q.850 Cause Code field is displayed.
Trunk Group. Calls are routed to an incoming trunk group destination using the associated signaling group. This routing entry should be selected in order to route calls to a trunk group. When Trunk Group is selected, Fork Call and Destination Signaling Groups options are not available.
Specifies the Q.850 Cause Code for which the call is rejected. Select from the drop down list. This field is displayed only when Deny is selected as Destination Type.
Specifies which Message Translation Table to use.
Specifies which Cause Code Reroute table to use.
Specifies whether or not forked calls should clear when one of the forked calls is forwarded.
Specifies the Signaling Groups used as the destination of calls.
The first operational Signaling Group from the list will be chosen to place the call.
This field presents a multi-select widget when the Add/Edit button is clicked.
Enables a maximum time (set in the Maximum Call Duration field) in which a call can stay in the connected state. This field provides another safeguard against stuck calls (i.e., if a call is up for two days and most likely not meant to stay connected).
Valid entry: Enabled (any call using that particular call route will disconnect after the configured duration in the connected state) or Disabled (default).
The maximum time (in minutes) in which a call can stay in the connected state. This field is available only when Enable Maximum Call Duration is set to Enabled. Valid entry: 1 - 10080 minutes.
To use DSP resources, (due to transcoding, Lync interoperability, etc.) select DSP mode.
For SIP-to-SIP calls using Proxy, select Proxy mode.
To use the same call routes where the inbound call route could be both TDM/SIP, select Proxy preferred over DSP.
To use DSP resources, rather than proxy or switch media stream between endpoints, use DSP preferred over Proxy.
DSP (default entry). The SBC uses DSP resources for media handling (transcoding) but it does not facilitate the capabilities/features between endpoints that are not supported within the SBC (codec/capability mismatch). When DSP is configured, the Signaling Groups enabled to support DSP are attempted in order. To enable a Signaling Group for DSP mode, see Creating and Modifying SIP Signaling Groups.
Proxy. The SBC will proxy or switch the media stream between endpoints and let the endpoints negotiate common media capabilities and handle unsupported/unknown audio codecs. The media flows through the SBC without using DSP resources. For example, this mode is used when both inbound and outbound calls are SIP and both Signaling Groups are enabled for Proxy mode. If one Signaling Group has Proxy mode disabled or one of the inbound Signaling Groups is TDM, the call is rejected. Route configuration does not allow Destination Signaling Groups of TDM type if Stream Mode is set to Proxy. The failover mechanism can then be used to re-route to another Signaling Group. We strongly recommend using Proxy preferred over DSP mode since it allows the same routing entry with different Signaling Groups.
DSP preferred over Proxy. The SBC prefers to use DSP resources, rather than proxy or switch the media stream between endpoints. This mode is chosen during the call setup based on the call routing, and used for call routes where the inbound call route is both TDM and/or SIP (this avoids duplicate call routes). If the inbound Signaling Group is a SIP Signaling Group not enabled for DSP, then Proxy is used. NOTE: If RTP encryption/decryption is expected, it is necessary to set the Proxy SRTP Handling field to 'Local', so that encryption/decryption is supported when switching to proxy.
Proxy preferred over DSP. The SBC prefers to proxy the media stream between endpoints rather than choosing DSP mode (which uses the DSP resource). This mode is chosen during the call setup based on the call routing result, and used for call routes where the inbound call route is both TDM and/or SIP (this avoids duplicate call routes). If the inbound or outbound Signaling Group is NOT in Proxy mode (either SIP signaling group is not enabled for Proxy mode or Signaling Group is TDM), then DSP is used.
Direct: The SBC media flows directly between compatible end-points without using either the SBC processor or a DSP resource.
Disabled. The Audio/Fax media selection process is disabled. When Disabled is selected, the SBC will reject incoming Audio/Fax streams.
Media Mode enables you to choose how the SBC handles call signaling and Video/Application media stream during a call.
Proxy. The SBC will proxy the media stream between endpoints. The media flows through the SBC without requiring DSP resources. For example, this mode is used when an inbound SIP call includes Video/Application streams and both inbound and outbound SIP Signaling Groups are enabled for Proxy mode. If one Signaling Group has Proxy mode disabled, the stream is disabled. If the outbound Signaling Group is TDM, the call will be connected using Audio/Fax media only and Video/Application media stream will be rejected.
Disabled. The Video/Application Stream Mode is disabled. The SBC will not proxy or switch media stream between endpoints.
Available for SBC SWe only.
SIP Media Session and SIP Proxy Media Encryption licenses are required for this functionality.
The Proxy SRTP Handling option applies SRTP media encryption to a call; this enables communication between end points that are SRTP incompatible. For example, this enables communication if both Calling and Called user agents both support G.711u codec, but they differ in SRTP capability, or one party in the call does not support SRTP at all. Valid entries: Relay or Local. Default: Relay.
This field is displayed only when Proxy, DSP preferred over Proxy, or Proxy preferred over DSP is selected from the Audio Stream Mode drop down list.
For Proxy. Proxy or switches the media stream between endpoints.
For DSP Preferred over Proxy. Uses DSP resources, rather than proxy or switch the media stream between endpoints.
Proxy deferred over DSP. Proxies the media stream between endpoints rather than choosing DSP mode.
Proxy local SRTP. Proxies or switches the media stream between endpoints using SRTP media encryption on a call leg basis.
DSP Preferred over Proxy local SRTP. Uses DSP resources in addition to SRTP media encryption, rather than proxy or switch the media stream between endpoints..
Proxy Local SRTP over DSP. Proxies the media stream between endpoints rather than choosing DSP mode and uses SRTP media encryption).
Specifies whether or not to use media transcoding.
Media Transcoding requires a specific Transcoding License. Do not enable Media Transcoding unless your calling configuration requires it and SBC Edge is licensed for the Transcoding feature.
If Media Transcoding is enabled without a Transcoding license, a critical alarm is generated regardless of whether or not the routed calls require transcoding.
Transcoding must be enabled on SIP-to-SIP calls.
Specifies the Media List to use for this call route. This drop down list is populated with the Media List entries created through the Create Media list option. See Creating and Modifying Media Lists.
If the Media List configuration selected, then the Destination Signaling Group would be selected that has the common media set available. The media order from the call route's media list takes precedence over the Signaling Group's media list. Generally this field should be kept the default value "None" unless the media codec selection has to be controlled and manipulated for this route.
Specifies the number of calls over which the quality metrics are calculated.
Specifies the period of time in minutes after which a route is tried again after failing quality metrics.
Specifies the minimum answer/seizure ratio for this rule to be considered for use.
The ASR is a measure of network quality defined by the ITU. The answer/seizure ratio (ASR) is a measurement of network quality and call success rate in telecommunications. It is the percentage of answered telephone calls with respect to the total call volume.
The answer/seizure ratio is defined as 100 times the ratio of sucessfully answered calls divided by the total number of call attempts (seizures).
Busy signals and other rejections by the called number count as call failures. This makes the ASR highly dependent on end-user action or behavior and is out of control by the telecommunications carrier. Low ASR values may be caused by far-end switch congestion, not answering by called parties and busy destination lines.
The Min. MOS score provides an option to allow the SBC to temporarily enable/disable a route that is having bad voice quality.
Enabled. A MOS score for quality purposes is added to each call using that specific route. The Quality Metrics Number of Calls field is used to determine the average acceptable value; if the average of acceptable calls falls below, it is considered bad voice quality and the route is then temporarily disabled for calls. The Quality Metrics Time Before Retry field is used when the route is disabled for failing metrics to determine how long before the route is retried.
Disabled. Min. MOS Score feature is disabled and all call routes are enabled.
Specifies whether or not to use Round Trip Delay.
In telecommunications, the round-trip delay time (RTD) or round-trip time (RTT) is the length of time it takes for a signal to be sent plus the length of time it takes for an acknowledgment of that signal to be received. This time delay therefore consists of the transmission times between the two points of a signal.
Where ? is constant weighting factor(0 ? ? < 1). Choosing a value ? close to 1 makes the weighted average immune to changes that last a short time (e.g., a single segment that encounters long delay). Choosing a value for ? close to 0 makes the weighted average respond to changes in delay very quickly.
This was improved by the Jacobson/Karels algorithm, which takes standard deviation into account as well. Once a new RTT is calculated, it is entered into the equation above to obtain an average RTT for that connection, and the procedure continues for every new calculation.
Specifies the maximum average round trip (R/T) delay for this rule to be considered for use.
Specifies whether or not Jitter will be considered as a quality metric for this Call Route.
Jitter is the undesired deviation from true periodicity of an assumed periodic signal in electronics and telecommunications, often in relation to a reference clock source. Jitter may be observed in characteristics such as the frequency of successive pulses, the signal amplitude, or phase of periodic signals. Jitter is a significant, and usually undesired, factor in the design of almost all communications links (e.g., USB, PCI-e, SATA, OC-48).
Jitter period is the interval between two times of maximum effect (or minimum effect) of a signal characteristic that varies regularly with time. Jitter frequency, the more commonly quoted figure, is its inverse. ITU-T G.810 classifies jitter frequencies below 10 Hz as wander and frequencies at or above 10 Hz as jitter.
Jitter may be caused by electromagnetic interference (EMI) and crosstalk with carriers of other signals. Jitter can cause a display monitor to flicker, affect the performance of processors in personal computers, introduce clicks or other undesired effects in audio signals, and loss of transmitted data between network devices. The amount of tolerable jitter depends on the affected application.
Specifies the maximum average jitter for this rule to be considered for use.


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Canadian Sculptors
Sculpting has long held tradition in Canada, going back to pre-European settlement era. Modern Canada has a number of world-famous sculptures. These include the Famous Five in Parliament Hill, the Big Toonie in Ontario, and the popular Guaranteed Pure Milk Bottle sculpture in Quebec. The Canadian sculptors who engage in such exquisite work are also quite famous all over the world.
Famous Canadian Sculptors
Canada has a number of sculptors, including First Nation ones, who have made enormous contributions to the craft in and out of the country. Here is a list of some of them:
Louis Jobin
Jobin was one of the earliest known sculptors of post-settlement Canada. He showcased his work in the late 1800s. He's most notable as a pioneer of traditional wood sculpture, which he mastered. Art historians consider his death to be the death of traditional wood sculpture as well. When fellow artists were mastering bronze carving, Jobin carved on wood and ice. In 1880 while working in Québec City, Jobin carved neogothic statues at the church of St-Henri in Lévis. He also created floats for the parade of St. Jean Baptise. These works are preserved to this day and exhibit the artist's genius. During the Québec winter carnivals, Jobin was one of the original ice carvers. Late in his career, he took up religious wood sculpture, trying to carve bronze-style statues from the material. He died in 1928, but the wood carving tradition he promoted resonates to this day.
Florence Wyle
This American-born sculptor is one of the best known in Canada, and also the somewhat founder of the Sculptors' Society of Canada. Wyle got her initial training in sculpting in Chicago, where she met fellow sculptor and lifelong partner Frances Loring, with whom she moved to Canada. Though Wyle began her studies to become a medical doctor, she ended up perfecting the art of bronze sculpting. Her work was known for their realism and attention to detail. Most of her well-known sculptures are inspired by Classical Greek art. Later in her career, she experimented with abstract and heavily stylized sculptures of the human body. Today, she is known as one of Canada's finest academic sculptors.
Michel de Broin
Michel de Broin is possibly one of the best recognized Canadian sculptors working today. In Canada, he is famous for his many public artworks displayed in parks and similar public places throughout the country. His most famous work is perhaps the Salvador Allende monument displayed in Montreal. His work is highly modern, stylized, and somewhat abstract. De Broin is known for developing an interdisciplinary approach to sculpting, which pushes the limits of existing techniques for sculpting. His work reflects criticism of existing social systems, as well as some humour and playfulness. His sculptures encompass the themes of energy and resistance to it. As a modern sculptor, he has a multimedia approach to his work, often using audio, video, drawing, photography, and performance to enhance his works. He has said that conceptual art is his main inspiration.
E. B. Cox
Elford Bradley (E.B.) Cox is one of the most easily recognised Canadian artist names in the world. In Canada, he is considered the country's foremost stone sculptor. Many of his works are on public display in Canada, even a decade after his death. He is renowned for his ability to mix native sculpting techniques with European ones. As a result, he was called the "great bridge" between traditional and modern art in twentieth century Canada. His sculpted for more than 50 years. His many stone, metal, and glass monuments are now seen in Canada's schools, government buildings, churches, libraries, and hotels. In Toronto, guidebooks say that Cox sculpted more works in the city than any other artist. He also has the highest number of sculptures at Exhibition Place – more than any other artist. His most famous work there is the giant limestone bears and the "Youth and the Environment" sculpture. In modern Canada, Cox is perhaps the one artist best known to have inspired the next generation of sculptors.
Sculpting Museums
Here is a list of famous sculpting museums in Canada:
Canadian Sculpture Centre at Ontario Museums
This is a non-profit organization dedicated to appreciating and promoting contemporary sculpture techniques in Canada.
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
Located in Downtown Toronto, Canada's most popular museum has a number of exhibits dedicated to Canadian sculpture.
The Henry Moore Sculpture Centre
Located inside the AGO Art Gallery in Ontario, this centre is solely dedicated to preserving and educating the public about Canadian sculptures.
Canadian Sculptors' Associations
Various artists associations in Canada provide support to Canadian sculptures in terms of artists' education, inspiration, and sometime funding.
Here is a list of such organizations:
Sculptors Society of Canada
Headquartered in Toronto, this is the foremost sculptors' association in Canada that provides supports to artists and hosts exhibitions.
Sculptors' Association of Alberta
Provides support, educates, and promotes the works of sculptors located in the Alberta area. Sculpting has always found a place in Canada and thanks to innovative artists as well as national support, this is a tradition that will continue.
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Less is definitely more, well at least it is trendy to say so. Over the past few years the world has seen a huge movement that involves living with less and challenging each other to do so. Feel up for a challenge? Here are a few ways you can declutter your home.


Every marriage has its secrets. But what if a secret is so big that it might do some serious damage if your kids found out later on? This is the exact situation one dad found himself in when his wife asked him to destroy evidence from her tumultuous past, including items that would reveal she has another daughter. She wanted to make sure their two kids never found out. But he wasn't so sure this was the right thing to do. Instead, he decided to get a little help from an advice column and wrote to Dear Prudence to help him make a call on this tricky situation.
The concerned husband shared that he and his wife had been keeping this secret for years, ever since his wife escaped her abusive first marriage.
According to the dad, his wife had been previously married before they met. The relationship was abusive and to free herself from the situation, his wife left everything behind, including a child and has "never tried to trace or contact her."
"She finds the whole subject very painful, so much so that she waited to tell me until just before our wedding when she could no longer keep the secret," he wrote. "I think she came close to leaving me rather than have to do that."
Even though time has passed, the secret of her first family is still incredibly painful for his wife. "I have respected her pain and kept the secret through over 30 years of marriage. In particular, our kids have no clue their mom was married before or that they have a sister," he wrote.
The only thing that remained of his wife's first marriage was a box full of mementos, which she asked her husband to dispose of so no trace of her past could be found.
"The only evidence was a sealed cardboard box with a few pictures, in our closet," he wrote. "It kept coming along on moves, never opened."
But recently, his wife was thinking about what would happen when they died and realized how awful it would be if their kids came across her box of secrets while packing up the house.
Despite his wife's request to get rid of her box of secrets, the husband said he couldn't help but scan some of the photos before getting rid of the last trace of her daughter. "All of this has me rethinking things," he added. "There's a part of me that thinks our kids should hear it from us, and really from my wife, as I can tell them little beyond the bare facts." However, it would be very painful for him to ask his wife to do this, he realized. "I would love your thoughts on the matter."
As far as Prudence was concerned, the husband had already betrayed his wife's trust.
"Tell your wife that you lied," she advised him. "I can understand that this is a difficult secret to keep and that you feel uncomfortable at the possibility that your children may find out someday." But ultimately it was his wife's decision on how to deal with her past.
But other people online weren't completely sold on Prudence's advice.
One man wrote that he didn't understand why the dad was in the wrong.
She might regret it later, he reasoned.
And others just couldn't wrap their mind around how his wife could leave her child with her abusive ex.
But many agree that they both should come clean: him to his wife and his wife to their children.
If coming clean is really important to the dad, then he should probably have a conversation with his wife before doing anything else to bury her past. There is no way to do this without a little pain, but it's certainly better than making things worse with a secret of his own.


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WEB EXTRA: Timeline of 24-year search for Morgan Nick
Investigators still receive several leads each week on the disappearance of Morgan Nick.
by: Jennifer Peñate
Posted: Dec 23, 2019 / 11:02 AM CST / Updated: Dec 23, 2019 / 11:02 AM CST
ALMA, Ark. (KNWA) — The 1995 abduction of Morgan Nick continues to captivate Arkansas and the nation. Nearly 25 years after the six-year-old's disappearance, her case remains unsolved but far from being closed. To this day, investigators report receiving weekly and sometimes daily tips of possible sightings of Morgan or about potential suspects. The Alma Police Station has a room dedicated to her case filled with thousands and thousands of documents regarding her abduction.
Below is a brief timeline of the Morgan Nick case.
September 12, 1988 – Morgan Nick is born.
September 12, 1994 – Morgan turns 6 years old.
June 9, 1995 – Morgan goes missing. The six-year-old was watching a little league baseball game with her mother – Colleen Nick – at an Alma ball park. As the game was winding down, she left her mom's side to catch fireflies with her friends at a parking lot across from the ball field. The other kids returned to the bleachers but Morgan did not. They told Colleen, she was emptying sand from her shoes near her car. The two children later told police they saw a man next to a red camper truck talking to Morgan. Police have never identified the man despite thousands of leads.
June 9, 1995. Police begin the search for Mogan Nick.
1995: Alma police release a sketch of the suspect and distribute the composite to police stations across the country in hopes of identifying the man. He was described as white, 6 feet tall, with a mustache and a beard. He was believed to be between 23 to 38 years old.
The original composite sketch of the suspect in the Morgan Nick case.
1996: Colleen Nick launches the Morgan Nick Foundation. The non-profit focuses on three categories: intervention, education, and legislation. MNF provides direct support to families of missing children by printing and distributing flyers, working as a liaison with law enforcement, and the media, providing free safety training to prevent abductions, and advocating for legislation to protect children. According to its website, MNF holds an annual conference called Project Hope for families "with long-term missing children."
The Morgan Nick Foundation focuses on abduction prevention, response training, and offers support to families with missing children.
1996: Arkansas changes the name of its child abduction emergency alert to the Morgan Nick Alert System. Arkansas law enforcement agencies are able to activate the system through the Arkansas State Police to warn the public of possible child abductions.
June 9, 1996: The date marks the one-year-anniversary of Morgan's abduction.
1997: The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children releases a progression photo of Morgan at 8-years-old.
The age progression photo of Morgan Nick at 8 years old.
January 4, 2001: Police release a second composite sketch of the suspect after police believe him to be younger than what was initially thought. The new sketch is said to be more accurate.
Police release a new sketch of the suspect in the Morgan Nick case.
February 2001: The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children releases another age progression photo. This one shows Morgan at 12-years-old.
An age progression photo of Morgan at 12 years old.
November 16, 2010: Several agencies including the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations and FBI search a home in Spiro, Okla. Investigators found nothing.
June 9, 2015: The 20th anniversary of Morgan Nick's abduction. Morgan's two playmates who were with her the night of the disappearance talk for the first time in an interview with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The group also releases a photo of her at age 27.
An age-progression photo of Morgan at age 27.
December 18, 2017: OSBI, FBI, and local police agencies search the same location in Spiro which was searched in 2010. After hours of searching a well on the property, investigators found no trace of Morgan.
May 3, 2019: Arkansas becomes the first state to gain national statewide certification for its Child Abduction Response Teams. 190 agencies in Arkansas make up 12 different teams of experts to efficiently respond to potential child abduction.
October 2019: The Morgan Nick Foundation receives the Victim of Crime Assistance Grant to help families of missing adults and hire seven more people to its staff.
The Morgan Nick Foundation expanded in October 2019 to help families search for missing adults.
If you have any information on the Morgan Nick case, contact the Alma Police Department. There is a $60,000 reward offered to anyone with information leading to her recovery and the arrest and conviction of those responsible.


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Usually your connection speed is described with a unit called Mbps (Mega bits per second). It's measured in terms of "bits" rather than "Bytes," hence, the lowercase b reference. And how many bits can move per second is commonly used to measure the speed of internet. 1 Byte consists of 8 bits. So, if you are thinking 10Mbps is the same as 10BM (Megabytes), you are mistaken. In actuality, 10Mbps = 10,000Kbps / 8 = 1,250K Bytes (or 1.25MB).
You might want to review your internet connection by speed testing it in your browser. You can type "speed test" in Google search and find a program to run a test of your computer's connectivity.
ISPs tend to give you faster download speed instead of upload speed. They generally offer options where you can get the same speed for uploads or downloads, but the price may be higher than your regular connection.
There are different types of connections: DSL, Cable, Ethernet, and Fiber. In certain areas, you may have radio and satellite connections.
Most of us are familiar with DSL, Cable and Ethernet. They all transmit over copper cables. Although the delivery methods are different, the speed is not affected by the distance from the ISP's Point of Presence (POP) to your office, however, the signals do get weaker as you get further away. Also, be aware that your internet speed may be slower than what the ISP tells you on paper.
Fiber relies on light instead of electricity to transmit data, which makes it faster, and it does not wear off like the signals over copper do. Unfortunately, Fiber installations are not yet available in all cities and streets so check with your providers to see if they can deliver it for you.
Research your choices for internet connectivity and speed before you purchase. Don't be deceived by how fast technology works on television. You need to ask questions about your connectivity options, especially when it comes to your business.


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When you're trying to decide on somewhere to live, one of the things you'll probably want to consider is what there is to do for fun, right? If you're looking for recreation opportunities in Edmond, Oklahoma you won't be disappointed. The options are endless and there truly is something for everyone.
For those that like solitary activities such as walking in the woods, you'll find plenty of places to do so. And if you prefer activities like swimming or tennis where you interact with others then you'll be happy too.
The lake and surrounding areas provide a vast array of recreation options to enjoy. Whether it's the middle of winter or a beautiful summer day, it's the perfect place to have fun and enjoy the outdoors.
If you like water sports then you're all set to enjoy a day of waterskiing, tubing, and anything else you love to do out on the water. You'll find a boat ramp for easy access to the water and the lake is quite large. This gives you have plenty of space without worrying about running into other boaters.
The activities don't have to stop at the end of the day, you can continue the fun by staying the night at one of the campgrounds. There are full hookups for RV's so you can have all the amenities of home. With it being so close by it's easy to stay at a moment's notice yet still feel like you're having a getaway.
It's a fisherman's paradise at the lake and you can either fish out on a boat in the water or from the shore. If you don't have a boat, there's a heated and covered dock so you can fish year-round and remain warm and sheltered. It's also stocked with a few different types of fish so you should be able to catch something!
When it comes enjoying the area surrounding the lake, there's a trail system with 13 miles of pathways. These are multi-use and shared by people hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding. It's a great place to be active and take in some stunning scenery.
If all of this sounds like the perfect way to spend your leisure time, then you're probably thinking about where you can live that's close to the lake! The Brenton Hills neighborhood is great for families and worth considering for it's easy access to the lake.
If exploring the great outdoors isn't your idea of fun, don't worry! You'll find many different facilities.
to enjoy a variety of sports and other family activities.
On a hot summer day, you can enjoy swimming at Pelican Bay Aquatic Center. You'll find an outdoor pool with waterslides, a climbing wall, and even cabanas to rent for the day. It's a great way to have some summer family fun.
Now for something completely opposite of that, there's the Artic Edge Ice Arena where you can spend time ice-skating or playing hockey. There are open skate times for the family as well as lessons and hockey league skate times.
For tennis lover's there's KickingBird Tennis Center where you can find 11 outdoor courts and 3 indoor courts so it doesn't matter what the weather's like! If you need to brush up on your skills or even start from scratch, there are great tennis programs.
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If you want easy and convenient access to many of these facilities, you may want to explore the Fallbrook neighborhood. Not only will you be close to amenities, there's also a pool, clubhouse, fitness center, and sports court for residents to use.
Along with all of these facilities, there are over 25 parks to enjoy throughout the city. If you don't want to go to a specific facility these places are great to enjoy other sports like soccer or baseball. And if you don't want to play sports just go take the kids to play or have a nice picnic!
There's too many parks to be able to talk about all of them but you'll find a variety of different offerings at each of them. Some of the many different things you'll find are playgrounds, skate parks, disc-golf, basketball courts, and trails.
If you're a dog owner and looking for a nice play to take your dog to play, you'll be happy to know there's a dedicated dog park as well. It's 4 acres in size and even has pond access so they can splash a bit in the water.
Choosing a place to call home and take the plunge buying real estate is a big decision. Having a high-quality of life and great ways to enjoy your leisure time is important. If you're considering Edmond, why not view some current listings available!


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Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Jimmie Dale Gilmore has been writing and playing songs for more than 50 years. His music eludes categorization, blending elements of folk, rock, country, blues and bluegrass. His recordings have earned three Grammy nominations in both Contemporary Folk and Traditional Folk categories and he was named Country Artist of the Year three years running by Rolling Stone Magazine. His high and lonesome vocal style, coupled with sometimes mystical and poetic lyrics, has led to musical brandings such as Sagebrush Soul, Zen Country and Western Beat. Along with Joe Ely and Butch Hancock, Gilmore's legendary band The Flatlanders has been credited as fathers of the Alt-country movement.
Born in Amarillo, Gilmore's musical roots began in Tulia, a small West Texas town where his father played lead guitar in a country band. When Gilmore was in grade school the family moved to Lubbock, known for being the starting point for a surprising number of musicians (including Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, and Gilmore's long-time friends Butch Hancock, Terry Allen and Joe Ely). Gilmore met Hancock when they were both 12, and they have been friends and frequent musical collaborators ever since. Gilmore later met Allen, who he says inspired him to write his own songs. His friend Joe Ely introduced him to the music of Townes Van Zandt, and a few years later Gilmore, Ely and Hancock formed the Flatlanders. The group recorded its first album in Nashville in 1972. Defying categorization turns out not to be the way to start out in Nashville, so the album was released only on 8-track and not promoted. The band went their different ways by the end of that year.
Gilmore joined an Ashram in New Orleans then moved to Denver, worked as janitor in a synagogue, and did not record another album for 16 years. In 1980, Gilmore returned to Austin, where he began playing regular gigs in local clubs. Finally, in 1988, Gilmore released his debut solo album, Fair and Square, produced by Joe Ely on HighTone Records, followed by his 1989 self-titled album, produced by Lloyd Maines. Gilmore was soon signed to Elektra Nonesuch, which released After Awhile, produced by Stephen Bruton, in 1991 as part of the label's American Explorer series. Once again, Nashville showed little interest in Gilmore's brand of country music, but he earned the praise of many critics. He recorded two more Grammy-nominated Elektra albums, Spinning Around the Sun, produced by Emory Gordy, and Braver Newer World, produced by T-Bone Burnett. Gilmore has released two solo albums on the Rounder label, One Endless Night, produced by Buddy Miller, and another grammy-nominated album Come on Back, produced by Joe Ely and honoring the memory of his father, Brian Gilmore. In 2011, Gilmore recorded Heirloom Music, an album of "old-timey" songs in collaboration with the founder of San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Warren Hellman.
Meanwhile, the Flatlanders 1972 album garnered significant critical praise and was re-released in 1990 by Rounder records under the title "More a Legend than A Band". Since their reunion album, Now Again, in 2002 the Flatlanders continue to re-form for song collabaration, tours and albums whenever schedules allow.
These days, Jimmie is still touring, singing and playing music, oftentimes with one or more of the big, beautiful, musical community he feels fortunate to be part of. In 2018, he'll be playing with Dave Alvin, Colin Gilmore, Butch Hancock and Joe Ely (the Flatlanders), Carrie Rodriguez, Ruthie Foster (the Texas Troubadours), Bill Kirchen, Marty Muse (Highway 71), Christine Albert, Chris Gage, and others. He also enjoys leading songwriting workshops, writing songs and occasionally and randomly appearing in movies such as the Big Lebowski, Parkland and The Thing Called Love.
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