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Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
2. Model description
3. Modulating rotational moisture advection
a. MJO sensitivity
b. Basic-state sensitivity
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Causal Evidence that Rotational Moisture Advection is Critical to the Superparameterized Madden–Julian Oscillation
Michael S. Pritchard
Michael S. PritchardUniversity of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Christopher S. BrethertonUniversity of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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DYNAMO/CINDY/AMIE/LASP: Processes, Dynamics, and Prediction of MJO Initiation
https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-13-0119.1
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The authors investigate the hypothesis that horizontal moisture advection is critical to the eastward propagation of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO). Consistent diagnostic evidence has been found in recent MJO-permitting global models viewed from the moisture-mode dynamical paradigm. To test this idea in a causal sense, tropical moisture advection by vorticity anomalies is artificially modulated in a superparameterized global model known to produce a realistic MJO signal. Boosting horizontal moisture advection by tropical vorticity anomalies accelerates and amplifies the simulated MJO in tandem with reduced environmental gross moist stability. Limiting rotational horizontal moisture advection shuts the MJO down. These sensitivities are robust in that they are nearly monotonic with respect to the control parameter and emerge despite basic-state sensitivities favoring the opposite response. Speedup confirms what several diagnostic lines of evidence already suggest—that anomalous moisture advection is fundamental to MJO propagation. The rotational component is shown to be especially critical. Amplification further suggests it may play a role in adiabatically maintaining the MJO.
Corresponding author address: Michael S. Pritchard, 408 Atmospheric Sciences Geophysics (ATG) Building, Box 351640, Seattle, WA 98195-1640. E-mail: mspritch@uw.edu
This article is included in the DYNAMO/CINDY/AMIE/LASP special collection.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/abstract/journals/atsc/71/2/jas-d-13-0119.1.xml


Best Time to Visit Ecuador | Galapagos, Quito, Amazon & more!
Ecuador has a variety of climates and landscapes, so it can be hard to know when is the best time to visit Ecuador is. Like most destinations, it depends on what you would like to do and the regions you would like to see. So let me ask you, where are you hoping to travel to Ecuador? From the Galapagos Islands to Quito and the Amazon, discover the best time to visit Ecuador!
Are you a city person? I know I am! To visit Quito, surrounded by the Andes Mountains in the Highlands, you better have a heads up on the winter season. Winter in the Andes lasts from June – September, with chilly but dry weather. Summer, on the other hand, coincides with the rainy season so you may experience some occasional rain showers. I recommend that you visit the Andes in Ecuador, or Quito, in the dry season from June to September, the temperatures may be slightly lower, but the dry weather makes for the perfect opportunity to see the colonial highlights on a guided city tour!
For travelers headed to the coast of Ecuador, take note that the dry season from late May to November is unbearably cool, and the sky remains a gloomy overcast. That being said, the best time to bask in the sun is from January to April. During these months, the weather is much warmer with sun-kissed mornings and a few rain showers in the afternoon.
If you're dead set on visiting the Galapagos Islands (because really, who wouldn't be?), I have some great news for you. The wildlife in the Galapagos Islands is visible during any time of the year! Now, if you're looking for a particular species or activity, such as baby sea lions being born, there are specific periods of the year when that occurs. For prime boating weather, visit the Galapagos from December to May. During this period you can expect the warmest weather, calm seas, and plenty of visible wildlife. Slap on your Sperry Topsider's and SPF 50, because boating, snorkeling, and swimming are fabulous activities during this time of the year.
Find out more >> What are the Best Galapagos Islands to Visit?
Did you forget that the Amazon Rainforest is part of Ecuador? It's okay if you did, it is only a small sliver of the country. BUT, even the small section of the Amazon, that Ecuador hosts, is full of dense jungle, wildlife and culture. Usually, on vacation, I try to avoid the rain and look for any sign of sun, but when it comes to the Amazon, it rains year-round. Without frequent rain showers, the abundance of bright greenery and exotic animal species would not be present, so let's all remember to thank Mother Nature because while it may be raining, the misty weather is an authentic Amazon experience. However, if you are traveling in the months between December to March, you may experience some slightly drier weather.
The best time to visit Ecuador is from June to August and September to late December.
If you are planning a trip to Ecuador during this time, make sure to book well in advance! However, if you avoid these months, you might be able to encounter lower prices and fewer crowds. The choice is yours, and I'm sure that whatever you choose, will be wonderful!
Want to plan your own dream Ecuador Tour?


I got a chance to appear on the Dorkland! Roundtable last night, along with some industry greats like Jeff Dee of Villains & Vigilantes and Living Legends, Cam Banks of Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, Steve Kenson of Icons, Mutants & Masterminds, and DC Adventures, Chris Rutkowsky of BASH! Aside from some technical issues, it was a great time. Many thanks to Chris Helton of the Dorkland! blog for making it happen!
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 at 2:40 PM.


Nissan Motor Co. will shift some production of its top-selling compact car to India, Thailand and other nations, the company said Friday.
The Nissan March model, and its counterpart Micra model for French alliance partner Renault SA, are now produced in Japan and Great Britain.
Starting in 2010, the model will be produced in India, Thailand and three other nations, company spokeswoman Kana Minamidate said.
But Nissan has not announced production of the March will end in Japan, she said, declining comment on a report Friday in Japan's top business daily The Nikkei that said all domestic March production will be moved to Thailand.
Japan's No. 3 automaker now produces 47,000 March compact cars a year at its Oppama plant near Tokyo for domestic sale.
Moving production to Thailand would take advantage of the surging yen and cut costs by about 30 percent, the Nikkei said.
If that happens, it would mark the first time Nissan – or any major Japanese automaker – has moved domestic production of a best-selling model overseas.
The dollar's plunge to 13-year lows – at below 90 yen lately – has fueled speculation that Japanese automakers may move production overseas to take advantage of it.
The weak dollar has so far proved devastating for the Japanese automakers by diminishing the value of overseas sales when converted into yen.
The U.S. financial crisis, which has squelched auto demand by about a third in the key U.S. market, is also hurting the Japanese carmakers.
On Thursday, Nissan said it was slashing domestic production by 64,000 vehicles in February and March to trim inventories and adjust to a drastic slide in global demand.
That comes on top of earlier production cuts, which now totals 225,000 vehicles. Nissan had initially expected to produce 1.38 million vehicles in Japan for the fiscal year.
On Friday, Honda Motor Co. said it is slashing production in Japan by an additional 56,000 vehicles, trimming its Japan production plans for the fiscal year through March to 1.168 million vehicles – down drastically from an initial 1.31 million.
Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's top automaker, has said it expects its first operating loss in 70 years for the fiscal year ending March 31. It had initially planned to produce 4.21 million vehicles in Japan for the current fiscal year, but has trimmed that to 3.85 million.
Nissan shares rose 3.8 percent to 326 yen ($3.6) in Tokyo.


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The Rest of June
Posted in Art, Contemporary Music, Dance, Food & Wine, Opera, Photography, tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Anna Calvi, Anna Leese, Anna Shafajinskaia, Benjamin Britten, Chris Beetles, Christopher Alden, Claire Ormshaw, Cocteau Voices, Cosi Fan Tutte, Crouch End Festival Chorus, David Stephenson, English National Opera, Eric Margiore, Gary Griffiths, Glee, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Heath Robinson, Helen Lepalaan, Hoffnung, Joan Miro, L'amico Fritz, Linbury Studio Theatre, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luther Koenigs, Mascagni, Neal Davies, Nuccia Focile, Opera Holland Park, Poulenc, Rebecca Evans, Robin Tritschler, Ron Sexsmith, Royal Opera, Scott Walker, Taryn Simon, Taste of London, Tate Modern, Turandot, Welsh National Opera on June 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Opera / Dance
The summer pairing at WNO was amongst the best since they moved to the WMC. Christopher Alden's production of Turandot is 17 years old, but you'd never know it. It was inventive and fresh with three excellent leads in Gwyn Hughes Jones, Rebecca Evans and Anna Shafajinskaia. Musical Director Luther Koenigs had apparently never conducted it before, but the sound he got from the orchestra and chorus was rich, lush and positively gorgeous – a shivers-up-your-spine job. Cosi Fan Tutte isn't my favourite Mozart – overlong for the silly story – but this new British seaside staging complete with prom, mini fairground, Punch & Judy show and Café was delightful and the singing of all six leads – Neal Davies, Robin Tritschler, Gary Griffiths, Camilla Roberts, Helen Lepalaan & Claire Ormshaw – was excellent. Yet again, Britain's most accessible opera company provided quality and value.
The ENO's A Midsummer Night's Dream is musically beautiful, but the production is so contemptuous and disrespectful of its dead composer, Benjamin Britten, who can't answer back. This isn't Britten's opera, its director Christopher Alden's. If he wanted to steer so far from the composer's intentions, he should have written his own opera. This is the worst example of director arrogance I have ever seen – and from someone whose work I have so far admired (including the revival of his WNO Turandot above). This is the second occasion this year where the ENO have allowed a director's vision to overwhelm and overpower a composer's work. If they were alive they couldn't / wouldn't do it, which makes it completely unacceptable. It's particularly galling that they've ditched a lovely production for this travesty. Oh, I wish I'd kept my eyes closed.
Cocteau Voices is an inspired double-bill at the ROH's Linbury Studio. It pairs Poulenc's one woman opera based on a Cocteau playlet with another two-character Cocteau playlet, written for Edith Piaf and her lover, adapted as a wordless dance drama with an electronic score from Scott Walker. In the latter, three dancers play each character and it was a mesmerizing athletic visual feast. Italian singer Nuccia Focile isn't as good an actress as Joan Rogers in the only other production of this piece I have seen (by Opera North) and I found it difficult to believe in her as a dumped lover. After a while, I tuned out the libretto (in English) and just allowed the music to wash over me. One of the better ROH2 experiments.
L'amico Fritz is a rare opera from the man who provided half of Cav & Pag (if he knew, I wonder what Mascagni would think of the fact only one of his 15 operas is now regularly performed – and that as part of a double-bill; I'd certainly be interested in hearing some of the others). Young soprano Anna Leese is the reason for seeing this; she is simply delightful. David Stephenson is also good as, well, David, but I'm afraid Eric Margiore was no match for either of them – and he completely fell apart on the third act. I thought the modern-ish settings took away the opera's charm, clever though they were, but the orchestra sounded particularly lush. It's a minor opera, but one I'm glad I caught up with. As much as I have loved OHP over the years, I'm afraid it's starting to become country house opera in the city, with the associated prices, dress and non opera-loving audience; I fear the worst…..
I've never been that keen on Ron Sexsmith, who I've always found depressing, but my nephew gave me his new album and a compilation to convert me and it worked. It's the production of the new stuff that lifts it for me, though I have to say the older material worked well in concert. He was supported by Anna Calvi, who was original but a bit intense for me. As it was part of Ray Davies' Meltdown, he both introduced her and sang a song with Sexsmith. A nice evening.
I wasn't as enthused by the programming of Ray Davies' Meltdown as I was Richard Thompson's last year, even though he is as much of a hero. However, his final concert with his band, the LPO and the Crouch End Festival Chorus was another highlight in a lifetime of concert going. The first half saw the whole of the highly under-rated 1968 album Village Green Preservation Society (it was released on the same day as The Beatles white album!) played for the first time and the second half a set of 13 Kinks & solo classics, the pinnacle of which was Days, with the addition of two thousand audience members singing too. When the orchestra and chorus left the stage, he came back saying 'we can't finish yet, it's not even 10 o'clock' and the band delivered a three song mini-set which had us all dancing. Terrific!
I couldn't resist going to Glee Live as the TV show has become such a guilty pleasure. There was much to enjoy, and it was extremely well staged at the O2, but the fan worship and tendency to both over-sing and over-amplify marred what could have been a real fun evening – albeit a short and expensive 80 minute one that came in at over £1 a minute!
I was hugely disappointed by the Joan Miro retrospective at Tate Modern, particularly as the first room was stunning. After these gorgeous early paintings, he moved to Paris and got in with bad company (Picasso and Masson) and it's poor surrealism, abstraction and downhill from there! I actually preferred Taryn Simon's exhibition, showing her somewhat obsessive and indescribable collection of genealogical photographic groups. Each group represents people associated with an event or location and there are (explained) gaps where the sets are incomplete. As I said, indescribable!
Chris Beetles indispensable gallery / shop had probably the most comprehensive exhibition of Heath Robinson ever mounted. It was stunning, though it was closely packed and too much to take in. In addition to his quirky stuff, there were less well-known fairy tales and cricket drawings, amongst others. Against this, the fascinating Hoffnung exhibition also there couldn't compare.
The weather marred our annual visit to the Taste of London restaurant showcase in Regent's Park, though there also appeared to be a lot less restaurants, less interesting food and a broader less foodie remit. I think it may be time to drop this particular modern tradition.
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The Decemberists' concert at Hammersmith Apollo built on their last at the Coronet and buried the memory of their first RFH disaster; this was mostly due to excellent song selection and ordering. They now have a fine body of material and they've learnt how to deliver it live and still have fun without compromising quality. I will forgive them the self-indulgent whale song encore because of the 90 minutes before and the gorgeous final encore.
Within minutes of arriving at Shepherd's Bush Empire, I was regretting it. The traffic was awful and I'd missed most of the intriguing support act, the chatter from people at the back was cacophonous and the sound painfully heavy on base. Then, during his second number, they all shut up, the sound improved and John Grant's weaved the same magic he did when I first heard his album The Queen of Denmark. He writes very personal songs, sings them with a rich baritone voice and plays piano competently. There's a second keyboard most of the time and a string quartet some of the time, but no guitars or drums. It's a rather refreshing sound and live his personality makes for a refreshingly intimate experience. I'd have preferred a venue like the Barbican or Royal Festival Hall, but it was a delight all the same.
A bumper month!
The latest Guildhall School opera offering is Poulenc's lovely Dialogues des Carmelites, possibly the most tuneful opera written in the late 20th century! I've long been fond of this opera about the martyrdom of nuns during the French revolution and musically the GSMD did it proud. There were some excellent young voices – including a gorgeous Blanche from Anna Patalong, fine turns as the Marquis and his son from Koji Terada and Charlie Mellor and a beautiful Mere Marie from Sylvie Bedouelle. It was great to have a GSMD opera that showed off the fine chorus too. I'm afraid I didn't like David Farley's design, where everything was framed by a hole through broken glass, a reference to the opening image of a carriage being attacked by revolutionaries. It was particularly irritating when it framed an opening or closing scene image that about a third of the audience could see.
Back in Cardiff for the WNO late winter pairing of Il Travatore and Die Fledermaus. The former has so much wonderful music that you have to forgive its convoluted and somewhat preposterous plot, and in this production some static staging from Peter Watson and a dark and rather depressing (if clever) series of settings from Tim Hatley. There are so many long scene changes and when the curtain goes up after each of them, you just groan because its just a different configuration of the same giant walls! Welsh boys David Kempster and Gwyn Hughes Jones were both excellent as the Duke and Manrico respectively. Veronica Simeoni sang Azucena brilliantly but couldn't act for toffee. Katie Pellegrino was technically good as Leonora but it wasn't always an entirely pleasing sound. The chorus was of course terrific. A bit dull to look at, but a treat to listen to.
Despite the fact I'm not really an operetta man, and certainly not a fan of the somewhat twee Johann Strauss, I rather enjoyed Die Fledermaus, which says much about both the production and the performances. Again, superbly well cast, with some fine singing and acing from Mark Stone, Paul Charles Clarke, Joanne Boag and Nuccia Focile and a delightful cameos as prisoner governor from Alan Opie and actor Desmond Barritt in the non-singing role of the prison warden. It probably benefitted from the affection the 'old school' production team have for it – director John Copley, designer Tim Reed and Deirdre Clancy made it fizz with considerable charm and much humour (even though you had heard all the jokes before!).
Rodelinda is this year's staged offering from the London Handel Festival. It's one of Handel's best and musically it shines, with lovely singing from Kitty Whately, Christopher Lowrey, Anthony Gregory and Edward Grint. Susanna Hurrell in the title role was occasionally too loud and harsh and Jake Arditti's voice was a bit small for Unulfo, but an excellent young ensemble just the same. The orchestral playing, under Laurence Cummings, was outstanding. The modern military setting occasionally jarred, with a particularly tacky ending where royal prince Flavio holds up a flag and gun.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies & David Pountney's new opera Kommilitonen! is both a coup and a triumph for the Royal Academy of Music. Max had given up on opera because he was fed up of writing operas based in places like lighthouses to find them staged in a toilet (the best put down of director-led opera ever!). Fortunately, he relented and wrote this highly original opera linking student protests in the US deep south, Mao's China and Nazi Germany appropriately staged by students in a college. It's dramatically and musically thrilling and the student talent on show is extraordinary.
Peter Brook's edited minimalist A Magic Flute was a bit of a damp squib. Even though it ran for around half the normal time, it seemed a very long 95 minutes. There were some nice humourous touches, some clever staging and some nice voices, but overall it underwhelmed. In short, no magic!
Submarine is a charming film, and a hugely impressive debut from actor-come-director Richard Ayoade. There were some gorgeous performances and the picture of school life in Wales oozed authenticity. I loved it.
Route Irish is a lot to stomach; it's a very well made Ken Loach film but it's very depressing. I don't know how true this tale of private security firms in war zones is, but if it's only a fraction true, it's shameful. I admired it, but I can't say I enjoyed it – and it made me angry; but I suppose it was meant to, so 'job done'.
Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a peek into French caves first discovered just 15 years ago. The 32,000 year-old cave paintings are extraordinary, shown off perfectly in 3D, but there's a lot of padding and much of the narration is pompous. Now it's tourism in 3D at your local cinema; whatever next!
The best was left to last this month, with the wonderfully uplifting and deeply moving Benda Bilili!, a film about a bunch of disabled homeless musicians in Congo. The film allowed the musicians own words and their music to speak for themselves – no narration – which is one of its great strengths. Though completely different, it had the same impact as Buena Vista Social Club. Now, to find the CD….
A bumper Art month too; which tells you how much work I did in March!
Cory Arcangel's installation at the Barbican projects 14 bowling video games created over 24 years. It's a fascinating examination of how technology evolves, but it isn't art!
Eve Arnold's photos at Chris Beetles' lovely new gallery were terrific. There are a large number taken during filming of The Misfits and I'd have loved to have bought one of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, but £12,500-£17.500 they were way beyond my price range!
I went to the wrong branch of Hauser & Wirth where there was a video installation of Chernobyl by Diana Thater, which did little for me – worthy though it was. When I got to the right branch, Martin Creed's paintings also did little for me – until I came across his giant revolving neon 'Mothers', which I loved.
The NPG has a terrific exhibition by an early 20th century photographer called Emil Otto Hoppe. His B&W prints of famous political and artistic figures of the time have so much depth; you seem to be peering into their souls. They are shown with some wonderful London street scenes from the same period, with a documentary style that seems to me to be way ahead of their time.
I was a bit sceptical about Watercolour at Tate Britain; I thought it might be one of those 'excuses for an exhibition' in order to make money in this new museum / gallery free entry world. It turns out to be an excellent review of c.500 years of the art form with an exploration of the techniques and a diverse range of pictures, including some simply stunning ones. In truth, it does fizzle out in the last quarter (modern stuff, including the usual suspects like the talentless Tracey Emin), but that doesn't deter from the astonishing highs. In the same gallery, Susan Hiller's exhibition is fascinating & intriguing, showing off her inventiveness & technical skills – but as art it left me completely cold; admiration but not pleasure.
I keep going to contemporary art exhibitions and come out disappointed and British Art Show 7 at the Hayward is no exception. There were some nice pictures from Alasdair Gray and a clever 24-hour film collage of time references synchronised with the actual time from Christian Marclay (I only sat in for the 5.30pm section!), but it was Roger Hiorns again who was the most creative. When I walked into a film booth (I really do have a problem with film in galleries and tend to stay in each for only a short while) it was just a metal park / station bench. When I came out there was a real naked man sitting on the back of the bench looking at a real fire burning on the seat next to him. Terrific.
Back at the NPG, they're showing another fascinating photographer I've never heard of! This time it's the 50's / 60's B&W portraits of artists, writers and musicians by Ida Kar. They are both fascinating subjects and fascinating pictures.
At the Museum of London, they have a lovely exhibition of London Street Photos spanning 150 years to the present day. They perfectly capture the personality of my adopted city over the years and contain many by even more photographers new to me! By contrast, the Barbican Centre Gallery nearby is showcasing the work of the 70's New York avant-garde and in particular polymaths Trisha Brown, Laurie Anderson and Gordon Matta-Clark, the latter the only one new to me. Though much of the background work like preparatory drawings left me cold, I was quite taken with Anderson's interactive pieces (a pillow that plays to you as you rest your head and a desk from which the sound travels through your arms to your ears as you place your elbows on it and cover your ears!) and the two Brown performances I caught – five dancers walking the walls and two weaving in and out of clothes on top of a rope and steel climbing frame. The Barbican is challenging the Hayward in off-the-wall things like this; they sometimes (often?) fail, but you have to admire their nerve in putting on such niche stuff.
I knew nothing about Gabriel Orozco before I went to his exhibition at Tate Modern. It was a very diverse selection of pictures, 'sculptures', installations and project descriptions, some of which were interesting and some of which were just dull. The biggest room was almost entirely filled with photographs that he took of a yellow motorcycle he bought and rode in search of identical ones, taking a photo of each pairing as he did. Why? Hardly worthy of a major retrospective, in my view.
I'm not overly fond of Dulwich Picture Gallery's permanent collection, but they are indispensible when it comes to special exhibitions, particularly by illustrators. Norman Rockwell may be sentimental, twee and sweet Americana, but he's technically accomplished as this exhibition of c.30 original paintings, c.10 studies, 4 posters and c.300 Saturday Picture Post front covers shows; he's particularly good at faces and children. It was particularly fascinating to see how the SPP covers evolved over almost 50 years.
Back at Chris Beetles' new photo gallery they'd swapped the Eve Arnold I started the month with for a terrific set of B&W pictures of actors, models and musicians by Terry O'Neill. I would have so liked to buy a copy of Macca playing piano at Ringo's 1981 wedding, a picture that comes alive as you look at it, but didn't have £2000 on me!
I'd avoided the Royal Academy's Modern British Sculpture exhibition because the reviews were so bad but as I was passing with time to kill and as it's free for Friends, I gave it a quick look and it was nowhere near as bad as I was led to expect. It was worth a visit for an amazing Adam by Jacob Epstein alone, but there were others to admire, though they did make up less that half of the exhibition. How you can mount a survey of modern British sculpture without three recent titans – Anthony Gormley, Richard Wilson & Anish Kapoor – is however beyond me. We got a less important example from Damien Hirst but were fortunate to be spared a Tracey Emin. Upstairs, it was hard to get excited about Watteau's drawings, accomplished though they are. There are an awful lot of studies of heads and hands and few finished works.
Phew, did I really do all that on top of 20 plays, musicals and ballets?!

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Claire Harris is the Impact Consultant for The Graduate School at Queen's University Belfast and a co-founder and Director of Tell It in Colour C.I.C. Claire completed her undergraduate degree with Queen's University and an MPhil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation with Trinity College.
Claire was appointed as a board member of CRC 1 June 2019, and her current 3-year term ends 31 May 2022. Her remuneration is nil for a workload of approximately 20 days per annum including Council meetings.
Claire has worked, both locally and globally, in the field of conflict transformation. She has worked for The Young Foundation and Belfast Interface Project, of which she now sits on the Board. Claire is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Belfast Hub and was named on the Northern Ireland 40 under 40 list for 2018. Claire's work centres on social innovation and participatory engagement.


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Firefighters were called this morning to tackle a fire that erupted among abandoned cars at a disused robot carpark in Edinburgh.
The incident took place at the Morrison Street site, where emergency services were assembled.
The £5 million Auto Skypark is currently being demolished.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it was called to the fire shortly after 11:00 on Wednesday. left since the company went into receivership in 2003.


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FHSD Holds Tenth Annual Deaf Storyteller Day
Francis Howell School District » News » 2016-17 News Archive » May 2017 News » FHSD Holds Tenth Annual Deaf Storyteller Day
The Francis Howell School District (FHSD) believes that every child deserves the opportunity to learn and play in a safe environment, including those who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Some students were born without the gift of hearing, and some have lost it over time. But all of these students get to live and learn like every other kid, thanks to the support of many great special educators in FHSD. There are days intended specifically for these students, and Deaf Storyteller Day is one such day, one that solicits a vivid reminder of why we're here.
At Deaf Storyteller Day, held at Jungs Station Baptist Church in St. Charles, Deaf students got together to socialize, participate in activities, and enjoy a storyteller who is Hard of Hearing like them. "This day is an amazing opportunity for these kids to connect with current and new friends who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing," said Amy Cattron, the parent of Keagan Cattron, who attended the event with her son. "Keagan looks forward to it all year long, and can't wait to share his experience with others. It gives him the confidence to go back to his class and discuss his hearing with his hearing classmates, raising awareness and understanding."
"I like the Deaf Storyteller Day because the storytellers are funny," said Heaven, a student at Becky-David Elementary. "At school, I read or write, but at the Deaf Storyteller, we use the sign language. It (sign language) is easier to understand."
Heaven isn't alone. Aja, who also goes to Becky-David, had her first experience with Deaf Storyteller Day this year, and she could barely contain her excitement. She said she wanted to go "because I can have fun and play games, and we can have signing. Very, very fun!"
One of the games was a variation of the classic Hungry-Hungry Hippos. Tony, another Becky-David student, said, "On the last game, the Hungry Hippos, we needed to collect balls like they were our apples that we were going eat. We had a scooter and a basket to get the ball. It was easy for me, and my favorite game."
Current and even former students relish the opportunity. LaWanda Brewer, one of the organizers of this event, said, "I receive calls from individuals who want to participate or bring their hearing children for more interaction with the Deaf and Deaf culture."
This year's Deaf Storyteller was Crom Saunders, whose incredible energy and hilarious pantomiming makes his imagination come alive in vivid colors, giving his stories resonance without the use of words. With the use of a little American Sign Language (ASL), and a lot of funny gestures and body language, Saunders brought new life to old fairytales such as "Cinderella," and even the old Irish tale of "Finn Mac Cool" (also known as "Fionn mac Cumhaill").
This event is made possible through the St. Louis Storytelling Festival, which is an endeavor of the MU Extension. Brewer said, "FHSD is the only site to host the Deaf storyteller for two years in a row. The Festival is paying for the speaker's flight, hotel, and transportation, as well as his speaker fee. They locate the storyteller and plan for all of that. Without them, FHSD would not be able to bring in such quality Deaf tellers from around the nation."


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"Great, she's super-strong and she can alter time" Angel, visual pleasure and the cult action heroine
Calvert, Bronwen
Critical Studies in Television 12(1): 21-34. March 2017.
Subjects: ANGEL (TV)
"The Shell I'm In": Illyria and Monstrous Embodiment
in: Money, Mary A., ed. Joss Whedon: the Complete Companion : the TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. London: Titan, 2012. p. 181-190.
Subjects: ANGEL (TV); WHEDON, JOSS
"This Means Bodies": Body Horror and the Influence of David Cronenberg
in: Cochran, Tanya R., Sherry Ginn, and Paul Zinder, eds. The Multiple Worlds of Fringe: Essays on the J. J. Abrams Science Fiction Series. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. p. 186-200.
Subjects: CRONENBERG, DAVID; FRINGE (TV)
Angels, Demons, and Damsels in Distress: The Representation of Women in Supernatural
in: Abbott, Stacey and Lavery, David, eds. TV Goes to Hell An Unofficial Road Map to Supernatural. Toronto: ECW Press, 2011. p. 90-104.
Subjects: SUPERNATURAL (TV)
Being Bionic: The World of TV Cyborgs
New York: I.B. Tauris, 2017. 243 p.
Subjects: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (TV); CAPRICA (TV); CYBORGS; DOCTOR WHO (TV); DOLLHOUSE (TV); FRINGE (TV); STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (TV); TELEVISION; TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES (TV); THE BIONIC WOMAN (TV); VOYAGER (TV)
Cyborg Utopia in Marge Piercy's Body of Glass.
Foundation No. 95: 52-61. Autumn 2005.
Subjects: BODY OF GLASS (NOVEL); CYBORGS; PIERCY, MARGE
Dollhouse's Terrible Places: Hauntings, Abjection, and the Repressed
In: Woofter, Kristopher K. and Jowett, Lorna, eds. Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2019. p. 105-122.
Subjects: DOLLHOUSE (TV); HORROR GENRE; WHEDON, JOSS
I'm Different... Special: the Body of the Superhero
in: Simmoms, David, ed. Investigating Heroes; Essays on Truth, Justice, and Quality TV. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. p. 19-29.
Subjects: HEROES (TV)
Mind, Body, Imprint: Cyberpunk Echoes in the Dollhouse
Slayage 8(2/3): [25 p.] Summer/Fall 2010. (http://slayageonline.com)
Subjects: CYBERPUNK; DOLLHOUSE (TV)
Performing Bodies: Multiplying Cyborg-Clones, CGI and the Invisible Special Effect
In: Croft, Janet B. and Buckman, Alyson R., eds. Sisterhood, Science and Surveillance in Orphan Black. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019. p. 151-165.
Subjects: CLONES; CYBORGS; ORPHAN BLACK (TV); SPECIAL EFFECTS
Speaking the Body: The Embodiment of 'Feminist' Cyberpunk
Calvert, Bronwen; Walsh, Sue
in: Sawyer, Andy/Seed, David, eds. Speaking Science Fiction: Dialogues and Interpretations. Loverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2000. pp. 96-108.
Subjects: No subjects listed.
The AI and the Looking Glass: Embodiment, Virtuality, and Power in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Season 4
Slayage 17(1): 11-35. Winter / Spring 2019. (No. 49)
Subjects: AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV)
William Gibson's "cyberpunk" X-Files
Science Fiction Film and Television 6(1): 39-53. 2013.
Subjects: GIBSON, WILLIAM; X-FILES (TV)
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Kendié or Kenndié (Kènjé) is a village and rural commune in the Cercle of Bandiagara of the Mopti Region of Mali. The commune contains 34 villages and had a population of 24,359 in the 2009 census.

Kendié is a large regional village with a Wednesday weekly market. It is located on a high location on a plateau, not far from valleys.

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Communes of Mopti Region

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Back For A 13th Great Year: A Taste of Honey, the Jewish community's annual, stimulating, educational event - offering an opportunity to savor Jewish life at its best - is scheduled to take place at the Albuquerque JCC on Sunday, February 21st.
ATOH brings together all of the New Mexico community to explore our understanding of Judaism and the Jewish experience. This year, the event is organized around five topical areas - culture, history, music, spirit/soul, and international intrigue.
ATOH 2016 welcomes several new presenters and welcomes back favorite presenters, returning with new topics. A total of ten carefully curated classes are offered; each will last 75 minutes (instead of only 60).
Yiddish stories and sayings will be celebrated by everyone who has ever been touched by Yiddishkeit and mameh loshen, the Yiddish language. The story of our ancestors bringing their language and culture to America - the institutions they built and the hardships they endured - will provide a context for Yiddish sayings and expressions that have endured for generations. No Yiddish knowledge is required.
This is an experiential workshop, encouraging participants to try a different approach to traditional prayer. Rabbi Min will introduce background material explaining how to approach a traditional prayer through the lens of Kabbalah. Participants will then have an opportunity to explore that approach. She will lead participants through the short prayer of the Shma and/or the Shechiyanu. The class will analyze the initial experience, then delve deeper. These familiar prayers will be understood and experienced in a new, possibly transformative, way.
Jewish music sounds different in different parts of the world. What elements make Jewish music sound Jewish? This class offers an ear-opening experience, especially for those who think all Jewish music sounds like Fiddler on the Roof and My Yiddishe Momme.
Kehillat Beijing is a progressive, lay-led community of American and international ex-patriots, business people, and travelers. Rabbi Jack has served as visiting rabbi-in-residence for the congregation since High Holidays 2014. In this slide-show/talk, Rabbi Jack shares his experiences interacting with and serving Beijing's Jewish community and some general observations of China.
*Hi Ho – shorthand for High Holidays **Houhai – pronounced 'hoe hi' – a lake in central Beijing.
For hundreds of years the Jews were persecuted in Spain, including formal expulsion in 1492. Now Spain has offered a path to citizenship for Jews who can prove they are descended from expelled Sephardim. Why is Spain doing this? And why would Sephardic Jews accept the offer? Based on information from Jews who are eligible to return, this lecture puts the story in perspective and attempts to answer these provocative questions.
Jewish traditions regarding death, funerals, treatment of the body, burial, cremation, mourning, and annual remembrances are very different from Christian practices. This talk illuminates Jewish funeral traditions before, during, and after a funeral – highly beneficial for interfaith families. Partcipants will view clips from two comedic films from Mexico: My Mexican Shivah, and Nora's Will; as well as American movies: This Is Where I Leave You, The Cemetery Club and Two Weeks.
Traditionally we understand that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. For this reason, we tend to think of the Sabbath as the absence of creation. Yet, another interpretation of Genesis 2:2 suggests that God, by establishing Shabbat as a day set apart from the rest of the week, actually created rest. Join us as we explore various ways in which the Sabbath can teach us how to create rest and be mindful of the present.
The Muldawers will discuss how the lyricist works with the composer to help resolve that old question: 'Which comes first, the words or the music?' They will provide biographic information on several Jewish songwriters from 1915-1945, including Berlin and Gershwin. They'll also perform representative songs of this period.
The class will read the Biblical narratives of two missions: Moses' twelve spies, and Joshua's two spies, carried out before the children of Israel entered the Promised Land. Participants will then discuss critically what was right and what was wrong in each mission in its various stages: giving the orders, the operatives, gathering intelligence and assessing it, making subsequent strategic and tactical recommendations through the normal chain of command. Biblical text will be supplied. Bring your common-sense perspective - no CIA experience required!
Winner of the 2015 NM-AZ Book Award for Historic Fiction, Zibart's book Forced Journey: The Saga of Werner Berlinger is the fictional account of a boy who leaves Nazi-held Hamburg in 1939 for New York City. He was one of the 1400 Jewish children from Nazi Europe who found refuge in the US when immigration for Jews was virtually impossible. After the book's publication, Zibart met a number of these former refugee children, learning their unique stories, some of which she will share.


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Evelia Peralta (Tucumán, 1941)  es investigadora y crítica en arquitectura y urbanismo, difusora de la cultura urbana y arquitectónica ecuatoriana.

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Evelia Peralta estudió en la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina. Se tituló en 1967. Ya arquitecta, compartió e integró el movimiento nacional que culminó en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba con una propuesta denominada "Taller total", respondiendo a las inquietudes de cuestionarse para qué se forman los arquitectos, cuál es su misión y cómo contribuir con la sociedad, planteando una manera multidisciplinar de enseñanza. Formó parte de la coordinación en uno de estos talleres en Tucumán.

Junto al arquitecto Rolando Moya Tasquer, su compañero de vida ganaron el concurso de la Cooperativa La Alborada, planteo urbano y prototipos de viviendas.

En 1975 se trasladó a Quito y la experiencia en docencia le facilitó continuar, la carrera docente, primero en la Universidad Central del Ecuador. Colaboró con el grupo de arquitectos que fundó la Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Artes de la Universidad Católica del Ecuador, en 1994.

Evelia Peralta intervino en una experiencia en el Municipio de Quito creando en la Dirección de Planificación las Unidades de Proyectos Especiales y de Apoyo Técnico para la participación ciudadana y coordinación interinstitucional, en proyectos cuyo eje era el Centro Histórico de Quito.

Evelia Peralta  pese a no ser ecuatoriana, es un perfil relevante en el panorama local por ser pionera en la promoción de la arquitectura ecuatoriana desde la reflexión crítica frente a la historia y la actualidad.es considerada una de las Pioneras de la arquitectura ecuatoriana.

Publicaciones
Evelia Peralta es pionera en el campo de las publicaciones de arquitectura en Ecuador. Junto a Rolando Moya Tasquer fundan y dirigen Trama en 1977 que en su primera etapa se publicó bimensualmente hasta noviembre de 1997.  A partir del año 2000 Evelia Peralta es la subdirectora de la revista Trama, que hasta el año 2022 lleva editados 170 ediciones. El proyecto dio pie a toda una serie de investigaciones sobre la arquitectura contemporánea del Ecuador que se publicó en libros y revistas nacionales e internacionales, lo que permitió difundir la arquitectura ecuatoriana a nivel mundial como Houses of the World/ Casas del Mundo.

Sus libros sirven de referencia para conocer la arquitectura ecuatoriana como por ejemplo la Guía Arquitectónica de Quito, que realizó junto a Rolando Moya y Pablo Moreira, Quito: Patrimonio cultural de la humanidad / Cultural Heritage of humanity y Arquitectura Paisajista. Quito, Conceptos y Diseños.

Participó además de una serie de 10 libros enmarcada dentro del Programa Editorial conjunto del Municipio de Quito y de la Junta de Andalucía-Consejería de Obras Públicas y Transportes, inserto a su vez en el marco del programa de Actuaciones en el Centro Histórico de Quito.

Bienal Panamericana de Arquitectura de Quito
Evelia Peralta y Rolando Moya colaboraron en la concepción de la primera Bienal de Arquitectura de Quito y fueron quienes insistieron al grupo de creadores del Colegio de Arquitectos, que la bienal no debía ser solo nacional sino trascender sus fronteras.

En el año de 1978 tuvo lugar la primera edición de la BAQ para la Región Andina, siendo pionera entre las bienales por su visión internacional. Evelia Peralta y Rolando Moya editaron los libros de las dos primeras ediciones. La Bienal es un evento reconocido a nivel nacional e internacional. como así también recibe la atención de críticos relevantes como Josep Maria Montaner.

Reconocimientos
La labor de difusión de la arquitecta Evelia Peralta ha sido ampliamente reconocida a través de premios y menciones.

Por su labor en la revista Trama recibió el Premio de la III Bienal de Arquitectura de Quito en la categoría de Teoría, Historia y Crítica en 1982

La Revista Trama recibió el Premio FPAA 2008 de la Federación Panamericana de Asociaciones de Arquitectos. El premio fue compartido con la revista colombiana Escala. El jurado expresa en sus consideraciones que: "ambas publicaciones se han convertido en una referencia obligatoria de difusión de la arquitectura en el continente americano. Complementan además esta labor con la edición de libros y sus respectivas páginas web, con una excelencia en el contenido editorial y el tratamiento de detalles de fotografía e impresión."

En 2014 la propia Bienal hizo un reconocimiento a los fundadores Luis Oleas, Evelia Peralta, Rolando Moya, Rubén Moreira, Rafael Vélez, Guido Díaz y Fernando Flores.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Sitio de la revista Trama

Escritoras de Ecuador
Arquitectas de Ecuador


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Posted on November 2, 2015 by Delaware Gazette
Winter coat drive underway in Sunbury
Sunbury Cleaners collects coats for a cause
By Lenny C. Lepola - For The Gazette
The Widder/Sunbury Cleaners winter coat drive, now in its 10th year, is accepting winter coats, sweaters, hats, gloves and blankets through December. Many coats will again go to Big Walnut Friends Who Share and Better Way Ministries, and all blankets will be delivered to Faith Mission in Columbus. Sunbury Cleaners manager Jane Milburn, right, with store employee Lori Mantor, shows a few of the coats already received during this year's coat drive. Milburn said the biggest need is always for children's and infants' coats, hats and gloves.
Over the last nine Christmas holiday seasons, Sunbury Cleaners employees have teamed up with David Widder of Caldwell Banker to provide winter coats for central Ohio needy families.
Last year the drive netted more than 1,000 coats, with many of them going to Big Walnut area families in need via Big Walnut Friends Who Share, eastern Delaware County's grass-roots social service agency. The rest went to Better Way Ministry in the Short North district in Columbus.
Now in its 10th year, the Widder/Sunbury Cleaners winter coat drive is accepting winter coats, sweaters, hats, gloves and blankets through December. Many coats will again go to Big Walnut Friends Who Share and Better Way Ministries, and all blankets will be delivered to Faith Mission in Columbus.
Sunbury Cleaners manager Jane Milburn said the coat drive is a Sunbury Cleaners labor of love, with store employees pitching in to examine them for wear and professionally clean them before delivery.
When the coat project began 10 years ago, 150 coats were collected, dry-cleaned and distributed. The second year boasted 250 coats, and by the third year 440 coats were collected and distributed.
Milburn said any size coat in any condition would be accepted, cleaned and distributed.
"I'm certain we're going to need adult coats, we always do at this time of year as the weather starts to turn cold," Milburn said. "But the biggest need is always for children's winter coats, hats and gloves."
Milburn said to also remember to donate used sweaters, and that blankets are always in short supply at Faith Mission during cold winter months.
"It doesn't matter what condition they're in," Milburn added. "They will be cleaned and distributed to somewhere they are needed. We even get walk-ins. When someone needs a winter coat for themselves or a family member, they come here, and we've always been able to take care of their need."
Milburn said some coats have started coming in, but this year's coat drive is off to a slow start.
"Coming into winter we will find homes for as many coats as we can get," Milburn said. "We don't want anybody going cold, so we'll be accepting items through December — as long as there's a need.
"We always thank the members of our community who pitch in and help out this time of year," Milburn added. "We even had a lady last year who went out and bought new kids' coats that all went to one local family in need."
To participate in the coat drive, drop used winter coats (infant through adult sizes), sweaters, hats, gloves and blankets at Sunbury Cleaners, 23 W. Granville St., Sunbury, or at the Sunbury Cleaners store at Highland Lakes. Both stores are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays.
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2015/11/web1_coats.jpg The Widder/Sunbury Cleaners winter coat drive, now in its 10th year, is accepting winter coats, sweaters, hats, gloves and blankets through December. Many coats will again go to Big Walnut Friends Who Share and Better Way Ministries, and all blankets will be delivered to Faith Mission in Columbus. Sunbury Cleaners manager Jane Milburn, right, with store employee Lori Mantor, shows a few of the coats already received during this year's coat drive. Milburn said the biggest need is always for children's and infants' coats, hats and gloves.
By Lenny C. Lepola
For The Gazette
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Q: Rails & ActiveRecord: DRY use same logic in scope and boolean method I have a model with a scope and a method like so:
class Model < ActiveRecord::Base

  scope :editable, where('updated_at > ? OR (updated_at IS NULL AND created_at > ?)', (Date.today - 3.days).beginning_of_day, (Date.today - 3.days).beginning_of_day)

  def editable?
    return (self.updated_at || self.created_at) > (Date.today - 3.days).beginning_of_day
  end

end

I have the feeling I should not be writing two times the same logic in both the scope and the method. Is there a way I can avoid that?
I'm on Rails 3.2
Thanks

A: Unfortunately there is no easy way to do this at the moment. The closest you can get is
def editable?
  self.class.editable.exists? self
end

However it will call database to check whether given record exists or not, so it is useless for new records or for records you want to update.
The reason why there is no such a functionality is that this would require translation from SQL/Arel to ruby code, which might not be simple at all (as other model may be involved with JOIN statement). However If you have squeel gem installed, you should be able to write:
class Model < ActiveRecord::Base

  editable = -> {
    (updated_at > (Date.today - 3.days).beginning_of_day) | ((updated_at == nil) & created_at > (Date.today - 3.days).beginning_of_day)
  }

  scope :editable, where &editable

  def editable?
    instance_eval &editable
  end

end

which is pretty much what you need. (not tested!)
UPDATE: Note that squeel gem is not currently maintained, which might be dangerous.

A: As far as I can see there is no code duplication there.
The scope will be called on the class, Model.editable, retrieving all the records that match that scope. editable? will be called on an instance of Model, eg: @model.editable? returning true or false. The first is a query, the second a logic expression.
One way to reuse your scope in the editable? method would be the following:
class Model < ActiveRecord::Base

  scope :editable, where('updated_at > ? OR (updated_at IS NULL AND created_at > ?)', (Date.today - 3.days).beginning_of_day, (Date.today - 3.days).beginning_of_day)

  def editable?
    Model.editable.include?(self)
  end
end

However, this is not recommended as it will cause unnecessary query to the database.

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Impressed by the good start of the Indian team in the ongoing men's hockey World Cup in Bhubaneshwar, former captain Sardar Singh said the team needs to keep the momentum going and play as a collective unit.
"The start has been good. In the tournament, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Argentina and Australia are some of the best teams. We have started off well and need to keep the momentum going and continue with same energy," Sardar said on Thursday.
"Tournaments like World Cup or Olympics come once in four years, so we have been preparing for this for long. They (the players) know the value of such matches and how every second counts. They will not come back.
"Our main match will be the quarter-finals. And on that day, it will not just be about (PR) Sreejesh, Manpreet (Singh) we need to play as a complete unit and play to the potential.
"Only energy (performances) by two or three players won't help (in the quarter-final). The four quarters that we have (in the match), we have to fully concentrate in the quarters. If we play that well, we can make it count," said Sardar who, in his prime, was among the finest half backs in world hockey.


The Cleveland Browns have traded wide receiver Josh Gordon to the New England Patriots.
NFL Network's Ian Rapoport and ESPN's Adam Schefter tweeted the news Monday afternoon. The Browns made the deal official with an announcement on their Twitter account shortly after news of the deal broke nationally.
In exchange for Gordon, the Browns received a conditional fifth-round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft. However, if Gordon is not active for at least 10 of the Patriots' final 14 games, the Browns owe the Patriots a seventh-round selection in 2019.


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The Ophelias
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Having formed the band while still in high school, bassist Grace Weir, guitarist/lyricist Spencer Peppet, percussionist Micaela Adams, and violinist Andrea Gutmann Fuentes first met at a time when each were independently serving as the "token girl" in various dude-bands from their hometown of Cincinnati, OH. Coming from varied musical backgrounds (ranging from garage-rock, to surf, to opera), the distinct talents and influences of each member collided in unexpected ways at the band's
Having formed the band while still in high school, bassist Grace Weir, guitarist/lyricist Spencer Peppet, percussionist Micaela Adams, and violinist Andrea Gutmann Fuentes first met at a time when each were independently serving as the "token girl" in various dude-bands from their hometown of Cincinnati, OH. Coming from varied musical backgrounds (ranging from garage-rock, to surf, to opera), the distinct talents and influences of each member collided in unexpected ways at the band's first rehearsal. It was here the band discovered that their chemistry wasn't rooted in a shared musical reference point, but in the creative relief from the expected censorship of being a sideperson.
"In the past we had all kind of been the 'girl in the band,' in some capacity," Peppet said. "Having a band of all women eradicates that possibility logistically, but also makes for a really creative environment without the patronization that often comes along with being the 'girl in the band.'"
The Ophelias newest album, Almost, is to be released July 13 with Joyful Noise Recordings, produced by Yoni Wolf (WHY?).
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The Ophelias Make Their Audiotree Debut
The Ophelias are releasing their first live EP with Audiotree today! The seven-track EP includes fan favorites "Fog" and "General Electric" as well as "House" which harkens back to the group's Cincinnati upbringing.
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Q: The difference between two algebraic sets is not closed? Let $A$ and $B$ be two non-empty algebraic subsets of $\mathbb{C}^n$ such that $B$ is strictly contained in $A$. I am trying to show that the difference $A-B$, which is a semi-algebraic set, is not closed for the Euclidean topology. Of course if $A$ is finite then the answer is negative. However, if we suppose that the interior of $A$ is non-empty, can we show that it is not closed?
Thanks in advance!

A: Consider $\mathbb{C}$, The real numbers $\mathbb{R}$ is a closed subset of $\mathbb{C}$, and the single point $x=(0,0)$ is a closed subset of the $\mathbb{C}$ contained in $\mathbb{R}$, remove it from $\mathbb{R}$, then the remaining set is not closed as $x$ would be a limit point of it, not in that set!

A: If $A-B$ denotes set difference $A \setminus B$, let $A$,$B$ be closed and suppose $A\setminus B$ is closed: this happens precisely when $B$ is open in $A$. So there are plenty of positive examples: if $A$ is closed and discrete, for any subset $B$ of $A$ we have that $B$ is closed and $A \setminus B$ is closed (e.g. $A = \mathbb{Z} \subseteq \mathbb{R}$ would work. But for $A =X$ we get that if $A \setminus B$ is closed and $B$ is closed, $B$ would be clopen and so in Euclidean spaces (or any connected $X$) this would happen iff $B =\emptyset$ or $B=X$. So it could be closed or not, the most "likely" being not closed.


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Q: Send only one input value with form submit in php I have a condition where there are 5 different menu items and in a row and one form.
For each of the menu item there is a input value in the form, which looks like this:
<form action='' method='post'>
    <?php
           foreach($menu_items as $item){?>
           <div id='' class=''>
               <?php echo ('menu item description here');?>
               <input type='text' name='something' value='something'>
           </div>
       <?php
       }
    ?>
   <button type='submit'>send</button>
</form>

Now i need only to send only one input value with form submit that has the menu class 'active'.
Is there a simple approach to this?

A: This is a simpler way of doing it:
<form action='' method='post'>
   <select id="example" name="example">
     <option value="something">Option 1</option>
     <option value="something">Option 2</option>
     <option value="something">Option 3</option>
     <option value="something">Option 4</option>
     <option value="something">Option 5</option>
   </select>

   <button type='submit'>send</button>
</form>

now when you send the form using PHP it will only send the value of the selected option. <select> can be followed by as many <option> blocks as you want.

A: You need to listen to the event thrown by your form, and process your form before sending it.
You can follow this example to perform this task :
$(function() {
    $("form").submit(function(event) {
        event.preventDefault(); // prevent sending the form before we processed the form

        var active_input        =   $(".active")[0];
        var active_input_value  =   active_input.val();

        $.ajax({
                url     :   "php_file_to_call.php"
            ,   method  :   "post"
            ,   data    :   { something : active_input_value }
        });
    });
});

The Ajax call (which could have been a $.post()) is necessary since you cannot submit the actual form because it does not prevent un-active element to be sent.


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Guest: When you create a vortex preference for relationships with someone, you can allow that vortex with them or with any other amount of people, correct?
Abraham: There are many, many possibilities, probabilities and even certainties to satisfy your vibrational intent.
Guest: One of my questions about relationships, is there a Path of Least Resistance?
Abraham: That really is the only conversation that is necessary to have relative to the subject of relationships, because it is a Path of Least Resistance thing.
Because you have already created the relationship. Now it's just a matter of you getting out of the way of it in the precise ways to bring you the relationship that is most active in your vibration.
In other words, do you know that the Path of Least Resistance really is the path that you've most practiced? Now, think about that. The Path of Least Resistance is the path that you've most practiced. Because the path you have most practiced is the path of your most momentum, and, therefore, of your most attraction.
Because a lot of people are just practicing the path that is easy. It's easier in your human environment to find people to complain with you about one thing or another. It's easy to practice complaining. Because they're everywhere. So it's really easy to practice complaining and therefore, make that path the Path of Least Resistance through which other things to complain about make their way steadily, effectively and swiftly to you.
Path of Least Resistance and Law of Attraction is the ultimate relationship conversation. And doesn't Path of Least Resistance fit right in there in the most wonderful way?
Stay with us. You are really going to like this.
So if you can fast forward in your mind vibrationally to what it would FEEL like to be inside this delicious relationship that you want. And you identify what it would feel like to be inside of that relationship.
"Oooooo, what does it feel like to be the object of someone's attention when they are tuned in to Source Energy? What does it feel like to be tuned into Source Energy and holding someone else as my object of attention. What does it feel like to have the energy that creates world's coursing through us as we are cooperatively moving through life and making decisions together.
What does empowerment feel like? What does invincibility feel like? What does that feeling of love and appreciation feel like? What does THAT feel like?
So you just keep thinking for it, feeling for it, finding the feeling of it.
Now, this is the key to this leading edge discussion. Once you have identified what it would feel like to be inside that, not virtual, that fleshed out, filled in all the pieces in there where you can see them and hear them and smell them and taste them and tough them. Once you've identified and practiced what that would feel like, NOW the Path of Least Resistance feels just like that, too.
So every time you are worried, you are off the path.
So every time you are frustrated, you are off the path.
So every time you are lonely, you are off the path.
So every time you are happy, you are on the path.
So every time you feel invincible, you are on the path.
So every time you feel love or appreciation, you are on the path.
Don't you like that? Don't you like knowing that you could be on a subject that feels completely unrelated to the relationship you want and you would still be on the path?
On the Path of Least Resistance to most swiftly rendezvousing with that other.


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Firstly, do check that your data roaming is switched on (on many phones the default setting is 'off'). If it is switched on but you still cannot access the internet, you should contact your mobile provider, and explain your concerns. You should write to the customer services department via resolver of your supplier and set out the problem and the remedy you seek for it.
If you are travelling in Europe prices for mobile calls and data are limited.
Data: Capped at €0.20 (20p including VAT) per megabyte. This has fallen from €0.45/MB (46p including VAT).
Monthly data cap: The maximum you can be charged in one month for using data in the EU before it's cut off remains at €50 (£49 including VAT) – the level it's been at since 2010.
Outgoing calls: Capped at €0.19 (19p including VAT) per minute. This has fallen from €0.24/min (24p including VAT). Incoming calls: Capped at €0.05 (5p including VAT) per minute. This has fallen from €0.07/min (6p including VAT).
Texts: Capped at €0.06 (6p including VAT) per text. This has fallen from €0.08/text (8p including VAT).
Mobile operators have good tariff plans if you pre-agree before travelling. If you are travelling outside of the European Union then charges can be considerably higher and it is important that you ensure you are on a cost-efficient tariff.


Unpacking is sometimes even worse. I was tired and didn't know where to put all the things as the furniture is different and I had to think a lot about how will I organize my shelves and drawers. Well, it took me some time but I hope I will spent the next 30. 1. 2012 at my new place. In order to achieve that, I need to go shopping tomorrow.
Update: I got lucky and bought at HEMA at reasonable price blanket and pillows. I was a bit surprise, how small the package is – reason for that is vacuum packaging Really funny when you first open it, how it gains a volume.
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An effort is being made by liberal-leaning groups to abolish the Electoral College so that they can control the selection of the presidency and compel the entire nation to accept popular liberal views that may be contrary to the foundations of the American system of government. Without an effort to educate and defend the Electoral College, our separation of powers that limit the federal government and protects states rights will be eroded, and the presidency will no longer be a leader chosen by 50 independent states, making smaller populated states irrelevant. Three major pillars united the nation and distribute power in unique ways — the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Electoral College. If population-only supporters had their way, they would crush the Senate and Electoral College, crippling the nation and making some states slaves to others. Defending the Electoral College is defending the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, which both recognized that we are not only the people of the United States of America, but also independent states with our own freedoms and protections from tyrannical federal control. Even freedom-loving citizens in states dominated by liberals would give up their state's rights if efforts to remove the Electoral College are successful. We must defend it to defend the "United" States of America.