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What details capture a community? In the Warehouse Arts District it's 19th century paving stones and 21st Century rooftop swimming pools, grilled Gulf redfish and warm baguettes, a B-17 Flying Fortress called "My Gal Sal"and an African-American self-taught artist named Clementine Hunter. This urbane neighborhood is where New Orleans' past and present meet up for drinks while the future texts "I'm on my way." Famed for institutions like the National WWII Museum and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and events like the First Saturday Julia Street art walk, it also offers smaller delights: Watching young ballerinas en pointe framed in a plate glass window; sharing a pizza beneath the stars or brunching on coconut French toast. Vital and alive, the Warehouse District glows like those old school Edison light bulbs. Delight in the art on its walls and celebrate the life in its streets.
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Caeli has performed at the Ravinia's Steans Institute, the Perlman Music Program's Chamber Music Workshop, and has served as a principal violist of the Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland. She is a founding member and Associate Director of Frisson, a nine-piece touring chamber ensemble. Caeli is a New York Philharmonic Teaching Artist, and in the summer of 2018, will join the violin and viola faculty of HeifetzPEG, a program of the Heifetz Institute. As a teenager, she was a frequent performer and recurring cast member on NPR's From The Top. Her print articles have appeared in Strings, Teen Strings, and Symphony magazines.


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B.I.D. Quality Award Winner Endiama is Angola's Shining Diamond
Endiama produced 8.32 million carats of diamonds in 2011, representing 1.16 billion USD in revenue, and is well positioned to capture opportunities presented by booming demand from China and India
The National Diamond Company of Angola ENDIAMA EP, was honored recently with the International Award BID 2012, in the category management model QC 100 Total Quality in Frankfurt 2012. Endiama E.P., from Angola (Empresa Nacional de Diamantes E.P.) is the national diamond state-run company with exclusive concessionary of mining rights in the domain of diamonds. Diamonds are found all over the globe, however the majority, approximately 65%, are found in Africa, creating a major industry that employs more than 38,000 people in southern Africa alone. It is said that approximately 10 million people all over the world are directly or indirectly supported by the diamond industry. Angola is the 7th largest diamond producer, accounting for 5% of the world's supply. The country's precious gems are particularly coveted for their quality in terms of size and clarity. For this reason mining contributes a significant portion to the Angolan economy, when combined with revenue from oil production, diamonds and oil make up 60% of the country's economy. Endiama produced 8.32 million carats of diamonds in 2011, representing 1.16 billion USD in revenue.
The U.S. is currently the largest buyer of diamonds at 36%, with China at 12% and India at 11%. The rising demand coming from the booming economies of China and India will no doubt drive up the price of diamonds, signaling an opportunity of Endiama. "Amid uncertainty in Europe and the U.S., we expect China to continue to support Angolan diamond sales...Angola is also "stocking up" on diamonds to support prices" said Antonio Jose Freitas, spokesman for Endiama.
The company is a leader in the industry, not only in terms of production, but also in the campaign to reform the way in which diamonds are produced so as to eradicate "conflict diamonds" and to increase sustainability. Angola has been named an indispensable partner by the President of the Kimberley Process, the joint government, industry, and civil society initiative aimed at stopping the flow of rough diamonds used by rebel movements to finance wars.
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Hillz FM
By BK • On April 29, 2014 • In Community Partners, Community Radio, Methods and Tools
Hillz FM is a community radio station in Hilfields in Coventry. It broadcasts on 98.6FM 24/7.
Volunteer broadcasters will be undertaking interviews with people who may have something to say for our project. These people are identified by volunteer broadcasters and local connections as well as through the literature on the area.
These people might include long-term residents, those who have worked in the voluntary sector in Hilfields, musicians and artists working in the area, as well as academics, policy workers and community qworkers active in the area. Included are representatives from communities, including the Afro-Caribbean community, those living on welfare, immigrants, those poorly housed and so on. We may explore the issues these people have experience of at a later date as themes and questions emerge.
The rationale for encouraging broadcasters to conduct interviews is that they know the area and its history. In particular the resident DJs have lived the community's relationship with the political economy of the Hillfields, Coventry, the West Midlands and UK, posing questions in semi-strucutred and unstructured interviews from this intimate knowledge. The first interview is also discussed here.
The first interview
By BK • On April 28, 2014 • In Community Radio, Methods and Tools
Neol Davis of The Selecter has been interviewed by Kate Hills. The forty minute interview gave me a chance to work with Kate on interviewing skills, although I can't add too much. It also gives me a chance to talk about interviewing as a process for this project.
The team at the station and I have agreed to a two-step process in interviewing. The first interview is unstructured to give us a broad understanding of the field of knowledge the interviewee has. This interview is then analysed for themes relevant to the research to follow up in a second interview. In Neol's case our initial interest is in his early music years in the early 1970's, jamming with a variety of musicians in community centres in Coventry, and the role such centres played for incubating the music that Coventry became synonymous with in the late 1970s.
The next stage is to re-interview Neol about these organisations and their role in Hillfields music scene in those days. As Kate and I go through the interview we will spot other things of interest. Perhaps the way Kate used some local knowledge or the route of questions she used in the interview.
From conducting these interviews Kate will support others at the station using thew sanme process.
And of course there is the music. Neol broadcasts on Hillz FM every Monday.
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By BK • On April 7, 2014 • In Community Radio, Methodology
Community Radio – an introduction
According to research by the Community Media Forum for Europe, an umbrella organisation of community media organisations across Europe, there are 2237 European community radio stations (CMFE, 2012). The UK has been a relative late-comer to community radio, legislated through the Community Radio Order (2004); in comparison, France legislated in 1982, Denmark in 1986, and the Netherlands in 1987 (Buckley, 2009).
The UK now has over 200 licenced community radio stations broadcasting full time on FM or AM (to an area of around 5KM in diameter), with a new station launched on average every 13 days since 2004 (Ofcom, 2012). The appetite for community radio in the UK has been described by the Chief Executive of Ofcom, Ed Richards, as 'insatiable' (Richards, 2009 in Hallett and Wilson, 2010: 10).
Community radio in the UK has been developed through a mixture of government policy and grassroots activism, with this hybridity being in part regulated by the Office for Communications (Ofcom) and legislated for in various acts of parliament, and in part by the pragmatism of grassroots activism seeking greater local community broadcasting. A licence is granted for five years, and is awarded to the organisation not to individuals and so may not be sold for personal profit. The stations themselves must be non-profit distributing but nonetheless may be owned by shareholders and not just members.
The broadcasting remit dictated by Ofcom is for public service (termed 'social gain' under New Labour to align with wider government policy). An application for a licence should outline 'social gain' objectives and annual reports to Ofcom set out how a station is achieving this. Community radio in other countries has however been legislated to provide a voice for those not represented in the mainstream, and to offer a forum for local debate. This subtle difference has created tensions over the direction community radio has taken in the UK and may have a significant bearing on how a community radio station chooses to function. One such way is in how to fund the work required to accomplish the social gain objectives agreed under the terms of a radio licence.
Core costs are mainly met commercially through training, advertising sales, sponsorship and service level agreements and through funding grants. In 2011, competitive grant funding accounted for around 37% of income, followed by advertising (21%), local authorities (13%) and other public bodies such as Arts Councils and the national lottery (8%). The community radio fund, set up to support community radio and awarded through competitive application, accounts for 3%. In comparison, a government scheme funds 100% of community radio costs in France and 80% in New Zealand, whilst the Netherlands and Switzerland share the licence fee with community radio ( and which Sweden is also considering to support its 1000 community radio stations). Australia and the USA have broadly similar approaches to the UK .
According to Ofcom, in 2011 a community radio station cost £64,500 to run (median distribution) and the mean average income was around £74,000 (Ofcom, 2011: 14-15). However, the income of the four community radio stations, a total of £1.5 million, was equal to the poorest 74 community radio stations. Exclude these four top earning stations and the mean average income drops to £54,500. This suggests most stations operated at a loss. Staffing accounts for around 50% of the cost to run a community radio station. In 2010 an Ofcom survey found that 42 of 161 stations polled had no paid staff.
The stations therefore would not survive without their volunteers to create the broadcasts. Ofcom (2012) estimates the average station has 68 weekly volunteers giving over 1000 hours per month (op cit: 5). In the UK in 2010, community radio volunteers contribute 45,000 volunteer hours producing 15,000 hours of original radio output per week across the 200 licenced stations (Ofcom, 2011: 5) with arts-based stations reporting twice the average volunteer hours per week (ibid: 36). The appetite from volunteers has not diminished: community radio stations who have been licenced for more than five years reported the highest number of volunteer hours, on average (ibid).
Volunteers occupy positions across the organisation from governance to cleaning to broadcasting, often combining many roles. Whilst they come together as advocates for community radio, most volunteers however are solo or pairs of volunteer broadcasters who, because of the voluntary nature of coming in to broadcast on a schedule, plough their broadcast furrow at the same time each week and many over a number of years.
Working with Hillz FM
Hillz FM, located in Hillfields in Coventry, has just been awarded its second five year licence by Ofcom. The studios are located within WATCH, a charity that works in Hillfields across a range of areas, from learning to activism. Hillz FM is upstairs and uses three rooms; two studios and a small office. There is also a larger general area for training, and this is also used by WATCH. It has two part-time staff members responsible for overseeing the radio station and training the volunteers. Salaries are paid from grant funding for training.
In their initial application Hillz FM stated they will broadcast 'music produced by local artists and musicians, and music for displaced communities in additional to specific genres…and less than 5% will be current chart'. Speech output will 'broadcast in community languages addressing local community issues'. The station will broadcast live for 8 hours per day. The broadcasters therefore are most likely to be people from Hillfields broadcasting to and with people from Hillfields, although the transmitter reach goes far beyond the boundaries of Hillfields.
Questions I had:
Who are the volunteers – are they local or only using the opportunity to broadcast?
How do volunteers currently operate at the station?
What is in place that can enable me to join in this current practise, rather than set something up within the station myself?
What broadcast skills do the volunteers have and how may I enhance these?
What can they contribute to thinking about the project?
How does my work contribute to the social gain objectives of the station?
I am asking volunteers to alter what they are currently doing to include the objectives of the Imagine project, which means including interviews within their broadcasts. This will involve training in both how to prepare an interview and how to conduct an interview. Moreover, volunteers may want to pursue a particular form of interview: a group interview, or one set across the length of a programme (like Desert Island Discs). They may wish to pre-record the interview rather than live, and edit the interview. Each presents different challenges.
I presented the nature of the Imagine project at several meetings at the radio station. This is re-iterated when helping volunteers develop questions and themes for their interviews, and when discussing how my involvement may develop over the next year.
Working with volunteers requires an approach that starts where they are at, not from where I think they are; a training course would not be appropriate given the diversity amongst the volunteer cohort. Instead I will work with broadcast teams to build a list of potential interviewees and work out how best to perform the interviews. From this base we can determine where skills are needed, what format of interview is appropriate and how time needs allocating. My role will be one of support, asking questions and encouraging volunteers to find the answers for the questions that they have themselves.
To this end I have located myself at Hillz FM for one day a week. This also supports other work with WATCH, including providing support to other aspects of Imagine, including the intergenerational project with ACCOL and the imaging project with the local history group.
Imagine Hillfields


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and send it flailing down stream.
in an effort to keep warm.
as they soak into the ground.
i ponder, in awe of the sudden squall.
i wonder, from where on Earth did this first come?
and across the Mediterranean Sea?
or maybe the Blue Ridges of Tennessee?
swelling up from the South?
that brews up in the Yukon North?
and i do them with a contented grin.
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Gerberoy () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France, in the old pays of Beauvaisis.

Toponymy
Gerboredum 11th Century. Germanic masculine name Gerbold and Old North French roy 'ford' (Celtic rito-, Old Welsh rit > Welsh rhyd).

A ford in the Thérain stream.

History
The old village with many half-timbered houses, and  traces of the medieval castle, is listed in the plus beaux villages de France (Most beautiful French villages).

The siege and battle of Gerberoy was fought between William the Conqueror and his son Robert Curthose in the winter of 1078–79.

See also
 Communes of the Oise department

References

Communes of Oise
Plus Beaux Villages de France

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WALTHAM – Dr. Mary Callery O'Brien, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society as the 2020 recipient of the Grant V. Rodkey Award, an honor recognizing a Massachusetts physician for outstanding contributions to medical education and medical students.
A longtime member of the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) and the Worcester District Medical Society (WDMS), O'Brien was the 2015 winner of UMass Medical School's most prestigious award for educators, the Lamar Souter Excellence in Undergraduate Medical Education Award. She was the inaugural director of the medical school's Longitudinal Preceptor Program and held that position from 1995-2005. She has directed the Physical Diagnosis program and for the last 10 years, has led one of the school's multidisciplinary learner-centered first-year courses taught by both basic scientists and clinicians. O'Brien also currently chairs the WDMS Committee on Education.
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KORBA (Chhattisgarh): Vikas Sharma today joined Vedanta-controlled Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO) as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He will be responsible for securing current business performance and will focus upon the foundation for future growth, sustainability and further enhancing the BALCO corporate brand and making BALCO a great place to work.
Sharma was warmly welcomed by senior officials – Major Kumud Kumar (Head Human Resource), Deepak Prasad (Head-Aluminium Business) and G Venkat Reddy (Head-Power) besides other officials.
Sharma offered prayers at Sri Hanuman Temple inside the premises of the 1200 MW power plant before attending the welcome formalities.
During his welcome speech, Sharma urged the senior officials to leap ahead on the growth trajectory and continual progress while keeping safety, unity and integrity as priorities.
A mechanical engineer graduate from Kota Engineering College, Sharma took over as Location Head of Chanderiya Unit of Hindustan Zinc Limited in 2012 and was gradually elevated to the position COO Smelters. During his tenure, he played integral role in the growth of the company and made significant contribution in smelter production besides building harmonious relations with stakeholders.
"With contributions, cooperation, desired mindset that works on mutual understanding, harmony, and adapting to change for right reasons, I am sure BALCO will scale new heights in the coming years", Sharma said.
Sharma has a deep interest in literature. He takes special interest in sports and cultural activities too. He is happily married to Anita Sharma and they are blessed with a son, Aviraag Sharma.


Daniel Rydh and Anna Sörenson (Sweden) have worked as an artist duo since 2014. Artists build site-specific installations centered on nature and architecture. They create temporary installation in nature, a project called "Environmental Ephemerals", and permanent installation both in commercial venues and public spaces. Artists work site specific, looking for the characteristics of the milieu they are in, pursuing a method of aesthetic anthropology.
Daniel Rydh studied fine art at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht in The Netherlands and pedagogy at Umeå University in Sweden. Anna Sörenson received her BFA from Umeå Art Academy and MFA from Pratt Institute, New York, supported by her Fulbright Scholarship. In 2014 she graduated from a.pass, a yearlong post-master program in performance art in Brussels, Belgium. Rydh /Sörenson have been invited artists-in-residence in Bains Connective, Bryssel, Belgium, Laboratory Spokane, USA and Tjørnuvík Artist House in Faroe Islands.They have been exhibited in Ten Weyngaert, the gallery space in Commune de Forest's culture center in Brussels, Saranac Art Projects in Spokane including a public installation for Window Dressing, Spokane. They have also showed works with Ed Varie in New York, USA, during NADA art fair. The shows in 2017 – "APOCALYPSE", Ed Varie, Los Angeles and The Nordic House, Faroe Islands. Read more about artists – http://danielrydh.com/ and http://annasorenson.se/. Photo – Unspecified Floating Object, no 2, second location Tjørnuvik, 2016.
Daniel Rydh and Anna Sörenson about their residency: " Our stay at Rucka was focused into one artistic main project: to make a short film. We arrived in the town of Cesis with a couple of different ideas and spent the first couple of days looking at locations and gathering our general feel for the town. We found great inspiration in the aesthetics of the town with its romantic atmosphere and magical combination of turn of the century architecture and the even older, grand structures, like the medieval castle. As we arrived during the peak of autumn the many parks and green areas in, and around, the town also provided opportunity to capture a splendid nature backdrop for the film.
Our idea for our short film "The Open World" plays out like a creation story, where it's not clear if the world is our own physical world or a digital creation. We used our idea to craft a script, a storyboard, and costume design that would use the locations as amplification method. The interior of Rucka became the residents of our main character and Rucka Park also plays an important part of the short film. Whit some assistance from our fellow artist in residence we manage to capture the essential footage in out month long stay. It was also fun way to get in contact with the other artists and their artistic projects.


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Running Time: 2hr 10min (inc. interval)
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A new theatre in the Jerwood Gallery at the Natural History Museum will be unveiled for the European premiere of award-winning drama The Wider Earth. The play, about the story of a young Charles Darwin, will then run for a limited season.
Join the 22-year-old Darwin on HMS Beagle's daring voyage to the far side of the world, and discover the gripping story behind one of the most important discoveries in history.
The Wider Earth features a cast of seven, remarkable puppetry, an original score and cinematic animations to bring to life uncharted landscapes in the theatrical event of 2018.
This is a partnership project between Trish Wadley Productions, Dead Puppet Society and the Natural History Museum.
Please patrons attending MATINEE PERFORMANCES may enter the museum through the Cromwell Road or Exhibition Road entrances. Patrons attending EVENING PERFORMANCES MUST use the Queen's Gate entrance ONLY and are advised to arrive at least 30 minutes prior to the show. Please note this production contains strobe lighting and loud noises.
Age restriction: Children under 10 will not be admitted.
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Scarcity? In THIS Economy?
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Bloomberg says that we suddenly have a shortage of everything, but the shortages are all based on predicting the future in what Vox's Emily Stewart points out is a chaos economy that no one understands during unprecedented social and political upheaval. Paul Ford looked at a book of predictions from 1980 and learned that we are bad at predicting the future even when it seems easy, like sports writer Martin Abramson's no-brainer "that by 2030 a 3,000-pound fish would be caught in Alaska with a rod." We've got 9 years, that one still seems like a lock to me.
But are there really shortages, in a seis leches world? Zero Day's Kim Zetter reported, and CNN later confirmed, that the Colonial Pipeline was shut down not for lack of gas or an inability to control it, but because Colonial's billing system was down, so it couldn't charge for the gas it could easily have delivered. The City of Philadelphia has such a surplus of "'partial bone fragments' or perhaps teeth" that it keeps finding more human remains from that time it bombed a house full of innocent people, in 1985. The Canadian province of New Brunswick has an abundance of unexplained neurodegenerative disease, similar to but not the same as CJD. In Input, Brendan Bures profiled "King Pokémon" Gary Haase, who "owns over 120 Gem Mint–graded Charizard cards," and if you don't think that's a plenitude of Gem Mint-graded Charizard cards, buddy, I have no idea what a Gem Mint-graded Charizard card even is. We'll never have a shortage of Takes, like everyone's new most-hated term "the Geriatric Millennial." And as Can Duruk writes, and the B20 scamcoin backed by Beeple's "art" helps prove, the 2020s are absolutely boom years for grift.
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Richard Montañez is a former Frito-Lay's janitor who has made a second career of claiming to have invented the freakishly addictive Flamin' Hot Cheeto. But the LA Times's Sam Dean exposed what's really on fire: Montañez's pants. In the "liar, liar" sense. No, not… listen, let's just move on. This is bad news for flamin' hot Eva Longoria, who had planned to feature Montañez's story in her directorial debut, but it's good news for the actual flamin' hot genius behind FHC, Lynne Greenfeld. Now she can finally receive her share of blame for my hungover college mornings, groggily trying to wash the red dust off my hands like a Lady Macbeth who had just murdered Mars.
Meanwhile, over in Cantitoe Corners and several edibles up, Martha Stewart took the New York Post to task for misstating the number of peacocks that live on her farm. The article has since been corrected, because Martha's fanbase is vast and ferocious (I am part of it, so I know). I'd say that Eva Longoria should pivot to developing this story, but it looks like it's already been made into a tense psychological thriller.
Surprisingly not true: it wasn't really Rod Stewart at the Instagram grifter's sweet sixteen. Let's just say it's true: the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart may have invented the term YOLO. Past lies of the future: the Moon Hoax. (No, not that one). Future lies of the past: Brian David Johnson in 2013's Slate: "As we move into a future in which we have more devices and smarter algorithms, how do we design a future that can detect harmful deception while at the same time allowing us to be the lovely lying humans we all love?" Uhhh, not sure, let's loop back to this later. And finally: the truth is out there. 👽🛸
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oh my good god. one of the highlights of the year by the Brooklyn Nets.
Alexander Chee wrote about his Dad for GQ, and Choung Tai "Charlie" Chee sounds like a real one. Emily Zhou is writing a biweekly fiction newsletter called anecdata. Here's the first one: "intimacies." This human eyeball webcam is the future David Cronenberg promised us. New Session is "a collection of queer and trans works, only accessible via telnet." <telnet issue1.anewsession.com> if you're old like me.
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Here's a very good IGN post with several ways to help the Palestinians who are currently being massacred, which the gaming media company later took down and replaced with this weak-ass both-sidesey bullshit. Similar posts by GameSpot and Kotaku remain up, at press time. If there is a shortage of anything right now, maybe it's moral clarity.
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In case you're wondering whether it might happen again, check Bloomberg, and you'll see that the default rate on bonds backed by car loans is getting close to critical levels. Currently, Dodd-Frank is there is protect against the damage, but Trump wants to remove that protection.
If you saw The Big Short, you know how this would play out, but in case you didn't, here's how it goes: a commercial bank gives a loan to someone at a really low rate because, to the bank, it's an asset they can sell to a much larger investment bank who will purchase the loan for pennies on the dollar. The commercial banks will give these loans to anyone because they know they'll get paid right away. However, when the default rate gets so high that even the large investment banks can't cover their risk, they end up losing the money. So, they can't invest in new businesses, companies backed by investment banks have to lay off workers, and this ripple effect keeps going. It doesn't matter if it's homes, cars, healthcare receivables, or anything else.
What does matter is that Donald Trump wants to minimize the protections you'd have if the banks screwed up one of their formulas and took too much risk and didn't have any money left to cover their margins. Trump is in favor of letting banks do it again!
So let's take this new bill called the Financial CHOICE Act one provision at a time as it rolls back Dodd-Frank and see the effects. It's passed the House and is now waiting for a Senate vote, and then Trump would sign it.
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BestBuy launching prepaid cards for online games	August 20, 2008
Posted by jeremyliew in business models, games, games 2.0, gaming, mmorpg, virtual goods, virtual worlds.
Although some still doubt that free to pay games have a viable business model, this month's launch of game cards at Bestbuy may change some minds. Reports Virtual Worlds News
Stardoll, Meez, AdventureQuest, and Gala-Net have all partnered with GMG Entertainment to launch individually branded prepaid cards at Best Buy. The Meez card will come with an exclusive virtual good, and Stardoll, which has previously worked with GMG Entertainment, is expanding its prepaid offerings to include a $15 card that will unlock various virtual goods.
I've noted in the past that prepaid cards at retail are an excellent way to monetize MMOG players. Earlier this year, Raph posted on the game card endcap at Target who have pioneered this category.
Sean Ryan, MEEz's CEO, notes:
So why should anyone care about old-line retail stores and physical goods when we're all selling cutting edge virtual goods? Isn't it all going to be virtual? The reason is that retail still matters a great deal, especially when addressing a somewhat unbanked audience like teenagers. We all know teens acquire an estimated $60B each year, whether it's from allowances or part-time jobs – however, they don't have an easy way to send it to their favorite virtual world or Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game company since they don't have credit cards, are not happy borrowing them from parents, and aren't as comfortable with PayPal, even though it can be linked to a checking account. Plus, teenagers still go shopping a lot, and that retail foot traffic is incredibly important since it provides another way to reach that audience when they're not online. Finally, parents or friends are more comfortable giving gift cards these days so it's easier for a teenager to ask grandpa for a $10 Meez card for graduation vs asking for cash – it's a big Win/Win for the category.
Retailers are notoriously data driven when it comes to what they will give floorspace. Music is already getting cutting back according to Silicon Alley Insider:
… the three big retailers who comprise most of the industry's sales — Best Buy (BBY), Wal-Mart (WMT) and Target (TGT) — will likely make significant cuts in the amount of floorspace they devote to CDs. We are hearing predictions of cuts that range from 20% to 40%, with Wal-Mart making the most aggressive pullbacks.
If retailers are giving shelf space to free to play games, that is a big vote of confidence in their future.
1.	Q dub - August 20, 2008
But what about the markup that retail is asking for? The 40%+ markup normally expected maybe quite difficult to stomach. Hopefully, given the minimal floorspace needed, markups are drastically lower…


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Q: How does $\Delta f$ behave where $f$ has jump discontinuities in first-order partials? In the wake of a prior question, I've solidified my understanding that for a one-dimensional function $f(x)$, when its first derivative has a jump discontinuity of height $h$ at $x_0$, we can regard the second derivative (for the purpose of eventually integrating it) as having a $\delta(x-x_0)$ factor plus a locally continuous function. What if, as in my former question, a continuous function is nonzero everywhere outside of the bounded region $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$, and its first-order partials have jump discontinuities at the boundary: how then should we derive the form of $\Delta f$ ?
My guess is that if we define $\nabla f$ on the boundary by taking the limit from inside $\Omega$, then we'll get something akin to $\Delta f = \delta(0) \| \nabla f \|$ on the boundary, and $0$ otherwise. Or is it possible that when integrating $\Delta f$ over a path hitting a single boundary point $x_0$, the resulting "$\delta$-factor" depends on what direction the path hits $x_0$?

A: Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ be a bounded domain with a $C^1$ boundary. Let $f$ be zero outside of $\Omega$ and $C^2$ inside, with $f=0$ on $\partial\Omega$. Also assume that all of the partial derivatives of $f$ extend continuously to $\partial\Omega$. Let us define
  $$
  g(x) = \begin{cases}
    \Delta f(x) &\text{if $x\in\Omega$},\\\\
    0 &\text{otherwise}.
    \end{cases}
  $$
Now, $g$ is not equal to $\Delta f$ on all of $\mathbb{R}^2$. In fact, $\Delta f$ may not even exist as a function on $\mathbb{R}^2$. But it does exist as a distribution. Let us see how $\Delta f$, the distribution, compares with $g$.
Let $\varphi$ be a smooth test function. Then
  $$
  \langle\Delta f,\varphi\rangle = \langle f,\Delta\varphi\rangle
    = \int_{\mathbb{R}^2}f(x)\Delta\varphi(x)\,dx.
  $$
Since $f=0$ outside of $\Omega$, we need only integrate over $\Omega$. We can then use Green's second identity to obtain
  $$
  \int_\Omega f(x)\Delta\varphi(x)\,dx
    = \int_\Omega g(x)\varphi(x)\,dx
    + \int_{\partial\Omega}
    (f\partial_{\bf n}\varphi - \varphi\partial_{\bf n}f)\,d\sigma,
  $$
where $\partial_{\bf n}$ is the derivative in the direction of the outward normal, and $\sigma$ is the surface measure on $\partial\Omega$. (Since we are in $\mathbb{R}^2$, this is just the arclength measure.) Since $f=0$ on $\partial\Omega$, we get
  \begin{align*}
  \langle\Delta f,\varphi\rangle
    &= \int_\Omega g\varphi\\,dx
    -\int_{\partial\Omega} (\partial_{\bf n}f)\varphi\\,d\sigma\\\\
  &= \int_{\mathbb{R}^2} g\varphi\\,dx
    -\int_{\partial\Omega} (\partial_{\bf n}f)\varphi\\,d\sigma\\\\
  &= \langle g,\varphi\rangle
    -\int_{\partial\Omega} (\partial_{\bf n}f)\varphi\\,d\sigma.
  \end{align*}
What this shows is that $\Delta f = g + \nu$, where $\nu$ is the distribution that maps $\varphi$ to
  $$
  \langle\nu,\varphi\rangle
    = -\int_{\partial\Omega} (\partial_{\bf n}f)\varphi\,d\sigma.
  $$
For example, if $\partial_{\bf n}f(x)=-1$ for all $x\in\partial\Omega$, then $\nu$ is just the surface measure on $\partial\Omega$. This is the case in the example I gave in my answer to the other question. And in that case, the surface measure on the boundary of $[0,\pi]$ in $\mathbb{R}$ is just two point masses, one at $0$ and one at $\pi$.
Lastly, to address a comment from the other question, the Laplacian is still rotationally invariant when interpreted as a distributional derivative. To prove this, we apply $\Delta f$ to a smooth test function, then move the Laplacian over to the test function (where it acts in the classical way), and then utilize the rotational invariance of the classical Laplacian.
A fairly short and accessible reference for tempered distributions, which is free online, is Chapter 11 of Applied Analysis by Hunter and Nachtergaele. Also, there is a chapter on the Laplace operator in Folland.
Edit:
To address the question in the comments, the Radon transform of a tempered distribution is defined by $\langle Rf,\varphi\rangle=\langle f,R^*\varphi\rangle$. More precisely, it is $\langle Rf,\varphi\rangle_{S^1\times\mathbb{R}}=\langle f,R^*\varphi\rangle_{\mathbb{R}^2}$. The inner product on the right is the usual $L^2$ inner product on $\mathbb{R}^2$; the inner product on the left is defined by
  $$
  \langle f,g\rangle_{S^1\times\mathbb{R}}
    = \frac1{2\pi}\int_0^{2\pi}\int_{\mathbb{R}}
    f(\theta,s)g(\theta,s)\,ds\,d\theta.
  $$
It follows that
  \begin{align*}
  \langle R(\Delta f),\varphi\rangle
    &= \langle \Delta f,R^\*\varphi\rangle
    = \langle f,\Delta(R^\*\varphi)\rangle\\\\
  &= \langle f,R^\*(\partial_s^2\varphi)\rangle
    = \langle Rf,\partial_s^2\varphi\rangle
    = \langle \partial_s^2(Rf),\varphi\rangle,
  \end{align*}
and so $R(\Delta f)=\partial_s^2(Rf)$, even in the distributional sense.
What is relevant for your other question is how to compute $R\nu$. My guess is that you are asking if
  $$
  R\nu = -\sum_{x\in\partial\Omega\cap L}\partial_{\bf n}f(x).
  $$
The intuition behind this formula does not work, because it does not account for the angle between $L$ and $\partial\Omega$ at the point of intersection. I will leave it as an exercise to show that if $\sigma$ is the arclength measure on $S^1$, that is, if
  $$
  \langle\sigma,\varphi\rangle = \int_0^{2\pi}\varphi(e^{i\theta})\,d\theta,
  $$
then
  $$
  R\sigma(\theta,s) = 2\frac1{\sqrt{1 - s^2}}\chi_{[-1,1]}(s).
  $$
The $2$ comes from the two points where the line intersects the circle, and the factor of $|1-s^2|^{-1/2}$ comes from the angle of intersection. If $L$ is the line corresponding to $(\theta,s)$ and $\alpha(L)\in[0,\pi/2]$ is the angle with which $L$ intersects $S^1$, then $|s|=\cos\alpha(L)$. We therefore have
  $$
  R\sigma(\theta,s) = 2\csc\alpha(L)\chi_{[-1,1]}(s).
  $$
The natural generalization to $\nu$ would be
  $$
  R\nu(L) = -\sum_{x\in\partial\Omega\cap L}
    \partial_{\bf n}f(x)\csc\alpha(x),
  $$
where, for $x\in\partial\Omega\cap L$, we define $\alpha(x)\in[0,\pi/2]$ to be the angle of intersection between $L$ and the tangent line to $\partial\Omega$ at $x$.

A: Let the boundary $S=\partial \Omega$ be smooth enough. Applying the second Green's formula for test function $\varphi$ we get
$$
\int_{\mathbb R^n}(f\Delta \varphi -\Delta f\varphi)\mathrm dx=
\int_{\Omega}(f\Delta \varphi -\Delta f\varphi)\mathrm dx=
$$
$$
\int_{S}\left(f\frac{\partial \varphi}{\partial\bar n}-
\varphi\frac{\partial f}{\partial \bar n}\right)\mathrm dx=
-\int_{S}\frac{\partial f}{\partial\bar n}\mathrm dx,
$$
where $\bar n$ is the unit outword normal to $S$. So in the sense of distributions $\Delta f=\{\Delta f\}-\frac{\partial\Delta f^+}{\partial\bar n}\delta_S$, where $\{\Delta f\}$ is  $\Delta f$ outside $S$. The derivative in the last term is the limite values of $ \frac{\partial\Delta f}{\partial\bar n}$ inside the domain.

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I've been hustling the last week to catch up on summer projects before the first autumnal rains hit tomorrow. The rains will be much appreciated by the poor, fire-scorched people east of the mountains; what a terrible summer they've had!
Even here, near the coast, a real rain will be a blessing for downing dust and cleaning sometimes-smoky air.
Normally, sea breezes keep our air clean, but it's been eye-stinging a couple of times this week. I can only imagine what the poor east-of-the-mountains folk have been enduring.
I apologize to the Commentariat members who left interesting or helpful remarks I should have replied to. But I've been outside hammering, sawing, caulking, and painting. Cussing, too, of course. But only minimally because this week's two projects went pretty well and I'm amazed that after nearly two idle months with a broken ankle I'm as caught up on house projects as I am.
The last three days I was up on a roof, though. Ugh. That part I could have done without.
It was no big deal, really. That section of roof is nearly flat and only about nine feet off the ground, so the job itself — scraping and painting a peak of the house and putting a cedar trim strip over the edge of the torch-down roofing — wasn't all that perilous. I had plenty of room to stand, walk around, and stage equipment and materials. But knowing I had to take the first step back onto the ladder to descend freaked me out. Just thinking about it. Hate that part.
The first and third days I worked up there were cloudy and pleasant and no problem. The second day the sun baked the tarry black roofing — and me. Heat and fumes had me light-headed. I also had to do the "scariest" work that day, including cutting off some protruding bolt-ends and a piece of conduit for a satellite dish that's no longer there. This was only my second time ever using an angle grinder. Though I marvel at what short work it makes of metal, the device totally intimidates me.
Metal shrieks! Sparks fly! Piercing bits of fire fall into my hair and onto my arms. I'm wearing goggles, of course, to protect eyes from stray metal bits, but you'd have to bundle up in a spacesuit to avoid all the sparks. They do no harm, but they definitely sting. And such high drama! That tortured metalic screaming. That flying fire. Those oweys. The risk of burning the whole place down (never mind that the risk is miniscule and I had a bucket of water beside me). Even though I did the cut-off work and other snall, stressful stuff first thing and only had to do the EZ second coat of paint after that. I felt out of balance all morning.
And I'm such a wuss. So that noon, hot and light-headed and freaked out, I go to climb down the ladder. And I can't. I just can't bring myself to do it. I try to step onto the nice, sturdy extension ladder borrowed from a neighbor, and my feet refuse.
I take a breath, walk back over to the wall I've been working at and inspect progress (merely for something to do). I take a drink of water. I walk back over to the ladder … and still no go. I picture myself, broken, on the driveway below.
I spot a young neighbor outside by his car and consider calling him over to help me down. And with that, I realize I'm just being silly. I climb onto the ladder and go down, no problem. But back in the house, it takes me 15 minutes and a large glass of sugary ice tea before I quit shaking.
The next day I have to go up and down several times and I'm perfectly fine.
Still glad that job's over with, though!
Oh, been there done that. I've been frozen with fear on a roof next to a perfectly good ladder I had no trouble exiting, but couldn't bring myself to re…um, get back onto. Absolutely certain the ground will lose all friction and the ladder will slide right off the earth with me on it, and then gravity will squash me like a bug. Aware that it's silly. Stuck there anyway. Geez, I hate that.
Joel — I thought of you and your recent adventures while writing about this. Yep, you've described exactly the fear. It's not getting onto the roof. It's not even being high up on a ladder. It's that one moment of stepping from roof to ladder. Glad I'm in good company. But those moments of being stuck are as embarrassing as they are silly.
When I was a kid I'd frequently get stuck in my grandfather's hayloft for hours at a time, because I couldn't make myself take that first step back on the ladder. The ladder was built in such a way that there was nothing to hang on to at the top. Just the floor covered in slippery hay, and the trust that the step you couldn't see would be there, but in order to reach it you had to shift enough of your weight over the edge that there was no going back . . .
Nobody who's been there is going to laugh at you for it.
Congratulations. Asphalt roofing is #1 on my list of jobs I never want to have again even if I'm starving.
For any task like that a small 1A/10BC fire extinguisher is a much better choice. Handier, more directional, multiple shots, won't spill even if you knock it over, plays well with electricity, usually causes less damage and mess. If you're moving around you can rig a sling to keep one handy. There should be one in your kitchen anyway.
We had our own brush fire in the west end of the county, though not as big. 18-wheeler lost a tire and sparks from the rim caught in the grass beside the road. Getting into the season.
And yeah, I HATE that first step off the roof. Though I see myself going over backwards so the ladder lands on top of me.
One of the things that I learned early on in life is that gravity is not my friend. I know from experience how hard that first grasp of the ladder is when starting the decent to terra firma. There are just so many things that can go wrong. Courage is when you act even though your actions scare the crap out of you. Your actions, you and Joel both, show just how courageous you are.
LarryA — Oh, I've got four fire extinguishers in the house. The bucket of water was actually for paint brushes (that job on the house peak involved four colors and I didn't want to climb down to rinse brushes). But true, I didn't think of taking a fire extinguisher up there for that sparky work.
Glad to know others don't like that first step, either! But I can't claim any courage, MJR. It was more like not wanting to embarrass myself.
Urk! What even made you get up there in the first place? I think grandpa would have had to come get me with a forklift!
My dad fell off the roof years ago as he was getting on or off the ladder. He got entangled in the ladder as he fell and lay by the house for a while before he finally crawled to the door and hollered for help. (It was a Saturday morning and my sisters and I were watching cartoons.) He had split his heel bone longitudinally when he hit the concrete at the bottom.
After that, I was the designated roof person at the house. I have a fear of heights, but I guess not too terrible. My dad installed a handle on the roof to help him get on and off (he froze up going either direction after the fall), but he ended up not using it much since I was the one doing the roof stuff.
Kent — Well, thank you so much for confirming everybody's "silly" fears. Can't tell you how much I appreciate that.
Pretty good, though, that you were willing and able to become the designated "roof stooge" after seeing what happened to your dad. Handle. Hmmmm.
I have the same fear of ladders. Not afraid of heights, just afraid of falling. Worst day was climbing a ladder into a gun tower that was swaying in the wind.
Several people that I know have fallen from ladders and hurt themselves badly–one succeeded in shattering his heel bone. I at one time climbed in and out of a hayloft without fear, but I started up a forest service with friends one day and was terrified. That began a fear of heights. Now I am even apprehensive when I get on a short ladder to get things from high shelves. I was once taken to the observation tower at the University of Texas library and was convinced that the thing was sloping outward. The waist-high brick around it was no comfort. That was a step toward getting rid of the UT boyfriend since he thought it was funny!
Here is a tip that works for me: When I first go up, off that top step, I remember how and where I placed my hands and feet. Going back down, I put them in the same position. Somehow it is easier knowing you are just reversing your previous action.
Another tip: get a good ladder. The aftermarket bars that go across the top of extension ladders also add a ton of stability. A good ladder might look expensive until you compare it with the cost of a fall. A ladder is a good thing to share with a neighbor.
Thanks for the weather tip by the way. It made me jump up and start out blowing out my gutters (I use a leaf blower, it is fast and easy). Sure is easier when it is dry. We are supposed to get rain tomorrow too.
I'm glad you handled your problem. Sounds like dehydration or hypoglycemia or both. A nine foot fall on a healing ankle, if you're lucky enough to land on your feet, isn't trivial. You had every reason to be concerned.
Dr. Shel — I think you've got the diagnosis exactly right.
Paul — No way to aim the sparks from the angle grinder. Working in a very tight space under eaves and right next to a corbel.
Mary — Thanks for even more ladder-related cheer. 😉 And good job dumping the sadistic boyfriend.
Matt — IMHO, the swaying tower might have been scarier than the ladder to get up there. Hope it was worth it.
Nowadays when I go up on the roof, even though I have a good ladder, I always have a strong rope anchored to a tree on the other side of the cabin and really like the feeling of holding on to it when I make that first step on or off the ladder. Even on the roof I keep that rope in hand or close. Of course I might end up hanging myself but I'm pretty careful about that also.
Claire, you're way ahead of me that you could go up the ladder and step off onto the roof! Yesterday I took a friend to the hospital for a knee replacement. The waiting room had an opening to view a lovely garden area on the lower floors and I couldn't even get within 3 feet of the railing to look, even tho the railing came up to my arm pits. I just knew I'd get sucked over the railing and thrown to the ground. Fortunately, the comfy reading chairs were sufficiently far from the railing that it couldn't reach me.
PS: The house is looking fabulous! and thanks for sharing the picture of Robbie.
Another tip: get a good ladder.
Good advice for any tool.
Several years ago we had two teenage girls living up the street. They decided they wanted some money, so they went around the neighborhood offering to wash windows. (Their parents were our kind of folks.) Of course we said yes.
They told us they needed a ladder. And not a small ladder, but a big ladder. So I reached for my 16-foot extension. Their eyes went real wide. "Not that big." We settled on my 6-foot stepladder.
To them a "small ladder" was a kitchen stepstool.
I suppose, one of these days, I really should grow up.


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Ubisoft E3 2015 Press Conference: Everything you need to know
Ubisoft also had a number of announcements at their E3 2015 press conference. From showing off new gameplay from Assassin's Creed Syndicate to a new original game, For Honor.
New gameplay for Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Assassin's Creed Syndicate was previously announced last month at it's own online event. At E3 2015, Ubisoft showed off some new gameplay.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands
The game is a open-world action game. It's about a US Special Forces team that is tasked with taking down drug cartels. So far no release date or year has been announced but you can expect this to come to at least Xbox One, PS4 and PC.
A sequel to 2014's South Park: The Stick of Truth has been announced. This game is about superheroes instead of fantasy theme from the first game. This game is being developed by Ubisoft San Francisco instead of Obsidian Entertainment.
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Vermont Towns Protect Wildlife and Vote 'No' on Tar Sands
Annie Mackin | Last Updated: January 8, 2016
The pipeline passes through Barton, crossing Barton River and running alongside Crystal Lake. Barton is one of 13 towns to pass resolutions opposing tar sands.
Town Meeting Day 2014 was a great day in the continued fight to keep tar sands out of Vermont and protect wildlife like moose from this dirty oil. When people from around the state gathered in our time-honored tradition of direct democracy, 13 towns voted to take a stand against the possibility of toxic tar sands being transported through an aging pipeline in the Northeast Kingdom, or by any other means.
The Northeast Kingdom speaks up
Perhaps the most telling part of this news is where the towns are: The majority of towns who considered and passed these resolutions are in the Northeast Kingdom, some of them crossed by the 60-year-old pipeline itself.
The towns who passed tar sands free resolutions include Albany, Barton, Charleston, Glover, Hartland, Jay, Richmond, Shelburne, Stannard, Strafford, Sutton, Westmore and Wheelock.
To date, 42 Vermont towns have called on our leaders to stand up for the state's waters, wildlife, farms, and future against tar sands transport—making Vermont a leader in the fight to keep tar sands out of our state and the Portland-Montreal pipeline, a fight in which we are joined by New Hampshire and Maine.
Direct democracy, discussion among neighbors
Sutton, where the pumping station for the pipeline in Vermont is located, passed the resolution after some discussion.
David Tucker spoke in favor, and said the conversation among neighbors was helpful. "Sutton voters don't want to be overlooked," he said. "Our town's natural beauty is valuable to us, and we don't want even the possibility of an environmental accident here to be ignored just because we are such a small town.
"The people I talked with wanted to make sure that we raised our voices so that our town is recognized as our home, and not just an irrelevant place on the map," he added.
Towns cited the threat that would be posed by a spill of the substance, which behaves differently than conventional crude oil when it spills into water, and is extremely costly and difficult to clean up. Residents in several towns spent the winter gathering signatures to get the resolution officially warned for town meeting; others introduced it at the meetings as new business.
"I got a whole lot of signatures at the Glover recycling center one cold Saturday morning," said Linda Elbow, who worked to get the resolution on the warning for Glover's meeting, where it passed. "And it was worth it."
What about a spill?
Transporting tar sands through Vermont would directly threaten the moose, fish and birds that rely on clean water to survive. Photo donated by National Wildlife Photo Contest entrant Marin Packer.
The Portland-Montreal pipeline runs from Portland, Maine, northward to Montreal. The company that operates the pipeline has expressed interest in reversing its flow and using it to transport diluted tar sands bitumen – a form of heavy crude that must be strip mined or drained from the earth in a process similar to fracking, then diluted with chemicals to be pumped through pipelines – from Alberta's tar sands deposits and south through New England.
The pipeline intersects the Missisquoi, Connecticut and Barton Rivers, the significant wildlife habitat Victory Bog, many streams and fields, and runs beside Crystal Lake.
The company which operates the pipeline, Exxon-owned Portland Pipe Line Corp., has in the past stated that it could change the use of the pipeline without getting approval from anyone. Although the State Department put the company on notice last year that it would in fact have to notify the federal government of any proposed changes, it stopped short of requiring the Presidential Permit and full environmental analysis the towns called for in their resolutions on Tuesday.
"These resolutions are the result of Vermonters up and down the pipeline, and from every corner of the state, getting informed about tar sands and spreading the word to their neighbors," said 350 Vermont's Jade Walker. "Once people find out the devastation and pollution caused by tar sands extraction and transport– combined with the unique difficulty of cleaning up spills where they have occurred – they want nothing to do with it."
Not only does tar sands extraction devastate wildlife habitat at the source in Alberta, transporting tar sands through Vermont would directly threaten the moose, fish and birds that rely on clean water to survive.
Help protect wildlife like moose and whooping cranes. Tell the State Department to reject the Northeast Tar Sands pipeline.
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Home Commodities China Communication Construction Company to construct Rs 15 billion Eastbay Expressway
China Communication Construction Company to construct Rs 15 billion Eastbay Expressway
According to a Dawn News report, a memorandum was signed earlier on Sunday between China Communication Construction Company and Government of Pakistan regarding a construction of an Expressway. The Minister of Trade and Shipping announced that that, the company (CCCC) will construct a 19.5 kilometer expressway in Baluchistan.
The agreement of Rs 15 Billion loan is an interest free finance, said the Minster for Ports and Shipping, Mr. Jafar Iqbal. Under the agreement, the company will construct a two lane expressway which will be constructed to facilitate Gwadar Port. The project will fall under the umbrella of China Pakistan Economic Corridor. (CPEC).
The Minster also said that, the Gwadar Port will start operations from 18th of October. Highlighting the future plans, he said that a new Airport with Pakistan's longest runway will also be constructed with an estimated cost of Rs. 18-20 billion with the help of Chinese grants.
Furthermore, the Gwadar Port Authority will construct a Business Centre in the Free Trade Zone which is expected to be completed within next two years. The business compound will hold Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC), Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and other emigration and relevant offices.
In addition to these projects, Mr. Jaffer said that PNSC is in process to construct oil tanks in an effort to expand oil storage capabilities at Gwadar by 120,000 tonnes with an estimated cost of Rs. 3.75 billion.
PNSC and the government will contribute 50/50 percent in the project.
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My name is Katrina, and I am a 28 year old book nerd trying to make it in the world. I am currently living in Los Angeles, but always looking for a new adventure.
I started this blog back in 2015 because I wanted to express my appreciation for all of the amazing novels I have discovered and read. Books are my passion, and I wanted the world to know. Hopefully you enjoy my thoughts and enthusiasm… and if not, well then it's just not for you (and that's ok).
On a personal note – I love buying books and finding new worlds and stories to escape into. My days off are spent reading on the couch or in bed with a cup of coffee or cocoa. I seem to be running out of bookshelves constantly, but I was the little girl who grew up watching Beauty and the Beast knowing that one day I would have my own library like the one in the castle. Growing up my heroes were Hermione, Violet Baudelaire, Rory Gilmore, and Beauty – notice any trends here…?
I am currently work in the tech industry, so this has become my outlet. Of course I will always talk about books, but I find that my posts have been branching out. In addition to book recommendations, you will also start seeing more pieces on travel and maybe even a few real world advice articles. You never know what I might decide to share, so I recommend subscribing.
Growing up, I never knew anyone who loved to read as much as I did. Even within my immediate family there is nobody who is as avid of a reader as I am. I have many friends and family members who enjoy reading, but only a few who understand the need to binge read a series or rush to the book store to buy a book on release day.
I remember going to all of the Harry Potter book release parties, and found myself returning to Barnes & Noble daily when I discovered A Series of Unfortunate Events but my mom made me buy them one at a time. My first adult fiction was The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and it provoked an obsession with history and vampire myths. However, it has always been a very personal journey for me. I never really shared this passion with others.
Then, back in October of 2015, I discovered the #bookstagram community. This was the first time I found myself surrounded (digitally) with people who were as obsessed with reading as I was. I discovered bookish candles, and specialty bookmark shops on Etsy. I would wake up, look at Instagram, and would essentially watch the world wake up with books. Everyone posted in their morning (for the most part), so I would read IG posts talking about how someone's day or morning was going. There was something very enchanting about it.
The algorithm has since changed the structure of this community, but I love how many people I have met who are as obsessed with reading and finding new books as I am. Here I am though! Somewhere along the way I found my voice. I love talking about books. Most of my reviews will be pretty superficial in terms of plot points or explaining characters. This is partly a fear of spoiling a book for anyone, and partly because my love for books comes out with a very child-like enthusiasm…. and I wasn't an English major so I don't consider myself someone who should be dissecting plot points.
Everything you will read about books is entirely from the heart and genuine.


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Home / Updates / Anthropology Professor Aalyia Sadruddin Awarded Johnston Teaching Excellence Award
Anthropology Professor Aalyia Sadruddin Awarded Johnston Teaching Excellence Award
The word "inspiring" comes up again and again when describing Prof. Sadruddin. Only in her second year at UNC, Prof. Sadruddin has revealed herself to be a passionate, engaging professor who has already touched many students' lives, not only in her approach to teaching, but in the sincere care she shows her students. Testimonials point to her inclusivity and making students feel "seen and heard" in a way they had not experienced before. Despite her short tenure, she has managed to make an impact on students' career choices and left a permanent imprint on how they view the world. She is clearly someone who inspires emulation. Her Chair spoke of her in glowing terms and said that Prof. Sadruddin's courses are among the most popular in the department. She also said that Prof. Sadruddin's job talk brought the audience to tears, it was so moving.
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The National Health Service was born on 5 July 1948. Labour health secretary Aneurin Bevan officially launched the NHS seventy years ago today.
At the time, healthcare had been a luxury many of us could not afford. Thousands of people died every year from diseases like tuberculosis, polio and diphtheria. But Aneurin said that:
"No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means."
The NHS was created on the principle that proper healthcare should be easily accessible to all, regardless of who a person is or how much money they have. It was the first time anywhere in the world that healthcare was offered free at the point of use for everyone. And never before had doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, opticians and hospitals come together to work as one.
Wishing the NHS a very happy 70th birthday! From all the Paintings in Hospitals staff team from across the country.
Throughout its history, the NHS has transformed healthcare and pioneered new research and treatments. It is thanks to the NHS that diseases like polio have been eradicated from the UK, and that vaccines continue to protect us from diphtheria and meningitis C. The NHS performed the first successful kidney, heart and bone marrow transplants. As well as the first successful IVF, resulting in Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby. The list goes on!
Seven decades later and today all our staff team at Paintings in Hospitals are coming together to celebrate this incredible institution.
In April 1948, just before the NHS officially began, the World Health Organisation constitution defined 'health' as:
"a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
We know that the arts can play a huge part in this wider view of our health. And in a similar way to Aneurin Bevan, we believe that no one should be denied access to art because of a lack of means.
Paintings in Hospitals founder, Sheridan Russell, was already working at the National Hospital when the NHS began. And officially since 1959, Paintings in Hospitals as a charity has aimed to help the NHS in the best way we know how.
For nearly 60 years, we have dedicated our mission to help ease the stress, anxiety and depression of NHS staff, offering them the health and wellbeing benefits of art, while they care for us. Our art collection has helped millions of patients and their families to make the best of NHS care by supporting them in their recovery and mental health. And thousands of patients, staff and visitors have found encouragement and empowerment in our art tours, talks and activities.
As Paintings in Hospitals approaches our own 60th anniversary next year, we know that the NHS is under more pressure than it ever has been before.
We promise that we will continue to support the NHS, the wellbeing of its patients and its staff, for many more years to come. Because we believe it deserves no less.
Contact us now if you want to get involved...
See our full countdown of '70 Ways Art Improves Our Health' here...
Published: 5th July, 2018
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Number 4 in our countdown of '70 Ways Art Improves Our Health' highlights how art can help us cope with loss…
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Number 6 in our countdown of '70 Ways Art Improves Our Health' highlights how art can build our resilience to work stress…


The devil never comes at you with facts. Instead, he comes at you with F.E.A.R., which stands for False Evidence Appearing Real. As the Father of Lies, he cannot repeat any truth. In fact, he cannot remain in the presence of truth. If you find yourself overwhelm with F.E.A.R., fight back. Wield the double-edge sword of the Word of God. Speak it. Sing it. Proclaim it. As a believer in Jesus Christ, you have access to the Lord's power and authority. The devil wants you to remain in F.E.A.R. and he'll do everything he can to convince you that you are powerless to resist him. But that isn't true. You have the power, through the blood of Jesus shed on the cross for your sins, to defeat the devil. When he comes at you, come against him with the Word of God. He must (and will) flee because he is the one who is powerless to resist.


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Upenyu Mashangwa
Upenyu Mashangwa is a Zimbabwean entrepreneur and co-founder of Oceane Cllection Perfumes.
3 Business Career
4 Emmanuel Makandiwa Lawsuit
5.1 Botched Stands Deal
He has four children; has four children; Tariro, Clive, Emmanuel, and Zoe, with his ex-wife Blessing Muzvongi.[1]
He learnt at Hartzell High School where he got the nickname Ocean after Ocean Sommers of the 1993 TV mini-series Trade Winds.The nickname is where the name Oceane was derived from.[2]
He co-founded Oceane Perfumes in 2005 after he pushed his then wife Blessing towards building their own brand.[1] Mashangwa also owns Carmeco Investments Pvt Ltd. [3]
Emmanuel Makandiwa Lawsuit
In August 2017, Blessing and Upenyu Mashangwa sued Makandiwa and his wife for US$6,5million over alleged false prophecies. However, Makandiwa sought an exception, arguing that matters of faith could not be handled by a secular court and the High Court Dismissed Makandiwa's Application and said He Must Answer For "False Prophecies"
The Supreme Court reserved judgement in the case.[4]
Botched Stands Deal
Upenyu Mashangwe and his then wife Blessing were taken to court by Jemina Gumbo in 2015 over a botched stands deal. Gumbo who is the Founder and Trustee of Nemaji Family Trust took the couple to the High Court seeking to recover $800 000 she had paid in a botched stand deal.
Gumbo was demanding refund plus interest for the stand in Marlborough, measuring 7 581 square metres from the couple. The matter was brought before Happias Zhou in May 2015 in a bid to thrash an out-of-court settlement, but the parties could not find common ground.
Gumbo claimed that after signing an agreement of sale, she paid $800 000 to Upenyu and Blessing Mashangwa's account with Macdowells International Properties Investments (Pvt) Ltd.
At the time, Macdowells operated business as a micro-finance and investment company.
The company was closed by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and placed under judicial management. The Mushangwas acknowledged receipt of the money. However, in February 2013, the couple cancelled the agreement of sale, saying they had not received the purchase price from Macdowells, which had been shut down.
Gumbo further claimed that she confronted the couple for cancelling the agreement and both parties agreed to terms on how the former magistrate would be refunded her money.
After the couple obtained the judgment for the payment of more than $1,6 million from Macdowells, it stopped communicating with Ms Gumbo, reneging on the promise to honour its obligation.[3]
↑ 1.0 1.1 Brains behind Oceane Collection Perfumes, H-Metro, Published: March 20, 2017, Retrieved: December 16, 2020
↑ Ruth Butaumocho, Mashangwa: Fragrance connoisseur with golden heart, The Herald, Published: July 26, 2016, Retrieved: December 16, 2020
↑ 3.0 3.1 Former magistrate in stand wrangle, The Herald, Published: June 4, 2015, Retrieved: December 17, 2020
↑ Mary Taruvinga, Judgement reserved in $6,5 million Makandiwa 'false prophecy' suit, NewZimbabwe.com, Published: November 12, 2019, Retrieved: December 17, 2020
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Q: Event programming with PHP and MySQL I'm building a newsletter application and I want to implement a feature that will allow users to program when their message will be delivered. For example to be able to deliver a message at 12:32 PM on 01/02/2013. I read about events in MySQL, but this doesn't solve my problem.
The only solution that comes to mind is to set up a cron script to run every minute and check if there's a message programmed. If it is, then deliver the message and perform any additional tasks.
Any other idea?

A: Crontab is your friend. Examples of cron jobs

A: As an alternative to a cron job polling your mysql database every minute, you could try using a task queue like beanstalk which allows you to launch asynchronous jobs. It allows you to specify a delay before a task is run, so you could convert the time the user specifies that the job should be run to the relative delay. You could then provide an interface to the user to have control over the jobs that they scheduled, if they want to cancel them. Really, for this purpose, if there aren't many, many jobs that are going to be scheduled this way, and your mysql table is relatively small, it's probably simpler to go the mysql/cron route.


The judgment of the Upper Tribunal in Moneke (EEA -OFMs) Nigeria  UKUT 00341 (IAC) was promulgated on 22 August 2011. The case is concerned with entitlement of "other family members" (or extended family members) of EEA nationals to benefit from the right of residence in line with the provisions of Article 3(2) of Directive 2004/38/EC.
Blake J, President of the Upper Tribunal, clarified that the requirement to demonstrate that the non-EEA national extended family member had resided in the same household as the UK based Sponsor is an alternative, not cumulative requirement, to demonstrating dependence. In other words, the person claiming to be "other family member" can be either dependant of the UK based sponsor, or a member of his household prior to arrival in the UK. Dependency or membership of a household that preceded the sponsor becoming an EEA national would not be sufficient.
The judgment gives a much more generous interpretation of Article 3(2) of the European Directive and we believe that a considerable number of applicants will benefit from this welcome development in the interpretation of the EU law.


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UW–Madison finalizing plans to provide COVID-19 vaccine to eligible students and employees
December 17, 2020 By Kelly April Tyrrell
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This week, in a historic moment nine months into the pandemic, the first COVID-19 vaccines arrived at UW Health. Pending approval by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, University Health Services will manage the process of administering vaccines to frontline health care workers and other individuals at UW–Madison who are eligible for the initial phase of vaccination, or Phase 1a.
Phase 1a includes health care workers and employees in direct contact with COVID-19 patients or who have direct contact with the virus or virus specimens. UW–Madison employees and students who are not dual appointees at UW Health but meet these criteria should have received an email from University Health Services on Wednesday, Dec. 16. Phase 1a eligible employees and students should check their wisc.edu email regularly for information about vaccination and scheduling.
Employees with UW Health appointments will be included in UW Health's vaccination efforts and will not receive an email from UHS.
Anyone who believes they should be vaccinated under Phase 1a because they meet the criteria above but who do not receive an email from UHS by Friday, Dec. 18 should contact uhs@uhs.wisc.edu. Include the subject line "Phase 1a eligibility" and provide your full name, contact information and a description of your eligibility. Only those who meet the criteria established by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services will be approved for Phase 1a.
The university is committed to distributing available vaccines to our community equitably, safely and effectively.
With input from medical and public health experts, UW–Madison is also identifying individuals who may qualify for the next round of vaccination. These decisions depend on the availability of the vaccine and on final guidance from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the federal government.
As vaccine supply increases in the coming weeks and months, more UW–Madison employees and students will become eligible, though widespread vaccine availability is likely to be several months away.
All individuals are encouraged to seek the vaccine when they become eligible, though the vaccine is not currently mandatory. Vaccination is expected to help achieve herd immunity, in which a sufficient number of people are protected from the virus that causes COVID-19 and it is limited from spreading to vulnerable people.
Everyone in the UW–Madison community should continue to do their part to keep people with whom they may come into contact safe from the virus by wearing face coverings in public, maintaining physical distance, avoiding gatherings with people they don't live with and frequent hand washing.
About the Vaccine
The Pfizer vaccine must be administered in two doses to confer protection. While some people will not have any side effects from the vaccine, others may experience symptoms such as headache and mild fever. For more information about these side effects and to read more FAQs, visit: uhs.wisc.edu/medical/covid19vaccine/.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine under Emergency Use Authorization on Dec. 11, 2020. The company Moderna has also submitted an application to the FDA for emergency use authorization. UW–Madison may receive either of these vaccines, and both require two doses for full protection.
Several other vaccine candidates are in clinical trials, including one from Astra Zeneca that is undergoing clinical trial investigation at UW–Madison and UW Health.
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Els 200 metres masculins al Campionat del Món d'atletisme de 2009 van tenir lloc a l'Estadi Olímpic de Berlín els dies 18, 19 i 20 d'agost.

Els favorits de la prova eren Tyson Gay i Usain Bolt. Gay va començar la competició com actual campió, posseïdor del rècord dels Campionats i de la millor marca mundial de l'any amb 19.58 segons. Bolt, campió olímpic i amb el rècord del món, tenia una millor marca de la temporada de 19.59 segons. L'última vegada que els dos atletes van córrer a la mateixa cursa va ser als Campionats del Món de 2007 a Osaka, quan Gay va guanyar a Bolt per 0.15 segons. El medallista de bronze a Osaka, Wallace Spearmon, era l'altre atleta que havia corregut per davall de 20 segons eixa temporada.

Després de lesionar-se l'engonal durant la cursa dels 100 metres dos dies abans, Gay no va participar en la prova. L'abandonament també de Dwain Chambers, Churandy Martina i Jaysuma Saidy Ndure van reduir la qualitat de la prova.
No va haver-hi sorpreses en les sèries, on Crawford, Mullings, Robert Hering i Martial Mbandjock van ser els més ràpids, i Mullings va ser el més ràpid als quarts de final, que tampoc van veure cap favorit eliminat. En el segon dia de competició, Bolt i Spearmon van ser els guanyadors de les dues semifinals, mentre que el tercer més ràpid, Alonso Edward, de dinou anys, va demostrar que tenia possibilitats de guanyar medalla.

A la cursa final, Usain Bolt, el clar favorit, va tornar a batre un altre rècord mundial, quatre dies després de fer-ho amb el dels 100 metres. Amb el temps de reacció més ràpid de tots els finalistes, Bolt va millorar el seu rècord de 19.30 en onze centèsimes, deixant el nou rècord en 19.19 segons. Crawford, el segon més ràpid a la corba, va ser avançat per Edward i Spearmon i va acabar quart. Edward va millorar el seu temps i va marcar un nou rècord d'Amèrica del Sud, amb 19.81, i Spearmon va ser tercer amb 19.85 segons.

Malgrat que no es va poder veure la cursa entre Gay i Bolt, el rècord del món de Bolt de 19.19 segons va ser un dels moments àlgids del Campionat. La qualitat de la prova va ser molt alta: Edward va millorar de 20.62 a 19.81 segons en només un any, convertint-se en l'atleta de 19 anys amb millor temps de la història en 200 metres (rècord que tenia Bolt). A més, amb Crawford marcant 19.89 segons, la final va ser la primera cursa de 200 metres de la història amb quatre atletes per sota de 19.90 segons. El marge de victòria de 0.62 segons de Bolt sobre el segon classificat va ser el més gran de la història dels Campionats del Món. Va rebre un bonus de 100.000 dòlars per la seva actuació, que va ser 0.13 segons més ràpida que el rècord que tenia Michael Johnson, considerat un dels millors rècords de la història de l'atletisme.

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Els quatre primeres de cada sèrie (Q) es classificaven per a la final.

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Els tres primers de cada sèrie (Q) més els quatre millors temps (q) es classificaven per semifinals.

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Els tres primers de cada sèrie (Q) més els cinc millors temps (q) es classificaven per als quarts de final.

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This is a true account of a medically documented healing miracle of a woman diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer that had metastasized into her bones, organs and lymph nodes. Given anywhere from three weeks to ninety days to live, through her faith, she was able to find healing without chemotherapy, radiation or surgery. Years later, Shirley is still living free from all cancer and is totally restored.
The promises found in the Word of God are for all those who believe upon Jesus as their Lord - no matter what they have done in the past, whether they have served God all of their life or just cried out to Jesus to save them today. All provision for all our needs, including healing, is available to whosoever will dare to believe God.
As you read this book of her healing journey, Shirley's prayer is that you will receive personal insight and reach out to take what has been made available through Jesus Christ, the Lord!
Shirley Williams is married to Mark Williams; together, they pastor Grace Christian Fellowship in Alpine, Texas. She has worn many hats over the years, including EMS director, judge, IRS Enrolled Agent, business owner, coroner, evangelist, wife, mother, grandmother and friend. Shirley and her husband, Mark, have three children and two grandchildren. Shirley and Mark, along with their son Vaughn, reside in Marathon, Texas.