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October 28th, 2019:
On November 9 I will be delivering the Saturday keynote, Smashing the Crystal Goblet: A Reappraisal of Legibility for Contemporary Private Press Books, at the Hamilton Woodtype & Printing Museum Wayzgose in beautiful Two Rivers, Wisconsin. The weekend includes talks and demonstrations by type designers, letterpress printers, woodtype manufacturers, and scholars from far and wide. Register today.
September 24th, 2019:
I'll be speaking about Peter Koch's work at the Grolier Club on October 2, beginning at 6pm, with a reception to follow. The talk coincides with Peter's 45 year retrospective and is free and open to the public. 47 East 60th Street, between Park and Madison, New York City.
August 27th, 2019:
I have a few events scheduled for this fall:
September 7 • Join me and a jolly group of printers & bibliophiles at the Whittington Open Day & Presstival, Whittington Court, off the A40 outside of Cheltenham, 12:30 pm
September 17 • Join me to celebrate the publication of Character Traits at Maggs Bros., 48 Bedford Square, London, 6:30–9 pm
October 2 • "Against Design: The Work of Peter Koch," a lecture with reception to coincide with the exhibit, "Embodied Language and the Form of the Book: Peter Koch, Printer. A Forty-five Year Retrospective" at the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York City, 6 pm. Open to the public.
October 18 & 19 • I'll be on two panels at the symposium "The Codex Effect," at the Grolier Cub, 47 East 60th Street, New York City. Currently sold out.
November 9 • Lecture "Smashing the Crystal Goblet: A Reappraisal of Legibility for Contemporary Private Press Books" at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum annual Wayzgoose in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Register Today!
November 13 • Finally, I'll be giving a lecture titled, "Character Traits; or, Can the Twentieth Century Please End?" as part of the Type@Cooper Lecture Series at Cooper Union, New York City, 6:30pm. Register today!
July 17th, 2019:
I've written a blog post about finishing Character Traits for the University of Utah's Marriott Library/Red Butte Press blog. Take a look here!
June 23rd, 2019:
Two recent talks of mine are now available online. The first was delivered at the Library of Congress in January, "Hiccups, Trip-Ups, and Total Disasters: Thoughts on Making Books." The second at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, MO in May, "Comprehending a Cube: Eighteen Months of Living with Euclid."
April 21st, 2019:
If you happen to be in Venice this week, stop by Chiarastella Cattana's boutique for a presentation of Character Traits. Friday evening, April 26, 6–9pm, Salizzada San Samuele, San Marco 3216.
February 25th, 2018:
I have just received the binding mock-up of Character Traits from binder Amy Borezo. Come see it at the Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair on March 10th, or the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair on March 24th and 25th. If you'd like to hear about some of the work that lead up to Character Traits, my lecture, "Making Third Stream Books in the Post-Digital Age," is now online as a Bodleian Library podcast.
December 19th, 2017:
Thinking 3D has featured Interstices & Intersections or, An Autodidact Comprehends a Cube as its item in focus. In the post, I discuss my approach to drawing the diagram for proposition xiii.17 from Euclid's Elements of Geometry. If you are in New York you can see the actual book at the main branch of the New York Public Library in the exhibit What's New? Recent Acquisitions.
November 5th, 2017:
My work appears in two new trade publication this month. Susan Roether wrote a lengthy, nuanced review of my 2016 book, Some Problems with Red, for the current Book Club of California Quarterly (free with any membership in the Book Club of California); and my article "Letterforms, Alphabets, Typefaces" is out in the "The New Bookbinder" Vol. 37 from Designer Bookbinders, who were kind enough to use my letter O from Linear A to Linear Z for the cover image.
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During October I will be the Bodleian Libraries' Printer in Residence. As part of the residency I will be giving a talk titled, Making Third Stream Books in the Post-Digital Age, at 5:15pm on October 17th at the Weston Library Lecture Theatre. For details visit the Bodleian's webpage. I will also be working at the Bodleian's Bibliographic Press most weekdays. If you are going to be in Oxford and would like to visit, email me to set up a time.
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Marion County prosecutors charged three people in connection with a shooting and robbery spree in October that left two people dead and more than a dozen wounded.
Richard Garrett, Delance Hatcher and Rashaana Farrow were charged Friday in connection with 13 violent incidents over seven days, including the murder of Devon Gillespie on Oct. 16, Prosecutor Ryan Mears said in a news release.
There were 18 victims in all, including nine people who were shot.
Garrett was also charged with murder in the fatal hit-and-run of Anthony Mack on Oct. 17.
The spree started on Oct. 13 with an argument that led to gunshots at a gas station near 38th Street and Meadows Drive, according to a probable cause affidavit. The bullets struck a man's car as he ran away, prosecutors said.
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The three suspects then stole a vehicle from a gas station in the 3400 block of North Sherman Avenue, prosecutors say.
Garrett and Farrow were also been charged for their roles in a double shooting on Oct. 20, prosecutors say.
Hatcher was arrested on Oct. 18. Garrett and Farrow were arrested in November for an unrelated incident in Hamilton County.
Garrett, 19, was charged with 19 felonies including two counts of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and armed robbery. He also faces four misdemeanor gun charges.
Hatcher, 18, was charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder and 10 other felonies. He also faces three misdemeanor charges for carrying a gun without a license.
Farrow, 19, was charged with 11 felonies including murder and conspiracy to commit murder. She also faces four misdemeanor charges for carrying a gun without a license.
Contact IndyStar reporter Vic Ryckaert at 317-444-2701 or vic.ryckaert@indystar.com. Follow him on Twitter: @VicRyc.


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Homecoming marks the time of year when 'Canes join together to celebrate and observe some of the longest standing traditions in the University's history.
From the persistent sound of drumming coming from the Iron Arrow Mound on the Foote University Green to ornaments dangling from the only orange tree on campus, it's evident that Homecoming season is upon us. And with Homecoming comes a litany of traditions and festivities that you won't find anywhere else but at the University of Miami.
'Canes from around the world – young and old – return to the Coral Gables campus to celebrate the future and honor the past while partaking in unique traditions. Since its first year in 1926, UM has established customs through events like Hurricane Howl, where alumni, students, faculty, staff and members of the community enjoy a block party before the parade takes its loop along Stanford Drive. This year former 'Canes defensive lineman, Greg Mark, has been selected as the grand marshal to lead the parade.
"Even our relatively young university has many time-honored traditions that have been passed on from one generation of 'Canes to the next," said Josh Brandfon, director of Student Activities and Student Organizations and advisor to the Homecoming Executive Committee. "These special student-led traditions remind all 'Canes about UM's adventure that lead us to where we are today as a thriving university with an engaged and spirited student body."
'Canes proudly wear the colors orange, green, and white with honor but many may not be familiar with when and how the colors were selected. In 1926, the colors were chosen to represent the Florida orange tree. Orange symbolizes the fruit of the tree, green represents the leaves and white, the blossoms.
This year's Spirit Tree Competition took place on Monday, Oct. 29, between the Bowman Foster Ashe Administration Building and the Dooley Memorial Classroom Building. Although small in stature, this campus landmark holds an immense significance to alumni, students, faculty, and staff. Each year the tree is decorated with custom-made ornaments by participating organizations. The Association of Commuter Students (ACS) won the yearly event.
On Thursday, Nov. 1, the Alma Mater Competition finalists will face-off on the University Center Rock Plaza for more than bragging rights. The winner will have the honor of singing the Alma Mater on the field during the Homecoming football game. In 1926, William Lampe wrote the words to the Alma Mater on the back of an envelope of an overdue bill from a printer and tapped pianist Christine Asdurian to compose the music. Nowadays, the Alma Mater is taught to all freshmen during orientation and sung during sporting events with pride.
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In 1956, the boat burning tradition started as an effort to promote Theta Chi, a new fraternity on campus that year. At the time, Student Union Director Norman A. Whitten was looking for a student-run event to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Homecoming Week. In the 1960s, after years of boats being burned and settling at the bottom of Lake Osceola, environmental concerns grew. As a response, the boats were excavated and the event continued with environmentally-friendly materials from then on.
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"I would consider that to be the most special and 'unique-to-UM' tradition," said Brandfon. "Many schools do parades, block parties – but nobody is blowing up a boat on their lake!"
One of UM's most sacred and established traditions is the gathering of Iron Arrow Honor Society members on the Mound atop the Foote Green. You won't be able to miss them as they're donned in their distinctly recognizable jackets, which are handcrafted by Miccosukee artisans. Founded in 1926 by University President Bowman Foster Ashe and student Francis Spencer Houghtailing, the society is a privileged honor. The Iron Arrow ritual and tradition was established through a relationship initially with the Seminole Nation, and currently with the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida.
"It's always great to hear those stories about historic UM events and actually meeting the characters from those stories," said Adrian Nuñez, chief of Iron Arrow. "This is the oldest running student organization UM has so it's an honor to not only be welcoming back long-standing members but also tapping in new members as well."
A new tradition is in motion this year as employees are invited to join in on the festivities. New events have been created just for them.
Sarah Artecona, associate vice president for community engagement, said, "As a big fan of my own university's homecoming festivities, I always wondered if there was a place for non-UM graduates to join in the fun. Working with Student Affairs and Alumni Relations, we organized a number of ways employees can be part of the week of activities."


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As the sun rises on Sept. 12, 2001, smoke can still be seen across the Hudson River as the pile of rubble that once was the World Trade Center in New York City continues to smolder. Photo: Andrew Stamer
by CBRNE Central Staff September 9, 2022, 10:12 am
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Emergency Operations personnel from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, work alongside federal, state and local agencies during the debris management operations at the World Trade Center after terrorists attacked the building on Sept. 11, 2001. Photo: Andrew Stamer
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Arthi Balasubramanian is appointed head of architecture firm CEBRA's Abu Dhabi office
Senior architect at CEBRA, Arthi Balasubramanian, has been appointed as the new head of the Danish firm's Abu Dhabi office, combining her existing managerial role with leading CEBRA projects in the Middle East.
Balasubramanian has been part of the CEBRA team since 2016 as lead designer on the modernisation of the Cultural Foundation Building in central Abu Dhabi. Read more about the Al Hosn master plan here.
As lead design manager on the Qasr Al Hosn master plan, she will remain involved in the development of the project while additionally taking part in developing strategy for the firm's Abu Dhabi office with CEBRA's partners.
The historic Al Hosn site in Abu Dhabi has already opened, following extensive renovations, and an aim to re-establish itself as the cultural heart of the UAE's capital city.
Arthi has a Bachelor of Architecture from Anna University and a Postgraduate Diploma from the University of Sheffield as well as over ten years of practical experience covering a wide range of projects in different sectors. She previously worked at BDP and AEDAS, and has lived and worked in the UAE since 2016.
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The Tibetan Cherry tree, Prunus serrula 'Tibetica is a hardy small deciduous tree, in which its stems have one of the stand out features of any plant in the garden, shining coppery brown bark. It forms a compact rounded canopy that will grow up to eight meters at a very sloe rate. Like so many of the flowering cherry trees, it flowers in clusters and its flowers are brilliant white in early Spring, narrow dark green leaves turn an attractive yellow in the autumn. Very happy in most soils that drain well.


At dawn, squeezed into a toilet stall in the men's room of the interstate rest stop, Alex opened his eyes from a brief, restless sleep. His clothes clung to his skin and he could see his breath in the dank light. Groaning, he struggled up from the concrete floor and hobbled outside. Southern pine country, dense forests soaked by steady rain. He studied a glass-enclosed map hung next to the men's room entrance. A red arrow pointed to a spot labeled YOU ARE HERE. All right, he thought, I am here.
With the last of his money, Alex McHealy bought a bag of potato chips and a Coke from the vending machines and stood staring at the empty parking lot, his head so foggy that he couldn't recall his destination. His mind flickered out sometimes like a light with a faltering connection. He began to pace, massaging his scalp.
Savannah, he realized at last. Savannah, idiot.
Alex lugged his gear down the ramp to I-26, heading west, and stuck out his thumb in the cold rain. Mid-afternoon, a late model Buick stopped. A longhaired kid with a fluffy little beard helped Alex store his gear in the trunk.
"Maybe you've been lucky." Sprawled on the Buick's plush seat, Alex wanted to close his eyes.
Then the kid talked about surfing over the weekend at Folly Beach near Charleston. Each evening, the kid said, when he emerged from the sea he shivered from cold and exhaustion and hunger, but then he ate and bathed and the next morning returned to the ocean and surfed until he felt on the verge of collapse.
Alex swallowed a hit. He bit an apple as a chaser.
Soon after they swung onto I-95, it started to rain violently. The boy, named Joe, said he'd dropped out of Georgetown after his freshman year and moved to Winslow, South Carolina, a small town where his wife looked after her sick mother.
"Are you old enough to be married?" Alex asked.
Alex winced, an electric surge of grief running through him.
"His brain didn't send the correct impulses to his heart, and it stopped. My wife had good doctors. But the baby died." Joe's face turned bright red.
"Lucky man," Joe said, his voice tight.
"Six years old. His name is Luke." Alex pulled out a pocket-sized photograph. The studio that shot the picture turned his son's dirty-blonde hair into Marilyn Monroe platinum and his lips a fire-engine red. Luke's cheeks looked rouged. Washed by this artificial, cloying color, his son resembled girls in soft drink advertisements of the 1940s.
Alex took out another picture -- a folded, cracked Polaroid of Luke sitting on a red tricycle and peering into the sun, his little face scrunched up as if he were about to cry.
"Neither picture really captures him," Alex said.
They stared at one another, astonished. And under the mescaline's deepening spell, they gazed at the wet road that soaked up the headlights and at the dark forests they passed through and at the billboards and overpasses framed in the car's windows. Everything was beautiful and shapely. God's cadences were revealed.
Wisdom is not about chasing things, they agreed, but about seeing and understanding what comes across your path.
"Can you recognize the essential elements?" Alex said and laughed inwardly.
Alex knew that his own crazy grin looked like happiness.
Joe invited Alex to stay overnight in Winslow, twenty minutes west of the interstate, and Alex agreed, figuring he could continue toward Savannah in the morning.
They left the highway and rode along a two-lane road. But they got lost twice, and it was nearly midnight when they finally reached the house in Winslow. In Joe's kitchen, they ate a giant frozen pizza, and drank a substantial quantity of beer before Joe showed Alex the spare room.
Alex had dozed off. Blinking, he found himself in complete darkness, confused and terrified. An evil presence -- an hallucinatory pattern of red and blue and green – had suddenly appeared a few feet above his head. The pattern was stalking him; it wanted to kill him. Alex stretched out rigidly, blood thumping in his ears, trying to force his eyes open. As the pattern moved closer, Alex groped frantically and felt a lampshade. He turned on the light, and the presence quickly faded and disappeared. And he saw that he was sprawled on an unmade bed, barefoot but otherwise fully dressed, his gear nearby on the floor.
Alex pulled a sheathed hunting knife from his gear and moved cautiously into the next room. He saw a sofa and a littered coffee table. He crossed the rough carpet and found a light switch in the kitchen. There were dirty dishes in the sink.
He remembered Joe, the mescaline, getting lost, eating pizza.
Hearing a noise in the next room, Alex thrust the sheathed knife behind him into his belt, out of sight.
Joe appeared, blonde hair tousled, wearing jockeys.
Alex returned to bed and lay in the dark. Soon the presence reappeared a few feet away. It was a brightly colored maze, geometrically perfect, pulsing like a blood vein. It didn't seem evil anymore, but patient, as if it were waiting. Alex admired the thing's intricacy and beauty, but when he shut his eyes, the pattern was inside his eyelids, against his brain, and he opened them again.
He found some old issues of National Geographic in the closet and sat reading until dawn. When the sun poured into the room, the pattern became a mild shadow of itself, but didn't disappear.
He was napping when Joe appeared, hair wet from the shower, and said that Alex ought to stick around another day.
After Joe left, Alex took a walk through the neighborhood of huge trees, moldy trailers, and concrete-block houses with screened porches. He was nauseated, sick of himself. Looking back, he saw only wreckage. I can't keep this up anymore.
He glanced through books scattered around Joe's living room -- Light in August, The Mind of the South, Deliverance -- before he opened A Good Man Is Hard to Find and read the title story and read it again.
Joe came home late in the afternoon, carrying a grocery bag filled with beer and several huge steaks. He was an apprentice butcher at a grocery store and bought meat at a discount. "I eat like a pasha," Joe boasted.
They grilled steaks in the rain-soaked backyard. It was a gorgeous evening, the sky pale pink through the yellow trees. The neighborhood lacked streetlights, and Alex watched stars emerging. As night came on, the pattern of red and blue and green grew increasingly brilliant against his open eyes, pulsing, and he shook his head, blinking to make it go away.
"Gnats bothering you?" Joe asked.
Joe asked if Alex wanted another hit of mescaline; there were two left. Alex said no, but accepted a can of beer.
"You're missing out," Joe said and swallowed both hits.
Alex recalled backyard picnics with his wife and son under the shade of a live oak. He'd held his baby son on his lap, the boy smiling a gummy smile and kicking his dimpled legs.
Almost three years ago, Alex lost his job as a photographer at the Charleston newspaper and subsequently left his family. He ended up in North Carolina, working on a roofing crew and later on a house-framing crew. In Wilmington, he could handle the work, but he was still drinking and he moved to Norfolk, where he wrote a number of bad checks and was picked up for marijuana possession. Alex went to jail for nine months, and after he got out, he returned to Norfolk and worked as a roofer again.
It was a grim time but not nearly as bad as his stint in jail, which had almost broken his spirit. If he ever had to go back, he was afraid it might kill him. He attended AA daily, saw his parole officer, pounded roofing nails, and wrote letters to his wife and son. He joined a tiny evangelical Christian congregation, mostly black, who met in a storefront in a deserted strip mall near the house that he shared with three Mexican illegals from the roofing crew. The congregation's mood swings from sweating sorrow to frantic, hand-clapping ecstasy somehow soothed him. But he grieved over his estrangement from his wife, Mary, and his son. Luke was Alex's only living blood kin. If I died tomorrow, Alex thought, would Luke remember me?
In September, several days before meeting Joe, Alex fell off the wagon and skipped an appointment with his parole officer and boarded a Greyhound bus with a ticket to Charleston, drying out, shivering, in the back of the bus. Late in the evening, Alex arrived at Mary's house. He made up a story that he was passing through on a trip to Savannah where he had a job lined up. Although startled to see him, Mary allowed Alex to sleep on the spare bed in her studio, a large drafty room where she sewed quilts in her spare time.
"You should call him 'daddy,'" Mary said, looking sleep-deprived.
While Luke got dressed for school, Alex packed up his gear in the guest room. Heartsick, his face white, Alex gazed at Mary standing in the doorway. In jail, he had dreamed of reuniting with his family, but now that hope seemed farther away than ever.
He nodded. "I am. I'll stay sober, too." But first he needed a drink, a hair of the dog.
He did not need to be told that he was passing deeper within a narrowing downward spiral, against which he had long struggled with his steadily declining strength and will.
"Well, your son needs you," she said. She shrugged; she had no expectations.
"I guess you should go," she said.
Alex wandered the streets until he stumbled into a bar on King Street, a dark sodden familiar cave. Just a few drinks to tide him over, then on to Savannah.
Alex and Joe pulled the food off the grill and carried it into the kitchen. They ate the tender steaks and steaming potatoes smothered in butter and ripe tomatoes from the garden as sweet as peaches. Alex tasted everything with the greedy, grieving relish of a man who would face punishment when the food was gone.
The pattern was insistently vivid even in the well-lit kitchen. The pattern, he decided, had to be Bad Luck. Over the years he had tried to shake free of misfortune with fresh starts, running from place to place, but he couldn't loosen its grip. Now Bad Luck was exposed, floating on his eyeballs. Perhaps his life was not his fault.
The phone rang and Joe left to answer it.
"That was Darlene," he said, returning.
They watched baseball on a tiny black-and-white TV in the living room. As Alex drank beer, the pattern brought the pulsing colors of red and blue and green to the infield and gave the ball a tail like a comet's.
"That's not true," Joe protested.
"My friend, you don't want to emulate me." His own words frightened him.
They stopped at a liquor store and Alex bought two pints of Jim Beam with money borrowed from Joe. Alex stashed one pint in his jacket pocket and swigged from the other.
Darlene's mother lived in a tiny brick house in a subdivision of tiny brick houses, where the ditches spilled over with rainwater. Approaching the screen door, they could see a white-haired woman sitting in a rocking chair and watching the baseball game, breathing through a tube attached to a silver cylinder. The old woman looked at them with bitter solemnity and then returned her attention to the game.
A young woman came out to the stoop. Darlene had straight black hair pulled into a ponytail, and she wore a sleeveless white blouse.
"All kinds of people surf," Joe said.
Joe suggested they take a ride down to the river.
"A thousand-watt bulb," Alex said.
"Give me the car keys," Darlene demanded.
Joe giggled and stepped away from her.
"I'd rather not," Alex said.
"Hand the keys to me then," Darlene ordered Joe.
Joe let out a theatrical sigh and tossed the car keys to Alex.
"You're so stupid when you're high," she told her husband.
"You promised, Joe," she said.
"I'll wait by the car, little brother," Alex said.
Alex got several mosquito bites and scratched them until they bled.
"She'll be all right alone?" Alex asked.
On a winding road out of town that descended through black woods, Alex drove and Joe gave directions.
"We met that summer," Joe said.
Alex parked in front of a yellow barrier and they walked down the road and through a parking lot and across a green swath of grass with picnic tables and swing sets, to the edge of the river. The ground was soft and lumpy and they could see their breath. "No Swimming" signs were half-submerged.
Alex finished off the first pint and threw the bottle into the water. He cracked the seal on the second bottle and took several long pulls from it. He offered Darlene a drink, but she shook her head. He grinned crookedly at her pale, hard face, and it seemed to him that she gave him an amused, intrigued smile in return. Because he was huge and powerful – anyone could see that -- with a steady fire burning in his belly, sending heat down his arms to his fingertips.
"Look at the river, how swollen it is," Darlene said.
He thought of the frothing waterway that swallowed his first child's clumped, papery ashes. When Mary got pregnant with Samuel, her doctor ordered her to bed and she followed instructions to the letter. But Samuel was born in the fifth month and died two weeks later. During a fortnight vigil, Alex and Mary watched their son struggle for his life. Samuel never opened his eyes, but Alex grew to know him, brave tiny boy. It was Christmas season, a festival of grief. Their baby was cremated, his ashes in a ceramic urn. Mary placed the urn on a small glass table in their bedroom, in a circle of votive candles, lit for an hour every evening.
Alex and Mary carried the urn to the northern tip of Folly Beach on Christmas Day, humid and overcast. They walked along the old Coast Guard station road and stopped at the edge of the sea and looked across the wind-swept inlet at Morris Island. There was an abandoned lighthouse in the inlet, the Morris Island beach having been eroded away decades ago. Their favorite spot before they married.
Mary swaddled the urn in a blanket. They watched the tide violently rushing out, the sea boiling and frothing. A greenish soup that slopped and licked at the shore. It made a sucking sound on the wet sand.
His lungs knotted, his heart tight, Alex could scarcely breathe.
"You do it." Mary handed him the urn and turned away.
A whirlpool swallowed the ashes. Alex knelt brokenly at the water's edge.
When Mary got pregnant again, she was again ordered to bed for the duration. Alex quit drinking and every night came straight home from work. She went into labor a month early, in the middle of the night, and Alex rushed her to the hospital. After Mary had struggled for nineteen hours, she was almost delirious with exhaustion.
"Please, don't let him die," she groaned.
Over the previous months, Alex had grown closer to his wife, sharing her terror of another failure, her emotional strain, but in her pain and fatigue of course now she was alone. "Push," he whispered.
Suddenly the baby's head crested, and in a rush he was out, the doctor catching the squalling boy the color of bloody liver. Alex cut the cord. Blood and fluid had splashed across the floor, and the nurse, holding the infant, cautiously stepped through it. She wiped him down at a table across the room.
The swaddled baby was brought to his mother, who counted his fingers.
Alex stayed sober for a long time -- until the Christmas after Luke turned three. Then Alex began sleeping on the spare bed in Mary's studio so he wouldn't disturb her when he stumbled in late. Nevertheless, he awakened her, so he made a hideaway in the garage. He bought a space heater and a cot and an old chair and a lamp and a radio. After he lost his job, Alex and Mary had terrible quarrels. The police were called once because they were making such racket. The air in the house seemed to grow dense with hatred. Yet sometimes when he was sober, they still came together, pale with sorrow, trembling with love.
One night while his family slept, he wrote a goodbye note and slipped away. He carried his things in an old camping backpack. A cowardly way to leave, but he didn't think he could manage it during daylight, seeing their faces, Mary and Luke's.
"My boys," Alex mumbled, looking at the black, swiftly moving water.
"But you met on the beach," she reminded him.
"I suppose," Alex said, suddenly irritable.
"Alex loves Walker Evans," Joe said.
Her eyes were at half-mast. "You think you're going to scare me? Well, I'm not scared." Snorting with disgust, Darlene walked away to the swing set and began swinging slowly.
Joe looked at her, then at the water. He took out his wallet and handed it to Alex, who stuffed it into his jacket pocket.
"I'm really going in," Joe called out in a teasing, high-pitched voice.
Darlene stopped swinging. "What are you telling him?" she called out to Alex.
"I got a bad feeling about this," Joe said. He grinned, his pupils dilated and shining.
"No. No, I'll go." Joe ran into the water and leaped in, belly-flopping. When his head came up, he shouted, "God, that's cold!" He stroked with an elegant, powerful crawl toward the main channel. His long arms flicked out of the water and across the surface and down again like silvery flying fish. When Joe reached a place where the river rippled in waves sparkling in the moonlight, he lifted his head again and shouted, "Hey!" in an excited or alarmed voice. Then he thrashed his arms and went under.
The pattern of red and blue and green burned brilliantly on the black water as if stimulated by Alex's concentration.
Darlene was at his side. "Where'd he go?" she cried.
With astonishing speed a tree trunk floated by, a small limb pointing up like a human arm reaching for help. Then the entire trunk slipped under the surface and disappeared.
"Joey!" she shouted. Her voice echoed among the pines.
Alex rubbed his eyes with his knuckles, making the pattern spin and change shape – it was like twisting a kaleidoscope.
"Nothing much." He felt blood drain from his head.
Alex sat on his haunches and wrapped his arms across his chest. He counted to one hundred. Then he started from one again.
"So he can swim a long way underwater?" Alex asked.
The pattern was spreading rapidly from Alex's eyes down his face and neck to his shoulders, where it burned. In this place, Bad Luck grew wildly. What have I done? Alex asked himself. He was aghast at his own recklessness and cruelty. And a wave of grief for Joe's father washed over Alex. Such regret and guilt that poor man is about to know.
"I'll kill him," Darlene moaned, weeping.
Alex looked at the sky. Wish upon a star. I take it all back.
In his jacket pocket, he reached for Joe's wallet and keys. Alex knew how it would play out. A hopped-up kid from a nice family drowns, and somebody has to be blamed. Alex couldn't take responsibility for this. When Alex thought of jail, he was terrified; his chest tightened from claustrophobia, his heart racing. Don't panic. But I can't go back to jail.
Make a plan, he thought, get out of here. Get away. Run, man. He covered his face with his hands, trying to think straight, but his mind was blurred and slow. He wished he were sober.
"What about your mother?" Alex asked, his voice breaking.
Darlene didn't seem to hear him.
"Your mother will wonder where you are," Alex said. "She'll be scared if you don't come home. Look, we drive to your mother's house, you call the police, and then we return here. We'll leave Joe's shoes on the riverbank if he comes back before we do. He'll need his shoes." Run, he told himself.
She picked up Joe's sneakers, held them against her chest.
Darlene's face was drained of blood.
"No. I'm not leaving," she said.
A quarter moon rose above the trees on the far side of the river, casting a dispiriting light. Waves lapped hungrily on the bank.
"Wait here," she said, almost inaudibly.
Under his boots the soft forest floor, wet, smelled of pine needles and rot. Obscuring the faint moonlight, the woods deepened. In the darkness he couldn't see the river, but he could hear it rushing past, a low roar. Keeping the river on his right, he climbed a small rise and then went down into a low place. A swamp. Water came to the top of his boots; his feet burned with cold. Something scraped his forehead – he'd bumped into a low-hanging limb. "Joe!" he called out. "Joe! Can you hear me?" This is crazy, he thought. I'm walking blind. Again Alex listened to the river rushing past. The current could've taken Joe miles from here. Go back, he thought, and tell Darlene that I did what I could.
He turned around, walking with his hands in front of him. He pushed through a thicket, and thorns scraped his face. And then he tripped and put his hands out to catch himself, sprawling elbow-deep in freezing water, his shirtfront and pants soaked. He pushed himself to his feet, outraged.
Shuddering, he climbed the rise again and caught his breath, listening for the river rushing implacably on his left. Then he went down into the clearing.
They went across the grass to the Buick. Teeth chattering, Alex turned up the car's heat, but the vents blew cold air, while he blinked past the pattern to view the black road snaking through the woods.
"He's alive, isn't he?" she asked.
Alex didn't answer. The car's heater was working by the time Alex pulled into her mother's driveway, but his hands still trembled.
"He's a very good swimmer," she said.
She got out and ran up to the house and went inside. Under the overhead light, he examined Joe's wallet and found identification cards, a driver's license with a Winslow address, and five dollars. He pocketed the money and put the wallet in the glove compartment and backed out of the driveway.
At a convenience store Alex asked directions to Joe's address and bought several candy bars.
"What happened to you?" the clerk asked.
Joe's house seemed smaller than he'd remembered. Alex turned on all the lights until the place was blazing. He stripped off his wet clothes and dried himself with a towel. He took dry clothes that he'd left hanging in the bathroom and put them on. After carrying his gear outside, he locked the front door and stood on the porch. Spooked, shivering, he shook his head to clear his thoughts. He couldn't stay and face the police; he had to go. The car's gas tank was full. He was two hours away from Charleston and his wife and son. He understood again how much he needed them.
Careful to stay below the speed limit, Alex took a two-lane highway toward the coast, Bad Luck still dancing on his eyes, though it was distinctly fainter now. Maybe the residual drug in his system was finally fading. Or perhaps he had become accustomed to the pattern, the way you accommodate a chronic condition.
Outside of town, driving over the swollen river, Alex pulled into a gravel swale beyond the bridge. He drew Joe's wallet from the glove compartment and walked back over the bridge. The wallet sunk into the syrupy water.
Back in the car, he paused, exhausted. The sound of the rushing river worked on him; he was too weary to go on. His muscles were spent. He had to close his eyes for a moment. He let his head fall back and fell asleep.
Abruptly he was awake, his heart and head pounding, his tongue dry, his neck aching. He rubbed his eyes. Where am I? He was conscious that something terrible had happened, but he couldn't place what it was. He looked around at the strange car, and then he remembered and his face flushed with shame.
The car's digital clock said twelve-thirty. How long had he drifted off?
I'll drive back to Darlene's house and return the car, he thought, and help search for Joe. Poor Joe, poor kid. In his mind's eye, he could see the boy's pale, broken body washed up on a riverbank.
I'll go back to Darlene's house. I'll take whatever punishment comes. Why did I panic? It only makes me look guilty.
It seemed to Alex that trouble always searched him out, which was strange because in reality he was a man of peace.
Maybe if I tell the police that I was drunk when I stole Joe's car . . . I didn't mean to do it.
"So walk away. Swallow your pride. Be a coward. What the hell, do you need to be pushed?" My God, he thought, that's bad.
Alex started the car. It was a hundred miles to Charleston. The Buick chugged up a steep hill and Alex ate a Snickers bar, not tasting a thing; his tongue was dead. His hands lacked feeling, and he shook them and rubbed his waxy face. He rolled down the window and took deep breaths of the rich, humid air. At the crest of the hill, he saw the stars and then as the road turned sharply, the soft-edged quarter moon swung into view, painted delicately in red and blue and green.
A science writer located in Charleston, South Carolina, John H. Tibbetts has published stories in Confrontation, Denver Quarterly, Minnesota Monthly, Kansas Quarterly, and elsewhere.


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Q: Push existing tarball image with kaniko I want to build a Docker image (tarball) in my GitLab CI pipeline using kaniko, then scan it with trivy and push it to an AWS ECR using kaniko.

*

*Step 1: kaniko build (tarball)

*Step 2: trivy scan

*Step 3: kaniko push (to AWS ECR!)

Unfortunately I can't find a way to push an existing tarball image with kaniko without rebuilding it.
I also tried crane for the push, but can't get a login due to the non-existent credHelper.
I don't actually want to do big installations, nor do I want to create a custom image for this.
Is this possible? What would be potential solutions?

A: Coincidentally, I did exactly this a while ago. Here is how I did it:
docker:build:
  stage: build
  image:
    name: Kaniko image
    entrypoint: [""]
  script:
    - mkdir tar_images
    - mkdir -p /kaniko/.docker
    - echo "{\"auths\":{\"$CI_REGISTRY\":{\"username\":\"$CI_REGISTRY_USER\",\"password\":\"$CI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD\"}}}" > /kaniko/.docker/config.json
    - /kaniko/executor --context ${CI_PROJECT_DIR} --no-push --destination $CI_REGISTRY/<image_name>:<image_tag> --tarPath tar_images/$file_name.tar
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - tar_images
    when: on_success
  # scan all built images
  # currently bug with grype as docker registry is not public!
docker:scan:
  stage: scan
  image:
    name: trivy
    entrypoint: [""]
  script:
    - mkdir scan_result
    - cd tar_images
    - |
      for tar_image in *.tar;
      do
        [ -e "$tar_image" ] || continue;
        file_name=${tar_image%.*};
        echo $file_name;
        if [ "$vulnerability_scanner" = "trivy" ]; then
          trivy image --timeout 15m --offline-scan --input $tar_image -f json -o ../scan_result/$file_name.json --severity CRITICAL;
         fi
      done
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - scan_result
    expire_in: 1 month

# push all images without detected security issues
docker:push:
  stage: push
  image:
    name: gcr.io/go-containerregistry/crane:debug
    entrypoint: [""]
  rules:
    - if: $UPDATE
  script:
    - cd tar_images
    - |
      for tar_image in *.tar;
      do
        file_name=${tar_image%.*};
        vulnerabilities=`awk  -F '[:,]' '/"Vulnerabilities"/ {gsub("[[:blank:]]+", "", $2); print $2}' ../scan_result/$file_name.json`; # find vulnerabilities in json file
        if ! [ -z "$vulnerabilities" ]; then # if vulnerabilities found in image
          echo "There are security issues with the image $img.Dockerfile. Image is not pushed to registry!";
        else # push image
            crane auth login -u $CI_REGISTRY_USER -p $CI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD $CI_REGISTRY;
            crane push $tar_image $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/<image_name>:<image_tag>;
        fi
      done

What happens here is that in the first job the images are built using kaniko. They are stored as tar files and made accessible to the next job via artifacts. In the next job they are scanned using trivy and the scan results are stored as artifacts. Then the scan reports are analyzed and if no vulnerabilities had been detected the image is pushed using crane.
The code above probably does not work out of the box as I copied it out of a bigger yaml file.

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Crypto-asset Risks and Hedging Analysis
Capital Risk & Capital
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Crypto Assets, Digital Assets, Risk and Capital
The crypto-assets market grew by three-and-a-half times in 2021 compared to 2020, to almost $3 trillion as of November 2021. Despite a reduction in recent months, this market is increasingly attracting interest from institutional investors, banks and policymakers. There is a growing number of new entrants into the crypto-assets market. This rapid growth has been accompanied by strong interest in crypto derivatives, as market participants increasingly look for ways to take synthetic exposure to crypto assets or to protect their crypto-asset holdings from adverse market risk. As in any market, derivatives play a vital role in enabling participants to manage risks, deepen liquidity and broaden market access.
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has made proposals for the prudential treatment of banks' crypto-asset exposures that, if implemented, would lead to particularly punitive capital requirements for banks holding some types of crypto assets and disincentivize traditional financial intermediaries from playing an active role in crypto markets. ISDA believes an appropriate, risk-sensitive capital framework for crypto assets is essential, as set out in its response to the BCBS consultation. This would provide a suitable framework to allow banks to meet customer demand while ensuring capital levels are proportionate to the underlying risks.
ISDA has developed a new whitepaper, Crypto-asset Risks and Hedging Analysis, which demonstrates that hedging the most liquid crypto assets for which there is a two-way market, so-called Group 2a crypto assets, with their respective futures or exchange-traded funds (ETFs), is effective. The paper also demonstrates that the basis risk profile of Group 2a crypto-asset futures is comparable with that of existing financial assets. The capital treatment should therefore allow for offsetting for a given Group 2a crypto asset and its futures and ETFs.
The hedge effectiveness results set out in this paper have been separately updated by ISDA to include data from April and May 2022, which shows that despite recent crypto-asset market volatility, hedging remains highly effective.
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package com.facebook.presto.spi;

import java.util.LinkedHashMap;

public class InsertOption
{
    private final boolean overwrite;
    private final boolean isPartition;
    private final boolean dynamicPartition;
    private final LinkedHashMap<String, String> partitions;

    public InsertOption(boolean overwrite, boolean isPartition, boolean dynamicPartition, LinkedHashMap<String, String> partitions)
    {
        this.overwrite = overwrite;
        this.isPartition = isPartition;
        this.dynamicPartition = dynamicPartition;
        if (partitions == null) {
            partitions = new LinkedHashMap<>();
        }
        this.partitions = new LinkedHashMap<>(partitions);
    }

    @Override
    public String toString()
    {
        return partitions.toString();
    }

    public boolean isOverwrite()
    {
        return overwrite;
    }

    public boolean isPartition()
    {
        return isPartition;
    }

    public boolean isDynamicPartition()
    {
        return dynamicPartition;
    }

    public LinkedHashMap<String, String> getPartitions()
    {
        return partitions;
    }
}

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BACKGROUND: Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I, a mitogenic and antiapoptotic peptide, can affect the proliferation of breast epithelial cells, and is thought to have a role in breast cancer. We hypothesised that high circulating IGF-I concentrations would be associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. METHODS: We carried out a nested case-control study within the prospective Nurses' Health Study cohort. Plasma concentrations of IGF-I and IGF binding protein 3 (IGFBP-3) were measured in blood samples collected in 1989-90. We identified 397 women who had a diagnosis of breast cancer after this date and 620 age-matched controls. IGF-I concentrations were compared by logistic regression with adjustment for other breast-cancer risk factors. FINDINGS: There was no association between IGF-I concentrations and breast-cancer risk among the whole study group. In postmenopausal women there was no association between IGF-I concentrations and breast-cancer risk (top vs bottom quintile of IGF-I, relative risk 0.85 [95% CI 0.53-1.39]). The relative risk of breast cancer among premenopausal women by IGF-I concentration (top vs bottom tertile) was 2.33 (1.06-5.16; p for trend 0.08). Among premenopausal women less than 50 years old at the time of blood collection, the relative risk was 4.58 (1.75-12.0; p for trend 0.02). After further adjustment for plasma IGFBP-3 concentrations these relative risks were 2.88 and 7.28, respectively. INTERPRETATION: A positive relation between circulating IGF-I concentration and risk of breast cancer was found among premenopausal but not postmenopausal women. Plasma IGF-I concentrations may be useful in the identification of women at high risk of breast cancer and in the development of risk reduction strategies. Additional larger studies of this association among premenopausal women are needed to provide more precise estimates of effect.


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Michael Bloomberg on the Political Climate
As Bloomberg Philanthropies and RadicalMedia release a new documentary on climate change, Michael Bloomberg spoke to V.F. about climate, politics and the future.
By Thomas Barrie
Greg Heisler
Michael Bloomberg knows a thing or two about how to build a coalition. The billionaire businessman and philanthropist was elected Mayor of New York City just weeks after the September 11 attacks as a lifelong Democrat running on a Republican ticket—something that sounds nigh on impossible in today's political climate. Socially liberal, formerly Republican, then Independent and recently re-registered as a Democrat, the three-term mayor is regularly touted as a possible centrist candidate for the Democrats in the 2020 presidential election. But Bloomberg's time in office has given him the experience needed to fight another, much more important battle.
Bloomberg was appointed U.N. Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change in 2014 by then General Secretary Ban Ki-moon, but his involvement in climate activism goes back further, and he has pushed consistently for the US to divest from fossil fuels in favour of clean energy. Largely through the channel of Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bloomberg has invested tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars in sustainability projects—and relied extensively on the support of both Republican and Democrat mayors to do so, working at a municipal level to avoid a federal politics that is often deadlocked to the point of stasis.
Bloomberg explained the reasoning behind the focus on cities to Vanity Fair. "Cities are where people are, and they're where the carbon emissions are. So if you get cities to do the right thing, you can make an awful lot of progress." As the Trump Administration turned its back on the Paris Agreement, Governor of California Jerry Brown and Bloomberg pulled all of those cities, states and businesses together under one banner called America's Pledge and vowed to uphold America's commitment under the Paris Agreement. "The American people get it, mayors get it, and many governors get it—even if our leaders in Washington don't."
As a result, Bloomberg believes the political deadlock can be broken. In October, a report entitled "Hidden Tribes: A Study in America's Polarized Landscape", authored by the non-profit group More In Common, highlighted a degree of consensus across the U.S. that would surprise anyone used to the funhouse mirrors and abrasive bickering of cable news and social media. The conclusion was that, behind the culture wars that dominate headlines, an "exhausted majority" of two-thirds of Americans was primed and ready to get behind a politics of compromise and collaboration.
This can be seen more clearly at state and municipal levels than in federal government. An unexpected knock-on effect of climate change in the US, in particular, is its effect on traditionally Republican areas of the country. Georgetown, Texas, whose Republican mayor Dale Ross was elected with 72 per cent of the vote, is the first city in the US to approach 100 per cent clean energy usage. This point is made adroitly in Paris to Pittsburgh, a feature documentary produced in association with Bloomberg Philanthropies and broadcast on National Geographic. The film takes its name from a throwaway line offered by President Trump when he announced his intention to pull out of Paris: "I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." Minutes later, the mayor of Pittsburgh, Bill Peduto, tweeted his unqualified support for the Agreement.
Paris to Pittsburgh shows the real, on-the-ground impacts of climate change that are having devastating and irreversible effects on communities across America. Extreme heatwaves, long-term droughts, more intense storms, rampant wildfires and more are taking place from coast to coast, threatening the lives and livelihoods of Americans. In the face of this new reality, Americans have put aside politics to address the day-to-day challenges posed by climate change. Many of the stories in the film show Americans making a difference in their community. For example, they are developing programs that promote sustainability, leading entrepreneurial initiatives that translate into economic impact, learning new skills for the booming clean energy economy and voting for leaders to ensure that local communities are safe, clean places to live. Bloomberg says, "That story about the immediate benefits of climate action doesn't get told enough."
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Bloomberg points out that it's in the interests of executives to invest in energy efficiency, and that their own supply chains or assets in vulnerable locations—on the coast, or in low-lying areas like Florida or areas of the South—might be endangered if they don't step in and pull their weight. "That's basic risk management," he says. What's harder, however, is for investors to know which companies are most exposed to climate threats, and what action they're taking to combat these risks. To solve this, Bloomberg Philanthropies is working with the Bank of England and governor Mark Carney to create voluntary guidelines for companies to disclose their own climate initiatives. "The market," Bloomberg notes, "can be a powerful ally in the fight against climate change."
Earlier this year, Bloomberg was reappointed Special Envoy, but for Climate Action rather than Cities and Climate Change. If this seems like a minor change in title, it belies a greater role in a wide range of initiatives: a major new investment in the protection of reefs in the extension of the Vibrant Oceans Initiative; the American Cities Climate Challenge, a competition where winning cities receive more than $2.5million worth of resources in technical support for climate plans; the expansion of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal program into global territories; and the chairmanship of a newly formed Climate Finance Leadership Initiative to fulfil private financing objectives set forth by the Paris Agreement.
Of these new frontiers, Bloomberg says, "The change reflects both our growing ambitions and the need to involve all levels of society—not only cities, but also states, regions, businesses, nonprofits, and communities. And we want to help all of them."
Paris to Pittsburgh premieres globally on December 12 on National Geographic.
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Kendrick Lamar is definitely carving his own path throughout the rap charts. This is a young artist that has a unique voice and style of his very own. When you listen to Good Kid, M.A.A.D City's , "Money Trees" it's easy to see that Lamar isn't forcing his songs, he just let's them flow freely.
A lot of rappers lose their soul trying to find the inner peace Kendrick emits on this psyched out masterpiece. "Money Trees" is the first song I heard off of Good Kid and it gets heavy rotation in my playlist.
Clifford Smith has become somewhat of an icon in the Hip-Hop community during the course of his career. He has starred in many films such as "Belly" and the unforgettable "How High" with his brother from another, Redman.
Method Man was first introduced to the masses as a member of the Wu-Tang clan, a massive group of fierce lyricists with many different styles of poetic form. Method Man was the first from the super group, Wu-Tang Clan" to drop a solo album called Tical.


Kevock Vale Park is a quaint, quirky and quiet holiday and retirement park on the North Esk river, in the village of Lasswade, near Edinburgh. Children and pets are welcome. Our self-catering riverside lodges and luxury garden pod are open all year round. Our newly refurbished Thetford Lodge has a hot tub. It's the perfect location for people who want to relax and have lots to see and do on the doorstep. It's a great base for exploring Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Scottish Borders. We have a Wee Village Shop on the park and a short walk into the village you will find three very popular restaurants and bars, the Paper Mill , the Laird and Dog Inn and Luci's Italian restaurant and cocktail bar. Outside the Laird and Dog, you can catch the 31 and 140 buses. The 31 takes you to the centre of Edinburgh and all its attractions. The N31 night service runs from the city centre until 1230 weeknights and 0310 Saturdays and Sundays. The route takes you to Waverly Station, Princes Street, Haymarket Station and Edinburgh Zoo. From Waverly Station you can travel across the world-famous Forth Bridge to Fife, or take the scenic Waverly Line to the Scottish Borders. The 140 takes you to Loanhead for local shopping and on to Roslin, where you can visit Rosslyn Chapel, made famous by Dan Brown's book "The Da Vinci Code" and the Roslin Glen Country Park. If you are feeling energetic, there is a sign-posted walking route along the river North Esk between the Laird and Dog, Roslin, the Chapel and the Country Park. Across the road from the Laird and Dog, you can take the 31 bus to Bonnyrigg for local shopping and other local bus services, or take the 140 to Musselburgh on the Firth of Forth coast. Local activities include horse-riding, golf, walking, dry-slope skiing and swimming. If you're ready for a quiet time, stay at the park, relax in the lodge, sit out on the deck overlooking the river, go fishing or watch the wildlife.


What a risky decision! I bought and paid for this cabinet without seeing it in person. I wasn't too sure it was going to work out in my favor after I picked it up. It needed so much work. Way more work than I would want to put into a piece this size. When pricing items for resale at our market, things a certain size go for a certain amount. It's not an exclusively high end market but there are a few higher end booths. We try to price our items so that the customers feel like they can buy an item without having to think about the purchase too much. Since our market is only open for 4 days out of the month, we have one shot to sell out as much as possible.
Anyways….This piece took me at least 10 hours (which means it took me several days.) There was paper on the back and on each shelf. To remove it, I tried my heat gun but that didn't work. I ended up having to sand off TWO layers of paper. This took a few hours. Then I cleaned it and filled some holes. Next, I painted it with Sweet Pickins Milk Paint Creamy with NO bonding agent. Because it was in rough shape, I wanted it to be chippy. I used polyurethane to try to stop the chipping process. It's still chipping a little but not too much. The final step was applying chicken wire. This took a long time. I had to cut the side panels into separate pieces…super time consuming but I didn't have any options.
Here's the before with the super awesome paper on the back.
No more paper!!!! I did need to do a little glueing.
Here's after 3 coats of paint. See the chipping process starting?? I love it!
After a little bit of sanding, this is what I was left with.
I did't get any picture of the chicken wire process because I really didn't enjoying doing it. I just wanted this cabinet to be completed so I could move on to the next project. But It's finished and I think this farmhouse chippy cabinet looks amazing staged with my favorite linens and blues.
Thanks for reading along and taking a look at this farmhouse cabinet makeover. I hope you enjoyed the before and after pictures!


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MEDIA ADVISORY: Striking faculty to hold film night discussion at Wilfrid Laurier University
Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU)
WATERLOO, ON, Oct. 26, 2017 /CNW/ - Join the filmmakers and faculty from Conestoga College and Wilfrid Laurier University as they discuss the rise of precarious work in Ontario's post-secondary sector. This event is presented as part of the national "Fair Employment Week" and is hosted by OPSEU Local 237 at Conestoga College and the Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association.
N1001 (Science Building), Wilfrid Laurier University,
at the corner of Bricker St and King Street, Waterloo
Lana-Lee Hardacre, President, OPSEU Local 237, Conestoga College and contract professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Michele Kramer, President, Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association and contract professor
Garry Potter, filmmaker and tenured professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Karen Scian, former Waterloo City Councillor and former contract professor, Conestoga College
Stephen Svenson, filmmaker and contract professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
More than 12,000 faculty at all 24 public colleges across the province have been on strike since October 16.
SOURCE Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU)
For further information: Lana Lee Hardacre, President, OPSEU Local 237, 519-501-0994
http://www.opseu.org
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) is one of the most progressive and powerful unions in Ontario. It represents 165,000 frontline workers who provide a vast array of public services in communities across the province. They work in provincial government...
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Motivated by the need of some special functions when writing signal processing code for NMath, we decided to add a suite of special functions to be included in NMath 6.1. While the field of special functions is vast , our 41 functions cover many of the most commonly needed functions in physics and engineering. This includes the gamma function and related functions, Bessel functions, elliptic integrals, and more. All special functions in NMath are now organized in a SpecialFunctions class, which is structured similarly to the existing StatsFunctions and NMathFunctions classes.
Below is a complete list of the special functions now available in the SpecialFunctions class which resides in the CenterSpace.NMath.Core name space. Previously a handful of these functions were available in either the NMathFunctions or StatsFunctions classes, but now those functions have been deprecated and consolidated into the SpecialFunctions class. Please update your code accordingly as these deprecated functions will be removed from NMath within two to three release cycles.
Using these special functions in your code is simple.
// Compute the Jacobi function Sn() with a complex argument.
Below is a complete list of all NMath special functions.
EulerGamma A constant, also known as the Euler-Macheroni constant. Famously, rationality unknown.
Airy Provides solutions Ai, Bi, and derivatives Ai', Bi' to y" – yz = 0.
Zeta The Riemann zeta function.
PolyLogarithm The Polylogarithm, Li_n(x) reduces to the Riemann zeta for x = 1.
HarmonicNumber The harmonic number is a truncated sum of the harmonic series, closely related to the digamma function.
FactorialLn The natural log of the factorial, ln( n! ).
Binomial The binomial coefficient, n choose k; The number of ways of picking k unordered outcomes from n possibilities.
BinomialLn The natural log of the binomial coefficient.
Gamma The gamma function, conceptually a generalization of the factorial.
GammaReciprocal The reciprocal of the gamma function.
IncompleteGammaFunction Computes the gamma integral from 0 to x.
IncompleteGammaComplement Computes the gamma integral from x to infinity (and beyond!).
Digamma Also known as the psi function.
GammaLn The natural log of the gamma function.
Beta The beta integral is also known as the Eulerian integral of the first kind.
IncompleteBeta Computes the beta integral from 0 to x in [0,1].
EllipticK The complete elliptic integral, K(m), of the first kind. Note that m is related to the elliptic modulus k with, m = k * k.
EllipticE( m ) The complete elliptic integral, E(m), of the second kind.
EllipticF The incomplete elliptic integral of the first kind.
EllipticE(phi, m) The incomplete elliptic integral of the second kind.
EllipJ Computes the Jacobi elliptic functions Cn(), Sn(), and Dn() for real arguments.
Sn Computes the Jacobi elliptic function Sn() for complex arguments.
Cn Computes the Jacobi elliptic function Cn() for complex arguments.
BesselI0 Modified Bessel function of the first kind, order zero.
BesselI1 Modified Bessel function of the first kind, first order.
BesselIv Modified Bessel function of the first kind, non-integer order.
BesselJ0 Bessel function of the first kind, order zero.
BesselJ1 Bessel function of the first kind, first order.
BesselJn Bessel function of the first kind, arbitrary integer order.
BesselJv Bessel function of first kind, non-integer order.
BesselK0 Modified Bessel function of the second kind, order zero.
BesselK1 Modified Bessel function of the second kind, order one.
BesselKn Modified Bessel function of the second kind, arbitrary integer order.
BesselY0 Bessel function of the second kind, order zero.
BesselY1 Bessel function of the second kind, order one.
BesselYn Bessel function of the second kind of integer order.
BesselYv Bessel function of the second kind, non-integer order.
Hypergeometric1F1 The confluent hypergeometric series of the first kind.
Hypergeometric2F1 The Gauss or generalized hypergeometric function.
Let us know if you need any additional special functions and we'll see if we can add them.
 Moshier L. Stephen. (1995) The Cephes Math Library. (Cephes).


Will you soon be heading to Bangkok, Thailand as a solo traveler? Are you a little nervous about traveling alone, especially if you are a woman?
Don't be. Not only is Bangkok one of the safest cities in the world (I am female and have been living here for 15 years with zero problems anywhere), it is also one of the most interesting.
Throw in that it is also an easy place to meet other solo travelers and, once you get to Bangkok, you will wonder why you left it so long to visit.
During any solo travel in Bangkok, there are also certain things you should do. Here is a list of things to check out during your time in this amazing city.
While Khao San Road is definitely not my favorite place in Bangkok — well, I live here, it's very tacky, quintessentially not-Thai and basically nothing more than backpacker heaven — it is a great place to get yourself acclimatized when you first arrive in Bangkok and to meet a ton of other solo travelers.
Eat cheap street food, drink Thai beer and hang out in bars and cafes on Khao San Road with other travelers who will be able to give you some excellent tips about where in Thailand to go and what to see. Find out how to get to Khao San Road here.
Stay in the area at Nap Park Hostel — which has several communal spaces that are great for getting to know other travelers. Or, if you would like to spend a little more money and have a more private experience, then ZEN Rooms offers budget hotel rooms that are clean and comfortable.
Literally some of the best and cheapest food in the world, Bangkok street food is everywhere on every block, and you should eat it as much as you can. Street stalls are also wonderful for people who travel alone in Bangkok as many people eat at them solo.
At a typical street stall, you can buy a plate of Thai food (som tam, pad Thai, chicken/shrimp fried rice, noodles, chicken satay with a peanut sauce dip — you name it, they sell it) for around 40 to 60 baht ($1.25 to $1.90). The food is fresh, traditional Thai and always delicious. You can also buy a bottle of water, a Coke or a beer for just a few baht more.
What to eat at a Thai street stall will give you some ideas of dishes to look for.
Just one tip to make sure you get some of the best street food in Bangkok — choose a stall that is popular with Thais, as Thais will never eat at a street stall serving food that doesn't taste very good.
Just about my favorite spot in Bangkok when it comes to tourist destinations, the Grand Palace is an opulent and incredibly beautiful palace and temple complex that you have to see to believe. It also includes the famous Wat Phra Kaew, or Temple of the Emerald Buddha, which houses a stunningly beautiful Buddha statue carved from one enormous emerald.
Just make sure you are appropriately dressed for a temple as, if you are not, officials will make you rent clothes before they let you in.
And, if someone stops you at the gate and tells you "The Grand Palace is closed today", it is not. It is a well-known scam from touters trying to get you to take a tuk-tuk tour to a local jewelry shop. Ignore them and head to the Grand Palace where you will see it is most definitely open.
Get there early as, after about 10.30 am, it is unbelievably crowded.
Chatuchak is quite literally one of the best places you will ever visit if you love to shop, grab a cheap coffee, breath in the local sights and sounds, or hang out in a bar drinking beer and watch the crowds walk by.
This open-air market has over 15,000 stalls and sells everything from cheap clothes, DVDs and CDs, Thai handicrafts, artwork and house supplies to exotic animals and pets.
Plan to spend half of your day here as it is huge and there is so much to see. You can also stop off at a cafe to have a coffee and cool down, or at one of the market's many cheap restaurants for a very good and dirt cheap lunch.
Bars at Chatuchak, by the way, are a wonderful place to meet fellow travelers as well as talk to some of the local Thais. There are several bars in the market that get quite busy, but the atmosphere is relaxed and chill. Just order a beer and some Thai snacks, find a table and start talking to people around you.
Here are my tips on how to survive Chatuchak Weekend Market. It is open on Friday nights and all day Saturday and Sunday till around 6-7pm.
If you want to do some shopping but can't stand another second in the heat, then head to Mahboonkrong shopping mall. Known by the locals as MBK, Mahboonkrong is one of the cheapest and largest malls in Bangkok.
MBK is a great place for someone traveling alone in Bangkok as it is easy to get to (it's right next to the National Stadium sky train station), can keep you occupied for hours, and is full of good restaurants and coffee shops.
There is also one of the best food courts in Bangkok on one of the higher floors. A superb place for a dirt cheap lunch or dinner.
And, if you really can't bear going back into the heat, MBK also has a bowling alley and a multi-screen movie theater — both of which are excellent.
Here are some tips for what to buy at MBK.
A wonderful way to see some of the city, experience local life and get a bit of a breeze while you do it is to take a motorized ferry boat up the Chao Praya River. Boats run all day and well into the evening hours and are only 15-30 baht per trip (less than $1) depending on where you are going.
My favorite way to take a boat on the Chao Praya, and I travel alone in Bangkok all the time, is to take a ferry boat and get on and off at different stops. I then spend an hour exploring the neighborhood, taking photographs, getting a coffee, eating lunch, before I get back on another ferry boat to the next stop.
Here is what you will need to figure out the boat system. Believe me, though, it's easy. And, if you get on a boat going in the wrong direction, just get off at the next stop and get on another one going the direction you want to go. They arrive every five minutes or so.
Asiatique is a gorgeously designed night market right on the banks of the Chao Praya River. It has a massive number of cool restaurants and cafes and more than 1,500 boutiques and shops that are housed in a faux warehouse district.
There is also a ferris wheel, a ladyboy cabaret and a Thai puppet performance, and it is a great way to spend an evening. Especially if you are traveling alone in Bangkok as the atmosphere is fun, all welcoming and packed with Thais and non-Thais alike.
You can get to Asiatique on a ferry boat from the Saphan Thaksin boat pier, right next to the Saphan Thaksin BTS sky train station.
Do be warned, though, the Saphan Thaksin BTS station is due to close sometime this year for an expansion (no news as to which date yet though). So if you are heading down to the river via the Saphan Thaksin sky train stop, you may have to get off at the previous station — Surasak — where there will likely be free shuttle buses available to Saphan Thaksin.
Remember, traveling along in Bangkok is not dangerous. Thais are friendly, helpful and love to take care of foreigners so, if you need any help, do not be afraid to ask. Many Thais do not speak much English, some speak a lot, but whoever you stop will usually smile and do their absolute best to figure out what you are saying and how you need help.
Enjoy your time as a solo traveler in Bangkok, and see as much as you can possibly see. I promise you, you will love it.