International may not be the first word you associate with Land O'Lakes, but it should: From our partnership with Villa in South Africa, to our affiliation with the independent nonprofit Land O'Lakes International Development, to the career journey of someone like Patricia Pratt.
Patricia's team at Land O'Lakes, Inc., in enterprise regulatory affairs is helping us think globally about ag, from food security to quality to international food law. No matter where she is or who she is working with, Patricia's passion for learning -- about law, science, food and international cultures -- push her to success.
To understand how she came to Land O'Lakes, you first have to get to know Patricia as a child. She was only eight years old when she knew she wanted to explore the world. She grew up in the Bahamas with her father, mother and siblings and her view of the world was shaped by what she read in books.
Her father bought her an Encyclopedia Britannica set, but there was a requirement with the gift: Every Sunday, after church, she would have to give her father a presentation about a different country.
She continued with her presentations until she ran out of countries. And when she ran out of countries to read about, she started to explore in person.
"Eventually, I began to learn it and believe it and dream it. I got my first academic scholarship to University, and that was the beginning of the rest of my life," says Patricia.
Currently, Patricia is senior manager of enterprise regulatory affairs at Land O'Lakes, Inc., helping colleagues across the company understand international food regulations and find solutions to expand their businesses.
Patricia has now worked and/or studied on every continent but Antarctica -- she's stepped out of books and into the world.
Patricia was hired at Land O'Lakes during a period when our Global Dairy Ingredients business was looking to expand and grow their reach in international markets and needed to navigate international laws.
Patricia's team looks at international food laws and regulations to determine feasibility to ship products to a specific country -- from ingredients to packaging to shipping.
"Often, countries have pending food laws that have not been published or passed, such as on prohibited ingredients, so we must look at those," says Patricia.
And within her role at Land O'Lakes, Patricia uses her curiosity and passion for helping others to ensure everyone succeeds. And she emphasizes that the work she does is a team effort, not an individual one.
"My greatest accomplishment at Land O'Lakes is the collective accomplishments of my team," she says without hesitation.
Thanks to Patricia's team, the registrations in domestic and international markets allow our dairy and animal foods businesses to gain success in states and countries where our products did not previously have presence.
Her role is cross-functional -- by reviewing the regulations she will work with teams like labeling, nutritionists, Sales and Marketing, R&D, translators and others to develop a plan to make the product feasible for shipment. Many parts of the enterprise need to come together to work through the technicalities of international logistics needed to ship products.
One such item was our Milk Replacer, which is now registered in Costa Rica. Patricia's team even worked with the Land O'Lakes Amigos Employee Resource Group for translations and to our nutrition team to discuss what ingredients would and wouldn't be permissible.
"What we do is interpret the regulations and communicate them. Our duty is not to tell colleagues that "you can't ship this" – our duty is first and foremost to look at what they want to achieve and how can we can best reach that goal," she says.
When Patricia was growing up, there were no four-year colleges in the Bahamas, so she applied and was accepted into Tuskegee University in Alabama on an academic scholarship. She completed her bachelor's degree in Pure and Applied Chemistry and then went to the Royal College of Pharmacy at University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, on a British Scholarship, for her master's degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Her doctorate was completed in 2002 in Biochemistry and Microbiology at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, on a scholarship from her previous company.
Her professional career took her from the Ministry of Agriculture, Trade and Industry, to the pharmaceutical industry, to the brewing industry, to where she is now, in regulatory affairs and quality at Land O'Lakes.
The one constant through Patricia's impressive and global career journey is the experiences of her childhood, and specifically, of her family's values back in the Bahamas. Her grandparents had a farm on one of the islands and would send fruits and vegetables to Patricia when she was a child.
In Patricia's mind, there are many striking similarities between medicine and food safety.
"I started to think about all I learned from my grandmother and how I could apply that to medicine and my career. It was very easy for me to switch into food – by nothing more than sheer curiosity," she says.
Patricia's formative years also ingrained the importance of volunteering and giving back. She learned this from her family too. She sees her work and her volunteering as following in her parents' footsteps and credits them with her desire to give back.
Recently, Patricia expanded her reach by taking a volunteer assignment with Land O'Lakes International Development, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit affiliated with Land O'Lakes, Inc.
This past summer, she volunteered in Lebanon on a three-week volunteer assignment with Land O'Lakes International Development's Farmer-to-Farmer program. The Farmer-to-Farmer program places U.S. volunteers in agricultural development programs to provide technical assistance to farmers, agribusinesses and others in the agriculture sector in developing countries.
In Lebanon, Patricia worked with five host organizations, ranging from small private businesses to a government ministry. She led a two-day workshop with the Ministry of Economy and Trade, connecting local governments and academic institutions, industry players that have historically had limited collaboration. Her expertise in the food industry in the U.S. helped bridge these conversations.
She likes to describe her time in Lebanon as "giving of herself" and an exercise for career growth.
"Companies have a responsibility to build communities -- not only within the company but to also bring value to the community in which it lives in, and we live globally," she says.
Since 1987, nearly 150 Land O'Lakes member-owners and employees like Patricia have traveled on a Farmer-to-Farmer assignment through Land O'Lakes International Development.
Patricia's work has taken her from one end of the world to the other and back again. Slowly but surely, she's been able to cross off many of the countries she read about as a child in the Bahamas.
On a personal level, the fact that she has the opportunity to give back now and share the knowledge of what she has learned, gives her life meaning.


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Back in the early days of Science Fiction, when the task at hand was to subdue a recalcitrant universe, the Shape-shifter was a stock character, representing the ultimate foe. As you drew your trusty ray gun to eliminate the slavering dragon, he promptly turned into a nuclear blast which effectively trumped your pathetic weapon.
What really put him out of business, though, was an increasingly sophisticated readership insisting on the credible in place of the unimaginable. SF degenerated into a study of conceivable relationships, and the Shape-shifter turned into a memory.
It occurs to me, however, that while he specialized in rapid transformations we are all in a sense shape-shifters, at least in the first few weeks of our lives, albeit at a somewhat slower pace than the fictional character. We all started out as a gamete, a single cell with a lot of potential looking for a mate to unlock its powers.
In a fertilization process our father contributes his own gamete, actually several millions of them of which only one succeeds, to create a single-celled Zygote which can be called an Embryo because it now contains all the instructions necessary to build and thereafter maintain a complete human being. This is an exciting time, as within hours the fertilized cell starts to divide into two identical cells then four and eight until it transforms into a hollow ball called a Blastocyst and starts looking for a place to stay.
During a week of house-hunting, the Blastocyst follows a chemical trail until it reaches an attractive site where it digs in and connects up to a convenient blood supply and waste disposal facility. Once installed, the cell replication rate increases enormously and the cells begin to differentiate into the many different forms required for bone, muscle, brain and lungs, which then fold in on themselves to form a legitimate Fetus.
The odd thing is that the Fetus as it grows, it adopts a succession of different shapes which over the next few weeks seem to recapitulate the evolution of our species, from fish to saurian to ape to man. And even after birth we retain the opposable thumb, vestigial tail and vermiform appendix characteristic of our arboreal ancestors.
What is even more remarkable is that while every mature cell has a specialized function, it also contains a complete set of instructions for building another human. What Darwin glimpsed in 1859 and Watson and Crick triumphantly confirmed in the 1950s is that all living things, from bacteria to whales to trees and tomatoes and us, are related because we all sprang from the first RNA (ribonucleic acid) molecule which, having learned to replicate itself, became subject to the shape-shifting process called Natural Selection. This, quite automatically, selects for whatever works best in the environment of its time, without favoring any particular shape.
It all seems highly improbable, but if any mother can create a human out of a couple of cells in nine months, think what Nature can do in the two or three billion years since that first RNA molecule turned into two.


You mean rewriting the briefing? I don't mind, although right now I just found that the author is still active, but with a new account that don't have any posts yet. If you want to rewrite maybe you can ask if he wants to. His new account is " jbil1989 " .
how that task is going? Have you been able to contact him?
I want to make a general call.
How do you people feel about uploading all this into the d2kplus site? Like for example upload them separately as a updated version compatible with the mission launcher which also you no longer need to overwrite files (Except the ones using Tibed/tiledata.bin).
Even could be included in the same section as the original campaign. I mean, like clicking in "Atreides - Battle for dune", and the page open with the text "Download Atreides - Battle for Dune (X Downloads), adding another text below like "Download Atreides - Battle for Dune <version compatible with mission launcher> (X Downloads)" <-- or something similar, so both are accesibles from the webpage.
Maybe at least a readme.txt is needed or something similar.
While I was doing the main mod index I found a very old single mission done by Galaxy back in 2015.
This map use a very single idea: you, as the Mercs, fighting with the Ordos against several enemies. There is no briefing provided, with the exception of the protection on the outposts (yours and your ally) to keep receiving deliveries.
The mission starts very easy because the player begin with the Starport, so tons of units will arrive; but in the long run, once the enemies start going together on large numbers the map will become more harder (but as long as the outpost it's still there the player will always have units ready to fight).
I updated the mission to work with the mission launcher. Only a small fix were done to have the "The ixian have been annihilated" line instead saying "atreides" when destroying the side 7 AI plus now on the launcher you will be in the merc section.
First post update to present that single map.
I got a new mod from the "moddb.com" website, by the name "changed Dune". The author its MustaphaTR, which has an account on this forum. I tried to contact him a couple of months ago but not response; anyway; I will post this for collection purpose.
Changed dune it's a mod that change a lot the Tech of the game. This mod it's suppose to be applied into the game and then playing the original game with those changes, but he added a few small aditions to some maps to be able to win since, for example, you cannot train engineers on the mission about capturing the smuggler outpost, so some of those units are given on reinforcements.
However, he create three custom maps that, although copied from the original maps, they are totally new (enemies moved, other enemies or a total new map), so I am going to upload those three here to showcase the tech.
On the spoiler it's the info about all the editing in case you are interested.
Fremens has ordos light factory and they can make raider.
Atreides doesn't have trooper and quad.
Harkonnen doesn't have light inf. and trike.
Quad doesn't need upgrade, they have machine gun, they are a bir speedier and can crush enemy infantries.
Raider needs upgrade and they have rocets.
Raider can be purached at starpot and trike can't.
Siege Tanks can turn its barrel.
Grenadier, Thumper, Stealth Raider and MP Sardukar can be trained at missions.
Concretes and walls are cheaper.
Constraction Yards give more power.
Thumper infantry can only train by Atreides.
Carryalls are speedier and cheaper than normal.
Ornithopters and DHMB's are a bit more powerful.
Rafinery is needed for Harvaster like RA2.
Barracks and Hi-Tech Fac.'s has different HP's like Combat Tanks.
Imperial CY and Heavy Fac. is stronger than others.
Ordos Rocet Turret is cheaper but its Build Time is Long.
Changed Gun Turrets Build Time and ROF.
Atreides and Harkonnen don't have Upgrade of Light Fac.
Ordos doesn't have Upgrade of Barracks.
Troopers and Raiders can attack air.
The custom maps don't showcase 100% of the changes done. The Atreides map don't have tech enough to produce sonic tanks, but at least you will see a difference of not having quads or troopers to help you against enemy tanks.
First post updated with this mod and three custom maps, 1 per faction. Remember that applying all the files will modify your game, do back ups before overwritting!


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60 metri ostacoli indoor

100 metri ostacoli

Palmarès

Campionati nazionali
 1 volta campionessa nazionale nei 100 metri ostacoli (2011)
 1 volta campionessa nazionale indoor nei 60 metri ostacoli (2011)

2008
  ai Campionati statunitensi indoor, 60 m hs - 8"02

2010
  ai Campionati statunitensi, 100 m hs - 12"84

2011
  ai Campionati statunitensi indoor, 60 m hs - 7"79
  ai Campionati statunitensi, 100 m hs - 12"50

2012
  ai Campionati statunitensi, 100 m hs - 12"77

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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INDIE VIEW: True tales of the border, true parables of the monkey planet, and true insanity at the clothing store
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Mini Kuš! #74: Uniqlo Superman by Yan Cong
Kuš Komiksi
Uniqlo, for the uninitiated like myself, is a Japanese clothing retailer, which is integral to at least understanding the central premise of this comic, which is that a naked man enters Uniqlo and gathers together a new wardrobe for himself. A paltry one of socks and underwear, that is. But Cong takes you through the minutiae of the choices being made, the casual nature with which they are made, and the unexpected amusing conclusion to the vague idea that the clothes make the man, but they aren't always the expected clothes to do the job.
There's a second story here, too, called "Chorus of Frogs," follows a couple through a mundane evening together and how they prepare for bed. It's a tiny slice of life, sweet and probably something most couples can identify with.
The Mini Kuš! series is a trove of tiny treasures that take chances with small messages in an elegant package, and this one is well worth your time.
Planet of the Apes: Visionaries by Dana Gould and Chad Lewis
This is something that may only be of interest to Planet of the Apes geeks, but since the original film has obsessed me when I first saw it as a kid in the early 70s, it had my name written all over it. Adapted from the original screenplay by Rod Serling, and not the final one that we all saw, this version sees the primitive ape world transformed into one more like our own, with much of the action unfolding in a big city. In this way it's more reminiscent of the Pierre Boulle's original novel, and also shares some commonality with the excellent Saturday morning animated show, Return to the Planet of the Apes, that aired in 1975.
But the differences are much more than that and allow for a different kind of investigation of the themes that are inherent in the subject matter. In this version, the astronaut — in the film named Taylor, but here named Thomas — overcomes his captivity and becomes a dilettante in ape society, actively working to help them discover their own origins and gaining the sympathy and trust of members of ape society.
It's a fascinating alternate road to take to a partly similar ending, and the script adds some elements to the second half of the story, especially in regard to the archaeological site plot, that do enrich your understanding of the planet's history.
I wouldn't say this is a replacement for the original movie, and I'm more than happy with the film that resulted half a century ago, but this is a fun way to learn about the process to that final product that has become so iconic.
The Scar by Andrea Ferraris and Reno Chiocca
Focusing on an area of the Mexican border between Tucson and Nogales, this account by cartoonist Andrea Ferraris and documentary filmmaker Reno Chiocca couldn't come at a better time. Just last night, an incoherent man who claims to be the President of the United States commandeered television networks to broadcast a rambling statement about some sort of emergency at the Mexican border and advocate for the building of a wall to solve the problem. Only a delusional mad man would think that, and only people afraid of the boogeyman would agree.
Nogales is a split city — half in Mexico, half in the United States — and it already has a wall that doesn't work. People climb it, as you would expect. Police don't have jurisdiction over the actual wall, so when they take action it's with desperation and sloppy workarounds that lead to tragedy, as Ferraris and Chiocca recount in their reportage of the death of Jose Antonio.
Ferraris and Chiocca reveal how the wall has created militarized zones on both sides that make everyone more unsafe but has also lead to a group of brave people who work to bring aid to those who try to cross the border. Called the Samaritans, they do everything from bringing supplies to finding unmarked graves, and they report that thousands have died on the border.
This is an affecting, heartbreaking, and important book about people whose lives force them to take action, whether its moving north to find a better and safer life or clustering around the symbols of totalitarianism that suck the hearts out of the people who build them in order to help the refugees that have been turned into boogeymen.
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About Ottawa Council of Women (OCW)
Ottawa Council of Women is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-sectarian organization with the object of bringing together groups of women, and of women and men, and individuals, to work towards improving the quality of life in our community. Our long history of community service has furthered the interests of women, the family, the community and the country while giving many women the experience, skills and personal confidence to enter public life.
From September to February, the Ottawa Council of Women holds monthly education/information meetings and events that are also open to the public. The Ottawa Council of Women is funded by annual membership fees.
OCW provides a wide democratic forum for members' policy concerns in many areas of public affairs, which can be addressed to appropriate levels of government through established grassroot Council policy. While each member organization, or Federates, retains its autonomy at all times, together our voices form a strong force to speak out about crucial local social justice issues.
The Ottawa Council of Women is federated with the Provincial Council of Women Ontario (PCWO), and the National Council of Women Canada (NCWC), as well as the International Council of Women through the NCWC. The Ottawa Council of Women was founded in 1894 by Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, wife of the Governor General, together with the church women of Ottawa's main stream denominations, and secular charitable and civic groups. Jewish women's groups were also early members of the Council.
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2015 /17 Theme Safety and Security of Persons
Our 2015 local focus of policy study, policy education and advocacy will be in the areas of
safe and secure shelter, public housing of all types
bodily and legal safety and security of the person (not present in cases of VAW, family violence: spousal abuse, abuse of children and youth and elder abuse)
Safety and security of health care for all, but particularly for the elderly and otherwise vulnerable (health & home care, continuous care etc)
Safe and secure nutrition for all
Safety and security status of the Ottawa First Nations' population
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According to Constitution & By-Laws To bring together groups of women, and of women and men, and individuals, to work towards improving the quality of life in our community through:
providing information to Council members and the general public on current issues;
co-operating with other federates and like-minded associations in developing and advancing common policies and objectives;
recommending and working toward change, where need is seen, in the policies, By-laws, regulations, and administrative processes of our local governments;
developing and submitting resolutions to the National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC ) and the Provincial Council of Women of Ontario (PCWO) on issues important to the members; and
initiating letters on issues of concern to members, to the federal or provincial governments, by drafting and submitting letters to PCWO or NCWC, based on existing policy, with a request that the letters be forwarded to the appropriate government.
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Turn Him Loose
than that. And he's given it to them before.
Since he took over this team, he was a playmaker. He made things happen, with his arm, his eyes, his feet, and yes his leadership.
Tony Romo took the baton from Drew Bledsoe back in 2006 and never looked back. This team, this city and this world-wide fan base embraced him, too.
In some ways, Romo was like a savior for this team desperately needing a spark. And there's no doubt, Romo was that guy. And it wasn't because the Cowboys just needed a change. Romo was making plays - most of them for the Cowboys, but there were some others that didn't go his way.
That's what he does. That's what a player like Tony Romo is. There's good, there's bad, but you just hope the good outweighs the bad. And regardless what you think, it certainly has.
This guy is 29-14 as a starting quarterback and has finished his first three seasons as a starter with a quarterback rating in the 90s.
Everyone wants him to be great. We all thought he was destined for it, and maybe he is. Maybe we're just all so hungry to find the next Troy Aikman that we put all of these expectations on him too soon.
Not sure about all of that, but I do know that no other player should be leading this team than Tony Romo.
See, everyone has their opinions on why he isn't playing his best, or simply the Cowboys aren't winning enough games. Most of them point towards Romo.
*He's not being a leader.
He doesn't care about winning.
He'd rather play golf.
He's more focused on being a celebrity.
He doesn't make smart decisions.
He's too careless with the football.
He can't win the big game, or any game in December.
He can't win without T.O. *
It goes on and on and I'm sure there're plenty more, too. Yeah, it's easy to pinpoint a few things and call them problem areas. Everyone can detect problems but few people really have the answers.
Personally, I don't know if there's just one problem. I don't know if some of those complaints don't have some merit.
But the only obvious thing to me is that Romo isn't being allowed to be Romo.
Put the ball in his hands and tell him to go play.
You remember the classic movie "Bull Durham." Kevin Costner, the old veteran catcher is trying to groom his young, hotrod of a pitcher. Many times in the movie he tells him, "Don't think, just throw."
In a way, that's what needs to happen with Romo. Sure, he needs to be conscious of making mistakes in critical situations, when to throw the ball away and when he can't take a sack. These aren't things he doesn't know.
I just believe this entire summer of him making an obvious effort to change some of his mechanics and his thought-process has changed his aggressiveness, too.
One fan from the Houston area emailed me on Monday with what I believe to be a perfect analogy.
"I feel the gunslinger is packing a pocket knife to a gun fight."
OK, so maybe taking this thing to the weapons level was a bit too far but you get the point.
It just seems like Romo isn't being Romo. It's time to go let the kid play. And yes, I always feel a little awkward calling someone a "kid" when he's only about four years younger than me.
But it fits in this situation. Romo is a kid. He's a fun-loving, big-smiling, backward-hat-wearing, joke-telling kid who loves to play this game.
So he makes mistakes. He's making mistakes either way. Might as well let Romo play his game - the game that got him to this point in the first place.
He doesn't need go out and play not to lose. He doesn't need to try to manage the game.
Go out and win the game. That's what Romo is and that's what this team needs.


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Firefighters beat back Southern California wildfire as winds ease
A firefighter controls a hotspot of the Maria Fire, in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California, Saturday. | AFP-JIJI
LOS ANGELES – Firefighters working overnight to contain a Southern California wildfire made significant headway on Sunday, containing 50 percent of the blaze with the aid of cooler weather and lighter winds after it burned thousands of acres of dry brush and farmland.
The Maria Fire, which broke out on Thursday near the community of Santa Paula about 70 miles (110 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, had destroyed two structures and burned more than 9,400 acres (3,800 hectares), the Ventura County Fire Department said on Sunday.
"Overnight firefighters continued to patrol the fire perimeter extinguishing any remaining hot spots. Fire behavior was moderated due to cooler temperatures and lighter winds," the department said in a statement.
All evacuation orders were lifted on Saturday, when the fire department said the blaze was 20 percent contained. More than 10,000 residents had been told to evacuate at the peak of the fire's rapid spread.
Southern California Edison has told state authorities that 13 minutes before the fire started, it began to re-energize a circuit near where flames first erupted, said a spokesman for the utility, Ron Gales.
Southern California Edison had shut off power in the area because of concerns that an electrical mishap could spark a wildfire. The utility and fire officials have said the cause of the blaze is still under investigation.
Strong, dry desert winds have fueled the Maria Fire and a number of other destructive wildfires across the state this fall.
The largest blaze, the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County north of San Francisco, was 76 percent contained on Sunday after burning nearly 80,000 acres and destroying more than 370 structures since it started on Oct. 23, officials said.
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2019 Hurricane Season Has Arrived Early
The First Named Storm of Hurricane Season Has Arrived
What to expect this hurricane season—and how you can prepare your home.
By Michele Petry Published: May 21, 2019
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Hurricane season doesn't officially start until June 1, but weather doesn't wait, and this year's first named storm is already upon us. Subtropical Storm Andrea formed in the Atlantic late Monday night and, as of 11 a.m. Tuesday, had weakened to a Subtropical Depression about 280 miles west-southwest of Bermuda, according to the National Hurricane Center. Andrea poses no real threat at this time—but more will be coming.
How Storms Are Named
Andrea was officially named after it reached sustained winds of 39 mph. Each year's list of storm names is maintained by the World Meteorological Organization; six complete lists of alternating male and female names are used in rotation. But if a storm is so damaging that it becomes infamous, such as Katrina in 2005 or or Sandy in 2012, that name is retired from the list and replaced with a new one. The next storm to reach the naming threshold in 2019 will be dubbed Barry, followed by Chantal, Dorian, Erin, Fernand, and Gabrielle.
What to Expect From This Year's Hurricane Season
Thankfully, experts predict a slightly below-average hurricane season in the Atlantic for 2019. According to researchers at Colorado State University's Tropical Meteorology Project, about 13 named storms are expected before the season officially ends on November 30, but only five will be full-fledged hurricanes, and just two of those will be considered "major." (A major hurricane is defined as Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, with sustained winds of 111-129 mph or beyond.) By contrast, 2018's hurricane activity was slightly above average and included Florence, which caused catastrophic damage and flooding in the Carolinas.
How to Prepare Your Home
According to the National Weather Service, one of the best things Gulf and Atlantic Coast residents can do to prepare for a storm is to keep an emergency kit at the ready. Stock it in advance, before warnings are issued and the stores are cleared out, and make sure it includes crucial basics like flashlights, batteries, a first-aid kit, and enough bottled water and nonperishable food to last several days. Download a complete checklist to follow here.
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The NWS also offers five key tips to strengthen your home against possible hurricane damage:
Keep trees near the house trimmed to prevent damage from broken branches.
Have materials to board up your windows on hand.
Bring unsecured outdoor items, like patio furniture and planters, inside.
Move your car into the garage or to a separate, secure location.
Secure all doors on your property, especially garage doors, which are usually the most vulnerable.
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The M&S Hand Cooked range feature a 1950s retro look.The basic drawings to represent the flavourings are similarly vintage. The bags are flavour colour coded, which in turn causes the darker bags' black writing to get a little lost. The writing itself has a sort of stamped feel. This design would have been cutting edge at the time of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, but aside from its shelf stand out properties, it is just a bit old fashioned for a modern market. The Hand Cooked selling point does nothing to help it.
There was a particularly crispy snap when the first bite was taken. After this the Crisp deteriorated at just about the right rate for a Hand-Cooked Crisps style of potato slice. Unlike regular Crisps, which often smash up and turn to mush very quickly, these sustained their crunch till virtually the end of the munch process.
There were lots of curly and odd shaped Crisps, and even some stuck together. There was also a large amount of visible potato skin on the edges. There were green flecks mixed in with the light orange coloured seasoning.
A Nose Plunge Test revealed an odd aroma - it was like an empty box that someone had put cheese in, but had taken it out again a week before the box was sniffed. Fortunately the Crisps did not taste of empty box. Unfortunately, they did not taste too much like Cheese & Onion either. There was a mild Cheese & Onion, but it wasn't Spring Onion, it was more generic than that. The Cheese was mild enough to be Red Leicester, but again, it was like a very creamy and barely noticeable generic Cheese.


Halloween is coming and so is Christmas! I love decorating for these two holidays. I have decorations and lights everywhere. Each year I try to find a few new decorations. The attic is pretty big, so I think I can keep this habit up for several more years. As soon as September 30th hits the Halloween decor goes up- inside and outside.
I found Frankie and Luci's costumes this week! They are so cute. Luci is going to be a pirate and Frankie will be a Renaissance lady. The dog even has a costume! (I bet Dusty will have one too!). Last year, Billy was the chariot with a spartan riding him. It was too funny. I'll have to post a picture. One year he was a hot dog. This year he is going to be a black and purple spider. This is really funny because my husband is totally freaked out by spiders.
We dress up too when we take the kids, so it's a good time for all. We leave a note on the door telling kids to stop back. The kids love to hand out the candy, and I love to see the clever costumes.
The cool thing about Halloween in the city is that you trick or treat on Halloween at night! Just talking about the holiday gets me all excited for it. And when it's all said and done, Christmas is waiting in the wings!
I have to say dog clothes drive me crazy but Billy's costumes sound adorable. I also think its really cute that your whole family dresses up to go trick or treating.
We are a goofy bunch! We do limit dog clothes to just Halloween. Although, he does wear an elf hat on Christmas!
Maybe all our cute dogs will have to go trick or treating! They make so many funny dog costumes.
wow, slow down, Halloween is a whole month away, and Christmas a whole 3 months. Now that I think about it though, that's coming up pretty fast.... where did the summer go???
I drove past a house today that was ALL decked out for Halloween. It was actually overkill as every square foot of the yard had some plastic spooky thing in it. Even I wait until the very last weekend of September before I decorate. The kids are excited to put all the stuff out. Today I even figured out my costume for the big DLP trick or treat event!


Earlier I pulled out Slaughter's previous CD, 1997's Revolution, for a spin. A very rare occurrence given the fact that it has been sitting on the shelf since that first listen when I got it two years ago. If not for the love of music, then why was I listening to it? I was merely reassuring myself that my impression of its being a weak, soft rock album is indeed accurate. And yes it is! I was double checking because this new slab of music is a full tilt rocking commercially sleazy hard rock. It's like the 80's never went away. Or perhaps the grunge/ alternative bubble has burst? Whatever the case, fans of old Slaughter (sans too much lip stick), old Crüe and Aerosmith should hear this. Not that I was ever a fan of these poseurs - I recall interviewing the band 7 years ago with their make up artist present! But this one kicks. And oh I so welcome the departure of the real poseurs: Nirvana and the like fans - take your gas station attendant outfits and bite the dust. The best Slaughter album so far features a new guitar man replacing Tim who passed away.Trailer Park Boogie is both guitar-driven and Guns'n Roses-ish. On My Own is a rockin' ballad worthy of 1988. It's a great song reminiscent of Whitesnake. Close by is the Aerosmith-like Headin For a Dream. Not that it's all slow: Silence of Ba begins with an acoustic piece like Rush would compose and then everything else is jamming. All in all a great hard rock album bursting with energy, and no alternative/ grunge poseurs in sight. - Ali "The Metallian"


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Illegal music file sharing drops significantly since 2011
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The number of people using peer-to-peer (P2P) services to download music fell by 17% last year, compared to 2011.
That's according to the NPD Group's Annual Music Study 2012, released yesterday.
Some other interesting stats, comparing 2012 to 2011:
26% decline in number of files illegally downloaded using P2P services;
44% less music files burned and ripped from CDs owned by friends and family;
25% drop in files swapped from hard drives; and
28% fall in volume of music downloads from digital lockers
P2P sharing peaked in 2005 when 1 in 5 internet users aged 13 or older were using the services, but last year only just over 1 in 9 (11%) internet users were downloading music this way.
40% of those surveyed reported that they had downloaded less or no music from P2P networks since the previous year, 2011. The main reason they cited was free, legal music streaming services like Spotify, Deezer, and Rdio.
Russ Crupnick, senior vice president of industry analysis at NPD, commented:
For the music industry, which has been battling digital piracy for over a decade, last year was a year of progress. Among other factors, the increased use of legal and licensed streaming services has proven to be an alternative for music fans who formerly used P2P networks to obtain music.
Other reasons people said they had reduced their use of P2P file sharing included their preferred services, such as Limewire, closing down, as well as the risk of malware from using these kinds of sites.
According to IFPI's Digital Music Report 2013, which was also published yesterday, 62% of internet users are now using licensed services to download music, and the number of people paying to use subscription services jumped 44% last year to 20 million.
And with rumours about Google's possible foray into music streaming territory, this may well be only a sign of things to come.
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16 comments on "Illegal music file sharing drops significantly since 2011"
Is it because of the advancement in laws and technology or is it because the quality of music is going down and people have found other interesting things to do? Both can have the same outcome.
Probably has slowed due to the boom in usenet and fast fibre connections which can directly download from file lockers at decent speeds.
I use p2p, but only from a private tracker that restricts content to unofficial material – audience concert recordings and such. It also has a mechanism for artists to request to be added to the "not-allowed" list and the moderators enforce those wishes. So my answer in the poll is No. A better question for the poll to ask is, "Are you less inclinced to use p2p for illegal/officially-released content", to which my answer is Yes.
J16 says:
I hate to say it but I think people have just found an alternative way of illegally downloading songs, youtube file conversion is where it's at!
Exaptation says:
Agreed. I have altered my gathering to that method as well. I've had to dodge invasive apps along the way, and some have been not worth the trouble. It's not a panacea.
What I did not see listed as the reasons given for behavior changes was my reason: my ISP announced that it would downgrade the connection speed if P2P traffic is detected, regardless of legality or not. That policy affects me directly, where legal forces have never done so. The worst I've experienced before was a cease and desist notice from Disney's lawyers delivered by my (previous; I've moved) ISP.
Timothy Campbell says:
I've always paid for my music, but I do understand that some people might do otherwise and I don't necessarily condemn them for it. Organizations such as the RIAA and other content-protectors are not making any friends with their draconian outlook.
With the advent of Spotify and the continuing availability of Pandora, I have no temptation to pirate music. Yes, in their free mode they have ads, but that simply gives me a chance to do something else for a moment.
In fact, I even suggested the Pandora that they could expand their non-music content by offering a kind of time-shiftable DJ. Pandora rejected my suggestion but it seems to me that eventually there will be world-wide internet radio stations that are as customizable as Pandora or Spotify. (You can read my letter to Pandora on my blog at www.neosimian.com/2012/10/open-letter-to-pandora-…
When I'm not connected to the net I listen to free podcasts I've downloaded to my MP3 player. I have dozens of hours of great talk to listen to — and I haven't even looked very hard to find it.
I don't steal music…not because it's illegal, but because it's immoral. I don't do unto others as I would not have them do unto me.
I'd like to think that those who used to steal music but have now chosen not to do so (if indeed that's true) have made that choice for moral reasons, but the cynic in me is saying, "Get real."
With P2P, you don't steal, you replicate without taking. The original item remains in the store for someone else to buy…
If I hadn't been able to use P2P to replicate things I wouldn't have bought them any way… so no loss for the industry.
In some other cases if P2P hadn't been there I wouldn't have discovered some artists, I wouldn't have been to their show nor bought their merchandise nor the collector editions of their albums, etc…
The bitrate of your collection will be so bad! D:
I listen radio 🙂
Wolf_Star says:
In the music industry, someone is always stealing from someone else.
I don't buy or listen to anything that goes through the RIAA because all they do is steal from the artists, so it really doesn't break my heart to hear them whining about losing profits, which means their executives can't afford that extra Porsche this year.
And most of the stuff that passes for "music" nowadays is the same claptrap sound, tweaked a little in a computer, and prefaced by some nondescipt arteest who sounds just like 100 others out there – the only difference being the packaging of the product.
Don't get me wrong, there is some awesome music out there, but so long as the industry is controlled by the likes of the RIAA, the money will always be more important than the music.
Muhammad Badi says:
Piracy is never liked but there are reasons for that.
In my opinion and as of a personal experience, I never paid for music, not a cent for it but with online music streaming the game is different. I started using Spotify with a free account, yes with ads between 2-3 songs but it's great, I have my playlists synced wherever I go and available for me anytime which game me ease to stop consuming storage on my Mac or iPhone and there is no need to download. Also, I use Grooveshark on web mostly when I am not on my device, and Ex.fm on my iPhone. My music need is achieved.
but I also agree with @J16's comment, YouTube is a huge alternative to music downloading. Some people are converting videos to MP3s but the majority just listen and save to their playlists. Thanks to the increasing Internet speed services.
Finally, the more restrictions you add to any services is the more chances people are going to get pirated content, put restrictions and let people try your service and then encourage them to pay. Piracy won't stop and there is no way to stop it, the wise is who manage it and grab more legal users.
w1z says:
Pandora ? lol who needs to download when pretty much everything is on there.
kakes says:
It's not like there's anything new worth pirating out there.
Soundcloud and legal youtube music videos pretty much cover everything.
Justin Ong says:
There are so many songs you could find in Youtube. If you know how, you can download audio MP3s from Youtube video clips. There are even some channels like Vevo who are already displaying few seconds of Ads before a video is played.
In other news: The ability for corporations to detect who is illegally downloading music has significantly dropped.
Privacy's gone when posting child abuse images to a P2P network, US judge rules
Cyberextortion by US gov, or simple P2P security lapse by medical firm?
by James Wyke
Major shift in strategy for ZeroAccess rootkit malware, as it shifts to user-mode


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Q: How can I showing truncated text only on hover without change height of box list? My script of vue component like this :
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It change height of box list
How can I solve this problem?
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A: We can see that you're using bootstrap-vue. Nice, so you can use v-b-tooltip directive and let itself control the hover behavior. As you don't need to track it by yourself anymore for each club, you can remove that reative property from your computed property formattedClubs:
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A: I would simply wrap your truncated text with a tooltip component. You can pass the full text into this component as a prop.
On hover you can show the tooltip by using @mouseover and remove it by using @mouseleave.
The tooltip itself can be a position absolute element with a max-width. I am not going to type all of this out, but this should get you started.

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On the way to and from the European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting in Barcelona, I read two J.G. Ballard novels, The Drowned World (1962) and Hello America (1981). These works are part of Ballard's fascination with a post-apocalyptic near future shaped by ecological catastrophes. Ballard set The Downed World in in an inundated and tropic London, largely submerged beneath rising sea levels created by the melting of the polar icecaps. Hello America describes a North American continent turned largely to desert on account of changing weather patterns formed by the Soviet damming of the Bering Sea.
The novels are explicitly archaeology both in their setting and the structure of their plots. In fact, neither book offers much in the way of compelling dialogue or complex character development. (In fact, the characters in The Drowned World are mere sketches or exemplars of types who interact only through almost comically stilted dialogue). Their beauty and power comes from the way in which the characters interact with, perceive, and respond to their environment. This alone made them appropriate books to read on my way to an archaeological conference.
The archaeologist in me feels like Ballard has an overly optimistic view of the persistence of modern building (and clothing) in the time of ecological disaster, but his view of saturated London is not far from that of Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140. Perhaps the foundations of this saturated landscape would survive the shifting silt and surging tides of the surrounding sea, but I'm skeptical. His desiccated New York, in contrast, is more believable, even if his tropical Las Vegas seems a bit too robust.
2. Futures. Analyzing the plausibility of Ballard's landscapes, however, misses the point. Set against the backdrop of Barcelona, a city shaped by its own series of past futures (especially in the work of the turn-of-the-century Modernisme movement which remains strongly visible in the city's urban core, Ballard's landscapes remind us that our world is simply a series of compromised futures from the past. As an archaeologist who thinks a good bit about how the past bustles with competing and compromised possible futures which await our critique, analysis, interpretation, and ultimately spoliation, Ballard's novels are deeply compelling.
In Hello America, a powerful, sociopathic madman bunkered down in Las Vegas and claimed the title of President of the United State long after the political entity had ceased to exist. He revealed to his loyal followers that his goal was "to make America great again" and filled the skies with holographic projections meant to evoke the glories of the American past. Published in 1981, this seems beyond prescient and underscored just how fragile the line is between futures imagined and the present.
The overgrown skyline of London, in contrast, seems to recycle Barcelona's Antonio Gaudí's fin-de-siecle fascination with nature and natural forms in his architectural masterpieces. As any number of the museums dedicated to Gaudí's work remind visitors, his use of natural forms in his architecture sought to make clear the organic relationship between humanity and the creator. The dense tropical landscape of inundated London represented a literal expression of the city as a "concrete jungle." The work of humanity neither succumbs to nature nor erases it, but reveals that it is part of the same process. Flooded buildings become lairs for giant iguanas and caimans, they stabilize sandbars and reefs giving purchase to vegetation, and even shelter desperate individuals in their struggle to cling to civilization. There is no hint of the Anthropocene in either of the novels largely because Ballard has determined that humanities and nature cannot be separated.
3. Time. Of course, the relationship between the past and the future is temporal, but for Ballard, time doesn't simply march forward. In uterine environment of The Drowned World, time regresses from the catastrophic Holocene to the miasmic mists of the Triassic. Time drags the characters in the novel along with it as they become driven by long suppressed instincts awaken by their changing environment. These are, of course, communicated in haunting dreams which create an overwhelming impulse to regress, retreat, and survive. In Hello America, the trip from the deserted east coast to the tropic Las Vegas represents a voyage from the tense civilization of an exploratory expedition sent to investigate seismic and radioactive events in abandoned North America to a depraved form of egalitarianism grounded in violence and survival.
In archaeology, we assume that we can remove more recent deposits to reveal deeper layers of the past. For Ballard, though, the past isn't just revealed by physically uncovering or restoring the abandoned remains of human civilization, but also by moving forward through it. In Hello America, two characters scuffle in the long-abandoned Oval Office over who could claim to be President of the United States after taking time to clear debris and tidy up in an attempt to restore it to its past significance. The future, however, is not the Oval Office, but deeper in the human past exposed during the trip across the deserted continent. The same is the case for The Drowned World in which time starts to regress and the characters are drawn inexplicably toward the south and the place of human origins.


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Comparison between 'My Last Duchess' and 'Porphyria's Lover'
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Robert Browning was one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century and is still considered one of the major poets of the Victorian era. He was born in 1812 and married the privately educated poet, Elizabeth Browning, in 1846. They eloped to Florence, Italy, where his wife gave birth to their son, but after the death of Elizabeth, Robert moved back to London and it was here that he died in 1889.
Two of his most famous poems: 'My Last Duchess' and 'Porphyria's Lover' were published in 1842 as part of the 'Dramatic lyrics'. They are both dramatic monologues, which provide an overall or intimate view of a character's personality, but 'My Last Duchess' is written in iambic pentameter, whereas Porphyria's Lover is written in iambic tetrameter, which includes 4 stressed beats per line.
Both poems are narrated from the male lover's point of view. As a result, the reader becomes more closely involved in the poems. In 'My Last Duchess' we are invited into the poem; 'Wilt please you sit and look at her'. As this involves us directly we feel very strong emotions for the individuals portrayed and this is more effective.
In the opening lines of 'My Last Duchess' the Duke is showing off a painting to an advisor of a Count: 'That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive.' This immediately implies that she is dead and the painting of his wife is there to show off and be admired by other people. It may also imply that he is looking for his next duchess, which we realise is true when we reach the end of the poem.
The Duke describes how people are surprised by her seductive, passionate glance, and he gets very jealous when people admire the painting. This leads him to hide it behind a curtain. 'The depth of passion in that earnest glance, / But to myself they turned (since none puts by / The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)' He acts like he still owns her in a way we would own an object.
Similarly in 'Porphyria's Lover' the character who becomes the voice of the poem, assumed by Browning, talks as if Porphyria is still alive: 'And thus we sit together now.' The way in which they talk about their dead companions is quite disturbing, but shows that both couples will be together for eternity. However the Duke is quite happily moving on, and is quickly targeting the next girl for his 'collection'; the count's daughter. Porphyria's lover has killed her for love in the purest form and wants it to be everlasting.
In 'Porphyria's Lover' the dark evening creates a foreboding atmosphere. 'The rain set early in tonight.' The opening imagery foreshadows events to come and we are told that Porphyria 'shut out the cold and the storm' and made the 'cottage warm'. She metaphorically and literally brings warmth to his life; without her it is cold.
In contrast 'My Last Duchess' uses little imagery but it based on a conversation with the Count's advisor. However the artist who painted the picture (Fra Pandolph) states 'the faint / Half – flush that dies along her throat'. This also uses the foreshadowing device maybe indicating her throat was slit.
'My last Duchess' does not describe the death of his wife and never directly informs us that he killed her, we can only assume that he was involved: 'I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together.' The use of the word 'command' clearly highlights the threatening and controlling character of the Duke and shows how jealous he was with the fact that she seemed to show more attention to the men and show greater thanks for their gifts compared to the Duke's gift of 'a nine-hundred-years-old name'. The Duke justifies his actions by claiming his wife did not deserve her position as Duchess, or live up to the responsibilities that her noble stance required.
In contrast to this 'Porphyria's Lover' is blatantly more open about what he did. 'Three times her little throat around / And strangled her.' Although the narrator has committed a crime, and he does realise this; in a sense he has done it for the right reason; for love. He did not do it to avoid being humiliated, like the Duke feels in 'My Last Duchess.' The reader acknowledges that the narrator is passionately in love and I certainly feel more 'sorry' for the lover than for the Duke, where we are involved in a field of emotions of hate and anger towards him.
Unlike the Duchess who flirts with everyone and does not show the Duke the respect he craves, Porphyria does worship her lover: 'From pride, and vainer ties dissever.' She is too proud to give herself to the narrator as she is from a higher background and is unwilling to leave behind her family and the lifestyle that comes with it. This is the reason she is killed, as he does not want her feelings to change and the affair to end because he feels so passionate for her.
The beautiful imagery created by Browning in 'Porphyria's Lover' softens the death and shows a more considerate approach by the lover. 'As a shut bud that holds a bee.' This metaphor creates a delicate image and shows his compassion towards her. I think this is quite disturbing however as he tries to do it in a pleasant way, but ultimately this is still a murder.
The Duke on the other hand shows no remorse for his actions. 'Will't please you rise?' He sees nothing wrong with what he has done and now wants to leave. This calm casual approach is very cold and calculating and I do not think he ever really loved his wife; if he did, jealousy and respect was more important rather than to try and remedy the situation and put his unease at rest.
As the Duke can quickly move onto to his next victim, so to speak, he refers to the count's daughter as 'my object'. This desire for her is not out of love but just another addition to his collection. In the same breath, he draws his guest's attention to his latest acquisition – a new bronze in the shape of Neptune, the mythical Roman god of the sea. I think by doing this the Duke is making a sly reference to his own aims in capturing his next wife. I believe he thinks of himself as Neptune; powerful and ruling, and he compares this young woman to a sea-horse, in the way that she could be so easily tamed. This is an example of Browning's use of irony.
'Porphyria's Lover' also hints that he sees his lover as an object and possession. The repetition of 'mine' in the sentence 'she was mine' indicates how he too is mentally disturbed and now he has killed her he can have her all to himself, like a belonging. This is duplicated in 'First Love' when John Clare (1793 – 1864) describes how his life seems to 'turn to clay' when he sees this girl he has fallen in love. Time has frozen for him and he can capture the moment forever suggested by the use of the expression: 'clay'.
In the same way both men in the poems are jealous of their woman's love for others. In 'My Last Duchess' her love for life and the pleasure she got from simple things like 'a bough of cherries' and the joy she found in compliments from other men, does not mean she betrayed her husband, even though he obviously thought she had or was going to. In 'Porphyria's Lover' he wants to preserve the perfect, passionate moment they are embraced in and realises that the only way to do this is to kill her.
The modern reader is given an insight into the way relationships between men and women were viewed in the last century, and earlier, during the time of the Renaissance. Without doubt, men had the dominant role, and women had little personal freedom. Women were duty-bound to show unquestioning respect for the men in their lives, regardless of how they were treated. In 'Porphyria's Lover', Browning shows us the vision of a woman who is not following this role model. In fact, she is completely the opposite, and as such, she is fulfilling the role of a male fantasy by taking a dominant role.
'My Last Duchess' comes across as more shocking as he can quite easily move on, and views women as mere 'objects', which he can collect. 'Porphyria's Lover' is more disturbing as he thinks he has done Porphyria a favour and is now waiting for his punishment from God, which shows the historical context. He cannot move on and is tied to Porphyria forever.
It is not until the end the possession comes clear in both poems where the Duke is obsessed be the Duchess because she is a beautiful object and the lover is obsessed because of his eternal love for Porphyria.
Another genre of love is Romantic Love. This consists of the two sonnets; 'How do I love thee' and 'Sonnet 116'. Sonnets are poems with 14 lines and a regular rhythm, rhyme scheme and structure. Although they are both sonnets 'How do I love thee' originated in Italy, whereas 'Sonnet 116' was Shakespearean, consequently having a different rhyming scheme and structure, noted by the rhyming couplet at the end.
Sonnets were particularly popular with romantic poets due to the romantic soliloquies they are associated with and Shakespeare was one of these who wrote 'Sonnet 116'.
One other poem included in this genre is 'A Birthday'. This is not a sonnet but is based upon a celebration. It was written by Christian Rossetti (1830-1894), and most of her work was religious in nature, which is reflected in the poem: 'My heart is like a singing bird / Whose nest is in a watershed shoot.' The entire poem involves Rossetti comparing her love to nature and the use of repeated word 'My' makes the poem feel more personal and also shows how it is written in first person.
As well as nature playing a part in 'A Birthday' it is also used in Elizabeth Browning's poem; 'How do I love thee'. 'I love thee to the level of every day's / Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.' The series of similes are intended to aid our understanding of her emotions and helps create imagery. I interpret the 'sun' and 'candlelight' to represent the love that is still 'burning', highlighting the idea of everlasting love which is echoed in the last line.
Similarly the poem uses first person narrative, hence the fact that it is dedicated to her husband, Robert Browning, whom she was married to and also in 'Sonnet 116' nature is used to create imagery, which is emphasised by the metaphorical language: Love 'is the star to every wandering bark'. Love is a guiding light implying it will overcome any difficulties in a relationship. This is also imitated in Shakespeare's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' where 'the course of true love never did run smooth.' This explains that a relationship will go through its bad times and have problems but in the end love will always win through.
'How do I love thee?' is built upon a rhetorical question, which is also applied to 'First Love'. The use of rhetorical questions involves the reader and I think they are very effective as the reader is made to think about the different ways you can love someone and our first love, which we all remember. Throughout 'How Do I Love Thee' Browning tries to quantify love: 'Let me count the ways'. She cannot enumerate the different ways she can love her husband for they are innumerable.
Likewise in 'Sonnet 116' Shakespeare tries to measure love. The height of the 'star' can be measured but its value cannot, which metaphorically explains the reasoning behind love being immeasurable.
Both 'How do I Love Thee?' and 'Sonnet 116' make reference to the idea of love being eternal. This is a common theme, which runs through all the poems including 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'My Last Duchess' where both men refer to their dead wives as 'alive' indicating their love is everlasting.
In 'How Do I Love Thee?' Browning makes obvious referral to everlasting love by ending the poem with the line 'I shall but love thee better after death.' This highlights the point that love will win through any problem a relationship comes across.
In the same way 'Sonnet 116' explains that even the 'edge of doom' cannot destroy love and it will not 'alter with his brief hours and weeks'. This is slightly an idealistic view of love as we never know what will happen in the future and if love does end with someone it may start back up again with someone else. Shakespeare assures us that love is ideal and states 'If this be error and upon me proved, / I never write, nor no man ever loved.' He is so determined that love is everlasting that he is prepared to destroy his sonnets if he is proved wrong. This is a strong claim to make considering he is so famous for his many sonnets.
On the other hand 'A Birthday' deals with the issue of love as either a new life or a new beginning to a relationship. It does not address love after death. The celebration of a new life, which is one aspect the poem, links with 'First Love' when Clare describes the 'blood burning round my heart'. I interpret this as love being similar to a life source, which could highlight a new life being born as it is in 'A Birthday'.
'A Birthday' is more materialistic and the reference to 'gold' and 'silver' shows her desire to celebrate the new love she has found and exaggerate her feelings, as these are opulent items.
The personal views of the poets in 'How Do I Love Thee?' and 'A Birthday' help the reader understand more easily how they are feeling, whereas 'Sonnet 116' talks about love in a more general form.
'How Do I Love Thee?' talks about her own love which is implied through the first person narrative. This suggests that the poem was wrote for Browning's husband; Robert Browning and likewise in 'A Birthday' the extensive use of repetition; 'My' shows how personal the poem is, involving the reader more. However in 'Sonnet 116' we are not informed about Shakespeare's own personal experience on love but he informs us about love in its purest form and what it should be like. 'Love's not Time's fool' explains that physically we will all grow old and weaken but love will grow older and stronger.
All three poems are very positive and as I have mentioned talk about love in an ideal way but unfortunately love does not always run smoothly and so I think these poems are an exaggerated view of love and cannot be relied upon when querying love itself.
When you love someone and you are in a relationship it will always come to an end due to the death of on person. You can still love someone once they are dead and it can be everlasting which is repeated in many of the poems but the physical aspect of love will come to an end when someone dies. The next three poems are all related to love and death and have different views on it.
'To Mary' was written by 'John Clare' who lived for 71 years. He grew up in the countryside of Helpstone and was a working class boy who was forced to work at a very early age due to his family's poverty. His finest poems were wrote in an insane asylum and in 'To Mary' he has a different perspective on death compared to the other poems.
The other two poems in this section are both written by 'Christina Rossetti' as is 'A Birthday', which featured in the Romantic Love section. This English lyric poet reflects her lyrical style of writing onto 'Song' which is similar to 'To Mary' where the poem is lyrical. This style of writing is not followed in 'Remember' but instead she writes in sonnet form. This sonnet used is an example of the Italian style and follows a different rhyming pattern and structure compared to the Shakespearean sonnet as seen in 'Sonnet 116'. This style is appropriate for the poem and displays the fact that this is the poet's final thoughts.
The tone of the three poems varies. 'Remember' has a reflective and melancholy tone. I think this is because Rossetti wrote this when she was only nineteen and at this time people died at a young age and so we get the impression that she was writing it for later life as her death would come sooner rather than later. The whole poem therefore has a more personal touch than the others and implies that she wants to be remembered for the right reasons. 'Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad.' Although the poet does not want be forgotten by her lover, if it causes him grief to think about her then she would rather him forget. She puts his happiness first and this idea is highlighted throughout the poem.
Similarly Rossetti creates a sorrowful tone in 'Song' and is poignant in its subject matter. The two verses are clearly differentiated by the use of instructions in the first and the benefits of her death in the second. She doesn't want him to grieve for her and sing 'no sad songs for' for her yet she states; 'Be the grass above me / With showers and dewdrops wet.' This contradiction is explaining how on one hand she doesn't want him to be sad or upset about her death but wants him to visit her grave and think about her. Metaphorically I think she is stating that she wants him to cry for her, emphasised by the 'dewdrops' and 'showers' which represent the tears she wants to fall from his eyes. This is slightly confusing, as the reader does not know what Rossetti wants her lover to do.
'To Mary' has a much more positive tone to it. Clare talks as if the person is still alive which we came across in both 'My Last Duchess' and 'Porphyria's Lover'. 'I sleep with thee, and wake with thee' evidently portrays the character to still be alive yet 'thou art not there'. Similarly to 'Song' the three verses all exhibit different aspects of love and death and they include physical, emotional and nature.
Because of the positive tone in 'To Mary' the poem is very gentle towards death. The 'whispers' and 'hush' of nature is very calming and the personification used helps create the idea of the person still living. We never come across details of how she died or bluntly stating she is dead and this is why the poem is much more positive.
On the other hand the other two poems are much more blunt but in particular 'Song'. The opening line highlights this straight away; 'When I am dead'. 'Remember also opens with death but in a more general way. 'Gone far away into the silent land.' This metaphor for heaven is a euphemism and makes dying sound like a journey. This isn't as harsh or blunt as 'Song' but still states the fact she is going to die some day.
Rossetti creates the idea of time standing still in 'Song'. 'Dreaming through the twilight' creates the idea of falling asleep forever and waiting for her lover to join her once she dies. This links with 'First Love' as Clare wants time to stand still to capture the moment of his first love. This also relates back to 'Porphyria's Lover' when he kills Porphyria so that he doesn't have to share her with anyone and wants to remain on the sofa together forever.
The concept of eternal love runs throughout all the poems in different ways. In these three poems they highlight this and hope they will be re united one day. 'To Mary' creates the idea of everlasting love through nature. The personification used brings her to life and constantly reminds him of 'some pleasant tales of thee.' This is comforting for Clare and offers some reassurance. The physical aspects in this poem contrasts with 'Remember' as the physical contact been lost; 'When you can no more hold my hand'. This is simple yet affective as it signifies that obviously you cannot hold hands now the person has dies but yet there is still hope that one day they will be reunited.
The everlasting love in 'Remember' is based on memories however rather than through nature. Death can take away the physical contact in a relationship but it can't take away the memories. Similarly 'Song' is based on the memories, as she wants him to 'haply may forget' the bad memories but remember the positive ones. Although they differ in the way they portray eternal love, they show similarities with 'How Do I Love Thee?' and 'Sonnet 116'. Both these two poems from Romantic Love explain how love does not alter and sustains even after death. This is equally represented in 'Remember', 'To Mary' and 'Song'.
The second verse of 'To Mary' deals with emotions and how Clare cannot forget her. He is trying to move on and 'think and speak of other things' but like 'Porphyria's Lover' he is unable to and his 'memory clings'.
Similarly in 'Remember' Rossetti prompts her man to move on and carry out the 'future plans' whether it be alone or with someone else. She does want his life to come to an end just because hers has. This poem is very different to Rossetti's 'Song', as it is clear she wants him to remember the good moments they had and move on unlike Porphyria's lover who couldn't get over it and became obsessed with her. 'Song' is more varied with her emotions where at one stage she wants him to move on as well as remembering her and mourning for his loss.
When we think of love we immediately think of romance and the idealistic view that Shakespeare portrays in 'Sonnet 116'. However love has many different aspects to it including obsession and death, which we do not contemplate for. The poems deal with all these issues but in conclusion most have one common theme of eternal love. They exhibit the idea of being reunited one day but in different ways. The Duke has the picture, which he can admire to remind himself of her as well as showing off to his guests. Shakespeare clearly believes that love is eternal and if it is not then he promises to destroy his sonnets and all poems in the love and death section hope that they will meet again one day in 'the silent land.'
In conclusion I hope to have shown a detailed examination of the poems I have studied and made reference to others, showing how they link in with many of the poems. Love is something we all want to encounter one day but as we have seen can have bitter consequences.
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The last time I used a blog was a couple years ago (in case you are interested, this can still be accessed at suchbros.blogspot.com). At the time, I was still living with my parents and younger brother in Lyons, Colorado. In the fall of 2014 that all changed, as I moved to Gunnison, Colorado, to pursue my undergraduate degree in Environmental Biology and Ecology at Western State Colorado University. This move also facilitated the furthering of my passion for distance running, as I compete as a collegiate cross country and track athlete for the Western State Mountaineers.
Through the years, my interests have shifted and evolved, but my deepest passion remains firmly with birds. Located on the western slope of Colorado, Gunnison is nestled in the bottom of a large, sagebrush dominated basin, surrounded on all sides by sheer peaks and thick montane forest. With its incredible array of habitats, the birding opportunities in Gunnison County abound, and it is these experiences which I plan to chronicle with this blog.
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Sex on fire
There are sheet music
Dm D#m Em Fm F#m Gm G#m Am Bbm Bm
Lyrics and Music by Caleb Followill, Nathan Followill,
Jared Followill and Matthew Followill
Intro: C#m | E | C#m
Lay where you're laying, don't make a sound.
I know they're watching, they're watching.
All the commotion, the killing of pain,
It has people talking,
They're talking.
E   Emaj   E         C#m7   Amaj
Your, your sex is on fire.
The dark of the alley, the breaking of day.
A head while I'm driving, I'm driving.
Soft lips are open, the knuckles are pale,
Feels like you're dying, you're dying.
E     Emaj  E              C#m7  Amaj
Concerned with what's to transpire.
Hot as a fever, rattling bones.
I could just taste it, taste it.
If it's not forever, if it's just tonight,
Oh, it's still the greatest,
The greatest, the greatest,
And your, your sex is on fire.
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Sex on fire (Ukulele)


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Lyft, Taco Bell Teaming Up to Feed Hungry Late-Night Riders
"Taco Mode" brings relief to riders craving some fourth meal.
By Will Sabel CourtneyJuly 25, 2017
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There's always money to be made catering to the drunchies. Case in point: Lyft and Taco Bell have teamed up to help nighttime riders satisfy their (presumably substance-induced) cravings for greasy, salty food.
"Taco Mode," as it's called, will first be rolled out to Lyft users in California's Orange County between the hours of 9pm and 2am on the weekends of July 27–30 and August 3–6, according to a blog post on the ride-hailing company's website. Following the pilot program in the O.C., the Taco Bell–Lyft joint will expand to other markets around the country, with plans for it to go into operation across America sometime in 2018.
The cars involved in the California test program will be wrapped up in a taco-themed livery, according to Ad Age, and all the riders will be brought to the same Taco Bell location in Newport Beach.
To implement Taco Mode, Lyft users will simply need to select it from the different ride options available in the app. Once they do, their driver will bring them to a Taco Bell drive-thru, where they'll receive a free Doritos Locos taco along with their order, just for kicks.
The joint operation—which presumably will immediately find a strong user base among Orange County residents who regularly smoke joints—is a new way for the fast food chain to reach out to the youths who frequently use ride-hailing services, according to Taco Bell chief marketing officer Marisa Thalberg.
"I kind of think of this like inverse delivery—like we're delivering you to Taco Bell," Thalberg said in an interview with The New York Times.
In contrast to many fast-food chains that have endeavored to present themselves as more premium products in recent years, Taco Bell has long made use of its image as a late-night impulse choice to sell its greasy "Mexican" food, even going so far as to market it as a bonus round of eating called "fourth meal."
As for Lyft, the alliance with Taco Bell gives it a new leg up on its arch-competitor Uber. After all, when drunk millennials are deciding which app to use to call a ride home from the bar on Saturday night, and one of the options lets them pick up Taco Bell along the way...don't you think they're gonna choose that one?
Scott Dixon, Dario Franchitti Robbed at Gunpoint at Indianapolis Taco Bell
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Lyft Wants to Give 1 Billion Rides Per Year in Self-Driving Electric Cars by 2025
Lyft aims to reduce emissions through autonomous driving, electric cars, and carbon-offset credits.
Taco Bell Announces Cheetos Burrito, Wins Fast Food Forever
Eating in your car as it should be: glutton and glory.
Cargo Launches Vending Machine for Uber, Lyft, Other Ride-Sharing Cars
You may be able to buy snacks during your next Uber ride.
Lyft Will Still Need Human Drivers Even After Self-Driving Cars Arrive, Exec Says
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Q: War deploy multiple class instance created when a job is executed I have an web application which use quartz to execute planned jobs. I'm doing the development in embedded eclipse tomcat where when a job has to be executed it's executed just one time, but when I create an simple war and deployed in jboss the trigger execution has an strange behavior, the class called (job) is executed twice at same time, I checked the log and the execution call it's made just once
2014-12-30 11:25:30,003 [org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SchedulerFactoryBean#0_Worker-1] DEBUG [org.quartz.core.JobRunShell] - Calling execute on job DEFAULT.JobListener

But the method is executed twice
2014-12-30 11:25:30,003 [org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SchedulerFactoryBean#0_Worker-1] DEBUG [com.xxx.imides.batch.exec.JobListener] - executeInternal
2014-12-30 11:25:30,003 [org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SchedulerFactoryBean#0_Worker-1] DEBUG [com.indra.xxx.batch.exec.JobListener] - executeInternal
 2014-12-30 11:25:30,004 [org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SchedulerFactoryBean#0_Worker-1] DEBUG [com.indra.xxx.batch.exec.JobListener] - hashCode 20730000
2014-12-30 11:25:30,004 [org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SchedulerFactoryBean#0_Worker-1] DEBUG [com.indra.xxx.batch.exec.JobListener] - hashCode 20730000

After a lot of test and research i'm completely lost, i don't now where and what to look. Any idea?
This is the application configuration:
POM.xml
    <spring.version>3.1.1.RELEASE</spring.version>
<java.version>1.7</java.version>

                <!-- Quartz framework -->
       <dependency>
            <groupId>org.quartz-scheduler</groupId>
            <artifactId>quartz</artifactId>
            <version>1.8.5</version>
        </dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
    <version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>

quartz-config.xml
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

    <bean id="jobListener" class="com.xxx.imides.batch.exec.JobListener"></bean>

    <!-- Quartz Job -->
    <bean name="JobListener" class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.JobDetailBean">
        <property name="jobClass" value="com.xxx.imides.batch.exec.JobListener"/>
    </bean>

    <!-- Cron Trigger, run every 5 seconds -->
    <bean id="cronTriggerJobListener"
                class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.CronTriggerBean" scope="singleton" lazy-init="true">
        <property name="jobDetail" ref="JobListener" />
        <property name="cronExpression" value="0/5 * * * * ?" />
    </bean>

    <bean class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SchedulerFactoryBean">
        <property name="triggers">
            <list>
                <ref bean="cronTriggerJobListener" />
            </list>
        </property>
           <property name="quartzProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="org.quartz.threadPool.threadCount">1</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
    </bean>
</beans>

web.xml - I have this between everything
<!-- Creates the Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
 <listener>
     <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
 </listener>

JobListener.java
public class JobListener extends QuartzJobBean{
....
    @Override
    protected void executeInternal(JobExecutionContext context)
            throws JobExecutionException {

        if(logger.isDebugEnabled()){
            logger.debug("executeInternal ");
            logger.debug("jobRunTime " + context.getJobRunTime());
            logger.debug("toString " + context.getJobDetail().toString());
            logger.debug("hashCode " + context.getJobInstance().hashCode());

        }
        pickUpChanges();

    }
}

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JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
  6.3.0.GA


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has made an extremely unnerving announcement saying it will be preparing the American public for nuclear war - "public health response to a nuclear detonation" - in the skies over the US.
The announcement was released quietly over the Christmas period, presumably to avoid mass panic, as the heightened tensions between North Korea and the United States continues to grow.
The CDC's announcement focused on helping the American public "plan and prepare" for a nuclear disaster that would help reduce the fatalities throughout the US in such an event.
According to the CDC, the vast majority of Americans are 'ill-informed' when it comes to surviving a nuclear attack, stating: "federal, state, and local agencies will lead the immediate response efforts, public health will play a key role in responding."
Dan Sosin, CDC's deputy director and chief medical officer in the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response and many other federal government officials specializing in radiation survival.
The CDC's briefing coincides with the massive tensions between North Korea and the United States.
Trump responded to what North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in a New Year's Day speech that Western nations would have to accept their status as a nuclear-armed nation as a "reality.
To make matters more 'real', a high-ranking Pentagon whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, claimed that the US is about to launch "all-out nuclear war." The former government official previously leaked the Pentagon Papers that exposed a conspiracy to lie to the public offer the Vietnam War has said the United States is on the edge of "nuclear Armageddon."


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Carly Fiorina: Speaking Truth to Power
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Carly Fiorina started her career at the very bottom: as a secretary for a nine-person real estate firm called Marcus & Millichap.
Her bosses quickly noticed her strong work ethic and natural leadership skills—and soon promoted her to a broker position.
Marcus & Millichap taught Fiorina how to lead a small company—and inspired her passion for the world of business. She decided to go back to school to earn a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Maryland.
In 1980, when she was 25, she moved to Virginia to join AT&T as a management trainee—one of the only women on her team. By 1985, she was a district manager, overseeing AT&T's largest civilian government account, the General Services Administration (GSA).
In 1995, AT&T spun off its telecommunications equipment business into a new company called Lucent Technologies. Fiorina was chosen to lead the effort, as Lucent's new executive vice president of Corporate Operations.
In 1998, FORTUNE Magazine named Carly Fiorina the "Most Powerful Woman in Business" for the first time—due to her incredible success at Lucent. She would continue to be on the list for the next 6 years.
In 1999, Fiorina left her home in Virginia to make history once again—when she became the first woman to lead a FORTUNE 20 company, as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
Pat Robertson will talk with Carly Fiorina about her career and what's next for her on Tuesday's 700 Club.
After she left HP in 2005, she focused on giving back to the community, the country, and the world—and unlocking the limitless potential in others.
Under President George W. Bush, Fiorina headed the newly formed External Advisory Board for the Central Intelligence Agency. With her experience at fixing broken bureaucracies at HP, the federal government knew Carly had the insight and experience to bring more transparency and accountability to the CIA.
In 2008, Fiorina joined Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to found the One Woman Initiative. When the organization later merged with Opportunity International, Carly served as Global Board chair.
Over the past 15 years, Opportunity International has created 10 million jobs through $6.8 billion loans, with an average loan of about $150.
In 2009, Fiorina was diagnosed with breast cancer. At the same time, she and her husband, Frank, suffered a terrible tragedy: they lost their younger daughter, Lori.
Throughout these difficult times, Frank and Carly Fiorina were sustained by the redemptive power of their Christian faith—and the strength of their family.
In 2011, the Fiorinas decided to move home to Virginia to be closer to the ones they loved: their older daughter, Tracy, and their two grandkids, Kara and Morgan.
When Fiorina announced her campaign for president, the experts didn't take her seriously—because she wasn't a career politician. She had less funding than her establishment rivals, and none of the name recognition.
But Fiorina had faced tough odds before—and, as she did throughout her life, she rose to the challenge.
Whether she was standing strong against Hillary Clinton, the mainstream media, or the entrenched establishment in Washington, Fiornia was always ready to speak truth to power and stand up for what was right, no matter what.
With the 2016 presidential election behind us, Carly Fiorina is not backing down. She says she's going to keep fighting for the American people—making sure those at the highest levels of power hear our voice loud and clear.
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