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While the answers are still coming in, there are things we can do to help protect ourselves. These tips come from a variety of sources, including a brain scientist who has recovered from brain cancer (Dr. David Servan-Schreiber - if you have not yet read his book, Anticancer, A New Way of Life go get it! It's an excellent read for anyone wishing to prevent cancer, or already dealing with the health challenges cancer presents). Simultaneously, we are all terrified of cancer but somehow in denial that it will ever touch us personally. It's time we look clearly at the rampart cancer rates of the last decade and take as many steps as we can personally to protect our health.
When it comes to this health issue, we are all exposed to radiation in varying degrees, even those of us who do not have a cell phone. In North America, unless you live in the remote wilds and are completely off the grid, you're likely affected, even if from cell towers and criss-crossing signals in the air. Experts are telling us that cordless phones pose similar risks, and it s only as more studies come to completion that the alarming statistics are becoming available. Nonetheless, mobile phones and smart phones are here to stay, so let's do what we can given that reality.
For one thing, most mobile phone manufacturers now offer a protection rating on their phones, as consumers become increasingly aware and concerned. Ask your provider about your specific phone and be sure to check the rating of any phone you buy. Other tips include using a headset rather than putting the phone directly to your ear when talking, and leaving the phone away from your wear until someone answers; according to experts the signal is stronger when the phone is ringing, before it connects. The signal is also stronger when you are between cell towers, so if the connection is bad hang up and try later when it's safer. For children and teens with developing brains, limit cell phone use and if anything, encourage texting over speaking (who ever thought anyone would say that?).


RANGOON— Burma's leading nationalist group denied involvement in a recent midnight confrontation between Buddhist nationalists and Muslim residents near downtown Rangoon that prompted authorities to issue arrest warrants for the alleged perpetrators.
Ashin U Sopaka, a leading member of Ma Ba Tha, told The Irrawaddy on Thursday that the group behind the Tuesday night confrontation—the Patriotic Monks Union— was not connected to his association.
"We have nothing to do with them. As both are run by Buddhist monks, people confuse Ma Ba Tha and the Patriotic Monks Union as the same group," he said.
The Patriotic Monks Union attracted attention in the last few years for their attacks on Muslim vendors doing business near Buddhist pagodas. They were also involved in staging demonstrations in collaboration with other nationalist groups against ethnic Muslim Rohingya.
Their most recent actions—and probably the biggest yet—were to organize the shutdown of two madrasas in Rangoon's Thaketa Township last month and Tuesday's violence.
The union's leader and following is unknown, but monk U Thuseitta, who has had a warrant issued for his arrest, is known to be secretary of the group.
"[The union] only work for nationalism," said U Sopaka. "They have their own approaches and we have our own," he added.
During a press conference held by the union on Thursday, U Thuseitta said the Patriotic Monks Union and other nationalist forces were behind Tuesday's actions. "It was not by Ma Ba Tha. We did it," he admitted.
Founded in 2014—two years after Burma had been plunged into religious conflict between Buddhists and Muslims, and with sub-chapters across the country—Ma Ba Tha has become virtually synonymous with nationalism.
Some of its leading members, including U Wirathu, preached anti-Muslim sermons, claiming that the country's Buddhist foundations are under assault, the Muslim population is outpacing the Buddhist one and that Burma needs to be vigilant against fundamentalist influences.
The association was criticized at home and abroad for lobbying for the controversial race and religion laws. Despite their anti-Muslim preaching and activities, Ma Ba Tha outlived the previous Thein Sein government, which was criticized for turning a blind eye on the association's actions.
Since then, Ma Ba Tha has been low key, focusing more on charity work.


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Pocket Casts: Easily the Best Podcast App For Android
By Trevor Dobrygoski / Aug 24, 2013 / Android
With the death of Google Reader, I decided to switch to listening to podcasts rather than reading news feeds. The problem was, there weren't really any good choices readily available for a podcast aggregator. Most of the existing Android podcast apps are either lacking in features or too complicated to use. What I was looking for was something like Google Reader, but for podcasts. I needed a player and something that will check for new podcasts as well as sync with other devices.
In my hunt, I came across the app Pocket Casts. Yes it is a paid app. We don't usually talk about the paid apps if there is a free version of something that will do an equally good job. In my opinion, this is the best Android podcast app you can find in Google Play.
What Pocket Casts does
What I like is the ability to import a list of previously accumulated podcasts. There is an option to import an OPML file. This saves a lot of time if you are using another feed reader or were using Google's Listen app.
If you are just starting out, you can easily add podcasts by searching for the website. Another option is to search for a keyword like "Major League Soccer". The results will pull up all the possibilities out there.
When clicking on the podcast, you will see the description, recent episodes and the option to add it to your list.
When subscribed, you will see the latest episode and have the option to download it to your device. What's nice is, you can also stream it using Pocket Casts or in an external player.
In the settings, you have several choices to set up how the podcasts are downloaded and played. One nice feature I have not come across before is being able to start several seconds in to avoid having to listen to the intro or intro music.
Another good option is to have the app check for new episodes once a day. This will save on battery life. Also, you can find options to delete the downloaded files after the episode has been played to help save space and clutter on your device.
If you know you'd like all of the newest episodes of a podcast to download, you can set this up to do it automatically. Be careful not to have too many download automatically or you could go through a lot of data or fill up your phone storage quickly.
One of the features that really sold me was the syncing from device to device. There is a free account needed which I gladly signed up for. The syncing is really useful for me. Sometimes I am listening to a podcast on the commute home from work and resume it on my tablet when I arrive home. I don't need to figure out where I was in the episode when I move to a different device.
Overall, this is the best Android podcast aggregator I have tried to date. Unless something goes horribly awry with it, I won't be looking for other alternatives. With all of the basic features handled, including a good looking and easy to use player with controls on the lock screen, there leaves little to desire for my needs. The added features like the smart playlists are all a plus when it comes to listening to several different sites.
Do you listen to podcasts regularly? What apps do you use on your Android to find and listen to them?
Trevor Dobrygoski
Trevor is a freelance writer covering topics ranging from the Android OS to free web and desktop applications. When he is not writing about mobile productivity, He is coaching and playing the world's greatest game... Soccer.
Have you ever tried BeyondPod? It is fully featured and handles both podcasts and RSS feeds. Much better in my opinion. Plus, it offers a lite version for free.
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Public Relations refers to the comprehensive application-oriented discipline that takes objective phenomenon and activity patterns of public relations as the research object, a subject that studies the dissemination and communication behavior, rules and methods organizations and the public. Public relations are highly applied curriculum which can be applied to individuals and organizations.
Public relation refers to the communication and spreading relationship between the organization and the public. There are many definitions of public relations, generally refers to a social organization with communication means to form a two-way communication between themselves and the relevant public, so that the two sides to achieve mutual understanding and mutual adaptation of management activities. This definition reflects the public relations is a kind of communication activities, but also a management function.
Public relations is a discipline with strong application formed with social progress, economic development, it is the social relations that social organization uses communication, media and means of communication, form with the public interests in order to establish a good image in the public.
Public relations program is a new cross subject, which is based on communication, management science and behavioral science, and it is a science which reveals the state of public relations and the law of public relations activities. This discipline has experienced three stages, namely, the bud, the generation and the development stage.
The subject of public relations is the social organization, the object is the social public, the link between the main body and the object is the information dissemination. These three elements constitute the basic category of public relations; the theoretical research of public relations, the actual operation is around the relationship between the three layers.
Survey ways: sample survey, general survey, case investigation.
(1) To meet the needs of opening to the outside world.
(2) The need to adapt to the reform of the system.
(3) To meet the needs of the development of market economy.
(4) To meet the needs of the modern information society.
(5) To meet the needs of social stability.
The program takes the public communication and transaction of the organization as the research object, takes the public relations of government, industry and commerce enterprise public relations and international public relations as the main direction of development to train public relations professionals who understand management, good planning, communication, with a system knowledge of administration and management, familiar with the theory and method of modern communication, have the research, planning and creative ability, master various propaganda techniques and the art of diplomacy public relations professionals.
5) Master the method of literature search, data query, has certain ability in practical work.
Main courses: communication, management, marketing, political science, sociology, social psychology, public relations science principle, public relations practice and case, advertising theory, planning and advertising strategy, advertising design, CI strategy, corporate culture, leadership in science and art, organizational behavior, interpersonal communication and etiquette, public relations writing, speech and eloquence, negotiation skills, social investigation method, computer application, mass media research, video production, photography, media law tutorial, communication ethics, aesthetics, and international relations.
Public relations survey and planning, language art of public relations, public psychology, public relations etiquette, public relations planning and implementation, training courses, comprehensive practice and graduation practice and so on.
Marketing, management, communication, administration, sociology, public management, public utilities management, labor and social security, public policy, labor relations, etc.
Graduates can be engaged in various levels of governments, business units and media companies for information research, corporate culture, image planning, publicity and promotion, foreign exchange and other work.


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Q: Logout button not working after moving from activity to fragment This was my logout button in my main activity and it worked perfectly. By the way, I'm using Firebase and this was a logout button for Google sign-in. It worked as intended when it was in my main class.
package com.example.akhilsukh01.truckory;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;

import com.google.firebase.auth.FirebaseAuth;

public class HomeActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    Button button;
    FirebaseAuth mAuth;
    FirebaseAuth.AuthStateListener mAuthListener;

    @Override
    protected void onStart() {
        super.onStart();
        mAuth.addAuthStateListener(mAuthListener);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_home);

        button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.logout);
        mAuth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance();
        mAuthListener = new FirebaseAuth.AuthStateListener() {
            @Override
            public void onAuthStateChanged(@NonNull FirebaseAuth firebaseAuth) {
                if(firebaseAuth.getCurrentUser() == null) {
                    startActivity(new Intent(HomeActivity.this, MainActivity.class));
                }
            }
        };

        button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                mAuth.signOut();
            }
        });
    }
}

I know that it won't work with the same code because it's not an activity and it's a different fragment altogether, but I'm not sure how to fix it. This was my attempt (that doesn't work):
package com.example.akhilsukh01.truckory;

/**
 * Created by akhil on 7/24/2017.
 */

import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import com.google.firebase.auth.FirebaseAuth;

public class Tab5Profile extends Fragment {

    Button button;
    FirebaseAuth mAuth;
    FirebaseAuth.AuthStateListener mAuthListener;

    @Override
    public void onStart() {
        super.onStart();
        mAuth.addAuthStateListener(mAuthListener);
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                             Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.tab5profile, container, false);
        return rootView;
        Button logout = (Button) rootView.findViewById(R.id.logout);
        logout.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            public void onClick(View view) {
                // Logout current user
                mAuth.signOut();
                startActivity(new Intent(HomeActivity.this, LoginActivity.class));

            }
        });
    }
}

A: If it works fine in activity dont change the code. In fragment use
((HomeActivity)getActivity).mAuth.signOut();

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Constantin Antonovici, Mythical Modernism: Sculptures, 1942-1975
Westwood Gallery NYC
Oct. 30, 2023 - Jan. 8, 2022
New York, 10012
www.westwoodgallery.com/constantin-antonovici-mythical-modernism/
WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC is pleased to present Mythical Modernism, a retrospective of Romanian-born sculptor Constantin Antonovici (1911-2002), curated by James Cavello. The exhibition features fourteen sculptures, 1940s through 1970s (marble, metal, wood) and never-before-seen ephemera from the Antonovici Archive highlighting a life dedicated to art. This exhibition is one of a series of rediscovered artist estates, as part of the gallery core program, and is in collaboration with Gallery: Gertrude Stein, a historic contemporary NYC art gallery.
Antonovici established himself as an artist in the 1930s while still a student at the Fine Arts Academy in Iaşi, Romania and while carving wood altars for two of the local churches. Soon, his skill as a wood artisan was recognized in sculpture competitions. The turmoil of the war in the 1940s changed the scope of his work, away from traditional into innovative forms nurtured from nature. From the 1950s, Antonovici developed into a post-synchronistic, modernist sculptor, constantly influenced by his upbringing in Neamţ, Romania, a countryside area known for having the most monasteries in the world, per square kilometer.
His sculptures are refined, synthetic forms, reduced to their essential attributes, and are anchored both in folklore and the tradition of Modernity. In 1967, Alain Bousquet wrote about Antonovici in an article in Albert Camus' newspaper, Le Combat: "Constantin Antonovici offers a rare example of sobriety and perfection, for that inner force similar to music." Bousquet placed Antonovici in the context of surrealism and cubism and compared him with Jean Arp and Giacometti. Antonovici's totemic figure was the owl, whose imagery and symbology preoccupied him from childhood. With the owl's fundamental verticality and sentinel view, the bird was an important motif representing strength and wisdom as a mythological creature. "It lies at the base of my inspiration and traces my way in modern art." For over thirty years Antonovici explored the complexity of the owl with several sculptures on view in the exhibition, including one of his earliest bronze owl sculptures dated 1942 with recognizable features, in comparison with a regal monolithic marble owl dated 1975, with only the eyes and sleek shape as a recognizable form. The sculptures are documented in the 1976 book, "Constantin Antonovici: Sculptor of Owls".
Two works entitled "Head of Brâncuşi" (1956) reflect Antonovici's homage to the Maestro in modernist form, and other bronze sculptures, "Mephistopheles" (1949) and "Portrait" (1953) are indicative of the purity of modernism, which Antonovici refused as 'abstraction'. Several sculptures are exhibited on original pedestals of carved or constructed wood and show the influence of Romanian ethnography from the Carpathian Mountain region.
The exhibition is curated with ephemera from the artist's archive to provide a deeper view of the artist as he tried to find his presence in the New York art world, and at times barely surviving. The archive includes letters about his participation in anti-communist protests in the 1960s, his role in the trial of Bishop Valerian Trifa, a former Nazi, a letter from Richard Nixon accepting a bust of Dwight D. Eisenhower created by Antonovici in gratitude for his immigration to the U.S., correspondence with David Kreeger, as well as vintage photographs of artworks in the studio. Also on exhibit is Antonovici's typewritten personal account "How I Knew the Great Brâncuşi" from 1951, as well as a rare recommendation certificate written by Brâncuşi to confirm Antonovici's talent as an artist. Also included are letters at the culmination of the artist's life which portray a long health battle due to a stroke, and ongoing eviction proceedings in the artist's rent-controlled NYC apartment.
From Antonovici's history, a defining time in his life was his seven-year challenging quest from 1940-47, through war and imprisonment, to meet the great Constantin Brâncuşi who lived in Paris. In 1940 Antonovici worked in the studio of the famous sculptor Ivan Meštrovič in Zagreb (Croatia) for six months. After returning to Zagreb from a brief trip to Romania to defer draft, he found Meštrovič had been imprisoned. Antonovici ended up being arrested by the German SS, sent to Belgrade and later imprisoned in Germany for his refusal to fight on the side of the Nazis. At the brink of death, a doctor in the prison helped get him a guarded release to Vienna where he was allowed to attend the Academy of Fine Arts, and studied with Professor Fritz Behn, who made him a teaching assistant. Antonovici later studied woodcarving techniques in Tirol (1945-47) and then relocated to Paris where he met Brâncuşi.
Brâncuşi, who was not necessarily amenable to meeting another young artist ended up accepting Antonovici as a studio assistant from 1947-1951. Working in Brâncuşi's studio at 11 Impasse Ronsin changed Antonovici's outlook on life and art and he was also fortunate to continue making his own sculptures during the four-year period. Brâncuşi required no less than perfection in craftsmanship from any artist honored to work in his studio, and Antonovici proved worthy to the Maestro. They also shared a bond due to commonalities in their peasant upbringing in Romania and their mystical view of nature related to folklore. Brâncuşi taught Antonovici how to forge and make tools for sculpting, which were better and longer lasting than any store-bought tools. Antonovici wrote about Brâncuşi: "He creates like a God. He commands like a King. He works like a slave."
ABOUT CONSTANTIN ANTONOVICI
Antonovici moved to the United States from Paris in 1953 via Canada and shortly thereafter won a competition in NYC which allowed him to create a marble bas-relief sculpture of Bishop William Manning's tomb cover at St. John the Divine Cathedral, weighing three tons of Carrara marble. This commission resulted in the award of a lifetime artist studio in the basement of the cathedral. In 1960 through Romany Marie, an emblematic personality of the bohemian NYC scene, active in the promotion of Brâncuşi, he met many cultural luminaries of the time. During this period, he continued to work on his beloved series of Owls but also created figurative and ecumenical works; he sculpted classical busts including Voltaire, Beethoven, de Gaulle, Ciprian Porumbescu (Romanian composer), Brâncuşi, Homer, Moses and Dalí.
With his failing health in the 1980s, the artist was paralyzed for more than a decade due to a stroke and died destitute at the age of 91 years old, on Feb. 5th, 2002, in New York City. In his studio, he left approximately 100 sculptures, from the 1940s through 1970, which a friend commented, he treated as his 'children' and 'would not part with them.' After his death, an ongoing effort was made to preserve Antonovici's legacy and to document the work of this forgotten Modernist and natural sculptor.
During his lifetime, Antonovici participated in exhibitions in Paris from 1947, including Salon des Indépendants in 1950 and in the United States, including a solo exhibition at Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1964. He also exhibited from the 1940s-1970s in Italy, Austria, Romania, and Canada. His work was praised by numerous art critics, including Alain Bosquet, Georges Boudaille, Donelson F. Hoops and Ralph Fabri. Antonovici's artwork is in the collection of the Kreeger Museum, Washington D.C., the White House and numerous private collections. A comprehensive book about Antonovici, 'A Sculptor on Two Continents,' was published in Romania (2011) with a history of the artist's oeuvre and legacy in 20th century art.
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"This is the worst day of my life," I said. "I'm a complete failure.
When I went to the parking lot, I found my car had been stolen and I don't have any insurance.
"So, I came to this bar to work up the courage to put an end to it all. I buy a drink, I drop a capsule in it and sit here watching the poison dissolve.
But, enough about me, how are you doing?


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1At $100 a ton, feeding a landfill is pricey. But in the past two years, General Mills has turned its solid waste into profits. Take its oat hulls, a Cheerios by-product. The company used to pay to have them hauled off, but realized they could be burned as fuel. Now customers compete to buy the stuff. In 2006, General Mills recycled 86% of its solid waste, earning more from that than it spent on disposal.
2Moore's Law is great for producing speedier devices, but it's hell on the environment. According to Greenpeace, demand for new technology creates 4,000 tons of e-waste an hour, which often ends up on dead-hardware mountains in India, Africa, and China. Enter take-back programs, in which customers return spent technology to manufacturers, who recycle the parts for new gadgets. The United States has long lagged behind many European nations, which mandate the programs, but that's finally changing. Dell is leading the way. Last year, the PC maker recovered 40,000 tons of unwanted equipment for recycling, up 93% from 2005.
3Trains were already the cleanest way to move massive amounts of freight long distances, but General Electric raised the game with its Evolution locomotives, diesel engines launched in 2005 that cut fuel consumption by 5% and emissions by 40% compared to locomotives built just a year earlier. Up next, a triumph of sheer coolness: a GE hybrid diesel-electric locomotive that, just like your Prius, captures energy from braking and will improve mileage another 10%. According to GE, the energy dissipated in braking a 207-ton locomotive during the course of a year is enough to power 160 homes for the same period.
4Not to be outdone in the freight game, Wal-Mart is providing funding to the biggest truck manufacturers–ArvinMeritor, Eaton, International, and Peterbilt–to develop the first heavy-duty diesel-hybrid 18-wheeler. Wal-Mart, which operates the second-largest truck fleet in the country, will test the prototypes next year.
5Austin-based concert promoter C3 Presents made news when it banned Styrofoam cups from the sixth annual Austin City Limits Music Festival this year. Beneath the quick-hit media pop was a deeper story: Following the model the company created for Lollapalooza, C3 took a holistic approach to greening nearly every aspect of ACL, from bamboo-based concert T-shirts to gel sanitizer in the bathrooms to bio-diesel power generators.
6It's not just hippies making the special-events world eco-friendly. The Philadelphia Eaglesclaim to be the greenest team in the NFL–and not just because of the color of its jerseys. Starting this season, the team's "Go Green" environmental campaign has its stadium cleaning crew making two full sweeps after each game–one to pick up recyclables and another for trash.
7First we counted calories, then carbs. Now it's carbon, as retailers introduce product labels that encourage customers to weigh their eco-sins. The most ambitious: British grocery giant Tesco, which has a program to label all 70,000 of its products with carbon breakdowns.
8Hamburger Helper helps your hamburger … save the planet? This year, General Millsredesigned the packaging of Mom's old standby, shaving off 20% of the paperboard box without shrinking its tasty contents. The astounding result: 500 fewer distribution trucks on the road each year.
9Another recent player in the un-supersize movement, Unilever, reconfigured the plastic bottles for its billion-dollar Suave shampoo brand, saving plastic equivalent to some 15 million bottles a year.
10Taking the packaging revolution a step further, the liquid-laundry-detergent industry, goaded by Wal-Mart, has cut the size of its bottles by 50% or more by concentrating the liquid to two and sometimes three degrees of magnitude. Unilever's triple-concentrated All Small & Mighty detergent has saved 1.3 million gallons of diesel fuel, 10 million pounds of plastic resin, and 80 million square feet of cardboard since 2005. This fall, Procter & Gambleis converting its entire collection of liquids to double concentration.


Newt Gingrich correctly pointed out today that gang membership has grown by 40% since Barack Obama was elected.
There were approximately 1 million gang members in 2008 in the United States, an astonishing number.
And that includes Trayvon's uncle, a documented member of the Crips, and the man who mostly raised Prince Trayvon.
Today there are at least 1.4 million gang members in the United States, an increase by 40% since 2009.
Some 33,000 violent street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs with about 1.4 million members are criminally active in the U.S. today. Many are sophisticated and well organized; all use violence to control neighborhoods and boost their illegal money-making activities, which include robbery, drug and gun trafficking, fraud, extortion, and prostitution rings. According to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment report, gangs are responsible for an average of 48 percent of violent crime in most jurisdictions, and up to 90 percent in others.
Violent attacks on whites increased by 18% last year.
Those would be troubling numbers with any group, or any other racial group anyway, but the Department of Justice's statistics show that violent crimes against White non-Hispanics increased 18 percent from 2010 to 2011.


Interpersonal Communications Skills for Leaderscan encompass many hours of formal classroom training. As such, this webinar will cover only several topics due to time constraints. This webinar is meant to introduce how interpersonal communication is the hallmark of a leader and how we may draw upon precise communication to further our agenda.
When viewing interpersonal skills in the workplace through the lens of leadership two wonderful things happen: one, the personals communication style is enhanced since they now have a new modality (that of leadership) to communicate through, and two, their leadership skills are enhanced since they have put new tools into their leadership toolbox.
In a recent blog posting Benjamin Snyder, he suggested that the biggest fear holding people back in business is the fear of inadequacy. Spending many years in consulting leaders in more effective communication that is a resounding truth! And one of the biggest reasons for feeling of inadequacy in business is lack of ability to communicate properly.
It will also assist in having the participant develop greater interpersonal leadership skills, thus allowing them to garner even more interpersonal communication skills after the webinar has ended.
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In the MIT Media Lab's basement workshop sits a machine that can slice human bone instantly using a blast of water mixed with garnet dust. It's Neri Oxman's favorite. "The laser cutter is very feminine, elegant. The water-jet cutter is very masculine. It cuts anything. To be here at 2 a.m. all by myself–it's really exciting!" This laughing, chic young woman in a flowing Helmut Lang jacket is an artist, architect, ecologist, computer scientist, and designer who is not just making new things but also coming up with new ways to make things.


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The inside story about TV-land rings true, but when all is over, the hero seems only a bit less clueless than when he began.
IN AND OUT IN HOLLYWOOD
by Ben Patrick Johnson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 2002
In a debut light on action and laden with whining, TV announcer and voice-over specialist Johnson looks at the fetid world of television celebrity journalism through the eyes of a naïve gay hunk unable to get with the program. Big blond Freddie's as green as they come when he interviews for a co-anchor slot in a new magazine show, but he has the magic, apparently, and the studio signs him virtually on the spot. He has to change his name, among other things, but all's well until the studio's celebratory picnic, when Freddie (now Daniel) brings his black boyfriend, an exotic dancer, and picnickers start choking on their hotdogs. Then the studio publicity people receive a tape of Freddie earnestly outing himself on an LA radio talk show, and from there it's a swift slide to oblivion. Yanked as the anchor just before the show's launch, Freddie becomes Special Correspondent, but none of his interviews gets airtime—at least not with him included. Despairing, he can do little but observe the studio cutthroats at work—on him and others—while also watching his relationship with dancer Xavier slide into a cold, cruel farce. But a junket interviewing a troubled movie star gets Freddie a unique kind of access, and a flame for a Broadway actor/singer burns brighter. So come what may, Freddie isn't completely without options.
Publisher: Palari Books
Categories: GENERAL FICTION
An enjoyable, cozy novel that touches on tough topics.
THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT
by Clare Pooley ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 4, 2020
A group of strangers who live near each other in London become fast friends after writing their deepest secrets in a shared notebook.
Julian Jessop, a septuagenarian artist, is bone-crushingly lonely when he starts "The Authenticity Project"—as he titles a slim green notebook—and begins its first handwritten entry questioning how well people know each other in his tiny corner of London. After 15 years on his own mourning the loss of his beloved wife, he begins the project with the aim that whoever finds the little volume when he leaves it in a cafe will share their true self with their own entry and then pass the volume on to a stranger. The second person to share their inner selves in the notebook's pages is Monica, 37, owner of a failing cafe and a former corporate lawyer who desperately wants to have a baby. From there the story unfolds, as the volume travels to Thailand and back to London, seemingly destined to fall only into the hands of people—an alcoholic drug addict, an Australian tourist, a social media influencer/new mother, etc.—who already live clustered together geographically. This is a glossy tale where difficulties and addictions appear and are overcome, where lies are told and then forgiven, where love is sought and found, and where truths, once spoken, can set you free. Secondary characters, including an interracial gay couple, appear with their own nuanced parts in the story. The message is strong, urging readers to get off their smartphones and social media and live in the real, authentic world—no chain stores or brands allowed here—making friends and forming a real-life community and support network. And is that really a bad thing?
Pub Date: Feb. 4, 2020
Publisher: Pamela Dorman/Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 27, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 15, 2019
Categories: GENERAL FICTION | FAMILY LIFE & FRIENDSHIP
A strict report, worthy of sympathy.
by J.D. Salinger ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 15, 1951
A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact.
"Nobody big except me" is the dream world of Holden Caulfield and his first person story is down to the basic, drab English of the pre-collegiate. For Holden is now being bounced from fancy prep, and, after a vicious evening with hall- and roommates, heads for New York to try to keep his latest failure from his parents. He tries to have a wild evening (all he does is pay the check), is terrorized by the hotel elevator man and his on-call whore, has a date with a girl he likes—and hates, sees his 10 year old sister, Phoebe. He also visits a sympathetic English teacher after trying on a drunken session, and when he keeps his date with Phoebe, who turns up with her suitcase to join him on his flight, he heads home to a hospital siege. This is tender and true, and impossible, in its picture of the old hells of young boys, the lonesomeness and tentative attempts to be mature and secure, the awful block between youth and being grown-up, the fright and sickness that humans and their behavior cause the challenging, the dramatization of the big bang. It is a sorry little worm's view of the off-beat of adult pressure, of contemporary strictures and conformity, of sentiment….
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A 19th-century chemist was the first to raise the alarm about adulterated food.
Most urban dwellers in early 19th-century British cities found themselves increasingly separated from the countryside sources of their food and medicine—a consequence of the Industrial Revolution. In response, avaricious middlemen forming impersonal supply chains found myriad ways to debase and adulterate important products for profit: adding alum to make flour look whiter and more refined, for example, or using verdigris, a copper based pigment, to brighten the green appearance of pickles and vegetables.
Though the villain was often chemical, fortunately so was the hero—in the form of analytical chemists fighting to expose dishonest practices. The first to write forcefully on the topic of adulteration was Fredrick (a.k.a. Friedrich) Accum (1769–1838). His Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons, Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spirituous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy. And Methods of detecting them (London, 1820) is recognized as the foundational work in the literature of food adulteration and detection. Accum was a German expatriate who found considerable success in England writing and lecturing on chemistry and who also involved himself in various chemical industries, notably gas lighting. Incensed by what he saw as widespread, unconscionable fraud in the food and drug industries, he strove to reveal the fraudsters, publishing the names of those found guilty of adulteration and giving his readers chemical tests they could themselves use to assess the purity of their foodstuffs. His work shocked an unsuspecting public, and Treatise on Adulterations was almost immediately republished in Philadelphia (an edition also held by the Othmer Library). Unfortunately, Accum soon found himself enmeshed in a scandal of his own after being caught tearing pages out of books in lieu of copying their contents down at the Royal Institution in London, and he soon left England in disgrace.
Chemists Fredrick Accum and Lewis C. Beck advised readers on how to detect adulterated food and medicine.
Accum's fall took a toll on the fight against adulteration. More than 25 years passed before the first book by an American appeared on the subject: Lewis C. Beck's Adulterations of Various Substances Used in Medicine and the Arts with the Means of Detecting Them Intended as a Manual for the Physician, the Apothecary, and the Artisan (New York, 1846). Beck (1798–1853), a physician, served as professor of botany and chemistry at the Vermont Academy of Medicine from 1826 to 1832. He was also an inveterate traveler and today is better known for his labors on the 1836–1841 geological survey of New York, during the course of which he crisscrossed the state, traveling over 14,000 miles in 5 years. After completing the survey Beck took up a professorship of chemistry and pharmacy at the Albany College of Medicine and also taught at Rutgers University. As a chemist and pharmacologist, Beck knew all too well the poor quality of drugs arriving at U.S. ports. Indeed, European producers facing scrutiny in their domestic markets created a whole class of adulterated products specifically for export. Soon after publication Beck's treatise formed the foundation for America's first attempt at regulating food and drugs, the Drug Importation Act of 1848.
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Coddling Criminals: Loren Huss Settles Down
I can hear the liberals now: "Here Steve goes again with his violent crime obsession."
I assure you, nothing could be further from the truth. Aside from the fact that liberal assertions that I am obsessed with violent crime are no more than a charade to cover up their weak, unsupportable views on getting tough with violent felons, I have a duty -- a duty to my readers to follow through on a story that otherwise would have amounted to nothing more than an odd footnote in the annals of Iowa crime. Call it bringing closure or at the very least keeping my readers updated on life of our hero, the misguided and misunderstood but otherwise loveable guy Loren Huss who, through a couple of tiny misunderstandings turned into first a rapist, then a psycho killer. But our loveable little killer was fortunate enough to find himself in a "justice" system that, from the Iowa Supreme Court right on down to a jury of his "peers", recognized that he was really just a harmless loveable little fuzz ball. And in their infinite wisdom, they let him loose. Now our hero is settling down.
I didn't know until I turned on the local news this morning that this lowly blogger had scooped all the local media outlets.
Last Sunday, on information that our friendly neighborhood psycho was coming to roost in a burg near me, I emailed the police chief of Pleasant Hill, Iowa to express my concern. In his response on Monday, he let me know that I was wrong:
So, I knew on Monday what the media outlets weren't reporting until this morning: That instead of living about 15.82 miles from my humble abode, the happy go lucky misunderstood psycho lives 18.40 miles from the place I call home, in a tidy new gray townhouse with white trim -- 1428 SW Twin Gates Drive, Ankeny, Iowa. So much for my wish that he move to a state with more liberals to feel sorry for him. The www.livesexchat.net folks who share the other half of that tidy gray building with the happy family of Husses probably have little sympathy for me, a guy who lives damn near 20 miles from the place Loren Huss decided to settle down. The other folks who live in this town of 30,000 about ten miles directly north of Des Moines on Interstate 35, are none too happy about the situation either:
Ah, to be young and naive again. The guy is a psycho, Lisa. It shouldn't be fine with anyone that he's walking the streets, and, frankly, it troubles me a little that it's fine with you. But then, we know of at least handful people in the county that aren't bothered by having a psycho killer walking loose -- the members of the jury that set him free -- and here's the opinion of one of them:
Hence the problem. Liberal judges and shit-for-brains jurors who let psycho killers go. I wonder if the decor in this spiffy new townhouse is a good match for the maroon color blood turns when it dries? More on this story as it develops.
Time to Close The Club?
After watching the histrionics recently displayed by our honorable Senators surrounding the nominations of Priscilla Owen, Janice Rogers Brown, and others, I have only one suggestion for saving the Republic:
Abolish the United States Senate.
Now, wait. Before you call me a traitor, or a communist, or a philistine, let me present the argument.
The bi-cameral legislature comes to us via the Connecticut Compromise, authored by Roger Sherman. It allowed the Founders to agree on a form of governance that would satisfy both the small states and the large ones. The House provides equal representation, while the Senate confers proportional representation, making way for the interests of the individual states to be addressed. The Senate is like the United Nations' General Assembly, in that every state, no matter how useless, has an equal number of representatives. Just as Libya and the US each have one vote in the General Assembly, so Vermont and Texas both have two blathering advocates for their particular whims and pork projects.
That was all very well and good once upon a time, but--be honest, now--who needs it these days? And, may I remind you of what else the Connecticut compromise allowed for? A little clause labeling black folk 3/5 of a person?
Anybody want to keep that today?
Of course not. Times change. Politics evolves. Senators ossify, keel over, and keep talking.
The Senators claim today that their function is to provide a "buffer" for legislation, a "cooling off" space that allows Senators, the more deliberative of the species of legislators, to consider, weigh, and evaluate. In other words, they are there to make sure that the wild-eyed juvenile delinquents in the House don't run off with all the tax money to buy booze and fast cars.
But, please.
Does anyone think the obstructionism of the Senate is any more responsible an exercise of power than the profligacy of the House? Both of them are mired in lobbying money and moral cowardice; neither really represents the people once they get to the piggy trough. There are, of course, exceptions (though in the interest of not making enemies I'll leave your imaginations to insert your favorite legislators here), but for the most part legislators who do a good job for the people generally manage to do it against the best advice of their handlers, lobbyists, bureaucrats, and the tide of DC culture.
Still, I suppose we have to keep at least one of them.
In this last dust-up concerning the president's judicial nominees, the business of the people was simply not being done. The Senate was acting as a wholly owned subsidiary of the liberal special interest groups, which the majority of the voting public decisively booted in the last www.jasminlive.mobi election.
As for the interests of the states, you aren't even allowed to imply such a thing any more, for fear of being confused with someone advocating "states' rights"--a political pathology usually assumed to be found in the presence of cross-burning Southerners voting against civil rights laws.
Wait. Maybe that's a bad example.
Parochial state interest has basically gone by the wayside ever since the Court decided that the Feds rule and whatever silly laws the states decide to pass—like high speed limits and sodomy restrictions—must fall to the greater wisdom of the High Court's choice. The states—and, in some cases, even the people—be hanged. The Senate's role in passing legislation in the people's interests is now limited to the feeding at the trough of West Virginia's King of Pork, Bob Byrd, angling for yet more public works that can be named after him. I understand that, upon his retirement, the entire state of West Virginia will be immediately renamed "Byrdtopia," officially severing all ties with Virginia.
Virginia, I hear, couldn't be happier.
Seriously, though. Am I the only one who, after watching hour upon hour upon hour of impassioned defense of the nation-preserving filibuster, was seized by the almost irresistible urge to dig up Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart and shoot them?
The preening Byrd was in high dudgeon, full-throat, and—much of the time—the distant past. I heard him actually lecturing the Republican Senators on the monarchy during the time of Henry IV—I'm still not clear on why. Something to do with the king owning everyone. He was either for or against it, or he was reading a book; he wasn't exactly lucid. After going to do some kitchen work for about an hour, I returned to C-SPAN to find that the Senator had finally made the long historical trek up to President Tyler.
This spectacle, believe it or not, was intended to impress upon us the necessity of retaining the Senate just as it is.
All it did for me was make me wonder whether the Founders designed the Amendment process for such a time as this.
Of course, it wasn't just Byrd. The usual gang of suspects was in full effect—Kennedy, Kerry, Dickie Durbin (known to WLS-AM listeners as "Senator Eddie Haskell"), and, of course, the mournful and outraged Harry Reid of Nevada.
Every day during the siege, Reid and his hangers on would hold a press conference at www.livejasmin.cc to decry—well, it wasn't clear exactly what, but it must have been awful, because he came off as more depressed than a basset hound on downers.
Really, think about it. Have you ever seen a more pretentiously unhappy batch of Brahmin than the nitwits that pass for the Democratic side of the United States Senate? If Kerry and Reid sang a duet, it would hit the top forty dirge charts in a New York minute. And if Daschle hadn't been slain by (not to rub it in) the noble arrow of John Thune, the three could form the Wretched Wanderers and clean up fleecing all those aging hippies that never miss taping PBS pledge week so they can rhapsodize over the amazing spectacle of Peter, Paul, and Mary still capable of drooling their way through "If I Had a Hammer."
Even Hillary broke her pretended indifferent silence to come out in the last days and beg the Senate not to change the rules. Of course, she only used a few synonyms for "beg." Byrd, on the other hand, at one point embarrassed himself by not only begging the Senate but pleading, importuning, beseeching, and imploring them. He did everything but offer to name a bridge after them—-or maybe that, too, because there were a few antediluvian expressions he used that are no longer found in English dictionaries, and some of them might have constituted such an offer. You'd have to ask Samuel Johnson.
One brilliantly funny moment came when John Kerry took the floor for a while to repeat what everyone else had already said, but improvised a little bit to opine that if the rules of the Senate were changed it would somehow discourage future bright young things from deciding to become Senators. The spectacle of John "can I get me a huntin' license" Kerry fretting over whether we could still get the right kind of people to be Senators was almost worth being subjected to the blithering idiocy of Byrd.
No. No, it wasn't.
The Republicans, for their part, mostly stood up and sputtered, stubbornly insisting on changing the subject—back to the subject. They didn't seem concerned that future Senators might not feel powerful enough, or that changing the Senate rules constituted an attack on a branch of government, or that Jimmy Stewart would spin in his grave (and if anyone, it should be the Republicans disturbed by that notion—being as how he was one of them.) They just seemed to want a straight up-or-down vote on the President's nominees, instead of the new Senate Constitutional custom of "advise for four years and withhold consent."
And, as we now know, the whole unpleasant ordeal reached a veritable Middle Eastern truce when 7 Democrats and 7 Traitors—I mean, RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) effected a "compromise" which has so far eventuated in the Republicans getting Owen confirmed and the Democrats breaking the deal as soon as they could skip to the podium to block John Bolton's nomination to the United Nations.
What a shock. Moderates that can't be trusted.
Now, suppose we just phased out the Senate—let them name things after themselves and babble on in the well (don't you wish there really was a "well" in the Senate—something deep and fatal that we could throw them into?). Just don't let them vote (they don't want to anyway, right?) or do anything important anymore. And don't elect any more of them.
After all, the parties are competitive enough in the House to allow a similar kind of obstructionist "cooling off" period (the "coffee in the saucer" that the Senators claim the Founders had in mind). And isn't it the liberals that are always telling us how "elastic" the "living Constitution" is supposed to be? Changing with the times, adjusting to the needs of the people? If we can't criminalize homosexual sodomy anymore because world opinion has "evolved," why can't we abolish the Senate because we're just sick of them?
In this modern world, there's no real meaning to state borders anymore (after all, if we can't tell the difference between California and Mexico, why should we bother separating the national governance of California and Arizona?) Modern technology has rendered us all part of the Internet Nation. Let state governments handle state problems, and let the Federal government concern itself with the interests of the people as a whole.
And let the vainglorious members of the "Millionaires' Club" gradually die off, orating to the cameras, unreplaced and unlamented.
Well, it's just a thought.
Enlightened Democracy: The Case For The Electoral College
In the history of American politics, the Founding Fathers were probably as close to genius our country will ever see. Among the many high achievements that sprung out of the efforts of the Constitutional Convention was the solution to the problem of electing the President of the United States: the Electoral College. This answer to the much-debated problem has long been considered the most perfect resolution to transpire from that hot summer in 1787; it also perhaps the least understood, and recently, passionately debated.
There is no better way to discuss an issue than to be fully versed in it, and its counterarguments. An excellent resource for a timely discussion on the Electoral College would be the book I just finished, Enlightened Democracy: The Case For The Electoral College by Tara Ross, published by World Ahead Publishing.
This book, while appearing to be one sided based on the title alone, does an admirable job of providing the opposing viewpoints and even dedicates a chapter to detail proposed Electoral College reforms (through careful analysis, the author discredits the proposed reforms). This book is not just for people who hold dear the Federalist principles of our Founding Fathers, but also for opponents of the Electoral College who don't understand those principles.
To truly understand the Electoral College, a bit of history is required and efficiently supplied in this book. Any person interested in learning about the Electoral College, particularly after the 2000 election that emboldened many to demand its reform, ought to do themselves the favor of reading Enlightened Democracy, As the author aptly points out that primary drive of the new wave of Electoral College opponents was the outcome, not the method, and that these opponents were driven by their own selfishness. Said opponents, as well as the studied ones, are highly inconsistent in their criticism, as the author duly notes. The Electoral College is firmly rooted in the principles of the "Great Compromise" that gave us.
Upon reading this book, you will be thoroughly convinced that the Electoral College truly represents the will of the voters, and even protects against things like voter fraud--far above what a direct popular vote election ever could. The pure genius of the Electoral College is revealed in the pages of Enlightened Democracy. This book is a wonderful tool full of useful knowledge about this highly regarded, and often challenged gem of republican democracy.
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To start with Theresa was looking for help with establishing and growing her small architectural practice. Thom provided Theresa advice on business and marketing plans, gave her the opportunity to network and suggested a range of Regional Learning sessions in marketing. "Theresa attended the courses and has meticulously applied her new skills and knowledge to the business which has resulted in the planned success," Thom said.
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1. Tom Brady Goes to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
After 20 years in Boston, future hall of fame quarterback Tom Brady has left the New England Patriots for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This is, without question, the biggest free-agency signing of the year, and perhaps the biggest in the last decade, as it likely ends the Patriots dynasty of being the best team in AFC (for now at least. The consequential coach-quarterback partnership of Brady and Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick, led the team to 17 division titles, five AFC championship games, and nine Super Bowls, of which they won six, over a 20-year span. They also won the Super Bowl in back to back years between 2003 and 2004, the first team to ever achieve this feat.
The duo made the Patriots one of the most dominant franchises in NFL history, and inspired Boston sports fans for two decades. In his letter to Patriot fans which was posted on social media, Brady thanked them from the "bottom of [his] heart," saying, "I will always love you and what we have shared — a lifetime full of fun memories."
With Brady now gone, Belicheck has a nearly insurmountable gap to fill. The recent signing of quarterback Brian Hoyer will not likely be a permanent replacement, and the Patriots will likely look to the draft for a more suitable candidate. Jordan Love of Utah State and Jacob Eason of Washington are the two players New England is likely to choose between, given recent mock draft predictions by Will Brinson.
Alternatively, the Patriots could also address their need at quarterback through the signing of a free agent. Jameis Winston is the only elite player that has remained unsigned. Winston came in second in the number of touchdowns thrown this past season, yet also led the league in interceptions. If Winston is signed, and Belichick is able to suppress the latter of the two stats, he would be a dangerous player.
The Patriots could also sign former Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, who would likely only cost a third or second-round pick at most. Newton hasn't played in a Panther's uniform since 2018 due to injury and, with the signing of quarterbacks Teddy Bridgewater and PJ Walker, will likely not anytime in the future. The former Heisman Trophy winner, Newton has led the Panthers to multiple winning seasons, including an AFC title win in 2015, though went on to lose in the Super Bowl to the Denver Broncos.
His ability to throw outside the pocket is unquestionable, but may not suit Belichick's scheme, given Brady was not a running quarterback in the slightest. His durability over a 16-game season is also in question, as he missed the entirety of the 2018 season.
Another potential outcome for the Patriots this year is to tank, lose a lot of close games, receive the number one draft pick, and select Clemson Quarter Trevor Lawrence when he finally becomes eligible to declare for the draft in 2021.
However, Belichick is notorious for finding diamonds in the rough at all positions, as the Patriots have picked up undrafted free agents who turn out better than those they selected in the first round (even Tom Brady himself was a sixth-round selection). New England could very much select a sleeper quarterback as a replacement who none of us expect.
This move leaves the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with some hope for the first time in a relatively underwhelming franchise ever since they won the super bowl in 2002. Still, although Brady's career has been undeniably impressive, his current ability is a question. At 42(he'll be 43 by the start of the season), he is way past his physical prime. Already not so mobile, his ability to avoid pressure and escape the pocket is limited even further because of his age. Also, he posted his worst QBR in 2019 since his 2008 campaign.
However, what Brady undoubtedly possesses is a talented football brain. He is joining a stacked offense with the likes of Mike Evans and Chris Godwin at wide receiver, and athletic monster O.J. Howard at tight end. With the removal of Winston's outrageous amount of turnovers, the focused offense could be dangerous and could add a couple more wins to their previous record of 7-9 (The Bucs did lose on week 3 to the New York Giants after a missed 34-yard field goal on the last play of the game). With fewer turnovers and improved offensive talent, Brady could become the framework for the Bucs to win enough games to make a playoff berth.


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Kylie Jenner & Tyga Are Reportedly Taking A Break
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No, this isn't old news and you're not experiencing deja vu. According to People, Kylie Jenner and Tyga have split. According to a source, "They tend to take little breaks all the time and then get back together. It's definitely possible they'll work things out again." Bustle has reached out to both of their reps for comment, but did not receive a response at the time of publication.
Last Wednesday, E! News reported that something didn't seem quite right between the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star and the rapper. Apparently, Jenner's social media was lacking a lot of Tyga, unlike usual. Furthermore, the two hadn't been seen together for a bit. Per E!, the last time he was seen on Jenner's Snapchat was March 8 and the last time they were seen in public as a couple was on March 13.
Again, nothing has been confirmed or denied regarding this so-called "break," but it's not like it would be surprising if they were taking one. They're known for having an on-again, off-again relationship. In November 2015, TMZ reported that the two had broken up because of "something Tyga did." At the time of the report, Jenner's rep did not get back to Bustle with a comment. However, either those reports were incorrect or the two got back together quickly, because Tyga and Jenner spent Thanksgiving together.
Then, in May 2016, there were more rumors that these two split. TMZ reported that Jenner and Tyga were done for good this time around and it was her decision. In June 2016, they were seen hanging out once again. Based on all of that, their relationship has seemingly been a lot of ups and downs.
So if they truly are on a break, then knowing them there is an extremely good chance Jenner and Tyga will be back together before you know it.


What a fun week. OK, fun may not be the right word, but I digress. It's been a long process getting my '03 Suzuki Katana 600 running again after it inexplicably refused to start one morning a few weeks back. I ended up having to replace the fuel petcock, and inline fuel filter, flush the entire fuel system and tank, and rebuild the carburetors. This was all due to some water-contaminated gas, I assume, since I filled up the night before at a Circle K and the gas I drained out of my fuel system was a mess.
I'll have to go get new gas in the morning and (hopefully) the bike will fire up so I can start tuning. With any luck, ill be able to put this expensive, and frustrating issue behind me. I usually commute daily on the Katana, rain or shine, so not being able to ride has been a major disappointment.
Thanks to RideNow Powersports for a couple of the parts, and to Arizona Motorcycle for the carb cleaning.
I got a glass-bodied one with a paper element, but this one is the same brand.
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With wedding jewellery still my focus this week, I'm going to show you the second method I've used to include Swarovski crystals in these special pieces - using adhesive.
I'm using chatons (sometimes known as pointy backs and V crystals) in a brass cup setting or brass stamping. The chatons have a foil backing which enhances the crystal's cut to create its reflective sparkle. When selecting an adhesive, you need to keep this in mind and choose one that will not affect the foil. For a special piece like the ones I'm working on that need to last a lifetime, I've chosen a 2 part epoxy adhesive. In this instance I'm using Swarovski's own CG 500-35 because it has more working time than regular 5-minute epoxy. The extra time will mean I only need to mix one batch of epoxy but the drawback is that it will take longer to grip. But one of the major benefits of using Swarovski's own 2-part epoxy is it's ability to absorb shocks by up to 500% compared with just 10% for regular 2-part epoxies. That is a huge benefit when creating keepsake jewellery!
The epoxy comes in two tubes, one for each part - A and B.
When you remove the caps from the two tubes, you'll notice that there is a foil seal and that the caps have a piercing spike.
Use this to pierce the foil. You can see it's left some on the spike so wipe it all away with a tissue. Oh, and don't forget to wear gloves whenever you're working with epoxy so it doesn't come into contact with your skin. Remember, epoxy is a resin and resin isn't good for your skin.
Squeeze out equal amounts of both parts onto a disposable plastic surface. I'm using the lid from an ice cream container - a takeaway container lid will be perfect too.
Mix the two parts together thoroughly with a wooden stir stick.
The component I'm using has very small cups so I'm coating the inside of each cavity with the epoxy using a toothpick. You need to apply it thickly enough so the crystal will be surrounded by epoxy, yet thinly enough that it doesn't ooze out. Keep some acetone and a cotton bud (Q-tip) handy to wipe away any excess if you do get a bit heavy handed.
Once again, I've resorted to my trusty Embellie Gellie tool to pick up the crystals. This tool is indispensable when positioning the crystals in the prepared cups. Take your time to carefully place the crystals in the cavities and press each one down after it's positioned to make sure it's sitting level in the cup.
Set the piece aside to cure. This will take a full 24 hours. If you try to work with the component before this time you risk moving the crystals or worse still, loosening or even losing one so be patient with it. If this does happen, all is not lost. You can still use 5-minute epoxy to reset/replace the loose crystal and continue working.
Some other adhesives you can consider when gluing crystals in cup settings are: E6000 and GS-Hypo Cement. These don't require any mixing but in my experience they don't have the permanent adhesion for this type of application. Avoid crazy glues and super glues which can affect the foil backing over time and lead to a dull and marred crystal.
This is such an easy technique and it will allow you to tailor your handmade jewellery to suit whatever colour theme your special occasion requires. Build up your own unique design by layering two or three of these in different shapes and sizes to create stunning, focal elements.... you will look a million dollars!


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Nick Cordero's wife praying for a miracle despite being 'told to say goodbye' to Broadway star
The wife of Broadway star Nick Cordero is holding onto faith as her husband's health crisis hits an all-time low.
In a heartfelt Instagram post on June 4 (US time), Amanda Kloots said she is still praying for a miracle despite doctors telling her to say goodbye to Cordero, who is losing his battle against coronavirus-related complications.
"I've been told a couple times that he won't make it. I've been told to say goodbye. I've been told it would take a miracle," Kloots wrote alongside a happy photo of Cordero and their son Elvis, who turns one next week.
"Well, I have faith. Faith that is small as a mustard seed sometimes, but that is all you need sometimes. He's still here and despite his odds gets slightly, slightly better every day. Where there is faith, there is hope. Where there is hope, there can be a miracle! Like my dad has said since day one, every day he's still with us is a miracle. I believe God is with us, with the doctors and with Nick."
It has been 64 days since Cordero was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA for what was believed to be pneumonia, but tests soon determined he had coronavirus.
While the actor is now testing negative to COVID-19, he has been fighting one coronavirus-related complication after another.
During his health battle, Cordero was placed in a medically-induced coma, had his right leg amputated, required a temporary pacemaker to combat irregular heartbeats, suffered septic shock, underwent a tracheostomy, and endured two lung infections. He remains in hospital on a ventilator, but still Kloots, his wife of two years, is not giving up.
"I'm exhausted if you can't tell — physically and emotionally and mentally exhausted," she said in an Instagram Story last week. "This has been the craziest ride ever but we're still here and we're still fighting."
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Q: Transistor count I'm completely stumped on where to start with this, any point in the right direction would help. The work gave me a circuit drawn out and asks 2 questions:
1)Determine the number of transistors required to build the Canonical expression 2)Determine the number of transistors required to build the minimal SOP expression
I don't know where to start and have read what I could, I just need some help starting and understanding how to work this out. I can show the circuit if necessary. There's a circuit showing input x at logic 0 (0 Volts) and output f at logic 1 (4.999 Volts) and all the other details like nMOS, pMOS, VDD, off, on, etc. What do I usually need to learn to understand how to find the number of transistors? Sorry for a dumb question because I know how simple this possibly could be.
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A: I am not familiar with the SOP and canonical terms since I did not study electronics in English, but this seems about Boole logic stuff.
May I suggest you took a look there :
http://sce.umkc.edu/~hieberm/281_new/lectures/forms-of-bool-expressions/forms-of-exprs.html
and there :
How to convert an expression from SOP to POS and back in Boolean Algebra? for example, because I would have trouble explaining all of this to you in English.
Then the logic gate in your picture is basically an inverter (a.k.a. "not" gate, see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate). As the name more or less indicates you get at the ouptut the logic level "inverse" (exact term?) of your input (e.g. apparently TTL, +5V out for 0V in, in your case).
This looks a lot like homework, and I'm not yet familiar with the rules about that here, yet I'd rather you look a little more into it first. I'll be glad to help you then (with some reasoning to confirm or more specific questions ?).