A court filing claims a Pasco attorney altered documents to block action against borrowers he represents.
Lawyer Chuck Kalogianis is accused in several cases.
Five years ago, attorney Constantine "Chuck" Kalogianis got in trouble with the Florida Bar for not doing enough for his clients.
Now he faces allegations that he did too much — altering documents in at least five Pasco County mortgage foreclosure cases in which he represented the delinquent borrowers.
The claims of evidence tampering are laid out in an unusual 258-page motion filed in Pasco Circuit Court last week by a company seeking to foreclose on one of Kalogianis' clients.
Written in dramatic Perry Mason style, the motion eliminates what it calls "other suspects'' and says Kalogianis was the only one with the means and motive to alter records and make it appear that the companies starting the foreclosure actions didn't have legal standing to do so.
The goal, the motion says, was to make it impossible to foreclose on Kalogianis' clients. In one case, a judge initially ruled in his favor and ordered a bank to pay him $170,000 in legal fees.
"There is nothing wrong with wanting to win a case,'' says the motion by Bayview Loan Servicing, which handles loans for Bank of America and other major lenders. "There is something terribly wrong with repeatedly tampering with and defacing evidence entrusted to the Clerk of Court in order to do so."
Kalogianis, a well-known Pasco lawyer and former congressional candidate, said Thursday that he does not generally comment on pending litigation. But in the case that prompted the motion, he said, the bank lacked the original document it needed to foreclose and was trying to "turn the tables'' on him rather than lose the case.
"It is the plaintiff's own improper conduct … that should be reviewed,'' he said.
During the foreclosure crisis, in which millions of homeowners defaulted on their mortgages, it was the banks that often were accused of filing fraudulent, inaccurate or incomplete documents in their zeal to foreclose. The cases involving Kalogianis apparently are the first in which a lawyer representing borrowers has been accused of altering records.
The allegations against Kalogianis center on promissory notes, the document in which a borrower promises to repay the lender. Promissory notes often change hands as mortgages are sold and resold. Many lenders went out of business after the housing crash. Because it was not always clear whom a borrower owed, promissory notes often were stamped with a "blank endorsement'' — whoever the promissory note was endorsed to would be legally entitled to foreclose and collect any money due.
"It's like a blank check,'' Weidner said.
In the fifth case, a blank endorsement was altered to show Wells Fargo had signed it, the motion says.
Of those with access to the original notes, judges and court clerks "have no dog in the fight'' and could be eliminated, the motion says. Lawyers for the companies trying to foreclose could be ruled out because they would have been "sabotaging their own cases.'' And Bank of New York had no motive because it had "absolutely nothing to do'' with the loans involved.
"This process of elimination could leave only defendants' counsel'' — Kalogianis, the motion says. It seeks a final judgment of foreclosure and attorneys fees in its case against one of Kalogianis' clients, Nicholas Verrengia.
Both he and another client, Panagiotis Bouziotis, called the Tampa Bay Times Thursday to praise Kalogianis and accuse the other side of committing fraud in their cases.
The Bar also said Kalogianis had failed to properly supervise a non-lawyer assistant, who offered legal advice to clients and steered them to businesses in which the assistant had a financial interest.
Last November, the Bar filed a complaint against Kalogianis stemming from a 2007 business transaction in which a client agreed to loan him $227,644 to be secured by mortgages on Kalogianis' then-homestead as well as on two lots in the Williamsburg subdivision he was developing in New Port Richey.
At the time, the complaint says, Kalogianis did not disclose his financial "distress'', including that he had taken out mortgages totaling more than $2 million that eventually would go into default. He also failed to disclose that there were unsatisfied liens at the time against a 9,000-square-foot home he was building for himself in Williamsburg.
In his response, Kalogianis acknowledged that one of the client's mortgages was wiped out in a foreclosure action but he denied any wrongdoing in his dealings with her. He said she had never filed a civil action against him and instead was "seeking to have the Florida Bar act as her debt collection agency at no expense to her.'' The complaint is pending before the Florida Supreme Court.
Kalogianis, a founder of the West Pasco Democratic Club, unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House in 2002. He gained national attention when it was learned he had worked as a stripper while in law school.


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Speaking in a recent interview with Metal Mad TV, Fin metal band Children Of Bodom's bassist Henkka Seppala has revealed their plans of upcoming album. He said:
"It's done. It's mixed. It's mastered. And now we are just getting the artwork done. And then we'll just wait for it to be ready for the release. And it looks like it's gonna be next year, so we have to wait a little bit.
It's ten new songs. It's always something new. It's really, really hard for me to say, but it is different."
Children of Bodom's last album was released in 2015 and its called "I Worship Chaos". You can listen a track from that album from below.
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HomeUGC NET Computer Science Paper IINTA UGC NET Computer Science Solved Paper II June 2019 - Part 3
NTA UGC NET Computer Science Solved Paper II June 2019 - Part 3
by - Jc on - March 31, 2020
41. Consider that a process has been allocated 3 frames and has a sequence of page referencing as : 1, 2, 1, 3, 7, 4, 5, 6, 3, 1
What shall be the difference in page faults for the above string using the algorithms of LRU and optimal page replacement for referencing the string?
(a) 2 (b) 0
(c) 1 (d) 3
Answer: (a)
42. There are many sorting algorithms based on comparison. The running time of heapsort algorithm is O(n log n). Like P, but unlike Q, heapsort sorts in place where (P, Q) is equal to
(a) Merge sort, Quick sort (b) Quick sort, Insertion sort
(c) Insertion sort, Quick sort (d) Insertion sort, Merge sort
Answer: (d)
43. Which of the following has same expressive power with regard to relational query language ?
(1) Relational algebra and domain relational calculus.
(2) Relational algebra and tuples relational calculus.
(3) Relational algebra and domain relational calculus restricted to safe expression.
(4) Relational algebra and tuples relational calculus restricted to safe expression.
(a) (1) and (2) only (b) (3) and (4) only
(c) (1) and (3) only (d) (2) and (4) only
Answer: (b)
44. Consider the equation (146)b + (313)b-2 = (246)8 . Which of the following is the value of b?
(c) 10 (d) 16
45. How many bit strings of length ten either start with a 1 bit or end with two bits 00 ?
(a) 320 (b) 480
Answer: (c)
46. In the context of software testing, which of the following statements is/are NOT correct?
P : A minimal test set that achieves 100% path coverage will also achieve 100% statement coverage.
Q: A minimal test set that achieves 100% path coverage will generally detect more faults than one that achieves 100% statement coverage.
R: A minimal test set that achieves 100% statement coverage will generally detect more faults than one that achieves 100 % branch coverage.
(a) R only (b) Q only
(c) P and Q only (d) Q and R only
47. Following table has two attributes Employee_id and Manager_id, where Employee_id is a primary key and manager_id is a foreign key referencing Employee_id with on delete cascade:
On deleting the table (20, 40), the set of other tuples that must be deleted to maintain the referential integrity of table is
(a) (30, 35) only (b) (30, 35) and (35, 20) only
(c) (35, 20) only (d) (40, 45) and (25, 40) only
48. K-mean clustering algorithm has clustered the given 8 observations into 3 clusters after 1st iterations as follows:
C1 : {(3, 3), (5, 5), (7, 7)}
C3 : {(8, 8), (4, 4)}
What will be the Manhattan distance for observation (4, 4) from cluster centroid C1 in second iteration?
(a) 2 (b) √2
(c) 0 (d) 18
49. Which of the following problems is/are decidable problem(s) (recursively enumerable) on turing machine M?
(1) G is a CFG with L(G)=Ф
(2) There exist two TMs M1 and M2 such that L(M) ⊆ {L(M1) ∪ L(M2)} = language of all TMs.
(3) M is a TM that accepts ω using at most 2|ω| cells of tape
(a) (1) and (2) only (b) (1) only
(c) (1), (2) and (3) (d) (3) only
50. In the TCP/IP model, encryption and decryption are functions of ………….. layer.
(a) data link (b) network
(c) transport (d) application
51. Which type of addressing mode, less number of memory references are required ?
(a) Immediate (b) Implied
(c) Register (d) Indexed
Answer: Marks to all
52. Which of the following statements is/are true with regard to various layers in the Internet stack?
P : At the link layer, a packet of transmitted information is called a frame.
Q : At the network layer, a packet of transmitted information is called a segment.
(a) P only (b) Q only
(c) P and Q (d) Neither P nor Q
53. Which of the following statements are DML statements?
(1) Update [tablename]
Set [columnname] = VALUE
(2) Delete [tablename]
(3) Select * from [tablename]
(a) (1) and (2) (b) (1) and (4)
(c) (1), (2) and (3) (d) (2) and (3)
54. Match List-I with List-II:
where L1 : Regular language
L2 : Context-free language
L3 : Recursive language
L4 : Recursively enumerable language
Choose the correct option from those given below:
(a) A-2, B-1, C-3 (b) A-2, B-3, C-1
(c) A-3, B-1, C-2 (d) A-1, B-2, C-3
55. A computer has six tape drives with n processes competing for them. Each process may need two drives. What is the maximum value of n for the system to be deadlock free?
56. Software products need adaptive maintenance for which of the following reasons?
(a) To rectify bugs observed while the system is in use.
(b) When the customers need the product to run on new platforms.
(c) To support the new features that users want it to support.
(d) To overcome wear and tear caused by the repeated use of the software.
57. Which of the following terms best describes Git?
(a) Issue Tracking System
(b) Integrated Development Environment
(c) Distributed Version Control System
(d) Web-based Repository Hosting Service
58. Reinforcement learning can be formalized in terms of …………… in which the agent initially only knows the set of possible ……………. and the set of possible actions.
(a) Markov decision processes, objects
(b) Hidden states, objects
(c) Markov decision processes, states
(d) objects, states
59. Which of the following is principal conjunctive normal form for [(p v q) ˄ ¬p → ¬q]?
(a) p v ¬q (b) p v q
(c) ¬p v q (d) ¬p v ¬q
60. Consider a disk system with 100 cylinders. The requests to access the cylinders occur in the following sequence:
4, 34, 10, 7, 19, 73, 2, 15, 6, 20
Assuming that the head is currently 50, what is the time taken to satisfy all requests if it takes 1 ms to move from the cylinder to adjacent one and the shortest seek time first policy is used?
(a) 357 ms (b) 238 ms
(c) 276 ms (d) 119 ms
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[OPINION] El-Rufai's 'strongmanism' and the over-bloated civil service problem – Caleb Onyeabor
May 19, 2021 admin Latest, Metro Gists, Opinion and Essay, Politics 0
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Anyone with an in-depth understanding of public administration in Nigeria will agree that the civil service in the 36 states of the Federation including the Federal civil service is over-bloated. Coupled with the unproductive and lackadaisical attitude that is typical of government staff in this country, we have a twin problem of an overstaffed and unproductive civil service system in the country. There are government offices you will go to that has more number of persons needed, doing nothing and earning salaries at the end of the month.
There are government offices you go to that are never open or the officers are never on the seat. In some of these offices, grasses have grown to the height of trees. The Civil servants responsible for these offices only show up during salary week and ghost off for the rest of the month and yet earn salaries.
These are some of the issues that would have been addressed if the government heeded to warnings and calls for a comprehensive civil service reform that experts have been iterating and reiterating for several years. It is a very good thing that this El-Rufai showdown with labour has brought this issue of an over-bloated and unproductive civil service back to the front burner of national discussion. This system is unsustainable. If the state governments and federal government decide to shy away from this problem, like fuel subsidy, it is only a matter of time, it will catch up with the nation and states in future and with more severe woes than it is inflicting on the machinery of government today.
Yes, El-Rufai is right. The civil service in every state of the Federation including the federal civil service needs to be right-sized but outright sacking is a wrong approach of workers especially without a plan to resettle them into the society. The right motive with a wrong approach always brings wrong results. Innovation is a forbidden quality Nigerian leaders swore never to have.
Government is a machine and the civil service is its engine. While an over-bloated and unproductive civil service is an unsustainable financial burden to the government, mass sacking without appropriate arrangements is tantamount to creating a problem while trying to solve a problem. Unemployment and poverty rates will go up when these salary earners lose their jobs. What about their families? What about their children in school? What about others are dependent on these salary earners? For a state with one of the worse levels of crime and insecurity, this is no good policy at all.
While committed to its goals of rightsizing the civil service, concrete measures should be made to help the workers that will be let go to resettle and reintegrate into society. This would be a win-win solution.
Some of these staff are unproductive because they are poorly trained. What happened to training and retraining of staff in the art and science and demands of modern civil service so they could be useful again?
If the government is really serious about cutting cost of public administration, what happened to leadership by example? Governors can start by cutting down their kitchen cabinet and their over-bloated and reckless allocation to running statehouses. Imagine a governor coming out to declare that he is taking a pay cut and doing away with lots of frivolous and bogus allowances?
Workers can be let go in batches or the relieving of workers can be done in phases and when this is done, there should be appropriate programmes to help these persons that they let go resettle and not feel the brunt of their dismissal from work. Some of these civil servants have side small businesses. What happened to setting up a Small Business Grant scheme for workers who have small businesses to return, invest and build their businesses?
What about a state government facilitated loan scheme to provide loans for some of the dismissed workers to set up new businesses of their choice or even paying them off in substantial amounts that will serve this purpose?
State capitalism as a viable economic ideology is really underrated in this part of the world. A situation where government identifies and facilitates economic opportunities is a model government can explore. Eg. Kaduna can be a net exporter of cotton and other cash crops. In partnership with the private sector, several state government-supported farms dedicated to the production of cotton to be exported by the state government can be set up and workers that ought to be dismissed can be transferred to these economic establishments where they can be productive. Government can identify other economic activities where it needs people and find a way to channel the energies of the previously unproductive civil servants. In another instance, the Kaduna state government can be a big exporter of maize, it can set up a scheme where it provides funds and support for these dismissed workers to go into commercial maize farming. Every person funded and supported by the government can be given the least possible quota and after harvest, the state government buys produce from them for exportation to other countries or for sale to companies that need the products as raw materials. In so doing, the government has built an indirect workforce from which it earns revenue. Other productive activities can be identified and in partnership with the private sector, government can help set new industrial or business ventures that are capable of absorbing some of these workers.
What happened to identifying economic opportunities and setting up new state-owned companies base on the comparative advantage the state possesses?
Some of these workers can be trained in state-sponsored skill programmes. Government can identify certain technical and vocational skills that the state needs and channel the energies of some of these workers to that cause.
There are so many ways the government if committed can ensure a win-win for everyone. The points above are just rough sketches. A critical look can bring up even more and brighter ideas. Most of these civil servants are not even enjoying working in the civil service. Most of them are not really happy with their unproductivity but are still hanging there because they need the salary to survive. When you put up innovative approaches like these, some of them can voluntarily resign and join these new initiatives.
In so doing, government can rightsize the civil service, promote economic activities, create new jobs and earn more revenue. It will be a win-win situation for everyone.
Lastly, In a democracy, governance, and decision-making should be inclusive and base on consensus not on the stone-willed desire of one man and his cabinet. This is no autocracy, this is no dictatorship. Applying a dictatorial approach in a democratic setting is a terrible combination that doesn't end well. The civil society should ensure El-Rufai does not have his way the way he wants. The consequences of El-Rufai's "strongmanism" in a supposedly democratic setting are sure to come if not checked and made to fail. It may not be now but surely, it shall come and when it comes, it won't be good for governance and development.
Caleb Onyeabor is a Nigerian intellectual, an avid advocate for political justice, social justice, and economic justice. Author of Diary of a Messed Up country. Follow him on Twitter via twitter.com/caleb_onyeabor
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Q: How do you find information regarding the derivative? I have been struggling with an issue that I believe has a simple way to solve.
Given that I have extracted a term of a partial differential equation:
f(1,2,0) [x,y,z]. In this case, it is similar to the operation D[f,{x,1},{y,2}].
Is there a function that extracts the information of the derivatives? In other words, that if applied to f(1,2,0) [x,y,z] would give me ans = {1,2,0}?
Thank you very much!!!

A: exp = D[f[x, y, z], {x, 1}, {y, 2}]

produces the expression given in the question.  Its internal representation is
FullForm[exp]
(* Derivative[1, 2, 0] [f] [x, y, z] *)

Therefore, the desired result can be extracted by
List @@ Head[Head[exp]]
(* {1, 2, 0} *)

A: The following needs an input of the indicated form If you need a more general input you must adapt your question. The reason is, that the indicated form is the displayed form of Derivative[1,2,0][f][x,y,z]. This is what MMA actually stores. Only for display on the screen it is change to the displayed form. Of course, you can also give the full form as input.
Here is a simple function that does what you are asking:
getInfo[d_] := d /. Derivative[x__][_][__] :> {x}

If you the say:

A: If you have a Derivative object (you can find out via FullForm) then you can use something like
derivativeOrder[Derivative[o___][f_][x___]] :=  AssociationThread[{x} -> {o}]

Then, running it on your example,
derivativeOrder[Derivative[1, 2, 0][f][x, y, z]]

gives <|x -> 1, y -> 2, z -> 0|>

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Courtney Zubowski, Reporter
Published: May 18, 2021, 8:23 PM
Tags: COVID-19, mental health, Hackett Center for Mental Health, stronger Houston, health
Organization works to provide mental health care to underserved children suffering loss from pandemic
HOUSTON – May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the pandemic took a major toll on communities across the country.
Now, as the weight of the crisis appears to be lifting, experts are also anticipating a long-term impact on people's mental health, specifically children.
Efforts are underway to provide resources to some of the most underserved neighborhoods across our area.
Karleerose Lopez is 8 years old, but she is already learned one of the hardest lessons in life -- death.
"Why did he have to go," she asked. "When I look at his ashes or his pictures, that's when I have my bad days."
The second grader's father, Danny Lopez, a former Galena Park police officer and engineer, died earlier this year of COVID-19.
Lopez was a father of seven.
"I just miss everything about him," said his 18-year-old daughter, Marissa Lopez. "He's not going to be there when I get married or have a boyfriend something."
His children, who range in age from eight to 29 are struggling and they cannot find affordable mental health care.
"I need somebody to say, 'Your husband died of COVID, take your girls and your family and your boys to this long-term facility or doctor or counselor and they will be OK,'" said Lopez's wife and the children's mother, Sabrina Lopez. "The counseling I found is $100- $125, times eight of us that need help and that's a lot of money."
The Lopez family is one of many families who are having a hard time finding accessible and affordable mental healthcare after losing a loved one to COVID-19.
"I have been a licensed funeral director for 35 years, never thought I would see something like this in my life," said Gregory Compean, the owner of Compean Funeral Home in southeast Houston.
The Houston Health Department identified the surrounding community around Compean's funeral home as one of the most high-risk areas for COVID, which is mostly a Hispanic community.
"We were seeing between 80 and 100 families a month," Compean said referring to the number of funerals. "The after effect that COVID has had on the survivors, especially the young kids that no longer have their parents, brothers, sisters and the strain that it has put on their families."
According to the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, a Texas-based non-profit aimed at improving the availability of mental healthcare, the pandemic has taken four times as many working-age Latino Texans and nearly 50% more African American children have lost a parent to COVID than other children.
"What we are seeing is this is happening more and more in our underserved communities often these are communities of color and it's often difficult to access the mental health care that they need," said Dr. Julie Kaplow the executive director of the Trauma and Grief Center at the Hackett Center which is Meadows first regional center which focuses on the greater Houston area and Texas Gulf Coast.
"If kids remain untreated and are suffering in their grief, oftentimes it can lead to issues like school drop-outs, school truancy, poor school grades," said Dr. Kaplow.
There is also a higher risk for depression, substance abuse and suicide.
Kaplow and her team are providing training to school-based clinicians to empower them to provide treatment for trauma and grief.
"With school personnel, training them to identify what it looks like if a child is traumatized," Kaplow said. "What does that look like in a classroom, or how do you handle it if a child is coming back to the classroom after having experienced a death, how do you handle it with the other kids in the class?"
Dr. Kaplow also oversees clinical services that provide trauma and grief services free of charge.
"I don't want to get sick. I want to stay home and be homeschooled," Karleerose told KPRC 2.
KPRC 2 put the Lopez family in touch with the Trauma and Grief Center at the Hackett Center and they plan to use their services.
If you would like to get more information about these free services there is more information click here.
The organization offers these services to people ages 8-21.


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Q: Virtual host for subdomain overriding default virtual host I have two vhosts set up in Apache.  One default one to handle all requests, and one for a specific subdomain.  The www directory is set up as follows:
/var/www
/var/www/subdomain

The virtual host configs are as follows:
<VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot /var/www
        <Directory />
                Options None
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www>
                Options None
                AllowOverride None
                Deny from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost subdomain>
        ServerName subdomain.domain.com

        DocumentRoot /var/www/subdomain
        <Directory /var/www/subdomain>
                Options None  FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Right now I want anything to subdomain.domain.com to be served from /var/www/subdomain and any other request to be denied.  However when I visit domain.com, it serves /var/www/subdomain.
Appreciate if someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong.  Thanks!

EDIT with extra info when running apache2ctl -S
/usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 87: ulimit: error setting limit (Operation not permitted)
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using XX.XXX.XXX.XX for ServerName
VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server domain (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default:1)
         port 80 namevhost domain (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default:1)
         port 80 namevhost sub.domain.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/subdomain:1)
Syntax OK

A: Your problem is here:
<VirtualHost subdomain>

Don't do that, since it's giving that vhost priority over the existing one for whichever IP that resolved to.  It should be <VirtualHost *:80> matching your existing vhost.  The ServerName directive is where the 'name' of the vhost should go.
You also need a NameVirtualHost *:80 somewhere, if you don't already have that.


My fiance and I headed to the Thousand Islands region on the St. Lawrence River (along the boundary between Upstate New York and Canada). It was meant to be a quick, relaxing jaunt to visit my mom's BFF and her husband at their summer home. Maybe with some sightseeing via boat and some fishing.
We left Friday morning and Dan had a sore throat and a slight cough. By our evening hike around the island he was feeling really poopy. And after a night of coughing fits and not being able to breathe very well in the morning, we decided to go to the emergency room. My nurse friend Kelli suggested that the quick decline might be pneumonia and she was right! After being admitted to River Hospital emergency room very quickly, we sat and waited for breathing treatments, steroids, benadryl, 2 "big dog" antibiotics and robitussin with codeine to start working. By 4:00 PM they decided since Dan was on 4 Liters of O2, he was going to be admitted.
I added inches and inches to this sweater meant for no one in particular, the colors just spoke to me and the size was sort of determined by what I got out of the gauge of the needles I had on hand when I started it.
When we found out Dan was not going to go home Sunday like we thought, I spent the entire day in the hospital keeping him company. And I knit my current "epic project", the building blocks baby blanket from Vogue Knitting on the Go I. I am using Red Heart Super Soft something or other I got for $3 a ball when I started the project two years ago. I got quite a bit done on the intarsia house block while trying to concentrate on Dan and not on the fact that I was terrified that when I had to leave for the night he might have a catastrophe and, well, all of the things you knit instead of worry about.
The blanket is knit in squares--the filler squares are meant to look like lego blocks and the intarsia is meant to look like the images are made of lego blocks. The blanket is worked in great strips and will eventually get a garter stitch border.
Luckily, Monday he was finally able to breathe room air. With six prescriptions, we headed home. I continuing to work on the building blocks blanket and the cardigan now that I've caught the bug (but am breathing deeply and coughing in order to avoid developing pneumonia). Macy, The Official Spokesdog of the Totally Knitting Universe, is doing her best to nurse me with sweetness.


This hardy evergreen has unique dark grey-green needle foliage. Blooms blue flowers in fall and spring on a dwarf semi prostrate shrub, usually less than 1 foot tall. Thrives in poor well-drained soil. Full sun recommended for best growth and flowering results. Commonly found in herb gardens. Drought tolerant once established.
Important Info : Full sun recommended for best growth and flowering .
Size:Height: 0.92 ft. to 0.92 ft.


Let's talk about pronunciation! WHAT? You may think this is a wacky and incredibly boring topic, but I've gotta tell ya', it's so much more important than you ever thought. Here's the deal.
If Timmy says thereal instead of cereal or wocket for rocket, he is likely to both read and spell those sounds that way. Although others may find his articulation disorder charming and cute, it must be addressed immediately. It won't be "cute" when he's 25.
Because young children are not as aware of how they sound as older children, their articulation disorders are more difficult to remediate and intensive practice is required.
Seek out a speech and language therapist for support. Not only should Timmy attend speech therapy, but his parents should learn the therapist's techniques to help him correctly practice the sounds at nearly every opportunity. Parents, in turn, should encourage family members to gently correct Timmy so as not to continue his speech disorder.
Progress is likely to be slow, so have heart and keep at it. You don't want to live with the consequences.


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I'm Lo, the unofficial self-proclaimed Hot Mess Unicorn Mom~ Life is a beautiful mixed up chaotic roller coaster, that I have the profound pleasure of sitting in the front seat with the love of my life. I'm an Ohio girl living I work full time, I mommy full time and now for fun, I blog about the craziness of my life. I drop the F-Bomb…. A LOT, I laugh at my own jokes, I cry alone in the shower, and I love VODKA! I have a pretty great family, some of which I don't get to see very often and some I see more often than I would like. I have small group of girlfriends that I've know for 10+ years, that are my soul sisters. I would not be able to navigate my life as successfully as I do without them. I.AM.BLESSED.


It's time for a fresh start with the new look blog. I've virtually stopped blogging and riding since my dad's death last September. He was immensley proud of my Etape ride, telling the nurses that this was his lad and he's ridden a Tour de France stage on visits to intensive care.
One of the results of of the decrease in riding is that I've put on 10 Kg and it shows. I've only got to look back at the archive to see what I've been capable of.
Thanks to Paul for sorting out the re-direction to this blog which is hosted by WordPress.The old blog was hosted by SwitchMedia who told Paul about the Garmin searches that end up here. The 705 page is going to get a rewrite as I'm still on the first page of most 705 searches and usually the first non commercial one (which does stand out). I'm still getting mail from Pakistan glove manufactures wanting to give me free samples of gloves following the Aldi cycle clothing reviews.
Rides: Used to be one of the sites strong points thanks to the early use of GPS. Missing out on the first part of the season means next Sunday is going to be my fist 100 miler of the year. Many I talk to look to starting out on a charity ride as their start to becoming a cyclist, so I'm toying with Liverpool-Chester-Liverpool mainly because you get 5 miles of riding under the River Mersey. Normal service should be resumed in 2011.
The Bike: Now starting to show its age or at least parts of it are. I've been messing around with the rear wheel for a while now replacing bearings a couple of times only to find the axle worn, this wouldn't have been too bad if during the course of the repair I hadn't found three cracks in the rim.
Comments: Over 2000 of them which according to Paul is a lot. The aim is to get back to you within a day.
Garmin Forum: The new site should allow me to implement this idea and get more of your input.
Pages: Going to get revamped. Content updated, links if they are broken, fixed.
The picture: Etape 2009 by the Simpson Memorial.
That's a touching story about your dad. I like the new look for the blog too.
I just wanted to say thanks for the link to the British Heart Foundation's diet (and your blog in general is really helpful). I've decided to use the diet myself and have been on it for a couple of weeks now. The proportions you should eat of the various foods were a revelation to me -I didn't expect as much carbs, and I used to eat more protein than they allow. Lost 9lbs so far, 70 still go!
Thanks Christie, I'll reciprocate the link once I start to get the site properly sorted. Nice looking blog youve got there. Having WordPress host mine should make things a lot easier to change.
The blog has turned my life around , I must have been doing something right when the BHF told me the link had changed.
I thought I'd post my response to your reply below here.
Frank, I'm one of the people who found your site from searching about Garmin… the original 305 Garmin that is! However, what hooked me, and I am sure many others, is your fantastic example of your turn-around: the weight loss, getting fit again and then the continued improvement as a cyclist. I think this motivates a great deal of readers, and is what brings me back for more… Your attitude of "if I can do it, so can you…" is highly encouraging.
Going through a mourning period following your loss is understandable and expected. However, you can use the fact that your father was proud of your cycling achievements as motivation to get you back on the bike and riding consistently.
It would be interesting, at least for me, if you could mention in your future posts more details about your dieting and food intake, and how you plan on losing the additional 10kgs. I'm sure you are going back to the BHF diet, it would be good to hear how you plan to implement it from the perspective of an active cyclist. I have about the same amount of kgs to lose as well (10-15kgs), which I have been keen on losing forever.
Hi Loukas, it was a double hit with Val loosing here father the same week, we buried both within 24 Hrs. I haven't published weights for a long time now even though I take it every day. Today it was 96 Kg.
I'll try and do more about the weight loss side of things as I realise it is a very sensitive subject. It takes a lot of guts to post on a site like this that you have a problem with your weight.
My problem has been in the empty calories in a bottle of red wine or two and the lack of that 30 minutes a day I used to do whatever the weather.
One thing that does spur me on is a comment like yours, the Garmin side can take over things due to the volume of traffic that it generates. Lots of others still come to see about the weightloss side of the site which was what it was about in the firstplace.
Traffic doubled in the last few hours.
I like the new design Frank. I've been reading the blog ever since it was featured on the BBC a while back. I'm originally form Wallasey but have been up in Edinburgh for 17 years, so it is good to read of all your training on the Wirral and in North Wales.
Mate, nice new look, and as for your situation with your family, been there done that and you have my sympathy. I'm one for corny sayings and one of my favourites is John Lennon's "Life is what happens to you while you're making plans." I know this to be a massive truism.
As for the weight loss thing, well you know the score with me so I won't bang on about it too much, suffice it to say I wouldn't be nearly 5 stones lighter with approaching 3000 cycling miles under my belt in a year if it hadn't been for you. And for that you have my undying gratitude.
Thanks Clive, I'll put a link into your site when the blogroll gets sorted.
Took to riding on my own again to sort my head out.
Great pictures of Llangollen Chris, spent my honeymoon in the ChainBridge Hotel and rode the Aqueduct Challenge last year, the route sheet is by my side, as I've missed this years ride.


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Allow DC plans to issue advance life deferred annuities: ACPM
Staff | October 23, 2019
In a letter to the tax branch of the Department of Finance, the Association of Canadian Pension Management said it would be reasonable for certain large defined contribution pension plans to be issuers of advanced life deferred annuities.
According to the current Income Tax Act, only a licensed annuity provider can issue an ALDA. However, the ACPM said a number of large DC plans have successfully provided lifetime income solutions paid directly through the plan and suggested they could be suitable issuers of these annuity arrangements.
The letter also recommended certain changes to the government's proposed legislation on variable payment life annuities. The legislation proposes that the amount payable to each member or beneficiary of a VPLA must be adjusted yearly, at least if the annuity's fund rate is materially different from the actuarial assumptions used to determine the VPLA benefits.
Since there are already several scenarios where DC plans offer lifetime income solutions to retirees, the ACPM suggested the government consider their strategies when finalizing the legislation.
Read: Industry praises budget proposals to allow variable annuities for CAP members
One option is a low-risk strategy with frequent adjustments is based on annuity rates and aims to provide a lifetime income with very low probability of reductions and infrequent increases. Its investment approach is very low risk, focusing on liability matching assets. Its approach to adjustments includes a margin folded into the pricing of the annuities to lower the probability of requiring a reduction. If a surplus exceeds a significant level, a modest pension increase is possible, but this isn't the explicit goal of the strategy.
A slightly riskier strategy features more frequent adjustments, seeking to provide increases, on average, equal to inflation. It invests in a mix of stocks, bonds and alternatives, with the aim of achieving low to moderate risk. Similar to the low-risk strategy, it folds a margin into the annuity, lowering the risk of a reduction requirement and potentially resulting in a modest pension increase. With this strategy, however, margin and a provision for adverse deviation are formally written into the funding policy, which is made available to plan members before they agree to the option.
Read: How will advanced life deferred annuities work in practice?
A third strategy features moderate risk with annual adjustments. Based on the long-term return assumptions of the fund rather that market annuity rates, it invests in a mix of stocks, bonds and alternatives with a risk budget allowing for 10 per cent fund volatility per year, the highest of the three strategies. As for adjustments, an actuary assesses the actual investment and mortality experience on an annual basis and determines whether it requires adjustments.
These three scenarios are examples of successful arrangements the ACPM is urging the Department of Finance to recognize and consider in its final decisions on the legislation.
"In particular, the legislation should allow each DC [pension plan] or [pooled retirement pension plan] offering a VPLA to develop its own funding and investment policies and communications to retirees about the objectives of the VPLA and the likely frequency of upward and downward adjustments to lifetime incomes," the letter said.
Read: A look at the legislative landscape for decumulation options in DC plans
Pension legislation
Defined contribution pensions


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I found this Paris Is Sleeping, Respect Is Burning mix in the $1.99 bargain bin at Amoeba Music last week and needless to say it has some heaters on it. Check out some great 90's French house tracks from the disc below.
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Student interviewers are currently-enrolled Dartmouth students. They typically apply to join the program during the spring term of their sophomore year. The students who are accepted into the program will commit to work for the program for the summer term and for one additional term during the following academic year. During the summer, all student participants will attend a series of six training workshops on various aspects of the art of oral history interviewing. After this training is complete, each student will complete one oral history interview with an individual selected by the project leaders. Then, during the second term of work (usually during the junior year), students will conduct up to five additional oral history interviews; the individuals to be interviewed in the second term will be chosen by the student, from the available pool of volunteer interviewees, in consultation with the project leaders.
Volunteer interviewees may be any member of the Dartmouth community who has stories or memories of the Vietnam War era to share. While many of our interviewees are Dartmouth alumni, the DVP welcomes the participation of anyone and everyone who has a connection to Dartmouth. Volunteers may include current and former Dartmouth faculty and staff, current and former residents of Hanover and the Upper Valley, and Dartmouth parents, spouses, friends, and partners. Some interviewees may be veterans who served in Vietnam or elsewhere during the war; some may have participated in antiwar protests at Dartmouth or other places; and some may have witnessed the impact that the war had on Dartmouth, on other American institutions, or on U.S. society in general.
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And since I'm going to be tied up for the next day or so with my daughter's 21st birthday, let me jump in early with no shame and a reminder that Halloween is also publication day for my second short story collection.
Two books out in one year! Haven't had that happen in a while.
One of the novellas in the collection is Doctor Hood, originally written for Ellen Datlow's anthology The Dark. And perhaps worth noting because it was the story that introduced the emeritus physics professor Alan Hood, who went on to become the central character in the Eleventh Hour TV series.
Some nice reviews for The Kingdom of Bones out there, including this one from The New York Times. And check out this amazing endorsement from the great Ed Gorman.
Modesty prevents me from quoting from it.
Aww, f*** it…
"I read Stephen Gallagher for two reasons. First because he's one of the most entertaining writers I've ever read. And second because I can't read a short story of his let alone a novel without picking up a few pointers about writing. He's an elegant stylist, a shrewd psychologist and a powerful storyteller with enormous range and depth.
"I finished his latest novel The Kingdom of Bones and I was honestly stunned by what he'd done. The sweep, the majesty, the grit, the grue, the great grief (and the underpinning of gallows humor from time to time). This is not only the finest novel I've read this year but the finest novel I've read in the past two or three years."
Be honest. Would you be able to keep quiet about a lulu of a writeup like that?
Luan Gaines at Curled Up with a Good Book writes one of those reviews that involves a retelling of a lot of the story, but she manages to do it in such a way that you feel encouraged to go and read it for yourself.
It's weird, but these days people seem to like to know exactly what they're getting before they'll buy into it. Endings are sacrosanct but everything else is up for grabs!
OK, advert over and back to the birthday prep. The cake alone has been a production on a West End scale. We parents get to go along to the Sea Zoo and to host a Bistro meal, but we bow out gracefully for the day at the Pleasure Beach and the evening at the tranny bar.
And to think that kids used to be happy with an afternoon in the village hall and that slightly strange bloke who made balloon animals…
Read Paula Guran's review of Ellen Datlow's new anthology, Inferno, here.
Eleventh Hour, novels, short stories, The Kingdom of Bones


November 19, 2018: Finally, after receiving an encouraging response from the Indian buyers for its recently launched MPV Marazzo, the domestic carmaker Mahindra and Mahindra has announced to hike its prices up-to Rs. 40,000 from January 2019. It would be important to mention that at the time of its launch the carmaker had announced to hike the prices of Marazzo, after going through the response it receives from the buyers. Now as the MPV succeed in grabbing the attention of buyers, company is going to hie its prices.


Mackay Region Chamber of Commerce today announced a new effort to remind residents that small business is a big deal in the lead up to the May election.
The Small Business is a Big Deal campaign features real local business leaders and workers in an attempt to bring employers and employees closer together, instead of driving them apart.
Official government data shows the average small business owner takes home $67,000*, only slightly more than the average Australian worker. Despite this, the small business sector is what keeps locals in jobs; more than half of all workers in the Mackay Region owe their job to a small business.
Ms Gracie advised Mackay Region voters to think twice before they vote to "kill the goose which lays the golden eggs".
"For every region business owner who's doing well, there's another who is giving themselves a pay cut so that a worker doesn't have to go home and tell their family they've lost their job," Ms Gracie said.
Small employers and employees are being encouraged to visit http://www.supportsmall.org.au/mackay to get a free Small Business is a Big Deal sticker for their shopfront or work car, and use a specially designed social media frame to tell their own story on Facebook.
"We're not the kind to march in the streets, but we really hope that everyone who runs, works in, or cares about our local small businesses will share our positive message and make it known they think small business is a big deal too," Ms Gracie said.
The campaign will push for three specific pro-small policies - reasonable wage increases, lower power prices and better training for local jobseekers.


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"""Tests for type_check."""

from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

import numpy

from tensorflow.python.autograph.utils import type_check
from tensorflow.python.framework import constant_op
from tensorflow.python.framework import test_util
from tensorflow.python.platform import test

class TypeCheckTest(test.TestCase):

  def test_checks(self):
    self.assertTrue(type_check.is_tensor(constant_op.constant([1, 2, 3])))
    self.assertTrue(
        type_check.is_tensor(test_util.variables.Variable([1, 2, 3])))
    self.assertTrue(
        type_check.is_tensor(
            test_util.array_ops.placeholder(test_util.dtypes.float32)))
    self.assertFalse(type_check.is_tensor(3))
    self.assertFalse(type_check.is_tensor(numpy.eye(3)))

if __name__ == '__main__':
  test.main()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Q: How to load highcharts annotations module in react typescript? I am trying to reproduce this highcharts using annotations in react with typescript. As you can see in a live demo the annotations are not being displayed, and I assume it is due to some loading issues.
import * as React from "react";
import * as Highcharts from "highcharts";
import * as Annotations from "highcharts/modules/annotations";

A: here is the official link on how to use highchart modules
In this code example shown how to import highchart components
import Highcharts from 'highcharts'
import AnnotationsFactory from "highcharts/modules/annotations";
import HighchartsReact from 'highcharts-react-official'

// init the module
AnnotationsFactory(Highcharts);

After import you should use HighchartsReact component and add your annotation config there.
In this way it is possible to use any module for it.

A: It looks like DefinitelyTyped doesn't know about the highcharts/modules/annotations module.  So first, create a separate file declarations.d.ts with:
declare module "highcharts/modules/annotations";

In demo.tsx:
import * as Highcharts from "highcharts";
import AnnotationsFactory = require("highcharts/modules/annotations");
AnnotationsFactory(Highcharts);

And add as any after the big configuration object being passed to Highcharts.chart so that TypeScript doesn't complain about the annotations property.  (What you're doing seems to be valid at runtime but not recognized by the out-of-date typings.)
Finally, in tsconfig.json, change the module option from esnext to commonjs to be able to use the import assignment.
Final CodeSandbox.
Locally, I ran into some dependency issues and had to disable the tslint quotemark rule because it was blocking the build, but I ultimately got the annotations to work.  Let me know if you need help with that part.


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Cradle to Cradle Design – So Much More Than Recycling
It's easy for the concepts of Cradle to Cradle design and a circular economy to become shorthand for recycling, but both are much more complex than that. As currency in a circular economy, Cradle to Cradle (C2C) products are sustainably manufactured, with safe ingredients, that can be perpetually recycled – all of which are critical to the approach.
The Cradle to Cradle Product Certification Program provides a comprehensive, third-party assessment that looks at material health, material reutilization, renewable energy, water stewardship and social responsibility. The task of getting started or continuing to evolve what has become a tried and true sustainability solution can be daunting. But it begins simply with: what if?
What if used carpet tile never had to be sent to the landfill? Instead, what if it could remain within a continuous cycle of use and reuse? What if it was made with safe, healthy ingredient materials—and designed so that, at the end of its useful life, it could be reclaimed and reused in the manufacture of new carpet tile? What if this cycle took place over and over again?
That's what Shaw asked when we set out to create a more environmentally responsible alternative to traditional PVC-backed carpet tile. The result was EcoWorx, which would become the world's first Cradle to Cradle Certified carpet tile. Today, more than 65 percent of the products we manufacture are Cradle to Cradle Certified – including other carpet products and engineered hardwood – as well as wet and dry carpet tile adhesives.
We continue to face the challenges that every company on a quest for greater circularity does: logistics, economics, historic business models, and more. But the roadmap to EcoWorx continues to inspire how we design with the end in mind and strive for not just less bad, but more good. It provides a case study for others pursuing similar product development.
When we created a carpet tile that could be infinitely recycled with no loss of quality, we first removed PVC, phthalates, and other chemicals. That liberated us by leaving behind concerns about the sort of legacy chemicals that plague so many product categories. We no longer had to weigh the benefits of recycled content against the potential unknown of material ingredients.
And Cradle to Cradle is indeed a journey - certification requires continuous improvement. Products are reassessed every two years, and there is an expectation of progress in areas for improvement identified in previous reviews. Like all robust standards, Cradle to Cradle criteria evolve as new information is available. The latest version of Cradle to Cradle elevated one of the chemicals in our products from "of concern" to "banned." We worked with our supplier to remove that chemical from its latex. Because that latex is used by a number of manufacturers, the healthier chemistry is now present in many flooring products, even from those companies not currently participating in Cradle to Cradle.
Supply Chain & Economics
Such collaboration with our supply chain is critical – both up and downstream.
Creating a circular economy is not only a technical challenge but requires a keen look at supply chains, value chains and business models. And more questions: What happens to a product at the end of its life? What's its highest and best use? Is it best used as a resource for your company or for another industry? How do you get product back in a way that facilitates that business model?
For Shaw, the product was designed to become carpet tile again, so it was essential to develop a takeback program to ensure we get this valuable material back as an ingredient for our next generation of product. To encourage participation, Shaw recovers the carpet at no cost to the end user. Each tile is labeled with a toll-free number on the back to facilitate the process. The economics work because of the intrinsic value built into the product.
Today, our program reclaims millions of pounds annually – converting carpet tile back into carpet tile. And we're looking at enhanced reverse-engineering processes and programs to bolster the return of our EcoWorx products as a critical mass of product installed over the past 16 years becomes ready for removal due to renovations.
Sustainable Manufacturing
Our manufacturing facilities take pride in minimizing waste in the production process. Where waste is created, they look for ways to turn it into a resource. Minimal water is used in manufacturing carpet tile, and throughout our operations, we have set ambitious goals for the amount of water we use per pound of product produced.
In addition to constantly seeking energy efficiency in our facilities, we installed solar arrays at our carpet tile manufacturing facility in Cartersville, Ga. where EcoWorx products are made, generating approximately 1.3 million kilowatt hours annually. And we employ safe, fair labor practices and ask the same of our suppliers.
Continued Innovation
Designing and manufacturing Cradle to Cradle Certified products isn't easy – it requires complex, system-wide thinking. We take risks, and whether our ambitious efforts thrive or stumble, we learn from the process. With more than three billion square feet of EcoWorx installed, we're at a point of critical mass and keen market understanding (customer preferences, economics, supply chain, et al). But constant change is required, and we must continue to ask ourselves, "What if?"
Published Dec 20, 2016 5am EST / 2am PST / 10am GMT / 11am CET
Vice President of Sustainability
Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute
Responsible Production and Consumption


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Smriti Daniel
SciDev.Net
The Hindu Businessline
Times of India (Crest)
Roads&Kingdoms
Conservationists / Researchers / Scientists / The Sunday Times
A new approach to conservation in Sri Lanka: The case of the Western Purple Faced Langur
Posted on December 18, 2016 by Smriti Daniel
The raucous troupe of monkeys that visit Dr. Jinie Dela's house in Panadura do not realize how closely they are being studied. Dr.Dela, a biologist, with a doctoral degree in primate ecology and behaviour, treats her sprawling one-acre garden like an enormous, open laboratory. The primates who come visiting, sometimes on a daily basis, have always found a feast waiting. Ripe jakfruit, mango and kapok and fistfuls of tart, dark tamarind keep them in the trees surrounding the house. While the primates feed, Dr. Dela makes note of how they interact and what they like to eat.
Dr. Dela's particular fascination is the semnopithecus vetulus nestor, or the Western purple- faced langur, an animal found in only one place in the world – the western lowlands of Sri Lanka. She has been studying these animals since 1985."They are very different from forest langurs," says Dr.Dela."Watch them in home gardens and you will see they hardly stay in one place."
But these lovely, energetic monkeys are one of 25 critically endangered primate species on The International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List. The species is believed to have undergone a decline of more than 80% over just three generations due to a combination of habitat loss and hunting. If nothing changes, the IUCN predicts that this decline will continue.
For decades now, these animals have been increasingly reliant not just on forests but on large home gardens, like Dr.Dela's. Now she, along with her colleague Dr. U.K.G.K. Padmalal of the Open University and with experts from Sri Lanka's Forest Department, are working on a new model for management of small forest systems that will meet a quartet of goals: protecting a critically endangered monkey; enhancing forest ecosystem functions; providing an uninterrupted supply of water for local people and finally, reducing monkey-human conflict. "It's basically a new way of managing these small forest systems that have been overlooked for nearly half a century," Dr. Dela tells the Sunday Times.
The forests they are working in, such as the small but lovely Indikada-Mukalana or Waga in Colombo District, have been growing increasingly fragmented since the colonial era. Many forests across the island were subject to heavy logging in the 1970s. Subsequently, some patches were turned into plantations, and others have regenerated into secondary forest, explains Dr.Dela.
"However, due to all this clearing and regeneration, invasive species such as alstonia and ochlandras tridula have crept in. This is hampering the regeneration of some areas of the forest as well as hampering the plantation trees from growing," she says. For these small forest patches to survive intact, they need buffer zones around them, and corridors of trees that link to other similar clusters.
"This can only be done if we can get people to have some canopy cover in adjacent home gardens," says Dr. Dela. She believes that for this approach to be sustainable, it also needs to offer tangible benefits for local people. "Getting rid of the orchlandra and converting the plantations into multi-purpose, multi-species plantations will have multiple benefits," she says.
Anura Sathurusinghe, Conservator General of Forests, agrees. "This is a really important programme for us," he told the Sunday Times. "Here, we are not only focusing on animals and plant management, we are trying to improve the habitat overall and to work with community to protect livelihoods and crops."
The Forest Department will celebrate 130 years of existence in 2017 said Mr. Sathurusinghe, pointing out that in the fight against the ongoing degradation of the environment, the department must now consider new approaches. "One way is to work with the community. The sustainability of the project depends on how you improve their livelihood," he said.
They have been conducting socio-economic surveys and community consultations in villages around the forest. They will use this information to create innovative community based livelihood development schemes through Community Based Organisations (CBOs) monitored by the Forest Department and the project team. Mr. Sathu-rusinghe's hope is that eco-tourism will receive a boost in these areas. This holistic approach is new to Sri Lanka, but if it works, the Forest Department will adapt it for use in other parts of the island.
The foundation for this project was laid between 2007 and 2010, when Dr. Dela and Dr. Padmalal collaborated with the Forest Department to carry out a comprehensive >7000 km survey of the historic range of the Western purple-faced langur in six administrative districts. The team visited over 70 forests and traversed 46, helping along the way to re-define the geographic range and identify potential forest refuges for this langur. They were able to pinpoint major threats and hot spots of serious monkey-human conflict.
However, they were also troubled by what they saw – home gardens were becoming increasingly fragmented and connections between small forests had been disrupted. "I think it was by 2005 that I started noticing that the home gardens were going. Former study sites were unrecognizable now, there were no trees," says Dr. Dela. It was also clear that the monkeys were struggling.
Under Phase II, the team is now looking at a pioneering study of the behaviour and social organisation of forest living Western purple-faced langur in the Waga, in an attempt to understand their habitat and food preferences. Their organisation Probe for Nature is being supported with funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF) of Sri Lanka and Primate Conservation Incorporated (PCI) USA for this phase. The data collected could help them "enrich" forests with the kinds of plants the monkeys love to eat. Doing so could mean the monkeys would no longer have to go into villages to feed says Dr. Dela, thereby reducing monkey-human conflict.
Currently, the team is also collecting specimens for the herbarium in the Seethawaka National Botanic Gardens. "There are some red listed plant species in the area that are in need of conservation," says Dr.Achala Attanayake, Deputy Director, Department of National Botanical Gardens. She says the samples shared by the team with the Botanical Gardens have been stored both in the wet zone botanic collections as well as the international collection at Peradeniya. Many of these are extremely rare, and hard to locate, so having the team on the lookout for them has proved invaluable. In return, Dr. Attanayake and her team are also advising the conservationists and providing planting materials for the project.
It is clear that for Dr. Dela, the project's ambitious, complex vision may be challenging but is nevertheless desperately needed, because it recognizes that conservation cannot happen in isolation. It is not only the fate of the Western purple-faced langur that hangs in the balance, but the survival of the forest. So too, the people that depend upon the trees and the animals, even if they do not yet realise it. Man, monkey and forest need each other, and it is Dr. Dela's mission to remind us of just how much.
Published in Sunday Times on 18 December 2016. By Smriti Daniel. Images courtesy Dr. Jinie Dela.
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#065: The Oscars
The entire film world is gearing up for the Oscars this coming Sunday. If I want to pretend to be a critic, I should at least pay a little attention to this event. I have never been big into the Oscars, but it seems this year nobody is. I have heard some talk about the 10 nominations for best picture, but there hasn't been much other than that. I think "the public" is still pissed that The Dark Knight got snubbed from the list of nominees last year. I wasn't as big a fan of the film as most, but I have to admit it was a hell of a lot better than Slumdog Millionaire. Generally speaking, most people would have to agree that the best picture winner is rarely the film of the year that they liked best.
I am not saying that I have never liked a film that won the award. I loved No Country For Old Men. It remains one of the "best" films I have seen over the past few years. I would disagree that it was one of the most loved films by the general public in 2007. The critics got behind it, and that is one of the major reasons it won. Then the public went out and rented the film, and liked it because they thought they were supposed to. Even though I might have agreed in 2007, I can't have any respect for an academy that bestowed its best picture award on such films as Crash or Slumdog Millionaire.
Enough reminiscing about the past. Let's move on to this year's best picture race. From looking at the list, I can assure you that the winner this year will be a far better film that the one that won last year. Top to bottom the 10 nominees this year are all very good. Granted, I haven't seen them all, but I have heard very positive things. Expanding to 10 films might make it harder to predict the winner, but I doubt it will complicate things much. We can probably eliminate the ones that didn't get a nod for best director. That gets rid of Up, A Serious Man, An Education, District 9, & The Blind Side. My favorite of those 5 is probably District 9, which I never thought had a chance to win best picture anyway. The 5 remaining films are all strong, but I haven't seen Precious or Up In The Air. I really doubt Precious will win best picture. Up In The Air might have been a strong candidate, but its buzz seemed to have fizzled out over the past several weeks. I don't think it has enough meat to really compete for the prize. I am still looking forward to its dvd release so I can finally see it.
We are left with 3 films; Avatar, Inglourious Basterds, and The Hurt Locker. This is an interesting group because two films represent the polar opposite ends of the spectrum, and one falls right in the middle. I will quickly review my thoughts on these three films.
Avatar: If you walk the streets and poll random people about their favorite film, it is almost assured that Avatar would get the majority of the votes. It has made more money than any other film in history. So many people have see it, it is hard to ignore its heft coming into the Oscars. There are also a lot of aspects of the film that may weaken its Oscar hopes. While most agreed it was an enjoyable film to watch, few critics were able to overlook the crappy dialog and unoriginal, shallow story line. I know nothing about what makes a quality film, and even I could clearly see the corny acting and plot holes. Avatar has evoked a lot of hatred from a lot of film critics. People who love this film are not content with other's merely liking it. To them everybody has to love it, and if you don't love it, then you hate it. This rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, and they actually did start hating it. Still, I think this is the odds-on favorite to win. Avatar not winning would be almost as bad as The Dark Knight not getting nominated.
The Hurt Locker: Earlier I mentioned a film can get consideration based on the critics response. This is exactly what I think happened with this film. Critics have really got behind it, and pushed it to the forefront. Katherine Bigelow won the Director's Guild award for the film, and its presence has really been growing right up to the Oscars. Consider this. The Hurt Locker was released in June. If you total up all the money it has made up to now, it is still less than what Avatar made in single weekend 2 months after its initial release. Um, nobody went to see The Hurt Locker. It came out on dvd a while back, so a lot more people have had the opportunity to watch it now, lending to its growing popularity. Still, not many people have seen it. Nobody wants to watch a war movie, no matter how well it is made. This film has a decent chance to win best picture, but I don't think it can knock Avatar off. I do think Bigelow will take the oscar for best director.
Inglourious Basterds: This is the film that splits the middle of the other two films. It has received tons of praise from the critics, and it did pretty well in the box office. Not everybody loves this film, but enough people do to make it a competitor. Probably Tarentino's most accessible film, it has gotten significantly more mass appeal than The Hurt Locker. It is more artistic, better structured, and a written a shit-ton better than Avatar. I don't really think Inglourious Basterds will win, but I think it will be closer to the top that what a lot of people would expect.
All of the speculation is just as meaningless as what the award is. The most telling result would be if Avatar doesn't win. I think that is the outcome that would generate the most conversation. Maybe the Oscars can alienate even more people than they did last year, ensuring that nobody will watch in 2011.
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All That Is Coming Back With the Help of Kenan Thompson
Posted by Jacqueline Cucco | Feb 14, 2019 | Celebrities, Coming Soon, Interests, People, Retro Pop!, Series | 0
Now this is just an introduction,
Before I blow your mind.
The show is all of that and yes we do it all the time.
Anyone who grew up in the '90s remembers All That, Nickelodeon's sketch comedy show that aired from 1994 to 2005, lasting 10 glorious seasons and launching unknown names into stardom, including Amanda Bynes, Nick Cannon, and Kenan Thompson. Nickelodeon is reviving the show with an all-new cast, and Thompson is coming back as an executive producer.
After the show ended, Thompson went on to join the cast of SNL, which he doesn't plan on leaving any time soon.
All That also spawned a number of popular spinoffs, including The Amanda Show, Kenan and Kel, and Drake and Josh. Brian Robbins, president of Nickelodeon, says he hopes that the revival will do the same. "We think there's a great opportunity to find the next pool of stars," Robbins tells Variety. "We want to bring the show back in a real fun way. This summer, we are going to bring back a lot of the original cast and the cast through the years, and let them introduce the new cast of All That to the world." He also suggested the show will be a "mash-up of some of the old sketches and a lot of new sketches."
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During this year's EGX in Birmingham, England, Tarsier Studio's Little Nightmares was on display. It's a cool looking 3D platformer due out for release for home consoles and PC in spring, 2017. The game sees players taking on the role of a miniature little girl in a raincoat named "Six".
The newest gameplay footage for the title clocks in at seven minutes, featuring platforming and puzzle solving. You can check out the video below courtesy of LPG.
The video covers a lot of the same content we've seen before, but the commentators explain a bit more about the story, explaining that Six is starving and alone on a giant floating isle called The Maw.
They explain in the video that it's not a terribly long game, but I'm guessing it's designed to be short and sweet, similar to games like Inside or Limbo or The Turing Test.
The Unreal Engine 4-powered game looks like it could be one of those titles that's good to play over the weekend, and it reminds me a little bit of Unravel.
Part of the appeal of Little Nightmares is that many of the game's puzzles are designed around physics. Pulling and pushing objects to use them as platforms is possible, along with performing some quirky actions to overcome some of the obstacles presented to players.
Story-wise the game is still a bit of a mystery and I imagine Tarsier wants to keep a lot of the core aspects of the game under wraps leading up to its release, not unlike PlayDead trying to keep a tight lid on Inside leading up to its release. Sometimes over-exposure will diminish interest in the game and by the time it releases there's not much to discover… a little like No Man's Sky.
As mentioned at the top of the article, the game is due for release in spring in 2017 for the Xbox One, PS4 and PC.


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Unification preparation gears up
While unveiling details for her three-year outline on economic innovation, President Park Geun-hye announced the launch of a preparatory committee for unification. The role of the new presidential committee will be to seek public opinions on unification to design a blueprint toward a unified Korea. The committee will include private experts in foreign, security, economic, social and cultural areas, as well as civilian representatives. The president followed up on her commitment to establish a lasting peace framework for the country after mentioning that unification would be a "windfall" for Korea as well as Northeast Asia.
Details on the role and characteristics of the committee will be revealed later, but what is noteworthy is Park's comment that she will recruit a diverse range of people. Policy on North Korea and unification has so far been restricted to foreign, security and North Korean experts. The engagement of experts in economic, social, cultural and civilian fields raises expectations for a broad and comprehensive framework on post-unification.
The composition and scale of the committee would be important. The members should represent their specialized fields with no political affiliation so that discussions do not derail from the primary goal of unification and work toward building a vision that can win broad public support. With political independence, discussions on unification can be uninterrupted regardless of changes in the administration. Debate should be as diverse and wide as our views on North Korea. The committee should discuss ways to reunify and how to prepare for that goal. It should be bold and proactive, and design a road map as expansive and ambitious as the Marshall Plan, the American initiative that helped to rebuild postwar Europe - perhaps by proposing to reserve 1 percent of the budget to assist North Korea, depending on Pyongyang's commitment to peace and denuclearization.
The preparatory committee must be unequivocal in its function and character. It could overlap with the National Unification Advisory Council, which is headed by the president. The council is a constitutional body designed to seek opinions and muster consensus from home and abroad. The committee is different from the NUAC, which was established with a presidential decree. The work of the preparatory committee must be specifically spelled out, or else it will become an umbrella body of the advisory council. Lines also must be drawn up with the Ministry of Unification. If the new committee is to fulfill its purpose, its direction and members must be carefully chosen.
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Elusa Harkonnen
Elusa Harkonnen is the former leader of Harkonnen Inc and a persistently controversial figure in the Outer Rim. She is among the most famous residents of Tatooine, and briefly controlled the planet in a military takeover. She is now far less influential, but still relevant political figure, purportedly making her residence in Mos Eisley.
Allegations of Brain Trauma
Search for a Father for Her Heir
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The young Elusa spent her formative years training as a royal of the Harkonnen family, in a feudal government. Her father was a wealthy and powerful Baron, controlling melange spice, a powerful force in the local civilization and economy.
At the age of seventeen, Elusa had already been implicated in a complex money embezzling scheme and the attempted assassination of one of her siblings. Although disguised as an assignment, she was punished by her elders by being sent to oversee melange mining.
Enroute to the planet, however, her vessel was involved in an accident that resulted in it being thrown into the Cantina Universe via the Route of Ages. She was not the only survivor, but she murdered the others before their factional feudal loyalties forced them to do the same to her.
Once having arrived on Tatooine, Elusa met one of her long-lost relatives, a niece named Telana Daiko, and became employed by Wolfram and Hart, forming a bizarre alliance with Trenton Tremont.
After securing Mos Eisley local business magnate Buzz Argonon's financial investment, founded Harkonnen Inc, a company whose legacy left behind hundreds addicted to melange, raising a secret fleet, and unintentionally began the rise of a genocidal race of robots known as the Cylons.
When the Peacekeepers attacked Tatooine, the defensive forces of the planet - including GWAM and the United Federation of Planets - had their resources depleted by the end of the battle. Harkonnen took this opportunity to seize control of the planet. Her reign was brief, as she was incapacitated within a few days, and her forces destroyed by a Cylon attack.
Following a period of time spent with her niece Daiko and Daiko's boyfriend, Omega Kiyoshi, Harknonnen donated her worldly funds to them, which eventually became the Foundation.
Since this time, she has begun traveling as an independent agent.
Some observers have alleged that Elusa Harkonnen suffered brain damage just before her rise to power, and that this was the reason she became aggressively ambitious. Some sources have lent credence to the belief that Elusa was given some kind of gene therapy by Daiko and Kiyoshi directly following the collapse of her corporation.
She is currently searching for a suitable father and has narrowed it down to several candidates
Captain Zon Huntreas
Haweke Karbn
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Elusa Harkonnen has a blood related niece, Telana Daiko. Telana's father, Roka Daiko, and Roka's wife and Telana's adoptive mother Meryl Carlson Daiko are known to Harkonnen, but not as close as Telana. Telana's boyfriend, Omega Kiyoshi, is close to Elusa for the most part because he and Telana are in love.
She has a persistent rivalry with Captain Zon Huntreas and Haweke Karbn. She considered Huntreas to be her equal, while Karbn comes to near-equal, if not also attractive. The only other person she considers to be her equal is Trenton Tremont, whom she also secretly fears - though she has never shown it.
Before her arrival in the Outer Rim, Harkonnen was highly trained in a native martial art. The unique style almost never encountered elsewhere in the Cantina Universe makes it very difficult to defend against most of the time.
Cold, Cruel, Amoral, Obsessed, Compassionate, Loyal, all these describe Elusa Harkonnen, like her they are in constant contradiction. Despite her instinctual urges to conquer and enslave that are hard wired into her from her upbringing, she is cool and calculating in her conquests.
She hides her true self under her cool exterior. She is constantly depressed and has even attempted to take her own life on several occasions. Is constantly question why she keeps on going and what is she doing it for. However recently she realized that perhaps her life would be complete if she had a true heir. Someone to pass everything on to. Her legacy given form.
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Power and Luxury: The Cars of American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street
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In 2014, two of the big winners from the Golden Globes were David O. Russell's American Hustle and Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street. Both movies are period pieces loosely based on true stories of greed, crime, corruption, and money—a lot of money.
American Hustle tells the partially true story of two con artists being forced to work with the FBI to help catch corrupt politicians. The movie is set in the late 1970's to the early 1980's in New Jersey.
The Wolf of Wall Street stars Leonardo Dicaprio as a corrupt stockbroker who runs a billion-dollar firm through corruption and securities fraud. This film takes place in the late 1980's and the better part of the 1990's in New York City.
These period pieces offer viewers the chance to see the different sets, styles, and gadgets distinctly from that era. In particular, the cars. The characters of American Hustle have some impressive vehicles, but they don't compare to the rides owned by the greedy characters of The Wolf of Wall Street. Corrupt politicians are rich, however corrupt stockbrokers are stinkin' rich.
Here are some of the incredible cars featured in the films. First, the more subtle and economical cars of American Hustle.
1977 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
While the characters in The Wolf of Wall Street were all about the fast, slick sports cars of the glamorous 1980's and 1990's, the cars in American Hustle reflect the massive popularity of the 1970's muscle car. Case in point, the 1977 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz. What this car lacks in sleek curves, it more than makes up for in power and size. Suitably, this power car belonged to the powerful Mayor of New Jersey played by Jeremy Renner.
1969 Buick LeSabre
Despite being set in New Jersey, American Hustle was shot just outside of Boston. In order to find the classic cars in this film, the producers had an open casting call to the classic car owners of Massachusetts. The owners of the background cars (like the beautiful 1969 Buick LeSabre) also got to be "driving extras" in the movie.
1975 Dodge Coronet
Ashley Skomurski of Boston Casting, the agency that found each car, talked about the director's vision for the film's vehicles: "It was very important that the cars were appropriate for the time period and place we were shooting. We were given guidelines on what his vision was for the scene and it was up to us to make it happen." This is even the case with the taxi cabs of the movie. The yellow Dodge Coronet was a common taxi back in the 1970's but the trick was finding one that was in good, working condition.
Now that we have the modest and realistic power cars of American Hustle out of the way, we can now focus on the absolutely ridiculous sports cars of The Wolf of Wall Street. This movie is essentially one huge celebration of frivolous spending. The stockbrokers of this film are all multimillionaires and they have the cars to match their bank accounts.
1993 Ferrari 512DR
This sleek and stylish sports car from Ferrari had an original retail price of $189,500. It acted as a perfect way for the rich stockbroker characters to flaunt their excessive wealth and was truly the height of luxury in 1993.
Jaguar XK-E
Jonah Hill's despicable character drove a car that was anything but despicable. The gorgeous Jaguar XK-E convertible was designed and built in England but saw most of its action in North America—in this case, Wall Street.
1988 Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary
Only 658 of these beautiful 1988 Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversaries were produced from 1988 to 1990. The suggested retail price was $145,000 at the time.
DiCaprio's character prized the car, known for its futuristic look and unconventional "scissor doors" (like the DeLorean from Back to the Future). However, in a dangerous and stupid decision, DiCaprio's character decides to drive home while under the influence and ends up causing massive damage to the vehicle.
Striving for authenticity, Martin Scorsese decided to use a genuine 1988 Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary rather than a replica (like most movies do). By the time the scene was over, the once mint condition Lamborghini was far from perfect.
Remember, no matter if you have a $145,000 sports car or a $700 hand-me-down ride, always make sure to shop around for the best insurance rates.
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