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Le niellage  est la technique d'orfèvrerie qui consiste à appliquer le nielle (ou niello, du latin nigellus, « noirci »), un sulfure métallique de couleur noire qui inclut du cuivre, de l'argent et souvent même du plomb ou du borax, employé comme matière de remplissage dans la marqueterie de métaux. Le métal gravé est rempli avec cet alliage fondu le long des traits produits par la gravure au burin, ensuite la surface niellée est polie pour éliminer le dépassement de métal ajouté.

Cette technique d'orfèvrerie est à distinguer des émaux ou du damasquinage et l'expression « émail de niellure » est impropre.

Le graveur de nielles est un « nielleur » et le résultat une « niellure ».

Histoire
L'invention de cette technique est attribuée aux Égyptiens. Elle est ensuite reprise en Europe par les Romains puis au Moyen Âge, ensuite par les orfèvres de la Renaissance en Italie (niellatura) et en Allemagne, comme technique luxueuse et délicate pour les objets précieux comme les objets de culte et la vaisselle d'apparat.

Maso Finiguerra, nielleur de Florence, qui voulait contrôler son Triomphe et le Couronnement de la Vierge, enlevée au ciel et entourée d'anges, avant de recouvrir les traits de nielle, voulut essayer ce que produiraient sur une feuille de papier humide, les figures gravées couvertes de la fumée grasse d'une chandelle. Le papier ayant rendu fidèlement le sujet tracé sur le métal, cette technique (creux destiné à être rempli) donna naissance à la taille-douce (en remplaçant le niello par de l'encre).

Au , cette technique n'est plus utilisée que par les pays orientaux (pour les arabesques) ou russes (Veliki Oustioug) ; elle reprend quelque vigueur au  avec le damasquineur André Colomb (1786-1838).

Dans une utilisation plus commune et à large échelle, ce sont notamment des boîtiers de montres de poche de (période à vérifier) fin 1800, début 1900 que l'on trouve fréquemment ainsi décorés.

Œuvres comportant des nielles
 Plaques de ceinturon en bronze fondu, ornées de dessins gravés et niellés, de travail romain découvertes en Suisse, à Windisch, l'ancienne Vindonissabs.
 Vases du trésor de Berthouville, conservé au cabinet des antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris.
 Plat d'argent trouvé en Crimée (musée de l'Ermitage), monogramme dont le chiffre et les couronnes sont niellés.
 Bras-reliquaire de saint Landélin à Crespin (Nord).
 Maso Finiguerra : Paix (1452) pour le baptistère de Florence.
  Musée diocésain d'Arezzo, pièces provenant de la Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta, Bibbiena Capolona et de la cathédrale d'Arezzo.
 Médailles de Francesco Francia.
 Pietro Lombardo : dalle funéraire travaillée en niello du decemvir Alvise Diedo, Basilique de San Zanipolo (Venise), que Canova la considère comme un « vrai joyau artistique ».
 Les panneaux au trait ou trous du pavement intérieur du Duomo de Sienne.

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie
 Benvenuto Cellini, I Trattati dell'oreficeria e della scultura, Paoletti, Florence, 1994.
 Vgl. Duchesne, Essai sur les nielles, gravures des orfèvres florentins du , Paris, 1826.
 Eraclio, De coloribus et de artibus romanorum,  Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici, Naples, 1996.
 Alessandro Pacini, « Le niello » in  Studi ed esperimenti su preziosi policromi antichi, Madonna della Quercia, Montepulciano, 2004.
 François Schweizer, « Nielle byzantin », in Outils et ateliers d'orfevres des temps anciens, Société des amis du musée national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1993.

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 Objets de la vie quotidienne pendant la Renaissance florentine
 Techniques de gravure

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// Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

package org.chromium.chromoting;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.PointF;
import android.os.SystemClock;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.ViewConfiguration;

/**
 * This class receives local touch events and translates them into the appropriate mouse based
 * events for the remote host.  The net result is that the local input method feels like a touch
 * interface but the remote host will be given mouse events to inject.
 */
public class SimulatedTouchInputStrategy implements InputStrategyInterface {
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    private final RenderData mRenderData;
    private final InputEventSender mInjector;

    /**
     * Stores the time of the most recent left button single tap processed.
     */
    private long mLastTapTimeInMs = 0;

    /**
     * Stores the position of the last left button single tap processed.
     */
    private PointF mLastTapPoint;

    /**
     * The maximum distance, in pixels, between two points in order for them to be considered a
     * double tap gesture.
     */
    private final int mDoubleTapSlopSquareInPx;

    /**
     * The interval, measured in milliseconds, in which two consecutive left button taps must
     * occur in order to be considered a double tap gesture.
     */
    private final long mDoubleTapDurationInMs;

    /** Mouse-button currently held down, or BUTTON_UNDEFINED otherwise. */
    private int mHeldButton = InputStub.BUTTON_UNDEFINED;

    public SimulatedTouchInputStrategy(
            RenderData renderData, InputEventSender injector, Context context) {
        Preconditions.notNull(injector);
        mRenderData = renderData;
        mInjector = injector;

        ViewConfiguration config = ViewConfiguration.get(context);
        mDoubleTapDurationInMs = config.getDoubleTapTimeout();

        // In order to detect whether the user is attempting to double tap a target, we define a
        // region around the first point within which the second tap must occur.  The standard way
        // to do this in an Android UI (meaning a UI comprised of UI elements which conform to the
        // visual guidelines for the platform which are 'Touch Friendly') is to use the
        // getScaledDoubleTapSlop() value for checking this distance (or use a GestureDetector).
        // Our scenario is a bit different as our UI consists of an image of a remote machine where
        // the UI elements were probably designed for mouse and keyboard (meaning smaller targets)
        // and the image itself which can be zoomed to change the size of the targets.  Ths adds up
        // to the target to be invoked often being either larger or much smaller than a standard
        // Android UI element.  Our approach to this problem is to make double-tap detection
        // consistent regardless of the zoom level or remote target size so that the user can rely
        // on their muscle memory when interacting with our UI.  With respect to the original
        // problem, getScaledDoubleTapSlop() gives a value which is optimized for an Android based
        // UI however this value is too large for interacting with remote elements in our app.
        // Our solution is to use the original value from getScaledDoubleTapSlop() (which includes
        // scaling to account for display differences between devices) and apply a fudge/scale
        // factor to make the interaction more intuitive and useful for our scenario.
        int scaledDoubleTapSlopInPx = config.getScaledDoubleTapSlop();
        scaledDoubleTapSlopInPx *= DOUBLE_TAP_SLOP_SCALE_FACTOR;
        mDoubleTapSlopSquareInPx = scaledDoubleTapSlopInPx * scaledDoubleTapSlopInPx;

        mRenderData.drawCursor = false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTap(int button) {
        PointF currentTapPoint = getCursorPosition();
        if (button == InputStub.BUTTON_LEFT) {
            // Left clicks are handled a little differently than the events for other buttons.
            // This is needed because translating touch events to mouse events has a problem with
            // location consistency for double clicks.  If you take the center location of each tap
            // and inject them as mouse clicks, the distance between those two points will often
            // cause the remote OS to recognize the gesture as two distinct clicks instead of a
            // double click.  In order to increase the success rate of double taps/clicks, we
            // squirrel away the time and coordinates of each single tap and if we detect the user
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            long tapInterval = SystemClock.uptimeMillis() - mLastTapTimeInMs;
            if (isDoubleTap(currentTapPoint.x, currentTapPoint.y, tapInterval)) {
                currentTapPoint = new PointF(mLastTapPoint.x, mLastTapPoint.y);
                mLastTapPoint = null;
                mLastTapTimeInMs = 0;
            } else {
                mLastTapPoint = currentTapPoint;
                mLastTapTimeInMs = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
            }
        } else {
            mLastTapPoint = null;
            mLastTapTimeInMs = 0;
        }

        mInjector.sendMouseClick(currentTapPoint, button);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onPressAndHold(int button) {
        mInjector.sendMouseDown(getCursorPosition(), button);
        mHeldButton = button;
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void onScroll(float distanceX, float distanceY) {
        mInjector.sendReverseMouseWheelEvent(distanceX, distanceY);
    }

    @Override
    public void onMotionEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        if (event.getActionMasked() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP
                && mHeldButton != InputStub.BUTTON_UNDEFINED) {
            mInjector.sendMouseUp(getCursorPosition(), mHeldButton);
            mHeldButton = InputStub.BUTTON_UNDEFINED;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void injectCursorMoveEvent(int x, int y) {
        mInjector.sendCursorMove(x, y);
    }

    @Override
    public RenderStub.InputFeedbackType getShortPressFeedbackType() {
        return RenderStub.InputFeedbackType.SHORT_TOUCH_ANIMATION;
    }

    @Override
    public RenderStub.InputFeedbackType getLongPressFeedbackType() {
        return RenderStub.InputFeedbackType.LONG_TOUCH_ANIMATION;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isIndirectInputMode() {
        return false;
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    private PointF getCursorPosition() {
        return mRenderData.getCursorPosition();
    }

    private boolean isDoubleTap(float currentX, float currentY, long tapInterval) {
        if (tapInterval > mDoubleTapDurationInMs || mLastTapPoint == null) {
            return false;
        }

        // Convert the image based coordinates back to screen coordinates so the user experiences
        // consistent double tap behavior regardless of zoom level.
        //
        float[] currentValues = {currentX, currentY};
        float[] previousValues = {mLastTapPoint.x, mLastTapPoint.y};

        mRenderData.transform.mapPoints(currentValues);
        mRenderData.transform.mapPoints(previousValues);

        int deltaX = (int) (currentValues[0] - previousValues[0]);
        int deltaY = (int) (currentValues[1] - previousValues[1]);
        return ((deltaX * deltaX + deltaY * deltaY) <= mDoubleTapSlopSquareInPx);
    }
}

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Sometimes you want to go on vacation where pampering and relaxing are your only worries. Here are some of our favorite indulgent getaways in Mexico where you won't want to leave the resort, and you'll wish you could stay long after your checkout time.
Never did we think true all-inclusive luxury was possible until we stayed at Grand Velas, it and its sister properties in Riviera Nayarit and Riviera Maya are among only a few five diamond all-inclusive resorts in Mexico. All three Grand Velas resorts are AAA Five Diamonds. There are less than a handful of other All-Inclusives who also hold this distinction. The one year old beachfront hotel gives new meaning to the word "all inclusive" because the Grand Velas provides service, amenities, privacy, and restaurant options where everything is included in one's stay, and with the most high-end luxe experience. Upon arrival, the bold sweeping architecture greets you with an open air grand entrance three stories high, along with a team that ensures your check-in is seamless. Every area of the resort boasts dramatic ocean views.
The $150 million resort on Mexico's Baja Peninsula is the fifth property of Velas Resorts with over 25 years of tradition in hospitality. Located between Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo, Grand Velas Los Cabos features 304 ocean view suites, all over 1,180 square feet. Some rooms even come with personal plunge pools. Don't want to leave your chic oversized designer suite that comes with coffee, tea, wine, tequila, snacks and more? 24-hour In-Suite Dining is ready for you, including your lobster tail or Wagyu beef. It's all included. Savor the pounding surf on your private terrace or retreat to your rainfall shower or enormous tub for more relaxation. You might find it hard to leave the room.
Five gourmet opulently designed restaurants offer dining comparable to the top restaurants in the world's capitals. Choose from French, Italian, Mexican, International, and seafood and steak. Cocina de Autor showcases a 10+ course playful menu from a two star Michelin chef. Lucca (Italian) showcases thousands of bottles of wine, and Mezcal and tequila tastings are offered at the chic Sky Bar. The coffee bar near the lobby was a welcome morning treat, and a post pool nosh at the Cabrilla ceviche bar after swim up cocktails was beyond satisfying. One day we dined on fresh sushi at their panoramic beach vista restaurant Velas 10. Great attention is paid to every detail of every meal, and everything is included in your stay.
Breakfast can be ordered right to your room at whatever time you specify the night before, or you can dine at Azul, their breakfast spot on the ocean terrace or inside with AC. Your head will spin with every imaginable option (reminiscent of a Four Seasons brunch buffet) along with plenty of Mexican choices like enchiladas, stuffed chili rellano, chorizo hash, and chilaquiles. Eggs and crepes to order, fresh squeezed juices, cheeses and charcuterie, a wide variety of breads and pastries, and the best bacon I've ever tasted started my day with a smile.
Although a "grand" resort, the property still felt private because it was not crowded. We barely saw more than 10 guests at a time. There was never a wait and concierge services (like having a butler) were always ready to assist, like the friendly pool staff always on hand to bring sunscreen, cocktails, or fish tacos.
Grand Velas's 35,000 square foot spa treatment facility reminded me of hotels I experienced in Europe and Scandinavia with a eucalyptus-scented steam room with chromotherapy, aromatherapy shower, sauna, and numerous hydrotherapy pools with different temperatures, sprays, and soaking beds. We hopped from one spa pool to the next checking out each spray pressure to release muscle tension, followed by a calming ritual massage treatment that included relaxation oils, our feet tenderly washed, intention setting, and a hot candle massage. Afterwards, heated loungers with warm neck pillows and cool scented towels lulled us into a state of inner peace.
For the health-conscious and those who want to reconnect body and spirit, two level Wellness Suites may be your elixir. Expect to find a Lifecycle exercise bike, crudité minibar, Vitamin C sprinkler and aromatherapy kit. The rooms also come with an in-suite massage, personal spa concierge, and juice bar. Want to get a workout in on vacation? Their Technogym fitness center comes with personal trainers, exercise programs, yoga, Pilates, and meditation. Also, Grand Velas is a kid friendly resort, although I never saw any kids. There is an entire separate area (so not to bother adults) for water play as well as teen and kids club facilities and activities that would make any adult want to join in. Forbes' gave this resort group the nod for the top 10 coolest all-inclusive hotels, and you will quickly realize there is absolutely no reason to leave.
For a unique experience at an art-centric boutique hotel situated on Puerto Los Cabos Marina with its own private man-made swimmable beach a quick boat ride away, book one of the 70 rooms here to energize your artistic soul.
Each room has been splashed by a visiting artist's hand, along with grandiose artwork all over the property. The visual feast is due to Hotel El Ganzo's own Artists in Residence program that includes artists, musicians, chefs, and writers who can enjoy the property in exchange for a piece of their artistry. Live musical performances occur nightly at the rooftop pool area and musicians can use the on-site recording studio underneath the lobby floor.
Each room features custom-created wood furnishings, stand-alone tubs, and rain showers. The live Indie music video content playing from the TV in your hotel room (thanks to their series of visiting musicians) creates an enjoyable mood when simply lounging in your room. Maroon 5's Adam Levine had his wedding ceremony here.
Savor fresh fish sushi in the swim-up infinity rooftop pool that hangs over the Sea of Cortez or sip cervezas in their rooftop fish bowl Jacuzzi. A fresh seafood and guacamole lunch can be enjoyed at the Beach Club after yoga or stand-up paddle board. At sunset, take one of the hotel's bikes on the dirt path through the palm fronds to the impressive sculpture garden and glorious rock garden area. Immerse yourself in this energizing and hip, arts-inspired hideaway, Hotel El Ganzo.
Part of the Colibri Boutique Hotel Collection, El Pez's rustic chic decor is perfectly BoHo Tulum. The rooms are cozy, colorful, and minimal with soft towels, rain showers, and scrumptious bed linens.
Find solace at El Pez since this property is situated in secluded Turtle Cove where pelicans constantly dive bomb into the sea right outside your room between two grandiose rock formations. During nesting season turtles lay their eggs here. As the winds whip the warm air, your oceanfront "villa" feels like a private home since there are only six ocean view rooms (two are beach houses). You'll want to stare at the sea all day with the doors wide open because the sparkling waves feel like they may touch your feet in bed.
With the pounding, mesmerizing surf a few feet away, there is no better plan than to waste your days unwinding on the comfortable deck chairs in front of your room, while only worrying about when you will take a dip in the ocean.
The welcoming friendly staff really made our stay. Tea and coffee greeted us before bed, and each morning the pots were carefully placed outside our room to help us start our day. The three course breakfast in their comfy intimate outdoor sofa lounge area surrounded by the heartbeat of the sea was magical. At night, people enjoy dining here (even from other hotels) with dreamy live music creating an intoxicating setting.
If you feel like venturing out, the hotel offers drink tickets to explore their other breathtaking locations. We ventured to Mezzanine for Mezcal cocktails hanging off a blustery cliff followed with fresh sushi-grade appetizers at Mi Amor, a super romantic mod setting with playful decor and dramatic waterways in the entrance.
Little did I know El Pez was where we would get engaged, right outside on the rocks in the middle of the ocean at sunrise, just my husband and me, the soaring birds, and the blaring morning rays to illuminate our love. El Pez is a place you will find yourself daydreaming about long after you leave and wondering how you will find a way to return.
This resort situated about 30 minutes south of the adorable Mexican town of Loreto in the Baja Peninsula is the type of place you think doesn't still exist. There is nothing else around Villa del Palmar, except the natural beauty of the land combining desert, mountains, and sea along with pristine untouched islands nearby on the Sea of Cortez – a true sanctuary.
From the resort you can take a sunrise hike to a nearby vista or play unlimited golf on the newly opened 7,237-yard, par-72 course with awe-inspiring views of Danzante Bay, the Sea of Cortez, and the majestic Sierra de la Giganta mountain range rising to the west. The stunning golf course showcases a diverse environment of golf holes with 250 feet of elevation change along the way adding breathtaking dramatic scenery as the round progresses. The golf course is carved into this incredible setting and at hole 17 you are literally on a cliff hanging over the sea. Other reasons to visit include world-class fishing, mountain biking, horseback riding, paddle boarding, kayaking, and whale watching.
However, you may wish to just lollygag in one of their many pools, or spend an afternoon at their luxurious Sabila Spa where you can begin or end your massage with a steam room, warm and hot jacuzzis, cold plunge pools, and a freshly cut aloe bath. In the 39,000 square foot facility the lounge chairs stare at the mountain desert views, and in this restful area the attendants take care of you with a hot herbal neck compress, chilled towel on your head, and cucumbers on your eyes.
Also, in this part of Mexico the liquid black night sky feels like a vacuum of glittering stars due to no light pollution. If you feel like exploring, the hotel's shuttle can whisk you to their "nightclub" hanging cliffside near the property or shuttle you to explore historical Loreto to visit a mission from 1697, and enjoy a local breakfast for $4 including coffee, juice, fruit, eggs and bacon, and refried beans. Absorb the beauty of the land, breathe deeply the fresh air, and unplug for a few days since the Wi-Fi and TV can be spotty. Staying here will remind you of the importance of taking time for mental and physical restoration in the pursuit of overall wellness.


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By Molly Barber
Photos Courtesy of Don McLean
There are verses of a song that I feel are just a part of my anatomy at this point in my life. Lyrics that are so engrained in my memory that I'm curtain they would show up on a cat-scan. Though the doctors would be left with a medical mystery, I have no doubt they'd be tapping their feet to the beat of the song as they read, "Bye bye miss American pie, drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry, them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye singing this'll be the day that I die."
No one can argue the fact that American Pie is one of the greatest pieces of musical poetry ever written. In fact American Pie was chosen by RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and the National Endowment for the Arts as the #5 song on their list of Songs of the Century. American Pie is also in the Grammy Hall of Fame and to top it off in March of 2017 the Library of Congress added it to its National Recording Registry as a "musical work that is culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."
Don McLean, the creator of this iconic song, has a musical legacy that few musicians are able to claim. Since first cutting into the industry in 1971, he's accumulated over 40 gold and platinum records world-wide. He's been inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame and he's been honored by BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) for his "long-standing career and outstanding contributions to the music industry"; those honors included five million certified airplays for American Pie.
Artists who have covered his song "And I Love You So" include- Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Harry Connick Jr., Glen Campbell, Shirley Bassey, Emmylou Harris, Engelbert Humperdinck, Helen Reddy and Bobby Vinton. Other artists who have recorded songs by Don include: George Michael, Olivia Newton-John, Julio Iglesias, and Madonna. Drake also used Don's 1977 album Prime Time for sampling for his song "Doing It Wrong."
Don, who's on the road for this latest tour promoting his new album, Botanical Gardens, set aside some time to talk with me.
Let me first start by saying, American Pie is a masterpiece. I love it. How long did it you to write something like that?
It took about three months, off and on until I had it written.
Was the plan always to tell a story about American culture?
I don't think about anything that normal artists or songwriters would think of. I'm very open to letting the music take me wherever it wants to. I wrote the song until it ended, the story had to be told and it took eight minutes and 27 seconds to tell the story but I didn't say 'Oh gee, it's eight minutes and 27 seconds, it's too long. I should cut it down to three minutes. I don't think that way. And to me, the poetry, the melody, and the song idea are paramount. That's what matters- the beauty of the thing. Not whether it's commercially acceptable.
In that song you use kind of mysterious terms- you talk about the jester, the lady who sang the blues… Did you write it subjective on purpose so it would be able to resinate with future generations?
I wanted to write something that was timeless. It was a combination of things, I was making fun of a lot of stuff. I was goofing around, I was serious. It was a lot of emotions all in one song. It's really difficult to tell you how much is going on in that song because I'm making a lot of fun of a lot of things.
So if you could have any artists cover one of your songs, which artist would it be and what song would you choose for them to cover?
Well it wouldn't be Justin Timberlake, not after what I saw at the Super Bowl. I don't know, I've had so many great artists record my songs. I would have loved to have had Frank Sinatra sing one of my songs, that would have been marvelous. I've heard he did do Empty Chairs but it never made it onto an album but I can't verify that. I'd love to hear the Rolling Stones do a song of mine like Primetime or Headroom or something like that. Even American Pie. I'd love to hear one of my favorite great rock n' roll bands, and they're the best, do some rock n' roll song that I wrote.
I read that your song "And I Love You So" was covered by Elvis…?
Yeah, it's a song that's been recorded by many many artists. It's probably the most recorded Don McLean song. Elvis Presley loved the song and did it almost every single show he sang. You can see him do it on youtube in the last year of his life, as part of those last two shows he did that formed the backbone of the Elvis in Concert album and TV special. He did it on that as well, it is on the album and you can see him do it on television.
That's really awesome.
It really was (you know) because Elvis was super human. He wasn't normal. He was a freak of nature of some sort and I don't mean to say freak in a derogatory way, Elvis was superior in his intelligence, talents, looks. His sense of what it was he was doing and why he was doing it, all that stuff. So to be part of his story, there must be in addition to the album it was on, the concert and the studio album which was called Elvis Today, there's probably 10 other recordings of concerts on YouTube where he sang that song.
Is there an artist out there you'd like to collaborate with?
Elton John would be fun to write a song with and make a recording with. He's very musical and he's very professional and I think that would be a really great experience.
If you got challenged to a lip-sync battle which song would you choose?
Oh I wouldn't do that… Okay yeah, I might… Yeah, I could do that… The song I would lip-sync would probably be Frank Sinatra singing Please Be Kind. yeah "this is my first affair so please be kind".
You're a lyricist, it's important for you to sing lyrics that matter, are there some that you created that you are exceedingly proud of?
It's important for me to write what I believe in. I don't think about writing important lyrics, I think people like Bruce Springsteen think about writing "important lyrics"- lyrics that sound like they're important. I write about things that mean something to me and I don't do it in a flamboyant way, I barley direct and it's the idea really that either takes hold of the audience or doesn't. For example, a song like Headroom, it's the title of an album that I made, I do that song often. That's an important song for me because so many people are squeezed into their lives. So much is going on and they can't really get any breathing room, any headroom- they're squashed. So a song like that's a concept or a song like Prime Time which talks about America as a gameshow. That's an important idea especially today since we have a gameshow host as president. A song like The Grave is a concept about a person who realized that he dug his own grave while he was fighting this war, he's already buried himself. So It's really the concept that matters, so really describe it and that's half the battle.
Have you listened to any of the current singer/song writers (Vance Joy, James Bay, Brian Fallon)?
I haven't listened to any of those guys. It's no slur on them. I do listen to music but I really hardly ever hear anything I want to hear again. I've heard a lot of the big groups and I kind of know what's going on. It seems to me that the audience is as much a part of the show as the artist. They go to do their part and they want to see and be seen. And they want to have a really good time of course and if you see a Coldplay show, those kids are having a blast, it's a great time. Whether or not the music is special or the lyrics are up to my standards, it doesn't make any difference. The point is- it's entertainment and they are enjoying themselves enormously.
So for someone who's never listened to your music, how would you describe it for them?
Well there's a new term now, it's called Americana and I would say I am at the top of the heap of that kind of artist because I do pop, bop, folk, blues, rock. I do all those things and I have always done all those things. In my latest album Botanical Gardens, it has those kinds of things on it and also the songs have elements of several different kinds of American music that's blended together. And in addition they are my own ideas; like you take a song like Dreidel which is a completely off-the-wall idea and song. Or a song like Statue from the Prime Tme album, which is about the Statue of Liberty and is almost like a piece of classical music. So I try a lot of things, I feel I'm successful at everything I do. I just don't always have a hit record but that's not my goal. My goal is the idea.
Don's craft, like wine, has aged to perfection. You can check out his latest album which drops March 23. You can visit his website don-mclean.com for information on where to get it or how to download it. And if you get a chance to see Don live take it, you know the song Killing Me Softly? Well Lori Leiberman, a folk singer from the west coast, saw Don in concert and had a surreal experience. "I saw him at the Troubadour in LA… I was moved by his performance, by the way he developed his numbers, he got right through to me. (Strumming my pain with his fingers/ Killing me softly with his song / telling my whole life with his words)" Lori told the experience to Norman Gimbel and from there he and a team wrote the song Killing Me Softly, who Lori herself sang but became more widely known with Roberta Flack and then later the Fugees.
Talking with Don is something I won't forget, even though I didn't get the inside scope on some of the mysterious language used in American Pie, it was an experience that I got to cross off my bucket list. We may never know who the jester is or the woman who sings the blues but that doesn't take away from the song, I think if anything it adds to it. The mystery in those verses makes it special to each of us for different reasons.
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NEU launches proposals for 2020 Summer Holiday Offer for Children and Young People
NEU	June 18, 2020
@NEUnion launches call for funding for local government to co-ordinate 2020 Summer Holiday Offer for Children and Young People
Commenting on the launch of NEU proposals for Local Government to be funded and supported to co-ordinate a Summer Holiday Local Offer (attached), to support vulnerable children and young people over the summer holiday,
Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said:
"The NEU is today publishing positive recommendations for the summer holiday. They focus on engagement, exercise, creativity, and preparing young people to be ready to learn come September. This 'Local Offer' will also make a vital contribution to children's physical and mental health.
"The summer of 2020 will be a unique situation, and it is vital we respond to what young people are facing. We are calling on the Government to fund and give urgent support to local government to make it possible for councils to plan a summer holiday Local Offer for children eligible to FSM and other vulnerable children.
"Local councils need advice and funding to decide how children and young people can get outside in supervised and safe situations this summer, given the ongoing importance of social distancing. Local councils are best placed to audit and co-ordinate what could work in their area, given local infection rates, and to devise a realistic plan so that children eligible for free school meals will have access to positive and healthy activities, so they are ready to learn in September.
"We think this Local Offer would be hugely beneficial for families eligible for free school meals but could also be a lifeline for other families who face particular challenges, identified through local services.
"To make safe summer schemes possible this August, and seek sufficient numbers of volunteers, we think local authorities need urgent specific additional funding from the Chancellor. It is in the Government's gift to make this happen, and to ensure that those teachers, youth workers, supply staff, support staff and others who would volunteer to lend their expertise and make a Summer Holiday Local Offer possible can be paid appropriately.
"This builds on the union's National Education Recovery Plan, published last week. The Government has been slow to put forward its own proposals. It is time for them to listen to the profession."
Cllr Judith Blake, Chair of the LGA's Children and Young People said:
"Councils and schools continue to do a fantastic job supporting children and young people in our communities.
"We agree that councils must be fully funded and have local flexibility to deliver any scheme that aims to provide additional support and services to vulnerable children and young people over the summer.
"Councils are ready to step up and innovate by using cultural facilities to provide space and resources to support learning efforts and physical activities over the summer when most schools will be closed.
"It is vital that the Government urgently opens a dialogue with councils and schools to offer clarity for its proposals to help children catch-up on schoolwork they may have missed out on during lockdown, both during the summer and into the autumn, to ensure young people are helped to re-engage with all forms of learning from September."
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Q: Static vs Dynamic Branch Prediction
Assume a 5-stage pipeline is used in each of two processors P1 and P2. 30% of all executed instructions are branches. 60% of all branches are taken. Branch outcomes are calculated during the Decode stage (stage 2). branch penalties are the only source of stalls. Both P1 and P2 run at the same clock frequency.
  Assume P1 uses static branch prediction (and assumes NOT TAKEN); while P2 uses dynamic branch prediction.

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*What branch prediction accuracy must P2 have in order to perform as well as P1?

*If the branch prediction accuracy for P2 is 90%, what is the speedup of P2 over P1?

For (1) I know that the delay for P1 can be calculated as (.3)(.6)(1), does that mean P2 needs to have an accuracy of 40%?
For (2) I know that speedup = Tslow/Tfast, so would it be ((.3)(.6)(1))/((.3)(.1)(1))?

A: (1)
The efficiency of P1's static branch prediction is \$\eta_{Branch_1}=0.4\$ (since 60% of branches are taken).
In order for P2 to perform as well as P1 it should have the same efficiency on branch prediction.
(2)
Your definition of speed-up seems strange. I'd say that:
$$SU = \frac{Troughput_{P2}-Troughput_{P1}}{Troughput_{P1}}$$
where
$$Throughput = <fraction\_of\_nonbranches>*1+<fraction\_of\_branches><mean\_throuhput\_of\_branches>$$
where
$$<mean\_throuhput\_of\_branches>=<fraction\_of\_correct\_predictions>*1+<fraction\_of\_incorrect\_predictions>*<throughput\_of\_incorrect\_predictions>$$
The penalty for incorrect prediction seems to be 1 clock cycle (because it is "fixed" at stage 2). This means that fractional penalty is \$\times2\$. This means that throughput of incorrect predictions is \$0.5\$ (one instruction in two clock cycles).
Substituting everything leads to:
$$SU=\frac{0.985-0.91}{0.91}=0.082=8.2\%$$

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Two high density sponges and analogue hygrometer for humidity control and regulation are included.
Large B4CC includes two interior okume trays with an estimated capacity of 50-60 grams each; the separate trays allow the separate storage of sativas and indica greens. Each of the trays include a pollen recollection system and mobile separator are also included in our humidor, this allows the storage of different green varieties.


IN JUNE 2008 more than two thousand wildfires, all started by a single lightning storm, blazed across the state of California. Tassajara, the oldest Zen Buddhist monastery in the United States, was at particular risk. Set deep in the Ventana wilderness east of Big Sur, the center is connected to the outside world by a single unpaved road. If fire were to enter the canyon, there would be no way out.
Disaster struck during the summer months, when Tassajara opens its doors to visitors and the grounds fill with guests expecting a peaceful respite. Instead, the mountain air filled with smoke, and monks broke from regular meditation to conduct fire drills. All visitors were evacuated, and many Zen students followed. A small crew of residents and firefighters remained, planning to defend Tassajara. But nothing could have prepared them for what came next.
When a treacherous shift in weather conditions brought danger nearer still, firefighters made the flash decision to completely evacuate the monastery. As the firefighters and remaining residents caravanned out the long road from Tassajara, five monks turned back, risking their lives to save the monastery. Fire Monks is their story.
A gripping narrative as well as an insider's portrait of the Zen path, Fire Monks reveals what it means to meet an emergency with presence of mind. In tracking the four men and one woman who returned—all novices in fire but experts in readiness—we witness them take their unique experiences facing the fires in their own lives and apply that wisdom to the crisis at hand. Relying on their Zen training, the monks accomplished the seemingly impossible—greeting the fire not as an enemy to defeat but as a friend to guide.


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Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation (RC)
Woodchester, Poor Clare Convent
Forest Green, Nailsworth, Inchbook Church ('Tin Tabernacle') (Demolished)
Amberley, Amberley Methodist Church ('Littleworth Wesleyan Chapel')
Amberley, Holy Trinity Church
Forest Green, Nailsworth, Congregational Chapel Cemetery
Woodchester, Baptist Chapel
Forest Green, Nailsworth, Upper Forest Green Chapel (Demolished)
Forest Green, Nailsworth, Lower Forest Green Chapel
Nailsworth, Spring Hill Methodist Church
Woodchester, St Mary's Church
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Nailsworth, Nailsworth Methodist Church (Christ Church LEP)
Nailsworth, Christ Church LEP (previously Shortwood Chapel)
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Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation (RC), Woodchester
Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation (RC),
St Mary's Hill, Inchbrook, GL5 5HP,
Woodchester, Gloucestershire.
This Place of Worship was founded in 1850, and we understand it is still open.
The Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation is a Grade I Listed Building - see the British Listed Buildings website for details. It was formerly a Dominican Priory, restored by Charles HANSOM for William LEIGH in 1846-9. It was built for the Passionist Fathers, taken over by the Dominicans in 1850, and continued as a parish church after the Priory buildings were demolished in 1971.
Charles HANSOM also designed the Poor Clare Convent in Convent Lane, Woodchester.
For more information, a detailed history, and photographs, you may want to visit Woodchester Priory website.
Now or formerly Roman Catholic.
This Church is located at OS grid reference SO8417201065. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:
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I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Woodchester, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.
You may want to visit Woodchester Priory website for present-day information.
Information last updated on 29 Jan 2019 at 12:56.
Please also remember that whilst the above account may suggest that Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation (RC) remains open and accessible, this may not remain so.


Dear Pope, what are your memories of your First Communion day?
I would first like to say thank you for this celebration of faith that you are offering to me, for your presence and for your joy. I greet you and thank you for the hug I have received from some of you, a hug that, of course, symbolically stand for you all.
As for the question, of course I remember my First Communion day very well. It was a lovely Sunday in March 1936, 69 years ago. It was a sunny day, the church looked very beautiful, there was music.... There were so many beautiful things that I remember. There were about 30 of us, boys and girls from my little village of no more than 500 inhabitants.
But at the heart of my joyful and beautiful memories is this one - and your spokesperson said the same thing: I understood that Jesus had entered my heart, he had actually visited me. And with Jesus, God himself was with me. And I realized that this is a gift of love that is truly worth more than all the other things that life can give.
So on that day I was really filled with great joy, because Jesus came to me and I realized that a new stage in my life was beginning, I was 9 years old, and that it was henceforth important to stay faithful to that encounter, to that communion. I promised the Lord as best I could: "I always want to stay with you", and I prayed to him, "but above all, stay with me". So I went on living my life like that; thanks be to God, the Lord has always taken me by the hand and guided me, even in difficult situations.
Holy Father, before the day of my First Communion I went to confession. I have also been to confession on other occasions. I wanted to ask you: do I have to go to confession every time I receive Communion, even when I have committed the same sins? Because I realize that they are always the same.
I will tell you two things. The first, of course, is that you do not always have to go to confession before you receive Communion unless you have committed such serious sins that they need to be confessed. Therefore, it is not necessary to make one's confession before every Eucharistic Communion. This is the first point. It is only necessary when you have committed a really serious sin, when you have deeply offended Jesus, so that your friendship is destroyed and you have to start again. Only in that case, when you are in a state of "mortal" sin, in other words, grave (sin), is it necessary to go to confession before Communion. This is my first point.
My second point: even if, as I said, it is not necessary to go to confession before each Communion, it is very helpful to confess with a certain regularity. It is true: our sins are always the same, but we clean our homes, our rooms, at least once a week, even if the dirt is always the same; in order to live in cleanliness, in order to start again. Otherwise, the dirt might not be seen but it builds up. Something similar can be said about the soul, for me myself: if I never go to confession, my soul is neglected and in the end I am always pleased with myself and no longer understand that I must always work hard to improve, that I must make progress. And this cleansing of the soul which Jesus gives us in the Sacrament of Confession helps us to make our consciences more alert, more open, and hence, it also helps us to mature spiritually and as human persons. Therefore, two things: confession is only necessary in the case of a serious sin, but it is very helpful to confess regularly in order to foster the cleanliness and beauty of the soul and to mature day by day in life.
Your Holiness, everyone tells us that it is important to go to Mass on Sunday. We would gladly go to it, but often our parents do not take us because on Sundays they sleep. The parents of a friend of mine work in a shop, and we often go to the country to visit our grandparents. Could you say something to them, to make them understand that it is important to go to Mass together on Sundays?
I would think so, of course, with great love and great respect for your parents, because they certainly have a lot to do. However, with a daughter's respect and love, you could say to them: "Dear Mommy, dear Daddy, it is so important for us all, even for you, to meet Jesus. This encounter enriches us. It is an important element in our lives. Let's find a little time together, we can find an opportunity. Perhaps there is also a possibility where Grandmom lives". In brief, I would say, with great love and respect for your parents, I would tell them: "Please understand that this is not only important for me, it is not only catechists who say it, it is important for us all. And it will be the light of Sunday for all our family".
What good does it do for our everyday life to go to Holy Mass and receive Communion?
It centres life. We live amid so many things. And the people who do not go to church, do not know that it is precisely Jesus they lack. But they feel that something is missing in their lives. If God is absent from my life, if Jesus is absent from my life, a guide, an essential friend is missing, even an important joy for life, the strength to grow as a man, to overcome my vices and mature as a human being.
Dear Pope, can you explain to us what Jesus meant when he said to the people who were following him: "I am the bread of life?".
First of all, perhaps we should explain clearly what bread is. Today, we have a refined cuisine, rich in very different foods, but in simpler situations bread is the basic source of nourishment; and when Jesus called himself the bread of life, the bread is, shall we say, the initial, an abbreviation that stands for all nourishment. And as we need to nourish our bodies in order to live, so we also need to nourish our spirits, our souls and our wills. As human persons, we do not only have bodies but also souls; we are thinking beings with minds and wills. We must also nourish our spirits and our souls, so that they can develop and truly attain their fulfilment.
And therefore, if Jesus says: "I am the bread of life", it means that Jesus himself is the nourishment we need for our soul, for our inner self, because the soul also needs food. And technical things do not suffice, although they are so important. We really need God's friendship, which helps us to make the right decisions. We need to mature as human beings. In other words: Jesus nourishes us so that we can truly become mature people and our lives become good.
Holy Father, they've told us that today we will have Eucharistic Adoration. What is it? How is it done? Can you explain it to us? Thank you.
We will see straightaway what adoration is and how it is done, because everything has been properly prepared for it: we will say prayers, we will sing, kneel, and in this way we will be in Jesus' presence.
Therefore, adoration means saying: "Jesus, I am yours. I will follow you in my life, I never want to lose this friendship, this communion with you". I could also say that adoration is essentially an embrace with Jesus in which I say to him: "I am yours, and I ask you, please stay with me always".


Minimise your footprint while maximising your flexibility – Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH (Konica Minolta), one of the leading companies for printing systems and solutions, offers maximum productivity and extremely short turnaround times with the new bizhub PRO 958. The latest addition to its production printing portfolio is the successor to the bizhub PRO 754e. This new device is ideal for central reprographic departments (CRDs), digital print service providers as well as entry-level production printing customers as it combines high scalability with affordability and durability. The bizhub PRO 958 will be available from June 2016.
"Konica Minolta is known for its innovative spirit and meeting its clients' needs. The bizhub PRO 958 is Konica Minolta's response to customers demanding an affordable yet powerful digital print system for central in-house printing facilities. It is also possible to integrate complete scan workflows or authentication solutions for schools and universities" comments André Statkus, Product Manager at Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH.
The new dual colour scan has a capacity of 300 sheets and scans with a speed of up to 240 ipm. Clients will benefit from outstanding output quality based on the 1,200 x 1,200 dpi print resolution and the bypass tray, which provides clients with more media flexibility. With a capacity of up to 150 sheets, the bypass tray allows users to even print banners in-house. The maximum paper capacity of the bizhub PRO 958 is 6,650 sheets.
The high scalability of the bizhub PRO 958 is achieved by technologies like Konica Minolta's own OpenAPI interface as well as IWS and NFC authentication. This enables clients to meet the demands of modern offices and complex workflows without having to make compromises in terms of security or cutting down on features. On the contrary, the bizhub PRO 958 is up to 20 ppm faster than previous models, with a maximum speed of 95 ppm. It comes with a comprehensive set of features for the optimal printing experience including several automatic finishing features.
Another highlight feature is the support included for many third-party applications such as YSoft SafeQ or Nuance eCopy Sharescan thanks to OpenAPI. Konica Minolta enables clients to integrate the printer easily into existing workflows and structures. Both the touch screen GUI and printer drivers are easy to operate and add to the convenience of working with the device.
Furthermore, clients can choose between different professional finishing options: 100 sheets stapling, booklet making, Z-fold or also post insertion. The optional Z-fold unit is now integrated in the finisher, which leads to a smaller footprint. Clients can also decide to add the optional upright panel. The panel offers good usability while standing in front of the device and is already well known from the higher PP models. In combination, all these features guarantee high productivity and extremely short turnaround.


Dirk Lehmann — Techstars Associate Program: The better Startup MBA?
Techstars Associate Program: The better Startup MBA?
We were done. After ten amazing pitches, we all stood together on stage, celebrating the end of the Barclays Accelerator Spring 2015 Program in front of over 400 people. This was the end of three incredible months that changed my life for the better. But let's go back to the beginning.
About 18 months earlier, l had rejected offers from two well known MBA programs. A two year opportunity to give my life a new and heavily needed trajectory, after being no longer happy with my professional career for a long time.
Instead, I decided to do what just felt right. I quit my corporate job, joined a buddhist monastery, traveled around the world and finally got more involved with the startup scene that always intrigued me. It turned out to be one of the best years of my life.
I knew entrepreneurship should be my new playground and a mentor gave me the next idea: Join Techstars as an Associate. One introduction and a personal meeting in London later, I was offered to come onboard the Barclays Accelerator Program. So instead of joining a well known MBA school, I joined three months of startup madness for my own startup MBA. But was it worth it?
In March, I met all the Startups, Associates and team members who would become my family for the time ahead. It didn't take long and the program took off and with it, our jobs as Associates to add as much value as possible to the teams with our skills and experience.
During your time as an Associate you get the chance to build great connections with mentors, help the teams in any area you are interested in, attend amazing masterclasses and learn how to tell a compelling story. I worked with the startups on anything around Business Development including Business Models, Customer Development, Sales Pipelines and Digital Marketing. On top, I had the pleasure to get deep insights into the operations of the program.
When you work with ten smart and driven startups for three months, you definitely learn one thing: how to solve our biggest problems and build a successful business around it.
Most MBA programs focus on turning corporate soldiers into corporate officers and managing an existing business as good as possible. While these are valuable skill for work in a global corporation, it does not prepare you to start your company from scratch.
While growing a company is hard, there are tried and tested methods that work and you'll learn them at Techstars. This can not give you a guaranteed success, but it can increase your chances and make sure you avoid mistakes others have done before.
During my time in the business, I learned that books, lectures and case studies can only take you so far. At Techstars, the startups constantly deal with real customers, real products and a real ping pong table to recover from all of that, and so do you as an Associate.
While case studies are usually based on real problems, they cannot take into account the dynamic and complexity of a running business. It is one thing to come up with the perfect solution on paper, but once you are facing real business, things change.
At Techstars, many experienced mentors support you in handling the real life and you can tap into their knowledge every day. When your goal is to build a company, this is the perfect setup to get you used to reality from day one.
One of the most valuable assets of an MBA is the alumni network. It gives you easy access to new contacts that can speed up your career. But ultimately those contacts can turn out to be just like you - the BizDevs of the world.
A network of consultants, bankers and corporate managers can be a great asset, but if you are reading this right now, it might not be the right one for you. For a startup career, you want to look into a different direction.
Techstars' global network of founders and mentors is a diverse network of amazing people who devote themselves to building great companies and supporting startup communities around the world. If you feel that startup spirit inside you, that is the network you want to join.
I believe that the best investments you can make are the ones into your own skills, experience and knowledge. They stay with your forever and make your life worth living. But they also need to pay off at some point down the line.
Getting a well recognized MBA today comes with a major investment, due to the high tuition fees and a long time with no regular income. With a fatal result for many graduates who make the payback a priority for their career.
When you join Techstars as an Associate you get a guaranteed positive lifetime return. All you have to invest is your time, energy and knowledge. With the provided stipend, you can easily bootstrap your life for the duration of the program and get the experience you desire.
In this family, paying it forward is taken seriously. I had the pleasure of experiencing that myself several times. And like in every family, there will be good and though times. But in the end all its members will support you and embrace you for who you are.
So no matter if you want to change your career from corporate to startup, prepare yourself for your own startup or just have an amazing three months full of new experiences and contacts: Consider joining Techstars and get your own Startup MBA.
Why do we still send Startups to a Classroom?


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Process Designer helps you develop business processes. With an easy-to-use graphics-oriented tool, you can create a sequence of actions that compose a business process, and you can redraw that process over time as circumstances change. If one or more activities require access to large backend systems or services that provide data for the business process, for example to get information on customers, you can meet that need using Integration Designer. Using a simple interface, an activity inProcess Designer can call a service created in Integration Designer. That service can use mediation flows to transform, route, and enhance data and adapters to get to many backend systems in standard way. In short, Process Designer focuses on the business process and Integration Designer focuses on automated services to complement the business process.


Reveres Comfort Max™ series of inflatable life vests provide all the comfort and safety you need while looking smart wearing it. Its so comfortable fitting, you'll want to wear it all the time!
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Spider veins can be embarrassing – especially in women. This issue has been featured in a range of health and wellness magazines, and it can even show up in early adulthood. Telangiectasia or fine, thread-like veins are also common, and these are due to genetics, prolonged standing or sitting, or lack of exercise.
These veins are predominant on the legs, but they can be found all over the body. Most are superficial, but they can be disconcerting when wearing short and revealing clothing. Fortunately, men and women have options to remove spider veins without damage – and with meticulous details.
Some popular choices for treatment include wearing compression garments, sclerotherapy, laser therapy, and now, the Veinwave treatment.
The Veinwave is a tiny tool that provides powerful results. It's applied to the affected skin, where safe levels of radiofrequency are emitted. To get more precise results, micro-needles are applied to the affected vein, without piercing or damaging them. Patients will feel a slight prick, and it's relatively pain-free.
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The results of Veinwave will be immediate, and regular activities can be resumed following the quick application. Some recommendations include staying out of the sun or applying sunblock lotion after a few days.
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2020 GMC Terrain SLE Diesel, Review, Interior – The emblem-new 2020 GMC Terrain positions this approach small-crossover SUV in the next season from the future technology. A sibling that will Chevrolet's Equinox, your Terrain, enjoy similar GMC cars, will be delivered an experiencing far more upmarket. This can be exhibited through the classy (for the crossover SUV) style and also underlined with the abundant Denali toned stage. Engines check out your 1.5-liter, 2.-liter as well as a 1.6-liter diesel every turbocharged 4-hose products. They may be followed from a frame the fact that souvenirs trip ease and comfort above cornering preciseness, which happens to be while it must be on this sort of automobile. GMC lessened the size and style just for this age group. Thus it fails to own all the person and also freight area when various competition. Neither of the two carries out the back end seating push frontward and even rear, nevertheless they retract smooth, as well as the top-person seating.
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You guys remember my friend Georgia? She came to a couple of blogger events with me a few months back which featured on my blog and we got absolutely wasted - cocktail class then into a launch party. Haha well it seems that she has become my blogger buddy for events, when's she's not travelling the world that is. She was back this week, just back from Thailand and off to Rotterdam on Monday. I had a little event so I thought why not bring her along.
I met her at Mile End station along with some other bloggers and we made our way to Victoria park where they were holding a fun fair. It was quite surreal really, firstly it was very quite as it was a bit of a strange time, just before the evening rush I guess and secondly it was just any old fun fair, it was like a vintage one. We were each given a load of giant old penny things and played around in the arcade for a while. We had one of those creepy laughing clowns in a glass box thing and loads of fortune telling machines and slot machines.
After a good while in there we ventured out past the carousels and down to the bumper cars. Being a good blogger, I thought I'll let Georgia drive and I'll take photos. Bad idea. She's a nut case haha and having Sherin there was not much help either! They spent 10 minutes driving at each other head on while I sat there screaming.
Next up we had a go at the shooting games an then off to the pub!
Thanks to BGO for hosting our super fun night!


Young people considering a career in medicine will receive expert advice this weekend to help them on the route to achieving their ambitions and to consider psychiatry as an exciting medical discipline.
The second 'Medicine Calling' conference will be held on Saturday 9 September 2017. Students who attended last year's conference described it as "hugely informative", "enjoyable" and "inspiring".
The conference will be held at our Centre for Medicine for students in post-16 education. It will comprise an exciting programme of events including keynote speakers and interactive workshops, a chance to meet doctors to ask questions about careers in psychiatry, information and advice on applying to medical school and an essay competition with prizes.
The conference is particularly focused on psychiatry as a medical speciality, as according to Health Education England, recruiting junior doctors to psychiatry remains a challenge. The organisers hope that by inspiring young people interested in studying medicine about psychiatry, they will understand the innovative, challenging and rewarding opportunities that a career in psychiatry can offer and encourage them to champion the profession to others throughout their future medical careers.
The conference is a part of a wider initiative called Medicine Calling, which is working in association with the University of Leicester, The Royal College of Psychiatrists & NHS Health Education England to inform and guide young people considering a career in medicine, specifically psychiatry.