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Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico, Art of the Oaxaca region-The Mixteca-Puebla
Art of the Mixteca-Puebla
The Tomb 7 from Monte Albán is one of the richest burial sites ever encountered in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The burial included hundreds of exotic objects made in precious materials. Top left: gold necklace. Bottom left: zoomorphic pendants. Top middle: Mictlantecuhtli pectoral with elaborate headdress (Ball game pectoral). Bottom middle: gold mask. Right: Pendant with dates. All artifacts in the Museum of the Cultures of Oaxaca (Mexico).
The Mixtecs are considered one of the most extraordinary artisans of Mesoamerica during the Post-Classic period (1000-1697). They occupied the area of Oaxaca to the valleys of Puebla and Tlaxcala (a complex known by archaeologists as the "Mixteca-Puebla"). In the art of goldsmithing Mixtecs created works of surprising delicacy as it can be seen among the numerous objects found in the famous "Tomb 7" of Monte Albán, a Zapotec tomb that the Mixtecs re-used: pectorals decorated with masks of deities, necklaces, rings, bracelets, nail protectors, fan handles, etc., all enhanced with tiny bells and other embellishments of exquisite taste. And the grecas* used to decorate the buildings of the archaeological site of Mitla appeared chiseled using the same sensibility that was applied to the gold objects.
The Palace of the Columns at Mitla, the second most important archaeological site in the state of Oaxaca (Mexico) and the most important site of the Zapotec culture. The site is located in the upper end of the Tlacolula Valley, in the Central Valleys Region of Oaxaca, specifically, in the modern municipality of San Pablo Villa de Mitla. While Monte Albán was most important as the political center, Mitla was the main religious center. The name Mitla is derived from the Nahuatl name Mictlán, which referred to the place of the dead or underworld.
These palaces of Mitla are characterized by the architectural use of large monolithic stones and their facades ornate with mosaic fretwork and geometric designs known in Spanish as "grecas" framed by panels (tableros). These decorative elements were part of the rich Zapotec architectural tradition that started in Monte Alban along with strong Teotihuacan influences. None of the fretwork designs are repeated anywhere in the Mitla complex. The fretwork found there is unique in all of Mesoamerica. The decorative element of the stepped greca represents for the pre-Hispanic plastic what the capital does for the Greek culture or the ogival arch for the Gothic art. It is a symbol that has been found from Arizona in the United States to Peru and Argentina in the south of the American continent.
The archaeological remains of Mitla are unique among other Mesoamerican sites because of the elaborate and intricate mosaic fretwork and geometric designs that cover tombs, panels, friezes and even entire walls. These mosaics (pictured above) called "grecas" in Spanish were made with small, finely cut and polished stone pieces fitted together without using mortar. No other site in Mexico has this feature.
The Mixtec artistic refinement is reflected in many aspects: delicate carvings on wood and bone, goblets and statuettes in rock crystal, elaborate mosaics in turquoise, shells, coral and other materials. Ceramics (which since Pre-Classical times have been a highlight in Pre-Hispanic Mexico due to its careful execution and the diversity of its forms) appeared now covered with a particularly fine ornamentation applied with maximum care. Some of the vessels are so precise and detailed in their execution that they look like pages torn from one of the famous "codices" or painted manuscripts found in this region, a series of manuscripts made on long regular strips of "amate" paper* or deer skin with stucco, which were carefully folded like a screen and that used to serve as archives and sacred books for the ancient Mexicans.
The Mixtec painter-scribes also excelled in the art of codex elaboration as can be seen in the few examples that have managed to survive the passage of time and the systematic destruction carried out as a result of the Spanish conquest.
Another examples of the craftsmanship of the Mixteca-Puebla art. Top left: Mixtec goblet in rock crystal (Museum of the Cultures of Oaxaca, Mexico). Top right: Mixtec rock crystal feline head, XV century AD. Bottom left: Turquoise mosaic mask, 1400-1521 AD. (British Museum, London). Bottom right: Skull covered with turquoise mosaic.
Mixteca-Puebla pottery and ceramics. Left: Cholula style Aztec-Mixtec turkey, 900-1521 AD. Top right: A skull in polychrome ceramic ware (National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City). Bottom right: Clay tripod vessels with varied polychrome decoration and geometric designs.
Parallel to the Toltec cultural influence that marked the last centuries of pre-Columbian life with its militaristic and bloodthirsty seal, the Mixtecan artistic influence was heavily felt in ancient Mexico by greatly "softening" the "Toltec" hardship and rudeness that prevailed at the time. We know from many accounts of the conquest that the Aztec emperor Moctezuma had exclusively for his personal service the finest vessels made in Cholula, a city that had become the most renowned pottery producer as well as the most revered sanctuary in Mesoamerica. In addition, it is very likely that many of the jewels so admired by the Spaniards (and so highly pondered by the German painter Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528) were made by Mixtec artisans although under the Aztec rule. In other words, the "good taste" was given at that time by the refined art of the Mixteca-Puebla, and therefore it is possible to speak of a mixture of Toltec-Mixtec influences in the last centuries that preceded the Spanish conquest during which the stylistic frontiers that had until then extended throughout many regions of Mesoamerica began to be erased.
The Mixtec Codex known as the Codex Zouche Nuttall (British Museum, London). This Codex is one of about 16 manuscripts from Mexico that are entirely pre-Columbian in origin. The codex actual name derives from Zelia Nuttall, who first published it in 1902, and Baroness Zouche, its donor. This Codex was probably made in the XIV century and includes 14 sections of animal skin measuring 19 by 23.5 cm. The Codex Zouche Nuttall is one of three that record the genealogies, alliances and conquests of several XI and XII century rulers of a small Mixtec city-state in highland Oaxaca, the Tilantongo kingdom, especially under the leadership of the warrior Lord Eight Deer Jaguar Claw.
The Codex Borgia or Codex Yoalli Ehēcatl includes ritual and divinatory content. It is believed to have been made before the Spanish conquest of Mexico, in what is now southern or western Puebla. The codex is made of animal skin folded into 39 sheets. Each sheet is a square measuring 27 by 27 cm, for a total length of nearly 11 mt. Since all but the end sheets are painted on both sides, it includes 76 pages or folios. The Codex is read from right to left and is named after the Italian Cardinal Stefano Borgia, who owned it before it was acquired by the Vatican Library. Left: Codex Borgia folio 14 is divided into nine sections for each of the nine Lords of the Night. They are accompanied by a day sign and symbols indicating positive or negative associations. Right: Codex Borgia folio 22.
Codex Borgia folio 56.
Amate paper: (in Spanish, from the Nahuatl). A type of bark paper that has been manufactured in Mexico since the pre-conquest times. It was used primarily to create codices. The Amate paper was extensively produced and used for both communication, records, and ritual during the Triple Alliance, it was manufactured using the bark of several species of trees of the genus Ficus (family Moraceae), collectively known as "fig trees".
Greca: A Mesoamerican decorative freeze typical of the Mixtec site of Mitla that includes intricate mosaic fretwork and geometric designs. The geometric patterns of the grecas were made from thousands of cut, polished stones that were fitted together without mortar. The pieces were set against a stucco background painted red.
Posted on March 25, 2017 May 17, 2019 by carolinarhPosted in Pre-Columbian ArtTagged Amate paper, Grecas, Mexican Pre-Columbian art, Mitla, Mixtec art, Mixtec Codices, Pre-Columbian Art, The Mixteca-Puebla, Tomb 7 of Monte Albán. 3 Comments
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Page To Screen: The Sarah, Plain and Tall Trilogy
Posted on December 7, 2022 December 9, 2022 by rebeccadeniston
Remember the Hallmark Hall of Fame movies? I used to watch those with my parents all the time, and I don't know about anyone else, but my favorites next to Harvest of Fire was the Sarah, Plain and Tall trilogy. Based on Patricia MacLachlan's novels of the same name, they are prime examples of how to present books that don't seem to be screen-worthy. While there were only three movies made, there were five novels in all, and each one is marked with very gentle, beautiful language that's just full enough without a lot of flowers weighing things down.
For those who aren't familiar with the first story, the plot is simply this: Widower Jacob Witting places an advertisement for a wife in a newspaper, and to his Kansas farm comes Sarah Wheaton of Maine, who brings music and fun to he and his two children, Caleb and Anna. She teaches them how to swim and makes stew and bread with them, and in no time at all they become a family. Still, Caleb worries that Sarah misses Maine too much and won't be content on the farm.
First edition, 1985. (Bauman Rare Books)
In the second book, entitled Skylark, a terrible drought forces Jacob to send Sarah, Caleb, and Anna to Maine to stay with Sarah's three maiden aunts. While Caleb and Anna enjoy the sea and the aunts, they worry that they'll never be able to get home again or that Sarah won't want to go back to Kansas.
The third book is called Caleb's Story and concerns the return of Jacob's long-lost father, John Witting to the Witting farm. He hasn't been heard from for years, no one knows where he's been or why he left, and Jacob is understandably angry and resentful of his dad for deserting he and his mother when he was a boy. Caleb seems to be the only one who can get along with John and may just have a hand in thawing everyone out. He's ably assisted by his little sister, Cassie, who was born after the Wittings got back from Maine.
Author Patricia MacLachlan was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming on March 3, 1938, and when she was five she and her parents moved to Minnesota, then later to Connecticut, where her dad was an English professor at the University of Connecticut. MacLachlan graduated from the university with a degree in education and married her college sweetheart, Robert MacLachlan, who was a clinical psychologist.
According to her biography on Publisher's Weekly, MacLachlan was always encouraged to read extensively and to make up characters and use her imagination, which she began doing at a very young age. However, she hesitated to become a writer because the idea was intimidating, and taught school from 1963 until 1979. Her first picture book, The Sick Day was published in 1979 and was one of sixty books MacLachlan would author.
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Sarah, Plain and Tall was published in 1985 and inspiration for the series came from a number of sources. It was set in the Midwest, where MacLachlan had lived as a child, and the impetus for the plot came from MacLachlan's own family history, in which an aunt came out from Maine to marry her widowed uncle, who lived in Kansas. When her aunt and her mother's health began to fail, MacLachlan wrote the book for them. Plenty of others caught the spirit of Sarah as well–the book garnered both a Newbury Award and a Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and is now a staple of libraries and schools.
There were whispers of the novel in earlier works, which, when read in Sarah might be what we would now call Easter eggs. The first version of Sarah was a subplot in MacLachlan's earlier novel, Arthur, For the Very First Time, in which an aunt had come into the family via mail order. Sarah's maiden aunts call themselves the "Unclaimed Treasures," which was the title of a novel MacLachlan publised in 1984.
When it came to Hallmark adapting the film for their Hall of Fame series, a couple of problems presented themselves. First, how to stretch a fifty-eight page novel into a TV film, and secondly, giving a five-foot-five Glenn Close a few extra inches? The average height of women in the late ninteenth and early twentieth century was roughly five-foot-four, so lifts were put into her shoes to make Close a little more commanding.
The former took a little more doing; MacLachlan's gentle story dealt with grief very effectively, but most of it is unspoken and unshown. In the film, we see the Witting family still very much grieving for Catherine, their departed wife and mother, with Jacob putting all of his wife's things away after she passes. This traumatizes Anna, who has nightmares and is scared of forgetting what her mother looked like.
Sarah tries to talk to Jacob about it, but when he storms out for a walk, she pulls out Catherine's photo, as well as the quilt she made and her favorite painting of a red-winged blackbird. Jacob doesn't argue, but he still has quite an internal struggle to get through before he and Sarah are able to really be together.
As for Skylark, it's fun to see Sarah go back to her roots and show Anna and Caleb where she grew up, plus the Unclaimed Treasures are wonderful ladies who play piano and flute and go skinny-dipping. It's tough going to get the family to Maine, though, because everyone's stressed about the drought in Kansas and Sarah finally has a huge meltdown. Jacob practically has to put her on the train to get her to leave.
Winter's End, which was adapted from Caleb's Story, is my son's favorite (He says it's the meatiest of the three). The film shows the family in the thick of the First World War and the 1918 influenza epidemic. Anna is a nurse and engaged to the local doctor's son, Sarah, Jacob, and Caleb are thriving on the farm, along with Cassie. Then, just as in the book, Caleb and Cassie discover John Witting out in the barn and the family is curious to know where he's been. There's some especially great acting in this movie, as John is played by Jack Palance and his scenes with Christopher Walken are as intense as a Hallmark movie can be.
One of the nice things about all three films is that they're very personal to both the books and MacLachlan herself. She was closely involved with all three, writing and, in the case of Winter's End, producing. Caleb seems to be a favorite character; like MacLachlan, he carried a little prairie dirt with him wherever he went, and he seems to be the catalyst for moving the story forward, maybe because he's very easy to relate to and has the most room to grow as a character.
I could say more about the Sarah, Plain and Tall series, whether the books or the films, but they deserve to be discovered. A visit or several with the Witting family is like a warm blanket and a hot cup of soup–cozy, comforting, and real.
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John L. Harmon says:
Informative and effective review, rebecca! While I love my crazy and generally inappropriate films, I do have a soft spot for classic Hallmark material. To dance with white dog, for example. However, I've never seen Sarah plain and tall but your review makes me think I should give it a chance.
rebeccadeniston says:
That's great, John–hope you enjoy it. 🙂

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The 2016–17 Professional U18 Development League was the fifth season of the Professional Development League system for youth football.

League 1

The league was split into two regional divisions, north and south. After playing each team in their own division twice, the league was split into a second league stage consisting of three further divisions. The winning team of Group A in the second league stage became the overall champion and qualified for the UEFA Youth League for the 2017–18 season.

First League Stage

North Division

South Division

Second league stage

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

League 2

The Professional U18 Development League 2, also known as U18 PDL-2, was split into two regional divisions.

Teams played each team in their own division twice, and each team in the other division once, for a total of 28 games each.

At the end of the season, the teams finishing in the top two positions of both divisions met in the knockout stage to determine the overall league champion.

Tables

North Division

Source - Professional Development League North results

South Division

Source - Professional Development League South results

Knockout stage
Semi-finals

Final

Notes

See also
 2016–17 Professional U23 Development League
 2016–17 FA Youth Cup
 2016–17 in English football

References

2016–17 in English football leagues
2016-17

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Highlights of the tour include jungle trekking, mental training, understanding the similarities of different religion, and tasting extraordinary Malaysian meals. Jungle trekking will be done for 3 hour where you get to learn more about the region's fauna, flora and Tao Philosophy. During the mental training process, you get to learn about the techniques of submerging yourselves in the hot-spring pool. Besides digging into Chinese, Malay and Indian cuisine, you also get the chance of learning the fact that your religious belief is more of a delicate affair between you and your GOD.
Most of the tours in KL are educational and some are adventurous. The heritage city tour gives you insights to the history, culture, architecture and the story behind building the city. The food tour saturates your tastebud with unique Malaysian street food. The hiking tour takes you to the preserved area to get close to the rainforest. But now there is one tour in KL that is not just educational and adventurous, but it is motivational as well.
Conducted by a senior tour guide, Happy Yen is an energetic and a wise person. The 2 heart seizures and a few life-threatening accidents that he had gone through didn't stop him from being positive and humorous. At the age of 60, he is continuing to live his life to the fullest.
As he said, the rainforest tour is not just about experiencing the beauty of nature, it is to learn from nature and keep us in touch with our inner self.
In the beginning of the tour, Happy Yen told us to keep our mind open in order to experience it to the fullest so here we are to embark on the journey.
On the way to Rawang where the Chiling Waterfall is situated, having introduced himself in a fun way, Happy Yen briefed about the history of Malaysia and KL from the aspects of economy, politic and culture.
We had our breakfast at Nesan Curry House. Most of us are getting poori coupling with ginger milk tea. Poori is a fried pancake and we were invited to see how it is made at the kitchen.
Happy Yen has good grasp on various types of religions. At the Da Xiong Bao Dian Temple, he told us that every religion is different but the preachings are basically the same. For all religions, they teach us to 'live in the present'.
Here, he showed us how our mind functions by instructing us to do a simple experiment. Then in the hot spring tour, he enhanced the idea and demonstrated how we can control it. Again, to benefit the most out of this tour, you must do it with an open mind.
We are not sure about the rest. The serenity in the temple do give us some peace of mind.
After the temple trip, we were heading to the preserved rainforest area in order to get to the Chiling Waterfall. We have to pass by Selangor Dam, the biggest dam in Selangor with a capacity of 344,529 million litres. At the time we went there, the weather condition is hazy due to forest fire and Selangor was experiencing one of the worst drought season. You can see that the water level is critically low. Nonetheless, the view is breathtaking.
The van dropped us at the entrance where we began our trekking trip that took us 3 hours to complete. The trip is educational and adventurous that we will describe in part 2 of the rainforest tour.
We were getting a bit exhausted after hours of trekking. Our next destination is at Hulu Tamu Hot Spring which comes with two pools. One is smaller with water temperature of about 48-50o Celsius. The other is bigger in size but not as hot. The water hotness level is something that most of us are hard to endure, especially in the hot weather.
Happy Yen took a pail of water and splashed it on our feet to feel the water temperature. We thought that was it but never did we expect it was just the beginning of the whole enriching experience.
The highlight of the hot spring tour is to splash the 50o Celsius water onto our body. None of us can't imagine we could do it but we finally did it in a motivated mood.
This video shows how Happy Yen wanted us to get use to the water temperature.
The ultimate test is to pour the water onto ourselves.
At first, we were unsure whether we could complete the task. But when the trust built up between Happy Yen and us, we followed his instruction without doubt. According to Yen, this is psychology and this is science. Everything is all in our mind. We want it. We get it.
The fact that we were able to complete a task that was resistive at first were so motivational and was a great life lesson.
Our trip ended in a Malay restaurant called Sepakat where we had authentic chicken rendang, lemang and kuih.
Q1. What are the things you consider when you design the itinerary?
Yen: Transferring of knowledge in a fun way using the rainforest instead of a hotel room. From a place of faith (belief system), to the rainforest and hot-spring (using mind science techniques).
Q2. Please give us 3 reasons why tourists should join your self-awareness tour.
Q3. Your tour is so motivational. How do you motivate yourself in order to do the same to others?
Yen: The best way to serve GOD is to be of service to people. Do you remember that I shared with you that GOD is in everyone of us (mentioned in the various holy books)?
Q4. This tour requires certain level of physical strength to complete. At the age of 60, how do you keep up with the fitness level?
Yen: You must put in the effort to get the fitness. Exercise, proper food and a happy spirit. Remember, we are creatures of habits.
Q5. Some of the attractions are familiar to the locals. Some are not. Would you come out with separate pricing plan for the locals?
Yen: No. I choose to believe that you have not taken into the consideration of an educational and motivation angle, as well as the minimum of 2 person to conduct the tour. By the way, how much will it cost a person to attend a motivation class or to visit a psychologist to solve their problems? If you were to treat it as a tour, it becomes expensive. On the other hand, if it can transform a person, is it not value for money to spend an experiential day with me irrespective of a foreigner or local? Kindly read the reviews in the Tripadvisor.
Is the Tour Worth the Value?
This tour is highly recommended for foreigners as you'll try and feel things that you have never experienced before. For locals like us, we have been to a few rainforests but this one is quite different and is worth trying. The hot spring is also something that most of the locals haven't tried before. As long as you keep an open mind during the whole journey, we bet everyone of you will gain a lot from this tour!


Don't we all want to look fit and slim! You may one of the lucky few who burn calories as fast as you consume them. Others have to "pay" for their weaknesses, and mine is chocolate. Someone out there – is there an easy magic formula for losing weight?
More seriously, I am also a real foodie with a tendency to….over-eat. I have tried numerous magic formula that one finds by the dozens online, eg. 10 easy tips… 4 quick & easy steps…to achieving your dream body shape. I come to conclude that "fast and easy" draconian diets are not a long term solution. Either way, you always lose in the constant yo-yo between indulgence and then guilt or regret (oooh, I wish I hadn't gone for that fondant au chocolat).
Let me share my experience on the more sustainable route I have taken so far. It started a few weeks ago in the shape (excuse the pun) of a Tone-Up personal trainer, Solveig. She brings the professional voice to this post. First, I was taught the do's and don'ts. I will let Solveig tell you more about it.
Over the years, I have noticed that dieting is not the option to a healthy lifestyle. It is sometimes too drastic and very often unhealthy. The usual outcome to dieting is gaining weight. That is why it is important to simply eat a wide range of healthy and natural nutrients. Those nutrients are: carbohydrates, proteins, veggies, fruits and dairy products. It is important to include those nutrients daily but at the right time and in the right proportions.
A very common mistake that people do is that they skip meals and do not eat often enough. Indeed, it is a lot more efficient to eat 4-6 small meals a day than to eat only at lunchtime and dinnertime. When you skip meals, your body goes into starvation mode. It basically thinks that you will never eat again and will therefore stock fat. So by skipping meals you will never lose weight but gain in fat. By eating small meals frequently your metabolism will always be active and therefore will always be burning what you eat. Moreover by eating frequently you will never starve when going to a meal. Starving when going to a meal is a problem because you will eat way too much. It is important to eat exactly the quantity you need so that your body will burn it easily.
It is important to eat certain nutrients at the right time and in the right quantities. When you want to lose weight for instance or get leaner, carbohydrates should not be consumed at dinner time. Carbohydrates provide you with energy and therefore should be consumed throughout the day when you need energy.
Veggies and fruits are fundamental to a healthy lifestyle. They are full with vitamins and minerals, which are extremely important for your overall health.
It is important to drink enough fluids throughout the day. By fluids I means water and stay away from soft drinks, which are full of sugar.
So how did this new "lifestyle" feel? Believe it or not, in the first week I actually had to force myself to eat 4-6 times a day. As I was often on the move, I couldn't settle to a routine. Instead, I had to plan and remind myself to take my snacks. Adapting quantities was, and still is difficult. Like many, I am used to eating three big meals a day. How to reduce each serving to a moderately small portion? And lastly, in a huge test of mind over matter, I had to control my cravings. Fortunately, I don't yearn for burgers, fries or fast junk food. I rather like healthy food particularly dark chocolate, nuts, dried fruits and cheese. Unfortunately, these healthy foods are also calorie-packed. So I have to limit myself to a piece at a specific time. This perhaps was the toughest part, as I would crave for them after meals, It is a slippery slope that you can't stop yourself once you start.
You can sense that my first week has not been exactly a walk in the park. In my next post, I will share a detailed food diary (including what and how I cook) in the context of my activities, and how I continue to handle this new way of eating.
Do you like to know more about nutritional or sport coaching? Don't hesitate to contact me or Solveig and her Tone-Up team! If you are based in Lausanne, she will gladly meet you. Or, you can connect with her via email or messaging.


After paying tribute to the classic Bakersfield country sound with his previous effort, masterful guitar slinger Vince Gill returns with a record that relies less upon country music as much as it simply embraces his diverse taste for music in general, which happens to include country, soul, and more. Down To My Last Bad Habit revels in a mixture of ballads, and mid-tempo tracks, all of which help lend a comfortable familiarity with the material. Gill shows his talent with the electric guitar on "Make Me Feel Real Good" and "Reasons For The Tears I Cry," but equally impressive are the softer moments found on the record, including "Me And My Girl," "I Can't Do This," and the poignant album closer "Sad One Comin' On (A Song For George Jones)" on which the singer pays tribute to the late, great country artist.


Association: - Enlightenment, - vision search. Question: - What would like I to see?
Key words: Slowly burning, - fire inside, - substantial, - warily. Description: Candles in the most different forms have been used by people by the centuries to bring light in the darkness. Candles catch the element fire, - it is included in them. They are ordinarily made out of oils and wax with a wick. General meaning: Fire catching, - slowly and evenly, - the work with the element fire, - a brief impression of the beaming components of itself. Association: Bolt upright, - everlasting light, - spark plug in the car. Transcendent meaning: A light in the midst of the emptiness, - a ceremony, - ceremonial protection, - follows the colour and use of the candle in a transcendent dream.
When the electricity was not invented yet, the candle and her light was interpreted as a resolution of the darkness or as a verehrenswürdige power. Today the dream of a burning candle refers, because candles are not relevant as a light any more, on the need for examination, knowledge, enlightenment or feeling warmth, so the attempt to clear something what the dreaming does not understand yet. The candle is also a symbol of the life. The Easter candle still has the meaning of a rebirth or resurrection symbol. Because the candle burns itself, it can have in the dream, however, also the meaning of mortality of the person, not only those of a life light. Hence, the statement of this picture can be picked out only from the whole connection of the dream. Candles can also show the power of the dreaming about his personal magic.
candles on a birthday cake symbolise a crossing of the old person to the new. They point to optimism and an ease of the being. A cake of full candles can be connected with age fears and uncertainty about the future.
lighting a candle stands for courage and strength or for the demand for something what the dreaming needs. If one lights them themselves and burns them brightly, one may be soon glad about an important knowledge as well as unique chances.
Worriedly flickering and puffing away candles point to the fact that a being close person is in the difficulties which move in the health area.
candle can indicate sexual needs as a phallic symbol. If she burns brightly radiant, the love is answered if it goes out, one does not come to the aim of his wishes.
old dream books equate the candle also with 'life light', - then it can announce long life, but also illnesses and deaths, above all if they go out. Today the gone out candle stands for hopes which one must give up.
At the spiritual level candles stand for enlightenment, wisdom and beauty. She produces the respect between mind and matter.
bent: hope does not come true.
A candle light meant with a girl that she must meet her lover because of her parents secretly.
Dreaming a young girl to form candles will get them an unexpected marriage offer and make a pleasant visit with distant relatives.
extinguish: brings bad news, - friends will die or are in trouble.
long: your life span is rather long.


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Oh Captain, My Captain – Liam Greenhalgh
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Liam Greenhalgh, "the gh is pronounced as a J" is the captain of the Ikey Tiger's First Team. A role no one should look over too quickly, but Greenhalgh proves that humility still exists in our so-called narcissistic generation.
The Rondebosch Old Boy quite literally proves on a daily basis that balance is possible. Greenhalgh has recently completed his undergraduate degree in Environmental Science and Oceanography (EGS) and is currently working towards his Honours in Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management.
Aside from his clear academic capabilities, Greenhalgh loves to sing explaining that "I'm a shower singer, I just back myself", he also loves his music and has played guitar since Grade 3.
Anybody for a post-match serenade?
You can also find Greenhalgh in the water enjoying all the water sports or anything "outdoorsy". But, he also ensures us that he has his downtime, and has just completed the 10thseason of Friends for the 4thtime – anyone for Netflix and Chill?
UCT prides itself on the fact that all our players are academic students whom place a lot of importance on their academic achievement and Greenhalgh is no different.
He explains that "the first year was a big struggle to adapt from school, but once you find a way it becomes second nature and it is quite easy… especially because you're surrounded by thirty guys who are all going through the same thing."
"The older guys give you tips along the way, so you never really feel alone," he elaborated.
Greenhalgh made his 1stteam debut as an U20 which was "quite an honour", while it was only 10 minutes, Greenhalgh clearly made some type of impact as he would later become the captain of that very team.
He reminisces and explains that all the guys were really supportive and that systematic hierarchy from the older guys has never been an issue at UCT, a trait that makes "UCT Rugby quite unique."
An average game day involves a big breakfast, a team power session in the gym, a swimming session, team talks and a nap before the game.
This Ikey Tiger has big and attainable dreams, he hopes to play for Spain one day, "that's if my body holds out, I'm feeling old" (I guess we are all feeling old these days too).
Just don't forget us when you are rich and famous Greenie, the Ikeys back you all the way and good luck for the Varsity Cup season!
Catch the first team on the Green Mile on the following dates:
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Home » Phrase and Idiom Dictionary » What Does Rise and Shine Mean?
Definition: Wake up and get ready.
In the Bible, the verse is referring to Zion. The city should revive itself in the light of the Lord.
However, this expression became popular as a way to say wake up because of the American military. Military leaders called out to soldiers to wake up using this expression. In this case, rise means to wake up. Some sources speculate that shine means to clean one's boots or to act lively despite wanting to stay in bed.
Nowadays, many parents enjoy using this expression as a cheerful way to wake up their children.
The first dialogue shows a brother and sister who are supposed to get up for an early flight.
Luke: Ella, are you awake? It's already five in the morning. We have to leave in half an hour.
Luke: Ella! You were supposed to wake up an hour ago. I'm coming into your room. Wake up, Ella. Rise and shine!
Ella: Go away! I'm sleeping!
Luke: I know, but it's time to get up! We're running late!
The second example shows two friends at a movie in the theater.
Ray: Wow! That movie was so profound. It might be the most amazing movie I've ever seen. What did you think, Ricardo?
Ray: Ricardo, are you sleeping! Wake up! Hey, Ricardo! Rise and shine, buddy! The movie's over!
Ricardo: Sorry! I didn't mean to fall asleep.
This excerpt is about a political election and the speech one politician gives.
This excerpt is about an astronaut who woke up for the last time before returning to earth.
The phrase rise and shine is a way to tell someone to get up and prepare for the day.


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Q: Blur crashes on Tokyo Shutoko loading screen under Win XP So far Blur worked fine for me under Windows XP (SP3 32-bit), I managed to beat first boss and start chapter 2. However, just after trying to race on one of the Tokyo Shutoko tracks (presumably Wangan-sen), the game crashes to desktop just after few seconds of loading screen.
I applied some automatic online patches to bring it up to date, tried several different vehicles and various GFX options details, to no avail. I have Core2Duo, GTS 450 and 2 GB of RAM.
Just note it is a non-Steam version of the game (retail).
Is there any known issue with Tokyo tracks in Blur? Is there any possible fixes to such problems?

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Mishap-filled road to Carnegie Hall paved with gold for local students (8 photos)
Patrick Fogarty band's bus broke down en route to New York City venue; Town of Warsaw 'took us in with open arms'
Feb 14, 2019 6:40 PM By: Nathan Taylor
1 / 1 Patrick Fogarty Catholic Secondary School's senior concert band performed at Carnegie Hall on Monday. Supplied photo
For a group of musicians from an Orillia high school, the road to Carnegie Hall was a bumpy one, but they quickly learned it was also paved with good intentions.
On Friday night, the senior concert band from Patrick Fogarty Catholic Secondary School was en route to the venerable New York City venue to perform at Monday's Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Invitational when its bus broke down in Warsaw, N.Y.
"Coincidentally, it happened across from the fire hall," said James Hilts, music teacher and band director at Patrick Fogarty.
A firefighter with the Warsaw Fire Department invited them into the hall while they waited for another bus.
The goodwill of Warsaw didn't end there. DiSalvo's Pizza supplied food for the students and, later, Spotlight Theater invited them to see The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.
"Talk about small-town charm. They took us in with open arms," Hilts said. "It's a huge testament to that town. They made a situation that could have been terrible a welcoming experience."
While preparing for the Carnegie Hall trip, the word "journey" was used often.
For instance, a concert in Orillia to raise money for the trip was called Journey to Carnegie Hall. The unexpected events on the road to New York City gave that word new meaning, said Maria Brown.
"It really was a journey," said Brown, 17, who plays first trumpet in the band. "So many people have helped us along the way, and I think that town became part of that as well."
When the Spotlight Theater owner invited the students in to see the movie, Ashley Allen's reaction was, 'Oh, my God. God actually sent her."
"It's not just a Canadian thing to be nice," said Allen, 17, who plays flute and piccolo.
After about two-and-a-half hours, the band was back on the road, and Monday's performance at Carnegie Hall made the entire experience worthwhile. The three adjudicators gave the band marks of 90, 91 and 94 per cent, which earned the local musicians gold.
"I was completely beside myself," said Hilts. "I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out. Every time I had been to the States, it was a silver outcome."
Hilts had full confidence in his band members, but they still exceeded his expectations.
"I've never heard my band play as well as they did (at Carnegie Hall)," he said.
He described the experience as "euphoric." Brown and Allen felt the same.
Two years ago, they were among the students who visited Carnegie Hall and were elated just to touch the stage. Performing on the iconic stage was something entirely different.
When it was announced the band won gold, "I thought, 'I'm going somewhere with my music. I'm doing this.' It made me so proud to be there representing my school and my band," Allen said.
Asked if she thought the band would achieve the gold standard, Brown said, "Not in a million years."
"I knew we sounded really good, but you never know how the judges are going to take it," she said.
Hilts heaped praise on his band, but Brown said her teacher deserved just as much of it.
"He gives us credit, but it wouldn't be possible without Mr. Hilts," she said. "He's amazing."
The moment the band won gold was caught on video. Check out the clip here.
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Natural Farming: Farmer Doubles Production, Cuts Water Use By 30 Percent, Needs NO Fertilizer, Herbicides And Pesticides
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A self-sufficient system of farming is increasing yields across Hawaii
Instead of using pesticides, bug baits consisting of beer in plastic bottles are hung along rows of Thai basil.
Farmer Samson Delos Reyes reached into his bluejeans pocket to grab a phone call from a buyer and ended up smiling but shaking his head.
The caller wanted to triple her order of his pungent Thai basil, to 60 from 20 cases a week, but S&J Farms of Waianae is already booked solid. Since trying "natural farming" last year under the guidance of a folksy South Korean master farmer known as Han Kyu Cho, Delos Reyes said production on his 10-acre plot has doubled — and demand is growing even faster.
"This is my first time having earthworms on my farm," he said, scooping up a handful of earth and nutrient-rich worm castings in his fingers. "They're cultivating the soil for me."
Unlike conventional or even organic farming, "natural farming" is a self-sufficient system to raise crops and livestock with resources available on the farm. Rather than applying chemical fertilizers, farmers boost the beneficial microbes that occur naturally in the soil by collecting and culturing them with everyday ingredients such as steamed rice and brown sugar. They also feed their crops with solutions containing minerals and amino acids made from castoff items such as eggshells and fish bones.
"What others consider rubbish, we use," Cho told gardeners and farmers at a workshop in Honolulu last month. "Natural farming uses local resources, but you have to give what the plants need, when they need it and in the right amounts."
On land once classified as unsuitable for farming, Delos Reyes' sturdy stalks of Vietnamese kalo now stand taller than he does, and his basil bushes are thick with leaves. He no longer has to buy fertilizer, herbicides or pesticides, and he has cut water use by 30 percent. The indigenous microorganisms in the dirt — bacteria, fungi and protozoa — help nourish his crops. The plants grow hardier because their roots have to reach further to find water, according to Cho.
"You use less water, you use less inputs and you end up with a healthier plant which produces more nutritious food, of a higher quality," said landowner David Wong, who ran Oahu's last dairy on this Waianae property and is working with Delos Reyes in the first commercial operation using Cho's methods on Oahu. "Here's a system that is not freight-dependent, and it changes the economics of how agriculture could be done in Hawaii."
Cho, founder of the Janong Natural Farming Institute in Chungbuk, South Korea, held his first workshop in Hilo last February. Dr. Hoon Park, a retired physician in Hilo, heads Cho Global Natural Farming-USA, a nonprofit that promotes Cho's approach. Its workshop last month was sponsored by the Hawaii FFA Foundation, the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Kamehameha Schools, among others.
Across the state, an unusual piggery in Kurtistown on the Big Island is another showcase for Cho's system of "natural farming." The pig farm's claim to fame: It does not smell or attract flies or even require cleaning. And its pigs are thriving.
"It is the first piggery of this kind in the United States," said Michael DuPonte, a livestock extension agent with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and a technical adviser on the demonstration project. "It's been in production for 20 months, and I haven't cleaned the piggery yet. It looks the same as the day I opened it. No smell, no flies. It's a combination of the dry litter soaking up all the liquids and the microbes working together to break down the manure."
DuPonte said the idea of not cleaning a pigsty did not sit well with him at first blush. "When Master Cho came to see me, I was a skeptic," DuPonte said. "I asked him, 'What about disease?' You don't clean a piggery in Hawaii, guarantee your pigs are going to get sick. He said, 'Don't worry about disease. The microbes will take care of that.' I didn't believe him."
But after a trip to Korea to see a piggery in action, DuPonte became a convert. The Kang Farms "Inoculated Dry Litter System" piggery building, opened in August 2009 in Kurtistown, measures 30 by 60 feet and handles up to 125 pigs. It uses natural ventilation and is oriented for sunlight. The pens are filled with a deep bed of dry sawdust and wood chips, spiked with microorganisms cultivated from local soil that help break down the manure. The pigs are fed rations made from agricultural waste, including sweet potatoes, macadamia nuts and bananas.
DuPonte says the pigs seem "stress-free and contented," and they are good neighbors because the piggery produces no waste, runoff or telltale smell. That is important for Hawaii's swine farmers, who have been pushed from one location after another by urbanization and complaints from neighbors. The piggery project was supported by the University of Hawaii, Farm Pilot Project Coordination, Hawaii County and Agribusiness Development Corp., among others.
"Pig farmers are very, very interested in the system," DuPonte said. "I've had 50 people come in and ask me if I would build these piggeries in their place. It's going to take off, mainly because of lack of odor. Pig farmers have been kicked out of Kam IV Road and then Hawaii Kai, and now they're getting challenges in Waianae and they don't know where they are going to go next."
Versions of natural farming have been practiced for generations in Asia. But scientific proof of its efficacy is hard to come by because it is a complex system that adapts to local conditions, said Ted Radovich, assistant specialist in the Sustainable and Organic Farming Systems Laboratory at the UH College of Tropical Agriculture.
"It looks like there is value there," Radovich said. "There is increasing interest in doing research. While I think there is potential, we're quite a way from understanding how it works."
He said the appeal of Cho's approach in Hawaii lies in its "localness." "Any system that makes some inroads into decreasing our reliance on external inputs and improving the profitability of our local farms is important to consider," he said. "We're not at the point where we can make recommendations yet."
DuPonte estimates that 150 people are practicing "natural farming" techniques in the Hilo area, mainly backyard farmers and gardeners.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service is offering small grants to a few farmers in each Hawaii county who want to try converting part of their fields to natural farming, though not livestock. DuPonte said the ideal candidate is a farmer with about two acres, who would use the money to cover the cost of switching to "natural farming" on a quarter of an acre and keep track of costs and yields.
Cho will return for another workshop in July in Kohala, and he urged folks to give "natural farming" a whirl. "Don't doubt," he said through an interpreter. "Just jump in and try and practice and see how it works out."
By Susan Essoyan
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 18, 2011
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Koenig to Conduct a Webinar on Windows Server 2012!
Koenig's next upcoming – two webinars on the same topic. The reason is simple – more coverage.
Koenig has been offering free participation in its webinars and seminars for quite a while now. As this time the topic is all the more important, we decided to conduct the web session twice. This will allow audience to select a date of their convenience, as well as let us reach a wider audience.
The session will be subjected around First Look Clinic: Windows Server 2012 and Hands On Lab: Windows Server 2012. You can attend the event either on October 27, 2012 or November 3, 2012. It is an absolutely free of cost webinar, and you can register for the same right now.
Participants need to block their calendar for the entire day as it is a comprehensive session that will cover all essentials related to windows server 2012 . Scheduled from 3.30AM to 11.30AM GMT, the session will happen online. This enables you to attend the event from anywhere you want, and thus keeps you away from travelling hassles.
Another advantage of attending the session is the interaction part. You not just become part of an authentic live forum, but also get the opportunity to clear doubts and queries.
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Job-related complaining is pretty much out of favor now, which is not a terrible thing but does deprive workers of a generally healthy way of letting off a little workplace steam.
Journalists are first-class complainers, so I might have a slight edge in kvetching colleagues, but over many years and several jobs I have heard co-workers complain regularly about the copier (undependable), the fax (too noisy), the phone system (too complicated), the carpet (smells like chemicals), the paint color (dingy), the holiday schedule (why is Christ-mas on Wednesday?), the mail delivery (too late in the day), the location of the restrooms (inconvenient), the parking situation (dicey), the artwork in the lobby (whose idea was that?) and snacks in the vending machine (always stale).
There were typically equal numbers of those who thought the office was too hot and those who found it too cold.
I have long suspected that the rise of Starbucks and other coffeehouses owes a great deal to office coffee, a topic guaranteed to provoke grumbling. If the company provided it, it was too strong or too weak; if employees paid for it, they lived in fear that someone who had not contributed to the coffee fund might sneak a cup. Coffee cleanup was always good for some complaints. I recall several places where there was frequently a scramble for the next-to-last cup of coffee; no one wanted to take the last cup because that meant you were supposed to make a new pot of coffee.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I should note that I have been known to voice a few workplace complaints myself. Some were embarrassingly petty (the expense forms at one publication had inferior carbon paper so the third copy was never legible) and some justified (one office briefly banned coffee mugs in favor of company-provided cups and saucers). Nobody paid any attention to my expense-form gripe, just as nobody paid any attention to the mug ban.
I have objected, at more than one place, to the number of meetings scheduled; between planning conferences and evaluation sessions, there often wasn't much time to actually work.
Of course some workplaces spawn grimmer complaints when employees are unfairly passed over for promotion, targeted for some imaginary rule infraction, belittled or otherwise treated badly by a supervisor. Sometimes, despite laws and policies and regulations, people are actively discriminated against or forced to work in unsafe conditions.
Those concerns are in a different category. The ones I'm remembering, with some fondness, are the trivial, the laughable, the somebody-got-up-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-futon gripes that often spark camaraderie among employees and unite them in the cause of better soap dispensers or more covered parking.
The sense of community that is such a crucial part of the work experience depends on a lot of factors to keep it alive – including a few petty gripes.
I suspect that a lot of people who are out of work would say they miss the companionship as well as the paycheck.
The concept of work-life balance may seem like a luxury when someone is unemployed and there is no balance to be had. But it is important. A few good-natured complaints are critical to that balance.


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Q: recode using dplyr::mutate across not working in a function I'm trying to use dplyr::mutate(across()) to recode specified columns in a tbl. Using these on their own works fine, but I can't get them to work in a function:
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)

df1 <- tibble(Q7_1=1:5,
              Q7_1_TEXT=c("let's","see","grogu","this","week"),
              Q8_1=6:10,
              Q8_1_TEXT=rep("grogu",5),
              Q8_2=11:15,
              Q8_2_TEXT=c("grogu","is","the","absolute","best"))

# this works
df2 <- df1 %>%
  mutate(across(starts_with("Q8") & ends_with("TEXT"),
                ~recode(., "grogu"="mando")))

# runs without error, but doesn't perform the recode
clnFun <- function(dat, oldTx, newTx){
  df <- dat %>%
    mutate(across(starts_with("Q8") & ends_with("TEXT"),
                  ~recode(., oldTx=newTx)
                  )
           )
}
df3 <- clnFun(df1, "grogu", "mando")

What am I missing?


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4.6 Derivative Financial Instruments
Accounting Policies
Derivative Financial Instruments
Derivative financial instruments are initially recognised at fair value on the contract date and are subsequently measured at their fair value at each balance sheet date. The method of recognising the resulting fair value gain or loss depends on whether the derivative is designated as a hedging instrument and the nature of the item being hedged. At 27 November 2016 and at 29 November 2015, the Group's derivative financial instruments consisted of commodity swap contracts which are designated as cash flow hedges of highly probable transactions.
The Group documents at the inception of the hedge the relationship between hedging instruments and hedged items, the risk management objectives and strategy and its assessment of whether the derivatives that are used in hedging transactions are highly effective in offsetting changes in fair values or cash flows of hedged items.
This assessment is performed retrospectively at each financial reporting period. Movements on the hedging reserve within shareholders' equity are shown in the Consolidated statement of comprehensive income. The full fair value of hedging derivatives is classified as current when the remaining maturity of the hedged item is less than 12 months.
Cash Flow Hedging
The effective portion of changes in the fair value of derivatives that are designated as cash flow hedges and qualify for hedge accounting is recognised in other comprehensive income. Amounts accumulated through other comprehensive income are recycled in the Consolidated Income Statement in the periods when the hedged item affects profit or loss. When the hedged forecast transaction results in the recognition of property, plant and equipment, the gains or losses previously deferred in equity are included in the initial cost of the asset and are ultimately recognised in profit or loss within the depreciation expense. During the period all of the Group's cash flow hedges were effective and there is therefore no ineffective portion recognised in profit or loss.
Commodity Swap Contracts
The notional principal amounts of the outstanding commodity swap contracts at 27 November 2016 were £4.8 million (2015: £3.2 million). The hedged highly probable forecast transactions are expected to occur at various dates during the next 12 months. Cumulative net gains of £0.6 million have been recognised in the hedging reserve within other comprehensive income. The net balance at year end was £nil. These gains and losses are recognised in the Consolidated Income Statement in periods during which the hedged forecast transaction affects the Consolidated Income Statement.
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Derivative asset 0.3 —
Derivative liability (0.2) (0.7)
Forward Foreign Exchange Contracts
There were no outstanding forward foreign exchange contracts at 27 November 2016 and 29 November 2015 .
There are £0.1 million of gains recognised in the hedging reserve within Other Comprehensive Income (2015: £0.2 million).
These gains were recognised in the Consolidated Income Statement in periods during which the hedged forecast transaction affected the Consolidated Income Statement.
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Shoppers and office workers in Kitchener Complex in Jalan Besar have had to put up with faulty lifts for more than a year.
The Housing Board told The New Paper that the problem had worsened since April.
But next year is the earliest the lifts can be repaired.
The complex consists of two blocks at 808-809, French Road. Its lower storeys contain shops and eateries, while its upper storeys have offices.
Block 809 has three lifts serving seven floors that break down weekly, said users.
Miss Jodi Chime, 38, a project manager working on the fifth storey said: "I always have my phone when taking the lift, just in case I need to call for help."
A woman in her 20s, who did not want to be named, said she was hysterical earlier this year when she was stuck in the lift for half an hour with no phone reception.
Her colleague, Ms Tan Xiu Wen, 36, an accountant, said: "A former pregnant colleague of ours was once trapped inside (the lift) and had to climb out when they rescued her."
When contacted, Mr Siah Chong Loon, the deputy general manager of CPG Facilities Management, which manages the complex, declined to comment and directed TNP's queries to HDB.
An HDB spokesman said it had stepped up maintenance works and the situation had remained relatively stable until April this year.
"Our investigations found the lift incidents are largely due to the wear and tear of the lift doors over the years," she said.
She said HDB will be replacing the worn-out parts, including the lift doors, in the first quarter of next year.
A Building and Construction Authority spokesman said audit inspections in April of two lifts in the complexdiscovered no safety critical findings.
She said: "BCA would like to remind lift owners and lift contractors to take all public feedback seriously and exercise due diligence in rectifying issues concerning the operation of lifts promptly, so that public safety is not compromised."


Okay, let's be honest here. The rain is terrible. I get it. I totally get it. The plants, they need it to live. Taylor Swift needs it so she can keep writing songs about kissing it in. When you're already planning on staying in and having a Netflix day, it's awesome. But when you're traveling and you only have a few days to explore a place you might never get back to? It is terrible. So you eat. A lot.


Should Pinoy Big Brother Be Banned?
Someone is asking for information in support of banning Pinoy Big Brother, so I got curious.
Rickey would have probably lambasted PBB... if only it were available on The Filipino Channel (TFC). Check out the 421 (as of last count) comments on that page.
1. Students stay up too late just to watch the show.
2. Pinoys are more affected by what they see because they tend to relate more to the characters on-screen.
3. Uh, the PBB Theme Song (by Orange and Lemons) sounds so much like "Chandeliers" (by The Care). (I sense some influence from Life, by The Cardigans.) Anyway, here's the denial of Orange and Lemons.
4. More? Please add your comment (whether for or against Pinoy Big Brother).


Here's a neat article about how to use multiple swap partitions with Linux.
"In any case, in 2.4, if I break up my 512 MB swap partition into 4 different 128 MB partitions, and then give them all the same priority, it changes my swap-in wait period quite a bit. This is with all the swap partitions on the same drive, so the limiting factors are not IDE transfer speeds here. With the smaller partitions my max wait goes down from 60 seconds to 30 seconds (on the old laptop), and the average wait of 30 seconds is down to about 10. That makes it a lot more usable. It is much nicer. And on the old laptop there is no possibility of adding RAM, which would help more if it could be done."


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Predictive analytics or gut instinct: Which works better?
by Mary Shacklett in Big Data on April 28, 2017, 7:40 AM PST
Using predictive analytics can help companies make better decisions. But so can listening to gut feelings. Here's when to go with which of those approaches, or a mix of both.
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Technology companies recognize that continuous innovation is needed to keep pace with competition. It's why Amazon bumped product development investment by 28% in 2016 and Facebook increased innovation and product development dollars in 2016 by 26%.
These are big numbers, so it comes as no surprise that many companies use a scientific metrology like predictive analytics to help determine product direction and how they're going to spend their innovation dollars.
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Netflix uses analytics to classify the key attributes of past and current products or services and then models the relationship between those attributes and the commercial success of the offerings to derive guidance for new product undertakings--and Proctor & Gamble uses predictive analytics to predict the likelihood of market success.
But there's also the contrarian approach of "gut feel," where instinct as the purest form of intelligence takes center stage in product development.
To illustrate the difference between predictive analytics and gut feel approaches to new products, here are two very different use cases from the food service industry:
McDonald's and predictive analytics
McDonald's made the move to digital menus in its restaurants, in part because it enables the restaurant chain to instantaneously modify menus to product test new menu item concepts in certain regions of the country. Based upon predictive analytics, McDonald's restaurants can alter these digital menus based upon the time of day, or even the weather, in order to tailor menu offerings to what customers are most likely to order. The fast food chain said that the combination of analytics and malleable digital menus has increased revenues and facilitated more new product proofs of concept
Seattle Mariners and gut feel
"Seattle is an awesome food scene, so every year when we decide how we are going to tweak the food and beverage items that we offer at SafeCo Field, we visit local restaurants and sample the menus for ideas," said Steve Dominguez, General Manager of the Centerplate concession program at Safeco Field for the Mariners.
This year, Dominguez came across roasted grasshoppers, a Mexican favorite that a local restaurant was serving. "The roasted grasshoppers was a different idea and we took a collaborative approach to it," said Dominguez. "We invited team management to a sampling of the grasshoppers and asked them what they thought. The consensus was, Let's do it!"
So with a gut feel hunch and no analytics, the Mariners offered roasted grasshoppers on opening day. Fans consumed 18,000 grasshoppers and the concession sold out. The grasshoppers were so hot that orders actually had to be limited, and Dominguez was soon overnight-shipping grasshoppers to the park because local supplies could not meet demand.
"Each year, we try to reinvent the menu to give it more splash," said Dominguez. "Guys from other ball clubs were calling about the grasshoppers and asking, 'What are you guys doing up there?' We didn't use analytics--we just thought it would work."
So if both analytics and gut feel approaches to new products can work, is there a middle ground that can take advantage of both?
Yes--there is a middle ground between going 100% analytics, where you risk missing out on great ideas just because your analytics can't confirm them; and 100% gut feel, where you don't have any analytics to give you at least some confirmation for your idea before you try it.
Here are three recommendations for companies that want to incorporate both gut feel and analytics in new product development:
Create a product development intake process that can accommodate both gut feel ideas and the ideas that come out of your analytics.
You can do this by making a list of candidate new product proposals that come in either through the gut feel or the analytics door. This might seem straightforward, but for many organizations that are now strictly focusing on what their analytics tell them because of a fear of being wrong, it isn't. Instead, the goal should be to keep all doors to new ideas open, so you don't leave any creativity on the table.
Secure the support of your management
More conservative businesses (e.g., insurance or finance) are less likely to invest in gut feel product development, because they are analytic by nature and they feel more comfortable that their R&D dollars will be spent wisely if they have analytics to back up an idea. Conversely, other industries (e.g., technology or entertainment) leave more room for gut feel ideas. Before you initiate a dual analytics-gut feel approach to your product innovation, understand what your corporate culture is likely to support. If you can't get upper management's backing for a dual approach, the concept will not work.
Whether you are using predictive analytics or gut feel, know when to pull the plug
The most well conceived analytics study or the best feel-good idea isn't always going to work. R&D is innovation, and innovation includes its share of failures as well as successes. As soon as an idea beings to show that it will not succeed, pull the plug. In this, way you manage your losses and control your risks.
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Christian Grass steps down from role at Universal
By Andreas Wiseman2011-07-06T18:00:00+01:00
Industry stalwart Christian Grass has stepped down from his role as President, Universal Pictures International Productions & Acquisitions.
The former Fox executive and co-CEO of Focus Features International had joined Universal in 2007.
A statement from UPI President David Kosse thanked Grass for his "tremendous contribution in building our international production and acquisitions division since 2007. He and the team have had notable successes such as Heartbreaker and Gainsbourg, both among the highest-grossing French films of 2010, Matthew Vaughn's breakout hit Kick Ass, Inglourious Basterds from Quentin Tarantino and Timur Bekmambetov's Black Lightning."
The well-liked executive's other notable achievements at Universal included bringing in Park Chan-wook's Thirst and Spanish horror hit Julia's Eye's.
Upcoming productions include Fly Me To The Moon, the next film from Heartbreaker director Pascal Chaumeil, starring Diane Kruger and Dany Boon, and releases including Intruders directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, with Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen (debuting at the Venice Film Festival in September), Jalil Lespert's Des Vents Contraires, starring Benoit Magimel and Audrey Tatou and Detlev Buck's Rubbeldiekatz, with Matthias Schweighoefer and Alexandra Maria Lara.
The UPIP team will be now be aligned under Kosse's leadership, with Clare Wise (EVP, International Production) and Alex Jooss (SVP, Business & Legal Affairs) reporting to Kosse.
John Whittle (Finance Director) will continue to report to Rowan Conn, CFO, NBCUniversal International. Dylan Wilcox and Chan Phung in LA will report to Donna Langley.
The statement from Kosse affirmed Universal's ongoing commitment to local international production "as an important part" of its business.
However, Grass' departure follows the shutdown of Paramount Pictures' worldwide acquisitions and local production group last month, signalling the trend that some studios are losing their appetite for local language production.
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THE BURNING TIME Final extract from Introduction: Setting the scene
virginiarounding The Burning Time April 11, 2018 April 10, 2018 3 Minutes
If we open our story in the year 1530 or thereabouts, we find little to suggest the turmoil to come – apart from the King's increasing impatience with Rome, and the rise of Lutheranism in parts of Europe. (Soon after Luther's teachings had been condemned by the Pope in 1521, his works had been publicly burnt in Oxford, Cambridge and at Paul's Cross – the site of the open-air pulpit outside St Paul's Cathedral – in London.) Henry was still married to Katherine of Aragon, though becoming increasingly desperate to cast her off and marry Anne Boleyn. He had been insinuating to Pope Clement VII that, if the Pope would not hurry up and make it possible for him to divorce Katherine, a way of dispensing with papal authority must be sought. In 1529 Henry had dismissed Cardinal Thomas Wolsey from the post of Lord Chancellor, under pressure from Anne, and replaced him with Thomas More. The disgraced Wolsey died in November 1530. Earlier that year, in July, John Stokesley, who was supportive of the King's campaign for a divorce and involved in the making of the case for an annulment under canon law, was appointed Bishop of London in succession to Cuthbert Tunstall, who had become Bishop of Durham.
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
At the heart of the small community of Augustinian canons living in St Bartholomew's Priory was William Bolton, who had been the prior since 1505. Now nearing the end of his life, Bolton had in his heyday been not only a cleric but also a builder of some eminence, having been employed as 'master [or clerk] of the works' by both Henry VII and Henry VIII. (The word 'builder' in this context implies something more akin to architect or project manager in modern terms, rather than someone involved in the physical work of construction.) Bolton's main work for Henry VIII had involved the rebuilding of New Hall in Essex, which the King had procured from Thomas Boleyn, the Earl of Wiltshire, and grandfather of Anne. The prior had also undertaken large building operations at St Bartholomew's itself and at Canonbury Tower in Islington, which formed part of the monastery's possessions (and from where its water supply was derived). Another notable commission entrusted to Bolton had been the ordering of the chimney pots for Cardinal Wolsey's palace at Hampton Court. But by 1530 Bolton's active life was over; in addition to his post at St Bartholomew's, he had for the last eight years been Rector of Harrow on the Hill, in Middlesex, but he was by now about eighty years old and virtually immobile. He died in April 1532.
Within the Priory Church, as was common in monastic churches, a chapel was set aside for the use of parishioners – the lay people who lived and worked in the monastic close. The parish also had its own priest, who would celebrate Mass in the chapel and look after the general spiritual welfare of the parishioners. It is not known who was fulfilling this role around the time of Prior Bolton's death, but by the end of the decade the post was held by a man who remained a constant presence at St Bartholomew's throughout all the turmoil of the burning time. This was Sir John Deane, the last parish priest of the chapel and subsequently the first rector of the parish church. In the early 1530s, Deane was already connected to the monastery, being Rector of Little Stanmore in Middlesex, one of the possessions of St Bartholomew's.
Sir John Deane
Meanwhile, steadily making his way up a different professional ladder, negotiating the twists and turns of Tudor politics, was a lawyer of the Middle Temple called Richard Rich, in 1530 aged thirty-four and recently returned as Member of Parliament for the borough of Colchester in Essex. His is a name that is already well-known, if in fictionalized form, to readers of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and of C.J. Sansom's Shardlake series – where he appears as the principal villain – as well as to viewers of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons. Rich's life would intersect with that of John Deane at many points over the following years, and both men would be witnesses at close quarters to all the horror of the burning time.
Richard Rich, by Hans Holbein the Younger
Nothing they had known before 1530, in their respective careers, could quite have prepared them for the sights, sounds and smells they would encounter over the next thirty years, as many of their closest acquaintances were consumed in the fires of Smithfield.
Read more in The Burning Time.
Augustinian Priory
C.J. Sansom
Canonbury Tower
Clement VII
Cuthbert Tunstall
Harrow on the Hill
John Stokesley
Katherine of Aragon
Little Stanmore
Middle Temple
Paul's Cross
Prior Bolton
Richard Rich
Robert Bolt
St Bartholomew's Priory
Thomas Boleyn
William Bolton
Wolf Hall
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