1a: We aim to see whether the volumes of different parts of the hippocampus (a brain area involved in memory) are associated with performance on cognitive measures. We predict that people with greater volumes in these areas will have better performance on cognitive measures, such as pairs matching and prospective memory, and that this effect will be greater with age.
1b: It will examine whether sizes of hippocampal subfields affect memory performance (also with age as a covariate). This will show whether healthy age-related decline in memory is due to deterioration of the hippocampus, and which subfields in particular.
1c: We will use automatic algorithms to calculate the sizes of each hippocampal subfield from MRI images, and then use for associations between these and the cognitive measures. We will also look at the effects on the cognitive measures from the follow-up testing.
1d: All participants who completed at least one brain MRI scan (one or more of T1, T2 FLAIR, T2/PD scans).


Walks on jeeps on Mangyshlak along the coast of the Caspian Sea.
Trip on the cape Sagandyk on the Caspian Sea.
Cape Sagyndyk is located on the southwest coast of the Caspian sea. Steep and steep rocky shores distinguish Cape Segunda. The very deep waters of the coast of the Cape allowed mariners to determine in this place of anchorage for ships dock.
Many call this area the devil's finger. A huge rock stands in the sea, as if pointing the traveler path. But how valid is this way? This is the task that can be resolved, refer to the compass. Cape Sagyndyk adjoins the Rocky Cape.
The name speaks for itself. For impressionable natures travellers rocky terraces will long remain in memory. And the oilers know that in the waters of the Cape discovered oil field, which is named "Rocky sea".
In the research work of the nineteenth century Dmitry Levkina have the following information: "At Cape Urdyuk the coastline changes direction to the South-East coastal strip, gradually rising, forms between the ridge and the shore by a narrow terrace, steeply descending to the sea.
The underwater part of the coast cluttered with huge rocks sticking above the surface. This character of the coast is maintained to Cape Sagyndyk". More recently this natural phenomenon is located on the Eastern coast of the Caspian sea with beautiful beaches, lagoons, separated by bizarre rock terraces and clean water was difficult to access. Coastal terrace seats are dissected by cracks that the surf has eroded and polished in the long gullies and rocky galleries, half filled with water.
It's a Paradise for diving and just for a fruitful stay under the hot sun and velvet gray waters of the Caspian sea. Was a highway built, and it became available to everyone and is well known among local and urban residents as "43 kilometer".
Road, mismanagement and lack of culture made her sad case – the shore turned into a dump of household waste, with which nature simply unable to cope. It is very sad to start the story about the beautiful and unusual places Mangistau region with such lines.


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La península Camber se encuentra ubicada en el centro-este de la isla Soledad, al sur de la caleta Serpiente y al norte de la rada de Puerto Argentino, siendo su extremo oriental la punta Armada.

Esta península se halla en el archipiélago de las islas Malvinas, que según la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU), están en litigio de soberanía entre el Reino Unido, quien la administra como parte del territorio británico de ultramar de las Malvinas, y la Argentina, quien reclama su devolución, y la integra en el departamento Islas del Atlántico Sur de la provincia de Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur.

Historia

Por esta península circuló el pintoresco Ferrocarril Camber. Además la Marina Real británica desarrolló diversas facilidades logísticas en esta península. Cuenta con un muelle del lado sur y dos tanques importantes de combustibles. En su costa sur corre un camino que llega a Puerto Argentino.

En esta península se desarrollaron varias acciones bélicas durante la guerra de las Malvinas en 1982.

Véase también

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Mapa de los alrededores de Puerto Argentino, con la península Camber

Isla Soledad
Geografía de Puerto Argentino/Stanley
Penínsulas de las islas Malvinas

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Dawn of War 3 supplies its endless wars with an endless update
Nick Diamon, October 19, 2017 | News
Relic Entertainment has updated Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3 to offer more classic real-time strategy features for players. The Endless Update comes with the usual balance changes and adjustments, three new multiplayer maps, and three new elite units. The free patch also adds some much-requested multiplayer custom match options that bring the game back to its RTS roots and away from the sequel's reliance on hero management. Players can now toggle elites off, disable doctrines, and not allow global abilities in their matches. The new options don't turn the game into a full throwback to earlier Dawn of War entries, but they do give players the ability to mostly ignore the most controversial changes to the formula – namely, the way elites work. We'll see if the changes are enough to bring the community back to WAAAGH.
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Remember Touch ID? It was all the rage a few years ago and then Apple killed it– literally– with Face ID; iPhone's built-in facial recognition system. Touch ID and Face ID are the same kind of solution that Apple does best. Security and convenience.
Recent trends tell me we'll see more such convenience and perhaps even more security in future iterations of iOS and, eventually, macOS. Voice recognition. There is no technical reason Apple does not have voice recognition for iPhone and iPad (or Mac; as if Apple cared about the Mac). Voice recognition has been around for decades.
Think about a trinity of security options that work instantly. Face ID. Touch ID. Voice ID. Lift up your iPhone, touch the screen for Touch ID, let Face ID scan your face, and speak a password code. Triple security all enabled and secured by a single somewhat more complex password that you seldom need to use.
Touch ID. Face ID. Voice ID.
There are problems in my prediction for the future. First, Touch ID likely is gone forever, replaced by the even more convenient and accurate Face ID. Apple doesn't seem interested in Voice ID. Yet.
Another technology that Apple uses to make our devices more convenient is Siri, Siri's actions, and Siri Shortcuts. Let me acknowledge that both voice commands and voice recognition– as far as Apple goes– is in its infancy.
Siri still cannot recognize my voice from my wife's voice. Seriously? Face ID can recognize my face out of a million faces but iPhone, iPad, and Siri cannot recognize my voice vs. anyone else's voice?
That's just a wrong that needs to be righted.
Apple completed the purchase of Shazam; the iOS app that can recognize music. Play a song on your iPhone, or hold your phone near a song being played, and Shazam can recognize it out of millions of songs, many very similar. But Siri cannot recognize my voice from your voice.
Shazam, though, has technology that can recognize differences in sound frequencies, and Apple owns Shazam. How long before Siri begins to recognize our specific voices and will only act on commands with our voice. That explains why Villager Jeffrey wrote Shazam Is Not About Music.
When Siri begins to recognize a specific voice by name, doesn't that add an extra layer of security to iPhone, iPad, and Mac?
Apple has a history of marrying complicated high technology with ease of use. We saw it in Touch ID. We see it in Face ID. Now we need to see it Siri.


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Rs 15 cr. bank stores made post demonetisation as benami property. Deposits of Rs 15.39 crore made in a Delhi bank post demonetisation have been held as 'benami' property by an extraordinary court even as the investor and the helpful proprietor of the reserve are "untraceable".
The stores were proclaimed 'benami' in the decision in one of the main arbitration instances of the new hostile to dark cash law.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-drove government had brought into compel the new Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016 from November 1 a year ago, as a feature of its multi-pronged technique to check unlawful riches.
The case relates to one Ramesh Chand Sharma, apparently an occupant of Gali Laltain in Naya Bazar zone of old Delhi.
The Income Tax Department, as a major aspect of its drive against dark assets post the note boycott, had led a review at the Kotak Mahindra Bank office on K G Marg in December a year ago and found that Sharma, post demonetisation, stored Rs 15,93,39,136 trade out old notes of Rs 500 and Rs 100 in the record of three firms, suspected to be phony.
The office solidified these DDs and joined these assets calling them 'benami'.
The office therefore sent the request for affirmation to the Adjudicating Authority of the Act, according to the legitimate arrangement of this stringent law.
The Authority, at some point back, affirmed the I-T arrange, making it one of the initial five instances of mediation under this new law in the nation till now.
"The material accumulated through the overview, look, ensuing enquiry obviously leaves no space to question that the said sum conglomerating to Rs 15.93 crore (approx) in accounts of…is a benami property.The said Ramesh Chand Sharma is the benamidar and the personality of the useful proprietor isn't know," a request by the division seat of the Authority, Mukesh Kumar (Chairperson) and Tushar V Shah (Member-Law), said.
The request, got to by PTI, said Sharma too has gone "untraceable" since the activity was propelled against him by the I-T Department.
The office likewise found that Sharma has once recorded an Income Tax Return (ITR) pronouncing wage of Rs 3 lakh for the evaluation year 2006-07.
Sharma, according to the I-T charge sheet, never reacted to its summonses and his address given in the KYC (know your client) records of the bank "brought about the disclosure that no such individual at any point lived" in the given area of old Delhi.
"Enquiry by the Inspector uncovered that nothing was thought about such individual in the area additionally," it said.
Evidently, his record was used by people who were either not traceable or imaginary to bring their own unaccounted cash as demonetisation money notes once more into the managing an account channel," the I-T charge sheet, additionally called arraignment protest, said.
"It is clear that Sharma, a well endowed individual couldn't have the assets to raise such a gigantic sum," it said.
After PM Modi's assertion of the note restriction on November 8 a year ago, the I-T division had cautioned individuals against keeping their unaccounted banknotes in accounts kept up by another person.
Such a demonstration, it had stated, would pull in criminal accusations under the Benami Act, material on both portable and steadfast properties.
The I-T division is the nodal office to authorize the Benami Act in the nation.
The expense office, in an information refreshed till a month ago, had said that advantages worth Rs 1,833 crore have been joined by it under this stringent new law, for which it issued more than 517 notification and made 541 connections.
The law accommodates a most extreme discipline of seven years in prison and a fine.


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Q: how to use useContext in top component(http service)? I want get token to header of API but state of token is in context so I get this error
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The Ministry of Environment is advising Fijians to refrain from contributing to environmental pollution.
Environment Minister Dr. Mahendra Reddy says they will support investment, growth, and development but not at the expenses of natural resources.
Dr. Reddy says this is being done to ensure that future generations have the opportunity to enjoy the same benefits that we currently have.
Dr. Reddy says when discarded carelessly, litter usually ends up in rivers and creeks causing flash flooding and is a threat to the public.
He adds all stakeholders need to work together in order to protect our environment.


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La Society of American Archivists, abbreviata come SAA (lett. Società degli Archivisti Americani) è la più antica e più numerosa associazione di archivisti del Nord America, al servizio delle esigenze educative e informative di oltre 5.000 professionisti e membri istituzionali. Fondata nel 1936, l'organizzazione serve oltre 6.200 istituzioni individuali e membri.

La società pubblica vari periodici e organizza programmi di workshop professionali e incontri semestrali. Attualmente, i seminari sono tenuti in tutti gli Stati Uniti e si occupano di questioni quali la descrizione archivistica codificata, la digitalizzazione dei materiali d'archivio e la preservazione digitale. I programmi sono erogati on-demand online, in tempo reale online e de visu.

Storia
La Society of American Archivist fu fondata nel 1936 contestualmente alla creazione degli Archivi Nazionali. L'organizzazione nacque in seguito allo scioglimento della Commissione degli Archivi Pubblici  dell'Associazione Storica Americana. I primi giorni di vita dell'organizzazione furono pieni di difficoltà legate all'appartenenza e all'identità professionale. L'American Library Association creò una propria  una commissione dedicata agli archivi, fatto che fu ritenuto irrispettoso da parte del presidente fondatore Albert R. Newsome.

Inoltre, esisteva una tensione fra due diversi approcci di gestione archivistica: quello legato alla tradizione degli archivi pubblici, sostenuto da Margaret Cross Norton, e quello della tradizione dei manoscritti storici come filosofia dominante. La tradizione degli archivi pubblici enfatizzava la gestione dei documenti e gli aspetti amministrativi del lavoro archivistico, mentre quella dei manoscritti storici si concentrava maggiormente sulla conservazione e sul mantenimento dei documenti importanti per scopi  di ricerca. La tensione e il dibattito tra le due funzioni fondamentali degli archivi sarebbero continuati negli anni '50, condizionando le elezioni e la scelta dei luoghi delle riunioni annuali.

Il primo numero del giornale della Società, l'''American Archivist'', apparve nel 1938. Nel 1942, il presidente degli Stati Uniti Franklin D. Roosevelt fu eletto membro onorario della SAA per il suo impegno nell'archiviazione di documenti del governo federale, statale e locale. Al termine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, l'SAA e altre società archivistiche internazionali diedero vita al Consiglio internazionale degli archivi e ad un archivio presso le Nazioni Unite. Il lavoro di alcuni comitati, come ad esempio quello sui registri delle chiese, college e università, fu utile per definire il ruolo della SAA nella controversia con l'con l'Associazione nazionale delle biblioteche statali. L''American Library Associate e l'SAA istituirono un comitato congiunto incaricato di individuare le differenze fra le due associazioni.

Negli anni '70, la maggior parte dei membri della SAA era composta da archivisti di college e università, i quali risentirono dell'influenza dei movimenti più progressisti per la giustizia sociale, muovendo verso la ristrutturazione dell'organizzazione nel suo insieme, la democratizzazione delle elezioni e la ristrutturazione dei comitati. Si manifestò anche una tensione verso il miglioramento delle risorse professionali e degli standard di istruzione.

A partire dagli anni '60, vi era stato un vasto movimento di attivisti, con membri che si interessavano maggiormente alle questioni politiche e sociali. Tale fatto aveva costretto la SAA a prendere posizione su diverse questioni pubbliche di attualità inerenti alla professione di archivista. Alcuni storici sociali come Howard Zinn e Sam Bass Warner portarono le loro opinioni in seno alla riunione annuale dell'ASA del 1971, sfidando gli archivisti a riesaminare le policy e le assunzioni di fondo della propria attività.

Negli anni '80 la società si focalizzò sull'attività di divulgazione. Furono condotti studi sistematici per valutare chi fossero gli utenti degli archivi, in che modo li utilizzassero e per quale motivo. La lotta per la creazione di un'identità professionale proseguirono quando il dibattito iniziò a vertere sugli standard per i programmi di istruzione, sulla certificazione e sulla valutazione istituzionale. Una task force su obiettivi e priorità, creata nel 1982, mirava a modificare tali questioni, tentando di unificare l'organizzazione sotto un unico ombrello professionale.

Nuove sfide emersero anche a seguito della diffusione di Internet e delle tecnologie digitali. Nel 1993 la SAA avviò una collaborazione con la Library of Congress per lo sviluppo di una descrizione archivistica codificata. Nacque così EAD, una definizione del tipo di documento XML e uno standard per la codifica degli metadati di ricerca di archivi, che consente di renderli accessibili online. L'SAA offre anche la certificazione per gli specialisti in archivistica digitale, che consente alla professione di operare all'interno del panorama tecnologico emergente e di acquisire record digitali.

Nel novembre 2017, la SAA pubblicò un piano strategico triennale, che delineò gli obiettivi futuri in quattro macroaree: la tutela degli archivi e archivisti, il miglioramento della crescita professionale, il progresso delle attività sul campo e la soddisfazione delle esigenze dei membri.

Sezione femminile
La Women Archivists Roundtable (WAR) ) monitora lo stato delle donne archiviste e promuove il coinvolgimento delle donne nella professione, in particolare al'interno della Society of American Archivists.

Sebbene molte donne avessero contribuito a plasmare la SAA, lo stato delle donne nella professione archivistica non ricevette molta attenzione fino agli anni '70. Nel 1972 l'associazione istituì il Comitato sulla condizione delle donne nella professione archivistica. La popolazione femminile complessiva dei membri era cresciuta, ma poche donne avevano avuto accesso a posizioni di vertice. Il comitato cercò  di affrontare il problema della rappresentanza e di identificare le barriere e gli ostacoli per l'avanzamento delle donne.

Il Comitato condusse due indagini: una sugli archivisti e una sui direttori. Mediante questi sondaggi, il Comitato scoprì che, sebbene molte donne avessero un'istruzione e un'esperienza comparabili a quelle degli uomini, un numero limitato di esse aveva assunto posizioni amministrative.

In contemporanea alla creazione del comitato, ebbe luogo la fondazione del Women's Caucus che iniziò a pubblicare ''The SAA Women's Caucus Newsletter''.
Nel 1998 il comitato fu ribattezzato Women's Professional Archival Issues Roundtable; nel 2000, Women Archivists Roundtable; e, nel 2017, Women Archivists Section (WArS),

I sondaggi
Nel 2000 e nel 2001, il direttivo di WAR realizzò un'indagine per analizzare il rapporto tra le archiviste e la loro professione. L'indagine fu completata e pubblicata nell'agosto 2001, con un campione di 227 archiviste. Dal rapporto emerse che la maggior parte dei membri (77,1%) proveniva dall'est delle Montagne Rocciose e che quelle provenienti dal settore accademico erano personale professionale (69,6%) o archivista (53,2%), per una quota complessiva del 50.2%. La maggior parte di loro era in possesso di una laurea (97,2%), di una laurea magistrale (63,6%) e/o di una laurea magistrale in Biblioteconomia (54,3%). Il 73% era membro della SAA, mentre solo il 10% era membro del WAR. I supervisori erano per il 54,4% donne e solo il 24,1% dichiarò di non fare straordinari. E infine, «il 98,7% degli intervistati ha ritenuto che portare alla luce la storia delle donne continua a essere importante, ma solo il 77,1% si impegna collettivamente in tal senso e solo il 61,9% degli intervistati opera effettivamente con materiali relativi specificamente alle donne».

Sondaggi più recenti hanno indicato l'ascesa delle donne nelle professioni archivistiche, o addirittura una "femminizzazione" della professione. Eppure Wikipedia non dava evidenza di tale fenomeno. Nel 2016, la ricerca ha scoperto che su Wikipedia esistono solo 50 articoli dedicati a figure femminili di questa professione, rispetto a 260 voci dedicate ad archivisti di sesso maschile. E per quanto concerne gli archivisti americani, ne esistevano solo 15 per le donne contro 93 per gli uomini. Quindi, nel 2016 WARS ha ospitato un edit-a-Thon di Wikipedia ad Atlanta, e in remoto, al fine di incoraggiare le donne a contribuire al progetto e al fine di aumentare il numero di voci dedicato alle figure femminili.

Nel 2017 fu condotto un sondaggio su 1.717 dei 6.000 membri dell'SAA, pari al 25% del totale. Dell'insieme degli intervistati, l'87,7% erano bianchi e l'84,3% erano donne. Solo il 3,1% ha risposto affermando di essere afroamericano, mentre il 3,6% ha risposto di essere latinoamericano e il 3,2% ha affermato di essere bi o multirazziale. Più del 97% ha dichiarato di aver conseguito un master. Dal 1956, che aveva un'adesione del 33% di donne, la percentuale di appartenenza delle donne era cresciuta fino a superare l'82%.

Pubblicazioni
L'SAA pubblica libri e i seguenti periodici:
 American Archivist: rivista accademica semestrale dell'associazione, sottoposta a revisione paritaria. Copre gli aspetti teorici e pratici della professione, le questioni culturali, legali, tecnologiche e sociali relative alla raccolta, alla conservazione e all'accesso a documenti e materiali d'archivio, pubblicando articoli di riviste, casi di studio e recensioni di prodotti.
 Archival Outlook: la newsletter dell'associazione. Iniziata negli anni '70, la newsletter viene pubblicata 6 volte l'anno e si concentra sulle migliori pratiche della professione, sulle preoccupazioni quotidiane dell'archivista e sulle novità nell'organizzazione aziendale.
 In the Loop: newsletter elettronica bisettimanale che offre aggiornamenti sulle attività e gli interessi della SAA.

Premi e riconoscimenti
La più alta onorificenza è quella di ''fellow'', un riconoscimento assegnato dal 1957. Il numero di fellow non può eccedere il 5% dei membri di un dato anno. Per qualificarsi per la nomina, un candidato deve soddisfare tutti i requisiti accademici e tecnici della professione, essere membro dell'organizzazione da almeno 7 anni e fornire contributi significativi e di alta qualità mediante le pubblicazioni accademiche, lo svolgimento di workshop e la partecipazione a ruoli direttivi dell'organizzazione o in altri ruoli amministrativi.

Nel 1974, alla morte di suor M. Claude Lane, la Society of Southwest Archivists istituì un premo in suo onore. Nel corso degli anni, iniziò ad essere assegnato dalla SAA, pur restando gestito, sponsorizzato e finanziato dalla Society of Southwest Archivists.

La SAA riconosce anche gli studenti laureati di colore interessati alla professione archivistica. Il premio è stato istituito per la prima volta nel 1993 e in seguito è stato intitolato ad Harold T. Pinkett.

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Voci correlate
 American Library Association

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Biblioteconomia
Associazioni scientifiche e professionali
Cultura degli Stati Uniti d'America


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Chinese Insurance Giant Ping An Partners With Decentralized AI Startup SingularityNET
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Chinese insurance giant Ping An has partnered with Ethereum-based decentralized AI startup SingularityNET.
Chinese insurance giant Ping An has partnered with Ethereum (ETH)-based decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) startup SingularityNET. The latter company announced the collaboration in a press release published on Medium on March 14.
Per the release, the collaboration will at first focus on Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Computer Vision (CV) and model training. SingularityNET notes that the scope of the partnership is expected to expand to multiple industries and initiatives in the future.
The announcement has been made shortly after SingularityNET officially launched a beta version of its Ethereum-based decentralized marketplace on Thursday, Feb. 28. In January last year, the company also announced a partnership with agriculture-focused blockchain startup Hara at the World Web Forum.
Ping An is reportedly the world's most valuable insurance company, it serves 170 million customers, and ranked tenth in the Forbes Global 2000 list of world's largest public companies. As Cointelegraph reported in November last year, Ping An and the Sanya municipal government also signed a strategic cooperation agreement for "Smart City" construction involving blockchain.
The press release notes that Ping An's "One Minute Clinics" for medical consultations, which are unstaffed and use AI, are already in use in eight Chinese cities.
During the same month, Cointelegraph also reported that Ping An's banking subsidiary Ping An Bank will launch a boutique bank using blockchain, cloud services and Internet of Things (IoT) tech.
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The Health Bill will lead to GP consortia having less control over where patients are treated than PCTs have now, according to one of the RCGP's clinical commissioning champions.
Dr Brian Fisher, also on Lewisham PCT's professional executive committee, said encouraging patients to choose between providers at 'every stage' of their treatment mitigated the effect of designing specific care pathways.
Enforcing the policies of 'choice' and 'any willing provider' on consortia mean they will not be able to send patients to the best provider, said Dr Fisher.
'Our PCT currently negotiates with a number of providers and tenders out so we can select a provider that meets our requirements. At least we know the vast majority of patients will go to the local hospital and we can monitor it for quality,' he said.
Monitor chairman David Bennett has said the regulator will allow consortia to ignore competition rules if this is in patients' interests.
But from 2012, Monitor will ensure commissioners do not provide any barriers to alternative providers looking to treat NHS patients.
This month the NHS Cooperation and Competition panel (CCP) ruled that PCTs directing patients to certain providers could be breaching patients' right to choice.
Dr Fisher called for amendments to the Health Bill to allow consortia to use NHS hospitals as their preferred provider and turn to alternative providers only if they need to.
NHS Alliance chairman Dr Michael Dixon said the CCP ruling would have 'enormous consequences' on GPs' ability to control expenditure.
'If consortia redesign services to save money, this means they won't be able to ensure patients are referred to the service,' he said. The GPC recently accused the government of 'reneging' on its promise to empower GPs.
The committee feels Monitor and the NHS Commissioning Board will prevent consortia from exercising real freedom to manage budgets.
Dr Fisher said he hoped the NHS would be able to 'cobble together' a solution if no amendments were made to the Bill.


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Diablo III Launcher Upgrading to Battle.net App
The old Diablo III launcher is being replaced with the new Battle.net app
By Jennifer Davis on January-21-2014 (9 years ago)
The Battle.net desktop app is a program that keeps all of Blizzard's games up to date, and provides news about them. It has been in beta since last August, and was optionally available during that time. It will now be an upgrade for everyone, replacing the game-specific launchers and updaters like the old Diablo III launcher.
Post by Blizzard (Blue Tracker, Official Forum)
In preparation for death's imminent descent, your Diablo III game launcher will soon be upgraded to our new desktop app for Battle.net. You'll receive the update automatically with Patch 2.0.1, arriving in the weeks leading up to the March 25 release of Reaper of Souls. If you want to upgrade your launcher in advance and save yourself a little time on patch day, just download Battle.net now!
Download the Battle.net App
Battle.net features single sign-on functionality that allows players to log in once to access Diablo III, World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and the upcoming Heroes of the Storm, and lets you stay logged in for up to 30 days. Players can also install games directly through the app and keep them up-to-date automatically, as well as stay on top of the latest Blizzard news. For more information, check out the Battle.net web page.
Once Patch 2.0.1 goes live, the upgrade process will begin automatically the next time you start up the current launcher for Diablo III—or click here to download the app now and get ahead of the game.
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Navy Veteran Tapped as Next Chancellor at ND University
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BISMARCK, N.D. — The State Board of Higher Education selected Mark Hagerott as the next chancellor of the North Dakota University System on Thursday.
The board unanimously tapped Hagerott to replace Interim Chancellor Larry Skogen, whose term ends in July.
The announcement concluded a monthslong process that saw more than 20 candidates vying for the position, including one of the system's former chancellors. Hagerott beat out finalists Paul Turman and Robert Donley for the top spot.
Hagerott is a Mandan native and Rhodes scholar who became a leading cybersecurity expert and professor with the Navy. He has held several academic leadership positions over the past seven years at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he currently serves as the senior civilian and deputy director of the new Center for Cyber Security Studies.
"I am honored to be here and to be your chancellor choice from a field of very qualified candidates," Hagerott said in a statement. "You have a great system framework and I thank you for putting your faith in me and allowing me the opportunity to take the system forward into the future."
Hagerott will formally take over on July 1. His contract includes a salary of $372,000 per year, standard benefits package and $15,000 in moving expenses.
Skogen has served as interim chancellor since June 2013, when he took over for Hamid Shirvani following complaints about Shirvani's leadership style. Skogen will return to his duties as president of Bismarck State College when his term ends.


E8 Security's behavioral intelligence platform leverages self-learning security analytics designed to detect the early warning signs of critical resources being targeted by cyberthreats. The E8 Security platform automatically prioritizes alerts based on risk, and provides Security Analysts the ability to visualize the relationships between targets, explore divergent hypotheses and uncover hidden attack patterns. The E8 Security behavioral intelligence platform provides organizations a clear view of the real risks within the business environment. It further benefits organizations by integrating with their existing infrastructure, extending visibility and maximizing investments already made.


Driven by the desire for gold, some California emigrants and settlers sacrificed their sense of moral dignity for something they perceived far more valuable. As a result, they came to commit one of the worst atrocities in American history: the California Indian Genocide. The program is by Great Basin Institute Research Associate Jens Camp.


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Source claims Ozil has date for contract decision
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A new report has suggested that Mesut Ozil has set a time frame for when he wants to make a decision over his new Arsenal contract.
The Germany international has been in impressive form for the Gunners this season, scoring nine goals and racking up six assists in all competitions.
However, with his contract set to expire after next season, rumours have linked the 28-year-old with a move away from the Emirates stadium.
Discussions between the club and Ozil have stalled thus far but the Daily Star are claiming that the midfielder is planning on revealing his decision in the "middle of the winter transfer window".
The report is also suggesting that Ozil is demanding a high amount of £250,000-a-week in wages which is yet to be offered by the Gunners.
Should the former Real Madrid star make it clear that he is not interested in extending his deal at the club, Arsenal will have no choice but to sell him during the summer to avoid losing him to free-agency.
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Durrants Hill Road Bridge No 152 is a minor waterways place minor waterways place place on the waterways major waterways place village town city on the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford) between Bulbourne Junction (Junction of Grand Union Wendover Arm with Main Line, Braunston 55¼ miles / Wendover 6¾ miles) (10 miles and 5 furlongs and 19 locks to the west) and Grove Ornamental Bridge No 164 (4 miles and 5¼ furlongs and 11 locks to the southeast).
The nearest place in the direction of Bulbourne Junction is Two Waters Road Bridge No 151 (Hemel Hempstead Town Centre a quarter of a mile north. K2 Curry House by bridge); 2½ furlongs away.
The nearest place in the direction of Grove Ornamental Bridge No 164 is Apsley Top Lock No 65; 1¼ furlongs away.
Turners Hill, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 — 1278 yards to the north.
Unit A3, Riverside, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1BT — 1028 yards to the north.
Hemel Hempstead, HP39SB — 261 yards to the south.
Hayfield Lakes, Doncaster, DN9 3NP — 547 yards to the west.
Hemel Hempstead — 1133 yards to the north.
Park Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1JS — 967 yards to the northwest.
London Rd, Apsley., Hemel Hempstead, HP3 9 — 1450 yards to the south.
Hemel Hempstead — 1358 yards to the north.
Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1LE — 1556 yards to the north.
Hemel Hempstead — 1422 yards to the east.
62 London Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 9 — 233 yards to the southwest.
Hemel Hempstead — 1372 yards to the north.
Hertford — 1625 yards to the east.
Hemel Hempstead — 1387 yards to the north.
St. Albans Hill, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 9NH — 971 yards to the northeast.
Hemel Hempstead — 139 yards to the southwest.
London Rd, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 9 — 969 yards to the southeast.
Hemel Hempstead, HP3 9 — 242 yards to the southwest.
125 Marlows, Hemel Hempstead, HP11BB — 1483 yards to the north.
Hemel Hempstead — 897 yards to the northwest.
Hemel Hempstead, HP2 5TG — 1251 yards to the northwest.
Hemel Hempstead — 1479 yards to the north.
27 Lamsey road, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 9HB — 776 yards to the north.
Jarman Leisure Park Unit 9, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 4JW — 1428 yards to the northeast.
Hemel Hempstead, HP3 9 — 1483 yards to the east.
64a London Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP39SD — 242 yards to the southwest.
Bennetts end, Hemel Hempstead, HP39LE — 1231 yards to the east.
Apsley Business Centre, 233 London Road, Apsley, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 9SE — 283 yards to the west.
4 waterhouse Street, Hemel Hempstead, 11 — 1552 yards to the north.
Hemel Hempstead — 1247 yards to the northwest.
Hemel Hempstead — 1578 yards to the northeast.
142 Cotterells, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1JQ — 1166 yards to the northwest.
1a Amberside House, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 4TP — 1097 yards to the north.
6 Charles Street, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1JH — 1198 yards to the northwest.
Broadfield Primary School, Windmill Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 4DW — 1578 yards to the northeast.
St. John's road, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1JR — 1353 yards to the northwest.
Saint Albans — 112 yards to the southwest.
Sherwater Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 0 — 1086 yards to the southwest.
268 yards to the south.
Jarman Square, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 4JW — 1389 yards to the northeast.
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The project has two buildings, counting 34 elderly housing units in total, to accommodate elderly people who are not invalid and can live independently. A central heating system is installed per building based on condensing boilers. The water of the central heating system is used for the individual production of sanitary hot water per apartment. An invoice per apartment is possible because of individual water, electricity and heat meters. PV panels are installed on the roof of both buildings for the energy consumption of the common parts.
The housing complex consists of two compact buildings with 10 and 24 housing units respectively, designed to meet the needs of independent seniors, with special attention to comfort, accessibility and safety. The austere design had to result in a contemporary and sober architectural appearance without disturbing the neighborhood. The target group of the apartments is elderly citizens of Kampenhout and surroundings who want to live independently in a comfortable, well-arranged apartment in a familiar setting.
Each apartment consists of an entry way, a living room, a bed room, a sanitary cell, a kitchen and a store room. The entry way has a cloak room. The living room and open kitchen constitute one room drenched in daylight entering through a large window offering a panoramic view onto the surroundings and opening onto the terrace. The kitchen is fully equipped and is flanked by a compact but convenient store room. From the sitting area you can go straight to the spacious bedroom, connected to a wheelchair accessible bathroom with wash stand, toilet and shower. The surface of the senior apartments varies between 50 and 60 m². The occupants have access to a common living area.
Every apartment has its own connection to the water, electricity, telephone and television network. The apartments are heated by a common energy-saving condensing boiler, but they have their own calorimeters. The building physics, more specifically isolation/ventilation/heating, meet the newest demands concerning energy performance regulations. The exterior joinery consists of thermal break aluminium with super insulating glazing. All south facing windows are equipped with integrated sun protection. The acoustic comfort between the apartments is guaranteed by double masonry walls with acoustic insulation inserted according to the mass-spring-mass principle. The slightly increased parking pressure will be easily compensated by the provided parking spaces.


How do I get a draggable to revert to the original position only if it was dragged onto an invalid droppable?
I have an element I want to allow to be dragged anywhere. However, if it is dropped onto a droppable which refuses it (via accept) I want it to revert to the original position before the drag. How can I accomplish this?
EDIT: to be more specific: I want two conditions to be met in order for the item to be moved back: 1. It was dropped on a droppable and 2. The droppable didnt accept said item. Draggable's revert option only checks condition 2.
I have some code which I think should work. Note that it doesn't use the accept option to specify which draggables the droppables will accept. Instead, you'll have to check whether or not a draggable should be rejected manually, in the drop event.
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An electronic signature is the electronic equivalent of a personal signature. It encompasses some significant enhancements such as security integrity, authentication etc., which makes this component more and more important. For some document types like electronic invoices or legal documentations a signature is mandatory. This is based on EU directive 1999/93/EG ("Signature Directive"), the German signature law SigG and the signature act SigV.


This week Acne Studios celebrated the first anniversary of their LA store and released a limited-edition sweatshirt capsule collection to commemorate the occasion. The classic style features a graphic of the Eastern Columbia Building (the location in Downtown LA that houses the store) and comes in pale green, light pink and heather gray for both men and women. Style with tailored pants and sneakers for a comfortable Saturday outfit that shows your solidarity with the Swedish super-brand.


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Coming soon. BW Powe new Book of Poems and Fragments.
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Correcting the Errors in the Ottawa Citizen article, Friday March 4th, 2016
To the editors of the Ottawa Citizen:
There are two errors in the Ottawa Citizen piece on my book on Marshall McLuhan and Nothrop Frye and my presentation at Carlton University that very much need addressing:
One: I am not the Creative Writing Program Coordinator at York University. I haven't been since July 2014. The CW Coordinator is Michael Helm, a well known and much respected novelist. He's been doing a remarkable job, and deserves the acknowledgment.
Two: I would never have said (and could never have said) Marshall McLuhan didn't read books. He read voraciously. What I said must have been this, "His preference was for the oral." I talked about how he listened deeply to the voices in poems. I said that his primary sensory approaches were oral-audile-tactile. And that he encouraged us to both read and listen to the books of the world.
I would never have perpetuated the cliche and misconception that McLuhan somehow didn't read.
In fact, he was much more of an attentive practical literary critic (following in the I.A. Richards' line) than was Frye. Frye tended to read poems in terms of how they fit his grand theoretical scheme. McLuhan always looked closely at a poem, instructing us on its tonalities, rhythms, forms and effects.
This is important to convey.
I hope these necessary corrections will be acknowledged.
B.W. Powe
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William Blake, Richard Holmes, Northrop Frye, and Canada: An unpublished letter by BWP to the New York Review of Books
To the Editors of the New York Review of Books
Regarding Richard Holmes article, "The Greatness of William Blake" (NYROB, December 3rd, 2015)
I'm an admirer of Richard Holmes' writings. His biographies of Coleridge I keep close on my book shelf. So I turned to his essay, "The Greatness of William Blake", with anticipation. I was rewarded with pleasures. He writes a rich Pater-ish prose. I've always been impressed with his keen sympathy for his subjects. But I was startled, when, after his summary of the ideas in Heather Jackson's Those Who Write for Immortality, towards the end of his essay, he joins Northrop Frye with a list of American writers. I may have misread his meaning, but he implies that Frye is part of an American discourse. Frye was born in Quebec; he grew up in New Brunswick, and then spent the greater part of his teaching life at the University of Toronto. All of his major works were written in Toronto.
Holmes rightly says there are many Blakes. And there is a Canadian Blake. The Canadian cunning sublime tacitly diverges from the American imaginative vision and critical debate. So we must diverge, lest we be overwhelmed by the cultural force of the Empire to the south. Frye reinvented Blake in his masterwork, Fearful Symmetry (1947), turning him into a dissident of the imagination, envisioning alternative states of consciousness, heightened states of being, malleable realities, a politics steeped in the missionary imperative to restore visions of a utopian Jerusalem, an exaltation of a singular, prophetic voice calling from the wilderness or the margins.
You find another example of Frye's radical Blake-like statements in The Educated Imagination (1962). There he heretically (and beguilingly) says that the imagination prevails over ideology: imagination is the source not only of reverie but of transformation. Frye championed seeing realities, not just one reality, on the material plane. His posthumously published essay, The Double Vision (1991, the title drawn from one of Blake's letters), carries this myriad-minded vision to its extreme: death becomes a mental category, all dimensions of reality subject to poetics. Frye's insights burned from the intense inwardness of the life he found in Toronto, and from his recognition of the frontiers of the new, northern experience.
His eminent colleague in the English Department at the University of Toronto was Marshall McLuhan. The various McLuhan often turned Blakean, identifying changes of cognition with changes in media (we become what we behold). Blake's spectacular engravings and visual illuminations influenced McLuhan's multi-media works, especially The Medium is the Massage (1968) and the aphorisms and advertisements of Culture is our Business (1970). McLuhan's teasing satiric and revelatory impulses were indebted to The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. If there's anyone we can claim to be prophetic—uncannily so—it's McLuhan, who foresaw electronic technology changing how we communicate, what we sense and intuit, even consciousness itself. The global village vision came from a thinker living in a city that wasn't then the centre of anything.
You can see Blake's influence through the impact of these formidable teachers (Frye and McLuhan directly and indirectly educated generations of writers, teachers, film-makers, musicians, and politicians) and in many searching Canadian figures. Look at Margaret Atwood's parables of catastrophe; Irving Layton's apocalyptic reimagining of the poetics of identity; Leonard Cohen's phantasmagoric Beautiful Losers (1966), and his beautiful early lyrics of innocence and experience; A. F. Moritz's elegiac poems where dreamlife and perceptions of mortality fuse; in Michael Ondaatje's first fictions that spiritedly mix modes. Anne Carson seems to stand aside from the Blakean current in Canada by making Sappho, Euripides, Simone Weil, Emily Bronte, her imaginative companions and collaborators. Yet in Carson's unique writings there are muted tinges of Blakean ecstasies: her books combine poetry, prose, dramas, images, aphorisms and essays.
I doubt if the redoubtable Holmes would have said that the great Mexican poet, Octavio Paz (himself in Blake's thrall) was inside the American discourse. You could say Paz is, like Canadian artists and thinkers, part of the Americas. Still, there is this persistence in melding Canadian writers with the Emerson, Whitman, tradition and with contemporary theorists in the United States. This forgets one of Blake's great auguries: the visionary imagination–charged with paradoxes—is audaciously unique to a time and place, and without borders, a mental realm that gives shape to a communion of inspirations and perceptions. The poetic spirit, unlike Wilde's muses, doesn't care for geography (or history) and yet does care.
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July 8 & 15, 2013 Issue
Adieu, Doma!
By Jeffrey Toobin
Illustration by Tom Bachtell
The Supreme Court's embrace of gay rights last week had an almost serene majesty. The obvious correctness of the Court's judgment, its curt dismissal of a monstrous injustice, had a grandeur that requires little elaboration. Yet the decision had its roots in something prosaic and largely forgotten: the midterm elections of 1986. Until that point in Ronald Reagan's Presidency, the loyal opposition was more loyal than opposed to the genial Californian in the White House, but Democrats came roaring back, winning control of the Senate with eight new seats. It took Reagan and his aides some time to recognize the realignment on Capitol Hill. After the resignation of Lewis F. Powell, Jr., from the Court, in 1987, Reagan nominated Robert Bork. He would have been an ideological twin to Antonin Scalia, who had been confirmed with ease the previous year. But the Democrats in the Senate, especially the new chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Joseph Biden, picked a fight over Bork and defeated his nomination by fifty-eight to forty-two. In response, Howard Baker, the former senator turned White House chief of staff, urged Reagan to acknowledge the new political realities and make a more moderate choice. Reagan did; he selected Anthony M. Kennedy.
In Kennedy's twenty-five years on the Court, the Justices have handed down three major decisions vindicating the rights of gay Americans. In 1996, in Romer v. Evans, the Justices invalidated a Colorado law that preëmptively barred any attempt to protect gay rights; in 2003, in Lawrence v. Texas, they ruled that gay people could not be criminally prosecuted for having consensual sex; and last week, in United States v. Windsor, they declared unconstitutional the odious and ill-named Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Anthony Kennedy wrote all three opinions. There's little evidence that Reagan cared much for gay rights, but Republican moderates—that vanished species—played an important role in his Administration, and Kennedy has reflected their libertarian kind of tolerance during his long and consequential tenure.
DOMA denied all the federal benefits of marriage to same-sex couples who were wed under state law. To a degree rare in the dusty archives of the Supreme Court, Kennedy's opinion striking the law down is a pleasure, even a thrill, to read. He can be windy and verbose at times, but the Windsor opinion is bracingly plainspoken. "DOMA instructs all federal officials, and indeed all persons with whom same-sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriages of others," Kennedy wrote. "The principal purpose and the necessary effect of this law are to demean those persons who are in a lawful same-sex marriage."
The Windsor case reached this happy conclusion because of the courage of the gay citizens who decided to stand up and fight, especially Edith Windsor, the widow who had been denied the federal tax benefits that surviving spouses are entitled to; because of the skillful advocacy of their lawyers, notably Roberta Kaplan, the private counsel who argued for Windsor, and Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., the Solicitor General, who put the Obama Administration on the right side of this case, and of history; and because of Kennedy and his four colleagues in the majority: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan.
"Listen carefully, I don't have much time."
But the real reason that Windsor, and the country, won was that Democrats won—in the eighties, when the Senate turned down Bork, and in 2008, when Barack Obama defeated John McCain. To an extent that the public and, especially, the Justices themselves rarely acknowledge, the Supreme Court is a political body. It reflects, above all, the values and the priorities of the Presidents who nominate the Justices and the senators who confirm them (or refuse to do so). There is a lingering mythology that Justices turn out to surprise the Presidents who appoint them to the Court. That was last true during the Eisenhower Administration. It is inconceivable that any modern Republican would nominate Justices in the mold of Kennedy. George W. Bush's choices for the Court—John G. Roberts, Jr., and Samuel A. Alito, Jr., who both voted to uphold DOMA—still represent the Republican prototype. It is a similar guarantee that Obama—or, perhaps, a President Hillary Clinton—will nominate Justices who will protect and expand gay rights.
To be sure, Kennedy reflects the less salutary aspects of the Reagan legacy as well, and that side of his character was also on display last week. In Shelby County v. Holder, Kennedy joined with Roberts, Scalia, Alito, and Clarence Thomas to gut the Voting Rights Act, the crowning achievement of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Like Reagan, who disgraced himself by opening his 1980 general-election campaign in Neshoba County, Mississippi, the scene of a notorious murder of civil-rights workers, Kennedy has a blind spot when it comes to race. Immediately after the Shelby County decision, states and counties in the South announced that they would take advantage of the ruling to jam through legal changes that will make it harder for minorities and poor people to vote. Also last week, Kennedy was at his Delphic worst in a case challenging the admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin. Kennedy criticized the university's approach to affirmative action but suggested, vaguely, that some racial preferences might be tolerated; pity the poor admissions officers who try to make sense of the opinion. In any case, judicial restraint is not Kennedy's style. He was the only Justice to vote to overturn both DOMA and the key provision of the Voting Rights Act, even though Congress had passed them with overwhelming support. Characteristically, too, Kennedy was the only Justice to be on the winning side in both cases.
Polls show that about fifty-five per cent of the American people now support same-sex marriage. Roughly the same percentage of the nine Justices seem to feel the same way. (The Justices rarely stray too far from public opinion.) And, as with the public, the trends on the Court are all heading in a clear direction. Twelve states and the District of Columbia allow same-sex marriage today; thanks to the Court's decision last week in the Proposition 8 case, California will almost certainly soon join the list. The next piece of unfinished legal business is to guarantee the right to marriage equality in the rest of the country. Some states, like Oregon and Illinois (after a false start this year), will probably end their prohibitions in the next year or so. But ultimately the Supreme Court will have to step in to complete the nation's journey on marriage equality, just as it did in Loving v. Virginia, from 1967, when the Justices rejected the last remaining bans on interracial marriage. Kennedy's opinion in Windsor makes plain that that day is drawing ever nearer. Scalia, as it happens, saw this more clearly than anyone. "The real rationale of today's opinion," he wrote in his dissent, "is that DOMA is motivated by a 'bare . . . desire to harm' couples in same-sex marriages." And he added, "How easy it is, indeed how inevitable, to reach the same conclusion with regard to state laws denying same-sex couples marital status." Scalia's declaration was meant as a threat. We should consider it a promise. ♦
This article appears in the print edition of the July 8 & 15, 2013, issue.
Jeffrey Toobin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993 and the senior legal analyst for CNN since 2002. He is the author of, most recently, "American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst."
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Dcn. Joshua LeBlanc gives lively talk on Church Dedication
Rev. Mr. Joshua LeBlanc, a deacon at St. Leo IV Church in Roberts Cove, recently gave a lively talk on how the Rite of the Dedication of a Church mirrors the sacramental life of a Christian. The talk was wide ranging, as he fielded questions on a variety of topics at the end of the talk.
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Tim Donovan to kick off new Back-to-Basics Series
The 2019-2020 Back-to-Basics season will begin Sept. 9 with a talk about by Tim Donovan about his conversion and the power and grace of the Holy Eucharist. Tim is currently a diaconate candidate for Sacred Heart parish.
The talk will be from 5:30-6:30 at the Family Life Series. It is free and open to the public.
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OLQAS & KVPI: A Match Made In Heaven
KVPI Radio and Our Lady Queen of All Saints Catholic Church are a match made in Heaven! In the past two months, KVPI Radio has featured our pastor (Fr. Mitch Guidry); our parochial vicar & former parishioner (Fr. Brad Guillory); and a former parishioner – and current Sacred Heart pastor (Fr. Jason Vidrine) on it's Tasse de Café program.
Fr. Mitch Guidry is being interviewed by parishioner Charlie Manuel about the Rome pilgrimage.
Fr. Brad Guillory was a guest of Charlie Manuel and KVPI General Manager Mark Layne.
Fr. Jason Vidrine is being interviewed by longtime radio personality (and Sacred Heart parishioner) Jim Soileau.
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Ashley's tears are so powerful, that they managed to keep her in Paradise even when she wasn't chosen in The Rose Ceremony. And while certainly Ashley's histrionics are a big part of this week's episodes, a lot more happened too. So very much happened.
This week is full of questions including: Why does Ashley just get to come back because she's crying? Why does Jared do her bidding just because she cries? Was this whole Ashley returning thing contrived by production? Is that why she didn't have to get special permission from Chris Harrison? What is the purpose of a Rose Ceremony if all someone has to do is cry in order to stay? But the most important question of all – what kind of bullet-proof makeup is Ashley wearing? That makeup is so good it never ever runs when she cries!
Everything about Ashley I centers around Jared. Which leads us to conclude that Jared needs to "man up." Yes, he did tell Ashley, in no uncertain terms, that he wasn't interested. However, his behavior is confusing and enables Ashley in her hysterics. Plus, doesn't he see that Ashley manipulates him? Jared is allowing himself to be told what to do and what to think. He needs to distance himself from Ashley for his own sake as well as Ashley's. The whole situation is completely unhealthy for both of them. We predict that if something doesn't change and change quickly, Jared will lose Caila and any hope of any future relationship with any other woman too! Who would want to get in the middle of some weird love triangle with Ashley and Jared?
Doesn't Ashley Recognize Her Own Worth?
We can all see that Ashley is quite stunning – why can't she see it too? She is truly one of the most beautiful women in the world. She is beyond gorgeous and has so much going for her. She needs to see and recognize both her inner and outer beauty and realize that she deserves someone who wants to be with her in a healthy way.
Ashley look at yourself. You have it all. You are stunning and hot and by the way, we loved your bathing suit. Value yourself first and everything else will follow. You don't even seem to realize how awesome you are inside and out. You are blind to her own worth. Let Jared go.
Melly doesn't understand why Bachelor producers always seem to send the contestants on sweaty dates. Of course, we all have come to learn that Melly doesn't like the heat and we think her take on the "hot dates" is really funny.
As for the Evan and Carly's relationship: Melly has trouble seeing them as a couple, but Lourdes thinks that Carly is making a very wise decision in at least giving Evan a chance. Evan apparently only sees the beauty in Carly and doesn't care whether or not she is sweaty. Evan is truly a "nice guy." Melly agrees that while Evan is nice, she believes that chemistry is important too. Whether Carly is attracted or not to him physically is obviously still developing. We'll see how this progresses. It is interesting how sometimes someone is so awesome "on the inside" that they start to look great "on the outside" and vice versa. Is this what is happening with Carly?
It was good to see this couple again and we were excited to see that they gave the date to Jared and Caila. We can see why Jade and Tanner made that decision, but we don't see Jared and Caila lasting unless Jared gets things straightened out with Ashley I.
Caila is beautiful. Lourdes is not pleased that the women on the show and on the after-show continually talk about Caila being too perfect and therefore "fake." Lourdes thinks that people are just jealous of Caila. That jealousy is more telling of those calling Caila fake than of Caila.
We are genuinely surprised at how these two men have become likable and "the voice of reason." For the first time, Nick isn't being a villain. He's just being a normal guy who seems easy-going – just letting things happen. Nick seems like a completely different person. Was his prior persona something that he created? Was he really like that? Did the editing of the prior shows make him seem like a weasel? How did his image change so quickly? This "New Nick" helps us to understand more of what Andi and Kaitlyn saw in him.
Similarly Daniel has changed from Chad's sidekick to just plain fun. We like how he speaks an unfiltered truth. Sure Daniel is a little, shall we say, "different." But Daniel is entertaining and fun. We like Nick and Daniel and are very glad they are both on the show. Do you like them too?
We thought it was very telling that Jade and Tanner didn't give Josh and Amanda the date card. Josh clearly did all of the "right things" in front of Jade and Tanner. But Tanner said that it seemed like Josh's behavior was put-on. Does Tanner know something that Amanda does not – at least yet?
To her credit, at least Izzy told Vinny sooner rather than later that she needed to end their relationship. However, Vinny was completely blind-sided. In the after show Izzy said that she regretted her actions and Vinny was asked if their relationship had a chance. We were so glad that Vinny said no. We were happy that Vinny thought enough of himself to realize that he needs someone who loves him for who he is. Ashley needs to learn from Vinny!
We also love Vinny's mother so much. She cooks and brings meatballs -that's the perfect mom! Plus, she's a lot of fun and we love that she's so passionate about her family. We would love to see Vinny as the next Bachelor but we think that might not happen. If history repeats itself, the next Bachelor will likely be Luke or Chase and we like them too.
Grant said "I love you" to Lace. Will Lace ever say it back? What do you think? Leave your comment below!
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As summer officially begins, we're introducing two delicious and refreshing new single origin coffees that our amazing baristas are ready and excited to make for you.
We've got another special Colombian coffee: the La Pradera Gesha. Just like wine grapes and apples, the coffee plant comes in many different varieties, and the Gesha variety is the most famous and highly-prized coffee varieties there is. If you see a Gesha coffee, you're right to expect a hugely aromatic coffee with lots of complexity and even more sweetness. This particular Gesha comes from Dionel Lopez Chiolito's farm La Pradera in the Huila region of Colombia. A few years ago he switched a part of his farm to Gesha and was rewarded with a super-fruity, interesting, and overall delicious coffee. It has grape and tropical fruit notes that taste like candy, yet the sweetness is never cloying or boring. As it cools, more and more flavors reveal themselves (and that's true of any good coffee, but this one's like getting lost in a Cezanne painting). And lest this talk of complexity and taxonomy make this all sound very complicated, fear not: these are big, fun flavors we're dealing with here, and we're confident that if you give La Pradera a shot, you'll taste 'em.
Our second summer offering comes from one of our very favorite coffee origins, Burundi. Coffees from Burundi tend to have a really great balance between the fruit notes you'd expect from East African coffees and lots of big sugar browning flavors, and this Kiryama definitely fits that profile. Just like the delicious Karehe coffee we served in the spring, Kiryama comes to us from our friends at JNP Coffee in Burundi, who work with farmers and mills throughout Burundi and buy some really great coffee. It's a really pleasant coffee, hitting you with sweet, juicy orange notes right off the bat and remaining eminently drinkable throughout. There's dark fruit like blackberry and the aftertaste is of some sort of fancy candy bar.
Both of these coffees are available on our Aeropress bar, and they're available both hot and iced. Do summer right and drink these wonderful coffees before they're gone.


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Meet H.E.R, R&B's Rising Star
by Khaoula Ghanem
Anonymous as she may be, H.E.R (an acronym for Having Everything Revealed,) has had a whirlwind couple of years. She first made headlines when her debut EP, H.E.R. Volume 1, a soulful 7-track collection of ballads, reached number one on the iTunes R&B chart in 2016. Having found fans in the likes of Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Usher, and Kendall Jenner, the California native went on to join Bryson Tiller on tour last year, and unveiled a follow-up EP titled H.E.R. Vol. 2, which she is currently supporting with her very own Lights On Tour.
Earlier this month, the singer (born Gabi Wilson) who is currently working on her third EP took a break from her headlining tour to hit the Puma stage at the sixth edition of Sole DXB for the first time. "I'm so excited to be in Dubai," she exclaims. She's wearing an oversized Fenty Puma by Rihanna varsity sweater and white cropped sweatpants, which she elevates with intricate henna decorations on her hands. Her larger-than-life, burnished tendrils frame her soft features. Preferring to keep her identity as mysterious as possible, the enigmatic 20-year-old hides behind a pair of black, oversized sunglasses.
"I always feel like we focus too much on image and the flashiness of what it means to be an artist," she says. "I think people often tend to listen to music with their eyes and not their ears, and I just wanted my work to shine, and to be able to convey my message without imagery taking away from that."
But although her exact identity is shrouded in mystery, the breakout singer's discography is an extremely personal collection of confessionals. Her emotional tracks address everything from love, pain, heartbreak, and loss that caters to women and men of any age. "I'm not trying to change you/I'm just scared you're gone away" she croons with her smooth, haunting voice in the Vol. 2 track Gone Away. On the track, H.E.R addresses the way that two people in a relationship can sometimes drift. "I was very emotional when I wrote that song," she recalls. "It's a very personal song, a lot of people say they relate to it."
However, the singer admits that she isn't really thinking about what is most relatable to her fans when she's writing. "I always say that my music is my diary," she reveals. "It's very personal to me. Sometimes I'll just go on my piano and just start playing what I'm feeling. It all depends on what I'm feeling at the moment."
The daughter of a musician father, the multi-talented singer admits there was never a time where she wasn't making music. A former child prodigy of sorts, H.E.R plays a number of instruments including the piano, drums, guitar, and bass and snagged a record deal with RCA Records (the same label Kehlani, Sza, and PartyNextDoor are signed to) at the tender age of 14. But despite making music for the past decade, H.E.R is still taken aback by all of the attention she's receiving. "It's so very surreal to me, it doesn't feel like it's really happening," she says. "I'm just thinking about everything happening from being on tour with Bryson Tiller to headlining my own tour. I've received so much love from these two EP's, it's just really exciting and fun— and now I'm in Dubai because of my music."
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