This was my studio at the Brew House, a non-profit artist co-op located on the South Side of Pittsburgh. Below are some photographs of the space from 2003 – 2005. I was creating puppet shows, paintings, drawings and lots of kinetic sculpture at the time. To get to the studio, I had to take an old freight or passenger elevator. (depending on which one was working) The window looked out on a dilapidated wall of rusty pipes in a corridor of the 1890 brewery building. To visitors, I probably seemed like the Sebastian character from Blade Runner, living in an old industrial structure with a bunch of puppets!
This was the "kitchen" area.
Duquesne Brewery employees that I discovered in the room.
My puppet group completed the show Perseus, Medusa and the Magic Frisbee in the space. The hour-long production involving ten puppeteers, four voice actors, two musicians and twenty puppets was featured at the Black Sheep Puppet Festival in 2003.
I constantly thought the place was haunted.
It's nice too see how the space was when you were there. Full of life and energy. (Can't help noticing a few code violations around the heat sources though!) The first time I saw the space, it was empty and the view outside of the window was as incredible as it was depressing. Thanks for posting the images.


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Great Film: Lost in Translation
May 30, 2014 Sam M.
– Bob Harris, Lost in Translation
This is the most beautiful proclamation ever spoken on film. They are the last words in Sofia Coppola's 2003 film Lost in Translation, spoken by Bill Murray in the back of a taxi cab on the way to the airport. They aren't words of unabashed joy, or even words that suggest hope for a bright future. They are the assurance that things are okay for now. If that sounds like a sad statement, trust me, it's absolutely not. In truth, it's the exact opposite. It's a statement of glorious purpose and truth. Those two little words are those of a sad, lonely man who finally found, for a brief moment, connection with another individual.
Let me take a step back: Bob Harris is a fading actor in an unhappy marriage promoting a whiskey in Tokyo. Charlotte is a lonesome Yale graduate and aspiring photographer who can't connect with her husband. They meet in the hotel bar and in a series of conversations, nights walking about and visiting parties, eventually, form a connection. Then Bob leaves Tokyo, he and Charlotte say goodbye, and that's the end of it.
It's not a story with plenty of twists and turns. In fact, every moment in the film follows the other exactly how it should. It follows the predictable patterns seen literally billions of times before in our own lives. That's where the brilliance of the film lives.
Much of Charlotte's screen time is filled by her wandering around Tokyo alone, set to the most beautiful soundtrack of all time. Her POV shots of the city aren't objective landscape shots, meant to merely look pretty. As Charlotte watches people cross the streets in large, chaotic, beautiful herds, there is a loneliness, a longing for connection, a sublime appreciation for strangers.
Bill Murray's performance is the best of his career. His acting is so nuanced, his gestures fine-tuned to perfection, that he doesn't seem to be acting at all. Bob Harris has real loneliness, a flawed yet likable human being. It's a miracle of film.
The cinematography is glowing, dream-like, as if the entire film is a joint memory of Bob and Charlotte. The humor is quietly hilarious, encapsulating the confusion of being in another country. And Anna Farris' performance as a ditzy American actress is incredible. I'm not kidding you.
A favorite film is very personal. I don't expect Lost in Translation to be everyone's favorite. It's certainly not as vast as other films. It's an intimate and small film. Yet watching it, I can't help myself. It's how I see the world, observe other people, hear music, see the faces I make when I'm talking to myself. It's perfect, and it's marvelous, and I love it so much. I hope you do too.
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Maplewood Rotary made its second annual donation this year to Camp Maple - a six-week program offered to children with special needs who reside in Maplewood and South Orange. The program, run by the Maplewood Recreation Department, provides opportunities for gross and fine motor development as well as cognitive and social growth. Bowling, swimming, a visit to the zoo, and Imagine That are among the field trips the kids enjoy. The program costs $600 and is based at Tuscan School in Maplewood. The program is headed by George Rague, Director of Recreation & Cultural Affairs and Noelle Stewart-Sullivan.
On Thursday, July 29th, Christian Quaritius, Carol Gilligan, Caroline Gosselin and Noah Miller of the Maplewood Rotary Club spent time with the camp, as the children enjoyed pony rides in Memorial Park.
The outing was featured on Patch.com – you can read the story with this link: http://maplewood.patch.com/articles/rotary-presents-check-to-special-needs-camp or you can take a look at our photo gallery of the event: http://www.clubrunner.ca/portal/Journals/JournalDetails.aspx?accountid=4064&jid=26804.


The African Grey Congo Parrot Psittacus erithacus is one good looking parrot, and is also said to be one the smartest birds. They are known to be the best talkers in the bird world achieving an unparalleled vocabulary which is extremely articulate. The African Greys can learn 200 or more words and all kinds of tricks. They also frequently imitate the sounds of their environment, including people.
Congo African Greys have a gentle nature over all. Their demeanor, along with the ability to talk and mimics sounds have made them popular pets. Yet keeping them as a pet companion is challenging, and not for everyone. These are long-lived, highly intelligent birds that need a great deal of stimulation to keep from becoming bored.
Greys are often described as having the intelligence of a five year old and the temperament of a two year old. I truly believe they are 3 year olds dressed in feathers. A bored, unstimulated African Grey is prone to developing unpleasant behaviors and even health problems. Problem behaviors like feather plucking are very hard to reverse one they start.


The Chief Executive Officer of the New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD), Ibrahim Mayaki, has said that the ongoing 4,500-km Algiers-Lagos Trans-Saharan Highway construction would ease transportation.
The trans-Saharan Highway will also reduce transport costs between the two countries and boost intra-African trade.
He also added that the North-South transport corridor covering 2,800 km of road and rail networks between South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi would reduce transportation cost as well and boost intra-African trade.
Mr. Mayaki spoke at a joint news conference with the UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Africa, Maged Abdelaziz.
He said that the critical need to enhance Africa´s cross-border trade and sustainable development informed the decision to promote the programme for infrastructure development in Africa.
The NEPAD chief added that the programme, developed by the AU Commission, NEPAD, and the African Development Bank, was designed to transform Africa and bridge its massive infrastructure gap.
"At the mo ment, Africa is the least integrated continent in the world, with low levels of intra-regional economic exchange and the smallest share of global trade," he said.
According to him, infrastructure inefficiencies is costing the continent billions of dollars annually and stunting growth.
He said that the 51 Programme projects would lead to a robust regional system, fueling international trade, job creation and sustainable economic growth.
Mr. Mayaki also explained that those projects would be spread across the four infrastructure sectors, namely energy, transport, trans-boundary water, information and communication technology.
"Through those projects, Africa´s global competitiveness would improve, thereby boosting socio-economic growth and development on the continent,´´ he stressed.
He said that NEPAD was also harnessing support in the agricultural sector, stressing that under the African Bioscience Initiative, biodiversity, biotechnology, indigenous knowledge systems and technology were been engaged to address challenges.
On the partnership between NEPAD and the Departments of Political Affairs and Public Information, Mr. Abdelaziz highlighted the work of the departments in coordinating and integrating activities to promote African issues and development.
Responding to reporters´ questions on NEPAD activities, Mr. Mayaki emphasised the importance of putting NEPAD on the international agenda as Africa´s own development agency.
He also stressed the need to mobilise resources to support the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa and called for greater efforts to address the "massive" poverty in Africa.
Answering a reporter´s question on development, peace, and security in Africa, both Messrs Mayaki and Abdelaziz spoke of the need for a durable peace that would enable Africans to benefit from the lofty objectives of NEPAD and the mechanism, as well as the many other efforts and agenda being implemented.
Mr. Abdelaziz also added that the Secretary-General, during his recent visit with the World Bank Group President to Africa´s Great Lakes region, had reiterated the need to achieve peace and security in order for growth and development to thrive.
The Office of the Special Adviser on Africa and the African Peer Review Mechanism had been established a decade ago and had, over that time, worked closely together towards fulfilling their mandates.
The Mechanism was a collective pledge by African leaders to address the challenges of bad governance, persistent poverty and underdevelopment.
It was the governance flagship of the AU, designed to promote the adoption of policies, standards and practices that would lead to political stability.
Over the last 10 years, the Mechanism had achieved increased citizen participation in political and economic management, among others, she added.
Pointing out that engagement was on a voluntary basis, she said that, currently, 33 member States of the AU had acceded to the Mechanism, while 17 countries had completed the first review process.
Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda are among those that completed the first cycle of implementation and were now preparing for a second review.


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Toronto Blue Jays taste victory in 4-3 win over the Chicago White Sox
The Toronto Blue Jays were happy to see the back of the Twins and took full advantage of facing a new opponent. In turn, they were able to turn their tough stretch around and end their winless run.
Randal Grichuk hit a three-run homer, while Teoscar Hernandez added a fine solo shot as the Blue Jays snapped their season-worst, five-game losing streak with a 4-3 win over the Chicago White Sox on Friday evening.
Also, Grichuk's two-out blast during the first inning was his sixth of the season and came off starter Dylan Covey. Meanwhile, the homer gave the Blue Jays more runs with one swing than they had previously scored in three straight losses against the Twins earlier this week. The Jays were shut out in the first two games and lost 9-1 in Wednesday's final game of the series.
"I think the off day was big for us," Toronto's Justin Smoak said. He was referring to Thursday's break in the schedule which allowed the Jays to regroup. "Minnesota is the hottest team in baseball right now, so it was a tough series. We really had nothing going against them. To get a couple of big home runs tonight and get runs early, that always helps."
The sweep at the hands of Minnesota ensured that the Blue Jays had eight losses in their previous nine games.
"To get them out of town was a good feeling, and get somebody else up there," reliever Daniel Hudson said. "It was a big win for the team tonight, for sure."
Meanwhile, Hernandez added a leadoff homer during the second inning. This was his third of the season. Also, this ended his baron run, as Hernandez hadn't homered since April 18, at Minnesota.
Covey allowed four runs and three hits in his 4 2/3 innings. He was upset at himself for walking Rowdy Tellez and Smoak before Grichuk's drive.
"I'm OK with giving up a solo home run here and there, but I've got to cut back on those two-out walks," Covey said. "Different ball game if those guys aren't on when they hit the homer."
Toronto's scheduled starter, right-hander Clay Buchholz, was knocked down the order and placed on the ten-day injured list. This was because of a sore shoulder. In his place right-hander, Daniel Hudson opened for the Blue Jays. This was the first time this season the Blue Jays used an opener. It had an immediate reaction.
Although, Hudson did allow a run in the first on back-to-back doubles by Yoan Moncada and Jose Abreu.
Meanwhile, Blue Jays prospect Vladimir Guerrero batted second. This was the highest that he has hit in the order since his promotion to the senior team. Guerrero grounded into a double play during the first. Before being ground out in the third. He was fouled out in the fifth and flew out in the seventh. The hitless performance dropped his average to .146.
Also, off the field, the Blue Jays have acquired outfielder Patrick Kivlehan from the Pirates and announced the new via a club announcement. The trade details aren't known. But it's likely a typical cash payment.
Kivlehan has seen time in each of the past three MLB campaigns but hasn't received a call yet in 2019. He's a .208/.302/.401 hitter in 242 plate appearances at the game's highest level.
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Q: Autologin on Ubuntu Server I have a machine running Ubuntu Server.  It has only a command-line interface.  How can I make the system login with a specific user automatically (I don't want to type the username/password).  I know that this is insecure and I don't care.

A: Install mingetty.
sudo apt-get install mingetty

Edit your /etc/event.d/tty1 and change this line:
exec /sbin/getty 38400 tty1

to:
exec /sbin/mingetty --autologin username tty1

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Declassified: Presidential Daily Briefing, Aug. 6, 2001 (text)
Presidential Daily Briefing On Bin Laden, August 6, 2001 (4/10/2004 - FindLaw.com)
The full text (as declassified) of the Presidential Daily Briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." Transcribed from a photographic copy. The text below is formatted similarly to the original. All italics and name spellings are as in the orignal. Redacted (censored) text is indicated with xxxxxx using approximately the same number of characters as deleted.
This is the first Presidential Daily Briefing ever to be released to the public.
(For a photographic and PDF versions, go here.)
Presidential Daily Briefing
[ page 1 ]
Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US
[As declassified (with redactions) by the White House on April 10, 2004.]
Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate Bin Ladin since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Ladin implied in US television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and "bring the fighting to America."
After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Ladin told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx service.
An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an xxxxxxxxxx service at the same time that Bin Ladin was planning to exploit the operative's access to the US to mount a terrorist strike.
The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of Bin Ladin's first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the US. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that Bin Ladin lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate the operation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning his own US attack.
Ressam says Bin Ladin was aware of the Los Angeles operation.
Although Bin Ladin has not succeeded, his attacks against the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he prepares operations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Ladin associates surveilled our Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were arrested and deported in 1997.
Al-Qa'ida members -- including some who are US citizens -- have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks. Two al-Qa'ida members found guilty in the conspiracy to bomb our Embassies in East Africa were US citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.
A clandestine source said in 1998 that a Bin Ladin cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.
We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx service in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman and other US-held extremists.
For the President Only
6 August 2001 xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Declassified and Approved
for Release, 10 April 2004
— Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.
The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full-field investigations throughout the US that it considers Bin Ladin-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of Bin Ladin supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives.
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White House releases bin Laden memo
Presidential briefing was at center of Rice's testimony
The White House declassified and released Saturday the daily intelligence briefing delivered to President Bush a month before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Portions of the intelligence report dealing with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network and dated August 6, 2001, have been redacted for national security reasons, the White House said.
The memo, titled "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the United States," had been described by the White House as a largely historical document with scant information about domestic al Qaeda threats.
The memo includes intelligence on al Qaeda threats as recent as three months before the attacks.
Much of the intelligence was uncorroborated, and nothing in the memo points directly to the September 11 attacks.
Highlights of the report include:
An intelligence report received in May 2001 indicating that al Qaeda was trying to send operatives to the United States through Canada to carry out an attack using explosives. That information had been passed on to intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
An allegation that al Qaeda had been considering ways to hijack American planes to win the release of operatives who had been arrested in 1998 and 1999.
An allegation that bin Laden was set on striking the United States as early as 1997 and through early 2001.
Intelligence suggesting that suspected al Qaeda operatives were traveling to and from the United States, were U.S. citizens, and may have had a support network in the country.
A report that at least 70 FBI investigations were under way in 2001 regarding possible al Qaeda cells/terrorist-related operations in the United States.
The two-page document became the highlight of national security adviser Condoleezza Rice's testimony Thursday before the commission investigating the attacks.
The commission asked that the presidential daily briefing be declassified after Rice's testimony.
"This was the commission's hope," spokesman Al Felzenberg said Saturday.
"The White House has now complied. The White House agreed to release the documents. This is what the commission had hoped."
The briefing was delivered to Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
Rice told the commission Thursday that the briefing included mostly "historical information" and that most of the threat information known in the summer of 2001 referred to overseas targets.
She said she did not recall any reports about al Qaeda using aircraft as weapons before September 11.
Posted Sat 04/10/2004


NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) is considering a spin-off of its marquee blockchain project Quorum believing independence from the bank could increase the platform's appeal, sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
"We continue to believe distributed ledger technology will play a transformative role in business which is why we are actively building multiple blockchain solutions," the bank said in a statement.
"We're not going to comment on speculation, but Quorum has become an extremely successful enterprise platform even beyond financial services and we're excited about its potential."
Product development for Quorum has been led by Amber Baldet, an executive director of the bank's Blockchain Center of Excellence. Baldet could decide leave the firm and start a new venture, join the spun-off entity or stay at the bank, the source said. Baldet did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
JPMorgan announced in October that it would be using Quorum to build an interbank payments platform alongside Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ.AX) and the Royal Bank of Canada (RY.TO).


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1 Finding Affordable Dental Implants in Bevil Oaks, Texas– Why So Costly?
5 How Do I Get Dental Implants in Bevil Oaks TX?
You assumed every little thing was fine. Nobody showed up to discover that you were missing out on a few teeth, and afterwards somebody crossed the line. You were offered gran slippers and a crocheted blanket for Xmas, the pointer being that it was time to crinkle up on the sofa with your cat and also a glass of cozy milk.
Finding Affordable Dental Implants in Bevil Oaks, Texas– Why So Costly?
Losing your teeth has actually started to make you look old. You rarely speak to any person any longer anyway, so why not clear up in for an early nap? Nonsense! You don't need to resolve when affordable dental implants are simply a phone call away.
Probably member of the family will certainly be a lot more direct and also tactful concerning it, however a person should inform you that affordable dental implants can be life-changing. Discovering affordable dental implants starts with a web search and also the willingness to travel a bit. Opportunities are you will certainly need to go to a significant city to discover a dentist who makes it his organisation to use inexpensive oral services to people who require them. It might look like incorrect economic situation if you need to pay for train tickets or gas, yet just keep in mind the difference in cost as well as it quickly ends up being clear: traveling is well worth the effort to have your smile again.
The reason dental implants are so costly is that whole lots of people obtain entailed in making them, putting them and finishing them. Include this to the expense of materials plus the dentist's helicopter costs, as well as soon you will need to sell your car to be able to eat steak again.
How Do I Get Dental Implants in Bevil Oaks TX?
Dental practitioners could cut expenses by doing just what every consumer does to conserve cash: buying in bulk. Because there is no such thing as a bad dental professional, it is clear that these procedures occur frequently enough for a specialist to get materials in advancement. Additionally, if he is educated, he can do more of the work himself rather compared to sending you to a various individual to tackle each part of the procedure. Every one of this could save you cash, after you request for a solid sedative to obtain you through the process.
A lot of these dental techniques promote services online. Internet advertising helps to maintain prices down as well as get to more individuals, while widening their client base at the exact same time. Even more consumers as well as reduced media costs amount to savings we could hand down to consumers. Make certain to ask for a price analysis for the dental implants when you see among our dental professionals.
Take into consideration benefiting from these services before any individual needs to motivate you. Surprise them with a new smile. The advantages begin with self esteem, which is important to living a full life. Not every person that sheds teeth will be senior. Several youngsters struggle with oral conditions or injuries which bring about missing teeth. When you could not smile or speak easily, this cuts you off from people and hampers your chances of success, particularly if you desire to work in a customer support capability.
Worse still, your jaw needs teeth in it to remain healthy. Without anything to sustain, your jaw starts to atrophy like a muscle that never obtains used. Your mouth will certainly change form so that, also if you intend to obtain dentures eventually, they will certainly not fit. Act swiftly to prevent this from taking place and also give us a telephone call today.
The benefit of picking affordable dental implants over dentures is that they will certainly assist you to keep bone mass, whereas dentures do not. If you wear dentures as you do without teeth, you have simply as good a chance of losing bone.
Even dentures could be placed in your mouth semi-permanently. Your dental practitioner will certainly fix them to a number of messages so that you take hip jump lessons without losing them. While the screaming of your fellow dancers or the target market as they go flying can be amazing, the guideline of 'finders caretakers' could spell your failure for discovering affordable dental implants.
Pay little focus to the cost of your good friend's procedure. Her mouth is different from your own, so the services you need will not set you back the very same quantity. It can take much longer for your treatment to be ended up. Much more products might be called for. Bone grafting could be essential before any kind of further work can be done. Attempt not to be discouraged.
When choosing affordable dental implants, just locate out exactly what type of anesthetic solutions are supplied at the exact same time. This must place you at your ease. You could be asleep during. This is especially helpful if your main issue about mosting likely to the dentist is that you are merely terrified. A fear of dental practitioners prevails, however is in some cases preventable. Do not watch 'Little Shop of Horrors' or 'Marathon Man,' and you might be just great.
Probably family members will be much more skillful and direct concerning it, yet a person requires to tell you that affordable dental implants can be life-changing. Finding affordable dental implants begins with a net search as well as the determination to travel a bit. While the shouting of your other dancers or the target market as they go flying can be interesting, the regulation of 'finders keepers' could mean your failure for locating affordable dental implants.
When picking affordable dental implants, simply locate out exactly what kind of anesthetic services are used at the very same time.


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Give one of the friendly customer service team members at AJ's Total Truck Gear a call now. We will be happy to help you out with any questions, pricing and concerns. We are also open to suggestions and new ideas! If it is outside office hours (8am - 4:30pm Monday - Friday) please send an enquiry using the information to the left.


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555MW of flexibility bids accepted in our latest tender
We have accepted bids of 555MW of flexibility services following our spring round of tendering, and will build on this success with a second flexibility tender this year in a bid to drive innovation forward in the industry.
We are developing smarter, more flexible network solutions to meet the evolving needs of our customers and drive towards ambitious Net Zero emissions targets. Part of this evolution is the use of flexibilty services, which can reduce or defer the need for traditional reinforcement of the network. Flexibility involves working with customers who can control their electricity demand or how much they generate. This unlocks capacity in the existing infrastructure, meaning greener technologies such as electric vehicles and heating systems can connect to the network quicker.
In our latest round of tendering we issued a call for flexibility services for the period between 2023 and 2028. In total, 1.4GW of capacity was sought at all voltage levels, with 555MW of bids now being accepted. These bids , in addition to the capacity we have already contracted, could provide over 700MW of flexibility services, which is the equivalent of 100,000 electric vehicles charging on the network.
In our second tender this year, we are now seeking 110MW of flexibility services for the next three years. This has the potential to enable over 800MW of flexibility services which will help to not only reduce costs for customers, but also mitigate some of the need for traditional reinforcement.
Gerard Boyd, our Acting Head of DSO, said: "The response to our latest flexibility tender is extremely encouraging, and is a clear sign that the market is becoming more aware of our requirements and the opportunities that flexibility services represent.
"Flexibility will play a major role in the development of a smarter energy network, and I'm proud we're at the forefront of developing this emerging market. We are exploring flexibility as a solution for a range of network challenges, considering it alongside smart solutions and network reinforcement, ultimately selecting the most cost-effective solution for our customers."
This latest tender activity follows our recent ground-breaking trial across Flintshire in Wales, testing the utilisation of reactive power to solve network constraints. The trial - the first of its kind for a UK DNO - explored the use of low carbon technology connected to the electricity network to generate power to balance the system, and having proven to be such a success, has now set the foundations for us to continue to develop reactive power as a flexible solution.
We are also continuously exploring markets for flexibility with new and existing customers who are able and willing to control how much they generate or who can control their demand. As part of this, we are working closely with British renewable energy group, Octopus Energy, to develop demand turn-up solutions to help balance the network. This will involve asking domestic customers to shift their energy use to times where there is excess generation in a local area, via pricing and tariff signals.
Customers interested in providing flexibility services can contact the team via flexibility@spenergynetworks.co.uk
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Eight Grand Rapids parks were transformed this year after a voter-approved park millage went into effect. Now the planning for the next six parks begins.
The next six parks for transformation are Campau, Camelot, Douglas, Dickinson, Mary Waters and Mulick.
The parks that went through the transformation this summer were Cherry, Fuller, Garfield, Highland, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Westown Commons and Wilcox. The .98 millage was passed in November of 2013.
More meetings will be announced later.
It would be nice if the city finished the improvements promised at Garfield Park before they move on to other parks. There still is no splash pad, no walking paths, only two toys were replaces, the tennis courts are in disrepair and the sidewalk is a disgrace at Garfield Park.
Typical actions by the City of Grand Rapids. Promises one thing to get the tax money and then do something else. Bunch of crocks.


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Press and the Presidency: Trump Beats Obama in Average Number of News Conferences (For Now)
By Julia Glum On 7/21/17 at 3:12 AM EDT
Donald Trump, left, talks after a meeting with Barack Obama in the Oval Office on November 10 in Washington, D.C. Win McNamee/Getty
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Comparisons abound between U.S. President Donald Trump and President Barack Obama, and as of this month, 45 is beating 44 in at least one statistic: the average number of news conferences.
Though Trump has only given one solo news conference since taking office, as CNN pointed out Monday, data from the American Presidency Project show that he participated in 11 joint press events through Thursday. That gives Trump an average of 2 news conferences per month, compared to Obama's 1.71 monthly average throughout his term.
Related: Trump vs. the Media: Proposed law would make White House do press interviews on camera
The American Presidency Project, a nonprofit hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has archives of all news conferences given by commanders-in-chief since Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. Coolidge, coincidentally, had the highest average number of press briefings a month, at 6.07. Ronald Reagan, whom Trump has praised, had the least, at 0.48.
Don't expect journalists to start celebrating Trump any time soon, though.
While his average may be high, other data points weren't so flattering. For example, at this point in his first term, Obama had given about 19 news conferences. Trump has done roughly a dozen, depending on what you count as a press conference—and only one of those was a solo venture.
"We have done multiple more opportunities for people to interact with the president, according to several folks that have been here for several administrations," Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters last month, according to NBC News. "We've looked at a lot of data that suggests when you look at the number of availabilities and interviews that the president has given, it's pretty significant compared to past administrations."
As Trump has gradually shirked media appearance while waging war with the press via Twitter, he's sent Spicer and spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders to the front lines to battle with reporters. Even the quantity of those briefings has begun to decline—whereas Spicer gave 11 briefings in February, he gave only five in June. The duo has also begun to put into place controversial rules that limit reporters from recording the briefings live, frustrating media outlets and lawmakers alike.
"One of the great differences between Trump and more successful politicians, like [John F. Kennedy] and [Franklin Delano Roosevelt], is that they would vent their spleen in private, but in public, they would project a more humorous and civilized face," historian Robert Dallek told The New York Times, which noted that Trump appeared to be doing the opposite.
Last week, Trump's relationship with the press got even more complicated when he held an off-the-record gaggle on a flight to Paris—and then put parts of it on the record. He has also twice missed self-imposed deadlines to hold a news conference about his strategy for fighting the Islamic State group (ISIS), and last week he called on a Chinese reporter after French President Emmanuel Macron suggested he select an American journalist.
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New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK this week (19th March 2016)
Not getting your arthouse fix from Netflix? Wish there were more indie films on Amazon Prime Video? Every week, we round up the new releases on MUBI, the subscription VOD service that hand-picks new and old classics from around the world.
Hot on the heels of its latest global exclusive, 88:88, this week, MUBI takes a look back at the early work of High-Rise's Ben Wheatley and Kevin Smith and continues its John Cassavetes retrospect. Here's what's new and coming soon to the site:
Four Rooms – Monday 14th March
Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Allison Anders and Alexandre Rockwell team up to direct this anthology of takes that all take place in a hotel on New Year's Eve – all tied together by poor Ted, the new-on-the-job bellhop…
P.S. Jerusalem – Tuesday 15th March
With the Human Rights Watch Film Festival currently underway in London until 18th March, MUBI joins in with the online release of this documentary, which sees filmmaker Danae Elon return to Jerusalem after living abroad for several years. It follows a screening of the film at the Barbican (12th March) and Picturehouse Central (14th March).
Husbands – Wednesday 16th March
MUBI continues its John Cassavetes retrospective with the addition of 1970's Husbands, which sees a common friend's sudden death bring three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived…
The Quiet Man – Thursday 17th March
MUBI marks St. Patrick's Day with what it argues is the best Irish film of all time. John Ford's 1952 classic stars John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara as an American boxer who returns to his home country and falls for a local redhead. Romance, drama, comedy and two Johns at the top of their game? It's hard to disagree.
88:88 – Friday 18th March
The latest in MUBI's ongoing run of global exclusives, 88:88 is the densely layered feature debut of digital cinema incendiary Isiah Medina, which tackles issues of time, love, knowledge, poetry and poverty.
Down Terrace – Saturday 19th March
A Brighton mob family try to smoke out the informant responsible for putting their son in the slammer. Of course, as the stakes are raised and the walls start closing in, it's only a matter of time before they turn on their own.
Wheatley's debut film is a micro-budget marvel about domestic gangsterism in middle England. Filmed in a matter of days for the cost of a packet of fags, Down Terrace does so much with very little. It's the Argos Sopranos. Bad decisions and the banality of violence given a Pound Shop twist.
(Read our full review.)
French Cancan – Sunday 20th March
The only words more exciting than "Moulin Rouge"? Jean Renoir. Jean Gabin stars in his story of a wily impresario juggling the love of two beautiful women in 19th-century Paris.
Clerks – Monday 21st March
MUBI brings a double-bill of Kevin Smith classics this week, kicking off with 1994's Clerks, which follows the uneventful life of Dante Hicks, a clerk at a New Jersey convenience store, who gets called into work on his day off. The result is one of the most fondly remembered slacker comedies from the 1990s – and a vital expose of the working conditions for independent contractors on the Death Star.
Chasing Amy – Tuesday 22nd March
The third of Kevin Smith's New Jersey Trilogy stars Ben Affleck as comic book artist Holden, who falls in love with fellow artist Alyssa, only to be thwarted by her sexuality, his friend's attitude and his own misgivings about himself. The result is a sensitive and honest exploration of gender, friendship and sex.
Gloria – Wednesday 23rd March
MUBI's John Cassavetesr retrospective continues with this crime thriller about a showgirl who becomes the reluctant guardian of the young boy from next door, after his family are killed by the mob. Gena Rowlands is so good in the lead that she earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination in 1981.
The Band's Visit – Thursday 24th March
Eran Kolirin's 2007 Israeli comedy gently explores cross-cultural conflict by following the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra as they arrive from Egypt for an important event – only to find there is no delegation to meet them.
The Passion of the Christ – Friday 25th March
MUBI marks Good Friday with the addition of Mel Gibson's violent, graphic account of Jesus' crucifixion.
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Album Premiere, EP Premiere, News July 12, 2019
EP PREMIERE: 'NEW WAYS' BY WELSH AVENUE
We are excited to premiere the new EP from Welsh Avenue today called New Ways, which is out today (7-12-19). The album is a dreamy and meandering ride on top of pianos and synths that dominate the sound from start to finish.
New Ways EP
Starting with a simple, but yet, emotional instrumental piano ballad in the "Intro/Open Book Pt. 1" we get ready for an emotional trip, but the tables get turned in the following track "Open Book Pt. 2" with layered synths with a mid tempo beat and a plea from Mark DiLillo to 'Ask me anything, you can go down deep…So ask me anything tonight, I'm an open book."
The title track, "New Ways" comes in faster and gets the feet tapping as a message of change is relayed with wonderful storytelling and a deft imagination. "The Fervor Master" follows and at this point we realize that the production of the EP is fantastic and neatly balances the weaving synths and pianos, with the vocals and percussion.
"Two-Door Coupe" is next up and brings with it a happy pop vibe that reminds us of a proper song from an 80's soundtrack with tons of unique percussion. The final track "Disco Moon" is an upbeat track with a disco beat that, once again, glimmers in its production value highlighting the many coatings of synths that make us want to dance.
"I moved to Austin a few years ago to pursue music. The things I have learned and experience along the journey so far inform the album, especially navigating the ups and downs of life an aspiring artist." – Mark DiLillo
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Q: How to achieve Closure inside for loop I read this on SO

Closures are a difficult concept to come to grips with on the first try

Surely they are trickiest! So, I was working on one of the JavaScript closures exercise
//What changes required to for loop so that triggering loop1 will give output as 1
for(var i=0;i<10;i++)
  $(document).on('loop'+i, function(){
     console.log(i);
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$(document).trigger('loop1');

Above will output 10. Here basically, I am triggering event loop1 and I want the output to be 1. Changes I tried on top of above is
for(var i=0;i<10;i++)
  $(document).on('loop'+i, (function(){
      return function(){console.log(i)}
  })());
$(document).trigger('loop1');

But that didn't helped either. It is still giving me 10. What should i do to achieve the required output?


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It's always interesting to me when an author breaks the fourth wall and speaks, within the confines of a work of fiction, about how or why one writes. Many mystery writers seem to do it, and I'm not sure why, but there's generally an authentic tinge of "behind the scenes" that fascinates me.
This is from Four Strange Women by E.R. Punshon (1940). Punshon is certainly a minor figure in the history of detective fiction; what I like to call a first-rate second-rate author, who was popular in his day but whose books have, until recently, passed out of print and remained there. The speaker, Mr. Eyton, is a professional journalist who has reported on the murder that takes place in the opening chapters. But he has a bit of a hobby; he's writing something along the lines of some recent (imaginary) best-sellers, Musings in British Gardens and Dreaming 'Midst the Flowers; apparently prosodical thoughts on the topic of being outdoors. Eyton's is Twilight Thoughts Beneath the Trees.
I think this relates to a favourite quote of mine about detective fiction, which I am chagrined to say I have more than once misquoted over the years, apparently changing it to suit my unconscious needs. Let me take this opportunity to set the record straight and apologize. This is the accurate quotation from page 303 of Q.D. Leavis: Collected Essays by Q.D. (Queenie) Leavis (her seminal work, Fiction and the Reading Public (1932) is available freely here) on the topic of the mysteries of Dorothy L. Sayers.
My first reaction was that the whole thing seemed very sneering and supercilious, and to be completely honest I've valued Mrs. Leavis's observation for years precisely because it was so tart and acid. (Queenie Leavis is rather like what Dorothy Parker would have been like if she'd been very thoroughly educated in literary theory.) Perhaps it's a function of advancing decrepitude, or perhaps it's having recently pinpointed that one desirable function of detective fiction is indoctrination, or the introduction of the reader to information about how society works, but I find these days I am more willing to accept that works of fiction should shoulder the load of educating today's population about how to manage their emotions and to function within society. Heaven knows nothing else seems to be able to.
And note that this volume was published in 1932, pretty much the middle of the Golden Age of Detection. Mrs. Leavis seems to be unhappy that popular fiction transmitted "more or less unrelated facts" at the time they were being communicated, but to today's reader they are not unrelated; they are all part and parcel of a long-ago age with butlers and pukka sahibs and bodies in the library, with very little in the way of social overlap to today's context.
It is perhaps distressing and inappropriate that today's adolescent absorbs social mores as part of the subtext of a poorly-written book about a girl who falls in love with a sparkly vampire, but at least it's via a book and not a music video or a MMO. Perhaps I'm prejudiced in favour of books, being so heavily invested in them, but it does seem that they are produced by people who are trying to observe human nature and society in general and reproduce the more interesting or useful bits while telling a story — AND they use the written word to do so, which has the effect of expanding one's ability to communicate with others more precisely. It's more useful to tell someone their actions are pathetic if both of you know what the word "pathos" means.
So what if mysteries are designed to present me with examples of logical thought structures that I cannot hope to achieve in real life? Very few people's real-life situations are populated by people who would, for instance, use an audio recording to fake an alibi while they're off murdering someone. Far more realistic is the common news story that someone has been murdered by a stranger to obtain a ridiculously small amount of money, using a gun or a knife or a blunt instrument, and generally speaking it's not very interesting or informative (unless you are Truman Capote), merely sad. Detective fiction, in fact, preserves the important social meme that some people do actually try to commit subtle and serious crimes that are meant to remain undetected, and we'd better be on the lookout for them; not everyone can be a Hercule Poirot or a Jane Marple, but we can continue to acknowledge the need for such persons to detect these subtle crimes. And we can take pleasure in experiencing stories of their adventures.
And if, as Mrs. Leavis remarks, we are let off the trouble of truly deep thought by a reassurance that everything is really all right — perhaps it's the continuing repetition of the meme that some problems (mysteries) exist that require the application of intense thought in order to "solve" them that we are gaining, and that this is a valuable frame of mind to maintain as a common understanding. I might not be able to figure out who killed Roger Ackroyd, but that story helps me to understand that there are thought patterns out there that can be learned, attained, and mastered that would have let me equal Poirot's achievement in doing so. In the meantime, it's not a terrible thing that I should be reassured about the essential rightness of the world in the background.
I'll close off these musings with a final thought. What I seem to be describing is a system where mystery writers are cynical in order to reassure readers that the world itself is not a terrible place. Is this a good thing? Would we be better off with finding a mode of intellectual activity that required us to actually develop intellectual skills that identify crimes rather than continuing to experience those skills by observing a fictional detective and pretending we followed right along? Or are the exigencies of modern life such that we'll develop those skills if and when we need them, and meanwhile it is appropriate merely to remind ourselves that those skills exist in an enjoyable way? I suspect I know where my readers' loyalties lie, but I'm prepared to be surprised if my readers care to do so in the comments.
My apologies also to Erle Stanley Gardner, who inspired the title.
This entry was posted in Detective fiction, Genre fiction, Mystery, Mystery writers, Reference books and tagged Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy Parker, E. R. Punshon, Erle Stanley Gardner, Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, Q.D. Leavis, Truman Capote.
Or are the exigencies of modern life such that we'll develop those skills if and when we need them, and meanwhile it is appropriate merely to remind ourselves that those skills exist in an enjoyable way?
I'd fall into the "this one" classification if you wish it to be a straight choice between the two.
I'm interested in the use of the word "pattern" in the above, though, which I can't help but see as meaning a sort of root cause-and-effect sythesis at a very basc level. We — through reading mysteries — come to understand that the patriarch gathering his family together and telling them his lawyer is coming in the morning for him to sign a new wll leaving everything to the butler will typically result in said patriarch ending up dead when everyone claims to have been elsewhere, but that's not so much developing a skill in observing patterns as it is in recognising the narrative design behind a larger intent.
If anything, do these stories not in fact give the illusion of such knowledge or awareness being achieved so that we look not for the pattern that emerges but instead for the false pattern that we're supposed to believe is the net result of the previous action? The patriarch may have been going to be murdered anyway, but we're led to believe it's on account of the will, or that the presence of a recording device has a significance it does not, so that we can be shanghai'd in the final reveal.
I agree with you that this has to do with intertextuality, and it gladdens my heart to know that I'm not just a voice in the wilderness on that topic 😉 We are trained by repetition to understand that, in a book, when a wealthy elderly man calls his family together and quarrels with most of them and threatens to leave everything to the butler in the morning, that he will die in Chapter Four at about midnight sure as shootin' — with each relative trooping in and out of the study at fifteen-minute intervals between nine and eleven. And we have been trained to understand that as mystery-solving readers we look most particularly at the people who did NOT troop in and out of the study, and especially closely at the butler, who seems to lose a windfall, but who may have had a reason to kill the patriarch we haven't been told about. These widespread understandings are why Christie's The Hollow is such a brilliant mystery, because, as you suggest, it subverts the well-known pattern and we are shanghaied in the blow-off. I think it's worthwhile reminding ourselves that not only the authors but the readers are self-aware of their roles in this process, and for some reason we still enjoy it.
But, well, a lot of the time I have to admit it's a valid question: I've used Pythagoras' theorem precisely once in my real life, and have never needed to rely on a Markov chain to resolve a set of probabilities…most of what I teach isn't direcly applicable to the lives of the people I teach it to. The same is true of GAD reading: yes, we'll learn a lot about how to consider some action or turn of phrase relevant (you'll be shocked to learn that I have a post brewing on this exact topic), but that rarely if ever comes into use in our daily lives. What we're using when we respond as readers to the events in these novels is using the things we have learned in real life, but the context of the book typically takes that learning and applies it in a way that, once learned, we will have no use for outside of such books.
This, I think is whwre that idea of why readers in particular enjoy the experience, because we're taught that in this very specific situation this series of events has an outcome that can be justified and measured and found rigorous (mostly…)…but then we find a book where that doesn't happen, and where the same events lead to a new answer (otherwise, hell, there'd only be about 15 mystery novels ever published — then what would we all be doing with our spare time?!). We're almost putting on a particular set of clothes when we enter the world of these books, and the best of them go "See that pocket there? Well, I bet you never thought you'd fine this in there, did ya?".
Which I think is why many of us — and I definitiely include myself in this — can become so despondent when a mystery novel fails to offer up anything new or of interest; a lot of people are happy simply reading the same ideas applied to the same tropes, but it's much more fun when you're "learning" a new way to look at information, even if it's not book learnin' in the traditional sense.
My brother is also a high school math teacher and is fairly constantly met with the whining observation that we will NEVER use this in the real world, will we? I play bridge, so I use percentages and statistics more than most, but I think for the most part experts in mathematics and/or in the art of detective fiction have to accept that such specialized expertise is rarely useful outside its self-referential milieu.
I can think of one way in which detective fiction can be useful in everyday life, however. If one is approached by — let's say a prospective financial advisor, anxious to invest our money for us — a reader of detective fiction will perhaps be more likely to suspect that that person is prepared to commit a crime and therefore require more in the way of references, etc. There's an old saying in the medical profession that when you hear hoofbeats, you think of horses, not zebras. But one must first be sufficiently sensitized to hear the hoofbeats.


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    copy(parameters = ps.toList)

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  def responding(
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object Operation {
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Whew! Swept up in the frenzy and excitement of the season, from every form of media and in every brick and mortar store comes the relentless drive and push to spend your hard-earned money. "You don't want to be a loser like Scrooge, do you?" Ho-Ho the mistletoe, dragging you along! Lavish gifts you must bestow! Help, this feels so wrong! Remember how long you waited in line to buy that trendy jewelry (made in outer Nowhere-istan) that cost you half a week's take home pay, turned her wrist green with purple spots, and helped that company's leadership join the billionaires' club? What were you thinking?
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stc and Nokia team up to operate Technology Innovation Center
stc, a digital leader in the MENA region, has partnered with Nokia to jointly operate its Technology Innovation Center over the next five years. An agreement was signed to this extent by Abdullah Alowini, Technology Strategy & Architecture VP at stc, and Khalid Hussain, Saudi Country Senior Officer at Nokia, in the presence of eng. Haitham Al Faraj, SVP, Technology and Operations at stc, and Amr K. El Leithy, Head of Middle East and Africa Market at Nokia. The center will allow the stc employees to interact with global subject matter experts from Nokia and its international partner network to create innovative services and products for end-users.
The partnership will carry out several programs to strengthen stc's innovation mindset to develop truly innovative use cases and enhance engagement with entrepreneurs across the globe. The collaboration will also help conceptualize and produce at least four use cases every year according to the stc's business strategy. These innovative use cases will be primarily based on the latest technologies like 5G, Mobile Edge Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Platform, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning.
The Innovation Center will be equipped with the latest technologies and will utilize Nokia's Open Ecosystem Network to develop and showcase new solutions. stc will access learnings and insights from Nokia's several other partnerships to efficiently operate The Innovation Center. Several activities, including new product development practices, lean start-up methodologies, internal innovation enablers, service design, co-creation, cross-pollination, and technology scouting, will be conducted to foster new ideas. The Innovation Center will be performing several well-thought-out competitions to trigger new ideas and use cases. A winner will be selected at the end of every challenge, contest or hackathon, based on the idea or business model and viability.
Abdullah Alowini, Technology Strategy & Architecture VP at stc , said : "We are committed to providing the latest products and services, and this agreement is one of the many other initiatives that show our commitment in this direction.. We are confident that The Innovation Center will accelerate developing local content and path-breaking use cases, improving our people's quality of life and contributing to the economic and social development of Saudi Arabia in line with Saudi Vision 2030.
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#Review: The Legend of Lyon Redmond by Julie Anne Long - 5 Wine Glasses
Title: The Legend of Lyon Redmond
Series: Pennyroyal Green #11
Author: Julie Anne Long
Format: Paperback & eBook, 384 pages
Published: September 29, 2015 by Avon
ASIN: B00RTLYSK6
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N
Source: Netgalley
Reviewer: Kimberly
Rating: 5 out of 5 Wine Glasses
Bound by centuries of bad blood, England's two most powerful families maintain a veneer of civility...until the heir to the staggering Redmond fortune disappears, reviving rumors of an ancient curse: a Redmond and an Eversea are destined to fall disastrously in love once per generation.
An enduring legend
Rumor has it she broke Lyon Redmond's heart. But while many a man has since wooed the dazzling Olivia Eversea, none has ever won her—which is why jaws drop when she suddenly accepts a viscount's proposal. Now London waits with bated breath for the wedding of a decade…and wagers on the return of an heir.
An eternal love
It was instant and irresistible, forbidden...and unforgettable. And Lyon—now a driven, dangerous, infinitely devastating man—decides it's time for a reckoning. As the day of her wedding races toward them, Lyon and Olivia will decide whether their love is a curse destined to tear their families part...or the stuff of which legends are made.
Kimberly's Thoughts:
5 stars, was there any doubt? I will say though, it's a 5 star rating put into the context of the journey you take if you read every book in the series. Taken on its own, I would have probably given it somewhere in the range of 4 stars.
Men will do things for women they wouldn't otherwise in their right minds do.
No one knew that better than Lyon.
The Redmonds and the Everseas have been the staunch adversaries of Pennyroyal Green ever since 1066 and a cow argument, or so history murkily relays. But when Lyon Redmond meets the gaze of Olivia Eversea across a crowded ballroom, a stolen waltz changes all their destinies. Living a Romeo and Juliet story is thrillingly romantically dangerous to the young couple who put off reality for as long as they can but when they are forced to face it, reality hits back hard. A stormy night filled with fear and pride separate Lyon and Olivia for five years, until Lyon receives word that Olivia is set to marry. This time anger and hurt keep them apart until longing works to crumble their walls. The story of Lyon and Olivia has been the whispers in the corners for a long time but no one has known their full story, until now.
How she loved that sentence. "Love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." And she loved the little silence that followed when he'd read it to her, because she knew he was thinking about her, and wanted her to know it.
I knew that Lyon and Olivia must have fallen in love hard and fast but I had no idea it was so deeply consuming. The first half of the story is mostly flashbacks to their first meeting and clandestine get-togethers. They're young and as a consequence their love is at times immature and petty but also overwhelming and deeply felt; they have the love but not necessarily the tools, experience and maturity, to understand it. Every word they spoke to each other and every action they took felt so real, believable, and raw I lost the ability to think of them as fictional characters.
She loved him. She always had. He knew it as surely as he knew the color of his own eyes. And he was just as certain then he'd been born loving her, as surely as he'd been born with blue eyes. It was that simple. That permanent. And if it was a curse, then he didn't know what a blessing was.
Going back and seeing how it all started, the first love, excitement, and sense of home they had with each other was fascinatingly beautiful and knowing the heartache to come added some bitter sweetness to it all. I was shocked and impressed, for all the sense of doom hovering over our couple, that Ms. Long still was able to infuse them with lightness. Through their words and actions you could almost see their burdens lift when in the presence of one another and they were humorous together, which I, rightly or wrongly, didn't expect.
"Ah," Lyon said softly. "I believe I understand now. You didn't have the courage to fight for the woman you loved. You made the wrong choice. And look at you. Look at what you've become."
If you have read the other books in the series, then you know that there has been the suggestion that Lyon's father Isaiah once loved and possibly still does, Olivia's mother Isolde. This is rumored to be the current strife between the two families and similarly in other books, Isaiah plays the villain here. The conversation between Lyon and his father was so amazingly tense and well done, it took me awhile to come out of my stupor and turn the page when the final harsh words were proclaimed.
And suddenly she hated him as much as she loved him for forcing her to make this decision, now, in the pouring rain, in the dark.
Lyon and Olivia were blinded by their love in the beginning, it added to the tension seeing everyone cautiously dancing around their covert warnings to the couple. When the real world hit our couple it was even more painful that I had prepared myself for. I think Olivia will take the brunt of anger from readers and her actions may slightly skew into added for angst sake but they still felt real.
She sensed a sort of coiled potential in him that boded ill, something was being wound tighter and tighter. His face was taut, his mouth white at the corners.
But she couldn't seem to help herself from winding it tighter. She wanted it to break. You weren't there. I needed you I missed you. You missed it. You missed it all.
The second half of the story is what readers have been dying for, Lyon and Olivia coming together and having their reckoning. I know I keep saying this but it all felt so real, the brittle pain between the two was gripping, deeply moving, and emotionally draining to read because of the author's talent of metamorphosing words on a page to emotions was riveting. Olivia and Lyon kept hammering away at one another with their own pain, until they both shattered from it. If I was to have a disappointment in this story, this would be it. Waiting almost ten years for their story must have made me a little into a sadist because I would have liked for their struggle and eventual main fight to have lasted longer. I was left a smidge unsatisfied with how it all went down and the swiftness of their joining and forgiveness of the past.
No one else had ever been able to really hurt her. No one else could save her from herself.
The ending had me a bit divided, on one hand I see what Lyon needed and was asking for from Olivia but on the other hand, it felt like forced in angst again. These characters weren't perfect but they will overfill your heart, stomp on it, and most importantly absorb you into their story. We get explanations into little mysteries that were sprinkled throughout the series, the white gloves, Olivia's miniature, and the elm tree. While others, Isaiah and Isolde's true story and Olivia's father's involvement in the slave trade, are still left strongly implied but never confirmed. I know some readers will sympathize strongly with Landsdowne, Olivia's fiancé. Thankfully, the author doesn't make him an easy victim, readers will like him, but I was also ok with him getting a bit of the shaft in this book. As with Henry in What I Did for a Duke, this wasn't to be his story and his happily ever after wasn't Olivia, I bet he has something better and right waiting for him on the horizon.
"Why did you do it?' she whispered. He was silent a moment, thoughtful. And then his mouth quirked at the corner.
"Because you couldn't." He said it gently. But deliberately. Ruefully. Laying those words out as if delivering a truth. Just the way he'd done the night he'd left: What if loving you is what I do best? It was indeed what he did best. He had gone and proved it. Her breath snagged in her throat.
Lyon and Olivia's journey is the sweeping love saga we all dream about, not sure we would want or could survive going through, read and reread, and end up pushing a bit desperately at friends to read. Is the last half and ending a bit sappy and over indulgent with looking back at past characters and overall stories? Yes but it's also the ending those of us that have been there from the beginning ultimately deserved. This might sound weird but I would suggest waiting a while after finishing the last chapter and moving on to reading the epilogue, I found it took away from my sweet closure of Lyon and Olivia's story. I've see rumblings of Ms. Long moving into the world of contemporaries and I think we may have a glimpse here of where that move may start.
My almost ten year wait was to get the immediate above quote and let me tell you, it was worth every sibling, cousin, and friend story to get there. Read this series and find out what I mean.
Alexia Chantel said...
Your comment of 'on its own I would have probably given it somewhere in the range of 4 stars' made me laugh. That is a great book alone or read in context! But it is a Julie Anne Long so I wouldn't expect anything less. Nice review!


Be careful what you feed your dog.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently issued another warning abouttoxic jerky treats, and it seems the poisonous pet snacks are still a problem.
As of May 1, more than 1,000 dogs have died as a result of the toxic treats. The FDA has received 4,800 reports of pet illnesses since 2007, 1,800 of which were submitted in the months following the agency's last warning in October 2013. Even though 25 percent of these complaints were "historic" claims -- meaning the illness occurred some time in months or years past -- the jerky products appear to be an ongoing source of sickness for both cats and dogs.
So far, the FDA has been unable to pinpoint why so many pets are getting sick anddeveloping kidney-related diseases. However, the majority of cases appear to derive from consumption of a jerky treat that was imported from China.
Though pet owners could avoid Chinese-made nibbles, that's not a surefire way to avoid the toxic treats since ingredients in the product could still be produced abroad, Fox 5 News reports.
If symptoms such as decreased appetite, increased water intake, vomiting or diarrhea show up and persist for more than 24 hours after a dog or cat has consumed a jerky treat, pet owners are urged to contact a veterinarian immediately.
Pet owners who have a cat or dog may have consumed a toxic jerky treat may report their findings to the FDA by calling 1-888-INFO-FDA.


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Language fair has drama in Norman
BY TAMI ALTHOFF
Published: Thu, April 9, 2009 12:00 AM Updated: Thu, April 16, 2009 2:18 PM
Edith Baker prepares members of Norman Public Schools' Native American Club for their performance.
NORMAN — Most of the audience couldn't understand the language, but they certainly knew what was going on Tuesday when Cushing High School students presented "Sauk Pre-K in 2011" at the seventh annual Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.
Despite the language barrier, the content of the skit was universal.
"It was about stuff that would normally happen in a pre-K class," Sydney Gabbard, a Cushing High School senior, said. "The language we were speaking was Sauc."
The students, members of the Native American Student Association, took first place in the spoken word category.
Gabbard said the weeks of preparation were worth it. "It's fun," she said. "It's a chance to compete and learn more about our language."
Carly Williams, a junior from New Lima, participated in the fair for the first time this year.
Her group also competed in the spoken word category, singing the Muscogee (Creek) alphabet in their native language.
More than 500 participants, in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, attended the language fair Monday and Tuesday at the museum. Coming from Oklahoma and other states, they competed in categories such as spoken word, dance, music, film and essay.
The event is the largest American Indian youth language fair in the country, featuring an estimated 24 languages.
Candessa Tehee Morgan, coordinator of the fair, said the event gives students a chance to learn and practice their native language.
Brooke Roberts, 12, left, and Alexis Ulloa, 12, both of Indiahoma, show off their trophy Tuesday at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. The girls won first place in the sixth through eighth grade music/dance category by singing in Comanche. PHOTO BY JACONNA AGUIRRE, THE OKLAHOMAN
Yannah Wind, 12, of Okemah and Courtney Taylor, 12, of Wewoka look over poster entries Tuesday at the Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. PHOTOS BY JACONNA AGUIRRE, THE OKLAHOMAN
Edith Baker prepares members of the Norman Public Schools Native American Club for their upcoming singing performance at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History at the 7th annual Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair Tues. April 7, 2009. Photo by Jaconna Aguirre, The Oklahoman. ORG XMIT: KOD
Yannah Wind, 12, of Okemah and Courtney Taylor, 12, of Wewoka look over language entries at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History for the 7th annual Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair Tues. April 7, 2009. Photo by Jaconna Aguirre, The Oklahoman. ORG XMIT: KOD
L to R - Brooke Roberts, 12, and Alexis Ulloa, 12, both of Indiahoma, won 1st in the 6-8 grade group music/dance by singing "This is the day" in Comanche at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History for the 7th annual Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair Tues. April 7, 2009. Photo by Jaconna Aguirre, The Oklahoman. ORG XMIT: KOD
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Could Bionic Plants Be The New Solar Cell?
Photosynthesis – the means by which plants are able to convert sunlight and carbon dioxide to useable chemical energy -- is one of the more remarkable natural feats. Scientists have long sought to exploit the process as a method of more efficiently harvesting solar energy, but have so far been thwarted. One of the major drawbacks of using chloroplasts, the organelles responsible for photosynthesis, as a solar power material is that they only absorb about half of the incident sunlight. Now a research team led by Michael Strano of MIT and funded by the US Department of Energy has found a way to nanobioengineer the organelles using carbon nanotubes to dramatically increase the range of light absorption and enhance energy generation by nearly 50%.
Chloroplasts inside cells: these green organelles responsible for photosynthesis can be artificially enhanced by the incorporation of carbon nanotubes. Image by Kristian Peters.
Their method relies on a process called lipid exchange envelope penetration (LEEP) which essentially refers to convincing the chloroplasts to uptake non-biological materials like nanotubes or nanoparticles. To do this, the team took single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and wrapped th Carbon nanotube: the structure of these hollow carbon cylinders gives them remarkable optical and electronic properties.em in DNA and the biomolecule chitosan. The resultant complexes then spontaneously penetrated the walls of the chloroplasts.
Carbon nanotubes are hollow cylinders made up of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb-structured lattice. They are renowned for both their optical and electronic properties, and their discovery in the early 1990s set off a new era in organic-materials-based electronic devices. Indeed, they have been previously explored as agents in artificial photosynthesis. Once inside the organelles, the light absorption properties of the semiconducting SWCNTs allowed for a substantial increase in absorbed sunlight and thus chemical fuel production.
Using the same technology, the researchers addressed another major challenge when attempting to use photosynthesis as an energy source: the tendency for organelles to rapidly degrade upon exposure to oxygen. While plants have a built-in mechanism to mitigate this degradation, organelles isolated for use in solar power generation have no such support system. To mimic an equivalent process, the scientists also took advantage of LEEP to embed cerium oxide nanoparticles in the chloroplasts. These nanoparticles have been previously demonstrated to scavenge the disruptive reactive oxygen species.
The results were quite spectacular. The bio-engineered plants showed a 30% increase in chemical energy generation while isolated organelles improved by an even-more-impressive 49%. The incorporation of the cerium oxide nanoparticles also yielded a notable reduction in oxygen-related damage to the chloroplasts giving the bio-solar cells a longer lifetime.
To take the concept of bioengineering one step further, the researchers even took advantage of their system to provide the plants with a whole new functionality – that of biosensing. The presence of the SWCNTs allowed the leaves of the plant to act as nitric oxide sensors. Nitric oxide is, among other things, an environmental pollutant resulting from combustion reactions in automobiles or at fossil fuel power plants. SWCNTs have already been shown to act as nitric oxide sensors and their new home in the photosynthetic machinery of a plant left this property conveniently unchanged. Infrared images of the engineered plants quickly revealed the presence or absence of the pollutant.
In a world where the need for renewable energy supplies are increasingly in demand, relatively simple and environmentally-friendly alternatives like plant-based solar energy generation may soon become the new norm. Research like this is on the cutting edge, but it is likely only the very beginning.
Via: Nature Materials and the US Dept. of Energy.
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Wow, it has been such a long time since I have been here. I am so sorry!!
I am raising my right hand and I promise I will post here and at my other blog atleast a few times a week.
Please leave me a comment telling me what I should carve next for Halloween and it will surely encourage me to blog, but more so to carve, because I had an accident a few months ago and I am SCARED to carve now!
2010 has gotten crazy, but I am so thankful that we are a family of 5 once again, at least for the time being, and I'm not letting a minute go to waste.
In between creating and trips to the Physical Therapist, I promise I'll be here at least weekly. To make up for my disappearing act I have a carved bird giveaway on my Helena C studios blog.
Please sign up right here and leave a comment. If ya have any trouble just send me an email to sign up. hchutjian@yahoo.com.
I got a very sweet email this morning from Rachael to tell me that she has added my carved gnome to a gnome feature on her blog, Glass Of Win. Take a peek and tell me what you think of all of the cute gnomes. She also has a great shop that sells vintage clothes and illustrations take a peek here .
I love when people reach out and say hello, or feature me on their blogs so don't ever be shy to stop and say hi.
Wow I didn't realize how long it's been.
I wait all year for the Christmas season and it goes by so scary fast.
First I wanted to show you my Santa that I carved from Palm tree wood right from the wild Sable Palm in our front yard. Matt who thinks I am a hoarder took my stash of palm fronds (of course I can't just collect 5 but who's counting really?) and Matt threw them on the burn pile hoping I wouldn't notice!!!
I ALWAYS notice!! One time when we lived in Hamburg, NY and had large garbage pickup, Matt thought he would sneak some of my wonderful weathered wood into the garbage pile to be picked up. Of course I noticed immediately and just as he would bring them down the driveway, I would take them back through the house into the basement. ha ha we still laugh about that.
So here is my latest Santa, he was really fun to carve.
We have been having lots of Christmas fun. Cutting down our Christmas tree.
The kayakers including Santa always begin the parade.
And last but not least, Matt and Hope decorated the house with lights,great job huh?
I will try my best to be back tomorrow with a giveaway announcement.
Hope you had a wonderful day. We really did.
A big thanks for Matt for really stepping up this year with dinner. I am the proud owner of 7 stitches in my thumb. Beware of tin cans.
Since it's Black Friday and Cyber Monday I am offering free shipping for all of the items in my Etsy shop until Monday at midnight.
I am off to work on the tree that I just dragged out on the back porch.
I have minutes before I run and get Hope from school but wanted to share my latest carvings. I am a carving fool, and my flower beds are paying the price.Weeds need their turn in the sun too, right?
This guy is 5" tall and I will be making as many as I can find time too. he is listed at my Etsy shop.
As well as my latest carved vintage sewing spool Santa who can be found at my Etsy and my new Art fire shop.
Have to run but I'll be back.
Did you have a good weekend? We went to a really fun local art show at The Low Country Store, that I really wish I had exhibited at. Next year I plan to:) It had an amazing turn out.
I listed some of my little carved snowmen and another carved spool ornament at my Etsy shop. If you would like to take a peek click on the side bar at the left, or right here.
I will be carving and painting frantically in the weeks to come since Christmas is coming fast!! I have to turn the carols up real loud, although I am definitely in the spirit.
Off to walk my pup, get my girl from school and look for Santa.
Sorry I haven't been around. I am trying to gear up for the Christmas season and have been carving up a storm and listing new items on my websites. I have decided that if my sales aren't that great this year I will most likely be closing my websites. I'll still sell on Etsy, see left sidebar, and possibly eBay but the websites are just one more thing that needs updating, and I would rather be creating than juggling multiple sites.
Well Hope needs help with her homework, Michael just walked in the door from school, and I need to call and say hi to Matthew at the Fed Agent Academy.
Keep checking back because I have about 20 carvings on my studio table that I need to show you.
Our very own Liss (fiance to our very own Matthew) has begun her very own blog named, Patience Creations and is making these extremely cool vintage purses made from old book covers/pages, and she has begun jewelry making also.You can check out her blog right here.
We had lots of fun thrifting at the local shops here in Beaufort, I have now added books and handles to the thrifty things that I search for, for Liss.
Off to put Hope to bed.
Another great Arts A Flutter update is here. Do you like my latest collaboration with my daughter Hope?
More details on my Helena C Studios blog.
Matt and I are off to take the Teddy Bear for a walk. There's nothing like the moonlight shining through the Spanish moss.


Celebrities are flocking to social media to share what they're most thankful for and their Thanksgiving posts are pretty incredible.
Actress, author, mother and lifestyle entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon shared what just might be the most relatable post ahead of all our Thanksgiving feasts.
Witherspoon reposted the pic first posted by cookbook author and chef Marie Saba who made the hilarious festive dessert.
Saba told ABC News her initial reaction to seeing Witherspoon's post was like a scene out of a movie.
Witherspoon also posted herself prepping some Thanksgiving biscuits that she may or may not have shared with her pups, Hank and Pepper.
Twitter's favorite no-nonsense model, mom and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen has been filling her feed with her mouthwatering Thanksgiving food prep.
From sweet potato pie to turkey stock for gravy, her dishes will likely make for some sweet and savory offerings on Thanksgiving.
Kristin Maldonado posted a picture with the Pentatonix all bundled up at rehearsal ahead of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.


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Check in: 5:30 – 7:30 Friday evening.
You will be expected to leave camp between 11:00 a.m. – noon on Sunday.
If this schedule cannot be met, you must make other arrangements with the Camp Director.