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James J. Poynter has been named president and chief executive of the Laser Precision Div. of Utica,
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James J. Poynter has been named president and chief executive of the Laser Precision Div. of Utica, NY-based GN Nettest. His experience includes eight years with TeleSciences CO Systems as president and chief executive, 10 years with GTE in operations and marketing positions, and five years each with Stromberg Carlson and Applied Computing Devices in senior management positions. Poynter is active in the TIA and ITU and is a frequent speaker on technical and operations issues. He is a member of the ITA International Committee and the ieee Presidents Association.
Gerry Rosenblatt has been named manager of technical and regulatory affairs for the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), based in Arlington, VA. He will manage and coordinate activities within the association`s satellite, mobile, network equipment and technical divisions. Rosenblatt will also participate in and represent TIA at national standards-setting meetings. Grant E. Seiffert has been named director of government relations for the TIA. He will monitor the development of public policy affecting the telecommunications industry, with emphasis on federal legislation and regulation. Seiffert joins the TIA after serving as a legislative correspondent in U.S. Senator John McCain`s (R-AZ) office in Washington, DC.
Giovanni P. Tomasi has joined Chromatic Technologies Inc., Franklin, MA, as the director of product marketing. He is responsible for the development and implementation of sales and product marketing plans for the company`s standard and specialty line of loose-tube and tight-buffered fiber-optic cables. Before joining the company, Tomasi was the market manager of fiber optics for bicc Brand-Rex.
Alfonso J. Cioffi has been named vice president of engineering for reltec Corp.`s Lorain Products Div., Lorain, OH. He will be responsible for the overall direction of the company`s engineering efforts, including development of the next generation of products and the enhancement of new systems and procedures. Previous experience includes nearly two decades at AT&T, in power electronics, engineering, marketing and manufacturing. Michael Pratt has been named vice president of the Access Business Unit of reltec`s rtec Systems Div., Bedford, TX. He will be responsible for new business development, marketing and engineering. Pratt previously worked at DSC Corp. for six years. He began his career at Bell Laboratories.
Scott C. Chandler has been named president and chief executive of State College, PA-based c-cor Electronics Inc. For the past six years, he has held key positions at us west, most recently as vice president and general manager of us west Communications Cable & Multimedia.
Jerry Green has been appointed CTI product manager for Toshiba America Information System Inc.`s Telecommunications Systems Div., in Irvine, CA. He will manage the continued development of Toshiba`s computer telephony integration (CTI) products and manage the company`s tapi Developer`s Program and CTI development lab. Before joining the company in 1995, Green was co-owner and vice president of operations for Southern California TeleCenters, a Toshiba dealer.
Irene M. Qualters has been appointed a member of the board of directors for Minneapolis-based ADC Telecommunications Inc. She will serve in office until reelection by shareholders at the 1997 annual meeting. Qualters has held the position of senior vice president of the supercomputing systems business unit of Cray Research since mid-1995. She has also served as vice president of software development, and held software programming management positions at Cray.
Christopher Carmon has been named manager of computing and network operations for Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp., based in Austin, TX. He will be responsible for planning, designing and implementing the company`s computing and telecommunications systems. Carmon`s more than 20 years of experience in managing information systems includes serving as client/server senior systems analyst with John J. Coleman Associates. He also spent 20 years with IBM as a senior systems analyst, product development manager and manufacturing test engineer.
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This is, I believe a first release for folk club member and Reno resident Doug Saum. It is an album of the poems of Yeats, set to music with Doug's original melodies and arrangements. You may have had a chance to hear him perform his Yeats adaptations with partner Judith Schmidt at Camp Harmony on New Year's Eve, which was really enjoyable. On the recording his fine guitar playing is supplemented with an interesting assortment of synthesized sounds. All the instrumental work and most of the singing are Doug's; the only outside musician is singer Mary Lee Dazey. Doug has a nice reedy voice; not polished but sweet.
He took pains to assure that his project had the approval of the Yeats family, and consulted someone knowledgeable about the pronunciation of the words. Occasionally the music doesn't quite convey the feeling of the poems, but generally hits right on the mark. Particular standouts for me were "Sweet Dancers", about children dancing and playing the world over, "Full Moody Is My Love And Sad", which really conveys the feeling of being with an upset lover, and "Come Ride And Ride To The Garden", about going to a place of joy and tranquility.
I find this to be a very enjoyable album. If the idea of synthesizers makes your blood boil, this won't be your cup of tea; but if you're a little more open-minded, you'll develop a real liking for it. Great job, Doug!
This culmination of one of Mark's recent projects is wonderful. With his expressive voice and extremely versatile guitar accompaniment, Mark skillfully evokes the emotional reality of the harshness of life experienced by the eastern European Jews as they endured it, staying or emigrating. The 17 cuts on the CD represent slightly more songs - some field-collected, some composed, and some amalgamated from several versions.
Although tailors and seamstresses predominate, the songs could easily represent the thoughts of anyone. The title cut expresses the feelings of superficially content workers (a tailor, a shoemaker, a tinsmith, and a shopkeeper) who have difficulty surviving on what they take in.
One seamstress survives her life of drudgery by singing, and two others offer us personal views of the long hours, starvation wages, and inhuman work conditions that existed before unions; tailors boast of their dexterity or bemoan their long hard work.
"Mayn Ruhe Plats" is here. "Say, O'Brien" surprised me, with its internal mixture of English, Yiddish, and Hebrew rhymes and themes, along with choruses familiar from childhood. My favorite song ("In Der Kuznye") turned out to be a freedom song (sung by a smithy to the rhythm of his hammer); my second favorite ("Dos Lid Fun Broyt") was composed in celebration of the colonists who came to Palestine for a life with a hopeful future.
I highly recommend this CD as a poignant, but educational and far-from-depressing, musical portrait of the rich cultural heritage of the eastern European Jews.
I regard this CD as a treasure for two reasons: First, it makes me smile and dance. According to the written notes, Taquachito Nights/Conjunto Music from South Texas was recorded live at a two-day festival given by and for the people of San Benito, Texas. Although the two main instruments, the button accordion and the bajo sexto, which is a double-coursed twelve-string bass guitar, are featured on all nineteen tracks, there are different performers and there is variety in the types of dances. This is modern conjunto-dance music that began with farm workers in southern Texas and spread in popularity. The only notes my feet need, however, are the ones that come bouncing out of the speaker.
Second, as might be expected from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the written material is organized so that one may delve as deeply or as shallowly as one pleases. This way, Taquachito Nights can be Modern Conjunto 101. There is a lengthy discussion including the evolution, social context, and future of this music. Or just read the short introduction and, if you can keep from jiggling, follow along with the accurate English translation. The Spanish lyrics are available separately by mail or on the Internet. I had no trouble finding and printing them out. The booklet with the CD also has pictures; reading, video, and audio lists; and, in case you decide to go there, maps; what to take ( your appetite and your dancing shoes ) and whom to contact.
Vocolot consists of six women with glorious voices, led by cantor Linda Hirschhorn. Their repertoire is wide-ranging, and they're back with another prize-winning critically acclaimed album, Behold.
Their material, embracing folk, jazz, classical, and cantorial vocal traditions, is always a pleasure to hear. This latest album is a varied mix, mostly composed by Linda Hirschhorn-solos, group harmony, accompanied and a cappella; some in English, some Hebrew or Yiddish, some in combination. Of course, as one article correctly pointed out, "You don't have to be Jewish to like Vocolot". Amen. Do join Ronnie Gilbert and other fans who enjoy this luscious and exciting music.
Included: "Behold", a solemn and beautiful piece, with text from the ring-exchanging ceremony combined with words from the Song of Songs; "If You Can Walk", a lively, fun number based on Zimbabwe folk wisdom; "Camarada", very pretty, adapted from Walt Whitman's "Song of the Open Road"; and "Study War No More", a thrilling English/Hebrew version combining the American folk song with a contemporary Hebrew song.
Then there's: "Bird", a wonderful little a cappella number; "My Resting Place", a mournfully heartrending Yiddish song, a gem, written in response to the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist sweatshop fire that took 130 lives; the exuberant "Hear and Rejoice"; "Betrothal", a Hebrew song, of faithfulness and giving of oneself.
Also: "Wing Span", a yummy three part round; and "Blessed is the Flame", an inspirational group number. There's more as well. An album you'll enjoy many times, and great for gift giving. Also ask about her other marvelous albums and songbooks.
If you would like to review any of the above titles, select a title and contact me, Rachel Levin, 415-695-9299 or prlevin@yahoo.com. I'll send you the CD for your review. Don't bother with Pulitzer-Prize-winning writing-just say what you liked (or didn't ) about the music. Send your review of approximately 250 words to Phyllis Jardine, pjardine@aol.com, with a copy to me, Rachel. Phyllis will include your review in the next folknik when space permits. You keep the CD. It's that easy!
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Madeline Smith Art Show to Debut April 24
OBU senior Madeline Smith will present her senior art show Friday, April 24, at 6:30 p.m. in the OBU Art Building. Smith is from Oklahoma City. A reception honoring her and her work will serve as the opening ceremony for the exhibit. The public is invited to attend the free event.
Smith's presentation, titled, "Roam Around the World," will include pieces from places the artist has visited. Her work will remain on display until the exhibit closesThursday, April 30.
Her paintings and drawings on display draw particular inspiration from national parks.
"I was inspired to capture interesting aesthetics in nature," she said. "I have found these in abundance in national parks. My depictions of these landscapes also include tinges of surrealism."
She cited OBU Assistant Professor of Art Julie Blackstone and Chris Owens, adjunct professor of art, as her major influencers and supporters.
"They both understand me and are very attentive to my style and work ethic. They are excellent educators. They are also both people I admire personally in addition to being great professors."
Smith also noted famous surrealist artists Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and their contemporaries as inspiration for her own art.
"My goals and plans regarding art are to make sure I continue to develop my skill throughout my life and learn as much as I possibly can about realism."


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Discussion in 'iPad Accessories' started by slimcharles, Apr 22, 2011.
After a few weeks of browsing and even ordering a few cases but canceling last minute, I've found my "ideal" setup.
I like using the iPad "naked" so all I did was buy a hard candy bubble case and the combo I must say is perfect.
Anyone else use a similar setup?
Ipad 2 with smart cover and ghost armor front and back and a targus leather tote for traveling.
Almost naked when I'm not using it, well protected when I'm not.


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package de.choffmeister.microserviceutils.http

import akka.http.scaladsl.model.{IllegalRequestException, StatusCodes}
import akka.http.scaladsl.server.Directives._
import akka.http.scaladsl.testkit.ScalatestRouteTest
import de.choffmeister.microserviceutils.BusinessError
import de.heikoseeberger.akkahttpplayjson.PlayJsonSupport
import org.scalatest.matchers.should.Matchers
import org.scalatest.wordspec.AnyWordSpec
import org.slf4j.helpers.NOPLogger

class HttpServerBaseExceptionHandlerTest
    extends AnyWordSpec
    with Matchers
    with ScalatestRouteTest
    with LoggingDirective
    with PlayJsonSupport {
  val route = extract(_.settings) { settings =>
    parameters("verbose".as[Boolean].?, "unknown".as[Boolean].?) { case (verboseParam, unknownParam) =>
      val verbose = verboseParam.contains(true)
      val showMessagesOfUnknownExceptions = unknownParam.contains(true)
      handleExceptions(
        HttpServerBaseExceptionHandler(
          NOPLogger.NOP_LOGGER,
          settings.withVerboseErrorMessages(verbose),
          showMessagesOfUnknownExceptions
        )
      )(
        concat(
          path("business-error-1")(failWith(TestBusinessError1("msg"))),
          path("business-error-2")(failWith(TestBusinessError2)),
          path("business-error-3")(failWith(TestBusinessError3("msg"))),
          path("illegal-request-exception")(failWith(IllegalRequestException(StatusCodes.BadRequest, "detail"))),
          path("runtime-exception")(failWith(new RuntimeException("msg")))
        )
      )
    }
  }

  "works" in {
    Get("/business-error-1") ~> route ~> check {
      status should be(StatusCodes.BadRequest)
      val res = responseAs[ErrorResponse]
      res.code should be("test_business_error_1")
      res.message should be("msg")
      res.detail should be(empty)
      res.stackTrace should be(empty)
    }

    Get("/business-error-2") ~> route ~> check {
      status should be(StatusCodes.BadRequest)
      val res = responseAs[ErrorResponse]
      res.code should be("test_business_error_2")
      res.message should be("msg")
      res.detail should be(empty)
      res.stackTrace should be(empty)
    }

    Get("/business-error-3") ~> route ~> check {
      status should be(StatusCodes.BadRequest)
      val res = responseAs[ErrorResponse]
      res.code should be("test_business_error_2_custom")
      res.message should be("msg")
      res.detail should be(empty)
      res.stackTrace should be(empty)
    }

    Get("/illegal-request-exception") ~> route ~> check {
      status should be(StatusCodes.BadRequest)
      val res = responseAs[ErrorResponse]
      res.code should be("illegal_request")
      res.message should be(StatusCodes.BadRequest.defaultMessage)
      res.detail should be(empty)
      res.stackTrace should be(empty)
    }

    Get("/illegal-request-exception?verbose=true") ~> route ~> check {
      status should be(StatusCodes.BadRequest)
      val res = responseAs[ErrorResponse]
      res.code should be("illegal_request")
      res.message should be(StatusCodes.BadRequest.defaultMessage)
      res.detail should be(Some("detail"))
      res.stackTrace should not be (empty)
    }

    Get("/runtime-exception?verbose=false&unknown=false") ~> route ~> check {
      status should be(StatusCodes.InternalServerError)
      val res = responseAs[ErrorResponse]
      res.code should be("unknown_error")
      res.message should be("Unknown error")
      res.detail should be(empty)
      res.stackTrace should be(empty)
    }

    Get("/runtime-exception?verbose=true&unknown=false") ~> route ~> check {
      status should be(StatusCodes.InternalServerError)
      val res = responseAs[ErrorResponse]
      res.code should be("unknown_error")
      res.message should be("Unknown error")
      res.detail should be(empty)
      res.stackTrace should not be (empty)
    }

    Get("/runtime-exception?verbose=false&unknown=true") ~> route ~> check {
      status should be(StatusCodes.InternalServerError)
      val res = responseAs[ErrorResponse]
      res.code should be("unknown_error")
      res.message should be("msg")
      res.detail should be(empty)
      res.stackTrace should be(empty)
    }

    Get("/runtime-exception?verbose=true&unknown=true") ~> route ~> check {
      status should be(StatusCodes.InternalServerError)
      val res = responseAs[ErrorResponse]
      res.code should be("unknown_error")
      res.message should be("msg")
      res.detail should be(empty)
      res.stackTrace should not be (empty)
    }
  }
}

final case class TestBusinessError1(message: String) extends BusinessError(StatusCodes.BadRequest, message)

case object TestBusinessError2 extends BusinessError(StatusCodes.BadRequest, "msg")

final case class TestBusinessError3(message: String) extends BusinessError(StatusCodes.BadRequest, message) {
  override lazy val errorCode: String = "test_business_error_2_custom"
}

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I would highly recommend the Nate Evans group. Nate was great to work with while selling out home. Always letting us know what buyer were saying so we could improve for the next showing. I really loved working with this group.


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Home News Remote working and caregivers' rights: a blurred line between a right of the employee and a decision of the employer
Remote working and caregivers' rights: a blurred line between a right of the employee and a decision of the employer
Enactment of the European Directive 2019/1158
With the legislative decree published in June 2022 (no. 105/2022), Italy has finally enacted the European Directive 2019/1158 on work-life balance for parents and caregivers.
As clearly stated in the directive, the need for a reviewed specific regulation (previous rules were stated in an older 2010 directive) is grounded on the fact-based statement that work-life balance remains a considerable challenge for many parents and workers with caring responsibilities, mostly because of the increasing prevalence of extended working hours and changing work schedules, which has particularly a negative impact on women's employment that, statistically, are mainly the primary parent and caregivers.
Remote working as work-life balance tool beyond pandemic
An enhancement of the right to request flexible working arrangements also through the use of remote working arrangements is seen as a potent tool as to allow the retention in the employment market of those employees that can be generally considered as primary caregivers.
For giving an example, it is well documented that over the most critical moment of the pandemic crisis Italy has been specifically hit by a significant reduction of the women representation in the work force, with plunging numbers in an already critical area. Around 77% of resigning parents (with children below 3 years) in 2020-2021 were mothers, and among them a striking 95% has indicated as reason for resigning the challenges in balancing work and caring obligations, while in the category of fathers the most part was motivated by having found a new job.
Back to the pandemic experience, remote working had become, as result of the restrictions, the standard mode of performing the activity in many sectors, especially in provision of services, and emergency laws introduced the right for caregivers, parents and the so called "fragile employees" to obtain a remote working arrangement as to protect their health and limit the impact of the possible hiccups in public support (schools, day-care institutions, social services, etc.). Till then, in Italian law landscape remote working arrangements had relied on a free choice and decision of both parties of the employment agreement as mutual consent was (and still is) needed as well as the alternation between remote and in presence work.
During emergency also some case law was formed on the matter, stating that employees' access to remote working arrangements had to be regulated according to rational principles, good faith, not discrimination and considering preference rights given by the law. In addition, it has been stated that the compatibility between duties and remote mode had to be assessed based on the actual conditions of the work place and preserving the interest of the employer to receive a fruitful and "full" working performance.
Blurred line between mutual choice and right
According to the legislative decree no 105/2022, the employers who "enter into remote working arrangements" are obliged to give priority to requests belonging to workers with children up to 12 years or with disability, disable employees and caregivers.
Based also on the above principles it seems that generally the employer cannot be "forced" to have a remote working program in place, but once it is introduced, it has to prioritize the mentioned categories in the access, likely also in a disproportionate way compared to the other employees but within anyway the principles indicated by the law (alternation, compatibility with duties, working on objectives). This also implies the need to have a specific and well-grounded reason for not granting such access if based on a compatibility with the duties or other organization reasons.
Pursuant to the law, any discrimination or measure adopted as reaction to the request of accessing the remote working mode, shall be considered retaliatory or discriminatory and, therefore, is null and void.
This article is for information purposes only and is not, and cannot be intended as, a professional opinion on the topics dealt with. For any further information please contact Francesca Pittau.
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Blackpool to welcome Bat Out of Hell musical tour - dates, ticket prices and more
The rock musical tour is coming to Blackpool in July 2022
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Get ready to rock out to Meat Loaf classics Paradise by the Dashboard Lights and I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) when the musical inspired by the legendary singer's best-selling album comes to Blackpool in 2022.
Bat Out of Hell: The Musical will play at the Opera House in the seaside town for one week only from Tuesday, July 5 to Saturday, July 9.
The award-wining tour, which will be directed by Jay Scheib, lands on the Fylde coast after wowing audiences in the West End, Toronto, Germany and New York.
READ MORE: Blackpool's Ride The Lights returns for Christmas edition
It will star Glenn Adamson as Strat and Martha Kirby will play the role of his love interest Raven, while Rob Fowler has been cast as Falco and Sharon Sexton is to feature as Sloane.
Killian Thomas Lefevre (Tink), Joelle Moses (Zahara), James Chisholm (Jagwire), Kellie Gnauck (Valkyrie), and Danny Whelan (Ledoux) complete the main cast.
The musical, which premiered at the Manchester Opera House in 2017, tells the story of Strat and his 'lost' friends, whose DNA has been frozen meaning they stay young forever, however he falls in love with Raven, who will age normally.
Will raven's powerful parents Falco and Sloane, who forbid their union, successfully stand in the way of their love or will tragedy strike?
The score features a plethora of Meat Loaf's greatest hits, including You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth, Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad, as well as two songs What Part of My Body Hurts the Most and Not Allowed to Love, written especially for the musical.
The tour is dedicated to composer, lyricist and producer Jim Steinman who co-wrote the Bat Out of Hell album with Meat Loaf and produced the original musical, after he died in April.
Tickets are priced from £17.50.
Tickets are on sale now, here.
UK's biggest toboggan slide unveiled as Tinsel Town comes to Trafford Centre
Blackpool's new £1m Peter Rabbit attraction kids will love
KendalThe delightful market town that wholeheartedly deserves its 'cool' tagKendal is no ordinary place
Home Bargains to open huge new Preston store as major expansion continues
Lake District pub unrecognisable following six-figure makeover
The inn in Keswick has retained its original features while a contemporary touch has been added
Preston IKEA location confirmed as plans submitted to council
The Swedish giant currently has no stores in Lancashire after axing plans for a superstore near Bamber Bridge five years ago
We tried a Spam butty bought from a 'famous' Lake District food trailer
Mistakes were made and we let Sue down
LancasterLancaster bats off Chester for exclusive Monopoly board as 'local pride' shines through"We know we're a fantastic city, it's just so good to know that other people think we're as fantastic as we know we are."
Blackpool SEALIFE's unusual proposal spot gets a Valentine's Day boost
The Eiffel Tower has got nothing on this
Home Bargains to open new £1m store in Carlisle this week with dozens of jobs
Home Bargains is creating 51 new jobs in the local community with its store in Carlisle
Anne-Marie and Bastille to headline Highest Point Festival 2023 as full line-up announced
Attendees can expect to see more than one hundred artists across six stages over the course of the weekend


There is a place in Thailand that, to me, is the most magical place on Earth. I found it by accident, but I think I'd like to die there someday. I won't say where it is, but if you ever want to go, tell me and if you've been kind to me over the years I will hand-draw you a map. In the mean while, I think we could all use a little magic during these tough times, so I'll show you what I found there.
It looked like the entrance to a cave off in the distance. I'd stayed here once before but this was a new bungalow—two years ago the jungle was covering this particular view and I didn't know the cave existed.
While eating breakfast I chatted with an adventurous Slovakian couple. After finishing, the man hopped over a low rail partitioning off the dining area from the rocky cliff, and waved goodbye. I turned to his partner, and asked where he was going. She pointed to the rocks below. I was amazed they were going down there, because not once had the idea occurred to me last time I was there. I assumed it was too dangerous and stuck to the several sandy beaches, each offering its own slice of nature that was more than fulfilling for me. Minutes later, she finished her yogurt and prepared to walk down to find her mate. Knowing nothing about them I thought perhaps they were the rock-climbing type, and asked about the decent. "Yeah the path is kind of treacherous but it's worth it," she said, climbing down in flip flops.
Surely if she was wearing flip flops, I could do it in sneakers. But she wasn't lying about it being treacherous. When I climbed down later there was barely a path through the jungle overgrowth, and I crabwalked and bouldered down most of the way. When I finally reached the bottom though, it was magnificent peaceful rocky heaven.
I quickly realized that the hot sun was just about to round the cliff at noon, and once it did I would fry. I had one bottle of water with me so that would be the measure of how long I would stay down.
A stark contrast from the bustle of Bangkok's Kao San Road, where I'd been just 48 hours before, I was completely alone in nature out here. It was glorious. I found a little rock hut and hid from the sun to write in my notebook, examining the tiniest of hermit crabs and volcanic rock around me. I noticed little pools of water where larger crabs had made their graves and turned bright red, cooked from the sun. That first day out there, it felt like a seaside wasteland. I imagined living out there for years, and how I would pass the time. When I would miss humanity and how my brain would cope with the lack of socialization.
I took off my bathing suit top and jumped in the water with my snorkel. The Slovakians were nowhere to be found, nor was anybody else, so clothes ceased to be of importance. Under the sea were brightly colored tropical fish floating lazily among the thousands of barnacles. I was one of them. They weren't afraid.
I felt myself getting dehydrated so I climbed along the cliff while the sun beat down on my back. My sunscreen was no more but I wasn't going back up the way I came. I saw the cave, looking inviting as ever, but I was out of water. I knew it was for tomorrow unless I wanted to die there today.
I found a path through the jungle leading out to the main road and walked back up the steep hill to my bungalow, ready to collapse. I drank a ton of water, in a race with a dehydration headache, and realized that I did what I always do: pushed myself too hard. As Hunter S. Thompson once said of The Edge, "the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." But the edge is where I tend to perch, and oh, sometimes it cuts me.
I woke up the next day sore as hell from using all my latent rock climbing muscles and burnt to a crisp. I usually don't ever burn, but after coming from Sweden and a long European winter, my skin was shocked. I picked up the tube of sunscreen I'd purchased at the Bangkok Airport Boots and squinted at the back. There was a sticker in Thai over the description and when I ripped it off and saw the English words: "Not waterproof, reapply after swimming or sweating," I groaned and chucked it into the corner of the bungalow.
It didn't deter me though. The next day I went back down, earlier this time before the sun was too hot. Everything was different, rearranged. Even the heavy rocks had shifted slightly. I realized the tide must come all the way up to the cliff and back down on a daily basis. The crab corpses were in different holes today. I made a game out of walking along and looking in each watery hole. Each one had a different surprise in it every day, a different combination of urchins, nematodes and patterned corals.
The strange thing was that if you saw the holes at low tide, everything looked dead, devoid of color. But once the water came in, everything glimmered with life.
I approached the cave, carefully stepping on the dry rocks since the wet ones were treacherously slippery. Getting here during high tide would be nearly impossible. It was a silly hunt at first, and I expected to find nothing more than some 3-foot deep enclosure, something I would do as a child on the playground and then pretend whatever I found meant much more than it was. But when I approached and saw it went THROUGH to somewhere, I delighted.
Light at the end of the tunnel is always a good thing, right?
With everyone smashed so closely together in NYC, it's rare to feel both truly alone and out in the open. You can go inside the boxes we build for ourselves to feel alone, but there is no nature. Or you can go outside and know that there are hundreds of people around you at any given moment, maybe watching you and maybe not, but not definitely not. Not not enough to wander around naked feeling totally free.
I came back there to that spot quite often. it just so happened that the sun set perfectly in the middle of the grotto. There was some kind of rare bird tending a nest high on one of the cliffs, and I would watch her and she would watch me, and it was very chill. One day I went out there and smoked a joint while I watched a fisherman cast and recast his line in the distance. I got very sad thinking how unfair it was that, as a woman, this feeling of liberation was so kept from me in most places and circumstances. Rarely is a woman alone given the respect to stay that way, unwatched, unpursued, unharassed. So rarely do we celebrate the fierce triumph of lonliness.
No sooner had the thought entered my mind then did two men walk out into MY secret grotto. I didn't acknowledge them at first, I just went about my business looking at rocks. But when the sun was starting to set, they happened to be sitting in the best place to see it, so I walked nearer to assess them. My senses said, OK, and my eyes noticed they were actually quite cute, so I said something about the sun and we became friends. Turned out they were also traveling bloggers, from Argentina. We motorbiked around the island together and they invited me to go with them to the full moon party, but I didn't want to leave my tide pools, my solitude. I do hope I see them again, somewhere around the world. Being alone is wonderful, but so is good company.
I stuck with my tidal pool investigation. And after a few weeks something started to happen: the most exhilarating health I have felt in years. I was waking up early to go out there, and going to bed exhausted at night. I shed like 15 lbs. One day I wore yoga shorts and before going down the cliff, one of the ladies who worked in the kitchen told me: "Your legs skinny now. When you first came, much bigger!" OK cool thanks!
I began to feel the rhythms of the tides, and I started to find weirder creatures.
I posted a picture of this ball sac looking thing on Twitter to see if anyone knew what it was, and got a range of answers, from alien spawn to… well mostly alien spawn. I mean, that's why I didn't poke it to see what was inside, but also, respect for nature.
Anyway, mystery solved, eventually a scientist suggested it may be an anemone bundled up for low tide. Who knew they did that? I went back to try to find it the next day, but obviously it was gone, because like the other forms of life out here, it was only visible out of water in a transitory state.
WTF NATURE!!! HOW ARE YOU SO BEAUTIFUL?
The best thing about all this, is that if you don't know what you're looking for, all of this just looks like mud from far away. ALL OF THIS TREASURE. AHH.
So this is what I did for a month in Thailand. I observed nature, and contemplated its ephemeral state of being as all these beautiful and resilient sea creatures got pushed in and swept out with the tide, burning in the hot sun and dying and ejecting spawn back into the sea because that is the life cycle. And all our stupid little problems revolving around paper that is printed to represent things people can have that they gain from the destruction of natural beauty and life on Earth? I had next to none of those pieces of paper when I was here, and I was happy! I vowed not to let myself worry when I go back to New York City, about death or taxes, about relationships or the new class of dictators we're breeding in the US. Soon enough, the tide of life will sweep us all out to sea, and it will be over, and that will be great because that's what's supposed to happen. And none of their paper will matter. So why worry now? The anemones don't worry.
The monkeys, John Steinbeck and me: tidal pool fans for life.
At first I thought, "oh cute! A monkey!" and walked nearer. But then it was, "Oh, and he has a friend!" "… and another friend." And then I realized it was a whole tribe of 15 monkeys and I was alone out there. Was nature going to demolish me so soon after I made peace with death by having monkeys rip my eyeballs out?
I kept my distance, stepping back out of their path of destruction as they ravaged the magical creatures in the tidal pools like it was their personal buffet. And ravaged each other.
Then one by one, in the most circular display of my own cycle in a place, the monkeys all filed into the cave and disappeared into the dusk.
I was planning on going to the cave, but I thought: they clearly have plans. Nature had gifted me, on my last night, the presence and acceptance of these creatures on what I'm sure they saw as their own turf. What more could I ask?
I hope you enjoyed hearing about this leg of my journey, and that if you are struggling and stressing out in a box over pieces of paper on a concrete plot somewhere, as I will be in less than a week, to remember there is beauty in the world waiting to envelop you like a big hug and it has the power to break the societal spells that can make us so miserable over what is, in many ways, a fine mesh of illusions. Just find the nature around you and look closer. And when you reach the point of truly appreciating your exchange with nature, do your part to protect it. Or it won't be here much longer.
All photos by Arikia Millikan taken with an Olympus Pen EP-5. Not for reproduction without permission.
This post was cross-published on Beacon Reader, an experiment in crowdsourced publishing that has subsequently ceased to exist. RIP Beacon Reader.
This entry was posted in adorable animals, Adventuring, Beacon Reader, Entropy, Gender, Health, Hell Yes, Musings, Personal, Photography, Religion, Sciencey, Thinkers, Travel, zOMG! and tagged anemones, aquatic, magical island, monkeys, Philosophical musings, sea life, Thailand, tidal pool, Tidal pools on May 26, 2016 by Arikia.
Hi Arikia, I came across your blog while searching for tide pooling in Thailand. Really love the tranquillity of the beach and the amazing sea creatures in the rock pools you have shared. May I get the location of the beach and name of the cliff side bungalow you have stayed at? Many thanks!


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Elvin Richard Bishop, född 21 oktober 1942 i Glendale, Kalifornien, är en amerikansk blues- och rockmusiker, gitarrist och sångare. Han växte upp på en farm nära Elliott, Iowa. Familjen flyttade till Tulsa, Oklahoma då Elvin var 10 år. 1960 flyttade han till Chicago och började studera fysik vid University of Chicago.

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Bishop träffade 1963 Paul Butterfield och började spela i dennes Paul Butterfield Blues Band. 1968 inledde han en solokarriär med mer rockinriktad musik som bland annat resulterade i en stor hit "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" 1976. Under 1980-talet blev det tyst om honom på grund av drogproblem.

1988 tecknade Bruce Iglauer på Alligator Records kontrakt med Bishop som då helt slutat med alkohol och andra droger. En serie album på Alligator under 1990-talet visade att han var att räkna med som bluesgitarrist/sångare med egna fyndiga låtar och bättre gitarrsolon än någonsin, särskilt på slidegitarr. Han har dessutom medverkat på en mängd andra bluesartisters skivor genom åren, till exempel Clifton Chenier, John Lee Hooker och Little Smokey Smothers.

Bishop bytte inför utgivningen av albumet Gettin' My Groove Back 2005, hans första studioalbum på sju år, skivbolag till Blind Pig Records.

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Mary Prater grew up in Germantown, Ohio where she graduated high school. Mary did foreclosures for 9 1/2 years for Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. She decided to take her love for helping others into the world of Real Estate. She went to Hondros College of Business for Real Estate. She now lives in Centerville with her husband Scott and they have 2 sons Jonathon and Tony. Mary loves spending time with her family and friends along with traveling! Mary would love to help you find your future home, as a buyer specialist for The Mark Ryan Group she is able to take her passion for homes and helping people and make it one amazing career!
Laura Ryan is the Overseer if Order for The Mark Ryan Group. She grew up in the Centerville Ohio area and she and Mark moved back here in 2005 with their oldest daughter so she could attend Centerville schools as Laura did. Laura's background in retail management makes this job a perfect fit, with her ability to problem solve and manage multiple tasks. She is the driving force behind the buyer's agents helping with lead management and system setup. Her determination to get the teams clients to the closing table shows through in the results that she is able to achieve with short sale approvals and successful closings. At the end of the day her passion is her family and the real estate business, while stressful and busy, allows her the time to be with her kids and husband while still managing the office.
Nicole Schuder is a buyer specialist with The Mark Ryan Group, she joined the team in early 2010. Nicole has been a licensed agent since 2003 performing buyer agent functions. Nicole lives in the Centerville area after growing up in Springboro. She is an avid horse lover and has passed her passion down to her daughter who competes in her own rodeos. She and participates in the community by volunteering for her kids sports. Nicole's experience allows her to be able to work through any situation that may arise with a home purchase. She is passionate about her work and has the unique ability to find the perfect house for her buyer's even if on paper it didn't look perfect. She is very creative and is able to help her clients see the potential of a space.
Erin is a lifetime Dayton resident. She has been a licensed agent since 2003 and has acted as a listing manager, contract manager, and buyer's agent. Her current role (and favorite role) is as a buyer's specialist for The Mark Ryan Group. Erin lives in the Dayton area and grew up in Oakwood. She remains active in the community as a running coach for Oakwood Jr. and Sr. High and is a member of the Ohio River Road Runners Club. Erin graduated from Wright State University and earned her Masters through The University of Dayton. Erin's work experience has required her to be innovative, dedicated, and persistent. She prides herself on her dependability and ability to work well with others.


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If you're looking for a great Haleakala summit hike- one that just may be the best Haleakala summit hike, in fact- then Sliding Sands Trail is the perfect trek for you.
Located inside Haleakala National Park, this trail is definitely not an easy hike, but your efforts will be greatly rewarded.
This extremely strenuous trail descends 2,800 ft. in the first 4 miles to the valley floor. The Keoneheehee (Sliding Sands) Trail starts at the bulletin board by the entrance to the Haleakala Visitor Center parking lot. For a good half-day (and yet still moderately strenuous) hike, we recommend the first 2.5 miles of the trail to the Ka Lu'u o ka O'o cinder cone before turning around and taking the trail back out. The round trip is a 5-mile trek, and given the elevation, it'll feel like it's longer. The final climb back up Haleakala's crater rim will also be more than enough hike for one day. Total elevation gain/loss between the trailhead and the cinder cone is approximately 1,400 ft.
For overnight trips, Keoneheehee Trail leads to Kapalaoa cabin in 5.6 miles or Paliku cabin and campsite in 10.4 miles. On long treks to the central valley or beyond it is recommended that you hike the Halemauu Trail out of the valley due to the steepness and soft cinder base of the Keoneheehee Trail.
Prepare for this hike by getting a decent meal and good night's rest the day before.
A bit of wisdom from those who have lived and learned: hiking this trail with too little energy due to lack of food and sleep makes it about 10 times harder than it needs to be. So, for your safety and enjoyment, start out prepared and well-rested. Check out our Haleakala Packing List for everything you'll need to stay safe and comfortable- whether you'll be camping or just exploring on a day hike.
Visiting Haleakala is definitely a Maui bucket list adventure. Otherworldly landscapes, perhaps the world's best sunrise, and stunning views all around make for an unforgettable experience. We are proud to feature some of the best Haleakala tours- whether you choose to hike the summit, zip down on a bicycle, or fly over the crater. Book your Haleakala experience today, as these tours can fill up fast.
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 Podiums complets sur le site JudoInside.com.

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Breezy Ridge is the perfect place for a family looking for great value, or a group of fishermen needing a place to lay their heads. The downstairs room has a king size bed and the upstairs loft has two full size beds which makes a nice layout for giving the kids their very own space during your stay.
This Broken Bow Cabin is located near but not too close to Walnut Ridge and No Concern cabin. It has similar layout to Walnut Ridge Cabin, these two cabins each have their own privacy and can be rented separately but are also perfect for renting together for a group. These cabins have hot tubs and are offered at a great value for being only a few minutes from Broken Bow Lake and Beaver's Bend State Park.
Breezy Ridge is located near Walnut Ridge and No Concern cabins for a group getaway.


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A History of Finnish Games, Part 1
Okay, it's not a comparison, but just to justify the word "Finnish" in the blog title, in more than just the fact that I happen to be a Finnish person living in the said country, I decided to lecture people about some classic Finnish games. And why not start with the computer that they even advertised as "Computer of the Republic". I kid you not, it's right there in the advertisement scan. And I'm doing this, because this blog now has reached readers from quite a few countries over the world, so here's something completely different to you. Perhaps you guys from other parts of the world will share your histories of gaming industry similarly, so we can get the comparison part here as well. ;-)
Bump 'n' Jump (Data East, 1982)
Released to the arcades in Japan as "Burnin' Rubber" and to the rest of the world as "Bump 'n' Jump".
Ports were released for:
- Atari 2600 and Intellivision by Mattel Electronics in 1983 as "Bump 'n' Jump"
- Commodore 64 by Colosoftware in 1983 as "Burnin' Rubber"; by Bubble Bus in 1984 as "Bumping Buggies"; and by IJK Software in 1984 as "Krazy Kar"
- Colecovision by Coleco in 1984
- Nintendo Entertainment System by Vic Tokai in 1986 as "Buggy Popper" in Japan and "Bump 'n' Jump" for the rest of the world.
Here's an oldie, but definitely a goldie. Currently, at Lemon64, "Burnin' Rubber" has 98 votes and is rated 7.4, while "Bumping Buggies" has 40 votes and is rated 7.1. AtariMania doesn't have it rated, but has several releases of it as "Bump 'n' Jump", all of which have a fair amount of hits and downloads. INTV Funhouse website gives it excellent marks. Coleco and Nintendo reviews and ratings are stupidly hard to find, but they seem to be getting average marks overall.
Commando (Capcom, 1985)
Original title: "Senjou no Ookami", translated Wolf of the Battlefield
by Tokuro Fujiwara & Tamayo Kawamoto.
Ports developed for:
- Acorn Electron, Amiga (1989), Amstrad CPC, Atari ST (1990), BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum at Elite (check Wikipedia for a list of developers) in 1985.
- Commodore 16 plus4 at Elite by Richard Ikin and Ray Tredoux in 1986.
- MS-DOS at Data East by Quicksilver Software Inc. in 1986.
- Nintendo NES version by Capcom in 1986.
- Apple ][ at Data East USA in 1987.
- Intellivision by John Tomlinson, Connie Goldman and David Warhol for INTV in 1987.
- MSX at ASCII in 1987.
- Atari 2600 at Activision by Mike Reidel in 1988.
- Atari 7800 and 800 XE by Sculptured Software in 1989. Prototype was found of the 800 XE version, and released to the internet in the 2000's.
Another true classic to compare. This time we have our first arcade machine on our hands.
Currently, Commando is spotted at #91 with a score of 7.9 with 252 votes at Lemon64 (on a list with at least 100 votes); 314 WOS voters gave rated it 8.48, and it's placed at #10, tied with 4 other games; AtariAge has compiled an average score of 82% for the Atari 7800 from external reviews; Atarimania users have voted it 7.1 out of 10 on the ST and the 800 XE: 59 LemonAmiga users have voted it surprisingly low at 5.86; CPC Game Reviews has given it 7 out of 10; DOS gamers seem to think their version the worst of the bunch, but I couldn't find ratings anywhere and the Atari 2600 version seems a bit obscure, so people haven't voted on it at Atarimania. The rest of the bunch seemed pretty impossible to find reviews or ratings of on the internet. So it's a bit of a hit and miss, this one, depending on the platform. So, with that amount of versions to get through, prepare yourself for another big one.
Twofer #1: Percy the Potty Pigeon + Wanted Monty Mole (Gremlin Graphics, 1984)
Percy the Potty Pigeon
Concept by P. Jackson
SPE version by Shaun Hollingworth (code and music) and R. Vessey (graphics)
C64 version by Antony "Ratt" Crowther (code & graphics) and Ben Daglish (music)
Wanted: Monty Mole
SPE version by Peter M. Harrap
C64 version by Antony "Ratt" Crowther
For today's entry, I've picked two early Gremlin titles, of which the other one is a bit more obscure one. Neither of these games appear on any Top 100 lists currently, but have their own cult following. Monty currently has 8.09 with 45 votes at WOS, and 6.6 with 44 votes at Lemon64. Potty Pigeon has 7.42 with 19 votes at WOS, and 6.0 with 34 votes at Lemon64. That seems to give some idea of the end results, but both were my favourites on both computers when I was a kid, so why not give them a little tribute here anyway. Hope you'll enjoy.
Stunt Car Racer (MicroStyle, 1989)
Original by Geoff Crammond. Released in the U.S. by Microplay as "Stunt Track Racer".
Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga and Atari ST graphics by John Cummins.
Converted for the ZX Spectrum (1989) and Amstrad CPC (1990) by Pete Cooke, and for the MS-DOS by Tim Ansell from The Creative Assembly.
Another proper classic under the looking glass here. A truly unique racer at the time, which only recently has gained some competition in the form of the TrackMania series, but the thirst for a new version or a sequel seems to remain unquenched forevermore.
Currently, the game is placed #49 at Lemon64 Top 100 (for games with at least 100 votes); was placed #85 on the YS readers Top 100 in 1993, is currently out of WOS Top 100 but rated 8.20 with 98 votes; CPC Game Reviews gave it a 9 out of 10; Lemon Amiga Top 100, with similar voting requirements as Lemon64, puts it on #43; Abandonia rates the DOS version 3.2 out of 5; and finally, Atarimania Top 100 of Atari ST games by rating places it at the #70 spot.
Bruce Lee (Datasoft Inc., 1984)
Original by Ron J. Fortier and Kelly Day.
Published for :
Apple ][, Atari 800, Commodore 64 and MS-DOS by Datasoft Inc. in 1984
Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum by U.S. Gold in 1984
MSX by Comptiq in 1985
Sharp MZ-800 by VSetin (?) in 1988
NEC PC-8801 (and Sharp X-1?) by Comptiq in 1989
Sega Master System by Kagesan in 2015
To properly start off this blog, let's go for what most of us retrogamers would call a true classic. Currently, on the Lemon64 top 40 list, it's on #23, World Of Spectrum has it tied on spot #55 with 5 other games, Atarimania has it on spot #21, CPC Games Reviews gave it an 8 out of 10, and at Generation-MSX, it has four stars out of five. For the other conversions, I found it too difficult to find any reviews, but it's not a seriously bad game on any platform. Just a seriously flawed conversion on some of them. UPDATE, 6th of July, 2016: the newish Sega conversion was released a couple of years after I originally wrote this comparison, but as I mentioned in the relevant Updates entry, the remake shall not be featured here.
Less biased opinions, more balanced reviews.
Very early on in my gaming history, in the latter half of the 1980's, I wanted to be a game reviewer, because I wanted to play as many games on as many different systems as possible. This dream job took a back seat a bit later, as my primary objective in life was to become a musician, which I eventually did. Now, my other job dream can take some ground back, and I can start writing about games I like. More specifically, the games I liked back then, and still do, on the machines I owned back then, still do, and continue to collect. Maybe have a friend or two help me out with this project as well, because it's already starting to feel like a lot of work. :-P
The purpose of this blog is to compare an endless stream of retro games, as reasonably as possible, play them on every gaming machine I can think of, either on a real machine or an emulator. I've seen too many blogs and review websites that are clearly biased towards the machine of their preference.
When I was a kid, my first gaming devices were a Donkey Kong Jr. Game & Watch handheld game, then a 48k ZX Spectrum, then a Commodore 64C, before finally getting to the modern age of PC gaming. The first machine I ever played on was Atari 2600. Alongside my own machines (which, of course, my parents had bought), I had a fairly good access in the neighbourhood to machines like the MSX, NES, SNES, Sega Master System, Sega Megadrive (Genesis), and Commodore Amiga. Later on, I had most of these machines myself, and had an easy access to Nintendo 64, Atari Jaguar, the Sony Playstation machines and some others. All in all, I had a pretty balanced view of what was going on in the biggest scenes of the gaming world, so I couldn't get too biased about what I had. Since this is a retro gaming blog, I won't be getting any closer to modern gaming than the PS1 generation here, and even THAT is stretching the idea a bit.
Here you can see a (mad photoshop skillz!!) collage of most of my equipment. My current favourite old machine is the Commodore 64, mostly because of the modern equipment I have been able to acquire for it, but I will always have a soft point for the ZX Spectrum. My favourite new machine has been for many years, and will continue to be, a PC, preferably equipped with a Windows release of odd number, until Microsoft stops building their GUI's for people to use.
I will begin posting some actual content next week. If you have any game review requests, gimme some comments.
RANTISH UPDATE - 5th of January, 2020:
Over the years, a few people have complained about the blog being biased towards one thing or another, despite my self-proclaimed intention of having LESS biased opinions towards different versions of games, and writing MORE balanced reviews for each game - that is, compared to some much older comparison websites, that mostly focused on either just Spectrum and C64 or having only the Amstrad CPC added into that mix. It is impossible to have a list of... CURRENTLY 171... completely unbiased comparisons, when the games by design don't offer such luxury, hence "LESS unbiased". Many of the featured games that have been compared are done by request, and some originally for a C64-based magazine even, yet sometimes, I have dug out some games that I had previously no knowledge on, just to get things even more balanced.
Some games are so clearly designed for certain machines, that the design has remained the same across all different platforms, so they don't really call for a comparison, such as Knight Lore. Another thing I cannot currently do is comparisons of joystick-waggling sport games, because I would need to have all the necessary platforms as actual machines to make a fair comparison - I don't trust emulation that much. Further on, some games have such a small amount of versions to write about, writing about those would be fruitless. On the other hand, games like Bubble Bobble and Lemmings are so huge and have too many versions to mention, are out of limits for the types of comparisons I do here. The special entries like the Unique Games series, which I personally think are more important than the comparisons, have long been the point of focus and enjoyment for me to research and write, because for those entries, it's not about anyone having the chance to complain about something, but rather giving some lesser known games and their authors some focus.
To my knowledge - as I have actually kept an Excel chart of the games featured on the blog - the bias towards C64 (which is in the lead for the platform that has "won" the most comparisons) isn't nearly as big as you might think. To get more "wins" for machines like the ZX Spectrum or Acorn's BBC Micro or even the 16-bits would require either a writing partner who likes to play simulations, strategy games and isometric adventures that certainly would be preferable on an Acorn or a Spectrum, or then we'd have to find 8-bit originated games that actually WERE better on the 16-bits, or vice versa. The thing is, though, this is a Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog, and the bias is local because the Commodore had such a strong foothold and impenetrable marketing machinery in here back in the day. And the bias will remain as it is, unless some Finnish retrogaming enthusiast pops his/her head in and writes similarly detailed comparisons of games that I have no interest playing. Until then, the only thing I can suggest you readers can do is request some games to be compared, and I shall try to accomplish something.
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Well, it's Thursday, and I feel like my brain doesn't work. However, I did make you this illustration last night. It's supposed to be swimwear, but I think it kind of looks like underwear. Just know that it's swimwear.
Speaking of swimwear, I'm proud to tell you that one of the images from yesterday's post was reposted on Aerie's website! Click here to see it. I actually posted it on instagram, but it's the same image.
Annd while we're on the subject, did you know that the first bikini was created in 1946. Here's a picture. The top is cute, but the bottoms not so much. In case you need to do more reading on the matter, here's the Wikipedia page.
Here's hoping my brain warms up a little before I go to work. Happy Thursday!


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Lawmakers approve $4.8 billion first phase of Long Thanh airport
By Anh Minh &nbspNovember 26, 2019 | 06:30 pm GMT+7
An artist's impression of the Long Thanh International Airport to be built in southern Dong Nai Province. Photo courtesy of the Airports Corporation of Vietnam.
The National Assembly gave the go ahead Tuesday to the government picking an investor for the first phase of the Long Thanh airport.
Over 90 percent of lawmakers voted in approval of a government proposal to build the first phase of the Long Thanh International Airport in the southern province of Dong Nai, which includes one runway and one terminal with a capacity of 25 million passengers and 1.2 million tonnes of cargo a year.
The approval means the government can pick an investor for the project. It has expressed its preference for using the state-owned Airports Corporation of Vietnam, which manages 21 airports, for this position.
However, the National Assembly has demanded that the investor uses its own funds and that the government not guarantee any loan taken for the project, so as to not increase public debt.
Investment in the first phase of Long Thanh is set to cost almost VND111.69 trillion ($4.8 billion). Construction is scheduled to begin in 2021 and be completed in 2025.
After all three phases of the airport are completed by 2050 at a total cost of VND336.63 trillion ($16 billion), it will be able to handle 100 million passengers a year, picking up overflow from the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, which is currently operating at far above its designed capacity.
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Reading: Lawmakers approve $4.8 billion first phase of Long Thanh airport


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All Points will be have a table at the 27th Marshall Small Business Alliance Meeting on April 11, 2019. The Marshall Small Business Alliance (MSBA) was created to provide industry with maximum exposure to the NASA/MSFC marketplace. Those in attendance will receive a variety of acquisition and program updates/overviews, contract specific center organizational overviews, and NASA/MSFC Small Business Program updates.


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CAEF Letter to National Post Editor
Dear National Post Editor and Readers,
In the past week The National Post and The Toronto Sun have been the only media consistently telling the truth, unveiling the lies, clarifying issues and presenting facts in regards to the terrorist attacks on Israel from Hamas in Gaza and the internal terrorism generated by Arab citizens of Israel.
It has been a nightmare for Israelis of all faiths, races and creeds and probably no less for non Hamas and non-Jihadi-associated Gazans, but it has also been a nightmare for Jews in the diaspora. The conflict was entirely provoked by the terrorists who are inspired by Islamism, committed to the destruction of Israel, elimination of Jews in their national homeland and bent on another genocide against Jews around the world.
It is no exaggeration that it is Jew hatred writ large, exported abroad and affecting every Jewish community in the Western world, in Asia and Africa as well.
Examples of Jew hatred in our own city, in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver and elsewhere are plainly in view but the mass media, with the two exceptions mentioned, prefer to spread lies and bigotry, prejudicing Canadians against the Jewish state. How can journalists, broadcasters, social justice/human rights activists, be so wilfully blind, so bent on spreading the virus of antisemitism? Was one Holocaust not enough, along with the pogroms, the Inquisition, the many wars against Israel since her inception and against the Jews even before Israel's independence? The war initiated by Gazan-based Hamas and its Islamo-fascist allies began over 100 years ago and has continued almost unabated, stopped only by short term cease fires to allow the terrorists to reload and refurbish their armaments, rebuild terror tunnels, and train more martyrs to die for a cause that only serves the master terrorists, many of whom have homes abroad, healthy bank accounts, big titles and small minds.
Here is what the world of journalism should be about and we commend the National Post and the Toronto Sun, both owned by Post Media, for being committed to it: "Seek the truth, hear the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, speak the truth, hold the truth and defend the truth until death".
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It's my third father's day without my dad, and just yesterday I finally dropped off a stone to be carved for his marker. It took a while, but like he told me once, some things take time.
I'm not always a patient person. I get frustrated as I learn a new skill and progress is never as fast as I'd like it to be. It was in high school that he gave me that little gem. I was practicing a trumpet solo in my bedroom and I kept stumbling over the same passage. I must have played it 100 times, and never the right way.
It must have sounded like torture from the living room in that tiny rambler. But as I stormed out and past him, he didn't look phased. He glanced up from his paper and said "sounds good."
"Are you kidding?" I replied. "I can't get it."
"Yet," he said.
He never said a lot, and I'm sure I didn't appreciate much of it at the time. Then he said, "Some things take time," and he went back to his paper.
One thing I've learned through working on A Peace of My Mind is that some things are worth waiting for. Some things are worth working for. Rewards aren't often instant, but there is something worthy in playing the long game and always pressing forward.
My dad failed a grade in elementary school but went on to earn a master's degree. He held high school track records but then got injured in football and carried a back injury with him for the rest of his life, but he still always hiked the mountain trails during our summer vacations.
He made the down payment on his first house by offering to paint it, because as he liked to say it, "we didn't have a pot to piss in." Yet he managed to help fund his grandkids' college education in a way we couldn't when the recession pulled the rug out from under us.
He just quietly kept moving on.
The picture up top is from the memorial service we held for my dad at our farm after he passed away. Just a small gathering and some friends playing music. We planted this grove of trees for my mom when she died a decade earlier and his marker will be placed next to hers when it's complete.
I've done my best to keep Grandma's Grove mowed and trimmed, because I know he would have liked that. Even after a long, hot weekend of working in our Christmas tree fields, I would go up to mow it. And every time, I'd look at the spot where his stone should be, and feel a little guilty.
We could have done the stone faster but I didn't want one from a store. I wanted one from my stone mason friend in Kansas. It took a while. Then I couldn't find anyone to carve it, because it was rustic and not very smooth. Then I found a guy, but the stone was buried under snow and ice so I had to wait for spring. Then spring got busy.
Finally, I dropped the stone yesterday, and just in time. The guy I found is retiring and selling all his equipment in a few weeks. He lives in a quiet little valley about two hours from my home and when I dropped the stone, he wanted to talk…about details of the stone and then about the person who the stone was for.
We found common ground around our national parks. I traveled with my parents to them every summer growing up, and he had done the same with his kids. He talked about how he would pull out the photo albums on cold winter days to thumb through and I told him that when my dad's memory was failing, it was the only thing he could still recall…all those trips…so we would revisit the albums and talk about the things we had seen.
Dad, thanks for teaching me patience. For helping to make me the stubborn, forward-plodding person that I am. For the love of the outdoors and for teaching me how to trim a tree. Thanks for being patient waiting for your stone…I think it will be worth the wait.
To all the dads, father figures, role models, grandpas, big brothers, and others who have stepped in when a dad couldn't or wouldn't be there…Happy Father's Day.
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Beautifully said, John.
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What a beautiful, heartfelt tribute to your father! All things in their own time….I have no doubt that your Dad's stone will be absolutely perfect :)!


Medical malpractice occurs when a negligent act or omission by a doctor or other medical professional results in damage or harm to a patient. Recently, the Minnesota Supreme Court held that Minnesota law permits recovery for "loss of chance" in a medical malpractice action. Dickhoff ex rel. Dickhoff v. Green, 2013 WL 2363550 (Minn. 2013). The loss of chance doctrine recognizes that a patient values her chances of recovery or survival and suffers a real injury when a physician's negligence reduces that chance, regardless of whether the patient's chance of survival was above or below 50 percent at the time of the physician's negligence.
Negligence on the part of the physician or other medical professional could include an error in diagnosis, mismedication, or failure to provide adequate life-saving measures.
In the Dickhoff case, parents brought a medical malpractice claim against a treating physician and medical center for failing to timely diagnose or refer their daughter to a specialist after the family repeatedly questioned the physician about a lump on the child's buttocks. Later, the lump was found to be cancerous and the child was diagnosed with an aggressive childhood cancer. In their medical malpractice claim, the parents claimed that the doctor's negligence increased the risk that the child's cancer would recur and decreased her chances of survival. The parents alleged that the cancer was "curable" if timely diagnosed; however, based on the delayed diagnosis and treatment, the cancer was most likely fatal.
The Court provided a two-step process with respect to measuring damages in a loss of chance case. The first step is to measure the chance lost. "Loss of chance damages are measured as the percentage probability by which the defendant's tortuous conduct diminished the likelihood of achieving some more favorable outcome." The second step is to value the lost chance. The Court adopted the "proportional-recovery rule." Under the rule, the total amount of damages recoverable is equal to the percentage chance of survival or cure lost, multiplied by the total amount of damages allowed for the death or injury.
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Ears-on with Amazon's new Echo earbuds, framebuds, and ringbud
Devin Coldewey	@techcrunch / 1 year
Amazon announced more than a few devices today during an event at its headquarters in Seattle, and it was the smallest gadgets that made the biggest impression. The company built Alexa into earbuds, glasses and a ring with the Echo Buds, Echo Frames and Echo Loop, respectively. I've tried them all out.
The ones people are most likely to actually want are the earbuds, of course. With Bose noise reduction and Alexa functions built in, they'll be a popular option for anyone who doesn't want to take out their phone, but also doesn't want to wear large over-hear headphones.
The Echo Buds are somewhat large — bigger than several sets of wireless headphones I've seen and tried, though they were comfortable after being corkscrewed into my ear.
They have two modes: noise reduction and passthrough, which you switch between with a double tap on either bud. The noise reduction was considerable, but certainly not to the level you'd expect from a pair of over-ears. In-ear headphones already provide a physical barrier to sound getting in, but the addition of three microphones on each ear (two external and one internal) let it do the usual electronic reduction as well. I could still hear the crowd around me and people speaking to me, but it was easily drowned out by the Billie Eilish song they queued up.
Passthrough provided a quick and clear version of surrounding audio with no noticeable delay. Music and other stuff can still be played in this mode and it blended pretty seamlessly in.
Of course the Echo Buds, like pretty much everything else at the event, have Alexa built in. You get at the service via a wake word, a process that worked well for me.
Their little case looks more fiddly than it is. Magnets snap the contacts onto each other and it begins charging immediately. You should get some 4-5 hours with the buds, out to 20 hours if you drain the case too.
About five feet away from these headphones, and with a half hour wait to test out, were the new Echo Frames. These glasses can be customized with your prescription, though sadly the design and material are locked in.
The oversized arms of the glasses house the Alexa hardware, and while the glasses themselves are pretty light, the thickness is definitely noticeable from any angle. The underside of the right arm has an activation button and a volume rocker, as well as the port for magnetic charging. The big shiny sides are touch sensitive; you swipe to accept a call, respond to Alexa offering more info and so on.
The sound is a bit like someone whispering in your ear — you wouldn't want to listen to music on these, the Amazon folks admitted. But speech was clear and Alexa commands were handled quickly.
The speakers aren't exactly hidden: Each arm has two speakers inside, each of which has two "ports," one on top and one on bottom. I asked the demonstrator probably five times why there are ports on the top if the sound needs to come out the bottom, but all she would say is that it's how they made the directional audio work.
Perhaps that's also why I could hear the Alexa responses from a foot or two away in a crowded room. You can configure it so only certain things get played automatically, which is good, because if the person on the bus next to me heard some of the texts I get, they might be alarmed.
Honestly it's not much worse, though a bit clearer, than if someone is using bad earbuds. Just be aware that if you use these things, others might be hearing that whispered text conversation too.
Last, and weirdest, is the Echo Loop. It's a big fat ring that you can use to ask Alexa questions and hear the answers. The big part with the dots isn't actually the speaker, but rather part of the microphone array — presumably for subtracting ambient noise so the speech recognition works better. The inside of the ring is where you'll find the tiny speaker — the smallest of any Amazon device, it was said — and mic.
You tap a button to activate Alexa, and the ring will vibrate to let you know it's time to talk. You then ask your hand the question you have in mind, and afterwards cup the ring to your ear — right up to it, because this speaker is tiny. A second or two later, out comes Alexa's voice, sounding like an old transistor radio, telling you the weather in Barcelona or whatever.
Does it work? Yes, it does. It's a ring you can ask questions. The speaker is pretty quiet and you need to find the right position to hear it well (admittedly it was fairly loud in the room), but the ring speaks.
It's not for everybody, which is why it, along with the glasses, are part of the new Day One Edition series of questionable devices. But if you can think of a way it might be useful, be assured: It works as advertised.
Is Amazon's Alexa ready to leave home and become a wearable voice assistant?


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Kia ora, Talofa lava, Malo e lei lei, Fakalofa Lahi Atu, Ni Hao, Namaste, Kia orana, Bula, Salaam and welcome to Kelston Primary School.
Our school is built on strong traditions and values having been an integral part of the Kelston community since 1953 We pride ourselves on supporting our students to reach their academic, cultural, sporting and social potential in a well resourced and enriching environment.
Our school strives to cater for all learning styles and we encourage parents to engage with us in all aspects of their children's learning. I am always willing to meet parents and I adopt an open door policy which you will observe throughout our school.
Our core values are Community, Respect, Excellence, Curiosity and Honesty. These underpin our daily learning and ensure that we provide a safe and nurturing environment for your child.
Please take the time to browse our website and Facebook page and learn more about the wonderful learning experiences we provide. I enjoy talking about our great school and the staff and I am always willing to assist by answering any questions you may have.
All students at our school have access to digital technologies to support and enhance their learning. All of our devices are provided by the school so that the students do not need to bring devices from home.
In Year 4 the students use Chromebooks (1 Chromebook per 2-4 students), as well as a class iPad.
Our Year 5/6 classes have 15 Chromebooks per class (1 Chromebook per 2 students), as well as a class iPad.
Every student in Year 4, 5 and 6 has their own school Google for Education account where they can create and store their learning and access it anywhere, at anytime. Parents and students are required to sign a user agreement before a Google account will be set up.
We are a vibrant and multi-cultural school in West Auckland. We cater for children from new entrants to Year 6 and offer a variety of cultural, academic and sporting opportunities for our students.


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Q: ggplot only black dots and no colors I have a dataframe in R as this (only sample posted here):
              DE      logFC     pval log2fc_color  rank
1    Upregulated  3.4958900 264.1088      #00519e   110
2    Upregulated  2.9649858 254.4343      #00519e   222
3    Upregulated  1.5794640 246.1799      #00519e   988
4    Upregulated  1.6678800 235.9541      #00519e   901
5    Upregulated  3.9374453 229.3586      #00519e    62
6          Top10  6.2492052 227.5845      #d51030     4
7          Top10  7.4608894 153.1061      #d51030     1
8          Top10  6.4259618 135.0821      #d51030     3
9          Top10  5.9704932 118.9760      #d51030     7
10         Top10  6.0201382 112.0736      #d51030     6
11 Downregulated -2.6035129 311.1072      #00519e  2624
12 Downregulated -3.8199728 306.3362      #00519e  3023
13 Downregulated -2.8384308 299.8498      #00519e  2749
14 Downregulated -2.9654265 299.6843      #00519e  2804
15 Downregulated -5.4785903 297.3173      #00519e  3135
16            NA -0.8830659 189.6105      #a7a7a7 17041
17            NA  0.9867408 181.4278      #a7a7a7    30
18            NA -0.9681908 170.5315      #a7a7a7 17357
19            NA  0.8636595 166.6765      #a7a7a7   451
20            NA  0.9811910 165.4120      #a7a7a7    44

and I am trying to do a volcano plot. I would like to color by different category of DE and I also have the color defined in the log2fc_color column. However, when I try to plot using the following command, I am only getting black dots.
ggplot(df.t1, aes(x=logFC, y=pval, fill=log2fc_color)) + geom_point()

or
ggplot(df.t1, aes(x=logFC, y=pval, fill=DE)) + geom_point()

A: Two things going on here:

*

*geom_point can use fill=, but for most shapes it has no visual effect; for this, you either need to shift to using colour= or shift to a shape= that uses the fill attribute (e.g., shape=21);

*Based on the #rrggbb nature of your log2fc_color, I believe you want the literal colors in the column, not a color-factor based on the categorical values of the strings; wrap it in I(.) to force the colors themselves.

ggplot(df.t1, aes(x=logFC, y=pval, color=I(log2fc_color))) +
  geom_point()

Or, using colour=DE and manual colors, which adds a legend:
ggplot(df.t1, aes(x=logFC, y=pval, color=DE)) +
  geom_point() +
  scale_colour_manual(
    values = c(Upregulated = "#00519e", Top10 = "#d51030", Downregulated = "#00519e"),
    na.value = "#a7a7a7"
  )

(Use scale_colour_manual(guide = FALSE, ...) if you want to suppress the legend in this case.)

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The special support for women thread on Linux Australia's discussion email list was a long email discussion in October and November 2013 about when and whether "special support for women" such as the Outreach Program for Women were helpful or otherwise.
On October 27, Marina Zhurakhinskaya emailed the list promoting the Outreach Program.
Apparently we need special programmes to address an imbalance between the sexes; in politics, employment, management and elsewhere, this is widely accepted as appropriate. Linux Australia is not immune to this; we give opportunities and support to females. This puts an elephant in the corner: women gain opportunities at the expense of more capable (or more needy) men. This undermines their credibility; it raises reasonable doubts about their competence. Are they there from merit or merely to make up the numbers?
We see ourselves as a meritocracy; for sake of honesty and transparency, our special programmes for women should candidly admit patronage of incompetence over political correctness. Let's cancel our "women in IT" programmes and replace them with programmes that reward "incompetent women in IT," or at least to widen eligibility to include hamsters and fish. That way, competent women, of which we have plenty, can leave no doubt that they won prestige merely on shining ability.
Newall followed up on October 30. On the same day, Hugh Blemings asked on behalf of the LA Council that the thread cease. Newall objected to the council attempted to end discussion of LA's actions. The council does not seem to have used technical powers to end the thread for some time.
On November 1, Newall obliquely referred to disciplinary action against a list member, presumably himself.
Warning for discussion of self-harm. On November 3, Newall emailed the list with a long list of quotes from his opponents in the thread that he considered hurtful, and disclosed that he had considered suicide in response.
Several people replied to Newall with apologies for any hurt he had experienced. There does not seem to have been an official statement of Linux Australia's position on "special support for women" at any time.


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While others bands of the same genre such as: The Whos, The Animals, Zombie, Rolling Stone were killing it with their aggressive approach and groovy music. But The Beatles were indeed extraordinary, even when if was about their cool and youth-influencing sense of style.
Soon after his chart breaking folk tunes about racial suffering and nuclear apocalypse such as: "Blowin' in the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" in 1963, Dylan soon moved to rock and roll. On July 25th, 1965, Dylan took the stage with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the Newport Folk Festival and played a brief, howling set of the new electric music he had been recording.
He shocked folk purists howled back at him in rage, and for fair reason: The music that Dylan began making on albums like Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited would effectively kill off any remaining notions that folk was the imperative new art form of American youth and confer on rock a greater sense of consequence and a deeper expressiveness.
In particular, with "Like a Rolling Stone" (the singer's biggest hit and the decade's most liberating, form-stretching single), Dylan framed perfectly the spirit of an emerging generation that was trying to live by its own rules and integrity and that was feeling increasingly cut off from the conventions and privileges of the mainstream culture.
Combined, the Beatles and Dylan had a seismic effect on popular music and youth culture. They changed the soundscape and ambition of rock & roll in thorough and irrevocable ways that, a quarter-century later, still carry tremendous influence. They also had a sizeable impact on each other.
Dylan also influenced the Beatles in two other important respects. For one thing, he was reportedly the person who introduced them to drugs (marijuana, specifically), during his 1964 tour of England. This brand of experimentation would gradually affect not only the Beatles' musical and lyrical perspectives but also the perspectives of an entire generation. Indeed, in the mid-1960s, drug use became increasingly identified with rock culture — though it certainly wasn't the first time drugs had been extolled as recreation or sacrament, or exploited for artistic inspiration.
In July 1966, following a triumphant but strenuous tour of England with his storming backing band the Hawks, Dylan suffered a motorcycle accident that broke his neck and would remove him from the recording scene for over a year. And the bad news continued: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones were arrested for drug possession in a series of 1967 busts in London and pilloried by the British press and legal system.