Welcomed by the luxury hotel, Sofitel, there is no need to worry about logistics. They will spoil with a pleasant welcome at the airport together with a welcome snack along the road. First, do not forget to exchange money at the airport. The rates are pretty good and much alike all over town.
It's really great to relax during your vacay. Take comfort and advantage. It will put a smile on your face for the great memories.
Aside from the lovely rooms, amazing pool and a great environment, the food is amazing here. For special nights, they offer local cuisine and a possible show teaching the local dance. In the morning, the buffet is amazing. Get spoiled with fresh detox juice and other local fruits. Yes, there are pancakes and noodles at the same time. Whatever you crave.
Not far from town and can be arranged through the hotel is the popular Kwang Si Falls. Indeed, this falls is mystical and beautiful. You need a van to get here and it takes 45 mins to an hour road trip. There are stopovers that you can do like the butterfly farm and the buffalo ice cream stand along the way.
There is an entrance fee to get inside the vicinity of Kwang Si Falls and a little hike before you see its beauty. You will pass by a bear facility. The black bears are really cute and fun to see.
Then hike a little further and you will start to see the base of the falls. Your jaws will drop at the amazing blue color of the water. Bring a swimsuit as it is allowed to swim here. The water is very fresh and amazing. You can also have a picnic here as it is a great place for it. Stay no less than 2 hours at this place. Kwang Si Falls is made up of several tiers.
If you want to be near town, 3 Nagas Mgallery by Sofitel is a highly recommended place. The tourist spots are walking distance from this hotel. It is also a UNESCO Heritage site which makes it more amazing as it is. The hotel used to be the house of the royal tailor and across it used to be the royal ice cream parlor.
Since 3 Nagas is accessible to the popular tourist spots. Walking around would be a great way to tour around. There are also available complimentary bikes if you wish it to be the mode of your transport.
Luang Prabang is famous for its beautiful temples. There are a lot to see in one street. Some have fees and most are free. You can start with the prettiest temple, as they say, called Wat Xieng Thong. Then end at the Royal Palace which is now a museum.
The best places to spend sunsets are Mount Phousi or by the Mekong river. They are both nice. Mount Phousi can be crowded since the whole town wants to spend sunset there and they take endless photos of the sun setting. While in Mekong river,, you can spend it in a cafe or in a hired boat.
At night, there is a night market to enjoy in the middle of the road. Get ready to shop local stuff. You can haggle but please keep it light. The Lao people or Laotians are really nice and they don't push you.
There is also a corner for food market. In the morning, there is a fresh market. At night, there is an alley for cooked food. The river fish is a local favorite. It's about 3 USD for a whole fish. Not kidding!
In the early morning, giving of alms can be experienced. The monks start while its dark and end up still early in the morning. It's a good way to start the day by giving. Yes, Luang Prabang is just full on good vibes.


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Namboani Girls' Secondary School
Namboani is a poor community near Kimilili in W.Province, Kenya. Many children are classified as orphans. The girls have lost access to their local secondary school as it has become boys only. The parents are desperate for a secondary school for their daughters and have land. They need help to build
October 2011 - October 2013
Charity information: The Kimilili Trust
The parents can make bricks and fell trees. They can work but they have no money to buy cement, window and door frames and roofing materials. The Kimilili Trust has trusted people in the area to oversee the purchase of materials and ensure the building is up to standard. The primary school and nursery schools have been built in this way. A secondary school is too big a project for the Trust on its own.
The girls will have a secondary school. Research into development shows that community enrichment and female education go along together. At the moment the girls are held at primary level and have no access to jobs, no access to ideas, higher or further education, no status and no self-worth.
Goverrnment officers have met trustees and assured them that once the school is built the government will accredit it and the on-going costs will thus be funded. They see the need and will meet it.
Aim 1
To provide secondary education for the girls of the Namboani community
» To work with the parents providing them with the necessary funds to purchase materials and oversee this with trusted people in the area.
What success will look like
Success will be when there is four years of secondary education in Namboani and the school is funded by the government.
The girls will have access to secondary education. Some will move onto further and higher education. They will achieve equality of status with the boys and be able to make a contribution to the development of their community commensurate with their abilities.
If the pattern of development follows the normal patterns - and there is nothing to indicate otherwise - then the health and wealth of this, the poorest area of the Kimilili district, will improve.
The biggest risk is that the government will not take on the funding of the school. However the school has been in existence now for two years in effect under the joint sponsorship of The Kimilili Trust and the Catholic church. Teachers ahve been employed and paid, books and materials bought and the welfare needs of the pupils met. If the government did not take on the funding then this could continue.
Visits will be made on a regular basis by trustees who will communicate by letter to all regular donors. The web-site will contain reports.
External donors may have their own requirements and if donations are accepted then these will be met.
Budget - Project Cost: £105,000
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£10,000 proj 1 4 classrooms
£34,000 proj 2 library, lab. & admin
£23,750 proj 4 art, craft, dormitory
£6,000 1 contribution by parent body
£21,250 2-4 in work, bricks & timber
Current Funding / Pledges
The Parent Body £27,250 Conditional
The Kimilili Trust £5,000 Guaranteed
The community of Namboani lies about 14 km from Kimilili which is itself in Western Province, Kenya.
The people of Namboani are estimated by the local development committee to be the poorest community in the Kimilili district. They are nearly all subsistence farmers relying on the rains to eat. Adult literacy is fairly high in Kenya generally but is low in this area - approximately 70% of the adult population is illiterate.
The girls of the area have lost access to secondary education. The deputy mayor of Kimilili, unusually a woman, asked The Kimilili Trust for help.
Because we have a track record of working with this community and can show success. In recognition of this the local people honoured the chairman in 2008 with the title "tribal elder"
Read more about the Charity running this project.
Rev Fr Peter Makokha
Fr Peter is the Catholic parish priest of Kimilili. Whent he school is running he will be the representative of the sponsors on the governing body.
Mr John Gribben
Chairman of The Kimilili Trust and regular visitor to the Kimilili area.
Mrs Jan Gribben
Trustee and regular visitor to the Kimilili area
Contact The Kimilili Trust
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Q: How does the downloads count for an app in the Google Play Store calculated I'm trying to get official answer of how install count in Google's play app page is calculated.
I'm referring to the counter showing the rough indication of "1M+","50,000 - 100,000" and so on..
To be more accurate - my question is:
If my app distributed by the Galaxy app store / Orange app store - will Google play know eventually to count also this installations although they installed via Samsung's galaxy store?
(Assuming I have my app published also in Google Play with the same package and signature..)
My assumption would be that only download's initiated from the play store would count in Google's play page, but I couldn't find any official source confirming that.

A: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/play/u2P3BiUmqPU:

Play Store will count only the apps installed apps from itself. If you have installed an app from third party without changing anything in the app manually then this will not be counted but you will get updates on Play Store, once you update the app installed from third party then it will be counted. If you have installed an app that was cracked then it won't be added, also you will not get any updates. It will not be counted anymore.

That's only a semi official source. However if you go to the google play console and navigate to User Acquisition > Acquisition Reports you will see the following

There is a listing for 3rd party referrers but as the name implies and the tooltip ("Unique users who installed your app from a deep link to Google Play from a third-party referrer.") confirms, this only counts referrals to the play store listing itself.
If google play's install count included 3rd party app store installs, surely those would be mentioned as an acquisition channel on this page.

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Q: Focus Textbox using only XAML I'm trying to set the keyboard focus to a textbox that is included in a stackpanel collapsed by default. When the stackpanel becomes visible i want the textbox to become, by default, focused.
I've tried this code:
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" FocusManager.FocusedElement="{Binding ElementName=TxtB}">
  <TextBox x:Name="TxtA" Text="A" />
  <TextBox x:Name="TxtB" Text="B" />
</StackPanel>

However, it didn't work. The type cursor showed up, but it wasn't blinking and didn't allow writing.
Is it possible to solve my problem using only XAML? Perhaps triggers?

A: Yes, as you said yourself, simple trigger seems to do the trick:
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
    <StackPanel.Style>
       <Style TargetType="StackPanel">
          <Style.Triggers>
              <Trigger Property="Visibility" Value="Visible">
                  <Setter Property="FocusManager.FocusedElement"
                          Value="{Binding ElementName=TxtA}" />
              </Trigger>
          </Style.Triggers>
       </Style>
    </StackPanel.Style>

    <TextBox x:Name="TxtA" Text="A" />
    <TextBox x:Name="TxtB" Text="B" />
</StackPanel>

A: You need to create attached property IsFocused which will call Focus() method of the attached element when set to true. Wait, I'll add some code.
public static class FocusHelper
    {
        static FocusHelper()
        {
            var fpmd = new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(null, FrameworkPropertyMetadataOptions.BindsTwoWayByDefault, HandleAttachedIsFocusedChanged) { DefaultUpdateSourceTrigger = UpdateSourceTrigger.PropertyChanged };
            IsFocusedProperty = DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached("IsFocused", typeof(bool?), typeof(FocusHelper), fpmd);
        }

        public static readonly DependencyProperty IsFocusedProperty;

        [Conditional("DEBUG")]
        public static void StartFocusTracing()
        {
            FocusManager.FocusedElementProperty.OverrideMetadata(typeof(FrameworkElement), new PropertyMetadata(HandleFocusedElementChanged));
        }

        private static void HandleFocusedElementChanged(DependencyObject o, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs args)
        {
            var element = args.NewValue as FrameworkElement;
            if (element == null)
            {
                Debug.WriteLine("Focus is lost");
                return;
            }

            Debug.WriteLine("Focus moved to {0} type {1}", element.Name, element.GetType().Name);

            var fs = FocusManager.GetFocusScope(element) as FrameworkElement;
            if (fs == null)
                return;

            Debug.WriteLine("Focus scope {0} of type {1}", fs.Name, fs.GetType().Name);
        }

        public static bool? GetIsFocused(DependencyObject element)
        {
            if (element == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("element");
            }

            return (bool?)element.GetValue(IsFocusedProperty);
        }

        public static void SetIsFocused(DependencyObject element, bool? value)
        {
            if (element == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("element");

            element.SetValue(IsFocusedProperty, value);
        }

        private static void HandleAttachedIsFocusedChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            WriteDependencyPropertyBindingInformation(d, IsFocusedProperty);

            var fe = (UIElement)d;

            // значение ранее было не задано
            if (e.OldValue == null)
            {
                var pd = DependencyPropertyDescriptor.FromProperty(UIElement.IsFocusedProperty, typeof(UIElement));
                pd.AddValueChanged(fe, HandleUIElementIsFocusedChanged);
            }

            if (e.NewValue == null)
            {
                var pd = DependencyPropertyDescriptor.FromProperty(UIElement.IsFocusedProperty, typeof(UIElement));
                pd.RemoveValueChanged(fe, HandleUIElementIsFocusedChanged);
                return;
            }

            if ((bool)e.NewValue)
            {
                Action setFocus = () =>
                    {
                        IInputElement elementToBeFocused = null;
                        IInputElement finalyFocusedElement = null;
                        // If current element is Focus Scope we try to restore logical focus
                        if (FocusManager.GetIsFocusScope(fe))
                        {
                            elementToBeFocused = FocusManager.GetFocusedElement(fe);
                            if (elementToBeFocused != null)
                            {
                                finalyFocusedElement = Keyboard.Focus(elementToBeFocused);
                            }
                        }

                        // If focus was not restored we try to focus
                        if (finalyFocusedElement == null
                            || (elementToBeFocused != finalyFocusedElement))
                        {
                            fe.FocusThisOrChild();
                        }
                    };
                if (ReflectionHelper.IsInMethod("MeasureOverride", typeof(FrameworkElement))) // hack of layout issue
                    Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher.BeginInvoke(setFocus);
                else
                    setFocus();
            }
        }

        [Conditional("DEBUG")]
        private static void WriteDependencyPropertyBindingInformation(DependencyObject d, DependencyProperty property)
        {
            var binding = BindingOperations.GetBindingBase(d, IsFocusedProperty);

            if (binding == null)
            {
                Debug.WriteLine("Property {1} of object {0} has no bindings.", d, property.Name);
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.WriteLine("Property {1} of object {0} has binding.", d, property.Name);
                Debug.WriteLine("Type {0}", binding.GetType());

                var expressionBase = BindingOperations.GetBindingExpressionBase(d, IsFocusedProperty);
                Debug.Assert(expressionBase != null);

                Debug.WriteLine("Status {0}", expressionBase.Status);

                var expression = expressionBase as BindingExpression;
                if (expression != null)
                {
                    Debug.WriteLine("Source type {0}", expression.DataItem.GetType());
                    Debug.WriteLine("Source {0}",expression.DataItem);
                }
            }
        }

        private static void HandleUIElementIsFocusedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            var uiElement = sender as UIElement;
            var isFocused = uiElement.IsFocused;
            ((DependencyObject)sender).SetCurrentValue(IsFocusedProperty, isFocused);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Tries to set focus to the element or any child element inside this one.
        /// Tab index is respected
        /// </summary>
        public static bool FocusThisOrChild(this DependencyObject element)
        {
            if (element == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("element");

            var inputElement = element as IInputElement;
            var wasFocused = inputElement != null && inputElement.Focus();

            if (!wasFocused)
            {
                element.SetFocusWithin();
            }

            return true;
        }

        public static bool SetFocusWithin(this DependencyObject element)
        {
            if (element == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("element");

            var children = element.GetVisualChildrenSortedByTabIndex();
            return children.Any(FocusThisOrChild);
        }
    }

and helper methods:
public static IEnumerable<DependencyObject> GetVisualChildrenSortedByTabIndex(this DependencyObject parent)
        {
            if (parent == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("parent");

            return parent.GetVisualChildren().OrderBy(KeyboardNavigation.GetTabIndex);
        }

public static bool IsInMethod(string methodName, Type ownerType, bool isStatic = false)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(methodName))
                throw new ArgumentNullException("methodName");

            if (ownerType == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("ownerType");

            var stackTrace = new StackTrace(false);
            var isInMethod = stackTrace.GetFrames().Skip(1).Any(frame =>
                       {
                           var method = frame.GetMethod();
                           return method.Name == methodName
                                  && method.IsStatic == isStatic
                                  && ownerType.IsAssignableFrom(method.ReflectedType);
                       });

            return isInMethod;
        }


The three most widely known Web email services today are Gmail from Google (www.google.com), Yahoo Mail ( www.yahoo.com), and Windows Live Hotmail from Microsoft (www.mail.live.com), with AOL Mail (www.mail.aim.com) being another major player. Other lesser known services have created a splash lately and depending on your needs may also be worth a look.
Many Internet service providers (ISPs) also offer Webmail as an option for their subscribers. This can be a convenience if you typically use your ISP's email servers in conjunction with an email client but want to access your email through the Web on the road.
The Web site About.com (www.about.com), owned by the New York Times Co., recently published the results of its 2011 Readers' Choice Awards (www.awards.about.com) for free Webmail services.
Among the big three, Gmail not surprisingly came up way ahead. It was ranked as the top service by 21.73% of respondents. Yahoo Mail was a distant second at 6.95%, and Windows Live Hotmail received 4.83% of the votes.
The big news though was that two lesser known services topped all of the big three services this year. Zoho Mail (www.mail.zoho.com) was ranked the best Web mail service, garnering 34.15% of the votes, and GMX Mail (www.gmx.com) was second with 32.34%. Last year in About.com's survey Zoho Mail was only in fifth place with 6.83% of the votes and Gmail was way ahead of the pack with 45.50%.
The polling company Pole Position (www.pollposition.com) recently published the results of its most recent survey of Webmail services, though it mentioned by name only Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail.
Gmail was ranked the best by 22.8% of respondents, Yahoo Mail by 20.2%, and AOL Mail by 12.1%. The demographic breakdowns are interesting as well.
Young people, ages 18 to 29, also preferred AOL Mail, perhaps because of the popularity of its sister program, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), among young people. People ages 30 to 44 preferred Gmail. Those 45 to 64 picked Yahoo Mail, perhaps because it has been around the longest of the three and they're most familiar with it.
About.com also ranked email clients based on reader votes. On the Windows side, surprisingly, the top program by far was Opera (www.opera.com), receiving 76.45% of the votes. Mozilla Thunderbird (www.mozilla.org/thunderbird) was second at 13.37%, and Microsoft Outlook (www.office.microsoft.com/outlook) was third at 5.47%.
On the Mac side, the email program built into Mac OS X, Mac OS X Mail, was ranked the best by About.com readers, with 53.28 percent of the votes. Mozilla Thunderbird (www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/all.html) was second with 22.63% and Microsoft Outlook for Mac (www.microsoft.com/mac/outlook) was third at 11.68%.


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Google Claims "Quantum Supremacy", But IBM Disagrees
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Tom Jowitt, October 23, 2019, 5:22 pm
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Google and IBM publicly clash after the former claimed to have achieved a quantum computing breakthrough
Researchers at Google have touted their quantum computer has solved a problem that would take fastest conventional supercomputer thousands of years to crack.
Google published the results in Nature journal, after its Sycamore quantum processor was able to perform a specific task in 200 seconds that would take the world's best supercomputers 10,000 years to complete.
Google claimed the milestone in computing comparable in importance to the Wright brothers' first flights. But IBM has poured cold water on Google's claims.
Credit: ORNL
Google said that it had achieved 'quantum supremacy' as its quantum processor consisting of 54 superconducting quantum bits, or qubits, was able to perform a random sampling calculation – essentially verifying that a set of number is randomly distributed – exponentially faster than any standard computer.
Google's Sycamore device apparently did it in just 3 minutes and 20 seconds, though one of the qubits had to be turned off as it wasn't working properly.
The Google researchers claimed that IBM's Summit, the world's most powerful supercomputer, would have taken 10,000 years to perform the same task.
But IBM, which is also working on quantum computers of its own, questioned some of Google's figures in a blog post by IBM researchers Edwin Pednault, John Gunnels, and Jay Gambetta.
IBM disagrees
"Recent advances in quantum computing have resulted in two 53-qubit processors: one from our group in IBM and a device described by Google in a paper published in the journal Nature," wrote the IBM researchers.
"In the paper, it is argued that their device reached 'quantum supremacy' and that 'a state-of-the-art supercomputer' would require approximately 10,000 years to perform the equivalent task," they noted.
"We argue that an ideal simulation of the same task can be performed on a classical system in 2.5 days and with far greater fidelity," said the IBM researchers. "This is in fact a conservative, worst-case estimate, and we expect that with additional refinements the classical cost of the simulation can be further reduced."
"Because the original meaning of the term "quantum supremacy," as proposed by John Preskill in 2012, was to describe the point where quantum computers can do things that classical computers can't, this threshold has not been met," they wrote.
In June this year it was reported that a team of well-known British quantum computing experts had moved to Silicon Valley to found a start-up in the field, due to the lack of available funding in the UK or Europe.
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Now that Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler has been voted out of a Senate seat she was never voted into, does this mean she returns to WNBA ownership as if nothing ever happened? Unlikely, if the players, who supported her rival, Rev. Raphael Warnock, in the race, have anything to do with it. Many of […]...
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What we know about special counsel Robert Hur
Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers his statement on Thursday. (Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images)
Attorney General Merrick Garland detailed the timeline of the investigation into President Joe Biden's potential mishandling of classified documents.
Nov. 4, 2022: The National Archives Office of Inspector General contacted a prosecutor at the Department of Justice in the evening. It informed him that the White House had notified the Archives that documents bearing classification markings were identified at the office of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement located in Washington, DC. That office was not authorized for storage of classified documents. The prosecutor was also advised that those documents had been secured in an Archives facility.
Nov. 9, 2022: The FBI commenced an assessment consistent with standard protocols to understand whether classified information had been mishandled in violation of federal law.
Nov. 14, 2022: Pursuant to Section 600.2B of the Special Counsel Regulations, Garland assigned US Attorney John Lausch Jr. to conduct an initial investigation to inform my decision whether to appoint a special counsel.
"I selected him to conduct the initial investigation because I was confident his experience would ensure that it would be done professionally and expeditiously," he said.
Dec. 20, 2022: President Biden's personal counsel informed Mr. Lausch that additional documents bearing classified markings were identified in the garage of the president's private residence in Wilmington, Delaware. President Biden's counsel informed Mr. Lausch that those documents were among other records from the period of the president's service as vice president. The FBI went to the location and secured those documents.
Jan. 5, 2023: Lausch briefed Garland on the results of his initial investigation and advised that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted.
"Based on Mr. Lausch's initial investigation, I concluded that, under the special counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel," Garland said.
In the days since, while Mr. Lausch continued the investigation the department identified Mr. Hur for appointment to special counsel.
This morning, President Biden's personal counsel called Mr. Lausch and stated that an additional document bearing classification markings was identified at the president's personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware.
Attorney General Garland to make statement soon
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Honest Wagner has a mention of us today in his Pirates blog. Thanks to HW for the link.
I'm getting a little tired of defending J.J. Davis, and I can understand why Pirates fans are fed up with him. I can also see that I'm not convincing anyone. So I won't bother rehashing here.
But he has to earn PT the way the rest of the guys earn it.
I disagree with the ideas of player development that underpin statements like these. For me, the J.J. Davis issue is about more than just him, it's about impatience with rookies in general and how that can backfire. I certainly don't advocate an indefinite free pass for Davis or anyone else, but... rookies struggle. That's what they do, and we shouldn't be surprised when it happens.
If a player can't "earn PT" by ripping up the minor leagues, how can he earn it? By coming off the bench and hitting a bunch of pinch-hit homers or something? Given Davis' development pattern - he's usually taken some time to adjust to each new level - I don't think he's going to do that, and neither will lots of other guys just after they've hit the majors.
Teams who are patient with young players often reap the benefits of that player's service later. Bobby Crosby was terrible the first six weeks or so of this season, for example, but instead of benching or demoting him, the A's waited through the struggles, and since then he's been every bit as good as everyone thought he would be.
Likewise, in 1998 and 1999 the Twins gave starting jobs and hundreds of trial at-bats to lots of rookies, including many with minor-league pedigrees much worse than Davis'. The Twins didn't even suffer much while they waited for these rookies to come around - they were bad before, when they were playing veterans like Pat Meares, and they weren't much worse with the rookies. Some of them, like Javier Valentin and Chad Allen, didn't work out, and after a while the Twins cut bait and moved on. But many others, such as Torii Hunter, Jacque Jones, Doug Mientkiewicz and Corey Koskie, DID work out, and those guys eventually formed the core of a perennial contender.
And let's face it, a lot of guys on the Pirates right now aren't earning the playing time they're already getting. That's why the Pirates are bad. If the Pirates were in first place I could understand the argument that "you've got to earn PT." But they're not; they're not even close. If a rookie is embarrassing for a little while, it won't be much worse than it is now. So at this point, when a guy performs well in the minors, I think it behooves the Pirates to give him half a year to show what he can do in the majors. That goes for J.J. Davis, and also for J.R. House and others when they get called up. The Pirates' performance clearly isn't cutting it right now, so I don't see any problem with disrupting the team a little bit to make it happen. And I think the Pirates' future will be brighter because of it - not because Davis or any one particular player will make it - but because the more high-upside guys with good minor league performance records get chances, the more will succeed.
The time to make this argument was last November. To put J.J. Davis on the Bobby Crosby path, you'd have to stick him there and build around him.
The fact is the team was not impressed by those AAA numbers. Not all good AAA numbers are created equal, I guess. There was something about the kind of pitches he hit that didn't suggest major-league hitter. The minors are full of guys who crush AAA and never do much in the majors. Ruben Mateo and Chris Truby are two other examples. Neither one of us knows exactly why the Pirates studied those same numbers you cite and decided that Davis was not ready to be the opening day right fielder.
Once the season begins and J.J. Davis is promoted to be the fourth or fifth outfielder and scheduled to start against left-handed pitching, then it's too late, I think, to move him onto the Bobby Crosby path. Mac has thirteen guys and they all think they should start every day. There has to be some kind of system that most of them regard as fair which determines who starts when.
The Crosby analogy is a good one because it highlights other facts. Crosby's 24 and he's a shortstop. If he doesn't hit much, the A's aren't hurt so much. Davis is 25 and a right fielder. All teams must get production from right fielders. You can't hide a struggling bat in right field. I also remember the Pirates promoting their own Bobby Crosby, sticking him at SS, and waiting several years for him to develop as a hitter.
The argument that the Pirates are averse to rookies is not supported by analysis of the current roster or even by their recent history. Sure, some guys have been passed over for a Proven Veteran, I can't deny that. But how many rookies are the A's starting this year? How many are the Pirates starting? We can agree to disagree on whether or not the Pirates are trusting enough to rookies. It's clear they came into 2004 planning to start rookies at 2B and LF, and they haven't given up on Redman, who, unlike Davis, did well in the majors last year. Redman also plays at a position where a team can hide a weak stick.
Let's forget about Davis for now.
Who's the next guy you'd like to see the Pirates build around? What rookie or two should the Pirates run out there every day regardless of production in 2005?
"The fact is the team was not impressed by those AAA numbers. Not all good AAA numbers are created equal, I guess. There was something about the kind of pitches he hit that didn't suggest major-league hitter."
Perhaps this is true, and perhaps it isn't. We'll never know until Davis plays more. But I think you have too much faith in the Pirates' ability to evaluate players.
"The minors are full of guys who crush AAA and never do much in the majors. Ruben Mateo and Chris Truby are two other examples."
Those guys are also older than Davis, and Mateo was hitting perfectly well in the majors until the Pirates DFAed him, albeit for a short period of time.
"Neither one of us knows exactly why the Pirates studied those same numbers you cite and decided that Davis was not ready to be the opening day right fielder."
I am mystified by lots of things the Pirates do. But they've done very little to earn the benefit of the doubt.
"Once the season begins and J.J. Davis is promoted to be the fourth or fifth outfielder and scheduled to start against left-handed pitching, then it's too late, I think, to move him onto the Bobby Crosby path. Mac has thirteen guys and they all think they should start every day. There has to be some kind of system that most of them regard as fair which determines who starts when."
But that system can always change, and it often does. Stynes, Simon and Redman are playing less than they did at the start of the season, for example. And I do not see the point in not playing a guy who should play just because it would disrupt the team. A bad team SHOULD be disrupted sometimes.
"The Crosby analogy is a good one because it highlights other facts. Crosby's 24 and he's a shortstop. If he doesn't hit much, the A's aren't hurt so much."
Actually, they're hurt a lot more, because they're a contending team in a tight playoff race. The Pirates would stand to lose very little if they started Davis most of the rest of the season, health permitting. And the potential for long-term gain would be very high.
"Davis is 25 and a right fielder. All teams must get production from right fielders. You can't hide a struggling bat in right field."
Teams should get good production from the corners, yes, if they want to win now. But the Pirates aren't getting anything from Randall Simon at first. If they benched Simon, moved Wilson to first and played Davis in right they'd be at least as good as they are now, and probably better. And the Pirates can afford to take these sorts of risks now, since they're out of the playoff race.
"The argument that the Pirates are averse to rookies is not supported by analysis of the current roster or even by their recent history. Sure, some guys have been passed over for a Proven Veteran, I can't deny that. But how many rookies are the A's starting this year? How many are the Pirates starting?"
The difference lies in the teams' respective positions. The A's have lots of veteran players who are producing, and the team is winning. There's no need to play a rookie just to do it. But for a team that is struggling like the Pirates are, especially a small-market team, it is essential to trust young players, since the cheapest, most efficient talent comes from players with less than three years of big league service.
As for the Pirates not trusting rookies: Craig Wilson.
"We can agree to disagree on whether or not the Pirates are trusting enough to rookies. It's clear they came into 2004 planning to start rookies at 2B and LF, and they haven't given up on Redman, who, unlike Davis, did well in the majors last year. Redman also plays at a position where a team can hide a weak stick."
But not a stick that weak. And Redman has never, ever hit well except for two months in '03. There's no good reason to think he can hit. Davis can. I guess that's a separate argument, though. As for starting rookies at 2B and LF, good for them. They should have started one in rightfield, too, though.
"Who's the next guy you'd like to see the Pirates build around? What rookie or two should the Pirates run out there every day regardless of production in 2005?"
That's a pretty easy one, and we'll probably agree here. J.R. House. And Jon VanBenschoten, if he pitches well the last half of the year.


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NFL Super Wild-Card Weekend Picks and Previews
Liz Bhandari
NFL podcaster and journalist Liz Bhandari is looking forward to some competitive action over the NFL's Super Wild-Card Weekend!
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With the regular season coming to an end, we fasten our sights onto the Wild Card Round. We saw a lot of teams sneak into the action while some others got bounced out by unlucky outcomes. To start, let's dive into one of the most exciting rematches this weekend.
Las Vegas Raiders @ Cincinnati Bengals
The Las Vegas Raiders and the Cincinnati Bengals get to square off for the second time this season in the opening round of postseason action. The Bengals demolished the Raiders on the road the last time they faced off, and with the game being played in Cincinnati this time around, the Raiders could be in trouble. It is the first time each of these quarterbacks are in a playoff game in the NFL, with Derek Carr and Joe Burrow getting major opportunities here. This is going to be one exciting match between two gritty, tough rosters.
New England Patriots @ Buffalo Bills
Welcome to round three of this boxing match. The Patriots won the first matchup due to horrible weather conditions and the Bills stole the show in their second. Buffalo came away with the division title and clinched home field advantage, something that will wind up being huge down the stretch of this game. If Buffalo wants to win, Josh Allen will have to let it fly and dominate the game like he usually does. For the Patriots, they need to run the football and avoid falling behind early or else this game will be over before it starts.
Philadelphia Eagles @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Eagles snuck into the playoffs and despite getting blasted for 50 points against the Dallas Cowboys last week, a lot of their starters were rested to prepare for this matchup. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have a lot of players missing due to injuries, and frankly if it weren't for their easy end of schedule, they could be a lot worse off. Playing the Carolina Panthers, then the New York Jets and the Panthers again in the last three weeks doesn't scream Super Bowl contention just yet. Tom Brady shouldn't be doubted in the playoffs though, and I don't know if Jalen Hurts is ready for that stage himself.
San Francisco 49ers @ Dallas Cowboys
The 49ers broke the hearts of all New Orleans Saints fans last week when they beat the Los Angeles Rams in overtime with an interception. Jimmy Garoppolo didn't look great, but their whole offense was carried by Deebo Samuel, so it didn't really matter in the end. They also have a strong defense led by Fred Warner in the middle. The Cowboys have had some rough outings this year, but we can't ignore their ridiculously high-powered offense led by Dak Prescott. When healthy, Dallas is a Super Bowl contender. Micah Parsons and Trevon Diggs need to be ready to play after missing last week's outing as well.
Pittsburgh Steelers @ Kansas City Chiefs
Everyone was surprised when they found out that the Pittsburgh Steelers made it into the playoffs. In what is likely Ben Roethlisberger's final season on the field, hopefully he gets a chance to win this game in the end. Pittsburgh has a lot of holes on this roster, but they definitely fight until the end. Except that the last time these two teams met, the Chiefs blew them out by 30 and dominated the whole game. This one should be different, and the Chiefs have shown some weakness the last few weeks. Expect a hard-fought game.
Arizona Cardinals @ Los Angeles Rams
This divisional game will be the best of the week. The Cardinals have been crumbling in recent weeks but looking at their roster it's impossible to count them out of any game. Especially when they are so familiar with their opponent. The Rams just lost to the 49ers but won their previous two games before that. However, Matthew Stafford and the offense have made a good number of mistakes lately. Neither of these teams look great at the moment, but both have found ways to win. This is definitely going to be exciting.
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NFL Divisional Round Preview: Get Ready for the Roller Coaster!
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In 1964, hijackers working the New Jersey Turnpike were baffled when they ended up with a truckload of right-footed sneakers. The manufacturers figured they could frustrate the thieves by shipping half pairs of shoes--but the enterprising crooks started nabbing twice as many trucks and repacking the matched footgear in a mob warehouse. Unfortunately, this is one of the few colorful stories in the book, which is big on bluster and short on substance. Bonanno must have hundreds of chewy anecdotes, yet his only apparent goal is to exalt the world of his father, mob boss Joseph Bonanno (referred to repeatedly and without a scintilla of irony as ""the Angel of Peace""), whose noble, European-style family opposed the drugs and prostitution championed by upstart Americanized mafiosi. His memoir will attract some interest because it claims to reveal the identity of the ""real"" JFK assassin, a hit man named Johnny Roselli who, by claiming to have fired from a storm drain on Elm Street, qualifies for membership in an alumni association now numerous enough to fill Dealey Plaza. Such overblown claims are just part of a bloviating style windy with references to ""our tradition"" and ""our world,"" phrases that would have struck a more resonant chord in the mid-70s, when Mario Puzo's books and Francis Ford Coppola's movies introduced the country to the peculiar mix of honor and violence that Bonanno crudely celebrates. Photos. $100,000 ad/promo; audio rights to Simon & Schuster; author tour. (May) FYI: Bonanno is said to have inspired the character of Michael Corleone and was the subject of Gay Talese's Honor Thy Father. A 60 Minutes segment will air near pub date, and a Showtime miniseries is planned.


Earlier this month, game developer and hardware manufacturer Nintendo revealed a new business partership with Western Digital, a company many tech consumers will be familiar with for its production and sale of various forms of SanDisk memory cards. Along with this announcement, Nintendo also revealed that some Nintendo Switch games will require a MicroSD card in order to play the game, noting the requirement for "games that contain an especially large amount of content and require additional storage for players to enjoy the full experience."
This business venture seems logical, given that Nintendo Switch game cartridges look and function identically to standard SD cards. There's a twist to this story, though: some games that require additional storage, like Nintendo's given example NBA2K18, are placed on game cartridges that feature less than the medium's possible maximum storage. In essence, this means publishers could be using game cartridges with less storage than needed and offsetting the cost of additional storage onto the customer.
Clearly, this isn't going to go over well with Switch owners.
Why Wouldn't Game Publishers Use High Capacity Switch Cartridges?
This is the big question on players' minds. Nintendo's primary example for the need to buy additional Switch storage is NBA2K18, a game that presumably fits their description of a title that contains "an especially large amount of content." However, a PR representative for 2K Studios told TweakTown that NBA2K18 clocks in at 25 GB on the Nintendo Switch. It's true that 25GB of data is more than the Switch can fit in its internal storage with consideration to the device's OS and other software; however, 25GB is around 5GB less than the usable space inside the largest current Switch game cartridge, which clocks in at 32GB.
In essence, this means publishers are choosing to use game cartridges that can hold less data than their game requires. Or, to put it another way, game publishers are saving money by requiring players to spend money on additional storage -- such as the MicroSD cards produced in collaboration between Nintendo and Western Digital, for instance.
What Does This Mean For Consumers? Are These Games Unplayable Without Extra Storage?
Given our current understanding of the situation, the notion of Switch games needing additional storage means that Switch owners will have little choice if they want to enjoy the games they've purchased. Word has it that players will still be able to enjoy "select portions of the game" without buying additional storage, meaning the additional purchase isn't truly necessary; however, most players expect to have full access to a game from the moment it's purchased, and locking further content behind yet another purchase is to be considered bad form, even if Nintendo has done it before.
Games like NBA2K18 will basically require additional storage in order to function, which means that additional storage will be a requirement of the game. So, instead of a game costing $60 plus tax to enjoy, it may be that some players will have to cough up $100 or more in order to be able to access all of the game's content.
To the company's credit, Nintendo has placed a reminder of the MicroSD card requirement onto the box art for NBA2K18, which should be enough to catch the attention of most consumers. However, some players will still likely be surprised by the requirement of additional storage. Fortunatley, those types of players should be able to find Switch-branded MicroSD cards on the same aisle as their favorite Switch games after the cards hit store shelves sometime this October.
Has a love for Nintendo caused your bank account to run dry? Don't worry, there are plenty of low-cost and no-cost titles available for mobile platforms, and we've got our favorites featured on our list of the Best Free To Play Games.


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The Consumer and the Contact Centre
As a provider of contact centre services in Birmingham, we are always analysing how people interact with organisations. This month, mplcontact Sutton Coldfield looks at how consumers in the UK typically use a customer service department, how they contact them, when they contact them and what their expectations are when they do. Consequently, we thought we'd highlight a few of the findings below.
Press 4 for Customer Services
Unsurprisingly, almost 9 out of 10 people prefer not to go through an automated system to route their call, but more surprisingly 1 out of 10 does! On the subject of "how we like to get in touch", 75% of all communication between consumers and customer services department was found to be via telephone or email, with just over 1 in 10 people preferring web chat as a contact method.
Please Hold The Line
Call waiting times have always been a "bug bear" with consumers, and we discovered that over 70% of those polled expected to remain in a queue for less than a minute. Furthermore, while they are held in a queue, the general consensus was that a countdown to the next available operator is preferable to music, silence or repeated messages. That said, if music is to be played, the most popular choice was classical.
Time for great customer service
From the data, 81% of contact is made between 8am and 4pm with three quarters of all calls are made between Monday and Thursday, although business models do of course vary.
If you would like to find out more about how our contact service centre here in Birmingham could help your business, just call mplcontact Sutton Coldfield today on 0800 018 6009 or complete the enquiry form by clicking HERE and we look forward to hearing from you.


Ubisoft Forums > 1C:Maddox Games > IL2 Maddox General Discussion > Stick help needed - Saitek Cyborg Wireless?
View Full Version : Stick help needed - Saitek Cyborg Wireless?
Okay stick freaks, I need some help here. I used to have a Logitech wireless and long story short, the first one got replaced free by Logitech, the second one I snapped in two during a raging fit sparked by the thing being a piece of cow dung. No more of that one, and I'm not too keen on Logitech now either.
Anyways, I need a wireless stick to allow me greater flexibility, ie. playing either at the PC or on the couch on a projector screen. I saw this baby at a local shop and figured I'd ask for opinions.
Well, I have a wired version of the stick and its pretty nice.
keeps an allen wrench snapped on the base for easy adjustments.
Cant tell you about wireless interferance, but if a wireless mouse is working I'm sure it will too.
I have one of these sticks and have found it to be very good apart from a problem with the main trigger sticking. This started after three to four months of hard use and eventually after a frustrating week of hoping it would free itself off, I switched the function to button number two.
However this leaves me with one weapon button short where it is most convenient especially in the heat of combat i.e. at thumb level.
The stick is comfy in the hand and is easily adjustable and there are plenty of function buttons as well. You get some programming software with it as well for setting it up.
All in all I have been pretty happy with it and would buy another, but second time around would try not to be so unforgiving with it. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/35.gif I hope this helps with your desicion.


President Donald Trump took to Twitter Saturday morning to announce his nomination of General Mark Milley, 60, as the new chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation's top military position.
"I am pleased to announce my nomination of four-star General Mark Milley, Chief of Staff of the United States Army — as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, replacing General Joe Dunford, who will be retiring," wrote Trump.
The selection of Milley breaks the unofficial tradition of rotating chairmen by which service they're a part of. Milley is replacing Dunford, a Marine, who took the reigns from an Army chairman.
The announcement comes surprisingly earlier, considering Dunford's official tenure doesn't end until Oct. 2019. Trump went on to tweet, "Date of transition to be determined."
Trump was expected to make the announcement at Saturday's Army-Navy game, reportedly telling White House pool reporters on Friday, "I have another one for tomorrow that I'm going to be announcing at the Army-Navy game, I can give you a little hint: It will have to do with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and succession."


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Marine (book)
Doom (series)
Seah (unit)
90.9 Sea FM
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology. In scientific contexts, the term almost always refers exclusively to saltwater environments, although in other contexts (e.g., engineering) it may refer to any (usually navigable) body of water.
Marine or marines may also refer to:
Military / seafarers
Marines, an infantry force that specializes in naval campaigns
such as the United States Marine Corps
Merchant marine, or merchant navy, the fleet of merchant vessels registered in a country
A term for a navy, uncommon in English, but common in other languages
Koninklijke Marine Royal Netherlands Navy the navy of the Dutch Armed Forces
German Navy, the navy of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr)
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Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit is a 1996 book written by Tom Clancy about the inner workings of a Marine Expeditionary Unit.
Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit at Google Books
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Doom is a series of first-person shooter video games developed by id Software. The series focuses on the exploits of an unnamed space marine operating under the auspices of Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC), who fights hordes of demons and the undead in order to survive.
Doom is considered to be one of the pioneering first-person shooter games, introducing to IBM-compatible computers features such as 3D graphics, third dimension spatiality, networked multiplayer gameplay, and support for player-created modifications with the Doom WAD format. Since the release of Doom in 1993, the series has spawned numerous sequels, expansion packs, and a film.
Since its debut, over 10 million copies of games in the Doom series have been sold.
The Ultimate Doom (1995)
Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)
Master Levels for Doom II (1995)
Doom 3 (2004)
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (2005)
Doom 3 BFG Edition (2012)
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SEA or Sea may refer to:
Sea, the body of water covering most of Earth
Investigation Bureau for Railway, Funicular and Boat Accidents (Service d'enquête sur les accidents des transports publics)
Scientists and Engineers for America, a pro-science political advocacy group
Sea Education Association, an ocean science and sailing program
Service des essences des armées, French army supply corps
Sistema Eléctrico de Aysén, a power grid in Chile
Slovenian Environment Agency
Socialist Environmental Alliance, a political party in Northern Ireland
Société d'Etudes Aéronautiques, aircraft manufacturers
Society for economic anthropology
Southern Economic Association
Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County
State education agency
Svensk Elektrobil AB, was a Swedish company that made electric vehicles
Swaziland Environment Authority
Syrian Electronic Army
System Enhancement Associates, creators of the ARC file format
Schoof–Elkies–Atkin algorithm
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The se'ah or seah (Hebrew: סאה) is a unit of dry measure of ancient origin used in Halakha (Jewish law), which equals one third of an ephah, or bath. Its size in modern units varies widely according to the criteria used for defining it.
According to Herbert G. May, chief editor of two classic Bible-related reference books, the bath may be archaeologically determined to have been about 5.75 gallons (22 liters) from a study of jar remains marked 'bath' and 'royal bath' from Tell Beit Mirsim. Since the bath unit has been established to be 22 litres, 1 se'ah would equal 7.33 litres or 7.33dm3.
In the context of a mikveh, a se'ah can be about twice as much in order to accommodate even the most stringent rabbinical ruling on immersion. A mikveh must, according to the classical regulations, contain enough water to cover the entire body of an average-sized person; based on a mikveh with the dimensions of 3 cubits deep, 1 cubit wide, and 1 cubit long, the necessary volume of water was estimated as being 40 se'ah of water. The exact volume referred to by a seah is debated, and classical rabbinical literature specifies only that it is enough to fit 144 eggs; most Orthodox Jews use the stringent ruling of the Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, according to which one seah is 14.3 litres, and therefore a mikveh must contain approximately 575 litres . This volume of water could be topped up with water from any source, but if there were less than 40 seahs of water in the mikveh, then the addition of 3 or more pints of water from an unnatural source would render the mikveh unfit for use, regardless of whether water from a natural source was then added to make up 40 seahs from a natural source; a mikveh rendered unfit for use in this way would need to be completely drained away and refilled from scratch.
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90.9 Sea FM (callsign 4SEA) is a radio station on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Southern Cross Austereo Today Network, and is also the network hub for the regional Today Stream, broadcasting shows at times from 9am - 12am across the Sea, Star and Hot FM Networks across Australia.
The Sea FM brand name and original logo was created by Gold Coast Broadcasters Pty Ltd for just the one station - 90.9 Sea FM - after the Gold Coast was granted a new commercial FM licence. 90.9 Sea FM began broadcasting in 1989 with programming consulted by Austereo. The original Sea FM on-air line-up was a strong team of experienced Announcers, many having made their name previously in Metropolitan radio including - Craig Bruce (FOX FM) & Sammy Power, Ian 'Lofty' Fulton (4IP), Grahame "Durry" Rodgers (2SM & 2NX), Sue Moses (2MMM & Channel 10), Gregg Easton (2UW & 4BK), Joe Miller (3XY & EON FM), Dean Miller and Simon Franks.
In November 2011, controversy erupted after rumours surfaced that popular long-term breakfast co-host, Moyra Major, was to be replaced by entertainer Charli Robinson, after Robinson had filled in for six weeks while Major was on maternity leave. It was reported that Major had been replaced due to a significant increase in ratings for the breakfast show during Robinson's stint as co-host.
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Ring, ring, telephone rings
Somebody said
Baby, whatcha doing
I been wondering where you been
I think about you and me
No use fighting bout
Things we can't recall
It don't matter now at all
Just come on home
Baby, we'll laugh and sing
We'll make love
We'll let the telephone ring
Ring, ring, doorbell ring
Baby, come on in
Got James Taylor on the stereo
I'm glad you've come around
I've been feeling down
Just talking to Tony and Mario
You know they make
Good conversation
Still it ain't no consolation
Cause I got love
Baby, I'll give you some
And if somebody comes
We'll let the doorbell ring
Said ring, ring, golden ring
Around the sun
Around your pretty finger
Ring, ring, voices ring
With a happy tune
Anybody can be a singer
The sun come up across the city
I swear you never looked
So doggone pretty
We'll stand upon the sand
With the preacher man
Let the wedding bells ring
Oh, oh, hand in hand
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hootenannies~~and through two Woodstocks—Sebastian was and is a jug band standard-bearer.
response to the british invasion.
As music became wired in the '70's, the ardently acoustic jug band sound withdrew to coffeehouse venues, where amplification was shunned and gigs were played on a food-stamp budget. Today, a roots revival is coaxing the jug bands out from the shadows, and musicians who can boast decades of experience in the form are attracting a new audience. For Sebastian, this comes as no surprise. "When I started this project, I saw that there was this opening for this kind of music ... the ear was fatiguing of a lot of types of music that are very pre-produced and processed."
band.' And I said to him, 'I could put together the greatest jug band in the world today.' And then I started to think about it and I said, 'You know, I really could."
Sebastian already had the core of the J-Band in front of him. Keeping rhythm for The Black Italians was drummer james Wormworth. "James plays the drums with a very wide scope. He can hit a backbeat if that's all you want, but he also has the background for dynamics, and jug bands use dynamics, much more than rock bands. Rock bands have 'A' and 'B' ---a little quiet section and then a big loud section." What was missing was someone who could play jug ... and washboard and tub and pie plates and anything else that could lend a stomp to the mix. Fritz Richmond was a comrade of Sebastian's in pre-Spooful days, and was brought in to complete the core-group. He has since elevated his role as J-Band tinker to that of a mad scientist.
make an instrument---the way Fritz does it is he sandwiches two washboards together to get a more resonant sound. He's the one who actually goes to NorWesCo Steel and gets a washtub before it's had the last galvanizing process, which deadens it. It makes it waterproof, but it deadens it."
then started to lead us."
When Vivino snared the job as resident guitarist on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, he feared he'd have to cede from the J-Band. As Sebastian puzzled over how to supplement the band, his road manager turned up a tape of Cambridge-area musician Paul Rishell. "He has this amazing voice and he plays guitar like Blind Blake, " Sebastian says.
difficult—the J-Band had become too strong for him to quit.
slinky anthem, "Just Don't Stop 'Till You're All Worn Out." The record's most sublime element is the voice of the J-Band's mentor and senior member, James "Yank" Rachell. At age 86, he has the wiry fingers and lifetime career to put the J-Band in direct contact with the origins of jug music as it was performed and recorded by himself with the likes of Sleepy John Estes and Sonny Boy Williamson.
history is the history of the country.
Although the hobo is a common jug band icon, the music really has working-class roots, and player's life typically meant making regular gigs in Memphis, Greensboro and Raleigh-Durham, as well as playing the impromptu set on the steps of the county courthouse.
show up at a given place at a given time. The players knew that if they hit lunch time when the cigarette rollers all stopped work, they could play a little bit and make a living."
John Sebastian and the J-Band will be turning a coin Nov. 22 at Borders Books and Music, Stony Brook, LI; and Nov. 23 at Monmouth Univ., W. Long Branch, N.J.


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Media: Samsung Galaxy S8 will be released in April, and will be much more popular predecessor
Samsung decided to postpone the start of sales of the flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy S8 to mid-April 2017, said on Monday South Korean media. Although communication modules for the new items will be delivered to the company in March, shipment of other accessories Galaxy S8 will begin only next month.
According to insiders, at year end, Samsung will supply about 60 million Galaxy S8. And that means the new smartphone will be significantly more popular than its predecessor.
However, the title of the most sold models he does not deserve. The record belongs to the smartphones Galaxy S3 and Galaxy S4, which at the time of the year has sold, respectively, in 65 and 70 million copies. According to sources, sales of the Galaxy S8 will be higher than the results of the three latest generations of flagship Samsung, which failed to pass the milestone of 50 million sales.
This year Samsung plans to introduce two high-end smartphone, which will be marketed under the names Galaxy and Galaxy S8 S8 Plus. Moreover, if the first device receives a 5.1-inch screen, the latter, according to rumors, will be equipped with 6 – or 6.2-inch display with support for stylus S-Pen and will become a substitute for the failed Galaxy Note 7. Both communicators are attributed to curved with the two sides of the display, which occupies about 90% of their front panel.
Presentation Galaxy S8 have to go to the special conference Samsung. The announcement of the smartphone is expected in March-April of this year.
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"The Groom Says Yes"
Cathy Maxwell is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over thirty Avon romances.
She applied the Page 69 Test to her latest novel, The Groom Says Yes, and reported the following:
I'd never heard of the Rule of 69 before but I'm game for anything. After all, it makes sense. Page 69 is about a fourth of the way through the book. Stuff should be happening by then.
So I looked at that page in The Groom Says Yes. We are in Regency Scotland. Sabrina is the local magistrate's daughter and the spinster of the parish. She's the one the married women volunteer for all the tasks they claim they don't have time to do. Her life has been uncomplicated, predictable, tidy. On page 69, her careful world begins to unravel.
She has stashed an unconscious, deathly ill stranger in the stable, planning to explain his presence to her overbearing father before she brings him in. Little does she know, but the reader does, that this stranger is a convicted felon who just barely escaped hanging. Not exactly the kind of guy you bring home to dad.
However, before she mentions their new houseguest, she must confront her father on a few secrets she has discovered he has been keeping from her. They argue and he leaves the house without telling her. She chases him to the stables, fearing he will see the stranger curled up in the pony cart and be angry. Instead, her father is so preoccupied, he doesn't notice. He saddles his horse and rides off without a backward glance at her.
And in that moment, Sabrina's life changes. Page 69 is where expectations and reality cross, leaving in their wakes choices and a call to adventure.
She has spent a lifetime taking care of others, only to realize she isn't important in their lives. So where does that leave her?
Everything she has thought of herself will be challenged through the rest of the book, as it should be. After all, when do any of us really become interesting? When we are doing what is expected? Or when we step off the beaten path and take a chance?
Visit Cathy Maxwell's website.
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Both our bodies and minds crave comfort. We are all drawn to things that are comfortable and pleasurable. Every single one of us. As a result, we have to be on constant guard against living our lives in the pursuit of pleasure and comfort.
They say the easiest job in the world is being a weatherman in San Diego – "uh, it's gonna be nice." In San Diego, you know most days are going to be 75 degrees and sunny. What's interesting is that, regardless of where we live, most of us are no different: we spend almost every passing hour at a comfortable temperature.


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HCPS adopts uniform policy
Published 12:00 am Thursday, April 27, 2006
WINTON – Hertford County students, get ready for uniforms.
The Hertford County Board of Education unanimously approved a motion Monday night to implement a uniform policy for the students of Hertford County Public Schools for the upcoming 2006-2007 school year.
The board read and discussed the uniform policy for the third time during an open meeting and passed the measure with little fanfare, although two concerned parents voiced their displeasure with the policy during the public comment period of the meeting.
"We will begin sending additional letters to parents about the uniform policy," Hertford County Superintendent of Schools Dennis Deloatch said. "The school system will begin to communicate with principals and schools all information concerning the policy, including general guidelines for the implementation.
"We will be putting information in the schools about the uniforms," Deloatch said. "There will be samples or at least pictures (of uniforms designs) at the schools."
"A safe and disciplined learning environment is the first requirement of a good school and I feel that implementing school uniforms will be a positive move toward helping our young people achieve higher goals both academically and socially," Deloatch emphasized. "We need all the support we can get from our parents."
Serious discussion of the uniform policy began in 2005 when Deloatch and school administrators began to develop the potential policy and discuss the advantages of uniforms. Community forums were held throughout the county during January of this year in order to receive input from parents and students regarding the plan. Flyers and surveys were also sent home from the schools with the students concerning the idea and the school system modeled potential uniforms at Hertford County Middle School and at Hertford County High School during February.
The board and school administrators developed a uniform policy that includes in-depth descriptions of uniforms, including colors and types of shirts, pants, shorts, skirts and shoes students will be allowed to wear as well as the benefits of uniforms and a list of compliance measures.
Each school will also develop incentives and positive reinforcement measures to encourage compliance with the uniform policy and schools will only result to disciplinary measures when positive measures fail to ensure compliance. Schools will communicate with parents so expectations, rationale and benefits are fully understood by the student and his/her family.
"Wearing uniforms will help minimize disruptive behavior, promote respect for teachers and fellow students, build group spirit, school pride and increase school attendance," Deloatch said earlier.
"It also helps schools maintain academic standards through uniformity, ease the strain on parental budgets, de-emphasize socio-economic differences and allow for easy identification of intruders on campus.
"Studies show a direct correlation of higher student academic performance and fewer discipline referrals when students are attired in uniforms," Deloatch said.
Deloatch added that school administrators have been in contact with local vendors about the uniforms and the need to stock the necessary items for the upcoming school year.


Included are written transcripts, summaries and notes as well as cassette recordings of the interviews used for the book, "Publishing Lives: interviews with independent publishers in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia".
[Item Description]. Cage 666, Jerome Gold Publishing Lives Interview Material. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Jerome Gold is a Seattle area author and proprietor of the Black Heron Press. In 1991 and 1992 he interviewed the publishers of many small presses in the Pacific Northwest about their experiences. These he later published as Publishing Lives (Seattle: Black Heron Press, 1996).
The Jerome Gold Publishing Lives collection consists of interview material Gold collected for his book about the operators of regional small presses. Included are written transcripts, summaries and notes as well as cassette recordings of the interviews. These have been arranged according to the order of appearance in the completed book. A first series is comprised of written material and a second series of recording cassettes.
Interviews of Northwest regional publishers were donated to the Washington State University Libraries by Jerome Gold of Seattle, Washington, the interviewer, in 1996 (MS96-20).


The primary goal of the WCAHS Small Grant Program is to encourage the development of creative research and intervention projects while nurturing researchers—particularly junior researchers—interested in agricultural health and safety research. An annual call for proposals is released each October and, following a competitive review process, selected projects are funded annually for 12 months.
The Small Grant Funding application deadline for 2018 has closed.
WCAHS is dedicated to improving the health and safety of farmers, farmworkers and their families and communities through multidisciplinary research, education, and community trainings. Agriculture is one of the most dangerous occupations in the U.S. and represents one of the largest industrial sectors in California. Download the call for proposals.
WCAHS is seeking research proposals that address agricultural health and safety in Arizona, California, Hawaii, and/or Nevada. WCAHS welcomes applications on a wide range of topics relevant to agricultural health and safety. Areas of current interest include, but are not limited to, health and safety related to air quality and climate change, wildfires near agriculture, pesticide exposure, ergonomic hazards, night work in agriculture, and mental health and stress in agricultural populations.
Projects that include collaboration with cooperative extension farm advisors or farm labor contractors are encouraged. Also encouraged are projects that will result in agricultural industry, community, and/or policy-relevant outputs; as are those that include matching funds.
Funding for the 2018–2019 academic year. Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars may request up to $10,000. Faculty may request up to $30,000.
The overarching goal of the WCAHS Small Grant Program is to encourage the development of creative research projects while nurturing researchers — particularly early-career researchers — interested in improving agricultural health and safety for the Western U.S. It is designed to fund short-term research projects to support the collection of preliminary data; attract new investigators to WCAHS and the field of agricultural health and safety; facilitate the exploration of innovative research directions; and engage and mentor graduate students across multiple disciplines.
The review process emphasizes scientific merit, which includes identification of a significant health- and/or safety-related problem that may be related to agricultural sources; magnitude of health and/or safety problem; innovation and use of appropriate tools and methodologies to address the question; fit with WCAHS' goals; likelihood that the investigator will obtain extramural funding using preliminary data obtained from the project; and likelihood that the proposal will enhance the translational component of WCAHS.
Awardees will be expected to participate in WCAHS events and seminars and acknowledge WCAHS in publications and presentations by NIOSH grant title and number.


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Close on hand to the Tour d'Aigues Renaissance castle, come and hear about the 40 spirited years of human adventure at the Marrenon wine cellars. Enjoy wine tasting and picturesque hikes through the Luberon area.
The vintners of the cooperative wine cellars in the Luberon have federated their efforts so you can taste the best wines in the Luberon and the Ventoux growing areas. Group tours of the cellars (maximum 30 people) can be booked ahead of time, as well as initiation workshops into wine-tasting . From June to September, come and picnic in the vineyards on Thursdays .
Car park, Parking, Coach parking Pets welcome, Educational visits, Coach access, Themed tour, Shop, Tourist brochures, Tourist information, Guided tours, International export.
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Have you thought about how to become a Yoga teacher? Do you envision a brighter future, living your passion, and doing work that you love? Who wants to work at a dead end job for life? How many people can say they truly live their lives with passion? Let's look at these questions a little deeper and live our passion.
There are many options to consider when deciding to choose onsite, or online, Yoga teacher training courses. It is very beneficial to get professional advice about marketing and business, which is specific to Yoga, as well. You could spend hundreds or thousands, depending on the type of training you select.
Taking action toward your goal is the first step. It may require saving, studying, or taking a stepping stone that is affordable now, and can be expanded upon, at a later time. Education is never wasted. Our life experiences may be filled with joy and pain, but we learn from both. We learn to take calculated risks to maintain our survival and suppress our inner fears.
Regardless of which type of Yoga teacher course you decide on, your life path will change during the training, and after you graduate. Your self-confidence and self- awareness will expand in many directions. When your mind is open, new ideas will gravitate toward it. Much like gravity, new ideas have always been around you; but your mind has the ability to open or close the flood gates.
If you envision a happy life, of living your passion, it will eventually come to you; but it helps if you move toward your objective at the same time. For many people, life is a rut, and their jobs are seen in the same light. This makes any objectives appear to be impossible to reach.
Anyone who firmly believes they deserve less will settle for less throughout life. Why do people continue to work at jobs they hate? The two most common answers are – survival and internal fear of the unknown. Yes, we need jobs to survive, but not if our jobs eventually kill us.
Life is not an endless struggle, when you follow your passion every day. You do not mentally equate work with doing something you love (following your passion). You can follow your passion toward any objective, and be grateful for the experiences you encountered on your journey.


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Winning and Losing
Dave Schuler · Sunday, August 17, 2008 · 13 comments
There's a very interesting post at the Russia Foreign Policy blog that suggests a somewhat divergent view of the (I guess) still ongoing Russia-Georgia conflict—that Russia won a military victory but has lost the public relations battle:
So is it any wonder that, despite the fact that, as Mikhail Gorbachev writes in the Washington Post, that Georgian leaders badly miscalculated when "they could get away with a "blitzkrieg" in South Ossetia", no matter how much "the quick and easy victory exposes the west's lack of leverage over a resurgent Russia despite years of heavy American political investment in Georgia", the war will have been a military victory for Russia, but a PR defeat.
In fact, so successful has been Saakashvili's wooing of the Western media that, according to Mark Ames,
No one's bothering to ask what the Ossetians themselves think about it, or why they're fighting for their independence in the first place. That's because the Georgians—with help from lobbyists like Scheunemann—have been pushing the line that South Ossetia is a fiction, a construct of evil Kremlin neo-Stalinists, rather than a people with a genuine grievance.
In an article headlined "Russia has Lost the War", the online daily Gazeta ru reaches very similar conclusions, after an analysis of Russian, Georgian and Western press treatment of the conflic.t It suggests that another reason for Western press's favourable treatment of Georgia was the relatively greater access and support it gave to foreign journalists, where Russia's propaganda effort focused much more heavily on its own media.
Modern conflicts are fought in the 'courtroom of public opinion', as Adlai Stevenson said at the UN during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It's time for Russia to get media-savvy.
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About Dave Schuler
Over the years Dave Schuler has worked as a martial arts instructor, a handyman, a musician, a cook, and a translator. He's owned his own company for the last thirty years and has a post-graduate degree in his field. He comes from a family of politicians, teachers, and vaudeville entertainers. All-in-all a pretty good preparation for blogging. He has contributed to OTB since November 2006 but mostly writes at his own blog, The Glittering Eye, which he started in March 2004.
DC Loser says:
Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 11:08
There is certainly divergent reporting from Western media sources. Throughout the conflict, I had access to a variety of TV and other reporting at work and home. The best on scene coverage I've seen on TV has been on Al Jazeera English service. I only have access to it at work and it's a shame none of the cable or satellite outlets dare to let us have access to it. AJ's coverage was very evenhanded and their reporters on the scene provided much of the eyewitness accounts of the war that I don't even see on BBC. Never mind CNN and the rest of the American media as they were too busy pushing the Russia=evil, Georgia=democracy line to be of any use. I was shocked (maybe I shouldn't be) to hear a BBC interview of a Russian duma member take a very partisan line of questioning which is very un-BBC like. I didn't hear of similar skeptic questioning when they were dealing with Georgian or American officials. Returning to the question of Russian media savviness, they're doing better with English speaking spokesman, but they can wisely spend some money on K street and Madison Avenue type frontmen to deal with the western press.
RW Rogers says:
Anyone else find it interesting that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has flown to Georgia and said that Georgia is on track for membership in NATO?
PD Shaw says:
Part of the problem is the maps. The partisan positions hinge primarily on framing the issue of "who invaded whom." A standard atlas is not going to make sense of the Russian claim that Georgia invaded . . . er Georgia.
Also, if Russia wants to make a humanitarian case, it needs to be prepared to show the world a corresponding moderate use of force. When the cameras turned to Georgia we saw Georgian homes being looted, Georgians fleeing recrimination attacks, attempted bombing of the pipeline and Russian occupation outside of South Ossetia. We're the Russians and we're here to help!
Bithead says:
It's time for Russia to get media-savvy.
Heh. Media savvy? You mean FREE media savvy. These boys pretty much wrote the book on media savvy, which I suppose to be easy to do when you own, and control the media by force of arms. Dealing with a free media… even one that leans left for the most part as they do here in the west, is a whole 'nother animal.
Heh. Media savvy? You mean FREE media savvy. These boys pretty much wrote the book on media savvy, which I suppose to be easy to do when you own, and control the media by force of arms.
Savvy and domination via brute force are two entirely different things. You don't get out much, do you?
If you look even a little bit closer, instead of trying to play 'gotcha' you may even notice that was the point being made.
Dealing with a free media… even one that leans left
Right. And you never play games. You just want to discuss the issues.
I suppose you were making a point. Just not doing a very good job of it…
No, it seems clear to me you got the point, your dance not withstanding. Your problem is you don't like it.
Cute move, if predictable.
Nope, just bored, waiting for the varsity to arrive…
I said varsity, not the water boy…
Russia Invades South Ossetia, Georgia Shoots Down Russian Planes
Kosovo and South Ossetia
Pence Endorses The Really Bad Idea Of Bringing Georgia Into NATO
Russia Orders Georgia 'Cease-Fire'
Georgian Forces Retreat, Wonder Where Friends Are


Succession planning – who can take over your business?
That's what one business owner told us recently when we asked him about his future plans for his company.
He was under the impression that there was no intrinsic value in his business once he and his fellow working shareholders left. And with no clear succession plan in place, that meant, in his words, "game over".
It is a big dilemma, for every business owner. If you leave, who takes over?
Perhaps the current senior staff or management aren't quite ready to take the reins – the step up is too big. In a family business, perhaps the obvious candidates are not keen to assume control, or lack direct experience, or have forged careers elsewhere. Where do you turn?
The answer is, of course, assessing your options - and those will be unique to you. Alongside our traditional strength in locating the right trade acquirer for our clients, BCMS is negotiating an increasing number of Management Buy Outs, and Management Buy-Ins – where senior professionals buy into to a company with potential for growth.
We are also involved in sales to private equity, and sales to high net worth investors. Our clients have also undertaken a part-equity sale, where the owner sells a stake in his or her business.
My point is this: you have multiple choices.
The first thing to remember is that unless you are the only person working in it, your business does not start and end with you. Your customers, your IP, your contracts, your staff expertise, your brand, your reputation – all these things have a value to an acquirer.
Don't underestimate the value, or appeal, of the business you have built. And definitely don't switch the lights off on your way out.