When approached by McCormick to be one of their Health & Wellness Content Partners, there was no decision to be made. No matter what level of cooking one participates in, spices and flavor are a must. There are countless ways to make a recipe full of flavor, some healthier than others (cough, cough…saturated fat, salt, and sugar…not-so-healthy, cough cough). My pantry and cabinets are chock full of spices – I'm sure I have every last one in my arsenal of flavor. As someone who loves to cook, I understand the significant role of spices in delicious, healthy cooking.
I've never had a great burger that didn't have some garlic powder and onion powder thrown in. Have you ever had pancakes with cardamom? I'm sure you're not alone if your answer is no – but seriously, get on that. Indian dishes are so fun to recreate because their focus is on the perfect combination of spices – everything from garam masala (a blend of spices) to cumin to cayenne to turmeric. And the resulting beauty of color? Stunning. Spices can be easily incorporated into marinades, dressings, breadings, batters, mixes, doughs, dry rubs…you name it! If you're not adventurous with spices, it's time to expand your horizons.
Some of you may be aware that in recent years, the food pyramid transformed into "MyPlate". Simply put, nutrition was overwhelming, hard to quantify and qualify in daily living, and entirely over-complicated for the simple fact that most of us would simply benefit from better balance. More good, less not-so-good. More specifically, more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and less processed foods that are high in salt, sugar, and unhealthy fats…and probably less protein, too. Have you weighed a store-bought chicken breast in recent years? That baby may weigh upwards of 12-14 ounces – a far cry from an actual serving of chicken.
And so began the movement to create a plate (MyPlate) that was half fruits and vegetables, and roughly ¼ grain and ¼ protein with a serving of dairy. Balance…with more of the good. Personally, I like the plate method, but it has its drawbacks. For someone like myself who rarely sits down to a meal comprised of individual components of fruit, vegetable, grain, protein, and dairy, the MyPlate still leaves room for some interpretation.
Take for example these tacos (they tasted even better than they look, promise!). Corn tortillas offer up a nutritional edge over white flour tortillas by way of vitamins, minerals, and perhaps most importantly, fiber. Plus, they taste way better (heat them over a range burner for a slight char – mmmm!!).
Shrimp are a low-calorie protein that cook super quickly, making them perfect for a weeknight meal. Plus, they marinade quickly and take on lots of flavor. In the marinade, ancho chili powder and perhaps my most favorite spice, cumin, are used to add Mexican flavor and depth. A bit of salt (just a bit!) helps to accentuate the flavors themselves…and the tequila, honey, and lime – well, the combination is just amazing. I suggest throwing the shrimp in the marinade and grabbing a quick workout before dinner as they swim in the flavor. From that point, this meal comes together in minutes with flavonoid-packed onion and antioxidant rich fresh cilantro, as well as healthful avocado (technically, a fruit!). The red cabbage is not only full of anthocyanin but it's also stunning and adds the perfect crunch to the taco. Adding a side of corn would be a great accompaniment to this meal…or perhaps some Vegan Crock Pot Refried Beans? Talk about good for you food that's packed with flavor (spices!).
In a medium bowl, whisk to combine the salt, honey, juice of 2 limes, tequila, cumin, and ancho chili powder. Add the shrimp and thinly sliced onion; toss well to coat shrimp and onion well; refrigerate for 1-2 hours.
In a large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. From the marinade, add the onion and then the shrimp, cooking 4-5 minutes or until onion are tender and translucent and shrimp are pink.
Meanwhile, blend or food process the Chipotle Cream ingredients together and transfer to a small bowl for serving.
To assemble tacos, place 2 ounces of shrimp and several onion slices on each tortilla. Top with red cabbage, avocado, cilantro and the Chipotle Cream. Serve immediately.
The onions need a bit longer to cook than the shrimp, so try using tongs to add the onion first and then the shrimp to avoid over-cooking the shrimp.
Using spices and combinations of spices not only helps to increase flavor and taste, but aids in decreasing the use of salt, sugar, and fat in most recipes. Get creative, get cookin'!
Disclaimer: I was compensated for this post as a contribution to the 2014 McCormick Health & Wellness Blogger Program. All opinions are my own.
You had me at tequila! These tacos look delish,and you are so right about spices! Speaking of spices, I've been reading a lot about the health benefits of turmeric recently and trying to get more in my diet…however, I'm not in love with it's flavor (I don't dislike it, but it's very 'earthy'!) Any suggestions on uses or other spices to pair it with? Thanks!
Gorgeous, Nicole! Is it lunch time yet??
I love a well spiced taco with tons of crunch on top, so the cabbage fits the bill nicely.
Yum! Saved this one for later.
Question – can corn tortillas be frozen? The package comes with SO many and I can't use them all before they bite the dust.
I have Garam Marsala too, but I don't know what to use it in, other than chili. Any ideas?
This is the second time I've made these and they are delicious! Love this recipe.


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Technology June 26, 2018
Flowspace raises $2.2 million in funding for on-demand warehousing platform
Logistics startup will expand business to meet retailers' need for extra space in holiday peak selling season, Flowspace says.
On-demand warehousing startup Flowspace said today that it has raised $2.2 million in funding and will use the capital to scale up its business in the run-up to the holiday peak selling season.
The investment was led by Moment Ventures of Palo Alto, Calif., with additional participation from 1984 Ventures and Y Combinator. It follows an earlier round of funding that totaled $1.2 million.
Flowspace, based in Marina del Rey, Calif., provides on-demand warehousing and fulfillment services for small and medium businesses that need to manage overflow inventory, deploy direct to consumer shipping, or accommodate an influx in inventory due to seasonal demands, the firm says.
Much like the other major player in the warehouse sub-leasing sector, Seattle-based Flexe, Flowspace says its service allows businesses to locate warehouse space on an as-needed basis without having to commit to long-term contracts.
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Jubileum Volume II es un álbum recopilatorio de la banda sueca Bathory. Es el segundo álbum de la trilogía Jubileum.

Lista de canciones
 "The Return of the Darkness and Evil" – 4:59 (del álbum Scandinavian Metal Attack) *
 "Burnin' Leather" – 3:54
 "One Rode to Asa Bay" – 9:20 (del álbum Hammerheart)
 "The Golden Walls of Heaven" – 5:23 (del álbum Blood Fire Death)
 "Call from the Grave" – 4:58 (del álbum Under the Sign of the Black Mark)
 "Die in Fire" – 3:36 (del álbum Scandinavian Metal Attack)
 "Shores in Flames" – 10:44 (del álbum Hammerheart)
 "Possessed" – 2:40 (del álbum The Return......)
 "Raise the Dead" – 3:40 (del álbum Bathory)
 "Total Destruction" – 3:50 (del álbum The Return......)
 "Bond of Blood" – 7:37 (del álbum Twilight of the Gods)
 "Twilight of the Gods" – 13:40 (del álbum Twilight of the Gods)
* También apareció en el álbum The Return......, pero en diferente versión, de 3:52 min de duración.

Créditos
 Quorthon – Voz, guitarra, bajo, batería, teclado, sintetizador y letras.
 Rickard Bergman – Bajo.
 Stefan Larsson – Batería.
 Andreas Johansson – Bajo.
 Paul Pålle Lundburg - Batería.
 Kothaar - Bajo.
 Vvornth - Batería.

Álbumes de 1993
Álbumes en inglés

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Pro Helvetia promotes the production and dissemination of transdisciplinary projects from Switzerland with a view to diversity as well as national and international reach. Such projects are also meant to enhance transdisciplinary knowledge exchange and to provide society with creative stimulus and access to critical thinking. At the same time, Pro Helvetia adopts various measures to promote greater diversity and equal opportunities in the cultural sector, is committed to raising the visibility of marginalised groups, and aims to provide sustainable support and guidance to initiatives and organisations in this field in Switzerland. As a national foundation, Pro Helvetia supports international cultural exchange and exchange between Switzerland's various linguistic regions, and supplements the promotional activities of Switzerland's cantons and cities.
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Pro Helvetia defines artists and cultural practitioners as both natural and legal persons who are actively involved in the arts. Such persons include individual artists, collectives and independent groups.
The following funding instruments are aimed at artists and cultural practitioners who have Swiss citizenship or permanent residence in Switzerland and who are present on the Swiss art and cultural scene.
Pro Helvetia supports the creation of experimental transdisciplinary projects. Funding can be granted for both research and production. Projects are understood to be transdisciplinary if several disciplines are linked in a novel way. As a rule, projects must involve persons from at least three disciplines (of which at least one must be outside the arts). The focus is on knowledge exchange and active collaboration between artists and cultural practitioners on the one hand and representatives of social or scientific fields (politics, ethnology, ecology, psychology, medicine, etc.) on the other. Applications for projects for which other funding measures exist within the divisions of Pro Helvetia (e.g. monodisciplinary projects, music theatre, performance art, sound art, radiophonic art) must be submitted to the primarily responsible division.
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Each year up to 2024, Pro Helvetia is launching a theme-based call for projects that are intended to stimulate opinion forming and critical discussions on the role of art and culture in society. Eligible for support are exemplary, multidisciplinary projects that seek new forms of critical reflection on contemporary art production and art criticism, and that appeal to different types of audiences.
Application deadlines: 1 March; the first public performance, release or presentation may begin no sooner than four months after the application deadline. These applications are evaluated by a jury.
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Pro Helvetia launches recurring calls for applications at the intersection of art, science and technology in cooperation with scientific partner institutions, in order to enable artists and cultural practitioners to explore scientific and technological concepts in their artistic work. Calls are aimed at artists and cultural practitioners from all disciplines that are promoted by Pro Helvetia. Submissions must meet the criteria and deadlines of the respective call.
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Pro Helvetia supports residencies and research trips by Swiss artists and cultural practitioners whose work has a transdisciplinary focus to the countries covered by its six liaison offices as well as to other selected regions (Arab region, China, Russia, South America, South Asia, West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa). Pro Helvetia also supports residencies and research trips to Switzerland by artists and cultural practitioners from specific countries whose work has a transdisciplinary focus.
See Residencies and Research Trips for possible destinations for Swiss artists and cultural practitioners whose work has a transdisciplinary focus, as well as for the countries of origin of foreign artists and cultural practitioners whose work has a transdisciplinary focus.
Pro Helvetia supports residencies at the intersection of art, science and technology in cooperation with CERN in Geneva, South Africa, India and Chile. Residencies are aimed at artists and cultural practitioners from all disciplines promoted by Pro Helvetia.
Application deadlines: Connect India and Connect: 06 July. These applications are evaluated by a jury.
Submission in accordance with calls for applications: Connect India (jury) and Connect (jury). Applications must be submitted via CERN.
Pro Helvetia supports the projects of cultural institutions and organisations with a multi-annual national and/or international programme and with a cross-regional reach.
Pro Helvetia launches calls for applications in order to increase diversity and equal opportunities within cultural institutions and organisations. Eligible for submission are publicly funded Swiss cultural institutions and organisations with a long-term strategy for changing their structures (staff, programme, audiences).
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Decision timeline: within one month of the application deadline
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Pro Helvetia supports the development of guidelines and tools for Swiss cultural institutions and organisations that make a relevant contribution to the development of diversity practices. Support is available in particular for participatory or process-oriented projects that provide cultural institutions and organisations with useful and practice-oriented tools in order to actively address diversity and equal opportunities. Within this context, support may also be granted to formats (e.g. discussion series, workshops, etc.) that take a deeper look at diversity issues and convey diversity practices to the cultural sector. The formats may be analog, digital or hybrid. To be eligible for funding, project participants must demonstrate proven diversity competence and the project must be of an exemplary nature for the cultural sector.
Application deadlines: see Section 5.
Pro Helvetia supports dialogue formats (e.g. discussion series, workshops, networking events) in Switzerland and abroad that originate from a joint initiative among artists on the one hand and representatives from the fields of science and technology on the other, and that strengthen links between the two. To be eligible for support, formats must involve persons from the arts, science and technology and ensure that they all participate as equals. The format may be analog, digital or hybrid.
Pro Helvetia supports transdisciplinary events and festivals in Switzerland and abroad. Events and festivals are understood to be transdisciplinary if several disciplines are linked in a novel way. As a rule, projects must involve persons from at least three disciplines (of which at least one must be outside the arts). The focus is on knowledge exchange and active collaboration between artists and cultural practitioners on the one hand and representatives of social or scientific fields (politics, ethnology, ecology, psychology, medicine, etc.) on the other. Funding requests for discipline-specific events must be submitted to the responsible division of Pro Helvetia, while submissions for events that combine artistic disciplines must meet the requirements set out in Section 2.2.3.III EVENTS COMBINING ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES.
This category refers to events or festivals that present productions from various artistic disciplines. As a rule, productions from at least three disciplines must be envisaged. Otherwise, applications must be submitted to the division primarily responsible for the event. Events combining different artistic disciplines are assessed according to the same criteria regarding form and content that apply to discipline-specific events. Particular importance is given to the criteria of the disciplines of which the productions are part of. Events combining artistic disciplines are supported in and outside Switzerland. In Switzerland, they are supported provided they present productions from Switzerland's other language regions. Outside Switzerland, support is given to these events that present Swiss productions.
Pro Helvetia is unable to consider funding requests if
the same part of the submitted project is already receiving funding from other federal bodies (e.g. Federal Office of Culture, Presence Switzerland, Swiss National Science Foundation, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation);
the project is part of a school or university curriculum/basic training or continuing education programme (including dissertations, diploma projects, university scholarships, etc.);
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1 June, at the latest four months prior to the event/publication within four months
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Within the scope of its available funds, Pro Helvetia prioritises projects that most comprehensively meet the criteria for support.
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the project demonstrates high artistic and professional quality
the project is implemented according to professional standards
the costs are commensurate with the expected impact
a lasting impact can be expected
Pro Helvetia prioritises support projects in the field of contemporary art and culture according to their degree of originality and professional competence as well as their social and thematic relevance.
In assessing applications, Pro Helvetia attaches great importance to applicants using resources in an ecologically responsible manner. Pro Helvetia may assume related additional costs (e.g. CO2 compensation for flights). Such costs must be contained in the budget.
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demonstrate innovative originality, i.e. introduce and implement new methods. Priority is given to projects that dare to experiment (i.e. new formats, collaborations or productions);
provide fresh impetus for the arts and culture sector, so as to stimulate debate at the intersection of artistic and social issues. Key prerequisites are the attitude adopted towards and the level of reflection on such issues;
actively promote greater diversity and equal opportunities in the cultural sector and provide structural access for marginalised social groups;
have a pioneering transdisciplinary character and future-oriented social relevance and therefore cannot fall back on established funding.
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Applications up to CHF 50,000: Decisions are taken by the Innovation & Society Sector
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The awarding of funding entails obligations for recipients. Pro Helvetia reserves the right to reduce the amount of funding or to demand that disbursed grants be restituted if recipients fail to meet their obligations.
Factsheet for Support Recipients: see blue box above.
Pro Helvetia disburses funding only after examining the final report, which must include a statement of account. Advance payments are possible on request. Unless applicants notify Pro Helvetia of any delays, funding shall expire at the latest 6 months after the project's closing date as per the application dossier.
Funding decisions taken by Pro Helvetia may be appealed within 30 days of receipt. Appeals must be filed with the Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht). Appeals must include the original application, as well as the grounds of the appeal and appropriate evidence, and must be signed by the appellant. The decision statement being appealed against needs to be enclosed as evidence. Appellants bear the costs of this procedure.
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With a nod to Julius Caesar and his famous crossing of the Rubicon River in 49 bc, I believe I just crossed my own Rubicon as well. Fortunately, my crossing won't start a war.
With my last travels of this summer, I surpassed the one-million mile mark on Delta Airlines. Considering the number of flights that I have taken that have not been on Delta, (don't mention that to them) I am quite sure I have surpassed the million-mile mark quite some time ago, but officially, it just occurred.
I must say, when I got the notification, I was a bit stunned. One million miles…wow. That's a lot of airplanes, airports, airport food, delays, cancelled flights, diversions, de-icing, thunderstorms, snowstorms, mechanical maladies, crew time-outs, standby tickets, sky clubs and (occasionally) upgrades. If my math is right, I have seen at least three iterations of Delta uniforms on their employees, an airline bankruptcy and a logo and branding change. I've seen four major airline mergers and the rise of at least five new airlines. I was there the day we all had to throw out our liquids and saw the dawn of the TSA, e-tickets, flight tracker apps, and the 3-1-1 rule (The amount of liquids you can carry on). I've logged time at countless airports worldwide and slept in a few. I have rented hundreds of cars and lately am a frequent Uber and Lyft customer. I have silver, gold, blue and platinum status at several hotels, I just can't remember which ones. I have eaten meals in airplanes, pubs, school cafeterias, restaurants, clubs, hotels, diners, food stands, carts and conferences all over the world and had tours and visits to places I never imagined I would get to see in my lifetime.
Most importantly, though, I have had the profound privilege of working with educators in all types of schools and districts all over the world. From Australia, to China, to the Middle East, my travels have taken me to all sorts of places, all sorts of schools, where I learned the structures of education, the rationale for curriculum and methodologies and have witnessed first-hand teachers, worldwide, applying their very best practice to ensure positive outcomes for kids.
In Israel, I visited a high school of the arts. When the bell rang, and the students were changing classes, it looked like any typical American high school. But when you looked closely at the student artwork which adorned every hallway, you quickly saw that almost every piece centered on a theme of violence.
I was struck by this but then quickly understood that unfortunately, this was the culture in which children were being raised. It was a common sight as we walked the streets of Jerusalem to see militants, with Uzi's strapped to their backs. While in Tel Aviv with a few hours to spend relaxing on the Mediterranean beach, it was cleared three times due to bomb threats. What I saw to be horribly abnormal was an accustomed way of life and it was depicted in the artwork of very talented Israeli students.
A few years ago, I had the good fortune to work with the International Confederation of Principals at their world-wide conference in Shanghai, China. I had some trepidation that my message of family engagement would not resonate with school leaders from over fifty countries. But it did, and what amazed me was when I learned that the struggles we face in the United States are no different than the struggles of most of the world. We want to figure out how to be more like Chinese education and ironically, they want to figure out how to be more like us.
A group of educators from Africa approached me after my keynote address with the International Confederation. They said "Please come to our country. We need you. We promise we do not have wild animals roaming the streets. That is what you think in America, yes?" I had to laugh, but honestly, I think I might be guilty of harboring that vision. Someday, I will visit their country. I have a standing invitation.
Educators in New Zealand and Australia taught me about school choice and government engagement with the funding of alternatives to public schools. In Australia I got to see very rural remote schools, like Yea, Victoria, Australia, where my good friend John O'Meara was principal. In contrast, I worked with educators in the large city of Melbourne. The most difficult part of my journey down under was finding a kangaroo to snap a picture of. Two years after I visited that part of Australia, horrible fires decimated whole towns, towns that I had visited and schools in which I had worked. But, the tenacity of educators and communities rebuilt; bigger, better and stronger.
I have learned that teachers, worldwide, care a great deal for the children in their care. Families, every family, wants their child to exceed them in their quality of life. But most of all, I have learned the true needs of our children, the needs that we must ensure that we continue to deliver on a daily basis. Those needs?
They are quite simple: To do well. To be safe. To feel love. Those needs are universal. And that's what keeps me going.
Tomorrow is the start of my second million miles. I am eager to discover what adventures await me. Stay tuned!
And, Delta is ready when I am.
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Gale surveyed the destruction with a face somewhere between disgust and admiration. Tunnock's Caramel Wafer wrappers strewn across the room. A smell of haggis in the air. Bottles of whisky, half-drunk. Constable Beveridge… well, you wouldn't say half-drunk.
Beveridge, apparently, would have walked five hundred miles.
* Data visualisations from the BBC, the Guardian and the Financial Times.
* Edited 2014-09-24 to correct footnotes and a typo.
Ask Uncle Colin: Don't be daunted by D'Hondt?
Tunnocks wafers? Love em, but hard to get in oz !!
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Convoy News • Press Release
Announcing the 2021 Haul Stars Awards
If you bought it, a truck brought it.
Throughout the years, this saying has helped remind generations of Americans that trucking is the backbone of this country. As we round into the final stretch of 2021, there perhaps hasn't been a more significant time to take a moment and thank the professionals who have put themselves on the line, every single day, so that we can continue life as we know it.
From all of us at Convoy, thank you to each and every one of our nation's 3.6 million truck drivers.
Today, we're happy to announce Convoy's third annual Haul Stars Awards. This year's awards recognize 15 winners who were chosen from our Haul Stars program, which is a membership group representing the most elite carriers who operate the more than 300,000 trucks in our digital freight network.
With a nod to a baseball All-Stars theme, this year's Haul Stars winners are:
Each winner will receive their own commemorative trading card from the set shown above as part of a pack featuring all of the winners, along with a Convoy Fuel Card that has been preloaded with $500, a collection of Convoy merchandise, and a note from Convoy co-founders Dan Lewis and Grant Goodale. Beyond these 15 winners, all Haul Stars members have been awarded a $50 bonus to be applied to their next load hauled with Convoy over the next month.
We'll celebrate the winners all week on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, so if you have a moment, please chime into the conversation and tip your hat in thanks to these amazing people and companies.
Carriers interested in learning more about joining Convoy's Haul Stars program can contact haulstars@convoy.com.


Greenville, S.C. – A nine-goal run to open the game put it away early, and Furman downed Presbyterian, 19-3, on a cold, rainy night inside Paladin Stadium. The win, Furman's first of the year, moves the Paladins to 1-2 on the year, while the loss drops the Blue Hose to 0-4.
Furman was led by Grace Pollak with four goals, while Hannah Feinberg added three goals and an assist. Ten Paladins registered in the scoring column, while six players turned in an assist. Courtney Baker picked up her first win of the year in goal, while Furman won 18 draws to PC's five.
Five different Paladins scored in the first five minutes of the game to open a 5-0 lead, before Abby Shields and Grace Pollak each picked up their second goal of the day to take a 7-0 lead just over six minutes in. The Paladins then used back-to-back goals to push the lead to 9-0 at the 19:43 mark, before the Blue Hose got on the board at the 15:29 mark of the first half. Freshman Lauren Farber picked up her first-career goal to push the lead to 10-1, before Pollak completed the first half hat trick with 5:36 remaining. Both teams were kept off the board for the remaining 5:30, until Isabelle Walsh netted her first goal of the year with :07 to go in the half, giving the Paladins the 12-1 halftime lead.
Furman opened the second half with three-straight goals to take a 15-1 lead, before PC ended the Paladin run and cut the lead to 15-2 with 15:59 remaining. After Leah Nonnenmann gave Furman the 16-2 lead, a storm rolled into the area, forcing a 45-minute lightning delay. After the delay, the Paladins used back-to-back goals to push the lead to 18-2, before PC's Natalie Barnett picked up her second goal of the day to cut the lead to 18-3 with 3:48 to go. Bailey Wilson closed out the scoring for the Paladins, picking up her first-career goal with just under 1:00 to play, giving Furman the 19-3 victory.
Furman is back in action on Sunday, hosting Vanderbilt at 12:00 p.m. in Paladin Stadium.


BEIJING (AP) — When Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen departs Sunday for Latin America, she'll be traveling to a region she's already visited three times in two years.
She doesn't have many other options.
As Tsai crosses the halfway mark of her first four-year term, an eight-day swing through Paraguay and Belize is a reflection of how Taiwan's diplomatic isolation has worsened in the midst of a suffocating Chinese pressure campaign. Just 18 countries — mostly clustered in Latin America, the South Pacific and Caribbean — still maintain formal ties with the self-ruling island, down from 22 when Tsai entered office in 2016.
Along with luring away Taiwan's allies, China, which considers the island its territory, has frozen contacts with Taipei and sought to constrict its contact with international organizations. It's also bringing increasing economic pressure and most recently has browbeat international airlines and businesses into referring to Taiwan as part of China, a move condemned by Taipei and its ally, the United States.
Still, maintaining even a reduced pool of diplomatic allies is important to maintaining Taiwan's image of itself as a sovereign democracy, and affords its leadership with the occasion to assert their presence abroad. Tsai will also be transiting in Los Angeles and Houston, providing opportunities to meet with overseas Taiwanese civic leaders and American officials.
Although Tsai leads Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party, which favors declaring formal independence from China, she has pursued a moderate China policy since taking office. But that hasn't appeased Beijing, which has demanded that Tsai explicitly acknowledge an informal 1992 agreement that recognizes Taiwan as a part of China.
Faced with Beijing's diplomatic onslaught, Tsai has prioritized cementing its ties with remaining allies and backers like the United States and Japan, with which it maintains close relations in the absence of formal diplomatic ties.
At the same time, she's facing a dip in her domestic poll numbers, possibly, Sullivan said, due to a combination of Chinese pressure in the international arena and disappointment in her reform agenda at home.
On her trip this week, Tsai will attend the inauguration of Paraguayan President-elect Mario Abdo Benitez and address the National Assembly in Belize.
China has traditionally moved carefully in Latin America, which it sees as falling under the U.S. sphere of influence, but has scored wins by flipping Panama and the Dominican Republic in the last 14 months at Taiwan's expense, said Zhu Songling, a professor at the Institute of Taiwan Studies at Beijing Union University.
The Dominican Republic ditched Taiwan in May after it refused to match a multi-billion-dollar aid package offered by China. Flavio Dario Espinal, an adviser to the Dominican presidential office, told reporters in May that "socioeconomics reality now force us to change course" and embrace China, its $2 billion-a-year trading partner.
Tsai is increasingly coming under fire from her political base for her moderate approach to China, which has not ameliorated Chinese pressure.


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The Danish food and agricultural sectors are in search of a substitute market comprehending the possible circumstances of Brexit. While UK is let off the EU in a possible outcome of 'hard-Brexit', a huge impact will be felt on the Danish export. For the same purpose newer alliance needs to be built and the Danish Ministry of the Environment and Food is foreseeing this to be a good idea to sustain the impact on the Danish export sectors. In the circumstance, of hard Brexit, 30%-40% of the tariff will be imposed on butter and other spreads while tariff being imposed on pork will be up to 25%. It is estimated that 17 billion kroner of exports will be lost by the food industry and other associated industries in Denmark.
As being stated by Jakob Ellemann-Jensen the environment and food minister of Denmark, companies in are looking for lucrative trade deals and prospective markets in the other parts of the world. Jensen further stated that efforts will be made by the Denmark government to promote good quality Danish food to the world market and open newer ventures across the world. He also added that a series of export drives have already started to promote good quality Danish food to the other parts of the world.
The greatest impact of the hard Brexit will be felt upon the Pork, dairy, fish and shellfish exports of Denmark. The report cannot be considered to be complete devastation of the of the Danish Export business as dairy products of Hong-Kong, China and Japan along with the South Korean and Australian Pork would match up to the price of UK creating a demand of the Danish food products.


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University School has hired Phoenix Christian (Ariz.) Prep coach Brandon Harris as its new football coach, athletic director Paul Herfurth said Monday.
Harris, 46, replaces Roger Harriott, who resigned a month ago to become an assistant coach at Florida Atlantic.
A former University of Idaho receiver who also was a member of the Denver Broncos' practice squad and played for Sacramento of the World Football League, Harris has 19 years of college and high school coaching experience. He has coached future NFL players including safety Mike Brown, and receivers Bobbie Wade and Zack Miller.
"He's had a lot of success building and maintaining successful championship type programs," Herfurth said, adding that Harris is scheduled to arrive Feb. 10. "We're really excited about having him.
"We probably had five serious finalists. Coach Harris was just really the perfect fit. He has great experience, but also has the intangibles we were definitely looking for. It's not just about a football coaching hire. It's about having a great leader and someone with strong character to run our program. I wanted someone with a strong track record of getting kids in college."
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Harris' first major task will be keeping the roster that remains intact. Several players from University's 2013 team have transferred since Harriott's departure – Herfurth confirmed at least nine – including highly touted running back Jordan Scarlett, defensive tackle Brandon Boyce and receiver Sam Bruce.
Harris has been Phoenix Christian's head coach the past three seasons. He began his career as a graduate assistant at Idaho, and then coached receivers at Scottsdale (Ariz.) Community College. He was an assistant at three other high schools before becoming a head coach at Canisius High in Buffalo and winning a state championship in 2009.
Harris replaces a highly popular and successful coach in Harriott, who led the Suns to a 77-15 record with a state championship in 2012 and runner-up finish in 2010. The Suns were nationally ranked this past season, but lost to eventual national champ Booker T. Washington in the regional semifinals.
"He's going to have fresh eyes on the program and fresh ideas," Herfurth said, noting that some assistants on Harriott's staff would remain with the program. "I wanted to get the best guy for the program, and not just a guy that knew South Florida football."
Herfurth said he was impressed with Harris' interaction with University's current players. Harris met informally with many of them while in South Florida for his interview.
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"That was one of the things that sealed the deal for me," Herfurth said. "I saw an instant connection with him. You could see his leadership come out right away."
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In other news, Adam Ratkevich has been named the new head football coach at Western.
Ratkevich, who coached at Northeast and Deerfield Beach with a combined record of 47-73 over eight seasons, was an assistant Western from 1994-98 under Ray Buscemi.
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A group-based approach to solving complex problems.
Action learning is a group-based approach to problem solving. We use it to help individuals, teams and organisations find solutions to complex problems affecting their work.
Best leaders don't always have the right answers, but they do know how to ask the most powerful questions. Action learning helps people become skilled at question making, develop self-awareness, improve listening skills, and develops their ability to apply a level of objectivity to an issue. These skills are highly relevant to management and leadership in all sectors, and are also core elements of coaching.
In Action Learning, participants prepare for a meeting (often called a set) by identifying a work issue they're stuck with. The group will come together and, after a check in, will decide to focus on one individual's issue. With the help of a facilitator, the other group members will ask the individual analytical, clarifying questions so that the group understands the issue.
Then, as the session progresses, the focus turns to finding solutions to the issue. The group's intention is to avoid advice, but instead to ask questions that help the individual find the solution themselves. This process can then be repeated for other group members. At the end, key actions from the learning can be captured and progress reported back on the next time the set meets.
At Koreo, a typical half-day Action Learning Set lasts 3 hours. Sets can be run as a one off, but typically meeting on a six weekly cycle.
Action Learning can be applied within or across organisations. Horizontal Sets are made up of peers (for example senior leadership or heads of department), but we also encourage organisations to use Vertical Sets where the group represent multiple management levels.
By practicing as vertical sets, you accelerate information sharing across the organisation and you increase the power of problem solving, because you have a greater diversity of perspectives on a problem. They also encourage more cohesion and connection within an organisation, because you combat the silos that come naturally through organizational hierarchies.
One of the great things about action learning is that once a set is established it can continue meeting long after our involvement has ended. It's a sustainable approach to developing and supporting people at any level of the organisation.


This line was constructed in 1886 by the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, the Texas-based subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. In 1990, the Kiamichi Railroad, a regional company with a presence in nearby states of Arkansas and Oklahoma, desired access into Dallas from their mainline in Purcell, OK, which this segment of railway would provide. Thus, they purchased this line from the AT&SF and created a subsidiary company, the Chaparral Railroad, to operate it. The railroad was not profitable, however, and the line was abandoned in 1995.
Today, the right-of-way serves the Chaparral Rail-trail.
The AT&SF once served a large onion industry in Farmersville; today, a lone onion shed is preserved along the abandoned right-of-way. Note the Santa Fe shield. Photo by Mike Palmer, August 2012.
A marker outside the onion shed explains the history of onion farming in the area. Photo by Mike Palmer, August 2012.
The old Chaparral right-of-way serves as the Chaparral Rail-trail today; this is the trailhead in Farmersville with the abandoned grade in the background. Photo by Mike Palmer, August 2012.
There are still active tracks owned by the Kansas City Southern in Farmersville. The area in the foreground once served as a diamond between this line and the abandoned line to McKinney. Photo by Mike Palmer, August 2012.


Brock Lesnar sure knows how to endear himself to the fans and use his platform for a good cause.
The uber-popular fighter defeated Mark Hunt at UFC 200 on Saturday in Las Vegas via unanimous decision. After the fight, he gave a special shoutout to the service men in the United States.
Brock also preached unity among all people.
Lesnar: America, shoutout to all the men & women who protect this country. From sea to shining sea. From one white boy to all nationalities.
Lesnar's shoutout comes days after five Dallas police officers were killed by a sniper attack while protecting those peacefully protesting. In the ensuing days there were other attacks on police officers. Prior to that, two black men were killed by police.
Though Lesnar represented Canada for his fight, the U.S. was still front and center on his mind, as were people of all races and nationalities. That's why fans love him.


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Mathura, India, October 4, 2000
Krishna has left Vrindavana for Mathura. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura has explained in his commentary that all the Vrajabasis, especially the gopas and gopis, and Krishna's father and mother, are feeling so much separation that is beyond the limit of explanation. It is said that the Vrajabasis sent a swan as a messenger to Mathura, and the Puranas say that they sent many messengers; but Srimad Bhagavatam has not told so. Srimad Bhagavatam has explained that it was Krishna who sent the messenger.
Sastra says that the devotees feel separation for Krishna, but Srimad Bhagavatam says that Krishna, feeling separation for the Vrajabasis, weeps all day long-for the gopas, gopis, His father, His mother, and all others. He is always weeping in Mathura and Dvaraka. Although He is surrounded by His wives, sons, and daughters, He is not satisfied.
What is that love and affection that induces the gopis to weep? We are separated, but we do not weep. There is one point to especially note here: If I explain about the worldly separation of a lady who is weeping for her beloved man, we will also weep. Hearing about Krishna's separation, however, we cannot. Why not? It is due to so many offences from past lives and this life.
Krishna is feeling so much separation, and He is weeping, weeping, weeping-all day and night. That is why Srimad Bhagavatam has told about Krishna's sending a message. Krishna sent Uddhava from Mathura, and therefore Uddhava sandesa is explained in Srimad Bhagavatam. Did Krishna send the message to console the gopis and gopas, or to console and pacify Himself? It was not for them, but for Himself. His heart was loaded with the suffering of separation, and He wanted to divide it, or share it, with others.
Vrajendranandana Krishna had spent His first three years in Gokula, almost up to His seventh year in Vrindavana, and remained until ten years and eight months in Nandagaon. After killing Kamsa, He installed Ugarsena on the throne. I have already explained all this.
Krishna has now returned from His schooling at the asrama of Sandipani Muni, and He was standing on the roof of the raja palace, the house of Vasudeva Maharaja. He was looking across the Yamuna, who was floating gently and sweetly, with sounds of 'kala kala.' He at once remembered all His pastimes in Vrindavana, and He could not check His heart. He wept continually. In the meantime Uddhava came, and Krishna put his hands in His own hands. Again He wept. His voice was choked up, but finally he controlled Himself and began to speak to him.
Vrindavana is the place of high-class love and affection-up to madanakya mahabhava in madana and modana. Why did Krishna leave there and go to Mathura? In Mathura there is also love and affection, but it is on a low level because it is mixed with aisvarya. Therefore, if after killing Kamsa He could not go forever, why did He not go from time to time? Why did He not send messengers? Why did He not bring the Vrajabasis to Mathura and Dvaraka, as He had previously transferred the Mathuravasis to Dvaraka when they were under attack by Jarasandha? If we can understand this, it will help us understand the meaning of prema.
Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura explains that there are two prakasas, sections, of Krishna's lila-aprakata and prakata, unmanifest and manifest. In aprakata lila, Krishna returned with Nanda Baba, and in prakata lila Nanda Baba returned alone. In one section there was separation, and in one section there was not. There is even separation in madana and modana mahabhava-a fear of future separation.
Anyone in this world will want to stay where there is affection. Even though parents take good care of their children throughout their young life, when the children get married they feel they are getting more love from their own wife and children, and prefer to stay with them. This is the nature of both humans and demigods, and this is also true for Krishna. 'Ye yatha mam prapadyante, tams tathaiva bhajamy aham.' If one worships Him as impersonal Brahman, He reciprocates accordingly. If one wants to worship Him in santa rasa, He appears to that devotee as Narayana. If one wants to serve Him as a sakha, He appears as Nandanandana. In this world there are many categories of devotees, and Krishna cannot neglect any of them. Even when He is very busy in rasa-lila, still He cannot neglect the devotees in Mathura and Dvaraka. Otherwise He would be defamed.
There is no comparison between the love and affection of the Vrajabasis and that of anyone else, but still Krishna cannot neglect anyone else. Devaki and Vasudeva had spent so many years in jail on Krishna's account, tortured by Kamsa for the ten years and eight months that He was in Vrindavana. Even if someone is not a suddha-bhakta, but he prays to Krishna with a little sraddha, Krishna hears his prayers. It is not Paramatma who hears, but Krishna Himself. In that case, how can He forget Vasudeva and Devaki? He cannot. Krishna is playing at Vamsivata near Yamuna, but still, how can He forget Ugrasena in prison? He remembers him. After He killed Kamsa and enthroned Ugrasena as king, He could not leave because Ugrasena and Vasudeva could not take care of the kingdom themselves. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura has explained all this in his commentaries.
Kamsa's two wives, Asti and Prapti, had gone to their father, Jarasandha after the death of their husband. Weeping bitterly they said, "O father, our husband was so sober and sweet. He was simply sitting and watching Krishna play, and act, and kill the wrestlers. But without any cause Krishna dragged him from the rangasala and killed him. Because Krishna was his nephew, he did not fight back. Generally no uncle will slap his nephew, and therefore Kamsa did [not] protest when Krishna was beating him. He was defenseless." Hearing and seeing his daughters cry in this way, Jarasandha said, "I'll go to Mathura and kill them all." He thus proceeded to attack Mathura seventeen times.
There was a fort in Mathura, and so many defenses to protect it. Krishna thought that if He stayed in Mathura Jarasandha would attack Mathura, and if he went to Vrindavana, even for a short visit, Jarasandha would certainly come and attack there. In Vrindavana there was no wall and no weapon. There were only sticks for cow-grazing. Even Nanda Baba knew that Jarasandha was angry. He thought, "If Jarasandha comes here and attacks my beta (son), what will He do? How will He fight back?" The Yadus are warriors but the Vrajabasis are cow-herders, grazing cows on Govardhana. If even one cow is running from Govardhana to Mahdhuvana, they cannot stop her with their sticks. How, then, can they stop Jarasandha? Besides this, at that time not only was Jarasandha attacking, but also Kalayavana and Dantavakra. Therefore he could not go to Vrindavana. Madhurya-lila-and everything else-would be finished.
Another point is that Devaki and Vasudeva would not allow Him to go to Vrindavana. They knew that He would never return because He would be absorbed in rasavadana, relishing the taste of rasa. It would be impossible for Him to return to Mathura. They would therefore allow Him to go anywhere else, but not there. The prema of Nanda and Yasoda and the sakhas and sakhis is so great that Vrindavana is called rasa-bhumi. If Krishna went elsewhere for a job, for some duty or work, He would surely return. He went to the battle of Kuruksetra and to Janakapura for business, and then returned. In Vraja, however, there is only rasa. Rasavadana has no beginning and no end. Vrindavana is rasa-bhumi, and Dvaraka and Mathura, being full of aisvarya, is karma-bhumi. Therefore He would never return.
Why did Krishna not kill Jarasandha the first time he attacked? Baladeva had caught hold of him with His plow and was about to hit him with His club, but Krishna said, "Let him go. In this way he will collect more and more demons, and we will kill them all at last."
Another question may arise: Krishna had fought with and killed so many demons when He was living in Vraja, so what would be the problem now? The answer is that Krishna did not actually fight with them. He was only playing. He did not kill Putana. He was only sucking. He did not kill Trnavarta. He wanted to play in the sky, and when He was up there he caught cold of Trnavarta to protect Himself from falling. That was all. So, what to do? He did not kill Denukasura. He was simply playing as though with a toy. Aghasura had taken Krishna and all the cowherd boys into his mouth, and Krishna's body became like burning fire. When the demon's head burst open and Krishna came out automatically, it was just play.
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Q: What is the use of "this" in Java and/or C#? Say I have a simple sample console program like below. My question is in regards to this. Is the sole use of this just so you can use the input variable name to assign to the instance variable? I was wondering what the use of this is other than used in the context of this program?
public class SimpleClass {

    int numberOfStudents;

    public SimpleClass(){
        numberOfStudents = 0;
    }

    public void setStudent(int numberOfStudents){
        this.numberOfStudents = numberOfStudents;
    }

    public void printStudents(){
        System.out.println(numberOfStudents);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        SimpleClass newRandom = new SimpleClass();
        newRandom.setStudent(5);
        newRandom.printStudents();

    }
}

Previously, when I needed to assign a value to an instance variable name that shares similarities to the input value, I had to get creative with my naming scheme (or lack of). For example, the setStudent() method would look like this:
public void setStudent(int numberOfStudentsI){
    numberOfStudents = numberOfStudentsI;
}

From that example above, it seems like using this replaces having to do that. Is that its intended use, or am I missing something?

A: Things are quite the opposite of how you perceive them at the moment: this is such an important and frequently used item in Java/C# that there are many special syntactical rules on where it is allowed to be assumed. These rules result in you actually seeing this written out quite rarely.
However, except for your example, there are many other cases where an explicit this cannot be avoided (Java):

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*referring to the enclosing instance from an inner class;

*explicitly parameterizing a call to a generic method;

*passing this as an argument to other methods;

*returning this from a method (a regular occurrence with the Builder pattern);

*assigning this to a variable;

... and more.

A: this is also used if you want to a reference to the object itself:
someMethod(this);

There is no alternative to this syntax (pun intended).
It's also used to call co-constructors, and for C# extension methods.

A: 'this' simply refers to the object itself.
When the compilers looks for the value of 'numberOfStudents', it matches the 'closest' variable with this name. In this case the argument of the function.
But if you want to assign it to the class variable, you need to use the 'this.'-notation!
In the method
public void setStudent(int numberOfStudents){
    this.numberOfStudents = numberOfStudents;
}

for example.
'this.numberOfStudents' references the class variable with the name 'numberOfStudents'
'numberOfStudents' references the argument of the method
So, this method simple assigns the value of the parameter to the class variable (with the same name).

A: in c#  you use this to refer the current instance of the class  object immagine you have class like this  from  msdn
    class Employee
    {
        private string name;
        private string alias;
        private decimal salary = 3000.00m;

        // Constructor:
        public Employee(string name, string alias)
        {
            // Use this to qualify the fields, name and alias:
            this.name = name;
            this.alias = alias;
        }
        // Printing method:
        public void printEmployee()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}\nAlias: {1}", name, alias);
            // Passing the object to the CalcTax method by using this:
            Console.WriteLine("Taxes: {0:C}", Tax.CalcTax(this));
        }

        public decimal Salary
        {
            get { return salary; }
        }
    }

    class Tax
    {
        public static decimal CalcTax(Employee E)
        {
            return 0.08m * E.Salary;
        }
    }

    class MainClass
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            // Create objects:
            Employee E1 = new Employee("Mingda Pan", "mpan");

            // Display results:
            E1.printEmployee();
        }
    }
    /*
    Output:
        Name: Mingda Pan
        Alias: mpan
        Taxes: $240.00
     */

A: You have different scopes of variables in Java/C#. Take this example below. Although this.numberOfStudents and numberOfStudents have the same name they are not identical.
public void setStudent(int numberOfStudents){
    this.numberOfStudents = numberOfStudents;
}

this.numberOfStudents is a variable called numberOfStudents that is in the instance of this class. this always points on the current instance.
public void setStudent(int numberOfStudents) that numberOfStudents is a new variable that is just available in this method.

A: keyword "this" refers to an object of the current class (SimpleClass) on the fly.
public class SimpleClass(){

    private int a;
    private int b;
    private int c;

    public SimpleClass(int a, int b){
       this.a = a;
       this.b = b;
    }

    public SimpleClass(int a, int b, int c){
       // this constrcutor
       this(a,b);
       this.c = c;
    }
}

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Skeletons Might Be the Future of DJing
We imagine a world in which flesh has been made redundant but club culture is even more alive than ever.
by Josh Baines
July 14, 2017, 8:59am
The human body is an incredible thing. It is a largely self-regulating machine that allows us to enjoy life's many splendors. We can swim in azure blue seas, drink fine wines, and watch the sun rise over the Axminster Tools & Machinery warehouse without having to think about it. We never need worry about how to keep the blood flowing round our chip-clogged arteries, nor should we lose sleep about wondering how we keep breathing while we are asleep. Having a body is a fantastic thing indeed.
What's slightly less fantastic, though, is the thought of what lies underneath the hair and skin and muscles and fibers and the gelatinous gloop that oozes out of our very pores. Underneath that are cold, hard, stiff bones. We carry around with us 206 bones that could break at any point. A rogue banana peel left on the floor results in an arm arcing out of its protective pouch of skin. A mistimed two-footed tackle sees a promising career ruined in seconds. A man in Helsinki attempts two and a half back-somersaults with two and a half twists during the 1.5 seconds between launching himself from the 10 metre platform and entering the water at 40mph. The dive does not go to plan. Her neck snaps in several places. That, after all, is all we are. I am bones. You are bones. Kim Kardashian, Leon Trotsky, Oona King, John Inverdale, Stacey Dooley, Peter Stringfellow, Jo "Supernanny" Frost—they are all just a collection of bones.
Given that, you'd be totally right to argue that DJs are just bones too. DJing, you might say after two swift shandies with the lads on a Friday lunchtime at the pub round the corner from work, is just a case of bones being used to manipulate things that other bones made using tools engineered by further sets of bones. And you'd be bang fucking on. That is all they've ever been, all they ever were. They were just better at hiding it before. Now things are changing. Now skeletons are the future of DJing.
You probably thought the future of DJing involved loosened licensing laws and a greater sense of cooperation between clubs and councils. You were wrong, mate. It's literally just going to be skeletons. DJs are going to be the first human beings brave enough to cast off the shackles of flesh and bone. DJs are going to tell the world that it's totally cool to talk around showing off your Proximal Phalange 1. Be proud of your pubis, they'll say, even though their lack of tongue, lips, lungs and assorted other bits of viscera make talking a technical impossibility.
We will get back to exactly why and when this change will happen, but first, here are three reasons why the rise of the skeletal selector will benefit club culture, making it as truly important as the elrow family, or some bloke you met backstage at a panel talk featuring Andy Peyton, Barely Legal, and the ghost of Larry Levan tell you it is.
Firstly the skeleton DJ will be incredibly cost efficient, due to his or her's lack of dietary needs. Those savings—which will stem largely from the total negation of the currently pricey rider system in which the DJ can demand anything up to several platters of cold meat and a few beakers of warm squash—will in turn see a reduction of costs in clubs, which will lead to greater footfall, which means that promoters can launch even more festivals. Never again will a man, woman, or child have to go more than two days without seeing The Black Madonna playing "It's Raining Men" while they chow down on an eight pound cheeseburger.
Secondly, the DJ will now have a limited shelf-life, which means there will be a greater turn around of talent. As pure skeleton, the DJ is more prone to injury than his fleshed-out contemporaries. Without the protective layer of fat to buffer their cue-finger, breakages are far more likely. A lack of nervous system means there will be no pain attached to the damage, but it will pose practical problems. A greater number of DJs rising and falling will bolster an industry built on hopes, dreams, and expectations.
Thirdly, because all skeletons look the same, punters will no longer spend their nights looking at the DJ. Looking at the DJ is akin to committing a war crime apparently, so anything that we can do to eradicate this threat to clubbing is welcome. One the initial novelty of seeing a skeleton—who, remember has no sense of hearing or sight—DJ we can really lose ourselves to the new Rhythm Section 12"! At last!
The answer as to why it'll be DJs rather than nurses or barristers or sculptors who will become the first of us to transcend the notional normal human body, the answer is simple: DJs are inveterate show offs. They show off, we lap it up, so they show off even more to keep our attention. In a few years time, they will have run out of shock tactics. The cakes will have been thrown. The masks donned and undonned. There aren't enough lasers in the world to keep DJs interesting in their current form for more than ten years or so.
And that is when they will, one by one, start to peel their skin off. The back rooms of clubs the world over will become despostories for torn flesh. Booths will fill with offal. Blood will drip from the ceilings, atomised in the air conditioners. Crowds will lap it up, of course, throwing their heads back with reckless abandon, high on the fumes of heated human remains.
The DJ will still be a shamanic figure, still able to coerce us into moving in ways we didn't think possible. They will still command absurd amounts of attention and money. We will still be in thrall to them. Except now, they'll be skeletons.
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It's another quiet day in the Secret Underground NSM Bunker. The lights on the enormous world map at the far end of the cavern are blinking green, my army of orange-boiler-suit-clad underlings are hard at work on my next diabolical scheme, and the persian cat on my lap is purring contentedly. Martini-drinking spies are nowhere to be seen.
Out of the blue, the cat's ears prick up and she starts to hiss. Seconds later, a security alert is raised (why have an IDS when you can have a cat?). Because we're collecting logs as well as traffic data, we can tell pretty quickly when an account is locked out due to too many failed logins. It's usually a fat-fingered user who will shortly be calling the helpdesk, but today it's not. Today it's one of the domain admins. Now admins can have a fit of fat-fingeredness too, but equally someone could have tried to brute force a login into a privileged account. We need to find out which it is.
A quick call to the admin's desk reveals that he's not there – he's been out of the office for the last hour, and his computer appears to be off. Furthermore, one of the admin's colleagues has had sight of the admin's machine for the entire time, and nobody has been near it.
The "account locked out" message came from a domain controller, and was preceded by the proper number of "login failure" messages.
All of these messages cite the admin's machine as the computer that was used for these login attempts. We hope these messages are trustworthy, otherwise we've got much bigger problems (i.e., someone is messing with machine accounts and server event logs).
The login failed messages all say that an interactive login was attempted locally – it wasn't a remote desktop session or other network login (SMB, etc.).
There are two ways in which a local interactive login can be attempted. You can either sit at the machine and try it, or you can use some remote-access software like VNC that only does screen-scraping rather than interacting with the foul guts of Windows. We can rule out the former, assuming we can trust what the admin's colleague has told us. We've got an NSM sensor at the network's border, so we can see if the admin's machine is being contacted over the Internet.
It's an inside job – the attacker is either inside the building right now, or has just made their getaway. This would be irritating, not least since our NSM capability only covers the network's borders – if it's an inside job, NSM won't have caught it at all.
The cat is now trying to force open the covers of the doomsday device in order to set it off… Bad kitty!
The orange-clad goons are busy mobilising to secure the admin's machine for imaging and forensic examination when we get wind of an interesting new helpdesk ticket. Apparently, someone is having trouble with their new keyboard. Their new wireless keyboard.
A penny rolls towards a precipice and gets ready to drop, and the cat heads off to her dish of cream – always a good omen.
It turns out that a few people had taken delivery of wireless keyboards that morning. The admin was one of the recipients, and had set his up, logged out of his machine, and gone to lunch. A little later, someone else had unpacked theirs. They turned on their machine, and waited for it to boot. Not being a touch typist, they dropped their head to their new toy and hit control-alt-delete, and then hit tab to skip from the pre-populated username field to the password field (bad policy! naughty policymaker!). Still with head down, they typed their password and hit return.
Looking up at the screen they saw that it was still prompting for control-alt-delete, so they repeated the process. Several times. They finally hit the keyboard's "sleep" key to no effect before getting the old keyboard back and raising a support ticket.
Case closed, the cat returns to my lap, the orange-clad goons get back to their diabolical tasks, and all is well in the Secret Underground NSM Bunker….
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Tennis|Telling Identical Twins Apart by First-Round Results at Wimbledon
Telling Identical Twins Apart by First-Round Results at Wimbledon
By Dave Seminara
WIMBLEDON, England — Kristyna has blond hair, a Maori-style tattoo, and likes Paulo Coelho novels. Karolina is more blonde, has two Maori-style tattoos and prefers Nicholas Sparks. A 6-foot left-hander, Kristyna won the junior singles title here; Karolina, a 6-1 right-hander, claimed the same prize at the Australian Open.
Kristyna is two minutes older, but Karolina's name pops up first in a Google search of their surname. Karolina has a higher ranking, but Kristyna won their most recent match. They stay in the same hotel room on the road, often sharing a bed when necessary, but please, try not to mix them up.
The Pliskova sisters are 21-year-old identical twins from the Czech Republic who were in the same section of the draw this week, two weeks after they faced each other for the first time on the WTA tour at a tournament in Eastbourne.
Asked to cite examples of how she is different from her twin, Kristyna searched for an answer but stalled for time.
"Differences?" she repeated, and then after a long pause concluded: "I don't really know. We are a lot alike."
Karolina Pliskova, above, defeated 13th-seeded Nadia Petrova on Tuesday at Wimbledon.CreditTom Hevezi/European Pressphoto Agency
But Karolina, who said her sister called her the boss for no good reason, batted the question aside as if she had fielded it 1,000 times, which she probably has.
"There are a lot of differences," she said. "The tattoos, the hair. I'm a little taller, she's lefty and I'm righty. On the court, it's easy to tell us apart. Off the court, well, you have to figure it out."
Kristyna said they were just like ordinary sisters. They share clothes, they fight, and they rely on each other. They also like to throw their rackets.
"I think I have the advantage in smashing more rackets though," Kristyna said.
And they sometimes pass love interests off on each other. Once, when they were teenagers, the twins decided that they preferred each other's boyfriends, so they agreed to swap. They both have new boyfriends, and there is no talk of a trade, but Kristyna said she used to try to pawn off unwanted suitors on her sister, who rarely took the bait.
On the court, their fortunes have also largely risen and fallen together. Kristyna said she was the stronger player until they were about 15, when Karolina started to overtake her. They both turned professional in 2009; Karolina won the Australian Open junior event in 2010, and Kristyna won the girls singles at junior Wimbledon in 2011. Karolina's ranking on the WTA tour was always a bit higher until Kristyna briefly nudged ahead at the end of last year. Karolina, now No. 77, regained the advantage this year, slipping inside the top 100 for the first time, only for Kristyna, ranked No. 102, to win their first WTA matchup in June at Eastbourne, 7-6 (5) 3-6 6-3.
Bob and Mike Bryan are tennis's most famous twins, but the last prominent set of identical twins playing singles on the pro tour was Tom and Tim Gullikson, who met four times in the '70s and '80s. Tom is the lead national coach for the United States Tennis Association and is at Wimbledon this week coaching Denis Kudla and other American players.
Her twin, Kristyna, failed to advance.CreditGlyn Kirk/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
"There's no secrets when you play a twin," he said while watching Kudla win his first-round match on Court 5. "You can read each other's minds, predict their tendencies, but they can predict yours as well."
Kristyna took the same court wearing a visor with her hair in a neat bun and a wristband just below the tattoo on her left forearm. She raced out to a 3-0 lead, blasting big looping forehand winners to every corner of the court. But her Slovakian opponent, Jana Cepelova, quickly found her game, reeling off 12 of the match's final 14 games to usher Kristyna out of the tournament, 6-4, 6-1.
Pliskova looked resigned as she trudged off court but later joked with reporters that she resisted the urge to throw her racket because she "didn't want to break the grass."
A few hours after the loss, she was out on Court 12, supporting her sister as she squared off against Nadia Petrova, the No. 13 seed. Karolina's powerful serve and big looping forehand looked similar, but she was playing with more confidence, and after taking the first set 6-3 Karolina iced the match by breaking serve at 2-2 with a deft backhand drop shot that looked eerily similar to the ones her sister was dropping over the net just hours before.
Petrova looked oddly unglued as Pliskova essentially blew her off the court, hitting 32 winners against only 6 unforced errors. But as Pliskova finished a surprisingly routine, 6-3, 6-2 win, there was barely even a fist pump, let alone a celebration.
"I'm a bit sad for my sister, so I didn't want to jump up and down," she said after the biggest win of her career. "It's hard when one wins and one loses. If we both won, we could celebrate."
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Top 10 Urban Hotels 2014
It is no hyperbole to state that we are the most well travelled generation in history. So much so that it's no longer uncommon to jump on a transatlantic flight from Paris to New York for a weekend break. Some might even fly from Singapore to Melbourne for dinner.
This unprecedented level of jet-setting poses its own unique challenges, with hotels – particularly those in urban centres – vying for differentiation, scrambling to make a play for that prized check-in. Business centres and mediocre gym facilities are now banned. In their place, says Maria Kuhn, vice president of public relations at Kempinski, are wiretap blockers and personalised fitness programmes. Convenience is a priority, with location transport access, check-in process, intuitive electronic connections and a whip smart concierge topping the list.
Thompson, Chicago, US
Located in Chicago's Gold Coast District, Thompson is a luxury hotel in Chicago. It is the 11th addition to the brand's expanding hotel portfolio. Interiors are by British designer Tara Bernerd, who was also responsible for the brand's London property, Belgraves, and she has ensured they complement the industrial setting of the existing building, introducing a bold autumnal colour palette in petrol blues, blacks and deep reds, with luxurious finishings in rich velvet materials.
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Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, US
The Ace Hotel is housed in what was formerly the United Artists building, built in 1927 by architect Howard C Crane. Atelier Ace and local outfit Commune Design stripped the interior down to its minimalist core to reveal poured concrete ceilings and columns that enhance the colourful rooms featuring Isamu Noguchi lamps and Pendleton blankets. The structure also contains the opulent Artists Theatre, which the hotel has preserved for use as an event space.
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The Ludlow, New York, US
The Ludlow is another hotel in the hospitality portfolio of Sean MacPherson and BD Hotels (see the Marlton Hotel next), though it's their first in the city's Lower East Side. Once a derelict building abandoned in the 1980s by its original developers after the financial crash, MacPherson saw potential in its solid red brick façade and factory casement windows and rescued it, transforming it with steel and glass doors, marble mosaic floors and a grand limestone fireplace in the lobby. The ground floor entrance leads straight through to a rear courtyard, a rare amenity in Manhattan.
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Villa Rosa Kempinski, Nairobi, Kenya
The rapidly expanding Kempinski group has recently opened the doors of its second Kenyan property, this time in a prime city centre location in Nairobi. Whether you're in Nairobi for business or pleasure, the Villa Rosa Kempinski is ideally situated for you to make the most out of the Kenyan capital. Architects Symbion, one of East Africa's biggest firms, are behind the imposing pink edifice, while international design consultancy DWP oversaw the interiors.
Hotel Hotel, Canberra, Austrália
The idiosyncratically named Hotel Hotel occupies a section of the Nishi complex in the New Action village. Don Cameron and Nectar Efkarpidis designed the hotel in keeping with the complex's ethos of sustainability and design excellence. Its location allows guests to enjoy lakeside and mountain views while surrounded by a highly active arts and culture scene.
The Temple Hotel Beijing, China
Tucked away in the tightly packed streets surrounding the Forbidden City, The Temple Hotel's evocative past as a Qing dynasty temple is in stark contrast with the contemporary design and renovation that was recently recognised with a UNESCO award for cultural heritage conservation. Original wood and tiles were used throughout the restoration, and a contemporary lighting element was introduced by Ingo Maurer.
Sofitel So, Singapore, Singapore
The new Sofitel So is housed in one of Singapore's rare gems, the former Eastern Extension Telegraph building, dating from 1927. Interiors are by local design firm Miaja and the hotel's signature designer Karl Lagerfeld. The hotel lobby has a lighting design and there is a gold-tiled infinity rooftop pool.
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Okko Hotel, Nantes, France
Created by Olivier Devys with the support of Paul Dubrule, OKKO HOTELS renews the codes of the traditional business hotel by proposing a concept of all inclusive urban hotels where the human being, the design and the innovation are in the heart of the project. This idea is to eschew the traditional hotel attributes – there is no reception desk, no breakfast room, no lounge, just one living space, the Club, which is staffed 24/7. A kitchen offers snacks and refreshments throughout the day, and a business corner houses two computers and a printer. Selected items are on sale in an in-house shop, and a curated selection of newspapers, books and magazines are available.
JK Place, Rome, Italy
JK Place is a luxury boutique hotel. Housed in what was once Rome's school of architecture, JK place Roma – the third property from hotelier Ori Kafri following ones in Capri and Florence – is once again designed by architect Michele Bönan. Minutes from the city's best shops and sights, the hotel's elegant bedrooms feature mid-century furniture, sculptures and marble with bold splashes of colour.
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Edition Hotel, London, UK
Edition is a boutique design hotel in London. Close to Oxford Street, the London Edition is the second offering from Ian Schrager's new pairing with Marriott (following the Istanbul Edition) and is housed within the grand confines of the old Berners Street Hotel. Key details have been meticulously restored by Schrager and international design firm Yabu Pushelberg to feature a warm palette of dusky rose, khaki and mustard, elegantly furnished with eclectic pieces inspired by Salvador Dali and Donald Judd.
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