Daughter and I took a walk on the boardwalk over these wetlands this afternoon, and it was so beautiful. The water lilies were blooming.
Some beautiful white puff balls. Someone I.D.'d these for me one year. But I have forgotten the name! They look like atomic balls!
And check out how much money can be saved by avoiding bottled water! Amazing!
Well, while I was busy at something in the house, my yard, which was suddenly and beautifully covered with rain lilies, got sabotaged! By what, you ask? Not a thing, but the cutest girl in my world! EMILY JUNE!!!!
The yard was temporarily a lovely field of sweetness! Until Ems decided to pick them all for her Mom and I.
We decided to make a short stemmed, and longer stemmed bouquets (those that that weren't ripped out so mightily)!!!
We are decorating the carport with our bouquets! Are they not just so sweet? They will stay open for days in water. At least some enjoyment can still be had! Ha! The joys children bring just cannot be increased!!!! No way.
I went out to water the tire garden and found this huge spray of Drift roses! I love when I can catch them fresh and perfect. They seem to fade fast.....much faster than other roses. But....they sure can put on a show!!!!!
You would think I would have seen that weed and pulled it before taking the picture, and maybe added more shells, but what can I say! This plant is much brighter tipped in winter months, and the pink is still there. It caught my eye yesterday and I thought I'd show it. It's hard to imagine, but most days it goes unnoticed by me. Pretty though, eh??? I just noticed the picture of it in the side bar from a few years ago, and you can see it has grown a bit! Lots more twists and curls!
This picture is for Elizabeth @ http://elizabethannesgarden.blogspot.com who asked to see a full view of the tire garden. Click on picture to make it larger. You can see I have some tires that are three high, some are two and some are one tire high. This can be done in a more attractive way. Mine really isn't all that large. I had gotten the ones that are flat on the ground started when I was planting collard greens in them and needed more tire space, but for succulents or flower gardening it is nice to stack higher to save your back. I have also seen where you can do rows kind of staggered and you can build out from higher tire stacks to lower and be able to plant in the spaces between the tires as well. I am actually thinking of using some 7 inch high (or so) edging to be able to close in the areas around the tires to plant in the spaces as well. I think some sweet sort of wild flowers would look very cool growing about. We shall see. I have not painted my tires because the sun and heat down here would probably have it all cracking off. I will, someday, empty these out and rearrange them in a more attractive manner. It will be a lot of work, because they are all full of soil that will have to be managed and redone. I can't think about that now until fall/winter here. Hope anyone who feels inspired to make a tire garden will do so and let me know so I can see what you do. Hey... here are some more sites you can check out I copied from Google Blog Search!
Apr 9, 2013 by Lindsay N.
In fact, old tires are hella handy to have around the farm. ... that didn't work out too well for us last year), make nesting boxes out of them for your chickens, build an Earth home with them, just throw them down a hill and see whose tire goes the furthest ormake flower planters out of them… which is what we did. ... So Saturday morning, Dave and I took the time to make our house look more like a home and less like the "before" example on an episode of This Old House.
Our yard is full right now of tiny moths that hang out in the grass. Emily became enthralled with them and we decided to capture a few to have a better look.
She has released them now and is looking forward to a new search after school.
She is such a neat girl.
A little posey of each of my roses!
I looked out the window this morning and saw that each of my mini roses bushes had at least one flower so I could make a bouquet of all. Aren't they sweet? I added a sprig of jasmine.
A volunteer sunflower amidst the periwinkles....so sweet!
Mother of Millions nestled between the tires!
I love how these grocery store mini red roses grow in clumps!
The Black Knight has re-seeded along with a lettuce plant!!!!!
And check it out.....another darn tomato found back where I do not pay any attention! I had moved this and a few others to my long lost porch of despair 5 months ago, and I guess we have had enough rain to keep this fighter going!!!!!
Some little plant lives found!
I was in Lakeland, Florida this past weekend for a funeral. My Moms last sister passed away. All three of the siblings went to heaven in the same year period. It has been a sad year, for sure.
As we were walking through a bank parking lot back to our hotel, I found these plant growths on these trees. The leaf shot is to attempt to find the name of these trees. I will look for an APP to try and identify. One of these growths looks like a bit of sphagnum moss, and most look like some form of moss. I wonder if they will all grow up to be sphagnum moss????? Neat to see how they start out.....just a light circular patch of green on the trunk. Pretty cool. I patch was much more wild and had a shredded appearance. Well, I had to stop for pictures! Exciting stuff, eh?????
The last shot was of a rosé I found there in Lakeland which was nearly the size of my hand!!!!! They sure have gorgeous flowers! It's just a beautiful city!
The very last shot was the sort of backdrop in front of a lake downtown there, at a gorgeous garden called Hollis Gardens. Unfortunately we only spent 5 minutes before they closed. My cousin says we will return when I get back over there, which I can hardly wait to do!
Oh my gosh! I came home this morning, after kids to schools and everyone to work, and found this picture, drawn by 8 year old grandson, Donovan! It's Super Doozey! A tear came to my eye! How sweet. What a boy!!!! (Click to make bigger).
I'm adding a picture I just took of the Super Doozey doggy hiding from the camera!!!!! Hahaha!!!! It's a rainy, melancholy day here.


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Come Meet Author of Book Celebrating Life of Firefighter Lost on 9/11
Capt. Patrick J. Brown of New York City's fire department was a remarkable man. So intriguing, Sharon Watts, his former fiancée, decided to chronicle his heroism and charming idiosyncrasies after his death on Sept. 11. Watts will sign copies of her book work, " Miss You, Pat," on Feb. 5, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m . at the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site, 20 Vesey St. By 9/11 Memorial StaffRead more
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Capt. Patrick J. Brown of New York City's fire department was a remarkable man. So intriguing, Sharon Watts, his former fiancée, decided to chronicle his heroism and charming idiosyncrasies after his death on Sept. 11. Armed with personal stories from friends and family members, Sharon was able to paint a vibrant picture of a hero lost, but not forgotten. Watts will sign copies of her book work, " Miss You, Pat," on Feb. 5, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.mRead more
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"Sir Herkimer's Bone" currently resides at Las Vegas High School. The winner of the Las Vegas vs. Rancho game gets to keep the infamous Herk's Bone.
Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 | 10:29 p.m.
With each positive play, fans on the Rancho sideline got louder and louder. The crowd was again great with the bleachers packed from top to bottom on each side, cars forced to park in the street because there weren't enough spots, and a line to enter the stadium of about 100 people deep even though the game had already started.
Rancho hasn't won in the rivalry series since the 1990s and most of the recent contests have been decided by the mercy rule of the running clock. But, as witnessed tonight, that lopsidedness hasn't killed the intensity of the rivalry. It's still, you can argue, the most significant in Nevada.
Las Vegas wound up winning 47-0 for its 22nd straight win in the series, using 212 rushing yards and five total touchdowns from Elijah Hicks, and gaining another Northeast League victory on the heels of the playoffs. Las Vegas lost its first six games, but has won in consecutive weeks and appears to be an improved squad.
"Record doesn't matter to us," Capitello said. "When we made our nonconference schedule, we knew we would take some bumps and bruises. That is OK. When you look at the film, we weren't an 0-6 team. We didn't practice like an 0-6 team.
Hicks, the Wildcats' four-year starting running back, has split time the past two games at quarterback because of injury. He amassed more than 200 yards rushing in each game, and tonight threw a touchdown to Chris Bunn.
Hicks had been lobbying to get a chance to attempt a pass. Tonight, he threw his first touchdown.
"I told coach, 'I can take (the position) over. I can try my best at quarterback,'" Hicks said.
Capitello, a first-year head coach, loaded the Wildcats schedule in September with games against many of the city's top teams. While they took their lumps against more-established programs such as Arbor View and Moapa Valley, they have found the way to peak at the right time of the season.
Las Vegas finishes the regular season next Thursday against Valley, needing a win to finish in second place of the Northeast and earn a home playoff game.
"Hopefully this is the start of something good to come," Capitello said.


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Rajini has been in Versova Koliwada for many decades. Rajini, now a grand mom, lives up to the tough character that Koli ladies have come to be known for. Even today, you will be see her at the Fish market, resplendent in all her glory with her two daughters who also stay close by in the Koliwada.
This was a beautiful experience .We really want to dine with them again .
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KORN Guitarist BRIAN 'HEAD' WELCH's LOVE AND DEATH Project To Release 'Perfectly Preserved' Album; 'Down' Single Available
2021 will see LOVE AND DEATH return with "Perfectly Preserved", a blistering but accessible full-length follow-up, driven by the spiritual resilience inherent in the first record, combined with an even starker depiction of real-life struggle. Anger, broken relationships, lowered self-worth, and the collision of optimistic values with oppressive systems are all on display, from the arresting refrains of "Tragedy", "Death Of Us" and "Affliction" to the bold, conqueror driven anthem of "White Flag".
LOVE AND DEATH harness soaring melodies and crushing riffs, weaponizing them like a supernatural dagger to strike at the blackened heart of disillusionment from both within and without. With an instantly recognizable relatability, for anyone who has felt discarded or without value, the band crafts invigorating anthems filled with earnest pleas for mercy and certainty amidst the chaos of an uncertain world. This is heavy music to vigorously confront depression, heartbreak, and pain.
The band began with similar raw, authentic emotional honesty to what drove singer/guitarist Brian "Head" Welch to multiplatinum and Grammy Award-winning heights as a co-founder of genre trailblazers KORN. Forged as an outlet for recovery and redemption in a season of change, the creation of LOVE AND DEATH resulted in the powerful and dynamic 2013 debut "Between Here & Lost". The album spoke plainly to the hearts of similarly disenfranchised fans all across the world.
"Perfectly Preserved" marks the introduction of guitarist, bassist and co-songwriter Jasen Rauch as a full-fledged member of the band, as well as second time producer for LOVE AND DEATH (co-produced by Joe Rickard). Jasen, best known as an integral part of chart-topping rockers BREAKING BENJAMIN, produced LOVE AND DEATH's first album in 2013. The duo first met a year or two after the release of Head's solo album, "Save Me From Myself" (2008). As Head experimented with synthesizers, it was Rauch who encouraged him to pick up his guitar and churn out new riffs.
"Jasen and I started writing together. I was trying to do new things, writing music on a keyboard at my house," Welch recalls. "I credit him with the rediscovery of my love for the guitar."
LOVE AND DEATH charge into this new chapter with a definitive lineup, which sees Head and Jasen side by side with the band's original guitarist, JR Bareis, also on vocals and guitar, and powerhouse drummer Isaiah Perez. It was a perfect storm of friendship and creativity, as they all worked on the album in Nashville, Los Angeles, and Chicago, over several years.
Like A PERFECT CIRCLE or STONE SOUR, LOVE AND DEATH isn't a "side project" or replacement for the guys' respective bands. It's an extension and companion, offering each of them a unique outlet to explore different aspects of their creative passions. "There are certain things we can do melodically in LOVE AND DEATH that might not work in KORN," Rauch explains. "For me, there are certain creative risks I can take with the arrangements and production that wouldn't fit with BREAKING BENJAMIN. In this band, we don't worry about how long a song might be, for example."
It's also an opportunity for further collaboration with their friends from other bands. "The Hunter" features Jasen's BREAKING BENJAMIN bandmate (and solo artist) Keith Wallen, who was also a major co-writer on the project. And Longtime comrade Lacey Sturm, formerly of FLYLEAF, sings on a metallic rendition of a surprising pop cover.
As with the "Lo Lamento" single released in 2016, Bareis steps up vocally, sharing frontman duties with Welch, whose own delivery draws on jaw-dropping life experience. From the heights of rock stardom to the depths of addiction, through an exciting resurrection to the daily battle to stay above water, every moment of truth is evident in his brutally honest screams. Bareis, by contrast, delivers anthemic and even haunting melodic vocals.
"Everybody knows my foundation," says Welch, regarding the contrast in lyrical themes between "Perfectly Preserved" and the first LOVE AND DEATH album. "I feel like what our world needs most in this very unique moment in time are real storiesabout overcoming struggle. These are honest songs co-written by our group of friends targeting depression/mental health, challenging relationships, trauma, loneliness, and related issues."
As their fans have learned to expect, LOVE AND DEATH is fearless in its open examination of contradictions and failure, making confessional music with an underlying anchor of purpose and hope. Like the band's very moniker suggests, both "Love" and "Death" are very present in all that they do.
"Perfectly Preserved" will arrive on February 12 via Earache Records.
01. Slow Fire
02. Infamy
04. Death Of Us
05. Lo Lamento
06. The Hunter (feat. Keith Wallen)
08. Let Me Love You (feat. Lacey Sturm)
09. Affliction
10. White Flag (feat. Ryan Hayes)
KORN's latest album, "The Nothing", was released in September 2019 via Roadrunner/Elektra. The follow-up to 2016's "The Serenity Of Suffering" was once again produced by Nick Raskulinecz.
LOVE AND DEATH is:
Brian "Head" Welch - Vocals, Guitar
Jasen Rauch - Bass
JR Bareis - Guitar, Vocals
Isaiah Perez - Drums
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THE special bond between an 11-year-old and her dog is helping her battle epilepsy.
Millie Webb suffers from refractory epilepsy and can have more than 100 seizures a day, but three-year-old Elmo is learning how to be a potentially life-saving companion for her.
The Bichon Frise is taking part in the Good Citizen dog training scheme from the Kennel Club to register as a service dog.
Once she completes her training, Elmo will be able to attend school alongside the Penketh High student.
Stuart, Millie's dad, said Elmo starting picking up on Millie's seizures in 2016 without any training.
He added: "Elmo always follows Millie around and sits and cries when she goes out.
"One of the symptoms is that she produces a large amount of saliva and the dog will lick and clean her face.
"She picks up on it just prior to a seizure- she becomes disturbed and will stay with her until she comes round.
"Part of Elmo's training is to notify us of Millie's seizures by finding us and barking."
Elmo has a service dog vest which allows her to accompany Millie into shops and restaurants in case she has a seizure when she is out of the house.
Millie underwent major brain surgery in December 2017 to try to stop her condition.
About 15 to 20 per cent of her brain was removed, but the surgery was ultimately unsuccessful.
Stuart said: "She still has seizures – they did drop off but they have come back.
"She can have up to 160 a day now but they are smaller ones.
"It took her a few months to recover and she suffered for a bit afterwards."
The surgery did improve Millie's memory and concentration and she was able to transfer to Penketh High School from Green Lane Community Special School.
Now the family are waiting to see if any more can be done for Millie and they hope new treatments and medicines may become available.
Mum, Linda, explained: "She is under two hospitals, Warrington and Alder Hey.
"They have been so good and so supportive but they are stuck now and don't know what to do."
While the family wait, Elmo is continuing her training and has even captured the hearts of the nation by appearing on ITV's Britain's Top 100 Dogs which aired in January.


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Why Frontier Communications, Smart Sand, and Eldorado Gold Slumped Today
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Stocks regained some lost ground on Friday, powered ahead by a better-than-expected showing on the labor front. New job gains topped economists' projections by nearly 50,000 during the month of June, and that quelled some concerns that the Federal Reserve might have already acted too aggressively to boost interest rates in a period in which data on economic growth has been tepid at best. Gains in the major benchmarks ranged from around 0.5% to 1%, but there were some areas of the market that were hit relatively hard despite the generally positive mood on Wall Street. Frontier Communications (NASDAQ: FTR), Smart Sand (NASDAQ: SND), and Eldorado Gold (NYSE: EGO) were among the worst performers on the day. Below, we'll look more closely at these stocks to tell you why they did so poorly.
Frontier makes a scary split
Shares of Frontier Communications finished down 4% after the telecommunications company moved forward with its decision to do a reverse split of its stock. As of Monday, Frontier shareholders will find that they have only one share of stock for every 15 shares that they owned as of the close of business on Friday. The trade-off is that each share should be worth 15 times as much, but often, companies that do reverse splits find that the brief boost in the stock price only emboldens short-sellers to increase their bets against a stock. Frontier has gone through big setbacks lately, including its decision to slash its dividend in May and new concerns about its sustainability. With large amounts of debt, Frontier will have to work hard to keep from joining the ranks of failed companies that implemented reverse splits as a last-gasp effort to save their stocks.
Smart Sand stock gets rocked
Smart Sand stock sank 15% on another terrible day for energy markets. Oil prices dropped more than $1 per barrel, leaving crude just above the $44 mark. That's bad news for fracking sand companies like Smart Sand, because lower oil prices make it less profitable for producers to drill and operate wells, leading to reduced demand for the materials necessary to continue production. U.S. producers have thus far been reluctant to cut production, but some industry experts expect that to happen soon, and that sent shares of most fracking sand providers down today. Combine that anticipated drop in demand with rising levels of supply among Smart Sand's rivals, and you have a recipe for sharply weaker prospects for the entire industry going forward.
Eldorado looks less golden
Finally, shares of Eldorado Gold fell more than 5%. The gold miner was just one of many precious metals companies that declined in light of the positive jobs report, and gold prices dropped more than $11 per ounce to end at $1,212, perilously close to the psychologically important $1,200 level. Eldorado has been aggressive strategically in recent months, making deals to increase its exposure to riskier development-stage mining projects. That philosophy can pay off in the long run if precious metals recover from their recent slump, but Eldorado has to be careful that it doesn't make such large bets that it can't weather a sustained period of falling gold prices before things turn around for the industry.
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Insider Trading is the trading of listed company's securities by individuals with access to non-public information about the company. Insider Trading is seen as an unfair practice to other investors who do not have access to the price sensitive information as the investor with insider information could potentially make larger profits compared to that of a typical investor.
The smooth operation of the securities market and its healthy growth and development depends on a large extent on the quality and integrity of the market. Such a market can alone inspire confidence in investors. Insider trading leads investors to lose confidence in the securities market as they feel that the market is rigged and only few, who have inside information benefit and make profits from their investments. Thus, the process of insider trading corrupts the 'level playing field'.
The new Insider Trading Regulation('Regulation') has brought about drastic changes by amending the definitions of various concepts. The Regulation comprises of 15 Chapters, 2 Schedules and 12 Sections.
The Regulations are effective from May 15,2015.
The definition of an "Insider" 3 has been simplified to mean any person who is a "connected person" and those in possession of "Unpublished Price Sensitive Information" ("UPSI").
The scope of "Connected Person" 4 under the Regulations has been widened to include persons associated with the company in a contractual, fiduciary or employment relationship or having direct or indirect access to Unpublished Price Sensitive Information.
"Trading" 5 under the Regulation means and includes subscribing, buying, selling, dealing or agreeing to subscribe, buy, sell or deal in any securities, and "trade" shall be construed accordingly.
Multiple restrictions have been placed i.e. (i) prohibition on communication of unpublished price sensitive information (ii) procurement of unpublished price sensitive information and (iii) trading in securities when in possession of unpublished price sensitive information.
Regulation 3(1) of SEBI (PIT) Regulations,2015 leads to statutory restriction on all insiders not to communicate, provide or allow access to any UPSI related to a company or securities listed or proposed to be listed to any person including other insiders until and unless providing such information or allowing their access is absolutely for legitimate purposes or performance of their duties and in discharge of legal obligations.
It was observed by Hon'ble SAT in the matter of Rakesh Agarwal V. SEBI that Regulation 3 must be interpreted bearing in mind the basic underlying assumption and the intent of the legislature in introducing such Regulations. The Regulation was never intended as an all-purpose ban on trading. Legitimate transactions undertake to achieve a corporate purpose or to discharge a fiduciary duty or in the interest of a body of public shareholders or stakeholders in a company or transactions in the public interest. The whole Regulation is an anti-fraud regulation.
The concept of "Trading Plan" 6 is introduced for the first time in India on an experimental basis. The fundamental principle governing the trading plan is to maintain the prohibition on trading in securities when in possession of UPSI as well as facilitate an establishment of regime in which compliance-conscious insiders are able to put in place a compliant mechanism to trade in securities where they are insiders.
Trading Plan need to be approved by compliance officer and also to be disclosed to the stock exchange before commencement of trading in accordance with such trading plan.
Trading Plan should be for 12 months.
Two trading plan should not overlap.
Trading is not allowed on behalf of insider earlier than 6 months from the public disclosure.
Trading is not allowed between 20th trading day prior to last day of any financial period and the second day after the disclosure is made to the public.
Trading plan must mention either the total value or total number of securities, nature of trade and dates on which such trades shall be effected.
Deviation from the trading plan is now allowed and it must be honored. Also approved trading plan cannot be revoked.
3. Regulatory Authority Securities and Exchange Board of India. Securities Exchange Commission.
4. Punishment Fine upto 25 crores or three times the profit made out of Insider Trading. 20 Years in Prison and a fine of 5 million US Dollars.
1. Section 195 of the Companies Act,2013('Section') is a new provision and provides that no person including any director or key managerial personnel of a company shall engage in insider trading.
2. Any violation of the Section by any person shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 5 years or with fine which shall not be less than Rs. 5 lakhs and which shall not exceed Rs.25 crores or three times the amount of profits made out of insider trading, whichever is higher, or with both.
Insider Trading is essentially the wrong of trading in securities with the advantage of having asymmetrical access to Unpublished Price Sensitive Information which when published would impact the price of securities in the market. The Regulation being a stringent one ensures a fair level playing field in the securities market and to safeguard the interest of the investors, and this move by SEBI will facilitate further economic buoyancy in the Indian Capital Market.
Geo…Whaat?! Someone is Snooping …!


The difference between standard and mini tummy is minor.Mini Abdominoplasty involves removal of additional fat and skin; whereas standard tummy tuck involves removal skin, fat as well as tightening of muscles. Advantage served by mini tummy tuck is faster recovery process and less complicated surgery.
Am I a right Candidate for Mini Abdominoplasty?
Ideal patient of Mini Abdominoplasty is an individual who has ideal weight, but has stubborn fat below belly region which remains non-effective with diet and exercise. Many women after pregnancy opt for this surgery. When diet and exercise doesn't work and fat's becoming a tough task to tackle, that's where mini tummy tuck comes in. Many men are reaping rewards with this surgical process. Consult a professional surgeon before opting for surgery.
Area of incision is generally discussed prior to the surgery, so the cosmetic surgeon could strategies a plan for patient to achieve the desired outcome. Incisions are usually made in inconspicuous areas for minimize visible scarring.
Patient is infused with anaesthesia for comfort and safety. Almost identical to C-sectiona really small incision is made. Area of incision is at the lower abdominal and there is no incision made near the navel area. Skin and fats are then separated in limited fashion. Tummy tuck surgeon then stretches the skin to remove extra skin. On many instance surgeon uses liposuction technique to give body a proper contour. Incisions are then sutured.
It provides excellent long lasting results, but patient must also follow good diet and exercise routine.
There is no need to move naval position.
Recovery time is quicker compare to other tummy tuck techniques.
Mini Abdominoplasty is also referred as scar less tummy tuck.
Mini Abdominoplasty tightens muscles and removes excessive skin at lower abdomen region.
Post-surgery patient are usually discharged within couple of hours. Recovery time of Mini Abdominoplasty is identical to liposuction. For any pain or discomfort patient can take over the counter medication to sooth the recovery period.


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Human beings are the primary drivers of climate change and other environmental problems. Over the past several centuries, more and more of us have been leaving rural settings behind for cities, a trend that's expected to continue.
With human impacts thus concentrated, you might expect urban areas to be a focal point of environmental research. That hasn't always been the case, said Stephanie Pincetl, director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA.
In her recent paper titled "Cities in the Age of the Anthropocene: Climate change agents and the potential for mitigation," Pincetl noted that despite accounting for a large portion of the emissions that cause climate change, cities have only recently become a point of focus in discussions of environmental problems.
The importance of understanding those complexities is heightened in the Anthropocene—a proposed epoch in Earth's history, one defined by the global influence humans are having on the environment. In this epoch, cities have already caused dangerous environmental conditions. Failure to mitigate these conditions is due, in part, to the inaccurate way we perceive them, Pincetl said.
People commonly look at cities as 'things' instead of complex processes—processes that include all the decisions that affect a city's ability to mitigate environmental impacts, such as regulations and laws.
Pincetl argues that cities should be seen as networks influenced by human decisions instead of 'things.' That, she says, will give us a better understanding of how these places function in relation to the environment. But more research is needed to account for the various choices that affect cities' ability to mitigate emissions.
Cities are major contributors to climate change, but they lack the ability to fully control their environmental impact due to factors involved in funding or lawmaking. They face limitations at every stage of decision-making throughout networks they are part of, yet discussions about climate change and cities has largely neglected to account for these complexities.
While a better understanding of cities may not directly lead to more conscious practices, it a necessary first step, Pincetl said. Continued research is needed to empower scientists, citizens and lawmakers to consider how to help cities overcome the human decisions that prevent them from limiting their contributions to climate change.


We've written about the overlap between Seneca and Jesus—how both were born in the same year and how many of their teachings are similar in nature—and got great responses from the Daily Stoic Community. Our interviews with Professor Joey Dodson and Dr. Kevin Vost on the links between Christianity and Stoicism received wide attention as well. So when we learned about Sr. Theresa Aletheia and her Memento Mori project, we immediately reached out to request an interview.
Please enjoy this interview with Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble!
First, can you tell the Daily Stoic community a little about your background and your journey from being an atheist to avowed Christian?
I was born into a Catholic family but was always a doubter and a skeptic, full of questions. I first doubted whether God really existed at the age of five. My natural skepticism coupled with the problem of suffering led me to turn to atheism at the age of fourteen. I was a materialist atheist for over a decade. Eventually, I began to realize that my worldview had rather unsatisfying answers to some of life's most important questions. For example, I did not believe in the immortal soul. But I was also an animal rights activist and often was unsettled by the implications of this worldview taken to the extreme. I was a strict vegan, but I could never accept what many animal rights' activists argue, that speciesism—a blind prejudice for one's own species—was the only reason human life is inherently more valuable than animal life. I wrestled with this problem and others for years until I had a conversion experience while I was traveling in Costa Rica. I would have never imagined it as an atheist, but my experience of God in that moment eventually led me back to the Church and later into the convent.
How did your interest in the practice of Memento Mori start?
The founder of my religious order, Father James Alberione, kept a skull on his desk as a reminder of his inevitable death. When I learned that several years ago, I planned to get a skull for my desk. It was in the back of my mind for years. Last fall, I was going through some difficult times and felt God calling me to meditate on my death. Another sister kindly donated a ceramic skull from her Halloween supplies. I put it on my desk and it all began from there.
When you started tweeting a daily thought about Memento Mori inspired by the skull on your desk, what was the response within your community?
When I started meditating on death, I wanted to make sure that I would actually do it every day, so I decided to tweet about it. The first day I tweeted "Day 1 with a skull on my desk," a random thought, and the hashtag #mementomori. I thought I would do it for a couple weeks at most. But there was a huge response and a couple of weeks turned into over a year. Hundreds of people have sent me pictures of the skulls they have bought for their desks. Others have told me that this practice has changed their lives. Just the other day a man from Panama contacted me and told me that he had been struggling with a phobia of death and had been in a very difficult place. He stumbled across something I wrote about the Christian view of death and it really helped him to think about death in a completely different way.
I think people have responded so positively to what I am doing because this ancient tradition is powerful and really needed now. In today's world of fake news and the degradation of reason, we can so easily become detached from the value and the reality of our metaphysical existence. People are very easily led astray and make bad choices if they do not understand the value of their lives and the shortness of existence. Amid so much upheaval culturally and politically, remembrance of death is a practice that can help people to remain hopeful and rooted in the truth.
You are obviously most influenced by Scripture and Christianity, but have you read any of the Stoics? If so, do you see any parallels in how the Stoics talk about meditating on our mortality?
I am not surprised that Stoicism is experiencing a modern-day revival. The Stoic emphasis on living in accord with reason and virtue is very much lacking today. And I think everyone could benefit from embracing more Stoic realism rather than reasoning solely according to our passions. I think what Christianity adds to the Stoic worldview is a view of divine Fate or Fortune that is more personalized. Jesus showed us the face of God, a face of love. So, amidst our failings, sins, and inability to live perfect virtue, grace abounds. God's grace provides us with the ability to live even more virtuously than the Stoics perhaps thought possible, (as Augustine points out in City of God when he argues that the Stoics should extend compassion to those who live unvirtuously). Our virtue comes from grace, not self-discipline. However, sometimes Christians can lose sight of the fact that God also gives us free will to choose to behave virtuously. Personally, I find the Stoic emphasis on self-discipline and realism to be inspiring and helpful in my spiritual life. Everything good comes from God, even our good choices, but sometimes we need a healthy dose of realism in our spiritual lives to push us to make the choices we know we should be making in view of death and the afterlife.
The practice of thinking about death can often be misperceived as morbid or depressing. What is your response to those people?
If the chances that we were going to die were 50%, I'd say to the naysayers, "Sure, maybe it's worth the gamble not to think about death much." But the chances we are going to die are 100%. Why would one not make decisions in light of the end of one's life? People who decide whether or not to get married don't say, "Let's not think about it. Maybe we're compatible, maybe not. Let's just think about cuddly puppies and butterflies and everything will be fine." Death is a reality of human life. A reality that every single person is going to face, whether he or she is prepared or not. A reality that you or I might face tomorrow. Each person must choose his or her response to this reality. Am I going to ignore death and allow my repressed fears to seep out the seams of my life and move me to make bad choices? Or am I going to face death, accept it, meditate on it, and really try to understand what this reality means for my life? I believe that anyone who really wants to live a life worth living will do the latter.
How has integrating Memento Mori into your life impacted or changed the way you live?
My conversion to a belief in God's existence completely changed the course of my life. And memento mori has been like a conversion within a conversion. I feel like I was swimming through a haze and remembrance of death cut through the haze and sharpened everything around me. Now God is my goal, much more than before. I was a nun living in a convent, but God was not my goal. I cannot say God is entirely my goal even now, but memento mori reminds me continually to make God my goal. We all think we will live until old age, but death could come at any time. Holiness and growing in virtue has become much more urgent in view of the fact that my death is both inevitable and unpredictable.
You also created the Memento Mori Journal. Can you talk about your journaling habit, why you do it, and share some tips you might have for getting the most out of journaling?
The idea for both projects, Remember Your Death: Memento Mori Journal and Remember Your Death: Memento Mori Lenten Devotional, evolved out of my own journey of remembering my death. I wanted to do something that would help people to incorporate a powerful spiritual practice into their lives. I compiled the journal as a companion to the Lenten devotional. But it can also be used by itself. The journal contains an introduction to memento mori, quotes from Catholic saints, the early Church Fathers, and Scripture, and an appendix of prayers. The Lent devotional is meant to be read during the season of Lent, in the days leading up to Easter. Each day has a reflection written by me as well as a memento mori examen (or review of the day), daily writings on death from the Christian tradition, and journaling prompts.
I find the practice of journaling to be an important component of my prayer life and meditation on death. Journaling helps me to dig more deeply into what God is trying to say to me. In a sense, journaling helps me to articulate the inarticulable. I am hoping that the combination of a devotional with reflections and prompts and the journal will help people to really integrate the practice of regular remembrance of death and to understand death in the Christian context.
Can you recommend some of your favorite books, articles, or Scripture passages about Memento Mori?
My absolute favorite Scripture passage is "In whatever you do, remember your last days, and you will never sin" (Sirach 7:36). The Psalms have really striking reminders of mortality and encourage the importance of remembering death, especially 90:12 "Teach us to count our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart." The Book of Wisdom has some amazing memento mori content. I particularly recommend reading chapters 2 and 3. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus exhorts his followers to pick up their crosses daily, which I believe in a clear exhortation to remember death (9:23). I have more extensive reflections on many of these passages in my Lenten devotional. But those are just a few of my favorites.
Spiritual classics on the remembrance of death that I would recommend include Saint John Climacus' The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Thomas à Kempis' Imitation of Christ, and Saint Alphonsus Liguori's Preparation for Death. A more modern treatment of death that I recommend is Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Death and Afterlife: A Theological Introduction by Terence Nichols, and Love Is Stronger Than Death by Peter Kreeft. I also recommend Etty Hillesum's An Interrupted Life as well as the spiritual writings of Alfred Delp, SJ. Finally, my fiction recommendations include Muriel Spark's novel, Memento Mori as well as Flannery O'Connor's short story, A Good Man is Hard to Find.


If a child is born, keep a dog.
When a child is a baby. It'll be child's good keeper, I'll do.
When a child is childhood. It would be child's good playfellow.
When a child is boyhood. It would be child's good understanding person.
And when a child was a youth. Nobility of the life would be told to a child with its death.
>And when a child was a youth. Nobility of the life would be told to a child with its death.
So, you keep a dog, again.


A large specimen of Saurichthys (Costasaurichthys) costasquamosus from the lower Ladinian of the Northern Grigna mountain is described. It is an incomplete specimen, lacking the caudal region, and showing gut content. This latter consists of totally scattered remains of at least two specimens of adult Ctenognathichthys bellottii, a medium size fish quite common in this fossil assemblage. Saurichthys has been always considered an active predator on small fishes, but it cannot be the case for this specimen, with remains in the gut are totally disarticulated and evenly scattered all along the abdomen. Scavenging on floating carcasses is proposed, the hypothesis being also supported by the common preservation of Ctenognathichthys as incomplete individuals. Although the Saurichthys specimen shows some 'in situ' disarticulation, caudal region elements are totally missing on the slab yielding the anterior part of the fish. As for other large Saurichthys specimens from the same site, it is supposed that this is the result of a predation by a much larger marine organism, possibly an ichthyosaur.
Predation; Preys; Scavenging; Saurichthys; Middle Triassic; Lombardy; Taphonomy.


Age of Atlas describe themselves as a mathy hard rock band somewhere in between Coheed & Cambria, Tides of Man, Corelia, Deftones, Kings X, Hum, Soundgarden, and your dad's mum's dad's mum's dad. If that is anything to go on, this debut EP will be loud, very loud but also quite melodic.
The EP opens with The Scale Of Things To Come, which is definitely loud but also holds a sort of progressive undertone and a lot of drive. Production-wise there are some remarks to make but lets just put that aside since this is a self-released debut EP. Once the song gets going the vocals gain a little power and while the timing isn't always impeccable instrumentally, there's a strong dynamic between vocals and instrumentals and it shows that the initial expectation of loud and melodic wasn't far off. There really is a song beneath the layers because if you strip it down, what you're left with has a couple of good hooks and could easily be reworked in different arrangements. It shows promising songwriting and versatility.
New Raise has a typical (hard) rock feel to it. Whereas the timing was off occasionally on the opening track, it is dead on here. The shifts in volume due to the lack of production actually works to the song's advantage as it creates extra depth. Due to the balanced arrangement of the song, the vocals are clearly present and mesh well with the attitude of the song. I would imagine this song is a live favorite among the fans this band has and will gain.
The rest of the EP follows much in the vain of the first two tracks. On Calcifer the keys actually play an interesting role and provide for a refreshing balance to the heavy guitar work while Wilkins has a cool rhythmic arrangement and fast-paced energy to it.
Closer Impersonating a Dead Acrobat is the proverbial 'best for last'. The track is pure rock bliss. The passionate vocals and the pulsing guitars fuel the song which sorts even more effect due to the calm breathers it features througout the song. The scales halfway through the song are a smart insertion into the arrangement als they bridge the fast-paced first half with the subdued bridge that leads back to the power in the final moments of the song.
"The Scale of Things to Come" is a very promising first statement by Age of Atlas. I don't really hear the bands they compared themselves with maybe with the exception of a touch of C&C and Hum but I would consider that a good thing. The band is zeroing in on a sound of their own that sounds relevant and recognizable. With a bit more experience under their belts and proper production tools, their next record could very well be an instant hit among (hard) rock fans and fans of edgy alternative music with a melodic nature.


Cool Boarders 3 is a snowboarding video game developed by Idol Minds for the PlayStation. Continuing with the previous games in the series, Cool Boarders 3 gives the player the chance to snowboard down mountain courses while completing tricks to amass points. Some courses like Downhill, Boarder X, and Slalom, require the player to concentrate more on beating their CPU opponents' times to the finish line. While others, namely Slope Style, Half Pipe, and Big Air, force the player to pull off many big tricks in order to build up a large point score.


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Ari Goldkind
What is Toronto worth to you?
Toronto doesn't need a debate. Toronto needs a trial.
Dying with dignity is a leadership issue whose time has come
A Living Wage for Toronto
Toronto Needs Green Action
Using the Vehicle Registration Fee for Good
Taming the Police Budget
Saint Olivia
An Intelligent City with a Prosperous Future (to the Tune of Billions)
City Hall: Lord of the Flies
Is Ari Qualified to be Mayor?
A Great City needs a Great Leader
For crying out loud, let's just get s**t done!
Why Ari
Truth in Politics
Vision Toronto 2020
The "Lawyer" Thing
News/Media Coverage
Press Release – Goldkind Donors
Ari Goldkind Proudly Releases his Donor List: names and amounts
TORONTO – OCTOBER 26, 2014
Toronto mayoral candidate Ari Goldkind released his campaign donor list today, which included both names and amounts given. 154 people donated online to the campaign, for a total of $17,631, and $2,500 was received via cheques. To this Goldkind contributed $40,000 of his own savings, for a campaign total of $60,131.
"I am immensely proud of this small amount," Goldkind says, "and with what I and my team were able to achieve with it." He points out that in the space of eight months he was able to move from unknown to longshot to fourth place candidate. He participated in debates, and gained increased respect amongst the press, and with voters. This, he feels was due entirely to a combination of a genuine personality and a realistic policy, something that he found truly resonated with people in all parts of the city.
"Most significantly, we have been able to show Toronto just what can be done when vision, intelligence and honesty are applied," he says. "We have been able to create viable plans for transit, housing, accessibility, congestion, people of all ages, the environment, and even pets. Not just ideas, but actual plans with real numbers and timelines – plans that have impressed a great many people through their detail and practicality." Goldkind points out that over the eight-month period he has repeatedly heard people express that he had the best policy, vision and plan, and that many were surprised to see so many positive ideas come from an individual with no political name recognition.
"This is what we were able to do on a shoestring budget," Goldkind states, "while the other, better financed candidates spent their time creating plans they couldn't explain, and shouting each other down at every opportunity."
He adds that fundraising was never high on his agenda. "We did not make a push for money, as I was never comfortable asking for it. We held one fundraiser, asked online a few times, and placed a "donate" button on our website, but we wanted to see where I could go on honesty, determination, and speaking the truth to Torontonians, even as a political outsider.
"I believe I have shown that the future of Toronto can be conceived and executed in a truly fiscally responsible manner," he says, "and that is what a 21st century city needs in its leader."
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An ex-Ohio sheriff's deputy who fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. has been charged with murder
Kelly McLaughlin
December 2, 2021, 11:55 AM ·2 min read
Sheronda Byrd-Givens holds a child while listening to different speakers during Casey Goodson Jr.s birthday Rally.Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Jason Meade has been charged in the fatal shooting of Casey Goodson Jr., WBNS reported.
The Former Franklin County sheriff's deputy was charged with murder and reckless homicide.
Meade shot Goodson on December 4, 2020 as the 23-year-old walked into his grandmother's home.
A former sheriff's deputy in Ohio has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Casey Goodson, Jr.
Former Franklin County Sheriff's deputy Jason Meade was charged with two counts of murder and one count of reckless homicide on Thursday, according to Franklin County Court records seen by WBNS.
Meade fatally shot Goodson on December 4, 2020, as the 23-year-old walked in the front door of his grandmother's house in Columbus, Ohio.
An indictment seen by WBNS accuses Meade of "purposely" causing Goodson's death.
The Franklin County Coroner's Office determined in March that Goodson's death was a homicide and that he had been shot five times in the back.
According to the Columbus Police Department, Meade was assigned to a US Marshals Service fugitive task force and was searching for suspects when he saw Goodson.
"During an operation in the Northland area of Columbus, the deputy reported witnessing a man with a gun," the Columbus Police Department said in a statement. "The deputy was investigating the situation, and there are reports of a verbal exchange. The deputy fired at Mr. Casey Goodson, resulting in his death."
But Goodson's family said at the time that Goodson was holding Subway sandwiches he bought for himself and his family. According to the police statement, a gun was also recovered from the scene, and Goodson's family lawyers say Goodson had a license to carry a concealed weapon.
Meade turned himself in to law enforcement on Thursday morning, WCMH reported.
His attorney, Mark Rollins, told WCMH that Meade plans to plead not guilty at an arraignment on Friday.
Meade retired from the Franklin County Sheriff's Office in July, after being granted disability.
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DAVE GROHL Pens Letter In Support Of British Teen Metal Act
According to The Pulse Of Radio, FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl has written a letter to the city council of Cornwall, England on behalf of a local teen metal band that's been prohibited from practicing in their parents' garage due to a noise ordinance. The band, BLACK LEAVES OF ENVY, has been unable to practice ...
Video: AMON AMARTH Performs With New Drummer JOCKE WALLGREN In Paris
Swedish death metallers AMON AMARTH played their second show with the band's new touring drummer, Jocke Wallgren (OCTOBER TIDE, VALKYRJA), last night (Wednesday, March 23) at Divan du Monde in Paris, France. Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below. Wallgren made his live debut with AMON AMARTH on Tuesday, March 22 at ...
Rumors Persist That AXL ROSE Will Sing For AC/DC
According to The Pulse Of Radio, a rumor that started earlier this week, suggesting that GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose will perform as a guest vocalist with AC/DC, has gained traction after Atlanta Rock 100.5 host Jason Bailey claimed that a "very, very good source" confirmed to him that the collaboration was happening. The ...
OZZY OSBOURNE And Son Visit Colonial Williamsburg For HISTORY Channel Show
According to Richmond.com, Ozzy Osbourne and his son Jack Osbourne traveled to Colonial Williamsburg — a living-history museum and private foundation presenting part of a historic district in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia — this past weekend, reportedly to film a new show produced by the History channel. They visited the colonial area's ...
DEFTONES Guitarist STEPHEN CARPENTER Says He Is Happy With 'Gore'
DEFTONES singer Chino Moreno has once again dismissed rumors that Stephen Carpenter might leave the band, after the guitarist made comments in which he expressed being unhappy with the direction of the group's new album, "Gore". Now speaking with U.K.'s Kerrang! magazine, Moreno said about Carpenter's remarks: "People are saying, 'Are you mad ...
SLIPKNOT Frontman COREY TAYLOR Schedules Solo Shows
SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor has scheduled the following solo shows: April 21 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue April 24 - Clearwater, FL - Capitol Theatre Taylor said in a recent interview that it would be "super greedy" of him to launch a solo career — at least for now. Speaking with ...
KORN's Next Album Will 'End Up A Heavier Record,' Says BRIAN 'HEAD' WELCH
KORN is continuing work on its twelfth studio album, due out later this year. The band's guitarist Brian "Head" Welch spoke to Billboard.com about the direction of the new disc. "Me and James ['Munky' Shaffer, other KORN guitarist] wanted to go heavier on the record, because we're the guitar players and KORN was ...
QUEENSRŸCHE's Songwriting Process Is 'A Democracy' Following Split With GEOFF TATE
QUEENSRŸCHE hired Todd La Torre to replace Geoff Tate in 2012 and has released two albums with the ex-CRIMSON GLORY frontman: 2013's "Queensrÿche" and 2015's "Condition Hüman". QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Michael Wilton recently told Kitsap Sun that the band's songwriting approach is more collaborative after parting ways with Tate and adding La Torre. "It's ...
POISON's BRET MICHAELS Sells 'Spare House' For $3.4 Million
According to the Los Angeles Times, POISON singer Bret Michaels sold the "spare house" he owned in a gated Calabasas, California community for $3,432,500. The rocker bought the one-third-acre property two years ago for $3.05 million and listed it last year after he purchased a home in Westlake Village. Built in 2006, the ...
SLAYER's PAUL BOSTAPH: 'It's Not Easy To Try And Emulate' What DAVE LOMBARDO Does
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Carol joined Surrey Constabulary in 1984 and enjoyed a variety of roles before retiring in 2009 whilst working in the Diversity Directorate. For nine years Carol was a Police Federation representative and led on Equalities matters for the JBB. She was a founder member of Surrey's Women's Network. In 2002 Carol received the IAWP mentoring Award travelling to Canberra, Australia to receive the award.
After a break of 6 months Carol returned to Surrey Police as a staff member working as an Equalities and Human Rights Advisor before becoming the Tasking Co-ordinator for the newly formed Diversity Crimes Unit in 2011, a team that focussed on Honour Based Abuse, FGM and serial Hate Crime.
In October 2012 Carol and her partner relocated to the Purbeck hills in Dorset; and since December 2013 has been working for Dorset Police.
Currently she is a Decision Maker in the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) unit there.
widen her experience and knowledge of policing globally.
She lives with her partner and Darcy, a Dingo look alike delightful mongrel, and enjoys their allotment, the countryside and spending time with family and friends.


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on saturday, we made our annual(ish) trek to patterson farms for some fun pumpkin-y, autumn-y, outdoors-y activities. i posted about 100 picture in picasa. here's five. click on any to be taken away to my picasa site… patterson farms and if you're interested, last year's pics are here. and our first trip is here.


I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.
And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.
So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.
I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
He lives with his creativity in high gear.
It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.
There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.


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Q: wxpython creating toolbox I am writing a PAINT like application using python.I am new to python, am using wxpython for GUI. I have to create a toolbox for the (lines, circle etc etc  options).Using the toolbar creation example from python wiki. But cannot understand how the addsimpletool works
import wx
class MyToolBar(wx.Frame):
    def init(self, parent, id, title):
     wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, id, title, wx.DefaultPosition, wx.Size(350, 250))
     vbox = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
     toolbar = wx.ToolBar(self, -1, style=wx.TB_VERTICAL | wx.NO_BORDER)

             toolbar.AddSimpleTool(1,wx.Image('stock_new.png',wx.BITMAP_TYPE_PNG).ConvertToBitmap(),   'New', '')

   class MyApp(wx.App):
      def OnInit(self):
         frame = MyToolBar(None, -1, '')
         frame.Show(True)
         return True

   app = MyApp(0)
   app.MainLoop()

Di I have to create the images in .png format. Is there any other way to do this? I hope someone can tell me how it works or point me to any documentation for it

A: I wrote a utility function to add items to my toolbars.
def tool_item(window, toolbar, label, func, icon):
    icon = wx.Bitmap('icons/%s' % icon)
    item = toolbar.AddSimpleTool(-1, icon, label)
    if func:
        window.Bind(wx.EVT_TOOL, func, id=item.GetId())
    return item

...

def create_toolbar(self):
    # create toolbar
    toolbar = wx.ToolBar(self, -1, style=wx.HORIZONTAL|wx.TB_FLAT|wx.TB_NODIVIDER)
    toolbar.SetToolBitmapSize((18,18)) # looks better with 16x16 icons

    # add items to toolbar
    tool_item(self, toolbar, 'New Project', self.on_new_project, 'page.png')
    tool_item(self, toolbar, 'Open Project', self.on_open_project, 'folder_page.png')
    toolbar.AddSeparator()
    # (etc...)

    # finish up
    toolbar.Realize()
    toolbar.Fit()
    return toolbar

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In first lets be clear with these concepts. Prejudice is an opinion or attitude about a group of people that is based upon lack of understanding or incorrect information. Discrimination is when a person is treated unfairly because of their personal characteristic such as race , religion or special education need.
Everyone who is working in school must be aware of ways that children and young people can experience prejudice and discrimination.
Unfortunately these day everyone can suffer prejudice or discrimination based on any reason, for example skin colour, hair colour, religion, social background, culture, sexual orientation,gender, race, disability, accent or just how she/he looks like.
Prejudice and labelling often lead to discrimination. Discrimination happens when children or young people do not recieve equality of opportunity. For example in school boys can be labelled as 'naughty', and girls 'chatty', older children in high school 'cube'. More and more times student from abroad can suffer discrimination because of their religion and sometimes just because their accent. My personal experience is feeling discrimination because of my accent.
Staff need to be aware of ways that children and young people experience discrimination. It is not easy to spot but our responsibility to help children to understand differences between people.


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Rumble Fighter: Unleashed
Rumble Fighter: Unleashed is a Free to Play, MMO Fighting, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by NIMONIX and published by RedFox Games. According to the story, the dark force of demons attack the human world and try to destroy them all… read more
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#1 Move or Die
Move or Die is a Fast-paced, Online, and Four-player Local Party video game developed and published by Those Awesome Guys. It includes different modes such as Rocket Run, Chainsaw Backstab, Jump Shot, etc. and introduces a constantly changing mechanics.
Select your character and dive into the world, fight against other players from around the globe or prevent to practice against AI characters. Play against fellows and gain XP points by defeating them and leveling-up to unlock characters, modes and try to accomplish daily challenges to rank your avatar up on leader-boards in easy to learn but hard to master gameplay.
Move or Die offers prominent features such as four-player online/offline Multiplayer Game Modes, Fast-paced Fun, Level-up System, Daily Missions and Challenges, Upgrades, and more.
With stunning visual details, engaging gameplay, beautiful sounds, and brilliant mechanics, Move or Die is the best game for those who are looking for similar games to Gang Beasts.
#2 TowerFall Ascension
TowerFall Ascension combines the elements of Local Co-op, Action-Adventure, Single and Multiplayer Fighting video game created by Matt Thorson and published by Matt Makes Games. The game revolves around the archery combat arena.
The game takes the player in an epic battle to fight against other players. The primary task of players revolves around eliminating each other using arrows, head stomps, etc. until one player remains. In Multiplayer mode, over four players can fight against each other in a battle royal with arrows.
Collect power-ups during the battle to obtain wings, shield, and superpowers. It has four different modes, such as Single-player, Score Attack, Trails, and a Quest mode.
In Single-player mode, the player must hit targets before time runs out, and in Trails mode, the player needs to use power-ups to destroy all targets in several seconds. In Quest mode, one or two players have to survive against hordes of foes.
TowerFall Ascension offers prominent features such as new modes, Fifty versus Arenas, Twenty Unique Maps, Four new Playable Characters, Customize the matches, and more.
#3 STARWHAL
STARWHAL is an Arcade, Action, Fighting, Co-op, Single and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Breakfall. The game focuses on brawler gameplay that supports one to four players, taking place in the retro-style world inspired by old classic retro games.
The game provides the player with competitive, creative, and instant fun gameplay as compared to the other games of such type. It has various modes, and each offers more exciting and enjoyable gameplay.
STARWHAL offers prominent features such as more than 32 single-player levels, deadly obstacles, target challenges, ghost replays, unlockable achievements, radical graphics effects, and more. The game offers superb game controls and setting, enjoyable gameplay, excellent soundtrack, and brilliant visual details.
#4 Dust: An Elysian Tail
Dust: An Elysian Tail is an Action-Adventure, Beat-em-up, and Single-player video game developed by Humble Hearts and published by Microsoft Studios. The game takes place in the fictional world of Falana, where the player takes on the role of a protagonist named Dust.
According to the storyline, the player embarks on an epic journey to discover his past. The player explores the environment from left to right to collect power-ups, interact with objects, and use weapons to kill deadly creatures. It has a variety of levels, and each allows the player to confront a massive force of enemies.
The player aims to eliminate enemies to earn points and advance the story. After the completion of assigned levels, the player gets able to unlock additional content using the points he made. The experience points allow the player to boost up the abilities of his selected character and equip him with advanced weapons.
Different kinds of enemies, unique worlds, power-ups, magical spells, and side-quests are prominent features of the game. Dust: An Elysian Tail provides excellent visual detail, great mechanics, and a well-written storyline.
#5 Hidden in Plain Sight
Hidden in Plain Sight is a Local Multiplayer Action video game developed and published by Adam Spragg. The game focuses on those who love to play multiplayer games along with friends.
The game offers a multiplayer mode that supports 2 to 4 players, who can play simultaneously. Other game modes are also available, and each lets the player control multiple characters from the identical NPCs. Each player has a task to eliminate the opponent player to progress through the game.
The most exciting mode of the game is Death Race mode, in which the players and NPCs will race against each other to reach the finish line first. Each player has unique weapons which they can use to eliminate opponent characters before losing all of his lives. Hidden in Plain Sight features quite impressive gameplay, storyline, and beautiful visual details.
#6 Shank
Shank is an Action-Adventure, Beat 'em-up, Hack and Slash, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. The game features melee and ranged combat to engage the player deep into the fighting gameplay experience.
It is a side-scrolling battle game that comes with a twist of a comic book art style. In this game, the player can assume the role of a protagonist named Shank, an ex-mob hitman who starts his adventure against enemies to take the revenge of his girlfriend murder.
The gameplay consists of many levels, and at each level, the player aims to move left to the right and defeat all the enemy creatures using three different kinds of weapons. At the end of each level, the player faces a powerful enemy boss. The player must defeat the boss to progress through further levels.
Shank supports multiplayer mode, in which both players play cooperatively against enemy forces. The game includes core features such as collect items, power-ups, unlock new weapons and upgrades, etc. With immersive and quite addictive gameplay, well-written storyline, and beautiful visual details. Shank is an enjoyable game to play and enjoy.
#7 Party Panic
Party Panic is an Action, Casual, Single-, and Online Multiplayer video game by Everglow Interactive Inc. It is a crazy game that allows the player to compete against his friends in more than 30 rapid-fire mini-games, including board games.
While playing the game, the player can race through the brutal Gauntlet or can attempt to complete the trophy challenges on Trophy Island. Gang Beast inspires the Party Panic video game, and it introduces lots of new mini-games and gameplay that make it better than others.
Each mini-game has a set of challenges to complete by defeating his friends. Party Panic offers core features such as level system, customization, achievements, board game, multiple modes, original soundtrack, smooth controls, and excellent visual details.
More About Rumble Fighter: Unleashed
Rumble Fighter: Unleashed is a Free to Play, MMO Fighting, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by NIMONIX and published by RedFox Games. According to the story, the dark force of demons attack the human world and try to destroy them all.
The world needs a hero who can save it from being smashed. It chooses the player and sets out him on an epic adventure to confront vicious demons and slay them before it's too late. It offers the perfect mix of fast-paced fighting and beat-em-up game elements, which guaranteed the action-packed gameplay.
It has various characters, and each has a set of unique attacks, abilities, and fighting style. The game offers multiplayer versus and cooperative modes, which makes the game tough to play. Rumble Fighter: Unleashed includes core features such as different game maps, fast-paced action, lots of upgrades, unlockable achievements and various modes, etc.
3D Beat em' Up Combat Multiplayer Side-Scrolling Skill


VANDERBILT: All five starters who guided the Commodores to a 10-6 conference record last year and an SEC Tournament title (beating 30-1 Kentucky), including the conference's leading scorer John Jenkins, are gone. Now head coach Kevin Stallings will have to rely on G Kedren Johnson (3.1 PPG in 14.5 MPG) and under-the-radar freshmen swingmen Sheldon Jeter, Kevin Bright and A.J. Astroth. The latter two have the potential to become effective scorers, but they will need time, as will this entire team of unproven talent.
LSU: The Tigers were the conference's surprise last year after adding seven games to their win total from the previous season, but they will start from scratch this season with head coach Johnny Jones. He gets back three starters from last year's squad, including 5-foot-9 guard Andre Stringer (10.1 PPG, 2.7 APG) who must improve on his 34.9% FG in order to become this team's true leader. The player who might need to step up most is 6-foot-9 sophomore forward Johnny O'Bryant III (8.5 PPG, 6.7 RPG), who displayed great potential in his first go around, but experienced the same struggle with efficiency as Stringer, making just 39.9% of his field goals. Well-rounded Anthony Hickey (8.9 PPG, 3.6 RPG, 3.8 APG) rejoins Stringer in the backcourt, but he couldn't make a basket from anywhere on the floor (38.4% FG, 31.4% threes) including a dreadful 55.3% on his free throws.


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David Greising: Democratic Spending on GOP Primaries Has Come to Illinois
by David Greising June 23, 2022 November 10, 2022
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Greising: Lightfoot's Fiery Rhetoric Isn't a Strategy for Dealing With Chicago's Surge in Crime
In the 2022 primary on Tuesday, three contests will serve up intriguing insights on the state of democracy in the Prairie State. Two provide fresh twists on the ever-present topic of money in politics, and a third will give us the latest litmus test for former President Donald Trump's ability to influence elections.
To an unusual degree, Democrats nationally this year are taking the risky step of spending money in Republican primary races trying to push Republicans they think they can beat in the fall. It's also happening in Illinois.
And it's taking place in the most high-profile race, the so-called battle of the billionaires between two of the state's wealthiest people. Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Citadel founder Ken Griffin, a Republican, are squaring off over control of the Governor's Mansion.
Pritzker is injecting himself directly into the Republican primary, apparently in an effort to thwart the chances of Griffin's candidate, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, to take him on in November. Together with the Democratic Governors Association, they're reportedly spending upward of $30 million on the Republican primary in hopes that conservative state Sen. Darren Bailey will be Pritzker's opponent in November.
Read more at the chicagotribune.com.
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David Greising is the president and chief executive of the Better Government Association, joining the BGA in 2018. For nearly a century, the BGA has fought for honest and effective government through investigative... More by David Greising
by David Greising, Illinois Answers Project

David Greising: Democratic Spending on GOP Primaries Has Come to Illinois

by David Greising, Illinois Answers Project
June 23, 2022

More from Newsroom:

  From Our President

Greising: Lightfoot's Fiery Rhetoric Isn't a Strategy for Dealing With Chicago's Surge in Crime

 June 10, 2022

In the 2022 primary on Tuesday, three contests will serve up intriguing insights on the state of democracy in the Prairie State. Two provide fresh twists on the ever-present topic of money in politics, and a third will give us the latest litmus test for former President Donald Trump's ability to influence elections.

To an unusual degree, Democrats nationally this year are taking the risky step of spending money in Republican primary races trying to push Republicans they think they can beat in the fall. It's also happening in Illinois.

And it's taking place in the most high-profile race, the so-called battle of the billionaires between two of the state's wealthiest people. Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Citadel founder Ken Griffin, a Republican, are squaring off over control of the Governor's Mansion.

Pritzker is injecting himself directly into the Republican primary, apparently in an effort to thwart the chances of Griffin's candidate, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, to take him on in November. Together with the Democratic Governors Association, they're reportedly spending upward of $30 million on the Republican primary in hopes that conservative state Sen. Darren Bailey will be Pritzker's opponent in November.

Read more at the chicagotribune.com.

This article first appeared on Illinois Answers Project and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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Category: Arts and Crafts
Alxala January 23, 2023 - 9:30 pm January 25, 2023 Arts and Crafts, Gaming Art, Artwork, Blocks, Garry's Mod, garrysmod, GMod, Koopa Troopa, Pixel Art, Super Mario Bros. 0
It's been awhile since I've been doing some GMod block art. Here's a picture of what I've made for tonight:
That's another piece of art added to my collection. 🙂
Alxala November 16, 2022 - 9:12 pm November 17, 2022 Arts and Crafts Adobe Illustrator CS6, Art, Artwork, Combine, Garry's Mod, garrysmod, GMod, Half-Life 2, HL2, Image Tracing, Valve 0
I decided to do some more Adobe Illustrator to turn a GMod screenshot into an image-traced piece of art:
Why is that? Because I was bored. 😛
Current GMod Pixel Art: It's Goomba Time!
Alxala November 10, 2022 - 9:11 pm November 11, 2022 Arts and Crafts, Gaming Art, Artwork, Blocks, Garry's Mod, garrysmod, GMod, Goomba, Pixel Art, Super Mario Bros., Valve 0
I decided to work on my latest pixel art project in GMod. Here it is:
It will be added to my collection of pixel art shortly starting tomorrow.
Current Illustrator Mood: Chillaxin' in Boardwalk Arcade
Alxala November 3, 2022 - 8:59 pm November 5, 2022 Arts and Crafts, Gaming Anna, Art, Artwork, Garry's Mod, garrysmod, GMod, Image Tracing, Valve 0
I snap'd my latest screenshot in GMod this evening, and then I image-traced and modified with Adobe Illustrator:
Ahhhhh… nothing like a simply good vacation in Boardwalk Arcade. 😛
Here's something I made for All Hallows' Eve
Alxala October 31, 2022 - 12:00 am November 1, 2022 Arts and Crafts, Gaming Adobe Illustrator CS6, Garry's Mod, garrysmod, GMod, Halloween, Image Tracing, Jack-O'-Lantern, Pumpkins, Scary, Valve 0
Current Illustrator Mood: Namco High School Invasion
Alxala October 23, 2022 - 9:25 pm October 26, 2022 Arts and Crafts, Gaming Adobe Illustrator CS6, Art, Artwork, Dig Dug, Galaga, Galaxian, Garry's Mod, garrysmod, GMod, Image Tracing, Namco, Pac-Man, Toy Pop, Valve 0
There's nothing I can say for tonight, so here's my latest GMod screenshot which was image-traced from Adobe Illustrator:
Some More GMod Pixel Art Shenanigans
Alxala October 20, 2022 - 9:10 pm October 21, 2022 Arts and Crafts, Gaming Art, Artwork, Blocks, Garry's Mod, garrysmod, GMod, Pac-Man, Pac-o'-Lantern, Pixel Art 0
I was bored so I decided to create pixel art of Pac-Man in GMod for tonight:
I also made a Halloween-themed version of that character known as Pac-o'-Lantern:
I wonder what I'm going to make for my next pixel art project…
Have My Piece of GMod Pixel Block Art
Alxala October 10, 2022 - 9:00 pm October 11, 2022 Arts and Crafts, Gaming Garry's Mod, garrysmod, GMod, Pixel Art, Valve 0
It's supposed to be a rocket ship made of building blocks. Let's rocket and roll! 😛
Adobe Illustrator Artwork Roundup
Alxala June 29, 2022 - 9:44 pm June 30, 2022 Arts and Crafts Adobe Illustrator CS6, Art, Artwork, Drawing, Image Tracing, Jenny Wakeman (XJ-9) 0
Last night I was bored so I worked on my new artwork in Adobe Illustrator. Here it is:
The whole story behind this picture is my version of Jenny met up with two floating characters named Hyperstar (on the left) and Mr. Bubbles (on the right), and then became best fwendz with them. 😛
Here's something I made for Dad
Alxala June 19, 2022 - 8:43 pm June 20, 2022 Arts and Crafts Art, Artwork, Ellis, Father's Day, Krita, L4D2, Left 4 Dead 2, Scout, SFM, Source FilmMaker, Team Fortress 2, TF2 0


All went very fast with Stephania and Guy. It was mid-October when I first spoke with them, and after only 20 days I was crossing the ocean to reach them and tell their Story. I was immediately introduced and hosted in their world, an essential world, just made up by the most important people and the most important things in their life. I dived in this new reality and once again I learned something from this experience. I discovered there are so many ways to love and share this joy and happiness with others. Just follow your heart, this is always the most important thing.


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Modernizing flattop buildings Los Angeles: the city's new alternatives will make room for architectural innovation
architecture / design / technology
For those who haven't noticed, the Los Angeles skyline consists of all flattop buildings. And it's not just because they were totally boring in designing these towers; a fire code was instated in 1974 that said each building had to allow for helicopter landing space (and if you've been to Los Angeles you'd know helicopters were a more frequent thing than not throughout the day), meaning there wasn't as much room for modernization of the cityscape. But now firefighters are examining new options inspired by what Deputy Fire Chief Mark Stormes calls a, "bunch of bright people with good ideas in the field of design and structural engineering […] [that will hopefully] do away with the perception that we aren't willing to listen."
Of course, safety measures will have to be considered primarily when exploring the alternatives; it's likely there will have to be a compromise between the Los Angeles Fire Department and city officials, who did react to their proposition quite positively, though nothing has been stated official. Councilmember Jose Huizar said, "[p]erhaps the process of adopting a new fire code presents an opportunity for the LAFD to modernize its approach to construction and consider amending policies to provide alternatives to the helipad/heliport policy[.]"
The Fire Department does have a pretty favorable case: building high rises is an efficient use of resources, going along with a more broad paradigm shift in skyscraper construction and renovation. For example: in New York they've been improving the use of stairs for emergency evacuations such as the tragedies on 9/11, improving the overall evacuation time and making better use of design space.
I like that it's been brought to the attention of the city to make room for experimentation in Los Angeles' skyline and overall identity, because skyline's flatness says nothing about the uniqueness scattered throughout the entire region. Which has me wondering: will we see more eclectic skyscrapers popping up in the near future resembling qualities of cities such as Dubai and San Francisco? Because if the city agrees on a compromise, it certainly seems favorable!
(via Matt Novak via Architects Newspaper)
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Kaitlin Duffy is a writer from Cleveland. When she's not blogging or pondering the great complexities of the world and outer space, she is finding rare vinyl steals, visiting new places, laughing often, Instagramming everything in sight, watching movies, or working on her first feature Port de Cleve.


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Q: Exclude Real models from swagger model list I have some issue that I want to solve.
I'm using AppService exactly as described in documentation.
[AbpAuthorize(PermissionNames.Pages_Companies)]
public class CompanyAppService : CrudAppService<Company, CompanyDto>
{
    public CompanyAppService(IRepository<Company, int> repository) : base(repository)
    {
    }
}

My issue is that Swagger exposes the real model "Company" and the other models in the model list that is unwanted behavior. I have to hide the real models.
Have a look at screen, all these models from domains layer, and all of them contains appropriate DTO. As I can see swagger doesn't exposes the real  Models of Abp itself. Please help to hide my models.

A: I found the issue. I have exposed the real model inside DTO instead of expose their DTOs in navigation property. This way swagger had to expose my models because they were in use. I've changed my DTOs to use appropriate DTO instead of model inside DTOs. (Sorry for the tautology). Now swagger  hides my real models from the model list because they're no longer in use. Problem solved. Hope it helps some one else.


The alpine barns of the Carnic Alps are important protagonists in the mountain landscape of Friuli Venezia Giulia, ancient shepherds houses in which milk is still today turned into dairy products such as cheese, fresh and smoked ricotta, butter, yogurt, cheese dishes and caciotta cheese.
One of the closest to the Goccia di Carnia plant is the FLEONS DI SOTTO malga (1571 m altitude) that is located in the beautiful Fleons Close area, the ravine from which the stream Degano flows.
To reach it you must pass Pierabech, the small town of Forni Avoltri where you will find our factory and proceed up to the quarry: here you leave the car and continue on foot, you will arrive at the Goccia di Carnia spring and then you must walk up to the malga and pastures.


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Showmen show off versatility
MANSFIELD – Brianna Gwirtz is a pro at showing goats.
Chickens and rabbits are another matter.
"They freak me out the most," said the freshman-to-be at The Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute. "When I was younger, I got attacked by a rooster, and I've just never liked rabbits."
Gwirtz was one of seven competitors in the Showman of Showmen contest at the Richland County Fair on Friday. Each entrant was the best in show in his or her specialty — beef, goats, horses, poultry, rabbits, sheep and swine.
A nice crowd turned out for the event. The Farm Bureau provided the trophy, while Fackler Farms, Farm Credit Mid-America and the Louise Ball family provided prizes.
The key to Friday's competition was versatility. The contestants had to show animals from each of the seven species. They had never seen the animals before.
"It's a fun learning experience," Taylor Elliot said. "I don't really get to come down to this side of the barn and meet new people."
Elliot, an Ontario graduate, will be a sophomore at Urbana University. Her specialty is cattle.
Gwirtz prefers her goats.
"They have great personalities," she said. "Goats are smaller. You can love on them a little bit."
A seventh-grader at Madison Junior High, Cook was the youngest competitor in the event. He also was the only boy after finishing best in show with swine.
"They're all different sizes" Cook said of the species. "You have to be more careful."
Size was a concern for Bethany Sherer, a sophomore at Shelby High School. Her specialty is rabbits.
"I'm a little bit worried about the beef," Sherer said. "Horses, I can handle, but steers kind of scare me."
Kristen Wasilewski was best in show with sheep. She will be a freshman at Ohio State.
A Shelby graduate, Wasilewski said the Showman of Showmen competition was a bit of a relief.
"Normally, I get nervous for my shows, but this is fun," she said. "It's a good way to end my last fair."
Kayla Pahl, a senior at Lexington, looked the part of cowgirl, complete with her black hat. She said there aren't many girls at her school who are interested in 4-H activities.
"We don't even have FFA," Pahl said.
Pahl shows horses, but she is comfortable with other animals.
"When I went to practice with them, it wasn't as bad as I thought," she said.
Pahl could find a kindred spirit in Julie Brown, another Lexington girl, who is home-schooled. She will be a senior. Brown shows poultry.
"What's important is practice," she said. "Practice makes perfect, as they say."
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Our breakfasts are designed to be very flexible so you can have breakfast or not as you please and pay the venue on the day. Please email Lizzie Uzzell on luzzell@jamescowper.co.uk or call her on 0118 9551057 if you would like to attend any of these events.
With International Women's Day on 8 March we thought it would be good to mark the occasion by raising a glass – or two! With that in mind please pop along and join us from 6 at The Wine Cafe on Jericho.
TechTonic, a network aimed at empowering, supporting and celebrating Oxfordshire's women in the technology sector, has asked four successful women from Quantum Computing, Autonomous Vehicles, Space and Digital Health sectors to share their entrepreneurial stories and the top three solutions for succeeding in business. Join us and them for a breakfast session at the Venturefest Oxford event on the 12th of September to get inspired, learn from one another, and to network with other inspirational women in Oxfordshire.
Kirsty Lloyd-Jukes is an experienced automotive entrepreneur.
A graduate of New College Oxford, where she read Classics, Kirsty spent her early career at leading strategy consultancy Oliver Wyman. She then joined the UK's Automobile Association as Director of Ventures to lead the strategy post IPO. Whilst there she launched several successful start-ups in the future mobility ecosystem, including the AA's multi award-winning Connected Car product Car Genie, and lobbied for road safety improvements through the AA's Charitable Trust. This work convinced her of the positive societal benefits autonomous cars could bring to UK roads: Latent Logic brought the opportunity to help make that a reality.
Latent Logic is a spin-out from the Computer Sciences department at Oxford, founded by Professor Whiteson. Its mission is to use state-of-the-art deep learning to develop autonomous systems which can imitate complex human behaviours. The immediate focus for this powerful technology is on developing virtual reality environments to test autonomous car safety: the "Driving Test" for driverless cars.
Ilana has both an academic and commercial start-up background. She gained a PhD in quantum physics from Royal Holloway, University of London, spending most of her PhD as a student in industry at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. Ilana then entered the start-up world working between a number of start-ups – before settling on a software-development University of Surrey start-up company, Snap Out Ltd. The work at Snap Out focused on creating 'innovative digital products' – with product focus on artificial intelligence, computer vision and bot technologies. Ilana quickly gained experience and worked as product director and COO.
Ilana is now merging both her quantum and start-up worlds as CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), an early stage Oxford University spin-out company founded by Dr Peter Leek. Ilana is helping OQC is build the heart of a quantum future: employing simple, elegant approaches to provide real-world, near-term solutions using quantum computing.
Holly Ann Baldwin is the CEO Designate for a potential spin out organisation from Oxford University. Academic teams have developed two unique digital platforms for better engagement, recruitment and consent practices in the life science and clinical trial marketplace.
Holly started her career in the medicine in the US Army and specialised in cardiac diseases and transplant. After 10+ years in patient care, academics and clinical trials, she transitioned to medical device companies (Medtronic & HeartWare). Holly spent 11 years in commercial roles within sales, clinical trials, quality, and manufacturing; including high profile projects supporting a company exit of $1B in 2016.
Holly attended Rutgers University (BSc), Seton Hall University (MSc) and Henley Business School (MBA).
Holly's primary goal is to take the two market ready products and transform the clinical trial space with ethical digital technologies focused on data-sharing frameworks, governance and best practice. She seeks to raise £1M to spin out from Oxford University, hire talent to deliver to eagerly waiting customers.
The Creation Theatre is staging a brand new adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World at Oxford's brand new Westgate Shopping Centre. With the aid of audio surveillance technology, the audience will be drawn into a world of fear and schemes operating against a backdrop of neo-pharaonic concrete splendour. You can see more on their website here https://www.creationtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/brave-new-world.
TechTonic, with Pennington Manches, is offering tickets for the performance on 5th July for £25 (excluding registration fees) which includes a free drink at the Alchemist bar on the Westgate roof terrace!
Meet us at The Alchemist from 7pm - the performance starts at 7.45pm. We'll congregate there again after the show for more drinks and networking.
Join us on this exciting journey into a Brave New World!


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